[ OT ? ] xinetd : plan to support udp redirection ?

2002-01-07 Thread Thierry ITTY
Hi there may be off topic does anyone know about plans to have xinetd support udp redirection ? tcp works fine xinetd doesn't complain when told to make an udp redirection, but at the time you try to use it you get a message "only tcp redirection supported at this time" or something like that,

Re: Detecting "Bringup interface eth0 problem

2002-01-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Gregg, Thanks for your detail information. At 06:15 AM 1/7/2002 -0800, you wrote: >ps -A | grep dhcpcd >or, alternatively, ps -C dhcpcd # ps -A | grep dhcpcd Did not work. # ps -C dhcpcd PID TTY TIME CMDcd What did they indicate ? >To see if dhcpcd will start-up on bootup, lo

Re: DNS, Architecture, General Question

2002-01-07 Thread Ziad Samaha
I think you should use LDAP if you have a large number of user and most of your operations are search and read operations. You can store your users info in this LDAP and use it for authentication (that can be specified in your protal). According to the free email accounts you want to offer tr

RE: IPTables for NFS

2002-01-07 Thread Robert Finneran
Where can I get info on nmap? Thanks! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Werner Puschitz Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 9:50 PM To: rhl Subject: Re: IPTables for NFS On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Monte Milanuk wrote: > I need to know what ports t

Re: IPTables for NFS

2002-01-07 Thread Werner Puschitz
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Werner Puschitz wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Monte Milanuk wrote: > > > I need to know what ports to leave open so I can firewall my server, but > > still allow access for NFS mounted /home directories. > > > > I gather that I will probably have to leave open the tcp/udp

Re: IPTables for NFS

2002-01-07 Thread Werner Puschitz
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Monte Milanuk wrote: > I need to know what ports to leave open so I can firewall my server, but > still allow access for NFS mounted /home directories. > > I gather that I will probably have to leave open the tcp/udp ports 111 for > sunrpc and tcp/udp 2049 for NFS, but what

IPTables for NFS

2002-01-07 Thread Monte Milanuk
I need to know what ports to leave open so I can firewall my server, but still allow access for NFS mounted /home directories. I gather that I will probably have to leave open the tcp/udp ports 111 for sunrpc and tcp/udp 2049 for NFS, but what else? I've seen mention of specifying a port for mou

Re: security update

2002-01-07 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:18:52PM -0500, Lewi wrote: > i have subscribe to redhat security updates mailing list, but today > i have know that there is new mutt package available for security > update, but until know i have not receive any email yet. > That list sometimes runs a day or two behind

DHCP configuration to improve detection on dynamic IP

2002-01-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All People, Kindly advise a simple and straightward method to configure network settings in using DHCP to improve the detection on dynamic IP address. Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listma

security update

2002-01-07 Thread Lewi
i have subscribe to redhat security updates mailing list, but today i have know that there is new mutt package available for security update, but until know i have not receive any email yet. does anyone know why? -- ichtus -- Lewi Supranata .K ICQ: 50643061 msg68224/pgp0.pgp Descrip

Re: Detecting "Bringup interface eth0 problem

2002-01-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Devon, Lot of thanks for your further advice. At 09:19 PM 1/7/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Using emacs to edit a 3 line file is a little bit of over kill, but edit >it any way you like. Which editor shall I use ? vi ? > > >However, I would have expected dhcpd or pump to replace that entry > > >

RE: Detecting "Bringup interface eth0 problem

2002-01-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Robert, Thanks for your further advice. I will post another posting requesting for advice on configuring network settings using DHCP At 07:25 PM 1/7/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Please try removing nameserver 192.168.252.200 from >/etc/resolv.conf since it isn't one of your ISP's DNS servers. It

Re: modprobe issue: only boot interactively

2002-01-07 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Thanks for your input. I have remove the debug=X options in the options of the tulip driver and this has fixed the problem. Why it has already worked with the debug option the first time and now it does not, I do not know. However, now the network interface is working just fine! Cheers. A

Re: GRUB and Windows problem

2002-01-07 Thread Brandon Robert Dorman
Clarification: In title Windows > rootnoverify (hd1,4) > /dev/hda1 > chainloader +1 the part about /dev/hda1` is me guessing. But anyway my windows partition is /dev/hde1 anyway, in case that can help. Please I realize that e-mail is kinda unclear, I'm a bit panicked h

RH7.2: 'vi' has lost default key settings

2002-01-07 Thread mjbjr
--4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The RH7.2 defaults for vi, include key assignments that cause the 'delete' = and 'backspace' to act as expected. The first time I've ever run across these partic

RE: Firewall

2002-01-07 Thread Robert Finneran
Title: Firewall I have had good luck using  iptables scripts from this site:   http://monmotha.mplug.org/firewall/index.php   Also, RedHat has linkes to several good web sites for iptables and ipchains:   http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/gotchas/7.1/gotchas-71.html -Original Mes

GRUB and Windows problem

2002-01-07 Thread Brandon Robert Dorman
Hi, I've got RH 7.2. Just got a new harddrive. Let's call it HD1, the new one HD2. /boot and / are on HD2, Windows and such is on HD1. I thought I installed GRUB on the master boot partition, but during the installation process it listed it as, "hdh5" because that's the first vfat partition

Re: Changing Directory Permissions

2002-01-07 Thread Chris Montgomery
Thanks for the comeback, Andreas. Comments inline below. On Tue, 08 Jan 2002 12:46:09 +0100 Andreas Berglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you have access to the root account then just become root and type > "chown your_account_name /usr/local". With the chown command the owner > of a file

Re: identd: Who needs it?

2002-01-07 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:31:39PM -0700, Frank Reichenbacher wrote: > What processes use identd? It's really used by remote servers that you connect to like mail, irc, and sometimes ftp servers. Not sure what the problem is though ... > Jan 7 19:42:18 mollynet identd[5682]: request_thread: r

Re: issue, what overwrites?

2002-01-07 Thread Enrique Bory Simon
Just in /etc/rc.d/rc.local there a bit of code : .. # This will overwrite /etc/issue at every boot. So, make any changes you # want to make to /etc/issue here or you will lose them when you reboot. echo "" > /etc/issue echo "$R" >> /etc/issue echo "Kernel $(uname -r) on $a

identd: Who needs it?

2002-01-07 Thread Frank Reichenbacher
What processes use identd? I've got this in my messages log and I don't have a good appreciation of what uses it on my system. I have RH 7.1, for which the primary use is to run an ezmlm mailing list. Jan 7 19:10:00 mollynet CROND[2781]: (root) CMD ( /sbin/rmmod -as) Jan 7 19:14:36 mollynet

RE: Detecting "Bringup interface eth0 problem

2002-01-07 Thread Robert Finneran
Hey Stephen, The DCHP (with the help the BOOTP protocol) is the system your computer uses that uses to ask your ISP what the dynamic addresses it should use. It also should be able to find the addresses for your name servers as well. Unfortunatly, I myself only have experience using DHCP under W

Re: issue, what overwrites?

2002-01-07 Thread Devon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 January 2002 10:06 pm, Chad and Doria Skinner wrote: > I can not remember...what script over writes /etc/issue and issue.net? Well, that depends. With Red Hat Linux 7.1 (and earlier, I believe), it was handled in /etc/rc.local Like so:

Re: serviceconf not working

2002-01-07 Thread Devon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 January 2002 02:17 pm, Janyne Kizer wrote: > I am having a problem with systemconf not working. The system is RH > 7.2 with KDE. When I type serviceconf at the command prompt I get the > following errors (and then the GUI just closes):

RE: Increase bandwidth with two analog modems?

2002-01-07 Thread Kevin Krieser
I suspect that he is interested in bonding 2 modems together, to get double the throughput. However, for this to work, your ISP has to support it. And I suspect that the normal $20 unlimited account won't support this, along with dialing into the account twice. I'm not sure where you would look

issue, what overwrites?

2002-01-07 Thread Chad and Doria Skinner
I can not remember...what script over writes /etc/issue and issue.net? ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Increase bandwidth with two analog modems?

2002-01-07 Thread Vidiot
>Just want to ask if there is any package in Linux that can utilise two >analog modems at a time so as to increase the bandwith from about 56 >kbps to about 112 kbps? If I use unlimited dial up account and then the >phone cost is once-off as well, I thought this would be a reasonable >thing t

Re: questions about named and sendmail

2002-01-07 Thread Julian Opificius
At 12:58 AM 1/8/02 +0100, you wrote: > Hi again Julian, > > > The forwarding statement only changes HOW it goes > > about getting names resolved, it doesn't stop it from caching the results. > > > Given the setup I was talking about in the first place was four > machines on a > >

Increase bandwidth with two analog modems?

2002-01-07 Thread Alimin Bijosono Oei
Hi all, Just want to ask if there is any package in Linux that can utilise two analog modems at a time so as to increase the bandwith from about 56 kbps to about 112 kbps? If I use unlimited dial up account and then the phone cost is once-off as well, I thought this would be a reasonable thi

Re: Detecting "Bringup interface eth0 problem

2002-01-07 Thread Devon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 January 2002 01:20 am, Stephen Liu wrote: > >Stephen, > >I'd try removing that first nameserver line from /etc/resolv.conf > > Yes. I would try to remove the first line with "emacs" and re-start > the PC thereafter. Using emacs to ed

Re: System is hanging with 'LI' only showing

2002-01-07 Thread ABrady
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:05:31 -0500 "Burke, Thomas G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> implied: > When the system comes up wit just "LI", it is a problem with the > master boot record (MBR) of the machine. Generally speaking, this > only happens on a dual boot machine. It happens because MS Windows > likes t

Re: modprobe issue: only boot interactively

2002-01-07 Thread ABrady
On 07 Jan 2002 09:07:17 -0500 Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> implied: > > Hi, > > On a fresh install of RH7.2 I can't do "modprobe tulip" to load > the driver need by my network card. > > This is the second time I do this fresh install on the same > machine. A win9x application messed

[Re: Bash Path Duplications: An idea from zsh -- Comment from Chet Ramey]

2002-01-07 Thread John P Verel
For all following this thered, this is a reply I received from Chet Ramey, on this topic, forwarded to the list with his permission. John -- John P. Verel Living Proof That Low Tech Beats High Tech! --- Begin Message --- > There has been considerable recent discussion on the redhat-list > reg

Re: System is hanging with 'LI' only showing

2002-01-07 Thread Mike Watson
For Win98, build a Win98 Rescue diskette and when loaded, hit shift-F5 to get to the command prompt. At that point, enter C: and then A:fdisk /mbr and that will rewrite your MBR to boot Win98. Failing this if you can find an old MSDOS 5.0 or 6.x boot diskette with fdisk, you can use that too. m

Re: Disk Quota's

2002-01-07 Thread AABAN34
I guess , I don't understand what needs to be done here? I am lost then, my /home directory is the one is created during the install. I have only a swap, and native partion. so your telling me I can't use it on my native partion which is 10 gig, and my swap is 300 meg. Brian ___

Disk quotas for NFS mounted /home

2002-01-07 Thread Monte Milanuk
I have a desktop that mounts its /home directory from a server... Do I setup quota on the client or the server to effect diskspace limits in the /home directory for users? Anything specific to watch out for? TIA, Monte _ Do You Yahoo!? Ge

RE: Samba 2.2.1a + Red Hat 7.2 + Printing = Grief

2002-01-07 Thread Rilindo Foster
That helped. I was about to get it working. Thanks! Here is my smb.conf, for those who have similiar problems in the future: [global] workgroup = BEBOP netbios name = FAYE server string = Samba Server security = SERVER encrypt passwords = Yes log f

Re: questions about named and sendmail

2002-01-07 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Julian, > Right. After all, if you didn't have a local DNS server, your ISP's server > would do it anyway, right? So by caching with your DNS server, you're actually > potentially reducing the load on him. What a nice guy ;-) Alright, you already got that :). That makes my la

Re: questions about named and sendmail

2002-01-07 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi again Julian, > The forwarding statement only changes HOW it goes > about getting names resolved, it doesn't stop it from caching the results. > Given the setup I was talking about in the first place was four machines on a > LAN, one of which was a Linbox running bind, there'

Re: Disk Quota's

2002-01-07 Thread AABAN34
Provided that /home is a separate filesystem residing on /dev/hda2 then yes that should work. How can I tell , what command can I do tell me where my /home directory is at? so I can add it to my fstab file? LABEL=/ / ext3defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3

Re: Changing Directory Permissions

2002-01-07 Thread Tammy Fox
To write to your Windows directory (assuming it is vfat), add a line like this to your /etc/fstab: /dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfatnoauto,users,owner 0 0 and mount the partition while logged in as your normal user account (mount /mnt/win). Then, the files will be owned by you. This give

Re: Changing Directory Permissions

2002-01-07 Thread Andreas Berglund
Chris Montgomery wrote: > > Newbie alert... > > I am trying to install the StarOffice 6 beta into my /usr/local directory, > as a user (not root). I cannot create a subdirectory > (/usr/local/staroffice6.0) since /usr/local is owned by root. How can I > change this to my user account? If you ha

Re: Changing Directory Permissions

2002-01-07 Thread gabriel
my best guess would be to specify a different directory in the ./configure script (providing there is one). try typing "./configure - h" in the install directory and find what options you'd have to include to change the install dir. it'd be something like "./configure --prefix=DIRECTORY" the def

Changing Directory Permissions

2002-01-07 Thread Chris Montgomery
Newbie alert... I am trying to install the StarOffice 6 beta into my /usr/local directory, as a user (not root). I cannot create a subdirectory (/usr/local/staroffice6.0) since /usr/local is owned by root. How can I change this to my user account? I have the same question about being able to writ

RE: group and group-

2002-01-07 Thread Jeff Graves
Trying editing group- and see if the changes happen right away. 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 PR

Re: Using GRUB with software RAID devices - no corresponding BIOS drive

2002-01-07 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:26:56AM -0500, Kevin M. Myer wrote: > > I am having some trouble getting GRUB configured to boot from a software RAID > device. The documentation seems to indicate that software RAID devices are > supported and I've found posts indicating that people have it working,

Re: group and group-

2002-01-07 Thread gabriel
heh that's what i thought but when i edited "/etc/group" the changes never seemed to take effect while i was running X (kde) i had to switch to init 3 and log in that way and then i worked... so thanks is there a way i can just reload my group permissions without having to do this? > From: J

Re: group and group-

2002-01-07 Thread John H Darrah
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, gabriel wrote: > i was just trying to modify some of the groups on my > system when i discovered there were two group files. > > "/etc/group" and "/etc/group-" > > what's the deal? which one is the right one? and how > do i consolidate them? > The "group-" file is a back

RE: RedHat 7.2 install problem

2002-01-07 Thread Jeffrey Lanthripp
On 1/07/2002, Jay Paulson wrote: > when I looked on the cd there is no directory "source/Red" there is a > directory "Redhat" but that's it. I went and asked the person > who made the > cd and he says that he's installed Redhat on several machines > with the same > CDs so I'm just wondering what

Re: nfs & /etc/fstab

2002-01-07 Thread Robert Dege
yes, it's been like this since 6.2. Since the rc.sysinit is a generic script file, it can be applied to home/work/server distros. So all network devices are bypassed within that file (for local mounting purposes). However, I there is a init.d script file called netfs that mounted the nfs/smbfs/

Re: nfs & /etc/fstab

2002-01-07 Thread Matthew Boeckman
really?? is that new for 7.2? I seem to recall (might be foggy) having some 6.2 and/or 7.0 boxes that were mounting from fstab, although it may have been that i was mounting them from rc.local and just forgot... thanks for the response. any idea why they would disable mount-at-boot, i see the

Re: nfs & /etc/fstab

2002-01-07 Thread Robert Dege
According to the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit file, nfs mount devices are bypassed upon boot, to avoid any networking hangs. If you type mount /unix-src at the command prompt, linux should still read the fstab file & mount the nfs accordingly. -Rob > Hello list! I'm having some problems getting an nfs

nfs & /etc/fstab

2002-01-07 Thread Matthew Boeckman
Hello list! I'm having some problems getting an nfs mount to come up from /etc/fstab under 7.2. First, I can mount it after boot fine. Likewise, I can mount it from rc.local. When I put the entry into /etc/fstab, however, the mount never happens, with no errors returning to dmesg. the command

Re: group and group-

2002-01-07 Thread dan
yep: [root@hephaestus root]# ll /etc/group* -rw-r--r--1 root root 769 Jan 7 11:07 /etc/group -rw---1 root root 638 Dec 31 11:22 /etc/group- On January 7, 2002 11:27 am, you wrote: > Are you sure the other one isn't group~?? > > > -Original Message

RE: group and group-

2002-01-07 Thread Brenden Walker
Are you sure the other one isn't group~?? > -Original Message- > From: gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 02:24 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: group and group- > > > i was just trying to modify some of the groups on my system > when i discovered t

group and group-

2002-01-07 Thread gabriel
i was just trying to modify some of the groups on my system when i discovered there were two group files. "/etc/group" and "/etc/group-" what's the deal? which one is the right one? and how do i consolidate them? suggestions? ___ Redhat-list mail

serviceconf not working

2002-01-07 Thread Janyne Kizer
I am having a problem with systemconf not working. The system is RH 7.2 with KDE. When I type serviceconf at the command prompt I get the following errors (and then the GUI just closes): File "/usr/share/serviceconf/serviceconf.py", line 438, in ? main() File "/usr/share/serviceconf/serviceconf

Re: Firewall

2002-01-07 Thread Bret Hughes
On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 10:58, Euriel Gómez Raga wrote: > > > Hi there. > > > > Does anyone can recommend a good, free, secure & reliable firewall > producto to run on RedHat. Besides the firewall that becomes with RedHat ? Eurial, The "firewall product" you are referi

RE: RedHat 7.2 install problem

2002-01-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm guessing these are downloade images and burned cds. If so, do and md5sum check on the images. I'll bet you've got a corrupt disk1 John Original Message: - From: Jay Paulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 10:34:26 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RedHat 7.2 in

Re: RedHat 7.2 install problem

2002-01-07 Thread Jay Paulson
when I looked on the cd there is no directory "source/Red" there is a directory "Redhat" but that's it. I went and asked the person who made the cd and he says that he's installed Redhat on several machines with the same CDs so I'm just wondering what is going on here cause I can't get it to work

Re: Firewall

2002-01-07 Thread Jose Celestino
Better, freeer, securer, and reliabler than iptables? No. Thus spake Euriel Gómez Raga, on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:58:50AM -0600: > > > Hi there. > > > > Does anyone can recommend a good, free, secure & reliable firewall > producto to run on RedHat. Besides the firewa

RE: RedHat 7.2 install problem

2002-01-07 Thread Jeffrey Lanthripp
On 1/07/2002, Jay Paulson wrote: > /mnt/source/Red/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. Anyone know what to do? The only times I've ever seen such an

Re: RedHat 7.2 install problem

2002-01-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Jay, I ran RH7.2 installation several times but never came up with difficulty. In your case justifying from what you decribed, maybe there are some mistake on your CD. You purchase it from store or download the ISO images from RH website ? My suggestion is to refomat your hard drive, cle

Firewall

2002-01-07 Thread Euriel Gómez Raga
Title: Firewall     Hi there.             Does anyone can recommend a good, free, secure & reliable firewall producto to run on RedHat. Besides the firewall that becomes with RedHat ? Thanks in advanced. Euriel Gómez Raga

RE: Samba 2.2.1a + Red Hat 7.2 + Printing = Grief

2002-01-07 Thread Binyon Steve Contr Det 4 AFC2TIG/ASRCC
I hate to admit it but I did get printing working on Samba 2.2.1a, but under IRIX. Its been awhile, and I hoped that my notes would remind me what the trick was... There is a change in printing between 2.0 and 2.2 and it also gave me grief in getting it to work (I started with 2.2.0 which had a b

Rescue mode

2002-01-07 Thread Linux Pquter
The kernel on my boot partition /dev/sda1 is corrupt. Can I use rescue mode to copy the stock kernel back on my boot partition? I'm asking because I attempted to do that, and don't know where the kernel is on the RH 7.2 CD. Regards, Mike __ Do Yo

Re: disk quotas on redhat 7.2

2002-01-07 Thread Henrik Schmiediche
Hello, I have been trying to setup quotas on RH 7.2 to no avail. I am using 2.4.17 (with prempt patch) and quotas turned on: ]# grep -i quota .config CONFIG_QUOTA=y The relevant line in /etc/vfstab is: /dev/hda3 /d0 ext3defaults,usrquota 1 2 ]# ls -l /d0/quota.user -rw---1

Re: Equivalent of hyperterminal in Linux

2002-01-07 Thread Enrique Bory Simón
JUST rpm -i minicom, look it . Name: minicom Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 1.83.0Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 4 Build Date: mar 07 mar 2000 06:12:40 CST Install date: lun 05 ene 1998 14

RedHat 7.2 install problem

2002-01-07 Thread Jay Paulson
I was wondering if any of you have run into Red install giving you the error message of:   /mnt/source/Red/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.  Anyone k

Using GRUB with software RAID devices - no corresponding BIOS drive

2002-01-07 Thread Kevin M. Myer
Hello, I am having some trouble getting GRUB configured to boot from a software RAID device. The documentation seems to indicate that software RAID devices are supported and I've found posts indicating that people have it working, so at least I don't think I'm trying to do the impossible. I

Re: Equivalent of hyperterminal in Linux

2002-01-07 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 06:23:11AM -0800, Madhvi Nundalalee wrote: > usually I connect to a wireless modem via > hyperterminal in Windows > RH7.1 is installed on an IBM laptop . What is the > equivalent of Hyperterminal in Linux? [ewilts@www ewilts]$ rpm -qi minicom Name: minicom

IPTables/Netfilter and UPnP firewalling...

2002-01-07 Thread Thomas V. Fischer
Hey all,   Does anyone know if there exists an IPTables module for UPnP compatible when using a linux firewall?   Rgds   Thomas Fischer, CCNA, MCSE mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems, Networks & Security Consultant   

RE: System is hanging with 'LI' only showing

2002-01-07 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
When the system comes up wit just "LI", it is a problem with the master boot record (MBR) of the machine. Generally speaking, this only happens on a dual boot machine. It happens because MS Windows likes to do funky things to the MBR. In the old days (DOS - Win95), when this would happen, you

Re: Equivalent of hyperterminal in Linux

2002-01-07 Thread Jose Celestino
minicom Thus spake Madhvi Nundalalee, on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 06:23:11AM -0800: > hello > > usually I connect to a wireless modem via > hyperterminal in Windows > RH7.1 is installed on an IBM laptop . What is the > equivalent of Hyperterminal in Linux? > > > Cheers > MAdhvi > > > __

RESOLVED: Well it was working ... (Samba)

2002-01-07 Thread Julian Opificius
I found the problem. Culpa mea, naturally. After setting up a DNS server on the Linux box, I had also revised the resolve order in Samba to put lmhosts first, and then I created a lmhosts file in /etc/samba. The problem was that I'd inadvertently swapped the IPs of two machines in the lmhosts f

Equivalent of hyperterminal in Linux

2002-01-07 Thread Madhvi Nundalalee
hello usually I connect to a wireless modem via hyperterminal in Windows RH7.1 is installed on an IBM laptop . What is the equivalent of Hyperterminal in Linux? Cheers MAdhvi __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo

Re: Detecting "Bringup interface eth0 problem

2002-01-07 Thread Gregg Morris
To see if dhcpcd (or any other service) is running, do: ps -A | grep dhcpcd or, alternatively, ps -C dhcpcd To see if dhcpcd will start-up on bootup, look at these files: [root@rigel root]# grep -r dhcp /etc/* /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info:HOSTNAME=dhcp-73-316 /etc/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth0.info:HOSTNAME

modprobe issue: only boot interactively

2002-01-07 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Hi, On a fresh install of RH7.2 I can't do "modprobe tulip" to load the driver need by my network card. This is the second time I do this fresh install on the same machine. A win9x application messed the partition table ... In /etc/modules.conf I have the lines alias tulip eth0 options tuli

Re: DNS, Architecture, General Question

2002-01-07 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 06:47:55PM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > I suggest that you review Courier MTA. One package provides you with > integrated SMTP, POP, and IMAP service (plus webmail and calendar if you > want em). Hmm...an Omnibus package, is it? One executable?. So one exploit in th

Re: Disk Quota's

2002-01-07 Thread Andreas Berglund
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I tryed that, it's giving me a bad mount point 1? I want to be able to set disk >quotes in my home directory? the instruction i got from my book don't work.. > Well is /home on a separate filesystem? I'm asking because there was no entry for it in the fstab file yo

RESOLVED: Well it was working ... (Samba)

2002-01-07 Thread Julian Opificius
I found the problem. Culpa mea, naturally. After setting up a DNS server on the Linux box, I had also revised the resolve order in Samba to put lmhosts first, and then I created a lmhosts file in /etc/samba. The problem was that I'd inadvertently swapped the IPs of two machines in the lmhosts f

RE: samba as file server

2002-01-07 Thread Chad and Doria Skinner
You can use username maps. This allows you to specify alternative loginnames for each system account. For example I use chadws for almost everything, but at work they gave me the account cskinne1. I put chadws = cskinne1 in my username map and I can use either chadws or cskinne1 for logging into w