DNS question

2002-02-27 Thread Jim Bija
If my primary DNS server goes down (daemon only, the machine and IP etc is fine) will the secondary take over? It seems some of my machines lag unless the primary DNS server is down, as in the IP is dead. I seem to have some situations where the secondary seems not to take over. I have heard

RE: Secondary DNS

2002-02-27 Thread Pieter De Wit
How big is your zones ? -Original Message- From: Szemerédy Gábor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 27 February 2002 19:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Secondary DNS Hello! I need a secondary DNS out of my address space. Do somebody know such a free service somewhere ? Thanks ___

GRUB question

2002-02-27 Thread Gregory Hosler
Hi all, what is the grub equivalent to a lilo "vga=###" I've been all thru the grub.conf manpage, and the grub info, and I'm not seeing anything that smells like an equivalent (the testvbe mode seems similiar, but I do not want just to test a video mode, I want the vga mode to be set on booting

Re: Test user password against a known value

2002-02-27 Thread Peter Kiem
Hi Cameron, > does it for old style crypt() passwords. There should be equivalent code > for the MD5 stuff. The only thing you've missed is that most of these > things use a salt, kept with the hash, to make sure that if two people > have the same password, their hashes _aren't_ the same. I've b

Re: Test user password against a known value

2002-02-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 05:17 28 Feb 2002, Peter Kiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I need to write a script (preferably bash, perl if necessary) that can test a | specified user's password against a test password to see if they have changed | it or not. | It should be as simple as running an MD5 over the test passwo

debian install

2002-02-27 Thread PRASADSL
hi all , i am running RH7 now i have a corel distribution CD which contain games...:-)..but they are alll debians how to install them in RH thanx |BrAiN aToMS||| - mAkEs YoU ThInK ThAt yOu aRe tHiNkInG !!||| |BrYaN AdAMS

Re: VPN fustration

2002-02-27 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 13:01, James Pifer wrote: > > I've posted to this list three times asking about VPN, IPSec or PPTP, > for Redhat 7.2.I've been trying to get linux-pptp working without > success so far.I can't seem to find any help on it. > > I have not received one response on my other th

Test user password against a known value

2002-02-27 Thread Peter Kiem
I need to write a script (preferably bash, perl if necessary) that can test a specified user's password against a test password to see if they have changed it or not. It should be as simple as running an MD5 over the test password and comparing to the MD5 password stored for them to make sure

multidial PPP

2002-02-27 Thread Raoul Anderson
I was wondering if anybody could help me out with this this task. I need to have a linux box setup on the network that has 2 dial up connections to the internet. The box needs to be able to basically send and receive requests through both connections simultaneously, not necessarily with even loa

RE: fortune

2002-02-27 Thread PRASADSL
If you want a fun challenge after this, figure out :-) >how to display :-) >>random fortune quotes in a box on the login screen. :-) it will br great to do so ...plz tell me how |BrAiN aToMS||| - mAkEs YoU ThInK ThAt yOu aRe tHiNkInG !!||

Re: [REDHAT] Cannot boot from the RH 7.2 CD

2002-02-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
Well... I don't have any experience burning disks under Windows. If you can read the filesystem, but not boot the disk (on any machine, right?) then you might want to get someone with Linux to burn the ISO. IIRC, the ISO has to be created with the boot files specially marked to create a bootable

Re: VPN fustration

2002-02-27 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 02:01:01PM -0500, James Pifer wrote: : I've posted to this list three times asking about VPN, IPSec or PPTP, : for Redhat 7.2.I've been trying to get linux-pptp working without : success so far.I can't seem to find any help on it. Has it occurred to you that nobody on thi

Re: running program in background

2002-02-27 Thread Hidong Kim
OK. Devon wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 27 February 2002 10:03 pm, Hidong Kim wrote: > > > The & will run the job in the background. But if you log out of your > > session, I think the job will die. If you use nohup, your job will > > continu

Re: Anyone using Nortel Contivity behind an IP Tables firewall?

2002-02-27 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 01:47:04PM -0500, Matthew Galgoci wrote: : : Does your client support tunneling ipsec over udp? You need this in order to : be able to pass through nat. Actually, you don't. It just makes it possible to have multiple clients behind a masq gateway. AH doesn't NAT, ESP c

Re: running program in background

2002-02-27 Thread Devon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 27 February 2002 10:03 pm, Hidong Kim wrote: > The & will run the job in the background. But if you log out of your > session, I think the job will die. If you use nohup, your job will > continue to run after you log out, as long as t

Gateway Solo 9500

2002-02-27 Thread Art Ross
I'm teaching a Fundamentals of Linux class this quarter and a student has brought a Gateway Solo 9500 to class. Things have gone well while teaching him how to build the system in an understanding fashion. A problem we are having is we are unable to identify the chipset for the modem/ethernet c

Re: running program in background

2002-02-27 Thread Hidong Kim
Devon wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 27 February 2002 09:38 pm, Julian Opificius wrote: > > Could somebody please remind me how to run a program (in this case, > > SETI) from the command line such that it will stay running when I close > > the window?

Re: running program in background

2002-02-27 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Talkington wrote: >>Also, is there a way I can dynamically alter the amount of processor time a >>given program will take? > >man nice. Sorry, if by "dynamically" you mean an already-running process, then you want 'man renice'. - -d - --

Re: running program in background

2002-02-27 Thread Devon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 27 February 2002 09:38 pm, Julian Opificius wrote: > Could somebody please remind me how to run a program (in this case, > SETI) from the command line such that it will stay running when I close > the window? In the case of seti: cd seti

Re: running program in background

2002-02-27 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Julian Opificius wrote: >Could somebody please remind me how to run a program (in this case, SETI) >from the command line such that it will stay running when I close the window? Tacking & at the end of the command line may do it. >Also, is there a

Re: running program in background

2002-02-27 Thread Hidong Kim
Julian Opificius wrote: > > Could somebody please remind me how to run a program (in this case, SETI) > from the command line such that it will stay running when I close the window? nohup > > Also, is there a way I can dynamically alter the amount of processor time a > given program will tak

Re: Ethernet help

2002-02-27 Thread Devon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 27 February 2002 07:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there any software out there that I can use to test to see whether > or not my ethernet card is actually working? I have a two port card. > Both lights work on the card but I can't

running program in background

2002-02-27 Thread Julian Opificius
Could somebody please remind me how to run a program (in this case, SETI) from the command line such that it will stay running when I close the window? Also, is there a way I can dynamically alter the amount of processor time a given program will take? I wish I could remember all this stuff. L

Re: New Beta?

2002-02-27 Thread Jesus Ortega (a.k.a. Nitebirdz)
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 02:04:23PM -0500, Bob Staaf wrote: > > Just noticed a new directory out on Red Hat's ftp sites under beta > > called "pensacola". Looks like the 8.0 beta is on the way. It is not > > accessible yet but, maybe by the end of the

Re: 5 days of sendmail

2002-02-27 Thread Devon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 27 February 2002 09:12 pm, Karina Gómez Salgado wrote: > Try this: > > In your sendmail.cf modify this: sendmail.cf should not be modified directly. It is far better to modify /etc/mail/sendmail.mc and regenerate the /etc/sendmail.cf f

Re: 5 days of sendmail

2002-02-27 Thread Devon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 27 February 2002 09:11 pm, Roger wrote: > Hi guys > > You know sendmail will keep 5 days to retry sending mails that can't be > delivered to destination at once. I wonder how can I change 5 days to 4 > days 3 ..? > > Any suggestion will b

Re: 5 days of sendmail

2002-02-27 Thread Karina Gómez Salgado
Try this: In your sendmail.cf modify this: O Timeout.queuereturn=5d to 4d or 3d... and restart sendmail daemon Karina     Roger wrote: Hi guys You know sendmail will keep 5 days to retry sending mails that can't be delivered to destination at once. I wonder how can I change 5 days to 4 days 3 ….

5 days of sendmail

2002-02-27 Thread Roger
Title: 5 days of sendmail Hi guys You know sendmail will keep 5 days to retry sending mails that can't be delivered to destination at once. I wonder how can I change 5 days to 4 days 3 ….? Any suggestion will be appreciated!

Re: can't boot upgrade from 6.0 to 7.2

2002-02-27 Thread Charles Galpin
On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 18:42, doug piper wrote: > At this time, I have created several boot disks. The first disk was created during >the > install, or rather, ugrade, from the RH CD. After that, I used linux rescue from the >RH CD > and did mkbootdisk and created disks identical to the first dis

where can I find sys_read,sys_create...

2002-02-27 Thread liyanen
hello,all I want to add a systemcall "copyfile" to the kernel, I want to use other sys_call like sys_open,sys_read,sys_write,sys_create,sys_close ,but I can't find them in the linux source with all my effort. And,may I use module to do this copy work ? can you so helpful to

Re: editing eth1

2002-02-27 Thread Statux
More formally, the touch command will update a file with the current timestamp. This will effectively create an empty file if one by the specified name doesn't already exist. touch is often used with makefiles to force rebuilds without going through the whole cleaning process (newer Makefile i

Re: editing eth1

2002-02-27 Thread Ian Truelsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> simply touch /var/log/boot.log and that message should go away. boot.log is > > what do you mean by "simply touch" (novice here) > Just type 'touch /var/log/boot.log' (you probably have to be su for that, I'm not sure). The command touch will create an empty fil

Re: editing eth1

2002-02-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Unfortunately that message has absolutely nothing with your Ethernet ports. > There are two things you should check. Do you have a /var/log directory? yes > If so, is there a boot.log in it? If there is a directory but no boot.log, no boot.log file > simply touch /var/log/boot.log and th

RE: Ethernet rest interface statistics

2002-02-27 Thread Linux
Thanks Paul, I am using MRTG but without resetting the IF stats the results just keep climbing for the month. It is difficult to get a reading on how much traffice we have consumed this month.. Mike -Original Message- From: Paul Hamm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 28 February

Re: Heads up: PHP exploit

2002-02-27 Thread Ed Wilts
The fix shows patches for releases other than what Red Hat currently supports for 7.1 which is 4.0.4p11-9. Whether or not this release is vulnerable I guess needs to be verified, and if the current release has a security fix, I expect that Red Hat will ship an update soon. Keep your eyes open an

Ethernet help

2002-02-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there any software out there that I can use to test to see whether or not my ethernet card is actually working? I have a two port card. Both lights work on the card but I can't get either port to work. Both are configured as follows: DEVICE=eth0 ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=xxx.xxx.xxx.xx

Re: editing eth1

2002-02-27 Thread Ed Wilts
Unfortunately that message has absolutely nothing with your Ethernet ports. There are two things you should check. Do you have a /var/log directory? If so, is there a boot.log in it? If there is a directory but no boot.log, simply touch /var/log/boot.log and that message should go away. boot.lo

Re: can't boot upgrade from 6.0 to 7.2

2002-02-27 Thread doug piper
At this time, I have created several boot disks. The first disk was created during the install, or rather, ugrade, from the RH CD. After that, I used linux rescue from the RH CD and did mkbootdisk and created disks identical to the first disk. All of them hung as I described in my original email.

Heads up: PHP exploit

2002-02-27 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't normally trouble the list with security announcements, but this one hasn't even hit Bugtraq yet. I got wind of it via departmental mail from someone who follows the snort-sigs list. There is a PHP problem afoot which affects POST operatio

Re: Announcing a beta release of Red Hat Linux Pensacola

2002-02-27 Thread Jeff Bearer
I can't help but notice that this announcement carefully omits the fact that the final release won't be available for free download (according to the article I've linked). Of course you will be able to put pieces together to get a similar product, but you have to buy Red Hat Advanced Server if yo

Re: editing eth1

2002-02-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ok, the eth0 port does work. There is a light there. Also, when I log in as root I am getting a mail message that says: "errors rotating logs" Then when I read the message it says: "errors occurred while rotating /var/log/boot.log" "stat of /var/log/boot.log failed: No such file or directory" Is

RE: Anyone using Nortel Contivity behind an IP Tables firewall?

2002-02-27 Thread Mike Pelley
I've found out how to do it - I needed to load the ip_masq_ipsec module. Part of me would think that since you're only connecting from inside to an outside destination (with full outside access allowed - no blocking in-to-out) that you wouldn't need that module. Anyway it does the trick! Thanks

Re: Downloaded Perl Scripts

2002-02-27 Thread David Winters
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Alan Mead wrote: >Is the file format dos or unix? An easy way using vi (you may be deluged >with alternatives) is to edit the file (e.g., 'vi scriptname.pl'), then type >':set fileformat=unix', then enter, then write the file (':wq' or 'ZZ' will >write and quit). I have fou

Re: boot.log not working

2002-02-27 Thread Edward Marczak
On 2/26/02 12:29 PM, "Bryan Pershall" [EMAIL PROTECTED] pressed the keys forming the message: > What or why or who would cause my boot.log to quit working. Last entry > was 4 months ago and I rebooted yesterday. Can some one please try to > explain this to me If there's anything that hackers l

RE: Help: NIS & NFS Server Randomly Stops Working

2002-02-27 Thread Matthews, John
I must confess I'm a little ignorant on the memory utilization. Would you mind telling me how I can gather information such as paging rates? All the information I currently know is that the memory usage reported by top shows that all the physical memory has been used and about 20 megs of s

Announcing a beta release of Red Hat Linux Pensacola

2002-02-27 Thread Ed Wilts
This was posted to redhat-watch-list but I'm forwarding it here since nobody else has yet... .../Ed A beta release of a new server-oriented edition of Red Hat Linux, Pensacola, is available for your computer-crashing pleasure. We strongly recommend that this beta not be used for mission-

Second Ethernet Card?

2002-02-27 Thread Ceyhun Kirmizitas
I have two ethernet card I install first one while installation the RH ---cnet Then I tried to install second ethernet card but I could not do this. My second Ethernet Card is RealTek 8019 ISA. How Can I install my second ethernet card? Thx ___ Redha

Re: Help: NIS & NFS Server Randomly Stops Working

2002-02-27 Thread Rick Warner
What is memory utilization when it fails? Paging rates? Swapping? One very big possibility is that the machine is becoming memory starved, and then is spending all its cycles handling swapping/paging. This desperation swapping is nasty but easy to fix; if it is the case more memory is the cur

RE: VPN fustration

2002-02-27 Thread Paul Hamm
Try here http://www.rommel.stw.uni-erlangen.de/~hshoexer/ipsec-howto/HOWTO.html -Original Message- From: James Pifer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 2:01 PM To: redhat Subject: VPN fustration I've posted to this list three times asking about VPN, IPSec or

Help: NIS & NFS Server Randomly Stops Working

2002-02-27 Thread Matthews, John
Hello, I have a NIS & NFS server running a stock Red Hat 6.1 distribution. The server is beginning to stop working more and more frequently now. NIS used to mess up once or twice a week, but now it appears to go down two to three times a day. I've seen the problem sometimes be related t

Re: fortune

2002-02-27 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Peery wrote: >To put messages on the X screen at login, use >fortune | xmessage -file - >to put the box on the screen. >To make this part of the default login sequence on gnome, figure out >how the Gnome config file ( /usr/share/gnome/default.se

Re: [REDHAT] Re: can't boot upgrade from 6.0 to 7.2

2002-02-27 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Kramer wrote: >I wrote a perl script that starts out with a regexp of files/directories >to always include (like my apache DocumentRoot) and a regexp of >files/directories to always exclude (like /proc). It then does a "find / >-type f", apply

VPN fustration

2002-02-27 Thread James Pifer
I've posted to this list three times asking about VPN, IPSec or PPTP, for Redhat 7.2.I've been trying to get linux-pptp working without success so far.I can't seem to find any help on it. I have not received one response on my other three posts trying to get help with VPN. Let me keep this si

Re: Anyone using Nortel Contivity behind an IP Tables firewall?

2002-02-27 Thread Matthew Galgoci
Does your client support tunneling ipsec over udp? You need this in order to be able to pass through nat. On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 12:58:10PM -0330, Mike Pelley wrote: > Folks, > > My employer uses the Nortel Contivity VPN Client for remote access over DSL. > I have an IP Tables firewall (usin

Re: [REDHAT] Re: can't boot upgrade from 6.0 to 7.2

2002-02-27 Thread David Kramer
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, David Talkington wrote: > doug piper wrote: > > >I will do a fresh install of 7.2. I have no problem backing up files on my Linux > >hard drive although I haven't done so previously as I can still mount all of my > >linux drives and backup any data which is important to my

Re: Secondary DNS

2002-02-27 Thread john-paul delaney
secondary.com xtremeweb.de zoneedit.com /j-p. On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Szemerédy Gábor wrote: > Hello! > I need a secondary DNS out of my address space. > Do somebody know such a free service somewhere ? > Thanks > --- JUSTATEST Art Online www.justatest.com _

RE: alternative to gftp?

2002-02-27 Thread Ryan Speed
console based, you cant beat ncftp imho x based, I used to use iglooftp and it was great, havnt tried it in a while though (http://www.iglooftp.com/unix/) :-Original Message- :From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Nick Wilson :Sent: February 24, 2002 3:04 AM :T

Secondary DNS

2002-02-27 Thread Szemerédy Gábor
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Re: can't boot upgrade from 6.0 to 7.2

2002-02-27 Thread Charles Galpin
On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 12:06, doug piper wrote: > Thanks to all of you! I think that a new install is the right thing to do although I > don't believe that there is anything wrong with the upgrade except that I can't boot > into it. > I do still have one question. Where do I put GRUB? I followed in

Re: can't boot upgrade from 6.0 to 7.2

2002-02-27 Thread doug piper
Thanks to all of you! I think that a new install is the right thing to do although I don't believe that there is anything wrong with the upgrade except that I can't boot into it. I do still have one question. Where do I put GRUB? I followed instructions and put it into MBR of hdb as per RedHat ins

Re: fortune

2002-02-27 Thread Alan Peery
To put messages on the X screen at login, use fortune | xmessage -file - to put the box on the screen. To make this part of the default login sequence on gnome, figure out how the Gnome config file ( /usr/share/gnome/default.session) works and add it. BE VERY CAREFUL in a live environment, as

Re: How do I resize ext3 partitions?

2002-02-27 Thread Michael Oatman
Thanks for the reply Ed! That was about my fourth post on that question. I back up regularly to network via FTP to WinXP boxen and CD-RWs (Samba isn't working, see other post) so it sounds like I really want a clean install with the proper sizes, then restore the data, changes, etc. > > Does a

Re: can't boot upgrade from 6.0 to 7.2

2002-02-27 Thread Bill Carlson
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, doug piper wrote: > Thanks Ed, > > I realize that what you are saying is right on but I have a hard time believing > that Linux people would be so forgetting of what was happening a year to a > year and a half ago. This seems like the ultimate of the Microsoft philisophy,

RE: Ethernet rest interface statistics

2002-02-27 Thread Paul Hamm
Better to use something like mrtg or Big Brother with larrd. There are just buckets of things that will give you system performance monitoring, including network traffic. Most of them make pretty graphs for the boss too. -Original Message- From: Linux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: We

Re: Question about System Config New to Linux

2002-02-27 Thread Anthony E. Greene
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 08:58:55AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >then I wnat to use a program like exceed or vmware or something to access >the linux box from a Windows box. Does anyone have any recomendations on >this part and where do I go to get programs like this. Cygwin/Xfree86 is a fre

Re: CRC checks or something ?

2002-02-27 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nicolas Bock wrote: >> commands. Surely there must be a way of checking them against the source >> (rpm) or can't you make a MD5 hash of the system (exclude log files /var/log >> dir) and run checks against it ? >try tripwire. This program generates

Re: How do I set multiple IP addresses for ethX

2002-02-27 Thread Charles Galpin
On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 10:26, Michael Oatman wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a simple config file which I can edit which will let me have multiple IP >addresses for a > single interface (eth0 and eth1)? on 7.x (at least) see /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-aliases It is well documented hth

RE: CRC checks or something ?

2002-02-27 Thread Paul Hamm
Tripwire monitors files for changes, ships with 7.2. Will do no good if you are already hacked but helps prevent it from happening. Also Bastille is an interesting product for securing systems. http://www.bastille-linux.org/ -Original Message- From: Pieter De Wit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Faxing to/from Linux server.

2002-02-27 Thread Charles Galpin
On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 10:49, Wayne Stout wrote: > Or if you're looking for a commercial solution, try Vsifax. We use it here > for our fax server. Actually, Vsifax is the reason we got our first Linux > server on the network. (I've added a couple more since then ) :) > > Their website hasn't

Re: How can I Modify Telnet Daemon?

2002-02-27 Thread Anthony E. Greene
At 17:05 2/27/2002 +0200, Ceyhun Kirmizitas wrote: >I am using RedHat 7.1. >My question is that How Can I modify telnet daemon so that >at login screen if someone enters "abcde" as username, it will logon >without password as root? In the first place, telnetd is not enabled by default. You'll hav

Slow mouse in KDE

2002-02-27 Thread James Pifer
I have RH72 installed on a Dell Inspiron 7000. The mouse is VERY slow in X, using KDE. I've tried the settings in the Control Center but they don't seem to make a difference. I saw a post in the archive that said something about adding "Resolution 300" to the XF86Config, but it doesn't say where

Re: Faxing to/from Linux server.

2002-02-27 Thread Wayne Stout
At 12:51 AM 2/27/2002 -0500, you wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Darryl Harvey wrote: > >I am after a fax solution to replace my WinFax Pro server. (If I can get > >rid of this, then I can get rid of NT :-) > > > >So what Fax options do I have under L

Re: How can I Modify Telnet Daemon?

2002-02-27 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 05:05:10PM +0200, Ceyhun Kirmizitas wrote: > > I am using RedHat 7.1. > My question is that How Can I modify telnet daemon so that > at login screen if someone enters "abcde" as username, it will logon > without password as root? You don't. What you can do, however, is

Re: Samba client and server problems

2002-02-27 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 06:46:31AM -0800, Michael Oatman wrote: > 1) is there a better list for Samba client/server q's? http://us2.samba.org/samba/archives.html > Webmin added a few lines, Samba comes with a *very* good web interface called swat. You should learn to use it instead of webmi

Re: How can I Modify Telnet Daemon?

2002-02-27 Thread Michael Oatman
Why do I get the feeling this is an effort to *not* send the root password unencrypted accross the network when one should be using SSH for login with a PuTTY client or something similar? Please prove me wrong, please Michael --- Ceyhun Kirmizitas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, >

Re: How do I resize ext3 partitions?

2002-02-27 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 06:45:27AM -0800, Michael Oatman wrote: > Do I lose all the data in the partition by shrinking or growing it w/ fdisk? > If so, how do I relabel the mount point after backing up? Say goodbye to the data. To relabel the partition after you re-initialize it, use e2label

How do I set multiple IP addresses for ethX

2002-02-27 Thread Michael Oatman
Hi all, Is there a simple config file which I can edit which will let me have multiple IP addresses for a single interface (eth0 and eth1)? I tried using Webmin to no avail -- I changed the settings (added eth0:2 and eth0:3 and eth0:5 -- do they have to be sequential or something?) in Webmin a

How can I Modify Telnet Daemon?

2002-02-27 Thread Ceyhun Kirmizitas
Hi there, I am using RedHat 7.1. My question is that How Can I modify telnet daemon so that at login screen if someone enters "abcde" as username, it will logon without password as root? Thanks for your help.. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PR

Re: Question about System Config New to Linux

2002-02-27 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 08:58:55AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am new to the Linux scene. I am planning on building a box to run Linux. > > I have a MSI K7T Turbo2 motherboard lying around and figured I would put it > to use. I am planning on running an > AMD Athalon XP 1500 CPU >

Re: can't boot upgrade from 6.0 to 7.2

2002-02-27 Thread Bill
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, David Talkington wrote: > Put your data on one filesystem, and the OS on several others. Have > backups. Have copies of your config files. You'll be free! You can > switch Red Hat versions, change Linux distributions, or even switch to > BSD in a heartbeat, or do all thre

Samba client and server problems

2002-02-27 Thread Michael Oatman
Hi all, 1) is there a better list for Samba client/server q's? if not... 2) I cannot browse to "lan:" on my RH7.2 box while all WinXP boxen can browse to workgroup (smb.conf has workgroup name correct) and still I cannot after configuring with webmin. 3) before webmin, I could see my RH7.2 bo

How do I resize ext3 partitions?

2002-02-27 Thread Michael Oatman
Hi all, I've a few questions on resizing fs/partitions, and I can't find answers in any docs or LDP. Please help! Does the resize2fs tool work for ext3 filesystems as well? If not, what do I use? Do I lose all the data in the partition by shrinking or growing it w/ fdisk? If so, how d

Re: CRC checks or something ?

2002-02-27 Thread Nicolas Bock
> commands. Surely there must be a way of checking them against the source > (rpm) or can't you make a MD5 hash of the system (exclude log files /var/log > dir) and run checks against it ? Pieter, try tripwire. This program generates a database of files that you want to have monitored and compa

Question about System Config New to Linux

2002-02-27 Thread Michael . Hughes
Hi, I am new to the Linux scene. I am planning on building a box to run Linux. I have a MSI K7T Turbo2 motherboard lying around and figured I would put it to use. I am planning on running an AMD Athalon XP 1500 CPU 256 MB PC133 Ram 20GB Hard Drive Samsung Brand I need recommendations on a N

fortune

2002-02-27 Thread PRASADSL
  i just installed a game or what ever was that called Fortune it gives a nice messages when invoked ...now i want that is gives messages when ever anyone logs in his x windows i want it to display the message in  a window thanxand yes plz do not mind the disclaimer which will be attch

Re: dial-up problems

2002-02-27 Thread Willem van der Walt<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi, Look in /etc/ppp/peers or there abbouts for another resolv.conf. If it if there, it will contain the nameserver entry you need for the second isp. Just append this file to your /etc/resolv.conf and things should work. hth Willem On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Silviu Cojocaru wrote: > > I am using R

Re: AT&T @home

2002-02-27 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:55:22PM -0600, Alan Mead wrote: : I was *not* able to use an IPSec VPN client with : the old (2.2-based) LEAF but I am told that the new versions include needed : kernel support. The problem with these sorts of protocols is that they are : encrypted. So the internal IP

Re: CRC checks or something ?

2002-02-27 Thread Lewi
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:35:23AM +0200, Pieter De Wit wrote: > Hello Eveyone, > > I have a strange request. I would like to know if there is a way that I can > check my systems interity. Normally hackers change your ps,netstat etc > commands. Surely there must be a way of checking them against

Re: winmodem drivers

2002-02-27 Thread Lewi
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:07:35PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi all , > i am runnning a copy of RED HAT 7 , now the problem is that modem is > winmodem and i could magnage to get someinfo on a HOWTO which came with the > CD which i have attached . now plz anyone could visit the site listed

Ethernet rest interface statistics

2002-02-27 Thread Linux
Hi I have asked this question before on the list but am still unable to resolve this issue I need to be able to reset the byte/frame counters for my eth1 interface periodically. this will enable me to record the Internet bandwidth usage on a monthly basis. Any ideas gratefully accepted. Hopeful