RH7.2 loses SCSI cd writer.

2002-04-17 Thread Morelli Enrico
Dear all, I had a problem with a SCSI cdwriter. Sometimes the system loses the cdwriter. When I check using cdrecord -scanbus I see all the other SCSI devices but not the cdwriter. I have to reboot the machine and all works fine. Have you some ideas? -- \\\ //

Re: Better File systems? Was Re: XFS - here's the solution

2002-04-17 Thread Bill Crawford
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Richard Troy wrote: One observation I have is that many people have a bizarre, one-sided view of performance. This is true of a vast number of human activities, such as the automobile driver who focuses on driving on dry, smooth pavement and forgets s/he drives in the

Re: New Openssh packages? When?

2002-04-17 Thread Florin Andrei
On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 03:12, Riku Meskanen wrote: 1) Old versions (0.9.5a) of these aren't needed any more 2) Rebuild new '0.9.5a compatibility library' for old apps 3) Replace current openssl-0.9.5a with openssl095a-0.9.5a 4) Recompile latest openssl from 7.2 5) Install 6) Rebuild

Re: Accessing problem to BIG size mailbox

2002-04-17 Thread gary
Hi Rodolfo, Many thanks for yrs kindly help,... Yes, I just noticed that my sender address is not the address that I registered at redhat-list... I think that why, I didn't get my question posted on redhat-list.. Thanks for all helping on this topics...will try on all suggestion... ^_^ rdgs,

Re: Problem bridging rh 7.2

2002-04-17 Thread Thierry ITTY
A 18:26 16/04/02 +0200, vous avez écrit : Hi. I have problem to get a bridge between my 2 nic's which are of the same brand. I use gnome setup bridge gbrctl and get port disabled or in unknown stae. Any idea??? try basic command line commands : ifconfig eth0 down ifconfig eth1 down brctl addbr

RE: How to start KDE

2002-04-17 Thread Stephen_Reilly
well it is quite possible and I wrote a script several years ago to launch KDE and Gnome on the same machine in different VTs ... steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 April 2002 20:28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: How to

Re: Rack mount server and tape backup

2002-04-17 Thread Mike Burger
Well, pretty much any SCSI tape backup unit should work just fine. As to software, there's dump, tar, cpio, or Amanda, just to name a few...and the first 3 are usually installed by default. On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Chris Mason wrote: I want to put together a rack mount server, 2U/3U, to run a

Re: Smoothwall...

2002-04-17 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 9:00 pm, Mike Pelley wrote: I use it. Nice product - good front end for IP tables with a hardened VA Linux-based kernel. The SE version has up to patch level 6 automatically installed. Note - the free GPL version is toast - a lite version is to be announced on

RE: My kernel keeps panicing

2002-04-17 Thread Stephen_Reilly
The system boots and runs quite happily but about every two days at what apepars to be idle time it panics. That makes it somewhat harder to diagnose Compared to other similar servers I maintain it seems to get an inordinate amount of firewall reject packets and I am wondering if it is some

RE: Smoothwall...

2002-04-17 Thread Mike Pelley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There was a note from one of the developers on a mail list. There should be an announcement on http://www.smoothwall.org/community/home/ telling the story soon. The developers are also slightly irate when it find people who use the GPL version

re: Linuxconf: undefined symbol: jpeg_destroy

2002-04-17 Thread Jacques Gelinas
Hi, I have compiled Apache (using Apachetoolbox), with PHP, using GD library on RH 7.2. Since then my linuxconf is broken: linuxconf: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libgd.so.1.8: undefined symbol: jpeg_destroy jpeg_destroy is part of the libjpeg library, which is used by

RE: Smoothwall...

2002-04-17 Thread Ward William E DLDN
I am not on the IPCop Team; my SmoothWall experience ended up leaving a bad taste for GPL development (which I know is unfair; most projects don't work that way). My wife, Rebecca, under no conditions would be considered a Junior member, nor Tertiary, as she handled all of the coordination for

Re: Dump /dev/console

2002-04-17 Thread Pierrick Brossin
Every so often, I get some bad mojo info appear my server console screen. How have you done this ? I'm interested to have on my redhat server something like FreeBSD. I mean, FreeBSD (maybe the other ones as well) say when someone port scan your computer.. or when someone get logged on the

Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread Billy Davis
We have an RH7.2 Server on the same network with a Win2K Client and an SCO Server. All 3 systems can be successfully pinged from the other systems. However, when we try to telnet to the RedHat box from the Win2K Client, we get this message: Could not open a connection to host: Connect

RE: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread Trevor
Check the /etc/xinetd.conf file. Is telnet there? -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Billy DavisSent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 12:49 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Telnet connection fails We have an RH7.2 Server on the same

RE: append without reboot

2002-04-17 Thread Patrick Nelson
You went and wrote: - Wow! I thought you had to reboot ... I'm now very impressed too :o) - Seems like the MS world has instilled upon us a need to reboot. I have to fight the urge also... But most of the time there seems to be a way to do it without a reboot.

Re: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread ABrady
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:48:42 -0400 Billy Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] quietly intimated: We have an RH7.2 Server on the same network with a Win2K Client and an SCO Server. All 3 systems can be successfully pinged from the other systems. However, when we try to telnet to the RedHat box from the

RE: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread Ross Cooney
Hi, what is the output of: netstat -a -p | grep LISTEN ross www.antivirus.ie -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Trevor Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 08:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Telnet connection fails Check the

Re: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread Javier Gostling
Billy Davis wrote: We have an RH7.2 Server on the same network with a Win2K Client and an SCO Server. All 3 systems can be successfully pinged from the other systems. However, when we try to telnet to the RedHat box from the Win2K Client, we get this message: Could not open a

Re: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread mikeyw
Telnet is turned off by default in 7.2 Mike Wafkowski SOHO Gurus -Original Message- From: Billy Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 2:56 PM Subject: Telnet connection fails We have an RH7.2 Server on the same network with a

Re: QMail

2002-04-17 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Brossin Pierrick wrote: I'm wondering how I can add a user account to QMail so the user can receive mails. A properly-configured qmail system will deliver mail to any real user on your system. As long as they have a system account and a place for the mail to be written

RE: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread Trevor
How about the firewall? The port has to be open in order to accept telnet. Well, the guy is inside the network, so I don't think that's part of the problem. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread hanfamily
Look in /etc/xinetd.d/telnet and make sure disable = no Linda ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread Billy Davis
Hello Ross: 1. The output of the netstat command included the following: tcp00 *:telnet*:*LISTEN 1940/xinetd What does this mean? 2. The xinetd.conf file is quite short and does NOT contain any reference to telnet. However there IS a telnet file in

Re: Re: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread Ray Curtis
bd == Billy Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bd Hello Ross: bd 1. The output of the netstat command included the following: bd tcp00 *:telnet*:*LISTEN bd 1940/xinetd bd What does this mean? This means you have a port listening [open] for

Re: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread Billy Davis
Trevor: When I originally set the Server up last week, I selected MEDIUM firewall security and took the defaults. I have done nothing else concerning firewalls, since I am totally unaware of what to do there. Can you give me some guidance? Thanks, Billy - Original Message - From:

Re: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread sign_bldr
try /etc/init.d/xinetd restart - Original Message - From: Billy Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 3:17 PM Subject: Re: Telnet connection fails Hello Ross: 1. The output of the netstat command included the following: tcp00

Re: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread Billy Davis
Trevor: /etc/xinetd.conf is a VERY short file and contains NO reference to telnet, other than an 'includedir /etc/xinetd.d' statement. Within /etc/xinetd.d, there IS a telnet file and it contains 'disable = no' Does that help? Thanks, Billy - Original Message - From:

Re: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread Billy Davis
Mike: Yes, I know. However I thought I had turned it ON when I checked the 'start at boot' button for telnet, with serviceconf. Thanks, Billy - Original Message - From: mikeyw [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 3:09 PM Subject: Re: Telnet

Re: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread sign_bldr
did you restart xinetd? after the changes in this file (telnet or ftp) you must restart xinetd /etc/init.d/xinetd restart - Original Message - From: Billy Davis To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 3:29 PM Subject: Re: Telnet connection fails

Re: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread Billy Davis
Javier: The netstat command does show telnet, but there is no reference to a port number. Where would I find that? Thanks, Billy - Original Message - From: Javier Gostling [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 3:11 PM Subject: Re: Telnet connection

RE: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread Trevor
It is converted to a name automatically for you via the /etc/services file. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Billy Davis Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 1:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Telnet connection fails Javier:

Re: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread Billy Davis
The firewall may be the problem, since I have done nothing here, and am totally unaware of what to do. When I set the Server up last week, I selected MEDIUM firewall security and took the defaults. Sounds like I need to do something else. Can you tell me what? Thanks, Billy -

linux client for appletalk

2002-04-17 Thread daniel
i'm trying to give a linux box here the ability to see shared folders on macintosh boxes. i've alredy figured out how to use netatalk to let the macs see the linux box, but i'm not sure how to make it work the other way. ideally i want to be able to write a script that will connect to each mac

Re: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread Matthew Boeckman
please post the output of ipchains -L Billy Davis wrote: The firewall may be the problem, since I have done nothing here, and am totally unaware of what to do. When I set the Server up last week, I selected MEDIUM firewall security and took the defaults. Sounds like I need to do

Re: Re: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread Billy Davis
Ray: I changed the line to disabled = yes and verified that the telnet LISTEN was gone. But I still get the same error messages from both the Win2K and SCO boxes when I try to telnet in. Seems to me that telnet needs to be enabled and NOT disabled in order to work, or do I misunderstand?

Re: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread Javier Gostling
Billy Davis wrote: Javier: The netstat command does show telnet, but there is no reference to a port number. Where would I find that? [jgostlin@jgostling jgostlin]$ netstat -ta | grep LISTEN [snip] tcp0 0 *:telnet*:* LISTEN

Re: Re: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread sign_bldr
Seems to me that telnet needs to be enabled and NOT disabled in order to work, or do I misunderstand? must be set to: disable = no then service MUST be restarted. from root. /etc/init.d/xinetd restart - Original Message - From: Billy Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: Re: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread Ray Curtis
bd == Billy Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bd Ray: bd I changed the line to disabled = yes and verified that the telnet LISTEN was bd gone. But I still get the same error messages from both the Win2K and SCO bd boxes when I try to telnet in. bd Seems to me that telnet

Re: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread Matthew Boeckman
I'm pretty sure that you have an ipchains/iptables rule that is disabling this. The 300 posts on this topic have confirmed that telnet is running out of xinetd properly. For a quick dirty check flush your ipchains (ipchains -F) and try to telnet. Or post the output of ipchains -L to this

Re: Re: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread Billy Davis
disable is now set to 'no' and restart command has been issued. Still unable to telnet in. Billy Davis - Original Message - From: sign_bldr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 4:24 PM Subject: Re: Re: Telnet connection fails Seems to me that

Re: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread Billy Davis
Matthew: Attached is the ipchains output Thanks, Billy Davis - Original Message - From: Matthew Boeckman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 3:48 PM Subject: Re: Telnet connection fails please post the output of ipchains -L Billy Davis wrote:

Re: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread Matthew Boeckman
yep, looks like it's IPCHAINS! The two lines: REJECT tcp -y anywhere anywhere any - 0:1023 and REJECT udp -- anywhere anywhere any - 0:1023 are rejecting tcp and udp traffic from anywhere to any port between 0 and 1023.

RE: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread Tom Pollerman
-Original Message- From: Billy Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 2:56 PM Subject: Telnet connection fails We have an RH7.2 Server on the same network with a Win2K Client and an SCO Server. All 3 systems can be successfully

RE: How to start KDE

2002-04-17 Thread jack wallen
right but i use this script to cut down the typing. so instead of doing: switchdesk kde;startx i just do ./switch kde i know - it's lame ;-) On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 18:13, Bill Crawford wrote: On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Jack Wallen, Jr. wrote: i use this script: ... put that in the user

Re: No viewer for RPM files

2002-04-17 Thread Havoc Pennington
José Romildo Malaquias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The application that used to work with RPM files, letting one to look inside it and operate on their contents is gmc, not distributed anymore with Red Hat Linux. Remains the Midnight Commander (mc), a very good text based file manager capable

RE: crond logging

2002-04-17 Thread Devon Harding - GTHLA
Will cron messages still get logged to /var/log/cron ? -Devon -Original Message- From: G. T. Francisco, III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 10:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: crond logging On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 02:58:30PM -0400, Devon Harding -

up2date is driving me mad!

2002-04-17 Thread Dan Horth
Hi - I've got up2date running on five servers - four 7.2 ones and a 6.2 setup. All has been working grand for the past couple of months, but I've recently stared having a problem where I can't update one server. basically running up2date -u gives the following output: Retrieving list of all

RE: ADSL

2002-04-17 Thread Gonzalo Jimenez
Well, I meant Dynamic IP using Linux as a server... I want to be able to use a ping (for example) from another PC in the world. There was another answer but I lost it, please re send (I don remember who did it)... thanks a lot. Gonzalo El mar, 16 abr 2002, escribiste:

Re: ADSL

2002-04-17 Thread Ed Greshko
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Gonzalo Jimenez wrote: Well, I'll be trying ADSL, but I hear that they use dinamic IP, so it is not possible to use a linux server with it... is that true? is there any way to use a linux server with a non static IP? if so, please direct me how to... I believe you

RE: append without reboot

2002-04-17 Thread Bill Crawford
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Patrick Nelson wrote: You went and wrote: - Wow! I thought you had to reboot ... I'm now very impressed too :o) - Seems like the MS world has instilled upon us a need to reboot. I have to fight the urge also... But most of the time

cdrom access problem fixed

2002-04-17 Thread script
about a week ago i posted to this list about not being able to access my cdrom drive (couldn't mount etc) using Redhat 7.2. I recieved one response that fixed the problem with data disks (still couldn't access music discs), but this fix had to be executed again when i had to reboot. anyway, I

CDROM CDROM1 won't

2002-04-17 Thread BG
Hi, My cdrom drives have stopped working as they did after initial install. I was trying to get both of them working with XCDROAST. Initial install set them up as: NEC DV5800A: CDROM /dev/hdc with ide interface TDK CDRW321040X: CDROM1 /dev/hdd with scsi emulation XCDROAST recognized my

Message for telnet clients

2002-04-17 Thread Ragnar Wiencke
Hi guys. Does anyone know the name of the file that displays the message that pops up just before the logon prompt when the telnet client connects to the machine? On my box it looks like this: Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma) Kernel 2.4.7-10 on an i686 login: I would like to

Re: Message for telnet clients

2002-04-17 Thread Bill Crawford
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Ragnar Wiencke wrote: Hi guys. Does anyone know the name of the file that displays the message that pops up just before the logon prompt when the telnet client connects to the machine? On my box it looks like this: Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma) Kernel

RE: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread Tom Pollerman
Hi All, I'm a recent convert from MSDOS to Linux. So, bear with me. I posted a response to the telnet connection fails query, which needs a correction. /etc/hosts.allow MAY be left empty; acting as if there were no access control. It's one of the

Re: Message for telnet clients

2002-04-17 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Crawford wrote: Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma) Kernel 2.4.7-10 on an i686 login: /etc/issue.net That file is _generated_ at boot time. If you modify it yourself, get rid of the code in /etc/rc.d/rc.local which writes to it,

Re: Message for telnet clients

2002-04-17 Thread Bill Crawford
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, David Talkington wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Crawford wrote: Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma) Kernel 2.4.7-10 on an i686 login: /etc/issue.net That file is _generated_ at boot time. If you modify it yourself, get

Re: Controlling a GUI (window manager functions) from the commandline...

2002-04-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 09:28, Henrik Schmiediche wrote: I am running RH7.2 with KDE 2.2.2. Is it possible to control a window from the command line. For example, if I want to start a program from a shell script and then minimize or maximize it without user intervention - can that be done?

Re: Telnet connection fails

2002-04-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 13:47, Matthew Boeckman wrote: You can delete these two chains with: ipchains -D input 3-- numeric identifier for the tcp reject chain and ipchains -D input 5 --for udp OR: You can use the 'lokkit' tool to configure the firewall. As root, run 'lokkit' and you

Re: Message for telnet clients

2002-04-17 Thread Ed Wilts
In Seawolf (7.1), /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net are written by /etc/rc.d/rc.local. The file timestamps appear to be the same time as my last boot. The change was made for Enigma (7.2) - I just verified this here. This is the 7.2 /etc/issue (supplied by rpm redhat-release-7.2-1)

Re: No viewer for RPM files

2002-04-17 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 10:42, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 11:09:04AM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: Toralf Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I notice that on a Red Hat + GNOMEhide setup using Nautilus, there is no handler configured for RPM files. Why?

Re: Message for telnet clients

2002-04-17 Thread Bill Crawford
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Ed Wilts wrote: In Seawolf (7.1), /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net are written by /etc/rc.d/rc.local. The file timestamps appear to be the same time as my last boot. The change was made for Enigma (7.2) - I just verified this here. I couldn't remember when they switched

Re: Sendmail relay

2002-04-17 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 08:44:06AM -0400, Michael George wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 10:07:41AM -0400, Devon Harding - GTHLA wrote: I have a little different question. I will have my server behind a firewall that will keep out SMTP traffic (right

Re: rsync question

2002-04-17 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 09:02 17 Apr 2002, Eric Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I just rsync'd my accounting system from one server to another. But I don't | fully understand the results: | | # time rsync -avvpP rsync://server.xyz.com/module . | wrote 2540481 bytes read 49582644 bytes 101703.66 bytes/sec | total