Re: Speaking of ports

2002-05-23 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 08:13:18AM +0800, Edward Dekkers wrote: 1024 - supposed to be reserved but is listening? I've since found out port 1024 is owned by xinetd. This unfortunately doesn't tell me which PART of xinetd is opening the port. Any way to track that down? Look at

Re: anyway to safely make the hard drive read only?

2002-05-23 Thread Ashwin Khandare
hi Duncan, Can u pls explain a bit in more detail about flash+ramdisk concept or any docs for the same. It sounds a very interesting . - Original Message - From: Duncan Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 3:44 AM Subject: Re: anyway to safely

Re: ipchains - getting certain services past the firewall

2002-05-23 Thread Ashwin Khandare
hi, I guess the line mentioned below needs to be added on your firewall /sbin/ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.10 -d 0/0 -j MASQ - Original Message - From: Stuart Otway [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 8:43 PM Subject: ipchains - getting certain

Adding vga='video mode' to the grub kernel line

2002-05-23 Thread Kevin Myers
I've just installed 7.2 on to a new machine, with vga=ask in the grub config file, and when it boots it gives me the option of modes 1-6, or 'scan'. When I opt for scan, it scans and then gives me options 1-b (ie 5 additional options) How do I get at the option I want (9) without having to scan

lilo and kernel img.

2002-05-23 Thread Ted Gervais
I normally compile up new kernels manually editing the lilo.conf file as I go along. I find there is a line in that file from before that reads: initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img I read about what that img is for but how do you add that to an new lilo.conf entry? Or is it somehow

Re: lilo and kernel img.

2002-05-23 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 08:22:29AM -0300, Ted Gervais wrote: I normally compile up new kernels manually editing the lilo.conf file as I go along. I find there is a line in that file from before that reads: initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img I read about what that img is for but

Re: lilo and kernel img.

2002-05-23 Thread Mike Martin
--- Ted Gervais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I normally compile up new kernels manually editing the lilo.conf file as I go along. I find there is a line in that file from before that reads: initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img I read about what that img is for but how do you add that

Sendmail TLS

2002-05-23 Thread Bradley Glonka
What are the necessary steps to make the 7.3 sendmail version sendmail-8.11.6-15 support STARTTLS I found 8.12.3 in rawhide, but it requires upgraded ssl glibc and bdb, not something easily done. those upgrades would break other things. Thanks brad

Re: Samba Questions

2002-05-23 Thread Pat Cookson
Quick check here. In your config file, under the share definition, do you specify that the share is writeable = yes ? Pat Cookson AJC Dave Lewis

NTP Server/Client Configuration

2002-05-23 Thread Siller Gonzalez Pico, Mario A
Hi, I'm trying to configure NTP on several Red Hat Linux boxes without any success. I'm including some information about the configurations I'm working on. Does anyone has any idea of what might be wrong? or How to configure a Red Hat Linux box as an NTP server?. Thanks, Mario

iptables: listing masq/nat connections

2002-05-23 Thread Eric Sisler
I've just started working with iptables and I can't seem to find a way to list current masquerade / nat connections. With ipchains I'd use the command 'ipchains -nML' to get a table of masq'ed connections. Am I just missing something or is there no way to do this with iptables? Thanks!

Re: Adding vga='video mode' to the grub kernel line

2002-05-23 Thread ABrady
On Thu, 23 May 2002 17:51:34 +0700 Kevin Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just installed 7.2 on to a new machine, with vga=ask in the grub config file, and when it boots it gives me the option of modes 1-6, or 'scan'. When I opt for scan, it scans and then gives me options 1-b (ie 5

Using an IBM 8227 access point

2002-05-23 Thread Alfredo Cole
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi: Using RH 7.0 I just bought an 8227 IBM Access point from eBay, and it says it needs a Lan Manager server supporting LLC to download the boot image. Can Linux and Samba be used to support this access point? If so, could someone point the way

Re: iptables: listing masq/nat connections

2002-05-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Eric Sisler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've just started working with iptables and I can't seem to find a way to list current masquerade / nat connections. With ipchains I'd use the command 'ipchains -nML' to get a table of masq'ed connections. Am I just missing something or is there no way

Re: ls command

2002-05-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Anthony E. Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 19-May-2002/20:02 -0400, Statux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The old default behavior of ls was to list directory contents in alphabetical order with hidden objects first before regular objects. Now adays, ls ignores the leading '.' of object names and

OT: Trapping error messages in a script

2002-05-23 Thread Joe Nestlerode
Hello all. I have a script that could possibly generate the following error: mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device. I can't quite figure out how to get `trap' to catch that or similar errors. (I'd like to have it echo an error message to std out and abort the script.) Am I trying to use

Sorry I know you have done this but

2002-05-23 Thread Osvaldo Alvarez Pozo
Sorry I know you have done this but I am e newbie I want to start testing authentication of sendmail.I decided to use plain text by now How can I do this ? I have sendmail 8.10 and olso SASL. Thanks Pozo - Mensaje enviado usando SquirrelMail.

user's permissions

2002-05-23 Thread Massimo Alonzo
Hi, I'd like to let only some users, not all, write on a vfat partition. How can I achieve this? Best Massimo ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: ls command

2002-05-23 Thread Mike Martin
--- Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anthony E. Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 19-May-2002/20:02 -0400, Statux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The old default behavior of ls was to list directory contents in alphabetical order with hidden objects first before regular objects. Now

Re: Sorry I know you have done this but

2002-05-23 Thread Bradley Glonka
from /etc/sendmail.mc define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl remove dnl from the second two lines m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc /set/sendmail.cf service sendmail restart

new hard disk

2002-05-23 Thread Jianping Zhu
I have a linux sever with redhat7.1 on it. I have bought a new hard disk, I want to move the /home diretoy to the new hard disk, and extend /usr in the old hard disk. but I am not sure how to do it. Any suggestion will be greatly appreicated. Jianping Jianping

Re: iptables: listing masq/nat connections

2002-05-23 Thread Eric Sisler
At 07:42 AM 05/23/2002 -0700, Harry Putnam wrote: Eric Sisler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've just started working with iptables and I can't seem to find a way to list current masquerade / nat connections. With ipchains I'd use the command 'ipchains -nML' to get a table of masq'ed

Re: ls command

2002-05-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Mike Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: just a related point I find the following alias very useful lsd='ls -l|grep ^d' works to just give a list of directories (handy for weeding compile trees) You could just let ls do it: ls -d */ ___

Re: NTP Server/Client Configuration

2002-05-23 Thread Carl D. Blake
Are you sure that the server you are connecting to is an NTP server? The fact that ntptrace reports that the localhost is a stratum 1 server indicates that ntp thinks the localhost is the main time server. I have a system setup at work here where my computer connects to an ntp server on our

Re: NTP Server/Client Configuration

2002-05-23 Thread Monte Milanuk
On Thu, 23 May 2002 14:53:59 +0100 Siller Gonzalez Pico, Mario A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to configure NTP on several Red Hat Linux boxes without any success. I'm including some information about the configurations I'm working on. Does anyone has any idea of what might be

Re: user's permissions

2002-05-23 Thread Samuel Flory
Create a group. Make all user that need to write to the vfat partition a member. Mount the vfat partition with the gid option to make all files owned by that group. Massimo Alonzo wrote: Hi, I'd like to let only some users, not all, write on a vfat partition. How can I achieve

RE: NTP Server/Client Configuration

2002-05-23 Thread Siller Gonzalez Pico, Mario A
Dear Monte, Thanks a lot for your feedback. I checked the HOWTO document. However, in my network scenario I'm not planning to make the synchronization with any NTP real server (stratum 1, stratum 2). Since my network is not connected to the internet at all I want to configure one of my Linux

Re: lilo and kernel img.

2002-05-23 Thread Samuel Flory
If you have compiled support for ext3, and any scsi/raid drivers need to access your drives. You don't need an initrd. Ted Gervais wrote: I normally compile up new kernels manually editing the lilo.conf file as I go along. I find there is a line in that file from before that reads:

Re: Kernel SPEC

2002-05-23 Thread Samuel Flory
Not without editing the spec. Also realize that rpm -ba kernel-2.4.9-31.spec would only rebuild the i386 packages. You need to use the --target option to build the i686 packages. Ray Parish wrote: I am trying to rebuild the kernel RPMs from the kernel SPEC file supplied by redhat. I

Re: lilo and kernel img.

2002-05-23 Thread Ted Gervais
At 09:21 AM 5/23/2002 -0700, you wrote: If you have compiled support for ext3, and any scsi/raid drivers need to access your drives. You don't need an initrd. Thanks for the tip. That is a good point.. Ted Gervais wrote: I normally compile up new kernels manually editing the lilo.conf

Re: new hard disk

2002-05-23 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:49:20AM -0400, Jianping Zhu wrote: I have a linux sever with redhat7.1 on it. I have bought a new hard disk, I want to move the /home diretoy to the new hard disk, and extend /usr in the old hard disk. but I am not sure how to do it. Any suggestion will be

Subdomain in bind zone file

2002-05-23 Thread Jeff Graves
Can someone give me a sample of what a zone file should look like if you are delegating resposibility of a subdomain in a zone file? ie. does it look like this: snip . NS 192.168.1.1 subdomain NS 192.168.2.1 server A 192.168.1.2 server2 A 192.168.1.3 /snip

Re: NTP Server/Client Configuration

2002-05-23 Thread Monte Milanuk
On Thu, 23 May 2002 17:22:59 +0100 Siller Gonzalez Pico, Mario A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Monte, Thanks a lot for your feedback. I checked the HOWTO document. However, in my network scenario I'm not planning to make the synchronization with any NTP real server (stratum 1, stratum 2).

Re: iptables: listing masq/nat connections

2002-05-23 Thread jbinpg
Eric S. wrote - I want to see active masq/nat connections rather than the rules. Output from my earlier command on a box running ipchains: Go to http://freshmeat.net and do a search for IPTSTATE. It will give you what you want. jb ___

Re: iptables: listing masq/nat connections

2002-05-23 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 07:58:53AM -0600, Eric Sisler wrote: I've just started working with iptables and I can't seem to find a way to list current masquerade / nat connections. With ipchains I'd use the command 'ipchains -nML' to get a table of masq'ed connections. Am I just missing

two hard disk.

2002-05-23 Thread Jianping Zhu
I just add a new hard disk too my machine. How can check I have two hard disk in my redhat 7.2 machine? And how can i format the new hd? thank you ! Jianping Zhu Department of Computer Science Univerity of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 Tel 706 5423900

Re: Subdomain in bind zone file

2002-05-23 Thread Mike Burger
You set up a subdomain zone file in the exact same way as the main domain zone file. It doesn't look any different, except teh SOA information. On Thu, 23 May 2002, Jeff Graves wrote: Can someone give me a sample of what a zone file should look like if you are delegating resposibility of a

RE: ls command

2002-05-23 Thread Patrick Nelson
Harry Putnam wrote: - You could just let ls do it: ls -d */ - What about the opposite... if you only wanted the files? ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] latex icelandic and pdf

2002-05-23 Thread Alan Peery
It's likely that the Icelandic character sets aren't in your Xwindows font path. Try looking at xfontsel and xlsfonts to see if the font is known about. After that, check out xset +fp. Alan Hidong Kim wrote: Hi, I'm trying to make a document with Icelandic characters in LaTeX. I put

RE: Subdomain in bind zone file

2002-05-23 Thread Jeff Graves
Yeah but in the main zone file (domain.com) how do I show that 192.168.2.1 has the master zone file for subdomain.domain.com? 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

Re: two hard disk.

2002-05-23 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 12:55:24PM -0400, Jianping Zhu wrote: I just add a new hard disk too my machine. How can check I have two hard disk in my redhat 7.2 machine? fdisk -l And how can i format the new hd? Use fdisk to partition it, and then mkfs to create a filesystem on the new

RE: NTP Server/Client Configuration

2002-05-23 Thread Siller Gonzalez Pico, Mario A
Dear Emmanuel, Something I didn't mention in my last email is that for the Linux box NTP Server I want to have its internal clock as the time reference. That's why I used the 127.127.1.0 on the ntp.conf file as the server address. I've done as you commented on your email. These are the messages

Re: NTP Server/Client Configuration

2002-05-23 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 06:30:18PM +0100, Siller Gonzalez Pico, Mario A wrote: Something I didn't mention in my last email is that for the Linux box NTP Server I want to have its internal clock as the time reference. That's why I used the 127.127.1.0 on the ntp.conf file as the server

Re: iptables: listing masq/nat connections

2002-05-23 Thread Eric Sisler
At 04:48 PM 05/23/2002 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to see active masq/nat connections rather than the rules. Output from my earlier command on a box running ipchains: Go to http://freshmeat.net and do a search for IPTSTATE. It will give you what you want. This looks like exactly

Re: iptables: listing masq/nat connections

2002-05-23 Thread Eric Sisler
At 06:52 PM 05/23/2002 +0200, Anand Buddhdev wrote: I've just started working with iptables and I can't seem to find a way to list current masquerade / nat connections. With ipchains I'd use the command 'ipchains -nML' to get a table of masq'ed connections. Am I just missing something

RE: Subdomain in bind zone file

2002-05-23 Thread Mike Burger
In the zone file, you put an NS record for .subdomain.domain.com. In your named.conf file, you put a pointer to zone subdomain.domain.com to a separate zone file. On Thu, 23 May 2002, Jeff Graves wrote: Yeah but in the main zone file (domain.com) how do I show that 192.168.2.1 has the

Re: iptables: listing masq/nat connections

2002-05-23 Thread Mike Burger
One thing to keep in mind...you might need to get the latest/greatest ncurses to get the top method working properly...depending on which version of RedHat and ncurses you're running. ncurses-5.2-26 out of rawhide seems to work well...it's also the version included in 7.3. On Thu, 23 May

unsubscribe,

2002-05-23 Thread Nguyen Phuong
Dear sirs and madams, How to unsubscribe to this MAILING LIST? and join with another mail address sirs? Cheers ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

RE: NTP Server/Client Configuration

2002-05-23 Thread Siller Gonzalez Pico, Mario A
Dear Emmanuel, The clients and server are within the same private network. There is not any firewall in this network. The ntpd daemon is running in the server. The message that concerns me the most from the CLIENTs log is May 23 18:08:34 localhost ntpdate[15492]: no server suitable for

Re: No sound with RH 7.3 / SB Live Value

2002-05-23 Thread Gigi
--- arkyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: I just installed RH 7.3 from ISO disks on 8KTA / Duron 600 / 256M with Soundblaster Live Value, but i don't get sound. I think Soundblaster Live and Audigy series isn't supported yet by Linux. I've a RedHat 7.2 system with a soundblaster audigy

Terminal color support

2002-05-23 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
Call me a dinosaur but I really do not like software that helps me by displaying things in different colours (that's not a typo - I am a canuck dinosaur). I find it very difficult to read which tends to be counterproductive to the purpose of helping). I have been able to defeat ls by setting up

did something stupid

2002-05-23 Thread daniel
i've made this mistake of executing the following in the / directory: chmod 755 * oops how do i put things back the way they were? looking at another linux box i'm using, it looks like everything has those permissions anyway save a few: /rootrwxr-x--- /lost+found rwx--

Re: ls command

2002-05-23 Thread Samuel Flory
This the kind of thing find is for: find * -type f Patrick Nelson wrote: Harry Putnam wrote: - You could just let ls do it: ls -d */ - What about the opposite... if you only wanted the files? ___

Re: Terminal color support

2002-05-23 Thread Bret Hughes
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 13:21, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: Call me a dinosaur but I really do not like software that helps me by displaying things in different colours (that's not a typo - I am a canuck dinosaur). I find it very difficult to read which tends to be counterproductive to the

Sound in Quake

2002-05-23 Thread Rob Dege
Yes, I've installed Quake :) And it works fine. However, the sound is quite soft, even what I have the volume all the way up within the game. One way I get around it is as follows: 1) Load into KDE 2) Run kmix 3) Adjust main volume to a higher volume 4) Logout of KDE When I relaunch Quake,

problem with new tape drive

2002-05-23 Thread Jianping Zhu
I just bought a tape drive from IBM (r0/40/GB DDS/4 4mm Imternel tape drive) and installed it on IBM xseries 230 sever. I have redhat linux 7.1 os on this sever. The problem is after I put the tape into the tape drive, I can not pull it out and both of the tape-drive activity indicator Cartridge

Re: unsubscribe,

2002-05-23 Thread Mike Burger
Follow the link listed at the bottom of each and every email that comes through the list. On Fri, 24 May 2002, Nguyen Phuong wrote: Dear sirs and madams, How to unsubscribe to this MAILING LIST? and join with another mail address sirs? Cheers

RE: Terminal color support

2002-05-23 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
From: Bret Hughes Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 11:34 AM On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 13:21, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: vim is driving me right batty. Is there anyway to turn off colours in vim? I have found thousands of references on how to setup colours and change them but nothing on how to

Re: Terminal color support

2002-05-23 Thread jbinpg
Bret wrote - On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 13:21, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: Call me a dinosaur but I really do not like software that helps me by displaying things in different colours (that's not a typo - I am a canuck dinosaur). I find it very difficult to read which tends to be

Help: docking in panel disapeared.

2002-05-23 Thread Kjetil Tjensvold
The docking function in the panel suddenly disapeared. Any ideas? = Investigating the Norwegain 4.th Secret Service The multiheaded animal. http://hjem.sol.no/altiett/knut_ove_hauge_kuren.htm __ Yahoo! Dokumentmappe Tilgang til dine

RE: running 7.2 and 7.3 side by side

2002-05-23 Thread Ward William E DLDN
I'm surprised at you! I've seen your normally insightful comments, and am surprised that you didn't think of this yourself. drive mount7.2 RHVersion mount7.4 hda0 / 7.2/7.2 hda1 /home * /home hda2 /var* /var hda3 /7.4* / Plus standard

RE: running 7.2 and 7.3 side by side

2002-05-23 Thread Ward William E DLDN
DOH! I blame it all on the fact I've been very ill the last week and am trying to get caught up while still having major migraines. I MEANT to send this only to you, and for my reply (at the top!) to be MUCH more tongue in cheek... it's something that I figured you would have thought of, but

newbie questions regarding security

2002-05-23 Thread Anders Thoresson
Installing RH for the first time, using 7.3, I've run into two questions regarding security: 1) I've scanned newsgroups, this maillist and other resources. But I can't find a solution to stop X listen for incoming connections at TCP port 6000. How do I do this? 2) What file integrity checker

Re: NTP Server/Client Configuration

2002-05-23 Thread Romain Kang
If your local NTP master is actually connected to the Internet, then you can use one of the public open servers as your master. See http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.htm If you don't have continual Internet access, you set give your local master's NTP stratum with the lines

Re: How can i access tape drive.

2002-05-23 Thread Hidong Kim
What kind of tape drive is it? What kind of interface is it? You may need to recompile your kernel for tape support. Good luck, Jianping Zhu wrote: I have a IBM xseries230 server with redhat linux7.1 on it. I just brought tape dirver from IBM and already put it in machine How can i

Re: Need Help - Quota question RedHat 7.1

2002-05-23 Thread Jeff Hood
I apologize if this has been mentioned before, but I just noticed this thread. RH 7.1 has an update to the quota package. Look at the updates for 7.1 and you should find it. Secondly, search for quota on www.linuxnewbie.org (or was it .com) and you find a decent piece on setting up quotas. As a

Weird Printing Problem

2002-05-23 Thread Shailendra Prasad
I run Red Hat Linux 7.1 with LPRng as the print system. We have quite a fewjetdirect printers around as well as some HP deskjets configured via samba.A problem that we have been facing since day 1 is there are times whencertain print jobs will not print at all. The login session will get

ftp problem with redhat 7.3

2002-05-23 Thread Andre Hoornweg
Title: ftp problem with redhat 7.3 Hi, I got a problem with ftp on RH 7.3, when i try to cd to a directory what a softlink is to a full path i get No such file or directory See screen output below, ftp ls 227 Entering Passive Mode (xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx) 150 Opening ASCII mode data

Xclients issue with Redhat 7.3 upgrade...

2002-05-23 Thread Joe Higgins
I just upgraded a P4 machine from Redhat 6.0 to 7.3. A number of issues came up, but the one that stumped me was with getting gnome-session to start. After startx, the X display came up, but when /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc execs /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients nothing happened (ie, no gnome-session). After

Re: Redhat-list digest, Vol 1 #4443 - 15 msgs

2002-05-23 Thread Hilkiah Lavinier
Hi, I've been having this weird font problem since RH7.1 or so. I'm currently running RH7.3. Basically what happens, is that sometimes when I boot into X windows, the kdm font (as well as all the fonts in KDE) is smaller than normal. When I reboot, it comes back to 'normal' (a bit larger).

weird font problem with X windows

2002-05-23 Thread Hilkiah Lavinier
SORRY FOR THE PREVIOUS BOGUS SUBJECT...SILLY ME! Hi, I've been having this weird font problem since RH7.1 or so. I'm currently running RH7.3. Basically what happens, is that sometimes when I boot into X windows, the kdm font (as well as all the fonts in KDE) is smaller than normal. When I

netscape bus error and ebay

2002-05-23 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, I'm running Netscape 4.78 on Red Hat 7.2. I've occasionally had sporadic Netscape bus error crashes. Now I get a consistent bus error Netscape crash when I try to do a search on Ebay. I can go to any page on Ebay, but when I try to search for items with their search engine, I get an

Re: ftp problem with redhat 7.3

2002-05-23 Thread John Costello
As previously mentioned on the valhalla list, ftp in RH 7.3 has been configured to chroot users into their home directories. To disable this feature (and remove the security it provides), you would remove the line guestuser * from /etc/ftpaccess. John At 01:50 PM 5/23/2002 +0200, you wrote:

Re: netscape bus error and ebay

2002-05-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 12:53 23 May 2002, Hidong Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I'm running Netscape 4.78 on Red Hat 7.2. I've occasionally had | sporadic Netscape bus error crashes. Now I get a consistent bus error | Netscape crash when I try to do a search on Ebay. I can go to any page | on Ebay, but when I try

tcp socket error

2002-05-23 Thread hanfamily
Hi all This is half windows half linux question one of my users has a windows laptop today she couldn't access the samba share on my linux server so I tried using kermit to connect and got tcp socket error. As a matter of fact she can only log onto aol when she tries to view the real web it won't

Re: OT: Trapping error messages in a script

2002-05-23 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Thu, 23 May 2002 at 11:01am (-0400), Joe Nestlerode wrote: Hello all. I have a script that could possibly generate the following error: mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device. I can't quite figure out how to get `trap' to catch that or similar errors. (I'd like to have it echo

Re: newbie questions regarding security

2002-05-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 22:51 23 May 2002, Anders Thoresson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | 1) I've scanned newsgroups, this maillist and other resources. But I can't | find a solution to stop X listen for incoming connections at TCP port 6000. | How do I do this? You may not be able to (a quick glance at the XFree86

What is correct way to load modules before file systems are mounted?

2002-05-23 Thread John P Verel
I have to do the following: load the module usb-uhci mount the usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb. How do I get the module to load before mount is invoked? At the moment, I'm doing the above in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, which strikes me as the wrong way to go about it. Thanks. John -- John P. Verel

PregresSQL tutorial

2002-05-23 Thread Patrick Nelson
Anyone know of a great postgresql tutorial? I have been through postgresql.org as well as the docs that come with the rpms, and I'm not getting the kind of info I need. I'm looking for a better understanding of postgresql so that I can do things that I have gotten use to on mysql. Such as

Font Error

2002-05-23 Thread CM Miller
For some reason my GDM screen and whenever I run XMMS, the fonts appear as little boxes, not text. Is there anyway to fix this, I tried changing the current font under the Gnome Control Panel and no luck. thanks -Chris = * GAIM ID:

Re: did something stupid

2002-05-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 11:28 23 May 2002, daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | i've made this mistake of executing the following in the / directory: | chmod 755 * | oops Hmm. Not too dangerous though. | how do i put things back the way they were? | looking at another linux box i'm using, it looks like everything

Re: OT: Trapping error messages in a script

2002-05-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 11:01 23 May 2002, Joe Nestlerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I have a script that could possibly generate the following error: | mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device. I can't quite figure out | how to get `trap' to catch that or similar errors. (I'd like to have it | echo an error

Re: 7.2 - 7.3 update problem

2002-05-23 Thread Craig Servin
I ended up searching redhats bugzilla and finding a floppy image that was supposed to fix the problem. For me it did not so I filed a bug report and am waiting to see if they resolve it. The bug report I filed is: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65065 The bug with the

Re: OT: Trapping error messages in a script

2002-05-23 Thread Rob Saul
On Thursday 23 May 2002 08:01, you wrote: Hello all. I have a script that could possibly generate the following error: mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device. I can't quite figure out how to get `trap' to catch that or similar errors. (I'd like to have it echo an error message to

RE: did something stupid

2002-05-23 Thread Wagner, Joseph
Use RPM to overwrite your current files permissions with the ones that originally came with the package. -Original Message- From: daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 1:28 PM To: list redhat (general) Subject: did something stupid i've made this mistake of

Re: PregresSQL tutorial

2002-05-23 Thread Rob Saul
On Thursday 23 May 2002 04:48, you wrote: Anyone know of a great postgresql tutorial? I use mysql personally, but me has to do postgresql for a customer. If you don't mind buying a book I've heard good things about Beginning Databases with PostgreSQL. Might contain stuff you already know,

RE: Terminal color support

2002-05-23 Thread Tom Pollerman
On Thu, 23 May 2002 21:27:04 -0400 Hugh, See if :syntax off works. Also check out: http://vim.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/syntax.html#syntax I've pasted a bit below... Regards..Tom ---snip- You can toggle the syntax on/off with this

DNS: Keeping root server list up to date?

2002-05-23 Thread Peter Kiem
Is the file /var/named/named.ca which contains the root nameserver info something that server admins need to keep up to date? Or is the file Red Hat packages in their RPMs current enough and we don't have to worry about it? -- Regards,

Re: did something stupid

2002-05-23 Thread Samuel Flory
The t is the sticky bit. (Read up on it in any unix, or linux book.) http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/lpt/22_06.html This will set the correct permissions on /tmp. chmod 1777 /tmp daniel wrote: i've made this mistake of executing the following in the / directory: chmod 755 *

Re: Speaking of ports

2002-05-23 Thread Edward Dekkers
Look at /etc/xinetd.conf, and inside /etc/xinetd.d/ to see of of the services has asked xinetd to listen on its behalf on port 1024. The only thing I can find that is not disabled bar what I need (I only use the ipop3 and pop-3 services in xinetd), is sgi_fam What is it and could it be

Re: lilo and kernel img.

2002-05-23 Thread Ted Gervais
Mike... Another question. With that line now installed in my /etc/lilo.conf file, what should I see on a reboot if it is working? Just curious here, and want to be sure it is working. Thanks.. At 01:35 PM 5/23/2002 +0100, you wrote: --- Ted Gervais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I normally

Re: PregresSQL tutorial

2002-05-23 Thread Brian Ashe
Hello Patrick, Thursday, May 23, 2002, 7:48:20 PM, you textually orated: PN Anyone know of a great postgresql tutorial? I have been through PN postgresql.org as well as the docs that come with the rpms, and I'm not PN getting the kind of info I need. I always thought that these were pretty

Re: DNS: Keeping root server list up to date?

2002-05-23 Thread Daniel J. Cody
Hey Peter - Good question... It is something you should update, IMO, on a 'fairly' regular basis. I have a job that runs monthly via cron which dig /var/named/named.ca hth Dan Peter Kiem wrote: Is the file /var/named/named.ca which contains the root nameserver info something that server

Re: Adding vga='video mode' to the grub kernel line

2002-05-23 Thread Kevin Myers
On Thu, 23 May 2002 09:31:12 -0500, Brady wrote: Change the entry to vga=9 instead. Thanks for the response. But if I do that, without doing a 'scan' beforehand, it says that 9 is not a valid choice. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linuxconf in RH 7.3 ??? alternatives? (2nd post)

2002-05-23 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20-May-2002/15:51 -0400, Devon Harding - GTHLA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a tool for command line instead of X? /usr/sbin/netconfig Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26

RE: Terminal color support

2002-05-23 Thread Hugh E Cruickshank
HI Tom: Thanks for your reply. From: Tom Pollerman Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 6:43 PM See if :syntax off Same error (E319). works. Also check out: http://vim.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/syntax.html#syntax I've pasted a bit below...

Users changing passwords...

2002-05-23 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
How can I have users change their passwords if they don't have shell access? The biggest problem we have right now is people's passwords expiring (after a mandatory set period) and them having to call IT to get it re-issued again. Generally they start complaining when they start seeing

tserver and cserver

2002-05-23 Thread angelaoyu
Hi all What is tserver and cserver? and what is their function? Thank you ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

redhat 7.3

2002-05-23 Thread angelaoyu
Hi all I installed RH7.3 and have the following problem 1/ the ssh doesn't work. - no ssh in the /etc/rc.d/init.d - but rpm -qa|grep ssh (I can get ssh) 2/ I install samba and have following error rpm -ivh samba* error: cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCE I haven't met it before

Samba Name Mangling Algorithm

2002-05-23 Thread Peter Kiem
I have a problem with a client who I have recently set up Samba for. He is trying to install a Windows program that relies on the Windows algorithm for generating the 8.3 filename conversions of long filenames. Samba appears to be using a totally different algorithm. Example: Create a

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