help

2002-05-24 Thread Eric Dong
hi, i am a new comer of redhat linux. just now my linux(7.2) down for power failure, and when i reboot it, i can not find the kiker bar(i don't the exact name of it, just like start menu on the desktop), so i can not open shell and run program. who can rell me how can i deal with it.

Grub Booting Win2000?

2002-05-24 Thread Edward Marczak
OK - I blew it. I had to re-install my laptop recently, and I thought Grub was smarterinstalled win2000 first, and then RH7.3. Both installs went just fine. However, once I installed RH, I chose to put Grub in the MBR. When booting, all I get from Grub is a choice for RH. How do I get

Re: help

2002-05-24 Thread Mark Gallagher
Eric Dong wrote: hi, i am a new comer of redhat linux. just now my linux(7.2) down for power failure, and when i reboot it, i can not find the kiker bar(i don't the exact name of it, just like start menu on the desktop), so i can not open shell and run program. who can rell me how can i

´ð¸´: RH vs. LILO

2002-05-24 Thread freefly
After you added lba32 into your lilo.conf file, you must reload lilo.conf to enable it through /sbin/lilo -v -v . -- ???: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]?? Eric Kadison : 2002?5?24? 14:12 ???: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ??: RE: RH vs. LILO Thanks for your help. Using

RE: Grub Booting Win2000?

2002-05-24 Thread Pranay Kumar
Add the new section for win2k in /etc/grub.conf ... assuming win2k is in the first partition title windows root(hd0,0) # change 0 to the partition that has win2k chainloader +1 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Edward

pppd won't hangup due to unsolicited packets

2002-05-24 Thread gregory mott
the pppd 'demand' feature won't go idle if there's unsolicited traffic. the unwanted packets are being properly dropped by iptables. but the pppd connection won't hangup. a simple solution might be for pppd to ignore incoming traffic for the purpose of deciding if the connection is idle? is

Re: Sound in Quake

2002-05-24 Thread Gary Stainburn
On Thursday 23 May 2002 7:42 pm, Rob Dege wrote: 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

Re: user's permissions

2002-05-24 Thread Massimo Alonzo
Can you make an example? hda2 is the vfat partition and suj is the group. thanks Massimo On Thu, 23 May 2002, Samuel Flory wrote: 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

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

2002-05-24 Thread Ashwin Khandare
The information provided by you is great but somehow I did not understand this command dig /var/named/named.ca Will u pls elaborate on the same? - Original Message - From: Daniel J. Cody [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 7:25 AM Subject: Re: DNS: Keeping

72 and 86,7 Mo of RPMs

2002-05-24 Thread Ismael Touama
Hi everyone, For near a month, I didn't check for erratas... So I did it yesterday, I just finish : 72 rpms ! OK I made a big stupid installation of rh7.2. But it takes a while !! And I ask myself if is it the good way to keep up to date my system ? *with no use of up2date or something else*

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

2002-05-24 Thread Banze, Andreas
The information provided by you is great but somehow I did not understand this command dig /var/named/named.ca Will u pls elaborate on the same? dig is part of the bind-tools. It's a nameserver lookup utility that gives a list of root-servers if no argument is given. Try man dig for a

smtpd_restriction on postfix? -- unknown host client ??

2002-05-24 Thread Lewi
yesterday I have setup my mail server that using postfix to only allow sender that have a valid hostname with A and MX entry in DNS, and in smtpd_recipient_restriction too to deny some tricky client that use my mail server maybe like this telnet myserver 25 helo myserver mail from:[EMAIL

xbiff

2002-05-24 Thread Michael George
Does anyone know why xbiff doesn't respond when fetchmail puts mail into my mailbox? I use fetchmail to get mail from my ISP. When new mail ends up in my mail mailbox (doesn't go into another file based on a filter rule), it doesn't seem to trigger xbiff. However, if I send mail to myself

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

2002-05-24 Thread Ed Wilts
dig /var/named/named.ca This produces the wrong information, as others have pointed out. Try: cd /var/named wget ftp://ftp.rs.internet.net/domain/named.ca You probably want to play with some wget options to fine tune this (or use ncftpget). Ed Wilts Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL

Is There any compatibility problem to use Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris on VIA KT266A Chipset?

2002-05-24 Thread TecHunter
i want to buy a new pc recently,and want to use ThunderBird XP CPU mainboard which uses VIA KT266A,anyone uses Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris on this kind of pc?is There any compatibility problem to use Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris on VIA KT266A Chipset?

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

2002-05-24 Thread Steve Buehler
Is it ok if dig comes through like this when doing dig /var/named/named.ca My question is the first set of lines don't have it like 360, they have it in Days, Hours, Min, sec. . 5d23h35m46s IN NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 5d23h35m46s IN NS

RE: NTP Server/Client Configuration

2002-05-24 Thread Siller Gonzalez Pico, Mario A
Dear Ramain, Thaks a lot for your help about. I already had tried the configuration you recommended me without any success. I'm including the configurations I have and some other information. Do you have any idea of what might be wrong? or How to configure a Red Hat Linux box as an NTP server

Sendmail open relay problem

2002-05-24 Thread Chris Mason
ORDB has classified mny server as an open relay, but I can't figure out how to prevent this. I have all the normal restrictions in place, and almost all of the ORDB test emails were rejected. Howeever, the one that got through used a very strange sender address. I have tested my mails erver using

Re: Grub Booting Win2000?

2002-05-24 Thread Edward Marczak
On 5/24/02 4:02 AM, Pranay Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add the new section for win2k in /etc/grub.conf ... assuming win2k is in the first partition title windows root(hd0,0) # change 0 to the partition that has win2k chainloader +1 Unbelievable! Awesome! That did it - looking at

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

2002-05-24 Thread Mike Burger
Doing a plain dig lists the root servers. His command pipes the results of that plain dig command into the /var/named/named.ca file. On Fri, 24 May 2002, Ashwin Khandare wrote: The information provided by you is great but somehow I did not understand this command dig /var/named/named.ca

Setting default route

2002-05-24 Thread Blake C. Thornton
Could someone tell me where the script is that should set the default route. I am trying to get ppp up and running and it is not setting the default route by itself and I need to know how to change that (I can do it by hand, but that is a pain). Thanks, Blake

RE: Speaking of ports

2002-05-24 Thread Ward William E DLDN
FAM is the File Access Monitor. I had a LOT of experience with FAM on SGI Origins 2000s back in 1997-98. Basically, it was unreliable at that time in IRIX because the FAM daemon would lock in some kind of weird loop after some amount of time (which was very variable; it would work fine for 2

Re: Users changing passwords...

2002-05-24 Thread Javier Gostling
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: 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

hotplug not working

2002-05-24 Thread John P Verel
I must be missing something obvious, but hotplug-2002_04_01-3 is not working. I understand it should be automatically set up in rc.sysinit. and others (on the gphoto list in particular) report it works. I'm running a stock 7.3 upgrade, with the 2.4.18-4 kernel. The only way I can get my usb

Re: Setting default route

2002-05-24 Thread Mike Burger
Usually, it's in /etc/sysconfig/network, but that really *should* only work for regular network connections. Of course, there's also a setting in that file called GATEWAYDEV=...you might set that to ppp0 and see if it helps. On Fri, 24 May 2002, Blake C. Thornton wrote: Could someone tell

Re: Setting default route

2002-05-24 Thread Robert Canary
Can we see your /etc/ppp/options file? ppp is suppose to set this as part of the ppp setup when the ppp negotiations are made. Mike Burger wrote: Usually, it's in /etc/sysconfig/network, but that really *should* only work for regular network connections. Of course, there's also a setting

RH7.2: MSI motherboard onboard AC'97 sound card ; Alsa drivers ?

2002-05-24 Thread Arvind Raman
--- Arvind Raman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From Arvind Raman Fri May 24 00:08:43 2002 From: Arvind Raman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ALSA-users [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: SoundLinux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Alsa-user] (no subject) Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 00:08:43 -0700 (PDT) After much trial I

chmod on users address

2002-05-24 Thread Ted Gervais
Recently there was a note on what to enter when you wanted to get certain things to work similar to being signed in as ROOT. Something to do with 'chmod' and the use of 'S'. What I am trying to do is invoke a viewer application that needs me to be logged in as root. HOwever, with this

easiest way to get 7.3 patches non-gui?

2002-05-24 Thread Dan Simoes
If you have a server set up, without X, what's the easiest/best way to stay current on patches? Is there a text version of red-carpet perhaps, or one of the redhat network products perhaps? Thanks. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Users changing passwords...

2002-05-24 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Javier Gostling wrote: How about a web interface? It could use a perl script to interact with the passwd program, or directly modify /etc/passwd. That would work, sure. But before I reinvent the wheel, I thought I'd ask first if anyone already has such mechanism, or know of any that are

Re: easiest way to get 7.3 patches non-gui?

2002-05-24 Thread Monte Milanuk
On Fri, 24 May 2002 12:23:46 -0400 Dan Simoes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have a server set up, without X, what's the easiest/best way to stay current on patches? Is there a text version of red-carpet perhaps, or one of the redhat network products perhaps? Thanks. Yes. Try 'man

Re: easiest way to get 7.3 patches non-gui?

2002-05-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 09:23, Dan Simoes wrote: If you have a server set up, without X, what's the easiest/best way to stay current on patches? Is there a text version of red-carpet perhaps, or one of the redhat network products perhaps? Up2date can be used from the command line, or you can

merge and purge

2002-05-24 Thread jwallen
i have a friend who has a access database that needs some work done on it. one thin in particular is that it needs to have all duplicate entries removed. i had him export the database into a comma deliniated file. the list has 50,000+ entries. now what i need to do is find a script or tool

RE: running 7.2 and 7.3 side by side

2002-05-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 13:07, Ward William E DLDN wrote: Benefits: One, single /var so ALL logs still show up; and nicely, during boot, it TELLS you what kernel you're booting to, so you can decipher. /var contains data that may not be compatible between 7.2 and 7.4. For instance,

Re: tcp socket error

2002-05-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 17:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all This is half windows half linux question one of my It's an all windows question. Re-install TCP/IP (remove, reboot, reinstall the driver), and if it doesn't work, you'll find better advice on a Windows list. (I haven't repaired

Re: What is correct way to load modules before file systems aremounted?

2002-05-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 16:45, John P Verel wrote: 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? If you have it configured properly (which should be done out of the box) there will be the

Re: easiest way to get 7.3 patches non-gui?

2002-05-24 Thread Rick van der Linde
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 16:23, Dan Simoes wrote: If you have a server set up, without X, what's the easiest/best way to stay current on patches? Is there a text version of red-carpet perhaps, or one of the redhat network products perhaps? Thanks. up2date-nox will work for you ! It has a

Re: Users changing passwords...

2002-05-24 Thread Monte Milanuk
On Fri, 24 May 2002 10:43:50 -0600 Ashley M. Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Javier Gostling wrote: How about a web interface? It could use a perl script to interact with the passwd program, or directly modify /etc/passwd. That would work, sure. But before I reinvent the wheel,

Re: merge and purge

2002-05-24 Thread Javier Gostling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a friend who has a access database that needs some work done on it. one thin in particular is that it needs to have all duplicate entries removed. i had him export the database into a comma deliniated file. the list has 50,000+ entries. now what i need to do

RE: help

2002-05-24 Thread Adam Ellis
Eric, I've run into situations like this before and resolved them by deleting the the .kde folder from the home drive of the user in question, letting KDE rebuild it. I'm sure there is a much better way to fix it, but quick and easy has always worked for me. AE -Original

RE: running 7.2 and 7.3 side by side

2002-05-24 Thread Ward William E DLDN
Hmmm then maybe just share /var/log via a softlink? That would still provide the cross version logging. Bill Ward -Original Message- From: Gordon Messmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 12:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: running 7.2 and 7.3 side

Re: merge and purge

2002-05-24 Thread jwallen
worked like a charm! i was looking for an app named unique ;-) thanks much for the tip! On Fri, 24 May 2002, Javier Gostling wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a friend who has a access database that needs some work done on it. one thin in particular is that it needs to have all

Re: chmod on users address

2002-05-24 Thread Mike Burger
It's a little bit of both. It needs to be chown root, and it needs to be chmod u+s. On Fri, 24 May 2002, Ted Gervais wrote: Recently there was a note on what to enter when you wanted to get certain things to work similar to being signed in as ROOT. Something to do with 'chmod' and

Getting a process to start on bootup

2002-05-24 Thread Ronald Nutter
I am working with a program called Nesses that I would like to start when the linux box comes up. Need the following command to be executed on startup - nessusd -d. I am a newbie to linux and havent been able to find a way for this to happen that I can follow what is going on. Any help will be

problem with parted/

2002-05-24 Thread Jianping Zhu
I have redhat7.2 machine I want to mover some space form /usr to /home/ after run print. i got following Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-6149.882 megabytes Disk label type: msdos MinorStart End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.03147.065primary ext3boot

Re: Getting a process to start on bootup

2002-05-24 Thread Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka
just do this echo nessus -d /etc/rc.local Regards, - Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka Chief Technology Officer Gem Internet Services (Pvt) Ltd. web: www.gem.net.pk voice: 92-021-111-GEMNET Vice President Pakistan Computer Emergency Responce Team (PakCERT) web: www.pakcert.org Chief

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

2002-05-24 Thread Patrick Nelson
Ed Wilts wrote: - This produces the wrong information, as others have pointed out. Try: cd /var/named wget ftp://ftp.rs.internet.net/domain/named.ca You probably want to play with some wget options to fine tune this (or use ncftpget). - wget

RE: Getting a process to start on bootup

2002-05-24 Thread Adam Ellis
Ron, Just stick the command in the end of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file. AE -Original Message- From: Ronald Nutter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:00 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Getting a process to start on bootup I am working with a program called

Re: merge and purge

2002-05-24 Thread Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka
I think you need to pipe the text through linux utility - uniq and to be more neat, you can pipe it again through another linux utility i.e - sort Regards, - Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka Chief Technology Officer Gem Internet Services (Pvt) Ltd. web: www.gem.net.pk voice:

RH 7.2 - Masq and VPN w/ GRE - please help

2002-05-24 Thread Shin Ji
I recently purchased and installed RH 7.2. The box it is installed on acts as a simple router. I have 3 NICS connecting a IPX/SPX Netware server, a DSL bridge (modem, whatever) and an Internal Network. I use IPchains (fairly open At the moment) and Masqurade the Internal net (192.168.x.x) to the

blew away a gig

2002-05-24 Thread daniel
...and i need it all back. what are my chances of undeleting a gig? and how do i do it? i deleted the files from windows through samba _ daniel a. g. quinn starving programmer there is a race between developers making better idiotproof apps and the Universe

cannot open display

2002-05-24 Thread Alfredo Cole
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi: My server is using RH 7.0. After rebooting the server, I am trying to login from a terminal using ssh to run X applications from the server. I can login, but when I run an X app, I get cannot open display: myservername:10.0. Although I think

RE: blew away a gig

2002-05-24 Thread BG
Try Norton unerase. Leave the machine on and undisturbed until you're ready to try the unerase. Boot from a floppy to do the unerase. Good luck, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of daniel Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 11:21 AM To:

Re: blew away a gig

2002-05-24 Thread daniel
i don't have that is there something out there i can just download? - Original Message - Try Norton unerase. Leave the machine on and undisturbed until you're ready to try the unerase. Boot from a floppy to do the unerase. Good luck, Bill -Original Message- ...and i

RE: blew away a gig

2002-05-24 Thread BG
What file system? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of daniel Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 11:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: blew away a gig i don't have that is there something out there i can just download? -

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

2002-05-24 Thread Bret Hughes
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 12:58, Patrick Nelson wrote: Ed Wilts wrote: - This produces the wrong information, as others have pointed out. Try: cd /var/named wget ftp://ftp.rs.internet.net/domain/named.ca You probably want to play with some wget options to fine tune this

Re: Setting default route

2002-05-24 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24-May-2002/07:53 -0600, Blake C. Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone tell me where the script is that should set the default route. I am trying to get ppp up and running and it is not setting the default route by itself and I need

Re: blew away a gig

2002-05-24 Thread daniel
ext3 unfortunately all the information i've found is for ext2 unrm won't even run with ext3 _ daniel a. g. quinn starving programmer there is a greater darkness than the one we fight. it is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. the war we fight is not

Re: Setting default route

2002-05-24 Thread Blake C. Thornton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24-May-2002/07:53 -0600, Blake C. Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone tell me where the script is that should set the default route. I am trying to get ppp up and running and it is not setting the default route by itself and

Re: iptables: listing masq/nat connections

2002-05-24 Thread Eric Sisler
At 01:54 PM 05/23/2002 -0400, Mike Burger wrote: 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

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

2002-05-24 Thread John P Verel
Gordon, My modules.conf is below. It has evolved over some time (haven't we all ;) You'll note the alisa usb uhci line which I added earlier this year. Either I made a mistake with the entry or this option changed? I'd be interested in seeing what an out-of-the-box modules.conf file looks

RE: blew away a gig

2002-05-24 Thread BG
Looks like you're SOL. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of daniel Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 12:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: blew away a gig ext3 unfortunately all the information i've found is for ext2 unrm won't

Archived snapshot of 6.1?

2002-05-24 Thread Paul Thomas
Hi, Pardon my barging in, I have searched the RH site and a couple other places to no avail. I need to restore some files and things on my out-of-the-box 6.1 install but my CD does not work. The CD looks to be in fine shape and worked for the install and has been stored carefully since. I

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

2002-05-24 Thread John P Verel
BTW, upon inspection of /etc/rc.d/rc.init, I see how this works. -- John P. Verel Living Proof That Low Tech Beats High Tech! ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: console box

2002-05-24 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
By the way, the PC Weasel 2000 is the only option I know of which includes the ability to power-off even when the machine is hung. Jon On Wed, 22 May 2002, Steve Lee wrote: thanks. that is awsome. On Wed, 22 May 2002, Jonathan Bartlett wrote: anyone know of brand of products so i can

Remote Sessions

2002-05-24 Thread Greg Robertson
I am a student and I need to be able to use my linux box on campus. I am currently able to login to a windows based computer and run exceed and use the items on my linux server remotely using telnet. (Using setenv DISPLAY ip:0) I need to be able to now pull up my applications on a sun

simple question

2002-05-24 Thread daniel
you know how in msdos the entire path is put into the prompt? how can i do that in bash? _ daniel a. g. quinn starving programmer the more law and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. - lao-tsu

Re: netscape bus error and ebay

2002-05-24 Thread Hidong Kim
Thanks for the reply. I have tried clearing my Netscape cache, and it still happens. the strange thing is that this problem just started happening two days ago. Before that, I was able to search on Ebay just fine. Cameron Simpson wrote: On 12:53 23 May 2002, Hidong Kim [EMAIL

Changing a file system between ext2 and ext3

2002-05-24 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
I've been told that you can change a file system between ext2 and ext3 without corrupting the data. How do you do that? Glen ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Mass Production

2002-05-24 Thread Admin @ Search
Hi! We want to distribute our product on a CD to our customers. We want the customer to enter a CD into their CD drive and boot it up. The CD will then: 1) Format the Hard Drive 2) Ask the user some questions 3) Install a full version of redhat 4) after installation do things depending on the

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

2002-05-24 Thread Devon Harding - GTHLA
Not as intuitive as netconf (linuxconf). It ask me to setup networking, when its already setup. No options for hostname or device drivers. -Devon -Original Message- From: Anthony E. Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 10:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

conversion to pdf

2002-05-24 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, I'm trying to convert images to PDF. They're mostly JPEG images to start. I convert them to PostScript in xv. When I do this, the PostScript image comes out with huge white borders. The JPEG images which are about 4 x 3 are always reformatted to PostScript on a 8.5 x 11 field. How do I

Re: simple question

2002-05-24 Thread Nick Lozinsky
use the SET or simply use the commands like this: bash$ EDITOR=/usr/local/bin/ee or use the EXPORT command after setting the variable: bash$ export EDITOR - Original Message - From: daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: list redhat (general) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 4:22

Re: Remote Sessions

2002-05-24 Thread Monte Milanuk
On Fri, 24 May 2002 16:51:38 -0400 Greg Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a student and I need to be able to use my linux box on campus. I am currently able to login to a windows based computer and run exceed and use the items on my linux server remotely using telnet.

(no subject)

2002-05-24 Thread Arvind Raman
After much trial I was finally was able to get sound working on my linux box. But I still have a few issues. As of now I am unable to play a Cd or anything of that sort. The only time when I do hear sound coming out of my PC is when I start esd and when I play the Tux race. I somehow was also

Re: simple question

2002-05-24 Thread Bernard Giroux
Hi You can have a look at http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ for a lot of useful info. daniel wrote: you know how in msdos the entire path is put into the prompt? how can i do that in bash? _ daniel a. g. quinn starving programmer the more law and order are

Re: simple question

2002-05-24 Thread Bernard Giroux
Sorry for double post, I meant http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/index.html daniel wrote: you know how in msdos the entire path is put into the prompt? how can i do that in bash? _ daniel a. g. quinn starving programmer the more law and

Re: Changing a file system between ext2 and ext3

2002-05-24 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 02:07:22AM -0500, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: I've been told that you can change a file system between ext2 and ext3 without corrupting the data. How do you do that? tune2fs -j /dev/hda1 adds a journal to device /dev/hda1, effectively converting it to ext3. Now you need

Re: Changing a file system between ext2 and ext3

2002-05-24 Thread John Costello
Use tune2fs with -j. `man tune2fs` for options, syntax, and gory details. At 02:07 AM 5/24/2002 -0500, you wrote: I've been told that you can change a file system between ext2 and ext3 without corrupting the data. How do you do that? Glen John Costello, RHCE - Synopsys, Inc. --

To Ident or not (was Re: Is My Linux Box Secure Enough?)

2002-05-24 Thread Peter Kiem
Note that you should explicitly REJECT connections to port 113 from the outside in order to avoid timeouts due to IDENT requests. For example, when you try to send mail, some servers will send back an IDENT request on 113/tcp. If you DENY that, you'll sit there waiting for a minute while the

Help!!!! How to kill tar process

2002-05-24 Thread Jianping Zhu
When I try to stop a process of backing up a files to tape drive by using tar i always fails. For example: i use ps -aux . I got following process . root 1484 0.1 0.0 1788 612 tty1 D 17:07 0:01 tar xvzf /dev/sto /home when i tried to kill it by using kill 1484, but the process can not be killed,

Re: To Ident or not (was Re: Is My Linux Box Secure Enough?)

2002-05-24 Thread Mike Burger
IRC is the only thing I can think of that might require you to be running ident. If you're not planning to IRC from your system, you can safely turn identd off. On Sat, 25 May 2002, Peter Kiem wrote: Note that you should explicitly REJECT connections to port 113 from the outside in order

Re: Help!!!! How to kill tar process

2002-05-24 Thread Monte Milanuk
On Fri, 24 May 2002 17:56:50 -0400 (EDT) Jianping Zhu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to stop a process of backing up a files to tape drive by using tar i always fails. For example: i use ps -aux . I got following process . root 1484 0.1 0.0 1788 612 tty1 D 17:07 0:01 tar xvzf /dev/sto

RH 7.2 + icewm 1.0.9 = switching virtual desktops

2002-05-24 Thread Monte Milanuk
I've been running XFCE on my little desktop (generic white box Celeron 266 w/ 128M RAM) as it is easier on the system than a full GNOME or KDE environment. I was interested in trying IceWM again (its been a couple years). I installed it no problem, but after using XFCE, I've gotten *really*

Re: Help!!!! How to kill tar process

2002-05-24 Thread Bret Hughes
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 16:56, Jianping Zhu wrote: When I try to stop a process of backing up a files to tape drive by using tar i always fails. For example: i use ps -aux . I got following process . root 1484 0.1 0.0 1788 612 tty1 D 17:07 0:01 tar xvzf /dev/sto /home when i tried to kill

Re: Changing a file system between ext2 and ext3

2002-05-24 Thread Ted Gervais
On Friday 24 May 2002 18:47, Anand Buddhdev wrote: On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 02:07:22AM -0500, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: I've been told that you can change a file system between ext2 and ext3 without corrupting the data. How do you do that? tune2fs -j /dev/hda1 adds a journal to device

Re: Mass Production

2002-05-24 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24-May-2002/13:55 +0100, Admin @ Search [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We want the customer to enter a CD into their CD drive and boot it up. The CD will then: 1) Format the Hard Drive 2) Ask the user some questions 3) Install a full version of redhat

Re: Changing a file system between ext2 and ext3

2002-05-24 Thread Anand Buddhdev
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 07:47:02PM -0300, Ted Gervais wrote: I've been told that you can change a file system between ext2 and ext3 without corrupting the data. How do you do that? tune2fs -j /dev/hda1 adds a journal to device /dev/hda1, effectively converting it to ext3. Now

Re: console box

2002-05-24 Thread Steve Lee
how does it work if the box is already hung ? what if the box is not on, can you power it on ? On Fri, 24 May 2002, Jonathan Bartlett wrote: By the way, the PC Weasel 2000 is the only option I know of which includes the ability to power-off even when the machine is hung. Jon On Wed,

Re: RH 7.2 + icewm 1.0.9 = switching virtual desktops

2002-05-24 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Thu, 23 May 2002 15:21:01 -0700 Monte Milanuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: I've been running XFCE on my little desktop (generic white box Celeron 266 w/ 128M RAM) as it is easier on the system than a full GNOME or KDE environment. I was interested in trying IceWM again (its been

Re: console box

2002-05-24 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
how does it work if the box is already hung ? what if the box is not on, can you power it on ? The PCI card has it's own processor, and works like it's own computer. It uses the computer's power supply, but when a box is hung, there is nothing wrong with the power-supply - it's the box - so

Re: Help!!!! How to kill tar process

2002-05-24 Thread Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka
try kill -9 1484 =) Regards, - Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka Chief Technology Officer Gem Internet Services (Pvt) Ltd. web: www.gem.net.pk voice: 92-021-111-GEMNET Vice President Pakistan Computer Emergency Responce Team (PakCERT) web: www.pakcert.org Chief Security Analyst Applied

Re: Help!!!! How to kill tar process

2002-05-24 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 17:56 24 May 2002, Jianping Zhu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | When I try to stop a process of backing up a files to tape drive by using | tar i always fails. | For example: | i use ps -aux . I got following process . | root 1484 0.1 0.0 1788 612 tty1 D 17:07 0:01 tar xvzf /dev/sto /home I hate

$6000.00 Question

2002-05-24 Thread Shin Ji
Does anyone who is reading this know what happened to the ip_masq_pptp module that was in version 7.0 or Redhat Linux? Has anyone gotten a GRE (protocol 47) packet to pass across a masqueraded interface in RedHat linux version 7.2? If so HOW did you do it? I have an open (for now) MASQ

Re: simple question

2002-05-24 Thread Statux
What did that have to do with his question? :) On Fri, 24 May 2002, Nick Lozinsky wrote: use the SET or simply use the commands like this: bash$ EDITOR=/usr/local/bin/ee or use the EXPORT command after setting the variable: bash$ export EDITOR - Original Message - From: daniel

Re: Help!!!! How to kill tar process

2002-05-24 Thread Statux
Pass a signal to the kill command: # kill -9 1484 or # killall -9 tar Signal 9 is SIGKILL which cannot be caught by a process and therefore will end a process with no (or few) questions asked. # kill -QUIT 1484 will send the SIGQUIT signal to process 1484. If SIGQUIT is caught and handled

Getting Quake was Re: Sound in Quake

2002-05-24 Thread Rob Blomquist
BTW, I'm interrested in getting Quake, where's the best place to get it? Quake is available from anyplace selling the Windows CDs by buying them, then finding a quake for linux FAQ and installing the Quake linux binaries from ID Software and installing the mods and such from the CD. Pretty

Re: netscape bus error and ebay

2002-05-24 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 15:59 23 May 2002, Hidong Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Thanks for the reply. I have tried clearing my Netscape cache, and it | still happens. the strange thing is that this problem just started | happening two days ago. Before that, I was able to search on Ebay just | fine. Weird. Does

mod_auth_mysql-2.20 and apache-eapi

2002-05-24 Thread Charles Galpin
Hi all I'm attempting to try a web based dns management program called myWebDNS on a Red Hat 7.2 box (my desire is to delegate the ability for users to change their own dns settings for their own domains). I'm stuck because it requires mod_auth_mysql-2.20. I found an rpm, but it requires

Kernel oops

2002-05-24 Thread Ed Wilts
In the last week or so, I've been starting to get kernel errors. This is with the latest 7.1 updates. Any ideas as to what's happening? The latest change is that I replaced a 10GB Fujitsu drive with a Quantum 30GB fireball, but this drive should not have been accessed at this time (it's only

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