Re: disabling telnet display of host specific information in Redhat 7.2

2002-06-24 Thread K.Deepak
Dear Paul, the banner is called from /etc/issue.net file Thanks K.Deepak Paul Bradshaw wrote: > Hello all, > > How does one get rid of the telnet identifier banner in Redhat 7.2. I > looked in the man page for telnetd and it looks like I need to use '-h' > to disable the

Re: File/Directory Ownership..

2002-06-24 Thread K.Deepak
Dear Ted, sudo is the answer for all your questions. It is a package which comes default with RedHat Linux 7.x series. please try out the man pages or go to the following url for more information http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/ Thanks K.Deepak Ted Gervais wrote: > I am wo

shutdown option for normal user

2002-06-24 Thread senthilg
Hello List I want to enable shutdown option for my users by giving them a direct option instead of logging out. Is there any possibilities ? This is for a normal user no super user. any advice ? I use KDE and RH 7.2 regards senthil Mail sent using jadooWorks Webmail

Re: minicom as root

2002-06-24 Thread Almond Wong
Sorry for miss read your message. I do have no problem for using minicom as root. What is the error messages ? Have you modified the /etc/minicom.users ? How are you invoke minicom. $HOME/.bashrc or from command line ? From console or on a telnet session ? At 08:16 AM 02/06/24 -0700, you wrote: T

Re: socket programming

2002-06-24 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
Look on the web for Beej's guide to network programming. JOn On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Tally Jones wrote: > let me know some programming examples with sockets, > working examples for redhat linux platform. > > i have some examples for steven's unix book but > compiling and linking the examples are c

Recreate RAID w/ fdisk RH7.3

2002-06-24 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, Wanted to add a couple more drives the IDE RAID under RH7.3, but can't the OS to boot up. No problem though, it does dump me into a command mode to fdisk the drives. The problem I am having is while in fdisk and after typing 't' to enter in the type of partition I want ('fd' for linux raid

Re: Bad Interperter?

2002-06-24 Thread David McGlone
On Monday 24 June 2002 05:35 pm, Michael Scottaline wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:03:43 -0400 > > David McGlone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled intuitively: > >On Monday 24 June 2002 02:16 pm, David Busby wrote: > >> List, > >>I'm trying to make/install Samba 2.2.5 and I'm following the > > >

Re: Adaptec SCSI card failure

2002-06-24 Thread Edward Dekkers
> I just recently installed RH 7.0 on a machine with the Adaptec 1542. > I had to use the 'drivers.img' file from the /images directory of the > install cd. Use rawrite to make a floppy image of the additional > drivers, and when the install process can't find your card, use the > drivers from

Re: help me

2002-06-24 Thread K.Deepak
Dear Mike, rpm.pbone.net is an enchanting site for searching rpm apart from rpmfind.net. a very neat, well desgined, organized, simple and highly powerful search engine. The url for the same is http://rpm.pbone.net Few lines about the site "PBone RPM search" is spe

Re: Long delays...

2002-06-24 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Cameron Simpson wrote: > Oh yes - can yours target machines (the ones you're connecting to) > do reverse lookup on the IPs of your 7.3 machines? On one of them, yes. It's been there for ages. On the newer machine, no. I just added it though. -- H | "Life is the art of drawing without an

Re: redhat-config-network & wireless

2002-06-24 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Bart Decrem wrote: > Hi everyone, I've re-wrapped your lines. Please set your mailer to wrap at 72 or so. > I'm trying to get my Orinoco wireless card to work with Red Hat 7.3 on > my Dell Inspiron 5000e but have been having trouble. So today I > figured I'd try playing b

Re: Can't get Acroread working in Netscape or Mozilla:Solved!!!

2002-06-24 Thread John P Verel
On 06/24/02 21:06 -0400, John P Verel wrote: > On 06/24/02 17:40 -0400, Javier Gostling wrote: > > I have it working in galeon. Can you describe what you did in some > > detail? Got it. Upon closer reading of man plugger, (which I gather is the driver for all the helper apps), I find this line:

RE: SMTP AUTH Micro-HOWTO v2 (corrected)

2002-06-24 Thread Gregory Hosler
some questions on this (thanks for doing this, by the way). first of all, I'm running Red Hat Linux 7.3, pretty much out of the box (plus eratta). On 29-Jan-02 Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > All: > > The following are basic instructions on enabling SMTP AUTH on a late-model > server. These instructi

Re: Long delays...

2002-06-24 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 19:02 24 Jun 2002, Ashley M. Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Cameron Simpson wrote: | > Hmm. /etc/nsswitch.conf isn't trying nonexistent NIS servers or anything? | I'm not running NIS+ on any of my servers. I was more wondering if your nsswitch.conf thinks you

going back to lower version of linux

2002-06-24 Thread malathi kodi
hi I need some help regarding redhat linux installation. I have upgraded my linux PC from 6.1 to 7.1. Later came to know that 7.1 linux is not full, I got it free by purchasing a linux book. For everything I need to download again the packages. I read in the book, that this cd does not have comp

Thanks Emmanuel

2002-06-24 Thread Valerie Hart
thank you for your help, obviously I did not know about that command... I have since found a good ftp site and downloaded a new file... it seems like the iso image on most of the ftp sites listed in the mirror and the "official" ones off redhat.com are either trunciated or something else cause the

configuring connexant modem !!!

2002-06-24 Thread a kajutis
Greeting's I recently installed Red Hat 7.3 with the SGI xfs filesystem in my computer and was not able to get it to work with the following modem,It was reconised by the system as a connexant 56k v90 modem, the modem says on the out side AOPEN FM56 P/N 91.ACOO1.328 S/N 03856326TCE6 It did t

Retrieving Yahoo mail via PERL (WAS - Re: Last time fetchmail)

2002-06-24 Thread Alan Harding
No chance you could post those PERL scripts, I would be V interested to see them as I have been playing around with this unsuccesfully Thanx On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 13:32, Joseph R . Erlewein wrote: > > Since yahoo doesn't work anymore via pop3, here's what I had working for my accounts >ther

socket programming

2002-06-24 Thread Tally Jones
let me know some programming examples with sockets, working examples for redhat linux platform. i have some examples for steven's unix book but compiling and linking the examples are consuming lots of mine time. hence i want to get some basic socket progamming working examples that one can compi

rpm info out of date

2002-06-24 Thread Stephen Gevers
I did an upgrade of 7.3 over 7.2. The installation failed on the third CD after upgrading most of my system. I manually upgraded the rpms that were on the third CD. The login screen says Valhalla and uname reports the kernel to be 2.4.18-3. I am also using KDE 3.0. However, the RPM databa

Changing Login

2002-06-24 Thread Arnel
When i first installed Red Hat 7.23 on my machine, Red Hat had ask for a password which I entered.  It then ask to add a user which I didn't.  When I reboot my machine it immediately ask for my login and password, which i didn't set.  How do I get around this and how do i add a user, such as an adm

PAM problems

2002-06-24 Thread Pappas, Nicholas C
Support, Hello, I have an odd problem. From what I can see, PAM is in the default install of Red Hat version 7.2. At the current time, however, I would like to use the traditional authentication mechanism to authenticate our users (IE not using Kerberos or MD5). Here is the situation, i

Permanent iproute changes <- how?

2002-06-24 Thread LuisMi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I do some changes into my network configuration and I would like to do them permanent but I don't know waht I files I need to edit, does anyone have any idea? or at least do you know about any url where I can read what files to edit? Thanks. - --

Re: Linux Boot sequence on MIPS??

2002-06-24 Thread Justin Wojdacki
Domcan Sami wrote: > > Hello everybody > I m trying to develop a Linux boot-loader for MIPS processor, can > anybody help me sending the Linux boot sequence on MIPS. Any sites for > reference? Thanks > Where do you expect to load the kernel from? And what CPU/Board? The basic process is to P

Re: Samba SWAT missing from Redhat 7.3?

2002-06-24 Thread Alex Meaden
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 4:13 PM Subject: Samba SWAT missing from Redhat 7.3? > What happened to SWAT? > > I couldn't find it anywhere in the standard installation of 7.3. Was it > replaced with another GUI or did

redhat-config-network & wireless

2002-06-24 Thread Bart Decrem
Hi everyone, I'm trying to get my Orinoco wireless card to work with Red Hat 7.3 on my Dell Inspiron 5000e but have been having trouble. So today I figured I'd try playing by the rules and use the Red Hat Network Configuration tool. I've got version 1.0.1 of redhat-config-network.rpm (the o

Redhat 7.1 Core file size limit

2002-06-24 Thread Amrith Kumar
With 'ulimit -Sc unlimited' and 'ulimit -Hc unlimited' I was under the impression that there would be no limit on the size of a core file. However with a process that allocates about 2900 MB (~3G) of memory, the core file is getting truncated at INT_MAX bytes. Is there any way to go beyond this a

RE: 3com nic not getting initialized

2002-06-24 Thread Scott Wilson
Yes, we have tested every card in the 3 identical (RH) machines in other (MS) machines and they work fine. I think I will have to give up on this OS as it takes way too much time (=money) to screw around with these simple and trival yet vital functions. Thanx anyway... Hoping 7.3 doesn't have a

Re: Can't get Acroread working in Netscape or Mozilla.

2002-06-24 Thread John P Verel
On 06/24/02 17:40 -0400, Javier Gostling wrote: > I have it working in galeon. Can you describe what you did in some > detail? Downloaded the tarball linux-505.tar.gz from adobe, untarred, executed install script. I have my helper application set up as: application/x-pdf file type. The command

Re: Long delays...

2002-06-24 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Jack Bowling wrote: > Couple things to check: > > 1) routing tables They are correct. "correct" in the sense that they are identical to other machines on the same exact subnet. And those other machines (not running RH7.3) are working just fine. > 2) /etc/hosts.

Re: Long delays...

2002-06-24 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Cameron Simpson wrote: > Got correct values in /etc/hosts for both localhost and the machine itself? > Got correct /etc/resolv.conf file? Yes, and yes. > Hmm. /etc/nsswitch.conf isn't trying nonexistent NIS servers or anything? I'm not running NIS+ on any o

Re: Long delays...

2002-06-24 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Hal Burgiss wrote: > Long shot, hoping for cupee doll: check ecn. > > [root@cadillac pstotext]# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn > 0 > > Though I would think this would be sporadic for some sites, unless > using something like a mini-router (maybe). Also 0 on both

Re: Samba SWAT missing from Redhat 7.3? -- whichcd

2002-06-24 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 04:51:44PM -0700, James D. Parra wrote: > > This is very helpful, but I couldn't find 'whichcd' after my install of > redhat 7.3. There seems to be a lot a packages not installed on the initial > installation with this version of redhat. Tried to use 'rxvt' and found it >

Re: Long delays...

2002-06-24 Thread Jack Bowling
** Reply to message from "Ashley M. Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 24 Jun 2002 17:30:41 -0600 > Okay, I no longer know what else to do. I have two machines running RH7.3, > and several others running versions between 7.0 and 7.2. None of them are > having problems except for the two 7.

RE: Samba SWAT missing from Redhat 7.3? -- whichcd

2002-06-24 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, *to add to this thread* This is very helpful, but I couldn't find 'whichcd' after my install of redhat 7.3. There seems to be a lot a packages not installed on the initial installation with this version of redhat. Tried to use 'rxvt' and found it also wasn't loaded by default either. Very

RE: Samba SWAT missing from Redhat 7.3? -- whichcd

2002-06-24 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, *to add to this thread* This is very helpful, but I couldn't find 'whichcd' after my install of redhat 7.3. There seems to be a lot a packages not installed on the initial installation with this version of redhat. Tried to use 'rxvt' and found it also wasn't loaded by default either. Very

Re: rpm question

2002-06-24 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 03:43:09PM -0700, Steve Lee wrote: > my rpm database seem to have !#@d up. i tried to do a > rpm --rebuilddb What is the output of "rpm --rebuilddb -v -v" ? The last 20 lines should suffice. Emmanuel ___ Redhat-list mailin

Re: Long delays...

2002-06-24 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 17:30 24 Jun 2002, Ashley M. Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | My resolvers are working fine. In fact I can run dig/host/nslookup and get | instant feedback from my DNS servers. Yet, I can't, for the life of me, figure | out why lynx/ncftp/ftp and others just time out and not do anyth

Re: Long delays...

2002-06-24 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 05:30:41PM -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > This is a (custom) server setup, so don't ask me to run mozilla or any > other GUI program because they're just not installed. Long shot, hoping for cupee doll: check ecn. [root@cadillac pstotext]# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4

Long delays...

2002-06-24 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Okay, I no longer know what else to do. I have two machines running RH7.3, and several others running versions between 7.0 and 7.2. None of them are having problems except for the two 7.3 ones. Whenever I want to make an outbound connection, say through lynx, ncftp/ftp, it just sits th

rpm info out of date

2002-06-24 Thread Stephen Gevers
I did an upgrade of 7.3 over 7.2. The installation failed on the third CD after upgrading most of my system. I manually upgraded the rpms that were on the third CD. The login screen says Valhalla and uname reports the kernel to be 2.4.18-3. I am also using KDE 3.0. However, the RPM databa

RE: Samba SWAT missing from Redhat 7.3?

2002-06-24 Thread Engstrom_Carl
thanks, for the great answer. I never knew about that command..."whichcd"...nice. carl -Original Message- From: Michael Fratoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 3:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Samba SWAT missing from Redhat 7.3? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED M

RE: Defragmenting

2002-06-24 Thread Javier Gostling
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 18:23, Alexander Shaw wrote: > Hey I was close, thanks for that. > > So when exactly does it happen? > > > > On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Alexander Shaw wrote: > > > > > I'm a fairly new Linux user and in a quiet moment I suddenly > > thought about > > > defragmenting the drives

RE: Defragmenting

2002-06-24 Thread Samuel Flory
In general you should never have to defrag an ext2 filesystem. Ext2 will "defrag" itself in the course of creating and deleting file. http://www.cbbrowne.com/info/defrag.html On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 15:23, Alexander Shaw wrote: > Hey I was close, thanks for that. > > So when exactly does it ha

rpm question

2002-06-24 Thread Steve Lee
my rpm database seem to have !#@d up. i tried to do a rpm --rebuilddb but that didn't seem to update the database of rpm's installed on my box. When i do a rpm -qa i only see like 22 packages, which is wrong. I should have around 240 packages installed. how can i go about fixing this by up

Re: Samba SWAT missing from Redhat 7.3?

2002-06-24 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 June 2002 11:13 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What happened to SWAT? > > I couldn't find it anywhere in the standard installation of 7.3. Was > it replaced with another GUI or did the folks at Redhat decide that > smb.conf was so easy t

RE: Defragmenting

2002-06-24 Thread Alexander Shaw
Hey I was close, thanks for that. So when exactly does it happen? -- Alexander Shaw Agricultural Stock and Assignment Photography > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert P. J. Day > Sen

Re: Defragmenting

2002-06-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Alexander Shaw wrote: > I'm a fairly new Linux user and in a quiet moment I suddenly thought about > defragmenting the drives on my RH 7.2 server. I did a search of the net and > from what I have read am I correct in assuming that defragmentation is an > integral part of the

Defragmenting

2002-06-24 Thread Alexander Shaw
Hi everyone, Not really a problem but would appreciate if someone can tell me if I'm correct. I'm a fairly new Linux user and in a quiet moment I suddenly thought about defragmenting the drives on my RH 7.2 server. I did a search of the net and from what I have read am I correct in assuming that

Re: Can't get Acroread working in Netscape or Mozilla.

2002-06-24 Thread Javier Gostling
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 17:08, John P Verel wrote: > Having gone through man plugger and the Adobe README for acroread, I'm > still unable to get acroread to work within Netscape or Mozilla. I've > edited the helper configurations in ways that seem to make sense, but so > far no luck. > > Is there

Re: Can't get Acroread working in Netscape or Mozilla.

2002-06-24 Thread John P Verel
Just to add (as I forgot) ghostview opens, no matter what I try. John ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Bad Interperter?

2002-06-24 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:03:43 -0400 David McGlone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled intuitively: >On Monday 24 June 2002 02:16 pm, David Busby wrote: >> List, >> I'm trying to make/install Samba 2.2.5 and I'm following the >directions> but get this error when I try to run ./configure >> Can someo

Can't get Acroread working in Netscape or Mozilla.

2002-06-24 Thread John P Verel
Having gone through man plugger and the Adobe README for acroread, I'm still unable to get acroread to work within Netscape or Mozilla. I've edited the helper configurations in ways that seem to make sense, but so far no luck. Is there a trick that I'm missing? TIA John

Re: Using iptables with PASV ftp - No go!

2002-06-24 Thread Mike Burger
Make sure you have port 20 (udp and tcp) open. On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, David Busby wrote: > List, > I'm using iptables as my firewall to protect my internal network. I > would like to be able to PASV ftp through the firewall. When I use my > W2K machine as the NAT-Firewall I can connect a

Using iptables with PASV ftp - No go!

2002-06-24 Thread David Busby
List, I'm using iptables as my firewall to protect my internal network. I would like to be able to PASV ftp through the firewall. When I use my W2K machine as the NAT-Firewall I can connect and issue PORT commands to the server and connect. If I use my RH machine as the NAT-Firewall

Re: Bad Interperter?

2002-06-24 Thread David McGlone
On Monday 24 June 2002 02:16 pm, David Busby wrote: > List, > I'm trying to make/install Samba 2.2.5 and I'm following the directions > but get this error when I try to run ./configure > Can someone provide assistance? (I'm a n00b) > > [root@localhost source]# ./configure > bash: ./configur

Re: Bad Interperter?

2002-06-24 Thread Brian Ashe
Hello David, Monday, June 24, 2002, 2:16:18 PM, you textually orated: DB> List, DB> I'm trying to make/install Samba 2.2.5 and I'm following the directions DB> but get this error when I try to run ./configure DB> Can someone provide assistance? (I'm a n00b) DB> [root@localhost source]

Re: Bad Interperter?

2002-06-24 Thread David Busby
List, I did not have a space. I'm running ./configure /B whoever wherever wrote: > take out the space ./ configure should be ./configure > > > _ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

Re: Bad Interperter?

2002-06-24 Thread whoever wherever
take out the space ./ configure should be ./configure _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https:

Bad Interperter?

2002-06-24 Thread David Busby
List, I'm trying to make/install Samba 2.2.5 and I'm following the directions but get this error when I try to run ./configure Can someone provide assistance? (I'm a n00b) [root@localhost source]# ./configure bash: ./configure: bad interpreter: No such file or directory TIA /B

Re: disabling telnet display of host specific information in Redhat7.2

2002-06-24 Thread Mike Burger
Did you comment out all 5 lines? #echo "" > /etc/issue #echo "$R" >> /etc/issue #echo "Kernel $(uname -r) on $a $SMP$(uname -m)" >> /etc/issue #cp -f /etc/issue /etc/issue.net #echo >> /etc/issue The third line is the line which adds the linux 2.4.9-31...the hostname probab

Re: disabling telnet display of host specific information in Redhat7.2

2002-06-24 Thread Paul Bradshaw
That doesn't do it.  I already had rc.local edited, and have made sure that issue and issue.net are empty.  But when I connect via telnet I get Linux 2.4.9-31 (hostname.domain) (14:01 on Monday, 24 June 2002) login:  Where's the Linux 2.4.9-31 and the hostname coming from? Thanks, ...Pa

RE: Newbie kernel question

2002-06-24 Thread Kamal Jain
Thanks to everyone who helped me with this. When I re-ran the update agent after installing the older kernel sources from CD, it offered to get me the newer kernel sources. I then just followed the kernel how-to and tweaked as necessary. I've learned that it's important to save your configurati

Re: disabling telnet display of host specific information in Redhat7.2

2002-06-24 Thread Mike Burger
edit the /etc/issue.net file. Also, edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local, and comment out the 5 lines that echo to /etc/issue and cp to /etc/issue.net On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Paul Bradshaw wrote: > > Hello all, > > How does one get rid of the telnet identifier banner in Redhat 7.2. I > looked in the man

Re: Followup Raid Questions?

2002-06-24 Thread Ezra Nugroho
cat /proc/mdstat At 05:34 PM 6/24/2002 +, you wrote: >How do you tell that one mirrored drive is dead? > >Does it show up in /var/log/messages or something, or should the machine be >rebooted to find out > >Wez > > > >___ >Redhat-list mailing list >

Followup Raid Questions?

2002-06-24 Thread Wesley Murphy
How do you tell that one mirrored drive is dead? Does it show up in /var/log/messages or something, or should the machine be rebooted to find out Wez ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-

Re: Raid Questions?

2002-06-24 Thread Wesley Murphy
Raid level one is a mirrored drive right? That means that if you have set the raid up correctly, both drives are presented to the OS as one physical drive. Partitioning would just be the same as a normal drive. eg /boot 30Megs swap512 Megs /

Redhat 7.1 core file size limit

2002-06-24 Thread Amrith Kumar
With ulimit -Sc unlimited and ulimit -Hc unlimited, I was under the impression that core file sizes are unlimited. It appears that there is still a INT_MAX limit on file size. Does anyone know of a configuration parameter that will up the maximum size of a core file or cause the OS to use largef

Re: Taskbar Crash

2002-06-24 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
worked like a charm :) Thank you! -Jon Bruce Tong wrote: >>I've had this problem twice now, and it's rather annoying. Has anyone >>here had a problem where they log in to GNOME and the toolbar on the >>bottom crashes? Then, when I restart the machine the toolbar keeps >>crashing and never "a

Re: keyboard command

2002-06-24 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Brian Ashe wrote: > Hello cana, > > Monday, June 24, 2002, 10:27:49 AM, you textually orated: > > cr> Is it possible to send keyboard command via an > cr> application ? (like "sendkeys" in Windows > cr> environnement) > cr> If it's possible, what is the command? > > I'm no

Re: File/Directory Ownership..

2002-06-24 Thread Jason P Holland
groups are you friend. create a webadmin group, add everyone who needs to update web pages to that group, then assign the group permissions to the files they need access to, such as /var/www/html or whatever. or, you could also use sudo to give "limited" root access to certain files and command

Re: File/Directory Ownership..

2002-06-24 Thread Mike Martin
--- Ted Gervais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am wondering about how I can set up good control over the use of > 'root' > and file/directory ownership without hurting too many people. > > The situation is , our Club has a Computer that is maintained > remotely > through a dedicated inter

disabling telnet display of host specific information in Redhat 7.2

2002-06-24 Thread Paul Bradshaw
Hello all, How does one get rid of the telnet identifier banner in Redhat 7.2. I looked in the man page for telnetd and it looks like I need to use '-h' to disable the display of host specific information, but I don't know where to apply that. The way that worked in Redhat 7.1 of editing

not enough memory available now

2002-06-24 Thread madhvi
hello   I am getting the error message " Not enough memory available now " when I try to rcp all system files on my RH 7.1 file server onto a remote server.   A sar -r command yielded the following :   03:01:00 PM kbmemfree kbmemused  %memused kbmemshrd kbbuffers  kbcached kbswpfree kbswpus

Re: keyboard command

2002-06-24 Thread Brian Ashe
Hello cana, Monday, June 24, 2002, 10:27:49 AM, you textually orated: cr> Is it possible to send keyboard command via an cr> application ? (like "sendkeys" in Windows cr> environnement) cr> If it's possible, what is the command? I'm not familiar with "sendkeys", but perhaps "expect" will give y

Raid Questions?

2002-06-24 Thread whoever wherever
I have RH 7.3 and a dell poweredge server with 2 scsi drives and RAID 1. I am trying to install 7.3 on the server, but when I get to the partition section I am clueless about raid setup. Here is what it shows me on the graphical install, Drive /dev/sda (Geom: 8923/253/63) (Model: Dell Percraid

pam: disable strong passwords

2002-06-24 Thread Surly Zek
Hello, I am trying to disable strong passwords for 1 server only. I am looking at the files under /etc/pam.d/ but do not see how to do this. I checked the online documentation "for system administrators" at the pam site. It says to ask here since I am running Red Hat 7.x. I tried setting th

Re: minicom as root

2002-06-24 Thread John Telford
The /dev/tty ports are set as follows: crw-rw-rw-1 root uucp 4, 64 Jun 22 21:13 /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw1 root uucp 4, 65 Jun 22 17:10 /dev/ttyS1 Still, minicom works using /dev/ttyS0 as a non-root user, but fails to work as user root. Is there a pam or some other secu

Samba SWAT missing from Redhat 7.3?

2002-06-24 Thread Engstrom_Carl
What happened to SWAT? I couldn't find it anywhere in the standard installation of 7.3. Was it replaced with another GUI or did the folks at Redhat decide that smb.conf was so easy to configure manually that any other tools were useless? I looked for Ksamba and GnoSamba, but I couldn't find any

Re: Taskbar Crash

2002-06-24 Thread Bruce Tong
> I've had this problem twice now, and it's rather annoying. Has anyone > here had a problem where they log in to GNOME and the toolbar on the > bottom crashes? Then, when I restart the machine the toolbar keeps > crashing and never "appears". > > If anyone has a solution for the problem I'd app

RE: Upgrade 72 to 73 wont work????

2002-06-24 Thread Patrick Nelson
Ray Curtis wrote: - No what I really wanted was the output of fdisk -l. This only shows the drives you now are using, not the ones that might be installed but not used at present. The reason I ask is that sometimes in the past redhat as well as other distributions have had tro

File/Directory Ownership..

2002-06-24 Thread Ted Gervais
I am wondering about how I can set up good control over the use of 'root' and file/directory ownership without hurting too many people. The situation is , our Club has a Computer that is maintained remotely through a dedicated internet link and it seems everyone that has to do things on tha

RE: sendmail hacking

2002-06-24 Thread Sentinel Sentinel
Sounds like you want to setup a mail hub. Appendix A of the sendmail book from Oreilly books has a great example which should do the trick. Basically setup your definitions as such: D{REMOTE} masq.server.com D{HUB} server.others.think.email.comes.from.com Basically the "REMOTE" address is th

Re: Taskbar Crash

2002-06-24 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
I've had this problem twice now, and it's rather annoying. Has anyone here had a problem where they log in to GNOME and the toolbar on the bottom crashes? Then, when I restart the machine the toolbar keeps crashing and never "appears". If anyone has a solution for the problem I'd appreciate

keyboard command

2002-06-24 Thread cana rich
Is it possible to send keyboard command via an application ? (like "sendkeys" in Windows environnement) If it's possible, what is the command? Thanks Richard ___ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Ma

Re: Last time fetchmail

2002-06-24 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21-Jun-2002/14:01 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >The strange thing is that fetchmail uses the configuration set in the server >manager on the e-smith server. But still it doesn't forward the emails. Do you >know more about a server manager in e

Re: minicom as root

2002-06-24 Thread Almond Wong
The /dev/ttyS1 is only for root user and uucp group . Add the user to group uucp or: chmod o+rw /dev/ttyS0 to allow all user access /dev/ttyS0. Hope this help. At 05:28 PM 02/06/22 -0700, you wrote: I'm running Red Hat 7.3. The minicom programs works using /dev/ttyS0 as a non-root user, but fails

Re: help me

2002-06-24 Thread Mike Burger
Better? Why so? On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, K.Deepak wrote: > Dear All, > > > A better site would be > > http://rpm.pbone.net > > Regards > K.Deepak > > Mike Burger wrote: > > > http://rpmfind.net > > > > Search for "glint" > > > > Download and install the appropriate RPM for your system. > > >

Re: Adaptec SCSI card failure

2002-06-24 Thread Tom Pollerman
> > From: "Edward Dekkers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Adaptec SCSI card failure - my turn!!! > Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 14:26:02 +0800 > > > I'm trying to get an Adaptec 1542CP (ISA) card to work under > > RH7.3, and > failing miserably. With a stock (RPM) kernel, it won't work. Wit

Re: Sendmail: It seems: EMail from local IP is refused

2002-06-24 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:15:50AM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > The reason I want to by-pass my ISP's mail server is > /var/log/maillog. > I want to see in that file (via 'tail -f') that my mail has reached > the addressee's mail server, and I did not see this IIRC when I used > my ISP's

Re: i look for init.c code source

2002-06-24 Thread K.Deepak
Dear Richard, I really don't know as to why you are trying a round about process for this . there are other options too for this. anyway : this the info you had asked for the init.c file is located at /usr/src/linux-$version/arch/i386/mm/init.c Please careful about the

Re: how to truncate a file?

2002-06-24 Thread K.Deepak
Dear All, These lines would help you to truncate a file in the /var/log directory using syslogd and logrotate I am using the maillog file as the example. Please add the following lines in /etc/logrotate/syslog /var/log/maillog { weekly rotate 5 copytruncate com

i look for init.c code source

2002-06-24 Thread cana rich
Hi, I look for init.c source code to modify it in the aim to login/password automatically at each reboot with root permission and all services. THanks for your help. Richard ___ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en f

Re: help me

2002-06-24 Thread K.Deepak
Dear All, A better site would be http://rpm.pbone.net Regards K.Deepak Mike Burger wrote: > http://rpmfind.net > > Search for "glint" > > Download and install the appropriate RPM for your system. > > On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, York Sheng wrote: > > > Hi,all: > > Where can I find the packge of glin

Re: how to truncate a file?

2002-06-24 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24-Jun-2002/10:44 +0800, Mohammed Maeraj Hasbi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Maybe this is quite a dumb question, >in my system, i have this one file which size is over 200Mb. How can I >truncate the file to 50k? is there any command that I can use t

Re: help me

2002-06-24 Thread gary
you always can get from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/ or http://rpmfind.net http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=glint - Original Message - From: "York Sheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 3:42 PM Subject: help me > Hi,all:

Re: help me

2002-06-24 Thread Mike Burger
http://rpmfind.net Search for "glint" Download and install the appropriate RPM for your system. On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, York Sheng wrote: > Hi,all: > Where can I find the packge of glint? > > _ > Join the world’s largest e-mail serv

help me

2002-06-24 Thread York Sheng
Hi,all: Where can I find the packge of glint? _ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://l

Re: NEWBIE-> problems installing

2002-06-24 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 01:50:05AM -0300, Geoffrey Lane wrote: > I've downloaded and burned all 4 cds for redhat linux 7.3 and burned the > 3 needed for installation... I've booted to the cd-rom and went through > the set-up process but when it comes to the last 100mb to be transfered > to the hd

Re: how to truncate a file?

2002-06-24 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 10:44:14AM +0800, Mohammed Maeraj Hasbi wrote: > > Maybe this is quite a dumb question, > in my system, i have this one file which size is over 200Mb. How can I > truncate the file to 50k? is there any command that I can use to do this? Try this: head --bytes 50k filename

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