email server configuration

2002-07-29 Thread shyam
hi frieds can anybody tell me ,how do i configure email server(local) in RH7.2 .i use kde any help is precious shyam ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: please..anyone dual boot linux w2k frustrations

2002-07-29 Thread Christensen Tom
well, as I see it that is 2 stages. stage 1 first stage bootloader loads, and executes. stage 2 first stage bootloader loads second stage, and executes... but its all a point of view. :) at any rate quibling over this doesn't fix the problem :) >From: Kevin Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To:

Re: please..anyone dual boot linux w2k frustrations

2002-07-29 Thread Kevin Myers
On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 04:49:11 +, Tom wrote: > >LI is LILO starting up. >I don't know exactly where it dies, but the letters correspond to sections >of the boot process. So, Lilo is dying after the second part of the boot >process. >[big snip, please don't overquote] Not quite, according

Installing redhat 6.2 on Compaq EN model

2002-07-29 Thread Chakravarthi V S
Hi, I have installed Redhat 6.2 on Compaq En model, installation was fine, and i could also load the network drivers. The network card is eepro100. when the machine comes up, eth0 is ok, i can ping loopback address but the leds on the network port doesn't blink, result i cant ping outside machine

IP(internal) -> IP(external)

2002-07-29 Thread Andrzej Marci/nczyk
Hi, does anybody know how to do (or configure) the RH7.2 server for the following purpose: there is an internal network (192.168.1.xxx) which is masquaraded to the external network with 1 external IP. I must make the server to work in such a way that some internal computers (i.e. with internal IP

Re: Iptables -- HELP

2002-07-29 Thread Jesse Angell
Well.. is there any way i can do it with ipchains? - Original Message - From: "Michael Fratoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 11:13 PM Subject: Re: Iptables -- HELP > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 29 July 2002 11:5

Re: HTTP2 service

2002-07-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 19:43, Dominic Constantin wrote: > > I'm newbie in linux and I had a request from my boss. So I need to know > the number of the port of the HTTP2 service. > > I hope anyone understand and could help me because I'm confused a little bit. So am I. Maybe you mean HTTPS? I

[Fwd: [HARDWARE RAID LEVEL 3 on HPNetServer LH6000 with RH6.2][Bootablepartitions are corrupted]]

2002-07-29 Thread Ganeshh
--- Begin Message --- Dear List I have a hardware raid problem, while my hardware engineers converted from raid 3 to raid 5 , subsequently am unable to boot from my root partition. I did with rescue disk and tried to mount the root partition to recover the data.. i am unsuccessful in doing

RE: please..anyone dual boot linux w2k frustrations

2002-07-29 Thread Christensen Tom
LI is LILO starting up. I don't know exactly where it dies, but the letters correspond to sections of the boot process. So, Lilo is dying after the second part of the boot process. Somehow LILO is trying to boot, if the win2k drive is the only one present I don't know, you might have acciden

File permissions

2002-07-29 Thread bindal
hi, I have implemented an IMAP folder on a Cyrus IMAP server on RH 7.2   what i want is that i want to allow users to add and only delete their own items in this folder. can anyone tell me how to give the permissions to this IMAP file so that users are able to delete their own  posting only

disk usage

2002-07-29 Thread Christensen Tom
I have a small problem, I have a 20GB root partition on a system. it shows that only 6Gb are free, but the usage of all of the directories on / combined only adds up to about 7GB, so where are my other 7GB of disk space? _ Join

Re: Iptables -- HELP

2002-07-29 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 29 July 2002 11:54 pm, Roger wrote: > dumb question time. If ipchains and iptables are mutually exclusive, > why does Redhat default to both enabled? Or did I miss a check box... > Or did I need to be a little more clueful there? Both ar

java sound in Linux.

2002-07-29 Thread Peter Rajesh
Hello, While i run jdk sound demo or my application,  i get the below exception, and i couldn't hear the sound while the sound file is played. javax.sound.sampled.LineUnavailableException : Audio Device Unavailable. But  when i play the sound file individually i can hear the sound. Please let me

Help with SCSI Tape Deivce

2002-07-29 Thread Sweet Chuck
I have a Sony Tape Stacker attached to an adaptec 2940UW. When booting it detected the medium changer and the tape drive. Also, if I 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi' I get the following: Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00 Vendor: SONY Model: TSL-A500CRev: L201 Type

Re: Iptables -- HELP

2002-07-29 Thread Roger
Around Mon,Jul 29 2002, at 10:36, Michael Fratoni, wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > On Monday 29 July 2002 10:27 pm, Jesse Angell wrote: > > Wierd.. > > What does this all mean > > /lib/modules/2.4.9-31/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: insmod > > Do you have any

Re: Automated entry of e-mails into database?

2002-07-29 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29-Jul-2002/20:38 -, Joe Giles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Do they, or another company, have a similer solution that works with MySQL? > >Just though Id ask... Someone probably does, but the database part is really transparent. The setup scrip

HTTP2 service

2002-07-29 Thread Dominic Constantin
Hi everybody   I'm newbie in linux and I had a request from my boss. So I need to know the number of the port of the HTTP2 service.   I hope anyone understand and could help me because I'm confused a little bit.   Thanks in advance

Re: Iptables -- HELP

2002-07-29 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 29 July 2002 10:27 pm, Jesse Angell wrote: > Wierd.. > What does this all mean > [root@palaceunlimited /etc]# /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -s 24.72.17.31 -j > DROP /lib/modules/2.4.9-31/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: > init_module: Device

Re: Problem compiling lm_sensors (parse error before ...)

2002-07-29 Thread Ben Logan
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 04:56:29PM +0100, Nick Lindsell wrote: > OK, fine - I was just trying to point out that there are two compilers on > a rh7.2 box (which many folks are unaware of). > > But how about trying to use kgcc? It might be the fix and every time I've > come across this parse error

Re: Iptables -- HELP

2002-07-29 Thread Jesse Angell
Wierd.. What does this all mean [root@palaceunlimited /etc]# /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -s 24.72.17.31 -j DROP /lib/modules/2.4.9-31/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IR

Re: monitor virtual hosts

2002-07-29 Thread Chris Mason
Oi vey! Is this stuff complex or what. I can't figure out this snmp stuff. Any chance you could snatize and send me your configs? Any other notes you can offer are appreciated. chris On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 20:33, Wesley Murphy wrote: > MRTG - (multi router traffic grapher) is on redhat machines.

Re: pop3 server

2002-07-29 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 29 July 2002 08:25 pm, Wesley Murphy wrote: > RH has pop3 on it already. It is not installed by default, however. You need to install the imap package. > Edit > /etc/xinet.d/ipop3 > > disbale=yes ---> disable=no > > Then run > > service

Re: monitor virtual hosts

2002-07-29 Thread Chris Mason
Seems like I hit a sensitive topic - goodie... I use webalizer on all sites, well, all the important ones. But when the server gets really busy, it doesn't help, I need to know what's being looked at now so I can go and look at the logs in real time. We host all our own sites, so there's no fina

Re: Iptables -- HELP

2002-07-29 Thread C. Linus Hicks
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 20:38, Jesse Angell wrote: > I need to block an ip with iptables ASAP.. I want it to just drop the > connection if they try to connect to ANYTHING on my server.. > How do i do this... > help asap iptables -A INPUT -s nn.nn.nn.nn -j DROP Linus ___

Re: Iptables -- HELP

2002-07-29 Thread Mark
On Tuesday 30 July 2002 1:38 am, Jesse Angell wrote: > I need to block an ip with iptables ASAP.. I want it to just drop > the connection if they try to connect to ANYTHING on my server.. > How do i do this... > help asap $EXTIF=your External network card (eth0,etc..) $EXTIF_IP=your External IP a

Re: Slow incoming net speeds

2002-07-29 Thread Kevin - KD Micro Software
Thanks Ed, I forgot to mention that this machine is connected using a 56k modem. I'm not expecting fast speeds, but I know it should be better than what it is atm. Kevin GreenKD Micro Software[EMAIL PROTECTED] MP 107, Market City

Iptables -- HELP

2002-07-29 Thread Jesse Angell
I need to block an ip with iptables ASAP.. I want it to just drop the connection if they try to connect to ANYTHING on my server.. How do i do this... help asap - Thank You, Jesse Angell Founder, PalaceUnlimited.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: nfs too much for a little celeron?

2002-07-29 Thread Aly Dharshi
Why are you running fsck ? Did the system ask you to do so or were you just experimenting ? You may want to umount that partition and then run fsck on it. This should sort your busy errors. If you are coming from the Windows world this isn't the same as a defrag or anything like that. You may h

Re: pop3 server

2002-07-29 Thread Aly Dharshi
Imap is a protocol just as pop3 is. If you use pop3 mail is taken off the server and stored on your machine that you use to check mail. Now if you use Imap you can then store or leave you mail on the server and wherever you go you just access the server and you mail is there. With Pop3 you have

Re: nfs too much for a little celeron?

2002-07-29 Thread daniel
well i finally figured out how to run fsck (kept getting device busy errors) and i got the following very short input: fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) /dev/hdc1: clean, 31907/10010624 files, 16727577/20010808 blocks is that good? did it fix anything?

Re: monitor virtual hosts

2002-07-29 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 04:10:25PM -0700, daniel wrote: > > i've never used it, but doesn't webalizer do the job? it should chart > everything out for you as well. Webalizer cannot tell the difference between virtual hosts. You could setup a webalizer instance for every vhost and compare the rep

Re: monitor virtual hosts

2002-07-29 Thread Wesley Murphy
MRTG - (multi router traffic grapher) is on redhat machines. Investigate /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf for machine traffic monitoring. Look up something called mod_watch for apache which will let MRTG draw nice little graphs for the traffic going in and out of virtual hosts. This will let you see busy v

Re: pop3 server

2002-07-29 Thread daniel
ok you've confused me already is imap the same as pop3? what are they? why the different names? aren't most email clients (outlook express etc) designed for pop3? _ daniel a. g. quinn starving programmer a little science may take one away from God; much science b

Re: pop3 server

2002-07-29 Thread Wesley Murphy
RH has pop3 on it already. Edit /etc/xinet.d/ipop3 disbale=yes ---> disable=no Then run service xinetd restart and telnet localhost 110 to check it. I can't remember any exploits for pop3, I'm sure if you register your machine with rhn.redhat.com and pay attention to it, you should be ok

Re: pop3 server

2002-07-29 Thread Mark C
On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 00:07, daniel wrote: > i'm experimenting with compiling and configuring sendmail from source and i > think i've actually got it working... problem is, i still can't grab my mail > off my linux box from another machine. pop3 is needed for this right? > > what software is ever

Re: pop3 server

2002-07-29 Thread Aly Dharshi
You could also use Imap as that will leave mail on the server, you are using Sendmail which works with mbx format mailboxes so you may want to use UW-Imap server. I guess that they also bundle a pop server with it if I am not mistaken. If you get adventerous and want to use Maildir formats to s

Re: monitor virtual hosts

2002-07-29 Thread daniel
i've never used it, but doesn't webalizer do the job? it should chart everything out for you as well. _ daniel a. g. quinn starving programmer it could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native american criminal class except congre

pop3 server

2002-07-29 Thread daniel
i'm experimenting with compiling and configuring sendmail from source and i think i've actually got it working... problem is, i still can't grab my mail off my linux box from another machine. pop3 is needed for this right? what software is everyone's favourite? all i've found is qpopper but somet

Re: monitor virtual hosts

2002-07-29 Thread Michael Sorrentino
I've had this dilemma forever. Here's what I've settled on . It doesn't monitor traffic in real time but it's the next best thing. There is a webserver log analysis program called wwwstat-2.0, download and install it. http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/wwwstat/ I'm sure there are others that

How do you see the effect of an ICMP REDIRECT?

2002-07-29 Thread Furnish, Trever G
In trying to diagnose a weird network problem (see earlier msgs to the lists), I noticed that I'm sometimes getting redirects in responses to my pings. The ones I've seen so far seem beneficial, but if they weren't how would I know? How do you see the effect of an accepted ICMP redirect? The ro

monitor virtual hosts

2002-07-29 Thread Chris Mason
I use iptraf to see what connections are on my server, but ther is no way to know what websites are getting traffic. Previously I put a second log entry into every virtual host and monitored that, but it put too much load on the server to write to another log. Is there any monitoring utility that

Re: [RHL] RE: changing scsi cards after install/ scsi cd burn dies on fixa

2002-07-29 Thread dogface
i think you are correct. as soon as i get home i will try the fix. Thank You.!! eric every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 2:21 AM Subject: [RHL] RE: changing scsi

RE: Automated entry of e-mails into database?

2002-07-29 Thread Adam Ellis
Thanks for the input Jim...I'll give the perl script a go tonight. AE -Original Message- From: Jim Bowen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 8:51 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Automated entry of e-mails into database? Yeah. the mail is piped as the stan

RE: problem with NIS

2002-07-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
NFS uses a trust-based security model. It's logically incompatible with hosts that you don't "trust". If your remote hosts must allow users you don't trust to access the root account, then don't use NFS. On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 08:56, Avrahami David wrote: > Right but some of them need root acce

Re: Automated entry of e-mails into database?

2002-07-29 Thread Joe Giles
Do they, or another company, have a similer solution that works with MySQL? Just though Id ask... Thanks Joe Giles > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 29-Jul-2002/08:46 -0400, Adam Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am trying to come up with a system that will allow m

Re: Linux Firewall and Linksys POS

2002-07-29 Thread Anthony Abby
There's nothing to configure... it does it all internally. Just plut your box into the Linksys.. either use DHCP or static IP and away you go! Anthony On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 16:14, Sweet Chuck wrote: > > I just bought a linksys 4 port DSL router/gateway that supposedly does > NAT (on the box i

Problems detecting the 2nd CPU in a Compaq Proliant 1600 using RH7.2

2002-07-29 Thread Charles H. Woloszynski
I recently moved a Proliant 1600R from RH6.2 to RH 7.2. The installation went very smoothly (nice job RH). Using RH Network, I upgraded to RH 2.4.9-34smp. Then, I started to check things out. It appears that this box (a Dual 500 MHZ box) is not recognized as an SMP machine. Both processors

Linux Firewall and Linksys POS

2002-07-29 Thread Sweet Chuck
I just bought a linksys 4 port DSL router/gateway that supposedly does NAT (on the box it says it does). I just spent 1 hour digging through every menu and see no way to configure NAT. Question regarding the Linux firewall project. Can a Linux firewall support most of the features of the PIX

RE: Copy of Root account

2002-07-29 Thread Ward William E DLDN
Heh, all of this reminds me of last week, while I was setting up a webserver. I thought (briefly) about adding a user named web. and this is (as best I can recall) what my fingers typed, with a bit of commentary. [ratbert ~] adduser -d /var/www/http web (added user, let RH figure out what

RE: problem with NIS

2002-07-29 Thread Avrahami David
Title: problem with NIS Right but some of them need root access for some reasons such local database installation -Original Message-From: Jim Bowen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 17:27 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE: problem with NIS Easy, d

Re: Problem compiling lm_sensors (parse error before ...)

2002-07-29 Thread Nick Lindsell
At 11:12 29/07/2002 -0400, you wrote: >On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 01:15:49PM +0100, Nick Lindsell wrote: > > At 07:24 29/07/2002 -0400, you wrote: > > >I don't understand how that could be my problem because I just > > >successfully compiled the kernel with the same compiler (gcc-2.96-85) > > >I'm us

Re: send mail w command line??

2002-07-29 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29-Jul-2002/12:24 -0500, Ed Wilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 06:46:13PM +0800, gary wrote: >> How to send an email in command line, where can change sender name??? >> >> eg. mailx -s > > mail -s "backup log" ewilts That

RE: problem with NIS

2002-07-29 Thread Matthews, John
Title: problem with NIS This is actually a problem with NFS.   I used to be under the assumption it was a NIS problem too.    One solution is to restrict the NFS exports to machines you can trust, and then restrict root on them.  This is of course not the best solution, but it would give y

Re: Localhost Login

2002-07-29 Thread Jeremy Hogan
Robert, Are you saying it logs straight into a prompt? Or goes to text login: rather than graphical? If it's the latter, edit /etc/inittab id:3:initdefault: Change the 3 to a 5 and save. If it's the former, we'll need to look further. --jeremy On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 08:38, Robert Gubbins wro

Re: 7.2->7.3 kernel panic

2002-07-29 Thread Matt Perry
Jeremy: Jeremy Hogan wrote: > Matt, > > Does this happen at the same point while finding packages? Or generally > w/i that phase? Happens at the same point as far as the granularity of the display information on the virtual consoles permits me to detect. > > > Have you tried another install me

Re: 3COM NIC not on list yet will it work? CAW

2002-07-29 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29-Jul-2002/11:09 -0400, Chris Worth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm building a new server, and a higher up wants to make sure the server >has a server class nic in it. he's hot on the 3com 3CR990SVR95. I don't >see it on the list and the specs d

Re: Automated entry of e-mails into database?

2002-07-29 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29-Jul-2002/08:46 -0400, Adam Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am trying to come up with a system that will allow me to take incoming >e-mail messages and enter key fields into a database. So, for example, all >e-mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will

Re: Slow incoming net speeds

2002-07-29 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 10:26:03AM +0800, Kevin - KD Micro Software wrote: > Hi all, > > I have what I think is a strange problem. I have a 7.2 box on the net, and has a few >server processes running. Whenever I access the machine remotely, the connection >itself is almost instant, but then is

Re: 3COM NIC not on list yet will it work? CAW

2002-07-29 Thread Sam Ockman
Hi Chris... What's the server for and do they want the server class nic for a particular feature, or just because they are going to get (or think they will get) higher performance? Drivers for this 3com card can be found at: http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/linuxdownloads.htm They hav

Re: ipchains with redhat 7.2

2002-07-29 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29-Jul-2002/03:38 -0700, Stand H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, >I can't use ipchains with redhat 7.2. >When I use it I got a reply like the kernel is not >compartible with ipchains. I can use iptables but I >wonder why the ipchains is available b

Re: Localhost Login

2002-07-29 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29-Jul-2002/22:38 +1000, Robert Gubbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello > >I am running Redhat 7.2 and I have been modifying my local area network >configuration using neat. > >Now when I reboot, it comes to the localhost login prompt and stops

Re: send mail w command line??

2002-07-29 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29-Jul-2002/18:46 +0800, gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How to send an email in command line, where can change sender name??? > >eg. mailx -s The mail/mailx command does not allow that. You can build a message in a file and pipe it to sendmai

Re: 7.2->7.3 kernel panic

2002-07-29 Thread Jeremy Hogan
Matt, Does this happen at the same point while finding packages? Or generally w/i that phase? Have you tried another install method or media, just to eliminate that? Can you look on the virtual terminals to see if the same last few lines appear before the panic each time? --jeremy On Mon, 20

Re: How to disable the screensaver function in X

2002-07-29 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29-Jul-2002/11:35 +0200, paal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Have som old computers installed in the library for public searching in >the database. I use the rh 7.0 It is a stripped installation, none of >the screensavers were installed. So after 10

Re: Request for help with Linux 7.2 and Network configuration

2002-07-29 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29-Jul-2002/19:18 +1000, Robert Gubbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Prior to configuring my local area network, I was able to access the WWW >using Netscape. My dialup connection appears to be correct and nothing has >been changed in that area.

Re: send mail w command line??

2002-07-29 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 06:46:13PM +0800, gary wrote: > How to send an email in command line, where can change sender name??? > > eg. mailx -s mail -s "backup log" ewilts -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Redhat-list

RE: Large Excel Files

2002-07-29 Thread KnowHow Tech Support
I open word and excel files with Star Office quite often. I don't know about 'large' files, but just small files seems to work fine for me. Jon On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Jim Hale wrote: > How about StarOffice? Anyone have experience with that? :) > > We were looking at the possibility of using it

Re: How to disable the screensaver function in X

2002-07-29 Thread hanfamily
I remembered seeing this before so I did a fast search http://lppcfom.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/91.html Linda On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, paal wrote: > Hi > > Have som old computers installed in the library for public searching in > the database. I use the rh 7.0 It is a stripped installation, n

Re: Problem compiling lm_sensors (parse error before ...)

2002-07-29 Thread Ben Logan
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 01:15:49PM +0100, Nick Lindsell wrote: > At 07:24 29/07/2002 -0400, you wrote: > >I don't understand how that could be my problem because I just > >successfully compiled the kernel with the same compiler (gcc-2.96-85) > >I'm using to compile lm_sensors. > > Not quite. On l

RE: please..anyone dual boot linux w2k frustrations

2002-07-29 Thread script this
Read the initial post. Yes, i changed lilo.conf, yes i ran lilo, and i put in details about these changes and what happened when i selected the windoze option from the lilo menu for each change i made to lilo.conf. Next, I suppose I'll try grub, but I'm very concerned that windoze won't even boo

RE: please..anyone dual boot linux w2k frustrations

2002-07-29 Thread script this
These lines take care of windoze need to be first: map-drive = 0x80 to = 0x81 map-drive = 0x81 to = 0x80 and this line actually takes care of the above lines, so including both would be the same as including neither i believe: loader=/boot/os2_d.b --- "Rev. David P. Giffen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: problem with NIS

2002-07-29 Thread Jim Bowen
Title: problem with NIS Easy, don't allow them root access.   -Original Message- From: Avrahami David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 29 July 2002 15:24 To: 'redhat-list' Subject: problem with NIS   Hi, The problem is when the user login as root in his machine he get acce

problem with NIS

2002-07-29 Thread Avrahami David
Title: problem with NIS Hi, The problem is when the user login as root in his machine he get access to any other NIS user home directory he wants to by  "su - " without typing any password. I know that it's a big hole in security caused by NIS but I don't know how to fix it. Any idea? TIA

3COM NIC not on list yet will it work? CAW

2002-07-29 Thread Chris Worth
I'm building a new server, and a higher up wants to make sure the server has a server class nic in it. he's hot on the 3com 3CR990SVR95. I don't see it on the list and the specs don't list Red Hat. will this work with another 3com driver? or do I need to substitute? thanks. chris _

7.2->7.3 kernel panic

2002-07-29 Thread Matt Perry
Folks: I would like to get some assistance on a problem I have been working through for a couple of weeks now. I am trying to upgrade a Tyan BX S1832DL Tiger 100 (Intel 440BX AGPset) based system from 7.2 to 7.3 I get a kernel panic while the installation is "Finding packages". I was originally

nss_common.sh

2002-07-29 Thread Unix Help
During porting from solaris to linux, what is the equivalent to file in solaris nss_common.sh in the linux system. This file basically has functions named nss_search, nss_delete etc... Please help. Unix User __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel

[HARDWARE RAID LEVEL 3 on HPNetServer LH6000 with RH6.2][Bootablepartitions are corrupted]

2002-07-29 Thread Ganeshh
Dear List I have a hardware raid problem, while my hardware engineers converted from raid 3 to raid 5 , subsequently am unable to boot from my root partition. I did with rescue disk and tried to mount the root partition to recover the data.. i am unsuccessful in doing so as the root partition

RE: What could be causing this?

2002-07-29 Thread Furnish, Trever G
Iptables and Ipchains are both off. Route -n config is below. Also, this will be fine for a day, then suddenly stop working for one address, even though specifying -I eth0 causes it to work. [root@enterprise root]# /sbin/route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask

RE: Automated entry of e-mails into database?

2002-07-29 Thread Jim Bowen
Yeah. the mail is piped as the standard input to the program. $1 refers to the first parameter Try something like #!/usr/bin/perl open OUTPUT_FILE, ">> /tmp/msg"; while ($line_of_text = <>) { print OUTPUT_FILE $line_of_text; } close OUTPUT_FILE; which will take the email line by li

Automated entry of e-mails into database?

2002-07-29 Thread Adam Ellis
I am trying to come up with a system that will allow me to take incoming e-mail messages and enter key fields into a database. So, for example, all e-mails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will be pulled apart and fields like Problem Description, Date, Priority, etc. will be pulled out of the message body an

Localhost Login

2002-07-29 Thread Robert Gubbins
Hello I am running Redhat 7.2 and I have been modifying my local area network configuration using neat. Now when I reboot, it comes to the localhost login prompt and stops looking for a login. This is a new situation, previously it went straight into the Xwindow login prompt. What have I done

Forcing Limit on File Names

2002-07-29 Thread George Abdo
Hello All. I am sharing a folder on my Linux server between a Mac and a Windows machine using Netatalk and Samba. Some users are not aware of the 25 charachter limit on filenames on a Mac and so some of the files generated on the windows machines are not visible on the Macs. Is there a way to for

Re: Problem compiling lm_sensors (parse error before ...)

2002-07-29 Thread Nick Lindsell
At 07:24 29/07/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Here's the response I got from the lm_sensors folks: > >"You must have some incompatibility between your kernel headers and >your gcc or libc headers. > >"Sorry, it will be quite difficult for us to diagnose it for you. > >"If you figure it out email us, ref

RE: ipchains with redhat 7.2

2002-07-29 Thread Adam Ellis
Is this a stock 7.2 kernel? If so, try issuing the following command and see if your iptables commands work: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward AE -Original Message- From: Stand H [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 6:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ipchains

Request for help with Linux 7.2 and Network configuration

2002-07-29 Thread Robert Gubbins
Hello I am running Linux 7.2. Prior to configuring my local area network, I was able to access the WWW using Netscape. My dialup connection appears to be correct and nothing has been changed in that area. I configured my local area network using neat, giving my local machine an address of 198.

Problem compiling lm_sensors (parse error before ...)

2002-07-29 Thread Ben Logan
Hi, all. I am running Redhat 7.1 and just compiled kernel 2.4.18, in part so that I could run lm_sensors (I was running kernel 2.4.13-ac8 which I compiled myself, and didn't compile it with I2C support). Since you have to have an lm_sensors compiled for your exact kernel version, I downloaded th

Re: send mail w command line??

2002-07-29 Thread Paul Branston
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 06:46:13PM +0800, gary wrote: > Dear all, > > How to send an email in command line, where can change sender name??? > > eg. mailx -s > > How to specify sender address? or it could use other like elm or... > mailx -s subject to-add From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] nope this d

Re: send mail w command line??

2002-07-29 Thread Paul Branston
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 06:46:13PM +0800, gary wrote: > Dear all, > > How to send an email in command line, where can change sender name??? > > eg. mailx -s > > How to specify sender address? or it could use other like elm or... > mailx -s subject to-add From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] message body

Re: ipchains with redhat 7.2

2002-07-29 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 at 3:38am (-0700), Stand H wrote: > Hi, > I can't use ipchains with redhat 7.2. > When I use it I got a reply like the kernel is not > compartible with ipchains. I can use iptables but I > wonder why the ipchains is available but can not be > used. > Do I have to do something

802.11a (ie 54Mb) drivers - any around?

2002-07-29 Thread Edward Wildgoose
Hi folks, Is there ANY sign of an 802.11a driver at all. The best I found is one chap working on one, however, at the moment it seems to be at the stage of just a shell module to test loading/unloading and whether it can see the card (can't remember the address). I have one of the original SM

send mail w command line??

2002-07-29 Thread gary
Dear all, How to send an email in command line, where can change sender name??? eg. mailx -s How to specify sender address? or it could use other like elm or... Please help to advise... Many thanks! gary ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROT

ipchains with redhat 7.2

2002-07-29 Thread Stand H
Hi, I can't use ipchains with redhat 7.2. When I use it I got a reply like the kernel is not compartible with ipchains. I can use iptables but I wonder why the ipchains is available but can not be used. Do I have to do something before using ipchains? Thanks, Stand _

java sound in Linux.

2002-07-29 Thread Peter Rajesh
Hello, While i run jdk sound demo or my application,  i get the below exception, and i couldn't hear the sound while the sound file is played. javax.sound.sampled.LineUnavailableException : Audio Device Unavailable. But  when i play the sound file individually i can hear the sound. Please let me

How to disable the screensaver function in X

2002-07-29 Thread paal
Hi Have som old computers installed in the library for public searching in the database. I use the rh 7.0 It is a stripped installation, none of the screensavers were installed. So after 10 minutes the screensaver function in X turns on, with a black monitor. I have tried to find options for

Writing Device driver

2002-07-29 Thread Manoj
Hello Friends, I do not know if this is the right forum for discussing this, I want to write a USB system with device driver for handling a single device i.e. a printer. what I know that, in Linux all devices are treated as file and you have to register the driver and link it to /dev using regis

RE: please..anyone dual boot linux w2k frustrations

2002-07-29 Thread Jim Bowen
As a few people have mentioned, you _can_ install and run Win2k on a non-primary drive, likewise linux, and many other Win version. The key word there though was _install_. Modern OSs i.e. Win2K, linux, don't use the bios to talk to the disks once they are loaded, they talk directly to the hardwa

RE: cron.d

2002-07-29 Thread Ed . Greshko
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, suresh wrote: > hi > thanx for yur reply > I tried this before attempting cron > but the hang problem was there too. > if only get this one straight ..nothing like it Oh, and I neglected to mention that you may have to put your script in the background when you call it

RE: cron.d

2002-07-29 Thread suresh
hi thanx for yur reply I tried this before attempting cron but the hang problem was there too. if only get this one straight ..nothing like it Thanx in advance Suresh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, J

Re: Help w/ Tulip NIC and Buslogic SCSI card

2002-07-29 Thread Thierry ITTY
I had a problem like that with two cards (sound and network) I tried a lot of things (the configuration worked fine in windows), even assigning irq's and io's because i saw that one of the cards couldn't get the config it expected (btw i posted messages asking why isapnp could not force some valu

Re: cron.d

2002-07-29 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29-Jul-2002/11:55 +0530, suresh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >basically i am having a script which needs to be run after 5 mins of >bootup(since the script hangs if run during bootup). >I am doing this by adding a dynamically configured file in cron.

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