Re: FTP server installation

2002-09-10 Thread Blaq hacka
remove the  /sbin/nologin - Original Message - From: Ted Gervais To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 12:35 AM Subject: Re: FTP server installation Just looking this file over too, and I see under ' ftp:x:14.50:FTP User/var/ftp:   that I h

Weird Happenings

2002-09-10 Thread Joe Giles
This sounds freaky, but Im not sure if it is a hack or a problem with the PHP subsystem, but a few of my php files in my web root have lines missing out of them. I have been working with the php.ini file lately, messing with memory settings and so forth, and sence then, I have recieved error i

Re: Rejection of mail

2002-09-10 Thread Mike Burger
In all honesty, you don't. They should reconfigure their mail server to properly initiate the mail session. If you attempt to circumvent, you risk opening your server to abuse as a spam relay site. On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Mark Gillingham wrote: > I fear that some potential mailman list members

Rejection of mail

2002-09-10 Thread Mark Gillingham
I fear that some potential mailman list members are unable to get confirmation requests through my sendmail setup. I get the following information in my mallog: Sep 9 19:31:28 gbf1 sendmail[3672]: g8A0VRx03672: tcpwrappers (web20405.mail.yahoo.com, 66.163.169.93) rejection Sep 9 19:31:28 g

Need some ideas about configuring gateways and routers (other than buying them)...

2002-09-10 Thread Arthur Chan
Hi all. I just built a gateway machine : eth0 to DSL with NAT and eth1 is internal. DSL does forwarding with single static ip supplied by ISP. That part is fine. Now I want to have a firewall on the gateway machine, up pops ipchains.rules for input,  output and forwarding. That's when issue

Re: Factoid needed; actual number of virus specific to Linux

2002-09-10 Thread Mike Burger
To my knowledge, no...linux based AV software scans for virii. For rootkit tests, you'll need chkrootkit, as someone else noted. For intrusion detection, there are a number of intrusion detection systems around for Linux. On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Paul Greene wrote: > Well, ok then, I guess that

Re: Factoid needed; actual number of virus specific to Linux

2002-09-10 Thread Paul Greene
Well, ok then, I guess that would bring up another question. Does Linux based anti-virus software also scan for rootkits or protect against other various Linux type exploits? If that was the case, then it would seem that there would indeed be some value to running AV software. Paul Mike Burg

Re: logon process via SSH takes too much time

2002-09-10 Thread Frank Bax
It's a reverse dns problem - the machine you are trying to ssh into should have an entry in /etc/hosts for the machine trying to gain access. At 08:40 PM 9/10/02, Chavez Gutierrez, Freddy wrote: I'm using RH 7.3 and SSH. When I login remotely using a SSH client (PUTTY) the system take too much tim

logon process via SSH takes too much time

2002-09-10 Thread Chavez Gutierrez, Freddy
Title: logon process via SSH takes too much time I'm using RH 7.3 and SSH. When I login remotely using a SSH client (PUTTY) the system take too much time to validate my user/password. In my old system, RH 7.2, the logon process is fast. Is there anything that I can check? Regards, Freddy Cha

Re: shell script

2002-09-10 Thread Steven W. Orr
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, alexis Vasquez wrote: =>need to assign the TERM variable depending on if user =>is on console TERM=scoansi, but if it's on terminal =>'pts/#' then TERM=vt100.. =>In .bash_profile I saw this. => =>if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then =>. ~/.bashrc =>fi => =>so I did =>get the

Re: Circular argument installing BIND-9.2.1 over Bind-9.1.0

2002-09-10 Thread Mike Burger
Put both bind rpms in one location, then "rpm -Uvh bind*.rpm" On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Arthur Chan wrote: > Hi > I had bind-9.1.0 installed which I want to replace with the downloaded bind-9.2.1 >from ISC > Using "rpm -Uvh bind-9.2.1" I got the error message that it failed dependencies test >, mis

Re: wine question

2002-09-10 Thread Gary
On Tuesday 10 September 2002 05:39 pm, you wrote: > I installed WPO2000 on RedHat 7.2 - it worked fine for a while.  I used > the updated install scripts and Mr. Torrie's CorelWine rpm.  It has > been working firn for a couple of weeks (and continues to do so on > another machine).  Now when I st

getenv & setuid changed behavior RH6.2 -> RH7.3

2002-09-10 Thread Jan . Rovins
Hi all, We have an application program that we could run on a RedHat 6.2, but we are seeing different behavior on RedHat 7.3. Here is the situation: This application uses Posix Preemptive Threads, and Raw Sockets, so it must run as root. We have a testing convention where we set the suid bit

Re: gcc 2.95 on redhat 7.3

2002-09-10 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 03:17:52PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I installed redhat 7.3 which also has gcc 2.96, how can I switch to gcc > 2.95 or kgcc to compile the kernel ? Is there any document I can > follow ? You don't need to. 2.96 works great with 2.4 kernel, and any recent 2.2 ker

Re: Factoid needed; actual number of virus specific to Linux

2002-09-10 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 04:48:57PM -0400, Kevin MacNeil wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 11:23:46AM -0400, Paul Greene wrote: > > I need a quick little factoid for something related to work. Does anyone > > know the exact number of virus that exist for Linux? Exist how? In the laboratory? In the

Re: HowTo : make a serial port communication

2002-09-10 Thread fred smith
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 06:35:05PM +0200, cana rich wrote: > > To ansmer yours questions, i would like to make a C or C++ program which >communicate via the serial port COM1 to a device. The device is a screen plasma. I >would like the program to remote the sreen : switch on, switch off, chang

wine question

2002-09-10 Thread Frank Bax
I installed WPO2000 on RedHat 7.2 - it worked fine for a while. I used the updated install scripts and Mr. Torrie's CorelWine rpm. It has been working firn for a couple of weeks (and continues to do so on another machine). Now when I start the WP application, I get a window that says "Wine

Re: gcc 2.95 on redhat 7.3

2002-09-10 Thread Jim_Wu
Did I just subscribe the mailing list ? [EMAIL PROTECTED]@redhat.com on 09/10/2002 03:17:52 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: gcc 2.95 on redhat 7.3 Hi: I installed redhat 7.3 which also has gcc 2.96, how can I sw

gcc 2.95 on redhat 7.3

2002-09-10 Thread Jim_Wu
Hi: I installed redhat 7.3 which also has gcc 2.96, how can I switch to gcc 2.95 or kgcc to compile the kernel ? Is there any document I can follow ? Thanks, Jim -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/r

Re: Circular argument installing BIND-9.2.1 over Bind-9.1.0

2002-09-10 Thread Arthur Chan
Okay, many of u may be familiar with this circular dependencies > Bind-9.1.0 requires libdns.so.4  and libisc.so.3 , therefore I have to freshen with Bind-utils-9.2.1, this won;t work because the so-files are required by bind-9.1.0 In a nutshell a circular dependency. Nice ! How do I get ar

Re: From LILO to GRUB

2002-09-10 Thread Brian Ashe
Arthur Chan, On Tuesday September 10, 2002 02:43, Arthur Chan wrote: > Hi All . > Hi Aly. > Is there any painless and easy way to move from lilo to grub ??? Step 1 : Verify grub is installed. # rpm -q grub Step 1a : If not install it from the CDs Step 2 : Make it work. # grub-i

Re: bulk transfer of mail from /var/spool/mail/ to/home/

2002-09-10 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Kent Borg wrote: > One problem is that many user e-mail programs expect to find their > incoming spool in /var/spool/mail/joeuser, isn't it? An advantage of No, most well-written mail clients expect to find the inbox in $MAIL. While that is usually set to /var/spool/mail/f

Re: Circular argument installing BIND-9.2.1 over Bind-9.1.0

2002-09-10 Thread Brian Ashe
Arthur Chan, On Tuesday September 10, 2002 05:12, Arthur Chan wrote: > Hi > I had bind-9.1.0 installed which I want to replace with the downloaded > bind-9.2.1 from ISC Using "rpm -Uvh bind-9.2.1" I got the error message > that it failed dependencies test , missing "libdns.so.5" and "libisc.so.5"

Circular argument installing BIND-9.2.1 over Bind-9.1.0

2002-09-10 Thread Arthur Chan
Hi I had bind-9.1.0 installed which I want to replace with the downloaded bind-9.2.1 from ISC Using "rpm -Uvh bind-9.2.1" I got the error message that it failed dependencies test , missing "libdns.so.5" and "libisc.so.5". So I applied "rpm -Uvh bind-utils-9.2.1" and it reported a conflict wi

Re: Drive Partitioning

2002-09-10 Thread Ed Wilts
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 01:47:48PM -0700, Blair Michaels wrote: > Before installing, are there any recommendations for drive partitioning? Please refer to the Red Hat Linux Installation Guide. The manual is both browsable and downloadable from Red Hat's web site. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN,

Re: Factoid needed; actual number of virus specific to Linux

2002-09-10 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 11:23:46AM -0400, Paul Greene wrote: > I need a quick little factoid for something related to work. Does anyone > know the exact number of virus that exist for Linux? > > (If not the *exact* number, then plus or minus, say, 2 or 3) Plus or minus 2 or 3, that would be zer

Broken font installer (KDE)

2002-09-10 Thread David Major
Hi, I'm new to Linux. Day two, and I've already broken something :-) Running RH 7.3, dual-booting with WinXP. I was using the KDE font installer to browse to a fonts folder on my WinXP disk, and install a few fonts from there. That went OK, although it took ages to read the contents of the Win

Re: HowTo : make a serial port communication

2002-09-10 Thread Rick Warner
Use the POSIX serial i/o ioctl stuff. Makes it portable. Have not worried about flow control, but at the bottom is some snippets of C code I wrote 6 years or so ago to do IXO/TAPI alpha paging. The concept is similar. These snippets just open the serial port ("modem"), send, and get data to/fro

Drive Partitioning

2002-09-10 Thread Blair Michaels
Hi all.   I’m new to Linux, although I used UNIX a few years back. Before installing, are there any recommendations for drive partitioning? I’ll be installing on a 20 gig hard drive.   TIA Blair Michaels   Microtron Software 300 - 3665 Kingsway Vancouver, BC, Canada V5R 5W2 Tel: 6

Re: iptables woes

2002-09-10 Thread jbinpg
> i'm totally lost here > someone care to help? I would suggest taking the easy way out. If you have the gnome libs loaded, go to: http:firestarter.sourceforge.net and download the latest Firestarter 0.8.3 and install it. This produces a working iptables firewall with all policies set to DRO

Re: [PXE]

2002-09-10 Thread Joachim Kunze
Am Mon, 2002-09-09 um 21.01 schrieb Samuel Flory: > On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 21:40, Joachim Kunze wrote: > > Thanks Sam for your help - I try to get as much standard software from > > RH as possible to work. > > I believe that pxelinux.0 should already be on your system. > > [sflory@sflory sflory

Re: HowTo : make a serial port communication

2002-09-10 Thread David Kramer
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, cana rich wrote: > > To ansmer yours questions, i would like to make a C or C++ program > which communicate via the serial port COM1 to a device. The device is a > screen plasma. I would like the program to remote the sreen : switch on, > switch off, change channel ... > T

Re: Linux looks for hda, hdb etc when there are none ...

2002-09-10 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Arthur Chan wrote: > Hi all. > One of my boxes uses SCSI. On the ASUS m/b I toggled EIDE h/d off. This is fine for >the BIOS on booting up, it fines the Adaptec and proceeds happily. > However when RH7.1 loads, it starts looking for hda, hdb etc when in fact they are >sda,

Re: Syslogd: recvfrom inet: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-09-10 Thread Brian Ashe
Andrew, On Monday September 09, 2002 05:14, Rechenberg, Andrew wrote: > I am using a Dell PowerEdge 2300 running Red Hat Linux 7.2 for a > syslog consolidation machine. It is also our network monitoring > system and it runs Cricket, NMIS, and cflowd and Flowscan for Cisco > NetFlow collection. >

Re: bulk transfer of mail from /var/spool/mail/ to /home/

2002-09-10 Thread Kent Borg
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 10:35:07AM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Linux Dev wrote: > > > I am looking for a tool / software to do "automated" bulk transfer of > > mail from /var/spool/mail/ to the /home/ > > It's called sendmail, qmail, or procmail...pretty much any useful

From LILO to GRUB

2002-09-10 Thread Arthur Chan
Hi All . Hi Aly. Is there any painless and easy way to move from lilo to grub ???

RE: proxy

2002-09-10 Thread Andreas Freyvogel
squid is great for this; you can achieve this by defining an access list and subsequent http_access allow|deny or icp_access allow|deny rules. -Andreas -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chris Mason Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 11:33 A

proxy

2002-09-10 Thread Chris Mason
I'd like to ask the list for some advice on proxing. We wojld like to restrict access to the web on our network, allowing certain machines to have access and others to only be allowed to see the home page/web mail server. The server is not the gateway, we have a Linksys router for that. There ar

Re: bulk transfer of mail from /var/spool/mail/ to/home/

2002-09-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 06:26, Linux Dev wrote: > > I am looking for a tool / software to do "automated" > bulk transfer of mail from /var/spool/mail/ > to the /home/ Easiest way to do so would be to put it where you want in the first place. Edit /etc/procmailrc and set: DEFAULT=$HOME/Mail

Re: Factoid needed; actual number of virus specific to Linux

2002-09-10 Thread David Kramer
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Paul Greene wrote: > All; > > I need a quick little factoid for something related to work. Does anyone > know the exact number of virus that exist for Linux? > > (If not the *exact* number, then plus or minus, say, 2 or 3) > > Also, I know it's off topic, but am asking ju

Basic iptables rules

2002-09-10 Thread Paul DiMarco
I'm new to this list so I apologize if this is a repeat question... I just setup an iptables firewall on my Redhat 7.3 workstation and I've been able to setup some test rules, apply them, and verify that they work the way they should be. My question/concern is that I may be leaving out some impo

Re: Factoid needed; actual number of virus specific to Linux

2002-09-10 Thread Mike Burger
Paul Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > All; > > I need a quick little factoid for something related to work. Does anyone > know the exact number of virus that exist for Linux? > > (If not the *exact* number, then plus or minus, say, 2 or 3) > > Also, I know it's off topic, but am asking just

iptables woes

2002-09-10 Thread daniel
hello all i've been trying for days to get this firewall script to work, and it simply refuses. the problem here though is that i'm really only following along in a complicated book trying to set up a super-fascist firewall. now if i set the default policies to ACCEPT all works fine (duh) and if

Re: Don't display firewall messages to screen

2002-09-10 Thread William Wong
I had the same problem. But one day it seemed to magically disappear. Some reasons why it may have went away: 1) ran "service iptables save" to save firewall rules 2) up2date'd the system including new kernel 3) reboot after that (so that new kernel takes effect) I suspect updat'n the kernel di

Factoid needed; actual number of virus specific to Linux

2002-09-10 Thread Paul Greene
All; I need a quick little factoid for something related to work. Does anyone know the exact number of virus that exist for Linux? (If not the *exact* number, then plus or minus, say, 2 or 3) Also, I know it's off topic, but am asking just in case someone might know; does anyone have the same

Re: Trouble ticket system

2002-09-10 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 08:57:39AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: : I don't think PHP supports PAM authentication without patches, how would : you access the authentication system? Easy. Use RADIUS. Get this: http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/11675.html Setup Cistron, or some other RADIUS server,

Samba newbie

2002-09-10 Thread Don Leeper
Title: Samba newbie Can you configure samba in an Active Directory domain?     Don

Re: Graphs issue with Linux ---Please help

2002-09-10 Thread Rob Saul
On Tuesday, September 10, 2002, at 03:26 AM, S Peram wrote: > > I'm a newbie to Linux .i'm running RH linux 6.2 and Java and a graphing > API called graphit. > > A program needs to generate graphs in "gif" format but for strange > reason the graphs are not being generated on my machine, but w

Re: bulk transfer of mail from /var/spool/mail/ to /home/

2002-09-10 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10-Sep-2002/10:14 -0400, Kent Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >If this looks sensible, try it with one user and see if it works. For >one user you will want to do something like: > > /etc/init.d/sendmail stop ; \ > mv /var/spool/mail/joeuser /

Re: How to migrate database from Oracle 8.1.7 to mysql??

2002-09-10 Thread Cristian Grigoriu
From: "Kamran A. Khan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > My current application is in ASP. Can ASP communicate with PostgreSQL database? Native PostgreSQL client for windows http://www.jsg.dk/postgresql/ Or use it via ODBC http://odbc.postgresql.org Grig -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:

HowTo : make a serial port communication

2002-09-10 Thread cana rich
 To ansmer yours questions, i would like to make a C or C++ program which communicate via the serial port COM1 to a device. The device is a screen plasma. I would like the program to remote the sreen : switch on, switch off, change channel ... The serial communication setting is : Baud : 4800 BP

Re: Disk notify?

2002-09-10 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Don Leeper wrote: > I was wondering if someone could tell me where the job is that does the > notify for the /var dir? I have a 250MB partition and it keeps notifying Check your cron jobs and /etc/cron.hourly. It's probably swatch, logcheck, or some variation on that theme.

Re: bulk transfer of mail from /var/spool/mail/ to/home/

2002-09-10 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Linux Dev wrote: > I am looking for a tool / software to do "automated" bulk transfer of > mail from /var/spool/mail/ to the /home/ It's called sendmail, qmail, or procmail...pretty much any useful MDA (or MTA with MDA capabilities). Just configure your mail system to del

Watching ip packets in and out question.

2002-09-10 Thread Knut Ove Hauge
I have no tcpdump command in my redhat 7.2 ,but I have netstat -t and there it shows up 2 ip adresses. Local and foreign adress. I run masquerade an want to see if the ip address to my pc changes. Is it the foreign adress that is what ip-packets are returned to? = Investigating the Norwegain

Linux looks for hda, hdb etc when there are none ...

2002-09-10 Thread Arthur Chan
Hi all. One of my boxes uses SCSI. On the ASUS m/b I toggled EIDE h/d off.  This is fine for the BIOS on booting up, it fines the Adaptec and proceeds happily. However when RH7.1 loads, it starts looking for hda, hdb etc when in fact they are sda, sdb etc and RH7.1 throws these error messag

unfsd

2002-09-10 Thread Rhaoni - Sistêmica Computadores
Hi list,       Is there a unfsd package for RH 7.3  ???   Thanks   Rhaoni

Odd PHP output

2002-09-10 Thread David Busby
List, I'm using PHP to create a SOAP client, when I use the function $doc = xmldoc($HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA); so I can parse the request with the DOM it puts out an odd hex code at the begining of my script, even if I take all the "echo" code out it still puts this on the page? Ideas? --

Re: DNS Configurations....

2002-09-10 Thread Mike Burger
Haven't run into that error, myself. Do you have the following in your /etc/named.conf file? controls { inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { "key"; }; }; key "key" { algorithm hmac-md5; secret " On Monday 09

Re: How to migrate database from Oracle 8.1.7 to mysql??

2002-09-10 Thread Fernando Lozano
Kamran, > My current application is in ASP. Can ASP communicate with PostgreSQL database? > Till now my apps is getting data from an oracle database. Yes you can, using the PostgreSQL ODBC Driver for Windows. Look around on the postgresql.org web site. []s, Fernando Lozano -- redhat-list

Re: Don't display firewall messages to screen

2002-09-10 Thread Tom Pollerman
On Mon, 09 Sep 2002 20:58:48 -0700 Stephen Rasku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 07 September 2002 07:38 pm, Robert Canary wrote: > > try adding > > *.debug /var/log/debug.log > > I tried that. It logs the firewall messages (plus some other > things) to that file. But it s

Re: How to configure a Linux machine as a Router

2002-09-10 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10-Sep-2002/12:27 +0200, Knut Ove Hauge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >To completely remove ipchains go to /sbin/lokkit and select no >firewall. >This is in redhat. service ipchains stop Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene Ope

Re: How do I configure a USB printer

2002-09-10 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sarahtf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I bought an HP 5550 inkjet printer and would like to use it as a USB >printer. How do I configure 7.3 to recognize this printer? Try checking the Linux Printing Database . Tony - -

Re: Script to run/stop wvdial

2002-09-10 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10-Sep-2002/12:01 +0800, Toto Gamez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Im using RH72 and wvdial to connect to the internet but Im only allowed >to use the telephone from 7-9am, 12-1:30pm and 4-5pm. I'm new to >scripting but read the Intro to BASH Scriptng

Help needed with an install error

2002-09-10 Thread Ron
Hello. I am a new user of Red Hat Linux and I am running into an error during the initial install that I can not find a workaround or solution to on the internet thus far.   The error is as follows. The file /mnt/source/RedHat/RPMS/urw-fonts-2.0-12.noarch.rpm cannot be opened. This is due to

RE: How to migrate database from Oracle 8.1.7 to mysql??

2002-09-10 Thread Kamran A. Khan
Hi, My current application is in ASP. Can ASP communicate with PostgreSQL database? Till now my apps is getting data from an oracle database. thanks -Original Message- From: Cristian Grigoriu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 2:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj

Re: bulk transfer of mail from /var/spool/mail/ to /home/

2002-09-10 Thread Kent Borg
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 06:26:44AM -0700, Linux Dev wrote: > I am looking for a tool / software to do "automated" > bulk transfer of mail from /var/spool/mail/ > to the /home/ > > The daily per user mail size in /var/spool/mail/ > is ~3Mb. > > The mail will be read by each user in pine and/

Re: bulk transfer of mail from /var/spool/mail/ to /home/

2002-09-10 Thread Martin Mewes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Moin, moin ... No good idea to swap eMails between Mailinglists, since I could not answer you to the other Mailinglist because I am not subcribed to the other one. Linux Dev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >I am looking for a tool / software to do "au

Re: starting X

2002-09-10 Thread Kent Borg
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 03:07:58AM -, D Cyriac wrote: > Hi, > > Change the entry > id:3:initdefault: in /etc/inittab to > id:5:initdefault: > Next time you will get graphical logon[runlevel 5] > > On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 cj wrote : > >G'day all > >How can I get X to start automaticlly. > >ie so

Re: DNS Configurations....

2002-09-10 Thread Michael Tiernan
On Monday 09 September 2002 20:01, Mike Burger said: > It's already generated...look in /etc/rndc.conf file. I realize that. I'm now assuming that this error: $ rndc -V status creating log channel enabling log channel create parser get key for server get config key list rndc: decode base64 secr

bulk transfer of mail from /var/spool/mail/ to /home/

2002-09-10 Thread Linux Dev
Hi: I am looking for a tool / software to do "automated" bulk transfer of mail from /var/spool/mail/ to the /home/ The daily per user mail size in /var/spool/mail/ is ~3Mb. The mail will be read by each user in pine and/or mail. Any ideas or pointers how to solve this ? Environment: RedH

Re: FTP server installation

2002-09-10 Thread Ted Gervais
At 08:20 PM 9/9/2002 -0600, you wrote: >No shell for the user ftp, ftp cannot log-in, there should be a file >called /etc/shells that is required when the shell mentioned in >/etc/passwd for a user to get logged in via ftp I am not too sure what you are saying. You say FTP can't log in. But

RE: How to configure a Linux machine as a Router

2002-09-10 Thread Mike Burger
Of course, if you want to simply have it stop using the rules you have, instead of blowing away the rules, you could just "/sbin/service ipchains stop"...and to turn it off for boot time, you could "/sbin/chkconfig ipchains off" On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Knut Ove Hauge wrote: > To completely remov

RE: How to configure a Linux machine as a Router

2002-09-10 Thread Knut Ove Hauge
To completely remove ipchains go to /sbin/lokkit and select no firewall. This is in redhat. --- Langa Kentane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > Do a 'ipchains -l or -L' can remember which. This will tell you what > rules > are currently running. Look at the Ipchains man page that should tell > you

Graphs issue with Linux ---Please help

2002-09-10 Thread S Peram
  Hi All, I'm a newbie to Linux .i'm running RH linux 6.2 and Java and a graphing API called graphit. A program needs to generate graphs in "gif" format but for strange reason the graphs are not being generated on my machine, but with the same programs the graphs are being generated on other mach

Re: How do I configure a USB printer

2002-09-10 Thread Knut Ove Hauge
Its probably so new printer that the driver is not supported in 7.3 Probably u must install cups (common unix printing system). But if u have gnome, go to the start menu,programs,system, and select printer management. Follow the instructions there. --- sarahtf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > I boug

recommendations for online tutorials of web browsing security issues?

2002-09-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
(sorry, slightly OT, but ...) i'm looking for pointers to anything online that describes the security issues involved in just *browsing* the web. that is, the inherent dangers in loading and viewing pages that contain java, javascript, dynamic HTML, etc., stuff like flash and shockwave, and

Re: dual booting problem of W2k and linux

2002-09-10 Thread Richard
go to: http://www.star-tools.com/ for commercial boot manager Richard - Original Message - From: "forest monk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 8:27 PM Subject: dual booting problem of W2k and linux > > Hi all, > > I had NT and linux both insta

X flickers hElp

2002-09-10 Thread startwinkleon
hi , ive upgraded from 7.0 to 7.3,i have a toshiba laptop with s3vrige/mx vga .Other linux X windows runs fine on this ,but after installing 7.3 the screen flickers no matter what the resolution rate and if i try to logout or reboot the screen gives a pure white with continous flicker . I tried u

Re: dual booting problem of W2k and linux

2002-09-10 Thread D Cyriac
Answers to these questions are important to solve your problem: 1. Where u had installed boot loader. In MBR or in the first sector of boot parition? 2. Which boot loader you are using? 3. Which is the current active partition? D Cyriac. On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 forest monk wrote : > >Hi all, > >I

Re: (no subject)

2002-09-10 Thread Blaq hacka
try  to  use  the  text  mode  install|||+"{) UIN &PUN< &G %D WEZQ@ZX Im having problems installing redhat 6.1, i bought it the other day and came to install it after reading the install guide, i am installing on a n amd k62 500 with a ten gig hdd an asus 52X cdr and 128 mb of ram and a 2mb

Re: replacing my primary hard drive

2002-09-10 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 01:15:55PM -0400, Tom Pollerman wrote: > > Fairly detailed step-by-step instructions can be found at: > > http://www.storm.ca/~yan/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html Ah! Thanks Tom - I was looking for that URL, as I had seen it before but forgot to bookmark it... ;-) He has a