Re: ACL in RedHat

2002-11-02 Thread Bill Nottingham
Chris Tooley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: What does instability specifically refer to? - NFS access didn't work right - it broke some other access modes/methods that made it non-POSIX/LSB compliant (for example, there were things that root couldn't access, even though they had no ACLs) Things

Re: Shifting between KDE and Gnome

2002-11-02 Thread Mr. Elusive
If you are running Red Hat 8, At the login screen in the lower left corner, click Session. A Dialog will open asking you which desktop you want. Choose and be happy. -Josh -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe

Sendmail problem ?

2002-11-02 Thread RH
Hello, I run Rh 7.1. When I do sendmail -v, I get the following Warning: .cf file is out of date: sendmail 8.11.2 supports version 9, .cf file is version 8Recipient names must be specified What does it mean, and what shall I do, to have sendmail working normally. Thanks

changing date stamp on a file

2002-11-02 Thread Sudhaker P
Hi, Is there any way we can change the date stamp on a file to a specific time? Please forgive my dumb question. I'd appreciate your suggestions. Thanks, Peram _ Surf the Web without missing calls! Get MSN Broadband.

Re: changing date stamp on a file

2002-11-02 Thread Ernest E Vogelsinger
At 13:03 01.11.2002, Sudhaker P said: [snip] Is there any way we can change the date stamp on a file to a specific time? Please forgive my dumb question. I'd appreciate your suggestions. [snip] touch is the utility

Re: Accessing Windows files

2002-11-02 Thread Anthony Abby
I have RedHat 8.0 loaded with Open Office. I want to be able to access Word/Excel documents on Windows server. What is the easiest way of accomplishing this? If you mean accessing those files over the network from your linux box, SAMBA would be the way. Anthony -- redhat-list mailing list

Re: need help with ~/.bash_profile

2002-11-02 Thread gregory mott
the shipped redhat(7.x) arrangement of bashrc's profile's is confusing and incorrectly documented. i evolved to this solution: discard /etc/skel/.bash_profile before creating any users replace /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc i leave /etc/skel/.bashrc in place. it contains merely an invocation of

problem in RH7.3

2002-11-02 Thread Rodrigo Peplau
Hi there, I'm first time using Linux. After installed I was configuring the system, trying to mount a windows (fat32) partition. Everything goes well. But when I tryed to install my soundcard (ForteMedia 801), with a downloaded pack from ALSA Project, something strange happened. When I'm

Re: kernel 2.4.9-31?

2002-11-02 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 08:27:03PM -0400, Shaw, Marco wrote: Where might I find 2.4.9-31? I don't really feel comfortable using packages from rpmfind.net. You can get the 2.4.9-31 kernel for redhat 7.1 and 7.2 at rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-028.html. This kernel has been superceded by

Re: My 2 cents on Red Hat 8 Blue Cruve

2002-11-02 Thread rchrismon
It is possible to ket KDE to run: First, if you read the README on the #1 RH 8.0 CD, there's an item for changing the display manager. It's a one-line addition to a config file someplace and VERY easy to do. Then, assuming you installed the KDE files, use the Gnome desktop switcher to change

Re: How to ban someone from running a program

2002-11-02 Thread Hella
In my experience these process accounting and quota systems are extremely cludgy and create a very large overhead for the administrators and are generally not worth the effort. I would suggest a wrapper script or even a simple company policy detailing what hours certain programs can be run,

RE: Sendmail problem ?

2002-11-02 Thread Cowles, Steve
-Original Message- From: RH Subject: Sendmail problem ? Hello, I run Rh 7.1. When I do sendmail -v, I get the following Warning: .cf file is out of date: sendmail 8.11.2 supports version 9, .cf file is version 8 Like the warning says -- your current sendmail.cf is out of

Re: kernel 2.4.9-31?

2002-11-02 Thread Shaw, Marco
You can get the 2.4.9-31 kernel for redhat 7.1 and 7.2 at rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-028.html. Actually, you can't unless I'm doing something wrong... All the links send you to RHSA-2002-205.html to get the newer 2.4.18. A have a full RHN account with an Advanced Server Premium support

Re: Shifting between KDE and Gnome

2002-11-02 Thread Anthony Abby
use switchdesk Anthony Hi all, Is the any way we can shift beween GNOME and KDE if we have both installed on the desktop. I'd appreciate your suggestions. Peram _ Get faster connections -- switch to MSN Internet Access!

How to use Sawfish window manager instead Metacity ?

2002-11-02 Thread Laurent ZUDAIRE
RedHat 8 How to use Sawfish window manager instead Metacity ? Thanks for help -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: kernel 2.4.9-31?

2002-11-02 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 11:45:45 -0400, Shaw, Marco wrote: You can get the 2.4.9-31 kernel for redhat 7.1 and 7.2 at rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-028.html. Actually, you can't unless I'm doing something wrong... All the links send you to

Re: changing date stamp on a file

2002-11-02 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 06:03:47AM -0600, Sudhaker P wrote: Hi, Is there any way we can change the date stamp on a file to a specific time? Please forgive my dumb question. Yes, look at the man page for 'touch'. -- Fred Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Cannot Start MySQL

2002-11-02 Thread CM Miller
Running RH 7.3 and I can start the MySQL daemon but when I try to login as a normal user, I have no luck. MySQL is located here /usr/local/MySQL/mysql.tgz/bin and I've added this to my path but when a user tries to start it with ./mysql I get the following error, Error 2002: Can't

Media player - RH 8 newbie question, please forgive

2002-11-02 Thread Michael Willems
OK, please forgive the dumb question... I have gottyen MP3s to play properly, even by clicking on them, finally. But I cannot play MPGs yet. Tried to install the Xine rpms but got a lot of failed dependencies. Not sure how to proceed. I use KDE. Any chance anyone can help me along? (Also, no

Re: Cannot Start MySQL

2002-11-02 Thread John Nichel
Check to see if /tmp/mysql.sock exists. Did you install this from the rpm or from source? CM Miller wrote: Running RH 7.3 and I can start the MySQL daemon but when I try to login as a normal user, I have no luck. MySQL is located here /usr/local/MySQL/mysql.tgz/bin and I've added this to

RE: Log filtering

2002-11-02 Thread Furnish, Trever G
Probably a dead thread by now, but you should also check the logwatch package, which is probably already installed for you and running nightly. You ARE checking the mail sent to the root account, right? Logwatch allows you to write your own little scripts (such as the grep statements others

RE: ACL Support in Red Hat

2002-11-02 Thread Todd Lee
Gordon Messmer wrote: ACL support was removed because the implementation didn't conform to the POSIX standard. However, XFS's implementation does. You can use the kernel from their project: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/

Re: Cannot Start MySQL

2002-11-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, John Nichel wrote: Did you install this from the rpm or from source? /usr/local/MySQL/mysql.tgz/bin With that path, it is not from Red Hat -- and is simply OT here. http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Russ Herrold -- redhat-list mailing list

Re: Cannot Start MySQL

2002-11-02 Thread John Nichel
If you're still having trouble with it, reply to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll help if I can. I realize it's OT, but not everyone is as net savy as the open source gods to know that there's a list for everything. R P Herrold wrote: On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, John Nichel wrote: Did you install

error while make modules

2002-11-02 Thread Schrattbauer Michael
Hi! I´m using Red Hat 8, kernel 2.4.18-17.8.0. i wanted to compile a new kernel but when i did 'make modules' there where an error: module.c: In function `cipe_check_kernel': module.c:73: warning: implicit declaration of function `printk_R1b7d4074'

talkd/ntalkd

2002-11-02 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
Enabling talkd from xinetd doesn't seem to accomplish anything, whereas ntalkd works. Why won't talkd work for talk sessions on the localhost? -- Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again. - Unknown -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

Masquerade hacking problem.

2002-11-02 Thread linux power
It seems that masqureade use netbios-ns port to broadcast for the whole world thats its seeking a vacant ip address.That it a major firewall problem in my computer because I cant close the netbios ports, and result in hacking attempts all the time. Nobody told me that when they recommended

Re: Media player - RH 8 newbie question, please forgive

2002-11-02 Thread fluke
In a web browser go to http://www.freshrpms.net/ Download apt Download synaptic As root run: rpm -Uvh apt* synaptic* As root run: apt-get update As root run: synaptic Scroll through the list of package and select xine Click the Install button Click the Proceed! button On Sat, 2 Nov 2002,

Re: Masquerade hacking problem.

2002-11-02 Thread Ernest E Vogelsinger
At 20:50 02.11.2002, linux power said: [snip] It seems that masqureade use netbios-ns port to broadcast for the whole world thats its seeking a vacant ip address.That it a major firewall problem in my computer because I cant close the netbios ports, and

redhat-config-network bug

2002-11-02 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
Has anyone found a workaround to the crashes in this configurator yet? It's in bugzilla many, many times, with nary a peep from the fine folks at Red Hat. If there's no way around it in the configurator, what other options do I have for configuring my modem? -- Whenever I feel blue, I start

Re: Masquerade hacking problem.

2002-11-02 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 08:50:33PM +0100, linux power wrote: It seems that masqureade use netbios-ns port to broadcast for the whole world thats its seeking a vacant ip address.That it a major firewall problem in my computer because I cant close the netbios ports, and result in hacking

Re: My 2 cents on Red Hat 8 Blue Cruve

2002-11-02 Thread Will Mendez
Thanks Randy! For now I will skip the .0 upgrade and remain on 7.3. Will Mendez Mmmm...XSI www.xsibase.com On Wednesday 30 October 2002 04:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is possible to ket KDE to run: First, if you read the README on the #1 RH 8.0 CD, there's an item for changing the

Re: Media player - RH 8 newbie question, please forgive

2002-11-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 12:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a web browser go to http://www.freshrpms.net/ Download apt Download synaptic As root run: rpm -Uvh apt* synaptic* I like short instructions, too :) You can do that all in one step if you like. As root: rpm -ivh \

Re: kernel 2.4.9-31?

2002-11-02 Thread Patrick Beart
At 6:19 PM +0100 11/2/02, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 11:45:45 -0400, Shaw, Marco wrote: You can get the 2.4.9-31 kernel for redhat 7.1 and 7.2 at rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-028.html. Actually, you can't unless I'm doing something wrong... All the links send you to

Re: Masquerade hacking problem.

2002-11-02 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 02:50 PM, linux power wrote: It seems that masqureade use netbios-ns port to broadcast for the whole world thats its seeking a vacant ip address.That it a major firewall problem in my computer because I cant close the netbios ports, and result in hacking

Re: Masquerade hacking problem.

2002-11-02 Thread Ernest E Vogelsinger
At 21:30 02.11.2002, fred smith said: [snip] worm/virus, possibly BUGBEAR, possibly others. You ought to see the number of hits my firewall gets from people trying to get IN through it on port 137 I get several dozen a day, all from

compiling qt with xft support in redhat 8.0

2002-11-02 Thread christopher j bottaro
hey guys, ok, i've asked this before, but i'm asking again cuz i didn't get an answer and i'm sure lots of people with redhat 8.0 have the same prob. when running configure for qt, it searches for some Xft libs and headers. well, i have Xft-2.0-1.rpm and Xft-devel-2.0-1 installed, but

Re: Masquerade hacking problem.

2002-11-02 Thread Ernest E Vogelsinger
At 21:55 02.11.2002, Jason Costomiris said: [snip] # Safe default policies iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT iptables -P FORWARD DROP [snip] I beg to disagree - using an output default polica of ACCEPT

Re: Accessing Windows files

2002-11-02 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01-Nov-2002/07:24 -0500, Anthony Abby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have RedHat 8.0 loaded with Open Office. I want to be able to access Word/Excel documents on Windows server. What is the easiest way of accomplishing this? If you mean accessing

Re: kernel 2.4.9-31?

2002-11-02 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 02 November 2002 03:44 pm, Patrick Beart wrote: Actually, you can't unless I'm doing something wrong... All the links send you to RHSA-2002-205.html to get the newer 2.4.18. Odd-numbered kernels are development

Re: kernel 2.4.9-31?

2002-11-02 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 12:44:34 -0800, Patrick Beart wrote: At 6:19 PM +0100 11/2/02, Michael Schwendt wrote: On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 11:45:45 -0400, Shaw, Marco wrote: You can get the 2.4.9-31 kernel for redhat 7.1 and 7.2 at

Re: redhat-config-network bug

2002-11-02 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 12:28:31 -0800 (PST), Todd A. Jacobs wrote: Has anyone found a workaround to the crashes in this configurator yet? It's in bugzilla many, many times, with nary a peep from the fine folks at Red Hat. What crash exactly? What

RE: need help with ~/.bash_profile

2002-11-02 Thread Stone, Timothy
Thanks for the continued suggestions of help on getting ~/.bash_profile to be read. I developed my own thoughts and detail them below showing a practice of where user aliases, functions and variables should be placed. Let me recap my dilemma for posterity and other novices: I have learned an

Re: redhat-list digest, Vol 1 #5720 - 15 msgs

2002-11-02 Thread CM Miller
Yes the file mysql.sock does exits. I have no idea what type of file extention this is? A .sock? I cannot open it under root or as a user to view. I installed from .tgz file or a tar file. thanks -Chris --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check to see if /tmp/mysql.sock exists. Did you

Logitech trackball and wheel button

2002-11-02 Thread Michael George
I have a Logitech Trackman Marble FX (PS/2) that is working just great on my system. The trackball has 4 buttons. I have it configured to use the leftmost as m1, the upper as m2 and the right button as m3. However, there's another little button, a red one. Under Windoze, you can select that

Re: Masquerade hacking problem.

2002-11-02 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 04:04 PM, Ernest E Vogelsinger wrote: At 21:55 02.11.2002, Jason Costomiris said: [snip] # Safe default policies iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT iptables -P FORWARD DROP

Re: compiling qt with xft support in redhat 8.0

2002-11-02 Thread Brian Ashe
Hello Christopher, Saturday, November 2, 2002, 3:59:21 PM, you textually orated: cjb hey guys, cjb ok, i've asked this before, but i'm asking again cuz i didn't get an answer cjb and i'm sure lots of people with redhat 8.0 have the same prob. when running cjb configure for qt, it searches for

Re: need help with ~/.bash_profile

2002-11-02 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 12:58:24PM -0500, Stone, Timothy wrote: I will close by saying I'm developing a hypothesis for my best practice: ~/.bashrc should contain user aliases, functions and variables for the local system that builds on /etc/bashrc ~/.bash_profile should contain user

Re: File size limitations, part two...

2002-11-02 Thread Bret Hughes
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 10:02, Rich Parker wrote: Hello everyone... I asked just yesterday about RH 8.0 and dealing with large files on a /mnt'd WinNT server. Thanks for the few responses I got. This seems to be a major limitation for Linux, very unfortunate because now it looks like I'm

Kernel Kernel Source up2date Issue

2002-11-02 Thread MET
I recently submitted a question with my up2date having launching issues, which thankfully was quickly answered and easily fixed. Now that I can run up2date it's telling me that I need to upgrade the kernel and kernel-source to 2.4.18. The problem is that the kernel.rpm is for i686, which is what

changing screen resolution with RH7.3

2002-11-02 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, Two part question; if using VNC, can one change the screen resolution of the virtualized session? And from the terminal itself, using Gnome, is there a GUI tool to change screen resolution? Thank you in advance, James D. Parra -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

bug

2002-11-02 Thread Martín Marqués
How do I report a bug to RedHat? -- Porqué usar una base de datos relacional cualquiera, si podés usar PostgreSQL? - Martín Marqués |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Programador, Administrador, DBA | Centro de

Re: Where to send package updates

2002-11-02 Thread Eric Wood
You code send the code change to the the last package maintainer listed in the src.rpm's changelog Their email address is usually in there. They, in turn, will hopefully submit it to the core team of that package - if it's other than RH. I've emailed BSD man pages (for programs that were

Re: bug

2002-11-02 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
http://bugzilla.redhat.com HTH, Jonathan On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 14:22, Martín Marqués wrote: How do I report a bug to RedHat? -- Porqué usar una base de datos relacional cualquiera, si podés usar PostgreSQL? - Martín Marqués

Re: bug

2002-11-02 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 16:22:09 -0300, Martín Marqués wrote: How do I report a bug to RedHat? http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)

Re: Where to send package updates

2002-11-02 Thread Marius Andreiana
On Vi, 2002-11-01 at 20:47, Jonathan DeSena wrote: process, I resolved at least a few bugs mentioned in bugzilla. Please attach patches to those bugs. For improvements, create new bugs at bugzilla.redhat.com ( severity = enhancement ) and attach patches to them. If you worked on packages made

Re: PGP

2002-11-02 Thread Tobias
Thanx! But the fact that there are many diffrent versions of PGP bothers me. Why not use the PGPi version? (www.pgpi.org) Regards Tobias On Friday 01 November 2002 17:48, Anthony E. Greene wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01-Nov-2002/15:27 +0100, Tobias [EMAIL

Re: Masquerade hacking problem.

2002-11-02 Thread Ernest E Vogelsinger
At 22:57 02.11.2002, Jason Costomiris said: [snip] Well, I'll just have to go on ahead and disagree with you. :) :)) that's why I love open source .-) I've been using the Internet since the late 80s, and I've never once been the victim of a trojan or a

wall for X?

2002-11-02 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
Is there an equivalent to wall that will pop up a message in X? Some of my users don't use xterms at all, and if I want to warn them about system changes, wall is ineffective. Suggestions? -- Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again. - Unknown --

Re: PGP

2002-11-02 Thread Gary
Hi Tobias, On Friday, November 1, 2002, 1:31 PM, you put forth about PGP: T But the fact that there are many diffrent versions of PGP bothers me. Does it bother you that RH has so many versions, or Does it bother you that Window has so many versions... IN SHORT, if it bothers you, don't use

changing screen resolution with RH7.3

2002-11-02 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, Two part question; if using VNC, can one change the screen resolution of the virtualized session? And from the terminal itself, using Gnome, is there a GUI tool to change screen resolution? Thank you in advance, James D. Parra -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

Re: Where to send package updates

2002-11-02 Thread fluke
Well, it sounds like you already found bugzilla. Your next steps should be: - create a bugzilla account - login to the bugzilla account - query one of the bugs that your modification should fix - do a find in this page for Create a new attachment - select to create a new attachment

Re: redhat-config-network bug

2002-11-02 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Michael Schwendt wrote: What crash exactly? There are over a dozen bugs opened for redhat-config-network in bugzilla for Red Hat 7.3, and all but two or three have been closed as duplicates. The problem is that the Python script invoked on the backend dies horribly. The

Re: Shifting between KDE and Gnome

2002-11-02 Thread Sudhaker P
Did you try the Xconfigurator? You need to configure your display settings with the command and then try startx. Thanks, Peram From: sam basom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Shifting between KDE and Gnome Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 13:00:47

Library not found

2002-11-02 Thread Mr. Elusive
Im trying to install Liquis Themepak and Limewire (in KDE), and when it get done analyzing packages, i get thiss error: Could not find Library liblcms.so.1 Required by kwlnacqua.ACE Can anyone help me fix this!! -Josh -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

samba question

2002-11-02 Thread Russell Peterson
I'm having trouble getting SAMBA 2.2.5 (RH 8.0) speaking with my XP and 98 boxes. Actually, I can do a smbclient from the linux box and connect to a share on the MS boxes... just can't browse shares on the linux box. I've tried all the obvious things with encrypted passwords and things like

undefined symbol: curl-global-init

2002-11-02 Thread Ernest E Vogelsinger
Hi list, maybe someone has a simple answer to this: I am running Apache 1.3.22 with libphp4.so. Everything's fine, but when starting php from the command line I get: php: relocation error: php: undefined symbol: curl-global-init Any idea what I should try? Thanks, -- O Ernest E.

FormMail Exploit on RH

2002-11-02 Thread Michael Sorrentino
Ugh! I know this is kinda off topic but I'm at my wits end. I've got a user with FormMail that is vulnerable and a spammer bouncing off it. Problem is I have 600 + virtuals on this box and I'm having a hell of a time trying to determine which virtual is the culprit. Any suggestions anyone?

Re: FormMail Exploit on RH

2002-11-02 Thread Duncan Hill
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 03:35:35PM -0800, Michael Sorrentino wrote: Ugh! I know this is kinda off topic but I'm at my wits end. I've got a user with FormMail that is vulnerable and a spammer bouncing off it. Problem is I have 600 + virtuals on this box and I'm having a hell of a time trying

Re: Media player - RH 8 newbie question, please forgive

2002-11-02 Thread Michael Willems
Gordon, Thanks a lot - that actually worked. Not sure how, but it owrked. Thanks! Michael On 2 Nov 2002, Gordon Messmer wrote: On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 12:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a web browser go to http://www.freshrpms.net/ Download apt Download synaptic As root run: rpm -Uvh

Re: FormMail Exploit on RH

2002-11-02 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Michael Sorrentino wrote: Ugh! I know this is kinda off topic but I'm at my wits end. I've got a user with FormMail that is vulnerable and a spammer bouncing off it. Problem is I have 600 + virtuals on this box and I'm having a hell of a time trying to determine which

Newbie: Ident problems

2002-11-02 Thread Geoffrey Lane
I keep getting problems with identd I'm trying to connect via xchat to dalnet... First my sys conf: Redhat 7.3 Xchat 1.8.10 (Behind linksys router) I was getting errors with identd, so I decided to install identd for linux from http://www.fukt.bth.se/~per/identd/ Which I previously asked

Re: Newbie: Ident problems

2002-11-02 Thread Jonathan M. Slivko
Geoffrey, Have you tried this: 1. Download the pidentd rpm from www.rpmfind.net 2. Install rpm 3. Poke a hole in your firewall/router for identd (port 112-114) 4. Connect onto DullNet. HTH, Jonathan On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 21:05, Geoffrey Lane wrote: I keep getting problems with identd I'm

A simple question about mount command

2002-11-02 Thread Manuel Tejada
Hi I am new in Linux area. I have a single disk. In the primary partition Window ME. In an extended partition(RedHat 7.3 in a logical partition and Fat32 in another logical partition). My question is: To mount the partition vfat(Windows ME or logical partition fat32) in Linux, Do I need to make

Re: RH8.0 and large file sizes.

2002-11-02 Thread Tom Pollerman
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 07:24:12 -0800 Rich Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone. We have RH8.0 along with various other flavors of RH going back to 7.0. Here's my problem: I am having problems with WinNT '/mnt' 'ed servers that have very large files on them (In excess of 10GB). When I

Re: Accessing Windows files

2002-11-02 Thread Bret Hughes
On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 15:08, Anthony E. Greene wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01-Nov-2002/07:24 -0500, Anthony Abby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have RedHat 8.0 loaded with Open Office. I want to be able to access Word/Excel documents on Windows server. What is the

Re: A simple question about mount command

2002-11-02 Thread ABrady
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 22:01:20 -0500 Manuel Tejada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am new in Linux area. I have a single disk. In the primary partition Window ME. In an extended partition(RedHat 7.3 in a logical partition and Fat32 in another logical partition). My question is: To mount the

Re: kernel 2.4.9-31?

2002-11-02 Thread fluke
The kernel-2.4.9-34.i386.rpm I just downloaded from rpmfind.net passed a rpm -K verification just fine. Can you be more specific about why your unconfortable about using RPMs that can be confirmed as signed by RH when they come from rpmfind.net? Also, are you aware that RH now distributes 2.4.18

Re: Hacking attempts from Sweden.

2002-11-02 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 06:34:13PM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote: On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 12:01:54AM +0100, linux power wrote: If yo have a firewall rember to close the netbios ports 137-139 . The default rule for any firewall should always to block *everything*. Then open up only those ports that

Adding Static Routes in RH 8.0

2002-11-02 Thread harish . k
Hello list, I used to add static routes on my redhat 7.3 machine using the file /etc/sysconfig/static-routes. I tried the same in my redhat 8.0 machine but doesn't work. Please help. Thanks in advance -- Harish K -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

RE: Hacking attempts from Sweden.

2002-11-02 Thread Jim Hale
I know that MY ISP doesn't block 137-139 - I run an IPCop box and the logs are ALWAYS full of hits on those ports. :/ Jim Hale --- 'The OS Tells The PC What To Do With Itself - Me, 1990 --- Visit Our MIDI Digital Audio Website at http://hale.dyndns.org -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Killing an X window app

2002-11-02 Thread David Kramer
Long ago, there used to be this X Windows application where you started it, and the next window you clicked on would be killed. Is that still around? I can't find it. I'm using Red Hat 7.3 with KDE 3.04[0], and every once in a while I go to some page in Konqueror that freezes up when

Re: File size limitations, part two...

2002-11-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 08:02, Rich Parker wrote: I asked just yesterday about RH 8.0 and dealing with large files on a /mnt'd WinNT server. Thanks for the few responses I got. This seems to be a major limitation for Linux I missed it the first time around, but you can patch Linux if this is

Can anyone explain how this happened? (Sendmail problem)

2002-11-02 Thread Edward Dekkers
I've always had the feature added for sendmail to block using input.orbz.com. This never presented a problem. From Thursday onwards - I received NO mail whatsoever (yes, unfortunately took me a while to figure out). The corresponding maillog indicated that address 127.0.0.1 was rejected by

Re: Killing an X window app

2002-11-02 Thread John Nichel
Do a 'ps -ax', find the main process, and kill the pid. David Kramer wrote: Long ago, there used to be this X Windows application where you started it, and the next window you clicked on would be killed. Is that still around? I can't find it. I'm using Red Hat 7.3 with KDE 3.04[0], and

Re: Killing an X window app

2002-11-02 Thread Brian Ashe
Hello David, Saturday, November 2, 2002, 11:52:28 PM, you textually orated: DK Long ago, there used to be this X Windows application where you started it, DK and the next window you clicked on would be killed. Is that still around? I DK can't find it. Try hitting Ctrl-Alt-Esc. You should

Mouse settings return to default for each login

2002-11-02 Thread Alex
Hi All, This is not a critical problem, but a nuisance. I tweak the mouse settings the way I want and after loging out and back in again they're back to defaults. If I go to Menu-System Settings-Mouse, the correct mouse is already highlighted (wheel mouse PS/2). I just select Ok and the

Re: Killing an X window app

2002-11-02 Thread Tom Pollerman
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 23:52:28 -0500 David Kramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Long ago, there used to be this X Windows application where you started it, and the next window you clicked on would be killed. Is that still around? I can't find it. ===snip The application is named 'xkill.'

RE: Can anyone explain how this happened? (Sendmail problem)

2002-11-02 Thread Cowles, Steve
-Original Message- From: Edward Dekkers Subject: Can anyone explain how this happened? (Sendmail problem) I've always had the feature added for sendmail to block using input.orbz.com. This never presented a problem. From Thursday onwards - I received NO mail whatsoever (yes,

List of non-free software packages in Redhat 8.0 GNU/Linux

2002-11-02 Thread Richard Meraz
Many in our research group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Dept of Theoretical and Computational Biology) are really pleased by Redhat 8.0. However, some of us are also socially conscious programmers and would prefer to support the spirit of the gnu-project by using only free -

Re: Killing an X window app

2002-11-02 Thread Rick van der Linde
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 05:52, David Kramer wrote: Long ago, there used to be this X Windows application where you started it, and the next window you clicked on would be killed. Is that still around? I can't find it. Don't you mean xkill which is a console app that can kill the window you