Re: thread save mysql client...

2002-11-06 Thread Uncle George
maybe a better place would be the mysql folks. Theymight be able to tell you if the default configuration under Linux is with threads ( server client ). And if there is a choice, how can one tell what one has. If they cant tellwhat u have, then maybe a build would be good for your state of

How do i limit the postmaster mailbox size?

2002-11-06 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I am running sendmail as a mail relay for our department. I am not a fulltime mail administrator, so I do not check the postmaster mailbox as often as one should. I now did it for a change and found the postmaster to have a 120 megabyte mailbox due to messages that came back due to 552 size

RE: setting up ssh without a password

2002-11-06 Thread Jonathan Carter
thanks for the sshd -d tip when I ran it I realised that jon1 has 4 ip addresses and, of course, it was using a different one to connect than the one that i set up the trusted relationships for Thanks JC -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Several Problems

2002-11-06 Thread Edward Dekkers
I am a new user of Linux. I have several question about my installation: Raymond, - please read the documentation at http://www.tldp.org, or do a search on Google at http://www.google.com. Most of the answers can be found there. Tackle one problem at a time, and don't flood the list too much.

Additions to GNOME Menu Bar

2002-11-06 Thread dbonehill
I am trying to add applications to the GNOME menu bar and am failing dramatically. I have found menu editor under the KDE desktop and have succesfully used it. Could anybody out there help me with adding the applications to the Gnome menu bar. I have found how to add applications to the panel but

Additions to GNOME Menu Bar

2002-11-06 Thread dbonehill
I am trying to add applications to the GNOME menu bar and am failing dramatically. I have found menu editor under the KDE desktop and have succesfully used it. Could anybody out there help me with adding the applications to the Gnome menu bar. I have found how to add applications to the panel but

Re: setting permissions

2002-11-06 Thread Robert Storey
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 18:38, Greg wrote: Hi, how do I set permissions for directories while in text mode. What is the command, and if someone could write an example for me please. thanks Greg Dear Greg, Of course you should type man chmod before proceeding much further. That said, a few

RE: mail from another[solved]

2002-11-06 Thread Patrick Nelson
Anthony E. Greene wrote: - This is a masquerading problem. I had a similar problem with my ISP and fixed it by adding these lines to sendmail.mc: MASQUERADE_AS(`ispdomain.tld') FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope') define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.ispdomain.tld') - Hmm... that

Why alway start to Xwindows even change the inittab ?

2002-11-06 Thread Kevin Chan
Dear all, I was change the /etc/inittab setting from id :5 to id:3 as below: id:3:initdefault: and x:3:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon Can someone tell me how I can set the RedHat 7.3 start to text mode ? Thanks and regards, Kevin -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

RE: setting permissions

2002-11-06 Thread Greg
First of all, thanks to the list, especially Robert and Philip. All I needed was to be told the command, and I went in and read the man for it, and worked it out. Where I stuffed up, was I wanted to make directories available under my login, not just root, so i set permissions for my log in

Re: CUPS help

2002-11-06 Thread Giulio Orsero
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 00:12:05 -0600 (CST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am still fighting to get CUPS working on RH7.2 I think if I could get ESP Ghostscript to install it would work as I can now print with -oraw option but nothing else. When I try to update ghostscript it complains that it needs

Re: Why alway start to Xwindows even change the inittab ?

2002-11-06 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 05:40:39PM +0800, Kevin Chan wrote: I was change the /etc/inittab setting from id :5 to id:3 as below: id:3:initdefault: and x:3:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon The only line you need to change is the onne containing initdefault. Undo your change to the one

What are some fully functioning Notebooks for RedHat Linux

2002-11-06 Thread Daevid Vincent
I'm finally willing and able to take the plunge and get a nice notebook/laptop computer to dual boot (RH) Linux and Windows. The problem is of course, which one to purchase. I'm willing to spend up to $2000 or so, but there is no resource to tell me which one will be the least troublesome. I'm

Re: What are some fully functioning Notebooks for RedHat Linux

2002-11-06 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 02:15:55 -0800 Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled furiously: snippage Is there a list of Linux notebook retailers anywhere? Perhaps that could narrow down my search. = I've run Linux successfully on SONY Vaios, Toshiba

Re: aaa or radius server for linux

2002-11-06 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 07:48 AM, Thierry ITTY wrote: A 14:58 05/11/2002 -0800, vous avez écrit : any one know a good aaa or radius server software for linux ? are there any opensource software for this? I found radius-980618.tar.gz a while ago somewhere on the net there's also

Re: Fwd: Re: Does Masquerade open netbios-ns port.

2002-11-06 Thread linux power
I use iptables and have blocked all the netbios ports, but they are open when I run port scan as root, else as user they are filtered. Hal Burgiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:46:23PM +0100, linux power wrote: I set the GATEWAY=x.x.x.x in

Re: Booting custom built kernels

2002-11-06 Thread linux power
I dont know how it is in grub, but if you dont run lilo after compiling the kernel it wont load. Andrew Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello,I have the following situation.I am running RH 8.0 with the grub bootloader and default kernel. However, I would like to run a custom built kernel enabling

Re: Booting custom built kernels

2002-11-06 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 05 November 2002 11:51 pm, Andrew Levin wrote: Hello, I have the following situation. I am running RH 8.0 with the grub bootloader and default kernel. However, I would like to run a custom built kernel enabling video4linux and USB

complete system backup

2002-11-06 Thread Bjorn.Naessens
Title: Message hi there, I'm having some difficulties making a complete backup from my redhat system. At the moment i Backup all critical files by copying them over NFS to my windows PC where i write them on disc. But i would like to make a "norton ghost"-like backup. So when something

Re: complete system backup

2002-11-06 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
A really good program that I use is called Partition Image (http://www.partimage.org/) It makes the image in tar format, and also does file compression (bzip2 or gzip). Enjoy :) -- -Jon GenKiller Gaudette Digital Drip Webmaster (digital-drip.com) CNCNZ Co-Webmaster (cncnz.com) On Wed,

Re: complete system backup

2002-11-06 Thread Dale Kosan
Search for mondo... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi there, I'm having some difficulties making a complete backup from my redhat system. At the moment i Backup all critical files by copying them over NFS to my windows PC where i write them on disc. But i would like to make a norton ghost-like

Re: complete system backup

2002-11-06 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, You would get very close to that by making a dd image of your partitions and write them on another machine. There are some imaging programs for linux. As i recall, one sets up a server containing the images of the various machines and can then restore/install from the server. I hav'nt used

file recovery in Linux

2002-11-06 Thread Gabriel Erzse
Hi, Is there any possibility to recover deleted files in Redhat ? Gabi -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

check ftp history?

2002-11-06 Thread Nick Wilson
Hi all, Is there a way for me to check the 'history' of ftp commands on a particular user account? Many thanks... -- Nick Wilson // www.tioka.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe

Re: Why alway start to Xwindows even change the inittab ?

2002-11-06 Thread Francisco Neira
Kevin Chan wrote: Dear all, I was change the /etc/inittab setting from id :5 to id:3 as below: id:3:initdefault: and x:3:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon Can someone tell me how I can set the RedHat 7.3 start to text mode ? Thanks and regards, Kevin Hi Kevin, Well you just

extracting multiple archives with tar

2002-11-06 Thread Drew Poulin
Hello, I'm trying to extract the files from 108 .tar archives located in a single directory. The tar info page says that tar can't handle a wildcard like * or ? by itself; it says that preceding the * or ? with a backslash or enclosing the argument in quotes usually works. But neither tar

RE: Why alway start to Xwindows even change the inittab ?

2002-11-06 Thread Joshua P. Metcalf
Only set this line id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault: Shell mode only. Josh -Original Message- From: Kevin Chan [mailto:kevinchan;trasy.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 4:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Why alway start to Xwindows even change the inittab ?

Re: extracting multiple archives with tar

2002-11-06 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 05:01:36 -0800, Drew Poulin wrote: I'm trying to extract the files from 108 .tar archives located in a single directory. The tar info page says that tar can't handle a wildcard like * or ? by itself; it says that preceding

Re: IPTABLES help

2002-11-06 Thread Peter Robb
My favourite iptables tutorial is http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/tutorials/blueflux/ It will answer all of your question, except the blacklisted hosts. How do you want to collect/maintain this list? Regards, Peter On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 02:52, Chad Skinner wrote: During my update of

Minimum password length

2002-11-06 Thread Rune Berge
How do i change the minimum password length? I would like users to be able to have passwords with as few as 4 characters, but currently the minimum seems to be 6. I'm using redhat 8. Rune --- Rune Berge [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Moving GNOME Panel

2002-11-06 Thread achana
Hi. The main GNOME panel has fiendishly moved to align itself with the right hand border (East side ) of my desktop. :-( I usually have it at the bottom. How do I move the panel from the right hand side back to the bottom ??? TIA -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

Re: 8.0 will not boot from hard drive after install

2002-11-06 Thread sam basom
yeah i had a problem with that too. i installed 8.0 workstation and it always gives me a problem with the install. i guess it all depends on what boot loader you selected. i used lilo and i cannot boot linux at all. another thing is that lilo can only read to the first 1024 sectors. so if thats

Still unable to boot from HD...

2002-11-06 Thread Van Den Abeele Kristof
Hello List , The facts  : A fresh Redhat 8.0 installation on a 1Ghz Hp Vectra 400 pc. 1 Harddisk as master on IDE1. ( hda ) containing following file systems : /boot ( hda1) ; / (hda2)  and swap ( hda3) The pc is unable to boot from the hd , only from a floppy boot disk. (

Help with recompiiling kernel...

2002-11-06 Thread Doug Chomyn
Gee, nobody replied with any suggestions or anything so I'm trying again! Hi There ... a kernel newbie needs some explicit instructions on recompiling an 8.0 kernel with the sourceforge.net Emu10k1 sound driver 0.20a. This is a driver suitable for a Creative Labs SoundBlaster Audigy OEM card.

Re: Additions to GNOME Menu Bar

2002-11-06 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06-Nov-2002/08:20 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to add applications to the GNOME menu bar and am failing dramatically. I have found menu editor under the KDE desktop and have succesfully used it. Could anybody out there help me with

RE: Help with recompiiling kernel...

2002-11-06 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
SO: 1. Where do I install the driver source to? Does it matter? Alongside other drivers of this type. /usr/src/linux-mumble/drivers/sound/ has sound device driver files, and subdirectories for files compiled separately from the rest (e.g. emu10k1 and cs4281) 2. Re. 1., what's this configure

Re: CUPS help

2002-11-06 Thread hanfamily
Hi, I decided to try a different tactic to get CUPS working I removed all of the printing rpms from my computer got ahold of RH7.3 and did an upgrade adding all the cups and gimp packages. I installed the printer and printed a test page so that part works, but when I tried to print with lpr

Re: Help with recompiiling kernel...

2002-11-06 Thread jkinz
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:41:51AM -0500, Doug Chomyn wrote: Hi There ... a kernel newbie needs some explicit instructions on recompiling an 8.0 kernel with the sourceforge.net Emu10k1 sound driver 0.20a. This is a driver suitable for a Creative Labs SoundBlaster Audigy OEM card. Hi Doug,

Web/Mail Server Tutorial

2002-11-06 Thread Joe Wittmer
Hi Group, I am new to the list, a linux newbee, and trying to learn how to setup a mail/webserver. Are there any web tutorials out there that can assist me? Any pointers in the right direction are greatly appreciated. What my ISP is promising to give me is: _ a block of 5 static IP addresses _

Re: CUPS help

2002-11-06 Thread Giulio Orsero
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 11:26:53 -0600 (CST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: all of the printing rpms from my computer got ahold of RH7.3 and did an upgrade adding all the cups and gimp packages. I installed the printer and printed a test page so that part works, but when I tried to print with lpr

Re: check ftp history?

2002-11-06 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:07:07PM +0100, Nick Wilson wrote: Is there a way for me to check the 'history' of ftp commands on a particular user account? Are you interested in the client or server portion? If it's the server, check /var/log/xferlog. If it's the client, then it becomes

Re: 8.0 will not boot from hard drive after install

2002-11-06 Thread Jay Crews
sam basom writes yeah i had a problem with that too. i installed 8.0 workstation and it always gives me a problem with the install. i guess it all depends on what boot loader you selected. i used lilo and i cannot boot linux at all. another thing is that lilo can only read to the first

Re: file recovery in Linux

2002-11-06 Thread gabriel
if you're using a gui like kde then the file might be in the trash if not, and you used rm, not likeley On November 6, 2002 01:04 pm, Gabriel Erzse wrote: Hi, Is there any possibility to recover deleted files in Redhat ? Gabi -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

Re: Wu-ftp security question

2002-11-06 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 01:59:32PM +0800, Roger wrote: I am running RH8 with Wu-ftp daemon. I fount there is nowhere to log the wrong logon information. So, I wonder if somebody want to guess the password of a ftp user where I can get it? I checked xferlog and secure logs, no info for this.

Re: Minimum password length

2002-11-06 Thread Tom Pollerman
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 15:43:49 +0100 (MET) Rune Berge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do i change the minimum password length? I would like users to be able to have passwords with as few as 4 characters, but currently the minimum seems to be 6. I'm using redhat 8. In RH7.0 it is set in

RE: file recovery in Linux

2002-11-06 Thread Spanke, Alexander
Hi, Look at the midnight commander, there it is a undelete-like function. Regards Alex -Original Message- From: Gabriel Erzse [mailto:erzse.gabriel;ssi-schaefer.ro] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 2:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: file recovery in Linux Hi, Is there any

two puters running sshd behind a firewall

2002-11-06 Thread christopher j bottaro
ok, i got computer A running sshd listening for connections on port a, i got computer B running sshd listening for connections on port b. both are behind a hardware firewall that forwards stuff on port a to computer A and stuff on port b to computer B. the hardware firewall is also my

Re: Help with recompiiling kernel...

2002-11-06 Thread Nick Lindsell
SO: 1. Where do I install the driver source to? Does it matter? Depends how the driver is shipped. They are often patches to the kernel. It should go in /usr/src/linux-2.4, so cd /usr/src; tar xvfz linux-2.4.xx.blah.tar.gz 2. Re. 1., what's this configure your kernel sources all about

Audio Problems With Redhat 8.0

2002-11-06 Thread lukedubber
I am useing RedHat 8.0, Ever time I try to play a .mp3 it comes up with a error. Also when I try to use Audio Player which is mmx it wont let me add them? I have done a sound config and it works fine. I also hear wave, and cd aduio but no mp3 audio? Could some one help? Luke -- redhat-list

Re: Web/Mail Server Tutorial

2002-11-06 Thread Jim Hale
There's a GOOD 'All-In-One' way that you can do that since you're a new person to Linux. I am STILL new to Linux, but setting up a box with SME Server (http://www.e-smith.org - based on RH) allows you to do all the below that you're looking for. Then as you're learning how to set everything up,

Re: Help with recompiiling kernel...

2002-11-06 Thread Nick Lindsell
Apologies for last abbreviated post - pressed Send while on the phone... SO: 1. Where do I install the driver source to? Does it matter? Depends how the driver source is shipped. They are most often bzipped patches to the kernel. So... unzip the patch:- bunzip2 driver_patch.bz2 then

Re: Audio Problems With Redhat 8.0

2002-11-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am useing RedHat 8.0, Ever time I try to play a .mp3 it comes up with a error. Also when I try to use Audio Player which is mmx it wont let me add them? I have done a sound config and it works fine. I also hear wave, and cd aduio but no mp3

RE: Upgrading KDE

2002-11-06 Thread MET
To my understanding, as I asked this question earlier is yes, just do ' rpm -Uvh --nodeps *.rpm '. Haven't had a guaranteed safe** time to test it out through. But it should work as long as you have ALL the rpm's from the site. And also note, RH VERY SADLY doesn't really support KDE.

Re: Why alway start to Xwindows even change the inittab ?

2002-11-06 Thread Hella
That should do it, with a reboot of course. Otherwise, look for links in /etc/rc[0-6].d for anything starting up gdm or kdm. -Chuck Kevin Chan wrote: Dear all, I was change the /etc/inittab setting from id :5 to id:3 as below: id:3:initdefault: and x:3:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm

Re: Shell Script Question || Check for set variable

2002-11-06 Thread Hella
There are several options but this one will work (Assuming bash or sh): if [ $2 == ]; then Also, here is a very handy guide I use for those quick lookups when you get rusty. It is avail. in PDF and HTML. http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/abs-guide-1.6.tar.bz2 -Chuck MET wrote:

Re: NIS troubles

2002-11-06 Thread Hella
Did you make the appropriate changes to /etc/nsswitch.conf? At a minimum you will need this: passwd: files nis shadow: files nis group: files nis Red Hat comes default with nisplus configured (why I have no earthly idea) The easiest thing to do is make a backup copy and search

kernel -- dos.o?

2002-11-06 Thread Roger Schmeits
Greetings: I am trying to use mondoarchive and it keeps complaining about unable to insert (via insmod) the dos module. currently using RH7.3 with kernel 2.4.18-10. Did a locate for the dos.o but came up empty handed. Did find the msdos.o in the /lib/modules/2.4.18--10/kernel/fs/msdos/msdos.o.

Re: Bash Script Question

2002-11-06 Thread Hella
You want to use sed and awk for a truly robust solution. If you need further help, I can dig up examples of doing this. Generally, when I need to do text processing, I turn to perl. However, this can be done in bash, but larger tasks will get ugly in bash. -Chuck John H Darrah wrote: On

Re: Tool like WinBatch for RedHat

2002-11-06 Thread Paul Campbell
If you are only interested in html forms, you might want to look at HTTPunit and/or Cactus. Start looking at http://www.junit.org At 10:45 PM 11/5/02, you wrote: On 05-Nov-2002/12:58 -0600, Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:45:12AM -0800, Osvaldo Macias wrote: How

Re: Why are IDE drives so much slower in Linux?

2002-11-06 Thread Hella
A couple of things, I always try and place swap on a dedicated disk or a disk containing rarely used filesystems. Placing swap on the same disk as /var or any other logging locations is not a good idea. If you must cram everything on one disk, put swap on first, which will place the data

Re: two puters running sshd behind a firewall

2002-11-06 Thread Paul Campbell
look for a .ssh directory in your $HOME directory. It has a known_hosts file. I do rm -rf .ssh At 08:50 AM 11/6/02, you wrote: ok, i got computer A running sshd listening for connections on port a, i got computer B running sshd listening for connections on port b. both are behind a hardware

Re: What are some fully functioning Notebooks for RedHat Linux

2002-11-06 Thread sentinel
I've been successful with many IBM Thinkpads. I'm using the T23 currently. So far everything works. Still haven't discovered how to hot swap the floppy drive with the cdrw. But everything else works (network, sound, Xwindows, etc...) --- I've run Linux successfully on SONY Vaios, Toshiba

Re: Bash Script Question

2002-11-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Hella wrote: You want to use sed and awk for a truly robust solution. a sadly-overlooked but useful text processing command is expr. $ man expr which can do simple things like matching, extraction, length, substr and stuff like that. check it out before going on to sed,

Re: Audio Problems With Redhat 8.0

2002-11-06 Thread Michael Grosseck
Hi there, just go to http://psyche.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=106 download and install the rpm pakage... e voila, now you can listen to you mp3's By Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am useing RedHat 8.0, Ever time I try to play a .mp3 it comes up with a error. Also when I try to use Audio

Re: What are some fully functioning Notebooks for RedHat Linux

2002-11-06 Thread Sagi E.
I am runnning RH 8.0 on an IBM Thinkpad T21 with almost no problems - the only problem I had was matching a driver for the mouse. it was behaving badly until I switched to a USB mouse. Other then that all devices are running well. sagi - Original Message - From: sentinel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: two puters running sshd behind a firewall

2002-11-06 Thread gabriel
wouldn't you just ssh using a lan ip? i don't like using letters, so i'll explain with numbers: machine a (192.168.0.2) --+\ (192.168.0.1) - gateway - (24.xx.xxx.xx) machine b (192.168.0.3) --+/ ssh into (a) from the internet using ssh -p 22

Re: What are some fully functioning Notebooks for RedHat Linux

2002-11-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, sentinel wrote: I've been successful with many IBM Thinkpads. I'm using the T23 currently. So far everything works. Still haven't discovered how to hot swap the floppy drive with the cdrw. But everything else works (network, sound, Xwindows, etc...) i've had lots of

Re: two puters running sshd behind a firewall

2002-11-06 Thread christopher j bottaro
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 11:58 am, Paul Campbell wrote: look for a .ssh directory in your $HOME directory. It has a known_hosts file. I do rm -rf .ssh i don't like having to delete stuff outta known_hosts every time i wanna ssh into a different one of my home computers. well

Re: Why are IDE drives so much slower in Linux?

2002-11-06 Thread Will Mendez
Same here, especially when dealing with video arrays. Will Mendez Mmmm.XSI www.xsibase.com I got hooked on SCSI 5 years ago and have never looked back. Hope this helps, -Chuck -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe

Re: wall for X?

2002-11-06 Thread Bryan Liles
what about xmessage? On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 12:31:18 -0800 (PST) Todd A. Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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?

Cannot connect to server!

2002-11-06 Thread Jeremy Hein
I am currently not able to connect to my rh8 linux box to sshd or httpd through port 22 or 80 from a remote location! It is behind a checkpoint firewall that only passes traffic through those ports. It was working before. The only thing I believe I changed was installing webmin. I've disabled

How can I remove an worm?

2002-11-06 Thread linux power
How can I remove an worm? It seems I have a worm scanning the whole internet for available ip-addresses though the netbios ports which I have closed but didnt help much. Does it have a pid which I can kill and how do I find which?http://home.no.net/~knutove/knut_ove_hauge_kuren.htmYahoo! Mail har

RE: Minimum password length

2002-11-06 Thread Jim Mediger
What I did was to login as root or su. Create the user, give them a 6 character password, then type: Passwd username newpassword It will tell you the min password length is 6 char. But it will take it. Jim -Original Message- From: Rune Berge [mailto:rune;krokodille.com] Sent:

Re: What are some fully functioning Notebooks for RedHat Linux

2002-11-06 Thread John Nichel
I have had no problems running RH on Toshiba laptops (3 so far, all Satellites) Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, sentinel wrote: I've been successful with many IBM Thinkpads. I'm using the T23 currently. So far everything works. Still haven't discovered how to hot swap the

Re: How can I remove an worm?

2002-11-06 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 07:39:32PM +0100, linux power wrote: How can I remove an worm? It seems I have a worm scanning the whole internet for available ip-addresses though the netbios ports which I have closed but didnt help much. Does it have a pid which I can kill and how do I

RE: Mail Server for home network [THANKS]

2002-11-06 Thread Roland Hill
Well, assuming I actually do work out how to implement all this, I am settled on: - Fetchmail - Postfix (thanks to comments regarding this one) - Procmail I'm not set on how to achieve dial on demand functionality. Might pick up on advice from Edward Dekkers to use a combination of wvdial and

ypserv 2.5-2.7x issues?

2002-11-06 Thread Cheng-Jih Chen
We upgraded to the recent ypserv-2.5-2.7x on our RedHat 7.3 box over the weekend. Since then, we've had automounter issues. The most serious one is with Solaris 2.8 and 2.9 clients, where NIS user information is sent correctly, but autofs on the client boxes don't seem to do anything. In the log

RE: two puters running sshd behind a firewall

2002-11-06 Thread Ward William E DLDN
-Original Message- From: Paul Campbell [mailto:seapwc;halcyon.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 12:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: two puters running sshd behind a firewall look for a .ssh directory in your $HOME directory. It has a known_hosts file. I do rm -rf

Bash Script || Loop Through Parameters

2002-11-06 Thread MET
I'm trying to loop through all the parameters given to a script. My script is executed like so: ./app Matthew Timmy Daniel for i in $# do echo Loop iteration - $i done This loop just loops once and prints: Loop iteration - 3 Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Monitor support

2002-11-06 Thread Gordon Alderson
Hi, I`m a new Linux user and am really pleased to be finally up and running (Red Hat 8.0). At the moment I`ve just got one small problem, my monitor is a Proview 986N (19), there is no specific support for this in Linux. It runs OK as a generic but I can not get higher than 1024 x 768 16 bit.

kdm server dies when switching to console

2002-11-06 Thread Juan Nin
Hi, I got the following problem in a RH 7.3 box: If I'm using KDE and switch to a shell terminal by pressing CONTROL+ALT+FXX, some time later the X server dies, and restarts remaining at the login screen again.. it does not happen 100% of the times, but almost... some times I have to switch

Re: What are some fully functioning Notebooks for RedHat Linux

2002-11-06 Thread Kent Borg
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:15:55AM -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote: I'm finally willing and able to take the plunge and get a nice notebook/laptop computer to dual boot (RH) Linux and Windows. The problem is of course, which one to purchase. I'm willing to spend up to $2000 or so, but there is no

RE: What are some fully functioning Notebooks for RedHat Linux

2002-11-06 Thread Carter, Shaun G
http://www.linux-laptop.net/ http://www.tuxtops.com/ http://www.emperorlinux.com/ http://lhd.zdnet.com/superguides/laptops.html -Original Message- From: sentinel [mailto:sentinel;xmission.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 12:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What are some

RE: Bash Script || Loop Through Parameters

2002-11-06 Thread Babu, Sreedhar (CAP, GCF, Satyam, Consultant)
Replace $# with $* in ur script.. -Original Message- From: MET [mailto:met;uberstats.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 20:07 To: RedHat List Subject: Bash Script || Loop Through Parameters I'm trying to loop through all the parameters given to a script. My script is executed

UP2DATE Notifyer Gone

2002-11-06 Thread Joe Giles
List, I use KDE on my RH 8.0 machine and I noticed the other day that the up2date status that sits in my systray is not there anymore. There is, instead, a spot for it that seems to be taken up but nothing is visible. Is there a way to get this back? I have tried removing the system tray applet

Re: two puters running sshd behind a firewall

2002-11-06 Thread christopher j bottaro
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 07:16 am, gabriel wrote: wouldn't you just ssh using a lan ip? i don't like using letters, so i'll explain with numbers: machine a (192.168.0.2) --+\ (192.168.0.1) - gateway -

RE: Upgrading KDE

2002-11-06 Thread Joe Giles
Ok.. I did that and it worked. Thanks for the advice :) Joe On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 10:25, MET wrote: To my understanding, as I asked this question earlier is yes, just do ' rpm -Uvh --nodeps *.rpm '. Haven't had a guaranteed safe** time to test it out through. But it should work as long as

RE: Bash Script || Loop Through Parameters

2002-11-06 Thread Rechenberg, Andrew
That is what you told it to do :) $# outputs the number of arguments input to a script. You should look into the shift built-in function of (ba)sh. Try something like this: #!/bin/sh while [ $1 ] do echo $1 shift done Check out:

Re: two puters running sshd behind a firewall

2002-11-06 Thread christopher j bottaro
right, i kinda did the same thing. in /etc/hosts i made two different aliases to the same ip address (i.e. my gateway). ex: compA 66.55.44.33 compB 66.55.44.33 ssh -p 22 compA ssh -p 222 compB this works, there will be seperate keys in known_hosts for compA and compB, but ssh will store

Re: How can I remove an worm?

2002-11-06 Thread linux power
Yes I have windozes and will scan them for viruses. Thanks so much for the hint. "Michael H. Warfield" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 07:39:32PM +0100, linux power wrote: How can I remove an worm? It seems I have a worm scanning the whole internet for availableip-addresses though

Re: Can not change security level after installation

2002-11-06 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Wang Guojiang wrote: configuration again, it is still set to High. I tried at least 10 times now using exact same methods as described in the Customization Guide. It *does* save it. It's just that every time you re-open the dialog, it resets all fields to the defaults.

Re: Web/Mail Server Tutorial

2002-11-06 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Joe Wittmer wrote: _ POP/SMTP servers for Windows Clients _ Apache Webserver _ FTP server _ Telnet access (atleast initially) _ Webmail (possibly if not difficult) Red Hat 8.0 does all of that. Read the manuals from Red Hat (available online), and make sure you've also

How to setup a name server?

2002-11-06 Thread The Redhat Warrior
Hi, I was wondering if someone could tell me how to setup a name server and have multiple domain names under my web server? Thanks for any info.

Re: Cannot connect to server!

2002-11-06 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Jeremy Hein wrote: I am currently not able to connect to my rh8 linux box to sshd or httpd through port 22 or 80 from a remote location! It is behind a checkpoint Did you check /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny? What do your logs say? What does tcpdump tell you? What do

Re: Bash Script || Loop Through Parameters

2002-11-06 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, MET wrote: for i in $# do echo Loop iteration - $i done What shell? Have you read the appropriate manual? Have you bought the appropriate O'Reilly book? Is this a homework assignment? -- Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

Re: How to setup a name server?

2002-11-06 Thread Juan Nin
some e-mail here are really awesome... From: The Redhat Warrior Hi, I was wondering if someone could tell me how to setup a name server and have multiple domain names under my web server? Thanks for any info. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

RE: two puters running sshd behind a firewall

2002-11-06 Thread Ward William E DLDN
-Original Message- From: christopher j bottaro [mailto:cjb;cs.utexas.edu] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 3:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: two puters running sshd behind a firewall right, i kinda did the same thing. in /etc/hosts i made two different aliases

Re: How to setup a name server?

2002-11-06 Thread blkline
The Redhat Warrior wrote: Hi, I was wondering if someone could tell me how to setup a name server and have multiple domain names under my web server? Thanks for any info. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html -- Please avoid sending me Word, PowerPoint or Excel attachments. See

Re: Web/Mail Server Tutorial

2002-11-06 Thread Joe Wittmer
Jim, Thanks! It looks like this is what I need. I am downloading it now and will give it a try. Joe There's a GOOD 'All-In-One' way that you can do that since you're a new person to Linux. I am STILL new to Linux, but setting up a box with SME Server (http://www.e-smith.org - based on RH)

RE: file recovery in Linux

2002-11-06 Thread Rechenberg, Andrew
If you know approximately what size the file was you could use a tool like e2undel (which uses debugfs), as long as the inode containing the file hasn't been overwritten with new data. Check it out at http://e2undel.sourceforge.net/ I have used it to recover files and it works quite well. Hope

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