Re: OT: Verisign petition

2003-09-17 Thread Rob Saul
On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 05:14 PM, Ian L wrote: I really think it should just be legal to kill them. It should be considered self defense :) nah, hit them where it really hurts, refuse to register any new domains with them and encourage any that have domains registered with them to

3Ware escalade 6800

2003-09-17 Thread Steve Lee
Has anyone tried using a 3Ware Escalade 6800 with some 200GB drives with any version of RedHat linux version ? i have tried both 7.3 and 9, but the system gets all kinds of errors right after i initialize the drive. anyone successful using this ? Thanks. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubsc

Re: Desktop

2003-09-17 Thread Hotmail 2
Yes I do log in with KDE and I have tried to search on the whole HD but nothing ...! (sic) FT - Original Message - From: "Stephen Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 8:14 AM Subject: Re: Desktop > On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 01:08, fabrice tric

Re: sendmail->postfix problem

2003-09-17 Thread Mike Burger
Check to see what the permissions are on /var/spool/mail/postfix. Though, really, you should probably have 'postfix' aliased to a real user. On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Peter Skensved wrote: > I'm considering migrating from sendmail to postfix but I have run into > something which looks like a permis

sendmail->postfix problem

2003-09-17 Thread Peter Skensved
I'm considering migrating from sendmail to postfix but I have run into something which looks like a permission problem. I followed the directions in the RedHat postfix HOWTO, stopped sendmail, started postfix and sent mail to the machine. However, it bounces telling me that : Final-Recipient

Re: Sendmail from Shell Script?

2003-09-17 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 20:18 17 Sep 2003, David Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 19:41, Rus Foster wrote: | > On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, David Hart wrote: | > > I seem to recall there's a way to send a file from a shell script but | > > cannot remember how to do it. | > | > If its plain text then jus

[OT] HP J2973A linux drivers?

2003-09-17 Thread Daniel Tan
hi all, i know this is not the correct list for suse but i just need a driver for my HP J2973A network card on suse 6.0 the machine is a HP E30 which is a very old model that is why i am using a very old linux OS on it just for file sharing purposes. anyone here know where to find it and ho

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Re: Sendmail from Shell Script?

2003-09-17 Thread fred smith
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 08:18:08PM -0400, David Hart wrote: > On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 19:41, Rus Foster wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, David Hart wrote: > > > > > I seem to recall there's a way to send a file from a shell script but > > > cannot remember how to do it. > > > > > > > If its plain te

Re: IPChains with RH 9? "Protocol not available"

2003-09-17 Thread Mike Burger
You need to use iptables. On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > > Hello, > I am trying to run some ipchains command for NAT-ing with RH 9, which acts as > a master node for a beowulf cluster. > > When running ipchainsI got the message "Protocol not available". This led me > to thi

Re: PDF Converter on Linux/Redhat

2003-09-17 Thread Jack Bowling
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 02:07:57PM -0400, Kenneth Goodwin wrote: [snip]> > In terms of Web Site, the person in question was not looking > for an automated > on the fly to/from conversion utility. As Far as I > understood it, he wanted a automated system that > would convert any file format into a

Re: Sendmail from Shell Script?

2003-09-17 Thread Lists
That may not work as you expect if file "filename" is something other than text. You may want to consider something like: uuencode filename filename | mail -s "File from script" emailaddr The file will have to be uudecoded at the receiving end but it should make it intact. I believe uuencode/de

Re: Congrats on rh9 distr...but questions remain about choices made re: Apache/Samba

2003-09-17 Thread Ian Mortimer
> Problem#1: Apache2 that you distribute doesn't seem to have apxs support > enabled. For this reason I needed to get apache src and rebuild. Not a > problem doing this, but for others it might be. Plus, given that production > sites will probably build from source anyways...why wasn't this includ

Congrats on rh9 distr...but questions remain about choices made re: Apache/Samba

2003-09-17 Thread Mike Klein
First thing, you have put out a great 'hardened' distribution with RedHat 9. About 90% of the reasons why I used to recompile/relink various apps (for ssl, krb, pam, ldap, etc.) are now eliminated because of your extra work. Good job. However, I have noticed (unless I'm mistaken) two glaring omiss

Re: Recommended Block Lists

2003-09-17 Thread Mike McMullen
Thanks to everyone who has sent emails. I am using the following 5 sites: sbl.spamhaus.org blackholes.easynet.nl dsn.rfc-ignorant.org list.dsbl.org bl.spamcop.net This combination has resulted in about a 98% decrease in spam to our site. Since Sunday we have rejected just under 1000 messages with

Re: Sendmail from Shell Script?

2003-09-17 Thread David Hart
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 19:41, Rus Foster wrote: > On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, David Hart wrote: > > > I seem to recall there's a way to send a file from a shell script but > > cannot remember how to do it. > > > > If its plain text then just > > cat filename | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I new there w

Re: NTP reminders

2003-09-17 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 02:26:03PM -0400, Chris Purcell wrote: > > Turn ntpd off by using "service ntpd stop". Then issue the "ntpdate > clock.redhat.com" command. This will sync your clock with that time > server. Now turn NTPd back on with "service ntdp start". Red Hat's init script syncs wit

Re: OT: Verisign petition

2003-09-17 Thread Ian L
At 04:07 PM 9/17/2003, you wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, MKlinke wrote: > Verisign provides PTR records for those machines that are "resolving" > the "unresolved. > > 17:39:59 # host notpresz.com > notpresz.com has address 64.94.110.11 > 17:40:18 # dig -x 64.94.110.11 Most the forgery stuff happens

Re: PDF Converter on Linux/Redhat

2003-09-17 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 02:07:57PM -0400, Kenneth Goodwin wrote: > > Well first of all, you are out of context here, that was in response > to the statement that there were no Windows based programs that did > ANY TO ANY file conversions. Actually its so far OT, I don't care one way or the other.

RE: The mail is piling up in the queue

2003-09-17 Thread Thomas E. Dukes
Only thing I can think of (which is very limited) is I had a "similar" problem when I first set up sendmail is to make sure this line in your /etc/sendmail.mc is commented out dnl # DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=0.0.0.0, Name=MTA')dnl If so, make the change as above or just remove it. You will

Re: Recommended Block Lists

2003-09-17 Thread Mike McMullen
> Mike McMullen wrote: > > > > Hi Vinny, > > > > spamcop.net looks interesting but I'm looking for sites I can check from my > > sendmail.cf > > file. I don't think spamcop.net does that or more importantly does that for > > free. > > > > I should have been more clear. > > > > Thanks for the res

Re: Sendmail from Shell Script?

2003-09-17 Thread Rus Foster
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, David Hart wrote: > I seem to recall there's a way to send a file from a shell script but > cannot remember how to do it. > If its plain text then just cat filename | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] else you want to look at uuencoding it then cat'ing it Rus -- w: http://www.jv

Sendmail from Shell Script?

2003-09-17 Thread David Hart
I seem to recall there's a way to send a file from a shell script but cannot remember how to do it. Help, please. -- Hart's PGP Key: 0x7BFF655E - http://TQMcube.com/hart_pgp.txt

Re: IPChains with RH 9? "Protocol not available"

2003-09-17 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:25:15 -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > I am trying to run some ipchains command for NAT-ing with RH 9, which acts as > a master node for a beowulf cluster. > > When running ipchainsI got the message "Protocol not available"

Re: back up /home to window Xp by using rsync?

2003-09-17 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:08:42 -0400 (EDT), Chris Purcell wrote: > No? Are you saying that the instructions I gave don't work? No. But you replied to this message https://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-list/2003-September/msg02137.html which ment

Re: Recommended Block Lists

2003-09-17 Thread Vinny Valdez
Mike McMullen wrote: Hi Vinny, spamcop.net looks interesting but I'm looking for sites I can check from my sendmail.cf file. I don't think spamcop.net does that or more importantly does that for free. I should have been more clear. Thanks for the response, Mike You can. And yes, for free. ht

Re: Desktop

2003-09-17 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 01:08, fabrice trichard wrote: > Yes I get the following when I click on the taskbar icons they look like a > kde wheel : > > Unable to run the command specified.The file or directory > file:/usr/share/applnk/Editors/Kwrite.desktop does not exist > > and for all icons

Re: OT: Verisign petition

2003-09-17 Thread Res
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, MKlinke wrote: > Verisign provides PTR records for those machines that are "resolving" > the "unresolved. > > 17:39:59 # host notpresz.com > notpresz.com has address 64.94.110.11 > 17:40:18 # dig -x 64.94.110.11 Most the forgery stuff happens at the connecting 'relay' and ver

RE: grub boot order question

2003-09-17 Thread Ian L
well i used grubby as someone suggested, and that seemed to work. Although i dont understand why i couldnt edit the conf file since thats all grubby seemed to do. I guess grubby wont make changes unless your syntax is right. But i think i can handle changing a 1 to a 0 :) ian At 02:59 PM 9/17/

Re: OT: Verisign petition

2003-09-17 Thread MKlinke
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 17:13, Res wrote: > On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Gerry Doris wrote: > > This translates into a major spam loophole since spammers often > > fake their domains but MTA's like sendmail default to confirming > > they are at least valid. Now any .com or .net will show up as > >

Re: OT: Verisign petition

2003-09-17 Thread Chris Purcell
Your right, I like the banner they use. Also, its a fixed sequence of commands regardless of what you type... 220 snubby2-wceast Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 ready dfk 250 OK dklfa 250 OK djfkld 550 User domain does not exist. -- Chris Purcell, RHCE > Most (all?) MTA's will deliver to an A

Re: OT: Verisign petition

2003-09-17 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 06:25:10PM -0400, Chris Purcell wrote: > These domains don't have MX records so the mail won't be delivered anywhere. > Most (all?) MTA's will deliver to an A record if there are no MX records for a domain. Verisign isn't accepting the mail though, just recording the helo,

Re: OT: Verisign petition

2003-09-17 Thread Chris Purcell
These domains don't have MX records so the mail won't be delivered anywhere. -- Chris Purcell, RHCE > > A couple of interesting things about this. The "valid" domain also > accepts mail. So mail destined for a valid domain that somebody > mistyped will get delivered to Verisign. Not good... S

RE: The mail is piling up in the queue

2003-09-17 Thread Tapang, Roderick (GXS)
>-Original Message- >From: Srini Amble [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 3:34 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: The mail is piling up in the queue > > >I am running RH 7.2 on an Intel celeron box. When I send the >e-mail the >mail is not going out. I can s

RE: IPChains with RH 9? "Protocol not available"

2003-09-17 Thread Tapang, Roderick (GXS)
Hi >-Original Message- >From: Reuben D. Budiardja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 5:25 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: IPChains with RH 9? "Protocol not available" > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] kernel]# insmod ipchains >Using /lib/modules/2.4.20-8/kernel/net/ipv4

Re: OT: Verisign petition

2003-09-17 Thread Res
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Gerry Doris wrote: > This translates into a major spam loophole since spammers often fake their > domains but MTA's like sendmail default to confirming they are at least > valid. Now any .com or .net will show up as valid. Simply have sendmail check to see if there is a PTR

RE: grub boot order question

2003-09-17 Thread Go, Jeffrey
Ian, Someone correct me if I am wrong...but you can just comment out the image you don't want it to boot to, and you should be fine.. jeff -Original Message- From: Ian L [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 5:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: grub boot order q

Re : KVM Switch recommendation

2003-09-17 Thread R. McFarlane
Hello list, Given the wide response of recommendations and problems, I have this advice to offer. If it does not work, try a shorter length of cable. I have seen with some motherboards, that they do not provide enough power to the mouse and keyboard ports and as such, a long KVM cable does not

Re: OT: Verisign petition

2003-09-17 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 03:55:03PM -0400, Gerry Doris wrote: > This translates into a major spam loophole since spammers often fake their > domains but MTA's like sendmail default to confirming they are at least > valid. Now any .com or .net will show up as valid. A couple of interesting things a

Re: upgraded ssh from 3.1 to 3.7.1 - now getting connection refused

2003-09-17 Thread Martin Moss
>You might have to delete the SSH client key and let it generate a new >one. Where would I find this, and do you mean the client key on the sourcing ssh or the destination ssh server which is refusing the connection? Marty On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 08:06, Hal Burgiss wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 200

Re: Prefered backup method?

2003-09-17 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 02:48:10PM -0400, Kent Borg wrote: > How long does it take to do a backup of the 3.5TB storage? How long > does it take to get a file out of the backup? How long to do a > restore? This is different from home network territory. You're trying to make me cuss again aren't

IPChains with RH 9? "Protocol not available"

2003-09-17 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
Hello, I am trying to run some ipchains command for NAT-ing with RH 9, which acts as a master node for a beowulf cluster. When running ipchainsI got the message "Protocol not available". This led me to thinking (and after some googling) that probably the correct kernel module is not loaded. Wh

Re: back up /home to window Xp by using rsync?

2003-09-17 Thread Chris Purcell
No? Are you saying that the instructions I gave don't work? They work fine, you merely provided an alternative way to do it. If the Windows share is open to everyone, then I don't see a problem with putting your credentials in /etc/fstab. If the credentials are confidential, and you have users

Re: Recommended Block Lists

2003-09-17 Thread David Hart
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 16:34, Parker Morse wrote: > On Friday, Sep 12, 2003, at 19:18 US/Eastern, Mike McMullen wrote: > > Now that the dust has settled, I'd like to know what combination of > > lists > > is working well with people. > > There's a nice comparison online at >

Re: Prefered backup method?

2003-09-17 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 12:27:57PM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > Any disaster that hits the main server in Texas, the SparcStation in > Guatemala, my P100 at home, _and_ the Dutchman has earned my data and is > welcome to have it for lunch! Granted, having only 10GB to backup > eliminates all

Re: Recommended Block Lists

2003-09-17 Thread Parker Morse
On Friday, Sep 12, 2003, at 19:18 US/Eastern, Mike McMullen wrote: Now that the dust has settled, I'd like to know what combination of lists is working well with people. There's a nice comparison online at . Think about a blend of lists -

Re: back up /home to window Xp by using rsync?

2003-09-17 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:57:13 -0400 (EDT), Chris Purcell wrote: > You can add your credentials to the 4th field of the /etc/fstab file like > this... > > //server/share /mnt/smb smbfs username=admin,password=secret 0 0 > > Sorry for using the wr

Re: OT: Verisign petition

2003-09-17 Thread Gerry Doris
> I am surprised no one has commented on the growing storm but I guess it > really is OT for a redhat list but still may affect administration of > some systems. > > verisign hase decided to abuse their position as the operator of the tld > .com by having all invalid dns queries resolve to their pa

The mail is piling up in the queue

2003-09-17 Thread Srini Amble
I am running RH 7.2 on an Intel celeron box. When I send the e-mail the mail is not going out. I can see all the e-mails using the command "mailq". The sendmail is running. Would any of you have any words of wisdom to solve this problem? Thanks in anticipation Srini -- redhat-list mailing l

Re: back up /home to window Xp by using rsync?

2003-09-17 Thread Sasa Stupar
Jianping Zhu pravi: On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:26:05AM -0500, MKlinke wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 14:04, Jianping Zhu wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 04:45:34PM -0700, Rhugga wrote: Jianping Zhu wrote: I have a windows xp which has 120GB HDD. I have a redhat7.1 mac

Re: OT: Verisign petition

2003-09-17 Thread MKlinke
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 13:50, Bret Hughes wrote: > I am surprised no one has commented on the growing storm but I guess > it really is OT for a redhat list but still may affect administration > of some systems. > > verisign hase decided to abuse their position as the operator of the > tld .

Re: sendmail vulnerability

2003-09-17 Thread Michael Lee Yohe
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 15:05, Ezra Nugroho wrote: > Any idea when Redhat is going to come up with rpms for this? > > http://www.sendmail.org/8.12.10.html This has already been filed in Bugzilla as Bug 104563. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=104563 The associated RHSA is RHSA-

Re: sendmail vulnerability

2003-09-17 Thread Benjamin J. Weiss
> Any idea when Redhat is going to come up with rpms for this? > > http://www.sendmail.org/8.12.10.html They already have. It's called "postfix". :) Ben -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: NTP reminders

2003-09-17 Thread Aly Dharshi
You can also try tick.utoronto.ca or tock.utoronto.ca and these are also good ntp servers, there is the U of L one timeserver.uleth.ca but I have no clue if this is open to the world. Cheers, Aly. -- Aly S.P Dharshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Southern Alberta Digital Library Project

Re: OT: Verisign petition

2003-09-17 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 13:56, Phil Moors wrote: > I'll repeat my last post hoping that someone at Redhat is lurking: > > Is Redhat going to release an update to bind that incorporates the fix > from ISC that addresses this issue? > > Phil Have you looked at bugzilla? Bret -- redhat-list maili

sendmail vulnerability

2003-09-17 Thread Ezra Nugroho
Any idea when Redhat is going to come up with rpms for this? http://www.sendmail.org/8.12.10.html -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: fax server recommendation

2003-09-17 Thread Mike Burger
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Noah wrote: > On 17 Sep 2003 12:04:43 -0500, Bret Hughes wrote > > On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 11:31, Noah wrote: > > > > > > > > > can somebody recommend a fax server program out there? > > > perhaps something opensource by chance? > > > > > > > I help setup hylafax at my broth

Re: fax server recommendation

2003-09-17 Thread Mike Burger
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: > On Wednesday 17 September 2003 01:04 pm, you wrote: > > hylafax > > > Is there a broad band fax server that can used over a dsl modem? I'm not sure I understand this follow-up. How did you want to use a DSL modem to transmit faxes? -- Mike B

Re: fax server recommendation

2003-09-17 Thread Mike Burger
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Noah wrote: > can somebody recommend a fax server program out there? > perhaps something opensource by chance? > > > thanks in advance, Look into hylafax. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpo

Re: back up /home to window Xp by using rsync?

2003-09-17 Thread Chris Purcell
You can add your credentials to the 4th field of the /etc/fstab file like this... //server/share /mnt/smb smbfs username=admin,password=secret 0 0 Sorry for using the wrong slashes in the earlier post. -- Chris Purcell, RHCE > On Wednesday 17 September 2003 02:28 pm, Chris Purcell wrote: >

Re: OT: Verisign petition

2003-09-17 Thread Phil Moors
I'll repeat my last post hoping that someone at Redhat is lurking: Is Redhat going to release an update to bind that incorporates the fix from ISC that addresses this issue? Phil * Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030917 14:42]: > I am surprised no one has commented on the growing storm but I gu

OT: Verisign petition

2003-09-17 Thread Bret Hughes
I am surprised no one has commented on the growing storm but I guess it really is OT for a redhat list but still may affect administration of some systems. verisign hase decided to abuse their position as the operator of the tld .com by having all invalid dns queries resolve to their pay per click

Re: Prefered backup method?

2003-09-17 Thread Kent Borg
How long does it take to do a backup of the 3.5TB storage? How long does it take to get a file out of the backup? How long to do a restore? This is different from home network territory. More questions: How much data changes from one backup to the next? Is there room for incremental backups, a

Re: back up /home to window Xp by using rsync?

2003-09-17 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 02:28 pm, Chris Purcell wrote: > Yes, add the mount point to your /etc/fstab file. It will be something > like > > \\server\share \mnt\smb smbfs defaults 0 0 > > ..for example. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that will still require to type in password for the s

Re: fax server recommendation

2003-09-17 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 12:34, Jason Dixon wrote: > On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 13:04, Bret Hughes wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 11:31, Noah wrote: > > > > > > > > > can somebody recommend a fax server program out there? > > > perhaps something opensource by chance? > > > > > > > I help setup hylafa

Re: back up /home to window Xp by using rsync?

2003-09-17 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 06:05 pm, Jianping Zhu wrote: > Thanks for advice. the problem solved > One more question, is there a way i can set up my linux server to > automacitally mount windows share every time i start the server so I can > automate to rsync process? DIdn't I reply to questio

RE: Prefered backup method?

2003-09-17 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> I'll step back in here since people seem to want to slam > tape. I happen > to manage systems in a medium-size enterprise. One server alone has > 3.5TB of storage. For that server, we take weekly full > backups and plan > to keep (most systems are already there but this one isn't > yet)

Re: back up /home to window Xp by using rsync?

2003-09-17 Thread Chris Purcell
Yes, add the mount point to your /etc/fstab file. It will be something like \\server\share \mnt\smb smbfs defaults 0 0 ..for example. -- Chris Purcell, RHCE > Thanks for advice. the problem solved > One more question, is there a way i can set up my linux server to > automacitally mount w

Re: Prefered backup method?

2003-09-17 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 13:03 9/17/2003 -0400, you wrote: Ah, yes you did, indeed. I had missed that that excellent post was by you. (A reaction to it: Most instances of people saying "to be secure, uninstall everything, make the box unusable" make me scoff, but your description of a very limited backup box is actual

Re: NTP reminders

2003-09-17 Thread Chris Purcell
Turn ntpd off by using "service ntpd stop". Then issue the "ntpdate clock.redhat.com" command. This will sync your clock with that time server. Now turn NTPd back on with "service ntdp start". -- Chris Purcell, RHCE >> > Check your log messages again. Your post showed that you're getting >> a

RE: Prefered backup method?

2003-09-17 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> NAS is short for Network Attached Storage. So NAS-es would > be "Network > Attached Storages" which doesn't sound right :-). How about > NAS arrays > or NAS appliances or NAS subsystems? > > -- > Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Member #1, Red Hat Community A

Re: Prefered backup method?

2003-09-17 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 12:53 9/17/2003 -0500, you wrote: I'll step back in here since people seem to want to slam tape. I'll be more precise: I design, run, and manage systems in home, SOHO, or SMB environments. 3.25TB is still huge, and most entities with which I do business or with which I am acquainted haven't ev

Re: NTP reminders

2003-09-17 Thread Benjamin J. Weiss
> > Check your log messages again. Your post showed that you're getting > > an "invalid host" error when trying to find time.nist.gov. You can > > either try their ip, which is 192.43.244.18, or you can use a linux > > timeserver, such as ntp.tuxfamily.net. > > > yeah that is a strange error: > >

RE: PDF Converter on Linux/Redhat

2003-09-17 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hal Burgiss > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 1:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: PDF Converter on Linux/Redhat > > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 09:18:25AM -0400, Kenneth Goodwin wrote: > > > > MS Word will also convert most of the important

X Randomly fails to load

2003-09-17 Thread Daniel Arvesen
Hello, Occasionally on my laptop X will randomly fail to load whenever I boot Linux.It seems to be random, but it's almost always guarenteed to boot the next time. When it fails to load X, the computer just freezes and the only way I can turn off the computer is to hold down the power button.

Re: persistent dialup connection

2003-09-17 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 19:52 9/14/2003 +0530, you wrote: I want to have a persistent dialup connection via wvdial. ie if the connection fails then it should automatically dialup again and make connection. The redialling should be automatically done until certain retry number reaches. How can we do it via script or

Re: back up /home to window Xp by using rsync?

2003-09-17 Thread Jianping Zhu
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:26:05AM -0500, MKlinke wrote: > On Wednesday 17 September 2003 14:04, Jianping Zhu wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 04:45:34PM -0700, Rhugga wrote: > > > Jianping Zhu wrote: > > > >I have a windows xp which has 120GB HDD. I have a redhat7.1 > > > > machine. I want to us

Named Patch?

2003-09-17 Thread Phil Moors
Does anyone know if Redhat will release an update to the bind package that will incorporate the ISC patch for delegated zones? Phil -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: NTP reminders

2003-09-17 Thread Noah
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:59:58 -0500, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote > > looks like ntpd is starting fine. okay from /var/log/messages > > > > Sep 17 09:27:57 tsunami ntpd[22727]: ntpd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Aug 31 18:27:29 > EDT 2 > > 002 (1) > > Sep 17 09:27:57 tsunami ntpd: ntpd startup succeeded > > Sep

Re: NTP reminders

2003-09-17 Thread Mario T. DeFazio
Noah wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:36:22 -0500, Leonard Miller wrote In /etc/ntp.conf set the server to whatever you want to use. server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx or server time.nist.gov and set the drift file to driftfile /etc/ntp/drift Then "service ntpd start" That should be all you need. looks li

Re: NTP reminders

2003-09-17 Thread Benjamin J. Weiss
> looks like ntpd is starting fine. okay from /var/log/messages > > Sep 17 09:27:57 tsunami ntpd[22727]: ntpd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Aug 31 18:27:29 EDT 2 > 002 (1) > Sep 17 09:27:57 tsunami ntpd: ntpd startup succeeded > Sep 17 09:27:57 tsunami ntpd[22727]: precision = 13 usec > Sep 17 09:27:57 ts

Re: Prefered backup method?

2003-09-17 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:12:14AM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 10:56 9/17/2003 -0500, you wrote: > >This is true, but there is one problem in the disaster recovery universe > >that it does not resolve: offsite storage. If your backups are routinely > >kept in the same place as your servers

Re: NTP reminders

2003-09-17 Thread Noah
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:36:22 -0500, Leonard Miller wrote > In /etc/ntp.conf set the server to whatever you want to use. > server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > or > server time.nist.gov > > and set the drift file to > driftfile /etc/ntp/drift > > Then "service ntpd start" > > That should be all you need.

RE: fax server recommendation

2003-09-17 Thread Kenneth Goodwin
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bret Hughes > Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 1:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: fax server recommendation > > > On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 11:31, Noah wrote: > > > > > > can somebody recommend a fax server program out there? > > perhaps som

Re: NTP reminders

2003-09-17 Thread Benjamin J. Weiss
> In /etc/ntp.conf set the server to whatever you want to use. > server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > or > server time.nist.gov > > and set the drift file to > driftfile /etc/ntp/drift > > Then "service ntpd start" > > That should be all you need. Or, to do it from the gui: Go to the "Red Hat button" (what t

Re: Prefered backup method?

2003-09-17 Thread Ed Wilts
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:14:52AM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > Don't like it. If users can access the backup box, or if (as per your last > point) the NAS-es (how the hell do you pluralize NAS, anyway?) NAS is short for Network Attached Storage. So NAS-es would be "Network Attached Storages

Re: NTP reminders

2003-09-17 Thread Leonard Miller
In /etc/ntp.conf set the server to whatever you want to use. server xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx or server time.nist.gov and set the drift file to driftfile /etc/ntp/drift Then "service ntpd start" That should be all you need. Leonard Automatically inserted lawyer supplied confidentiality blurb follows

Re: NTP reminders

2003-09-17 Thread Noah
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:38:12 -0500, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote > > okay its Been a while since I fiddled with ntp on a redhat machine. > > my clock is way off. is there are good admin tutorial for setting up ntp? > > > > thanks in advance, > > What version of RedHat are you running? > 8.0 > Ben

Re: fax server recommendation

2003-09-17 Thread Jason Dixon
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 13:04, Bret Hughes wrote: > On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 11:31, Noah wrote: > > > > > > can somebody recommend a fax server program out there? > > perhaps something opensource by chance? > > > > I help setup hylafax at my brother's office and it has been jamming ever > since. [sn

Re: NTP reminders

2003-09-17 Thread Benjamin J. Weiss
> okay its Been a while since I fiddled with ntp on a redhat machine. > my clock is way off. is there are good admin tutorial for setting up ntp? > > thanks in advance, What version of RedHat are you running? Ben -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.red

Re: fax server recommendation

2003-09-17 Thread Noah
On 17 Sep 2003 12:04:43 -0500, Bret Hughes wrote > On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 11:31, Noah wrote: > > > > > > can somebody recommend a fax server program out there? > > perhaps something opensource by chance? > > > > I help setup hylafax at my brother's office and it has been jamming ever > since. A

Re: fax server recommendation

2003-09-17 Thread Noah
On 17 Sep 2003 12:04:43 -0500, Bret Hughes wrote > On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 11:31, Noah wrote: > > > > > > can somebody recommend a fax server program out there? > > perhaps something opensource by chance? > > > > I help setup hylafax at my brother's office and it has been jamming ever > since. A

NTP reminders

2003-09-17 Thread Noah
okay its Been a while since I fiddled with ntp on a redhat machine. my clock is way off. is there are good admin tutorial for setting up ntp? thanks in advance, Noah -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: openssh 3.7.1 - reinstall

2003-09-17 Thread Chris Purcell
Marty, Before you installed OpenSSH from source, did you uninstall the old OpenSSH RPMs and stop the sshd daemon? After you installed the source, did you remember to start the new sshd daemon? Check the output of "ps -ef|grep ssh" to make sure that its running. You can log in as anonymous into

Re: fax server recommendation

2003-09-17 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 01:04 pm, you wrote: > hylafax Is there a broad band fax server that can used over a dsl modem? -- Michael S. Dunsavage -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Prefered backup method?

2003-09-17 Thread Kent Borg
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 12:49:58PM -0400, Javier Gostling wrote: > If you backup to another building, you are still not protected > against some city-wide disasters such as a nuclear bomb (ok. that's > stretching it a little too far, but it states the point). You don't need to be so exotic to find

Re: PDF Converter on Linux/Redhat

2003-09-17 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 09:18:25AM -0400, Kenneth Goodwin wrote: > > MS Word will also convert most of the important stuff. Let's see ... if am not familiar with that one. How do you script that so it integrates with Apache and automatically converts documents from one type to another? -- Hal

Re: Prefered backup method?

2003-09-17 Thread Kent Borg
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 10:09:55AM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > As you've correctly pointed out elsewhere, this is part of the > backup _strategy_ whereas the argument is about _media_. I did point > out initially that time travel is important in a backup strategy and > suggested a way to do it.

Re: fax server recommendation

2003-09-17 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 11:31, Noah wrote: > > > can somebody recommend a fax server program out there? > perhaps something opensource by chance? > I help setup hylafax at my brother's office and it has been jamming ever since. Absolutely trouble free. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubs

Re: cron question

2003-09-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At diferent time of the day the cron started to echo this message after some scripts was started: Sep 16 03:00:01 host CROND[27392]: (user) MAIL (mailed 55 bytes of output but got status 0x0047 ) Does someone have an idea? Check your maillog for the same date/time to see if

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