Re: Tape Backup

2003-10-23 Thread Alan Peery
Julien MIONI wrote: I'd like to mount my tape as file system to browse datas. Even if it is possible, the performance would be abysmal as the access to blocks on the tape is sequential, not random. You may want to find a disk with empty space to restore it to. What format was the data

Re: tftp question

2003-10-21 Thread Alan Peery
Jason Murray wrote: in.tftpd[2225]: cannot set groups for user nobody Sounds to me like there isn't a nobody group in /etc/group--or that the user's group as defined in /etc/passwd doesn't exist. Alan -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Application Problems (Permissions?)

2003-10-21 Thread Alan Peery
Donald Tyler wrote: When I first installed RedHat, I didnt choose to install Mozilla. Later, while I was logged in under my personal account (Not root) I installed Mozilla, which obviously asked me for root password. It seemed to install fine. However, I am unable to run Mozilla under my

Re: Homedir moved now Gome won't start

2003-10-21 Thread Alan Peery
Keith Olmstead wrote: Hello, I am trying to get Gnome to start. I moved my Home directory to /usr/home and now tries to start but does not. A friend working towards a LARGE desktop rollout here in the UK mentioned this exact problem. There are hardcode strings in Gnome that have been

Re: Problems with NFS directory exports off of RH9 systems

2003-10-21 Thread Alan Peery
Ken Rossman wrote: Is there some trick to this that I am missing? Are there some tools I can use to track down what might be wrong? What doesn showmount -e display? Are the machines listed in each other's /etc/hosts files? Are your firewalls dropping packets, or rejecting them? If you're

Re: Homedir moved now Gome won't start

2003-10-21 Thread Alan Peery
Michael Schwendt wrote: When moving your home directory, you may need to get rid of old config files in your home directory which contain hardcoded paths that start with /home/... Any application that writes config files like is broken, and bugs should be filed. Application writers should

Re: problem with destop environments

2003-10-21 Thread Alan Peery
sam kupar wrote: please guide me. You've not done the next simple test. Create a new user, and login as that new user. What happens? (This test lets you localize the problem. Is it a root versus user problem, or does the problem only reside with one user?) The user probably has

Re: RedHat 9.0 and Xwindows issue.

2003-10-21 Thread Alan Peery
Wade Chandler wrote: What messages did you have after your X closed and you where back to the main terminal? This will point you to the error. I just mentioned this in another post: ~/.xsession-errors may have useful errors in it. Alan -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

Re: tftp question

2003-10-21 Thread Alan Peery
Jason Murray wrote: nobody:x:99:99:Nobody:/:/sbin/nologin 'nobody' entry from /etc/group: nobody:x:99: That tackles the top items on my list, and a small bit of investigation with strings -a, strace and grep has proven to me that the error message is coming from in.tftp, and not from

Re: yum/apt-get (was Re: Fedora)

2003-09-24 Thread Alan Peery
Marc Adler wrote: Let me get this straight: I paid RH for update support for a year on two machines when I could've gotten the exact same thing for free? Yes, that's correct. Thanks for helping support Redhat, a company who has done a lot of good work for us all. I did my part by buying a

Re: Backup Remote Windows 2000 Box with Linux

2003-07-15 Thread Alan Peery
One idea: 1) install tightvnc as a service (www.tightvnc.com) on the win2k box 2) Use the scheduled tasks available (control panel) to have the win2k box write backups onto it's hard drive 3) Once a week, fire up VNC to connect to connect to the Win2k box 4) Once there, start winscp

Re: .forward ok .cc?

2003-07-15 Thread Alan Peery
gregory mott wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 17:59, Larry Brown wrote: I am aware of the .forward file forwarding mail from one user to another, is there any way to set up a file to cause sendmail to copy another user with the emails? /etc/aliases or /etc/mail/aliases or put two lines in

Re: X11 Tunneling with PuTTY?

2003-07-03 Thread Alan Peery
Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: I offer another way to do it. If you're attempting to use your windows computer to view an X environment on a linux box, you can use VNC instead. And it's free. The nice thing about this is you can leave a session running on your Linux box for weeks, disconnecting

Re: IP Accounting...anyone?

2003-07-03 Thread Alan Peery
Alex wrote: You are very wrong. MRTG does not offer a web interface with passwords for each user to see his trafic and it does not cound TOTAL MB transfered by that user in a given period of time. If you're after web traffic, look at the web log analysis packages... If you're after capturing

Re: JGenerator?

2003-02-09 Thread Alan Peery
like you do... :-) Continuing in guess mode: I suspect that your CLASSPATH doesn't include the directory where the .class file is stored. cd to the directory where the jgenerate.class file is, enter EXPORT CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:`pwd`, then run java jgenerate. Alan -- Alan Peery

Re: LinNeighborhood

2003-02-09 Thread Alan Peery
in the uptime competition. :-) Alan -- Alan Peery -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mankind is led into the darkness beyond our world by the inspiration of discovery and the longing to understand. Our journey into space will go on. -- President Bush, Feb 1 2003 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto

Re: C/C++ and/or Fortran compilers optimised for the i686 and Athlon?

2003-02-09 Thread Alan Peery
for free. Of course, they'll like you more if you have a hardware budget. :-) Alan -- Alan Peery -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mankind is led into the darkness beyond our world by the inspiration of discovery and the longing to understand. Our journey into space will go on. -- President Bush, Feb 1 2003

Re: Why doesn't this work in cron?

2003-02-09 Thread Alan Peery
doesn't this work, and how do I get it to work? On Friday, I learned from man 5 crontab that the % sign is treated like an end of line marker unless you escape it. I suspect that the % signs in the variable setting line is being similarly interpreted. Alan -- Alan Peery -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mankind

Re: Problems with SSH

2003-01-23 Thread Alan Peery
Charles Kibler wrote: Using username ckibler. ckibler@hostname's password: ?]0;ckibler@RHL1:~[ckibler@RHL1 ckibler]$ This almost looks like an emulation error! Your terminal type is getting set differently on the two machines. Check env | grep -i tty and env| grep -i term. Alan --

Re: Seperate Subnet

2003-01-23 Thread Alan Peery
solutions, taking into account your overall budget and knowledge. For instance, I personally would stay away from the flexibilty of VLANs (as seen in another posting) because itcan be quite tricky if you don't work with them frequently. Alan -- Alan Peery [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list

Re: java IDE...

2003-01-23 Thread Alan Peery
João Borsoi Soares wrote: Does anyone have good suggestions for a java IDE? www.netbeans.org -- currently in use at work www.eclipse.org -- lots of recent good press coverage Alan -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe

Re: Routing

2003-01-23 Thread Alan Peery
dbrett wrote: The only potential problem with this method is the network he is on, is most likely using DHCP Change eth0:0 to by a dynamic address, and have the iptables script run each time the network interface starts. Modify the script with something like this: /sbin/ifconfig eth0:0 |

Re: samba files

2003-01-23 Thread Alan Peery
John Salamone wrote: Hi, Should I change all files in the directory of samba to 777 or just smb.conf and smbusers? Currently mine are set up as: -rw-r--r-- ed.hup -rw-r--r-- lmhosts -rw---secrets.tdb -rw-r--r--smb.conf -rw-r--r--smbusers If you

Re: Finding/tracking memory leaks?

2003-01-15 Thread Alan Peery
Michael Pelley wrote: Hi all - I had a query from a collegue as to how to find/track memory leaks. Other than top, what is a good tool to track memory usage? DON'T use Gnome System Monitor on Redhat 8.0. It has a pretty bad memory leak. Alan -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

Re: Compaq Armada M700

2003-01-15 Thread Alan Peery
Steve Lee wrote: anyone been able to get the serial port working on this laptop. I've been unable to get this to work. i could really use this to connect to hardware for console use. IIRC there was a BIOS setting to enable/disable the infrared port, and this conflicted with the serial port.

Re: Inode Proble

2003-01-15 Thread Alan Peery
Anand Buddhdev wrote: On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 04:57:50PM +0530, Ravi Narwade wrote: Delete some files from /var. There's no other way to recover inodes. And find out what caused so many inodes to be used up. It's unusual. Two likely causes are Usenet news feeds and Internet proxy caches.

Re: Help transferring Mozilla Bookmarts to root account

2003-01-07 Thread Alan Peery
that people put in by hand. :-) Alan -- Alan Peery [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: This is plain text

2002-12-12 Thread Alan Peery
Cameron Simpson wrote: On 15:13 11 Dec 2002, Periyasamy, Raj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Plain text | Regards, No, it's HTML. If you look closely you'll find that his software has been lying to him. It looks like Exchange has taken the Rich Text format message, and rendered it as HTML.

Re: NT to Linux transition ideas/advice

2002-12-11 Thread Alan Peery
Anthony E. Greene wrote: - A print server that converts printjobs to PDF and delivers them to the user via email. Do you have pointer to a HOWTO on that? It could be quite useful for work, as I want to encourage sending documents to customers in PDF format... Alan -- redhat-list

Re: Acrobat 5 with RH8.0 won't work

2002-12-10 Thread Alan Peery
Roger Harrington wrote: Can someone spoonfeed me on how to get Acrobat working? What locale are you running with? I live in England with my system set accordingly, and one of the latest Mozilla builds reading what appeared to be locale information... I suspect commonality between the two

Re: help with bootable raid

2002-12-10 Thread Alan Peery
. Alan -- Alan Peery [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Misbehaving Linux Routers

2002-12-10 Thread Alan Peery
rahul b jain cs student wrote: What happens next is very strange. I open the network configuration tool, look up all the setting without modifying any entry. Click on apply and then type the command 'service network restart'. Once the network is restarted, if I try to ping to the any router /

Re: Masquerade and dhcpd questions for Redhat 8.0

2002-12-09 Thread Alan Peery
line in my dhcpd.conf. Alan -- Alan Peery [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Loggin shell command to syslog

2002-11-27 Thread Alan Peery
that programs get started, but you'd be changing a fundamental aspect of the system, one that is used in the very initial steps of system startup... Alan -- Alan Peery [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https

Re: Newbie- How to enable FTP

2002-11-27 Thread Alan Peery
Hidong Kim wrote: Patrick Law wrote: I am not sure how to enable ftp service in my linux box, what configuration file I should modify, and what are the stuffs need to be enabled? Thanks Look in /etc/xinetd.d. All true, and good advice if *ftp* service is required. If you instead wish

Re: please help emacs backspace broken

2002-11-25 Thread Alan Peery
Will Mc Donald wrote: From: Larry Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've been looking around and it appears that there is no straight forward description of how to change the function of the backspace key to have it actually delete the key to the left while in a terminal. Prior to RH8 the terminal

Re: JUST STOP

2002-11-24 Thread Alan Peery
Bobby Heid wrote: I believe that it is a MS Outlook encoded file of some sort. I cannot remember what encoding off of the top of my head. It is TNEF. There is a Unix based decoder called fentun, but I haven't needed it enough to spend the effort testing it... Alan -- redhat-list

Re: users ssh access

2002-11-22 Thread Alan Peery
interested. Perhaps there is something in the structure of the code that would make it unexpectedly difficult. Alan -- Alan Peery [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: using linux for microsoft exchange 5.0 mail server

2002-11-18 Thread Alan Peery
babar haq wrote: is there anyway i can access my mails in red hat linux 8.0 from microsoft exchange server 5.0 If the Exchange box is running Outlook Web Access, just point a browser to http://box_with_exchange/exchange... Alan -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

Re: VPN on redhat 7.0

2002-11-11 Thread Alan Peery
Bill Welch wrote: Has anyone been successful at allowing a VPN connection thought a redhat 7.0 server? Can you provide some tips or point me in the right direction. I want to allow win9x, XP workstations to connect through the redhat 7.0 server to remote VPN servers. Last night I

Re: numeric users

2002-11-10 Thread Alan Peery
Alan Peery wrote: Cameron Simpson wrote: In a former life we used to just present the student ids with an s, thus: s1234567 See if you can do this. It may save you a lot of pain later. If you're already up and running the numeric user ids, you can smoothly transition to the new form

Re: numeric users

2002-11-08 Thread Alan Peery
password changes work. Test the strategy by duplicating a single line in each file first. You can then later disable, and then remove, the numeric form of the user id. Alan -- Alan Peery [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject

Re: setting up IMAP server with redhat 8

2002-11-07 Thread Alan Peery
Rune Berge wrote: OK. $ netstat -an | grep 143 now returns the following: tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:143 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN Is this how it's supposed to be? For IMAP, yes. IMAP doesn't receive email, it distributes it. I still can't recieve mail. the users have files in /var/spool/mail, but they're all

Re: setting up IMAP server with redhat 8

2002-11-07 Thread Alan Peery
Rune Berge wrote: Try logging onto the box, and running the command mail -s test 1 2 3 fred wilma to see if those two users are getting email. this command doesn't return. Had to interrupt it with ctrl-c. Any clues to what might be my problem? It's waiting for input on

Re: [OT] public news server?

2002-11-05 Thread Alan Peery
fred smith wrote: This is very OFF TOPIC My ISP no longer carries any newsgroups (I've been running a cnews news server here since '92, getting news from him), so now I'm suffering withdrawal pains. Anybody know of a good public news server, that allows posting too, where I can pick up a

Re: wall for X?

2002-11-05 Thread Alan Peery
Michael Tiernan wrote: On Friday 01 November 2002 15:31, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: Is there an equivalent to wall that will pop up a message in X? Yes, there's one in RH8, I've got it on my system. I just have to find the name for it but it's there! % which kwrited /usr/bin/kwrited % rpm -q -f

Re: exec a command via remote terminal then closing that terminal

2002-11-05 Thread Alan Peery
Kent Borg wrote: For a more general answer, but something I use less, use screen. Look at the man page to see details of getting everything to work smoothly, like letting you do ctrl-A to get to beginning of line in emacs. Gotta figure that out. I haven't. ^A followed by a works pretty

Re: ODBC support in rh?

2002-11-05 Thread Alan Peery
Jen, Alan Y wrote: what is a good library to use for ODBC? what are any of the dependency (additional lib, rh o/s or oracle db version/platform dependency, etc). Specifically... On a linux rh 7.1 machine, i want to extract data residing on another machine (oracle db 8.x on windows 2000). It

Re: Killing an X window app

2002-11-05 Thread Alan Peery
Brian Ashe wrote: Try hitting Ctrl-Alt-Esc. You should get a little skull and crossbones cursor. Click it on the bad window and away it goes. Doesn't work for me. Which version of Redhat are you running, and which session(KDE, Gnome, Ximan Gnome)? Alan -- redhat-list mailing list

Re: RH80: dial-up with kppp without root password

2002-11-01 Thread Alan Peery
Aad Rijnberg wrote: For dial-up networking I use kppp. I want to start it from the KDE-panel without having to type the root-password all the time. I use Redhat 8.0. I have examined 2 different solutions: 1) change PAM-authentication configuration file for kppp 2) create a group that is allowed

Re: Mail server in Red Hat Linux

2002-10-25 Thread Alan Peery
senthil wrote: Read the HOWtos of Fetchmail and Sendmail before u start off then it will be easy !! try also man fetchmail, and look inside there for info on fetchmailconf, a handy configuration utility. Alan -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

Re: Synchronize the Clocks of PCs

2002-10-18 Thread Alan Peery
Rinaldo Catroque Bersi wrote: Hi, Anybody know a software to synchronize the clocks in PCs using Linux in a serial net as RS485? I know the NTP but I need use in serial. NTP works because there are two components (your machine and the NTP server) and transport (TCP/IP, specifically the NTP

Re: Getting CIPE VPN to work -- Redhat 8.0

2002-10-16 Thread Alan Peery
Teodor Georgiev wrote: Hi. Yes, I use CIPE a lot (more than 60 connections, even between Windows / Linux users). works perfect. This is the guide I followed: http://www.merit.ee/~gunnar/ I appreciate the link, but part of what I want to do is figure out what's wrong with the CIPE VPN so I can

Getting CIPE VPN to work -- Redhat 8.0

2002-10-15 Thread Alan Peery
Has anyone had success getting the new CIPE VPN available in 'neat' to work? When I try to create the initial entry, I got an error about being unable to write configuation info to /etc/cipe/x. While this was easily resolved by creating /etc/cipe, later attempts to use neat to activate

Re: How to build a webmail application

2002-10-07 Thread Alan Peery
the code to public domain. Alan -- Alan Peery peery @io.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: x windows login problem

2002-08-14 Thread Alan Peery
Nicholas Yau wrote: problem is when i type in the password and username in my client the x windows screen just flip once then put me back to the login screen again. -What is the problem? I provide this log file below for easier to you all : Good choice. Aug 13 16:55:23

Call to Action: Migration from Win2k/NT (redhat-migration-list)

2002-06-12 Thread Alan Peery
to join me, the subscription link is https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-migration-list. To those who have already been answering, well done. And now, back to your regularly scheduled program. ;-) Alan -- Alan Peery Unix sysadmin since 1987 Linux zealot occasionally

Re: Knowledgable List? ipchains still used in 7.3

2002-05-28 Thread Alan Peery
even stranger is that Redhat 7.3 still uses ipchains to implement the firewall rules offered at install time... I was surprised that an upgrade to iptables hadn't been done, as it would seem to be a relatively easy thing to do. Alan -- Alan Peery Unix sysadmin since 1987 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT] latex icelandic and pdf

2002-05-23 Thread Alan Peery
It's likely that the Icelandic character sets aren't in your Xwindows font path. Try looking at xfontsel and xlsfonts to see if the font is known about. After that, check out xset +fp. Alan Hidong Kim wrote: Hi, I'm trying to make a document with Icelandic characters in LaTeX. I put

Re: What are you doing for virus protection

2002-05-21 Thread Alan Peery
by the scanning engine when it runs via cron. At present they are relying on the virus software running on the PCs to intercept any viruses in newly arriving email. This is not an RPM level of ease, but it seems to be working reasonably well for them. Alan -- Alan Peery Unix sysadmin since 1987

Re: Anyone know of a compressing proxy for RedHat? Apache mod_proxywith mod_gzip does not work.

2002-05-21 Thread Alan Peery
Most modems have built-in compression on the datasteam, and so your additional compression may not help. I've never run any tests, so you may want to consider some testing yourself... Alan -- Alan Peery Unix sysadmin since 1987 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apolinaras Sinkevicius wrote: I am looking

Re: Hosting company tricks - IP GAMES FOR SUCKING BUCKS

2002-05-16 Thread Alan Peery
Note to ebinc--the original subject line was very poor. Better subject line, more responses. If you're concerned about whether a hosting company is cheating you and not offering you a dedicated server, you're not buying the right service. Buy full command line access, full Linux

Re: RE DSL IP ROBBERY

2002-05-16 Thread Alan Peery
. If you use something like VMware, then it's possible. You should be able to spot a VMWare machine by the hardware types appearing in the boot messages. It does take a bit of work and awareness, however. Alan -- Alan Peery [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: monitor disc/net i/o per process?

2002-05-07 Thread Alan Peery
with this level of detail. Alan -- Alan Peery Unix since 1985 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: (no subject) -- was initd-tcpserver

2002-04-30 Thread Alan Peery
sequence for Linux is well thought out, and stable, don't mess with it. What are you trying to accomplish? Alan -- Alan Peery Unix since 1985 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: (no subject) -- was initd-tcpserver

2002-04-30 Thread Alan Peery
Vikram Bajaj wrote: The 0.0.0.0 under local address means that that the system will listen for connections on all ip address of you system (not all ports) e.g. 0.0.0.0:25 This means that all ip address of your system is listening on port 25 you can control the ports using Xinetd It is also

Re: superblock restauration

2002-04-28 Thread Alan Peery
. It sounds like something may have overwritten part of the data on your disk as well, not just the MBR. Alan -- Alan Peery [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Mozilla made my day!

2002-03-28 Thread Alan Peery
David Talkington wrote: On 15:51 26 Mar 2002, David Talkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | They've added a stacked-tab option for window displays in 0.9.9! | That's probably my favorite feature of Opera, too. That kicks my butt! Well, there doesn't seem to be a hotkey combination for moving

Re: Help with scripts...URGENT

2002-03-28 Thread Alan Peery
Joao Borsoi Soares wrote: Thanks Francisco, that worked. But I still don't know how to check out if a specific file exists in the remote server... I don't know if you can drive ftp with a single command line, something like echo get foo fred ftp -ine fred echo $? If the file foo doesn't

Re: Is there a way to restart boot/dchp .

2002-03-28 Thread Alan Peery
Bret Hughes wrote: On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 06:23, Kjetil Tjensvold wrote: Is there a way to restart the netlogon to internet whithout rebooting? I am also not sure what you're asking. If you want to get a new DHCP address on your client from a server, try dhcpcd -n eth0. If you're wanting

Re: NS6 question...

2002-03-19 Thread Alan Peery
Nick Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi does anyone know how I might stop NS6 putting the nsmail/ dir in my ~/ everytime I accidentally click a mailto: link? Change the default settings for where mail should be stored to something else, like .nsmail. :-)

Re: Why I can not connect to mysql (using jdbc)

2002-03-15 Thread Alan Peery
Jianping Zhu wrote: catch (SQLException se){System.out.println(trouble to connect);}// Change your catch statement--you're throwing away information now. You may find helpful debug info... catch (SQLException se) { System.out.println(se);} OR catch (SQLException se) {

Re: Cluster and diskless pc

2002-03-12 Thread Alan Peery
Massimo Alonzo wrote: Hi, I'd like to create a cluster for parallel computing using RH72. My idea is a setup like the following: *1 Full PC (hd 60GB and eth 100Mb/s) *8 Diskless PCs (no hd and eth 100Mb/s connected by an hub 3COM 12*100Mb/s) Some times ago I found a tutorial to

Re: vmware, running windows XP

2002-03-11 Thread Alan Peery
nit etc wrote: Hello, I'm about to install Linux on my laptop which runs Windows XP as of now. However, does anyone know if it is possible to boot my already installed Windows XP from Vmware running on Linux? I haven't tried it, but I can't think of any inherent reason why it wouldn't

Re: GDM/XDM

2002-03-11 Thread Alan Peery
Joao Borsoi Soares wrote: How can I execute gdm or xdm only to be accessed by the net? IIRC you can do this by listing only remote X servers (ie client windows) in the XDM configuration files. Try man xdm.conf. Alan ___ Redhat-list mailing

Re: How to modify evironment variables in a C program

2002-03-10 Thread Alan Peery
Xanh wrote: How do I export a change to an environment variable made in a C program? $export MyTest=Current Value $./testenv current value: Current Value new value: New value here $echo $MyTest Current Value The old value is retained. As designed. If any child program

Re: xhost and dhcp

2002-03-10 Thread Alan Peery
Hidong Kim wrote: Hi, I have an IBM Thinkpad running Red Hat 7.2. Its networking protocol is DHCP. I can't run a remote X session on this machine. For example, I put it on our network, and do 'xhost +192.168.230.201', which is a machine on our Linux NIS network. Then when I log in to

Re: KDE default desktop

2002-03-04 Thread Alan Peery
Janyne Kizer wrote: Also, any ideas about how we can prevent editing of the menu and taskbar? We would like for users to be able to add icons to their desktops but we would like for the to have the KPanel and KMenu that we provide. We feel that this would ease the phone support burden.

Re: fortune

2002-03-04 Thread Alan Peery
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want a fun challenge after this, figure out :-) how to display :-) random fortune quotes in a box on the login screen. :-) it will br great to do so ...plz tell me how fortune /etc/redhat-release or use sed to replace the line every now

Re: Help: NIS NFS Server Randomly Stops Working

2002-03-04 Thread Alan Peery
Matthews, John wrote: I must confess I'm a little ignorant on the memory utilization. Would you mind telling me how I can gather information such as paging rates? Make a cron job that runs cat /proc/meminfo /var/adm/memlog (or similar /proc files) on a fifteen minute basis. This

Re: [OT] Software Distrobution using HTTP

2002-03-02 Thread Alan Peery
, maybe getting that Win2k MCSE was useful for something. It's kind of cool that it was contributing to a Linux list. ;-) Alan -- Alan Peery [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: alternative to gftp?

2002-03-02 Thread Alan Peery
Nick Wilson wrote: console based, you cant beat ncftp imho Great, someone I know uses ncftp (fellow Mutt user) so together with your recommendation that seals the deal! One of the nice features is resumable downloads. If I decide at 4:45 on a work day that I want a pile of bytes from the

Re: Dumb question: file access across linux lan

2002-03-02 Thread Alan Peery
Matthew Boeckman wrote: For those who use nfs: what's a fairly simple way to handle making usernames and groups consistent between computers when using nfs? Does nfs provide a way to map one user to another when writing files to a remote computer? Or do you have to ensure that the

Re: installing evolution

2002-02-28 Thread Alan Peery
dbrett wrote: Did change your desktop to Ximian? I don't want Ximian. Yes, running go-gnome does change you desktop to the Ximian format. It's probably easily undone *if* they've done it right, but I haven't had a chance to look into it. Alan

Re: fortune

2002-02-27 Thread Alan Peery
To put messages on the X screen at login, use fortune | xmessage -file - to put the box on the screen. To make this part of the default login sequence on gnome, figure out how the Gnome config file ( /usr/share/gnome/default.session) works and add it. BE VERY CAREFUL in a live environment, as

Re: Radeon 7500

2002-02-26 Thread Alan Peery
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I installed XFree 4.2.0-0.2 and I went and got a ATI Radeon 7500 card to day but I am not having any luck configuring x to work with it. I have XConfigurator-4.9.39.-2 installed it does not give the ATI Radeon 7500 as a choice I tried some of the other

Re: Linux Training...

2002-02-25 Thread Alan Peery
Mohammed Maeraj Hasbi wrote: I have been asked to do training on configuring and administrating Linux for my company. Is there any link that's useful for me to check. I'm in the process of aquiring some info for it... Any pointers and tips on what to include? If you're tasked with doing the

Re: about smbclient

2002-02-24 Thread Alan Peery
Lewi wrote: how smbclient connect to winbox with just use ip address not NetBIOS name i look at konqueror can connect with samba just using ip address smb://123.123.123.123 how can i do it with smbclient? This isn't smbclient, but this is the line I use in my /etc/hosts...

Re: WWW Visitor Blocking

2002-02-22 Thread Alan Peery
Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Is it possible to block access to one's website by checking the IP address? For whatever political reason at a company I do consulting for, I've been asked to deny access to their website to any visitor that doesn't originate in the US. Now I realize someone

Re: Ethereal-0.8.18-9

2002-02-17 Thread Alan Peery
James Pifer wrote: When I try to run 'ethereal ' from a terminal it doesn't load. I didn't see anywhere in the logs that would tell me what's happening. Is there anywhere I can look to see why it doesn't load? verbose mode or something? Is it possible all the supporting software isn't

Re: Ethereal won't load

2002-02-17 Thread Alan Peery
James Pifer wrote: When I try to run ethereal in KDE I get the following error: [root@rly root]# ethereal: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.0: cannot open s hared object file: No such file or directory Take a look at /usr/lib. I would guess that you have libcrypt.so, and

Re: how to add new window2000 client to linux (smaba) server

2002-02-17 Thread Alan Peery
Jianping Zhu wrote: how to add new window2000 client to linux (smaba) server Why do you need to add it? Are you trying to add this machine to a Windows domain that is defined by the Samba software's PDC emulation? Alan ___ Redhat-list mailing

Re: Thoughts on possible XP upgrade with RH 7.2

2002-02-17 Thread Alan Peery
Brandon Dorman wrote: ... am going to get WinXP at a heavily discounted price. It uses NTFS doesn't it? NTFS v5, which is not only compatible with NT with service pack 4 or later. IE, you won't ever be able to install NT on it. Win2k is fine. What could happen if I install winxp over

Re: swap files

2002-02-17 Thread Alan Peery
Cameron Simpson wrote: On 17:49 15 Feb 2002, Hidong Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I have a machine with an 800 MB swap partition. To run a particular | application, I need 1,000 MB swap. It appears that I can't create a | swap file bigger than 4,880 kB. Is this correct? How would I

Re: ssh

2002-02-17 Thread Alan Peery
Maynard B. Fernando wrote: hi all! i installed OpenSSH 3.x.x in my 3 linux servers... i want to access them in a window-based machine like this: ssh--server1--ssh--server2 ssh--server1--ssh--server3 and not like this: ssh server2 ssh server3 my current setup:

Re: Chooser Broadcast

2002-02-17 Thread Alan Peery
Janyne Kizer wrote: I think that I missed something in setting up the XDMCP Chooser Broadcast. I though that this would do the trick but the clients aren't getting anything. I am using RH 7.2. /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess *#any host can get a login window *

Re: HOW DO PROCESSRO ID????

2002-02-14 Thread Alan Peery
Vimol wrote: Can any one tell me , how to identify the Process ID using C??? I don't know, but reading the bash source code to see how it expands the $$ environment variable will tell you. Alan ___ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL

Re: NewBie:.vimrc/.exrc:set sts=3

2002-02-14 Thread Alan Peery
Emmanuel Seyman wrote: What are the .vimrc and .exrc files? ex is one of vim's mode but I've never heard of a .exrc file. It's a vi command file, originally named for the ex mode of vi and its predecessor editors. Alan ___ Redhat-list mailing

Re: bootp question

2002-02-13 Thread Alan Peery
Janyne Kizer wrote: Unfortunately we have a lot of hardware (older NCD HMX terminals and so on) that do not support DHCP so we will have to go with BootP on this project. In the man page for dhcpd.conf there are examples explicitly mentioning those wonderful terminals from NCD. dhcpd

Re: bootp xinetd question

2002-02-13 Thread Alan Peery
Janyne Kizer wrote: When I restart xinetd, though, I get the following message in /var/log/messages: Feb 13 10:11:13 linus xinetd[4598]: bind failed (Address already in use (errno = 98)). service = bootps However nmap reports that port 67 is not in use and /etc/services seems to be set

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