Re: Netgear PCMCIA Ethernet

2003-01-30 Thread Duncan Hill
justin travis wrote: The card is an FA411. I didn't find it on the HCL. Google, as always, is your friend. http://www.google.com/search?q=fa411+linux&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0 leads to http://home.nikocity.de/Ise/Twinhead/expierence.htm see the section about PCMCIA slot. It a

Re: Autologin on redhat edition

2003-01-30 Thread Duncan Hill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I have a computer with Redhat 8.0 and just one user. I would like to start automatically a session X without entering the user's name and password. Does someone know how to do that? Autologin in X is controlled by the [G|K|X]DM program. GDM (the Gnome logi

Re: Netgear PCMCIA Ethernet

2003-01-30 Thread Duncan Hill
justin travis wrote: started yet. I could use a pointer toward a decent device driver installation HOWTO that will be specific about what to do with these files. The files are: 88790.C More useful information would be the model of netgear card. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mail

Re: WIFI

2003-01-29 Thread Duncan Hill
Jean-Louis Boulanger wrote: Hello, I have a PC on linux (RH 8.0) I have a PCMCIA card WIFI NETGEAR 401RA What-is the process for install this card ? I assume you mean the MA401 as detailed at http://www.netgear.com/products/details/MA401.asp ? If so, google indicates that the driver packa

Re: 2.43 spamassassin in 7.1

2003-01-09 Thread Duncan Hill
Mike Vanecek wrote: Spamassassin 2.43 uses perl-5.6.1 (RH 7.3). RH 7.1 uses perl-5.6.0. Conquently, attempts to install on 7.1 result in an error: [root@www Mail-SpamAssassin-2.43]# perl Makefile.PL Warning: prerequisite HTML::Parser failed to load: Can't locate HTML/Parser.pm in @INC (@INC con

Re: red hat 8.0 and vmware 3.0

2003-01-08 Thread Duncan Hill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Mike Burger wrote: http://www.vmware.com You're right. I wasn't specific. I meant to the patch itself... :-) In my mail, I have the following from a very useful newsgroup served from vmware themselves: Subject: Re: Redhat 8.0 Host, VMware f

Re: Network under Rescue???

2003-01-01 Thread Duncan Hill
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:54:06AM -0600, John N. Alegre wrote: > Linux Gurus, > > Is there anyway to enable the network manually in Rescue mode? All attempts to > telnet or ftp under Rescue give a "Network Unreachable" error. Output of ifconfig and route -n ? -- redhat-list mailing list

Re: Comments/suggestions about SFTP server from OpenSSH on RH8.0

2002-12-03 Thread Duncan Hill
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 05:51:31PM -0500, Freddy Chavez wrote: > Is there any known vulnerabilities on SFTP server? In older revisions, yes. Current revisions may or may not. SFTP is merely a subsystem in the SSH daemon. > What about speed transfer? is too much slower than FTP? You're encrypti

Re: mailing-list has broken ?

2002-11-15 Thread Duncan Hill
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 12:15:25PM +0100, lazzaro ciccolella wrote: > Hi all, > today i had received many many messages from "Jacob Petrie" > with this body: Auto responder that hasn't got a clue. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscrib

Re: /var/log/messages logs every packet!

2002-11-14 Thread Duncan Hill
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:23:13PM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote: > my /var/log/messages is huge because it logs each and every packet: > > Nov 14 21:20:36 kernel: Packet log: input ACCEPT eth0 PROTO=6 ... You have -l in your iptables/ipchains rules. Typically found in /etc/sysconfig/iptables

Re: postfix relaying

2002-11-14 Thread Duncan Hill
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:32:13AM -0500, Paul Lee wrote: > I have read as much about Postfix configuration as I can find, but there > is still one issue that I am not sure about. I am setting up a mail > server at our main office. No problem there. I would also like for our > two branch offices to

Re: How to get boring vi back

2002-11-08 Thread Duncan Hill
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 07:17:23PM -0500, Jose Vicente Nunez Z wrote: > Just put a \ in front of your call: > > \vi > > JV > > On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 17:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I upgraded to 7.3 and now vi produces very > > colorful hard on the eyes files. I am sure > > some peop

Re: Change location of /var

2002-11-03 Thread Duncan Hill
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 07:24:13PM +0100, Tobias wrote: > I might add that I use GRUB, not LILO where its just to hit 'linux single'. I did this recently.. you have to hit the keystroke for other options on boot, and append single there. Least, that's what I remember doing. -- redhat-list ma

Re: FormMail Exploit on RH

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

Re: html mail

2002-10-24 Thread Duncan Hill
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:56:16PM -0500, Vidiot wrote: > >I used to do that, but the few HTML-only messages that I want to read are > >not completely rendered by character mode browsers. Instead, I configured > >my GUI browser as the text/html viewer. > >Tony > > During the week day, I read my ma

Re: Disappearing JAR files????

2002-10-23 Thread Duncan Hill
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 04:17:30PM -0500, Craig Rogers wrote: > I'm running RH 6.2. Out of the blue, when I copy any .jar files to the RH > server, I cannot see them. I su to root, and still cannot see them. I have > tried telneting to the box and doing "touch test.jar". The command > completes, bu

RE: Want to upgrade to Mozilla 1.1

2002-09-05 Thread Duncan Hill
On 5 Sep 2002, James Pifer wrote: > That's exactly my question. I could care less about Ximian, EXCEPT for > Evolution. I use Evolution for all my mailing lists, so I don't want to > risk that. > > On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 01:47, Eric Kadison wrote: > > What is galeon, anyway. If it's not needed

Re: Apache login as root

2002-08-03 Thread Duncan Hill
On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, lrnobs wrote: > As a newbie, working in my basement disconnected from the world I have > logged in as root each time I start Apache. > > The linux administrators guide I have been reading talks about daemons > running as root as a potential security hole and potentially distr

Re: SPAM

2002-07-31 Thread Duncan Hill
On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Scott Skrogstad wrote: > Is it very hard to install and maintain? > I've been adminning for a few years, so it wasn't terribly difficult. That said, it's literally download, configure, make, make install. Then read the docs. Or read the docs first. The spamc/spamd com

Re: SPAM

2002-07-31 Thread Duncan Hill
On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Scott Skrogstad wrote: > What can I do locally to combat spam? I run a small ISP and my users are > getting just tons of spam mail... Add something like SpamAssassin or Vipul's Razor to your mail system Add checks against the DNSBLs. If you don't do mail business with Ch

Re: KDE and Gnome (was Re: KDE in Gnome)

2002-07-28 Thread Duncan Hill
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Doug Lerner wrote: > So: > > (1) Would a KDE app run faster directly under KDE than in Gnome? I can't say I've noticed a slow down running K apps under Gnome, or vice versa. There is a definite difference in looks of course. > (2) Why not design all apps like Netscape so

Re: KDE in Gnome

2002-07-28 Thread Duncan Hill
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Doug Lerner wrote: > What does it mean, though, for there to be KDE desktop themes settings > from inside Gnome? Gnome picks up the entire (or almost entire) KDE configuration tree of menus etc. Desktop themes happens to be in the KDE menu system, so it gets pulled in. >

Re: weird logwatch sendmail message

2002-07-28 Thread Duncan Hill
On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Chet Nichols III wrote: > Hey, > > In the sendmail portion of my LogWatch, I've gotten this a couple times > lately..not sure what it means, and if I should be worried at all, and why > it's happening. Here's the message: > > Authentication warnings: > apache set sender

Re: How to boot off the hard-disc *after* installation

2002-07-27 Thread Duncan Hill
On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Mark Seaden wrote: > About a month ago I installed, on one of my two hard drives, a copy of Red > Hat Linux 7.3. LILO is not capable of booting off this hard disc because > (if I am correct by saying) my new drive has > 1024 cylinders. I have Lilo has been able to boot >1024

Re: Make a mountpoint /w2k

2002-07-26 Thread Duncan Hill
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, alexis Vasquez wrote: > mount this NTFS partition. I tried some mkfs options. > I made a /windows dir. I did a mount -t ntfs > /dev/hda1 /windows. but it says the kernel does'nt > support ntfs.. Do I have to modify the kernel? How.? As root, insmod ntfs If the module i

RE: X Server Client for M$

2002-07-23 Thread Duncan Hill
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Nigel Peck wrote: > Can I just check something. > > If I want to connect to my RedHat 7.3 server from a Windows 2000 box to > be able to operate the GUI as if I was sat at the server, I need a > Windows 2000 X Server? > > It's just I would have thought I needed a client, no

Re: Which MTU Do I Lower?

2002-07-18 Thread Duncan Hill
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Ben Ocean wrote: > >ifconfig [name of device ] mtu [ value ] > > If I wanted to lower the mtu of my MTA, which device would that be? An MTA isn't a device, its a program. Device refers to ethernet card/token ring card. ___ Red

Re: numlock key !!!

2002-07-09 Thread Duncan Hill
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Yohann DESQUERRE (DSI NOISIEL) wrote: > Hello > > I use RH7.3 and i'd like to lock the numlock key at the boot of the > system That's a bios setting. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mai

Re: Antivirus for Linux 7.3

2002-07-02 Thread Duncan Hill
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Willem van der Walt<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, CCI-ICC Administrator wrote: > > > Hi > > > > My name is Michael, I am the System Administrator for CCI Pty. Ltd. > > > > We are currently installing antivirus software on our network. I have noticed that

Re: CANCEL MY SUBSCRIPTION

2002-06-29 Thread Duncan Hill
On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, PerennialsOnline wrote: > Way to many e-mails... sorry That's why the system tells you to keep the welcome mail - it has the 'how do I get off' instructions. Moreover, every mail on the list has the following information: List-Help:

Re: cancel the subscription

2002-06-29 Thread Duncan Hill
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, roy wrote: > I want to cancel the subscription > thank you In -every- message the following exists: List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: ,

Re: how to map an IP address to a country

2002-06-02 Thread Duncan Hill
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Jianping Zhu wrote: > If I have an IP address, how can I find which country, which univerity , > which company or whick region this IP address belongs to? whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] will work wonders. It may point you at other whois servers. -- Sapere aude My mind not only

Re: Ordering Redhat CDROMs from Linuxcentral.com

2002-05-28 Thread Duncan Hill
On Tue, 28 May 2002, CM Miller wrote: > > Hello. > I have two Linux machines that both run RH 7.1 with > the standard kernel. I've just learned how to run > apt-get, so one machine is up to date on packages, but > in the process, I've had some problems with it. apt-get on a RedHat box.. how..

Re: anyway to safely make the hard drive "read only"?

2002-05-22 Thread Duncan Hill
On Wed, 22 May 2002, erik sabowski wrote: > Is there anyway to get a redhat installation so that when it loads up it > will no longer write to the disk? I am helping a friend with a Mount the file system read-only. Note that things sometimes try to write data to the drive - you'd want to m

Re: mailscanner

2002-05-16 Thread Duncan Hill
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Steve Buehler wrote: > Someone mentioned the MailScanner program here earlier today. I have > downloaded it and get the following error when trying to install it: > /usr/local/src# rpm -ivh mailscanner-3.14-1.i386.rpm > error: failed dependencies: > wget is needed

RE: What are you doing for virus protection

2002-05-16 Thread Duncan Hill
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Scott Skrogstad wrote: > I should be a little clearer on what I am trying to protect. I am really > trying to protect the incoming and out going email of my users. Not so > much the Linux box it self. I've used InoculateIT in the past, works well. But it depends on the

Re: how to configure pine to reply to mailing lists

2002-04-23 Thread Duncan Hill
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, rpjday wrote: > that explains a lot, since i normally expect to see a "Reply-To:" field, > but there is none in the header of postings of this mailing list. is this > something i should hassle the mailing list admin about, since i see no > easy fix on my end. If, by 'this m

Re: Interface for IPTABLES

2002-03-11 Thread Duncan Hill
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Rob Wolfe wrote: > Please God, Tell me the fact that there was no product mentioned, means > that this is a joke... Hmm.. I know of an X program - fwbuilder.. but not of any W32 app. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: deny copying files

2002-02-23 Thread Duncan Hill
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Lewi wrote: > i think so too, but just an idea if that possible if just restrict cp command > to read file. You could always make cp a non-user executable command, and allow access with sudo. Course, that breaks most things... ___

Re: deny copying files

2002-02-23 Thread Duncan Hill
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Lewi wrote: > it that possible to restrict file to not able be copying but still can be > see the contents. If I can view the contents, I can copy it. cat file1 > file2 Hey presto, copied without using cp, and only by viewing it. __

Re: Still Cannot Get SSH To Work

2002-02-15 Thread Duncan Hill
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, CM Miller wrote: > >ipchains -L > filename > >Should direct the output to a file for you. > > Right, I understand how to redirect the output into a > file, but I could I copy/paste that output into an > e-mail espeically for the ipchains -L outupt? I want > to display the

RE: Postfix or sendmail ?

2002-02-09 Thread Duncan Hill
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Bryan Pershall wrote: > Ok I found most of the howtos but I cant get Imap and pop3 to start they > don't say anything about it As Mike B said, UW-IMAP comes with RedHat (imap-2000c in 7.2), and runs out of the box. You might want to try that avenue first.. I was assuming yo

Re: Postfix or sendmail ?

2002-02-09 Thread Duncan Hill
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Bryan Pershall wrote: > What should I do I have postfix receiving mail fine but then I have to add > in so many other programs like courier-imap and pop3 and I am having a > hard time configuring all of them. I am trying to set up a company e-mail > server that is capable of

Re: Vi: Replace Word sequence

2002-02-05 Thread Duncan Hill
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, john-paul delaney wrote: > > cw <- nuke current work (there has to be an easier way) > > dw ? Note to self - wake up before posting to lists! Yes, dw :> ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/

Re: Vi: Replace Word sequencei

2002-02-05 Thread Duncan Hill
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, ABrady wrote: > On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 12:18:11 -0100 (GMT+1) > john-paul delaney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> implied: > > > Thanks... Sorry I wasn't specific. I'm using the Vi editor in a > > terminal (not GUI)... without a mouse. > I led you into further explanation, but I'm far from

Re: start your own ipchains/iptables at boot.

2002-02-04 Thread Duncan Hill
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, chas wrote: > The first file /etc/sysconfig/ipchains is created/updated automatically by > lokkit. However, I am quickly finding that lokkit can only provide the You may wish to examine the fwbuilder program from fwbuilder.org (I think its .org) _

Re: VMWARE FOR WIN USING LIN.

2002-01-27 Thread Duncan Hill
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, tracker wrote: > I went to install a guest OS and went to select a exe of the cd but > there is nothing to run off of.. anyone suggestion are very welcome! TIA Sounds like v3. Just create a VM session for Linux. Assign disk and RAM as desired. Boot it, make sure its set t

Re: Filtering spam...

2002-01-26 Thread Duncan Hill
> Henrik Schmiediche wrote: > > >Hello, > > I would like to know users experience filtering spam. I am aware that I can > > use procmail to do this at the user level and I think on the server level as > > well (have not checked into this yet). A few questions... I'm a technical user (bee

Re: Howto manually trigger fsck

2002-01-20 Thread Duncan Hill
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, john-paul delaney wrote: > "Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause SEVERE filesystem damage.." > > Things are bad enough as it is, so I abort the command. > However I would like to trigger a manual filesystem check... how can I do so? man tune2fs -- Sapere aude

Re: Logitech QuickCam 3000 Pro problems

2002-01-17 Thread Duncan Hill
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > # ./ffmpeg -an -vd /dev/video0 test.mpg > Output #0, mpeg, to 'test.mpg': > Stream #0.0: Video: mpeg1video, 160x128, 25.00 fps, 200 kb/s > /dev/video0: No such device > Could not init video 4 linux capture: disabling video capture > Could not open

RE: Making my serial BBS work over the internet

2002-01-11 Thread Duncan Hill
On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: > but can it run my DOS doors? I once hung out on a telnetable BBS that used a DOSEMU hack to run the door games - I think it was the one that was linked from userfriendly.org (but I don't know if it still exists). -- Sapere aude My mind not only

Re: Mounting Dos Partition

2002-01-10 Thread Duncan Hill
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, cameron wrote: > How do you mount a dos partition? Also, how do you mount a partition on > start-up? man mount - see the part about vfstype. dos is type fat, win95/98 are fat32. man fstab. -- Sapere aude My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely. Never

Re: Anti-virus / E-mail server

2002-01-09 Thread Duncan Hill
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Cláudio Machado wrote: > What's the best solution to prevent e-mail viroses in e-mail server? I > read something that Mcfee and others scan cause overhead problens. Too vague a question really. What MTA are you running? Do you want to license the softwqare, or do you want

Re: Castlewood Orb drive

2002-01-05 Thread Duncan Hill
On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Julian Opificius wrote: > Hope I haven't used up all my "posting coupons" this week ... > > Has anyone ever tried to use a Castlewood Orb drive with Red Hat? I've used > one successfully in DOS/Windows, but ... ahhh, 'nuf said. > > I have the parallel port version, and thi

Re: sendmail- How to reduce header size?

2001-12-29 Thread Duncan Hill
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Mark Neidorff wrote: > Well, I don't want to change the MTA, I want to know where to look in my > config for what is causing it to happen. Can you give me an idea of > what to look for? Mailing list software is the only stuff I know of that will strip received headers. If

Re: CD Writer working, but lost audio CD

2001-12-29 Thread Duncan Hill
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Bill Johnson wrote: > OK, that's all the facts I'm aware of. Does anybody have any idea why I > no longer have the ability to play an audio CD? Silly question - you did plug the audio data cable from the back of the CD drive to the soundcard back in right? -- Sapere aud

Re: Anyone get Symantec Ghost to work with RH systems?

2001-12-28 Thread Duncan Hill
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, RedHat List wrote: > The rescue disk option is doable, what exactly do you do with the rescue > floppy? In the case of a lilo controlled boot system, just re-run lilo with the appropriate args (which I forget right now) to force lilo to reset the mbr. -- Sapere aude My m

Re: RedHat 8.0 beta

2001-12-06 Thread Duncan Hill
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Bryan Koschmann wrote: > extra junk thrown is was made to be just like that, running everything > through the explorer looking thing. Maybe I've been out of it for too > long, but I was really impressed with the changes made from 6.2 to 7.1. Call me strange if you will, but I

Re: RPM --install question

2001-12-05 Thread Duncan Hill
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Gordon Stewart wrote: > Dear List > > I have installed webmin-0-92 RPM using the command: rpm --install > webmin-0-92, This worked fine, but when I query the database by rpm -q > webmin* there are no entrys. When I try and remove it, it tells me that it Get rid of the *.

Re: Which port

2001-12-04 Thread Duncan Hill
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Blake Thornton wrote: > Thank you very much. But now the question becomes, how do I find this > out? Or, how could I change this port number to something else? lsof can do it. And locate the sshd config file. -- Sapere aude My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves

Re: Which port

2001-12-04 Thread Duncan Hill
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Blake Thornton wrote: > It seems I am behind a firewall and would like to ask them to open it for > me so that I can ssh (or telnet, or ftp, or something else) to my box. IT > here wants to know what port I want open. > > How do I figure out which port my sshd is running o

7.2 install failure on boot

2001-12-04 Thread Duncan Hill
Been trying to get 7.2 to install on a dual PIII-1000, SCSI boot drive hanging off of a sym83c5xx and a RAID hanging off of a megaraid adapter. Install goes fine, system reboots fine (grub as manager). Kernel kicks in, gets to ext3 module. At this point it either throws an error 6 mounting ex

Re: New wu-ftpd version BROKEN???

2001-11-30 Thread Duncan Hill
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Werner Puschitz wrote: > 200 PORT command successful. > 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for wu-ftpd-2.6.1-0.6x.21.i386.rpm (216611 >bytes). ^^^ ASCII is not how you transfer a binary file. Switch to binary mode first. -- Sapere aude My mind not

Re: RH 7.2 memory hog?

2001-11-29 Thread Duncan Hill
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, List wrote: > I recently installed RH 7.2 on a Dell 400Mhz Celeron with 64 MB of RAM. > System Info showed 98% memory used. So I added another 128 MB (192 MB > total now) and something is hogging all the memory again! Use the free command, note that your RAM is being used

Re: problem with ip tables

2001-11-27 Thread Duncan Hill
On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, hari_bhr wrote: > im trying to use iptables > > when i say /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables start > it gone smooth > when i say iptables -L Make sure you have ipchains unloaded first. -- Sapere aude My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely. Never attribute to ma

Re: Vmware Install procedure

2001-11-26 Thread Duncan Hill
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Ganesh HariHaran wrote: > Dear List > > Could you please throw me steps and verification of > partition/partition > table before installing Vmware. VMWare can usea file on disk as its hard drive, with no need to do any partitioning. Slower than parititions, but works we

Re: Adding additional hard drives

2001-11-25 Thread Duncan Hill
On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > Make sure Kudzu will run when you reboot: > > chkconfig kudzu on > > Install the drive and boot the system. Your BIOS should detect the new > drive. If not, you will need manually reconfigure your BIOS. *blink* RedHat requires kudzu to find h

Re: Adding additional hard drives

2001-11-25 Thread Duncan Hill
On Sun, 25 Nov 2001, Alexander Shaw wrote: > Have searched the net and can't find the answers. How exactly do I do > it, and is it possible (and sensible) to create four partitions on the > one drive and turn it into RAID device to hopefully speed up the > transfer of the large files I like to mo

Re: Shell scripting..

2001-11-24 Thread Duncan Hill
On Sat, 24 Nov 2001, rpjday wrote: > i wandered into this late, so i apologize if i misunderstand the > question. but did you try using a shell function instead of a shell > script? since functions are run at the current shell level, doing > something like a "cd" inside a function really will "

Re: Shell scripting..

2001-11-24 Thread Duncan Hill
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > >type of problem (or is it a 'you thick twit, that's how it works!'?), I > >would appreciate it. > > You have to source the script into your current shell. If you run it > normally (as a subshell) it returns you to your current shell when it's > d

Re: Cannot telnet to linux from win98

2001-11-23 Thread Duncan Hill
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Bong Tumanut wrote: > Thanks for responding, Duncan and Mike Burger. > > I'm using > "telnet 10.0.0.10" > so I don't think that's the problem. The message I get > in win98 is > "Could not open a connection to 10.0.0.10." Hah! Did you install the ipchains firewall when in

Re: Cannot telnet to linux from win98

2001-11-23 Thread Duncan Hill
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Bong Tumanut wrote: > Help, please. > > - I have RH 7.1. Uses xinetd. > - I can telnet locally on linux. > - I can ping linux from Win98. > - I previously had a blank /etc/hosts.allow. I > inserted the following line but still had same > problem: > ALL: 10.0.0.20/255.255.255

Re: Red Hat 7.2: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

2001-11-23 Thread Duncan Hill
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Ed Wilts wrote: > "The minimum size of your swap partition should be equal to twice the > amount of your computer's RAM or 32 MB, whichever is larger." My god, thats going to hurt my disks on the 1.5 GB RAM server I have to install. -- Sapere aude My mind not only wander

Re: Red Hat 7.2: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

2001-11-23 Thread Duncan Hill
On Fri, 23 Nov 2001, Meph Istopheles wrote: > I've had 7.2 installed twice. The first time, each time with bad > results. I've a P-III 500 w/256MB RAM & I normall just go w/256MB swap > -- very smoothe with RH 6.0 & 6.2. But either 7.2, Gnome, Ximian, or a In counter to all of this, I run 7

Shell scripting..

2001-11-23 Thread Duncan Hill
I tend to write all of my shell scripts in bash - I like the power and flexibility. Unfortunately, the environment in which I need to write my next script is tcsh. Fine, I can learn tcsh if I have to, but perusing the manual and some web pages, I really don't like the look of tcsh. The scrip

Re: ntp client for Win2000

2001-11-20 Thread Duncan Hill
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Matthew Simpson wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone recommend a good ntp client for Windows? Nothing fancy, > just commandline would be great? You haven't said which version of Windows. 2K server has a built in client, Atomic Timesync from AnalogX.com works well as a GUI one..

Re: iptables

2001-11-10 Thread Duncan Hill
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Friend and colleagues, I will be away to India for 2 weeks staring *plonk* -- Sapere aude My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely. Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. _

Re: shell program

2001-05-03 Thread Duncan Hill
> >I want to write a program and need some help: > >1: The program should search for *.s3d files in parent > >as well as sub directories > >2: create those directories /sub directories on remote > >system if it doesn't exist > >3: copy all the files to remote system in exact > >direxctories as i

OT - Naming of kerberos

2001-04-22 Thread Duncan Hill
Could someone give me a pointer as to whether the name Kerberos reflects a 3 way handshake, or the fact that 3 machines are involved? -- Sapere aude My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTE

Re: New worm to affect RH

2001-04-03 Thread Duncan Hill
On 2001-04-03, Mitchell Henderson did say, > I don't know speficly but it's always a good idea to be running a > daemon with out a publicy known exploit REL is supposedly the version without the exploits of the betas and release candidates. -- Sapere aude My mind not only wanders, it sometime

Re: New worm to affect RH

2001-04-03 Thread Duncan Hill
On 2001-04-03, Mitchell Henderson did say, > it exploits bind, lpd, statd, and wu-ftp 2.6.0 . The basic > signs are that it replaces /etc/cron.daily/0anacron with a hacked > version of it to start the scans and such. Also after a day of Which version of bind? I'm at 8.2.3-REL, but if I

Re: Mail forwarding dual feed problem?

2001-04-01 Thread Duncan Hill
On 2001-04-01, William W. Austin did say, > Does anyone know of a program which will allow me to select all > incoming email from a given source (the mailing list place) and > automatically forward it to another address yet still retain it in > my incoming mailbox? *nix - procmail Windows - any

Performance monitoring on RH 6.x

2001-03-27 Thread Duncan Hill
I've got (to me) an interesting problem. One of the servers I help manage keeps kicking up a system load of 30+ at midnight every day. There are no cron jobs for that time period. Sendmail shuts down for the duration of the load, as does the apache webserver (an angel script has to restart it)

Re: X windows restriction for remote machine

2001-03-27 Thread Duncan Hill
On 2001-03-27, james did say, > I want to restrict my GUI like netscape > accorded for remote machine that means nobody should not access my > GUI application from remote machine .What i do for this ? If you > have any ideas please share with me . Assuming you're talking abo

Re: remote console

2001-03-15 Thread Duncan Hill
On 2001-03-15, Martin Sieben did say, > Where is the config file I need to check and what to add. IIRC, run/man xhost -- Sapere aude My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://

Re: mount a novell volume?

2001-03-07 Thread Duncan Hill
On 2001-03-07, Eric Wood did say, > Can someone give me a pointer on how to mount a shared Novell > volume. A howto somewhere? You'll need ncpfs loaded, as well as IPX support. Add an IPX interface to your primary NIC. It should then be a matter of using ncpmount to mount the volume. If you

Logrorate followup..

2001-03-07 Thread Duncan Hill
Thanks for the suggestions. Went with the one that does the DAY stuff. Didn't know the config file could do that :> Because I'm dealing with weekly logs, my day value looks like: DAY=$(date -d '1 week ago' '+%Y-%m-%d') Thankd again! -- Sapere aude My mind not only wanders, it sometimes lea

Re: shutdown linux from nt..

2001-03-06 Thread Duncan Hill
To fix a typo of mine, I said null keys in my previous post on this subject. Bret Hughes was quite correct in asking if I meant null passwords. -- Sapere aude My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [

Logrotate and dates..

2001-03-06 Thread Duncan Hill
I'm playing with logrotate, and have run into something. Namely, the fact that log rotate calls the older logs .1, .2, .3 etc. Is it possible, within logrotate, to specify that these files get a date instead? Or, can Apache write log files with a date in the name dynamically? -- Sapere aude

RE: shutdown linux from nt

2001-03-02 Thread Duncan Hill
On 2001-03-02, Warren Melnick did say, > Yes. Use the RSH command on the NT box to execute the script in a > remote shell on the linux box. However, if this is a box thats on a live network, you'll probably want to forget using rsh and use command line ssh instead. SSH can be configured with n

Top for MP systems..

2001-02-13 Thread Duncan Hill
I think I read somewhere recently that someone had modified top to be able to read the loads for individual CPUs in an MP linux box. Did I read correctly, or am I dreaming? -- Sapere aude My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely.

RE: CVS, SSH, and Tunneling. HOW TO ? HELP please

2001-02-12 Thread Duncan Hill
On 2001-02-12, Nitebirdz did say, > I believe they have a trial version at ftp.ssh.com/pub/ssh, but I > suppose you may have to purchase it after the trial period. www.ssh.com have various licences for the SSH client. If you can prove you're a non-profit etc, its free. -- Sapere aude My mind

Re: Lame server messages

2001-02-10 Thread Duncan Hill
> > Note the "category lame-servers" line above... that will turn off of > > these errors... the lame server messages are telling you that someone > > has misconfigured their DNS... it is awe inspiring to see the numbers of > > people who are running DNS but do not know how to do it... Whats even

Re: Linux-memory Help

2000-11-11 Thread Duncan Hill
On 2000-11-11, Alfredo Macias did say, > Stop X temporarily without it coming back immediately when I kill it. > Force linux to recognize my 64 megs at startup. (bios sees 64 megs ok) > Prevent X from starting automatically at startup. Try this. In X, choose to reboot the machine. At the LILO

Mailing list systems

2000-10-17 Thread Duncan Hill
Is there any ML package, freely available, that allows creation, deletion and maintenance of mailing lists via the web? I've been using Majordomo 1 + MajorCool, and while it works, the integration is not as tight as I'd like. I've looked at Mailman, but I only see list management via the web, n

Re: I've been hacked

2000-10-14 Thread Duncan Hill
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, ktb wrote: > Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > > > > Once hosts.allow and hosts.deny are modified do we need to restart a > > daemon or something? How does Linux know they've been updated? > > You don't have to restart anything. I don't know what reads the files > so but opening

Re: RedHat Kernel 2.2.16-3

2000-09-19 Thread Duncan Hill
ed around. This bit me this weekend. It looks like 16-3 doesn't build all of the appropriate symlinks in /usr/include. I think it has to be: ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/linux/ /usr/include/linux and ln -s /usr/src/linux/include/asm/ /usr/include/asm but I may be wrong,.. -- Duncan Hill

Re: Unable to load interpreter

2000-09-13 Thread Duncan Hill
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Duncan Hill wrote: > > is barely touched, and there is ~10M free RAM, and ~150M in buffers. > > Not what I'd consider a critical situation. > caching, which is the opposite behavior from Windows. *nod* T

Re: Unable to load interpreter

2000-09-13 Thread Duncan Hill
ly want to do right now. Server is used 24x7 by several thousand people. -- Duncan Hill Sapere aude My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves completely. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Unable to load interpreter

2000-09-13 Thread Duncan Hill
ere is ~10M free RAM, and ~150M in buffers. Not what I'd consider a critical situation. Does anyone else know what would cause the interpreter load error? -- Duncan Hill Sapere aude My mind not only wanders, it sometimes leaves co

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