Upgrade RH7.3 - 8.0 broke X

2003-01-22 Thread Gustav Schaffter
OK, so I blew it. :-( Now it's a question of recovering what can be recovered. ;-) Background: I have a PC where I used to run RH7.3 with all updates applied. It was first installed with RH6.0 (long time ago) then upgraded to 6.2, 7.0, 7.2 and 7.3. A few days ago I upgraded to RH8.0. The

Re: poor performance on 7.2

2001-11-11 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Then I'll have to chime in a 'me too'. I've done an upgrade on three PC's. Two from 7.1 to 7.2. One from 6.2 to 7.2. No changes of hardware in any of these. They now all feel as if someone had poured syrup into them. If it wasn't for ext3, I'd downgrade them. (I know it's possible to patch an

Re: Bursts of traffic on my firewall

2001-05-06 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Wayne, Whatever it was, it isn't any more. I had the traffic for about 48 hours and then no more. Thanks anyway Gustav Wayne Dyer wrote: Gustav Schaffter wrote: [...] I've been running my firewall for almost two years and have had a caching name server for about 18 months. I haven't

Re: Bursts of traffic on my firewall

2001-05-06 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Hi, My incomming packets had the 192.168.0. destination because my firewall is already behind NAT. NAT provided by a NetGear router I have as a connection to my ADSL. Gustav Stephen King wrote: At 11:01 PM 5/5/01 -0500, you wrote: On Sat, 5 May 2001, Stephen King wrote: As far as I'm

man pages A- problem

2001-05-06 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Hi, Runing RH7.1, updated from RH6.2+. All my man pages have a small glitch that wasn't the case under RH6.2+. All wordbreaks in the end of a line using a hyphen contains an extra 'A' just before the hyphen. Looks more or less like the following: his is the end of a nice and long paraA-

Bursts of traffic on my firewall

2001-05-03 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Hi, Since this morning (CET) I'm getting bursts of tcp packets from port 53 to unprivileged ports on my firewall. So far I've had four bursts of this, each about 20 minutes long. They're all DENYed. I only let in *udp* packets from port 53. I run a caching named on a RH 6.2+ (up to date) PC

Re: Bursts of traffic on my firewall

2001-05-03 Thread Gustav Schaffter
-servers.net. (Never heard of before.) Gustav Mike A. Harris wrote: On Thu, 3 May 2001, Gustav Schaffter wrote: May 3 20:11:30 odin kernel: Packet log: input DENY eth1 PROTO=6 192.31.80.30:53 192.168.0.2:62133 L=44 S=0x00 I=40962 F=0x T=41 (#4) Has anyone else noticed the same

Re: Upgrading 7.0 to 7.1

2001-05-02 Thread Gustav Schaffter
LACD ??? Gustav Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote: Ashley M. Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I purchased RH7.0 Deluxe a while back and I'm wondering if I want to upgrade that to 7.1, can I just download the ISO's and upgrade Yes. or does the Deluxe version have things in it

Re: Upgrading 7.0 to 7.1

2001-05-02 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Thanks Gustav Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: Gustav Schaffter wrote: LACD ??? Linux Application CD -- pgp = Pretty Good Privacy. To get my public pgp key, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit my web site at http://www.schaffter.com

Re: /etc/hosts.allow ssh : all

2001-04-30 Thread Gustav Schaffter
I can't find it back right now, but if my memory serves me well I think have read somewhere that sshd (at least from OpenSSH) uses the hosts.deny and hosts.allow files on it's own, without being run by inetd. Regards Gustav John D. Hardin wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Mike Burger wrote:

Re: sendmail and port 25 blocked in 7.1? can't use sendmail

2001-04-28 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Terry, Try adding sendmail: 127.0.0.1 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0 to your /etc/hosts.allow (replacing 10.0.0.0 with your own network). Regards Gustav Terry Williams wrote: I just did a fresh install of RH7.1 all the networking stuff is working good except my sendmail program. I have

Re: bugzilla is unuseable!

2001-04-24 Thread Gustav Schaffter
John, No problems here. I report bugs and I follow bug reports entered by others. Couldn't say it's lightning fast but fully acceptable. Gustav John Aldrich wrote: I am unable to complete a bugzilla entry... the darn site is too freaking slow! Heck I shouldn't have any problems trying to

Re: Networked DSL

2001-04-22 Thread Gustav Schaffter
One small thought: If used at home, maybe in the living room, it may make sense to choose a switch (and router) that does *not* contain any built in ventilator fan. This might of course shorten it's life, but then after all any equipment bought today will be outdated before it's normal life is

Re: ipcheins and ports above 1024!

2001-04-20 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Not sure if you made a typo when writing your mail or if you actually made the mistake when entering the ipchains rule. I think you must have a space between the '!' and the '-y'. Like in '! -y'. HTH Gustav "Ing. Israel Garcia Alvarez" wrote: Helo: I have a RedHat 6.2 Server with two

Re: xinetd and tcpwrappers

2001-04-20 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Seems that no one has any tip as to where I could start to check what? Guess I'll have to take it to bugzilla, claiming it's a bug in the installer. Gustav Gustav Schaffter wrote: Hi, Just upgraded from RH6.2+ to RH7.1. Upgrade seems to have gone fine. Got one big problem, though. I

Re: xinetd and tcpwrappers [now in bugzilla]

2001-04-20 Thread Gustav Schaffter
to comp.mail.sendmail and/or the fetchmail author(s). On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 07:26:19PM +0200, Gustav Schaffter wrote: Seems that no one has any tip as to where I could start to check what? Guess I'll have to take it to bugzilla, claiming it's a bug in the installer. Gustav

xinetd and tcpwrappers

2001-04-19 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Hi, Just upgraded from RH6.2+ to RH7.1. Upgrade seems to have gone fine. Got one big problem, though. I'm new to all this xinetd functionality. I'd love to read up on it, and I will. But currently I just *need* to get this working. I run fetchmail from a crontab to get mail from ipop3d on

mdrecovery [was: Server Reboots By Itself-- Why?]

2001-04-10 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Mikkel, When I run ntsysv on a RH6.2+ system I don't see anything that seems to relate to the mdrecovery process, but it's still launched at boot. How could I avoid this? Best regards Gustav "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: snip mdrecoveryd is part of the software RAID package. If you are not

Re: linuxconf in inetd

2001-03-24 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Then all my PCs are root-kit'ed. 'Cause it happened regularly to me until I rpm -e'd linuxconf. I haven't studied the source code of linuxconf, but when I run it *something* put back linuxconf in my inetd.conf files. Which, BTW, was the major reason why I stopped using linuxconf. Best regards

Re: Java 2 [WAS: Help with RH 7.0 JRE compatibility]

2001-03-23 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Bruce, Since no one has chimed in, we'll have to assume you're right. Thanks for the explanation. Assuming you're correct, my spontaneous reaction is that I find the numbering scheme ridiculous. (But that's for sure not *your* fault. :-) Best regards Gustav Bruce Tong wrote: Please,

Re: Java 2 [WAS: Help with RH 7.0 JRE compatibility]

2001-03-23 Thread Gustav Schaffter
That's better, but still confusing (for anyone who's not 100% into Java). Regards Gustav Trevor Stuart wrote: Gustav, I believe the reason for the difference in numbering is that Java 2 is to do with the version of the Java syntax itself whereas jdk 1.3 is the version of the product

Re: OT: Anybody else gettin' sick of Ballmer's BS?

2001-03-23 Thread Gustav Schaffter
I've read this on the net, but I'm not sure about how true it is. May be just another urban legend. :-) "I think there's a world market for about five computers." -- Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board, IBM), 1943 Regards Gustav Krikofer wrote: Yeah, like IBM way back then when they

Java 2 [WAS: Help with RH 7.0 JRE compatibility]

2001-03-22 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Charles, Please, excuse my ignorance, but how come jdk 1.3 is called 'Java 2' and not 'Java 1.3' or something? Best regards Gustav Charles Galpin wrote: I'm curious why you can't use Java 2? I have jdk 1.3 from sun running fine under 7.0 charles -- pgp = Pretty Good Privacy. To get

cron not working after date screw up

2001-03-19 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Hi, I don't really know how it happened, but my date was really screwed up a few days ago. It suddenly was set to September 20, 2001. I have reset both the HW clock (running UTC) and of course the SW clock. But since then, cron doesn't do it's work any more. crond is running all right. But it

Re: cron not working after date screw up

2001-03-19 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Clumsy of me not to mention. :-) Yes, to both. Regards Gustav Hal Burgiss wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 09:42:39PM +0100, Gustav Schaffter wrote: I don't really know how it happened, but my date was really screwed up a few days ago. It suddenly was set to September 20, 2001. I have

Re: Webmin

2001-03-15 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Thanks for sharing your first hand experience in this. I'll run my rpm -e today. :-) Gustav "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Gustav Schaffter wrote: Me too, I'm a happy user of Webmin. (Actually, since a long time.) I just thought I'd remove linuxconf

Re: Webmin

2001-03-14 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Me too, I'm a happy user of Webmin. (Actually, since a long time.) I just thought I'd remove linuxconf from my PC. Will that brake something? Regards Gustav Michael Burger wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:17:53 -0600, Kerry Miller wrote: Thanks for the recommendation, I've got to go so I

Re: ADSL RH 7

2001-03-13 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Jerry, Give a look at: http://www.netgear.com/categories.asp?xrp=4yrp=12 I successfully use the RT311 with RH6.2+ myself. Gustav Jerry Human wrote: Hi All: Does anyone know where I can get a DSL adapter that would connect to my RH network? I've been to several sites, including

Re: How can I find which port are open ?

2001-03-05 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Statux, POS? That's not French! un bout de merde! That's French. Gustav P.S. Yes, I agree with you. I'm using it regularly. Or at least trying to. Statux wrote: tcp 81 0 modemcable163.96-2:1732 rsjohn-3.directcon.:ftp CLOSE_WAIT tcp1 0 modemcable163.96-2:1731

Re: Rollemup [Was: unix sys]

2001-02-24 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Brian, Sorry for coming back so late, but I've spent the full day with that game by now. Ehr, not installing or configuring or some such. Playing! :-) G It's a good game. The only drawback I've found is that it can't take advantage of my full screen. The size of the game is fixed. And IMHO it's

Re: unix sys

2001-02-23 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Thornton Prime wrote: snip It's been up continuiously since I upgraded to the 2.4.0 kernel. The notable thing about mine is that there is no UPS and I live in California, and this is my desktop system, that my 5 year old and 3 year old pound on and play games on. Do you really mean they

Re: unix sys

2001-02-22 Thread Gustav Schaffter
For Linux, the rules of thumb(s?) is: - Reboot whenever you need to upgrade to a new release of your distribution or a new release of the kernel. - Many hardware upgrades will require a reboot. (Still, in some of my systems I plug in and out monitors, mice and keyboards without even thinking of

Re: unix sys

2001-02-22 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Mikkel, "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Gustav Schaffter wrote: For Linux, the rules of thumb(s?) is: - Reboot whenever you need to upgrade to a new release of your distribution or a new release of the kernel. - Many hardware upgrades will requir

Re: More than 1 account in Netscape

2001-02-19 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Has anyone seen an rpm for NetScape 6.01 floating around somewhere? (I doubt it can be much buggier than the 4.76-1 I'm currently running.) Regards Gustav lee wrote: Yeah, but he was talking of getting mail from POP3 accounts, not about filtering them in addition i'd try?

Re: log files meaning

2001-02-18 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Silviu, Even though Ashleys comment was short and could be interpreted as harsh, it was still indirectly very helpful for you. I'll explain how: You said: "...if the HTML bothers you, filter it out." You'd be surprised if you knew how many people on this list actually do exactly that. If you

procmail recipies

2001-02-18 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Hi, Does anyone have a URL for a page with 'annotated procmail recipes' or something close to that? Regards Gustav -- pgp = Pretty Good Privacy. To get my public pgp key, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit my web site at http://www.schaffter.com

Re: Why Does My Server Stop Serving?

2001-02-18 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Ben, Do you run RH6.2? Do you have the latest inetd? http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-006.html Regards Gustav Ben Ocean wrote: Hi; I have a persistent problem with my server that I've had since it was built half a year ago and when others who knew a lot more than me about

Re: procmail recipies

2001-02-18 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Thanks, Dave. That's what I was looking for. Regards Gustav Dave Parkin wrote: Try: http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.html or 'Interesting Useful links' at http://www.procmail.org/ Dave Hi, Does anyone have a URL for a page with 'annotated procmail recipes' or something

No /dev/nul for users

2001-02-12 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Hi, When one of my users try to: any_command | /dev/nul the response is either that the file /dev/nul doesn't exist or that he doesn't have permissions to do that. If the same user tries to: any_command | /dev/null it works fine. I'm surpriced. Why is /dev/nul

Re: No /dev/nul for users [SOLVED] (Or: Think before acting :-)

2001-02-12 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Confession/explanation: I was in a huge hurry. I did not have the five minutes that my user asked me for and I did not investigate his problem thoroughly before asking the question. I acted without thinking. (Sigh.) Now I have the time to think. The other 'very urgent' problem is solved and I

Re: No /dev/nul for users [SOLVED] (Or: Think before acting :-)

2001-02-12 Thread Gustav Schaffter
This user is one of my sons. And yes, he's using DOS/Windows at school. :-) Gustav Statux wrote: I had a feeling that was what was happening :) Is this user a UNIX newbie and still quite attached to DOS/Windows in some manner? ;) I think DOS has a NUL device (with one L). shrug -- pgp =

Re: Did I miss something? [SOLVED]

2001-02-10 Thread Gustav Schaffter
I finally chose to *not* implement the 'forward-only' statement, but accept responses from any DNS server. I also implemented the 'allow-transfer' as per your suggestion. Finally, I implemented the 'allow-query' to limit the queries to coming from my two networks only. I found the recipe in the

Re: Did I miss something?

2001-02-10 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Chuck, I've studied some more parts of the BIND book (3:rd ed.) since I read you mail. The options - version statement interests me. I just couldn't find any reference to this in the Index of the book, neither under options nor under version. So man named.conf just became a friend of mine. :-)

Re: [OT] what's g mean? WAS: Re: Out of office (Out of office)

2001-02-08 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Erhmm, I have always pronounced G as 'G'. I mean, as Geee. I also make a difference bewteen g and G, where G has more weight than a simple g. Gustav eric clover wrote: G == grin At 05:15 PM 2/7/2001 -0500, you wrote: G Ok, I can't help myself: what does g mean? It's probably in the

Re: Did I miss something?

2001-02-06 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Michael, The more I think I know, the more I realize that I need to learn... :-) Thanks Gustav "Michael H. Warfield" wrote: snip On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 09:53:48PM +0100, Gustav Schaffter wrote: In Bind 8.x and Bind 9.x you restrict who can request a zone transfer with

Re: International keyboard and Gnome [SOLVED]

2001-02-04 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Sorry for the delay, Manuel! :-) RedHat now has a bug fix for my problem. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22426 Regards Gustav "Manuel A. Camacho Q." wrote: Sorry for the delay, Gustav!! You will have to modify XF86config by hand. That is the unique way to make your

Re: Did I miss something?

2001-02-04 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Any idea of why I get so many packets on port 53? DENY'd so far, but... Yes, I do let in all ! -y packets from my two DNS servers and also from the 13 root servers. Should there be any traffic from the root servers? I run my own DNS with forwards to the two DNS servers of my ISP. Regards

Re: Did I miss something?

2001-02-04 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Michael, I run a caching DNS and it's of course authoritative for my internal private network. (Where I use the .home TLD. Shouldn't get any requests for that domain, I believe.) "Michael H. Warfield" wrote: multiple snips Any idea of why I get so many packets on port 53? DENY'd so far,

Redirect

2001-02-02 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Hi, I'd like to redirect the STDOUT from a program to /dev/nul and at the same time pipe STDERR to another pgm. How could this be done? Regards Gustav -- pgp = Pretty Good Privacy. To get my public pgp key, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit my web site at http://www.schaffter.com

Re: Redirect [SOLVED]

2001-02-02 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Thanks, Matt. That did it. :-) BTW, yes rpjday, you're right. But since I'm going to use this in a script, I prefer to keep it verbose. I save the shortcuts for interactive commands. Thanks anyway. Regards Gustav Matthew Melvin wrote: On Fri, 2 Feb 2001 at 2:57pm (+0100), Gustav Schaffter

Re: Overwhelming in.rshd?

2001-02-01 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Wayne, You run RH6.2? Make sure you run the latest inetd, version 0.16-7. I quote: "The inetd server as shipped with Red Hat Linux 6.2 fails to close sockets for internal service properly. This could make services stop working when the system had leaked sufficient resources." Regards Gustav

Re: firewall question.

2001-01-31 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Bret and Linda, Please, be aware that there is a known bug in the RH6.2 installer that will *overwrite* any contents of /etc/ppp/ip-up.local with some isdn-related stuff. A re-install would probably do this to you. See: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10567 for the details.

Re: firewall script question

2001-01-31 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Linda, I have written this comment in my ip-up.local: # ip-up.local #Parameters: # $1 = INTERFACE # $2 = DEVICE # $3 = SPEED # $4 = LOCAL_IP (As given by ISP) # $5 = REMOTE_IP (of ISP) The ip-up.local will already have the two IP addresses in $4 and $5. Just

Re: It's that time of the cycle again...

2001-01-23 Thread Gustav Schaffter
I'm on cable too. I just *must* find some time to get that CD-R working. It's in a box here at my desk. Regards Gustav Micah Yoder wrote: snip I suspect 7.1 will really rock unless they let a lot of silly bugs slip through. Now that I'm on cable modem i may actually try the beta. :-) --

Re: Secondard DNS

2001-01-11 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Hi, An example snip from /etc/named.conf in my secondary DNS. zone "." { type hint; file "named.ca"; }; zone "domain.tld"{ type slave; file "db.domain"; masters { 10.0.0.2; }; }; zone "0.0.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA"{ type slave; file "db.10.0.0";

Re: sound module broken

2001-01-08 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Justin, I'm not sure if this answers your question, since I'm not 100% sure about the details of your problem, but let's try. ;-) Did you mv conf.modules modules.conf Add alias sound-slot-0 sb to /etc/modules.conf (Substitute 'sb' with whatever you'r running as a sound card.) I may be

Re: unsubscibe

2001-01-06 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Hrm... Shouldn't that be subscibe? ;-) Gustav Uncle Meat wrote: On 06-Jan-2001 Àî×Ó¾ü opined: unsubscibe! subscribe! unsubscibe! subscribe! unsubscibe! subscribe! unsubscibe! subscribe! unsubscibe! subscribe! Ha ha, sucker! You'll never get off of this list! -- Closet

Re: Sound broke

2001-01-05 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Russ, Sorry for the late answer. (Better late than never? :-) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I'm still getting the same errors even well after renaming the above file: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0 modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3 What is

Re: Sound broke

2000-12-23 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Thanks, Lee, for putting me on the track on this one. Been looking for a while. ;-) The somewhat unclear entry to bugzilla may be found at: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5717 (Agreed, the bugzilla report seems to be directed to the distro builders, not to distro users.)

Re: [RHL] Re: International keyboard and Gnome [SOLVED]

2000-12-23 Thread Gustav Schaffter
wrote: On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Gustav Schaffter wrote: Bero, I did. As a result, the keyboard is now international in the VTs but fully US under X. ;-\ Is there anything else I could try? Normally, Xconfigurator should get the X config in sync with /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

International keyboard and Gnome

2000-12-17 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Hi, I have to support one PC with an international keyboard, to be more precise with a Swiss-French keyboard. (There are both Swiss-French and Swiss-German keyboards.) I have, as root, run kbdconfig and chosen the keyboard driver on this PC. As a result, the keyboard works fine in any virtual

Re: International keyboard and Gnome

2000-12-17 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Bero, I did. As a result, the keyboard is now international in the VTs but fully US under X. ;-\ Is there anything else I could try? Regards Gustav Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Gustav Schaffter wrote: I have, as root, run kbdconfig and chosen the keyboard driver

Re: [RHL] Re: International keyboard and Gnome

2000-12-17 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Long shot: Would anyone have an example of this section (format 3.3.x) in XF86Config for a Swiss-French keyboard? Best regards Gustav Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Gustav Schaffter wrote: Bero, I did. As a result, the keyboard is now international in the VTs

Re: where to run firewall script with dial up connection under diald control

2000-12-10 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Bob, When your ppp connection is established, the /etc/ppp/ip-up.local script will be executed. (That is, if it exists. :-) This is indicated in the /etc/ppp/ip-up script. When your ip-up.local is called, it will have some handy parameters populated for your convenience: $1 = INTERFACE $2 =

Re: unsubscirbe

2000-12-01 Thread Gustav Schaffter
unsubscirbe ? unsubscibe ? Doens't aynone sue o spill-chicker anymere? None of Yo business wrote: unsubscibe PLEASE unsubscribe me, the volume of email being sent is way too much! I appreciate it, but it's too much. Thanks.:) Honestly, I can't setup filters for *all* these

august [Was: AOL Instant Messenger in a Linux world?]

2000-11-30 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Charles, November? Yes, but did you notice the lower-case 'a' in august? According to http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm Entry Word: august Function: adjective Text: Synonyms GRAND 1, baronial, grandiose, imposing, lordly, magnificent, majestic, noble, princely, stately Related Word splendid,

Re: Bugzilla

2000-11-29 Thread Gustav Schaffter
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/ Regards Gustav "Michael S. Dunsavage" wrote: what is the website to subscrive to bugzilla? -- pgp = Pretty Good Privacy. To get my public pgp key, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit my web site at http://www.schaffter.com

Re: bash says 'File does not exist' but it does!

2000-11-29 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Denny, (Tja, ba!) You said that the files are there, and in emacs they show as binary. Is this true for the xsetup file as well? Is the 'xsetup' file a shell script? If so, it is possible that the first line of the xsetup file starts with: #!/bin/someshell which would instruct your bash to

Re: unsuscribe

2000-11-27 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Since a long time now, I drop any mail from this list where the subject contains 'unsubscribe' directly to /dev/nul. It seems I'll have to do the same with the 'unsuscribe' messages, since this form of misspelling is getting more and more frequent. Gustav Juan Pablo Sandoval Rivera wrote:

Re: Redhat-list digest, Vol 1 #636 - 20 msgs (Out of Office)

2000-11-27 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Could this jerk be bounced off the list? His lousy email system isn't even capable of tracking to whom he's already sent the dummy response. Gustav James Dunne wrote: I am on an ADO please direct any urgent matters to Garry Wade ( 66916 ) or Ed Hofkamp ( 66819 ). Cheers James

Re: OT - setting locale

2000-11-27 Thread Gustav Schaffter
I have recently found the same problem on one of my PCs, but not on any other computer at home. (All run RH6.2+) I searched the archives at moongroup. I found one message with the same question, asked by Miles Lane. But I couldn't find any answers to his question. Maybe nobody knows what's the

Re: xDSL Modem

2000-11-24 Thread Gustav Schaffter
This 'carrying over' is also very true for ISDN TAs. At least here in Europe. If you enter a shop asking for a TA they look at you with eyes wide open. Then you explain that you want an 'ISDN modem' and they are ready to sell [you your TA]. Regards Gustav Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: DSL

Re: fetchmail segfaults

2000-11-22 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Bret, For future references, if ever you need to reach a POP3 server with other means than fetchmail, you may use: https://www.mail2web.com/sindex.html Regards Gustav Bret Hughes wrote: Fetchmail puked on a letter that I assume had too many email tos in the header. Should I worry about

Re: (no subject)

2000-11-12 Thread Gustav Schaffter
there, [hopefully] done that myself.) Most of the participants on this list (me included) still tend to consider RedHat as being somewhere between a decent to a very good distribution. Just a thought. Gustav Uncle Meat wrote: On 11-Nov-2000 Gustav Schaffter opined: Michael, Bret and anoyone

Re: (no subject)

2000-11-11 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Michael, Bret and anoyone else, I'm using the 'crappy' Netscape mail client. You know, the one that some people talk so very negatively about. Edit - Preferences - Advanced Let's see... Enable JavaScript = On (Could of course be turned off, if I wanted to. ;-) Enable JavaScript for mail and

Re: How much memory required for 6.1 installer

2000-11-06 Thread Gustav Schaffter
John, I believe you should be able to install RH 6.x on 8MB if you install in 'text only' mode. Regards Gustav John Himpel wrote: I am trying to install Redhat 6.1 on a 386 with 8MB of RAM. When I try to load the second stage installer, I get a signal 7. I can get other

Keyboard config for X

2000-11-04 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Hi, I have attached a national keyboard to one of my PCs. I've run kbdconfig to configure the new keyboard in one of my ptys. The problem is that X will not recognize the new keyboard. It still believes I have a US keyboard attached. What utility should I use to make X recognize my national

Re: Keyboard config for X [SOLVED]

2000-11-04 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Mikkel, Thanks for the tip. I had to edit the file. Now it works fine. :-) Regards Gustav "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Gustav Schaffter wrote: Hi, I have attached a national keyboard to one of my PCs. I've run kbdconfig to configure the new keybo

Re: Find IP for DSL

2000-11-04 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Alternative solution: http://www.xdrive.com (You may want to encrypt what you put there. pgp and gpg are your friends. ;-) Regards Gustav Rob Hardowa wrote: Hey all, I'm on a DSL line and I need to set up a temporary one time FTP server to have a co-worker transfer to me a very large

Re: How to unsubscribe

2000-10-31 Thread Gustav Schaffter
That is not possible. Once subscribed, you're bound to receive mail from this list throughout your life. That is... Unless you read what it says in the end of your own mail. But why should you? Gustav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to unsubscribe to this list? Peter Bech

Re: sendmail question

2000-10-30 Thread Gustav Schaffter
a mail host know to send local mail to the local network and other mail to a 'smart' smtp host at an ISP? Regards Gustav "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Gustav Schaffter wrote: Hal, Having done that in one of my PCs, I can no longer send mail from this PC to

Re: sysquery: nlookup error on ?

2000-10-30 Thread Gustav Schaffter
eric, Let me guess. You run named and you're off line and you're restarting named? I believe this comes from named trying to talk to the root DNS servers as given in your hints file. But since you're off-line, those servers are unavailable. (I could be wrong. I *said* "I guess", didn't I?)

Re: sendmail question

2000-10-28 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Hal, Having done that in one of my PCs, I can no longer send mail from this PC to my *local* network. Now *all* my mail goes to the ISPs smtp server. How could I make sure that Sendmail delivers mail to my local network directly, but delivers any mail to another domain (or IP range) through

Re: APM under RH7

2000-10-25 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Larry, Maybe so. But shouldn't the line #if [ -f /poweroff -o ! -f /halt ]; then actually read #if [ -f /sbin/poweroff -o ! -f /sbin/halt ]; then anyway? Regards Gustav Larry Grover wrote: In RH6.2, typing "halt" at the command line would bring the system down and then do a power-off.

Re: Colormaps, regexp

2000-10-24 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Thomas, Very interesting and very well explained. I learnt a lot. :-) Best regards Gustav Thomas Ribbrock wrote: snip Ok, I assume the machine you're using at school only has an 8bit graphics adapter, which means 256 colours. Hence, when started, X will reserve a "map" for 256 colours and

Re: Nobody looking???

2000-10-24 Thread Gustav Schaffter
running. (But who could be sure?) Regards Gustav Wayne Dyer wrote: Gustav Schaffter wrote: Burke, Well, you just joined the club. Thanks for the recognition of my mail, though.:-) "Burke, Thomas G." wrote: Absolutely no clue... I just found this in my log:

Re: APM under RH7

2000-10-23 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Chad, I definitively think so. I followed the links to bugzilla that Larry provided in a different msg. But from what I could see in their responses, they didn't think it was a problem, but more of a feature. (??) (I could of course have misunderstood their point. I'm known to do that

Re: Nobody looking???

2000-10-23 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Burke, Well, you just joined the club. Thanks for the recognition of my mail, though.:-) Regards Gustav "Burke, Thomas G." wrote: Absolutely no clue... Hi, I just found this in my log: Oct 21 19:14:18 valhall rpc.statd[473]: SM_NOTIFY from freja.yggdrasil.home--nobody looking!

Re: APM under RH7

2000-10-22 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Larry, I believe that line should probably be corrected to read: #if [ -f /sbin/poweroff -o ! -f /sbin/halt ]; then to make it work as intended. (Haven't tried it myself, though. I'm still on RH6.2+) Regards Gustav Larry Grover wrote: I made these changes to the last lines in

Re: US Elections - enough is enough! [REALLY?]

2000-10-22 Thread Gustav Schaffter
As the subject says: Enough is enough! Is this thread a deliberate troll? Gustav -- pgp = Pretty Good Privacy. To get my public pgp key, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit my web site at http://www.schaffter.com ___ Redhat-list mailing

Re: Sendmail Client

2000-10-21 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Hal, sorry to break in like this. I have a line in my sendmail.cf that contains DSsmtp.myisp.com I can send mail to the Internet without any problems. My problem is that this box cannot send any mail to the local (non-official) domain, since *all* my mail sent from this box goes to my ISP. (And

Nobody looking???

2000-10-21 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Hi, I just found this in my log: Oct 21 19:14:18 valhall rpc.statd[473]: SM_NOTIFY from freja.yggdrasil.home--nobody looking! Any explanations available? Regards Gustav -- pgp = Pretty Good Privacy. To get my public pgp key, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit my web site at

Re: cpus for asus p2b-ds

2000-10-15 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Close, I use the P2B-D (No SCSI on MB) with the BIOS version 1012b. I'm using 2*PIII-550 with excellent results. ASUS *used* to have their own news server but had to take it down because people were only complaining at the lack of service/support from ASUS, which made newcomers to the list go

Re: Local mail on LAN - how? [IMPROVED BUT NOT SOLVED]

2000-10-10 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Chuck, Remember this old subject? :-) Thanks to you and others, I've read parts of the 'DNS BIND' book and after some figuring added MX records in my DNS file for all hosts in my LAN. Now the situation is that I can send mail between all computers in my network, with one single exception.

Re: can anyone explain what this is?

2000-10-08 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Nick, Try creating an empty file /etc/inetd.conf Install the .rpm and let it write it's line to your inetd.conf. From there you will have to reflect what fam wrote in inetd.conf in your xinetd.conf file. For the last part you're very much on your own, but it shouldn't be too hard to figure

Re: Strange entry in inetd.conf

2000-10-05 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Brian, Brian Schneider wrote: It does look like /bin/ps, so a rootkit is probably not installed. May be okay. This is just my own system, but I have a lot on it and want to avoid a re-install, but am trying to think of all I need to save in order to do it. Any other things I

Re: login ... in.rlogind (inetd.conf)

2000-10-05 Thread Gustav Schaffter
AFAIK that's the 'rlogin' daemon. Take it out. If you 'screw it up' you can always go to runlevel 1 (single user) and reset what's necessary. Regards Gustav "Burke, Thomas G." wrote: Hey all, I gots a question... In the inetd.conf, the line: login stream tcp nowait root

Re: Comments on DeXtop by xig.com

2000-10-04 Thread Gustav Schaffter
404.:-( Gustav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody try out DeXtop ? Go to the url http://www.xig.com/Pages/DeXtopGUI for more info. I would like comments on it. Xig.com is coming across pretty heavy . Larry[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- pgp = Pretty Good Privacy. To get my public pgp key, send an

Re: Strancge message in messages

2000-10-04 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Maybe identd is started both from ntsysv and from inetd ? Gustav "Michael R. Jinks" wrote: Probably means that you're trying to run two of the same daemon, or two daemons are trying to listen to the same TCP port -- looks like auth is being started twice. No clue why that would happen

Re: Mailbox vulnerable

2000-09-28 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Tim, This is a frustrating one. ;-) Follow the recommendation: Login as root Change permission on /var/spool/mail to 1777 So far everything is OK. Now to the frustrating part. ;-) Since the installation of RH6.2 I have something called "Dropin's boot time commands" running every time I boot

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