Re: new samba update

I'm not running NIS, but I've just had a update from 2.2.1a-4 to 2.2.7-2.7.2 It broke my domain logins giving these errors in the log file: [2003/03/18 14:49:40, 0] lib/util_str.c:string_sub(1217) ERROR: string overflow by 1 in string_sub(%u, 7) and deleted the findsmb utility. The workround

Re: Question about sendmail client

No one's mentioned comsat in this thread so far, couldn't that be used to cobble something together that approximates the 'You got mail' type functionality? - Original Message - From: "Roger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 2:25 PM Subject: Quest

Re: How to build a webmail application

On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 10:28:06 -0700 (PDT), Nagib wrote: > >Hi, > >i want to build a webmail application is there any free webmail rpms or made with php >scripts. > >Can someone give me some hints . Have a look at: http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/robots.php3 (though I couldn't get it to work jus

Re: Sendmail Question- want username@yourdomain.com as login?

On Sun, 8 Sep 2002 14:19:42 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >So what's your point? I just though it would be nice if someone answered the actual question, that's all. No flame bait involved. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.c

Re: Sendmail Question- want username@yourdomain.com as login?

On Sat, 7 Sep 2002 06:47:49 -0700 (PDT), Al wrote: >Well, qmail and sendmail, as do most mail transport agents (MTA) have >one thing in common. They actually don't do password authentication. >They just deliver mail. [snip] I'll just point out that Matthew Scarrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was the o

Re: email thru browser

On 29 Aug 2002 08:12:16 -0500, Roger wrote: >Have any recommendations for a web based client? I have a NT box running >Imail ver 6.06 in which the web based messaging system is getting flaky. >Anyway..The backend of the product actual works very well pop3, imap. >Looking for a web based messagin

Re: Sendmail Question- want username@yourdomain.com as login?

On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 23:30:03 -0700 (PDT), Al wrote: >Wow! I can't help but feel you're on the wrong track. Perhaps you've >seen a email client that used the [EMAIL PROTECTED] syntax but >actually logged onto the pop server using "username", and used >"@yourdomain.com" part to figure out the host

Re: Strange DNS Problem

On 04 Sep 2002 15:08:32 -0500, Susan wrote: >I recently discovered through trial and error and a few visits to >netcraft.com that I cannot resolve the names of servers running a >Windows operating system through my bellsouth.net dsl connection. [snip] >From the info you give, this sounds like a

Re: NEWBIE: Is there an easy way to rename files

On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 08:12:24 -0400, Kevin wrote: >But obviously not the best or easiest way. How is it I've used *nix for >all these years and never heard of this command? Don't know, maybe because everyone uses mv to rename? But this sure looks easier than a for loop: RENAME(1) Linux

Re: Virus protection again.

There are many people out there that use one of the amavis variants with a scan engine to do this sort of work. I use amavisd with sendmail-milter and Trophie, this combination with a decent machine could easily handle 50k+ emails per day. On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 12:23:24 -0500 (CDT), you wrote: >I

Re: displaying ( exporting ) the first x lines of a text file

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002 14:53:16 +0200, you wrote: >Hello all , > >I have a simple problem , however I don't know where to look ... >Is it possible to 'export' (display ) the first x lines of a text file. man head (head -n 3 text.txt for the first three lines) -- redhat-list mailing list unsub

Re: Shutting down a Windows 2000 server from Linux or vice-versa (slightly off-topic)

On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 08:46:45 -0230, you wrote: >Folks, > >I have a RH7.0 server and a Windows 2000 server and only one UPS (APC >Back-UPS 1000). Is there some way that I can have the RH7.0 box >shutdown the Win2K box when the power fails? Of course, the reverse >would also work! I'm using nut

Re: Shell program question

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 20:09:58 +0700, I wrote: >When run from a normal shell, test.sh finishes and leaves the other two >scripts running as expected. > >When test is run as the 'login shell', everything finishes when the user >logs out. > >Why? Thanks to Anthony (again) for suggesting using nohup

Re: Small problem with sudo and Roaring Penguin

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 09:11:35 -0400, you wrote: >man nohup Thanks. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Shell program question

On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 19:33:08 +0700, you wrote: >Interesting situation here with that in place: I'm using sudo to allow users >to control the DSL connection. One of the scripts is supposed to stay >running in the background when the user logs off, but when I use the menu >as the shell it is kille

Re: Shell program question

On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 07:48:38 -0400, you wrote: >I think you want to set your users to use an program or script as soon as >they login, with no other choice. If that is what you want, just edit >/etc/passwd and change their shell to the program or script that you want >them to run. Interesting si

Re: Small problem with sudo and Roaring Penguin

Just a little update to this problem: it's nothing to do with sudo, it's the fact that I'm using a script as the login shell for these users. If I use /bin/bash as the shell, everything works. (Thanks to Anthony for putting me onto this) On Fri, 09 Aug 2002 18:29:32 +0700, you wrote: >I have a

Re: snmptrapd

On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 19:53:01 +0700, I wrote: >My snmptrapd appears to have stopped passing the trap output to the script >in snmptrapd.conf. Found it. Apparently someone decided that it was a good idea to use tcpwrappers on the newer version. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto

snmptrapd

My snmptrapd appears to have stopped passing the trap output to the script in snmptrapd.conf. I'm using net-snmp 4.2.5 with RH 7.x the snmptrapd.conf looks like this: traphandle default /usr/sbin/router.traps.sh (router.traps is a test script that just echoes the input to a file) The snmptr

Re: pppd "not replacing existing default route to eth0"

On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 08:46:09 +0800, Kevin wrote: >When I run pppd, it's connecting to the ISP ok, but traffic doesn't go anywhere and >in /var/log/messages, I'm getting "not replacing existing default route to eth0". I >can see why outgoing traffic isn't going anywhere cause its trying to go ou

Small problem with sudo and Roaring Penguin

I have a user that is allowed to login to a shell script and use it to bring the DSL connection up/down. I am using sudo to allow him to run adsl-start, which he does by selecting an item on a menu which runs: sudo /usr/sbin/adsl-start This is the contents of the sudoers file: # sudoers file.

Re: Utilities to format partition?

On Thu, 01 Aug 2002 08:56:57 -0500, J Bacher wrote: >Apologies for the confusion No need! I learnt a lot from this thread. -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Allowing directory browsing in Apache

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 23:14:45 -0400, Joe Tseng wrote: >I recently created a new virtual server for an existing site that had >previously allowed people to peruse some of my files by directory listing. >When I try to peruse that directory, I get a 403 forbidden message. I >checked my file permissi

Re: Utilities to format partition?

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 15:02:52 +0100, you wrote: >OK - mea culpa. > > >:)) :-) What's interesting, though, is that someone else down the line says it's not necessary to change the partition type using fdisk at all - just format the partition using mkfs! (I've not tried it) -- redhat-list maili

Re: Utilities to format partition?

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 09:36:03 -0500 (CDT), J Bacher wrote: >That would depend upon whether or not the linux and windows partition >share the same drive. Would it? The synopsis for fdisk that I have says this: fdisk [-u] [-b sectorsize]device fdisk -l [-u] [-b sectorsize] [device .

Re: Utilities to format partition?

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:53:32 +0100, Nick Lindsell wrote: >Use linux "fdisk /dev/hda1" to change the partition type, # fdisk /dev/hda1 Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, until you dec

Re: Utilities to format partition?

On 31 Jul 2002 08:57:53 -0400, you wrote: >I did 'man fdisk' couple times before, and I still don't understand how >to use it. Forgive my ignorant please. Furthermore, at the end of 'man >fdisk' in the 'Bugs' section: >"fdisk is a buggy program that does fuzzy > things - usually it happen

Re: Utilities to format partition?

On 31 Jul 2002 08:43:24 -0400, you wrote: >I have an old NTFS partition in my /dev/hda1. I'd like to re-format it >to ext3 partition. Is there such utility in linux/Redhat, so I don't >have to reboot and use other partition software? >I don't care about preserving data, since I simply don't need

Re: disk usage

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 11:00:09 -0500 (CDT), you wrote: >Try this: > >find / -type d -maxdepth 1 | egrep -v "home|proc|^/$" | xargs du -sh > >That should show usage of each directory in /, not including /home and >/proc. Or, just for variety: du -h -x --max-depth=1 --exclude=home --exclude=proc

Re: please..anyone dual boot linux w2k frustrations

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 04:49:11 +, Tom wrote: > >LI is LILO starting up. >I don't know exactly where it dies, but the letters correspond to sections >of the boot process. So, Lilo is dying after the second part of the boot >process. >[big snip, please don't overquote] Not quite, according

Re: please..anyone dual boot linux w2k frustrations

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 00:00:32 -0500, David wrote: >As far as I know Win2K needs to be on the primary drive. At least that is >how I have dual booted a machine and havin't had any problems. Not so. I have Win2k, XP, ME and linux here. All except the ME are on a second drive. ___

Re: please..anyone dual boot linux w2k frustrations

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 12:21:28 +0800, Pranay wrote: >On Behalf Of Kevin Myers ??? ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: please..anyone dual boot linux w2k frustrations

On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 08:29:18 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >scenario: > >running redhat linux 7.2 for over a year on >preinstalled hd. purchased second drive with w2k >preinstalled. hooked up second drive as secondary ide >drive (hdb), kept primary drive with linux as hda. > >problem: > >w2k will no

Re: this can't be a bug

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 01:01:01 -0700, you wrote: > find . -name "*.tar.gz" -print0 | xargs -0 tar xzf > >doesn't do what i would think it should do In addition to the other answers given, I suspect find . -name "*.tar.gz" -exec tar xzf {} \; would do what you want too. ___

Re: adsl at startup

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:12:44 GMT, you wrote: >It pretty much is except for the script that starts it at boot. Unfortunatley I didnt >realize it was already on RH and I didnt need to download it. That would have made it >easier. Maybe I'll just reinstall the adsl package. ITs on the cds right?

Re: HOWTO : configure date and time

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 13:38:03 +0200 (CEST), you wrote: >Hello, > >I would like to configure the date and time for >today. Is someone know what is the command line for >it? man date date [OPTION] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]] ___ Redhat-list mailing l

Re: keep parameters.

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:50:17 +0200, you wrote: >Where can I find INIT script for iptables ? /etc/rc.d/init.d ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: keep parameters.

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:59:44 +0200, you wrote: >It is in "rc.local", IS THAT CORRECT ? I think that's a bit late. The firewall should be in place before any links come up. Look at the init script for iptables. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PRO

Re: adsl at startup

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:00:12 GMT, Matt wrote: >I set up my DSL on RH 7.3 with pppoe from roaringpenguin.com and I wanted it to start >when the machine boots. I set adsl to start at boot up and it says it is starting and >it goes through with no fail messages. but when I open a web page it cant

Re: adsl at startup

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:26:22 -0400, you wrote: >ADSL works on RH72 and later out of the box. No need to use >roaringpenguin. Check out the Getting Started and Customization docs in >the Support section of the RH web site. I thought that Roaring Penguin was included in 7.x? ___

Re: Redhat list signature

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 11:22:25 -0400, you wrote: >It would even be nicer if most people's sigs were that way, and if they >replied below the original text, and if they snipped appropriately, and if >they used good subject lines, and if I hit the lottery... oops! Sorry >about that. I got carried awa

Re: Red Hat 7.3 and linuxconf

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 07:23:48 -0400, you wrote: >I thought the same thing until I was introduced to sendmail. Linuxconf's >virtual domains it very easy and I primarily use linuxconf just for >configuring sendmail. >-eric > Definitely a bad idea. The linuxconf sendmail config is badly out of date

Re: run root script at start-up

On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 09:28:18 +0300, Caner wrote: >> That is what I did. THe problem is, its a root task and I get permission >> denied. > >oh, yes, yes, yes > >chmod +s /bin/mount > Not a good security move. Read man mount, man sudo for better alternatives. __

Redhat list signature

Would it be a good idea if the Redhat list sig were to include the standard "-- " delimiter, so it wouldn't keep appearing multiple times, and I wouldn't have to keep deleting it from my replies? ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://

Re: Limited groups

On 16 Jul 2002 09:59:29 -0500, Matthew wrote: > >I am having a limitations problem with groups. What is it that you are trying to achieve? Perhaps there is another way of approaching it? ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman

Re: ftp setup

On 16 Jul 2002 10:47:42 -0400, Joshua wrote: >I have not been able to find FTP in the index of my RedHat manual. > >I would appreciate any assistance in setting up an FTP server on my >RedHat v7.2 system. Any links to documentation or programs would also >help. > >Thanks! I'd have a look here:

Re: polling linux mail servers

On 14 Jul 2002 10:42:36 -0400, jack wrote: >i have a server set up with redhat 7.2. it's running sendmail and is on >it's own domain. is it possible to use fetchmail to poll that server >(inside or outside the domain) and get email to linux clients? the only >way i've managed was to mount the ser

Re: i need help in confugring smb

On 13 Jul 2002 06:59:25 -, prashanth wrote: There's some very nice HOWTOs on the Internet. Start at www.samba.org read the documentation, and the FAQ. Join the samba mailing list, read the samba news groups. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAI

Re: Red Hat 7.3 and linuxconf

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 19:18:09 +, lcfe wrote: >Since Red Hat 7.3 does not come with linuxconf anymore, which package >should I use instead? I need a text terminal based configuration tool. I steer away from auto configuration tools whenever possible - they are too inclined to mess up the conf

Re: ftp/telnet - connection refused all of a sudden!!!

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 07:43:05 -0700 (PDT), Linux Bigot wrote: >All, > >I could able to do ftp and telnet to my linux box. >After a boot none of these services are availble. I >always get back a "connection refused" error. > >TIA man xinetd ___ Redhat

Re: problem receiving email

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 18:24:00 -0400, Tony wrote: >Any other suggestions? It seems to me that you're making it difficult to troubleshoot this problem, only giving the barest minimum of data to go on. I may have missed it, but I didn't see any info on how your 'domain' is set up, what IP numbers y

Re: dynamic and static IP address (was hostname)

On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:58:26 -0400, Tony wrote: >If he has has access to an external SMTP server that will relay for >authenticated connections, he can setup sendmail as an SMTP auth client. >The Sendmail web site has details. Auth client. Does that mean it can act as

Re: dynamic and static IP address (was hostname)

On Sat, 06 Jul 2002 16:59:09 -0400, Edward wrote: >Actually, there is a little magic in sending email. It's called >authentication. He's probably set to use his own ISP's mail server. >But when he's on his network, the ISP's mail server is rejecting the >mail (won't relay). He may just need

Re: dynamic and static IP address (was hostname)

On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 08:48:29 -0400, Chris wrote: >Thanks to everyone who replied to my previous query with the subject >"hostname". > >I now have another query, which I think is related. I use my laptop both on a >network, with a fixed IP address at work, and at home and on the move via >dial-u

Re: Setting up other accts ..

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:28:05 -0700, daniel wrote: >edit /etc/group >and add a line like this: > >shared:x:[nnn]:[user1],[user2] > >then set the permissions on the directories you want to share like this > >chgrp -R shared /path/to/shared_directory >chmod -R g+w /path/to/shared_directory Don't fo

Re: (no subject)

On 20 Jun 2002 18:04:52 -, Patrick wrote: >Again a question about fetchmail. I am trying to automate the mail procedure >with fetchmaIL so it checks every 5 minutes or so for mail on an extern pop3 >server of my isp. A temporary solution I thought of is to once I have manually >typed in "

Re: quota: Error while getting quota [...] No such file or directory

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:49:21 -0400 (EDT), Nicolas wrote: >when I run quota now, using any account including root's, I get this >output: > >quota: Error while getting quota from myhost:(pid3258) for 3369: No such >file or directory >Disk quotas for user nbock (uid 3369): none You need to init

Re: DSL on RH

On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 09:53:23 -0400, David wrote: >It's broken in 7.3, it works fine under 7.2 I used the one supplied with 7.2 >without a hitch, when I moved to 7.3 I did a fresh install and it would lose >connection every 3 or so seconds. The setup scripts are missing in 7.2. ___

Re: Win2K and Samba

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:25:56 -0400, you wrote: >I'm frustrated and looking for help. I've been trying to get my win2K >client to use shares from my linux server for months (8 months) and have had >no luck thus far. Eight months is a long time! :-) What have you got in your smb.conf? This is

Re: login script

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 08:57:01 +0800, Edward wrote: >See the attached perl script and add the following line to [netlogon] >exec = logon-script > >You can modify the perl script to do anyting you want for any user -for >example IF user part of ADMIN group, map an ADMIN share. and attached the scr

Re: Answered - Newbie Router Questions v2.0

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 15:10:27 -0700, David wrote: >; I think this blocks all incoming traffic (can someone please verify?) ># iptables -A INPUT -I eth1 -p tcp --syn -j DROP Not all traffic - just tcp packets on the eth1 interface requesting a connection (--syn) I suggest you have a look at the L

Re: login script

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 20:21:20 -0400, Tony wrote: > >You can put a shortcut in the All Users startup folder that points to the >network logon script. This local script approach works nicely for 2 machines, but it's a pain when you have to update a script on 200. It's much cleaner to get it to run

Re: ipchains

On Thu, 30 May 2002 08:03:43 -0400 (EDT), rday wrote: >not sure if this is an issue or not, but the "lokkit" and >"gnome-lokkit" utilities in red hat 7.3 appear to configure >ipchains, when i'm assuming most folks will be using >iptables. this might give users a false sense of security >after th

Re: Knowledgable List?

On Mon, 27 May 2002 16:00:40 -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote: > It's >been a while since I used ipchains, and have never messed with vpn. >iptables can do much more than ipchains. I've just installed 7.2, and I was surprised,considering it's old hat (pun intended) that EVERYTHING seems still to be u

Re: Console font lines per screen

On Sat, 25 May 2002 22:36:31 -0400, Ed Marczak wrote: >Actually, I just installed 7.3 on my laptop (subject of a near-future post) >and to get 80x50, all I did was change the i18n file - no mucking about with >'vga=' anything. I set it to lat0-08, and when it gets to 'loading default >font' it s

Re: Adding vga='video mode' to the grub kernel line

On Thu, 23 May 2002 09:31:12 -0500, Brady wrote: >Change the entry to vga=9 instead. Thanks for the response. But if I do that, without doing a 'scan' beforehand, it says that 9 is not a valid choice. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Adding vga='video mode' to the grub kernel line

I've just installed 7.2 on to a new machine, with vga=ask in the grub config file, and when it boots it gives me the option of modes 1-6, or 'scan'. When I opt for scan, it scans and then gives me options 1-b (ie 5 additional options) How do I get at the option I want (9) without having to scan

Re: Console font lines per screen

On Wed, 22 May 2002 14:09:52 -0400, you wrote: >I tried consolechars also, without success. The SYSFONT line in i18n seems >to be what did it for me. And yes, I needed a reboot. Yes, it's a combination of the vga mode and the font. The i18n file is read by the setsysfont script in the rc.sysin

Re: Console font lines per screen

On Tue, 21 May 2002 01:14:39 -0500, ABrady wrote: >I change setsysfont, you change rc.sysinit. Both of us lose the manual >changes whenever we have to update initscripts. It doesn't usually >happen that often and it's easy to forget what you had to do before >after a lot of time passes. Point ta

Re: Console font lines per screen

On Mon, 20 May 2002 10:45:28 -0500, ABrady wrote: >I don't know the "proper" way, but I renamed /sbin/setsysfont to >something else, created another one that is essentially empty excepting >the very first line (#!/bin/bash), made sure it was executable, and >moved on. That's the file that is over

Re: Console font lines per screen

On Mon, 20 May 2002 12:34:41 -0400, Edward wrote: >Are you using RH 7.2 with GRUB? No, but I have put vga='various things' into the lilo.conf >In /etc/grub.conf, you need to pass the 'vga' parameter to the kernel. Like >always, you can use 'ask' so you are asked to select a resolution at >sta

Re: Event to copy a file from a Red Hat Machine?

On Mon, 20 May 2002 06:36:08 -0500, you wrote: >This may be a bit off topic, but here's the situation: > >I have my RH machine creating a tar file of some folders every few days >(website, mail, etc). I need to be able to copy this/these file(s) to a >Windows machine so I can back them up to tape

Console font lines per screen

I would like to change my lines per screen to 50. I've tried vga=9 in my lilo.conf, but this keeps changing when the font is set in the rc.sysinit script. What do I need to do to get the full 50 lines - or where can I go for more info on console fonts, lines, and chars per line? Thanks for your t