Re: how do you change swap permission

2001-01-27 Thread Martin Brown
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, linda hanigan wrote: Hi All, dmesg suggests changeing swap permission. How do you do this? Thanks Linda First, look at your fstab file ('/etc/fstab') to find which partition is the swap partition (from my file): /dev/sda5

Re: Ramen worm

2001-01-18 Thread Martin Brown
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Rick Warner wrote: One person's opinion: rpc.statd is only needed if running an NFS server. No NFS server should be 'exposed' to the Internet. NFS and components have been a security nightmare for over a decade now. If you need to run NFS for an internal net, make

Re: Ramen worm

2001-01-18 Thread Martin Brown
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Jonathan Wilson wrote: run the command "setup" and un-mark the RPC services. They are marked by default. Also, there is more then one - 3 or 4, can't remember. stop anything with "rpc" in it's name, and also portmapper [RH 6.1] I ran 'setup' (I'd forgotten about that

Re: [RH6.1]: SMTP connect to localhost failed ??

2000-11-10 Thread Martin Brown
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RH6.1, last full update about 2 weeks ago. I've started to get a situation where outgoing mail is no problem, but incoming mail fails (fetchmail, direct from other machines on the LAN) with the message: SMTP connect to localhost failed

Re: Asking for the second time (LIILO) - Sorry :(

2000-10-21 Thread Martin Brown
The 1024 limitation is the result of a BIOS problem, not a Linux problem. There's a new version of LILO out there that doesn't have the 1024 limitation, but you may need a new(er) BIOS to take advantage of it. - Martin J. Brown, Jr. -

Re: What's this all about? (ipchains stuff)

2000-10-18 Thread Martin Brown
I recently installed RH6.2 and have been familiarizing my self with ipchains. The IPCHAINS-HOWTO is quite good, IMO. The technical parameters listed below which you wish to know about are discussed in the HOWTO. Somewhat still open to question, in my mind as well as yours, is why the large

Re: DSL router recommendation

2000-10-03 Thread Martin Brown
Well, I just returned a Netgear RT-314 DSL Router after using it for a month. The following are my impressions, but I don't vouch that it's totaly accurate to the RT-314 operation due to my limited experience with such devices. You can administer it via serial port or via its own web interface.

Re: Starting X in a second console (SOLVED)

2000-09-13 Thread Martin Brown
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Miroslav Skoric wrote: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: The X session starts on the next free VC, not on the VC you type the command to start X from. With a stock RedHat system, the first X session startx on VC 7, the second on VC 8, the third on VC 9, etc. So, with

Re: highly suspicious line in inetd.conf

2000-09-11 Thread Martin Brown
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Gordon Messmer wrote: I suggest you : netstat -avnp | grep LISTEN Thank you for the above piece of "code". The man page for 'netstat' on my system [RH 6.1] does not mention the '-a' option. What does it do? In my case, there are more inetd services listening than are

Re: [RH 6.1] up2date no longer working

2000-09-10 Thread Martin Brown
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Gordon Messmer wrote: On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, 'up2date' worked well for quite some time, then, after installing Helix gnome it stopped working: [root@localhost /root]# up2date Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/sbin/up2date",

Re: [RH 6.1] up2date no longer working

2000-09-10 Thread Martin Brown
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Gordon Messmer wrote: On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Martin Brown wrote: Thank you for responding to my query. [root@localhost /new_soft]# rpm -q pygtk pygtk-0.6.6-0_helix_3 [root@localhost /new_soft]# rpm -V pygtk [root@localhost /new_soft]# # rpm -qi pygtk Name

Re: Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live supported

2000-09-10 Thread Martin Brown
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, kf wrote: On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Gordon Messmer wrote: = On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, kf wrote: = = I distinctly remember reading that the SB Live was supported for Linux. = Now that I'm getting around to trying to set this card up, I can't find = documentation which

Re: web-based passwd change

2000-08-28 Thread Martin Brown
On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Michale C. Balines wrote: hi! anyone knows a web-based password changing source code? suggestion please. mike - Martin J. Brown, Jr. - - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: Mozilla M17 RPM

2000-08-08 Thread Martin Brown
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know where the Mozilla M17 RPM is for RH6.x ? There must be one somewhere, right? The mozilla-5.0_M16-2 RPM was just s promising. Vik :v) Yeah, I knew I had M16 as an rpm, but where? Then I remembered, the 'Galeon' browser

Re: Mozilla M17 RPM... maybe not

2000-08-08 Thread Martin Brown
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Martin Brown wrote: On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know where the Mozilla M17 RPM is for RH6.x ? There must be one somewhere, right? The mozilla-5.0_M16-2 RPM was just s promising. Vik :v) Yeah, I knew I had M16 as an rpm

Re: This silly [RHL] nonsense.

2000-08-03 Thread Martin Brown
On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Vidiot wrote: Can we lose the [RHL] prefix? It's silly, clutters up the list of messages, and generally makes it harder to read. Jason Costomiris| Technologist, geek, human. NO DO NOT LOSE THE PREFIX I am a subscriber of many lists and the prefix

SMTP connect to localhost failed??

2000-07-17 Thread Martin Brown
I've been using 'fetchmail' to dl my mail to my rh6.1 system. I've never had any problem until a few days ago, and then from time-to-time I started getting the following, and slowly more and more often even though alternately fetchmail would work. Now, it's all errors, and fetchmail can't get

Re: Need motherboard advice

2000-07-14 Thread Martin Brown
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Chad W. Skinner wrote: I have to fix my computer as its stability is absolutely gone. I am looking at two solutions as they are within my price range. Gigabyte GA-6VX7-4X with a celeron 600 or Gigabyte GA7ZM with a duron 600 The problem is I have not heard

Re: lilo mod'd, works NOW, why?

2000-07-13 Thread Martin Brown
Eddie, Thanx for your info on your related problem. I've put it in my notes. Linux is now recognizing the full amount of memory. Why, I'm not sure. I ended up trying a few different minor changes of the append line, running lilo after each change. None had any affect. So, I went back to the

Re: lilo mod'd, but mem still not seen

2000-07-12 Thread Martin Brown
Yeah, I actually edited '/etc/lilo.conf' with the new mem parameter before I shutdown for the install. When it didn't work, I double checked 'lilo.conf' and ran lilo again, but still no joy. On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Wes Owen wrote: At 07:07 PM 7/11/00 , you wrote: [RH6.1] I had 128MB of

Re: Users??

2000-07-12 Thread Martin Brown
Last night I used the following to kill a user's processes: ps aux | grep username | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill ps aux - get the process list grep username - get lines from the list that contain the username (potential problem here if the username has similarities

Re: Server Time sync

2000-07-03 Thread Martin Brown
additionally, here is some further info from a previous net discussion on the matter (none of it original to me): * If /etc/sysconfig/clock contains "UTC=false", then the system assumes that the bios time is the correct local time and doesn't update for daylight savings. (Actually, the

Re: new to linux

2000-07-03 Thread Martin Brown
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Jim Travnick wrote: Hello hope sombody out there will take pitty on this new user but im getting real confused here i see everyone talking about comands to do this or that but i cant figure out how or why there in what i asume is the comand line why doesnt anybody use the

Re: Need an serial port for a digital camera.

2000-05-01 Thread Martin Brown
On Mon, 1 May 2000, Steven W. Orr wrote: Can someone please recommend a PCI card for an extra serial port or two? I looked on buy.com and saw only USB cards. My understanding is that USB is not yet fully supported in kernel 2.2.14. I don't know if they make I a PCI card, I bet they do, but

Re: [Re: ATTACHMENT]

2000-04-30 Thread Martin Brown
With pine, your outgoing mail should have a header line marked as 'Attchmnt:'. Put the file pathname of the attachment on this line. On 29 Apr 2000, Manoj Alex wrote: Hi, I tried from the command line and my use is to send to all the users defined on the system. If I use pine how can I send

Re: file cannot be stat-ed???

2000-03-12 Thread Martin Brown
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Brian wrote: Is this an NFS partition? If this is just an ext2 partition, I would suspect your drive is going out, you may wish to fsck it to see what kind of errors that gives. Nope, not an NFS, but earlier in the week the drive did start gronking quite badly and

Re: setting correct timezone?

2000-03-09 Thread Martin Brown
Ron, Thank you, thank you, thank you. It worked perfectly. I didn't know about the 'setup' utility. Thanx. On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Ron Golan wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 10:40:40PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, things have been

RH6.1: sudden XFree86-3.3.5-3 problem

2000-03-05 Thread Martin Brown
All of a sudden, I'm having the following XFree86 problem when doing a 'startx': _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1' Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' - I have no idea why this has started to happen. I

RH6.1: Epson Stylus 740 printer driver?

2000-02-21 Thread Martin Brown
I'm in the market for a color printer to operate under RH6.1. I can get an Epson Stylus 740 for $100, including rebate, but I'm somewhat curios about the driver provider by RH6.1. The closet driver, that I see, would appear to be: "Epson Stylus 800 ESC/P2 Printers" The Stylus

RH6.1: no module support in 'linuxconf' or 'Control Panel'??

2000-02-14 Thread Martin Brown
I've looked through 'linuxconf' and 'Control Panel' for supoort for handling modules, but can't find any ways to do so. Is this correct? Or have I somehow managed to miss it (hopefully)? Caldera's 'LISA' has had module control for years - Martin J. Brown, Jr. -

Re: Motherboard: dual celeron ???

2000-02-12 Thread Martin Brown
On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Jon Knews wrote: Anyone know of a good low-priced (under $250) motherboard that definitely supports DUAL CELERON 500MHz ??? I have a single Celeron 500 mother- board in my computer, and would like to buy a dual-celeron motherboard and one more Celeron 500 processor,

Re: Motherboard: dual celeron ???

2000-02-12 Thread Martin Brown
On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote: On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 10:10:48AM -0800, Martin Brown wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Jon Knews wrote: [...] Well, I've been using an Abit BP-6 for 3 months or so now. I use dual Celeron 500's, not over clocked, with an ide harddrive (for DRDOS

Re: webcam

2000-02-07 Thread Martin Brown
You may find this web site helpful: http://www.exploits.org/v4l/ There is also another good site, but I couldn't find it in my links. Possibly you might want to go to linux.com or some other linux portal and check for video links. - Martin J.

Re: staroffice cdrom

2000-01-30 Thread Martin Brown
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Patrick O Neil wrote: I've noticed something about trying to install staroffice 5.1 from the cdrom on RedHat 6.0/6.1...you can't. I have a Sun CDROM with staroffice 5.1 on it. If I am running Mandrake 6.5 or 7.0, all I need to do is mount the cdrom, enter the linux

Re: FTP that will script please

2000-01-26 Thread Martin Brown
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Jim Baxter wrote: Hi We do not seem to be able to run ftp from a shell script or script ftp. The man page talks about macros but they go away at close. What we need is the ability to start ftp, login and get (or put) a list of files and log off all from a shell

initscripts up2date install confusion?

2000-01-25 Thread Martin Brown
I used up2date and got a bunch of RH rpm's. All went well, but for one note: [root@localhost up2date]# rpm -Uvh --test initscripts-4.70-1.i386.rpm [root@localhost up2date]# rpm -Uvh initscripts-4.70-1.i386.rpm warning: /etc/rc.d/rc.local created as /etc/rc.d/rc.local.rpmnew initscripts