Re: Incremental scheduled copy of large data set over the net

2003-07-17 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 at 9:27am (-0400), Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: [...] Now, I don't want to copy the whole thing in one sit since it's large. I want to do it incrementally during off-peak hours, so, say everyday between 2-3 AM I would copy 500 MB, and then the next day continue with another

Re: Change \'[A-Z] to \'[a-z]

2003-07-15 Thread Matthew Melvin
On 15 Jul 2003 at 2:58pm (-0600), Eric Sisler wrote: Ok, I'm tired of banging my head against this one. I know there must be a simple perl, sed or tr solution, but I can't seem to find it. I'm cleaning up some extracted data and the one annoying thing I have left is a single quote followed

Re: Export sound to another server?

2003-06-25 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 at 12:47pm (-0700), Todd A. Jacobs wrote: I'm interested in a way to redirect sound to another server. I know esd and arts have the capability to bind to sockets, but is there actually a way to export sound that isn't application-specific? For example, I can run xine

Re: what's the fundamental differences between runlevels [sS] and1?

2003-06-16 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 at 12:04am (-0400), Robert P. J. Day wrote: rather than being sloppy and continually fudging the distinction between run level s/S (single-user mode) and run level 1, i'd like to really appreciate the differences. [...] but what about going to run level s?

Re: windowmaker, sound, and gnome-control-center

2003-03-22 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 at 1:55pm (+1000), Matthew Melvin wrote: I'm running windowmaker and my window manager using esd for my sound output. If go into gnome-control-center, preferences, sound, and tick 'sound for events' and now if I restart galeon or gabber (the only two gtk apps I use) I

Re: Anybody got experience with LVM on soft-raid 1 and ext3?

2003-02-25 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 at 11:20pm (+0100), Stefan Neufeind wrote: Does it run smooth? Haven't used LVM up to now. Is the handling really as easy as people want to make us think? Don't need a detailed explanation (although a short introduction would be quite helpful) but mainly report on your

Re: silly script question

2003-02-21 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 at 10:46pm (-0600), Kerry Miller wrote: Ok, I'm a network guy, not a software guy. I'm even lousy at bash scripts, but here's a question. I can get to a share from my windoze machine using smbclient and copy files back to the linux box. I don't know how to put it

Re: central log server Problems

2003-02-19 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 at 5:42am (-0800), Prashant Desai wrote: Hi all i have sucessfully configured a central log server on RH linux 7.2, to log for around 20-25 hosts running solaris linux. but the problem is all the logs are coming in to the same file related to that

Re: central log server Problems

2003-02-19 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 at 10:26am (+1000), Peter Kiem wrote: i have sucessfully configured a central log server on RH linux 7.2, to log for around 20-25 hosts running solaris linux. [...] One thing I did want to know before starting, if you are using the standard Red Hat syslog like

Re: Monitoring Bind 9

2003-02-19 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 at 9:56pm (-0700), Jason Riedel wrote: Does anyone know a really good way to monitor bind, like requests processed a second etc so that I can see how much load my system is under. I would prefer an MRTG type application...I am currently writing perl apps using information

Re: pptp-linux to Win2k VPN server -- connection drops

2003-02-15 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 at 11:39am (-0800), James D. Parra wrote: Hello, Using pptp-linux-1.1.0-1.i386.rpm, I can't stay connected for longer than 1 minute before getting a Connection reset by peer. Is anyone familiar with how to resolve this issue? Below is my log. snip Feb 14

Re: Forced File System Check on Linux

2003-02-14 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 at 10:09pm (-0800), Jiahan Chen wrote: I need to switch between Windows/Linux on PC often because of Dual-Boot sysyems. Recently, I found every 20 times, Linux boot procedure forced to check all the Linux file system partitions, which took a long time. I wondering

Re: Clustering on Redhat 8.0

2003-02-10 Thread Matthew Melvin
On 10 Feb 2003 at 11:32am (-0500), James Pifer wrote: I'm trying to get information about clustering with Redhat 8.0. I've done some google searches, but not getting as far as I'd like. So I was hoping to ask a couple general questions. Can you use clustering with Redhat 8 or do you need to

Re: Disable a particular command for a user

2003-02-06 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 at 5:11am (-0800), Ha Ha wrote: Hi, I am using RedHat 8.0, and the user is using ssh. Can I disable a particular command for a user after he login? For example, he can't use ls, cd, etc. Perhaps it'd be easier to come at this from the other direction... what /do/

Re: Test install failed because ....

2003-02-06 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 at 10:33pm (-0600), Nezar Freeny wrote: Hi All: I ran the up2date -u and it did update all of the packages except to kernel-smp-2.4.18-24.7.x. It gives me this message: Test install failed because of package conflicts: installing package kernel-smp-2.4.18-24.7.x needs

Re: RH8 mail client to HotMail

2003-02-05 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 at 9:46am (+1000), Danny Towler wrote: Is there a mail client (rpm) for RH8 to connect to HotMail via http? Have looked at OpenWebMail and WebMail but no luck yet. Not sure if these are worth persisting with. I'm hoping to avoid the slow browser-based interface into

Re: HELP: Shell script (while) syntax

2003-02-04 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 at 11:53pm (-0700), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I SURE Ive done this before, but I cant quite get the syntax right on this shell script. What I WANT to do is read lines from a list of data, and pass the lines (individually) to another script. What Im trying (and I

RE: Linux Newbie - what's the point of newsgroups?

2003-02-03 Thread Matthew Melvin
Take a deep breath Victor. There are basically only two types of questions that are going to get answered on this mailing list. Questions that someone knows the answer to off the top of their head - Oh that error ussually means you've got a syntax error in your conmfig file. Look in /etc/blah

Re: Sniffing the POP3 password

2003-02-02 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 at 12:12pm (+1000), Peter Kiem wrote: I'm going to be changing the mailserver configuration next week but I need to know all my user's POP3 passwords so I can do the conversion. What sort of mail config are you going from/to that requires you to change the way your

windowmaker, sound, and gnome-control-center

2003-01-28 Thread Matthew Melvin
I'm running windowmaker and my window manager using esd for my sound output. If go into gnome-control-center, preferences, sound, and tick 'sound for events' and now if I restart galeon or gabber (the only two gtk apps I use) I have sound now - woo how. :) But... if i log out and log back in I

Re: static-routes with RH8.0

2003-01-20 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 at 3:46pm (-0800), Toshi Esumi wrote: Does someone have the same experience with RH8.0? I put a static router statement in /etc/sysconfig/static-routes file as I did with RH7.0. But it doesn't seem to work when I reboot the PC. It takes the same static route when I put it

Re: setting up encrypted filesystem

2002-10-26 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Sat, 26 Oct 2002 at 5:42pm (-0700), Martin wrote: Does anyone have instructions on how to set up an encrypted filesystem on redhat 8.0? I looked at the losetup man page. but it appears maybe that the encryption modules are missing? is that right? Yes... distributing crypto in the

Re: rsh/rlogin and .rhosts file

2002-10-08 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 at 11:39am (-0400), Michael George wrote: I'm trying to activate rsh for our internal network, but I'm having trouble with the .rhosts file. I have just + in my home directory .rhosts file (for now) and the file is owned and grouped to me with permissions 400. Yet when

Re: Galeon 1.2.6 trouble

2002-09-22 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 at 8:39pm (-0400), fred smith wrote: Gentlepersons: I'm running a fully-updated RH72. I'd like to install Mozilla 1.1, which requires Galeon 1.2.6. Unfortunately, Galeon 1.2.6 requires gdk-pixbuf = 0.14, and RH72 has 0.11. So, I can't install Mozilla and Galeon

Re: Hard disk partitioning FHS

2002-09-16 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 at 9:30pm (-0700), Patrick Beart wrote: Folks: I'm setting up a new Web and mail server for a Web site hosting operation. Security is paramount to my partitioning scheme for the hard disk. Therefore, I'm not going with the default Red Hat partitioning. I'm

tcp/ip over fiber channel

2002-09-05 Thread Matthew Melvin
Just on the off chance... anyone know anything about IP over FC and is able to point me at some resources? I havn't really been able to find out much about it beyond 'you can do ip over fc' and nothing at all about how a linux box might go about using its HBA as a network interface. Anyone?

Re: VPN connection

2002-08-30 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 at 9:45am (+0300), Ionel Ploaie wrote: Hello all there, I have a trouble with my vpn client (pptp). Until few days ago this connection was workink ... but now ... no :( I use pptp like this: cd /usr/local/vpn sleep 1 ./pptp my.vpn sleep 1 ifconfig ppp0

Re: VPN connection

2002-08-30 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 at 11:10am (+0300), Ionel Ploaie wrote: What do pptp and pppd say in the logfiles when you're trying to establish a link? M. -- :wq! Connection closed Modem hang-up (but under windows is working) Umm... I was hopeing for a more complete extract of

Re: How can I find the RPM that created the link?

2002-08-02 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 at 2:05pm (-0400), Werner Puschitz wrote: How can I find out which RPM created the link for example /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 ? I don't think any rpm... this link should be ldconfig's doing [root@camelot (1) /root]# cd /usr/lib [root@camelot (1) lib]# ls -l

Re: ipchains with redhat 7.2

2002-07-29 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 at 3:38am (-0700), Stand H wrote: Hi, I can't use ipchains with redhat 7.2. When I use it I got a reply like the kernel is not compartible with ipchains. I can use iptables but I wonder why the ipchains is available but can not be used. Do I have to do something before

Re: sort command question

2002-07-18 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 at 3:04pm (-0700), Apolinaras Sinkevicius wrote: I need to sort my log file cronologically what do I need to enter in command line for SORT on RedHat to get the log file sorted? Here is a snipet of log file. NOTE: this is custom style, not the regular apache log file.

Re: sort command question

2002-07-18 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 at 12:45pm (+1000), Cameron Simpson wrote: On 12:26 19 Jul 2002, Matthew Melvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 at 3:04pm (-0700), Apolinaras Sinkevicius wrote: | dialup-dialup-63.214.107.155.Dial1.Boston1.Level3.net.dial1.boston1.level3.net | [03/Mar

Re: Question on 'if' in bash script

2002-07-17 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 at 5:38pm (-0700), David Busby wrote: How would I construct the if to see if a module is loaded I've tried if [ -n lsmod |grep $module ] as well as if [ -z lsmod |grep $module ] The main problem with your code is that bash doens't know the stuff in the 's is a

Re: wrong ident being sent out on irc on 7.3

2002-07-10 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 at 7:44pm (-0500), clover wrote: when i try to get on irc with my new 7.3 system the ident is wrong. it shows up as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and not what it needs to be. when i turn off identd it shows up right but it is not sending an ident reply. this worked right on my old

Re: HP DeskJet 950c

2002-07-02 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 at 10:19am (+1000), Matthew Melvin wrote: I'll admit I'm being a little slack with this one and asking before I've hunted too hard. The box in question isn't hooked up to the internet at the momment so I don't have its config on hand so I'm hoping this will ring

Re: SYS log demon

2002-06-27 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 at 4:50pm (-0400), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question for you How can I set up my sysklog demon to accept information from other hosts on the network? I looked at the man files and I thought I had set the -r 0 -m flags but I don't see any log files? Can you tell me

Re: [openssh-unix-announce] OpenSSH Security Advisory (adv.iss)(fwd)

2002-06-26 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 at 8:28am (-0700), David Talkington wrote: David Talkington wrote: Yes, this definitely could have been handled differently. Especially since they seem to have changed their minds mid-stream after telling people they'd have until Monday to shore up before this

Re: [openssh-unix-announce] OpenSSH Security Advisory (adv.iss)(fwd)

2002-06-26 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 at 5:44pm (-0700), David Talkington wrote: Matthew Melvin wrote: And all this was done with the knowledge that there was a live exploit out in the wild for this. That's the first I've heard of that. Can you support it? As I've said, this condition would absolutely

Re: Multiple Apache

2002-06-26 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Thu, 27 Jun 2002 at 11:15am (+0800), Andy Elacion, Jr. wrote: Is it possible to run multiple Apache daemon on a single machine? It's certainly possible... but before you go down that road (it's kinda messy) are you sure that what you want can't be done with VirtualHost'ing? M. --

Re: Need help installing a Perl Module on Red Hat 7.2

2002-06-11 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 at 9:49pm (-0400), Chris Young wrote: I have been trying to install a Perl module DBD::mysql on our Red Hat 7.2 machine and keep running into problems. I am moving from FreeBSD Unix. I had used CPAN on our older system to install this module with no problems. I can't get

Re: OT: Trapping error messages in a script

2002-05-23 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Thu, 23 May 2002 at 11:01am (-0400), Joe Nestlerode wrote: Hello all. I have a script that could possibly generate the following error: mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device. I can't quite figure out how to get `trap' to catch that or similar errors. (I'd like to have it echo

Re: Linux box won't stop beeping

2002-05-09 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Thu, 9 May 2002 at 1:47pm (-0500), Manzabar wrote: I've got a RedHat 7.2 box running as a server. I rarely log into it except remotely, even though I sit right next to it. The other day due to a power failure; I was rebooting it and noticed that it wasn't detecting the sound card. I

serial console on rh7.2

2002-04-04 Thread Matthew Melvin
Under redhat 6.2 I put S0:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS0 DT9600 vt102 ... into my /etc/inittab and all was good... but redhat 7.2 doens't have an /sbin/getty ... anyone know what I should be putting in there instead? M. -- WebCentral Pty Ltd Australia's #1 Internet Web

Re: problem with /etc/sysconfig/harddisks

2002-03-07 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 at 4:13pm (-0600), derek m wickersham wrote: [...] There were two extra settings I added: -X66 and -u1. So my EXTRA_PARAMS looks like this: EXTRA_PARAMS=-X66 -u1 When I reboot, rc.sysinint processes my harddiskhda and harddiskhdc just fine up until the EXTRA_PARAMS.

Re: kerberized openssh

2002-02-26 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 at 12:00pm (+0330), Sara Sodagar wrote: Hi Thank you very much for helping me to solve my problem in kerberizing openssh. I had a bad flue so I couldn't answer your mail before. I have tested openssh-2.9p2.tar and openssh-2.9p2-gssapi.patch I have executed

Re: kerberized openssh

2002-02-19 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 at 5:22pm (-0800), sara sodagar wrote: HI I want to setup a kerberos 5 client with kerberos enabled openssh. I have installed required rpms for Rh7.1 : openssh-2.9p2-1eds.i386.rpm openssh-server-2.9p2-1eds.i386.rpm openssh-client-2.9p2-1eds.i386.rpm from Simon Wilkinsn

Re: Filtering spam...

2002-01-24 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 at 12:46am (-0600), 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...

Re: Overriding original directory structure

2002-01-21 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 at 10:48pm (-0600), Manuel A. Camacho Q. wrote: I need to copy files from different directories in a CD-ROM to a single directory in my hard drive. So far, I tried with: find /mnt/cdrom/ -name * -type f -exec cp {} /home/BigDog/files/source/{} \; but I get errors

RE: transparent xconsole

2002-01-20 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 at 10:05pm (-0600), Chad and Doria Skinner wrote: Use rxvt instead with the -C option. Or xterm with -C (if it does transparency, which I think it does not). Eterm might have this option too, maybe. I downloaded this and it works fine, but I would like the window

Re: Rebuilding Kerberos

2001-12-17 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 at 2:14pm (-0800), Ben Ocean wrote: Hi; I've taken over a new RH71 box and I'm working with kerberos for the first time. I've run into a strange problem (see below) that I haven't been able to figure out so I thought I'd rebuild from source to be able to run make

Re: ext3 in RH 6.2

2001-12-04 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 at 4:03pm (-0800), P K wrote: Hi all Could I have information how to install ext3 in RH 6.2? Thank you You'll need to patch/upgrade/recompile (*) your kernel and your e2fsprogs but that should be all. There is an ext3 patch for 2.2.19 avilable from...

Re: Please help: rpm db3 error

2001-11-26 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 at 8:44pm (-0500), Reuben D Budiardja wrote: Thanks, that solves some problem. I did that, but now some packages mix up, for example: bash$ rpm -q gal gal-0.18.1-1 gal-0.18.1-1 Notice that the package was listed twice. And when I tried to uninstall, it says:

Re: Is there ever going to any logic to the rpm updates versionnumbers??????

2001-11-14 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 at 5:04am (-0500), Vincent Cojot wrote: Hello list, hello redhat packagers (if any are reading this list), [...] Here is what I mean (from RHSA-2001:106-08): RH7.1 RH7.0 RH6.2 Prev. sendmail verion:8.11.6-1.7.1

Re: rpm4 on RH 6 (was: Is there ever going to any logic to the rpmupdates version numbers??????)

2001-11-14 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 at 1:37pm (+0100), Thomas Ribbrock wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 10:01:35PM +1000, Matthew Melvin wrote: P.S. I can definitly sympathise with the rpm4 problem with rh6.2 - at WC we rebuild all the recent redhat errata on a rpm3 system for folding back into our

Re: rpm4 on RH 6

2001-11-14 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 at 8:33am (-0500), Vincent Cojot wrote: On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Thomas Ribbrock wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 11:00:26PM +1000, Matthew Melvin wrote: The problem isn't with upgrading the machines to use rpm4 - we acutally do that. The problem is that the version

Re: what is what in Linux

2001-11-13 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 at 5:30pm (+0200), Avrahami, David wrote: Hi In digital unix I use what command with this printout: trm245 # what /bin/ls /bin/ls: $RCSfile: crt0.s,v $ $Revision: 1.1.21.11 $ (DEC) $Date: 1995/09/06 19:5 4:27 $ $RCSfile: ls.c,v $ $Revision: 4.3.23.6 $

gabber and esd

2001-11-12 Thread Matthew Melvin
Okay.. hopefully an easier one what does it take to make gabber work with esd? I'm running gabber-0.8.4-1 under WindowMaker-0.64.0-2 with esound-0.2.22-1 on redhat 7.1 if that makes a difference... I've tried with and without the --enable-sound option and I've tried recompling it

outgoing filtering on pine

2001-11-08 Thread Matthew Melvin
I want to re-write the Subject: line on selected outgoing emails... so I've written my filter... #!/usr/bin/perl -p -i (/^$/) ($flg = 1); if ((!$flg) (s/^Subject: (.*)/$1/)) { 1 while (s/^\s*(Re|Task Status Report):\s*//i); $_ = Subject: Task Status Report: $_; $flg

Re: using rpm to query a pkg *before* installing??

2001-11-08 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 at 7:59pm (-0800), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've spent the last halk hour or so reading the 'rpm' man page, and trying various rpm options, but I've been unable to figure out how to, if it's possible, get info (read the specfile??) on what installing a particular rpm

Re: Comparison..of 2 files one dyn..other static

2001-05-06 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Sun, 6 May 2001 at 12:55am (-0600), Remo Mattei wrote: Hi guys it's late and my mind is not working I guess. I have 2 files one which is static (firewall ipdeny) the other is dynamic portsentry therefore I will have ips that I want to copy to the ipdeny but I do not want the ip if

Re: Lame server

2001-05-02 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Wed, 2 May 2001 at 9:37am (+0200), Pieter De Wit wrote: ello Guys and Gals, What does the following message in /var/log/messages mean ? named[535]: Lame server on snip I'm assuming you're using named as a local caching name server? Anyway - it means that named was trying to resolve a

Re: Deny accessing with someservices

2001-05-02 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Wed, 2 May 2001 at 4:23am (+0430), Alireza Saleh wrote: Hi all, how can I deny the telnet and ftp access of some USERS to my server ? thanx for your help in furthur. Alireza What access do want them to still have? Do you want to deny them all (remote?) access or just via those

Re: Deny accessing with someservices

2001-05-02 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Wed, 2 May 2001 at 5:06pm (+0430), Alireza Saleh wrote: Thank you for you reply Matthew, I just want to deny access some users via specific services, for example I have users : A, B, C on my server I don't want to give access into my computer via Telnet and FTP to A, C. Well if you put

RE: Segmentation Fault as user only

2001-04-30 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 at 9:28am (-0600), Frank Carreiro wrote: Strange that it would seg fault as a normal user. I haven't tried Maelstrom yet in RH7.1 however I have it installed on a 6.2 box and it runs fine from any user account. Some investigation showed that although they were all

Re: Mounting a win/dos logical partition

2001-04-30 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 at 11:30pm (-0500), Reuben D Budiardja wrote: Hi, Could anyone help me in how to mount a logical dos/win95 logical partition in linux? What line should be in the /etc/fstab? I have the following line in fstab /dev/hdb2 /mnt/dos_b msdos

Re: Mounting a win/dos logical partition

2001-04-30 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Tue, 1 May 2001 at 12:34am (-0500), Reuben D Budiardja wrote: OK, I'm still confused :). I did fdisk -l /dev/hdb, and here is what I get: Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2480 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System

Re: telnet Restrict

2001-04-29 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 at 7:32am (+0430), Alireza Saleh wrote: Dear Friends, How can limit the access to my server via telnet with special users ? Hello Alireza, I guess it sort of depends on what sort of restrictions you had in mind exactly. I think most things you would want to do

Re: /etc/hosts.allow ssh : all

2001-04-29 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 at 12:44am (+1000), Stuart Clark wrote: /etc/hosts.allow ssh: all Is this a good idea or should i consider something like this ? /etc/hosts.allow ssh: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx It depends on what you're trying to acheive Stuart. Also - unless you've got a sshd

Re: telnet Restrict

2001-04-29 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 at 12:42pm (+0430), Alireza Saleh wrote: Dear Mat, I appreciate about your help but does the pam_access.so need a special config within its conf file ? I am not sure waht you mean? M. -- WebCentral Pty Ltd Australia's #1 Internet Web Hosting Company Level 1,

Re: Segmentation Fault as user only

2001-04-29 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 at 10:59am (-0600), Otto Lenz wrote: Whether I login as 'user', or login as root and then 'su user' in a terminal window, the results are the same. As root, the game/program runs fine; as 'user' I get the segmentation fault. The results are the same whether in Gnome or

Re: Segmentation Fault as user only

2001-04-29 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 at 8:21pm (-0600), Otto Lenz wrote: Matthew, Thanks for the suggestions. I'm not sure what 'suid' means - I thought 'su' was 'substitute user'. But, I did find out what 'strace' was and I tried running it under or through 'strace' - which was interesting (and I'm sure

Re: PPP address assignment problem

2001-04-28 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 at 10:46am (-), bhaskar baruah wrote: Hello everyone, Can one help me in determining what wrong with my PPP connection ? Here is a snap shot of the /etc/var/messages.. Aug 24 08:16:50 hfcu pppd[726]: local IP address 202.141.83.11 hfcu

Re: simple question on SED

2001-04-28 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 at 10:14am (+0600), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I am trying to replace the letter -r with -r new line my command is like this # cat file |sed 's/-r/-r \n/g' file2 the result I get is -r is replace to be -r n what have I done wrong. Sed wants you to use a

Re: adding users through a script

2001-04-25 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 at 2:24am (-0700), Wyatt wrote: I want to add users through a shell script and have it set the password. I may be way off on this but it seems that useradd will not add a password for the user. You have to run passwd and get prompted to enter the password twice. This

Re: other than CNAME in DNS

2001-04-25 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 at 1:44pm (+0800), Mark Lo (3) wrote: HI, I would like to know, is there any method other the CNAME Record using in DNS. Assume I only have one ip and want to host many sites. No reason you can't have multiple A records pointing at the same IP address. M. --

Re: Renamed System file

2001-04-24 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 at 4:32pm (-0400), Rajah, PushpamX wrote: I am working in Linux 6.2 intel version. By mistake I have renamed the libc.so.6 file libc.so.6old. Now I am unable to do anything. Can I restore the file in any other manner. The easiest way is to boot up add give the option

Re: Logrotate Problem: Please HELP, Please, Please, PLEASE

2001-04-23 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 at 2:40pm (-0700), Ben Ocean wrote: Hi; I don't know WHY nobody out there responds to my queries, Ussually it's 'cause no one knows the answer. Your query doesn't really give us much to go on. but my server's costing me lots of money and I NEED YOUR HELP. I have a

Re: Logrotate Problem: Please HELP, Please, Please, PLEASE

2001-04-23 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 at 3:09pm (-0700), Ben Ocean wrote: At 07:49 AM 4/24/2001 +1000, you wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 at 2:40pm (-0700), Ben Ocean wrote: Hi; I don't know WHY nobody out there responds to my queries, Ussually it's 'cause no one knows the answer. Your query doesn't

Re: Logrotate Problem: Please HELP, Please, Please, PLEASE

2001-04-23 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 at 3:49pm (-0700), Ben Ocean wrote: At 08:15 AM 4/24/2001 +1000, you wrote: What's in /tmp/logrotate.strace? Everything proceeds smoothly until it goes to read a files in /var/log/interchange and then it starts spitting out zillions of lines like this: 30860

Re: slocate question

2001-04-21 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 at 9:36am (-0400), Jake McHenry wrote: what is it? I got an error last night that locked up my machine, said that it could not run /usr/bin/updatedb and gave me a bunch of error info. Does anyone know if I can turn this service off so that I don't get this again?

Re: Help with simple script and lynx -dump

2001-04-18 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 at 11:12pm (-0400), Wes Owen wrote: I'm trying to get lynx to parse a .html document and write it out to /tmp/file.txt. So I used the command: /usr/bin/lynx -dump -nolist -term=vt100 /home/www/htdocs/index.html Which works great when I run it when I'm logging into

Re: Odd behavior

2001-04-17 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 at 9:26am (-0400), Clarence Donath wrote: Yesterday afternoon my Linux box with Wolverine installed started to beep randomly. This is coming from the speaker, not through the sound card. Nothing was being written to the console and there were no messages in syslog, but

Re: Diff for folders / filesystems

2001-04-11 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 at 10:49am (+1000), Dan Horth wrote: Hi - I was wondering if there was a tool similar to diff that would allow me to compare two file systems and check that they are identical - as in same files, same permissions, same file sizes, etc. Possibly you could do something

Re: fetchmail problems...

2001-03-26 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 at 2:34pm (+0300), Silviu Cojocaru wrote: I'm using fetchmail 5.5.0-3 and I seem to have a problem when retrieving mail from a POP3 server: the retrieved massges are not deleted from the server, this made the mailbox on my ISPs server fill up quite fast. The symptoms

Re: Centralized X server

2001-03-22 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 at 3:37pm (-0800), Andy Schuler wrote: Hello, We're doing something interesting here at ErnieBall Inc., (we manufacture guitars and guitar accessories) we're getting rid of every single Micro$oft product we own. We have about 100 users on our network so this has proven

Re: RH5.2 Crash

2001-03-20 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 at 4:05pm (-0700), Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: After having a server up and running stable for over a year (with perhaps 2 reboots during that time), today it crashed with an odd error, and I have no idea how to interpret this, nor what may have caused it. It's an

Re: fancy pdksh PS1 prompts

2001-03-19 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 at 2:23pm (-), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to generate ANSI sequences inside pdksh's PS1 prompt? A la bash? I can do things like print "\027\033[1;32m hello \027\033[0m" but I can't get PS1 to interpret properly - err, don't worry about string length,

Re: Directory Structure MAX_SIZE

2001-03-14 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 at 2:48pm (-0800), Rob Hardowa wrote: Hey all, A friend just asked me a q I could not provide an answer for. They are doing a large project in which they assume the directory structure will be quite vast (deep) and would like to know if there is a limit to that depth.

Re: strange date changes

2001-03-13 Thread Matthew Melvin
some explination for the disparity this isn't really a very useful data point. After all, it worked for me too prior to yesterday morning. :) M. On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Matthew Melvin wrote: Hello All, I've got a box here, redhat 5.2 with all the errata, and a 2.2.18 kernel but seems

strange date changes

2001-03-12 Thread Matthew Melvin
Hello All, I've got a box here, redhat 5.2 with all the errata, and a 2.2.18 kernel but seems to be confused about it's time. For the last 2 days it has been more or less randomly jumping the system clock forward 10 hours. This makes me think it must be someone sort of time zone

Re: Kernels

2001-02-27 Thread Matthew Melvin
On 22 Feb 2001 at 5:40pm (-0500), Trond Eivind Glomsrd wrote: "Ashley M. Kirchner" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a RH7.0 box that's currently running kernel 2.2.17. When I check the update agent, there doesn't seem to be any update to the 2.2.18 version, Our 2.2.17 is 2.2.17

Re: Linux Frustration Rant: two problems in one

2001-02-26 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 at 5:30am (-0500), Jerry Human wrote: Hello Everyone: This is about one of the biggest frustrations I've found with all flavors Linux. Practically every time I find a command or program I want to use, BAM ... Permission Denied. For instance, I lurk on this forum trying

Re: 'netdate'

2001-02-25 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 at 2:06pm (-0400), Ted Gervais wrote: I wonder if RedHat has anything like 'netdate' that is used in a crontab event to go out and call a 'time/date' station which in turn sets the time and date of your own system. IE: netdate 192.43.244.18. rdate which talks to the

Re: xterm ignores -title

2001-02-18 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 at 8:22pm (-0500), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just installed RedHat 7.0. I had previously run 6.2. I use xterm with the -T option a lot because it helps me find the window I want in my window list. On 6.2, it worked fine. Now I find that no matter what my xterm's

Re: Fw: telnet : kick-off by system if idle....

2001-02-14 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001 at 8:35am (+0800), gary wrote: Can anyone help on this, please. I've been struggle for this for quite sometime, but still can't resolve it - Original Message - From: gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 2:35 PM

Re: crontab and mail

2001-02-14 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 at 11:35pm (+0530), Kiran Kumar M wrote: Hi, The processing done by 'crontab' will sent to 'root' by mail. How can I stop it. At the head of your crontab file put something like.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... see crontab(5) for more details. M. -- WebCentral Pty Ltd

Re: How to trim chars off words with sed, awk or something.

2001-02-14 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 at 4:41pm (-0600), Jonathan Wilson wrote: Hey, I have 2 dirs, one with all the src.rpms of the RH updates, another with the i686 rpms. I compiled them all with a for..do loop, but some of them didn't compile. I'd like to make a list of each dir and diff them, but in

Re: Usage accounting

2001-02-08 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001 at 8:31pm (+1100), Clement wrote: Do you know if there is any way to tell how many CPU clocks a user has used and how many disk space a user has used? With BSD process accouting enabled in the kernel (it is with redhat by default) and the psacct package you can get stats

Re: help me with rhl 6.0

2001-02-03 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001 at 10:28am (+0530), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi linuxers, i have RHL 6.0 on a P II 333. after some 2o to 30 booting, i am getting an error message that root mount count reached max. check forced. and then fsck runs automatically and takes a lot of time. why this ? The

Re: /dev permissions oddity

2001-02-03 Thread Matthew Melvin
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001 at 11:49pm (-0600), David Talkington wrote: Discovered something strange (to me) today. I tried to play an audio file on my RH7 box, and discovered that I couldn't ... permission denied. Hmm ... worked last time. Checked perms on /dev/audio* and /dev/dsp*, and found

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