Re: Transfering files in SSH

2003-10-23 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, > I want to be able to administer the server remotely. But the only > problem I have is that I don't know how to transfer files from my > workstation to the server via SSH. Can anyone point me in the direction > of some info? You want to look at scp. The basic command is scp localfile [EMAIL

Re: disk crash

2003-10-17 Thread Rus Foster
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Asbjorn Hoiland Aarrestad wrote: > Hi all... I need some advice. > > One of my disks give me an 0x40 error (uncorrectable error), and I think > I need to replace that disk. > > Does any of you know of a program to "mirror" the disk, filesystem and > all? I'm running redhat 9.0

Re: Advise on adding a new disk

2003-10-16 Thread Rus Foster
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Peram's List wrote: > Hi, > I've got a Redhat 9 system and all the parititions are ext3. I've added > a data disk which I've taken from a SuSe Linux system and added it as a > secondary. > I'd not able to see old partitions on the second hard drive. I'd > appreciate if you gur

Re: Shrike Title

2003-10-01 Thread Rus Foster
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, SoloCDM wrote: > In the RedHat ISO downloads, what dose shrike mean in > shrike-i386-disc1.iso? > Shrike is the name given to RedHat 9. Rgds Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Just Virtual Dedicated Servers e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| banners: http://www.jvds.com/banners.ph

Re: Messaging server software for Linux

2003-10-01 Thread Rus Foster
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Bob Hartung wrote: > Question: >Is there any freeware/shareware/open-source messaging > server software available. In our office I need to make > shared info. available for 4 to a maximum of 5 people and I > would like to host the server on RH 8. > Look at jabber from jab

RE: Is ftp running?

2003-09-29 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Christian Campbell wrote: > You can use nmap to scan the machine to see if port 21 is open or, or telnet > to port 21: > > telnet yourdomin.com 21 > > You should get a response like: Also you could try "fuser 21/tcp" and see if anything is returned Rus -- w: http://www.jvds

Re: Procmail recipes

2003-09-26 Thread Rus Foster
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Jason Williams wrote: > Hello everyone... > > I was trying to learn procmail so I can write up my own recipes. However, > im having a hard time joining their mailing list...It does not look like > the list is working... > > I was curious if anyone had recommendations on where

Re: can a script as root without asking for password

2003-09-23 Thread Rus Foster
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Simon Tischer wrote: > HI > > > > I have a script which shout be execute as root, from a normal user shell, with > nomal user permissions, without asking for root password. > > Is there any solution? You can setup sudo to allow the user to run the script. So if you install su

Re: add users from a text file

2003-09-23 Thread Rus Foster
> > Actually i'm not very quick in programming and not > familiar with perl. I'd rather get a ready made script > (if there's any available). :) Hi, Here a little script that might help with a bit of adaption. This script is a bit hacky but you should get something of it -- Main script -- #!/bin/

Re: chat server

2003-09-22 Thread Rus Foster
> I installed the jabber server at the office. We also use group > conferencing. For Windows clients, we run Exodus since it's free. No > serious complaints around here. Or trillian might be good for its multi-server funtionality (not sure if Exodus does that) Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com |

Re: chat server

2003-09-22 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Nabin Limbu wrote: > Hi, > > Does any one have the idea of open source chat server running in > linux server with windows client. > > With Regards > Nabin Limbu Look at jabber (www.jabber.com) Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Dedicated FreeBSD,Debian and RedHat Servers e: [

Re: Sendmail from Shell Script?

2003-09-17 Thread Rus Foster
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, David Hart wrote: > I seem to recall there's a way to send a file from a shell script but > cannot remember how to do it. > If its plain text then just cat filename | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] else you want to look at uuencoding it then cat'ing it Rus -- w: http://www.jv

Re: help!!!! can not start my server, big trouble

2003-09-15 Thread Rus Foster
e shell > give root passwd for maintenence > > (or type ctr-d for normal start >up): Type in the root password run "fsck /" Drop me a list off line if you want more help Rgds Rus Foster -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Linux + FreeBSD Se

Re: Setting Up Sendmail

2003-09-15 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all. > > I'm running RH9 on a PII 300MHz w/MMX and 128MB RAM on a cable modem > (the comp is a combo server/workstation, for now) and need to set up > sendmail so that I can bypass my ISP's SMTP s

Re: storage available?

2003-08-21 Thread Rus Foster
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From the command line how can I tell how much storage space is > available on the hard drive? > try "df -h" Rgds Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Linux + FreeBSD VDS's from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Totally Customizable Technology t:

Re: How to login as root from remote machine

2003-08-20 Thread Rus Foster
i tried with rsh and ssh. > > when i tried with ssh ,it shows permission denied > > when i use rsh it shows login incorrect. > > > > how to enable the remote "root" login. To Enable root edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and make sure "PermitRootLogin Yes" is set

Re: kernel version from command line?

2003-08-20 Thread Rus Foster
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Redhat wrote: > Also, how do I find out what kernel version is running from > the command line? > > Run "uname -a" Rgds Rus Foster -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Linux + FreeBSD VDS's from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Totally Customizable

Re: Dual Monitors

2003-08-04 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Sue Champigny wrote: > Does anyone know how to configure dual monitors in Redhat? > Windows handles it w/o doing anything, But I am confidant that this > can be done w/ Linux, but how. Yeah it can be done :) You need to do at least X --configure Edit XF86config and enable Xin

Re: basic bash shell ?

2003-08-02 Thread Rus Foster
> Hi, >I am trying to learn a little more about the bash shell so I can figure > out some of the script files that I see all the time. Is there a way to > run bash scripts or a single line of a script in an interactive mode from > the command line and echo the output back to the shell so I ca

Re: Newbie Question

2003-07-28 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, Its stored in /etc/. Also man fstab might give you some background to the format of the fil Rus -- www: http://jvds.com | Virtual Servers from just $15/mo MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Totally Customizable Technology e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | forums: http://forums.jvds.com 10% donat

Re: Using VM Ware to create a Windows VM on a Linux server.

2003-07-27 Thread Rus Foster
> Can it be ext3? > Sincerely, > The underlying filesystem can be anything as long as the kernel can read it. So ext3/xfs/reiser etc.. Rgds Rus -- www: http://jvds.com | Virtual Servers from just $15/mo MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Totally Customizable Technology e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | for

Re: Using VM Ware to create a Windows VM on a Linux server.

2003-07-27 Thread Rus Foster
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, dlangschied wrote: > I am curious, do I have to create my partition as fat for a Windows VM? > Sincerely, Hi, No you don't VMWARE can just use a normal file such as /usr/vmware/2000/winnt2000.dsk Rgds Rus Foster -- www: http://jvds.com | Virtual Servers from

Re: Status Monitoring Software?

2003-07-25 Thread Rus Foster
> Hi, > > I'm running a relatively small scale RedHat 9 server and am wondering if > there are any good (free/open source?) status monitoring tools that > check if web services, mail services, etc are functioning and alerts an > administrator if they aren't (for example, if the daemon isn't > res

Re: named

2003-07-15 Thread Rus Foster
> OS: Redhat 7.3 > > I want to reduce the number of named processes. I am assuming that they are spare > servers in the same way as with Apache, they are taking up memory which could be > better used as the load on DNS for this server is minimal. > > Is this possible and how do I do it? > > PID

Re: what is .bz2 extension??

2003-07-10 Thread Rus Foster
> extract this files. > bzip is a different type of compression. Try tar jxvf instead or bunzip2 Rgds Rus Foster www: http://www.65535.net | Hosting - Shell Accounts MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Virtual Servers from just $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Community: http:/

Re: Apache Virtual Hosts and site name

2003-07-09 Thread Rus Foster
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Mike McMullen wrote: > Hi all, > > I have created a virtual host on my apache server with a > name like www.virtualhost.com. If I use that URL to access > it, everything is fine. > > However, if I use the URL of virtualhost.com., I get the > default host home page which is an e

Re: Enquery Opened Port

2003-06-29 Thread Rus Foster
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Leo Huang wrote: > Hello, > > There is a command to show which port is opened by which program. > > Suppose I type "somecommand someoptions 80", and it will return the result > "httpd" > > Does anyone know the command I'm talking about? > Try fuser. So you could do fuser www/

Re: Internet connection via GSM phone?

2003-06-12 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, It can really depend on the phone you've got, how you are connecting it and if the GSM phone itself has a full builtin modem. Can you give us a few more details Rgds Rus -- www: http://www.65535.net | Hosting - Shell Accounts MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Virtual Servers from just

Re: How can I deliver messages to two different places (local andremote)

2003-06-11 Thread Rus Foster
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, James Ebright wrote: > Hello all, > > Thought I'd change the subject and restate the issue perhaps a bit more > clearly as I did not recieve any responses to my last post. I am using > sendmail as my MTA. First though would be use ~/.forward. If you do something like \userna

Re: get me off this mailing list please

2003-03-29 Thread Rus Foster
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Annette Bonnici wrote: > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Click on this link -^ Rus -- http://www.65535.net | "More bits for your byte" | e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] forums: http://forums.65535.net | MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC Accounts - Shell Accounts - Hosting - Email - Cus

Re: How to dig for all hosts

2003-03-19 Thread Rus Foster
ult in a format closest to the zone > configuration file? > > Thanks, > Chad Hi, Assuming that you DNS server is setup to allow you to transfer the data (and that you are going to use BINd) dig +multiline @nsamserver.domain.com domain.com axfr Rgds Rus Foster -- http://www.65535.net |

Re: Starting an application as root

2003-03-17 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Jose Romildo Malaquias wrote: > Hello. > > Does anyone knows any tool that can be used to start > applications as user root. I am looking for a tool that > would ask for the root password and then launch an > application, like what happens when one runs Red Hat > configuration

Re: Fast Mirrors!

2003-03-17 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Richard Sumilang wrote: > Whats the fastest mirror that you guys know of where I can download > RedHat Linux 7.3??? I'm downloading disc 1 from linuxiso.org and > another one from somewhere else I found on google but they are pretty > slow. Anyone know any fast servers? > > Th

RE: Help

2003-03-17 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Price, Charles wrote: > Laptop : Compaq 900 > > Info from the Sound Card Configuration Tool > Vendor : Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] > Model : M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device > Module : disabled > > - Charles > With Linux you get 2 choice of sound drivers. You either

Re: Help

2003-03-17 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Price, Charles wrote: > Hi, > > I've loaded Redhat 8.0 onto my laptop. I'm having problems getting the > sound to work. Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > -Charles > Do you know what type of sound card you've got? Also what type of laptop is it? You can find out

Re: XMMS stutters constantly

2003-03-17 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Kevin Krumwiede wrote: > Previously I was running Mandrake 8, but I lost a hard drive and decided > to install RH8 on the new one. XMMS used to play smoothly even under > heavy load, but now it skips at the slightest thing, like scrolling a > modest amount of text, or even ju

Re: shell script - expert question

2003-03-16 Thread Rus Foster
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Kleiner Hampel wrote: > Hi, > > i have a directory with some files with spaces in the name: > > abc 1.mp3 > abc 2.mp3 > abc 3 track 2.mp3 > > For my shell script i have to begin so: > > for i in `ls`; do echo $i; done > Try cd /tmp/foo for i in * ; do echo "$i" ; done You n

RE: Recover Raid 5 of Red Hat 7.3

2003-03-13 Thread Rus Foster
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Hong Tian wrote: > If one disk of Raid 5 is found bad, Could I just replace the bad disk and > recover the system and data? Or Should I re-install the Linux system from > scratch again and recover the data from the backup? The idea of RAID-5 is to survive this. Assuming you'v

Re: Web Permissions - Newbie Question

2003-03-10 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the permission level I should set websites to? Right now it is set to 755 > and everything works, but should everything have the execute? And do cgi's need to > be 777 or can they just be 755? > > Billy > > If this is in ~/public_html then

Re: ftp vs scp transfer speed.

2003-03-07 Thread Rus Foster
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 18:14, Chad Skinner wrote: > > At a guess, I'd say that something is wrong in what you're doing (i.e. > it's not the answer that's wrong, there is something wrong in the > question). Nowhere on God's green Earth do you find one pro

Re: galeon faster?

2003-03-07 Thread Rus Foster
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Bret Hughes wrote: > I ended up in galeon today for the first time and I'll be darned if it > doesn't feel a LOT faster than mozilla. I guess I will hang out with it > for a while. Any thoughts? > > Plus I love the google bars. > > Bret > > Yup it is. It uses the same renderi

Re: 2 IP addresses on one NIC ?

2003-03-06 Thread Rus Foster
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, forums wrote: > > Anyone knows how to set two IP addresses on one NIC ? > > I know how on a BSD system, but under RH ? > > should be simple i think ? > > regards > Wiljoh > Yup. Just do ifconfig eth0 add 192.168.0.101 Rgds Rus -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Configuring DNS Server

2003-03-04 Thread Rus Foster
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, rahul b jain cs student wrote: > Hi, > > I was trying to configure a DNS server for my private network. Since I > dont know much about configuring it, I would really appreciate if someone > could point me to a tutorial / document, which they think is a good > resource. > > Tha

Re: Running DOS program at my linux program

2003-03-03 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Charlie Song wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to run a DOS program at my linux program. How can I realize it? > > > Thanks, > > Charlie > If you mean you are trying to run DOS programs on Linux look at dosemu (www.dosemu.org) Rgds Rus -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: strange problem

2003-02-25 Thread Rus Foster
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, santosh kumar wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am getting some very strange problem. I can not ping and cannot telnet > to redhat 7.2 m/c but from redhat m/c i can telnet & ping other m/cs in > the network.. > To overcome with same, please give your valuable feedbacks.. > > Thanks

Re: xmms

2003-02-25 Thread Rus Foster
On 25 Feb 2003, bulent acikgoz wrote: > > Hello friends, > I want to use xmms 1.2.4. But I didn't work it. > İs there any one use it? > it is ok.How? > thanks.. > > Did you have trouble with mp3's? If so see http://www.xmms.org/ Rus -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Single login to all workstations in network

2003-02-19 Thread Rus Foster
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, senthil@jadooworks wrote: > Hello All, > > > I would like to know if it is possible to have a common set of usernames > and password that the users can use in any linux system. Like in windows > domain architecture when a username is created in the PDC the username > is valid

Network profiles

2003-02-19 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, Is there any tool under redhat that will let me switch network profiles between home/office. Ideally it would be able to update things like proxy settings on galeon/gaim and other such cool things rus -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lifetime Linux or FreeBSD account: $100 ||

Re: curious new posts [OT]

2003-02-18 Thread Rus Foster
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Tass wrote: > Greetings. > > Though I am extremely pleased to have joined this group, I have to say > that I am a bit concerned about a post I've recently received. > This list if reflected onto a number of websites and newsgroups. Its quite possible your address is being pic