If you use Netscape for Red Hat Linux to visit as many Web sites as I
do in a day, you've probably found yourself frequently frustrated with
how Netscape renders many of them. In some cases, sites are almost
unusable because of the horrible appearance and size of fonts. Well,
I delved into the m
I have removed the following directories from our FTP site:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/XBF
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/XFCom
Users needing the drivers previously contained within these directories
are advised to use packages distributed with newer releases of Red Hat
Linux. The Red H
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> please remove this person from the redhat list.
> I sent a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and received this response!
Done. Autoreplies to list messages are unacceptable.
> Forwarded Message:
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > From: Srilatha Ramachandran-
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, [iso-8859-1] José Romildo Malaquias wrote:
> The most recent package found at ftp.redhat.com/contrib/libc6/SRPMS
> (m2c-0.6-1.src.rpm) dates from set 16 21:44. I keep receiving
> announcements of new packages from redhat-announce-list.
>
> Could someone explain what is going
On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Michael Montz wrote:
[...]
>1. Can Apache run, at the same time, as both a WEB and Proxy server?
Yes, Apache can function as both a Web server and as a proxy server;
however, I've heard bad things about Apache's proxy functions. The
general consensus has been that Squid is th
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, RedHat List wrote:
>Is there a way to kill every process accessing a directory or a file ?
Check out the "fusers" command.
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On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, John Higginbotham wrote:
>A local friend found the problem. Here is the complete working command
>line:
>
>date +'%b %_d'>file.txt
>(no double-quotes needed; grep takes content as literal
>
>ls -laR /home/higginbo | grep -f file.txt | mail higginbo
Or:
ls -alR /home/higgi
Did I miss an announcement somewhere?! I just read on the RH
Trivia Contest--of all places--that Alan Cox is joining the Red Hat
development team! WOW!!! When was he hired? When will he be starting?
What projects will he be on initially?
Way to go, Red Hat!!!
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On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Keith Dart wrote:
>On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote:
>> I work for an ISP. We've got several boxes that share a lot of
>> configuration information (password files, server configuration files,
>> etc.). The idea of a robust
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Robert Hart wrote:
[...]
>We are supporting Linuxconf - I expect you will see the first fruits of
>this in the next version of Red Hat Linux (whenever that occurs :-). I
>also expect that Linuxconf will manage only a few things at first...
Could you provide some more informati
On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Robert Hart wrote:
[...]
>Unsupported We have full commercial support available for Red Hat
>Linux... what do they actually want that we are not providing with our
>commercial support program - this sort of response from management is
>one we wish to stop!
A Web page deta
On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, Mat Serwas wrote:
[...]
>I read the comp news groups alot and can say there is as much traffic
>relating to maintaining the RedHat OS as there is for the other OS's.
>So, I deduct from that that RedHat does not have a lock on OS's as far
>as superiority is concerned.
That's a
On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, SC Altex Impex SRL wrote:
>I'm trying to start/stop the postgres database manager with a SysV init
>script (RH4.2).
>
>The script (following under - line numbers not included into original)...
Please don't include line numbers in the future. They make reading the
script diff
>I'm sorry redhat guys, but your intentions may be noble, the
>implementation is ehrm... let's say 'difficult'. I'm not an inexperienced
>Unix user, but this PAM is costing me more time to figure out what the
>heck is going on with it than it's worth.
If your system weren't using PAM, you'd hav
On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, G. Q. Shen wrote:
>I want to how I can set the priority of one user's ALL processes.
>I know I can set priority for individual process by nice.
Reading the man page for "renice", we find that you want "renice -u".
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On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Dave Price wrote:
>I am trying to add sound support to kernel 2.0.32 - from src-rpm
Why are you trying to build it from the SRPM? If you haven't done an
"rpm -bp" yet, the kernel source may not have necessary patches applied.
Install the binary RPM and use that, instead.
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On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Casey Bralla wrote:
>I build RH 5 with a 32 MByte swap partition (doiuble my current 16
>MBytes of RAM). I plan to increase my RAM to 64 MBytes. Will I need
>to repartition my disk to increase the swap space to 64 MBytes? (or
>132 MBytes?)
Only if you want to. There is no
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Bijaya Hamal wrote:
[...]
>But I get this message when I boot the new Kernel as Kernel Panic :
>This is what it looks like :-
>eth0:NE2000 found at 0X300 , using IRQ3
>VFS:Cannot open root device 03:02
>Kernel panic VFS : unable to mount root fs on 03:02
I suspect a problem
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Javier Hernandez wrote:
[...]
>I am following periodically the updates of Red Hat 4.2 and I have observed
>several times that an upgrade is released and it correspond in version to
>a package that already was updated to that status; apparently the only
>different with the new
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Joe Klemmer wrote:
[...]
>Linux is NOT in competition with anything MS produces.
Huh? Since when? What, then, *is* Linux competing with? What niche
market does Linux serve without competition?
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On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Keith Dart wrote:
>On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Greg Thomas wrote:
>> [...]
>> >So they get a job or something where there are Linux machines and they
>> >go and try md and it isn
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Joe Klemmer wrote:
[...]
>Making the move to Linux means you're going to be exposed to, and likely
>work on, other *NIX flavors.
That's not a valid assumption.
>What good is it to alias a command that works on dozens of other systems
>to something that only works on three?
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Joe Klemmer wrote:
[...]
>That's basically like saying that an F-16 should be made as easy to use
>as a glider.
Careful. There's a big difference between "being as easy to use" and
"being as capable as". For instance, I'm sure the pilot of an F-16
wants the plane to be as e
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, William T Wilson wrote:
>On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote:
>> who will? Are we to hope that UNIX will have the same, cryptic interface
>> in 10 years that it has today, or should we hope that it will improve?
>
>No, we should
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Anthony DeStefano wrote:
[...]
>It is best to stick to using /dev/ttyS* since the /dev/cua devices are
>soon going to be phased out. The recent 2.1 kernels already display
>warnings if you use /dev/cua*
Ah, I wasn't aware of that. I suggested the cua devices because that's
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Greg Thomas wrote:
[...]
>...but don't you think a pre-existing alias in a particular distribution
>would cause confusion? If somebody started new and typed in md and
>it worked they would not even wonder if it was a Linux native command.
>So they get a job or something where
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Al Margheim wrote:
>Now, can anyone tell me where I should have looked to find information on
>modprobe while I was researching this problem? Also, I am still curious
>what I was doing wrong with the Kerneld Configurator in case I need to use
>it in the future.
man modprobe
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Greg Thomas wrote:
[...]
>Adding aliases to the dist, IMO, would be very bad. People would use dir,
>or md, or whatever, without ever knowing the corresponding Linux commands.
>What would motivate people to learn the OS this way?
Why should they have to? If the aliases allo
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Vidiot wrote:
[...]
>Most users will want to have activity on com1/3 (com2/4) at the same
>time,...
They will? Why? In my experience, users typically have *at most* two
serial devices: a mouse and a modem, and most systems these days ship with
PS/2-style mouse connectors, r
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Craig Kattner wrote:
[...]
>Different means to the same end in this case is hardly faulty. And, if
>you don't like them odds are you know how to change them.
That is an invalid assumption. Presumably, if you don't like "ls",
you know enough to know how to define a "dir" alia
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Alfonso Barreto Lopez wrote:
>I made the link /dev/modem to cua0 and cua1 and I sent this file to it
[...]
>I did not hear anything about dialing what else can I do?
How did you "sen[d] this file to it"?
Try using Minicom. Once you invoke Minicom from the command line
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Bruce Tong wrote:
[...]
>* Each machine will eventually be a web server as this is how individuals
>will collaborate their work as well as access their own information
>from remote locations. Already Linux is like this. MacOS now ships with
>"Personal Web Sharing." Windows wil
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, William T Wilson wrote:
>On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Greg Thomas wrote:
>>Adding aliases to the dist, IMO, would be very bad. People would use dir,
>>or md, or whatever, without ever knowing the corresponding Linux commands.
>>What would motivate people to learn the OS this way?
>
>
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Janwillem Borleffs wrote:
>I have a rather (I think) stupid question. I have a program wich calls
>on the cc command wich doesn't excist on my system. Wich package must
>I install (redHat 5.0) in order to make the command valid?
gcc
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On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Al Margheim wrote:
>I'm trying to get an Allied Telesyn International AT-2000 (NE-2000 clone)
>to work with RedHat v5.0 (kernel 2.0.32) and am having no luck. I've spent
>many hours reading faqs, howto's, linux newsgroup postings but I'm still
>not sure what the problem is.
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Vidiot wrote:
>>How can I setup an internal modem under Linux I tried with /dev/ttyS3
>>but it did not work, how can I see if it is recognized
>
>Are you trying to use the modem on com3 or com4? If so, don't.
>I've never gotten that to work correctly.
I have. When deali
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I seem to remember sometime during last november (around the middle
>of the month), someone from redhat posted a message to this list that
>indicated a release was very near. This was no official announcement,
>but it was an announcement nonetheless. T
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Bradley, Greg wrote:
>> How? The kernel starts init (
>Before we can load the kernel, we need a bootstrap in the bios. Is this
>part of the operating system as well?
No, it's part of the BIOS.
>> Huh?
>The program, init, is a user input. Put a different program there called
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Bradley, Greg wrote:
[...]
>>init--which isn't part of the kernel--doesn't exist
>
>Here we have a perfect example of an OS asking requiring user input.
Huh? When does init ask for user input? How is the "OS" asking for
input when dealing with init?
[...]
>>Without all of
On 26 Mar 1998, Bryan C. Andregg wrote:
>On Wed, 25 Mar 1998 22:55:35 -0500 (EST), <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I do have to admit that I'm...disappointed that the RHL user community
>> is no longer as privy to the RH development process. I suppose it's
>> necessary, though, to maintain a viable
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
>Oh, and, in case you hadn't noticed, Goodwin's Law has struck this
>thread because Steve Coile mentioned the Nazis...
I'm glad *someone* finally noticed that! =)
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On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Paul Anderson wrote:
[...]
>My personal rule of thumb is when Donnie and Erik disappear from the
>list for more than three days, a new release is about to come out.
Seems to me that most of the RH crew have been absent for some time.
Do they traffic hurricane-list more now-a-
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Bradley, Greg wrote:
>After you boot the kernel, you can run any number of PROGRAMS to provide
>the functionality required, getty, bash etc might be useful here.
How? The kernel starts init (an external program), which in turn
starts getty (an external program), which in tu
On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Lane J. Bryson wrote:
[...]
>We each indicate three basic points:
>
>1. OS can be initiated and set up all these services itself.
>("bootstrapping." however, netware, for example, does this without
>bootstrapping per se.)
Your definition does not include a complete bootstrap
On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Lane J. Bryson wrote:
[...]
>We're not talking about what I can do with it. We're talking about
>what an OS is, which is internal. All that's really at issue is what
>is happening inside the box.
Wrong.
Let's also consider your definition again. You argue that the kernel
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Patrick T. Berry wrote:
>I am trying to get to market for the two Linux users groups and the
>public at large, a decent Linux box at under $800.
At a MarketPro computer show like the ones they have here in northern
Virginia, you can put together a perfectly reasonable system
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Douglas F. Elznic wrote:
>Hello is it possible to set up a user dependent man dir like the bin dir?
>ANd how do I change the man search path?
The man search path is determined by the contents of $MANPATH.
If $MANPATH is not set, the search path in /etc/man.config is used.
Try
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, William T Wilson wrote:
[...]
>It's a matter of which definition of OS you subscribe to. Some say that
>the OS is responsible for mediating the interactions between CPU, RAM,
>and peripherals, and providing a set of system calls for programs to
>interact with them. Linux (ev
I looked all through www.redhat.com this evening but couldn't find any
information about the Red Hat third-party support partnership that was
being headed up with Robert Hart. Whatever happened to that, anyway?
Ewww... looking at the Red Hat Employees page, I dn't see Rob listed.
No bueno.
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On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Bruce Tong wrote:
[...]
>I don't mean to be ignorant here, but if I shouldn't refer to the
>operating system as "Linux", how should I refer to the operating system?
>Does "the Red Hat distribution of Linux", or more simply "RedHat Linux",
>convey the appropriate meaning?
Yes.
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Steve Hazelett wrote:
>I have a number of files that I run under RH4.2 and I was wondering if
>they might break if I upgrade to RH5.0. A lot of them were built on
>the libc library and with going to new libraries will they still work?
>Not all the apps I run have been upgrade
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Ken Arck wrote:
>Steve Coile wrote:
>>A technical debate is not won with volume, it's won with technical merit.
>
>Hate to say it, but if that was *always* the case, MAC would be ahead of PC
>by now :) Of course, MAC is based on *nix, but
>
>In this day and age of 5 second
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Douglas F. Elznic wrote:
>On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Scott McDermott wrote:
>> This is the wrong approach and is not very dissimilar from spam. All
>> that would be accomplished here was to prove that we are well-connected
>> fanatics.
>
>I guess you don't vote. How is a large numb
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
>What is an OS ? Sure Linux has a kernel, but that kernel and some other
>things "make a computer work". Basicly, isn't that what an OS does ?
Absolutely! But the kernel is just one of those things that "make a
computer work".
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On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Victoria Stanfield wrote:
>Is there a HOWTO somewhere that tells me which device to use for
>my scsi tape drive? I didn't see anything in the scsi howto.
>My card is an Adaptec 1520B and the drive is a Travan 4/8GB made
>by Seagate, although the scsi card sees it as "Conner 8
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Montana Banana wrote:
[...]
>I've been trying to convince my ISP to enable reverse DNS lookups,
>but they are resisting.
Then you should find another ISP. Without reverse DNS, there are a
significant number of anonymous FTP and IRC sites that you aren't going
to be able to u
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Scott McDermott wrote:
[...]
>To say it isn't an operating system may be construed as being wrong. It
>provides the critical component for an operating system, does it not?
Certainly, but the Linux kernel is a very minor part of the character of
the operating system: it has
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Dan Cyr wrote:
>edit .bashrc in your home directory and add
>
>alias ls='ls --color=yes'
Better to use "--color=tty".
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On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, David S. Jackson wrote:
[...]
>I wouldn't think an error, if there is any, would have to be in the
>paging code. Couldn't there be a program, or a set of programs, that
>don't terminate as they should? Seems like there could be many other
>scenarios.
Use of swap is control
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Paul Fontenot wrote:
>> Anybody seen this one, /var/log/messages reports /proc filesystem not
>> mounted. Sure enough, do a mount and no /proc. su to root and try to mount
>> /proc I get 'mount: none allready mounted or /proc busy'. Anybody seen
>> this?
>>
>> -Paul
>
>Also I
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Manchung Hon wrote:
>I share a 56K modem connection among the three computers in my home. I am
>very happy with it. But sometimes one machine will start downloading some
>huge files and those interactive sessions like telnet on another machine
>will get really slow. I am wonde
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Steven Hanley wrote:
>My ISP uses Windows NT and I need a How to on how I can connect. I think
>they are using MSCHAP.
If they only provide MSCHAP, they really don't want you as a customer.
They've chosen to go with a proprietary protocol that excludes
non-Microsoft operatin
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Muad'Dib wrote:
>Has anyone gotten TF to install on Redhat 5.0? I tried to install it
>yesterday and got numerous errors at the point where it compiles socket.c.
>Apperently the main problem is __fd_mask.
>
>Anyone got a clue as to how to fix this?
You'll need to contact the
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Can anyone recommend a good POP mail client that doesn't require X?
>
>I'm stuck behind my company's firewall, and can't connect on the default
>POP port (or NNTP, for that matter!). So, I have to telnet into a shell
>account to read mail and news. M
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Henrik Edlund wrote:
[...]
>Is it recommended to follow the page you (RedHat) has written (where is
>it?, can't seem to find it) about upgrading kernels if I want to make
>sure my "unofficial" upgrade will be compatible with later "official"
>ones? Or should I upgrade in some
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Kees-Jan Dijkzeul wrote:
[...]
>Of the top of my head (you might want to remove the worst syntax errors
>using the find man page):
>
>find /root \( -type d -exec chmod 700 {} \; \) -o \
> \( -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \; \)
>
>Or, alternatively:
>
>find /root -type d
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Ed Jackson wrote:
>I'm running redhat 5.0, and can't get my Aztech MD6800-U (pnp) modem to
>work. I can hear the modem turn on when trying to dial, but it won't
>initialize. The string seems ok, as far as I can tell, and I have
>installed isapnptools.Has anyone else had luck g
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Montana Banana wrote:
>I am running the Apache web server on my RedHat machine.
>
>I have 2 different ISP's. When I access my web sites from ISP1, all of
>my pages load quickly and without problems. Yet, from ISP2, my Netscape
>browser tells me the usual info at the bottom o
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Jun Arlante wrote:
>Anyone know on how to backup a single file from a backup, were running an
>ISP, and some of our user info had been deleted. We had our backup last
>week and we want to restore a single file from it ( fuserinfo file )..
(a) Whomever is in charge of your
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Vidiot wrote:
>>What about ps2pdf ? I'm not sure it's part of the GNU ghostscript
>>package, that comes with Red Hat, but if I recall correctly, versions
>>newer than 4.something have it.
[...]
>Must not come with Redhat, since there isn't a man page and there isn't
>an execut
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Dave Wreski wrote:
[...]
>Configure ppp0 thru the netcfg utility to be user controllable, then do,
>as root, 'chmod 4755 /usr/sbin/pppd' and you should be able to start
>and stop the server as a normal user using:
>
># /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup ifcfg-ppp0
>
>
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I posted the message below a few weeks ago and nobody replied, so I
>thought I would try again. Seems to me like no one has seen this error.
>Anyone know what would cause it? Could it have something to do with the
>UDP brodcasts that people have been
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I rebooted the box, and it started giving me
>
>/dev/hdxx has reached maximal mount count; check forced;
>
>What the heck happened? What does this mean??
Every 20 or so system boots, the filesystem will be checked for
inconsistancies. That it's chec
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Dave Ihnat wrote:
>Norberto Grassi wrote:
>> I need to create a shell script in order to do ftp downloads during the
>> night (using crontab).
>>
>> The point is:
>> how can I pass all the cd's and gets to the ftp command from inside the
>> script?
>
>Redirect input. For inst
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Mark McGlone wrote:
>How come so many programs which compile cleanly on other versions of Linux
>seem to have trouble under RedHat 5.0, and what can be done about it?
Fix the programs that don't compile. Glibc is very strict about standards
adherance; Libc wasn't. Programs
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Kirk Bollinger wrote:
>Anyone know where to find some information on getting MS Frontpage server
>extensions for Apache with Redhat Linux??
Have you tried www.rtr.com?
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On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Bernie Borenstein wrote:
>I have a Yamaha OPL3 card and would like to set it up for Linux.
>I found the sndconfig tool and it talks about Soundblaster cards.
>Can anyone guide me through setting things up for the
>Yamaha card
Last I heard, the OPL3 cards aren't supported
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Bob Taylor wrote:
>I have asked this on linux-admin and the silence was defining. I have
>a 2 computer LAN with timed running on both. Ann is the master and
>is running timed -M -n 192.168.0.0 -F ann and bea is running timed -n
>192.168.0.0. Executing:
[...]
>Oops! Bea is NOT
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Kirk Bollinger wrote:
>I know this is got to be simple but, I can't seem to locate it.
>
>I'd like to put in custom ftp message files when logging on and
>logging off. Where are these files?
I've never visited a site that prints a message when you disconnect.
I'm not sure tha
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, George Toft wrote:
>I printed to lpr many pictures from xv. All seemed to
>go well, so I left the computer. The screen blanker
>kicked in and printing stopped. When I returned, printing
>resumed. It's like the computer missed me.
>
>Question: Is this normal behavior for l
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Scott Horton wrote:
>Can someone point to to the cause of the following entries in my maillog.
>I have a bunch of them. Usually, there is an error in the user's mail
>address but not always. I am running RH 4.2, all patches and Steve Coile's
>M$ antispam and virtual domain
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Scott Kozicki wrote:
>Simple question: how can I change the issue and issue.net files? I modify
>them, but upon reboot, they revert back to their original state.
>
>What's up?
/etc/rc.d/rc.local recreates the files when the system boots. Comment
out the statements in rc.loca
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, E Kelly Bond wrote:
>At one time there was a LinuxISP mailing list up and operational.
>
>Does anyone know if it is still operational and if so, where it
>is currently housed?
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On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Mark Rogers wrote:
>One machine set up as primary name server, running one virtual IP virtual
>web page) and dialin ppp connections. Everything is great except that
>there are some web pages that the machine just times out on?
>
>Here is the deal, the pages I wan't to get to
On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Douglas F. Elznic wrote:
[...]
>I remember seeing some on the net somewhere that would format the output
>to html so you could just point to it for a list of users home pages...
#!/bin/sh
p_catdir="/users/webpages/CATALOG"
p_pagesdir="public_html"
p_passwd="/etc/passwd"
p_srm
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Gavin Lewandowski wrote:
>I have an aging installation of RH 3.03 on one of our company servers,
>I am intending to upgrade this box to RH 5, RH3.03 box is running
>apache,virtual sendmail,shadow passwords,public html services. What
>should I watch out for when I take the box t
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Bench wrote:
>This is possible but you can't just issue a pwconv5 here since all
>shadowed password '*' on /etc/passwd file which is the case in Slackware
>instead of 'x' will be interpreted in Redhat's shadow suite a non-shadowed
>password itself. You can create a script that
On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, CS wrote:
>Where can I find a good Linux Admin book? Online or book store.
Essential Systems Administration
AEileen Fisch
O'Reilly and Associates, Publisher
>When my linux box boots without network connected. It reports from
>eth0 that my box is not connected to the net, b
On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Aaron Walker wrote:
>Is it possible to have shadow passwords installed and have an
>/etc/passwd like:
>
>root:RLx6uuTK6dzWg:0:1:Operator:/:/bin/csh
>nobody:*:-2:-2::/:
>daemon:*:1:1::/:
>sys:*:2:2::/:/bin/csh
>bin:*:3:3::/bin:
>uucp:*:4:4::/var/spool/uucppublic:
>ftp:*:5:5:Anon
On Sat, 7 Mar 1998, Tc McCluan wrote:
>I was wondering what is the best way to shadow passwd's?
>
>I have redhat 4.2, 2.0.33. Is there a package I need to install
>to shadow the passwd's?
You do not need to install any special packages to use shadow passwords.
Just issue the following commands:
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