Re: partition 160g harddrive. fdisk fails.

2003-07-01 Thread Fluke
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Bo Peng wrote: When I installed my redhat 9 system, disk druid recognized my 160G harddrive and made partition correctly. I am adding another harddrive and trying to repartition (actually LVMing) the 160G one. However, fdisk can not even display the partition table

RE: What modem would you recommend?

2003-06-28 Thread Fluke
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Flask Ovitch wrote: Thanks for the link! I've also found another one, external, for $93 (also a multitech) http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.asp?EDC=423639 Would be nice to know if there's one that works well for simply fax and voice, since I don't care at all

RE: What modem would you recommend?

2003-06-27 Thread Fluke
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Flask Ovitch wrote: OK... Which one? Would the $20 USR5660A softmodem work? Would the $40 USR5699B winmodem work? Or would I need to go for an external modem? All that I've read up to now indicates major issues with regards to caller ID and voice. Does anyone have

Re: ot: logging Cisco dialup user logins using rh syslog/snmp?

2003-05-30 Thread fluke
On Thu, 29 May 2003, Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, My bos wants a weekly list of user accesses to our dialup service, showing at what time who was logged in for how long. We hav a Cisco 2610 router with 16 integrated modems. The phone lines is in a hunting group and linked

RE: LDAP on Redhat.

2003-05-30 Thread fluke
On 29 May 2003, James Pifer wrote: If there are no local user accounts, how do you specify who is allowed access? Is the LDAP-Howto the right howto for this? Set pam_groupdn in /etc/ldap.conf to a group defined in LDAP that get to access that specific machine. -- redhat-list mailing list

RE: Stop the disinformation! (Was Re: Download Redhat 9 right now )

2003-04-03 Thread fluke
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Ward William E DLDN wrote: [SNIP] You seem to have two major points: 1) RHN ISO downloads add no additional charge to RHN subscribers which makes it a non-profit distribution. The fact that access to the ISOs via RHN required a payment should not count as commerical since

Re: shrike list

2003-04-03 Thread fluke
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Jim Wilferling wrote: I'm thinking Ed probably knows the answer to this one...I've heard mention of a shrike-list, but when I try to find it on RedHat's mailing list page, its not there. I'm interested in subscribing to shrike list to see what problems people are having

Re: Sluggish BitTorrent (Was RE: Stop the disinformation!)

2003-04-03 Thread fluke
On 3 Apr 2003, Cliff Wells wrote: On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 15:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Ward William E DLDN wrote: Oh, one last addendum, before I send this: To all the folks who got it off BitTorrent, how about going BACK to BitTorrent and letting OTHER folks

Stop the disinformation! (Was Re: Download Redhat 9 right now)

2003-04-02 Thread fluke
This thread is really upsetting me. I will try to go through each of the comments that I feel need to be commented on below. My answers may not be complettely correct by I believe them to be more on track than some of the discussion already in the thread. I'm open to any additional

Re: problem in squid

2003-04-02 Thread fluke
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is incredible. Linux all over the world. (Anyone using Linux on the Antartica?) My understanding is no. You see Linux is too efficient. Running WinXX products puts added stress/strain on the CPU's. This causes them to generate more

Re: Stop the disinformation! (Was Re: Download Redhat 9 right now)

2003-04-02 Thread fluke
On 2 Apr 2003, Jeff Bearer wrote: - How does Red Hat feel about programs like BitTorrent as a primary method of distribution? If your willing to use BitTorrent to avoid paying $60 then you would probably also be willing to wait a week to avoid paying $60. Even if BitTorrent

Re: Stop the disinformation! (Was Re: Download Redhat 9 right now)

2003-04-02 Thread fluke
On 2 Apr 2003, Jeff Bearer wrote: - How does Red Hat feel about programs like BitTorrent as a primary method of distribution? Was my post really that hard to understand? It seemed pretty clear to me but it should, I wrote it. Let me try to explain. Pretend I posted this next Monday

Re: Spam blocking for Sendmail

2003-04-02 Thread fluke
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Ed Wilts wrote: On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 09:02:19AM -0600, Jason Cordes wrote: I'm using a rbl on my sendmail server here for my company but that has only lightly cut down on the amount of spam some of my users get. Is spamassasin only used to protect a single persons

RE: Stop the disinformation! (Was Re: Download Redhat 9 right now)

2003-04-02 Thread fluke
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Ward William E DLDN wrote: I want to correct at least one egregious error in this list of correcting errors; it's a big one, though. Again, bootleg would be the wrong term but if you mean that you can not violate the license then your wrong--all you need to do to

Re: RH9 Compatibility

2003-03-30 Thread fluke
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Max Z. wrote: I have a few questions concerning the upcoming RedHat Linux 9.0 release: 1. Due to the implementation of the new threading tech, would I be able to recompile redhat included kernel? Oddly worded question... the new threading model will not make it easier

Re: Redhat Linux 9.0 XFS support

2003-03-28 Thread fluke
On 28 Mar 2003, Michael Wardle wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 03:29, Ubaidul Khan wrote: Does anyone know if Redhat 9.0 will provide support of XFS (sgi's high performance file system)? I heard some talk of the new kernel (2.4.21) supporting XFS. I don't see any mention of XFS in the

Re: Easy sendmail question ....

2003-03-21 Thread fluke
On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Anthony E. Greene wrote: Paul Greene wrote: If you disable sendmail in rc3.d or rc5.d, does it disable it completely? Or does it just disable it's ability to receive mail, but will still send mail when needed? It will no longer be running, so you can't connect to

Re: Is RH8 Ever Going to be Updated?

2003-03-17 Thread fluke
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, T. Ribbrock wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:44:05PM -0500, Colburn wrote: That's encouraging. Sounds like M$ ... or the government ... customers [...] No it doesn't. RH has *never* published release dates. At least not in the time between 4.1 and now. MS *always*

Re: Is RH8 Ever Going to be Updated?

2003-03-16 Thread fluke
On 16 Mar 2003, Colburn wrote: Thousands of patches and kludges later RH8 is functional but well behind the curve. Anyone know if/when RedHat intends to release a significantly upgraded version? (I am sick of wasting time trying to get things to work, or fixing things the updates break.)

Re: credit card gateway services

2003-03-12 Thread fluke
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Jonathan Bartlett wrote: What recommendations do you all have for credit card gateway services? I'm looking for something cheap, works with Red Hat, and has a nice Perl interface. Any ideas? You mean like HKS CCVS that Red Hat bought and killed? Don't blink... now you

Re: / partition full

2003-03-11 Thread fluke
The easiest way to track it down is to use du with the -x flag which will exclude other filesystems (such as /proc, /mnt/Windows, /usr /var) so the command line ends up being: du -x | sort -rn | head -n 20 On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Mikevl wrote: I can somebody please help me out with this.?

RE: server crashes on cpio...

2003-03-11 Thread fluke
What kernel version are using? Is there any kernel Oops produced on the console? If there is a kernel Oops then you should try a newer kernel. If your on the latest Red Hat kernel then you should submit the Oops to http://bugzilla.redhat.com. If your on the latest stable kernel compiled

Re: Broken lilo...?

2003-03-06 Thread fluke
On 6 Mar 2003, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I mucked up my system by trying to reinstall XP on one of the partitions on my /dev/hda - of course, it hosed up my otherwise perfectly good, perfectly working lilo. In trying to get BACK to my beloved and stable RH, I made the /boot active via using FDISK

False claim in RHN Announcement?

2003-02-27 Thread fluke
I just recieved email with the subject Red Hat Network Announcement which included the following claim: - Priority bandwidth during heavy traffic periods. Paid subscribers have immediate access to errata and ISOs, ensuring that their systems are kept up to date and always secure.

Re: RH8.0, Postfix and SpamAssassin problem

2003-01-29 Thread fluke
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Kittendorf, Craig wrote: I have upgraded to RH 8.0 and am trying to get Postfix and SpamAssassin to work. When I send email to a user on this machine, I receive lots of messages like the following: Permission denied Failed to run SPAM_PHRASES_040 SpamAssassin

Re: Parted...

2003-01-16 Thread fluke
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Richard S. Crawford wrote: I'm using parted to resize a 20GB partition down to 5GB. It's taken quite awhile so far. How long should I expect this particular task to take? That can depend on the file system type (vfat, ext2, etc), amount of file system used/free, number

Re: chroot ssh user possible?

2003-01-11 Thread fluke
Normally you chroot on a per *process* level instead of per user. But, the PAM_chroot module does allow it to happen on a per user basis provided that the program calling PAM is running root at the time it does so. Since the SSH server package that comes with Red Hat 8.0 still does not

Re: SMTP Relay Security

2003-01-11 Thread fluke
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Andy Kirk wrote: I was until about an hour confident that my SMTP relay was secure. At that time, I received a spam email promoting 1,000,000 email address, that appears to have been sent from my mail server. At least, the From says [EMAIL PROTECTED], and from looking

Re: ftp more secure than sftp (was: chroot ssh user possible?)

2003-01-11 Thread fluke
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Ed Wilts wrote: I still stand by my claim that ftp is more secure than sftp... .../Ed I'll make you a bet, I will bet you $500 if: 1) You go to the center of the Def Con Eleven Capture the Flag room on August 1st at noon 2) Yell out three times I stand by my

Re: up2date

2003-01-11 Thread fluke
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Mike Burger wrote: up2date -l will list the updates available for your system (according to what you have installed on your system) that have not yet been updated/installed. up2date -u will download and install everything available, without your having to list the

Re: PHP doesn't work (solved -- sorta)

2003-01-07 Thread fluke
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Adam H. Pendleton wrote: Well, I've figured out why PHP doesn't work, and in doing so tied in my other post about php.ini. RedHat, for reasons I don't quite understand, have decided to change the value of short_open_tag to Off. It is on by default on 7.3, but the

Re: The State of RH in 2002: It was Bad?

2003-01-04 Thread fluke
On 3 Jan 2003, Cliff Wells wrote: So the question is whether providing source on their website (and numerous mirrors) constitutes medium customarily used for software interchange. I'll agree that that's a question for the lawyers, and I'll assume Redhat has already hired some who assure them

Re: SendMail Exchange

2003-01-03 Thread fluke
The problem is more likely Exchange's SMTP gateway than sendmail. Rather than trying to have Exchange push email to bugzilla, you may want to have the bugzilla pull from Exchange. Anotherwords, setup an Exchange account to recieve bugzilla mail and then have the RH box pull from the POP/IMAP

Re: limewire

2003-01-03 Thread fluke
Looks like your trying to get limewire running on top of Kaffe. You need to get an offical Java2 Runtime such as the IBM JRE v1.3.1 in RPM format. On 3 Jan 2003, greg wrote: Hi list, I am trying to install limewire on my RH8 box. When I run the installer, this is the message I have

The State of RH in 2002: It was Bad?

2003-01-02 Thread fluke
Slashdot included for Jan 1st a link to The State of GNU/Linux in 2002: It was Good. ( http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=188 ) The article included several statements about controversial moves by Red Hat during 2002. However, it seems to me that the most damning move

Re: RH for server

2003-01-02 Thread fluke
Depends on the service that I want to run on the server. For SMTP, IMAP, BIND and SMB services I am confortable with RH 8.0. For Apache with mod_php, I am still using RH 7.3. For CUPS (Common Unix Printing System), I would recommend that any novice administator either switch back to RH's

Re: The State of RH in 2002: It was Bad?

2003-01-02 Thread fluke
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Ed Wilts wrote: On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 08:21:27AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The article included several statements about controversial moves by Red Hat during 2002. However, it seems to me that the most damning move is the GPL and LGPL violations associated

Re: DNS Quits after certain number of hours

2003-01-02 Thread fluke
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Ed Wilts wrote: On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 01:28:24PM -0600, Gary wrote: On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 11:52:08AM -0700 or thereabouts, Craig Cameron wrote: Hi all, my machine is a Pentium 2/400 running Redhat Linux 7.2, with minimal install(networking and DNS Bind). I've

Re: The State of RH in 2002: It was Bad?

2003-01-02 Thread fluke
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Ed Wilts wrote: On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:28:10PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Based on the following information below issued in August of 2002, who do you consider the distribitor of the GPL/LGPL violation (note despite the claim of working promptly that the

Re: Open Source Licensed RHAS, licenses?

2003-01-02 Thread fluke
Yes. There has been a history of problems with intermixing closed source and non-redistributable packages with the largely open source distribution such that it is hard to provide an equivlent freely redistributable version. Caldera had done this for a while in an attempt to collect per-seat

Re: Open Source Licensed RHAS, licenses?

2003-01-02 Thread fluke
On 2 Jan 2003, Ben Russo wrote: I've been told by a few people that if I pay $799 for a set of RHAS CD's that I am not allowed to install it on more than one machine. You are not permitted to recieve support for more machines than you licensed. Last time I checked anaconda and RPM are

Re: Open Source Licensed RHAS, licenses?

2003-01-02 Thread fluke
On 2 Jan 2003, Ben Russo wrote: I'm not trying to steal anything from RedHat. And I will use another distribution if I have to. But if the packages are GPL'd then RedHat has no right to stop me from redistributing the packages that are on my office server, right? Even if they are binary,

Re: RH for server

2003-01-02 Thread fluke
Details on how to get remote root access via CUPS is detailed on iDEFENSE at http://www.idefense.com/advisory/12.19.02.txt (notice the date) The RH provided cups-1.1.15-10 is problematic but cups-1.1.17-4 from Rawhide is not. But having to keep track of Rawhide for security issues that could

Re: RH for server

2003-01-02 Thread fluke
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, CM Miller wrote: If you deploy 7.3 or 8.0, you will need to upgrade before the end of the year because Red Hat has announced the end-of-life of both 7.3 and 8.0 for Dec 31. That means no more security or any other RHN upgrades after that date. Really, is this true?

Re: Open Source Licensed RHAS, licenses?

2003-01-02 Thread fluke
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Brian Ashe wrote: Ben Russo, On Thursday January 02, 2003 06:33, Ben Russo wrote: I've been told by a few people that if I pay $799 for a set of RHAS CD's that I am not allowed to install it on more than one machine. Read this page...

Re: virtual mail accounts

2002-12-28 Thread fluke
How to approach this depends on if you willing to force your users to fudge their POP/IMAP login names or not. By forcing them to modify their login name to not be identical to their email username then you can do purely soft virtual POP/IMAP accounts where you only need to make a trival

Re: DSL Modems Recommendations?

2002-12-13 Thread fluke
There are many flavors of xDSL (ADSL, SDSL, RDSL, etc.). Whatever DSL gateway or bridge model someone recommends may or may not work with the flavor you end up subscribing to. It is preferable to find a DSL provider that claims to support Linux. It is also usually easier to find an

RE: DSL Modems Recommendations?

2002-12-13 Thread fluke
I don't think DirecTV DSL was ever available in the UK. I also had their service and the gateway did work fine with Linux. The actual reliablity of the service and availablity of their technical support was a complettely different matter. Btw, being complette jerks to their customers seems to

Possible GPL violation by Red Hat/Dell alliance

2002-12-12 Thread fluke
I am working with friends in the GNU/Linux Users of Northern Illinois on putting together a web page detailing the issues with the following product: Dell(TM) PowerEdge(TM) Web Server Version 3.1 Powered by Red Hat Linux I am seeking any feedback which would indicate if any of the

RE: Dell(TM) PowerEdge(TM) Web Server Version 3.1 Powered by RedHat Linux

2002-12-12 Thread fluke
I can not find any such written notice right now at the URL you give below. The General Public License states that the notice must be given at the time of redistribution of the GPL work. Is there someplace on the Dell website that I can download the Dell PowerEdge Web Server Version 3.1

Dell(TM) PowerEdge(TM) Web Server Version 3.1 Powered by Red HatLinux

2002-12-05 Thread fluke
I ordered and recieved the Dell(TM) PowerEdge(TM) Web Server Version 3.1 Powered by Red Hat Linux (SKU P/N 420-0835) in October of this year. These software CDs include several GPL/LGPL packages that normally come with Red Hat GNU/Linux v7.2 as well as some GPL works and modified works that

RE: Dell(TM) PowerEdge(TM) Web Server Version 3.1 Powered by RedHat Linux

2002-12-05 Thread fluke
You did not really answer the question. Which of the five items that make up SKU P/N 420-0835 provide this or a similar written notice? On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ordered and recieved the Dell(TM) PowerEdge(TM) Web Server Version 3.1 Powered by Red Hat Linux (SKU P/N

Re: segmentation fault

2002-12-05 Thread fluke
Taken from http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/s.html#segmentation_fault segmentation fault n. [Unix] 1. [techspeak] An error in which a running program attempts to access memory not allocated to it and core dumps with a segmentation violation error. This is often caused by improper

Re: Media player - RH 8 newbie question, please forgive

2002-11-03 Thread fluke
For the FreshRPMS Valhalla Synaptic, I have reliably always gotten Synaptic to run. But with the current FreshRPMS Psyche Synaptic, half the time it seems to want the update seeded before Synaptic even starts or sometimes Synaptic will *immediately* close out with an error message that it can't

Re: Media player - RH 8 newbie question, please forgive

2002-11-02 Thread fluke
In a web browser go to http://www.freshrpms.net/ Download apt Download synaptic As root run: rpm -Uvh apt* synaptic* As root run: apt-get update As root run: synaptic Scroll through the list of package and select xine Click the Install button Click the Proceed! button On Sat, 2 Nov 2002,

Re: Where to send package updates

2002-11-02 Thread fluke
Well, it sounds like you already found bugzilla. Your next steps should be: - create a bugzilla account - login to the bugzilla account - query one of the bugs that your modification should fix - do a find in this page for Create a new attachment - select to create a new attachment

Re: kernel 2.4.9-31?

2002-11-02 Thread fluke
The kernel-2.4.9-34.i386.rpm I just downloaded from rpmfind.net passed a rpm -K verification just fine. Can you be more specific about why your unconfortable about using RPMs that can be confirmed as signed by RH when they come from rpmfind.net? Also, are you aware that RH now distributes 2.4.18

Re: Shifting between KDE and Gnome

2002-11-01 Thread fluke
Modify id:3:initdefault in /etc/inittab from runlevel 3 to 5 Reboot Make the desired selection during login to gdm On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Sudhaker P wrote: Is the any way we can shift beween GNOME and KDE if we have both installed on the desktop. I'd appreciate your suggestions. Peram --

Re: Red Hat License?

2002-10-31 Thread fluke
As far as I know, the biggest issues you should be aware of when redistributing the downloadable version of Red Hat GNU/Linux is: 1) the majority of the CD binaries are covered by the GPL/LGPL, you must either provide the source code or provide a written offer that you will provide the

Re: risc 6000/350

2002-10-31 Thread fluke
Silly answer: Yes, but you first need to get Bochs running on the installed AIX v3. Serious answer: IBM has NEVER been very open about the programming specs for Micro Channel. Some work was done to figure out the x86 flavor of Micro Channel but nothing has really been done with RS/6000