Re: [vox-tech] grub questions

2004-08-10 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon 09 Aug 04, 5:11 PM, Foo Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: [...] titleWindows NT/2000/XP root (hd1,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 I'd like to put boot at the end of the Win2k

Re: [vox-tech] grub questions

2004-08-10 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon 09 Aug 04, 4:12 PM, Ken Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This actually looks fine the way it is (that's what my system says, and it works). You don't need more commands to boot Windows. However: * Does grub support SATA? Does the Win2k bootloader? Yeah - grub can boot Linux on

Re: [vox-tech] grub questions

2004-08-10 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Mon 09 Aug 04, 5:11 PM, Foo Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: [...] titleWindows NT/2000/XP root (hd1,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 I'd like to put boot at the end of the Win2k

Re: [vox-tech] grub questions

2004-08-10 Thread Ken Bloom
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 08:39:46 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Jay Salzman) wrote: On Mon 09 Aug 04, 4:43 PM, Matt Roper [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 06:12:50PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: On Mon 09 Aug 04, 3:03 PM, Matt Roper [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Mon, Aug

Re: [vox-tech] grub questions

2004-08-10 Thread dylan
on 04.8.9 11:14 PM, Ken Bloom at [EMAIL PROTECTED] was reported to have writen: On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 22:19:45 -0700 dylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 04.8.9 5:11 PM, Foo Lim at [EMAIL PROTECTED] was reported to have writen: On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: [...] title

Re: [vox-tech] grub questions - FIXED!!!

2004-08-10 Thread Bryan Richter
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 01:40:58PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: 1. Windows indeed wants to be the first drive (hd0). ... titleWindows NT/2000/XP map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) rootnoverify (hd1,0) savedefault makeactive chainloader +1

[vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-10 Thread Matthew Lange
Hi all, I'm helping a friend back-up his files on his RH 8 machine. I'm trying to SSH in, but getting denied. I tried using the RH GUI to adjust the firewall settings to allow incoming SSH sessions, but after they appear to set, they then revert to the most restrictive settings (disallowing

Re: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-10 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 02:24:57PM -0700, Matthew Lange wrote: Unfortunately, I can't remember the config file(s) that I need to adjust manually to allow SSH access, can anyone help? Check /etc/hosts.allow and hosts.deny Just stabbin in the dark ;) -bill!

Re: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-10 Thread Rod Roark
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 02:24 pm, Matthew Lange wrote: Hi all, I'm helping a friend back-up his files on his RH 8 machine. I'm trying to SSH in, but getting denied. I tried using the RH GUI to adjust the firewall settings to allow incoming SSH sessions, but after they appear to set,

Re: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-10 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Tue 10 Aug 04, 2:24 PM, Matthew Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi all, I'm helping a friend back-up his files on his RH 8 machine. I'm trying to SSH in, but getting denied. I tried using the RH GUI to adjust the firewall settings to allow incoming SSH sessions, but after they appear to

Re: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-10 Thread ME
(Top posting in this case for flow and order of procedure) As others have covered different parts, I'll try to avoid repeating what they have written: Make sure that the ssh service is running: $ ps -auxw | grep sshd Make sure it is listening to the ssh port: $ netstat -a | grep ssh should give

Re: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-10 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 05:47:29PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: Also, please do not start a new thread by replying to an old one and changing the subject line. Many of us use threaded mailers like mutt. It's kinda annoying. Thanks. (Plus, the mail archives have a threaded display mode,

[vox-tech] eth0 troubles

2004-08-10 Thread Karalius, Joseph
I'm continuing this thread from a few weeks back: The lights don't come on the onboard gigE port of an Optiplex GX270 when a tested cable is plugged into a tested port. Intel 82540EM rev02 chipset. /etc/network/interfaces is identical to the other Optiplex GX270 of the same network - in fact,

Re: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-10 Thread Jan W
My $0.02: If you want to make sure that iptables never starts again (assuming that it runs at boot): # chkconfig --level 345 iptables off Other than that, the stuff mentioned (hosts.allow/deny, telnetting to the port, looking through logs, capture with tcpdump) is all great advice. HTHO, jan

Re: [vox-tech] eth0 troubles

2004-08-10 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Karalius, Joseph ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The lights don't come on the onboard gigE port of an Optiplex GX270 when a tested cable is plugged into a tested port. Intel 82540EM rev02 chipset. Two ideas: 1. Your running kernel may not recognise what PCI device this is, because its PCI ID

RE: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-10 Thread Matthew Lange
Wow...apologies for the bad posting...just my newbie-ness shining through, I guess. Really, I had no idea. I always did wonder what mutt was for...just haven't had time to research it. If fact that brings me to another point (perhaps I should start another thread ;b --and maybe on the general

Re: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-10 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 05:02:07PM -0700, Matthew Lange wrote: Wow...apologies for the bad posting...just my newbie-ness shining through, I guess. Really, I had no idea. Heh - No prob. I always did wonder what mutt was for...just haven't had time to research it. It's a really nice mail

RE: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-10 Thread ME
Matthew Lange said: For you gurus, this may seem like a trivial point...but for folks like me who are able but unaware, some sort of linux 'product' dictionary would be helpful. Does anyone know of any online resource? Perhaps LUGOD should have it's own... Yep. It is called google. Go

Re: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-10 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 05:21:12PM -0700, ME wrote: Yep. It is called google. Go there, and enter the keyword define: and then place the term or word right after it. It does a pretty good job of providing defs. Holy moley. How did I not know about that! Time to buy Google: The mIssing Manual

Re: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-10 Thread Ken Bloom
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:02:07 -0700 Matthew Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow...apologies for the bad posting...just my newbie-ness shining through, I guess. Really, I had no idea. I always did wonder what mutt was for...just haven't had time to research it. If fact that brings me to

Re: [vox-tech] SSH question

2004-08-10 Thread ME
Bill Kendrick said: On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 05:21:12PM -0700, ME wrote: Yep. It is called google. Go there, and enter the keyword define: and then place the term or word right after it. It does a pretty good job of providing defs. Holy moley. How did I not know about that! Time to buy

Re: [vox-tech] eth0 troubles

2004-08-10 Thread Rick Moen
Just to clarify, lest I mislead: Your running kernel may not recognise what PCI device this is, because its PCI ID string may not be in your /usr/share/misc/pci.ids file. Good news: You can always snarf the latest version of that file from http://pciids.sf.net/ . Updating that file won't

[vox-tech] some PDF problems: screen and print rendering do not match

2004-08-10 Thread Henry House
I have a PDF file (a map sent to me by a client, presumably made by some proprietary GIS software on their end) that displays fine in XPDF but not in GV. In particular, a number of pieces of text appear (correctly) as white letters with black outlines in an XPDF window, but as solid black in GV

Re: [vox-tech] some PDF problems: screen and print rendering do not match

2004-08-10 Thread Mark K. Kim
Have you tried Acroread? I think the way Acroread renders is the proper way. I noticed xpdf doesn't always render like Acroread. -Mark On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Henry House wrote: I have a PDF file (a map sent to me by a client, presumably made by some proprietary GIS software on their end)

Google Fu (was re: [vox-tech] SSH question)

2004-08-10 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 05:36:42PM -0700, ME wrote: Search for all sites which have links to the defcon home page which are not from defcon.org but mention defcon: Google search: link:http://www.defcon.org/ -site:defcon.org defcon Yes. The -site is a subtraction of all hits that are from

Re: Google Fu (was re: [vox-tech] SSH question)

2004-08-10 Thread ME
Bill Kendrick said: ME: google sample snip Well, seen THAT. Alta Vista did/does something similar ;) How about the cache: feature from google? Say you know a /. story is big and everyone is looking at the page. If google was able to index it before the site was slashdotted, you can do this: