IBM packed decimal format conversion utilities

2002-11-06 Thread Paul Hamm
I am familiar with EBCDIC and ASCII conversion with dd. Currently I need to convert a mainframe tape in EBCDIC with packed decimal format into ASCII. dd does not handle packed decimal format. Does anyone know of a utilitie that does? Paul Hamm Manager Technical Services Open Ratings Inc 617

RE: issues with KVM switches

2002-11-06 Thread Paul Hamm
Common problem that I have seen with low end KVMs and some not so low end ones. It is not a Linux issue but a hardware issue. I have found that some systems (PCs) work better, may be signal strength, than others. Also some KVMs work better than others. Personal expirience indicates that Compaq

RE: IBM packed decimal format conversion utilities

2002-11-06 Thread Paul Hamm
[mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org] Sent: Wed, November 06, 2002 5:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IBM packed decimal format conversion utilities On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 04:32:10PM -0500, Paul Hamm wrote: > I am familiar with EBCDIC and ASCII conversion with dd. Currently I need to > convert a mai

Solved mostly RE: IBM packed decimal format conversion utilities

2002-11-06 Thread Paul Hamm
Looks like these guys have done this. http://www.digiampietro.com/as400/as400.html Perl rules again. Just need to get the field info from my friends, well an interpretation of what they sent me. And I should be good to go. -Original Message- From: Paul Hamm [mailto:paulhamm

RE: printing from mozilla

2002-11-14 Thread Paul Hamm
Try qtcups for printing in X. Also for lpr and lpq try this - Next change your lpr and lpq service to use cups. [root@hephaistos root]# alternatives --config print There are 2 programs which provide 'print'. SelectionCommand

RE: Good RedHat 8.0 Books

2002-11-18 Thread Paul Hamm
Not specifically a RedHat book but a very good one for *nix administration is "Unix System Administrators Handbook" by Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass, and Hein. The best overall admin book I have used. Well written with good examples, covers, well, everything. -Original Message- From: Brent Fox

RE: How to customize RedHat 8 Menus

2002-11-18 Thread Paul Hamm
I use KDE not Gnome. In KDE you can edit the "RedHat" menus by r-clicking the Red Hat and selecting Menu Editor. -Original Message- From: Michael Knepher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Mon, November 18, 2002 12:21 PM To: Psyche Mailing List Subject: Re: How to customize RedHat 8 Menus

RE: securetty file

2002-11-25 Thread Paul Hamm
Used to be able to get a free Mindterm download. Still might be able to find it somewhere. Mindterm is a Java .jar exacutable so cross platform compatable. The other one you can use is teraterm with the ssh patch/plugin. Both run ssh terminals on WinX machines. Mindterm runs on anything with j

RE: remote desktop

2002-11-25 Thread Paul Hamm
To view the whole redhat desktop you need to use something like vncserver, vnc (Virtual Network computing).  TightVNC comes with the redhat distro.  Install vnc and run the command vncserver at a console prompt.  This will create a session with an associated number  The ports used start at 5

RE: Calling all KDE fans!!

2002-11-26 Thread Paul Hamm
Ouch! you need to r-click the panel, the seperators work best, the vertical lines with the arrow on top. Then click panel/add and whatever you want to add. If it is not on the RedHat program menu goto panel/add/Special Button/non kde program, browse to what you want. For program specific icons f

RE: (no subject)

2002-12-11 Thread Paul Hamm
Pablo, Like that name! Looks like you want straight NAT for an rfc 1918 subnet. I suspect you would also like to firewall your private subnet to protect it from the less nice people in the world. So I would recommend grabbing one onf the iptables scripts of the net. There are several the one t

RE: Automatically setting the MTU to non-default...

2002-12-11 Thread Paul Hamm
Hacks are only ugly if they don't work, or break somthing. My recommendation is spend some quality time with those buggered VPN connections and make them work properly. True story. I had a person in a remote office tell me I had to reset my email server clock because his windows machine did not

RE: again I ask: WHY does printing in RH Psyche have to be such a PITA??

2002-12-11 Thread Paul Hamm
Sounds like you have not properly configured your machine to use cups. psyche does not use cups by default. If you check back on this thread "RE: HP 4050TN - which driver?" I responded with a mini howto on setting up cups in psyche. -Original Message- From: Thomas Dodd [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

RE: VNC local/remote

2002-12-12 Thread Paul Hamm
I generally just use a shell script to start a vnc session. As more than one person uses vnc on many of my systems each with differing display setting. It seems to have to do with age. The older users tend to use lower resolutions, go figure. I have found this to be a better option than changin

RE: Telnet with RH8.0

2002-12-12 Thread Paul Hamm
By default telnet is disabled. Getting telnet to respond should not be to difficult the real question is why don't you use ssh instead as it is secure. I understand you are in a protected environment but I have found that safe computing starts at home. All I use now is ssh. To start telnet all

RE: Telnet with RH8.0

2002-12-12 Thread Paul Hamm
port. -Original Message- From: Paul Hamm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thu, December 12, 2002 5:12 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Telnet with RH8.0 By default telnet is disabled. Getting telnet to respond should not be to difficult the real question is why don

RE: DNS problem

2002-12-13 Thread Paul Hamm
.arpa is called reverse lookup for a reason. So what you have is correct. The ip address is transposed, reversed, for all reverse entries. Check out the DNS howto to learn a bit more. I recommend you not play with DNS until you are more conversant with exactly how it works. -Original Messag

RE: Telnet with RH8.0

2002-12-13 Thread Paul Hamm
: SHA1 On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 17:11:41 -0500, Paul Hamm wrote: > By default telnet is disabled. Getting telnet to respond should not > be to difficult the real question is why don't you use ssh instead as > it is secure. I understand you are in a protected environment but I > hav

RE: "Modem display" for my internet connection

2002-12-13 Thread Paul Hamm
As /sbin has some handy progies in it you may want to add it to your PATH. The way I do this is to add 2 script files to /etc/profile.d/ if the only shell you will use is bash you only need to add one. The file should be something like .sh and will contain anything you like. I also make one for c

RE: Telnet with RH8.0

2002-12-13 Thread Paul Hamm
It is an age thing. The older you get the harder it is to remeber the minor bits. It is not so much an issue of remembering as it is on retrival. Just to much to sift through sometimes. But you are ignoring alot in the examples I showed. If I know a little about what I want I will be very like

RE: Test tool for firewall configuration?

2002-12-16 Thread Paul Hamm
Security testing has been covered in this list before, multiple time. Please search the archives for the solutions to your problem before posting. You want www.nessus.org for security testing. Be sure you run it from a secondary non privilaged site. Nessus not only checks for security holes but t

RE: nfs client conflicts with iptables on my computer.

2002-12-16 Thread Paul Hamm
Psyche default firewalling is a bit brut force. I would recommend using one of the iptables scripts available on the net. I like gShield, shorewall gets some good press also. As far as which ports you should open do a google search on "common tcp ports nfs" In the case of nfs I believe all you

RE: system-wide configuration for user accounts

2002-12-16 Thread Paul Hamm
I handle this the same way. I agree that it is more extensable for corporate wide system configurations. On a one off system it may be easier to use /etc/profile but maintaining a large number of machines each with a slightly different /etc/profile is just a PITA. -Original Message- From

Re: Routing Problems

2003-01-04 Thread Paul Hamm
Could you pass along the route tables on your test workstation. Your problem may have to do with how they are configured. Or how the default gw for each subnet is configured. The redhat box looks good from what you have here. On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 14:16, toby wrote: > "Reinhard X. Fuerst" wrot

RE: IBM packed decimal format conversion utilities SOLVED

2002-11-13 Thread Paul Hamm
slim chance it could be done.) > {^_-} using xxd to convert to hex, a better-than-even chance I'd say. > - Original Message - > From: "Joe Klemmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 16:32, Paul Hamm wrote: > > > I am familiar with EBCDIC and

RE: HP 4050TN - which driver?

2002-11-13 Thread Paul Hamm
Make sure you are using cups to print. I would not be suprised if you could drop a couple of these rpms. [root@hephaistos root]# rpm -qa |grep cups qtcups-devel-2.0-12 cups-libs-1.1.15-10 cups-drivers-1.9-1.20020617.6 cups-drivers-hpijs-1.9-1.20020617.6 cups-drivers-pnm2ppa-1.9-1.20020617.6 qtcups