Re: Sendmail and virtualusertables

1998-04-22 Thread Tunc Beyhan
In My stock RedHat system makemap doesn't support dbm type .I'm using hash and it works great for me from /etc/sendmail.cf ... Kvirtuser hash /etc/virtusertable ... from /etc/virtusertable [EMAIL PROTECTED]fooinfo The last step, [root@localhost /etc]#makemap hash virtusertable < virtusertab

Re: Setting X windows hot-key ?

1998-04-22 Thread guillermo mulliert carlin
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Chris Fenton wrote: > How do I set a hot-key for Xwindows. That is a key combination like > cntrlaltdel that shuts down X ? try ctrl-alt-backspace Guillermo Mulliert [EMAIL P

Re: mb-5.0-6

1998-04-22 Thread Tom Diehl
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, KHOO Guan Chen wrote: > Can someone tell me what this package is all about? rpm -qip tells me > that it is a relational database of the client/server type, but what is > its use in RH4.2 if any. When I try to remove it with rpm -e, I get > package not installed message (but

RE: 5.0, qt-1.33 compile error

1998-04-22 Thread Hoe-Teck Wee
Hello. Install the XFree86-devel-3.3.1 RPM. That contains all the necessary headers for compiling X apps. Took me a while to find that out too! :) On 22-Apr-98 Al Justrabo wrote: > Hello. While trying to re-build qt-1.33 from the source (rpm -bb > qt-1.33.spec, in RedHat 5.0), it stopped with t

Re: Database conversions on Linux?

1998-04-22 Thread Mike Edwards
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Michael Jinks wrote: [--snip--] > Can anyone point me to some signposts? Is Oracle worth the money and > learning curve (and if so will it run on Linux)? We already know we > hate Informix, and all accounts (some admittedly a couple of years old) > have said that FoxPro is

Re: Remote mail in spite of masq'ed server?

1998-04-22 Thread Dave Wreski
> > Tell us more about your topology. What machines are the clients coming in > > from? Is this just a simple case of blocking POP3 from external access? > > Right now, our users can only connect to our pop server from within our > protected net (we do have dialup to there but that's beside th

Re: addendum Re: Remote mail in spite of masq'ed server?

1998-04-22 Thread Dave Wreski
> Oh yeah -- most of our users (all really) are M$-dependent and have 95 at home, > so that's what they would be using as their remote client. In case it matters. Yes, it does, because ssh is not very simple to use, especially on the windows platform, unless you pay for the commercial one, whic

Re: Another Question

1998-04-22 Thread Rick Forrester
Many good points, Dave, to which I'd add two more. (1) It should be somewhat faster when it comes time to fsck a partition when they're smaller. The partitioning will also restrict the damage if/when something happens to the disk. (2) I've found it quite useful to set aside an archive part

Re: Database conversions on Linux?

1998-04-22 Thread Rick Forrester
Might want to give Adabas D a try. It's a solid, full featured SQL based RDBMS from Germany. I've had good success with it in the past. Now I have to get it set up again on 5.0. Been too busy to play with it. Best. -- Rick Forrister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Opera: Greek word m

Re: AMD K6

1998-04-22 Thread d
I'm running an AMD K6, at 200 MHz, and personally like it, both price, and performancewise. Intel's monopoly is slightly starting to annoy me, and I'm happy someone else put out a worthy (better) opponent. The AMD K6 has MMX-type technology, which does improve performance. Why? While it's true th

Re: Database conversions on Linux?

1998-04-22 Thread Alfonso Barreto Lopez
Well I have used SQL under Unix specifically under SCO , it was a pretty big proyect and it was made under cliente-server philosophy, the client part was made under MS-DOS and Windows. I dont know exactly how expensive is the lisence of SQL but this is a better option than Oracle, becouse of his p

Re: Another Question

1998-04-22 Thread Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Rick Forrester wrote: > Many good points, Dave, to which I'd add two more. > > (1) It should be somewhat faster when it comes time to fsck a partition when > they're smaller. The partitioning will also restrict the damage if/when > something happens to the disk. Actually

Re: Database conversions on Linux?

1998-04-22 Thread Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Michael Jinks wrote: > This is the Big Enchalada; our company was born and bred on DOS for the > past several years, and we've got the legacy in-house apps to prove it. > Specifically, we have an immense body of software written to do database > conversions in MS FoxPro, now p

RE: Database conversions on Linux?

1998-04-22 Thread Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, KThorpe wrote: > >Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 05:44:45 + > >From: Michael Jinks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Database conversions on Linux? > > > >This is the Big Enchalada; our company was born and bred on DOS for the > >past several years, and we've got the legacy in-hous

Re: Setting up Linux for dialup.

1998-04-22 Thread Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Ross Camm wrote: > How do I get mschap working ?? http://www.replay.com. Note that stupid U.S. encryption laws prevent Red Hat from including a mschap-capable pppd with their software. Eric Lee Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Executive Consultants Systems Specialist

Re: Moving /usr directory?

1998-04-22 Thread Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Leung Yau Wai wrote: > On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Matt Housh wrote: > > cp -a (equivalent to cp -dpR, iirc) should preserve links, but if > > it doesn't work, (cd /source;tar cf - ./)|(cd /dest;tar xvf -) might do as > > well. > But > (cd /source;tar cf - ./)|(cd /de

Re: Linux Mail Server serving Win 95 clients

1998-04-22 Thread Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Ping Lau wrote: > I am new to Linux. I have managed to set up Samba & IP Masq on my Linux > box. Now I am trying to setup the Linux box as mail server. I have 10 > email accounts with a local ISP. What I want to acheive is to have my > Linux box dial my ISP & login to each

Re: Linux Mail Server serving Win 95 clients

1998-04-22 Thread Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > At 14:24 4/22/98 -0500, Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The SMTP and POP3 servers come built-in with Linux. > > POP3 is not installed in RH5. You can install the imap*.rpm (which includes > POP3 serv

Re: Another Question

1998-04-22 Thread Dave Wreski
> You will have to excuse me... For the next week or so I will be posting > questions to the list about questions that I'm unable to locate the answer > to on the web... I'm trying to put a reliable web page up, and I want to > make sure my Info is correct. No problem, Bill.. > Although you can

Remote mail in spite of masq'ed server?

1998-04-22 Thread Michael Jinks
They really wanted their firewall. . . Really, REALLY. . . . But now that I've put it in, they really really miss being able to hit our pop server from their personal internet providers. Can anyone recommend a strategy for working around that situation? Ideas I've had so far have included: -R

Re: Another Question

1998-04-22 Thread Dave Wreski
> > What is the "technical" reason for doing this (Splitting up a partition that > > is). Does it make it faster? Thanks for the info... > > Several reasons. First, no, it doesn't make it faster, until you split > your partitions across drives (specifically SCSI) or buses/controllers. > > On a

Re: 28800 modem

1998-04-22 Thread Maxwell Smart
What about setting it higher? I have an external Zoom 33.6 and it works fine set at 115,200 even though it doesn't really work at that speed. On 21-Apr-98 Matthew Smith wrote: > Neither ppp nor minicom seem to support 28800. It is an internal ZOOM > fax/modem. > If I tell either program 19200 i

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1998-04-22 Thread An Kyung-Hyun
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RE: Changing Linux ext2 partition size

1998-04-22 Thread Maxwell Smart
On 22-Apr-98 kLicK wrote: > How would I go about changing my / partition size? I want to take about > 300MB off my msdos partition and add it to me / partition. I did a similar thing when I dumped dos. I simply reformatted the partition as ext2, moved a directory to it, added it to fstab and le

Re: Remote mail in spite of masq'ed server?

1998-04-22 Thread Dave Wreski
> They really wanted their firewall. . . > > Really, REALLY. . . . > > But now that I've put it in, they really really miss being able to hit > our pop server from their personal internet providers. Tell us more about your topology. What machines are the clients coming in from? Is this just

Database conversions on Linux?

1998-04-22 Thread Michael Jinks
This is the Big Enchalada; our company was born and bred on DOS for the past several years, and we've got the legacy in-house apps to prove it. Specifically, we have an immense body of software written to do database conversions in MS FoxPro, now ported to Visual FoxPro and running on NT machines.

Re: Memory errors. Please help me!

1998-04-22 Thread John H Darrah
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Dave Wreski wrote: > > > > If I understand your problem correctly, and you are running a 66mhz bus at > > > 75mhz, please don't bother to report a problem when your intentially doing > > > something your not supposed to do. > > > > So would overclocking cause a I/O errors ?

Re: Remote mail in spite of masq'ed server?

1998-04-22 Thread Michael Jinks
Dave Wreski wrote: > > They really wanted their firewall. . . > > > > Really, REALLY. . . . > > > > But now that I've put it in, they really really miss being able to hit > > our pop server from their personal internet providers. > > Tell us more about your topology. What machines are the client

Re: Changing Linux ext2 partition size

1998-04-22 Thread Vidiot
>On 22-Apr-98 kLicK wrote: >> How would I go about changing my / partition size? I want to take about >> 300MB off my msdos partition and add it to me / partition. > >I did a similar thing when I dumped dos. I simply reformatted the partition >as ext2, moved a directory to it, added it to fstab a

addendum Re: Remote mail in spite of masq'ed server?

1998-04-22 Thread Michael Jinks
> Dave Wreski wrote: > > > Tell us more about your topology. What machines are the clients coming in > > from? Is this just a simple case of blocking POP3 from external access? Oh yeah -- most of our users (all really) are M$-dependent and have 95 at home, so that's what they would be using as

Re: Another Question

1998-04-22 Thread Cristian Tibirna
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Dave Wreski wrote: > Actually, there are also disadvantages that one should be aware of: > > - splitting partitions can cause trouble when you decide to increase the > disk capacity of that partition in six months. What do you do with that > 700M /var partition, when it bec

NIS and shadow passwd's.

1998-04-22 Thread Kari Asikainen
Has anyone got NIS+Shadow working? I have set up succesfully two RH5.0 boxes (all errata items applied), the other acting as a client, the other as server. Finger shows user just fine, but I can't log in to the client-machine with passwords from the server. I suspect this is a shadow-problems be

Re: Another Question

1998-04-22 Thread Michael Jinks
Cristian Tibirna wrote: > > > I liked better your advantages description, Dave :-) > > Cristian Me too. Sure it means having to play musical filesystems every so often, but that's true no matter how big or unified your partitions are (ask an old DOS hacker any day), and

Re: Linux "burn in" test ideas

1998-04-22 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 10:32:03AM +, Fred Lenk wrote: > Can someone suggest a utility that can run without > human intervention for 24 hours, and that will exercise > a new-Linux-setup. It should include network, disk, > computation, etc. activities. How about doing a kernel build via a

RE: zip drives, and FAT32

1998-04-22 Thread Zoki
>I have even made a whole linux system on my parallel port zip disk. I can >then boot it if I have a system problem. I did this with Slackware, not >RedHat. I don't see why you couldn't do it with RedHat as long as you >recompiled your kernel to have the PPA support in the kernel instead of a

Re: Will 2.0.34 compile under gcc 2.8?

1998-04-22 Thread Scott McDermott
Vidiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 01:37:16PM -0500: > There appears to be some kind of nasty bug in the code that 2.8.1 produces > that causes XFree86 to not start. No. It is the kernel, compiled with this, that screws up anything that accesses ioports. The solution is to use a

Any scripts for adding users?

1998-04-22 Thread Nils
Are there any scripts which will handle adding users, including setting a password. Ideally I'm looking for something of the form of: makeuser username "Real Name" password which would create a new user with "username" and set the real name in /etc/passwd and would also set the password.

Using Expect to automate passwords fails

1998-04-22 Thread Nils
I have tried using Expect to automate a password change (using the autopasswd example supplied with Expect as a starting point) in Redhat 4.2, but without any luck. Any suggestions? Thanks, Nils [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! h

Re: Will 2.0.34 compile under gcc 2.8?

1998-04-22 Thread Vidiot
>Vidiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 01:37:16PM -0500: >> There appears to be some kind of nasty bug in the code that 2.8.1 produces >> that causes XFree86 to not start. > >No. It is the kernel, compiled with this, that screws up anything that >accesses ioports. The solution is to

Re: Dual boot NT and linux?

1998-04-22 Thread Ross Camm
I find the best option for nt and linux is a small dos partition ( say 10 meg ). Install msdos x.x and then isatll nt. It will use its own boot loader (lilo ). Then boot linux from the dos partition using loadlin. So you have 2 menus dos/nt and then linux/dos. It also allows you to use dos progra

Re: Apache SSL RPMS from Replay.com

1998-04-22 Thread Ross Camm
try the --force option. Rossco At 04:14 PM 4/21/98 -0400, you wrote: >I'm having trouble installing the apache-ssl-1.2.6-2.i386.rpm and src.rpm >that I got from replay.com. When I do : rpm -i >apache-ssl-1.2.6-2.i386.rpm, I just get an error message saying that the >rpm can not be installed wit

Re: Setting up Linux for dialup.

1998-04-22 Thread Ross Camm
How do I get mschap working ?? rossco At 06:35 PM 4/20/98 +, you wrote: >You need ppp, which turns a modem connection into a network connection. >There's a ppp howto; for now, read that, concentrating on the server section >(which is buried fairly deep into the document). Once you've read

I am screwed! isapnptools!

1998-04-22 Thread Abandon All Hope
My RH 5.0 was running fine. I figured I would download the new ftpae for Ditto Max and isapnptools. I used rpm and installed only the isapnp, not ftape. Fine, until I rebooted. Sys. comes back with no dead to the network. I screwed up some thing with isapnptools. How do I get back to befo

Re: Changing Linux ext2 partition size

1998-04-22 Thread Scott McDermott
Vidiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 01:20:37AM -0500: > You cannot add to the / partition to make it larger. Indeed. Linux needs something like the AIX chfs and related stuff. -- Scott -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.re

Re: rXvt

1998-04-22 Thread Scott McDermott
Paul Fontenot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 02:22:17PM -0700: > Real quick, how do I add xpm-support to rxvt? I think I've been looking > so long I'm now OVER looking it. You get the source, use the define and/or configure option, and recompile, possibly having to add or uncomment -

Re: Fun with NIS and shadow passwds

1998-04-22 Thread Ryan Falkenberg Personal
> > The scenario: > > -Redhat 5.0 on both an NIS server and client with all errata rpms > installed. Installation works great, but we really need the enhanced > security of shadow passwords. > > -Run pwconv on both machines. > > -Update the Makefile in /var/yp to now take into account shadow

Setting X windows hot-key ?

1998-04-22 Thread Chris Fenton
How do I set a hot-key for Xwindows. That is a key combination like cntrlaltdel that shuts down X ? Thanks Chris Fenton PhD student, Dept. Biotechnology University of Tromso. Institute of Medical Biology. MH building. 9037 Tromso, Norway. E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone 47 776 44655 (

ftp through firewall

1998-04-22 Thread Barfuß Egon jun.
Hi, My problem is that I can´t send a list command in ftp. Every time I do this I get the error messages: 500 Illegal PORT Command 500 Can´t build data connection: no port specified I tried to set the ftp-client in passiv mode but it doesn´t help. login is possible and also download, but

reseting SCSI bus

1998-04-22 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Sometimes I get this error while reading from a Plextor CDROM. scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 9694, scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 0x08 04 a8 24 0d 00 ncr53c8xx_abort: pid=9694 serial_number=9702 serial_number_at_timeout=9702 Anybody knows how to reset the bus/c

backup & web counter

1998-04-22 Thread LEBLIN JY
Hi, I've got three questions. First the guy who used to manage the server before has made a batch to make an easy backup of the system on a DAT tape. The main command is dump 0sf 61000 /dev/st0 / Now the question is : in case of crash, assuming that i can still reach the DAT, how could i restor

mb-5.0-6

1998-04-22 Thread KHOO Guan Chen
Can someone tell me what this package is all about? rpm -qip tells me that it is a relational database of the client/server type, but what is its use in RH4.2 if any. When I try to remove it with rpm -e, I get package not installed message (but I can see the files that are installed). When I try

Problems with /dev/dsp

1998-04-22 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! After playing some stuff, I sometimes get the following error: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer /dev/dsp: Couldn't allocate memory I have a SB 16, AMB K6-200, 96 Megs of Ram. FYI: $ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:

Sendmail takes ages to do anything

1998-04-22 Thread Nils
Sendmail takes what seems a dreadfully long time to to anything - even reporting an empty mailqueue using mailq takes about 15 seconds (a similar installation on a different machine has no delay. There also seem to be delays in processing mail before it is delivered to mailboxes. Thanks, Nils

./configure compiling WindowMaker .63 in Redhat 5.0

1998-04-22 Thread Mccorkle Joe
I'm still having problems with ./configure trying to install WindowMaker. ./configure can't seem to find libXPM. I know it's installed, and I've searched through the configures, and the WindowMaker0.63/src directory for any file that tries to find libXPM. No luck. I've tried the RPM file for Windo

Re: 28800 modem

1998-04-22 Thread Dave Ihnat
Maxwell Smart wrote: > What about setting it higher? > > I have an external Zoom 33.6 and it works fine set at 115,200 even though > it doesn't really work at that speed. On "modern" (read: virtually any modem you'll find today) modems, this is what you want to do. Set your rate to the highest

RE: Database conversions on Linux?

1998-04-22 Thread KThorpe
>Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 05:44:45 + >From: Michael Jinks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Database conversions on Linux? > >This is the Big Enchalada; our company was born and bred on DOS for the >past several years, and we've got the legacy in-house apps to prove it. >Specifically, we have an imm

portmap problems... anyone help?

1998-04-22 Thread Keith Schoenefeld
Portmap starts up, but as soon as nfs or nis try to bind to it, it dies. Any ideas on what can cause the following output? [root@ens init.d]# ./portmap stop Stopping portmap services: [root@ens init.d]# ./nfs stop Shutting down NFS services: [root@ens init.d]# ./portmap start Starting portmap

Re: Ethernet Printer Q

1998-04-22 Thread Paul F Almquist
On Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 07:42:11PM -0700, Steve Hazelett wrote: >We have a Laser-Jet5Si that I would like to be able to setup as as our > default printer over our companies intranet. I know the IP address but I'm > wondering if someone can point me in the right direction for how to do this. >

Installing Redhat 5.0 via FTP

1998-04-22 Thread Jeffrey Waters
I am trying to install 5.0 to a laptop via FTP, I have purchased a copy from RedHat so I have the CD and all the other good stuff. Here is my problem, my FTP server (no funny faces now) is a NT 4.0 box with FTP link to the cd-drive. I get all the way to the RPM install and then the install error

Moving /usr directory?

1998-04-22 Thread Ed Ewing
Trying to move /usr directory to a second hard drive. When doing cp -r -p * am receiving errors that: "cannot copy cyclic symbolic link". Is there a way to move the directory intact or do the links need to be recreated? Thanks for any help. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and t

RE: backup & web counter

1998-04-22 Thread David . LANDGREN
>First the guy who used to manage the server before has made a batch to make >an easy backup of the system on a DAT tape. The main command is >dump 0sf 61000 /dev/st0 / Dunno. Have you read dump's man page? [...] >The second ( probably stupid ) question is : what is the alias which='type >-path

Re: Moving /usr directory?

1998-04-22 Thread Keith Schoenefeld
Ed Ewing wrote: > > Trying to move /usr directory to a second hard drive. When doing cp -r -p * > am receiving errors that: "cannot copy cyclic symbolic link". > > Is there a way to move the directory intact or do the links need to be > recreated? > I believe cp -a works. -- ~

Re: Moving /usr directory?

1998-04-22 Thread Matt Housh
cp -a (equivalent to cp -dpR, iirc) should preserve links, but if it doesn't work, (cd /source;tar cf - ./)|(cd /dest;tar xvf -) might do as well. --- Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MicroComputer Special

RE: Moving /usr directory?

1998-04-22 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Trying to move /usr directory to a second hard drive. When doing cp -r -p * >am receiving errors that: "cannot copy cyclic symbolic link". cp gets a bit lost by symlinks. Or maybe it is me who gets confused by cp. Basically, I shun using cp -r. Try something like: (cd /usr && tar cf - .) | (cd

Re: Installing Redhat 5.0 via FTP

1998-04-22 Thread David S Edwards
Hello, It might be that your NT ftp server is causing this. I've had problems before with an ftp server running on windows that would truncate the .rpm of off the file names. That ftp server didn't like having more than one "." in a file name. Try to ftp into the server and list the files your

Re: Installing Redhat 5.0 via FTP

1998-04-22 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 10:55 4/22/98 -0400, Jeffrey Waters wrote: >I am trying to install 5.0 to a laptop via FTP, I have purchased a copy from >RedHat so I have the CD and all the other good stuff. Here is my >problem, my FTP server (no funny faces now) is a NT 4.0 box with FTP >

Re: AMD K6

1998-04-22 Thread Keith Schoenefeld
> server going down" etc etc. Speaking of non-intel-x86's, the cyrix's > alledgedly have some problems in Linux. I haven't used Cyrix chips, but from what I understand alot of their problems come from the fact that they use write back cache as opposed to write through cache. Write back cache ca

Re: Moving /usr directory?

1998-04-22 Thread Leung Yau Wai
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Matt Housh wrote: > > cp -a (equivalent to cp -dpR, iirc) should preserve links, but if > it doesn't work, (cd /source;tar cf - ./)|(cd /dest;tar xvf -) might do as > well. Work.. But (cd /source;tar cf - ./)|(cd /dest;tar xvpf -) should be bet

Upgrade to 5.0?

1998-04-22 Thread Craig Maloney
I currently have a RedHat 4.2 system. I just bought the 5.0 commercial version from Borders. I'd like to keep my system functioning as well as it is now. Would it be best for me to trash what I have now (with ample backups) or will the upgrade work reasonably well? (A patch here and there?) Th

crt1.o

1998-04-22 Thread Janwillem Borleffs
I had problems compiling the hello.c program (no crt1.o file, kernel-headers missing and so on), but thanks to everyone who replied to my call for help, I can only say one thing: Hello World! Thanks again, Janwillem. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVE

Restarting services automatically

1998-04-22 Thread Christopher Fisk
In the past few days I have had named crash a couple times for no apparant reason, Is there some sort of a wrapper or something that will restart a service when it crashes and if so where can I find it? Thanx in advance. Christopher Fisk -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the

Mail setup question

1998-04-22 Thread GENOIS, MARC
Hello, I have a Linux server doing IP masquerading and dial on demand for a small workgroup of Win95 users. Now I need to setup the mail part. My plan is : -Linux will provide IMAP service to Win95 user -Fetchmail will be used to get mail from the user's ISP mailbox every hour or so. The Linux

Re[2]: Fun with NIS and shadow passwds

1998-04-22 Thread Rich Peiffer
Ryan Falkenberg Personal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The scenario: > > > > -Redhat 5.0 on both an NIS server and client with all errata rpms > > installed. Installation works great, but we really need the > enhanced > > security of shadow passwords. > > > > -Run pwconv on both machines.

Re: Restarting services automatically

1998-04-22 Thread Keith Schoenefeld
Christopher Fisk wrote: > > In the past few days I have had named crash a couple times for no apparant > reason, Is there some sort of a wrapper or something that will restart a > service when it crashes and if so where can I find it? > > Thanx in advance. > > Christopher Fisk > > -- > PLEA

RE: Upgrade to 5.0?

1998-04-22 Thread Maxwell Smart
On 22-Apr-98 Craig Maloney wrote: > I currently have a RedHat 4.2 system. I just bought the 5.0 commercial > version from Borders. I'd like to keep my system functioning as well as > it > is now. > > Would it be best for me to trash what I have now (with ample backups) or > will the upgrade work

Re: Perl interacting with ODBC drivers from Unix side

1998-04-22 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
>I hope this is not a stupid question.. >I have some perl CGI scripts I wrote that are used on an NT based >front page >web server. These >scripts use the Win32::ODBC functionality to manipulate an Access >database >(Add, Retrieve, and >delete data from some tables). This is not possible. There

Re: Restarting services automatically

1998-04-22 Thread Christopher Fisk
>> In the past few days I have had named crash a couple times for no apparant >> reason, Is there some sort of a wrapper or something that will restart a >> service when it crashes and if so where can I find it? > >Define crash... is the process still running? but not working? Or does >the proces

Linux Mail Server serving Win 95 clients

1998-04-22 Thread Ping Lau
I am new to Linux. I have managed to set up Samba & IP Masq on my Linux box. Now I am trying to setup the Linux box as mail server. I have 10 email accounts with a local ISP. What I want to acheive is to have my Linux box dial my ISP & login to each of the 10 mail accounts to retrieve & send m

010101

1998-04-22 Thread Pat Nugent
Ok...after finally managing to install RedHat 5 (it didn't like my scsi card so I borrwed an ATAPI cd-rom) when I reboot after a seemingly well done installation, I recieve "01" printed on the screen repeatedly. I can not do anything at this point and after hitting about 10 keys I will recieve cl

Re: Dual boot NT and linux?

1998-04-22 Thread Thomas Hubbell
Will something like System Commander make the dual-boot Linux/NT ordeal any easier? We are ordering a new system that comes with NT. I would like to install Linux on the system when it arrives. I know that I will need to repartition the drive (one big 8.4 GB drive) and I thought that something li

FIPS

1998-04-22 Thread ptleung
Hi, all. I have a friend who also want to install Linux. She want to use FIPS to resize her current dos partition. However, the readme file of FIPS said that it don't work on window 95 OSR2, which is the OS of her current partition. My question is: is it true? If so, is there any non-commer

Re: Apache Setup (still has problems)

1998-04-22 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
>Hello again, >I have two problems with the machine that I am using at this time. >1. Currently this machine is named t21717.domain-name.edu, in the >dns >tables on the college's nameserver it is T21717.domain-name.edu. >Should >this difference in the names cause a problem? (I also changed the >n

Re: Dual boot NT and linux?

1998-04-22 Thread Matt Housh
I don't know about System Commander, having never made use of it, but NT and Linux coincide rather uneventfully for me. I've set up both, and Linux boots as a menu option in NT's boot loader. If you'd like, I can port a tutorial on how to do it...

Re: Dual boot NT and linux?

1998-04-22 Thread Thomas Hubbell
> > I don't know about System Commander, having never made use of it, > but NT and Linux coincide rather uneventfully for me. I've set up both, > and Linux boots as a menu option in NT's boot loader. If you'd like, I can > port a tutorial on how to do it... > The main reasons I was consid

Re: FIPS

1998-04-22 Thread Matt Housh
If the question here is fat32, there is a fat32 version of fips available on the net at http://www-plateau.cs.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html. If fat32 is not the problem, then it should work fine. I have no trouble at all using OSR2 and linux. HTH ---

RE: Moving /usr directory?

1998-04-22 Thread David . LANDGREN
>> it doesn't work, (cd /source;tar cf - ./)|(cd /dest;tar xvf -) might do as > >> well. > Work.. > > But > (cd /source;tar cf - ./)|(cd /dest;tar xvpf -) should be better And > (cd /source && tar cf - ./)|(cd /dest && tar xvpf -) > will be even better still, like I said

Re: Dual boot NT and linux?

1998-04-22 Thread Matt Housh
Well, whether or not it helps, here is the tutorial I wrote: http://jaeger.morpheus.net/ntldr.html, pulled out of my old webpage, broken link and all. If it's a problem for anyone to read HTML, I'll convert it to plain text. --- Ma

RE: Installing Redhat 5.0 via FTP

1998-04-22 Thread fontep
I tried this with an NT box also, it just didn't work. After I moved my CD to the Linux box and installed, I moved the CD back to the NT box and went to ftp an RPM from the NT box. Using NcFTP the long file names just were not there. So the FTP install would never work. -Paul -Origin

Re: 010101

1998-04-22 Thread Billy Bushong - Concord, NH
-Original Message- From: Pat Nugent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, April 22, 1998 11:22 AM Subject: 010101 >Ok...after finally managing to install RedHat 5 (it didn't like my scsi >card so I borrwed an ATAPI cd-rom) when I reboot after a se

RE: Moving /usr directory?

1998-04-22 Thread Matt Housh
How picky :) --- Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MicroComputer SpecialistUniversity of Tulsa "Pardon me, stewardess. I speak Jive." On Wed, 22 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Apache SSL RPMS from Replay.com

1998-04-22 Thread Trevor Astrope
To followup my own post, I did get the apache-ssl-1.2.6-1.i386.rpm to install. It complained of failed dependencies for libssl.so, but the apache-ssl rpm installed without a hitch after installing the SSLeay-0.8 rpm. I think maybe the apache-ssl-1.2.6-2.i386.rpm is broken, because the replay web

Re: Using Expect to automate passwords fails

1998-04-22 Thread bsc
If it just seems to freeze up, try inserting "sleep 2" after each "expect password:". Autopasswd wouldn't work for me until I did this. Blair. On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 08:47:17AM +, Nils wrote: > I have tried using Expect to automate a password change (using the > autopasswd example

Re: redhat-digest Digest V98 #148

1998-04-22 Thread George Toft
> Subject: zip drives, and FAT32 > Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 15:11:05 -0700 (PDT) > From: Chris Scheller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > two quick questions...first i missed the posts about > mounting a fat32 drives. Is there a patch for 2.0.33 > for mounting fat32 drives? second, i

RE: Exiting Xwindows gracefully

1998-04-22 Thread Yoink!
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 17 Apr, ISA wrote: > > >>I ran xwindows by typing "xdm". It runs, unfortunately, I do not > >>know how to get out. If I do start/exit fvwm/yes, really exit, it > >>exits to the login screen, but not back to prompt. How to I get to > >>prompt, so

Re: Apache SSL RPMS from Replay.com

1998-04-22 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Trevor Astrope wrote: > To followup my own post, I did get the apache-ssl-1.2.6-1.i386.rpm to > install. It complained of failed dependencies for libssl.so, but the > apache-ssl rpm installed without a hitch after installing the SSLeay-0.8 > rpm. > > I think maybe the apache

Re: Restarting services automatically

1998-04-22 Thread Bryan C. Andregg
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998 10:38:40 -0400 (EDT), <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the past few days I have had named crash a couple times for no apparant > reason, Is there some sort of a wrapper or something that will restart a > service when it crashes and if so where can I find it? You can run daemon

Re: redhat-digest Digest V98 #148

1998-04-22 Thread Matt Housh
There is a fat32 patch for linux at http://www-plateau.cs.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html. This also includes a patch to support the MS Joliet fs and iso9660 extensions. --- Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PR

Unidentified subject!

1998-04-22 Thread Ruud de Bruin
Why is the isdn4linux package not included in RedHat Linux 5.0? Regards, Ruud. -- Dance: vertical expression of horizontal desire. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists

Crash...I think.

1998-04-22 Thread Ron Golan
I installed RH5 about four weeks ago. I have worked through many of the common configuration tasks and until last night had a system which was working as I had wanted. This includes working PPP, mail configuration, custom XFree86Config modelines, etc. It all worked reliably until last night. Here'

USAF C2 shifting from UNIX to NT

1998-04-22 Thread grt
FYI >From Infobeat Finance Full Closing Bell - - - MICROSOFT CORP and three industry leaders announced the signing of an unprecedented agreement with the U.S. Air Force Electronic Systems Center (ESC) to begin converting military command and control (C2) applications from UNIX operating system env

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