Re: Networking question.

2002-12-28 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 01:02:41PM -0600, Eric Ladner wrote: > I have an IBM T23 laptop that worked just dandy under 7.2 for over a > year, then I did a clean install of RH 8.0. > > Now, periodically, the machine will forget about the built int network > card (IBM eepro100). > > When it works, ev

Re: Unable to use telnet

2003-01-02 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 07:43:35PM -0600, Chandra wrote: > > I am able to ping to my Red hat 8.0 system, but not able to login into > the system using telnet from my windows desktop and getting the > following error message. > > telnet: Connect to address:... Connection refused. A couple of th

Re: JAVA Plug-in for Mozilla

2003-01-02 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 09:35:39PM -0500, Thomas E. Dukes wrote: > Geez, > > I guess I'm an idiot. I can't get it to work. Even tried the > mozjava.sh script...nothing. Thanks anyway. You may want to try the following link. I followed these steps and it worked fine. http://plugindoc.moz

Re: RH for server

2003-01-02 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 07:38:52PM -0800, 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 th

Re: Unable to use telnet

2003-01-03 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 08:32:12AM -0500, Rick Carroll wrote: > Be advised that putty has been identified as having security vulnerabilities. > > http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-36.html Which has been fixed in the most recent version, 0.53b. http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/6R00B20

Re: Accessing the internet through MS Proxy Server 2

2003-01-05 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 09:53:34AM +0800, Edward Dekkers wrote: > > Another issue is that MS proxy uses NTLM (NT Login Manager) to > > authenticate you onto an MS Proxy. With IE your login Info is sent > > through transparently, but a Unix browser does not have this facility. > > No way to turn th

Re: file system choice?

2003-01-06 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 07:47:51AM -0600, Christopher Henderson wrote: > Will Red Hat ever give us a choice of file system to use during > install? I understand their position on Ext3 for stabilities sake but > how about those of us that would like to use reiserfs? You could still > mark Ext3 as

Re: DMA & DVD

2003-01-06 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 05:14:51PM +0100, Alexis MOREAU wrote: > and I had this message : > > [root@localhost root]# hdparm -d1 /dev/hdd > > /dev/hdd: > setting using_dma to 1 (on) > HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > using_dma= 0 (off) > You need to add a line to your mod

Re: sshd server problem - HELP!

2003-01-07 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:04:22AM -0500, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: > I tried the telnet idea before. It's not even installed. So that's out. > but thanks for the suggestion. > > Any thoughts on what would be causing sshd to fail would be helpfull. > > Ric I would try one of two things. Try starting

Re: BIND & ./configure

2003-01-09 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 09:17:32AM -0700, Craig Cameron wrote: > Hi, all > > I'm trying to compile my brand new bind 9.1.3. The instructions and the > O'Reilly book and the Linux Documentation project says to simply type > ./configure, but it doesn't work. > If somebody could point me in the dir

Re: BIND & ./configure

2003-01-09 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 10:53:13AM -0700, Craig Cameron wrote: > IT just says no such file or directory. I installed the BIND software with > the installation of RedHat itself. I am a little confused. Did you download the source code to compile on your own or did you download an RPM to install B

Re: BIND & ./configure

2003-01-09 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:52:59AM -0700, Craig Cameron wrote: > When I installed Linux, I chose to install networking and DNS & BIND. > So you are planning on using BIND that came installed with Red Hat, correct? You may want to head to http://www.redhat.com and look at the documentation on con

Re: Install Problem: Monitor Probe

2003-01-09 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:37:42PM -0500, Edward Marczak wrote: > Hello, again, everyone. > > I'm trying to install RH 8.0 on a Compaq 1850R. The install locks up at: > > Running anaconda, the RedHat Linux Installer > Probing for Video Card Type: ATI Rage > Probing for Monitor Type: Unable t

Re: DVD troubles with Red Hat 8

2003-01-09 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 02:09:03AM +, Michael Lazin wrote: > I am running Red Hat 8 on a laptop with a 1.2 ghz processor and 256 megs of > ram. I tried installing all three linux dvd players, mplayer, ogle, and > xine, but video is choppy with all of them. I tried using nice to give the >

Re: Redhat 8 Install on Old Laptop (Problem)

2003-01-10 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:02:10AM -0600, Alex wrote: > I recently tried to install Redhat 8 on an old Pentium-75 Laptop with > 24MB of RAM (its actually a TI Travelmate 5300). > > I guess I could use a different distribution, but I really like > RedHat... Is there a way to make this work? Check

Re: Installing Samba by rpm without GUI

2003-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 02:48:16PM +0100, Ronald Hermans wrote: > If I try to rpm samba I receive warnings of other packages that must be > installed. And they too rely on other packages. Is there a text oriented > tool I can use that does the same as the redhat-config-packages > application. If

Re: Domain Name

2003-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 11:25:07PM +0100, Anand Buddhdev wrote: > Edit /etc/sysconfig/network, and set your hostname there. It will be set > correctly at every bootup then. For completenesses sake, also edit > /etc/hosts, and change localhost.localdomain to your new hostname. Actually leave the

Re: Domain Name

2003-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:05:45AM +1100, george wrote: > should this be the fully qualified domain name or just hostname? > > I have read two differing accounts on this The /etc/sysconfig/network entry should be the fully qualified domain name per the Reference Guide on Red Hat's site. Hope thi

Re: Domain Name

2003-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 07:39:33PM -0500, Werner Puschitz wrote: > > Just curious. Because if I make my hostname able.george.smth I am sure > > the prompt will have it shortened up to just 'able'?? > > > > Maybe I am wrong but it seems that this is what happened to me before.. > > It's shorten

Re: Disk Druid

2003-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 10:16:34PM -0500, Andrew Lucas wrote: > When I installed redhat 8.0, I used Disk Druid to set up my disks. I > added another hard drive and need to partition it. Where do I get disk > druid? Its not installed and I can figure out which RPM its in. I was > able to partition m

Re: Newbie: Change hostnames on a network

2003-01-17 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 04:31:45PM +, Cannon, Andrew wrote: > Hi all, > > This should be really easy, but it isn't. How can I change the host names of > the four RH8 computers on my little network. The current names are too long > and I want to shorten them. > > I'm a newbie, so be gentle.

Re: lock on RPM

2003-01-20 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:21:00AM +0900, shawn wrote: > I wanted to delete an RPM but couldn't. > > [javauser@The_Big_Playhouse javauser]$ rpm -evv mysql-server-3.23.52-3 > D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0 > D: locked db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages > D: ope

Re: up2date - Slashdotted?

2003-02-06 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:37:35AM -0500, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: > >Error Message: > > Free service limited due to high load; please try again in 30-60 > >minutes (server 1002077318) > >Error Class Code: 51 > >Error Class Info: > > Due to extremely high traffic, access to Red Hat Network is c

Re: Fetchmail and system-wide configuration

2003-02-11 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 05:27:13AM +1100, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > > Awuku Danso wrote: > > Hi all > > I'm currently running fetchmail as a user with a .fetchmailrc from the user's home >directory and it seems to work fine. What I really do want is to run it as a service >or daemon at boot time with

Re: Format 2nd hard drive

2003-02-11 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:17:56PM -0800, DuSTiN KRySaK wrote: > Cool - I will give this a go. > > By chance is there a way to use disk druid or a GUI tool to partition and > format a drive (2nd drive after install)? Disk Druid is only available during the install. Not sure if there are other G

Re: Funny man pages

2003-02-12 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 03:54:37PM -0800, David Busby wrote: > List, > My man pages on one of my RH80 boxes put a letter 'a' with a carat above > inplace of where the '-' character should be. Here's a bit from `man > logrotate`. How do I fix this one? I don't know how to manipulate the > sys

Re: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then using ready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

2003-02-13 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:56:23AM -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: > > > I'm playing around with RHL 8 to set up firewall with iptables. > > With Pentium II 300, 64 MB, 4 GB SCSI HD, 2 NIC's 100 Mbps. I think it > > enough. > > Nope--more memory required. At least 128. Actually more memory is only req

Re: CD Burn sw

2003-02-14 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 07:35:36AM +, jdaues wrote: > Hello, > Can anyone recommend a good CD Burning app? > I've tried KOnCD, which gives numerous errors and X-CD-Roast, which I > can't even figure out how to use, the GUI is designed so poorly. > Thanks. I use GnomeToaster occasionally with

Re: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!

2003-02-19 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:06:20AM -0800, Christopher Lyon wrote: > I seem to be having a problem with copy files in or out of this machine. > I noticed that a console message just came up and it said "eepro100: > wait_for_cmd_done timeout!" I have never seen this before and I noticed > that the bo

Re: MPlayer!

2003-02-26 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 06:35:53PM +0100, Felipe Leon wrote: > >//> //> I don't know if it has happened to somebody this problem I > >have trying //> to play dvd's with mplayer. I installed everything > >what it is required //> for the program to play encrypted dvds, even > >re-compile the prog

Re: Mail Server

2003-02-28 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:55:20PM -0500, Christian Campbell wrote: > I have intermediate experience with Linux. Even less with mail servers. > I'm running a RedHat 8 server that needs to accept mail from the world as > our primary mailserver. I'm debating as to whether I should use postfix or >

Re: Installation question (free space above first partition)

2003-02-28 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:53:55AM +, Cannon, Andrew wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got a bit of a problem with a new installation of RH8. We've got a > Compaq Evo D510 that comes preinstalled with either Win2K or XP. When we > partition the disk, we have free space at the top of the partition tabl

Re: traceroute

2003-03-16 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
> > > Yes the computer is connected to a network, which is > > mine, and I do have a linksys router/firewall, but I > > can do tracert from my windows box ok, but not from > > Linux. > > Apples and oranges. Most if not all Windows traceroute clients use icmp whereas most > *nix traceroute clien

Re: MTA recommendation

2003-03-26 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 03:41:16PM -0600, Distribution Lists wrote: > I need to setup a robust secure SMTP mail server. I have and still use > sendmail which have proven to be good. From other people's experience I > would like to know what else could be recommended, Postfix maybe ? I highly reco