On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Eileen Orbell wrote:
> I am trying to set up a DNS server. I installed the rpm Bind. Do I have
> to create the file named.conf in the etc directory or should it have been
> created when I installed Bind?
>
there is a sample named.conf file included IIRC. it may be sitting
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Frank Jacobberger wrote:
> I have to be able to dual boot using OS/2. Anyone
> with a clue on how that would be setup in lilo? I'm
> running the latest Red Hat 7. Couldn't find anything
> of substance on the issue at Red Hat's web site.
>
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Linux
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Brandon Dorman wrote:
> This is probably a touchy subject, but anyone know of any good, fairly
> low-volume news sites for Linux? Wideopen looks to be great, but not
> about the OS itself. linux.com, .org, etc. don't offer daily news as far
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Martin A. Marques wrote:
> I need to log the trafic that comes in throught he ports 80 and 7500 (and
> others in the future). How is this done? I can't use TCPdump, because it puts
> the eth0 in promiscous mode, and I would have problems with the net admins
> here. ^
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Manuel Camacho wrote:
> We need a mail server at the office, and was thinking about Linux as
> an option.
> About 20 users, and we use internal as well as internet e-mail. As
> traffic is
> The network at the office uses Novell netware, and the clients are
> either Win95
> o
I'm trying to get a Redhat 4.0 box to print to an HP JetDirect card. I did
some reading (howto's, web searches) and found some printcap examples for
JetDirects which I used to edit my own printcap.
I cleared leftover lock files in /var/spool/lpd, stopped and then restarted
lpd with /etc/rc.d/init
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Chad W. Skinner wrote:
> I am getting ready to start purchasing parts to build a couple of computers
> so I can learn more about networking. I am curious about what processor to
> buy though. I have found a Celeron 500 for $102.00 and PII 400-450 for about
> $150+. I am not p
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Timothy Lillicrap wrote:
> Does anyone know what it means when a network card is "hard strapped"
> When I
> insmod ewrk3
> I get the following:
>
> eth0: DE204-AB at 0x200, h/w address 08:00:2b:97:c6:7e,
> is hard strapped.
>
> Does anyone know what this means???
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Vidiot wrote:
> >> How did you run the searches? I typed "ADMROCKS" and none of those places
> >> brought anything up.
> >
> >/var/named/ADMROCKS
>
> What kind of search engine doesn't report "/var/named/ADMROCKS" from a
> keyword of "ADMROCKS". One would have to know the
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Syd Carter / Upper Level wrote:
> I just can't seem to get the win95 client setup correctly for DNS. The
> name server is working, I can resolve ip addresses but not the same ones
> that my server resolves. For example, if I ping "www" from dos, I get
> an address, say 24.0
=
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Robert Glover wrote:
> My questions are:
>
> 1. Is there such a thing as a 100MB ISA ethernet card (cheap)?
^^ ^
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Mark Basil wrote:
> you can download redhat linux 6.2 from ftp.redhat.org, however when you say
> linux-x.y.x.tgz you are referring to the linux kernel, not the redhat linux
> distribution.
>
ftp.redhat.org resolves to 127.0.0.1; is this:
- a minor screwup editing authority
The output of 'ifconfig' doesn't tell you speed and duplex?
=
\|/ \|/ : Reality is elusive, subjective, and VERY disappointing
@~/ oo \~@ :
/_( \__/ )_\ : internet[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\__U_/: fidonet
ignoring the DHCP addressing implications;
try specing the cards with and 'append ether=.' statement. I think I
successfully changed card order this way.
=
\|/ \|/ : Reality is elusive, subjective, and VERY disappoi
> I have seen some similar stuff. You should be sure that there are NO
> electronic items under, over, or next to your monitor. This includes AC
> operated radios, other devices that have transformers in them, even
> printers. Even computers without their metal skin on. I don't remember what
> d
We have a box on a UPS that's still running Redhat 4.0. On April 19th,
top and uptime both showed
7:58pm up 472 days, 7:03, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
When I passed by the machine yesterday, I noticed top said
up 3 days, etc
so I took a look at the logfiles and services t
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Billy R. Nordyke Sr. wrote:
> Think I have the ethernet almost working. At least there's activity on
> the eth0 window in one computer when I'm trying to connect.
> Where do I find information on how to use the ethernet connection?
> Haven't figured out the keywords to find
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Niclas Sodergard DC wrote:
>
> > But can you elaborate on that "specially written accounting software"? How
> > do you get number of pages printed, for example?
>
> Since all of our printers speak postscript (we have standardized on HP LJ)
> we are instructing them before ea
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Jerry Human wrote:
> I sure hope you can help me with this one. Last week I installed a WD
> Caviar 102AA 10 gig hard drive and made four partitions: hdc1 four gig,
> hdc2 100 meg, hdc3 three gig, and hdc4 three gig. I installed RH 6.2 on
> hdc1 and used hdc2 for the swap file
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Edward Marczak wrote:
> > IS there a way to get Sendmail to forward mail for certain
> > email addresses to /dev/null?
>
> "Fred" used to work at my company. He subscribed to many a mailing list.
> He didn't unsub when he left. My many attempts to email list admins to ask
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, George Lenzer wrote:
> The question; Is there a decent RedHat only security list that may keep me
> abreast of the latest exploits and provide more security info than this list
> can?
>
message footer from Redhat linux-security list;
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On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Pira, Joel wrote:
> I am going to use and old PC as a proxy server connected to the Net thru
> a dedicated dial-up. The pc is not y2k compliant. What problems will I
> encounter?
>
Umm, that you'll have to use the linux date command each time you boot to
manually set the date
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Jeff Graves wrote:
> Can you get the time from just any other linux system or do you need to
> set it up as a time server?
>
I'll have to waffle on this one. It seems to have been enabled on my 4.2
boxes by default; that may not universally be the case. Check the man pages
o
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Nigel Trivass wrote:
> recently connected my Redhat 5.2 machine to the internet. As I need to dial
> into other sites I required a fixed IP address. I added the ISP details and
> using PPP, I was able to connect to the internet fine. However since then,
> my machine was acc
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> One of the recent messages had the sig:
> "Time flies like the wind, fruit flies like a banana."
> What the heck are time flies?
>
>
> (I couldn't resist!)
> Merry Christmas--doug
>
A rare genus and species. Latin/scientific name 'tempus fugits'.
(I
<-begin quote->
The next problem involves trying to add a second
card (a netgear card, forget the name but it uses
the tulip driver). I wanted to add the second
FA-310TX ?
card so I could connect my laptop to my desktop
system sometimes to permit both internet access to
my lapto
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> > Microsoft Certified Professional Action Heroes?
> > What is the world coming to?
>
> Yes, let's release Red Hat Certified Microsoft-Killer Action Heroes
> (penguins with phasers or something) to react. ;)
>
How about some posters of Tux
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Mike Green wrote:
> I'm having a strange problem on startup:
> When the machine gets to the line output to the screen which says "Starting
> sendmail:" it sits and grinds for a verrry long time. Then it moves on with
Make sure that your host name and ip are included in (co
Replaced our very old mail server (yes, it was redhat too) with redhat 7.2
and current sendmail. I commented out the 'localhost only' line from the
config file and re-m4'ed. inbound mail works fine. outbound mail works
fine for those users who telnet in and use pine. users who use eudora or
ne
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Brian M. Choc wrote:
> I am wondering if there is a list somewhere of LILO errors. For
> example, I have run into the LILO prompt only displaying the letters
> "LI" and then hanging. Also, if someone knows why this might be that
> would also be appreciated.
>
Root partition
> Now try to mount "/D":
>
> [root@localhost /root]# mount /D
> mount: mount point /D does not exist
>
> Am I doing something dumb here? Anyone have FAT32 working?
Dunno about the FAT32 part, but generic mount requires that
1) the /D directory exists (well, DOES it?!)
and
2) that you tell moun
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Michael Jinks wrote:
> The ethernet card and the SCSI controller are both PCI, and both
> _really_ want to claim IRQ 11. I think that this should be workable
> under PCI (right?), but at the moment any command I try to send to eth0
> returns a SCSI error.
>
Try moving one o
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Fred W. Noltie Jr. wrote:
> In the month or two I've been on this list (ditto when I was monitoring some
> comp.os.linux.* groups), I have yet to see (so far as I can recall) any
> comparisons of Linux to Netware. So if you're reasonably familiar with both:
> how do the two co
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Jeffrey Fearn wrote:
> D'day, I have a redhat box set up as a firewall, the mail server is
> inside the firewall. When I forward/relay incoming mail to the mail
> server the delivery address is changed ie [EMAIL PROTECTED] is
> changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This change preve
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Mike A. Lewis, CNE wrote:
> I'm setting up a new box for a client.
>
> The box has a 6.1GB IDE Maxtor HD. The BIOS does have LBA turned on. I
> have a 6GB partition for / and 100MB for swap.
>
> During the install, after the formatting of the HD, I get "Install
> termina
On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, James Hartley wrote:
> Does anyone know of a UPS that can be programmed to issue the shutdown command
> to the computer in the event of a power outage? I need a system rated at about
> 400 watts.
>
The UPS-HOWTO covers this for several models.
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On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Vidiot wrote:
> Today I tried to find the LILO howto at Redhat's ftp site and was not able to.
> Where is the HOWTO that explains the ins and outs of LILO, especially what
> can be placed on the command line at boot time and what the errors mean?
>
Don't remember where the ld
On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, niels wrote:
> I am having troubles concerning with my Ethernet PCI Card.
> I have a 10 Mbit PCI Adapter from Legato Systems with the RP-1651W
> Serie.
> It should be NE2000 compatible,but the Linux driver in Red Hat Linux 5.0
> with Kernel 2.0.32 gives error and doesn't
> pr
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, robert collins wrote:
> Hello; Is anyone familiar
> with why nslookup can't
> identify its own localhost
> but can identify the Sprint
> Server ? The NetConfig
> Dialer shows the localhost
> active as a loop back
Interesting. Do you have
127.0.0.1 localhost
i
On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Aaron Walker wrote:
> Is it possible to have shadow passwords installed and have an
> /etc/passwd like:
>
> root:RLx6uuTK6dzWg:0:1:Operator:/:/bin/csh
> nobody:*:-2:-2::/:
> daemon:*:1:1::/:
> sys:*:2:2::/:/bin/csh
> bin:*:3:3::/bin:
> uucp:*:4:4::/var/spool/uucppublic:
> ftp
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Damien Silveira wrote:
> I have reinstalled redhat numerous times now and am having no success. I am
> installing from retail cd with one network card and choosing expert mode. I
> set the i/o addr and the irq and then get the system running and add an
> additional network c
On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Kenny Melton wrote:
> What does this error mean? I recieve it when I attempt to send mail
> to my linux box. How do I fix it? I know it's a valid address.
>
> 550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> not accepted
>
550 is "negative permanent, file system".
Is smtp running?
does the account
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Lou Ruppert wrote:
>
> I have a system which has a 300MB drive and a 200MB drive. It is
> difficult to fit a decent redhat system (X11, networking, latex) on
> either one of these disks, but if I could combine them into one virtual
> drive, I'd do fine. Any idea how I could
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Joe Ferguson wrote:
> Don't know if that's the proper terminology, but is there a way to change
> this?
> RH defaults to bash, and it seems that everything is oriented around that
> shell. I prefer the Kornshell, since that's what I use at work,
> exclusively. I know that y
On Wed, 25 Mar 1998, Ramin Sina wrote:
> I am deciding whether I should buy 5.0 or wait for 5.1. Since RH has not
Red Hat is inexpensive enough compared to other alternatives (SCO, NT, OS/2,
etc) that there is no reason NOT to go for "instant gratification".
> yet announced when 5.1 will be re
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Eduardo Egues wrote:
> Does anybody know what SRPMS means and what is its use?
> Sorry i'm linux novice and i'd like know what can i do with it
>
R)edhat
P)ackage
M)anagement,
to grossly oversimplify, it's an archive. However, as Ronco of Redhat would
say, "But wait, there
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Db wrote:
> >I made an instalation for RH 4.2 and I made two partitions. First
> >partition ( 50 Mb ) for swap and the second for linux.
>
> did I read somewhere it was a heathen thing to do...ie; make swap the
> FIRST partition?
>
It depends. The primary concept was that t
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Jeff wrote:
> Just heard them announce that they'll be interviewing some Linux people on
> NPR. If you know your station and want to listen, they'll be talking in a
> few minutes
>
I missed it. Who'd they interview, and what did they say?
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On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
> I'm having routing trouble with a PPP connection to a Linux server using a
> Win95 client. The PPP connection works. I can ping the Linux box from the
> Win95 box. But I can't see anything past the Linux box.
> Assuming it does, do I have to do an
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Dan Cornilescu wrote:
> > We have several "DOS 7" machines, which is to say, Windows95 boxes which
> > boot into non-GUI mode. In their infinite wisdom, M$ wrote the
> > networking so that only IPX will load without the GUI. So, these
> > machines can map network drives fro
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Chris Frost wrote:
> I'm looking to get a very well supported pci network card for my linux box
> (in the $40-$70 range). Are there any tulip-type cards that I could get?
>
Netgear FA310TX (10/100 pci card) currently going for $29 to $39 ea. from
places like DataComm Warehou
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Of course this is off-topic, but I'm stuck and this is THE list for info. I
> am using RH 5.0 in a Novell 3.12 environment, and I get this error when I
> try to get my email:
>
> fetchmail: IMAP connection to m14007.wellsfargo.com failed: host is un
> I would like to use for a big server >= 2 network cards. For the first
> tests I used two SMC EtherPower II PCI cards - and the first one works
> fine...
> But how do I configure the second card in a RedHat-like way? I tried
> cp /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 \
> /etc/sysconf
> Does anyone offhand know a good doc. that describes the history of UNIX
> and/or Linux in a brief, but positive way? (I'm looking for exact dates,
> important people, that sorta thing...)
>
For UNIX, go to your local library, and have them get for you (thru
inter-library loan, if necessary) a c
> While booting up I get the following message:
>
> tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
>
>
> But then, if I do a
>
> $ cat /proc/interrupts
>
> 0: 19722 timer
> 1:614 keyboard
> 2: 0 cascade
> 4:
On Wed, 6 May 1998, Michael wrote:
> I posted a message about a problem I have with my internet connection.
> Someone suggested that I should look in /etc/resolv.conf and check if it
> was pointing at the correct name-server, so I did and it contains tree
> lines:
> Domain ( it says: search )
>
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Jim McMurry wrote:
> It is a SMC UltraEZ 8514 10baseT card. It works under Netware 5 and WinNT
> 5 on the same machine, so it is not a matter of the card being "bad"
>
> I have tried
>
> insmod ne.o io=0x2c0 irq=5
>
> no luck there, I get errors saying something about load
On Sat, 9 May 1998, Dan Cyr wrote:
> At 12:12 AM 5/10/98 -0400, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote:
> >How can I get 12 concoles in Red Hat?
>
> In /etc/inittab
>
> # Run gettys in standard runlevels
> 1:12345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
> 2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
> 3:2345:respawn:/sbin/minge
> Finally got brave enough to load RH5 over RH4.2. I can't past the cdrom
> list. My cdrom is a NEC CORP. Model cdr-260R. On RH 4.2, it works just
> great
>
> under hdb: NEC CD-ROM.
Try jumpering the drive as master and attaching it to the second IDE
connector (under hdc).
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On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, David C. Winters wrote:
> Been having a problem with networking on a bunch of 4.2 boxes, with the
> machines clicking into their proper network identities.
> I had to get a bunch of machines redone fairly quickly, so I built one
> machine, a Linux/NT dual-boot machine, in m
On Mon, 25 May 1998, Marcantonio Magnarapa wrote:
>
> I have intalled RH5 on a win95 box. Everything went beautifully, except
> the network card wasn't recognized. (this is not my problem right now, but
> anyway, how do I set up that card? it's a cheap PCI ethernet card, nothing
> special).
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Kevin Currie wrote:
>
> I recently switched from Debian to RedHat, however, RedHat is
> giving me some rather annoying problems. I have a server with two
> ethernet cards. The kernel finds both of them okay. I want to configure
> eth0 on a 192.168.1.x class C network
On Thu, 28 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a simple question:
>
> How do you setup two ne2000 cards in one PC (the "redhat" way)?
>
> I know that you can specify ether=irq,io,ethn in the lilo config. But is
> there an easier way in RedHat to accomplish this?
>
> I am setting up an
On Sun, 31 May 1998, Perez, Victor wrote:
> I've hear about problem using PCI network cards with Linux. I want to know
> if I'm going to have problems if I try to use a cheap NE2000 compatible PCI
> network card with Linux.
>
They work good once it finds them. Under 4.x, I usually had to tell it
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Kurt Marlein wrote:
>Is it possible to reduce the speed of the mouse in Redhat or Linux
> in general
>
yes
gpm -h
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> I'm installing RH5.0 for a client. The hard drive they wish to use is a
> 6GB Maxtor IDE drive.
>
> I'd like to hear from others their thoughts on partitioning this drive
> as well as any pitfalls I may encounter.
>
Depends. What's the machine going to be doing? Web server? Usenet news
server
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