after attacks ar logged.

2000-02-08 Thread Yoink!
I have suspicious portscans coming in routinely. How do I send an e-mail to the appropriate sysadmins to have things looked at on their side when they are outside the .COM, .NET, .ORG, and .EDU domains? Whois won't work on them... For instance, atech.lc.cc.il.us/209.96.41.1 keeps trying to por

RE: RPMs - Frustration sets in.

2000-03-01 Thread Yoink!
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Ward William E PHDN wrote: > Ah, yes. > > [root@Linus /root]# rpm --rebuilddb > failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm // = / so that's not the cause of your problem. Double slashes are explicitly allowed by the kernel for other reasons. -- \ \/ / _ |~\ _ In

Re: Why does modifying /etc/rc.d have to so complex

2000-04-16 Thread Yoink!
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Danny wrote: > Assuming I want to install sys progs without the RPMS I was wonder why the > developers of RH have made modifying etc/rc.d so complex. > > Whereas in BSD you have to only create a file called sysprogs.sh to start the > program up. then add it to /etc/rc.d/rc.l

Re: MP3, Sound Cards and Linux?

2000-04-23 Thread Yoink!
On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Martin R. Gonzalez wrote: > I am planning to transform many of my cds to mp3 so I can listen to them > from the computer. > Therefore I would like to know which sound card I should get in order > not to lose any sound quality. Besides that, I am planning to do the job

Re: Sending all system users email and Outlook Express

1999-11-11 Thread Yoink!
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Steven Hildreth wrote: > Hey, so know I am wondering what is the best way to setup Sendmail (8.9.3) > and Outlook Express (5) to be able to send all the users at my mail server a > message, like tech tips or stock reports and such. Being able to create one > email and then hav

Re: Problem with my X server

1999-11-12 Thread Yoink!
On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Angel Madge Rojas wrote: > I'm running RH 6.0 in a Compaq Deskpro (Pentium MMX) but I can't have the x > server work. I have the vertical and horizontal sync freq. (50-100 Hz and > 31-48,4 kHz repectively) and I've tried many others and nothing! Besides the > mouse doesn't mov

Re: Finding files with spaces

1999-11-13 Thread Yoink!
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, John Horne wrote: > Hello, > > I have a small script which uses the find command to locate files and then > does an 'ls -lAd' on them (don't ask why, it's not important). This however > has failed nicely when it hits files with spaces in them! > > I have as a test: > >

Re: mkefs2 and/or raid problem - dell server

1999-11-14 Thread Yoink!
Ack. try installing or upgrading to redhat 6.1. can you make filesystems with raid turned off? Can you use hardware raid instead? On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Barry K. Myrvold wrote: > Need some help with a new server. Just purchased a dell poweredge > server 2300 with RH6.0 pre-installed to use

Re: PPP problems

1999-11-14 Thread Yoink!
does the command dmesg or the file /var/log/messages show you anything. next time it happens, see if you ping the mailserver you are trying to connect to. On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Paul M. Foster wrote: > Folks: > > Okay, I've had this problem for months, seemingly corresponding with the > 2.2 kernel

Re: Module dependency question

1999-11-17 Thread Yoink!
Try running /sbin/lilo also, look at /etc/conf.modules On Tue, 16 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a question that isn't being made clear in the modules > documentation. > > Evidently, "depmod -a" attempts to resolve all the dependencies for > modules in /lib/modules/, creating a

Re: Problems with the ethernet card

1999-11-17 Thread Yoink!
On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Angel Madge Rojas wrote: > I have RH 6.0 in a Compaq Deskpro and I can't have the NIC work at all! > Well, in fact this PC has the ethernet card embedded in the mainboard > and I read I had to load the AMD Lance driver (pcnet32) in the kernel > (2.2.13), but it doesn't work. B

Re: Web server configuration

1999-01-16 Thread Yoink!
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Stephen Liu wrote: > I have Apache installed (RedHat 6.0) and shall be much appreciated to be > advised of how to config it. Can the server be visited by client via phone > line. Thank you in advance. Did you read the documentation that comes with Apache? And what does "vi

Re: Kernel compilation loop

1999-01-16 Thread Yoink!
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Adam Getchell wrote: > I have a moderately working 2.2.13-20 kernel on top of a 6.1 box (incrementally > upgraded from 6.0 using rpm). My current kernel does not have modules or sound > support, so I want to create a new one. > > I do a make xconfig and load my saved configur

Re: not able to get on web -- after 6.1 install

1999-01-16 Thread Yoink!
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Edward Dekkers wrote: >> And so on. Don't know what this means. My ISP is ix.netcom.com and I'm a single >> user. Also a non-programmer. Any help gratefully appreciated. > Ouch, it annoys me when people refer to configuring their systems as > 'programming'. It doesn't matter

RE: [OT] Hard Drives (Maxtor in particular, but others too).

1999-01-17 Thread Yoink!
I had to send one Western Digital drive back about 7 times. I sent my other one back 4 times. I will never buy another. You get sick of calling in warranties... I use Seagate, IBM, and Maxtor. On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Charles Galpin wrote: > I've had the same success with WD. Admittely I've had lit

Re: browsing https with lynx

1999-01-17 Thread Yoink!
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Maziar Mahzari wrote: > I've a shell and ppp account on my linux ISP. When I login using minicom > and try to brows a https site with lynx it says that the server can not > connect to this page. But using ppp and netscape on the same server I can > see the page. The problem ex

Re: xfs travails..

1999-01-17 Thread Yoink!
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Arni Raghu wrote: > For some reason(screwing up the firewall settings) I rebooted my machine and > as it rebooted it stoppped when it tried to start the xfs service...I hit a > Ctrl-D and it continued...I did a startx and it gave the error:: > > ..nothing would budge it...I l

Re: xfs travails..

1999-01-17 Thread Yoink!
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Arni Raghu wrote: > I have ppp link.so the dns server cannot be contacted..!! Uh yes it can... > I blanked out all the lines in the /etc/resolv.cof and then rebooted..no > luck...any ideas.?? Don't do that, it's just making your problem worse... if nslookup isn't working,

Re: /dev/hda6/ was not cleanly unmounted

1999-01-17 Thread Yoink!
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Luis Pablo Gasparotto wrote: > When I boot my computer I see the following message: > > /dev/hda6 was not cleanly unmounted, check forced (frezees for almost a > minute and then continue) > ... > > What it mean? Your drive was not unmounted when your computer was shut down.

Re: Fiji errors under Linux

1999-01-17 Thread Yoink!
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Luis Pablo Gasparotto wrote: > I´ve recently compiled the 2.2.12 Kernel with Loadable Module Support > I can install soundcore and msnd modules with no problem. But when I try > to install > the msnd_pinnacle module this happens: > > insmod msnd_pinnacle cfg=0x260 io=0x290

Re: Eicon Diva Picolla Internal IDSN Card Supported?

1999-01-17 Thread Yoink!
http://www.redhat.com/corp/support/hardware/ Apparantly yes, read the above page to make sure. It appears to be a hisax based isdn, so you should be okay. On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Phil Merricks wrote: > Is there any software available to use an Eicon Diva Picolla internal ISA > ISDN card under Linu

Re: An app wont work now

1999-01-17 Thread Yoink!
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Phil Risby wrote: > I have now running Mandrake which was a RedHat 6.0 till very recently > One rather expensive application which ran under RedHat 6 nmow gives this error > on startup > > Tcl-Init failed do you have Tcl rpm's installed? I'm using version tcl-8.0.4-29, try u

Re: Recompile Problem

1999-01-17 Thread Yoink!
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just recompiled my kernel and rebooted and my pc hangs on "Finding > modules" did you run /sbin/lilo and correct any errors before rebooting? do you do a make modules;make modules_install in your /usr/src/linux-whatever directory. > I don't really

Re: Lost Inturrupt?

1999-01-17 Thread Yoink!
Stop overclocking and we'll help you if the problem stays. I suspect it will go away. On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Robert A. Hayden wrote: > I have a new dual-celeron 550 system I just got running with a Abit BP6 > motherboard and two IBM IDE Hard drives attached to the 33mb chain. I am > using Redhat 6

Re: rpm installs

1999-11-25 Thread Yoink!
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Richard KHOO wrote: > Is is possible for a rpm to install files other than the ones listed when > one does an "rpm -qlp" on it? shouldn't that be "-qpl"? anyway, the answer is now, unless there is a install script which creates one, which would most likely be a config file.

Re: Mouse craziness

1999-11-25 Thread Yoink!
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, David Blair wrote: > Was running RH 6.0, with a MS Basic mouse on ttyS0. Exited KDE a few days > ago, and since then cannot get the mouse to work. I've changed the mouse to > a new unit, and changed from serial mouse to an older bus version. I've > re-upgraded, and re-installe

Re: Passing options to loadable module?

1999-11-25 Thread Yoink!
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, David S Edwards wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Flaskpoint scsi adapter in my system that's a little flakey. I > was told that I should try disabling the Tagged Queuing. How do I pass > this info to the BusLogic module in /etc/conf.modules? I tried the > following in /etc

Re: help with tar

1999-11-27 Thread Yoink!
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, scott.list wrote: > Logged in as root, sitting in the / dir: > tar and zip up /home/* and /etc/passwd, to /tmp/backup.tar.gz > ftp the tar file to a new box in /tmp, > untar/zip it with all files in-tact, with the same ownership, permissions, > mod times, etc. to their origin

Re: startx failing

1999-11-28 Thread Yoink!
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Avram Aumick wrote: > I had no problem starting the x-server using startx. I don't know if I > changed a configuration. However, I get the following message each time I > try to start "startx". > > Fatal server error: > could not open default font 'fixed' > > Have any idea

Re: Tape Backup question

1999-11-29 Thread Yoink!
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Brian Anderson wrote: > Hardware compression... How can I tell if it's enabled / disabled / > working correctly. > > I got a tape drive from a friend. It is listed as being a 12/24 gig DAT. I > am currently only getting 12 gig of data on it. Currently I'm backing up > with a

Re: file locks..

1999-11-29 Thread Yoink!
On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Arni Raghu wrote: > Tired of adding/deleting users manually..I am writing my own perl scripts to > automate the tasks for me...this I do by directly writing to the passwd and > shadow files...(because I do not want to use Expect in the perl code)..It > works great and has ease

Re: system clock 30 min fast after reboot

1999-12-01 Thread Yoink!
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > My system clock always reads 30 minutes fast after a reboot. I set my > system clock daily using rdate, followed by setclock to set the hardware > clock. I don't experience any significant time slippage when the system is > running normally. However, aft

Re: can't run netscape and a couple other apps

1999-12-12 Thread Yoink!
What does the "free" command show you? Is swap space still enabled? How much memory do you have? can you telnet to or ping localhost? On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, patrick wrote: > I have had nothing but problems with my system since > installing RH 6.0 and upgrading to, essentially, > 6.1. Little and b

Re: OT(?): TF

1999-12-12 Thread Yoink!
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Lee Davidson wrote: > I'm trying to install TinyFugue... have downloaded and unpacked it > successfully, but can't figure out how to make it run... > The only reason I feel okay posting this here is that I'm wondering if > there is another step generally taken when install

Re: X Won't Stay Dead

1999-12-12 Thread Yoink!
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm running RH 6.0 with Gnome, on a Thinkpad 365XD. I've had plenty of > display problems. One of the most irritating is that, when I use > Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to kill X, it immediately reloads. I get a brief (less > than a second) view of the termi

Re: NFS performance problems

1999-12-17 Thread Yoink!
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Romain Kang wrote: > We're using a central NFS server (a mutant SVR4.0+NFS3 variant) to keep > multiple platform sources and we've historically been able to compile > our source trees without a significant performance hit from NFS. > > However, we've recently been prone to er

Re: kernel recompile

1999-12-27 Thread Yoink!
On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Jeff Smelser wrote: > I have redhat-6.1 and all I did what take out ftape support and > recompiled. When I try to run the recompiled version, it gives me a kernel > panic and a block-major-3 (scsi driver not found error). But it I boot up > from redhat's default. Everything bo

Re: man hosed

2000-01-10 Thread Yoink!
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Braden N. McDaniel wrote: > man can't seem to find any man pages. No matter what I try to look up > ('man ls', 'man rpm', etc.), I get 'No manual entry for *'. I know the man > pages are there, I can see the files! I've tried reinstalling the man rpm; > no dice. I'm running Re

Re: where is /proc/pci

2000-01-10 Thread Yoink!
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Michael George wrote: > I have a fairly old system (circa '94), but it has a PCI BIOS. I'm just > getting into the whole Ultra-DMA thing and in the process of trying to figure > things out, I found that that system has no /proc/pci. > > My machine at work (circa '98-'99) is

Weird right click problem in RH 7.2

2001-12-24 Thread Yoink!
My right mouse button doesn't work when exporting some X programs (EMC and Veritas stuff, not sure if they are Motif or not) back to my linux box from several different HP and Sun boxes. The problem doesn't occur in every program, my xterms seem to support control plus right click no matter what t

Weird right click problem in RH 7.2

2002-01-09 Thread Yoink!
My right mouse button doesn't work when exporting some X programs (EMC and Veritas stuff, not sure if they are Motif or not) back to my linux box from several different HP and Sun boxes. The problem doesn't occur in every program, my xterms seem to support control plus right click no matter what t

Re: Glitches while ripping audio CDs

2001-02-03 Thread Yoink!
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Peter Kiem wrote: > Anyway I switched to using cdda2wav as the ripper and had a LOT more > success. It will rip at the full speed of 2.0x but I have this small > problem with it. > > Within the first second of the song I get an audio glitch like a small burst > of noise or st

Re: One system can't connect to remote sites while everything else can.

2002-01-20 Thread Yoink!
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Keith Morse wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Mike Burger wrote: > > On 17 Jan 2002, Bret Hughes wrote: > > > On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 16:05, Mike Burger wrote: > > > > On 17 Jan 2002, Bret Hughes wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 14:21, Mike Burger wrote: > > > > > > I'

Sendmail, majordomo and spam.

1998-06-29 Thread Yoink!
I've got a rhl 4.2 box i've set up on the net which has sendmail 8.8 running on it. What I 'm using it for is ONE mailing list, but I don't want spammers using my machine as as a spam gateway. Is there any way for me to _accept_ mail from anyone but to NEVER send mail out from my system save fro

Re: Modprobe

1998-06-29 Thread Yoink!
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Robert W. Canary wrote: > Hi, > > For somestrange reason whenever I boot up I get all the way to > checking module dependencies and I get a message that says. > > modprobe in not ELF > > Then everything picks back up and continues on. > > Any thoughts on this. Is this a

Re: Jaz Drive ...Help

1998-03-15 Thread Yoink!
On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, James Hartley wrote: > Hello --- I have reconfigured my system with a new PII board and CPU. In > addition I added a > Golen sound card and a Jaz Scsi adaptor card , both of which are plug > and play ... > Of course I did compile the kernal for scsi support. If someone has

Network card problem.

1998-06-18 Thread Yoink!
A friend gave me some junk network cards I'm trying to salvage for redhat 5.1. the problem is that i have no idea what this card is, no documentation, drivers, etc. I tried sticking it in win95 to no avail. the only hint is that the (main?) chip identifies Western Digital. It says: wd83c690-j

Re: Minimum installation

1998-04-04 Thread Yoink!
On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Michael wrote: > Hi > I want to make a minimum installation of Linux, and then later add > what-ever apps I need. I just need to know what to install in order to get > the base system, and the c/c++ compilers, futermore I want to install KDE, > so do I need to install some X-t

Re: Abit TX5 Motherboard success?

1998-04-07 Thread Yoink!
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Vicki Stanfield wrote: > Hi all. I bought an Abit TX5 motherboard this weekend with 2 > 64MB DIMMS. It appeared to work at first, but there were > IRQ conflicts and it didn't see all the memory. I got rid > of the IRQ conflicts that were reported by the BIOS and > was able

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: rc.local problem

1998-04-30 Thread Yoink!
On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Donnie McInis wrote: > Hey, > I can't edit rc.local. I have a problem with my swap. The FAO says to > see if swapon is in the /etc/rc.local. When I type "ls" I see the file > but I can't use "vi" on it or "cat" it. I get "no file by that name". I > also tried "chmod" but get

Re: Maximal mount count reached

1998-05-04 Thread Yoink!
On Sat, 2 May 1998, James Hartley wrote: > Hi, I get the following message at boot > > Partition check: > hda: hda1 > hdb: hdb1hdb2hdb3 > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly > Adding Swap: 52412k swap-space > EXT2-fs warning: maximal mount count reached. running e2fsck

Re: RPM problems -- please lend a hand...

1998-05-15 Thread Yoink!
On Fri, 15 May 1998, Van Tate wrote: > Hey everyone...when I am installing some stuff for the kde desktop and > for numerous other things I keep getting the failed dependency of > /bin/sh is need by BLAH ... well, I don't know what the thing wants -- > /bin/sh is right where it always is -- could

Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box

1998-05-16 Thread Yoink!
On Fri, 15 May 1998, William T Wilson wrote: > On Fri, 15 May 1998, Chuck Carson wrote: > You won't get much support for that position. IBM makes good hardware and > AIX has a lot of nifty features (especially user and disk management) and > is robust enough, but AIX won't win any points for be

I want to start contributing to linux development. . .

1998-05-27 Thread Yoink!
I'm a C programmer/unix geek who's looking into helping contribute time/effort to linux development. Although I learned alot about Unix, programming algorithms and the C language, I don't have all of the technical knowledge of the PC architecture one needs to say, start fooling around with kerne

Re: backup file to cdrom

2002-12-12 Thread Yoink!
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Jianping Zhu wrote: > what is the command to backup files (directories) to CDROM in linux? man mkisofs man cdrecord -- \ \/ / _ |~\ _ In God We Trust. All Others Pay Cash. > < / \|\ /|+-< | |"The world is a comedy to those that think, / /\ \\_/| \/ ||__)|_|

Re: backup file to cdrom

2002-12-12 Thread Yoink!
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Jianping Zhu wrote: > I tried but get error msg, > no manual entry for cdrecord > no manual entry for mkisofs > what can i do next? > > Thanks > > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Yoink! wrote: > > > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Jianping Zhu wrote: > >

Re: DEFCON authenticator/Biometric authenticator

2002-12-13 Thread Yoink!
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, estero wrote: > Hi, I was thinking of getting the DEFCON authenticator for my boyfriend. > I was wondering if there is anything that will make it run nicely on > linux? Its only compatible with Windows. Are you sure it really "works" there? http://www.extremetech.com/article

Re: Help Me Guys

2002-12-17 Thread Yoink!
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Santhosh wrote: > I have configured samba sever server in RedHat 8.I have installed samba > client in WinXP.I am able to log on till yesterday.But today i was not able > to log on from Win XP.In my WinXP system all my settings are ok.When i saw > the samba log messages ,

Re: explicit rights

2002-12-21 Thread Yoink!
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: > I want to make certain directories writeable but I don't want it so they can > deliete. "man chown" then look at part about the sticky bit -- \ \/ / _ |~\ _ In God We Trust. All Others Pay Cash. > < / \|\ /|+-< | |"The world is a

Re: can't login from

2002-12-22 Thread Yoink!
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - OS - Red Hat 8.0; > - wu-ftpd enable =yes; > - hosts.deny and hosts.allow is blank > - ftp accepts connection locally > - But from remote computers ftp doesn't accept connection, why? does iptables -L show ftp is blocked? can you telnet from a remo

Re: logrotate problems

2002-12-26 Thread Yoink!
On Thu, 26 Dec 2002, Daniel Tan wrote: > i have rh7.3 running and my logrotate and cron is eating up > memoryi have 23 file in /etc/logrotate.d and that is alot from what i > know...how do i disable services i don't need at all and also from tripwire > and logwatch from cron.daily...do

Re: modprobe

2002-12-29 Thread Yoink!
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Ted Gervais wrote: > I have found that I need to run modprobe to get a couple of modules to come up > and I have put these statements in my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file. > > While that works just fine in bringing up those modules the application that > uses them, is brought up befor

Re: RPM's

2002-12-29 Thread Yoink!
On 29 Dec 2002, Doug wrote: > I have a quick question about rpm's.. I want to install the alsa sound > system, freshrpms.net has the rpm's for this but it only has the > 2.4.18.18 kernal rpm, and i'm running 2.4.18.19 kernel. I guess my > question is can i just issue a rpm rebuild to bring it up to

Re: RE: Still not working!

2003-01-09 Thread Yoink!
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have php and php-mysql packages installed. I changed the > 'short_open_tag' to "on" as suggested. When I run a script I got from > the PHP website tutorial all I get as output is the script itself. Can you do a "rpm -Va php" and tell us what you ge

Re: Native Linux DSL speed test utility?

2003-01-09 Thread Yoink!
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:29:44AM -0300, Javier Gostling wrote: > > Check ttcp. It will give you a good speed measurement. > > Hmm...if this is the ttcp that Freshmeat reports, while it's quite > interesting, it's a bit more experimental than I'm willing to

Re: problem load-average with kernel 2.4.18-19.7.x

2003-01-09 Thread Yoink!
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Jérôme Bolliet wrote: > We are using redhat 7.3 on Compaq DL360 2 processors with kernel > 2.4.18-10smp without problem to make POP3 server, with Courier IMAP > 1.6.2 and NetApp Filer F760 as NFS server. > > We have upgrade one server with latest kernel without chan

Re: PHP: Still not working!!!

2003-01-11 Thread Yoink!
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just did a complete re-install from scratch. PHP still doesn't work. > I am totally stumped. > > I know php use the .conf file in conf.d, but it must need something > other than the stock installed file to work. I changed the short tag to > "on" i

Re: RH8.0: Hostname changes to x1-6-00-08-0e-d5-de-77 on every boot

2002-11-03 Thread Yoink!
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Devin Henderson wrote: > Blaine Armsterd wrote: >> Try setting a real hostname and see if DHCP still overrides it. > > how do I set a real hostname? Thanks, Blaine hostname is a command, or vi /etc/sysconfig/network and set HOSTNAME=yourhostname -- \ \/ / _ |~\ _ In Go

Re: Up2date

2002-11-07 Thread Yoink!
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Blake Thornton wrote: > I recently installed redhat 8.0 and up2date keeps hanging up on me. It > seems to try to log in (and my login is correct because I can login on the > rhn.redhat.com page). > > Am I missing something. up2date-nox doesn't seem to work either. Is your DNS

Re: Can I mount a FreeBSD partition??? (again)

2002-11-07 Thread Yoink!
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I sent this message to the list about a week ago, and havent received > any respnses, Im trying again... > > Can I mount a FreeBSD disk partition with Mount? > > It seems I would want to say -t ufs -o,ufstype=44bsd > > but how would I specify the 'sub-p

Re: Quota problem on RedHat 7.3 ?

2002-11-07 Thread Yoink!
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Kevin Chan wrote: > I was set the /etc/fstab as below: > > LABEL=/ / ext3defaults,usrquota 1 > 1 > > after that, I try to run quotacheck -uva but get error message as below: > > [root@btamail root]# quotacheck -uva > quotacheck: Cannot r

Re: Segfaults

2002-11-07 Thread Yoink!
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Before I condemn a machine, I want to check here first. One of my servers > just recently started Segfaulting randomly. Doesn't matter the task, doesn't > matter at which point during the task, it'll segfault eventually. > > Now when I strac

Re: Monitor support

2002-11-07 Thread Yoink!
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Gordon Alderson wrote: > I`m a new Linux user and am really pleased to be finally up and running > (Red Hat 8.0). > At the moment I`ve just got one small problem, my monitor is a Proview > 986N (19"), there is no specific support for this in Linux. It runs OK > as a generic but

Re: redhat update

2002-11-09 Thread Yoink!
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Patrick wrote: > i dit a update true the update agent but there whent something wrong. Not all > files are installed but the update agent keep saying that the are installed. > Is there a way to 'reset' up update program so that it don't know wirh upaters > there are installed.

Re: CD-burner install question

2002-11-09 Thread Yoink!
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, [iso-8859-1] linux power wrote: > I have a fresh rh 7.2 and have problems installing the cd-burner. > > The problem is that in lsmod it is called sg, while cdrecord and > eroaster require > > scd0 as the name of the device.I have relly trouble with this so I would > appreciate a

Re: installing software in RH 8.0

2002-11-09 Thread Yoink!
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Michael A Loux wrote: >HOW in the HELL di I install downloaded software through the GUI? > When I go to "execute shell command" all I get is a notice stating that > permission is denied (for bin) or I get what looks like the beginning of > an install readme. You don't menti

Re: paging systems from RH

2002-11-10 Thread Yoink!
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, James L. Reiling wrote: > Does anyone know of any paging systems (I mean sending a message to a > pager, not viewing files) like Tivoli that run on linux? Kinda of vague question, what should these systems be pagiing you for? Is www.netsaint.org what you are looking for? --

Re: ADSL/ATM kernel parameters? [OT]

2002-11-11 Thread Yoink!
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Robin Atwood wrote: > I have an RH 7.3 system with a custom 2.4.19 kernel - which seems to be the > problem. I have read all the HOWTOs about setting up Alcatel SpeedTouch ADSL > modems and have all the PPPoATM parameters turned on but 'depmod -a' gives me > > depmod: *** Unres

Re: a SquirrelMail Qn

2002-11-11 Thread Yoink!
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, K Hargraves wrote: > does anyone know where > > i an (error) log file is written to ? /var/log/httpd/access_log > iiwhat would cause SquirrelMail to report such an error > after the login and password challenge ? > > There was an error contacting t

Re: What's these (custom) options in boot manager?

2002-11-11 Thread Yoink!
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Rodrigo Peplau wrote: > I'm first time using Linux. After installed I was configuring the > system, trying to mount a windows (fat32) partition. Everything goes > well. > > But when I tryed to install my soundcard (ForteMedia 801), with a > downloaded pack from ALSA Project, so

Re: How to easily install additional applications from RedHat CDROMs?

2002-11-11 Thread Yoink!
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Takahide Nojima wrote: > I'm looking for how to easily install additional applications to a linux box > from RH7.3 CDROMs. I don't want to worry about dependency between > each RPMs or about contents of each CDROMs as much as possible. > And I can not connect the linux box to

Re: Iptables

2002-11-11 Thread Yoink!
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:43:48 +0800 (WST), Luke Brown wrote: > > Just a quick question, is there a way to specify multiple addresses in > > an iptables statement? > > No, there isn't. Use a loop and your favourite shell. Well, not exactly. You can spec

Re: SMTP Gateway with Spam Filters and AntiVirus

2002-11-11 Thread Yoink!
On 11 Nov 2002, James Pifer wrote: > I company I do some work for is looking at spending a whole lot of money > on a product from sendmail.com that offers an smtp gateway with spam > filtering and anti-virus. > > I'm thinking they could save a lot of money by doing it themselves using > Redhat. I'v

Re: Message in /var/log/messages

2002-11-12 Thread Yoink!
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > > Can anybody tell me what this means: > > Nov 11 21:44:51 zoe kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sd(8,2)): ext3_add_entry: bad >entry in directory #49111: directory entry across blocks - offset=29332, inode=50572, >rec_len=8212, name_len=10 > Nov 11 21:44

Re: help for update group

2002-11-12 Thread Yoink!
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Brad Ching wrote: >I update redhat from 7.2 to 8.0 yesterday.But i find i can not use > chgrp command to change folders or files group.And always tell me not > find group name in group file. In fact i create all group that i need in > redhat7.2 and use it very well.Who know

Re: PATH and TFTP daemon in RH8

2002-11-13 Thread Yoink!
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Awuku Danso wrote: > I'm trying to hook up a diskless X-terminal to an RH8.0 box but can't > get the tftp daemon to run even though it's supposed to start on boot. > Several attempts to manually start it have also failed. It had worked > fine on a RH7.1 box previously. Does any

Re: Quick grep question

2002-11-13 Thread Yoink!
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Gordon McDowall wrote: > Does anyone know the syntax to grep the past say 5 minutes of a log file, or > a shell script that would do something similar. > Any help appreciated While possible, you are better off with perl if you really have to do the last 5 minutes. If you want

Re: web browsing

2002-11-13 Thread Yoink!
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, john w. politsky wrote: > im trying to view a web page with cgi script in red hat hat, using either > mozilla or netscape 7 , the header and footer show but the middle does not > show, any ideas? I'm afraid that with no code to look at, there's no way for anybody to help you.

Re: newbie NIS and LDAP

2002-11-13 Thread Yoink!
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Gordon Stewart wrote: > If I install LDAP will this upset my /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow > authentication because I have to intall Kerbose as one of the things I need > to install before I install LDAP. No /etc/nsswitch.conf is the control for that. > As A full back option I

Re: RH 8.0 slower than 7.0?

2002-11-13 Thread Yoink!
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Alfredo Cole wrote: > I have a server I upgraded from 7.0 to 8.0. The server is used to serve an > application via ssh to Linux clients, and to Windows clients using > Cygwin/XFree86. > After upgrading, everything seems to run slower. I have a feeling that using > KDE 3 might

Re: Apache fails to answer requests

2002-11-13 Thread Yoink!
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Clifton Best wrote: > I am running RH 8.0 with the standard version of apache that is > shipped with it. When I attempt to view test page from another computer, > apache never serves up the page. But when I view the test page from the > box with both lynx and mozilla, it

Re: samba log problem

2002-11-14 Thread Yoink!
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Brad Ching wrote: > Dear Yoink: > First,thank you very much. > I done it and find log record lot(/var/log/smbd.log).Then i try to create > files and delete it.But i didn't find any log tell me that.Maybe i didn't > find right?Pls tell me again where i

Re: virtual consoles broken

2002-11-14 Thread Yoink!
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Douglas Alan wrote: > Ever since I upgraded to Red Hat 8.0, the virtual consoles have become > broken. They work when I first boot the computer, but after some amount > of time they stop working. I.e., if I type ctrl-alt-F1 or ctrl-alt-F2, > etc., all I get is a black screen.

Re: /var/log/messages logs every packet!

2002-11-14 Thread Yoink!
On 14 Nov 2002, Sam Steingold wrote: > my /var/log/messages is huge because it logs each and every packet: > > Nov 14 21:20:36 kernel: Packet log: input ACCEPT eth0 PROTO=6 ... > > how do I turn this off? The Drastic Way is "/etc/init.d/iptables stop" or "ipchains stop" did you happen to con

Re: ftp works right if resolv.conf empty

2002-11-14 Thread Yoink!
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I went in and messed with my lan today when I ran netstat while doing > telnet from the machine that was taking forever it showed the ips > nameserver address instead of the machines address. I replaced > resolv.conf with an empty file then telneting o

Re: How to change my own host name?

2002-11-15 Thread Yoink!
On 15 Nov 2002, Tianran Chen wrote: > How can I change the host name of my host? I am the root. Thanks for any > help. "man hostname", or "vi /etc/sysconfig/network" -- \ \/ / _ |~\ _ In God We Trust. All Others Pay Cash. > < / \|\ /|+-< | | "The world is a comedy to those that think

Re: Apache VERY slow on Red Hat 8.0 and there's no $PHPSESSID inPHP

2002-11-15 Thread Yoink!
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Raúl Santos wrote: > I installed the Apache RPM that comes with RH8, along with mySQL and PHP. > It's working but there's one small big problem. Actually, there's two. > > The first one is speed. Apache couldn't be slower to respond - I suspect > it's > apache's fault because i

Re: Learning PERL: advice sought

2002-11-15 Thread Yoink!
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, deosaran bisnath wrote: > I know a little awk, a little bash, a little Linux. > I'd like to learn PERL. Good tutorials? books? PERL sites? > How to start? "Learning Perl", see www.ora.com -- \ \/ / _ |~\ _ In God We Trust. All Others Pay Cash. > < / \|\ /|+-< | |

Re: phpbb and mysql -- impossible?

2002-11-15 Thread Yoink!
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Craig Iffelberg wrote: > I have scrounged through mysql's web site, it was a mess, > dis-organised, docs made no sense. > > I tried to have a go at it anyway, only to find that even > when turning on mysql server, the thing says it can't > connect to the database. Cut and past

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