Re: [ILUG] Re: [techtalk] How a script is called

2000-08-16 Thread Fergal Daly
At 19:48 16/08/00, Conor Daly wrote: >On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 08:15:13AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, > Conor Daly thought... > > Anyone know how a bash / csh script can tell if it was called in a > pipeline or > > directly from the commandline? I've a script that I want to run either

Re: [techtalk] There's nothing more I hate

2000-08-16 Thread curious
as blogs go I think slashdot is quite good.. it's forums are also good places to find mirrors to sites/info/etc that has been slashdoted or otherwhise has been taken down.. and to occasionaly find related links... I had thought of writting a slashdot url leacher that would grab every forum entry t

Re: [techtalk] Partition and Win madness

2000-08-16 Thread Conor Daly
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 12:54:03PM -0400 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Lilly S. thought... > Hi all, > > I was so happy yesterday when I found a copy of Mandrake's Linux for > Windows. So all excitedly i bought it and went home to install it. And > that's when I ran into trouble. > > Here's

Re: [techtalk] How a script is called

2000-08-16 Thread Conor Daly
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 08:15:13AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Conor Daly thought... > Anyone know how a bash / csh script can tell if it was called in a pipeline or > directly from the commandline? I've a script that I want to run either by > catting a file through a pipe or by invok

Re: [techtalk] There's nothing more I hate

2000-08-16 Thread Lilly S.
The reason it bugged me was because it was in the general sentiment of "you think you're so hot with your Linux OS, well, it sucks, and here's someone who backs me up.". Nyeah! L. On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 17:00:56 -0400 (EDT), "Lilly S." <[EMAIL PROTEC

[techtalk] cron help needed!

2000-08-16 Thread Amanda LeNay
Hi - I am a newbie in need ! We upgraded to Red Hat 6.2 (from 5.0) and now our cron jobs aren't running. The cron log file isn't showing any errors - in fact it looks like everything is running - only it isn't - nothing is executing. I have tried restarting crond but I don't know what else to do

[techtalk] PPP and ip-up

2000-08-16 Thread Subba Rao
My PPP connection is working fine. However, when it runs, it executes ip-up script twice. I am not able to figure out why it is running twice. The man pages for pppd did not help. Any pointers on how to fix this minor issue appreciated. Thank you in advance. -- Subba Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] htt

Re: [techtalk] There's nothing more I hate

2000-08-16 Thread Brendan Coffey
> >And slashdot is not "the Linux community." Please. > > I know that. Tell Fred that (I did). > I don't care to tell Fred anything. ;-) > Slashdot has done a great deal to harm the public image of Linux, if > you ask me. > Agreed. I don't even read it anymore. I don't need to. I've iden

Re: [techtalk] There's nothing more I hate

2000-08-16 Thread kelly
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 18:03:20 -0400, Brendan Coffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >And slashdot is not "the Linux community." Please. I know that. Tell Fred that (I did). Slashdot has done a great deal to harm the public image of Linux, if you ask me. Kelly _

Re: [techtalk] There's nothing more I hate

2000-08-16 Thread Brendan Coffey
His questinable technical literacy notwithstanding, Fred DOES parrot some good points that others have made. Linux and NT are both still far, far (that's FAR) behind the BSDs in terms of reliability, stability, and security. And slashdot is not "the Linux community." Please. -b --- On Wed, 1

Re: [techtalk] There's nothing more I hate

2000-08-16 Thread kelly
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 17:00:56 -0400 (EDT), "Lilly S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >than when someone sends me this article: >http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody.html Well, to be frank, Fred has some valid points. * Linux is not very well designed from a security standpoint. (A

Re: [techtalk] Netstat weirdness

2000-08-16 Thread kelly
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 10:24:15 -0400, "C. M. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Oh, absolutely. Specific host routes shouldn't be necessary, though >I've tried them just in case. The .56 is not a valid address on our >network, though, which is what raised the red flag. No, it's not a valid addre

Re: [techtalk] Netstat weirdness

2000-08-16 Thread kelly
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 09:14:21 -0400, "C. M. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >The IP address assigned to eth0 is correct in ifconfig, but >wrong/different in netstat. Ditto eth1. No, they appear to be correct to me. Keep in mind that those are network routes, not host routes. Kelly ___

[techtalk] There's nothing more I hate

2000-08-16 Thread Lilly S.
than when someone sends me this article: http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody.html Lilly ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Red Hat certification

2000-08-16 Thread Shad Young
Im not sure what you are asking, but are you asking for examples of questions that may be on the exam? There are study guides for taking these exams. Shouldn't your mark be determined on your ability to manipulate RH Linux and not your ability to manipulate the test questions? Food for thaught

Re: [techtalk] Netstat weirdness

2000-08-16 Thread C. M. Martin
Hi, Malcolm, > > Notice the field labelled "Mask:" in the second row? This means that you > have been assigned a group of eight IP addresses where the top 29 bits > of the address are set (248 is 1000 in binary). So, in other words, > you are on a subnet and the individual IPs of the machines

Re: [techtalk] Netstat weirdness

2000-08-16 Thread Malcolm Tredinnick
OK, I'm responding to this particular message in the thread because it's got all the information I need to refer to. I've read the later messages and think I understand some of where Caity's confusion is coming from... On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 05:20:31PM -0400, C. M. Martin wrote: > eth0 Link

Re: [techtalk] Solution to connectivity problem & Thank you!

2000-08-16 Thread curious
There is a workaround for NetBIOS authentication thru NAT.. I'm not sure if it was this list I already posted the link on.. here it is again if I have: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/print/1159/ /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \ / ASCII Ribbon Campai

Re: [techtalk] NT domain authentication through a Linux firewall

2000-08-16 Thread curious
Netbios has some "features" that make it difficult to NAT esp. if your using windows Domains or WINS... to properly utilize this "feature" to your advantage check out: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/print/1159/ /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \ / ASCI

Re: [techtalk] Solution to connectivity problem & Thank you!

2000-08-16 Thread Anmol Khirbat
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, C. M. Martin wrote: > Hi, everyone, > > All is working here now. Congratulations. You must be pretty relieved. > The opinion of the engineer I was working with is that the first > netstat entry *is* wrong, since the address is outside the bounds of > our network, The

[techtalk] Partition and Win madness

2000-08-16 Thread Lilly S.
Hi all, I was so happy yesterday when I found a copy of Mandrake's Linux for Windows. So all excitedly i bought it and went home to install it. And that's when I ran into trouble. Here's the current setup. I have two harddrives A and B (that's not the drive's names). A (11 Gigs) has two partit

[techtalk] Solution to connectivity problem & Thank you!

2000-08-16 Thread C. M. Martin
Hi, everyone, All is working here now. The opinion of the engineer I was working with is that the first netstat entry *is* wrong, since the address is outside the bounds of our network, but it isn't affecting anything, and my attempts to delete and correct the entry with the route command fail.

Re: RE: [techtalk] Netstat weirdness

2000-08-16 Thread stephanie1200
I might be talking under your level, but yeah, you can do something like route add default gw xxx.xx.xxx.xxx or route add () or route delete as i said, i'm not real swift at this stuff but it's a big rush when it actually works. hope this helps... "C. M. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: [techtalk] Debian/proftpd problems... AGAIN

2000-08-16 Thread Kath
Well I shutoff Reverse and ident lookups and now it works in Windows (It still takes a while to login but once its in its fast). here is the tracert: C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>tracert 192.168.0.3 Tracing route to 192.168.0.3 over a maximum of 30 hops 1 1 ms <10 ms <10 ms 192.168.0.3 Trace

Re: RE: [techtalk] Netstat weirdness

2000-08-16 Thread C. M. Martin
Hi, Stephanie, and everyone else, > But can't the routing table hold not necessarily the machine itself, but a router >the machine knows about? Oh, absolutely. Specific host routes shouldn't be necessary, though I've tried them just in case. The .56 is not a valid address on our network, thou

Re: RE: [techtalk] Netstat weirdness

2000-08-16 Thread stephanie1200
But can't the routing table hold not necessarily the machine itself, but a router the machine knows about? you can have a gateway that matches your ip, but the destination doesn't have to. I think a crash course in routing is in order...I can usually hack this stuff together, but never quite

[techtalk] NT domain authentication through a Linux firewall

2000-08-16 Thread Caitlyn Maire Martin
Hi, everyone, OK, here is what my problem has boiled down to, and I'm not sure if it's a Linux issue or an NT issue, but I think it's Linux/firewall. I have an NT Terminal Server on the DMZ and everything else behind the firewall. I am using ipchains/ip masquerading to control outbound traffic

RE: [techtalk] Netstat weirdness

2000-08-16 Thread C. M. Martin
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, you wrote: > C. M. Martin, [EMAIL PROTECTED], said: > > Those first two destination addresses are *wrong*. How can netstat, > > which I believe reads directly from the kernel routing tables, get > > out of sync with ifconfig? More importantly, how on earth do I fix > > this?

Re: [techtalk] Debian/proftpd problems... AGAIN

2000-08-16 Thread J-Mag Guthrie
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Kath wrote: > Very interesting. > > I increased the timeout delay and was able to login to the ftp in Windows, > but it was quite slow. A refresh of a directory could take upwards of 30 > seconds and this is across a 100 Mbps LAN with no traffic on it. What does tracert te

Re: [techtalk] Debian/proftpd problems... AGAIN

2000-08-16 Thread J-Mag Guthrie
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Kath wrote: > Yes I've run portscans on it and FTP is open. > > >From the box I can FTP into itself easily. > > Its just FTPing from the box when in Windows which is the problem. > > Could it be that the machine is trying to do a DNS lookup on the IP address > and can't wh

[techtalk] Re: [ILUG] How a script is called

2000-08-16 Thread C. Hennessy
Caolan McNamara wrote: > > At 08:15 16.08.00 +0100, Conor Daly wrote: > >Anyone know how a bash / csh script can tell if it was called in a pipeline or > >directly from the commandline? I've a script that I want to run either by > >catting a file through a pipe or by invoking from the commandlin

Re: [techtalk] Red Hat certification

2000-08-16 Thread Telsa Gwynne
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 07:49:21PM -0700 or thereabouts, Ashok Kanodia wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone tell me how to get the information on Red Hat's (RHCE) exam. > I am trying to get the test questions for this. Several books and websites are out there with sample questions (of variable quality: b

[techtalk] Re: [ILUG] How a script is called

2000-08-16 Thread Caolan McNamara
At 08:15 16.08.00 +0100, Conor Daly wrote: >Anyone know how a bash / csh script can tell if it was called in a pipeline or >directly from the commandline? I've a script that I want to run either by >catting a file through a pipe or by invoking from the commandline with the >file as an arg and I n

[techtalk] How a script is called

2000-08-16 Thread Conor Daly
Anyone know how a bash / csh script can tell if it was called in a pipeline or directly from the commandline? I've a script that I want to run either by catting a file through a pipe or by invoking from the commandline with the file as an arg and I need the script to behave slightly differently i