Re: [techtalk] Arpwatch

1999-11-14 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Nov-99 Re: [techtalk] Arpwatch by "Norma Ford"@ci.casa-gra > At one point I had accidently ran arpwatch on one of our linux rh6 boxes and I > was able to see ipaddress with the host name > I'm not sure how I even got to this point. > Well know I have another linux box

RE:[techtalk] StarOffice and Gnome installation issues

1999-11-14 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
On 11/13/99, 12:37:15 PM, Nils Philippsen erroneously: > StarOffice is a real memory hog Unfortunately this is true. :-( We managed it to spend less memory that StarOffice 5.0 but it still needs quite a lot. > a quick test gave this: The filowing (fortunately!) is *not* correct: > It eats ad

Re: [techtalk] resolution

1999-11-14 Thread J B
The only thing that I notice is it looks a bit 'watery' when i scroll through a page quicklybut at least i can fit a decent number of windows on my desktop now. YAY! Do you have a Trinitron monitor? I have noticed that the Trinitron technology tends to appear wavery when you scroll fas

Re: [techtalk] resolution

1999-11-14 Thread K. Ziel
yup, that's exactly what i am using. so this is definitely a hardware something, versus me needing to get a better vid card, eh? good to know, so that i wouldn't make that expenditure unecessarily!! thanks JB :) kristin > > Do you have a Trinitron monitor? I have noticed that the Trinitr

[techtalk] PDFs

1999-11-14 Thread Pete St. Onge
Stephan - Just to follow up on Walt and Nils, I found out that if you want to 'bundle' a lot of different encapsulated postscript files into one PDF file, you can actually concatenate them together into one 'super eps' file, and then run ps2pdf on that file. Voila, instant completed document :

[techtalk] bind problem...and a sendmail one, too

1999-11-14 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
I don't know what bind's problem is, but here's what I have on it: Every one minute, cron runs a job in /tmp (/tmp/ns, the cron listing for this job is also in /tmp). Every one minute after cron is unsuccessful, it sends an e-mail to root saying: bind: Address already in use /tmp/ns is a

Re: [techtalk] bind problem...and a sendmail one, too

1999-11-14 Thread Jeff Dike
> I had it dump it's stats, memstats, and database, but I can't seem to > decipher WHAT address "is already in use". I get a chance to plug one of my favorite utilities...strace :-). run strace -p -f -e trace=network and look for something returning EADDRINUSE or 98. Then look at the argume

Re: [techtalk] bind problem...and a sendmail one, too

1999-11-14 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 14-Nov-99 [techtalk] bind problem...a.. by Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I don't know what bind's problem is, but here's what I have on it: > > Every one minute, cron runs a job in /tmp (/tmp/ns, the cron listing for > this job is also in /tmp). Every one minute after cron

Re: [techtalk] bind problem...and a sendmail one, too

1999-11-14 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
Groovy. :o) Jeff Dike wrote: > > > I had it dump it's stats, memstats, and database, but I can't seem to > > decipher WHAT address "is already in use". > > I get a chance to plug one of my favorite utilities...strace :-). > > run strace -p -f -e trace=network > > and look for something retur

Re: [techtalk] bind problem...and a sendmail one, too

1999-11-14 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
Laurel Fan wrote: > Tried strings-ing it? anything interesting there? here's some strings /tmp/ns stuff beginning: 24.113.101.63 63.192.202.250 socket bind recvfrom %s %s %s aIf3YWfOhw.V. PONG *HELLO* ./0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz$ UFC-crypt, patchlevel 1e, @

Re: [techtalk] bind problem...and a sendmail one, too

1999-11-14 Thread Jeff Dike
> Is there something I am missing here? Here's what I have: > crond.pid (according to /var/run/crond.pid) is 328 I was trying to be fancy with the "-e trace=network" bit. It looks like the interesting system calls aren't captured by "trace=network". Try this: strace -p -f -o strace.out Let t

Re: [techtalk] bind problem...and a sendmail one, too

1999-11-14 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
Jeff Dike wrote: > > > Is there something I am missing here? Here's what I have: > > crond.pid (according to /var/run/crond.pid) is 328 > > I was trying to be fancy with the "-e trace=network" bit. It looks like the > interesting system calls aren't captured by "trace=network". > > Try this: s

Re: [techtalk] bind problem...and a sendmail one, too

1999-11-14 Thread Jeff Dike
> hmm... no EADDRINUSE or 98 in the whole file > this is what happens (well an example, the ESPIPE eror is constant): > 15242 _llseek(0x5, 0, 0, 0xb76c, 0x1) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek) > 15242 read(5, "bind: Address already in use\n", 4096) = 29 Are you sure you did the -f on strace? Becaus

Re: [techtalk] bind problem...and a sendmail one, too

1999-11-14 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 14-Nov-99 Re: [techtalk] bind problem.. by Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] > i believe i will nix or move the /tmp/ns and /tmp/cron files... i have > no idea what they are supposed to do, but i do not trust them Looks like you might have been hacked. I'd also look for other st