[techtalk] Simple Linux Firewall

Hi! I'm building a WebDAV/DeltaV playground for a consultant on a Linux box of his -- part-time job for this part-time student. On my personal Gateway (W98 SE), I use the ZoneAlarm freeware because I have a cable modem and the Gateway is always connected to the Internet. ZoneAlarm is a firewall f

[techtalk] talk on RedHat 6.2

Anyone out there using this program? It just refuses to work. My /etc/inetd.conf file looks like this: talk dgram udp wait nobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd in.talkd - d dtalk dgram udp wait nobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd in.talkd - d Thanks, Barbara ___ techtal

RE: [techtalk] talk on RedHat 6.2

> did you restart inetd? > > /var/log/messages should give you some hints, do a 'tail -f > /var/log/messages' and then try again. Or send us the error messages. Here's what I did: Removed –d from inetd.conf file. Restarted inet daemon with kill –SIGHUP . Logged on as guest on tty2 and tty3. Issu

Re: [techtalk] Gnome question

Thanks for the help! Simple question and I learned a bucketful. Great! Barbara ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

[techtalk] FW: why talk didn't work

The mystery explained. Thanks to all that lent a helping hand! Barbara -Original Message- 'talk' is running now! Had a few people at the kernel-panic.org LUG installfest working on my machine, most coming to the same frustrating conclusion that I did: it doesn't work and it should. How

[techtalk] Mr. stinky face icon in my /home/guest folder

Started up Gnome this AM. Contents of /home/guest folder include an icon (Mr. Stinky face) with a label of 'core.' Please advise. Barbara ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

[techtalk] Apache on RedHat 6.2 question

When I do execute a ./configure --with-apache=/etc/httpd command I get the following error. Obviously /etc/httpd is NOT the Apache build directory. Any suggestions? checking for static Apache module support... no - Unable to locate /etc/httpd/src/include/httpd.h checking for dynamic Apache module

RE: [techtalk] Apache on RedHat 6.2 question

> You could try --with-apxs=/path/apache/bin/apxs if you're sure apache was > built shared core, which i think rh does do. > > rebuilding apache is always an option, too. Took the apxs route -- it worked! Thank you Mandi. Barbara ___ techtalk mailin

[techtalk] directory that is writable by web server process

I need to make a directory to which my web server process (httpd, I think) has read/write access. How do I go about doing this? I'm using RedHat 6.2 and Apache 1.3.12. Barbara ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/

RE: [techtalk] directory that is writable by web server process

> /bin/mkdir ./foo > chgrp nobody ./foo/ > chmod 770 ./foo/ Thanks so much Eric. The mod_dav module on my Apache server requires a directory that is writable by the Apache process. I tried all variations of directories and still I got "could not open the lock database" errors in the httpd error_l