Re: MTA recommendation

2003-03-26 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 03:41:16PM -0600, Distribution Lists wrote: I need to setup a robust secure SMTP mail server. I have and still use sendmail which have proven to be good. From other people's experience I would like to know what else could be recommended, Postfix maybe ? I highly

Re: traceroute

2003-03-16 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
Yes the computer is connected to a network, which is mine, and I do have a linksys router/firewall, but I can do tracert from my windows box ok, but not from Linux. Apples and oranges. Most if not all Windows traceroute clients use icmp whereas most *nix traceroute clients use udp

Re: Mail Server

2003-02-28 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:55:20PM -0500, Christian Campbell wrote: I have intermediate experience with Linux. Even less with mail servers. I'm running a RedHat 8 server that needs to accept mail from the world as our primary mailserver. I'm debating as to whether I should use postfix or

Re: Installation question (free space above first partition)

2003-02-28 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:53:55AM +, Cannon, Andrew wrote: Hi all, I've got a bit of a problem with a new installation of RH8. We've got a Compaq Evo D510 that comes preinstalled with either Win2K or XP. When we partition the disk, we have free space at the top of the partition table.

Re: MPlayer!

2003-02-26 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 06:35:53PM +0100, Felipe Leon wrote: // // I don't know if it has happened to somebody this problem I have trying // to play dvd's with mplayer. I installed everything what it is required // for the program to play encrypted dvds, even re-compile the program and //

Re: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!

2003-02-19 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:06:20AM -0800, Christopher Lyon wrote: I seem to be having a problem with copy files in or out of this machine. I noticed that a console message just came up and it said eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout! I have never seen this before and I noticed that the box

Re: CD Burn sw

2003-02-14 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 07:35:36AM +, jdaues wrote: Hello, Can anyone recommend a good CD Burning app? I've tried KOnCD, which gives numerous errors and X-CD-Roast, which I can't even figure out how to use, the GUI is designed so poorly. Thanks. I use GnomeToaster occasionally with

Re: What is the disadvantage of Linux firewall, rather then using ready to use firewall (checkpoint, trustix, cyberguard, watchguard etc)

2003-02-13 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 07:56:23AM -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: I'm playing around with RHL 8 to set up firewall with iptables. With Pentium II 300, 64 MB, 4 GB SCSI HD, 2 NIC's 100 Mbps. I think it enough. Nope--more memory required. At least 128. Actually more memory is only required if

Re: Funny man pages

2003-02-12 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 03:54:37PM -0800, David Busby wrote: List, My man pages on one of my RH80 boxes put a letter 'a' with a carat above inplace of where the '-' character should be. Here's a bit from `man logrotate`. How do I fix this one? I don't know how to manipulate the system

Re: Fetchmail and system-wide configuration

2003-02-11 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 05:27:13AM +1100, Stephen Kuhn wrote: Awuku Danso wrote: Hi all I'm currently running fetchmail as a user with a .fetchmailrc from the user's home directory and it seems to work fine. What I really do want is to run it as a service or daemon at boot time without any

Re: Format 2nd hard drive

2003-02-11 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:17:56PM -0800, DuSTiN KRySaK wrote: Cool - I will give this a go. By chance is there a way to use disk druid or a GUI tool to partition and format a drive (2nd drive after install)? Disk Druid is only available during the install. Not sure if there are other GUI

Re: up2date - Slashdotted?

2003-02-06 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:37:35AM -0500, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: Error Message: Free service limited due to high load; please try again in 30-60 minutes (server 1002077318) Error Class Code: 51 Error Class Info: Due to extremely high traffic, access to Red Hat Network is currently

Re: lock on RPM

2003-01-20 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:21:00AM +0900, shawn wrote: I wanted to delete an RPM but couldn't. [javauser@The_Big_Playhouse javauser]$ rpm -evv mysql-server-3.23.52-3 D: opening db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages rdonly mode=0x0 D: locked db index /var/lib/rpm/Packages D: opening

Re: Newbie: Change hostnames on a network

2003-01-17 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 04:31:45PM +, Cannon, Andrew wrote: Hi all, This should be really easy, but it isn't. How can I change the host names of the four RH8 computers on my little network. The current names are too long and I want to shorten them. I'm a newbie, so be gentle. :-)

Re: Installing Samba by rpm without GUI

2003-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 02:48:16PM +0100, Ronald Hermans wrote: If I try to rpm samba I receive warnings of other packages that must be installed. And they too rely on other packages. Is there a text oriented tool I can use that does the same as the redhat-config-packages application. If you

Re: Domain Name

2003-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 11:25:07PM +0100, Anand Buddhdev wrote: Edit /etc/sysconfig/network, and set your hostname there. It will be set correctly at every bootup then. For completenesses sake, also edit /etc/hosts, and change localhost.localdomain to your new hostname. Actually leave the

Re: Domain Name

2003-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:05:45AM +1100, george wrote: should this be the fully qualified domain name or just hostname? I have read two differing accounts on this The /etc/sysconfig/network entry should be the fully qualified domain name per the Reference Guide on Red Hat's site. Hope this

Re: Domain Name

2003-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 07:39:33PM -0500, Werner Puschitz wrote: Just curious. Because if I make my hostname able.george.smth I am sure the prompt will have it shortened up to just 'able'?? Maybe I am wrong but it seems that this is what happened to me before.. It's shortened

Re: Disk Druid

2003-01-11 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 10:16:34PM -0500, Andrew Lucas wrote: When I installed redhat 8.0, I used Disk Druid to set up my disks. I added another hard drive and need to partition it. Where do I get disk druid? Its not installed and I can figure out which RPM its in. I was able to partition my

Re: Redhat 8 Install on Old Laptop (Problem)

2003-01-10 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:02:10AM -0600, Alex wrote: I recently tried to install Redhat 8 on an old Pentium-75 Laptop with 24MB of RAM (its actually a TI Travelmate 5300). I guess I could use a different distribution, but I really like RedHat... Is there a way to make this work? Check out

Re: BIND ./configure

2003-01-09 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 09:17:32AM -0700, Craig Cameron wrote: Hi, all I'm trying to compile my brand new bind 9.1.3. The instructions and the O'Reilly book and the Linux Documentation project says to simply type ./configure, but it doesn't work. If somebody could point me in the

Re: BIND ./configure

2003-01-09 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 10:53:13AM -0700, Craig Cameron wrote: IT just says no such file or directory. I installed the BIND software with the installation of RedHat itself. I am a little confused. Did you download the source code to compile on your own or did you download an RPM to install

Re: BIND ./configure

2003-01-09 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:52:59AM -0700, Craig Cameron wrote: When I installed Linux, I chose to install networking and DNS BIND. So you are planning on using BIND that came installed with Red Hat, correct? You may want to head to http://www.redhat.com and look at the documentation on

Re: Install Problem: Monitor Probe

2003-01-09 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:37:42PM -0500, Edward Marczak wrote: Hello, again, everyone. I'm trying to install RH 8.0 on a Compaq 1850R. The install locks up at: Running anaconda, the RedHat Linux Installer Probing for Video Card Type: ATI Rage Probing for Monitor Type: Unable to

Re: DVD troubles with Red Hat 8

2003-01-09 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 02:09:03AM +, Michael Lazin wrote: I am running Red Hat 8 on a laptop with a 1.2 ghz processor and 256 megs of ram. I tried installing all three linux dvd players, mplayer, ogle, and xine, but video is choppy with all of them. I tried using nice to give the

Re: sshd server problem - HELP!

2003-01-07 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:04:22AM -0500, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: I tried the telnet idea before. It's not even installed. So that's out. but thanks for the suggestion. Any thoughts on what would be causing sshd to fail would be helpfull. Ric I would try one of two things. Try starting sshd

Re: file system choice?

2003-01-06 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 07:47:51AM -0600, Christopher Henderson wrote: Will Red Hat ever give us a choice of file system to use during install? I understand their position on Ext3 for stabilities sake but how about those of us that would like to use reiserfs? You could still mark Ext3 as

Re: DMA DVD

2003-01-06 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 05:14:51PM +0100, Alexis MOREAU wrote: and I had this message : [root@localhost root]# hdparm -d1 /dev/hdd /dev/hdd: setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted using_dma= 0 (off) You need to add a line to your

Re: Accessing the internet through MS Proxy Server 2

2003-01-05 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 09:53:34AM +0800, Edward Dekkers wrote: Another issue is that MS proxy uses NTLM (NT Login Manager) to authenticate you onto an MS Proxy. With IE your login Info is sent through transparently, but a Unix browser does not have this facility. No way to turn that off?

Re: Unable to use telnet

2003-01-03 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 08:32:12AM -0500, Rick Carroll wrote: Be advised that putty has been identified as having security vulnerabilities. http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-36.html Which has been fixed in the most recent version, 0.53b.

Re: Unable to use telnet

2003-01-02 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 07:43:35PM -0600, Chandra wrote: I am able to ping to my Red hat 8.0 system, but not able to login into the system using telnet from my windows desktop and getting the following error message. telnet: Connect to address:... Connection refused. A couple of things

Re: JAVA Plug-in for Mozilla

2003-01-02 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 09:35:39PM -0500, Thomas E. Dukes wrote: Geez, I guess I'm an idiot. I can't get it to work. Even tried the mozjava.sh script...nothing. Thanks anyway. You may want to try the following link. I followed these steps and it worked fine.

Re: RH for server

2003-01-02 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 07:38:52PM -0800, CM Miller wrote: If you deploy 7.3 or 8.0, you will need to upgrade before the end of the year because Red Hat has announced the end-of-life of both 7.3 and 8.0 for Dec 31. That means no more security or any other RHN upgrades after that date.

Re: Networking question.

2002-12-28 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 01:02:41PM -0600, Eric Ladner wrote: I have an IBM T23 laptop that worked just dandy under 7.2 for over a year, then I did a clean install of RH 8.0. Now, periodically, the machine will forget about the built int network card (IBM eepro100). When it works,