Re: Transfering files in SSH

2003-10-23 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, I want to be able to administer the server remotely. But the only problem I have is that I don't know how to transfer files from my workstation to the server via SSH. Can anyone point me in the direction of some info? You want to look at scp. The basic command is scp localfile [EMAIL

Re: disk crash

2003-10-17 Thread Rus Foster
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Asbjorn Hoiland Aarrestad wrote: Hi all... I need some advice. One of my disks give me an 0x40 error (uncorrectable error), and I think I need to replace that disk. Does any of you know of a program to mirror the disk, filesystem and all? I'm running redhat 9.0 if that

Re: Advise on adding a new disk

2003-10-16 Thread Rus Foster
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Peram's List wrote: Hi, I've got a Redhat 9 system and all the parititions are ext3. I've added a data disk which I've taken from a SuSe Linux system and added it as a secondary. I'd not able to see old partitions on the second hard drive. I'd appreciate if you gurus

Re: Messaging server software for Linux

2003-10-01 Thread Rus Foster
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Bob Hartung wrote: Question: Is there any freeware/shareware/open-source messaging server software available. In our office I need to make shared info. available for 4 to a maximum of 5 people and I would like to host the server on RH 8. Look at jabber from

Re: Shrike Title

2003-10-01 Thread Rus Foster
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, SoloCDM wrote: In the RedHat ISO downloads, what dose shrike mean in shrike-i386-disc1.iso? Shrike is the name given to RedHat 9. Rgds Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Just Virtual Dedicated Servers e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| banners: http://www.jvds.com/banners.php

RE: Is ftp running?

2003-09-29 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Christian Campbell wrote: You can use nmap to scan the machine to see if port 21 is open or, or telnet to port 21: telnet yourdomin.com 21 You should get a response like: Also you could try fuser 21/tcp and see if anything is returned Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com |

Re: Procmail recipes

2003-09-26 Thread Rus Foster
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Jason Williams wrote: Hello everyone... I was trying to learn procmail so I can write up my own recipes. However, im having a hard time joining their mailing list...It does not look like the list is working... I was curious if anyone had recommendations on where I

Re: add users from a text file

2003-09-23 Thread Rus Foster
Actually i'm not very quick in programming and not familiar with perl. I'd rather get a ready made script (if there's any available). :) Hi, Here a little script that might help with a bit of adaption. This script is a bit hacky but you should get something of it -- Main script --

Re: can a script as root without asking for password

2003-09-23 Thread Rus Foster
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Simon Tischer wrote: HI I have a script which shout be execute as root, from a normal user shell, with nomal user permissions, without asking for root password. Is there any solution? You can setup sudo to allow the user to run the script. So if you install sudo then

Re: chat server

2003-09-22 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Nabin Limbu wrote: Hi, Does any one have the idea of open source chat server running in linux server with windows client. With Regards Nabin Limbu Look at jabber (www.jabber.com) Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Dedicated FreeBSD,Debian and RedHat Servers e: [EMAIL

Re: chat server

2003-09-22 Thread Rus Foster
I installed the jabber server at the office. We also use group conferencing. For Windows clients, we run Exodus since it's free. No serious complaints around here. Or trillian might be good for its multi-server funtionality (not sure if Exodus does that) Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com |

Re: Sendmail from Shell Script?

2003-09-17 Thread Rus Foster
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, David Hart wrote: I seem to recall there's a way to send a file from a shell script but cannot remember how to do it. If its plain text then just cat filename | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] else you want to look at uuencoding it then cat'ing it Rus -- w:

Re: Setting Up Sendmail

2003-09-15 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all. I'm running RH9 on a PII 300MHz w/MMX and 128MB RAM on a cable modem (the comp is a combo server/workstation, for now) and need to set up sendmail so that I can bypass my ISP's SMTP server

Re: help!!!! can not start my server, big trouble

2003-09-15 Thread Rus Foster
for normal start up): Type in the root password run fsck / Drop me a list off line if you want more help Rgds Rus Foster -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Linux + FreeBSD Servers from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Dedicated Servers from $119/mo t: +44 7919

Re: storage available?

2003-08-21 Thread Rus Foster
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the command line how can I tell how much storage space is available on the hard drive? try df -h Rgds Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Linux + FreeBSD VDS's from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Totally Customizable Technology t:

Re: kernel version from command line?

2003-08-20 Thread Rus Foster
On Wed, 20 Aug 2003, Redhat wrote: Also, how do I find out what kernel version is running from the command line? Run uname -a Rgds Rus Foster -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Linux + FreeBSD VDS's from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Totally Customizable Technology t: 07919 373537

Re: How to login as root from remote machine

2003-08-20 Thread Rus Foster
denied when i use rsh it shows login incorrect. how to enable the remote root login. To Enable root edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and make sure PermitRootLogin Yes is set. You will need to restart SSH Rgds Rus Foster -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Linux + FreeBSD VDS's from $15/mo e: [EMAIL

Re: Dual Monitors

2003-08-04 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Sue Champigny wrote: Does anyone know how to configure dual monitors in Redhat? Windows handles it w/o doing anything, But I am confidant that this can be done w/ Linux, but how. Yeah it can be done :) You need to do at least X --configure Edit XF86config and enable

Re: basic bash shell ?

2003-08-02 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, I am trying to learn a little more about the bash shell so I can figure out some of the script files that I see all the time. Is there a way to run bash scripts or a single line of a script in an interactive mode from the command line and echo the output back to the shell so I can

Re: Newbie Question

2003-07-28 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, Its stored in /etc/. Also man fstab might give you some background to the format of the fil Rus -- www: http://jvds.com | Virtual Servers from just $15/mo MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Totally Customizable Technology e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | forums: http://forums.jvds.com 10%

Re: Using VM Ware to create a Windows VM on a Linux server.

2003-07-27 Thread Rus Foster
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, dlangschied wrote: I am curious, do I have to create my partition as fat for a Windows VM? Sincerely, Hi, No you don't VMWARE can just use a normal file such as /usr/vmware/2000/winnt2000.dsk Rgds Rus Foster -- www: http://jvds.com | Virtual Servers from just $15/mo

Re: Using VM Ware to create a Windows VM on a Linux server.

2003-07-27 Thread Rus Foster
Can it be ext3? Sincerely, The underlying filesystem can be anything as long as the kernel can read it. So ext3/xfs/reiser etc.. Rgds Rus -- www: http://jvds.com | Virtual Servers from just $15/mo MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Totally Customizable Technology e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Status Monitoring Software?

2003-07-25 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, I'm running a relatively small scale RedHat 9 server and am wondering if there are any good (free/open source?) status monitoring tools that check if web services, mail services, etc are functioning and alerts an administrator if they aren't (for example, if the daemon isn't

Re: named

2003-07-15 Thread Rus Foster
OS: Redhat 7.3 I want to reduce the number of named processes. I am assuming that they are spare servers in the same way as with Apache, they are taking up memory which could be better used as the load on DNS for this server is minimal. Is this possible and how do I do it? PID PPID

Re: what is .bz2 extension??

2003-07-10 Thread Rus Foster
this files. bzip is a different type of compression. Try tar jxvf instead or bunzip2 Rgds Rus Foster www: http://www.65535.net | Hosting - Shell Accounts MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Virtual Servers from just $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Community: http://www.65535.org t

Re: Apache Virtual Hosts and site name

2003-07-09 Thread Rus Foster
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Mike McMullen wrote: Hi all, I have created a virtual host on my apache server with a name like www.virtualhost.com. If I use that URL to access it, everything is fine. However, if I use the URL of virtualhost.com., I get the default host home page which is an entirely

Re: Enquery Opened Port

2003-06-29 Thread Rus Foster
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Leo Huang wrote: Hello, There is a command to show which port is opened by which program. Suppose I type somecommand someoptions 80, and it will return the result httpd Does anyone know the command I'm talking about? Try fuser. So you could do fuser www/tcp and it

Re: Internet connection via GSM phone?

2003-06-12 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, It can really depend on the phone you've got, how you are connecting it and if the GSM phone itself has a full builtin modem. Can you give us a few more details Rgds Rus -- www: http://www.65535.net | Hosting - Shell Accounts MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Virtual Servers from just

Re: How can I deliver messages to two different places (local andremote)

2003-06-11 Thread Rus Foster
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, James Ebright wrote: Hello all, Thought I'd change the subject and restate the issue perhaps a bit more clearly as I did not recieve any responses to my last post. I am using sendmail as my MTA. First though would be use ~/.forward. If you do something like

Re: get me off this mailing list please

2003-03-29 Thread Rus Foster
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Annette Bonnici wrote: unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Click on this link -^ Rus -- http://www.65535.net | More bits for your byte | e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] forums: http://forums.65535.net | MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC Accounts - Shell Accounts - Hosting - Email -

Re: How to dig for all hosts

2003-03-19 Thread Rus Foster
to the zone configuration file? Thanks, Chad Hi, Assuming that you DNS server is setup to allow you to transfer the data (and that you are going to use BINd) dig +multiline @nsamserver.domain.com domain.com axfr Rgds Rus Foster -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | e: [EMAIL

Re: XMMS stutters constantly

2003-03-17 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Kevin Krumwiede wrote: Previously I was running Mandrake 8, but I lost a hard drive and decided to install RH8 on the new one. XMMS used to play smoothly even under heavy load, but now it skips at the slightest thing, like scrolling a modest amount of text, or even just

Re: Help

2003-03-17 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Price, Charles wrote: Hi, I've loaded Redhat 8.0 onto my laptop. I'm having problems getting the sound to work. Any help will be greatly appreciated. -Charles Do you know what type of sound card you've got? Also what type of laptop is it? You can find out some

RE: Help

2003-03-17 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Price, Charles wrote: Laptop : Compaq 900 Info from the Sound Card Configuration Tool Vendor : Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] Model : M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device Module : disabled - Charles With Linux you get 2 choice of sound drivers. You either get the

Re: Fast Mirrors!

2003-03-17 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Richard Sumilang wrote: Whats the fastest mirror that you guys know of where I can download RedHat Linux 7.3??? I'm downloading disc 1 from linuxiso.org and another one from somewhere else I found on google but they are pretty slow. Anyone know any fast servers? Thanks

Re: Starting an application as root

2003-03-17 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Jose Romildo Malaquias wrote: Hello. Does anyone knows any tool that can be used to start applications as user root. I am looking for a tool that would ask for the root password and then launch an application, like what happens when one runs Red Hat configuration

Re: shell script - expert question

2003-03-16 Thread Rus Foster
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Kleiner Hampel wrote: Hi, i have a directory with some files with spaces in the name: abc 1.mp3 abc 2.mp3 abc 3 track 2.mp3 For my shell script i have to begin so: for i in `ls`; do echo $i; done Try cd /tmp/foo for i in * ; do echo $i ; done You need the

RE: Recover Raid 5 of Red Hat 7.3

2003-03-13 Thread Rus Foster
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Hong Tian wrote: If one disk of Raid 5 is found bad, Could I just replace the bad disk and recover the system and data? Or Should I re-install the Linux system from scratch again and recover the data from the backup? The idea of RAID-5 is to survive this. Assuming you've

Re: Web Permissions - Newbie Question

2003-03-10 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the permission level I should set websites to? Right now it is set to 755 and everything works, but should everything have the execute? And do cgi's need to be 777 or can they just be 755? Billy If this is in ~/public_html then yes

Re: galeon faster?

2003-03-07 Thread Rus Foster
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Bret Hughes wrote: I ended up in galeon today for the first time and I'll be darned if it doesn't feel a LOT faster than mozilla. I guess I will hang out with it for a while. Any thoughts? Plus I love the google bars. Bret Yup it is. It uses the same rendering

Re: ftp vs scp transfer speed.

2003-03-07 Thread Rus Foster
On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 18:14, Chad Skinner wrote: At a guess, I'd say that something is wrong in what you're doing (i.e. it's not the answer that's wrong, there is something wrong in the question). Nowhere on God's green Earth do you find one

Re: 2 IP addresses on one NIC ?

2003-03-06 Thread Rus Foster
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, forums wrote: Anyone knows how to set two IP addresses on one NIC ? I know how on a BSD system, but under RH ? should be simple i think ? regards Wiljoh Yup. Just do ifconfig eth0 add 192.168.0.101 Rgds Rus -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: Configuring DNS Server

2003-03-04 Thread Rus Foster
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, rahul b jain cs student wrote: Hi, I was trying to configure a DNS server for my private network. Since I dont know much about configuring it, I would really appreciate if someone could point me to a tutorial / document, which they think is a good resource. Thanks,

Re: Running DOS program at my linux program

2003-03-03 Thread Rus Foster
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Charlie Song wrote: Hi, I'm trying to run a DOS program at my linux program. How can I realize it? Thanks, Charlie If you mean you are trying to run DOS programs on Linux look at dosemu (www.dosemu.org) Rgds Rus -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xmms

2003-02-25 Thread Rus Foster
On 25 Feb 2003, bulent acikgoz wrote: Hello friends, I want to use xmms 1.2.4. But I didn't work it. İs there any one use it? it is ok.How? thanks.. Did you have trouble with mp3's? If so see http://www.xmms.org/ Rus -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: strange problem

2003-02-25 Thread Rus Foster
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, santosh kumar wrote: Hi everyone, I am getting some very strange problem. I can not ping and cannot telnet to redhat 7.2 m/c but from redhat m/c i can telnet ping other m/cs in the network.. To overcome with same, please give your valuable feedbacks.. Thanks

Network profiles

2003-02-19 Thread Rus Foster
Hi, Is there any tool under redhat that will let me switch network profiles between home/office. Ideally it would be able to update things like proxy settings on galeon/gaim and other such cool things rus -- http://www.65535.net | MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lifetime Linux or FreeBSD account: $100 ||

Re: Single login to all workstations in network

2003-02-19 Thread Rus Foster
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, senthil@jadooworks wrote: Hello All, I would like to know if it is possible to have a common set of usernames and password that the users can use in any linux system. Like in windows domain architecture when a username is created in the PDC the username is valid in all

Re: curious new posts [OT]

2003-02-18 Thread Rus Foster
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Tass wrote: Greetings. Though I am extremely pleased to have joined this group, I have to say that I am a bit concerned about a post I've recently received. This list if reflected onto a number of websites and newsgroups. Its quite possible your address is being picked