Re: Is someone trying to get me off the list?

2003-02-21 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Todd A. Jacobs wrote: On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Ric Tibbetts wrote: I honestly think it should be disabled, until the person has the direct consent of the list owner to run such a bot. You don't need anyone's permission to run a procmail filter. That would be a bad--and silly--precedent to set.

Re: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!

2003-02-21 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Oops, reverse that! From: alias eth0 eepro100 to alias eth0 e100 Ric Ric Tibbetts wrote: I've had this same problem with integrated Intel NICs. There is actually an e100.0 module by default, but Redhat isn't using it. All you need to do is change /etc/modules.conf to read: from:

Simple router

2003-02-17 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
All; I need a simple way to just pass packets. I have 3 devices, and two network drops. (yeah, same old story). My RH 8.0 box has two nics in it, so I thought I could set one up to just play dumb hub, and pass packets to one of the the other boxes. Both boxes have, and need, static IPs. (the

Re: Simple router

2003-02-17 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
this by default now? What did I miss? (I hate it when the simple ones get by me... sheesh! It HAS to be Monday...) Thanks again! Ric Spanke, Alexander wrote: Just activate the IP_Forwarding and update your routing table -Original Message- From: Tibbetts, Ric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Simple router

2003-02-17 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
. Then on the client pc, I set it to route through the primary IP of the sever. NO go. What did I miss? Thank you! Ric Tibbetts, Ric wrote: All; I need a simple way to just pass packets. I have 3 devices, and two network drops. (yeah, same old story). My RH 8.0 box has two nics in it, so I thought I

Re: Simple router

2003-02-17 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Warren Johnson wrote: Tibbetts, Ric wrote: Then on the client pc, I set it to route through the primary IP of the sever. shouldn't it route through the inside interface or eth1 on the server? I used the term server really loosely. I have 3 boxes and two network drops in my office

Re: Monitor Shakes....

2003-02-11 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Yup, I've had this one too. I moved the monitor to a different corner of the room, and the problem went away. Turned out to be a tone of wires in the wall in that corner, and I was getting em interferrence from them. I've also found that if my speakers are to close to the monitor, it will

Re: ftp'ing directories

2003-02-11 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
I don't believe that ftp has the facility for doing this. I used to do it with a script.. It's a pain. I'd suggest installing ncftp. It can do directories, and much more! It's on the CD's, it just doesn't install by default. Ric Ted Gervais wrote: I normally do ftp'ing from the command line

Re: got 1,2,3 - but what's on 4 5?

2003-02-11 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
The Source Luke. It's the source(s). ;) Ric Tass wrote: Just a quick one here; The RH8 I got recently was the DL from the site. So that's the ISO discs 1-3. But I don't see anywhere what is on discs 4 and 5. Don't need a detailed list, just an idea of whether or not it's worth the time

Re: Monitor Shakes....

2003-02-11 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
rt == Tibbetts, Ric [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rt I've had this one too. I moved the monitor to a different rt corner of the room, and the problem went away. Turned out to rt be a tone of wires in the wall in that corner, and I was rt getting em interferrence from them. That's

Re: Monitor Shakes....

2003-02-11 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Douglas Myers wrote: Another (remote) possibility is cordless or (especially) certain cell phones, Nextel's being the worse I've seeen. I would get some shake if nextel was within less that 3 ft of monitor, and total freak out if phone was being used... just another possibility I park

Re: Newer Evolution RPM?

2003-02-10 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Hi, all: Can I use the Evolution RPM contained in Phoebe (the second beta of Red Hat 8.1) to upgrade my 8.0? The 1.0.8-10 version of Evolution included in 8.0 does have some crashes from time to time, and I'd love to upgrade. However, I depend so heavily on my email that I wanted to ask for

Re: Automount LDAP

2003-02-07 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
on Linux. -Steve -Original Message- From: Tibbetts, Ric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 2:22 PM To: Redhat List Subject: Automount LDAP Does anyone here have any experience with getting automounter LDAP playing together on Redhat ? So far, LDAP is running

Re: up2date - Slashdotted?

2003-02-06 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Caleb Groom wrote: I see 3 updates available this morning via the Red Hat Network Alert Notification Tool (longest program name ever?). But when I click the Launch up2date... button I get this error message: Error Message: Free service limited due to high load; please try again in 30-60

Re: window manager

2003-02-06 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Or at log in time. Just pick session, and select the one you want. Ric John Nichel wrote: Use the desktop switching tool. Look in your Kmenu under system. John Salamone wrote: Hi, I am currently using kde desktop but I would like to switch to gnome default desktop but I am unsure hoe to

Automount LDAP

2003-02-06 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Does anyone here have any experience with getting automounter LDAP playing together on Redhat ? So far, LDAP is running fine, but I can't get the automounter to pick up. Thanks! Ric -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe

Re: LVM Questions?

2003-02-05 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 14:18, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: But with LVM, you can group multiple disks into a single volume group. Thus making 4 18GB drives act like a single 72Gb drive. What happens if one disk dies? You lose the whole shootin' match. If you need that kind

Re: starting kde from another machine

2003-02-05 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
(ctrlalt F1), the x session dies, the console then closes and the x login screen is displayed. Has anyone had this problem? I have tried on one older rh 7.2 and did not have the problem on that machine. thanks rick On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 11:06, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: Rick; Sorry I didn't see

Re: alias

2003-02-05 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Go the easy route. Just create a second user with the same UID GID as Fred, and using Freds home directory. The /etc/passwd would look something like: foo:x:500:500:Foo User:/home/foo:/bin/bash bar:x:500:500:Fred User:/home/foo:/bin/bash Then set the password to be the same as foo Then when

Re: Linux Newbie - what's the point of newsgroups?

2003-02-05 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Oh, and in that 20 years I also learnt that patience is not only a virtue in computing, it's absolutely f*%$£g essential! LOL... I've always told my bosses, and customers, What I lack in technical expertise, I make up for with sheer determination. I'm not sure which is more important:

Re: Linux Newbie - what's the point of newsgroups?

2003-02-05 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Douglas, Stuart wrote: Hmmm...patience vs. persistance. They're similar in nature, but apply to different things. Patience is when you have to explain something for the umpteenth time to a user that will never get it. Persistance is when your forced to deal with sorting out some technical

Re: starting kde from another machine

2003-02-04 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Rick; Sorry I didn't see this earlier. This is a really easy matter, but it's mostly unknown (not too many people use it). From console on the local machine ( ctrlaltF1 ) Log in as root. Issue: X -query remote hostname -once :1 That will fire up an X session from the remote machine, on your

Re: Why doesn't this work in cron?

2003-02-04 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Try: YESTERDAY=`date +%Y%m%d -d yesterday` * * * * * root echo $YESTERDAY Note: The ` is the single tick, NOT a single quote. Ric Jeff Bearer wrote: I'm attempting to set some variables with the output of 'date' in my crontab but for some reason they are not being evaluated.

Re: Linux Newbie - what's the point of newsgroups?

2003-02-04 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Victor; Chill, and back off the caffine a little bit. There's an old saying: Give a man a fish, and you've fed him for a day. Teach him how to fish, and you've fed him for a lifetime. This list tries to not just feed people for a day, but to educate them, so they can answer their own questions

Re: LVM Questions?

2003-02-04 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Robert; In the interest of not duplicating a pre-written document. If you check out www.sistina.com, they have an excellent how-to on setting up LVM. ONe caviat: They assume that it is not already in the kernel. In the case of RH 8.0, you can ignore this. It's already there. In short, I've set

Re: cd copying software

2003-02-04 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
gabriel wrote: This makes them not a CD. I wouldn't hold up much hope on Linux to support these. Just about all Unixes use cdrecord as the underlying tool to read and write CDs, and I would surprised if the cdrecord author decided to process CDs that don't follow the published standards.

Re: Sendmail anti-spam feature?

2003-01-30 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Just for reference, Here's the servers I'm using: maps_rbl_domains = bl.spamcops.net blackholes.mail-abuse.org relays.ordb.org blackholes.wirehub.net relays.osirusoft.com blackholes.five-ten-sg.com NOTE: I'm running postfix, so the syntax is

Re: ibm netvista hangs / freezes with rh80

2003-01-30 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Hmmm... I answered this from my other address, but it doesn't seem to be showing up. shrug So I'll try it again. I had this same problem with Netvistas. The problem (in my case) turned out to be the integrated NIC. Any traffic on it at all, would lock the box solid. I'd have to hit the power

java plugin for mozilla 1.2

2003-01-30 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
All; Ok, I know, this just went around. But I'm going to drag it back up for a minute. I recently went out, and got the jre, and installed it, and the java plugin. But... Any site I go to with java, just crashes Mozilla now. Has anyone else experienced this, and if so, is there a fix? Thank

Re: java plugin for mozilla 1.2

2003-01-30 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Tibbetts, Ric wrote: All; Ok, I know, this just went around. But I'm going to drag it back up for a minute. I recently went out, and got the jre, and installed it, and the java plugin. But... Any site I go to with java, just crashes Mozilla now. Has anyone else experienced this, and if so

Re: java plugin for mozilla 1.2

2003-01-30 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
be applicable. Regards, Mike Klinke On Thursday 30 January 2003 16:05, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: All; Ok, I know, this just went around. But I'm going to drag it back up for a minute. I recently went out, and got the jre, and installed it, and the java plugin. But... Any site I go to with java, just crashes

Re: how to resize partition without losing data?

2003-01-29 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
John Norris wrote: I ran into the sae problem on my pc, I am dual booting XP, and Linux. I used Partition Magic 8.0 and resized the partitions in windows. Partiton Magic also supports vfat People really need to get on the bandwagon, and get LVM installed working. There's nothing bugs me

Re: how to resize partition without losing data?

2003-01-29 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
losing data? OK, cool. Thanks for the rant. Now, how about a pointer to more information on LVM, like a HOWTO, whether it's installed by default in 7.2/7.3/8.0, where to get it, etc. instead John -Original Message- From: Tibbetts, Ric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday

Re: how to resize partition without losing data?

2003-01-29 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
info. John -Original Message- From: Tibbetts, Ric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 2:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to resize partition without losing data? Doug; Thanks for adding that. I meant to put in a link to sistina, and didn't. Yes

Re: how to resize partition without losing data?

2003-01-29 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
site had a pretty good HOW-TO, from what I saw of it. It also had instructions for patching the kernel...so maybe it is possible to retrofit it. John -Original Message- From: Tibbetts, Ric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 3:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

Re: how to resize partition without losing data?

2003-01-29 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
wrote: The Sistina site had a pretty good HOW-TO, from what I saw of it. It also had instructions for patching the kernel...so maybe it is possible to retrofit it. John -Original Message- From: Tibbetts, Ric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 3:10

Re: A Linux Browser that supports java

2003-01-27 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
I just tried to follow this link. It takes you to a page where you select your client type, and it then auto downloads , and installs. (cough).. Nice if you just want it in your personal workspace... However, the link ultimately points to ftp.netscape.com, which does not exist. Ric [EMAIL

Re: Burning CD's of 8.1 beta

2003-01-23 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
snip But the install won't recognize them. Is this the first version of Red Hat Linux were this happens to you? Yep. In fact, I have the CDs for 8.0 that I burned via the same methods, and they work just fine. I also have the CDs from Mandrake that work fine. This is the first time I've

Routing

2003-01-22 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Ok, this is an easy one... Or should be. I have a slight situation. My cube is short on network jacks, but long on computers. One of them has 2 NICs in it (a RH 8.0 box). Can I use box 1 to route for box 2? I don't need NAT, or IP Masq'ing or firewalling, or any of that. Just a way to get 2

rpm --rebuild

2003-01-20 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Ok, I know, it's been discussed. But I'm an idiot, and ignored the thread when it was around, and now I can't find it. So, would someone please refresh me on this. I need to rebuild a .src.rpm Used to be trivial: rpm --rebuild name.src.rpm But some kind person(s) decided that must have been

Re: rpm --rebuild

2003-01-20 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Emmanuel Seyman wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:17:42AM -0500, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: So, would someone please refresh me on this. I need to rebuild a .src.rpm Used to be trivial: rpm --rebuild name.src.rpm It's now: rpmbuild -bb name.src.rpm You'll need the rpm-build rpm installed first

Firewalls

2003-01-20 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
All; I'll be building a new server soon, based on Redhat. What firewalling software is good these days? I've heard good things about firestarter. Is it worth looking into, or is there something better/easier. Thanks! Ric -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

Re: why is wrong with this /etc/crontab

2003-01-20 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Assuming that the required script even exists, rewrite lines 11 12 lise so: 10 12 * * * /home/jzhu/pl/p1.pl /home/jzhu/o1.dat 10 12 * * * echo jzhu /home/jzhu/jzhu.dat Then they should work just fine. There are a couple of typos in them as presented below. Cheers Ric Jianping Zhu

Re: Test

2003-01-20 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Burke, Thomas G. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 No, it's just r slow... (Posts are taking up to 3 days to appear) The little guy in the back room is typing as fast as he can! Ric -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Equivalent to urpmi/apt-get for RedHat?

2003-01-20 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Before you do that, take a good hard look at Mandrake 9.1b2. It will show you the direction that Mandrake is going. If you have a test box, load that up. I'm not saying anything about whether it's good, or bad. Just warning you to take a look. I'm actually converting the other way, from

Re: why is wrong with this /etc/crontab

2003-01-16 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Jianping Zhu wrote: I have redhat 7.3 server the /etc/crontab is as following .- SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/ # run-parts 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.houily 2 4 * * * root run-parts

Re: how to substutue string in a text file

2003-01-13 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Jianping Zhu wrote: how to substutue string in a text file by using gerp or find? I have a text file, lof of abdfggg in that text file, i need to change it to opsmsdd, is there a simple way to do that? sed is your friend. sed 's/abdfggg/opsmsdd/g' infile outfile That will replace ALL

Re: Serious problems with RH8.0

2003-01-09 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
snip RedHat or even Linux (consider WinXP). If everything stayed the same, we'd still be using FVWM or TWM. HEY! I liked FVWM! I spent an eternity writing a config file for it, to get it to look/act the way I wanted it to. I don't use it anymore... But it was great stuff! Ric --

Re: Serious problems with RH8.0

2003-01-09 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Francisco Neira wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tibbetts, Ric wrote: | snip | | RedHat or even Linux (consider WinXP). If everything stayed the same, | we'd still be using FVWM or TWM. | | | HEY! I liked FVWM! I spent an eternity writing a config file for it, to | get

sshd problem resolved

2003-01-08 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
To all who responded to this one, Thank you! It's good to know you're out there. I got this one resolved last night. Somehow (and I'm still looking into how), the sshd user got removed. Without that, sshd won't start. Once I put that back, sshd started back up, and all is well with the world.

Re: Hardware suggestions for R/H Workstation

2003-01-08 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
I think you can get Dell with Redhat pre-installed. But not at the consumer level. From what I understand, it's just at the business level (servers). There are a couple of vendors out there selling pre-built Linux boxes. In fact, I was recently involved in helping set one up (it's not ready,

Re: Hardware suggestions for R/H Workstation

2003-01-08 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
For a good mobo: Soyo Dragon Plus (Athlon) Need SMP? Try the Tyan board. Deffinately go with crucial memory. Like fancy cases? Look into the Lian-Li Aluminum cases. Spendy, but nice!!! Ric Gordon Ewasiuk wrote: Hi List, I'm selling my Ultra 10 and looking to buy a high powered

sshd server problem - HELP!

2003-01-07 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
All; I have an interesting challenge. Some speculation will be required to solve this one! The situation: Linux Server sitting in Seattle, I'm in Florida. The Linux Server crashed due to a power failure (I know, it needs a UPS). When the server came back up, it came up, sans sshd. So I cannot

Re: sshd server problem - HELP!

2003-01-07 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Javier Gostling wrote: On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 09:49:03AM -0500, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: Any suggestions, speculations, WAGs will be very greatfully accepted! Get those two fingers to chkconfig telnet on and service xinetd reload, then you telnet to the machine, diagnose, fix and change root

Re: HOWTO : permit a user to execute a shell (root is owner) and restric the read

2003-01-07 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Partly true. You need to be able to read the file, but, you can hide it. I've used this trick before. Make a directory (for example: /usr/local/secure/bin ) Set the permissions of it to 711. Put the script in there, with permissions set to 755. Then, put a wrapper script in /usr/local/bin,

Re: sshd server problem - HELP!

2003-01-07 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Javier Gostling wrote: 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. Ok. Another one is to do an xhost + remote_host and have the guy at the remote site do xterm

Re: sshd server problem - HELP!

2003-01-07 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Jeffrey Tadlock wrote: 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

Re: sshd server problem - HELP!

2003-01-07 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Michael Schwendt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 11:31:27 -0500, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: Yeah, the server itself is running a firewall. (just to make this even harder). So telnet is blocked. Even if it were installed, it's blocked. I'm really down

Re: Mozilla Font/sizes

2003-01-06 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
What version of Mozilla? I'm running Mozilla 1.2, and it has the same Preferences entry you listed below. In fact, I had to do the same thing to enlarge my fonts a little bit. Dang high res monitors really shrink the font sizes down. Ric PS: Another suggestion: You could try switching xfs over

Re: Burning a Music CD

2003-01-06 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Ahem; You don't own the CD's, records, nor tapes. You own a copy of them. That copy gives you the right to play them, from their original media. It expressly, does not, give you the right to copy them. Period. Now with that out of the way. There is an excelent how-to on using cderecord for