Linux-Misc Digest #54, Volume #24 Wed, 5 Apr 00 21:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Netscape - JavaScript: captureEvents (Jose M de Aguiar)
Re: SCSI hangs (Robert Heller)
Re: Mouse wont work in xfree86 ("T.J. Cruise")
Re: Visio (Microsoft vs. Unix) (david parsons)
NewGuy (Paul Manley)
Re: two domain in one linux server ("Edgar Gutierrez")
Re: FTP server configuration? (Brian Keffer)
Re: NewGuy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Did I kill my monitor?? (Chetan Ahuja)
Re: NewGuy (Brian Keffer)
Re: lilo NTFS (Chetan Ahuja)
Re: More samba printing woes (Brian Keffer)
Re: Problem installing Slackware Linux over NFS. (Thomas Zajic)
Re: STARTING ISP CABLE MODEM (David Turley)
Linux Mailing Lists Archives ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Visio (Microsoft vs. Unix) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: STARTING ISP CABLE MODEM (Patrick Goupell)
Re: Hosts File (Martin McWhorter)
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From: Jose M de Aguiar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
netscape.dev.linux,netscape.public.mozilla.unix,linux.debian.user,comp.os.linux.setup,Communicator,for,Unix
Subject: Netscape - JavaScript: captureEvents
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 16:12:20 -0700
Please,
I have a problem trying to make netscape to accept captureEvents
commands
in JavaScript. It simply does not respond to the keyboard events in
Netscape Linux, but it responds in Netscape Win98. I tested in Netscape
4.7 Linux and Netscape 4.7 Win98.
My distribution is Linux-Debian stable package( 2.1 ) with kernel 2.2.14
( 2.2.14 #1 Thu Mar 9 10:11:33 PST 2000 i586 ).
In Netscape I have under the Menu Edit;Preferences;Advanced the
following
options enabled:
Enable Java;
Enable JavaScript;
Enable JavaScript for Mail and News;
Enable Style Sheets;
Below I have a sample file ( which works well under Netscape 4.7 Win98
but does
not work under Netscape 4.7 Linux ).
Any ideas? Suggestions? Any help is welcome.
Thanks.
Jos�
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<html>
<head>
<title> Events </title>
<body bgcolor=#ffffff >
<P>Let us see if this is working... </P>
<A HREF="...">Link Initial</A> <!-- the first link in the document -->
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
function welcome() {
alert("Hello");
}
window.onload = welcome;
function processClicks(e) {
document.links[0].handleEvent(e);
}
function firstLink(e) {
alert("The first link's event handler called this function.");
}
window.captureEvents(Event.CLICK);
window.onclick = processClicks;
// or put the event handler in the link's tag
// e.g., onClick="firstLink(event)"
document.links[0].onclick = firstLink;
function processKeys(e) {
alert("You pressed the following keys:" + e.which )
}
if (document.captureEvents)
document.captureEvents(Event.KEYUP);
document.onkeyup= processKeys;
// -->
</SCRIPT>
</head>
</body>
</html>
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From: Robert Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI hangs
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 23:11:17 GMT
Tim De Vos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
In a message on Tue, 04 Apr 2000 23:59:15 +0200, wrote :
TDV> "Stuart R. Fuller" wrote:
TDV> >
TDV> > Tim De Vos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
TDV> > : Hello,
TDV> > :
TDV> > : Every time I do some disk-intensive tasks my SCSI bus hangs
TDV> > : for about 1 minute. I use Redhat 6.1 with an Adaptec 2940
TDV> > : U2W (bios version upgraded to 2.2.20) on an SE440BX-2.
TDV> > : Any ideas what could be wrong. It's happening frequently and
TDV> > : the system doesn't respond so that's very anoying. All devices
TDV> > : are correctly terminated and I have no SCSI problems under Windows.
TDV> >
TDV> > Look in /var/log/messages for relevant messages, and maybe post a few of them
TDV> > here.
TDV> >
TDV> > As for it not happening in Windows - well, maybe Windows isn't so
TDV> > disk-intensive?
TDV> >
TDV> > Stu
TDV>
TDV> Thanks for the reply. I've got the following error messages in
TDV> /var/log/messages
TDV>
TDV> Apr 4 23:49:52 PIII kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
TDV> pid 20443, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (6) 00 73 5f 08 00
TDV> Apr 4 23:49:52 PIII kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
TDV> pid 20444, scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 Read Capacity 00 00 00
TDV> 00 00 00 00 00 00
TDV> Apr 4 23:49:54 PIII kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 20444) timed out -
TDV> resetting
TDV> Apr 4 23:49:54 PIII kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel
TDV> 0.
TDV> Apr 4 23:49:54 PIII kernel: (scsi0:0:4:0) Performing Domain validation.
TDV> Apr 4 23:49:57 PIII kernel: (scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 10.0
TDV> Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
TDV> Apr 4 23:49:57 PIII kernel: (scsi0:0:4:0) reducing SCSI transfer speed
TDV> due to Domain validation failure.
TDV> Apr 4 23:49:57 PIII kernel: (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 80.0
TDV> Mbyte/sec, offset 31.
TDV> Apr 4 23:49:59 PIII kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
TDV> pid 20446, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 cb 4b
TDV> 84 00 00 08 00
TDV> Apr 4 23:50:02 PIII kernel: (scsi0:0:2:0) Synchronous at 20.0
TDV> Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
TDV>
TDV> I don't know what to try next.
Some questions:
What are the make and models of SCSI IDs 0, 2, and 4?
It *looks* like unit 4 is being strange.
At UMass we have had some trouble with Quantum ultra-wide disks.
The pure Linux box started having disk I/O errors after the disk was 1
month old. No data was lost -- the drive had not totally died or
anything. Another (similar) machine with the same sort of Quantum
ultra-wide disk running MS-Windows NT lasted a number of months with no
*apparent* problems, until it failed to boot one day. The drive in
question was in much worse shape. It *seemed* that MS-Windows was much
more tolerant of 'flaky' hardware than Linux. To add another data
point: I am part owner of a server that was shipped with Quantum
ultra-wide disks -- running Linux it too started reporting disk I/O
errors after the disk was 1 month old. All of the machines have had
their disks replaced and have been running *perfectly* for many months
since -- clearly the rest of the hardware is good.
TDV>
TDV> Thanks in advance for replying
TDV>
TDV> Tim De Vos
TDV>
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\/
Robert Heller ||InterNet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/~heller || [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.deepsoft.com /\FidoNet: 1:321/153
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From: "T.J. Cruise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mouse wont work in xfree86
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 18:10:08 -0500
> Unfortunately, my PS/2 Logitec is unusable, because the mouse pointer
> races around the screen. The same mouse movement distance (first moved
> carefully, then normally) results in different mouse movements on the
> screen.
>
> The gpm repeater doesn't work at all.
>
> Anyone with similar problems?
I had this problem a while back with the same mouse. The funny thing is,
the mouse was set correctly, and after I went back through the settings for
the 300th time, I noticed errors setting up my video. When I corrected my
video settings, the mouse worked again. I have no idea why.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (david parsons)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Visio (Microsoft vs. Unix)
Date: 5 Apr 2000 15:26:24 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Another answer is for the software industry to
>file a class action law suit against Microsoft. We shouldn't be
>running to Big Brother for help.
What do you think ``file a class action law suit'' means? There's
no class action law suit fairy who will wave magic pixie dust and
make things all better; the only reason class action law suits work
is because Big Brother(I am presuming you mean the government when
you say this) has been granted authority to enforce the law.
____
david parsons \bi/ Why bother to have antitrust laws if you won't enforce
\/ them?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Manley)
Subject: NewGuy
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 23:30:25 GMT
I want to set up a server to distribute web bandwidth to other
computers in the lan.
Services? Applications? Packages? Info? Any suggestions on how to
do it?
Also, what is a really cheap modem that works well with slackware,
right out of the box type of deal?
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From: "Edgar Gutierrez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: two domain in one linux server
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 07:40:01 +0800
Hi There Douglas,
Yes, you can use one linux box to accept email messages for two registered
Internet Domains.
All you have to do is to configure your DNS server (or ask your Internet
Service Provider to configure the DNS server hosting the two zones or
domains) so that each domain points to the same MX (or mail exchanger).
Once you've done this you can now configure your linux box to accept email
messages for the two domains. If you are using sendmail, all you have to is
add the domains in the /etc/sendmail.cw file.
This setup unfortunately will not give you two independent MAIL Domain
Space. This means that once you've already used a user name for a particular
domain, you will not be able to use the same user name for the other
domains.
This setup is good for unlimited number of domains.
I hope this helps you in your Techy activities....
Good luck and have a nice day. =)
Egie (edgie)
--
Edgar R Gutierrez
NOC-Network Services Manager
Impact Information Systems
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
> I've got 2 domain and I want to use one linux server to handle the mail
for
> the two domain respectively. Can I do this?
> Thank You.
> Regards,
> Douglas
>
>
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From: Brian Keffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FTP server configuration?
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 18:54:04 -0400
Hey,
Take a look at you /etc/inetd.conf to set the active ftpd program.
ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd wu.ftpd -l -i -a
Brian
> I noticed that there is already a ftp service on my machine. If I use
> proftpd, how do I set the active ftp daemon?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: NewGuy
Date: 5 Apr 2000 23:59:13 GMT
Paul Manley wrote:
>
> I want to set up a server to distribute web bandwidth to other
> computers in the lan.
>
> Services? Applications? Packages? Info? Any suggestions on how to
> do it?
>
> Also, what is a really cheap modem that works well with slackware,
> right out of the box type of deal?
Use ip masquerading (in the kernel) for sharing, and diald for
automating your dial up (especially when initiated from other than
the server). I do this at home. Works great...
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From: Chetan Ahuja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Did I kill my monitor??
Date: 6 Apr 2000 00:01:04 GMT
Hi,
I have just had a horrifying thing happen to me. I am running
Mandrake7.0-2 with xfree3.3.6-4. The graphics card is a Nvidia RIVA
128 (4MB memory) using the SVGA server and the monitor is a Pansonic
SL70 ( 17 inch). I was running X windows at 1152x864 ( Xvidtune
made me that modline). Everything was running within specs (hsync
vsync etc). I have been running at this resolution for a couple
of weeks and before that have been running at other high
resolutions for months with the exact same hardware software
combo.
So here's what happened just now. For some reason, I switched to
console 2 (from the X console 7). I've been doing this commonly without any
problems for years with all sorts of hardware running linux and in
particular with this combination of hardware for months. The
display.. instead of switching to the console mode, just flickered
in a wierd way. I hurriedly went back to console 7. But now, it
seemed as if the display had been switched to a very low resolution
automatically somehow, i.e. the xterm that I had open was huge
and I could see only part of it. And the image was twiseted in a
wierd way. I exited the xwindows using the
windowmaker exit function but the display never went to the console
mode. It just went blank. The monitor automatically switched to the
power save mode it goes into when there's no signal. I could not get
it back to showing me anything. So ultimately I telnetted in from
another machine on the network and shut down the machine.
Now here comes the real stinker. The monitor would not show me
anything now. I switch on the computer but monitor never switches
to display mode (that is it stayes in the power save
mode). Thinking ( almost wishing) that I might have burnt out my
display chip somehow, I connected the monitor to another
computer... no go. The monitor has gone OFF. And by the
way... there was no visible smoke or any smell or a noise to
indicate that the monitor had actually "blown up" or
anything. It's just... off.
Anybody has any idea what might have happened.... Its a pretty good
monitor and I would hate to lose it. Anybody had similar
experience...?? Anybody had experience with Panasonic with regard to
monitor repair... Is there any hope of repairing it or should I just
give it up as a lost cause???
Any hints clues etc would be appreciated.
Thanks
Chetan
My question is, obviously the monitor has
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From: Brian Keffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NewGuy
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 19:11:58 -0400
I would recommend taking a look at the Linux Firewall HOWTO
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO.html for some help on
this. You really don't need much more than what is in any standard
linux install. Basically you just need to configure the kernel to do
routing, set up the network, and configure linux to forward packets
between your lan and the internet.
About a modem, most external modems normally work right out of the
box. I've always used internal modems though, the important thing is to
make sure they're not winmodems or weird PNP modems. I normally just
look for modems with jumpers on them allowing me to select the COM port
I want it to use.
Good luck,
Brian
Paul Manley wrote:
>
> I want to set up a server to distribute web bandwidth to other
> computers in the lan.
>
> Services? Applications? Packages? Info? Any suggestions on how to
> do it?
>
> Also, what is a really cheap modem that works well with slackware,
> right out of the box type of deal?
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From: Chetan Ahuja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo NTFS
Date: 6 Apr 2000 00:09:08 GMT
Well... if you have the install or rescue disks for NT4, you would
have to do a "rescue". I have done the same thing in the past and
that seems to be the best possible way to deal with it. This is
somewhat less painful then a complete reinstall.
Oh yes... if the user has not lost the original boot sector (that is
if you have not run lilo more than once) or if the user was clever
enough to know what a boot sector is and saved the old boot sector
somewhere.. you might have a shot at just "uninstall lilo". The
lilo program has an option for that. Read the man page.
Mark Guzzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke thusly:
> OK, here it goes.
> I'm a DTS at Lucent and we have a user that installed RH6.1 on his NT4
> box. Now I know that lilo will take over the MBR and screw up the NT
> boot loader (which is just what happened :-) ). So my question to all of
> you.. Is there a way to remove lilo or would I have to (MicroCraps best
> phrase) REINSTALL NT4 and then put lilo on the boot sector?
> Any and all help would be great.
> PS.
> Thanks for the info on my other question that was about /usr overload
> :-)
> Mark Guzzo
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From: Brian Keffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: More samba printing woes
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 19:19:39 -0400
I saw this old post on dejanews, looked like the same problem. If this
doesn't help I suggest looking for 'LINK_TRANSFER_FAIL' in all posts on
Deja.
- Subject: Re: Printer problems
- Date: 2/23/2000
- Author: jmsalvo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-
- I had the same problem, but I was able to solve it.
-
- Before, printing works fine, then I tried lprng. Did not work, so I
removed - all the binaries of lprng ... or so I thought.
-
- It turned out in my case that lprng's binaries are still around, and
they
- were located at /usr/local/bin, while the BSD lpr binaries are
- located at /usr/bin and /usr/sbin.
-
- ... and my PATH has /usr/local/bin in front. I was able to figure this
out
- when I tried deleting /etc/lpd.conf (only used by lprng), and
- the tried lpq ... but complained of missinhg /etc/lpd.conf
-
- In short, I did :
-
- rm -f /usr/local/bin/lp*
- rm -f /etc/lpd.conf
- rm -f /etc/lpd.perms
- ..
-
- there is another one in /etc, but I forgot what it was.
-
- Hope this helps.
Brian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Problem installing Slackware Linux over NFS.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 00:12:11 GMT
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 16:17:27 -0500, Scott Bishop wrote:
> I'm having a bit of a problem with installing Slackware Linux 4.0 over
> our network using NFS. The server has all the requisite servers running
> (portmap, mountd, and nfsd). In the /etc/exports file is the line:
>
> /cdrom 192.168.1.100(ro,insecure,all_squash)
>
> In hosts.deny is the line "ALL: ALL", and in hosts.allow is the line
> "portmap: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0".
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You need a similar line for 'rpc.mountd' as well, see 'man mountd'.
> [ ... ]
HTH,
Thomas
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- Thomas "ZlatkO" Zajic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux-2.2.14/slrn-0.9.6.2 -
- "It is not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw." (M. C.) -
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From: David Turley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: STARTING ISP CABLE MODEM
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 23:21:33 GMT
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 21:30:07 GMT, madman apparently wrote:
> I am interested in starting a Cable modem ISP in my area, and I need help.
>
> I need to know:
> 1. What kind of server computer will I need?
> 2. I think that I would need a T1. But is there any thing cheaper?
> 3. Is there any other info that I should know?
> 4. Is the servers computer the same as what you would use for a dial-up
Well, first you would need to run cable to all your subscriber's houses. :-0
David Turley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Linux Mailing Lists Archives
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 00:18:13 GMT
I'm looking for linux related mailing lists archives which can be
downloaded as plain ASCII.
So far, I've found the kernel-l, linux-net, linux-alpha and big-
linux lists available for download at ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu.
There are lots other which can be searched through web interface,
but I'm not interested on those. You can find quite a lot at:
http://kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/
http://linuxwww.db.erau.edu/mail_archives/
http://www.tux.org/hypermail/
I've been looking at ftpsearch also, but haven't been so lucky.
So where can you find linux mailing lists archives available
through FTP?
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Visio (Microsoft vs. Unix)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Date: 06 Apr 2000 00:30:18 GMT
Leslie Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Grant Edwards <grant@nowhere.> wrote:
:>>Come to think of it, isn't the US Gov required by law to have multiple
:>>vendors? Isn't the DOD? If so, then perhaps there is legal recourse to
:>>force the gov to obey the law.
:>>
:>>As another poster pointed out, we have POSIX for a reason. The gov
:>>should be required to use POSIX compliant systems.
:>
:>They often are. If you add enough crud to NT, you can make it minimally
:>Posix complianc (to what level I don't know). That is apparently enough
:>to let various agencies buy NT and stay within regulations.
:
: Does anyone happen to know why posix doesn't specify fork()?
POSIX does, in POSIX.1 IIRC.
: And what other posix-compliant system besides NT doesn't have fork() with
: its expected semantics? (In other words was it left out as a special
: consideration for someone?)
AFAIK, NT does infact have fork(), but strictly for the use of
meeting POSIX. The problem as it has been explained to me is that
the use of NT's fork() is not compatible with its network libraries,
in particular TCP/IP. This makes much if not most advantages of
using fork() null and void on NT. The problem is that POSIX
specified fork(), and IIRC it specifies network APIs as well, but it
doesn't specify that they must work at the same time in the same
program which is the loophole that MS/NT uses to keep NT/Unix
software from being as portable between the systems as it could
otherwise be.
Perl ran into this problem. You could build it with a working
fork(), or with working network code, but not both. This is
currently being worked around by implementing perl's fork() using
threads under NT, thus making fork() w/network portable between NT
(and 98?) and Unix. Microsoft, of all companies, is paying for much
of this effort.
--
-Zenin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "Hey, are you one of those Linux coders?"
"Nyet. Linux coder in next office."
"Good man. Ignore the screams."
--www.userfriendly.org
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From: Patrick Goupell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: STARTING ISP CABLE MODEM
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 20:50:50 -0400
Not true. First he need LOTS of money.
David Turley wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 21:30:07 GMT, madman apparently wrote:
> > I am interested in starting a Cable modem ISP in my area, and I need help.
> >
> > I need to know:
> > 1. What kind of server computer will I need?
> > 2. I think that I would need a T1. But is there any thing cheaper?
> > 3. Is there any other info that I should know?
> > 4. Is the servers computer the same as what you would use for a dial-up
>
> Well, first you would need to run cable to all your subscriber's houses. :-0
>
> David Turley
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Patrick Goupell
www.nite.org
www.noneusa.org
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From: Martin McWhorter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hosts File
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 01:03:07 GMT
Jeff,
What is not working about it?
It usualy looks like:
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
your.ip.address yourname yourname.yourdomain
What symtoms are you having, it may have nothing to do with the hosts
file... as it is pretty hard to get the hosts file wrong.
If you cannot connect to machines on the net by name, you are probably have
a problem with your resolv.conf file. Its a common problem.
Martin
Jeff Grossman wrote:
> What is the correct format for a hosts file? I can't seem to get mine to
> work properly. I am running Redhat 6.2.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
> -----
> Jeff Grossman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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