Re: ext2 or ext3 ?

2003-10-21 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:46:24AM +0100, Mohamed Kerbachi wrote: How to know if a server has ext2 or ext3 ??? df -T -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: turn off terminal's beep

2003-10-14 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 09:43:34AM -0700, Jeffrey Fox wrote: If you're using a KDE Konsole SETTINGS drop down menu | BELL | NONE or VISIBLE, SETTINGS | SAVE SETTINGS --OR-- (if your using bash) You can add bell-style none (or visible) to your ~/.bashrc --OR-- You can use xset -b (or -vb

no swen since Oct 8

2003-10-12 Thread Kevin MacNeil
It looks like the storm of swen viruses is finally dying. At least on this end - I haven't received one since October 8, and for a while there I was getting hundreds a day. Fairly early on I added clamav to my mailscanner+spamassassin+razor2 setup and shunted all the viruses to their own mailbox,

Re: no swen since Oct 8

2003-10-12 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:06:33AM -0400, Gerry Doris wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Kevin MacNeil wrote: However it still bothers me that I have to spend so many cycles to process the mail. Stupid spammers, stupid Microsoft. I've had them start using the domain I own to as the source

Re: Graphic firewall

2003-10-11 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 01:12:15PM +0100, Nick Lindsell wrote: IPcop has quite a following too. http://www.ipcop.org Actually I use the ipcop firewall distribution to protect my home lan. It's just too much work to try to shoehorn a full-size linux distro onto an old 486 w/400 mb hard drive.

Re: Graphic firewall

2003-10-10 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 08:54:31AM -0500, Donald Tyler wrote: I just downloaded this and it looks very nice. But I am wondering if I can look at the firewall config file because I want to make sure firestarter is blocking spoofs etc. Anybody know where to find the file firestarter uses?

Re: OS Desktop Business Model?

2003-10-05 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 10:54:46PM -0700, bruce wrote: my $0.02 worth..and i don't normally follow this group/thread for linux to compete/succeed against windows/msoft on the desktop... there needs to be a rock solid office set of apps... for 20% of the price... then you would see msoft

LANG=?

2003-10-03 Thread Kevin MacNeil
The other day I was trying to install the latest Mail::SpamAssassin module through CPAN and it kept failing early in the compile. I've run into this before, so I looked at /etc/sysconfig/i18n and sure enough my LANG variable was set back to the default LANG=en_US.UTF-8. I changed it to en_US

Re: Booting From UltraATA

2003-09-29 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 01:07:36PM -0700, Marc Heikens wrote: I hope someone can help me with this, I've been working on this for awhile and looking for help in a few other venues: I've been trying to move my Linux installation from one drive to another, to no avail. Finally, last night, I

Re: CD writer for RH 9 - how to know if is suitable ?

2003-09-29 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 01:24:50PM +0200, sting sting wrote: Hello, I want to use a simple internal CD writer on Linux RH 9 . Now , I tried to see if the types of CD writer which I was suggested by my dealer (and work on windows) are fit to Linux RH 9. The 4 types are: BENQ 5224 TEAC

Re: mutt folders and filters

2003-09-21 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 11:03:24AM -1000, Marc Adler wrote: 2) use procmail to filter your messages to different mailboxes. Nancy McGough has a very good procmail tutorial at the Infinite Ink website (http://www.ii.com). She walks you through making a good ~/.procmailrc and making procmail

Re: LPIC passing percentage?

2003-09-04 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:31:29PM -0500, Dave Ihnat wrote: I've touched liquid mercury memory...I've seen attacked chips halt and catch fire on a 6800 embedded...I've seen C code glitter in the display of a BLIT...all of these moments will be lost in Internet time, like packets in a storm.

Re: LPIC passing percentage?

2003-09-03 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 10:08:33AM -0700, Anthony Liu wrote: Hi, My company wants me to take the LPIC1 test soon. Can you guys tell me what is the passing percentage? Thanks a lot. I read somewhere that it was around 42%, so I feel fortunate that I passed. It's a surprisingly hard (but

Re: LPIC passing percentage?

2003-09-03 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 08:37:36AM -0500, Dave Ihnat wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 06:11:51AM -0400, Kevin MacNeil wrote: I read somewhere that it was around 42%, so I feel fortunate that I passed. It's a surprisingly hard (but fair) exam for an entry level certification. Hmm

Re: dependency problems w/mailscanner

2003-09-02 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:05:32PM -0400, Gerry Doris wrote: I don't think that MailScanner looks for Perl rpm's per se. It just expects to find the modules available on your system. For some reason it isn't finding them. I ran into something similar when I loaded some modules using

Re: dependency problems w/mailscanner

2003-09-02 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:03:18PM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote: Does MailScanner work or are you just worried about the dependency errors? Did you use Julian's install.sh script to install it? I just installed the MailScanner rpm file. It works fine, but the dependency errors are keeping apt-get

Re: dependency problems w/mailscanner

2003-09-02 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:05:03PM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 20:27, Kevin MacNeil wrote: Well, I guess I'll just download the new version and compile the binaries myself. I can't see any reasonable way to get things working with rpm. I am a little disappointed

dependency problems w/mailscanner

2003-09-01 Thread Kevin MacNeil
I'm using sendmail, procmail, spamassassin, mailscanner and clamav to process incoming mail. Now apt is complaining about unmet perl dependencies, even though I've already installed all of the required modules through CPAN. I even tried to install the offending module anyway, but according to rpm

Re: dependency problems w/mailscanner

2003-09-01 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 04:10:17PM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 13:08, Kevin MacNeil wrote: I'm using sendmail, procmail, spamassassin, mailscanner and clamav to process incoming mail. Now apt is complaining about unmet perl dependencies, even though I've already

Re: sendmail config to relay thru my ISP

2003-06-18 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 02:56:04PM -0400, Gerry Doris wrote: You should edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc to include a SMARTHOST line. It's probably already in the file but commneted out (has a dnl at the front). Just insert your ISP's email server to the line, take out the dnl at the front, rerun

Re: Would RedHat 7 Be a Good Choice?

2003-06-16 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 04:55:32PM +0800, Edward Dekkers wrote: Mate, if I were you, I'd just buy the RH9 ISOs off the internet somewhere, if price and bandwidth is an issue. I can't remember a store name off the top off my hat, but I know quite a few people here were buying them for like $9

Re: boot off a promise ultra100 tx2?

2003-06-16 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 10:23:05PM -0500, Ed Wilts wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 10:35:50PM -0400, Kevin MacNeil wrote: But is it possible to boot off the Promise controller? You should be able to - I've booted older releases of Promise controllers. The catch that I found was that I

boot off a promise ultra100 tx2?

2003-06-14 Thread Kevin MacNeil
I'm still using an aopen ax6bc bx motherboard, somewhat modernized with a slocket and a Tualatin 1.2ghz cpu. Recently I picked up an 80GB WD hard drive and a Promise Ultra100 tx2 ide controller. Redhat 9 picks up the controller on boot and I can read all the rh7.2 partitions on my old 20GB

Re: hotmail mail cleint for linux

2003-06-04 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:40:17AM -0500, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: interested in this too, would make me so happy as I'd only have to use the web to check my Yahoo mail). I use fetchyahoo (fetchyahoo.twizzler.org) to download mail from yahoo. You add your login information to the default

Re: Pop-Before-SMTP

2003-06-02 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 11:58:08AM -0400, dch wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 11:28, Anthony E. Greene wrote: Have you considered SMTP Auth? http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/ Yes and it seems more daunting than pop authentication. Even my ISP (Verizon) uses

Re: 2nd Choice

2003-03-25 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 02:59:05PM -0600, Jason M. Kuhlman wrote: Following the discussion over the last couple of days over the release of RH 9 has been interesting. Question: Obviously most of us are very fond of Redhat, at least up to 7.3 gathered by some of the heated discussion today.

Re: RHCE looking for a job

2003-03-20 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 05:03:54PM -0800, nate wrote: I replied to the poster off-list ..but wanted to point out that certs in the UNIX/linux world are about worthless at the moment. I've been lookin for a job for 7 months, applied to about 70 positions, had about 20 interviews, came

Re: Running OutlookXP On Linux...

2003-03-13 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:27:14AM -0600, Jim Hale wrote: This would probably be the same as running pretty much any Win App on a Linux system though. I'm using RH 8.0, Wine is set to load by default. How hard is it, or is it even possible to install things like OutlookXP (2003) or other

Re: Red Hat on an old CPU - Which version?

2003-02-19 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:58:40PM -0500, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote: Until redhat announced they were going to end-of-life version 6.2 in march, I would have suggested that. Now I'd suggest redhat 8, provided you do a minimal installation (no X, no development tools, etc.). Install webmin you'll

Re: root, superusers, and mounting...

2003-02-11 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 06:40:57PM -0700, Tass wrote: Thanks. Since I don't yet know what fstab is, and since the sudo suggestion offered by Todd sounds like it is exactly what I was looking for, I'm now wrestling my way through that process. I do have a pretty good book. But I'm not

Re: red-carpet and up2date on same machine

2003-02-06 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:29:55PM +, Alan Harding wrote: I must admit that for the last year or so I have been running red-carpet and up2date. Red carpet is used for all my package updates, and it has never given any problems. Up2date is run only to do kernel upgrades. I use

Re: red-carpet and up2date on same machine

2003-02-06 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:57:23PM +0100, Anand Buddhdev wrote: On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 06:37:50AM -0500, Kevin MacNeil wrote: I use red-carpet exclusively, although I manually install kernel, glibc and openssl updates because redhat releases i686 binaries for them. If up2date was smart

Re: Webmin

2003-01-23 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 04:36:22PM -0500, John Salamone wrote: Hi, I am trying to install webmin on my system. When I clicked on usermin config. it came back saying usermin config directory /etc/usermin was not found on your system. Maybe usermin is not installed , or module config is

Re: Webmin

2003-01-23 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 01:22:05PM -0500, John Salamone wrote: When I do the above rpm -ivh webmin-1.050-1.noarch.rpm should some of the output look like: Usage: RPM [-a | --all] [-f | --file] all the way to the end being [--without=option.] Make sure you're logged in as root to install

Re: man pages = garbage

2003-01-21 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 12:10:08AM -0600, Rich Smrcina wrote: Thanks Nicolas, but no change. try export LANG=en_US -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Memory - 512 SIMMS

2003-01-13 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:27:15AM -0800, John B. Moore wrote: Greetings, I need to run this by you folks and see if there are any alternatives/issues that might get this to work. (using the very latest kernal) I have a VA-502 revA1 motherboard that has both DIMM slots and SIMM

Re: Sophos AV on Redhat 7.2

2003-01-02 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:35:15PM -0500, Jeff Graves wrote: Just purchased a corporate license of Sophos AV with MailMonitor for my linux mail server. I got to reading the info about installing the MailMonitor program and it seems that it actually acts as a SMTP server. I would rather let

Re: GUI Firewall Admin

2002-12-27 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 09:30:02AM +1300, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, B r u ma wrote: mcucb Is there any friendly GUI firewall administration program ?? or any easy mcucb way to admin iptables/ipchains ?? I try few GUIs and I stuck with Firewall Builder

Re: Optimize as firewall/router

2002-12-19 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 12:52:50AM -0800, Jack Bowling wrote: ** Reply to message from Jeff Stillwall [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, 19 Dec 2002 02:52:37 -0500 Is there anything I can or must do to optimize this box for routing and firewall activities? Some kernel level connection table

Re: Linux and Older Computers

2002-12-15 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 04:33:55PM -0500, fred smith wrote: Another possibility, and a whole lot easier to configure and manage, is Smoothwall GPL, from www.smoothwall.org. You download their ISO image, burn it to a CD, and boot it. It formats your hard drive (so don't do a test boot on a

Re: Unsubscribe

2002-12-15 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 08:26:30AM +0530, Pranav Badheka wrote: In html, no less. Words fail me. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

how about phoenix?

2002-12-10 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:53:36AM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Mozilla has some times a bug or so, and it's probably still not perfect, but in case of problems with a Mozilla.rpm I'd simply try to get the original stuff from mozilla.org ... and in case your machine is faster than the

Re: LPI Certification...Any Idea?

2002-11-29 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 03:01:32PM +0800, Alex Chooi wrote: Hi! How's life out there? I'm new in Linux. Any commendation with this certification? I heard it is good Cos it cover most of the unix or linux favor. Please get advice? any recommend book for this ? I used the O'Reilly book, LPI

Re: Remove old kernel?

2002-11-26 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:00:41AM +0800, Patrick Law wrote: Sometime time I update from RHN, I will get new kernel update, after reboot, I will be given options of new kernel together with old kernels in Grub Menu. Currently there are about 3 kernel versions in my Grub Menu. How do I remove

Re: JUST STOP

2002-11-19 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 04:57:15PM -0600, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Okay, but could you refrain from attaching winmail.dat to your outgoing e-mail? I don't see how that is applicable to the list. Especially from someone ranting about etiquette. But anyway, a question: what is this winmail.dat?

Re: Procmail processing problem

2002-11-17 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:04:07AM -0500, Mike Burger wrote: You've got the wrong X-Spam flag, there. It should be X-Spam Status: YES Shouldn't it be X-Spam Status: Yes? At least that's what I use and it works fine. To be honest, I'm not sure how case-sensitive procmail is wrt recipies,

Re: mr petrie is history - [[but should he really be?]]

2002-11-15 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 03:31:05PM -0500, Richard Tricoche wrote: Is it really the end users fault for not remembering to visit the website and click the link to unsubscribe for the day... Yes. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

Re: SMTP/AV/Spm Follow-Up II

2002-11-14 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:45:35AM -0500, James Pifer wrote: I have it all installed, mostly with defaults, but spam still seems to be getting through. I've received 6 spam messages since last night. How can I tell if its working at all? /var/log/maillog doesn't seem to show me much except

Re: bill gates bribes ... uh, invests $400 million in india

2002-11-14 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 08:09:05PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: I think you are being a bit hard and skeptical- one has to admire anyone who can donate this much money to poor people who desperately need it. Who really cares what OS the businesses use when you have aids and can't get treated?

Re: SMTP/AV/Spm Follow-Up II

2002-11-14 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 07:17:43AM -0500, Kevin MacNeil wrote: Have a look at the email headers. Do you see anything like the following? If so, spamassassin is doing its job and you're most of the way there. Hmmm, how interesting. I sent a bunch of email headers within the previous email

Re: kernel 2.4.9-31?

2002-11-02 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 08:27:03PM -0400, Shaw, Marco wrote: Where might I find 2.4.9-31? I don't really feel comfortable using packages from rpmfind.net. You can get the 2.4.9-31 kernel for redhat 7.1 and 7.2 at rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-028.html. This kernel has been superceded by

Re: redhat-list digest, Vol 1 #5659 - 16 msgs

2002-10-25 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:51:03AM +0200, Ivano wrote: iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE service iptables restart ipchains -A forward -i eth1 -j MASQ echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward Bye. Just a

Re: GUI Tool for Sendmail?

2002-10-23 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 01:18:59PM -0400, Gordon Ewasiuk wrote: Hi List, Redhat 8.0 includes a wonderful GUI tool for configuring Apache. Does anyone know of a similar tool for managing sendmail, postfix, or other MTAs? Webmin (www.webmin.com) has modules for sendmail and postfix, and also

Re: mail configuration problem

2002-10-22 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 05:52:41PM -0300, juaid wrote: I don;t remember very much about sendmail, but in postfix is very easy :) just adding a line like this in the main.cf file: myorigin = $mydomain But wouldn't the problem be that reverse dns lookups are failing? -- redhat-list

Re: Modem recommendation.

2002-10-19 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 08:42:48PM -0400, Jim Moberg wrote: Hi. I am looking for a recommendation on a modem to use with Red Hat Linux 7.3. From what I have seen external modems are the way to go. That's fine. I just don't know what brands tend to work better. Has anyone worked with the

Re: IP Address

2002-10-09 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 08:53:42PM -0500, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Well, I need to know my real IP so I can tell DynDNS the correct IP to direct http://omega-fleet.homelinux.org too. And yes, this is behind the router from the workstation/server. If the router is a linux box you can

Re: Hardware configuration question.

2002-10-05 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 08:11:56PM -0400, Anthony E. Greene wrote: On 04-Oct-2002/10:10 -0400, Michael Tiernan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I've got a box with more than one ethernet card, what is the correct way to force the system to assign numbers to them in a desired pattern? I think the

Re: Bash and my mid-life crises

2002-10-03 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 07:38:32PM -0400, Barry L. Kline wrote: Barry L. Kline wrote: function rpmgqa () { rpm -qa | grep $1 } I'm not sure what the accepted form is, but I use the syntax above for multi-line functions and the one below for one-liners. I just find it more compact

Re: [OT] spam from this list

2002-09-17 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 08:58:40PM -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Chuck Mead wrote: As did I! As did I! Apparently he does not read his e-mail frequently. I actually went to the website and registered, only so I could (gently) suggest that there were more

Re: python, screen saver, grub

2002-09-13 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 02:27:00PM +0800, Edward Dekkers wrote: Just uninstall python? There be monsters down that road... 2. Every time I leave my computer for a while, the screen goes black. The screen saver does not raise. I have reset the screen saver but it does not respont. (Actualy

Re: Factoid needed; actual number of virus specific to Linux

2002-09-10 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 11:23:46AM -0400, Paul Greene wrote: I need a quick little factoid for something related to work. Does anyone know the exact number of virus that exist for Linux? (If not the *exact* number, then plus or minus, say, 2 or 3) Plus or minus 2 or 3, that would be zero.

Re: DNS Configurations....

2002-09-09 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 02:34:49PM -0400, Michael Tiernan wrote: I've done the DNS configuration according to all the docs that I could find but none of these docs seem to discuss what's required to generate the hmac-md5 key that's included in the /etc/named.conf for authentication.

Re: ADSL problem rp-pppoe

2002-09-08 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 06:51:40PM -0500, Euriel Gómez Raga wrote: I'm running redhat 7.3 , on a celeron computer, this has 192 Mb ram, and has 3 nics, that seems to be working ok with no problems. I have installed rp-pppoe-3.5, but it is not working well on my machine. I ran into the

Re: Netiquette

2002-09-06 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 07:17:58AM -0400, Anthony E. Greene wrote: What is the point of getting digests? Filters put the messages in a folder, so there's no mail organization issue. Since I'm going to read them when I get ready, I don't care if they're downloaded a few at a time or all at

Re: NEWBIE: Is there an easy way to rename files

2002-09-05 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 04:17:36PM -0400, Brian Ashe wrote: Wednesday, September 4, 2002, 3:59:19 PM, you textually orated: BL I am trying to rename a bunch of files with extension .inc to .php BL in one fell-swoop. Is there a set of commands I can pipe to each BL other to do this like:

Re: Netiquette

2002-09-05 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 12:48:47PM -0500, Mark wrote: 1) delete the messages other than the one you are replying to. You can burst digests into separate messages. That way you can have proper threading and can reply to single messages without fiddling, and still only download a few messages a

Re: wvdial. - mgetty or what

2002-09-04 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 12:20:56AM -0400, Anthony E. Greene wrote: It may be a stale lockfile. Look in /var/lock and its subdirectories for a modem lock file. The file should not exist until you dial out. Nope. But I just checked and noticed that /dev/ttyS0 decided to change its

Re: wvdial. - mgetty or what

2002-09-04 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 07:54:01AM -0400, Anthony E. Greene wrote: Have you tried kppp or rp3? rp3 requires that I choose an interface, but only allows me to select from eth0 and loopback. kppp requires that I install the 8mb kdelibs package as well. I actually thought the dependencies

Re: wvdial. - mgetty or what

2002-09-03 Thread Kevin MacNeil
Well this is strange. I changed the permissions and they even survived a reboot. But I still get a device or resource busy error: [kevin@localhost kevin]$ wvdial -- WvDial: Internet dialer version 1.41 -- Cannot open /dev/modem: Device or resource busy [kevin@localhost kevin]$ ls -l

Re: wvdial. - mgetty or what

2002-09-01 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 09:20:10PM -0500, Bob Buckley wrote: We use wvdial quite a bit. Easy to configure and use. But you must be root to dial out. At least that is as far as I have gotten. Sudo! It is possible to use your modem without being root, but it requires fooling around with device

Re: How to disable screensaver in Redhat 7.3?

2002-08-19 Thread Kevin MacNeil
FWIW I also had what seemed to be total lockups with the screensaver enabled on rh7.2. I eventually realized that the OS was fine but the screensaver had wedged X so badly I couldn't restart it. I still have screenblanking enabled with no problems. On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 06:32:10PM -0500,

Re: [Off Topic] OnLine Univ. using open source

2002-08-14 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 01:28:26PM -0500, Robert Hartung* wrote: I am looking for a provider of Distance Education in computer science that uses at least some Open Source in its' classes. If anyone knows of such an educational institution in the US please reply. I don't know of any

Re: [RedHat 7.2] sendmail + smtp-auth

2002-08-13 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 11:54:34AM -0400, Anthony E. Greene wrote: I found this in the archives, searching for 'auth': http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/redhat-list/msg64722.html One of the messages in that thread mentioned a short tutorial at

Re: newbie question: how to speed up linux

2002-08-11 Thread Kevin MacNeil
You didn't say which desktop you're using, but both the gnome and kde GUIs are pretty resource intensive. One possibility is to try a leaner desktop like xfce (www.xfce.org). You should be able to switch back and forth between it and what you're using now. If you're using gnome and want to

Re: Hardware Modem needed

2002-08-03 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 06:24:00AM -0600, Dantin wrote: Thanks. Any particular brand works better? Just wondering I purchased a 7 CD set from E-Bay and I'm going to Duel Boot with Windows 98 SE. I'm trying to learn coding in C but cannot afford the visual C stuff. Rather go with gcc gpl.

Re: Linux vs Mac vs Windows

2002-07-28 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 10:02:10PM +0900, Doug Lerner wrote: I like using Entourage (I admit it!) in OS X, so I hope I can find a really nice, complete, multi-account, multi-user email solution in Linux. And guess what - I don't even mind paying for software I like! :-) But you probably

Re: Where to find god firewall setup doc for RH7.3

2002-07-22 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 04:02:48PM -0400, Javier Gostling wrote: If you're a newbie, I recomend you start with lokkit (the RH firewall administration GUI tool). Then learn a bit about firewalls and see if you really need more capabilities. If you already know about firewalling and iptables,

Re: minimum requirements for a firewall

2002-07-11 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 10:28:32AM -0100, Josep M. wrote: I´m thinking in put a firewall for protect my home computers,and buy a cheaper computer and do firewall using rh73 and iptables,no X environement,just basic os for a firewall. The speed of my ADSL is 256 Kb/s ,will be enough with a

Re: Fetchmail

2002-07-03 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 07:31:51PM -0300, Marcelo wrote: Hi, I'm getting a problem using fetchmail with linuxconf in Red Hat 7.2. The system hangs while configuring fetchmail in linuxconf and, when I try to reboot, the system hangs in Configuring Linuxconf hooks. So, if I disable the module

Re: Dumb mail list question

2002-06-29 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 02:27:43PM -0700, Dale Scott wrote: I did subscribe and have been receiving numerous email each day, each of which contains a number of interesting posts. My question is, how the heck does one respond to a post if you can't access the on-line system and the

Re: Poor Performance on a Compaq Presario

2002-06-27 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 05:47:10AM -0700, Jonathan Bartlett wrote: Output of the command ps afx would be helpful. Also df -hT ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Sendmail: It seems: EMail from local IP is refused

2002-06-24 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:15:50AM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: The reason I want to by-pass my ISP's mail server is /var/log/maillog. I want to see in that file (via 'tail -f') that my mail has reached the addressee's mail server, and I did not see this IIRC when I used my ISP's

Re: Sendmail: It seems: EMail from local IP is refused

2002-06-23 Thread Kevin MacNeil
It looks like the the receiving mta is doing a dns lookup on localhost.localdomain, which isn't a legal hostname. There are a couple of potential solutions to this common problem. First, try routing your mail through your isp's mailserver by defining it as a smarthost in your

should redhat dump wu-ftpd, sendmail?

2001-11-29 Thread Kevin MacNeil
I just came across the latest remote root exploit for wu-ftp, which I dutifully installed on the small server I maintain. It's too bad redhat released the patch early, but accidents happen and there's nothing to be done about it now. That aside, I am wondering why the major distributions stick

Re: should redhat dump wu-ftpd, sendmail?

2001-11-29 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 03:48:32AM -0500, Brian Ashe wrote: KM postfix instead of sendmail Postfix also is not GPL. It is under the IBM Public License. If you read it, you could see that there are certain provisions for commercial distribution. While they wouldn't stop you from

Re: should redhat dump wu-ftpd, sendmail?

2001-11-29 Thread Kevin MacNeil
My apologies for this message showing up twice. I originally posted this last night and a weird bounce message showed up in my inbox complaining about a mailbox being full, so I posted it again this morning before seeing that the original had made it after all. So please ignore this thread.

should redhat dump wu-ftpd, sendmail?

2001-11-28 Thread Kevin MacNeil
I just came across the latest remote root exploit for wu-ftp, which I dutifully installed on the small server I maintain. It's too bad redhat released the patch early, as it is going to be a pita for the other distributions. But accidents happen, and there's nothing to be done about it now.

Re: Networking: The Saga, The Sequel

2001-11-20 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 04:05:13PM -0500, James Francis wrote: From: Ben Ocean [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static BROADCAST=192.168.1.255 IPADDR=192.168.1.1 NETMASK=255.255.225.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0

Re: power outage ext3

2001-11-18 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 01:16:47AM -0500, Devon wrote: As for the fsck on the root partition, are you sure it is set up for ext3? FilesystemType 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 ext3 5068256 2336348 2577444 48% / /dev/hda1 ext3 23302

Re: power outage ext3

2001-11-18 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 05:25:25PM -0500, Devon wrote: On Sunday 18 November 2001 04:54 pm, Kevin MacNeil wrote: Hm, I didn't think of that. This is the most recent redhat 2.4.9-12 kernel, which ships with modular ext3 support. I only installed the main rpm (-ivh) and made the lilo

power outage ext3

2001-11-17 Thread Kevin MacNeil
So I finally had a chance to see a journalled ext3 filesystem deal with an unplanned power outage which shut down my rh7.1 box sometime last night. When I rebooted it still fscked the root filesystem for some reason, I'm not sure why. The other ext3 filesystems came right up. I have another

Re: 3com/USR 5610 modem

2001-11-12 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 08:41:04PM -, Alexander Shaw wrote: 1.Before I commit the cash or myself to an institution has anyone any experience of installing the device with Redhat 7.2? Is it likely to be easy in other words? It should be completely pain-free. The hardware