Re: files with tar.gz

2001-02-01 Thread Micah Yoder
Before uncompressing a tar.gz file, I highly recommend getting into the habbit of looking what's in it first: tar ztvf file.tar.gz Be sure to note whether all the files are in the same base directory. If not, create one and 'tar zxvf' into it. There's few things more annoying than doing a

Re: It's that time of the cycle again...

2001-01-24 Thread Micah Yoder
On a sober note, I doubt if they forge a 2.4 kernel into a minor distribution release. IOW, don't expect 2.4 unless they call it RH8.0 (silly nickname here). I dunno. 7.0 was already pretty much 2.4.0 ready, and the kernel upgrade shouldn't break things, except maybe system utilities (which

Re: rpc.statd bug?

2001-01-23 Thread Micah Yoder
That looks like what I got when my box was cracked about 3 weeks ago. Do a traceroute on the IP used to make the connection and it will probably go through a router in Macau, China. You're screwed if they got in. Michael Burger wrote: I'm running a RH7 box with all the latest updates,

It's that time of the cycle again...

2001-01-23 Thread Micah Yoder
I suspect that within 2 or 3 weeks we'll be seeing a beta release of Red Hat 7.1. What do you think will be in it? Will it default to the 2.4.1(?) kernel or install 2.2.18(19?) or will it give you a choice at install time as to which to use? I'd hope that it will install 2.4.1 (I assume it

Re: script to rename files?

2001-01-21 Thread Micah Yoder
Vineeta wrote: But,if you are going to try something like vi "aa dd" where "aa dd" is the filename,it will interpret it as 2 different files to be edited. nope. I just did a kwrite "test file" and vi "test file" and both created a file called "test file" without quotes and with the

Re: have I been cracked?

2001-01-12 Thread Micah Yoder
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: Now, for you logs. First run "/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog status" and see what if the system things syslogd and klogd are running. Then run "/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog restart" to get your logs going again. This should also give you some of the log messages you

Re: have I been cracked?

2001-01-12 Thread Micah Yoder
Actually, just download install initscripts the programs you need (syslog, sendmail, cron, etc) to get them back. Trouble, yes. But not a complete reinstall. Thanks, I got it working in somewhat good shape again. Now, the question still remains what caused it to happen in the first

have I been cracked?

2001-01-11 Thread Micah Yoder
Weird happenings starting last week... /var/log/messages has no entries since jan 5. Permission is 600, so it should be writable. the 'userhelper' program's suid bit was taken away so I could no longer halt the system as a user. I fixed that. the 'man' program's sgid bit was unset so i

Re: blackhole firewall rules

2001-01-06 Thread Micah Yoder
move my server over to my cable modem and cancel the DSL. I've noticed that @home portscans pretty regularly, so I need to be discreet about my mail server. they do??? I've been with them since Dec 16 and I don't see any portscan like things an access_log. It has a webserver on it and I

IP Masq flakiness again

2001-01-02 Thread Micah Yoder
Just thought I'd try this one again... I'm masquerading a cable modem connection using a single ethernet card in the server. Most of the time, from the masq'd machine, either the entire Internet is reachable or none is. But there have been a few times where some hosts are reachable and others

Re: IP Masq flakiness again

2001-01-02 Thread Micah Yoder
Mike Burger wrote: I'm assuming that you have your internal network numbered differently than the external "internet" side of your Cable modem, yes? Internal network is 192.168.1.x. Server only has one IP, the one assigned by the ISP (ATT @Home). If so, you may need to check and make sure

Re: cant reach internal network anymore

2000-12-27 Thread Micah Yoder
ok... I'm not (yet) a guru at this but I'm learning. eric clover wrote: this is my output from route ifconfig: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface spanky bl 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 00

WINE (was Re: Trouble downloading Moneydance.)

2000-12-26 Thread Micah Yoder
I'd be interested in knowing what other mainstream apps people have successfully run under Wine recently. I know, there's the winehq database, but vague comments, old records, and inflated ratings make it rather useless. Personally, I've been playing Stardock's Entrepreneur game, and it runs

IP masquerading again

2000-12-24 Thread Micah Yoder
OK... Well my masquerading problems pop back up... sometimes everything works great for several hours, but usually there are problems. Both computers have their MTUs set at 1500. Is that good? Any other ideas? Guess I'll break down and get a second ethernet card for the server if there's

Re: MOZILLA - where are you?

2000-12-20 Thread Micah Yoder
Matthew Melvin wrote: I never had much luck with this if I let mozilla try and download it for me and then install it when a page needs it - presumably becuase I don't browse as root (as if!?). But if I did it manually I had no program. Grab the xpi from..

IP Masquerading -- works in spurts

2000-12-20 Thread Micah Yoder
Hi, I'm trying to masquerade a cable modem connection (static IP) with a couple other boxes. Problem is, from a masq'ed box, the Internet seems to work in "spurts" -- i.e. I can access a Web page and/or check my mail, and it will usually complete the transaction... but then I try to access

Re: IP Masquerading -- works in spurts

2000-12-20 Thread Micah Yoder
Does this list have magical properties? Literally as soon as I hit "send" on that post it seems to have been working great! I even watched streaming video over C-Span on the masq'ed box. Thanks Justin -- if it starts up again I'll check into MTU stuff.

Re: server recommendations?

2000-12-18 Thread Micah Yoder
for this particular project and I thought I'd check to see what you recommend. I'd like to setup drive mirroring, a tape backup system, and redundant power supplies, etc. I was looking at VA Linux, Cobalt, Dell, and possibly just building something from scratch. What do you recommend?

Re: Ethernet weirdness

2000-12-18 Thread Micah Yoder
Funky NIC? I would swap the cards to try and isolate the problem. If the Aaargh. Now that you mention that, I bet you're right. I'll try that at some point... being a hardware clutz I'm not up to it right now... I just thought of a couple other things to try... 1. putting a hub between

Ethernet weirdness

2000-12-17 Thread Micah Yoder
Hi, I have two RH6.2 boxes connected to each other by Ethernet, a crossover cable. Both have 3Com 905 cards. The names are eclipse and nova. The weird thing is that nova MUST come up first, or they won't talk to each other. If I boot eclipse when nova is not on, eth0 is not activated. If I

Re: Sound Card

2000-12-17 Thread Micah Yoder
Aaron Prohaska wrote: Can anyone recommend a good sound card? I am thinking about one of the Creatve Labs cards, but I'm not sure yet. I bought a Create Labs Ensoniq AudioPCI card thinking it would work, but found that it made my system hang before linux even started to boot. So now I am

Re: Another sendmail question

2000-12-13 Thread Micah Yoder
Rob Yale wrote: When my system boots, it pauses on sendmail for an inordinately long time. Could this have something to do with name resolution, and if so, how do I resolve it? Another factor that I was also wondering about is that eth0 initially fails; presumably because pcmcia hasn't

Re: Run program on boot?

2000-12-06 Thread Micah Yoder
Tim Smolen wrote: How do I have Linux execute a program when it boots? Basically I want to turn the pc on, have linux boot, and then run my program until it's shutdown. I'd like not to have to log in or anything. Is this possible? Again it depends on what it is. The other suggestions were

Re: How much disk space I need ?

2000-12-06 Thread Micah Yoder
I'm new to to this list. I want to transform currently hosted a small e-com site from NT platform to RHL 7 Server. On this **SAME** machine my web server(Apache), Application Server (Tomcat)and Database Server (most probabaly mySQL) will be running. With this background , can anyone

Re: RH Notebooks

2000-12-05 Thread Micah Yoder
I am looking for a mid to upper level range notebook that satisfactorily runs RH. My preference, although not a necessity, would be to purchase a notebook preloaded with RH which is appropriately configured (including modem). Alternatively, a purchase of a fully hardware compatible notebook

Re: Performance -- how risky?

2000-11-29 Thread Micah Yoder
Leonard den Ottolander wrote: Having a look at hdparm definitely might give your system a boost. Probably just enabling (U)DMA helps a lot (hdparm -d /dev/hda). (On my system it increases the speed of disk reads from 4 MB/s to 35 MB/s!) I have noticed that when using DMA other options don't

Re: Linux Compatable sound card

2000-11-18 Thread Micah Yoder
Aaron Prohaska wrote: Hello all, I am looking for a good sound card that will work with RedHat 7 and would like the advice of anyone from the list. I have been thinking about one of the Creative Labs Sound Blasters, but they are rather expensive. Is there much of a selection of good

Re: Database Conectivity

2000-11-15 Thread Micah Yoder
Muhammad Asif wrote: I need to write an application in C, that need to interact with database. Does the RH6.2 contains libraries for database conectivity alreadyOR i have to get them externaly where can i find these libraries and related documentation Yes. [root@eclipse /root]#

Re: changing passwd

2000-11-01 Thread Micah Yoder
Kiran Kumar M wrote: How can I change the password at the command line itself, for ex.: passwd userid password I want to eliminate the confirmation. Something along these lines should do it: usermod -p `perl -e "print crypt('newpasswd', 'XX')"` userlogin replace XX with a relatively random