Uninstalling Mozilla for newer version

2003-10-17 Thread rahul b jain cs student
Hi everyone, Does anyone know how to uninstall mozilla 0.9.9 to make way for the newer version of it. I searched through the net and most of the places I got the answer `delete the directory in which you installed mozilla`. The mozilla that I am using came installed in the redhat distribution. I

Error with gnutls

2003-10-16 Thread rahul b jain cs student
Hi everyone, I have reached my level of patience with gnutls. everytime i try to run the configure script of gnutls, i get the following error *** Checking for external libraries... checking for libgcrypt-config... /usr/local/bin/libgcrypt-config checking for libgcrypt - version = 1.1.43... no

Re: How to sniff for VLAN packets on Redhat 9 - RESEND

2003-10-09 Thread rahul b jain cs student
Thanks for the reply. I had skipped the part on how packets are sent out of my switch in the first mail. Currently the switch sends out untagged packets. I tried to change that to tagged when I had tried to sniff the packets. What I wanted was that if i send out tagged packets from my switch I

How to sniff for VLAN packets on Redhat 9 - RESEND

2003-10-08 Thread rahul b jain cs student
Hi, I am trying to sniff for VLAN packets on a redhat 9 box. I have a network in which I am using the HP Pro Curve 2500 switches. I have configured my VLANs on these switches. I have tried the following On a redhat 9 box which is connected to a VLAN on the switch, I ran tcpdump -vlan. However I

How to sniff for VLAN packets on Redhat 9

2003-10-07 Thread rahul b jain cs student
Hi, I am trying to sniff for VLAN packets on a redhat 9 box. I have a network in which I am using the HP Pro Curve 2500 switches. I have configured my VLANs on these switches. I have tried the following On a redhat 9 box which is connected to a VLAN on the switch, I ran tcpdump -vlan. However I

Re: Mouse problems with switchbox

2003-09-23 Thread rahul b jain cs student
Hi Ed, I had the very same problem a few days back. This is how u get ur mouse to obey ur hand again. Find the file /etc/X11/XF86Config Find the section that looks as follows and replace with the one that is shown below Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver

Upgrading/Installing Apache 2.0

2003-09-19 Thread rahul b jain cs student
Hi everyone, I have been trying to install or upgrade my apache 1.3 (which came by default with Redhat 7.3) to apache 2.0. I tried following two documents - one from tldp.org and another one from the apache website. however i end up getting confused. are there any other good documents around

Boot up problems.

2003-06-23 Thread rahul b jain cs student
Hi, I recently started having boot problems on one of my linux workstations. It looks like a hardware problem. However I needed some advice before I contact the customer service. When I try to boot my machine it gets hanged at various levels of the boot process, a different level during each

Major Sound Problems

2003-04-02 Thread rahul b jain cs student
Hi, I have been trying to get sound and sound recorder working on my system for almost a month now. However there has been very little luck in it. The sound card is detected by the system and I am able to hear mp3 using XMMS. I am also able to hear .au and .wav files. However whenever I try to

Re: Using Traceroute

2003-03-08 Thread rahul b jain cs student
hi chris, a few things. what does the -l option stand for ? try using traceroute without any options. if your computer is connected in a network which is administered by someone else, make sure they dont have a firewall. to check this you can first do a traceroute to one of the machines in the

Configuring DNS Server

2003-03-04 Thread rahul b jain cs student
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, Rahul. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

lpr printing problems: Once Again

2003-02-12 Thread rahul b jain cs student
hi, i have a server which is connected to a printer in its network. I am able to print from the server. however when i try to print to the same printer from a host in another network i am getting the following error Status Information: sending job 'root@marieke+353' to feebe@localhost

lpr printing error

2003-02-11 Thread rahul b jain cs student
hi, i have a server which is connected to a printer in its network. I am able to print from the server. however when i try to print to the same printer from a host in another network i am getting the following error Status Information: sending job 'root@marieke+353' to feebe@localhost

OT: Source Code for ping

2003-02-06 Thread rahul b jain cs student
Hi, Sorry for asking an off topic question. I am looking out for the source code of the ping program so that I can make some modifications and use it as per my needs. Searching through the net lead me to the website of the author of the ping program. However the source code does not get

SUDO Utility

2003-02-04 Thread rahul b jain cs student
Hi, I was trying to make use of the sudo utility, which in my understanding allows the root to give certains users the privelege the execute a set of commands. I configured the file sudoers making use of the command visudo. My sudoers file looks like this # User alias specification User_Alias

Re: HELP: Uninstalling CUPS

2003-01-30 Thread rahul b jain cs student
-not-possible. I got both the errors when I was trying to print the test page. I really appreciate if you could give some advice, Thanks, Rahul. On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, rahul b jain cs student wrote: Hi Rahul, If you installed from source I do

HELP: Uninstalling CUPS

2003-01-29 Thread rahul b jain cs student
Hi, I had installed CUPS on my linux box. I had installed by downloading the source code of CUPS from the CUPS website. How do I uninstall CUPS ?? I checked the website but could not find any useful information. The main reason I am uninstalling it is that my printer does not respond to CUPS

Re: (no subject)

2003-01-28 Thread rahul b jain cs student
try making use of the command mii-tool. it is basically used to view and manipulate the interface speeds. i think this command will suffice your needs. do man mii-tool for more information. cheers, rahul. On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Geoff Smith wrote: HelP!!.i need to know how to get my network

Dropping specific IP packets

2003-01-16 Thread rahul b jain cs student
Hi everyone, I was curious to know if there was any way in which I would be able to drop specific IP packets at a machine. I know by making use of firewalls I may be able to do that. I was wondering if there is any other way of dropping packets other than firewalls. Thanks, Rahul. --

Some questions about CUPS

2002-12-17 Thread rahul b jain cs student
hi, I have been trying to add a printer to my linux machines. I downloaded CUPS and installed it. I was able to configure my printer which is a LaserJet 2200d with a jetdirect card in it. However whenever I try to print a test page from the web interface of CUPS I get the following error

Problems with CUPS: Plz Help

2002-12-17 Thread rahul b jain cs student
hi, I have been trying to add a printer to my linux machines. I downloaded CUPS and installed it. I was able to configure my printer which is a LaserJet 2200d with a jetdirect card in it. However whenever I try to print a test page from the web interface of CUPS I get the following error

Re: no space left on device, while it's not true!

2002-12-16 Thread rahul b jain cs student
Hi, go to the directory /var/log. if you have not written any script to manage your log files, you will see a lot of log files like message.2, message.3 and so on. delete the ones you DONT WANT. i have also faced this problem many times. the best way to get out of it is to write a script that

Help with Printers

2002-12-16 Thread rahul b jain cs student
Hi, I am trying to connect a network printer HP LaserJet 2200d (having a network card). I installed the software WebJetAdmin which the HP guys says is used to monitor and configure the printer. I was trying to access this service through the browser as hostname.domain:port. However I keep getting

Boot up Problem. Plz Help.

2002-12-12 Thread rahul b jain cs student
HI, This problem is related to X-windows boot up. After every couple of days, my machines fails to boot up in the x-windows mode. When I delete some of the log files, it boots up properly in the X-windows mode. Is there a permanent solution to this problem ? Thanks, Rahul. -- redhat-list

Re: changing IP's

2002-12-11 Thread rahul b jain cs student
hi steve, you can look at the manual of the command ifconfig. With this command you can normally change all the ips of the interfaces. you can also change the files that are in the following directory. /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices rahul. On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Steve Buehler wrote: I have

Office similar s/w for Linux

2002-12-11 Thread rahul b jain cs student
hi, I was looking out for a s/w that can open all the microsoft office application files like word, powerpoints, excel etc. At the moment I have Kword etc, but they dont work well and most of the times the files wont open. Are there any suggestion for a s/w ? Thanks, Rahul. -- redhat-list

Misbehaving Linux Routers

2002-12-09 Thread rahul b jain cs student
Hi, I had emailed this problem on the list before but was not able to get any positive response. So here I am trying it once again. It is really driving me crazy now as I am not able to make any link between the problem and the way I solve it. I have been facing the problem for quite some time.

Misbehaving Linux Routers

2002-12-04 Thread rahul b jain cs student
Hi, I have been facing the problem for quite some time. In my private network, I have 4 routers. The routers have been configured properly (I think) by setting the IP addr of the interfaces, gateways where ever neccessary and proper subnet mask. When I boot up the routers, I am unable to ping to

Re: Netscape 7.0 micro fonts

2002-11-04 Thread rahul b jain cs student
you can change the fonts by going to Edit-Preferences. Change the font settings over there. Also check the box which says use my default fonts, overriding document specified fonts rahul. On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Vidiot wrote: For some reason, when a link brings up a new Netscape window, all of the

Re: Netscape - Mozilla - Konqueror

2002-10-31 Thread rahul b jain cs student
hi, you have to change the preferences of the web browser you are using. For Mozilla and netscape click on Edit-Preferences. Click on Apperance in the dialog box that pops up and change the fonts as per your needs. For Konqueror there is a zoom icon. you can click on that to increase your font

How to configure the Konsole

2002-10-18 Thread rahul b jain cs student
Hi, I wanted to configure Konsole (terminal program of KDE). I basically wanted the konsole to behave like a VT-100 terminal with the baud rate of 1200, 8 databits, 1 stop bit and no flow control. Is it possible to configure the konsole in that manner. I have searched the web for answers but

Re: route question

2002-09-27 Thread rahul b jain cs student
try the following command and see if it works ping -I 10.1.1.2 10.1.5.1 rahul. On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Matthew Boeckman wrote: Hmm. Are saying that if you try to ping the eth1 interface from a machine attached to the network on eth0 it does not work? If so what is does the routing table

How to find out capacity of an Interface

2002-09-26 Thread rahul b jain cs student
Hello everyone, Can someone tell me how to find outw hat is the capacity of an interface i.e. whether a particular interface is configured to work on 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps. If I want to change this setting, can I as a root do it ? Many Thanks, Rahul. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

Re: Linux Networking Books??

2002-09-25 Thread rahul b jain cs student
hi you can try to make use of this link. it was very helpful to me http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag2/ you might also want to look into the redhat / linux bible books. they are also a good place to start learning about neworking and linux in general. rahul. On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Bret Hughes wrote:

RE: persistent route

2002-09-23 Thread rahul b jain cs student
in order to make your routes permanent, you can add your route command to the following file /etc/rc.local this file is called at boot time and hence any command present in this file will be executed. rahul. On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Rechenberg, Andrew wrote: Add your routes to

Re: network setting

2002-09-12 Thread rahul b jain cs student
you can set ip forwarding in your computer by making the following change in the file /etc/sysctl.conf net.ipv4_forward = 1 you might want to check your routing table and see if it has been set according to your needs. rahul. On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL

Re: Change root password

2002-09-11 Thread rahul b jain cs student
after you login as root type passwd and then follow the instructions on screen. rahul. On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, ebinc wrote: Thanks I mean after I login as root what do I need to change the password - Original Message - From: Anthony Abby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: netstat question.

2002-09-11 Thread rahul b jain cs student
you can try making use of tcpdump if you havent tried it till now. On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, [iso-8859-1] linux power wrote: I have nat masquerade. Can I watch the ip adresses going out and in from the lan. __ Se den nye Yahoo! Mail på

How to configure a Linux machine as a Router

2002-09-09 Thread rahul b jain cs student
Hi, I have a Linux server which I want to configure as a Router. On one end it is connected to a workstation and on the other to a server both of which are Linux machines. So the network looks like this Workstation Router Server 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.14

RE: How to configure a Linux machine as a Router

2002-09-09 Thread rahul b jain cs student
. On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Skuse, Phil wrote: In /etc/sysctl.conf: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 Or echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward Also check that you are not blocking the packets with ipchains/iptables -Original Message- From: rahul b jain cs student [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: RH7.3 Network Configuration

2002-08-24 Thread rahul b jain cs student
hi, In order to change any network settings you can use Network Configuration which is under System. If you cannot find it under System, you may want to try typing redhat-config-network at the terminal. This will open up the Network Configuration Dialog Box. Else you may edit the network files

Question about Keyboards and mice for linux machine

2002-08-21 Thread rahul b jain cs student
Hi, I have a linux server which was bought from Penguin Computing (Atlus 130). I wanted to purchase keyboards and mice for the same. I had been looking on the net for the past week but was getting confused. My questions are 1. how do i know that a particular keyboard and mice will work with

Hostname changes by itself

2002-08-21 Thread rahul b jain cs student
Hi, I was trying to change the host name of my linux machine. I did so by editing the file /etc/sysconfig/network. If i reboot the system, it works fine recognizing the new hostname. However if i reboot the system again, it goes back to its old hostname. Could anyone tell me, what is the

Problems while logging in.

2002-08-20 Thread rahul b jain cs student
Hi, I am new to linux, I am trying to log into a Linux server which is at the moment a stand alone machine. I am trying to log into the windows type enviornment. I am not able to log into the windows type environment as any user including the root user. However after a few logins, it gets me the