RE: vsftpd Questions.

2003-10-21 Thread mykhan
Thanks a lot Nick, I've one more question, How can I make particular user to download only ?? I mean he will have no rights to delete or upload any files ... Thanks in advance, Yasir. -Original Message- From: Nick Lindsell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 3:46

RE: vsftpd Questions.

2003-10-20 Thread mykhan
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 8:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Importance: High Dear All, I've setup vsftpd on my RH Linux 8.0 box. I've some questions I want to ask... Problem 1: ~~ When I connect to my FTP Server I get the following messages: 257 /home/rj

RE: vsftpd Questions.

2003-10-20 Thread Nick Lindsell
Now, something new is in my mind. There is one user, to whom I have given FTP access, I want her not to ssh(telnet) into my system using that user id/passwd. What is the easiest method to do that ... This may be a simple question, but I am new to linux. Thanks in advance, Yasir.

vsftpd Questions.

2003-10-19 Thread mykhan
Dear All, I've setup vsftpd on my RH Linux 8.0 box. I've some questions I want to ask... Problem 1: ~~ When I connect to my FTP Server I get the following messages: 257 /home/rj TYPE A 200 ASCII tastes bad, dude. PORT 193,1,1,99,8,3 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV. LIST

Questions about system vs. user accounts...

2003-10-14 Thread Mike Klein
I've been locking down different parts of my server, specifically w/respect to certain services and the user they run under. I realize that it's best to run as a special user (i.e. nobody or account based on service name). I've noticed that system accounts (based upon login.defs) are generally

Re: Questions about system vs. user accounts...

2003-10-14 Thread Bret Hughes
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 21:45, Mike Klein wrote: I've been locking down different parts of my server, specifically w/respect to certain services and the user they run under. I realize that it's best to run as a special user (i.e. nobody or account based on service name). I've noticed that

Redhat 8 New User Questions

2003-10-13 Thread Real Cucumber
Hi there, I'm fairly new to Linux have two hopefully quick questions for Redhat8: 1. I've noticed the GUI in Linux is terribly slow compared to Windows, and my system doesn't seem to multitask in the GUI very well at all. For example, I can click on things and it takes quite a while before

Re: rpm questions? solved

2003-10-13 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, The advanced server rpm packages seems to have been currupted files. Thanks for the pointer to the files in /var/lib/rpm for the hanging rpm problem i had. Regards, 'Willem -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Redhat 8 New User Questions

2003-10-13 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 01:49 10/13/2003, you wrote: 2. Need some help setting up a simple DNS server using Bind/Named. I've tried to setup basic DNS service for a two computer network just for testing. I want to run testdomain.com on the redhat machine (192.168.0.1), and have a client XP machine (192.168.0.2) be

Re: Redhat 8 New User Questions

2003-10-13 Thread John Nichel
Real Cucumber wrote: Hi there, I'm fairly new to Linux have two hopefully quick questions for Redhat8: 1. I've noticed the GUI in Linux is terribly slow compared to Windows, and my system doesn't seem to multitask in the GUI very well at all. For example, I can click on things and it takes quite

rpm questions?

2003-10-10 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I have two rpm questions. 1. On redhat 9 by forcing installs etc. i got rpm to a state where it hung. With some difficulty i killed it. It now does not even want to do a query. I tried rebuilding the database with rpmdb --rebuilddb. It also seemed to hang, (I left it over night). What

Re: rpm questions?

2003-10-10 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:03:27 +0200 (SAST), Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two rpm questions. 1. On redhat 9 by forcing installs etc. i got rpm to a state where it hung. With some difficulty i killed it. It now does not even

Re: rpm questions?

2003-10-10 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:42:37 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: 2. We have a Redhat advance server. The administrator had not up to today activated the rhn_register/up2date setup. When he tried, he got the errors related to the ssl Certificate

VNC Questions

2003-10-08 Thread Kent Borg
I have been playing with VNC, but can't find a couple things. - When I put vncviewer in fullscreen mode, how do I get out? - To do desktop sharing for support, with the newbie sitting at a local computer and the support person sharing that same computer from afar, what is the cleanest

Questions regarding tripwire.

2003-10-07 Thread Edward Croft
Okay, I have been beating my head regarding tripwire. First off, let me thank Bret Hughes for his twpolclean.pl. That decreased my error count due to files not on the system. My question though has to do with the Change Time. I back up my systems every night and that appears to change a time. I

Re: Questions regarding tripwire.

2003-10-07 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 09:34:29 -0400, Edward Croft wrote: Okay, I have been beating my head regarding tripwire. First off, let me thank Bret Hughes for his twpolclean.pl. That decreased my error count due to files not on the system. My question

Shared user questions.....

2003-10-04 Thread bruce
Hi... Not sure where to turn for now, so we figured we'd ask the list... So.. a couple of basic issues/questions... If I set up a basic linux box, assume it's a 1GHz, 1GMem, 80GHD, how difficult is it to configure the box, so a given user can only access the files in his section of the hard

Re: Please help with apache upgrade questions

2003-09-30 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:25:43PM -0400, damovand wrote: Please note that I've never used up2date, or installed anything from rpm, being new to Linux, which is why I prefer to do a direct install. Please go visit rhn.redhat.com *now* and register for up2date. You should also visit

Re: Please help with apache upgrade questions

2003-09-30 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
On Monday 29 September 2003 08:53 pm, damovand wrote: On Monday 29 September 2003 09:10 pm, Bret Hughes wrote: snip I know how to follow instructions to install with rpm. My problem is 1) I don't what rpm's to run for apache upgrade and The RPM for apache is httpd. I believe the stock

Please help with apache upgrade questions

2003-09-29 Thread damovand
I am new to Linux, from an XP background, so please help if you can. I need to upgrade my apache from an older version to httpd-2.0.47. But I am wondering if I need to uninstall the older version and if so what's the best way of doing so. Can I just download the version from apach site and

Re: Please help with apache upgrade questions

2003-09-29 Thread Bret Hughes
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 18:25, damovand wrote: I am new to Linux, from an XP background, so please help if you can. I need to upgrade my apache from an older version to httpd-2.0.47. But I am wondering if I need to uninstall the older version and if so what's the best way of doing so. Can

Re: Please help with apache upgrade questions

2003-09-29 Thread damovand
. In answer to your questions, I am using RH 9.0 I am, unfortunately, the only who is attempting to upgrade and maintain Linux. I know how to follow instructions to install with rpm. My problem is 1) I don't what rpm's to run for apache upgrade and 2) if I don't know what rpm upgrade does

new linux user several questions

2003-09-29 Thread Jeff200123
i downloaded a rpm of winex and need to know how to use it how do i install the information on the three linux source code cds how do i get winex to allow me to play diablo 2 and counter-strike thx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

new linux user several questions

2003-09-29 Thread Jeff200123
i downloaded a rpm of winex and need to know how to use it how do i install the information on the three linux source code cds how do i get winex to allow me to play diablo 2 and counter-strike thx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

new linux user several questions

2003-09-29 Thread Edward Dekkers
i downloaded a rpm of winex and need to know how to use it how do i install the information on the three linux source code cds how do i get winex to allow me to play diablo 2 and counter-strike thx All the info you'll ever need is at http://www.transgaming.com/ Regards, Ed. -- redhat-list

Apache migration questions

2003-09-28 Thread damovand
Hello all, I hope this is the right question for this mailing list. I just upgraded from 7.2 to 9 and now apache has to be upgraded. I found a bunch of file under under /var/spool/up2date for apache (see the list below). But I'm not sure what to do with those files (new to Linux) so

Scripting questions

2003-09-24 Thread Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq
Hello Please help me with these basic scripting questions. How do you tell the path of the current directory? Is there an equivalent to the Left$ Right$ functions found in BASIC in Linux scripting? What I mean is how do you extract a given number of characters from the left or right

Re: Scripting questions

2003-09-24 Thread Volker Kroll
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 19:18, Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq wrote: Please help me with these basic scripting questions. In which language, do you plan to program? How do you tell the path of the current directory? in the bash it is pwd [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ pwd /home/kroll Is there an equivalent

Re: Scripting questions

2003-09-24 Thread Sean Estabrooks
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:18:36 + Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Please help me with these basic scripting questions. How do you tell the path of the current directory? Assuming you mean Bash scripting # echo $PWD Is there an equivalent to the Left$ Right

Re: Scripting questions

2003-09-24 Thread Nurullah Akkaya
correct me if i am wrong so you want to know where you are on the system rigth ? so u can use pwd command that will tell the exact place where you are.. -- Nurullah Akkaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #301438 What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to

Re: Scripting questions

2003-09-24 Thread Brenden T.
Abdussamad Abdurrazzaq wrote: Hello Please help me with these basic scripting questions. How do you tell the path of the current directory? Is there an equivalent to the Left$ Right$ functions found in BASIC in Linux scripting? What I mean is how do you extract a given number of characters

questions about building custom kernels.

2003-09-19 Thread Jack Lupton
I have never built a custom kernel before. In trying to follow the instructions under the RedHat Customization Guide I am not getting far. It starts out saying to copy the configuration file from /usr/src/linux-2.4/configs directory to the /usr/src/linux-2.4/.config. These directories are not

Re: Congrats on rh9 distr...but questions remain about choices made re: Apache/Samba

2003-09-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
Mike Klein wrote: Problem#1: Apache2 that you distribute doesn't seem to have apxs support enabled. Install httpd-devel. It's in there. Problem#2: Your Samba distribution was linked against ssl libraries (ldd shows this), yet for some reason all of the ssl params in smb.conf give errors to

yet another beginner questions

2003-09-17 Thread Renato Haber
Hi all! I have five really basic questions. Maybe in the logs, I can find my answers... But, still... :) 1. Mouse wheel on Eclipse. I already modified the setup of my X server (the spin of the wheel is interpreted as the push of the fourth or fifth mouse button): /etc/X11/XF86Config - Section

Congrats on rh9 distr...but questions remain about choices made re: Apache/Samba

2003-09-17 Thread Mike Klein
First thing, you have put out a great 'hardened' distribution with RedHat 9. About 90% of the reasons why I used to recompile/relink various apps (for ssl, krb, pam, ldap, etc.) are now eliminated because of your extra work. Good job. However, I have noticed (unless I'm mistaken) two glaring

Re: Congrats on rh9 distr...but questions remain about choices made re: Apache/Samba

2003-09-17 Thread Ian Mortimer
Problem#1: Apache2 that you distribute doesn't seem to have apxs support enabled. For this reason I needed to get apache src and rebuild. Not a problem doing this, but for others it might be. Plus, given that production sites will probably build from source anyways...why wasn't this included?

RE: RH9/samba questions

2003-09-15 Thread Nick Kishfy
] Subject: RH9/samba questions Hi all, Sorry if this is off-topic, but I am having a simple problem with mounting a networked file share with Samba. I am running RH 9.0 with all of the updates. I am trying to connect to the filestore that is part of our M$ Windoze 2000 network. I have

RE: RH9/samba questions

2003-09-15 Thread Jason Murray
] Subject: RE: RH9/samba questions Jason- It looks like you configuration is correct, I have a very similar setup running over here. You may want to take security out of the equation I would change the file to something like 644 because if Samba isn't running as root then it's not going to be able

RH9/samba questions

2003-09-12 Thread Jason Murray
Hi all, Sorry if this is off-topic, but I am having a simple problem with mounting a networked file share with Samba. I am running RH 9.0 with all of the updates. I am trying to connect to the filestore that is part of our M$ Windoze 2000 network. I have put an entry in my

Re: sendmail hostname and reverse dns questions

2003-09-08 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 00:22 9/8/2003 -0500, you wrote: Shorewall is setup to only allow ports 53, 80, 25, 123, 443 FYI, on the Shorewall site, in the contrib directory, there is a very simply Mini-HOWTO I wrote on using Portsentry in combination with Shorewall to dynamic, real-time blocking of Bad People [tm] who

Re: sendmail hostname and reverse dns questions

2003-09-08 Thread Steve Phillips
At 00:00 8/09/2003 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: [snippage] Maybe you can do it if reverse-round-robin-DNS exists, but so far as I know it doesn't and, in any case, you would get any name at random from that list for every request anyway, which is not what you want. Simply set the reverse DNS

RE: sendmail hostname and reverse dns questions

2003-09-08 Thread Cowles, Steve
Bret Hughes wrote: [snip] The first question I have is how can I get sendmail to use the name mail1 instead of webserver1. I was able to fix (workaround ) an error reported by dnsreport.com where it said that the host name in the greeting was not the same as that reported in dns

RE: sendmail hostname and reverse dns questions

2003-09-08 Thread Bret Hughes
On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 06:19, Cowles, Steve wrote: Bret Hughes wrote: [snip] The first question I have is how can I get sendmail to use the name mail1 instead of webserver1. I was able to fix (workaround ) an error reported by dnsreport.com where it said that the host name in the

Re: sendmail hostname and reverse dns questions

2003-09-08 Thread Bret Hughes
On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 05:17, Steve Phillips wrote: At 00:00 8/09/2003 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: [snippage] Maybe you can do it if reverse-round-robin-DNS exists, but so far as I know it doesn't and, in any case, you would get any name at random from that list for every request anyway,

Re: sendmail hostname and reverse dns questions

2003-09-08 Thread Bret Hughes
On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 01:00, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: At 00:22 9/8/2003 -0500, you wrote: Shorewall is setup to only allow ports 53, 80, 25, 123, 443 FYI, on the Shorewall site, in the contrib directory, there is a very simply Mini-HOWTO I wrote on using Portsentry in combination with

sendmail hostname and reverse dns questions

2003-09-07 Thread Bret Hughes
a couple of questions that several hours of googling have not answered to my satisfaction. Shorewall is setup to only allow ports 53, 80, 25, 123, 443 There is one nic with (currently ) 3 ipaddresses perhaps more to follow if he decides he wants to do ssl to more than one of the sites. The host

Two questions

2003-09-03 Thread Sasa Stupar
I am on RH8: I want to access to my second HDD but there is windowsxp installed. How do I mount it? How do I make a floppy bootdisk ? Sasa -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: spamassassin -- a couple of questions.

2003-08-31 Thread Robert C. Paulsen Jr.
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 01:39:04PM -0400, Jason Staudenmayer wrote: Maybe a RBL timeout. Try: rbl_timeout 3 pyzor_timeout 3 razor_timeout 5 It was the rbl_timeout causing the delay. Whatever I set it to, the delay is a fraction of a second longer. Thanks. -- Robert C. Paulsen,

spamassassin -- a couple of questions.

2003-08-30 Thread Robert C. Paulsen Jr.
Why does Spamassassin takes 30.6 seconds to process an email? Here is a section of my maillog: Aug 30 12:30:12 avalon fetchmail[597]: awakened at Sat 30 Aug 2003 12:30:12 PM CDT Aug 30 12:30:17 avalon fetchmail[597]: 1 message for robert at paulsenonline.net (830 octets). Aug 30 12:30:17

Re: spamassassin -- a couple of questions.

2003-08-30 Thread Robert C. Paulsen Jr.
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 12:37:05PM -0500, Robert C. Paulsen Jr. wrote: Why does Spamassassin takes 30.6 seconds to process an email? Here is a section of my maillog: Aug 30 12:30:12 avalon fetchmail[597]: awakened at Sat 30 Aug 2003 12:30:12 PM CDT Aug 30 12:30:17 avalon fetchmail[597]: 1

RE: spamassassin -- a couple of questions.

2003-08-30 Thread Jason Staudenmayer
Maybe a RBL timeout. Try: rbl_timeout 3 pyzor_timeout 3 razor_timeout 5 -Original Message- From: Robert C. Paulsen Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 1:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: spamassassin -- a couple of questions. Why does Spamassassin

Re: questions on /etc/fstab syntax

2003-08-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
David Eduardo Gomez Noguera wrote: 1. Cant mount interpret shell variables on fstab? No. I tried to tell it that samba credentials file for a mount are in their home directory, and that the mount point should be there too to no effect. Make smbmnt and smbumount SUID root, and users will be able

Re: questions on /etc/fstab syntax

2003-08-15 Thread Jason Dixon
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 08:28, David Eduardo Gomez Noguera wrote: Hello. I am having problems with the inhability of fstab (or of me) to handle this. 1. Cant mount interpret shell variables on fstab? I tried to tell it that samba credentials file for a mount are in their home directory, and

questions on /etc/fstab syntax

2003-08-15 Thread David Eduardo Gomez Noguera
Hello. I am having problems with the inhability of fstab (or of me) to handle this. 1. Cant mount interpret shell variables on fstab? I tried to tell it that samba credentials file for a mount are in their home directory, and that the mount point should be there too to no effect. 2. Cant it

Re: Thinking of switching to Linux (from Mac!) and have a few questions

2003-08-14 Thread Kent Borg
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 06:41:34PM +0900, Doug Lerner wrote: (2) Do Linux and most Intel-based notebook computers support multiple (external) monitors, either as a second monitor or as a mirrored monitor? I often give presentations and need to connect my notebook computer to a display

Re: Logrotate: 2 questions

2003-08-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
Keith Soares wrote: What happens is that each night a 4:02am it runs, but it seems to take a very long time to run and use a lot of resources. It shows up as using over 94% of the CPU time in Running Processes (Webmin). Plus to make matters worse, it doesnt complete before the next instance

Re: two basic questions

2003-08-14 Thread snort bsd
thanks --- Jonathan Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) what is manual command for deleting an ip address from an physical interface? tried ifconfig eth0 del xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and seemed that it doesn't have any effect. which file controls those interfaces? ifdown eth0 2) does

Xterm and other questions

2003-08-14 Thread fred pasteck
Hi, I have a few other questions as a new RH9 user that I hoped someone could help me answer. - I'd like to use the standard xterm and not the 'terminal' program. However, I'd like to have white-on-black instead of black-on-white. Is there a program that can be used to configure the xterm

RE: Logrotate: 2 questions

2003-08-14 Thread Jason Staudenmayer
the -HUP to the program that logs to the file. If that program hangs maybe that would cause logrotate to hang. -Original Message- From: Keith Soares [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 10:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Logrotate: 2 questions We have a RH Linux

Logrotate: 2 questions

2003-08-14 Thread Keith Soares
Title: Logrotate: 2 questions We have a RH Linux 7.3 web server that has what I believe to be a default setup of logrotate running each night. My first question is: what is the purpose of the default installation/setup of logrotate? What is it rotating? I ask because I am getting frustrated

Re: Xterm and other questions

2003-08-14 Thread James Gibbon
fred pasteck wrote: Hi, I have a few other questions as a new RH9 user that I hoped someone could help me answer. - I'd like to use the standard xterm and not the 'terminal' program. However, I'd like to have white-on-black instead of black-on-white. Is there a program that can be used

Re: Thinking of switching to Linux (from Mac!) and have a few questions

2003-08-14 Thread Javier Gostling
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 07:46:11AM +0900, Doug Lerner wrote: Does Linux = power mean that it is then possible? Of course. If the hardware allows it, then either there is software to tell the hardware to perform its magic incantations or you can write the software if there is not. Try doing that

Re: Thinking of switching to Linux (from Mac!) and have a few questions

2003-08-14 Thread R. McFarlane
At 02:41 AM 8/6/2003, Doug Lerner, had this to say : I am seriously thinking of switching from Mac OS X to Linux for several reasons. One is I just don't like being captive completely to one company for all my hardware and software. I like the freedom and choice available in Linux. I too find

Re: Thinking of switching to Linux (from Mac!) and have a few questions

2003-08-14 Thread Shawn
Japanese support in RedHad is pretty good (IMHO). Just make sure you include it at install time. If you have specific problem related to Japanese I suggest checking out the Tokyo Linux Users Group. http://www.tlug.jp There is a link to mutilingualization there or even better you could check

Re: Xterm and other questions

2003-08-14 Thread Nurullah Akkaya
if you check man xterm you can see that that are some commandline options for the things you need to configure -- Nurullah Akkaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #301438 What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. If at first an

New install questions

2003-08-11 Thread Jacob Tennant
I just installed RH9 and have a few minor questions. ***I am new to linux*** 1. I can not access the floppy drive? There is no reference to it anywhere. 2.My computer has a Microsoft MN-130 ethernet card for cable modem access to the internet, but under the configuration GUI it is not listed

Re: two basic questions

2003-08-10 Thread MKlinke
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 13:34, snort bsd wrote: two basic questions regarding linux networking: 1) what is manual command for deleting an ip address from an physical interface? tried ifconfig eth0 del xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and seemed that it doesn't have any effect. which file controls those

Re: two basic questions

2003-08-10 Thread fred pasteck
1) what is manual command for deleting an ip address from an physical interface? tried ifconfig eth0 del xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and seemed that it doesn't have any effect. which file controls those interfaces? ifconfig eth0 down For it to be permanent, check out

Re: Logrotate: 2 questions

2003-08-09 Thread Jason Dixon
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 10:15, Keith Soares wrote: We have a RH Linux 7.3 web server that has what I believe to be a default setup of logrotate running each night. My first question is: what is the purpose of the default installation/setup of logrotate? What is it rotating? I ask because I am

two basic questions

2003-08-08 Thread snort bsd
two basic questions regarding linux networking: 1) what is manual command for deleting an ip address from an physical interface? tried ifconfig eth0 del xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and seemed that it doesn't have any effect. which file controls those interfaces? 2) does route add eth0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx up take

Re: Thinking of switching to Linux (from Mac!) and have a few questions

2003-08-08 Thread Kent Borg
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 07:45:27AM +0900, Doug Lerner wrote: On 8/7/03 1:58 AM, Kent Borg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My old Sony notebook has an external monitor output connector, and it works fine under Red Hat Linux with no configuration required--except for a reboot to notice there is a

Re: two basic questions

2003-08-07 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
1) what is manual command for deleting an ip address from an physical interface? tried ifconfig eth0 del xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and seemed that it doesn't have any effect. which file controls those interfaces? ifdown eth0 2) does route add eth0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx up take effect permanently or i have

RE: Logrotate: 2 questions

2003-08-07 Thread Keith Soares
Your answer is dead-on correct - thank you so much! --- Keith Soares Bean Creative -Original Message- From: Gordon Messmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 10:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Logrotate: 2 questions Keith Soares wrote: What happens

Re: Thinking of switching to Linux (from Mac!) and have a few questions

2003-08-07 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 06:41:34PM +0900, Doug Lerner wrote: display projector. This is trivially easy with my Mac, and I was just wondering if it would be as easy with Linux? Of course not. Mac = easy, Linux = power. Different points of emphasis. -- Hal Burgiss -- redhat-list mailing

two basic questions

2003-08-06 Thread snort bsd
two basic questions regarding linux networking: 1) what is manual command for deleting an ip address from an physical interface? tried ifconfig eth0 del xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and seemed that it doesn't have any effect. which file controls those interfaces? 2) does route add eth0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx up take

Re: Thinking of switching to Linux (from Mac!) and have a few questions

2003-08-06 Thread Nurullah Akkaya
i got dell inspiron 2650 c which works fine for my day-to-day work it was about 999 including shipping and redhat support a lot of other languages then english but you have to check their page about japanese support 99 % they have it you can also check www.linux-laptop.net for lots of review on

Re: Thinking of switching to Linux (from Mac!) and have a few questions

2003-08-06 Thread Kent Borg
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 01:03:48PM -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote: On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 06:41:34PM +0900, Doug Lerner wrote: display projector. This is trivially easy with my Mac, and I was just wondering if it would be as easy with Linux? Of course not. Mac = easy, Linux = power. Different

RE: named/Bind8 questions

2003-07-31 Thread James Pifer
Thanks, I'll try that. Do you know if there are RPMs for bind 9 on Redhat 8.0? Been googling and the only one I've found is from Suse. Thanks, James On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 21:33, Cowles, Steve wrote: James Pifer wrote: Besides adding a second DNS server, is there any way for the DNS server

RE: named/Bind8 questions

2003-07-31 Thread Cowles, Steve
James Pifer wrote: Thanks, I'll try that. Do you know if there are RPMs for bind 9 on Redhat 8.0? Been googling and the only one I've found is from Suse. Can't help you there. If all else fails you can always download the bind9 source from isc.org and compile/install. I know!! Easier said

RE: named/Bind8 questions

2003-07-31 Thread James Pifer
Steve, Sorry, a couple more questions. I've been trying to find complete examples of the named.conf on the net and haven't found any. The man pages don't seem to go into much detail. Not sure how to modify mine. Below is my current named.conf. Does the example you sent go above, below

RE: named/Bind8 questions

2003-07-31 Thread Cowles, Steve
James Pifer wrote: Steve, Sorry, a couple more questions. I've been trying to find complete examples of the named.conf on the net and haven't found any. The man pages don't seem to go into much detail. Not sure how to modify mine. Below is my current named.conf. Does the example you sent go

RE: named/Bind8 questions

2003-07-31 Thread James Pifer
Steve. Thanks for the clarification and info. I am interested in your examples if you don't mind. James On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 11:32, Cowles, Steve wrote: James Pifer wrote: Steve, Sorry, a couple more questions. I've been trying to find complete examples of the named.conf on the net

Re: named/Bind8 questions

2003-07-31 Thread Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Pifer wrote: Thanks, I'll try that. Do you know if there are RPMs for bind 9 on Redhat 8.0? Been googling and the only one I've found is from Suse. Check your installation discs. Bind 9.2.1 is what ships with RedHat 8.0. - -- Todd

named/Bind8 questions

2003-07-30 Thread James Pifer
1) I have my own DNS server for my domains. I now have a branch office connection to my corporate office. At the office we have another internal domain. I still want to use my own DNS server on my network for my lookups, but need to also resolve machines on the corporate network. The next

RE: named/Bind8 questions

2003-07-30 Thread Cowles, Steve
James Pifer wrote: Besides adding a second DNS server, is there any way for the DNS server to respond to external requests (through the firewall) one way, and to respond to internal requests another? Yes, switch to using Bind 9 and then implement its view feature. then you can then run a

Questions using MRTG

2003-07-28 Thread Aeryn
Hola, I was wondering who has used MRTG to measure bandwidth usage on their server? I have it compiled and ready to be used, except I still have a few questions. How hard is it to setup snmp on the server? My box is a linux build. It hosts numerous Ips all through the eth0 interface, which has

Re: Questions using MRTG

2003-07-28 Thread Javier Gostling
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 01:28:39PM -0400, Aeryn wrote: Hola, I was wondering who has used MRTG to measure bandwidth usage on their server? I have it compiled and ready to be used, except I still have a few questions. How hard is it to setup snmp on the server? Not hard at all. Just check

Re: linux as router/firewall questions

2003-07-16 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 7/15/2003 22:17 -0500, you wrote: I would set up the linux box and get the dialup access working and then do the masq'ing of the 192.168 network. The pap or chap will depend on the requirements of your isp of course. Using Shorewall (http://www.shorewall.net) to do the firewall and

linux as router/firewall questions

2003-07-15 Thread Kirby Clements
I have a question with using linux as a router. Is it possible to have the router/firewall linux box connected to an actual phone line, where a 56K connection would be established, having the linux router dialout, establish a connection, and then provide that connect via a switch on the other

Re: linux as router/firewall questions

2003-07-15 Thread Richard Bewley
Hi, You shouldn't have any issues with dialup as opposed to a better line, as it is treated all the same. The only issue is you will need some PPP client to establish the connection with your modem. Once that is done, simply setup linux as a router as you would normally. It doesn't matter

Re: linux as router/firewall questions

2003-07-15 Thread Edward Dekkers
Kirby Clements wrote: I presume using diald, pppd, and either PAP or CHAP, both configured? Secondly, do windows boxes have any issues communicating with a linux router/firewall? The linux box used for this possible scenario is a mighty 200 MHZ with 64 RAM. There would be no X on the box,

Re: linux as router/firewall questions

2003-07-15 Thread Bret Hughes
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 21:23, Kirby Clements wrote: I have a question with using linux as a router. Is it possible to have the router/firewall linux box connected to an actual phone line, where a 56K connection would be established, having the linux router dialout, establish a connection,

Re: Dumb questions about Red Hat support/upgrade paths etc.

2003-07-13 Thread Lee Flier
Just wanted to thank you guys for answering my questions... my RH8.0--9 upgrade went perfectly. All of my previous settings appear to have been retained, and I'm quite impressed. Red Hat Network also recognized automatically that I had upgraded, and subscribed me to the RH9 channel. About

Dumb questions about Red Hat support/upgrade paths etc.

2003-07-12 Thread Lee Flier
Hi all - I am new to the Red Hat scene, and I'm a bit confused by the upgrade and support system. It's a bit hard to tell what's going on by looking at the web site. I originally purchased RH 8.0 and then subscribed to the Red Hat Network for a year. I've been getting the live updates as they

Re: Dumb questions about Red Hat support/upgrade paths etc.

2003-07-12 Thread gregory mott
On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 06:55, Lee Flier wrote: If it is in fact different, I also see that one can download the ISO images for 9.0 from RHN... however if I do that, and install 9.0 as an upgrade, will I then have access to the RH9 channel on RHN? Will RHN know that I have upgraded and will my

Re: Help, please- Evolution Questions

2003-07-12 Thread gregory mott
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 15:13, dch wrote: 1. Does anyone have 1.4 working RELIABLY with KDE? When I had it installed it would crash frequently. when i first installed 1.4 it crashed due to gconfd-1 still running, tho of course the reason was not immediately apparent. there are many other crashes

Re: Dumb questions about Red Hat support/upgrade paths etc.

2003-07-12 Thread Ed Wilts
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 01:55:46AM -0400, Lee Flier wrote: Hi all - I am new to the Red Hat scene, and I'm a bit confused by the upgrade and support system. It's a bit hard to tell what's going on by looking at the web site. I originally purchased RH 8.0 and then subscribed to the Red

Re: Dumb questions about Red Hat support/upgrade paths etc.

2003-07-12 Thread Lee Flier
On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 09:14, Ed Wilts wrote: Within a given release, like 8.0, Red Hat guarantees binary compatibility. That means that the primary focus for the Red Hat Network (RHN) is security patches, and not feature releases. Ah OK, that clarifies things quite a bit. It just

Re: Dumb questions about Red Hat support/upgrade paths etc.

2003-07-12 Thread Ed Wilts
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 11:07:26AM -0400, Lee Flier wrote: Also, if the kernel is updated using up2date, is it automatically recompiled or do I still have to do that? It's automatically recompiled. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community

Re: Dumb questions about Red Hat support/upgrade paths etc.

2003-07-12 Thread Edward Choi
If you are using up2date, everything will be done for you. Of course, you need to reboot for the new kernel. Cheers. On 12/07/03 11:07 -0400, Lee Flier wrote: On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 09:14, Ed Wilts wrote: Within a given release, like 8.0, Red Hat guarantees binary compatibility. That means

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