RE: commercial firewall

2002-03-16 Thread Patrick Beart
they're really good at smacking down bad traffic. Moreover, I'm happy that Netscreen CREATES IPSec, it doesn't just pass it on. My $0.02 Patrick Beart - > > > -Original Message- >> > From: Keith Morse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: how to create documents

2002-03-16 Thread Patrick Beart
At 10:06 PM -0500 3/13/02, Mike Burger wrote: > >From Microsoft word? > >Why not save the document as an HTML file? Because MS Word's current "export as HTML" function actually creates an XML document. Patrick Beart >On Wed, 13 Mar 2

RE: commercial firewall

2002-03-18 Thread Patrick Beart
At 1:25 AM -0500 3/17/02, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > >On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Patrick Beart wrote: > >I'm new to the whole "security" thing, but I've learned that >>a hardware appliance is better than software, if only for the fact that >>someone is

RE: commercial firewall

2002-03-19 Thread Patrick Beart
At 5:38 PM -0500 3/18/02, Mike Burger wrote: >On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Patrick Beart wrote: > > > >> >On Sat, 16 Mar 2002, Patrick Beart wrote: >> > >I'm new to the whole "security" thing, but I've learned that >> >>a hard

Remote X to server?

2002-03-20 Thread Patrick Beart
indow session the laptop doesn't get information coming BACK from the server. Anybody have success getting this kind of connection to work? Patrick Beart -- Web Architecture & "iWeb4Biz" 503-774-8280 P

Re: kernel blow up

2002-03-28 Thread Patrick Beart
several months, now. Note to all: Avoid ASUS motherboards in combination with Micron RAMM. I'm sure that they're fine by themselves. Just don't put them together! Patrick Beart >On Monday 25 March 2002 12:20 am, Ashley M. Kirchner pronounced: >&

Re: RH7.3 and Apache... problem with it not starting

2002-07-23 Thread Patrick Beart
type "apachectl configtest" at a command line prompt. Check "man apachectl" for more information. Good hunting! Patrick Beart -- Web Architecture & "iWeb4Biz" 503-774-8280 Portland, OR Internet Consu

Kernel compile and install issue

2002-07-23 Thread Patrick Beart
ror: "cp: writing /boot/linux_2.4.18-laptop' : No space left on device" This seems wrong/bogus. I'm only using just over half of my hard drive space, and I don't have any special partitioning of this directory, or the hard disk. Any suggestions? - Patrick B

Re: error

2002-08-13 Thread Patrick Beart
ing to Samsung RAM and no problems for nearly a year. WRITE THIS DOWN! ... ASUS motherboards don't like Micron RAM!!;-) Don't know if this info will help you, but it might help someone else. Good hunting. Patrick Beart - > >On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Ry

Netatalk and "libcrypto.so.0.9.6.1" dependency issue

2002-08-14 Thread Patrick Beart
brary file, instead of having to upgrade my entire OpenSSL package. I need to be able to network my Macs and my Thinkpad. Burning a CD-ROM to move data 18 inches seems like a serious waste of resources! -- Patrick Beart -- Web Architectu

Re: sound for an A30 thinkpad

2002-08-17 Thread Patrick Beart
x.htm . The fix is noted here:     http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/pnpbios.html Patrick Beart -- Web Architecture  &  "iWeb4Biz" 503-774-8280   Portland, OR Internet Consulting, Intelligent Web

Re: Error while initializing the sound driver:

2002-08-20 Thread Patrick Beart
dsp can't be opened (No such device) >The sound server will continue, using the null output device. > >Any suggestions to resolve this would be appreciated. I've posted on this twice in the last month or so. Please check the archives,

RPM's -- Now you see them, ...

2002-08-29 Thread Patrick Beart
from db->verify: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed [root@Faraday i386]# --- I also tried to install "Nano" (a Pico-like editor, that works better than Pico), and I'm getting the SAME database errors! Weird. ;

RPM's -- Now you see them, ...

2002-08-29 Thread Patrick Beart
te on page 3810 error: db3 error(-30985) from db->verify: DB_VERIFY_BAD: Database verification failed [root@Faraday i386]# --- I also tried to install "Nano" (a Pico-like editor, that works better than Pico), and I'm getting the SAME database errors! Weird. ;

Re: Whats in my kernel?

2002-08-29 Thread Patrick Beart
ere's a lot of questions to answer, via an "ncurses" screen. It's not hard, though. ;-) Patrick Beart -- Web Architecture & "iWeb4Biz" 503-774-8280 Portland, OR Internet Consulting, Intelligen

Symbolic linking - Question

2002-09-03 Thread Patrick Beart
er this link properly. I still get a "Parent Directory" screen when accessing "www.client.com/ABC/". What am I doing wrong?? Patrick Beart -- Web Architecture & "iWeb4Biz" 503-774-8280 Portland

Re: Symbolic linking - Question

2002-09-03 Thread Patrick Beart
>> >> What am I doing wrong?? > >You created the directory. Bad. Makes things not work as expected :-) > >Do the following: > > rm -r ABC > ln -s abc ABC > >Do this in the path that contains the "abc" directory.

Motherboard recommendations?

2002-09-04 Thread Patrick Beart
;-) I don't need anything over 1 Ghz in processor power, really, and I'm not considering any ASUS boards as I've already had troubles with one of those. Suggestions?? TIA Patrick Beart -- Web Architecture

Re: Motherboard recommendations?

2002-09-05 Thread Patrick Beart
ron RAMM!! Very bad combination that WILL make your reliable Linux box as bad or WORSE than a Windows NT server! Switching to Samsung RAMM solved my problem with the kernel panics and crashing. Seems that ASUS does something to the programming of the boards. Dunno what, exactly.

Program compile/install problem

2002-09-19 Thread Patrick Beart
[all-recursive] Error1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/me/nano-1.0.9' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 --- "make install" doesn't work, either, obviously. This is where the process stopped the first time. Any ideas about how to get thi

Re: Program compile/install problem

2002-09-19 Thread Patrick Beart
At 5:12 PM -0600 9/19/02, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: >Patrick Beart wrote: > >> nano.h:45:21: curses.h: No such file or directory > > You don't have the [n]curses headers installed. > Ah,... OK ... did I miss an RPM, or something? How do I get this w

Re: New Install Boot Problem

2002-09-19 Thread Patrick Beart
7;d recommend looking at a hardware problem. Could be RAMM, motherboard, CD-ROM, etc. Patrick Beart -- Web Architecture & "iWeb4Biz" 503-774-8280 Portland, OR Internet Consulting, Intelligent Web site Development & S

Re: Program compile/install problem

2002-09-19 Thread Patrick Beart
At 5:12 PM -0600 9/19/02, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: >Patrick Beart wrote: > >> nano.h:45:21: curses.h: No such file or directory > > You don't have the [n]curses headers installed. > That's very strange. :-/ I re-downloaded the ncurse

Re: Program compile/install problem

2002-09-19 Thread Patrick Beart
At 10:00 PM -0600 9/19/02, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: >Patrick Beart wrote: > >> I re-downloaded the ncurses RPM (ncurses-5.2-12.i386) and >> installed it (again?). Did a "find / -name ncurses*" query and STILL >> can't find "curses.h" a

Re: Installed 7.3 howto stop xwindows?

2002-09-24 Thread Patrick Beart
:-) > >vi /etc/inittab. Change initdefault from 5 to 3 (at the top, right >below the comments). ... and BTW, it's "X Window", NOT "X WindowS" (singular, never plural). I hear people make this error all of the time.

Linux Networking Books??

2002-09-24 Thread Patrick Beart
quot;definitive" book on Linux Networking, or at the very least, everyone's top 3 choices. Special considerations for any tome that can be read and understood by a relative novice. Any suggestions or staunch recommendations?

Re: Shutdown from initlevel 4

2002-09-26 Thread Patrick Beart
gt;initlevel 4 without thrashing the file system? Have you tried running initlevel 6 from the console? Initlevel 6 IS a shutdown mode. Doesn't "exit" work from runlevel(init) 4?? Patrick Beart -- Web Architectur

Re: RH 7.2: DNS / hosts

2002-10-01 Thread Patrick Beart
ndmail still resolves the hostname to the external IP. Any ideas what needs >to happen so that sendmail resolves the mail server hostname to the internal >IP, not the external one? Just a thought ... Have you tried an MX record in named's zone file for that do

Find screen resolution and depth - TEXT mode

2002-10-01 Thread Patrick Beart
select your root window. Ancillary question: What can be done to change the screen resolution (font size) when NOT in X? (e.g. init level 3, or text mode). The suggestions, thus far, seem to involve X Window changes. Patrick Beart -- -

Re: Find screen resolution and depth - TEXT mode

2002-10-02 Thread Patrick Beart
At 3:51 PM -0700 10/2/02, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: >On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Patrick Beart wrote: > >> Ancillary question: What can be done to change the screen >> resolution (font size) when NOT in X? (e.g. init level 3, or text mode). > >SVGATextMode (8)

Re: FTP Server

2002-10-03 Thread Patrick Beart
At 8:46 AM -0400 10/3/02, Thomas Amen wrote: >Yes, have went though several different variations of firewall setup >including disabling the firewall all together. Then it could be a DNS issue. Check your zone file(s). >>From: Nick Lindsell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Installing Windows Ontop of Linux

2002-10-03 Thread Patrick Beart
er (Windows as a VM). 1 GB for Swap is WAY too much!. The old rule of thumb used to be twice your physical RAM. However, if you have more than 500 MB of RAM, you can all but forget about swap. I'd give it matching RAM, but no more. (i.e. if your physical RAM is 512 MB, then make s

Re: the ^ symbol

2002-10-22 Thread Patrick Beart
that appears above the key to the left of the number 1 on your keyboard (under the "esc" key). THAT symbol (the REAL tilde) is " ~ ". The "caret" is the symbol for the "control" character. Patrick Beart -- -

Re: kernel 2.4.9-31?

2002-11-02 Thread Patrick Beart
nks > send you to RHSA-2002-205.html to get the newer 2.4.18. Odd-numbered kernels are development kernels, not stable releases. This is likely why you can't get it. Patrick Beart -- Web Architecture & "iWeb4Biz"

Re: Choice of VPN

2002-11-22 Thread Patrick Beart
gh or low. Patrick Beart -- Web Architecture & "iWeb4Biz" 503-774-8280 Portland, OR Internet Consulting, Intelligent Web site Development & Secure site Hosting. http://www.WebArchitecture.com/ "This is an

Re: Xircom XE5600 With RedHat Linux v7.2

2002-05-02 Thread Patrick Beart
n. Look to see if a driver is listed for that card, then reboot. Worked for me, anyway. YMMV Patrick Beart -- Web Architecture  &  "iWeb4Biz" 503-774-8280   Portland, OR Internet Consulting, Intell

Re: Well poop

2002-05-02 Thread Patrick Beart
find the information that I'm looking for? I know that these lists can get very casual - and I really like some of the amusing off-hand comments - but more often than not, I don't want to READ hundreds or thousands of E-mail posts to find the solution to my RH-related problem

RE: Best Firewall ?

2002-05-06 Thread Patrick Beart
here is no "best" firewall - only what's "best" for you. YMMV ;-) Patrick Beart -- Web Architecture & "iWeb4Biz" 503-774-8280 Portland, OR Internet Consulting, Intelligent Web site Developmen

Re: Hacked again...

2002-05-06 Thread Patrick Beart
k. I don't have the >tools/experience to track him down, find out how he got in, and plug >the holes. >I just install what Red Hat sends and hope it works. New word: "Firewall". Get one. I recommend the appliance variety, rather than using firewall sof

Re: minimum ram required for install?

2002-05-06 Thread Patrick Beart
(with 64 MB of RAM). I then added a 128 MB chip to the unit, and performed the same test, with the same command. Result: 9 seconds! Conclusion: Buy More RAM!! ;-) Patrick Beart -- Web Architecture & "iWeb4Biz"

Re: Splitting hairs, again (was Re: Hacked again...)

2002-05-06 Thread Patrick Beart
At 3:33 PM -0400 5/6/02, Mike Burger wrote: >On Mon, 6 May 2002, Patrick Beart wrote: > > >I recommend the appliance variety, rather than using firewall > > software(*). > > > Patrick Beart >> >> (*) Mensa members and other hair-splitters: "

Re: Hacked again...

2002-05-06 Thread Patrick Beart
E-mail, and let me follow up on the attack. Trouble was that the originating IP address was "netsol.com" (obviously spoofed), so I couldn't setup a new rule to block traffic from this IP. Patrick Beart -- Web Architecture

Re: Hacked again... (more rehash)

2002-05-09 Thread Patrick Beart
t same system. Nor should they be responsible for making any necessary updates or "patches" for free, when found. Just my rigid opinion. Feel free to disregard it, entirely.;-) Patrick Beart -- Web Architecture & "iWeb4Biz"

Security: Separation of Services

2002-05-13 Thread Patrick Beart
and Secondary DNS Box #3 -- Backup (or occasional Anonymous FTP) Any thoughts about this arrangement or suggestions for a better mix? Patrick Beart -- Web Architecture & "iWeb4Biz" 503-774-8280

Parenthetical dilemma ...

2002-05-16 Thread Patrick Beart
the entire (short) description. Nowhere was the "(1)" used. Moreover, trying "man hostname(1)" throws an error. What gives? I often HATE being a Linux newbie. Anybody care to help me salve my ego, here? TIA Patrick Beart --

RH 7.2 & sound issue

2002-05-20 Thread Patrick Beart
Folks: I know this has been touched upon (or even answered) before, but I still have a problem ... at boot up (Enigma), I get the sound server "Informational" alert that there was a problem initializing the sound driver. Device "/dev/dsp can't be opened (no such device)", blah

Re(2): RH 7.2 & sound issue

2002-05-20 Thread Patrick Beart
At 9:24 PM -0500 5/20/02, ABrady wrote: >On Mon, 20 May 2002 18:38:55 -0700 >Patrick Beart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ...snip... > > at boot up (Enigma), I get the sound server "Informational" > > alert that there was a problem initializing th

File Sharing between Mac and RH

2002-06-14 Thread Patrick Beart
erNet" them from one machine to another. However, this is a waste of time and resources ($). Suggestions?? TIA Patrick Beart -- Web Architecture & "iWeb4Biz" 503-774-8280 Portland, OR Internet Consultin

Crack RPM?

2002-06-20 Thread Patrick Beart
Folks: Is there an RPM for "Crack" (v. 5.0+), or do I need to make one, myself, from the tarball? (ftp://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/) TIA Patrick Beart -- Web Architecture & "iWeb4Biz" 503-774

Re: AW: HOWTO : skip the login/password at run level 3 ?

2002-07-03 Thread Patrick Beart
et up this run level to run with no services so that it boots up in about 15 seconds. No waiting for a long boot up and shutdown with people in line behind him. Clever, if you ask me.;-) Patrick Beart -- Web Architecture & "i

Re: Ftp Login

2002-07-03 Thread Patrick Beart
would add that there is no such thing as "Linux 5.0", as the Linux kernel is 2.4.X-x. I realize that my statement isn't helpful. However, this is an area (E-mail list) that insists upon a certain amount of accuracy and detail. Patrick Beart -- ---

No Sound on Thinkpad 600 w/RH 7.2 - SOLVED

2002-07-04 Thread Patrick Beart
x is noted here: http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/pnpbios.html --> The question IS: Can I upgrade my kernel version for RH 7.2 without breaking stuff?? Patrick Beart -- Web Architecture & "iWeb4Biz" 503-

No Sound on Thinkpad 600 w/RH 7.2 - SOLVED

2002-07-05 Thread Patrick Beart
x is noted here: http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/pnpbios.html --> The question IS: Can I upgrade my kernel version for RH 7.2 without breaking stuff?? Patrick Beart -- Web Architecture & "iWeb4Biz" 503-

Re: (no subject) a.k.a What kernel for 7.2

2002-07-10 Thread Patrick Beart
ckages section on https://rhn.redhat.com. > >You could upgrade to 7.3 for a later kernel. Why can't a kernel version BEYOND 2.4.9-34 be used with RH 7.2?? There is a stable version to at least 2.4.18-3. Has anybody run this kernel version with RH 7.2?? Patrick Bear

Re: /dev/dsp can't open

2002-07-18 Thread Patrick Beart
ection of this page: http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/tp600lnx.htm . The fix is noted here: http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/pnpbios.html Patrick Beart -- Web Architecture & "iWeb4Biz" 503-774-8280