Re: Files in /proc

2000-07-21 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Mike Williams wrote: Sorry, I can't help here, but you'll likely get a much better answer reposting the question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hope this helps.. TTYL -- Mike A. Harris Linux advocate Computer Consultant

TCP buffer size

2000-07-21 Thread Ted Fernando
In Linux 5.2 the max send and receive buffer size for TCP is 64k using the GETSOCKOPT and SETSOCKOPT commands. My program is going to require a larger buffer size, is there a way to increase the buffer size beyond 64k in Linux 5.2? Rh5,2 doesn't seem to support the setsocopt(so_rcvbuf)

rawhide rpm(the utility) problem

2000-07-21 Thread Barry Smoke
Here's the gist of what i'm trying to do. I have a nvidia geforce256-2 I want to get it workingso I have found XFree86-4.0.1 off of redhat's rawhide( I tried Mandrake's 4.0, but it didn't work...) I can't rebuild the source rpm, because it requires the new rpm(the package) from

Re: clock error/system unstable now

2000-07-21 Thread Gregory Hosler
On 21-Jul-00 Lee Johnson wrote: Kevin Hancock wrote: On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Lee Johnson wrote: Your clock is wrong and some things were not compiled? Every time my clock is behind the last compile time I get those errors. Just reset the time to current time and recompile. Works for me.

Re: linksys etherfast+modem

2000-07-21 Thread Hidong Kim
Thanks, Bret. I'll give it a try. Hidong Bret Hughes wrote: Hidong Kim wrote: Hi, I have an ibm thinkpad with a linksys pcmlm56 etherfast+modem pcmcia card. When I initially installed red hat 6.1 on the system a few weeks ago, the linksys was detected automatically and

imap flooded

2000-07-21 Thread Steve Lee
when four connection to the imap servers are made. the system drops out for 10 minutes because it thinks its being flooded when it is not. is there a setting for imap to accept around 40 connections without stopping connections. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as

RAID issues in 6.x

2000-07-21 Thread Lee Howard
Where did the linux-raid mailing list go? Is anybody else with software RAID on their 6.x systems seeing the following in their /var/log/dmesg logs? (It also appears in messages log.) request_module[md-personality-2]: Root fs not mounted do_md_run() returned -22 I've seen this personally on

Re: imap flooded

2000-07-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Steve Lee wrote: when four connection to the imap servers are made. the system drops out for 10 minutes because it thinks its being flooded when it is not. is there a setting for imap to accept around 40 connections without stopping connections. It should accept 40

Background Process by Ampersand

2000-07-21 Thread SoloCDM
While I was in X, I started a background process with an ampersand. When I left X, the process was terminated. How can I keep the process running without the dependency of the terminal? Note: Detailed Document(s) and Sample(s) are more than welcome! When you reply to this message, please

NAT

2000-07-21 Thread kapil sharma
Can anybody explain me what is NAT? Please send me some resources to read about NAT? Thank you kapil -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

sendmail queue mode

2000-07-21 Thread Vikram Vaswani
Hi! I would like to configure sendmail to queue messages which are not to be delivered locally ie messages that are directed to the "smart relay" host in sednmail.cf should be queued while others should be delivered immediately. Is there a way to do this? Please CC your response to [EMAIL

Redhat and DSL

2000-07-21 Thread Nigel Trivass
Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me help a colleague in the US, with the setting up of a small networkusing the following: PC [win98], NT server, Redhat server, a hub, a router and DSL None of the above are currently networked together. We have purchased one fixed IP address from

Re: Background Process by Ampersand

2000-07-21 Thread Thomas R. Shannon
man nohup On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 05:05:33 -0600 you wrote: While I was in X, I started a background process with an ampersand. When I left X, the process was terminated. How can I keep the process running without the dependency of the terminal? Note: Detailed Document(s) and Sample(s)

CD Duplication

2000-07-21 Thread Jamin Collins
Does Linux have support for 1:1 CD duplication? I have successfully duplicated some CD's under Linux using cdrecord program. However, cdrecord appears to have some difficulty with certain CD formats such as SafeDisc. What I'm really looking for is a true 1:1 duplication (AFAIK most duplicators

Re: NAT

2000-07-21 Thread Wayne Dyer
kapil sharma wrote: Can anybody explain me what is NAT? Please send me some resources to read about NAT? Network Address Translation. I searched Yahoo for "NAT translation" (no quotes). Here are a few links that looked good: http://www.whatis.com/nat.htm

RE: Background Process by Ampersand

2000-07-21 Thread Ward William E PHDN
Man NOHUP -Original Message- From: SoloCDM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 7:06 AM To: Red Hat-List (redhat-list-request) Cc: recipient.list.not.shown; @nswcphdn.navy.mil Subject: Background Process by Ampersand While I was in X, I started a background process

Re: clock error/system unstable now

2000-07-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Lee Johnson wrote: another reply thanks so much.. in as much as i can't get back to desktop will this work?..reset time?..sorry you're talking to newbie more or less anyway reset time huh?..done how? remember i can't get past that command line prompt ( bash)

Re: NAT

2000-07-21 Thread Abigaíl Anzola
NAT = IP-Masquerading Abigaíl Anzola ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ... da más fuerza saberse amado, que saberse fuerte: La certeza del amor, cuando existe, nos hace invulnerables. Goethe

Re: Background Process by Ampersand

2000-07-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, SoloCDM wrote: While I was in X, I started a background process with an ampersand. When I left X, the process was terminated. How can I keep the process running without the dependency of the terminal? Try prepending "nohup" such as "nohup ping www.yahoo.com." I just

Re: NAT

2000-07-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, kapil sharma wrote: Can anybody explain me what is NAT? Please send me some resources to read about NAT? NAT == Network Address Translation. It's a good, cheap way to keep people from directly accessing your system. i.e. you have a 192.168.0.x address on your system, and

RE: NAT

2000-07-21 Thread Jamin Collins
NAT stands for Network Address Translation. There are several good resources for NAT information, I would suggest: IPCHAINS-HOWTO http://www.linux.org/help/ldp/howto/IPCHAINS-HOWTO.html IP-Masquerade-HOWTO http://www.linux.org/help/ldp/howto/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.html Both of these are very good

Re: Need help with multi-homed system

2000-07-21 Thread Brian
echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward brian On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone! I've been given the great task of building and configuring a linux system to do IP masquerading and mail forwarding to our exchange server. I've got two network cards in my linux box

Re: Background Process by Ampersand

2000-07-21 Thread Bret Hughes
SoloCDM wrote: While I was in X, I started a background process with an ampersand. When I left X, the process was terminated. How can I keep the process running without the dependency of the terminal? nohup command args -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as

Re: Redhat and DSL

2000-07-21 Thread Bret Hughes
Nigel Trivass wrote: Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me help a colleague in the US, with the setting up of a small networkusing the following: PC [win98], NT server, Redhat server, a hub, a router and DSL None of the above are currently networked together. We have purchased one

RE: CD Duplication

2000-07-21 Thread Jeff Graves
Your reader must be able to read sub-data and your recorded needs to support raw-writing. After that I think cdrecord will work. Or maybe use mkisofs and then cdrecord. -Original Message- From: Jamin Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 9:02 AM To: '[EMAIL

RE: Redhat and DSL

2000-07-21 Thread Jamin Collins
There are a few different ways to do what you are looking for. From my point of view the easiest would be to set either the Red Hat or NT system up as a NAT router connected to the DSL modem. Then with an additional NIC form a local network connect it with the rest of the machines. With proper

X startup (xdm) error

2000-07-21 Thread paul almquist
hi redhatters -- I was playing with lizardx from caldera on my redhat system and it messed up some X things. Fixed one problem (it created an XF86config in /etc which X found before the real one in /etc/X11). X runs ok if I boot to runlevel 3 and use startx. Booting to run level 5 I get the

telnet to tty3?

2000-07-21 Thread Jeff Williamson
I'm trying to telnet to a Linux box on my local network, and then switch to tty3 on that box, where a logging screen is being generated. Is this possible? Thanks Jeff -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: [OT] NAT

2000-07-21 Thread Bret Hughes
Wayne Dyer wrote: Caution: Cape does not enable user to fly. Bummer -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

[OT] Sun MicroSystems Workstations.

2000-07-21 Thread Manuel A. Camacho Q.
Hi! I want to get a Sun Workstation (second hand). I plan using it as an engineering workstation, mostly CAD and math software. As I have never used one before, I have some basic questions. I looked some on the net, but I did not seem to see any with CD-ROM and/or floppy. Can this workstations

Re: sendmail queue mode

2000-07-21 Thread Chuck Mead
On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 06:19:09PM +0518, Vikram Vaswani was heard to say: Hi! I would like to configure sendmail to queue messages which are not to be delivered locally ie messages that are directed to the "smart relay" host in sednmail.cf should be queued while others should be delivered

RE: Redhat and DSL

2000-07-21 Thread Nigel Trivass
Thanks very much Bret - I'll give this a go on Monday. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 July 2000 15:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Redhat and DSL Nigel Trivass wrote: Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me help a colleague in the

RE: Redhat and DSL

2000-07-21 Thread Nigel Trivass
Thanks very much Jamin, I'll be in touch on Monday. -Original Message- From: Jamin Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 July 2000 15:09 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Redhat and DSL There are a few different ways to do what you are looking for. From my point of view the

Re: CD Duplication

2000-07-21 Thread Adam Sleight
Are you referring to copying playstation and pc games reporting bloated file sizes, etc.? Something like WinCDR..using .bin stuff. I wouldn't know then But another comment is I only resort to EasyCD under Windoze when I want to blow more than 5 cds at once since I can specify multiple

Re: [OT] Sun MicroSystems Workstations.

2000-07-21 Thread Rick Forrister
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I want to get a Sun Workstation (second hand). I plan using it as an engineering workstation, mostly CAD and math software. As I have never used one before, I have some basic questions. I looked some on the net, but I did not seem to see any with CD-ROM and/or

Re: Services/ports/init.d etc.. (not /etc :-)

2000-07-21 Thread Roy Harrison
This is an easy one. You are looking for the identd program. It is started from /etc/rc.d/init.d/identd (Actualy the symlinks to it...) From man identd: identd operates by looking up specific TCP/IP connections and returning the user name of the process owning the con-

Help figuring out a weird UPS problem

2000-07-21 Thread Gary Nielson
I recently bought an APC Backup UPS Pro 650 for my Pentium III 600, with 2 20 gig internal IDE hard drives, a CD-RW drive, 256 megs of RAM and an internal 56Kbps V.90 PCI modem. I am running RedHat 6.2 and APC's powerchuteplus-4_5_2-1_i386.rpm with a special cable provided by APC to run between

Re: Need help with multi-homed system

2000-07-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been given the great task of building and configuring a linux system to do IP masquerading and mail forwarding to our exchange server. For mail forwarding, is sounds like you're using sendmail. I'd recommend qmail for that function, instead.

Can 'Intel Netport-II Print Server' be used with Linux ?

2000-07-21 Thread John Kennedy
I inherited an 'Intel Netport-II Print Server' and I am wondering if any of you have had experience using it with Linux/tcp-ip ? Will it work? How? Anything special to know about? Thanks in advance for your help. Johnny

RE: CD Duplication

2000-07-21 Thread Jamin Collins
CD's that use the SafeDisc protection are, for the most part, PC game CDs. I like to have a backup of all my CDs just in case something happens. The problem is that if you try to make an image of one of these CDs using the "dd" command it just fails. I have not found a way to consistently

Re: Background Process by Ampersand

2000-07-21 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On 21 Jul 2000 13:05 SoloCDM wrote: While I was in X, I started a background process with an ampersand. When I left X, the process was terminated. How can I keep the process running without the dependency of the terminal? man nohup -- Anthony E. Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sendmail queue mode

2000-07-21 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On 21 Jul 2000 15:01 Vikram Vaswani wrote: I would like to configure sendmail to queue messages which are not to be delivered locally ie messages that are directed to the "smart relay" host in sednmail.cf should be queued while others should be delivered immediately. Is there a way to do this?

remote control for PPP connection

2000-07-21 Thread Mark Ivey
Hi, Let me ask my question first, then explain the background: How can I control Computer A's PPP connection from Computer B (they are connected by ethernet)? I have a computer running as a gateway for my network and I want to be able to control the connection remotely. I tried just using the

Re: Services/ports/init.d etc.. (not /etc :-)

2000-07-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Roy Harrison wrote: Thanks Mikkel Are there any security reasons to close this ? Are you doing something which would require authentication using "ident"? If not, close it. My understanding is there are exploits for "ident" involving buffer over-runs, etc.

Re: Need help with multi-homed system

2000-07-21 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On 21 Jul 2000 15:26 Brian wrote: echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward brian Better to edit /etc/sysconfig/network to add: FORWARD_IPV4=yes Then restart the network: /etc/rc.d/initd/network restart That way the change will be preserved when you reboot. -- Anthony E. Greene [EMAIL

Re: remote control for PPP connection

2000-07-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Mark Ivey wrote: How can I control Computer A's PPP connection from Computer B (they are connected by ethernet)? Look on freshmeat.net for "masqdialer" MSG -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Help figuring out a weird UPS problem

2000-07-21 Thread Julian Thomas
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 07/21/2000 at 02:08 PM, Gary Nielson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Suspecting that perhaps there was a conflict between the modem and the cable running from thte UPS to the serial port, I disconnected the cable from both sources and tried my brutal test again with the

Re: Need help with multi-homed system

2000-07-21 Thread Rick Knebel
On 21 Jul 2000 15:26 Brian wrote: echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward brian Better to edit /etc/sysconfig/network to add: FORWARD_IPV4=yes Then restart the network: /etc/rc.d/initd/network restart That way the change will be preserved when you reboot. -- Anthony E. Greene [EMAIL

Re: Scanner setup help needed

2000-07-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Jerry Human wrote: I have just purchased an IBM IdeaScan flatbed scanner, model # M/T 0275-RR2. Does anyone else have one working in RH 6.2? Was it difficult to setup? Where can I find RH 6.2 docs/progs for it? Scanner access under Linux is generally handled with SANE

Using Solaris binaries on Linux

2000-07-21 Thread Brian Wright
Is it possible to run Solaris binaries under Linux? I know that M$ IE and Windoze Media Player are out for Solaris, but would like to use these under Linux. Thanks, Brian -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Still having network problems in 6.2

2000-07-21 Thread redhat
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 10:32:48AM -0400, Jeff Graves wrote: I am no expert but on Big Brother I saw this web notice. Perhaps it is worth trying. Note RedHat 6.1 users ping = on 6.1 is broken, get www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/redhat/6.0/i386/netkit-base-0.10-29.i386.html a working

Re: Using Solaris binaries on Linux

2000-07-21 Thread Alan Mead
At 04:38 PM 7/21/00 , you wrote: Is it possible to run Solaris binaries under Linux? I know that M$ IE and Windoze Media Player are out for Solaris, but would like to use these under Linux. I don't know. I've only heard great things about vmware (except that it's slow). -Alan -- To

library help

2000-07-21 Thread Larry Mintz
Which library contains libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 and where can I get it? I am trying to upgrade qt and I don't have this library I have libstdc++-2.9.0.30 Larry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Scanner setup help needed

2000-07-21 Thread Adam Sleight
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:34:48 -0700 (PDT) Gordon Messmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #EPP is available, sure. Usually, you set this option in your BIOS, often #under "Integrated Peripherals". I don't know all of the details about #EPP, ECP, and SPP, but EPP allows the printer to talk back to the

Re: telnet to tty3?

2000-07-21 Thread Sam Bayne
Jeff Williamson wrote: I'm trying to telnet to a Linux box on my local network, and then switch to tty3 on that box, where a logging screen is being generated. Is this possible? Um, if I understand what you're saying, not exactly. However, you could set the logging to log to a file, then

Netscape's Xresources?

2000-07-21 Thread Anthony E . Greene
Where can I find a list of the Xresources settings that Netscape accepts? -- Anthony E. Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/ PGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D Linux. The choice of a GNU Generation. http://www.linux.org/ -- To

Re: Netscape's Xresources?

2000-07-21 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 02:15:48AM +0200, Anthony E . Greene wrote: Where can I find a list of the Xresources settings that Netscape accepts? [hal@feenix hal]$ locate Netscape.ad /usr/doc/netscape-common-4.73/Netscape.ad -- Hal B [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: clock error/system unstable now (fwd)

2000-07-21 Thread Lee Johnson
If you can revert to your previous linux kernel, do it. The docs are old, there's no real need to recompile your kernel these days. Try searching the archives of this list either on deja.com or moongroup.com. Directions for setting up CDRW without recompiling have been posted a couple

Re: Need help setting up Redhat as a dial on demand router

2000-07-21 Thread Bret Hughes
Bill Sandiford wrote: Help : I need a hand (or point in the right direction) for setting up redhat as a dial on demand router. I already have the ppp connection configured and working properly. What I need to do is figure out how to make it automatically dial when it receives traffic

Use of RAM disk and rename a directory

2000-07-21 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all people, Kindly assist me to understand the use of RAM disk and its creation. Also the easy way to rename a directory, Thanks in advance. Stephen -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Help figuring out a weird UPS problem

2000-07-21 Thread Billy R. Nordyke Sr.
Hi Gary, Weird things happen with lightning. If you can try another modem before going bonkers. Bill On Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:08:32 -0400 (EDT) Gary Nielson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I recently bought an APC Backup UPS Pro 650 for my Pentium III 600, with 2 20 gig internal IDE hard

Carrier Errors on NIC

2000-07-21 Thread Wayne Dyer
Recently I've noticed that one of my nics (D-Link tulip-based card) is showing a good number of errors, and all of them are indicated as carrier errors: Examples from ifconfig: TX packets:1483 errors:68 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:68 I changed from the de4x5.o module to the tulip.o module,

Help with RPM in Redhat 6.2

2000-07-21 Thread Lance Spence
Hello, Can someone please help me with a problem I'm having in trying to upgrade 98% of any RPM package? I have Redhat 6.2 and every time I try to upgrade a package I receive the following error: only packages with major numbers = 3 are supported by this version of RPM. This happens on just

Re: Help figuring out a weird UPS problem

2000-07-21 Thread Gary Nielson
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Julian Thomas wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 07/21/2000 at 02:08 PM, Gary Nielson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Suspecting that perhaps there was a conflict between the modem and the cable running from thte UPS to the serial port, I disconnected the cable from both

Re: Help figuring out a weird UPS problem

2000-07-21 Thread Manuel A. Camacho Q.
hog are internal modems. I know nothing about this. Would it be reasonable or unreasonable to expect a Pentium III 600 with 2 internal hard drives, a CD-RW drive, a modem and a monitor to exceed 420 watts? I did not know that internal modems are notorious power hogs. Monitors need plenty of

Need help setting up Redhat as a dial on demand router

2000-07-21 Thread Bill Sandiford
Help : I need a hand (or point in the right direction) for setting up redhat as a dial on demand router. I already have the ppp connection configured and working properly. What I need to do is figure out how to make it automatically dial when it receives traffic headed for the internet on