[SLUG] I am having TELNET problem in RedHat Linux 7.2

Dear friends, I have two DELL machines both running RedHat Linux 7.2 connected to each other by a crossover cable. I can ping one from the other other without any problem. But I can not telnet to the telnet server from either one. I modified the file in /etc/xinet.d/telnet where disalbe=no and

Re: [SLUG] I am having TELNET problem in RedHat Linux 7.2

have you checked /etc/hosts.allow? i'm not sure what RH default is. On Mon, 27 May 2002, Upendra wrote: Dear friends, I have two DELL machines both running RedHat Linux 7.2 connected to each other by a crossover cable. I can ping one from the other other without any problem. But I can

Re: [SLUG] I am having TELNET problem in RedHat Linux 7.2

Quite possibly, while installing Redhat, you chose to set up a firewall.. Try running firewall-config and turning all the firewalling off... On Mon, 27 May 2002, David wrote: have you checked /etc/hosts.allow? i'm not sure what RH default is. On Mon, 27 May 2002, Upendra wrote: Dear

Re: [SLUG] I am having TELNET problem in RedHat Linux 7.2

make sure the silly redhat firewall allows telnet connections...this is usually configured at installation time. maybe try /etc/rc.d/init.d/ipchains stop (or iptables, but i'm sure the redhat firewall uses ipchains by default) - Original Message - From: Upendra [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

[SLUG] ask include file(redefinition)

Dear List : I got one driver . I cant make it for such an error--"redefinition of ssize_t" one definition(as follows) is from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/types.h #ifndef _SSIZE_T#define _SSIZE_Ttypedef __kernel_ssize_tssize_t;#endif another definition(as follows) is from

Re: [SLUG] ask include file(redefinition)

This one time, at band camp, henry wrote: one definition(as follows) is from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/types.h another definition(as follows) is from /usr/include/unistd.h How could I do ? Could someone shed some light on it ? You should be using sys/types.h, not linux/types.h. -- [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] ntp problems

Have BTDT 1. you need to allow traffic from ANYWHERE port 123 back to your external IF 2. on a redhat system, if the file /etc/ntp/step-tickers exists, then ntp will set the clock as a once off when starting. Get my step-tickers from http://www.cyberpro.com.au/downloads/step-tickers , I use

Re: [SLUG] I am having TELNET problem in RedHat Linux 7.2

Try running tcpdump -nn -i eth0 port 23 on both machines and see what traffic is passing. On Mon, 27 May 2002, Upendra wrote: Dear friends, I have two DELL machines both running RedHat Linux 7.2 connected to each other by a crossover cable. I can ping one from the other other without any

Re: [SLUG] gcc 3.1 - to use or not to use - that is the question

On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 01:35:28PM +1000, Simon Wong wrote: Sluggers, I notice that gcc-3.1 has slipped into the debian archives... What are people's opinion of this new version? My understanding is that it is not really stable yet and shouldn't be used. Is this true? I bloody well

Re: [SLUG] ask include file(redefinition)

On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 05:01:46PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, henry wrote: one definition(as follows) is from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/types.h another definition(as follows) is from /usr/include/unistd.h How could I do ? Could someone shed some light

Re: [SLUG] BPB ADSL PPPoA

On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 14:15, Howard Lowndes wrote: Has anyone had any joy getting Linux to talk to the Telstra ADSL 4 port modem in PPPoA mode. From what I am reading on their web site it _has_ to be that other OS and they dont even list Mac. You will find that what you have is in actual

Re: [SLUG] I am having TELNET problem in RedHat Linux 7.2

Zhasper wrote: Quite possibly, while installing Redhat, you chose to set up a firewall.. Try running firewall-config and turning all the firewalling off... Eek! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Next SLUG Meeting - Friday, 31st May, 2002

Next SLUG Meeting - Friday, 31st May, 2002 * When: 6:30pm - about 8:30pm (then dinner, etc) * Where: UTS, Central Sydney http://slug.org.au/slugmeet.shtml The Usual Suspects - Starts 6:30pm * QA - What has Linux done for/to me lately? * SLUG News

[SLUG] Transfer users

Hi all, The last remaining task in changin from Mandrake 6 to a new server with RH7.2 is to transfer the users. I have a system for transferring the users using a file and Webmin's bulk adduser routine, which I have used in the past. However this time I need to transfer the passwords as well,

[SLUG] Are you an Anti-GPL bigot?

Yes? Find out if your tall tales are true with the FSF's GPL quiz! Hours of fun for pedants and microeconomics-law majors everywhere. http://www.gnu.org/cgi-bin/license-quiz.cgi Did you GNU all of them? (Ah ha ha ha!) - Jeff -- Lego is the plural of Lego.

Re: [SLUG] I am having TELNET problem in RedHat Linux 7.2

On Mon, 27 May 2002, Upendra wrote: I have two DELL machines both running RedHat Linux 7.2 connected to each other by a crossover cable. I can ping one from the other other without any problem. But I can not telnet to the telnet server from either one. I modified the file in

Re: [SLUG] wireless lan

On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 22:31, Antony Clarke wrote: Trying to set up routing for my gateway and wireless lan. I have had iptables and nat setup many times but now I am stumped. I have installed redhat 7.3 box with adsl on eth0 known as ppp0. A wireless pci_pcmcia bridge with wireless card

[SLUG] System suddenly crashing with new monitor?!

Since plugging in my new 21 Mitsubishi monitor, my Linux machine is now crashing very frequently. My wife tells me that it locked up 3 times today - she was trying to send an email or two, and never succeeded. I was trying to send an email just now, and it also froze. Running at the time would

Re: [SLUG] System suddenly crashing with new monitor?!

quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] I was trying to send an email just now, and it also froze. Running at the time would have been 3 X sessions - one each for me and my wife on the console, and one for her Windows machine. Well, I would try setting the X resolution back first. My machine here was

Re: [SLUG] System suddenly crashing with new monitor?!

quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, from 1280x1024 at 24 bit to 1600x1200 at 24 bit. So, from about 4MB for the X session per user to about 6MB. I'm wondering whether it just tipped us over the edge into using virtual memory too much. How is VM nowadays? I know it's been dodgy for quite

Re: [SLUG] System suddenly crashing with new monitor?!

quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] just tipped us over the edge into using virtual memory too much. How is VM nowadays? I know it's been dodgy for quite some time now, with much heated discussion amongst kernel developers. No, VM is just dandy for me with 2.4.19-pre4 uptime 23:54:15 up 15 days,

Re: [SLUG] System suddenly crashing with new monitor?!

On 27 May, Jeff Waugh wrote: Depends on your kernel. What are you running? 2.4.18 RIVA TNT2 32MB - NVidia Riva Ultra 64 rev 21, Mem 0xd600/24 Using the Free or proprietary driver? Free I assume - well, whatever comes with RH 7.2 by default. Incidentally, I've tried loading

RE: [SLUG] Mozilla mail IMAP

Andy mozilla-mail-0.9.9-12.7.3.i386.rpmwas posted to the Redhat update site on the 14th May for RH7.3. Maybe that will fix problems from the distributed one Just a thought -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Andy EagerSent:

[SLUG] DCCOM Multiport Serial Card

Good Morning. I am attempting to upgrade a RH6.2/2.2.20 system to RH7.2/2.4.18 and am having an issue getting a PCCOM Serial 8 card working. This particular card worked gracefully in an RH6.2/2.2.20 system but the supplied instructions (and those gathered from the net) only seem to talk about

[SLUG] Transfer Users

Sent this last night, hasn't appeared. I think I may have had rtf format set. Hi all, The last remaining task in changin from Mandrake 6 to a new server with RH7.2 is to transfer the users. I have a system for transferring the users using a file and Webmin's bulk adduser routine, which I have

Re: [SLUG] Transfer Users

Simon, I have about 60 users on my system and have upgraded the main hard drive twice. Both times I simply copied the /etc/passwd file and the /etc/group files over first. When I copy the /home directory accross and any other directory the users use I make sure the copy is with

Re: [SLUG] Transfer Users

On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 08:44, Jeff wrote: Simon, I have about 60 users on my system and have upgraded the main hard drive twice. Both times I simply copied the /etc/passwd file and the /etc/group files over first. When I copy the /home directory accross and any other directory the

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla mail IMAP

I found at least one new imap bug on mozilla's bugzilla: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90494 Apparently depends on the imap server you're using. Do you know which it is? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla mail IMAP

Matthew Hannigan wrote: I found at least one new imap bug on mozilla's bugzilla: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90494 Apparently depends on the imap server you're using. Do you know which it is? Thanks for that. I am using courier imap and that bug seems to be it. Guess I

RE: [SLUG] Transfer Users

Thanks all, What I ended up doing was to use Webmins add user facility. Details: load both the passwd file and the shadow file into Excel, delete unwanted users and then inserted the encrypted passwords into the second column in the passwd file using cut and paste, added five dummy columns at the

Re: [SLUG] Transfer Users

Simon, Your persistance is to be applauded. Though you lose points for using a spreadsheet rather than a unix editor :-) It really should be a lot easier to do this task under unix. I have a script 'userexp' which takes a passwd/group/shadow file and spits out a whole bunch of 'useradd'

RE: [SLUG] Transfer Users

Uh Matthew... hi... um... come over to parramatta for a sec and bend over... Seriously i'd live a copy of the utility so if you could post it to the list or email privately i'd appreciate it. I also thought Simon's post to the list of the howto was useful to Linux learners (like me, (3 years or

Re: [SLUG] wireless lan

Antony == Antony Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Antony Trying to set up routing for my gateway and wireless lan. I have Antony had iptables and nat setup many times but now I am stumped. Antony I have installed redhat 7.3 box with adsl on eth0 known as ppp0. Antony A wireless pci_pcmcia

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RE: [SLUG] Transfer Users

Don't know of any Linux editors that can do that, which doesn't mean anything as I only know a little about pico and shudder when I use vi (I can never remember how to write and quit!). Used to have a great editor on our Acorn machines called StongEd, could do all that and more. The trick was to

Re: [SLUG] System suddenly crashing with new monitor?!

Try testing the memory in the system -- use memtest86. Run through all the tests (takes about 24 hours on your average system), and see what it shows up. Memory's always the first thing I test when I start seeing `random' instability in a system. Cheers, Matt P.S. If memtest turns up a

[SLUG] How do you make an ext3 filesystem?

As per the subject line. TIA -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com Life is like a hot bath - it's great when you're in it, but the longer you stay the more wrinkled you become. - Garfield -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla mail IMAP

Anyone know anything about a broken imap in mozilla-mail-0.9.9? Dunno but I'm using Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 2 http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0/ Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 and imap works fine. HTH Pete -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] How do you make an ext3 filesystem?

This one time, at band camp, Howard Lowndes wrote: As per the subject line. YOu make an ext2 filesystem, then tune2fs -j /dev/whatever -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg 90% of the time, you're wrong about where you spend 90% of the time. --

Re: [SLUG] How do you make an ext3 filesystem?

On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 14:34, Howard Lowndes wrote: As per the subject line. Take an ext2 filesystem, and run tune2fs -j on it. Modify fstab and remount. -- Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] Things just happen. What the hell. -- Didactylos the philosopher (Terry

Re: [SLUG] How do you make an ext3 filesystem?

Muchos. On Tue, 28 May 2002, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Howard Lowndes wrote: As per the subject line. YOu make an ext2 filesystem, then tune2fs -j /dev/whatever -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla mail IMAP

Peter Rundle wrote: Anyone know anything about a broken imap in mozilla-mail-0.9.9? Dunno but I'm using Mozilla 1.0 Release Candidate 2 http://www.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla1.0/ Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020510 and imap works fine.

[SLUG] Re: How do you make an ext3 filesystem?

At Tue, 28 May 2002 14:35:43 +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Howard Lowndes wrote: As per the subject line. YOu make an ext2 filesystem, then tune2fs -j /dev/whatever or from scratch with: mke2fs -j /dev/whatever -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] How do you make an ext3 filesystem?

On Tue, 28 May 2002, Howard Lowndes wrote: As per the subject line. How reliable is ext3 these days? Am I being very brave if I upgrade my laptop hard disc? Mikal -- Michael Still ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) UMT+10hrs -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

[SLUG] Re: How do you make an ext3 filesystem?

At Tue, 28 May 2002 15:03:41 +1000, Michael Still wrote: How reliable is ext3 these days? Am I being very brave if I upgrade my laptop hard disc? i've been running it on my laptop since december. i've had numerous flat batteries and other rebootworthy lockups (my laptop is pretty dodgy), and