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Best of Technical Support Various Issue #65, September 1999 Our experts answer your technical questions. Adding New Users I am having extreme difficulty adding users on Red Hat 5.1. I’ve used various methods to add them to my system via the adduser command and through various X control-panel programs. When I add them, everything seems to go well, and they ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #76, August 2000 Our experts answer your technical questions. Two Monitors? Is it possible in Linux (I don’t care which distribution, I mean the system architecture) to have two screens, i.e., two monitors on the same machine? Also with two graphics cards, of course. Is it possible to have them running together, either in ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #75, July 2000 Our experts answer your technical questions. Configuring ipchains Current setup: I’m running ipchains as a firewall and to proxy my other machine to the Web via DSL. This Linux firewall has two NIC cards: one with a public IP address, the other on my private 10.100.100 network. I have a web ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #73, May 2000 Our experts answer your technical questions. Who Goes There? I have taken over a Linux system for a company. The company uses the box as an Internet server. The problem is that the person I have taken over for left without providing the root password for the box. Is there any ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #72, April 2000 Our experts answer your technical questions. Partitioning and Cylinders I am installing Red Hat Linux 6.0 on a partition. When I try to make my partitions for Linux, it gives me an error saying “boot partition too big”. I tried to use fdisk and it says my hard drive has 1655 ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #71, March 2000 Our experts answer your technical questions. Failure to Connect My PPP connection is failing while using a modem to dial up to my ISP. My log indicates (after chat): pppd:Serial Connection established pppd:Using interface ppp0 pppd: Connect: ppp0 /dev/ttyS2 pppd: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests pppd: Modem Hangup pppd: Connection terminated pppd: ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #70, February 2000 Our experts answer your technical questions. Configuring PPP When I installed PPP for Internet connection, I changed some properties by using the linuxconf command in Linux configuration. Now whenever I start Linux, it gives me an error like: starting system loggers:ypbind[187]:clnt_create for server 127.0.0.1 fasiled starting NFS Services:rpc.mountd rpc.nfsd YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #69, January 2000 Our experts answer your technical questions. X Marks the Spot My system worked fine for a few months, but now I’m facing some problems with it. When using X, the system suddenly freezes. Neither the keyboard nor the mouse responds. I can’t telnet to my computer—nothing works. Log files tell nothing—just ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #68, December 1999 Our experts answer your technical questions. Partitioning I am installing and have a 3GB hard drive. I am not sure of the best way to partition it. Any suggestions? —Jes, jes2@mindspring.com You do not say what you plan to do with the disk, or what the host machine is (server? workstation?). ...

Best of Technical Support Various Issue #67, November 1999 Our experts answer your technical questions. Synchronizing Clocks I would like to know how best to synchronize the clocks of the various Linux boxes (various kernels and distributions) on my LAN. —John Morley, jmorley@grafton.demon.co.uk You should try NTP: www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp. NTP software is included in common Linux distributions such as Red Hat. ...