Redhat NTPD Clock

[Rick Stevens]

On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 22:30 -0400, John Wirt wrote:
> 
> Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 08:27:16AM -0400, John Wirt wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>John Wirt wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 09:26:57PM -0400, John Wirt wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>Hmm..can you  tell me how to set the security level?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Thank you, Rick.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>John Wirt
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>We prefer bottom posting here.  See
> >>>>
> >>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting
> >>>>
> >>>>Try "firewall-config".
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>When I enter "firewall-config" as a command, the response is "command 
> >>>not found"
> >>>
> >>>When I enter "iptables -h" as a command. the response is "command not 
> >>>found"
> >>>
> >>>What should I do?
> >>>
> >>>John Wirt
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>PS, also I have no Internet access the desktop.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Not sure what you mean by that.  Post the results of "netstat -rn".
> >You can do that as your mere mortal self.
> >
> >  
> >
> Here are the results of netstat -rn:
> 
> Destination                Gateway       Genmask             Flags   MSS 
> WIndow   irtt  iface
> 192.168.10.0   0.0.0.0                    255.255.255.0    U          0 
> 0 0                  0    eth0
> 169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0                    255.255.0.0         
> U          0 0 0                  0    eth0
> 0.0.0.0             192.168.10.100      0.0.0.0                 UG       
> 0 0 0                  0    eth0
> 
> I tried sending this information by email to the computer that I am 
> sending this from. The email apparently left my Linux machine  but never 
> arrived at the other one. I am currently using the KDE desktop on the 
> Linux machine.  Evolution email does not work.

You'd need to look at /var/log/maillog to see what happened.  

> 192.168.10.0 is the IP address of my local LAN. I have a cable modem 
> connected to a Linksys router, which has four LAN ports.
> 
> If I ping 169..254.0.0, the reply times out.

Of course it would.  169.254 is a DHCP system.  Almost no one uses it
except Windows networks.

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