Re: Swap File, how large can it be?

1998-03-06 Thread David E. Fox
> shouldn't swap size be ram/2 rather than ram x 2? > like if you already have a large amnt. of ram, > then the chances of swap being used would be slimmer, > so why is there a need for 2x swap ? There's really no hard and fast rule. Firstly, though, the 2x rule (actually more like 2xRAM + 10%

nslookup can't identify localhost

1998-03-06 Thread robert collins
Hello; Is anyone familiar with why nslookup can't identify its own localhost but can identify the Sprint Server ? The NetConfig Dialer shows the localhost active as a loop back -- regards Robert Collins Peregrine Com -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHI

which pkg?

1998-03-06 Thread Xun Cheng
In which pkgs I can find the programs /sbin/install-info and rmt? thanks a lot xun -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Samba: How do I use?

1998-03-06 Thread mkite
How do I share directories with Samba? I installed the package, but don't know how to proceed. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECT

Appletalk

1998-03-06 Thread mkite
How do I share directories using netatalk? My Macs can't see my Linux Box. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

AfterStep: How to make it work

1998-03-06 Thread mkite
What do I do to get my X Windows to use AfterStep? I installed the package, but don't know what to do. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL

Kernal Modules 3c509.o and sound:

1998-03-06 Thread James Hartley
My system running 4.1 of Redhat, on a Pentium 100 machine. The other day I noticed that I get an unresolved symbol error on 3c509.o when I boot. I also wanted to get sound up on my system. SOOO I thought I would kill two birds, so to speak. What I did was recompile the kernal with sound as

Re: 2nd Try:Help with my PCI Ethernet Card.

1998-03-06 Thread Andre Assis Guimaraes
Just configure your PCI card as it was an ISA card in the kernel. It will probe your card at boot time, and then load the driver compiled in the new kernel. I did this with mine. Search for Network ISA cards in the "make config" Andre Guimaraes -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata a

Info for Drivers

1998-03-06 Thread CS
Hi ALL: My video card and PCMCIA modem are not supported. I want to write them by myself. I want a quick start so could you point me where I can find some source code for any video and pcmcia card drivers? Many Thanks CS -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST A

Re: Remote X

1998-03-06 Thread Keith Dart
What about 'xon'? Will that meet this need? On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Rick L. Mantooth wrote: > oops, > correction: > > > #!/bin/sh > > # Script to allow remote users to remotely display X apps. > > # Call it rx or whatever. > > case $1 in > > -h|--help|"") echo "Need X Program to run.. " >

Re: VMLINUZ - How do I use?

1998-03-06 Thread Gregory Scott Whittier
On Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 06:08:05PM -0500, Robert Hailman wrote: > Hello. I have Linux on hard drive 4 (hdd2 is the root partion), so using > LILO isn't possible. I decided to go with LOADLIN, but it doesn't work. When > I try to boot, it freezes while loading the kernel. I am using the version > o

Netscape...

1998-03-06 Thread Alfonso Barreto Lopez
I have installed the fvwm2 as xwindows, I am trying to run netscape from a xrsh session and it just says EMT trap. What does it mean? __ Alfonso Barreto Lopez Inst. de Inv. de Matematicas U.N.A.M -- PLEASE read

Re: Multiple IP addresses/hostnames?

1998-03-06 Thread Eric Smith
"Jeremy Domingue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to set up my server so that when someone telnets into it, the IP > address they telnet to is the IP that they are "binded" to (i.e, if they get > on IRC they show up as the IP they have telneted to, NOT the main IP address The easiest way

Re: Remote X

1998-03-06 Thread Rick L. Mantooth
oops, correction: > #!/bin/sh > # Script to allow remote users to remotely display X apps. > # Call it rx or whatever. > case $1 in > -h|--help|"") echo "Need X Program to run.. " > ;; > *) echo -n "Enter IP address to Display to: " ; > read remote

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-03-06 Thread Gregory Scott Whittier
On Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 04:49:00PM -0600, Victoria Stanfield wrote: > I'm thinking of replacing my 1.2 GB drive which is totally dedicated to > Linux with a larger one. Can someone tell me the steps to do that in > the most efficient manner?. I should have my tape drive, but since it > is a Ditt

Re: Samba Problem - Widoze no longer shows the linux box.

1998-03-06 Thread Billy Bushong - Concord, NH
-Original Message- From: Donald G. Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Redhat-List (E-mail) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, March 06, 1998 14:02 PM Subject: Samba Problem - Widoze no longer shows the linux box. >Hello, >My problem is that my windoze boxes no longer see my Linux box in the n

Re: Remote X

1998-03-06 Thread Rick L. Mantooth
Rod, Assuming you have X at nodes: Couple of ways, At remote end, You need to enable xhost +ServerName (LAN server) to allow ServerName to splash screens all over your desktop. {I'll get flamed about the xhost thing, use xhost or xauth} (It's your network, do as you will) [If you just do a

Re: Anyone have experience getting this to work?

1998-03-06 Thread Thomas Porter
On Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 03:10:59PM -0500, Brian Landers thoughtfully expounded: > Hi all...I've got a Gateway 2000 P6-333 running RedHat 5.0. It has an > internal Travan 4/8GB tape drive that I want to use with BRU to do backups. > The internal bus is IDE (I know that RedHat doesn't SUPPORT IDE ta

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-03-06 Thread Paul Fontenot
I would just add the drive and run mkfs on it and mount it. i wouldn't go through all the trouble of moving everyhting to one larger drive. -Paul On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Victoria Stanfield wrote: > I'm thinking of replacing my 1.2 GB drive which is totally dedicated to > Linux with a larger one. C

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-03-06 Thread Robert Hailman
>I'm thinking of replacing my 1.2 GB drive which is totally dedicated to >Linux with a larger one. Can someone tell me the steps to do that in >the most efficient manner?. I should have my tape drive, but since it >is a Ditto 2GB internal, ftape support is intermittent; I seem to have >to recomp

Unidentified subject!

1998-03-06 Thread Victoria Stanfield
I'm thinking of replacing my 1.2 GB drive which is totally dedicated to Linux with a larger one. Can someone tell me the steps to do that in the most efficient manner?. I should have my tape drive, but since it is a Ditto 2GB internal, ftape support is intermittent; I seem to have to recompile t

VMLINUZ - How do I use?

1998-03-06 Thread Robert Hailman
Hello. I have Linux on hard drive 4 (hdd2 is the root partion), so using LILO isn't possible. I decided to go with LOADLIN, but it doesn't work. When I try to boot, it freezes while loading the kernel. I am using the version of Vmlinuz that the install program uses, but without the initrd.img file

HELP with nfs & portmap

1998-03-06 Thread RedHat List
Hi, I'm having some problem getting my NFS and portmap working... It seems the portmap dies when I simply try to get mountd and nfsd up... If I try manuall, I run portmap, then as soon as I try to run rpc.nfsd I get the error: Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection

printing pdf files

1998-03-06 Thread Jack Byers
David E. Fox wrote ... > acroread displays it OK. So, as another poster suggests, acroread > can handle displaying some PDFs that the other alternatives have > problems with. > But I am no better off than I was before -- I need to print this > thing, and ghostscript won't do it. I don't see why.

Remote X

1998-03-06 Thread Rodney O. Kerstetter
Can you spawn a remote X session? I have read the how-to's and found nothing. How is this done? I would basically like to use my LAN server to run all the X sessions for the nodes. Thanks. - Rod -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.r

stupid archive question

1998-03-06 Thread Glenn W. Bach
I used to be able to search the mailing list archives at the redhat web site, but now it just seems to give a list of the archive files. I understand that one can access this archive via e-mail, but I can't figure out how that works. Any suggestions? I don't want to post a question that's been ask

Re: New Ghostscript RPMS

1998-03-06 Thread Eze Ogwuma
Rick Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Eze's version seems to include Epson Stylus support, while the stock > > ghostscript in the contrib tree in RedHat ftp server does not. The > > situation with ghostscript is always strange, because the stock > > version i

Re: Anyone have experience getting this to work?

1998-03-06 Thread Kit Cosper
> Any takers? Any and all help will be gratefully accepted. > Red Hat doesn't support IDE tape out of the box. With a kernel recompile you should be ready to go. Turn on support for IDE tape in the IDE section of the kernel config, then turn on ftape support in the character d

Re: Line printer problem

1998-03-06 Thread David E. Fox
> Dear friends, > I have a question. Using SCO and RH5, I set up the RH5 box to be on the > receiving end of remote printing requests for a printer on the RH5 parallel > port. > It works, but I noticed that it ( a dot matrix printer ) will print 10 or 15 I don't think that's a real problem

Concatenating access_log files?

1998-03-06 Thread John Reynolds
I'd like to run http_analyze 2.x (for the VRML stuff), however it only wants to process one access_log at a time - therefore I only get one month at a time, unlike analog which handles the rotating log formats. Http_analyze does come with a log rotater, but it deals with logs that append monts, e

Anyone have experience getting this to work?

1998-03-06 Thread Brian Landers
Hi all...I've got a Gateway 2000 P6-333 running RedHat 5.0. It has an internal Travan 4/8GB tape drive that I want to use with BRU to do backups. The internal bus is IDE (I know that RedHat doesn't SUPPORT IDE tape drives, but I have a sneaking suspicion someone out there has gotten one working).

Re: mounting read only floppy

1998-03-06 Thread Gary Hodges
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, John Higginbotham wrote: > At 12:19 PM 3/6/98 -0700, you wrote: > > > >I have a floppy which I would like to mount read only automatically on > >boot up. If I have the read only tab on the floppy set to writable, then > >everything goes OK. If the floppy tab is set read only

Re: mounting read only floppy

1998-03-06 Thread John Higginbotham
At 12:19 PM 3/6/98 -0700, you wrote: > >I have a floppy which I would like to mount read only automatically on >boot up. If I have the read only tab on the floppy set to writable, then >everything goes OK. If the floppy tab is set read only, I get the >following during boot up: Mount it as read

RE: CHMOD

1998-03-06 Thread Jaana Jarve
From: "Kevin W. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jaana Jarve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> ...can anyone think of a reason why someone would _want_ to keep >> their .profile chmod'ed to 666? >May not make any difference if their directory does not have permission >for anyone else to write to. Not very

mounting read only floppy

1998-03-06 Thread Gary Hodges
I have a floppy which I would like to mount read only automatically on boot up. If I have the read only tab on the floppy set to writable, then everything goes OK. If the floppy tab is set read only, I get the following during boot up: **

Re: Anyway to scan disk surface?

1998-03-06 Thread Sam Ockman
On Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 10:56:25AM +, Sim wrote: > --- Forwarded Message Follows --- > > Is there any RH utility that can scan the disk surface for the > purpose of finding out bad sectors? badblocks. -Sam -- Samuel Ockman | Work Linux? | VA Research

Samba Problem - Widoze no longer shows the linux box.

1998-03-06 Thread Donald G. Hunter
Hello, My problem is that my windoze boxes no longer see my Linux box in the network neighborhood. It was working and I assume I did something to where it now longer works. I run RH4.2, and have changed the smb.conf over and over trying to get it to work. Any help would be greatly appreciate

Anyway to scan disk surface?

1998-03-06 Thread Sim
--- Forwarded Message Follows --- Is there any RH utility that can scan the disk surface for the purpose of finding out bad sectors? Thanks. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /m

Re: Hacks for your viewing pleasure

1998-03-06 Thread Fire Dragon
On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, David S Edwards wrote: > Well I busted somebody trying to hack my webserver that we do hosting on. > Since I'm not an expert at decoding some of this stuff, I thought I would > post the hacks here, hoping that somebody could shed some light on it. Oh, > by the way, I caught

Re: changing IP Number ON NIC

1998-03-06 Thread Sam Ockman
On Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 04:54:18PM -, matt quelch wrote: > I used to use Xwindows to change the IP number on Linux, > but I now need to do this from the command line. > > Is there a single command to change the IP number ?? Yes, ifconfig... i.e. ifconfig eth0 200.200.200.200 Then you'll

Re: Setting ppp

1998-03-06 Thread hUnTeR
Good Day ALL! I posted a question/problem a few days ago, and thanks KD for the help. But want to probe this area a bit further, once i clarify my situation. I currently have a USR 56.6 external which i use with the linux box to dial out and connect to my ISP for the LAN (yeah, i know.way slo

Re: Ghostscript & Stylus 800

1998-03-06 Thread David E. Fox
> I was wondering if the person who u/l ghostscript.5.10 > to redhat's site could possible compile in the stcolor and st800 > drivers and send it as well. I have tried several time to compile I also noticed that it was missing the 'epson' driver. It was fairly easy to get the source rpm,

Re: New Ghostscript RPMS

1998-03-06 Thread Rick Forrester
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Eze's version seems to include Epson Stylus support, while the stock > ghostscript in the contrib tree in RedHat ftp server does not. The > situation with ghostscript is always strange, because the stock > version in redhat-5.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS is 3.??. What gives th

Re: ypwhich fails (RH4.2/sparc)

1998-03-06 Thread Tahara Yuusuke
> On Fri, 6 Mar 1998 13:45:00 +0100 (MET), "Andrea Dell'Amico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >said: Andrea> On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Tahara Yuusuke wrote: Andrea>ypwhich fails (RH4.2/sparc) with an error, so I cannot setup Andrea>NIS-slave server using ypinit. Please tell me the solution. Andr

xbru

1998-03-06 Thread Erich Eyler
I'm trying to change the default device that xbru copies to. Whenever I launch xbru it looks for /dev/nst0. When I boot up it tells me that my tape it /dev/hdc. I set this up in config BRU, it's a travan tape drive. Go into new device and all that is listed is /dev/nst0, /dev/null, and /file.

more info Re: two-ethernet routing question

1998-03-06 Thread Michael Jinks
Thanks again to JY for the tcpdump tip. Here's the latest: By doing tcpdump I can follow packets from my internal net in through my internal NIC, and out my external NIC. I can also see packets originating on my firewall and coming back from the external net. But there's never a response from

Re: SCSI and IOmega Jaz drives.

1998-03-06 Thread Troy D. Taylor
I am using an Adaptec 2940 UW. with an internal jaz drive. I know this card is funny but I have also tried other SCSI cards to no avail What is the best SCSI card to use with Redhat 4.2??? Is the tape backup media of choice for SCSI a 4mm DAT? Thanks for your time! Troy Taylor System Adm

RH default mount for DOS drives

1998-03-06 Thread John Higginbotham
Observation: I'd like to see an option in Redhat install so that when it asks you to mount any other volumes, like DOS volumes, it'll autodetect the file system to use vfat instead of DOS if it finds Win95 on said partition. - John Higginbotham - [EM

Re: compile errors

1998-03-06 Thread Fred W. Noltie Jr.
Craig Kattner wrote: > > Sorry to take this stuff here, but I'm trying to compile some stuff for a > class on my 5.0 machine and it keeps complaining about undefined > references. No normal error this or that. It throws up a list of files > with a .o extension all located in /tmp and then declare

Re: changing IP Number ON NIC

1998-03-06 Thread Stephen Zedalis
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, matt quelch wrote: >Is there a single command to change the IP number ?? Yes, "vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0" -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailin

changing IP Number ON NIC

1998-03-06 Thread matt quelch
I used to use Xwindows to change the IP number on Linux, but I now need to do this from the command line. Is there a single command to change the IP number ?? Many Thanks Matt - Internal Systems Limited Matt Quelch [EMAIL PRO

Re: Question: Sound Card

1998-03-06 Thread Dragonfly Ye
At 11:31 AM 3/6/98 -0500, you wrote: >On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Jiandong Ye wrote: > >> I am new to Sound Card stuff on redhat, so bear with me on this one. >> >> I am trying to compile sound support into the 2.0.30 kernel of my >> Redhat 4.2 machine. The compile steps I used: >> make clean >>

Re: newbie probs (long): red hat 5, X and cd-roms...

1998-03-06 Thread matt
Ismael wrote: > >> after i tried to recompile a custom kernel i soon ran into compile >> problems with some sig11 errors and i soon gave up. > > /*/* okay. I think that's NOT the problem.the problem is : you ran xf86config or >not ? Have you CHOOSE your card in the fscking > database? > TWO TH

Re: Question: Sound Card

1998-03-06 Thread Greg Fall
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Jiandong Ye wrote: > I am new to Sound Card stuff on redhat, so bear with me on this one. > > I am trying to compile sound support into the 2.0.30 kernel of my > Redhat 4.2 machine. The compile steps I used: > make clean > make mrproper > make menuconfig (

RE: newbie probs (long): red hat 5, X and cd-roms...

1998-03-06 Thread Ismael
after i tried to recompile a custom kernel i soon ran into compile problems with some sig11 errors and i soon gave up. /*/* okay. I think that's NOT the problem.the problem is : you ran xf86config or not ? Have you CHOOSE your card in the fscking database? TWO THOUSAND times I repeat it on

Re: ipfwadm: tracking down the picky details (long)

1998-03-06 Thread Michael Jinks
Joe Klemmer wrote: > > On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Michael Jinks wrote: > > > Permit DNS fron outside world to firewall (masqueraded): > > -I -a accept -P udp -S 0.0.0.0/0 53 -D [outer ip address] > > Just a quick stab in the dark but don't you need to allow external > DNS to the internal netwo

Re:

1998-03-06 Thread Robert W. Canary
Hi Donald, Please repost this except with a subject line sa we can track it by thread.. Off the top of my head I would have to ask if your Linux Box is on the same workgroup? -- robert Donald G. Hunter wrote: > Hello, > My problem is that my windoze boxes no longer see my Linux box in the net

Question: Sound Card

1998-03-06 Thread Jiandong Ye
I am new to Sound Card stuff on redhat, so bear with me on this one. I am trying to compile sound support into the 2.0.30 kernel of my Redhat 4.2 machine. The compile steps I used: make clean make mrproper make menuconfig (specified IRQ 5, DMA 1,5, I/O 220) make

Re: two-ethernet routing question

1998-03-06 Thread Michael Jinks
James Youngman wrote: > > This packet forwarding should happen if IP-forwarding is enabled (you > can do this in control-panel or by > "echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward". Hm. . . well, '#cat ip_forward' gave me a 0, so I changed it to 1, but I still can't get past the firewall. > Any indiv

ICMP redirects

1998-03-06 Thread E Kelly Bond
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am getting the following syslog entries and I don't know what they mean. Can anyone help? /---start---/ Mar 1 08:39:55 gnat3 kernel: ICMP redirect from 131.144.134.2 Mar 1 08:41:31 gnat3 kernel: ICMP redirect from 131.144.134.2 Mar 1 08:58:22

Default permissions on Dos Partition??

1998-03-06 Thread My name
I have Linux win 95 system with an Apache webserver for program developing. I want to have some cgi programs stored on the dos partition, which I link via symbolic links from the /home/httpd/html/ Reason: I do most of my ftp transfers while in win95. So far, it works a bit, the file is found a

Line printer problem

1998-03-06 Thread GBNSCHBACH
Dear friends, I have a question. Using SCO and RH5, I set up the RH5 box to be on the receiving end of remote printing requests for a printer on the RH5 parallel port. It works, but I noticed that it ( a dot matrix printer ) will print 10 or 15 lines, pause, then print 10 or 15 more, paus

RE: PPP problems

1998-03-06 Thread Jason Wilson
Download the ppp-howto. Basically your carrier is starting the ppp interface (garbled text) and what you need to do is start pppd to accept this information. If you read the ppp-howto and don't get it or want to try another way try downloading ezppp or xisp and these will help you get online. I

Re: Ghostscript & Stylus 800

1998-03-06 Thread Mike Frisch
On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Casey Jones wrote: > I was wondering if the person who u/l ghostscript.5.10 > to redhat's site could possible compile in the stcolor and st800 If you're using an Epson Stylus Color 800, you should probably use the "uniprint" driver from 5.10 (as the docs suggest). Don'

FAQ

1998-03-06 Thread Cullip, Lee
Hi all, Could somebody send me the RedHat FAQ as I only have Email access at the moment. Regards Lee Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home) -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /

PPP problems

1998-03-06 Thread Javier Memba
I'm a newbie. Afte a lot of trouble to make my modem work in Linux (RH 5.0), I finally got it. However, I'm unable to establish any kind of PPP connection with my ISP at all. Here is the info I have gathered: I set up and configure my PPP connection through the Control Panel, and my sy

Re: No NICs Recognized at ALL

1998-03-06 Thread Luck Dancing
Saleh A. Al-Abbad wrote: > drivers shown to me. It then asked me if I shouldspecify options or let it be >determined by Autoprobe. Anyway I tried both but failed to sense if my box had any >nic cards. I had the same problem and what I did to correct it was compile a new kernel with NE200 suppo

RE: IomegaZip e soundblaster

1998-03-06 Thread Edmunds, Keith
On Friday, March 06, 1998 12:24 PM, parlione massimiliano [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > informations? On the other partition I have Windows Nt. NT unfortunately it > isn't PnP and It's difficult (or perhaps impossible) to see these settings Under NT: Start button, Programs, Administrative Too

Re: ypwhich fails (RH4.2/sparc)

1998-03-06 Thread Andrea Dell'Amico
On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Tahara Yuusuke wrote: ypwhich fails (RH4.2/sparc) with an error, so I cannot setup NIS-slave server using ypinit. Please tell me the solution. % ypwhich can't clntudp_create: can't communicate with ypbind % rpm -q yp-clients yp-clients-2.2-7 If you

ypwhich fails (RH4.2/sparc)

1998-03-06 Thread Tahara Yuusuke
ypwhich fails (RH4.2/sparc) with an error, so I cannot setup NIS-slave server using ypinit. Please tell me the solution. % ypwhich can't clntudp_create: can't communicate with ypbind % rpm -q yp-clients yp-clients-2.2-7 --- Kind regards,

Re: IomegaZip e soundblaster

1998-03-06 Thread parlione massimiliano
Alfonso Barreto Lopez wrote: > Try to run the sndconfig and you will see if it was accepted, if it > doesn't work you should know the irq, dma, io address to put them manually > in the same programa but starting like this: sndconfig --noprobe > Hope this works. > I tryed but I had an error whe

Quicktime

1998-03-06 Thread KHOO Guan Chen
Hi, Can somebody tell me whether there is a GPL program to run quicktime movies? Thanks Richard KHOO Guan Chen e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] snail-mail: 38-A, Lorong 23, Geylang, Singapore 388372 -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.

two-ethernet routing question

1998-03-06 Thread Michael Jinks
I'm still struggling with a masquerading, packet-filtering dual-homed host. Earlier I thought that I had my firewalling rules wrong, but now I think that it's something more basic. When I flush all of the firewall rules and set all the defaults to "accept" I still can't get past the damn thing.

newbie probs (long): red hat 5, X and cd-roms...

1998-03-06 Thread matt
hi. my apologies in advance if any of you have recieved this twice ... (i am experiencing difficulties sending to the list from various different hosts) i was wondering if there was anyone who had experienced problems similar to those that i am experiencing or if anyone might be able to help ..

[2nd try] rh4.2 install problems - files not fount

1998-03-06 Thread Blees, E.J. \(Edwin\)
I tried to install RH4.2 (from the infomagic developer's resource) on a i486dx2-66 via an ftp connection to a w95 computer with personal web server loaded (and ftp service started) - The first steps of the installation is ok, when i have entered a ip address i can ping the machine from the win95 c

Re: New Ghostscript RPMS

1998-03-06 Thread Eze Ogwuma
[Headers trimmed] "G. Hugh SONG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, I don't understand how all those html browsers work for binary files. > On Eze's web page, when I click on ghostscript-5.10-0.1.i386.rpm, > I get all those binary texts being displayed in the Netscape browser > instead of a di

Re: Help!!! Funny broken bits???

1998-03-06 Thread Tim Fairchild
> Nearly the same thing happened to me. I converted a DOS partition to > ext2, but Win95 still 'saw' the drive and wanted to format the thing! > DOS fdisk tipped me off to what I had done -- the partition was still > tagged as a DOS partition because, I surmise, make2fs does not change > the tag o

RE: message digest feature?

1998-03-06 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Does anyone know if redhat-list has a message digest feature and if so, >how >do I turn it on? (I already tried asking the listserver for "help") You have to unsubscribe from here and resubscribe to the redhat-digest list, or something like that. The details are described on Red Hat's web page.

RE: compile errors

1998-03-06 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Sorry to take this stuff here, but I'm trying to compile some stuff for a >class on my 5.0 machine and it keeps complaining about undefined >references. No normal error this or that. It throws up a list of files >with a .o extension all located in /tmp and then declares "undefined >refernce to: c

RE: FW: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 127

1998-03-06 Thread David . LANDGREN
>The RedHat lists generally seem to work in a way that bounce messages >from subscribers tend to occasionally get sent to the people that send >messages to the list, as opposed to the list address itself. It just >means your message to the mailing list didn't get to that person. Have you paid att

RE: CHMOD

1998-03-06 Thread David . LANDGREN
>...can anyone think of a reason why someone would _want_ to keep >their .profile chmod'ed to 666? To let any other person on the host to insert whatever they thought said person should execute on startup: practical jokes (of questionable humour) come to mind. On a large system where you don't

Re: [ticket #23593]Installation problem

1998-03-06 Thread Vivekananda Laxman B.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The xcopy is what will be needed. The problem is with certain files that > use the + sign in them. This symbol isnt legal in DOS > > gcc-c++-2.7.2.3-8.i386.rpm libg++-devel-2.7.2.8-6.i386.rpm > libg++-2.7.2.8-6.i386.rpmnenscript-1.13++-10.i386.rpm > >

No NICs Recognized at ALL

1998-03-06 Thread Saleh A. Al-Abbad
Hello to all : I have purchased InfoMagic's LINUX Developer's Resource CD-ROM. It came with 6-CD set. On the first CD I had RedHat 4.1 for Intel which installs kernel 2.0.27. I followed the installation instructions and got to the point where I can play some games under Xwindows, which means

Re: fsck forced

1998-03-06 Thread Sam Ockman
On Thu, Mar 05, 1998 at 10:33:00PM -0800, Greg Thomas wrote: > > Hello all, > > I just booted my home system and I noticed that fsck was forced on > partition /dev/hdb5, my home partition, because the maximum number of > mounts have been met. I just did a fresh install of RH 5.0 but I kept my >

Re: plug n' play modem (hate these damnt things)

1998-03-06 Thread Cory T. Lamb
> I am trying get my Dimond Supra 33.6 PnP modem to work under RH5. I Okay I'm not gauranteeing anything but when I installed my Cardinal 33.6 I ran isapnptools? something like that and it gave me what I needed. If taht doesn't work there might be a way to disable PnP check your manual. ~cor

Re: plug n' play modem (hate these damnt things)

1998-03-06 Thread Anders Eliasson
What you need, is a utility called isapnptools. You need this to configure the pnp -settings of your modem each time you do a cold boot. I use it to initialize my SB32PnP, and it works great. /Anders >Hi, > >I am trying get my Dimond Supra 33.6 PnP modem to work under RH5. I >followed a co

compile errors

1998-03-06 Thread Craig Kattner
Sorry to take this stuff here, but I'm trying to compile some stuff for a class on my 5.0 machine and it keeps complaining about undefined references. No normal error this or that. It throws up a list of files with a .o extension all located in /tmp and then declares "undefined refernce to: cout"

ipfwadm: tracking down the picky details (long)

1998-03-06 Thread Michael Jinks
Okay, I have a packet-filtering firewall ALMOST set up. I can telnet and ftp from the firewall to the outside, by name or by number. But I can't telnet, ftp or resolve names from within the protected net to outside. On the firewall, I have the two cards looking at each other as gateways, with t

fsck forced

1998-03-06 Thread Greg Thomas
Hello all, I just booted my home system and I noticed that fsck was forced on partition /dev/hdb5, my home partition, because the maximum number of mounts have been met. I just did a fresh install of RH 5.0 but I kept my home partition intact. I haven't seen anywhere how many times before a fi

Re: SCSI and IOmega Jaz drives.

1998-03-06 Thread Larry Lade
>Has anyone else had problems with the Jaz drive and Redhat Linux? > >I specific problem I have is after the Jaz spins down. I get scsi errors >trying to access the drive from a crontab entry. I have tried accessing >the drive just a few moments before to "wake up" the jaz drive, to no avail. >

Re: plug n' play modem (hate these damnt things)

1998-03-06 Thread Brian
> >I am trying get my Dimond Supra 33.6 PnP modem to work under RH5. I > >followed a couple of peoples suggestions and tried doing the following: > You may try a program called loadlin that allows you to boot into Linux directly from DOS. What you can do is boot into DOS, let the modem get

Re: plug n' play modem (hate these damnt things)

1998-03-06 Thread John Higginbotham
At 11:01 PM 3/5/98 -0500, you wrote: >Hi, > >I am trying get my Dimond Supra 33.6 PnP modem to work under RH5. I >followed a couple of peoples suggestions and tried doing the following: I've seen prices on new 33.6 internal ISA modems like around $29-$29. I'd dump the Diamond and get one tha