What is this??

Hi, all I use RedHat 5. When i'm surfing website by netscape 4.04, i meet waring message. Warning : name : textForm Class : XmTextFeild Character : '' not supported in font. Discarded. what is this? Is it font

Script for public_html

Does anyone have one of those quick little scripts that scans the users dirs every night to check for public_html? -- Douglas F. Elznic [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If they give you lined paper, write the other way." Freedom through Electronic Resistance -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata

Re: How to tell modem speed

On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Ray Curtis wrote: > If its not being written in your system logs, try adding the line: > to your chat script, something like: > > REPORT CONNECT > ABORT BUSY ABORT VOICE ABORT 'NO CARRIER' '' ATZ OK ATD So all i need to do is add: 'REPORT CONNECT' to /etc/sysconfig/network-scr

Re: How to tell modem speed

If its not being written in your system logs, try adding the line: to your chat script, something like: REPORT CONNECT ABORT BUSY ABORT VOICE ABORT 'NO CARRIER' '' ATZ OK ATD > "vs" == Victoria Stanfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: vs> I asked this before when I was at Redhat 4.2 and was

AutoRPM 1.1 (already)

Announcing AutoRPM 1.1!! AutoRPM is a program that can do any combination of the following: mirror RPMs from an FTP site, keep installed RPMs consistent with an FTP site or local directory, and keep installed RPMs in a cluster or network of systems consis- tent. It is highly flexible...

Re: redhat-digest Digest V98 #415

> Subject: Re: RedHat-Apache-Netscape Question > Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 19:24:56 -0600 > From: David Wollmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sounds like either Netscape or Apache are missing a mime type definition > for the .htm extension, so the file is being handled as plain tex

Re: Slow FTP -Reply

I have noticed the same thing.. FTP from anything but RH5 is extremely faster AND more reliable. This is suing both standard FTP and NCFTP (with and w/o the upgrade). Makes it hell to upgrade everything listed on the errata page... Bryan -Original Message- From: Raymond Fung <[EMAIL

Re: security compromized?? :-(

Seif Zadeh Hossein wrote: > Hi there, > I logged into my ISP last night, and start downloading some files. As it > started to take longer than I thought I left it running over night. This > morning after I logged out I checked the `messages' file, and to my > surprise most of it was deleted. Ther

Re: Slow FTP -Reply

I think there is really some problem with ftp in Red Hat 5.0. I have an old version Slackware (Kernal 1.1.59) Linux box as well as RH 5.0 box on the LAN. Previously, we forwarded all Corporate Internet E-mail traffic to the Slackware box for transmission so as to relieve the Netware Server workloa

Re: Dial in PPP RH5

H. Just when people finally shake the "ALL CAPS" habit in their emails, now we have to deal with BOLD FACE and 16 POINT html mail. Hm. George Williamson wrote: > Gidday All, > [snip] -- | Andrew Duhan| Cereal is | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | g00d. | | http://chimer

ftp problems

I've been able to download via ftp for some time, but I ahve not been able to upload (get a permission error). Therefore, with utmost cleverness, I mucked around with the permission for my /home/ftp directory, & now I can't even get a directory listing. Which permissions do I need to set to be a

Re: Regular Users can't ftp?

On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 09:31:57PM -0500, Douglas F. Elznic wrote: > How come I can only log on as anonymous for ftp? Not even root can log on > to ftp? > Douglas F. Elznic root can't ftp since he's in /etc/ftpusers. As for regular users, do they use a shell which is listed in /etc/she

Re: SECURITY: New initscripts, findutils, and textutils packages

On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Michael K. Johnson wrote: > All systems with local users that do not have the root password should > have these fixes applied. The fixes are available for Red Hat Linux If my understanding is correct, the 'initscripts' packages only run during bootup... right? (unlike the f

Re: Best Linux Book

On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Muad'Dib wrote: > > What is the best Linux book out there today? I looked at Running Linux, > but the copyright was 1996, and that means outdated. It's still a great book for basic Linux. Covers most all you need to get started. I would also heavily recommend (emphatically

Re: Iomega internal SCSI Zip / Good SCSI card

At 07:52 PM 3/9/98 -0600, you wrote: > >Anyone have any experience (good or bad) with the Iomega internal SCSI >Zip drive? I need a zip drive and since I only have one more IDE >device I can fit into my computer I want to go the SCSI way rather >than fill up my last IDE slot. I realize this means

Re: usercfg no good for a lot of users???

On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Bryan Koschmann wrote: > Actually it looks more like you were logged on as a user, SU'd to > root, then ran netcfg, which needs a export DISPLAY=:0.0 to tell it > where to draw the window... Hope this helps.. how can you tell this? -- Douglas F. Elznic [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If

Regular Users can't ftp?

How come I can only log on as anonymous for ftp? Not even root can log on to ftp? -- Douglas F. Elznic [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If they give you lined paper, write the other way." Freedom through Electronic Resistance -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! ht

How to tell modem speed

I asked this before when I was at Redhat 4.2 and was told that the connect speed gets written to the system logs when a connection is establised. (At least that's what I think was said.) On my newly upgraded 5.0 system, this doesn't seem to be happening. Can someone tell me how to determine th

Re: mount clntudp_create: RPC: Program not registered

On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Rodney O. Kerstetter wrote: > What is the output of rpcinfo -p? > >- Rod Good point! On one server I have only: program vers proto port 102 tcp111 rpcbind 102 udp111 rpcbind :( while on the other I have: program vers proto

Re: Installation on laptop

You can create the boot and supp diskettes with rawrite. Then ftp to a redhat site with your modem and install from that site. Of course you would have to maintain a connection for a long time. There are also cdroms for parallel ports. > > I have an old laptop that has no cdrom drive or slots for

Iomega internal SCSI Zip / Good SCSI card

Anyone have any experience (good or bad) with the Iomega internal SCSI Zip drive? I need a zip drive and since I only have one more IDE device I can fit into my computer I want to go the SCSI way rather than fill up my last IDE slot. I realize this means buying a SCSI card as well.. which brings

Re: Slow FTP

Try running the System Monitor on the Windown 95 box during an xfer to see what the network is doing. At 08:42 PM 3/9/98 -0500, you wrote: >I just set up RH5.0, downloaded the 18MB Netscape RPM file (at 28.8!) on my >Win95 system, then tried to ftp it to my Linux box using Ethernet LAN cards. >

Re: Slow FTP

On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Ambrose 'Bo' Barry wrote: > I just set up RH5.0, downloaded the 18MB Netscape RPM file (at 28.8!) on my > Win95 system, then tried to ftp it to my Linux box using Ethernet LAN cards. > > It took just as long on the Ethernet LAN to transfer! (about 3000 > bytes/sec). Only two

Slow FTP

I just set up RH5.0, downloaded the 18MB Netscape RPM file (at 28.8!) on my Win95 system, then tried to ftp it to my Linux box using Ethernet LAN cards. It took just as long on the Ethernet LAN to transfer! (about 3000 bytes/sec). Only two LAN cards on the LAN, total cable length of 10 feet! I w

Re: RedHat-Apache-Netscape Question

Sounds like either Netscape or Apache are missing a mime type definition for the .htm extension, so the file is being handled as plain text by either the server or the client. At 04:14 PM 3/9/98 -0700, you wrote: >Am running RedHat 5.0 and the Apache bundle that came off of the CD. Am >running N

Installation on laptop

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have an old laptop that has no cdrom drive or slots for an ethernet card. I would like to install RedHat onto it, but if I put the rpms on the hard drive, I will have no space left to do the installation. Is there a way to install using PLIP or SL

Dial in PPP RH5

Gidday All, I confuguired the dial in straight from PPP Setup Tips by Robert Hart. A friend of mine is dialling in ,logging on and starting the ppp ok as the copy of the /var/logs/messages below states. The point that things go wrong is "Could not determine local IP address". I have looked thur Nag

Solved: DNS Setup

I got my DNS working. I had made lots of typo errors, and had been confused between the "local" configuration and the "zone" configuration. The article which really helped was "Setting up a basic DNS server for a domain" by Craig Richmond. The article can be found at http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/do

Apache Manual

Has anyone seen a non--html version of the apache documentation? The on-line stuff is very difficult to follow with hyper-link after hyper-link... Thanks, .dn -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat

Re: Linux Newbie Page

>Sorry, I forgot the URL. >it's - http://members.xoom.com/mud99 DOH! I have too many websites, the real address is - http://members.xoom.com/linuz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errat

Re: modem problem under RH5

>I had the same problem...I found my fix with setserial. I set the IRQ on my modem with a jumper, and the ran: setseral /dev/modem irq # Zach Smith Ann Arbor MI [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm sure this has been discussed on the list before but I can't seem to > find what I am looking for, neither on

Re: just getting started...

try running setup and going to the X conig section...that will let you set up X and auot-probe for your video card...as long as it is PCI., Zach Smith Ann Arbor, MI [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ

Re: RedHat-Apache-Netscape Question

On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, David Hughes wrote: > Am running RedHat 5.0 and the Apache bundle that came off of the CD. Am > running Netscape 4.04 on a Win95 workstation. The subnet is IP masq'd. > > I have an oddity which I would definitely like to solve if anyone can > help. When I try and hit an ht

RedHat-Apache-Netscape Question

Am running RedHat 5.0 and the Apache bundle that came off of the CD. Am running Netscape 4.04 on a Win95 workstation. The subnet is IP masq'd. I have an oddity which I would definitely like to solve if anyone can help. When I try and hit an html page on the server, if the page has a .html exte

Re: Motif 2.1 question

On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Andy Moskoff wrote: > ddd: error in loading shared libraries > libXm.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I seriously doubt that motif and lesstiff are binary compatible. You'll have to recompile your apps. > Do I have to rebuild these binaries? li

Re: .bashrc

LEBLIN JY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 03:01:06PM +0100: > Has anybody got an idea where the mistake is ( and it is certainly stupid ). > Here is what my .bashrc is like if it may help. Unless i make a source > .bashrc none of the alias is available. Bash only sources bashrc on

utmp and wtmp broken in RH 5.0?

Hello all. After upgrading my "intel" system from RH 4.2 to RH 5.0 and updating the items in the errata, "w" and "last" appear to be broken. Running "w" gives: - 4:48pm up 4:13, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.0

Strange Network pause with concurrent activity

Hello everyone We seem to have cropped up a strange problem with our networking on one of ourclient systems. They have a dedicated PPP connection to us (over standard modem) coming off a firewall/router Red Hat 5.0 linux box. The Firewall Linux box also has 2 ethernet cards in it delivering

samba problem

Hi everybody, I have failed to find an answer in the smb.conf man page and in the samba howto, so I post this message. I have samba working on my linux box and wind95/Nt boxes can see it. but when they try to access it. they receive a message asking a for a password related to the IPC$ share (do

Re: Best Linux Book

If anyone is looking to purchase a really great shell programming book I recommend the following book. "Portable Shell Programming" by Bruce Blinn. Its small but it contains excellent examples and explanations for someone trying to learn. I have been using it for two years now and I have found

Re: Need a Linux Friendly ISP/dialup provider

On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Thomas P Zahm wrote: > > > > I'm looking for an ISP (for a dialup/ppp connection) > > > > that is known to be helpful to Linux Users connecting by PPP. > > > > I'd appreciate a reference from you'all... > > > > > > With somewhat mixed feelings I can point you to Earthlink. Th

Re: Quota on mail spool

Kelly, Here is what I found out... I have a quota on my mail partition of 10 megs per user.. I tried this and when they received a 10meg mail message and they tried to download it it createed an error. Because sendmail that I run copies the file to .user.pop when it does this copy it bom

Passwords longer than 8 chars

Our HP-UX box recognizes passwords that are longer than 8 characters (not sure what the actual character limit is). Is there a plugin module or other method to get this functionality on Linux? TIA, Brian -- Brian Landers, Web Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] T: 404/582.9018 S T U D I O A R C H E

'tip' like serial port program for linux?

I am accustomed to 'tip' on BSD and Solaris for talking to terminals and modems. I have many TCL/expect scripts that use 'tip', so minicom presents a problem for me. Is there a 'tip' like RPM for linux? Or a binary? All I need is something simple. With tip you get 'connected' when you typ

Motif 2.1 and the Virtual Desktop ???

I have another Motif 2.1 question. I just purchased the upgrade from 2.0 -> 2.1. The reason being that its advertised that 2.0 won't work with RedHat 5.0 (glibc). So, I get Motif 2.1 in the mail the day before yesterday, and THE VIRTUAL DESKTOP IS GONE! As you might have guessed, the virtual d

Re: Best Linux Book

Don't let the date on a book dictate its usefulness. "The UNIX Programming Environment" by Kernighan and Pike was published in 1984 and it is still a great book to help you get started with shell programming. In fact, I was quite surprised to see how up-to-date this book is, nearly all of it is s

RE: Swap File, how large can it be?

On Mon, 9 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Which leads to my question, what really does happen with Linux when you > use up all the memory, RAM + swap? What is the worst that has happened > to anyone? EMWTK. Typically some of your applications will segfault. Linux itself will not crash under

Re: Ghostscript & Stylus 800

Mike Frisch wrote: > 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

Re: inodes

On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Craig Kattner wrote: > After restarting linux this evening, during bootup it complained about > "/dev/hda2: Deleted inodo 14989 has zero dtime" for about ten different This is usually caused by not shutting down properly. You must not shut off linux by simply turning off the

Re: Need a Linux Friendly ISP/dialup provider

> > > > > > I'm looking for an ISP (for a dialup/ppp connection) > > > > > > that is known to be helpful to Linux Users connecting by PPP. > > > > > > I'd appreciate a reference from you'all... > > > > With somewhat mixed feelings I can point you to Earthlink. They > > recently added a Linux page

Re: PAM Authenication

At 12:04 PM 3/9/98 -0800, you wrote: >Try running pwck...it will check the validity of /etc/passwd, and >/etc/shadow, and let you know if you have any problems. Such problems may >be causing this error. Thanks for the advice, Sam. Unfortunately, it didn't work. I even removed one account complet

Re: Stupid Netscape Trick

>While spellchecking a message in Netscape Communicator, an attempt to >use the fvwm: Start->WindowOperations->Move to move the pesky modal >spellcheck window out of the way. Lo and Behold, x-windows blew up and >out leaving me at a terminal prompt. Did it twice just to make sure. It >happened aga

Help, SCSI Tape problems

I have installed Redhat 5.0 and it is working great. One major problem is that I can not get my SCSI 4mm tape to work. I have recompiled the kernel with SCSI tape support and when I issue a mt command it seems to work. The main problem is when I try to back send the command to backup the syste

Re: PAM Authenication

Try running pwck...it will check the validity of /etc/passwd, and /etc/shadow, and let you know if you have any problems. Such problems may be causing this error. -Sam On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 09:07:10PM -0800, Ken Arck wrote: > I recently changed over my 5.0 system to PAM authentication, which

Re: Stupid Netscape Trick

> While spellchecking a message in Netscape Communicator, an attempt to > use the fvwm: Start->WindowOperations->Move to move the pesky modal > spellcheck window out of the way. Lo and Behold, x-windows blew up and > out leaving me at a terminal prompt. Did it twice just to make sure. It > happene

Stupid Netscape Trick

While spellchecking a message in Netscape Communicator, an attempt to use the fvwm: Start->WindowOperations->Move to move the pesky modal spellcheck window out of the way. Lo and Behold, x-windows blew up and out leaving me at a terminal prompt. Did it twice just to make sure. It happened again. A

just getting started...

Dear gurus: I remember reading somewhere about a command that auto detects the video card for configX. Does anyone by any chance know what the command is? Your help is greatly appreciated... "Linux now,...and forever!" -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

NFS/NIS/automounter question

I have three machines set up with distributed home directories using NFS, NIS, and the automounter. Every once and a while, NFS will stop serving to the hosts listed in /etc/exports. When a host tries to automount a home directory, it receives a "permission denied" error. The NFS server I am us

Re: xmkmf

rpm -qf /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf XFree86-devel At 07:01 AM 3/9/98 -0600, you wrote: >What package to I need to get this? I can't seem to find it right now. d -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /

Re: xmkmf

XFree86-devel --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- Greg Fall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~gmfall -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHa

Re: xmkmf

On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Craig Kattner wrote: > What package to I need to get this? I can't seem to find it right now. It's part of the XFree86 package. = Keith Dart, Devtest Engineer

modem problem under RH5

I'm sure this has been discussed on the list before but I can't seem to find what I am looking for, neither on DejaNews nor in the mailing lists archives. As a last resort, I am looking here :-) In the old days when I used redhat 4.2 with a USR 33.6 PnP (NOT WinModem), along with a Dell Motherboa

xmkmf

What package to I need to get this? I can't seem to find it right now. -- 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

Dial-back modem implementation

I am trying to set up dial-back modem access (shell only, no ppp). To make things a little more complicated, the remote modem is a Motorola UDS v.34, which has security features such as users and passwords I intend to use. If anyone has any experience with dial-back setup I would appreciate any

Printing question

I am printing to an HP JetDirect printer on the network, and I am using banner pages. Problem is the banner pages come out last. I'd like to print the banner pages first. I'd also like to create Postscript banner pages. How do I do that, and how can I move the banner pages to the beginning of

Re: Installing Linux w/no CDROM?

Why go through all this? When I want to transfer files, all I do is bootup MSDOS 6.2 off floppy, with INTERLNK.EXE and INTERSVR.EXE on it, run INTERLNK on one PC, INTERSVR on the other, and poof! Instant mini-network. Works best with a parallel connection but'll use serial too. That way the hard d

Re: Installing Linux w/no CDROM?

Luis F. Orozco wrote: > > Hi, I realize this might be a bit off topic, but it does have to do with > installing linux. :-) > > I have just obtained a pentium PC with two hard drives but no CD-ROM drive, > and no floppy drives. (hey, it was free!) I would like to put Linux in > it, but I still c

PAM Authenication

I recently changed over my 5.0 system to PAM authentication, which works fine by the way... the only thing I noticed is that *some* accounts no longer track UID to username. That is to say, if I log on as user X, instead of getting the username in the prompt, linux tells me "[I have no name!@host

Re: Installing Linux w/no CDROM?

On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Luis F. Orozco wrote: > I have just obtained a pentium PC with two hard drives but no CD-ROM drive, > and no floppy drives. (hey, it was free!) I would like to put Linux in > it, but I still can't figure out how, short of getting a CDROM for it. I do > have another machin

Re: Installing Linux w/no CDROM?

> Hi, I realize this might be a bit off topic, but it does have to do with > installing linux. :-) This doesn't sound off-topic. > I have just obtained a pentium PC with two hard drives but no CD-ROM drive, > and no floppy drives. (hey, it was free!) I would like to put Linux in > it, but I

Re: Linux Newbie Page

>BTW... if you're not really interested in this topic (i.e. RedHat Linux, then >get off the list!) Damn man -- CHILL OUT! So the guy made a mistake -- GOD!! Thanks for wasting my ISP charges and drive space reading YOUR piece of crap message! -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata a

Re: FAT32

> On Sun, Mar 08, 1998 at 09:25:05PM -0600, Christopher Radi wrote: > > > > Has anyone else had success using Mtools to access FAT32 partitions? I've > > never been able to mount either of my FAT32 partitions, so I never tried Kernel support for mounting FAT32 partitions is present in the curr

Re: Quota on mail spool

On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, E Kelly Bond wrote: > Has anyone tried setting a quota restriction on /var/spool/mail Yes, we have it running. It works well. > I am concerned what mail & sendmail will do if/when quota says > that the restriction has been reached. If I recall, sendmail bouces with a surp

Re: Setting Folder Permissions

Al Sparks wrote: > > Perhaps you need to be more specific with symptoms. What do you mean > by "folders"? Are you using ext2 file system? Right you are. I meant to say dirs/subdirs. Still trying to get M$ outta my system. > A file system's permissions are written to the disk (at least any > f

Re: FAT32

On Sun, Mar 08, 1998 at 09:25:05PM -0600, Christopher Radi wrote: > > Has anyone else had success using Mtools to access FAT32 partitions? I've > never been able to mount either of my FAT32 partitions, so I never tried > Mtools. I accidentally did a "mdir c:" instead of an "mdir a:" and it > di

Re: security compromized?? :-(

On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Seif Zadeh Hossein wrote: > Hi there, > I logged into my ISP last night, and start downloading some files. As it > started to take longer than I thought I left it running over night. This > morning after I logged out I checked the `messages' file, and to my > surprise most

Quota on mail spool

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone tried setting a quota restriction on /var/spool/mail to limit a users incoming mail spool size? I am considering trying this and I wondered what would be the system effect. I am concerned what mail & sendmail will do if/when quota says

Re: Linux Newbie Page

I tell you what... you go to that URL and play around with your models. Personally, I'm not interested and I resent your directing folks to a URL that has nothing whatsoever to do with what you claim it does. Sheesh! BTW... if you're not really interested in this topic (i.e. RedHat Linux, then

RE: Installing Linux w/no CDROM?

I had a similar problem - I built a PC from spare parts I had, but did not have a CD ROM drive I could put in it. I did, however, have access to a (very) fast Internet link. I downloaded the entire RedHat installation (about 250Mb) at work onto three ZIP disks, then restored them onto a spare IDE

RE: Linux Newbie Page

>That's http://members.xoom.com/linuz edwin >-- >From: Edmunds, Keith[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: maandag 9 maart 1998 16:29 >To:'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' >Cc:The recipient's address is unknown.; LOCAL >Subject: RE: Linux Newbie Page > >On Monday, March 09, 1998 2:58 PM, mud9

re: mount clntudp_create

After 46 days of uptime and considerable stress testing, an ethernet driver wedged. On reboot, nfs exports fail. Attempting a mount from a remote machine yields: mount clntudp_create: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive Running "rpcinfo -p" on the affected machine yields: rp

RE: Linux Newbie Page

On Monday, March 09, 1998 2:58 PM, mud99 [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Sorry, I forgot the URL. > it's - http://members.xoom.com/mud99 I don't think so. That page seems to be full of radio controlled model info. Keith -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARC

Installing Linux w/no CDROM?

Hi, I realize this might be a bit off topic, but it does have to do with installing linux. :-) I have just obtained a pentium PC with two hard drives but no CD-ROM drive, and no floppy drives. (hey, it was free!) I would like to put Linux in it, but I still can't figure out how, short of get

tytype

Hello! Is there in Linux a file like a file called ttytype from other unix systems ? How can I know what type of terminal I use if I know the tty ? Thanks a lot! Eugen Constantinescu -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FA

Re: mount clntudp_create: RPC: Program not registered

>I'm trying to do an NFS mount and getting the above error... >I see no messages in the nfs server logs or on the client side. > >I have portmap, nfsd and mountd all running and have /etc/exports set up >such that the mount I attempted would have worked... > >Using RH5.0... I experienced the sam

RE: message digest feature?

>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 subscribe to the digest list. See the info on RH's web page. Look for support; mailing lists. DL -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips

message digest feature?

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") Thanks for your time. Troy D. Taylor System Administor U.S. Logistics INC. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIV

Re: Linux Newbie Page

Sorry, I forgot the URL. it's - http://members.xoom.com/mud99 -- 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 "u

Netscape dumps core

Hi all, I don't know if my previous message made it to the list... So here it is again: I can't get Netscape to run on my pentiumII rh5.0 box. I've dowloaded and installed all the updated rpm's as well as the netscape-communicator and navigator ones. When installing with rpm, everything goes s

RE: sendmail

> >Hello, > > > >Does anyone happen to know how to send attachments using sendmail at > the > >command line? try mpack (not sure if this is part of your linux dist, you might have to download & compile, but it is very small and easy to build) e.g. mpack -s test test.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED] will

RE: X server memory leach?

[...] > > PID TTY MAJFLT MINFLT TRS DRS SIZE SWAP RSS SHRD LIB DT > COMMAND > > 408 ? 12119 1585263 720 20492 36784 15572 21212 816 0 > 4921 X :0 -bpp [...] Look on the bright side! 5 megs of the process is swapped out... all you have to worry about is running out of swap..

.bashrc

Hi, It's not very important but i've got problems with my .bashrc file : the system doesn't seem to take care of it. I've checked the man and it says that the option -norc ( which obliges not to read the .bashrc ) is default when the shell invoked is sh so maybe that's where the problem is but

Re: Admin book of Linux and boot bypass; Thanks

Thanks ALL, those informantion is very useful. CS > Hi, All > Where can I find a good Linux Admin book? Online or book store. > When my linux box boots without network connected. It reports from > eth0 that my box is not connected to the ne

RE: sendmail

>Hello, > >Does anyone happen to know how to send attachments using sendmail at the >command line? I believe you have to assemble the bits together yourself using, say, the MIME spec, and then dump the business into sendmail as one file. DL -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and t

Re: 3.03-5.0

On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Gavin Lewandowski wrote: >I have an aging installation of RH 3.03 on one of our company servers, >I am intending to upgrade this box to RH 5, RH3.03 box is running >apache,virtual sendmail,shadow passwords,public html services. What >should I watch out for when I take the box t

Re: security compromized?? :-(

>You prolly have your logs rotated by a cron job which is why you have no messages. Go look in your /var/log dir and see how many files are there. Ususally the messsages file gets rotated and appears as messages.1-messages.# As for the syslogd, thats because when the log rotates, the syslogd has

3.03-5.0

Hi, I have an aging installation of RH 3.03 on one of our company servers, I am intending to upgrade this box to RH 5, RH3.03 box is running apache,virtual sendmail,shadow passwords,public html services. What should I watch out for when I take the box to 5.0 - is it just a case of inserti

EZFlyer Install help wanted

Anyone want to give me a complete walkthrough on setting up my Syquest EZFlyer parallel port drive under linux? - John Higginbotham - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Webmaster - http://www.pntprinting.com - - Designer - http://limbo.netpath.net - - Follow

Re: security compromized?? :-(

> Hi there, > I logged into my ISP last night, and start downloading some files. As it > started to take longer than I thought I left it running over night. This > morning after I logged out I checked the `messages' file, and to my > surprise most of it was deleted. There was only a few lines t

ftp.pl and h2ph

[ I'm forwarding this to the list since support had chewed on this for three weeks with no indications of a forthcoming fix. On further investigation it seems that the C header files related to tcp/ip have serious problems. I can't get a clean compile of diald for instance. ] The basic problem

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