Re: How is linux not an O/S Was: Re: Want to give back to linux?

1998-03-24 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Douglas F. Elznic wrote: > How is linux not an OS. I really need to rethink my ideas about > computers... It's a matter of which definition of OS you subscribe to. Some say that the OS is responsible for mediating the interactions between CPU, RAM, and peripherals, and prov

Re: Want to give back to linux?

1998-03-24 Thread Patrick T. Berry
I am trying to get to market for the two Linux users groups and the public at large, a decent Linux box at under $800. So far I have IDE stuff, and am trying to qualify the hardware before it is bought cause I don't want to blow big bucks on junk. If you want to help me "kick butt", and you think

~user/bin how about man

1998-03-24 Thread Douglas F. Elznic
Hello is it possible to set up a user dependent man dir like the bin dir? ANd how do I change the man search path? -- 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

How is linux not an O/S Was: Re: Want to give back to linux?

1998-03-24 Thread Douglas F. Elznic
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Scott McDermott wrote: > To say it isn't an operating system may be construed as being wrong. It > provides the critical component for an operating system, does it not? How is linux not an OS. I really need to rethink my ideas about computers... -- Douglas F. Elznic [EMAIL P

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux,...)

1998-03-24 Thread Patrick T. Berry
I am opening a store to try to educate, and sell Linux boxes at the same time. Computers & Gadgets, Inc. at 4950 South Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando, Florida 32839, and I hope to serve both the local Linux Users Groups with Freebies, and share knowledge. I will sell machines at the lowest possibl

Re: cgi-bin trouble

1998-03-24 Thread Theo Jones
Hey thanks, Someone else also suggested that and sure-enough that was my problem. It's now working with no problem. Thanks, -Theo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Check to see where you have your "ScriptAlias" set up in your httpd.conf > file. It is probably not where you have your script. > > On

Re: Want to give back to linux?

1998-03-24 Thread Keith Dart
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > I hate to sound like a tired old grump (errr...) but the only way to > deal with these people is to run over them -- and I mean that in the > most constructive, life-affirming, positive way, but I do mean it. Stop > trying to convert them and concentra

Re: tips

1998-03-24 Thread Patrick T. Berry
Some folks are grumps, I like to see the little figures jsome people make up, and I don't think it is overdone, as I have only seen three or four. Please keep the cute guys to remind us to also exercise our bodies, besides our few brains! Scott McDermott wrote: > Shane French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Dial-Up

1998-03-24 Thread Pierantonio Bonato
There is somebody that can help me in configuring a modem (Zyxxel) to dial-up to an Internet Service Provider?   Thank You  

Re: alias color in ls

1998-03-24 Thread Brandt Kurowski
Craig Kattner wrote: > H. Well, I had alias dir="ls -F --color=yes" in my /etc/bashrc and > for example piping things to less printed the color codes but not to > more. So, I just tried it out with --color and with --color=tty and > got the same results. Probably more a less issue then a ls th

Re: alias color in ls

1998-03-24 Thread Craig Kattner
> > > >edit .bashrc in your home directory and add > > > > > > > >alias ls='ls --color=yes' > > > > > > Better to use "--color=tty". > > > > "--color" works equally good. > > No, it doesn't always. > > For instance: > > % /bin/ls -a --color > foo > % cat -v foo > ^[[01;34m.^[[0m > ^[[01;34m..

Re: Need FAQ on dial-in PPP

1998-03-24 Thread Dan Cyr
http://www.valleynet.bc.ca/~dan/linux.html There's a link there to that page. sorta =) Dan At 05:44 PM 3/24/98 -0400, Casey Bralla wrote: >I want to allow users to dial in to my RH 5 machine and connect to my >intranet. I know I saw a FAQ on this someplace, but now can't find >it. Can some

RE: Lib Questions

1998-03-24 Thread Smith, Nathan A., Capt.
The actual lib your looking for is called glibc2 (libc6 is included within this package). I can't explain the number convention. As far as installing the new lib verses the old you should first see what programs you have and if they support running on libc6. If not you will need to create a new

SCSI-howto Vapour wear

1998-03-24 Thread Jeffrey Fearn
I am trying to install a Quantum 200S SCSI card, the configx (kernal config) tells me that the SCSI-howto at sunsite can tell me how to install for this card. However I can not find the how to at sunsite :( Can anyone tell me where I can find the howto, or if you have it E-mail it to me? Tha

Changing location of .bash_history/system accounting ques.?

1998-03-24 Thread Jeremy Domingue
Hey all... I am looking for a way to change the location of .bash_history so that people that use my system won't be able to delete the file if they are doing something they shouldn't be. I've already used the system accounting (accton/lastcomm), but it only shows the command and not any flags or

Re: Proc F/S

1998-03-24 Thread Michael P. Plezbert
I sent a message about this yesterday, but I'm not sure it made it through properly. Have you tried installing the latest initscripts rpm from redhat? It should solve the mount problems with /proc. Michael On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Paul Fontenot wrote: > > > Anybody seen this one, /var/log/mes

Linux and NT

1998-03-24 Thread Thomas Dell
Return Receipt YourLinux and NT document:

Lib Questions

1998-03-24 Thread Brian
Could someone clarify how exactly the library concept works. I just installed all the needed packages for gimp-0.99.18-1 on my 4.2 system, but I'm having library problems. I need (failed dependencies): libpng.so.0 libm.so.6 libdl.so.2 libc.so.6 ld-linux.so.2 I guess what I don't understand is

Need FAQ on dial-in PPP

1998-03-24 Thread Casey Bralla
I want to allow users to dial in to my RH 5 machine and connect to my intranet. I know I saw a FAQ on this someplace, but now can't find it. Can somebody point me in the right direction? J R Casey Bralla [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Nerd in Residence NerdWorld Cheraw, SC USA (803) 537-8822 Voice

Re: alias color in ls

1998-03-24 Thread Kent R. Frazier
I added the following line to my .bashrc file under #User specific aliases and functions alias ls='ls --color al' This gives me both color and a detailed listing, which being a newbie really helps :) I have version 4.2 Joey Officer wrote: > I've tried adding the alias command to my .bashrc .

Re: Where is whois?

1998-03-24 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Jeremy Domingue wrote: > Anyone know where I can get an RPM for whois? I know it's probably part > of a larger package, but I can't seem to find it anywhere! Look at the 'fwhois' package. It comes with all versions of Red Hat. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Err

Re: Where is whois?

1998-03-24 Thread W.D.McKinney
"Jeremy Domingue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone know where I can get an RPM for whois? I know it's probably part of a > larger package, but I can't seem to find it anywhere! > > Otherwise if there's not an RPM, anyone know where I can get the source (and > hope it works on glibc)? > Had t

Re: cgi-bin trouble

1998-03-24 Thread redhat
Check to see where you have your "ScriptAlias" set up in your httpd.conf file. It is probably not where you have your script. On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Theo Jones wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to get a perl script to receive for the first time from a > form-web-page. I've put the perl-file into t

Where is whois?

1998-03-24 Thread Jeremy Domingue
Anyone know where I can get an RPM for whois? I know it's probably part of a larger package, but I can't seem to find it anywhere! Otherwise if there's not an RPM, anyone know where I can get the source (and hope it works on glibc)? TIA, Jeremy Domingue [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the

Linux and NT

1998-03-24 Thread Jason Wilson
I have a machine running NT and 95 on hda and a cdrom on hdb. I installed Linux on hdc and tried using lilo. It did not work. I then tried us nt bootloader and adding a line to the boot.ini but I apparently did not get all of the parameters in correctly. Has anyone done this with nt bootloader a

Re: alias color in ls

1998-03-24 Thread Stelios Bounanos
Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote: > > > On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Dan Cyr wrote: > > >edit .bashrc in your home directory and add > > > > > >alias ls='ls --color=yes' > > > > Better to use "--color=tty". > > "--color" works equally good.

Re: scsi tape drive; which device

1998-03-24 Thread Art Stine
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, John DeCarlo wrote: > Well, I have been thoroughly unsuccessful at getting Linux to see my SCSI > tape drive. > > I have a Future Domain SCSI adapter and an Exabyte 8200 (I used these two > together on a previous Intel-based OS/2 machine). > > I can install the 'fdomain' mo

ls --color

1998-03-24 Thread Joey Officer
I was talking with a friend about this... he mentioned something about TERMCAP ... but I checked.. and its not installed... do I need this to run color from ls? Joey -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /

Re: Never share root

1998-03-24 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Ken Arck wrote: > Well, guess I deserve what I got for sharing root access with someone I > trusted. Never, ever, ever, ever, share root access with anyone under any circumstances. Too many roots spoil the broth. It is far too simple to > They inadvertantly changed alot

RE: alias color in ls

1998-03-24 Thread Tempel, Philippe
> I've tried adding the alias command to my .bashrc ... but it still no > worky... > [PT] Did you use the correct syntax? For example, I use the following to alias "dir" to "ls -al": alias dir="ls -al" Also, you can try putting the alias at the end of y

RE: RH 5.0, diald and chat

1998-03-24 Thread Schlough, Mark
__ Reply Separator _ Subject: Re: RH 5.0, diald and chat Author: Paul Jakma [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] at NMB Date:3/24/98 2:35 PM In your chat script change the solitary "at" to an "atz". Good idea, unfortunately

RE: apache

1998-03-24 Thread Canary, Robert W.
Thanks, It was srm.conf use AddType text/html html htm -- From: Jason Wilson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 1998 2:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: The recipient's address is unknown. Subject:RE: apache Check the .conf files for httpd and you will se

Re: mail domain alias

1998-03-24 Thread Bryan C. Andregg
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998 17:11:31 +0100 (CET), <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The machine's name is pepito.somewhere.edu, and the alias (which > is already in the DNS db) is josefa.somewhere.edu. > > What do I have to do in order to have sendmail accept email to > user@josefa and send it

Re: alias color in ls

1998-03-24 Thread Joey Officer
I've tried adding the alias command to my .bashrc ... but it still no worky... Do I have to have a new version of redhat possibly? I dunno joey -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-

Re: apache

1998-03-24 Thread Hans Feringa
Go to /etc/httpd/conf and edit the file srm.conf and add the line: AddType text/html htm I tested it for you and it works: (from my srm.conf after editing): # AddType allows you to tweak mime.types without actually editing it, or to # make certain files to be certain types. # Format: AddType type

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 01:51:22PM -0500, Bruce Tong wrote: > Maybe we can "out cool" the others. The web is a great place for all > consumers and corporations. A nice simple "Linux Hosted" or "Developed on > Red Hat Linux" graphic on all our web pages would go a long way. Then link > them all to

Virus magic file

1998-03-24 Thread John H Darrah
Does any one know of a file containing all of the known virus signatures, including macro (CAP) type, that is in the same or similar format as /usr/lib/magic. I'm thinking about adding a filter into my mail machine to look for attachments and then "virus check" them. -- John Darrah (u05192)

RE: apache

1998-03-24 Thread Thomas Dell
Return Receipt YourRE: apache document:

RE: apache

1998-03-24 Thread Jason Wilson
Check the .conf files for httpd and you will see the reference for .html files. simply add .htm to this. > -Original Message- > From: Canary, Robert W. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 1998 1:50 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: apache > > > Hi, > > I know this

RE: recompiling the kernal

1998-03-24 Thread Thomas Dell
Return Receipt YourRE: recompiling the kernal document:

apache

1998-03-24 Thread Canary, Robert W.
Hi, I know this question isn't completely RHL related but I hoping someone could point me in the general direction (as in what page). . . . . . . . . I have a number documents written in HTML. However, when Apache sends the documents out the some get interpreted as text even though the cont

Re: complie question ?

1998-03-24 Thread Ilia Dulgerov
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, D.Yang wrote: Did you read INSTALL file? Are there executable Configure or configure if any start it ./configure ilia,sysadmin at avko.bg > Hi, > I'm new to Unix(redhat),and I don't know how to complie files. > I download amp-0.7.3.tar ,and decompressd it in /root/temp/a

Re: scsi tape drive; which device

1998-03-24 Thread Brian Lalor
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Paul F Almquist wrote: > Anybody know about the correlation or lack thereof between scsi id > and device number? I'm a scsi neophyte. Usually, device numbers are assigned sequentially based on the SCSI ID. If you have three SCSI hard drives on IDs 0, 4, and 6, a CD-ROM at 5

utmp problem?

1998-03-24 Thread tblow
For some reason, my utmp file never clears out after someone logs out, so in about a day the utmp file becomes almost a meg in size in which case whenever someone tries to run who there is an out of memory error (who -m core dumps which is always nice). I've looked around a bit and I haven't seen

Re: compiling c and c++ code under RedHat 5.0

1998-03-24 Thread Ilia Dulgerov
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Mark McGlone wrote: > > > How come so many programs which compile cleanly on other versions of Linux > seem to have trouble under RedHat 5.0, and what can be done about it? > > Mark McGlone > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and t

cgi-bin trouble

1998-03-24 Thread Theo Jones
Hello, I'm trying to get a perl script to receive for the first time from a form-web-page. I've put the perl-file into the "cgi-bin" under the httpd directory, and made sure file-permissions were set correctly. My web page form has at its head: Now when I run a test and post this form with i

Re: XFree86-3.3.2.rpm Where?

1998-03-24 Thread Ilia Dulgerov
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Steve Stuart wrote: Yes I myself download from 2 places: ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/redhat/contrib/hurricane/i386 ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/Mirrors/ftp/redhat/pub/contrib/hurricane/i386 ot at least ftp://ftp.avko.bg/pub/Linux/redhat5/i386/RedHat/updates/XFree86-3.3.2/ sucess ilia

Re: scsi tape drive; which device

1998-03-24 Thread John DeCarlo
At 10:41 AM 3/24/98 -0600, Paul F Almquist wrote: >On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 10:20:31AM -0500, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote: >> SCSI tape drives are named /dev/stN and /dev/nstN, where N represents >> a non-negative integer (0, 1, 2, ...). The first SCSI tape drive is >> /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0, the

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Bruce Tong
> Linux is now where Unix was when I got into it 18 years ago: the best > solution available for a wide variety of problems, but perceived as > the domain of the lunatic fringe because it isn't associated with > The Big Names. Maybe we can "out cool" the others. The web is a great place for all c

Re: scsi tape drive; which device

1998-03-24 Thread Bill Huhn
At 06:46 AM 3/24/98 -0600, you wrote: >Is there a HOWTO somewhere that tells me which device to use for >my scsi tape drive? I didn't see anything in the scsi howto. >My card is an Adaptec 1520B and the drive is a Travan 4/8GB made >by Seagate, although the scsi card sees it as "Conner 8000-S". >

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 05:12:51AM -0500, Kit Cosper wrote: > With regards to email from the masses, I have a couple of > thoughts. The first thought is visceral, and says email them into > oblivion. I think we can all agree that there are better ways to get > the word out, but that's stil

Re: RPM on NT?

1998-03-24 Thread Derek Balling
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Jon Hale wrote: > Does anybody know if there is any effort underway to port RPM to NT? > Thanks for any pointers, Isn't it called InstallShield? :) == Derek J. Balling | "Bill Gates is a monocle an

RPM on NT?

1998-03-24 Thread Jon Hale
Does anybody know if there is any effort underway to port RPM to NT? Thanks for any pointers, -jon -- 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 PROTE

Question on upgrading to RH5.0

1998-03-24 Thread Steve Hazelett
I have a number of files that I run under RH4.2 and I was wondering if they might break if I upgrade to RH5.0. A lot of them were built on the libc library and with going to new libraries will they still work? Not all the apps I run have been upgraded to the new libs. In other words is there

Re[2]: Proc F/S

1998-03-24 Thread Steve Hazelett
Interesting, my RH 4.2 says: none /proc proc defaults And I have never changed it with vi, just used the GUI. Steve Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In 4.2 it's: > > none /proc ignore 0 0 0 > >

how can i login as root from a user account?

1998-03-24 Thread Simeon Wood
Hello, I am wondering if someone has some input for my question. I am under the impression that the less I login as root the better off I am. Since when I am as root the odds are there that something I am doing could crash the system, un likely but possible right? My Question is

Re: Never share root

1998-03-24 Thread Ken Arck
At 04:53 PM 3/24/98 +, you wrote: >Before I did that I would use the "--setperms" option with rpm. Something >like: > rpm --setperms `rpm -qa` Well, i figured what happened. He had changed permissions on several files in /bin. The " su: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted " wa

Re: GLINT fails to detect packages on CDROM

1998-03-24 Thread Eric Wood
Supposedly, GLINT only show you the packages that are currently _not_ installed on your harddisk. The idea is to weed through and only show newer (or older) versions you can upgrade to. Indeed, GLINT needs an option switch to allow you to view all packages. -Eric Wood Al Margheim wrote: > >

Re: Never share root

1998-03-24 Thread Michael George
> I've fixed some of them as I remember them being. Now when trying to su > from one account to any other, the message is > > su: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted > > Would I just be better reinstalling at this point (after backing up my > critical files of course)? Before I did that

Re: looking for video card w/ BNC output

1998-03-24 Thread jp
You can get 5BNC-->15-pin-VGA cables for between $20 and $60. http://www.midcoast.com/jp/sun/2.html > > We have an ancient 19" Hitachi 1280 x 1024 monitor which uses 5 BNC > connectors for input. That is, it does not have the standard 15-pin VGA > style cable connector. We had a matching Number

Re: alias color in ls

1998-03-24 Thread Dan Cyr
edit .bashrc in your home directory and add alias ls='ls --color=yes' or to make it global for all users add it to /etc/bashrc Dan At 05:27 PM 3/23/98 -0600, Joey Officer wrote: >I tried to setup color to be added when I do an > >ls -l -color > >but it says >ls: unrecognized option `--colo

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Ken Arck
Steve Coile wrote: >A technical debate is not won with volume, it's won with technical merit. Hate to say it, but if that was *always* the case, MAC would be ahead of PC by now :) Of course, MAC is based on *nix, but In this day and age of 5 second sound bytes and "over with in 2 days" news

Re: scsi tape drive; which device

1998-03-24 Thread Paul F Almquist
On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 10:20:31AM -0500, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote: > On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Victoria Stanfield wrote: > >Is there a HOWTO somewhere that tells me which device to use for > >my scsi tape drive? I didn't see anything in the scsi howto. > >My card is an Adaptec 1520B and the drive

Re: Proc F/S

1998-03-24 Thread Brian
> > rickdman # grep proc /etc/fstab > > /proc /proc proc defaults > > > > rickdman # ls -ald /proc > > dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root0 Mar 22 11:42 /proc > > Yeah, except in 5.0 it's > > none /proc procdefaults0

Re: tips

1998-03-24 Thread Scott McDermott
Shane French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 01:48:37PM -0800: > Can you tell me how to (via email, not the www) get a file containing > Redhat tips? Well, here's one important and useful tip: > +---+ > |

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Bruce Tong wrote: [...] >I don't mean to be ignorant here, but if I shouldn't refer to the >operating system as "Linux", how should I refer to the operating system? >Does "the Red Hat distribution of Linux", or more simply "RedHat Linux", >convey the appropriate meaning? Yes.

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Al Margheim
Perhaps, if Linux Operating System isn't correct, the Official Red Hat 5.0 Linux distribution package shouldn't say "Linux Operating System" on the box in numerous places. :) Al Margheim At 10:55 AM 3/24/98 -0500, you wrote: >> >What is an OS ? Sure Linux has a kernel, but that kernel and some o

RE: Never share root

1998-03-24 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Well, guess I deserve what I got for sharing root access with someone I >trusted. > >They inadvertantly changed alot of permissions and now its ^ Then it's not a problem of trust -- you could have trashed it yourself. DL -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and

Re: Apache has slow response from certain ISPs

1998-03-24 Thread Montana Banana
Thank you all for your suggestions. What finally proved to be the problem is that my ISP does not allow reverse DNS lookups. Thus when I try to connect to my server, the server tries for 30 seconds to do a reverse DNS lookup on my IP address, to no avail. I've been trying to convince my ISP to

RE: Clearing out Swap?

1998-03-24 Thread David S. Jackson
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Dave Wreski wrote: > Data/processes that is in swap and not being used will stay there until it is > used. You could very well have 32M free RAM, and still be using swap. The > programs will get moved back into RAM if there is free RAM available when the > program needs to

Re: Never share root

1998-03-24 Thread rhl
If you are sure this is the only damage, just reinstall the whole shadow package. On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Ken Arck wrote: > Well, guess I deserve what I got for sharing root access with someone I > trusted. > > They inadvertantly changed alot of permissions and now its not possible to >

Re: Question on upgrading to RH5.0

1998-03-24 Thread Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Steve Hazelett wrote: >I have a number of files that I run under RH4.2 and I was wondering if >they might break if I upgrade to RH5.0. A lot of them were built on >the libc library and with going to new libraries will they still work? >Not all the apps I run have been upgrade

Re: commandline and vi

1998-03-24 Thread Scott McDermott
Paul F Almquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 04:13:54PM -0600: > > What sucks is that you can't `/' the current command line, but must move > > with `w' or the char-wise movements. > > within a line use the "fx" where "x" is the character to find going forward > (to the right) fro

Re: Proc F/S

1998-03-24 Thread Paul Fontenot
> Is /proc in your /etc/fstab ? > > rickdman # grep proc /etc/fstab > /proc /proc proc defaults > > rickdman # ls -ald /proc > dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root0 Mar 22 11:42 /proc Yeah, except in 5.0 it's none/proc proc

Re: Proc F/S

1998-03-24 Thread rhl
I encountered the same problem on a Rh 5.0, and this was the cause: - /proc was mounted, but there was no report about that in /etc/mtab. Check your /etc/mtab - is /proc mentioned there ? - to fix that i edited /etc/rc.c/rc.sysinit. See if you have this sections :

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Scott McDermott
"Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 11:48:50PM -0500: > A technical debate is not won with volume, it's won with technical merit. > Frankly, there are very few people--very few--that are competent enough > to technically compare Linux to any other operating syst

mail domain alias

1998-03-24 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I'm trying to set a mail domain alias but I don't know how to do it. The machine's name is pepito.somewhere.edu, and the alias (which is already in the DNS db) is josefa.somewhere.edu. What do I have to do in order to have sendmail accept email to user@josefa and sen

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Ken Arck wrote: >Steve Coile wrote: >>A technical debate is not won with volume, it's won with technical merit. > >Hate to say it, but if that was *always* the case, MAC would be ahead of PC >by now :) Of course, MAC is based on *nix, but > >In this day and age of 5 second

Kernel panics with S3 Virge XFree86 server

1998-03-24 Thread Eric Knudstrup
I was wondering if anyone has experienced this and come up with a solution. This machine is a 200mhz Pentium Micron with an out-of-the-box installation of RH5.0 Please cc to my address, as I am post-only, TIA, Eric Mar 23 00:22:17 foobar kernel: VFS: Close: file count is 0 Mar 23 00:22:17 foob

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Scott McDermott
"Douglas F. Elznic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 07:42:49PM -0500: > > This is the wrong approach and is not very dissimilar from spam. All > > that would be accomplished here was to prove that we are well-connected > > fanatics. > > > I guess you don't vote. How is a large number

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Scott McDermott
Ken Arck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 08:59:21PM -0800: > >A technical debate is not won with volume, it's won with technical merit. > > Hate to say it, but if that was *always* the case, MAC would be ahead of PC > by now :) Of course, MAC is based on *nix, but Are you suggest

problem w/ ftpaccess

1998-03-24 Thread sty
I have tried several times to limit simultanious ftp-users to my site putting in the ftpaccess -file following: limit all 100 Am I missing some parameters? ftpwho program still reports: Service class all: 110 users ( -1 maximum) -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Douglas F. Elznic wrote: >On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Scott McDermott wrote: >> This is the wrong approach and is not very dissimilar from spam. All >> that would be accomplished here was to prove that we are well-connected >> fanatics. > >I guess you don't vote. How is a large numb

realplayer menu

1998-03-24 Thread ryo
hi all, Realplayer (version 5.0b2) seems to work on my RH5.0 box : it can run ra files, but the GUI doesn't work properly. I can open the menus in the taskbar, but I can't select anything (open location, exit, preferences ...) What's wrong with it, has someone got the same problem. BTW what's

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Bruce Tong
> >What is an OS ? Sure Linux has a kernel, but that kernel and some other > >things "make a computer work". Basicly, isn't that what an OS does ? > > Absolutely! But the kernel is just one of those things that "make a > computer work". I don't mean to be ignorant here, but if I shouldn't refer

in.inetd?

1998-03-24 Thread GateKeepeR News
Why do I keep getting these mesages in /var/log/messages? And how do I fix whatever it is? Thanks.. Mar 24 03:28:20 koalagate inetd[825]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory Mar 24 03:29:29 koalagate inetd[856]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory Mar 24 03:36:33

Re: mtft and root problems

1998-03-24 Thread rhl
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Chris Frost wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Michael P. Plezbert wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Chris Frost wrote: > > > > > I just got ftape-3.04c and users can see the program /usr/bin/ftmt, but if > > > you log

Re: Clearing out Swap?

1998-03-24 Thread John Winters
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Dave Wreski wrote: > >> Data/processes that is in swap and not being used will stay there until it is >> used. You could very well have 32M free RAM, and still be using swap. The >> programs will get moved back into RAM if there is

Re: commandline and vi

1998-03-24 Thread Scott McDermott
Paul F Almquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 04:02:07PM -0600: > > > > Interesting, I couldn't find out how to do this. I've always used the > > > > arrow keys for the command line, and various other keys outlined in the > > > > help files. No where does it mention using hjkl ok

Re: BIND-8, when RedHat?

1998-03-24 Thread Scott McDermott
Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 12:27:42AM +0100: > Well, BIND-4 has been abandoned by the dev.team since May 1997. They > recommend that everyone run BIND-8 ("You should be using BIND-8"). When > will RedHat replace the BIND-4 in their distribution with BIND-8? > Is ther

Re: scsi tape drive; which device

1998-03-24 Thread Dan Cyr
Check out the KBackup software. It's on sunsite somewhere. You can use it to run a test to tell you what device it is called. Though I would assume it's the same as mine /dev/nst0 Dan At 06:46 AM 3/24/98 -0600, Victoria Stanfield wrote: >Is there a HOWTO somewhere that tells me which device t

Re: Clearing out Swap?

1998-03-24 Thread David S. Jackson
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, John Winters wrote: > >I would like to find out how if I can "restart" the swap space...I > >think there's deadwood in there. But I don't know whether there's a > >utility to tell me whether any swap space currently is being wasted. > >Any ideas? > > Define "wasted". If yo

Re: how can i login as root from a user account?

1998-03-24 Thread John Winters
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Hello, > > I am wondering if someone has some input for my question. I am >under the impression that the less I login as root the better off I am. >Since when I am as root the odds are there that something I am doing could >crash the system, un like

scsi tape drive; which device

1998-03-24 Thread Victoria Stanfield
Is there a HOWTO somewhere that tells me which device to use for my scsi tape drive? I didn't see anything in the scsi howto. My card is an Adaptec 1520B and the drive is a Travan 4/8GB made by Seagate, although the scsi card sees it as "Conner 8000-S". Anyone got a source for info or want to _be

Re: in.inetd?

1998-03-24 Thread Borek Lupomesky
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, GateKeepeR News wrote: > Why do I keep getting these mesages in /var/log/messages? And how do I > fix whatever it is? Thanks.. > > Mar 24 03:28:20 koalagate inetd[825]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such > file or directory You don't have identd daemon installed on your

Re: BIND-8, when RedHat?

1998-03-24 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Scott McDermott wrote: > Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 12:27:42AM +0100: > > Well, BIND-4 has been abandoned by the dev.team since May 1997. They > > recommend that everyone run BIND-8 ("You should be using BIND-8"). When > > will RedHat replace th

su

1998-03-24 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
i know this list is for redhat q's but the SU command is in ANY book RH or not. > My Question is how can I log into my boxas root from a non root >account?I start my non suid (Super User ID?) account then I try to telnet >into myself and login as root but it takes the passwords and reje

Intel Smart Video Recorder III

1998-03-24 Thread David . LANDGREN
> I have a feeling this message got swallowed up before it made it to > the list. My apologies if you are reading this for the second time. > -- > I'm still not quite sure how I pulled this off, but I managed to > convince Intel to give me an Intel Smart Video Recorder III, a PnP > card that d

FW: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Bradley, Greg
Steve Coile said : > The Mac vs Wintel has never been a technical debate. A technical review > and the editoral response is. Magazine editors are seldom intimidated. Actually, magazine editors are very often intimidated, usually by threats to pull advertising from big budget clients. The only p

Read: redhat-digest Digest V98 #479

1998-03-24 Thread Shankar Chakkere
Your Message To: Shankar Chakkere(MS:DENRO/DENRO/SChakkere) Entitled: redhat-digest Digest V98 #479 And Sent On: 1998-03-20 10:46 Was Read At: 1998-03-24 09:25 Priority: C -- -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Err

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