realaudio and RH 5.0

Hi all. I've only had 5.0 installed for a few days now on my primary machine, so I haven't subscribed to hurricane-list yet... What's the deal with rvplayer and RH 5.0? Its expired? That was one of the reasons I purchased it, thinking I had a registered version included with the purchase of 5

RE: Network (or Netscape?) question

> Here is my problem. After connecting with my ISP and starting Netscape, > after a short delay I get the message that the DNS server is not found or > unavailable (or something similar to that). If, however, I deactivate my > network Netscape will connect with no problems. I figure that with the

Sorry, test

My ISP has been down since Tuesday afternoon (DNS servers). Bob -- +---+ | Bob Taylor Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| |---| | Like the ad says, at 300 dpi you can te

Network (or Netscape?) question

I'm really not sure if this is a network problem or something with Netscape. I'm running RHL 4.2 and Netscape Communicator 4.0. I have a private network running between two computers, one being my Linux box the other is Win95. I access my ISP via dialup. I have both the network (eth0) and the d

RE: What does this mean?

> Thanks. I tried that, but it terminated my session. Guess those resources > were in too much of a demand. I got somebody headed over to pull the plug... Yes, it will terminate the command. It replaces your current shell with the process you are exec'ing, in this case init. You should notic

Netscape & Online Security.

While shopping online: In Linux: Netscape error occured while send request! Outcome: Order did not go through. Different site: In Windows: Netscape error occured while processing request! Outcome:Order did not go through and my shopping cart bounce! One copy was sent back to me and anothe

RE: What does this mean?

At 10:25 PM 4/2/98 -0500, you wrote: >Try something like: > ># exec init 6 > >Which will use the resources from your current shell to try and reboot the >machine. Thanks. I tried that, but it terminated my session. Guess those resources were in too much of a demand. I got somebody head

RE: What does this mean?

> If only I was sitting in front of this system, I could pull the plug. :( > david Try something like: # exec init 6 Which will use the resources from your current shell to try and reboot the machine. Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

RE: What does this mean?

I think Apache has started using too many resources. The hits on my web server have been going steadily up and I think its to the point where I'm running out of memory. Check out these errors. [root@ns1 /sbin]# ps aux Ouch! malloc failed in malloc_block() Segmentation fault [root@ns1 /sbin]# l

Invalid Modeline in XFree86

I got this modeline from a webpage at www.mpegtv.com: Mode "352x280" DotClock 15.750 HTimings 352 368 416 432 VTimings 280 288 286 302 Flags"Doublescan" EndMode Problem is that XFree86 co

Re: modules

Hi I may have misunderstood your question here, but I had something happen that was similar after a kernel compile The thing to do was to go to /lib/modules/your-kernel-version and remove ( or copy to some temp safe place ) all the files that are there. Then do the make modules-install again. I un

Re: ICQ for Java -- Off Topic for List

Sorry, I realize this is off-topic HD Peter, you need the 1.1.4 or higher JDK to run ICQ; That's most likely the cause of your problems... Heath > register me on the network, or check my password for my old UIN, it always > throws a HUGE page full of messages, and the

RE: What does this mean?

On 03-Apr-98 David S Edwards wrote: > Hello, > > I've seen this message a couple times in my syslog. Does anyone know what > this means and what might be causing it? > > Mar 31 08:40:27 ns1 inetd[2840]: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable It means one of the services (most likely) or inetd

Re: X-Server for Matrox Mill-II

On 03-Apr-98 David Fisher wrote: > XiGraphics' CDE with their AcceleratedX will run circles around most X > servers. > It is neither free nor cheap, and their tech support is spotty, but the > difference is impressive. We use it on a Matrox Millennium 2 driving a 21" > Hitachi, and it makes Linux

RE: off topic: linux artical && wsj

> It's been used by everyone from the makers of "Titanic" to NASA and it's > free to all comers, yet at least two firms sell it. It's an operating > system called Linux, and its backers believe that it could give Windows NT > a run for its money -- contradiction and all. I also don't have a subs

Re: Penguin Xbanner [was X Configurator]

On 4.2, it's in one of the /etc/X11/xdm/ files. Don't remember which. That file issues an "xbanner" command which sources the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XBanner file. Sorry to be so vague, not in front of that box. Rick On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Abandon_All_Hope wrote: > Hey I want to get ride

Re: Is there AutoCAD-like software vailable on Linux?

On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Saulius wrote: > > Does anybody know of any AutoCAD software, available on Linux platform ? I don't know for sure, but a while back I heard about Bentley Inc. porting their Microstation product to Linux. cheers, Hossein P.S: IMHO Microstation is not an "ACAD-like" product;

X Configurator

Hey I want to get ride off the penguin and readhat banner at the login screen (/usr/X11/bin/xbanner). Does only one were this is configured. Thanks -Dave - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you never

Re: C program compiles and runs on Solaris but not RH 5.0

THIS IS WHAT I LOVE SEEING IN THIS "NEWSGROUP", KEEP IT UP! -Kris Gibson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Brian Kirkland/CADC Designer wrote: > Thanks to all who responded to this message. I used gdb > and found the problem. > >

Keeping Daemons in ram

I've searched the RedHat Web Site using their search utility, and used www.mamma.com (a good multi-engine search engine) but haven't found the answer. How do I force the system to keep a daemon in main memory and not swap it to disk? Also, how do I make sure that daemon is considered very i

RE: Video card's

Hello; I use a STB Nitro 3D... Don't know how much of a diff there is between the two though... Pete -Original Message- From: Chris Frost [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 02, 1998 7:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Video card's -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MES

re: netscape communicator 4.04 can't find "java40.jar" in CLASSPATH ?

comparing my "java40.jar" file against my machine at work yielded different sums, not to mention a gross difference in size (1228649 bytes for a working java40.jar versus 165888 bytes for a non-working one). hmmm, perhaps something went wrong in the downloading? anyway, using the larger java40.jar

Re: mounting filesystem with rescue floppies

I would like to purchase or download an online manual for system recovery and backup/restoring backup! Any suggestions? Jay Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] > a followup: > > finally got the filesystem mounted - not a SCSI controller problem at all, > just ignorance as to which partition I needed

ICQ for Java

Hello; This may be pushing it a bit... But has anyone successfully installed ICQ for Java? I use ICQ all the time in WinBloze... But I'm trying to not have to use it. ICQ is one of the last things I need to transfer over. I thought I successfully installed ICQ, and the jdk.. But apparently n

Re: Sound Card Help

Thjis wont help you too much in your immediate quest, but it may help long term Take a look at OSS This is a pay for deal but cheap at $10 and is nonproblematical and has all kinds of stuff that work with it! Cant find the URL at the moment, but do a search Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As a

How to mount a "foreign" file system from IRIX 5.3

Hi, Recently my SGI Indy workstation(running IRIX 5.3) crashed and I had to migrate my application to a Linux box. My data are held in an external Seagate 4G SCSI hard disk. My Linux box detected the SCSI hard disk and label it /dev/sdb. My Questions : 1.What file system option should I use to

Re: EzPPP...

You probably need to use PAP. Hint--Your chat script will look incomplete! ... or try the Network Configurator -- http://planttel.net/~jay/netconfig.html Then use UserNet as normal user to start ppp interface. Jay > Zoki wrote: > > > Anybody using the Beta 9 version of EzPPP? I installed

Re: C program compiles and runs on Solaris but not RH 5.0

Thanks to all who responded to this message. I used gdb and found the problem. It turns out that the guy who wrote the code had a line like this: j = (nClusters*rand())/(RAND_MAX+1) where "j" is an integer. He expected j to be set to a number between 0 and nClusters. However, he hard coded RAN

Re: X-Server for Matrox Mill-II

XiGraphics' CDE with their AcceleratedX will run circles around most X servers. It is neither free nor cheap, and their tech support is spotty, but the difference is impressive. We use it on a Matrox Millennium 2 driving a 21" Hitachi, and it makes Linux almost user-friendly. Chuck Carson wrote:

FW: ASUS DexPlorer V3000 - RedHat 5.0

I downloaded the latest xfree rpm from the redhat site and choses the first card I found that used the same chipset, it worked fine. If you have trouble I'll have a look to see which card it was. Regards Greg -- From: Daniele Dal Verme To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: recipient.list.not.shown

X-Server for Matrox Mill-II

I have a Matrox Mill-II vid-board and am currently running the Metro-X server distributed with RH 5. I get screen corruption when the system sits idle and was wondering what is the best server to use with this vid-board. I have used the Xfree SVGA server (3.3.1 I think) and was wondering if there

What does this mean?

Hello, I've seen this message a couple times in my syslog. Does anyone know what this means and what might be causing it? Mar 31 08:40:27 ns1 inetd[2840]: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable Thanks, David -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http:

Re: Named problems

hehe, perhaps you need to put a line 'FILES=512' in your config.sys ? On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Nick Koston wrote: > I keep getting these errors when I restart/start named. It seems > only to work when the system is just starting up and then go balistic > adter it has booted completely. My gues

Is there AutoCAD-like software vailable on Linux?

> Does anybody know of any AutoCAD software, available on Linux platform ? Thanks Saulius -- 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]

Named problems

I keep getting these errors when I restart/start named. It seems only to work when the system is just starting up and then go balistic adter it has booted completely. My guess is after the system has finished booting it has to many files open (have to raise a max open files limit somewhere

Re: C program compiles and runs on Solaris but not RH 5.0

On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Brian Kirkland/CADC Designer wrote: > here? I suspect it is the glibc but I am not knowledgable enough > on C to track down the problem. So I am looking for suggestions I suspect it is a bug in your code. :) Linux is much fussier about doing things like freeing free memory

Video card's

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For a system I'm building, I was wondering how the STB Nitro and the Diamond Stealth II run under linux and X. Has anyone had any success/failure w/ these cards. I saw that xfree does work w/ the STB Nitro, but I didn't see anything on the stealth II.

New component question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm about to get a new cpu and motherboard (switching from a 486 vlb system to a cyrix pci system) and a new video card. What, besides reconfiguring x, will I need to do? Everything that's in the machine right now will stay there except for these part

Re: which SCSI controller?

I'm upgrading my good old RHL 3.0.3 with a 100Mhz 586 to a P166 and RHL 5.0. The machine was previously used on another project and was setup by the previous sysadmin really wierd. This box had a 2920 in it and I had lots of trouble. I looked around my my spares box and came up with an Adap

off topic: linux artical && wsj

Hi I receive an email everyday from wallstreet interactive edition telling me some the technology related headlines of the day. (Subscribed through netscape) Today I received one that said; Linux Steps Into the Limelight It's been used by everyone from the makers of "Titanic" to NASA and it's

Re: C program compiles and runs on Solaris but not RH 5.0

> Lots of info can be gained quickly with a simple stacktrace, > instructions for which shouldn't be hard to dig out of even the most > voluminous documentation. > > I'd suggest post mortem examination of the core first; you don't have > to worry about changing conditions with your debugging at

Re: C program compiles and runs on Solaris but not RH 5.0

Dave Reed's message says: ]- [ Snip a lot of good sense about other causes than glibc ] Another common cause is slight differences in malloc/alignment implementations, especially off by one's over page boundaries. ]- Use a debugger (e.g., gdb) to track down where it crashes or if you Lots of i

Re: ?How to Kill Apache 1.1.3-3 (RH 4.2 Dis'n)

Look in the conf directory for the apache server and find where the file httpd.pid is stored. This file contains the process ID of the initial server process. Kill this process and all others die. For 113 I think the conf directory is in /etc/httpd Chuck -Original Message- From: Brian <[

Re: Sockets

> How do I check the users setuid bit? > and if its not set, how do I set it? First, read the man page for chmod, as this will explain how to use the setuid bit. Next, make sure you know which binaries you are going to be applying the suid bit to, as there is significant potential for security e

RE: NYS (was: Re: Commercial use of Red Hat)

>> Is NYS extensible? Can I add the ability to configure Apache, Sendmail, >> or even home-grown programs? I really don't know much about NIS and its >> descendants. > > I havn't tried the Linux version (NYS), but basically NIS+ is a way to > manage /etc/hosts, /etc/passwd, /etc/services, and m

Re: ?How to Kill Apache 1.1.3-3 (RH 4.2 Dis'n)

Thanks man I just tried it and it seems to have works just fine Thanks again John On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Brian wrote: > > Since I'll be using it for dialip to an ISP ( I'll want to kill > > Apache when ever I'm connected... > > I cannot remember how to do it no can I find it in the docs...

NYS (was: Re: Commercial use of Red Hat)

On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote: > >Have you considered NIS+ (NYS)? > > Is NYS extensible? Can I add the ability to configure Apache, Sendmail, > or even home-grown programs? I really don't know much about NIS and its > descendants. I havn't tried the Linux version (NYS), but

RE: DHCP & DNS

> > Is there anything out there that correlates the info DNS has as DHCP > is > > assigning IP addresses? Am I just dreaming too much? What I have > in mind > > is, when DHCP assigns the IP address, it updates the DNS with the > hostname > > info, or vice versa. [Jason Scherbarth] I've

Re: ?How to Kill Apache 1.1.3-3 (RH 4.2 Dis'n)

> Since I'll be using it for dialip to an ISP ( I'll want to kill > Apache when ever I'm connected... > I cannot remember how to do it no can I find it in the docs... > I'm not sure, but can't you do: /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd.init stop I think this'll do what you want, but it may be a little sl

Re: Newbie problem

On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Chuck Carson wrote: > I have gone thru several C books and the best I have found is by Kelley and > Pohl entitles > "A Book On C". > > I used the third edition, there is now a fourth, almost twice as thick, so I > am sure it is still > just as good. However, nothing will ever

Intermittant POP3 failure

Hello - got a problem here, and I'm really not sure where to go to try and solve it. I'd appreciate any suggestions. We've got a nice fast box running RH5.0 (with the current errata installed). It gets used mostly as an SMB server and a POP3 server. Occasionally (once every few weeks or so), w

?How to Kill Apache 1.1.3-3 (RH 4.2 Dis'n)

G'morning I have a Redhat 4.2 box which was originally a webserver and I'm converting it to a Workstation. Since I'll be using it for dialip to an ISP ( I'll want to kill Apache when ever I'm connected... I cannot remember how to do it no can I find it in the docs... I have Apache 1.1.3-3

modules

I have a quick question concerning modules - I recently recompiled my kernel to add sound card support (I have a funky sound card that needs to be included in the kernel). While I was reconfiguring it I turned off a lot of options that I don't need. After installing the kernel (and doing the m

Re: first time working with SRPMs--how?

On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Mike Edwards wrote: > Up until now, I really haven't had the need to custom-compile any > commands, but I want to look into doing so with nenscript. My question > is, if I install the src.rpm, will it stomp on the already installed > nenscript files? I have a feeling it won'

Sound Card Help

As a new user to Linux, I got RedHat up and running smoothly in about a week. But, configuring my sound card is driving me nuts. I've read the Sound-HOWTO several times, only to get confused. Then I read the aedsp16.c driver, to get only more confused. My card is an Audio Excel. Any help would be

Searchable list archives

Can anyone tell me where these are?? -- 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 "unsubscribe" as the Subje

RE: "Groupware" recommendations?

On 25-Mar-98 Michael Jinks wrote: > I'm under all sorts of pressure to use a Notes account. In fact I fear > it may be inevitable. I don't want to, especially since I can't get it > to install on my Linux box. Is anyone aware of a way around this > problem that includes an office where Notes i

Navigator 4.05

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Re: EzPPP...

At 06:31 PM 4/2/98 +, you wrote: >At 15:58 02/04/1998 +, you wrote: >>Zoki wrote: >> >>> Anybody using the Beta 9 version of EzPPP? I installed it recently without >>> problems and the connection goes well until the moment where I have to >>> enter the password. My ISP's server returns an

Suck and INN

I am told that INN can be made to use Suck as the news fetcher. However I have not been able to get this to work and the Suck docs website is now gone. Has anyone done this? If so, can anyone fill me in? RH5.0 INN 1.7 RPM Suck 3.5.2 RPM Jason -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata

Re: Netscape 4.04 crashes on embed src=filename.mid

> > This page exemplifies the problem: > > > > http://arena.simplenet.com/hleft.htm > Mine does the same! It'd happened before but I thought it was an > anonaly. What gives? Well, report the problem, and perhaps now we can get it fixed: http://www.mozilla.org/report.html Dave -- P

Re: Netscape 4.04 crashes on embed src=filename.mid

On 2 Apr, Jay Vassos-Libove wrote: > On my RedHat 5.0 system, my Netscape Navigator 4.04 crashes every time it > sees an "embed src=filename.mid" tag. My older Navigator 3.x does not > have a problem with this, and Navigator 4.04 on WindowsNT plays the MIDI > just fine. > > It does not matter

Netscape 4.04 crashes on embed src=filename.mid

On my RedHat 5.0 system, my Netscape Navigator 4.04 crashes every time it sees an "embed src=filename.mid" tag. My older Navigator 3.x does not have a problem with this, and Navigator 4.04 on WindowsNT plays the MIDI just fine. It does not matter whether JAVA / JAVAscript is enabled, and adding

Re: mounting filesystem with rescue floppies

a followup: finally got the filesystem mounted - not a SCSI controller problem at all, just ignorance as to which partition I needed ('mount sda2 /mnt' did the trick). I removed the offending line from /etc/inittab, and things are back to normal. Now that the recovery issues are behind me, I nee

Re: C program compiles and runs on Solaris but not RH 5.0

> From: Brian Kirkland/CADC Designer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I have a simple C program which I can compile with the > simple command: > > gcc cluster.c -lm > > and it compiles fine on both Solaris and RH 5.0. > > However, it only runs on Solaris. On RH 5.0, it > runs part way and then crashes

Swap space error messages

Hello, I was wondering if anyone can help me interpret these entries out of my syslog. I'm guessing there is a problem with how my swap space is set up. Apr 2 07:54:18 ns1 kernel: Hmm.. Trying to use unallocated swap (00018800) Apr 2 07:54:20 ns1 kernel: swap_free: swap-space map bad (entry 0

Re: Newbie problem

tar -xvzf thefile.tar.gz however, this only works on a few tar's..but it does work on the one that comes with redhat :) just dont' try it on an Digital Unix system :) if your tar doesn't support -z (it will give you errors, probably either about how -z isn't a valid option or that you don't ha

redhat 5.0 and ypbind

I am running redhat in a small network. Everytime I telnet to the work station, the login program making about 200 tcp connections to ypbind. Is this the way it works. Lou -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat

Re: Newbie problem

Hello! > ps. > can anyone here recommend some good (newbie) books about C-programming I liked "Teach yourself C in 21 days", because I didn't know much about programming before learning C, except for some BASIC and Pascal. It's very easy to follow. --- Li

Re: Newbie problem

On 4 Jan, Osman wrote: > Hi ! > I have download some "books" about linux. The file format is tar.gz, Can anyone > here tell me how to unpack them. I have tried several variants of tar and > gunzip, but unsuccesfully. If in fact the file is a tar.gz file, the correct syntax to explode it is this:

Re: which SCSI controller?

Interesting. My experience was exactly opposite; couldn't get essentially the same system (ASUS XP55T2P4/128MB/SCSI everything/SB-AWE/Millenium 8Mb/etc.) to work with Adaptec. Went to Buslogic, had a problem getting it going. Sent email to Leonard Zubkopf at , got a

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C program compiles and runs on Solaris but not RH 5.0

I have a simple C program which I can compile with the simple command: gcc cluster.c -lm and it compiles fine on both Solaris and RH 5.0. However, it only runs on Solaris. On RH 5.0, it runs part way and then crashes with: Segmentation violation as the error. I have tried this with the stock

Re: anonymous ftp problems

More correct answer: remove user "ftp" from /etc/passwd On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, ramon wrote: > > The problem is now that I'd only want to give access to REAL users but > > when I edit ftpaccess -file deleting the anonymous from class > > specification I can't login as a real user anymore. > > edit

Re: EzPPP...

Zoki wrote: > > At 15:58 02/04/1998 +, you wrote: > >Zoki wrote: > > > >> Anybody using the Beta 9 version of EzPPP? I installed it recently without > >> problems and the connection goes well until the moment where I have to > >> enter the password. My ISP's server returns an error saying: "l

Re: Newbie problem

I have gone thru several C books and the best I have found is by Kelley and Pohl entitles "A Book On C". I used the third edition, there is now a fourth, almost twice as thick, so I am sure it is still just as good. However, nothing will ever be as up to date as man pages. Chuck -Original M

Re: anonymous ftp problems

> The problem is now that I'd only want to give access to REAL users but > when I edit ftpaccess -file deleting the anonymous from class > specification I can't login as a real user anymore. edit the /etc/ftpusers file and add anonymous at the end of the list. That will stop all anonymous ftp acc

RE: Fax Servers

> Viva la choices!! Yes, that is very true. I only meant to point out other choices.. > While we are on this subject does Hylafax do Alpha numeric pages well > or for that matter at all? I heard somewhere that it will do this. > If so can I configure it to just do paging? Yes, it has integrat

Re: EzPPP...

At 15:58 02/04/1998 +, you wrote: >Zoki wrote: > >> Anybody using the Beta 9 version of EzPPP? I installed it recently without >> problems and the connection goes well until the moment where I have to >> enter the password. My ISP's server returns an error saying: "login wrong". >> I tested th

Re: EzPPP...

Zoki wrote: > Anybody using the Beta 9 version of EzPPP? I installed it recently without > problems and the connection goes well until the moment where I have to > enter the password. My ISP's server returns an error saying: "login wrong". > I tested the same procedure in Windows 3.11 and it work

first time working with SRPMs--how?

Up until now, I really haven't had the need to custom-compile any commands, but I want to look into doing so with nenscript. My question is, if I install the src.rpm, will it stomp on the already installed nenscript files? I have a feeling it won't until I actually make/compile it, but should I

Locking up in X

Well, after all the trouble getting my RH5 box to link to the network, then switching from MetroX to XFree, I've finally gotten to where I want it, but: I keep getting locked up in X! And if it doesn't lock up, it dumps me out without an error message! So far, I've changed video cards from an S

Re: mounting filesystem with rescue floppies

-Original Message- From: Rich Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: donderdag 2 april 1998 15:54 Subject: mounting filesystem with rescue floppies I modified my inittab and now the system is unusable. :-( I can start the machine using the two floppie

Re: Using Loadlin

I did that and it tells me that it is not a valid image file. What I did to get the image file was boot to the newly installed linux partition via rescue (NT partition is first) and copy vmlinuz to a floppy. I then put the floppy in a working linux machine, mounted it and ftp'd it to my dos disk

Re: Commercial use of Red Hat

Damond Walker wrote: > I work as a consultant so I understand your problem but from a > different standpoint. My boss's bos is afraid to go any way except MS. > Even though I have a Linux box sitting two feet away from my desk he > doesn't want to hear anything non-ms. I can show him how

mail server problems

Hello allI have a machine that is running RedHat Linux 4.0 (I know, it needs to be updated, but it's not a decision that I can make). Anyways, over the last few days, a problem with the pop daemon has surfaced. When clients try to get their e-mail using Pegasus, it takes up to 30 seconds for

Re: Using Loadlin

Yes I am using Loadlin to boot linux from DOS. I think that loadlin requires the name of the imagefile to be vmlinuz ( not linuz ) or zImage. Simply rename it and try . Jason Wilson wrote: > > If anyone has any experience using loadlin I am having some problem using > it. I created a dos 6.22 b

Re: Newbie problem

> can anyone here recommend some good (newbie) books about C-programming > I didn't see any response to this question. One of my first classes in college on C++ used a book called: Problem Solving with C++, by Walter Savitch You can check it out at this website: http://www.aw.com/cseng It's

X - Multiple Visuals?

I am running XFree86 on RH5 with a Matrox Millenium II. It all runs fine at 1280x1024 by 24 bit. However, the problem I have is that one particular app that I have to run expects an 8-bit display and therefore complains about not being able to find the correct "Visual" and refuses to run. If I r

Re: Subject: Re: which SCSI controller

At 03:07 AM 4/2/98 -0600, you wrote: > >> I'd be interested in some BusLogic testimonials too, if anyone has >> any... > If you want a phenominal card get the SuperMicro SPUW card using a Symbios and NCR875x logic. The card works so good I sometime wonder why anyone would buy anything else. RedHa

Re: Delete User Command?

At RH 5.0 userdel :-) For more info: man userdel John Bruce Tong wrote: > > Is there a command to delete a user, or should I continue to be editing > the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files and removing the user's home > directory on my own? > > Basically, is there something which is

RE: Compile Errors

Hello. Just to offer some ideas based on my own experience. Have U installed the XFree-Devel package? [hoeteck@home hoeteck]$ /sbin/ldconfig -p | grep "libX11" libX11.so.6 (ELF-libc5) => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libX11.so.6 libX11.so.6 (ELF-libc6) => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6

Re: Newbie problem

Better solution: tar -xzf thefilename.tar.gz Then you don't have the larger, decompressed tarfile remaining behind. On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Tad Johnson wrote: > gunzip thefilename.tar.gz > > then: > > tar -xf thefilename.tar > > Tad > > At 03:55 AM 1/4/97 +0100, you wrote: > >Hi ! > >I have do

Re: Newbie problem

On Sat, 4 Jan 1997, Osman wrote: > Hi ! > I have download some "books" about linux. The file format is tar.gz, Can anyone > here tell me how to unpack them. I have tried several variants of tar and > gunzip, but unsuccesfully. Try: tar xvzf somefile.tar.gz Also, check out the man pages for bo

Re: Newbie problem

gunzip thefilename.tar.gz then: tar -xf thefilename.tar Tad At 03:55 AM 1/4/97 +0100, you wrote: >Hi ! >I have download some "books" about linux. The file format is tar.gz, Can anyone >here tell me how to unpack them. I have tried several variants of tar and >gunzip, but unsuccesfully. > >Than

Newbie problem

Hi ! I have download some "books" about linux. The file format is tar.gz, Can anyone here tell me how to unpack them. I have tried several variants of tar and gunzip, but unsuccesfully. Thanks ps. can anyone here recommend some good (newbie) books about C-programming -- PLEASE read the Red

anonymous ftp problems

I installed RH 5.0 with anonymous ftp server. The problem is now that I'd only want to give access to REAL users but when I edit ftpaccess -file deleting the anonymous from class specification I can't login as a real user anymore. I have been using the hosts.deny and hosts.allow lists for restri

Re: Commercial use of Red Hat (was Re: Sorry,,,,,,,,,,,Sorry,,,

On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Keith Dart wrote: >On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote: >> I work for an ISP. We've got several boxes that share a lot of >> configuration information (password files, server configuration files, >> etc.). The idea of a robust, full-featured configuration system

mounting filesystem with rescue floppies

I modified my inittab and now the system is unusable. :-( I can start the machine using the two floppies I made from the RedHat4.2 CDROM. But the /dev directory contains no drivers for the SCSI drive I need to mount. When I asked for an autoprobe of the SCSI bus during bootup, I see "Scanning SCSI

Re: Sockets

I would first take a look in your /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny files. Here is where you specify which hosts are allowed/denied to use which services. Earle Nietzel === Dear all First time on the list so please be gentle with m

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