PPPD Serving Win-95 Machines....PAP-only authentication

1998-05-13 Thread Mike Blatchley
A few days ago, I was asking how to spawn a PPPD process if someone appended a "$" to their user name. Well, now I am pursuing the mgetty option using /AutoPPP/ detect. This automatically starts pppd and then you must do user authentication through pppd. Since I am doing this for some Windows

Legal Size LaTeX

1998-05-13 Thread Chris Frost
I'm trying to printout a legal sized latex document, but it keeps messing up...when I view it w/ xdvi the text goes on to the bottom, and then past. When I print it out the result the text starts near half way though the page. I posted the latex and dvi file so that maybe someone can say "you "stu

Re: Dual-channel ISDN

1998-05-13 Thread Ryan McCowan
On Wed, 13 May 1998, hUnTeR wrote: > Scott - > > Tried that...a problem with that is that the sh script doesnt like & and > gives me an errorcan this be replaced simply with a \ ? Like dialing > two numbers with the ATDT such as ATDT14408561010&14408561010 would > become ATDT14408561010\144

Re: RH Linux boot from 2nd drive

1998-05-13 Thread Rich Shepard
At 10:57 AM 5/13/98 -0700, you wrote: >Here is /etc/lilo.conf: > > boot=/dev/hdc1 > map=/boot/map > install=/boot/boot.b > prompt > timeout=50 > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.32 > label=linux > root=/dev/hdc1 > read-only >

Re: Netscape and RedHat 5.0

1998-05-13 Thread Piet Barber
> 1) I would like to make use of a proxy server: proxy.cistron.nl:8080. Looks like several others responded. > 2) Whenever I click on a rpm file in Netscape, it tries do display the rpm > file instead of downloading it. How can I change this behaviour? You got some replies that said something t

Re: vm not reading spool file

1998-05-13 Thread Ray Curtis
> "dr" == Danny Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dr> I have a new RH 5.0 system going and am running xemacs 20.4. dr> In vm vm-get-new-mail is not getting new mail from spool. I am dr> getting no error message just "No new mail". I tried changing dr> vm-spool-files to (setq vm-spool-files

RE: Replacing a kernel

1998-05-13 Thread Dave Wreski
> A newbie wants to replace the rh v4.2 stock kernel with a 2.0.32-2 kernel. > Where should he look for a howto procedure for handling the new rpm > kernel,kernel-header,and kernel-modules? http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/intel/kernel-upgrade-intel.html -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ,

RE: Linux4.2

1998-05-13 Thread Dave Wreski
On 13-May-98 twisted wrote: > Hello everyone, I am having a small problem, and was wondering if > perhaps someone could help me and save me some time. > A friend just installed Redhat 4.2 on Her computer. It seems that she > did not isntall the linux developers .rpm's. When I tried to run "make

RE: Cyrix CPU & kernel 2.0.33

1998-05-13 Thread Dave Wreski
On 13-May-98 CyberMan wrote: > > I recompiled the kernel with the Cyrix patches downloaded from > www.linuxhq.com and now my Cyrix PR150+ CPU is recognized as an IE86??? > Doing a cat /proc/cpuinfo shows the corect CPU type, but uname -m shows > IE86. > Because of this starnge thing I cann

ethernet problem

1998-05-13 Thread Aristotle Zoulas
I installed RH 4.2 on my Deskpro 566. Everything installed ok. When prompted to select an ethernet card, the one built into the machine (AMD) was not listed. I tried a few , like NE2000 compatible but none worked. Any thoughts?? TIA Aristotle Zoulas

vm not reading spool file

1998-05-13 Thread Danny Rice
I have a new RH 5.0 system going and am running xemacs 20.4. In vm vm-get-new-mail is not getting new mail from spool. I am getting no error message just "No new mail". I tried changing vm-spool-files to (setq vm-spool-files '("~/temp/mbox") ) and doing chmod 777 ~/temp chmod 777 ~/temp/mb

RE: Is U.S. Robotics Internal 56K FAXmodem compatible?

1998-05-13 Thread Slyglif Cain
> From: Zoki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > On Wed, 13 May 1998, Steven Taetzsch wrote: > ->How do I tell if it is a winmodem? It doesn't say anything on the box or > ->in the documentation. The users guide doesn't mention any jumpers. It is > ->PNP, but I have PNP disabled in my BIOS, and I check

Re: cron schedules - how do they work?

1998-05-13 Thread Steve Hazelett
John, cron.daily, cron.weekly are directories. run-parts actually executes the scripts in each of these directories, if they are executable scripts. These have nothing to do with rebooting your system. If you go to each of these directories you will find several programs in the directories.

Re: cron schedules - how do they work?

1998-05-13 Thread Dave Ihnat
Vidiot wrote: > >How can I find out what time cron.daily will run? Does it run exactly at > >midnight? > Do a man on crontab. Actually, that was a rather nasty response. There's *nothing* in the crontab man page about the root crontab in /etc, or the parts that get run from it. In answer to

Re: Dual-channel ISDN

1998-05-13 Thread hUnTeR
Scott - Tried that...a problem with that is that the sh script doesnt like & and gives me an errorcan this be replaced simply with a \ ? Like dialing two numbers with the ATDT such as ATDT14408561010&14408561010 would become ATDT14408561010\14408561010 ?? Would that work? Michael Weiner

Re: What happens when you run out of swap? (load spike solved?)

1998-05-13 Thread Chris Frost
Same w/ me. I've got 80mb's of ram, and with only x and netscape running I have about 60 free, but after a few hours it's down to 30 or so (this is w/o cache and such). Chris <- Visit Me At http://home.hiwaay.net/~jfrost -> <-- For My Public PGP Key Visit http://home.hiwaay.net/~jfrost/pgp_key.t

Re: What happens when you run out of swap? (load spike solved?)

1998-05-13 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 07:50:59AM -0400, Eddie Kuns wrote: > I posted a message a couple days ago with the subject line: > > Crash after "kernel: Unable to load interpreter" > > I may have figured out what happened. Last night while running Netscape, I > noticed a couple short load spik

Re: mail Id?

1998-05-13 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, May 13, 1998 at 09:49:42AM +0200, Iztok Polanic wrote: > Hello !!! > > Can you give me some IDs for other mailling programs like: You mean names of mail programs? > > Eudora > Outlook > Netscape Massenger > Tin Tin is not a mail program, its a newsreader.

Re: cron schedules - how do they work?

1998-05-13 Thread Vidiot
>How can I find out what time cron.daily will run? Does it run exactly at >midnight? Do a man on crontab. MB -- System Administrator - Finnigan FT/MS - Madison WI. URL:http://www.ftms.com/ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (608) 273-8262 ext: 612 fax: (608) 273-8719 Visit - URL:http://www.vidi

RE: qpopper+shadow

1998-05-13 Thread Hoe-Teck Wee
Hello, Sandro. I managed to get qpopper to work with APOP. In any case, that appears to be a standard crypt-based problem that often occurs in compiling under RH 5. Try adding -lcrypt to LIBS in your Makefile. Hope that helps. LIBS=-lresolv-lcrypt-lgdbm - hoe

Re: Dual-channel ISDN

1998-05-13 Thread Scott Kindley
hunter, try this init string at&fs60=64s71=1s80=1 -- 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

RE: Lyx: failed dependencies

1998-05-13 Thread Hoe-Teck Wee
Hello, Gene. Try looking for the xforms package instead (xforms-0.88-4) using the RedHat search engine for the ftp site. Hope that helps. - hoeteck On 14-May-98 Gene Wilburn wrote: > Just downloaded the latest Lyx from hurricane/contributions and get this > message when I try to install: > >

cron schedules - how do they work?

1998-05-13 Thread John Herrbach
Ok, I see cron.daily, cron.weekly, etc. How do I schedule for the machine to shutdown and perform a reboot once a day? Do I put a script in cron.daily? I see one there (or in one of them) so I'll copy the format. Just add 'shutdown -r now' I presume? I have no Xwindows on this system (for sp

Re: IOMega ZipDrive 100

1998-05-13 Thread Richard Potter
On Wed, 13 May 1998, Patrick T. Berry wrote: > Me Too! I have both, an internal IDE and a SCSI ZIP100. I want both to work on > different computers, so to transfer my work. Any drivers or pointers to them are > very > much appreciated, and I will give out brownie points. Your IDE ZIP drive is

Lyx: failed dependencies

1998-05-13 Thread Gene Wilburn
Just downloaded the latest Lyx from hurricane/contributions and get this message when I try to install: failed dependencies: libforms.so.0.86 is needed by lyx-0.12.0-2 There doesn't appear to be any package called libforms.so in any of the contrib directories and it's not in the 5.0 RPM

Re: Slow Connection

1998-05-13 Thread David Fisher
> Can anyone tell me why I might be connecting at 14,400? > > I have USR 56000 X2 sportster w/UART that connects at 28.8-33.6 in windows. My > /dev/ttyS0 is set at 115200. I am using ttyS0 as my com port. What else > effects my connect speed? Assuming that you are connecting to an ISP, bear in

Slow Connection

1998-05-13 Thread Gary
Can anyone tell me why I might be connecting at 14,400? I have USR 56000 X2 sportster w/UART that connects at 28.8-33.6 in windows. My /dev/ttyS0 is set at 115200. I am using ttyS0 as my com port. What else effects my connect speed? Thanks Gary -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Err

Re: ferror(3) returns ???

1998-05-13 Thread John H Darrah
On 13 May 1998, James Youngman wrote: > > "John" == John H Darrah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John> Does any one know if ferror returns anything on a > John> framing, parity or overrun error? It appears that > John> it doesn't from the testing I've done. > > man termios; see PARMR

Re: RH Linux boot from 2nd drive

1998-05-13 Thread tomas
switch the disks. make /dev/hda1 an ext2 fs with linux with LILO and install 95 on the other On Wed, 13 May 1998, Keith von Borstel wrote: > At 11:20 AM 5/12/98 -0700, you wrote: > > >I have Win95 running on 850 MB C drive. > >I have a second 850 MB drive I want RH Linux on. > > > >I installed

Re: IOMega ZipDrive 100

1998-05-13 Thread Patrick T. Berry
Me Too! I have both, an internal IDE and a SCSI ZIP100. I want both to work on different computers, so to transfer my work. Any drivers or pointers to them are very much appreciated, and I will give out brownie points. Mike Stanczyk wrote: > Excuse me for coming late to the discussion but I ju

Dual-channel ISDN

1998-05-13 Thread hUnTeR
G'day everyone. I realize i have posted this problem/issue before, but my ISP insists that its ME.geee any surprise there. So i thought, for your enjoyment i would re-post his response which also includes my email to HIM. My problem is getting the second channel to sync...even after rerunning

qpopper+shadow

1998-05-13 Thread Sandro Jurado
Anybody got qpopper-2.4 working shadow passwords ? When I try to compile I have this error at the end : gcc flock.o pop_dele.o pop_dropcopy.o pop_get_command.o pop_get_subcommand.o pop_init.o pop_last.o pop_list.o pop_log.o pop_lower.o pop_msg.o pop_parse.o pop_pass.o pop_quit.o pop_rset.o

Re: expect? (offtopic)

1998-05-13 Thread Fred Lenk
Well, I use expect in my dialup email server, but not to establish the connection. I'm using the following to dialup: #PPP command with built in chat script /usr/sbin/pppd connect '/usr/sbin/chat -v "" ATZ OK AT\&F1 OK ATDT1-nnn-nnn- CONNECT "" ogin: your_login_id word: your_password' /dev/

troff: too many symbols

1998-05-13 Thread Bertram M. Krueger
When I use the command groff, I get the error message: troff: too many symbols Some times there ist also a "floating-point exception". What could be the matter? Bertram M. Krueger -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.co

Cyrix CPU & kernel 2.0.33

1998-05-13 Thread CyberMan
I recompiled the kernel with the Cyrix patches downloaded from www.linuxhq.com and now my Cyrix PR150+ CPU is recognized as an IE86??? Doing a cat /proc/cpuinfo shows the corect CPU type, but uname -m shows IE86. Because of this starnge thing I cannot install RPM packages. I always get th

Weird serial problems in RH5

1998-05-13 Thread Pradeep Sagam
Hi. I recently installed RH5 from a Cheap Bytes CD but I seem to have problems with the serial ports. None of the /dev/cua* and /dev/ttyS* seem to be recognized by the system. My system is pentium 200 with Vxpro chipset with 32 M. I managed to get X ( XFree86 )working with the S3 ViRGE card (860

xconfig errors

1998-05-13 Thread Ron Golan
I posted earlier and perhaps it would help if I get more specific. I'm trying to compile a kernel with make xconfig as root and I get errors. Below is the tail end of the make xconfig output. I suppose that I need to set my "display name" and $DISPLAY environment variable. How can I do this? It se

Re: My HD failure problem - solved...really?

1998-05-13 Thread Vidiot
>I had the same problem with a Quantum drive. Since I have lot of stuff >in the box I didn't hear the drive spin. My problem were the female pin >connectors in the drive power cable. Due to a lot of use they "opened" >and didn't "grab" the male power pins of the drive when insterted. These >result

Re: netscape problem

1998-05-13 Thread Paul Anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello All > > I'am using RH-5.0 with the updates in a P-200 MHz. > I use Netscape--4.04. > > Each time I leave netscape for, say 15 minuts, without browsing a specific > URL, I find that netscape blows away. > > There is no record of netscape in ps, no record in lo

Re: Is U.S. Robotics Internal 56K FAXmodem compatible?

1998-05-13 Thread Zoki
On Wed, 13 May 1998, Steven Taetzsch wrote: ->How do I tell if it is a winmodem? It doesn't say anything on the box or ->in the documentation. The users guide doesn't mention any jumpers. It is ->PNP, but I have PNP disabled in my BIOS, and I checked the settings that ->windows assigns it. -> I'm

Re: My HD failure problem - solved...really?

1998-05-13 Thread Zoki
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Vidiot wrote: ->So, tonight I shut down the system and check the power cables and EIDE ->cable. Everything appeared A-OK. I turn on the power and run the BIOS ->HD config. Damn if the BIOS doesn't see the drives. -> ->Needless to say, I am back up and running, not knowing

PAM and root logins

1998-05-13 Thread Randy Smith \(at work\)
Hello, Still haven't resolved the problem with user "root" being able to login from any location. PAM, in conjunction with the /etc/securetty file is supposed to limit this to just those locations specified in /etc/securetty. The /etc/securetty file exists, with permissions 600 and owned by use

Read: redhat-digest Digest V98 #289

1998-05-13 Thread Meffan, Rob
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Mail Icon on Taskbar of AnotherLevel WM

1998-05-13 Thread Feldman, Bradley
Does anyone know how to activate the Mail Icon on the Taskbar of the AnotherLevel WM? When I was running RH 4.2, the manager seemed to frequently poll the mail folders automatically and display/remove the icon appropriately. Now, since installing RH5.0, I can't find a place or a way to make that

Re: Linux & Netware

1998-05-13 Thread Joe Klemmer
On Wed, 13 May 1998, Erik Ratcliffe wrote: > I love this... > > Let's see... The price for OpenLinux Base 1.2 in retail stores is $59, and > it comes with the Netware client (not the admin utilities, but you didn't > say you needed any). With the $20 rebate retail copies come with, that goes

Linux4.2

1998-05-13 Thread twisted
Hello everyone, I am having a small problem, and was wondering if perhaps someone could help me and save me some time. A friend just installed Redhat 4.2 on Her computer. It seems that she did not isntall the linux developers .rpm's. When I tried to run "make mrproper" with the new kernel I got

Re: c++ and writing to files

1998-05-13 Thread Matthew Smith
Try something like: char fname[2048]; // maybe dynamically allocate char *home = getenv("HOME"); sprintf(fname, "%s//book.txt", home); outfile.open(fname, ios::out); #Thanks, #Matt Smith #== #[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/12 6:40 PM >>> I want to write to a fi

Replacing a kernel

1998-05-13 Thread Gee Gwaltney
A newbie wants to replace the rh v4.2 stock kernel with a 2.0.32-2 kernel. Where should he look for a howto procedure for handling the new rpm kernel,kernel-header,and kernel-modules? Gee -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat

Re: 3C905B-TX problem worked out

1998-05-13 Thread Matt Housh
I see two big advantages right off :) The 3C905B-TX is PCI, and it's FAST :) --- Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MicroComputer SpecialistUniversity of Tulsa Engi

netscape problem

1998-05-13 Thread pancho
Hello All I'am using RH-5.0 with the updates in a P-200 MHz. I use Netscape--4.04. Each time I leave netscape for, say 15 minuts, without browsing a specific URL, I find that netscape blows away. There is no record of netscape in ps, no record in logs nothing. It simply desapears from my scree

Re: boot disk for RH5.0

1998-05-13 Thread Gordon von Miller
Hello, Finally got brave enough to load RH5 over RH4.2. I can't past the cdrom list. My cdrom is a NEC CORP. Model cdr-260R. On RH 4.2, it works just great under hdb: NEC CD-ROM. Thanks. Gordon -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat

Re: 3C905B-TX problem worked out

1998-05-13 Thread Pat Swanson
A++ Matt, Thanks for you update, but btw, I replaced my ethernet to another old NE2000 card and now it's connecting fine, please let me know if I will have any more advantages if I hocked my 3com 3c905B-TX ethernet card back on. i.e. this current card is with a ISA interface where the 3com is

Re: Linux & Netware

1998-05-13 Thread Erik Ratcliffe
On Tue, May 12, 1998 at 07:37:49PM +0800, Mark Berger wrote: > Thirdly can anyone help to identify just what part of Calderas > extortionatly priced software would I need to have NDS functionality / > compatibility - preferably without paying their ransom sized prices - or > re-installing & changi

mail (off topic)

1998-05-13 Thread Gate News
Does anyone know of a way to have 2 different mailservers both serving the same domain, so when a mail is sent to that domain, it will hit the first server, then if the user doesnt exist there it will go to the second? Thanks! Bryan -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the M

expect? (offtopic)

1998-05-13 Thread Gate News
Would anyone happen to have a script that automaticall logs into a machine via telnet? I would like to have to so I click my icon, and it just connects and logs in.. I was told to use expect but I cant quite get it to work.. Also, does anyone know of a way to import a larg number of users (~700)

Re: Western Digital

1998-05-13 Thread Rick Forrester
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Have you looked at possible hazards in the immediate environment the > system is in? ie, is it hot, is the drive close to a faulty power > supply that gets real hot, etc... > Is the system ever physically moved around or possibly on a desk that > could get bumped alo

Re: RH Linux boot from 2nd drive

1998-05-13 Thread Keith von Borstel
At 11:20 AM 5/12/98 -0700, you wrote: >I have Win95 running on 850 MB C drive. >I have a second 850 MB drive I want RH Linux on. > >I installed Linux on the second drive. When I set LILO to the MBR, no boot. >So I set LILO to the load from drive 2. Everything was fine but I can't >boot to Linux.

Re: Western Digital

1998-05-13 Thread Chuck Carson
Have you looked at possible hazards in the immediate environment the system is in? ie, is it hot, is the drive close to a faulty power supply that gets real hot, etc... Is the system ever physically moved around or possibly on a desk that could get bumped alot. Sounds crazy but I have seen little

RE: TCL/TK continued

1998-05-13 Thread Marco Shaw
You do understand how to use tcl/tk? Some programs just 'call tcl/tk' like expect and sh...You can get 'visual tcl/tk', but it isn't part of the RPM... Marco > -Original Message- > From: Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 1998 1:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: Western Digital

1998-05-13 Thread Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Mon, 11 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ** Reply to note from "Damond Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 11 May 1998 >09:19:57 > -0400 > > Is it just me, or do Western Digital drives fail as much for everyone > > else as they do for me. I've had to replace the same 1.2 gig drive th

Re: Help: sound cards

1998-05-13 Thread Joe Tseng
>Dee> Yo Joe, Grab a copy of OSS/Linux from http://www.4front-tech.com and >Dee> wala ! > >The Crystal CS4232 is the on-board sound chip on my Intel Motherboard. I >downloaded the OSS free driver and rebuilt my 2.0.33 with those drivers in my >source tree but the card did not seem to b

TCL/TK continued

1998-05-13 Thread Michael
Hi again Well, I'm using Redhat 5.0 Doing installation i chose to install everything, but I cannot find anything about TCL/TK. can you tell me where it is supposed to be located ? Thank you again ! -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redha

Java libraries/runtime?

1998-05-13 Thread Jeremy Domingue
Does anyone know if/where I can get the java libraries and runtime for RH 5? TIA, Jeremy Domingue [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 unsubscrib

pgcc - RPM? issues...

1998-05-13 Thread David Hauck
Will there ever be an RPM for pgcc? If i install it what issues will i have with using other compiler RPMs in the future? Does anybody on this list use it and think it is worth the improvement? SMP, PPro 150s thx dave d -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARC

TCL/Tk

1998-05-13 Thread Michael
Hi all ! i have just installed tcl and tk but have a small problem with it: I can't seem to get tk working. I installed it like this: ../configure make make install With no errors ! but I don't seem to have an executable file anywhere. could someone pleace give me a hint on whats wrong ? Thanks

Re: Xwindows on bootup

1998-05-13 Thread Brian Eith
> I would like for my window-manager to startup after booting up. How can I > do this? Depends. If you want the entire login screen for everyone to be X based (which also means that after the anyone logs in they will in X windows), edit your /etc/inittab and change the line that reads: id:3:in

Xwindows on bootup

1998-05-13 Thread Vance Bell
I would like for my window-manager to startup after booting up. How can I do this? Vance -- 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 uns

Re: Firewalls

1998-05-13 Thread John D. Hardin
> Any better information out there for configuring RH5 for Firewalling and > IP masquerading than the HOWTO? > > -Paul Take a look at http://www.wolfenet.com/~jhardin/ipfwadm.html -- John Hardin KA7OHZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpk -a finger://gonzo.wolfenet.com/jhardin

Re: PAM and root logins

1998-05-13 Thread tomas
you need to add stuff to /etc/securetty like ttyp0, ttyp1 and so on, in order to be able to telnet as root. On Wed, 13 May 1998, Randy Smith (at work) wrote: > Hello, > Still haven't resolved the problem with user "root" being able to login > from any location. PAM, in conjunction with the /

3C905B-TX problem worked out

1998-05-13 Thread Matt Housh
With the help of Donald Becker, I've finally gotten my on board 3C905B-TX working. It's a hack, it's nasty, it gripes at boot time, but for those of you who, like me, couldn't get the "official" Cyclone driver working, here's a dirty way to fix it.: In the file 3c59x.c from kernel source

Re: Newbie question: Directory & File structure

1998-05-13 Thread DGM
Hi Scott, Thank you very much for the help. At 10:27 PM 5/11/98 -0400, you wrote: >DGM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, May 08, 1998 at 10:04:51AM -0400: >> Does anyone know of a resource that would help me understand the directory >> structure and the files used in the Linux operating system.

Re: virtual screen

1998-05-13 Thread Matt Housh
XF86Config is indeed what you want. Look for a line that says "Virtual800 600", or the like, and change it to 640 480... --- Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MicroComputer SpecialistUn

Re: HELP: g77 crashes under RHL 5.0

1998-05-13 Thread Federico Strati
Hi Cristian, [snipped all for brevity] just two questions, remember... I'm still a newbie, > > Your problem is that the 2.7.2.3-5 binary packages were built for RH-4.2. > Installing libc5 gcc on a glibc2 system isn't sucha good resolution. > > What I have done, I took the 2.7.2.3-5.src.rpm fr

Re: Question on partitioning large drive (WIN95 + Linux)

1998-05-13 Thread Victoria Stanfield
Thanks to all who helped with my WIN95+LInux install on a 6.4GB drive. It turned out that the problem was just that / wasn't under the 1024 cylinder limit. I turned on LBA for the drive and got it to a total of 7?? cylinders, so that everything on the drive is below the limit. I would sware that

PAM and root logins

1998-05-13 Thread Randy Smith \(at work\)
Hello, Still haven't resolved the problem with user "root" being able to login from any location. PAM, in conjunction with the /etc/securetty file is supposed to limit this to just those locations specified in /etc/securetty. The /etc/securetty file exists, with permissions 600 and owned by use

RE: c++ and writing to files

1998-05-13 Thread Gibson, Todd
> outfile.open ("//usr//address//book.txt", ios::out); // Opens book.txt It is unnecessary to double up the slashes. > > but i want it to open to say my dunny dir or my msd dir...and then make > the dir/file > > how? >

Re: Firewalls

1998-05-13 Thread Ed Jaeger
Is there a specific problem you are having? I set up ours with just the HOWTOs and one additional piece of information (set the MTU on the dialup connection to 1500). -- Ed Jaeger, CFO, Bohlender Graebener Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bgcorp.com Paul Fontenot wrote: > > Any better

RealAudio in RHL 5.0 to be or not to be...

1998-05-13 Thread Cory T. Lamb
Hello all, The radio station that I work for is looking for a way to put real audio on the web. I installed the Real Media server and client but have yet to locate those pesky little fellows when it comes to configing or useing. If someone could point me to the path and maybe a howto I would appr

Re: Iomega Jaz Drives..

1998-05-13 Thread Rick Forrester
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On the other hand, I've had very good luck with ZIP disks (which use > floppy media). I've got four ZIP drives and have never had a single > sector go bad in over a year of use. Other people have reported some > sort of "clicking death" problem, but I've never seen

virtual screen

1998-05-13 Thread Mccorkle Joe
hi, I want to get rid of the 800 x 600 virtual screen in X. I use 640 x 480 because I have a 14" monitor, and I want to see everything at one time. I know there is something out there somewhere to comment out the virtual screen. I've tried to in /etc/X11/XF86Config, and no luck. Joseph McCorkle

Test only

1998-05-13 Thread bob jones
Testing why my messages have address failures. bob jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- 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

Re: HELP: g77 crashes under RHL 5.0

1998-05-13 Thread Cristian Tibirna
On Wed, 13 May 1998, Federico Strati wrote: [snip Federico's wellworthy advises] > > Ricardo Píriz wrote: > > > > Hi there! > > > > I have problems executing binaries created with g77 under RHL 5.0. > > Everything seems to go fine at compilation time, but when I try to > > execute my programs

Adaptec 1542CF problem

1998-05-13 Thread Bryan Swann
I have an Adaptec 1542CF SCSI controler in a Pentium II system that uses the 440LX chipset. I am able to use Adaptec's utilities to do a low level format on the disk drive and to run a diagnosis on the drive, the RH boot disk is having problems. I tell the boot program that I have an Adaptec 154

Re: Domain mail setup?

1998-05-13 Thread Bryan Swann
First, you must have an MX record added to your DNS server that specifies the email server that should receive mail sent to your domain. Next, you must modify your sendmail.cf file so that your machine will accept mail sent to your domain. I believe you just need to add your domain to a CW resor

Re: Help: sound cards

1998-05-13 Thread Jake Colman
> "Dee" == W D McKinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dee> Yo Joe, Grab a copy of OSS/Linux from http://www.4front-tech.com and Dee> wala ! The Crystal CS4232 is the on-board sound chip on my Intel Motherboard. I downloaded the OSS free driver and rebuilt my 2.0.33 with those drivers

What happens when you run out of swap? (load spike solved?)

1998-05-13 Thread Eddie Kuns
I posted a message a couple days ago with the subject line: Crash after "kernel: Unable to load interpreter" I may have figured out what happened. Last night while running Netscape, I noticed a couple short load spikes as I had the previous evening. I went into another window and start

Re: Help: sound cards

1998-05-13 Thread Matt Housh
Oooh, aren't those fun? :) Here's what I had to compile in to get my CS4232 working (and yes, it DID take all this stuff. maybe because of 2.1.x kernel, but who knows?) : # Loadable module support CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_KMOD=y # Sound (And for some reason, I could only get it to work i

PROBLEM FW: Not read: 3com 3c905B-TX Ethernet Card!

1998-05-13 Thread Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD
I am getting these confirm and acknowledge messages, tons of them and the more I post, the more I get ( maybe that's telling me something..!!) Anyway, is there way to filter them out or turn the acknowledge off. I am on six other lists and never seen them before except for one-one messages...

RE: RH Linux boot from 2nd drive

1998-05-13 Thread Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD
Rich: Had a lot of trouble with having anything on MBR or booting my second drive, but perhaps I need to go back and take a second look. Thanks for the feedback Mike Michael Hatzakis Jr, MD Resident Physiatrist - R3 Department of Rehabilitation Thomas Jefferson University Medical Center Phi

Re: HELP: g77 crashes under RHL 5.0

1998-05-13 Thread Ricardo Píriz
Thanks very much for the info. Regards, -- ___ Ricardo Pírize-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grupo de Mecánica del Vuelo tel: +34 91 8072133 Isaac Newton 11, PTM 3 Cantos, 287

Re: Is U.S. Robotics Internal 56K FAXmodem compatible?

1998-05-13 Thread Steven Taetzsch
How do I tell if it is a winmodem? It doesn't say anything on the box or in the documentation. The users guide doesn't mention any jumpers. It is PNP, but I have PNP disabled in my BIOS, and I checked the settings that windows assigns it. Thanks for your help. Steve > Mine worked without any ti

Re: HELP: g77 crashes under RHL 5.0

1998-05-13 Thread Federico Strati
Hi Ricardo, I had only problems in last weeks to "force" my RH 5 box to "upgrade" to a working gcc-g77 compiler using the rpm contributed packages. I don't know how to solve this (I'm still a newbie in many respects) but I can tell you some alternatives (that worked for me :-): 1) the official R

RE: Host Adapter SCSI ID change?

1998-05-13 Thread Tim Larkins \(EUKSHEL1PO\)
Cheers for the sound and detailed advice, its put me on the correct (even if slightly more expensive ;) route.. I've had a good think about what configurations I could use when I recieve the additional SCSI devices ontop of my current ones, and the two SCSI card solution will w

Re: ferror(3) returns ???

1998-05-13 Thread James Youngman
> "John" == John H Darrah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Does any one know if ferror returns anything on a John> framing, parity or overrun error? It appears that John> it doesn't from the testing I've done. man termios; see PARMRK. ferror(3) is a stdio function. It doesn't actual

Re: passwd question

1998-05-13 Thread RedHat List user
On Tue, 12 May 1998, Steve Hazelett wrote: > I did a fresh install of RH4.2 on a system at work and when a user wants > to change their password it deny's them doing so because it comes back with > the password is based on a dictionary word. > When I installed RH4.1 at home I have never rec

Re: g++ for WinAss '95

1998-05-13 Thread William S. Page
Check out DJGPP at URL=http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/. I've been using it lately with no problems. -Bill On Wed, 13 May 1998, Iztok Polanic wrote: > Hello !!! > > Is there maybe a gnu C++ (or C) compiler for WinAss '95??? > >

Samba help

1998-05-13 Thread rhl
We have here a LAN of Win95 and Linux computers connected to the internet via a Linux server. Now i can use samba to mount a win95 box as long as the windoze is set on share-level access. The problem is that all the windoze boxes here are set on user-level access, taking the users

apple laserwriter iif printer/serial port

1998-05-13 Thread Kevin Smart
on Tue, 12 May 1998 13:53:27 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christie Harper) wrote >i have been trying to get this printer to work with RH5.0. >i have checked the dejanews site with no luck. >anybody got a printcap entry and any var/lp/lpd/laserwriter files http://www.giub.unibe.ch/~eugster/applep

Re: g++ for WinAss '95

1998-05-13 Thread LEBLIN JY
A 11:03 13/05/98 +0200, vous avez écrit : >Hello !!! > >Is there maybe a gnu C++ (or C) compiler for WinAss '95??? > > Bye. > > xx // > xx xx ( o o ) > xx x

Re: PPP login method using modified user name

1998-05-13 Thread Eric Smith
Mike Blatchley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, I'm aware that mgetty will do > "Auto PPP", but all authentication is solely via PAP. There's something > about requiring the normal Login/Password procedure that makes me feel > better. I'm not sure >why< it makes you feel better. I prefer CHAP

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