RE: How do you PPP from RH 5.0 to WINS network?

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
> Apr 22 23:53:52 kilroy pppd[2730]: Using interface ppp0 > Apr 22 23:53:52 kilroy pppd[2730]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cua2 > Apr 22 23:53:56 kilroy pppd[2730]: Unsupported protocol (0x8207) received > Apr 22 23:53:57 kilroy pppd[2730]: Received bad configure-nak/rej: 03 06 > 83 c6 7c 2e > Apr 2

RE: reccomend tape drive

1998-05-16 Thread W.D.McKinney
I have a HP T4000s SCSI Travan that is new and doesn't work at all with Linux. If the IDE does, grab one, but I'd watch out for the SCSI ones. Dave Wreski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 16-May-98 steven standley wrote: > > Heh gang... > > > > I am looking to purchase a tape drive for ba

RE: reccomend tape drive

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
On 16-May-98 steven standley wrote: > Heh gang... > > I am looking to purchase a tape drive for backup on my home system. > I have a scsi2 and scsi3UW interface available. > > What I need is recommendations from the list on tape drives > that you have purchased and have had little or no pro

Compiling Kernel under RH 5.0 system fails on a Cyrix processor

1998-05-16 Thread Richard Sharpe
Hi, I tried compiling the 3.0.32 kernel with the IPChains stuff in it on my Cyrix-based machine last night, and I got a rude shock. The build failed with the following messages: gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11 I have gcc-2.7.2.3-8 installed, and have reinstalled g

How do you PPP from RH 5.0 to WINS network?

1998-05-16 Thread Eddie Kuns
My workplace allows PPP access, assuming you are using Win95's dial in network options. I don't have Win95 on this machine and I don't want to. (Not a slam at anyone, just I don't want to shutdown and change operating systems back and forth all the time and I prefer to keep Linux up.) So. I

reccomend tape drive

1998-05-16 Thread steven standley
Heh gang... I am looking to purchase a tape drive for backup on my home system. I have a scsi2 and scsi3UW interface available. What I need is recommendations from the list on tape drives that you have purchased and have had little or no problems with. Ease of installation is a plus. In oth

Test (Please Disregard)

1998-05-16 Thread Michael J. McGillick
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RE: RealAudio rvplayer and Netscape

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
On 17-May-98 Jim Gentry wrote: > I apologize if this topic has been covered, but I have just installed RH5.0 > and I cannot get the rvplayer to work with Netscape. There is no mention of > a realaudio or rvplayer plug-in in Netscape and I am at a loss for how to > get the two programs to work to

RE: startx/X links..

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
On 17-May-98 GateKeepeR News wrote: > Well, somehow I screwed up my symbolic links for X and I cannot get X to > start. Can anyone send me what they are supposed to be? I'd appreciate > it! Thanks! # cd /usr/X11R6/bin # ln -sf X_SVGA X where "X_SVGA" represents the name of your X server. Also,

RE: Kernel:ARP: arp called for its own IP address

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
On 17-May-98 Terry Collins wrote: > > Can anyone help with this error message > > prompt> kerenl: ARP: arp called for its own IP address. > Rather insistent when ever I reboot for a few hours. > Seemed to start with the upgrade to 4.2 and has not gone with > upgrade to 5.0 Check your ethernet

RE: 2.0.34-pre patch? Where?

1998-05-16 Thread Aaron D. Turner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- As I just found out: cd /usr/src patch -p0 Alright! Well I got it, but how do I use it? wasn't it like patch p0< > blah or something? > > On Sat, 16 May 1998, Dave Wreski wrote: > > | > |On 16-May-98 GateKeepeR News wrote: > |> I have heard a lot about thi

RE: 2.0.34-pre patch? Where?

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
On 17-May-98 GateKeepeR News wrote: > Alright! Well I got it, but how do I use it? wasn't it like patch p0< > blah or something? Assuming you already have a clean 2.0.33 kernel in /usr/src, do the following: # cd /usr/src # gzip -dc patch-2.0.34pre14.gz | patch -p0 -s The only output would be

RealAudio rvplayer and Netscape

1998-05-16 Thread Jim Gentry
I apologize if this topic has been covered, but I have just installed RH5.0 and I cannot get the rvplayer to work with Netscape. There is no mention of a realaudio or rvplayer plug-in in Netscape and I am at a loss for how to get the two programs to work together. I have upgraded the copy of rvp

startx/X links..

1998-05-16 Thread GateKeepeR News
Well, somehow I screwed up my symbolic links for X and I cannot get X to start. Can anyone send me what they are supposed to be? I'd appreciate it! Thanks! Bryan -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errat

RE: 2.0.34-pre patch? Where?

1998-05-16 Thread GateKeepeR News
Alright! Well I got it, but how do I use it? wasn't it like patch p0< blah or something? On Sat, 16 May 1998, Dave Wreski wrote: | |On 16-May-98 GateKeepeR News wrote: |> I have heard a lot about this, but cannot seem to find it. Anyone want |> to point me in the right direction? (I've tried ke

Kernel:ARP: arp called for its own IP address

1998-05-16 Thread Terry Collins
Can anyone help with this error message prompt> kerenl: ARP: arp called for its own IP address. Rather insistent when ever I reboot for a few hours. Seemed to start with the upgrade to 4.2 and has not gone with upgrade to 5.0 -- Terry Collins {:-)}}}WOA Computer Services email: [

Re: Sendmail and virtual hosts

1998-05-16 Thread Trevor Astrope
I just set up a server for virtual hosting and I gave up on sendmailand went with qmail. qmail is surprisingly easy to set up and combined with the vmailmgr package, managing mail for virtual domains and creating virtual email-only accounts is a snap. You can get a srpm for qmail and your choice

Kernel 2.1.102 and 3com's 3c905B-TX Ethernet card!

1998-05-16 Thread Pat Swanson
hi all, now what I compiled kernel 2.1.102, successfully I got my 3com all detected correctly with irq 11 and i/o e400, but now am not sure how to get it configured right, I used the network option from X windows and it didn't work, DHCP will fail each time I boot, and yeah am running ADSL wi

DVD, and MIDI

1998-05-16 Thread Andy Moskoff
Hi all: 1. Is there a midi player for RedHat 5.0? If so, where can I get it? 2. Is there a DVD player for RedHat 5.0? If so, where can I get it? TIA -- Andy Moskoff email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Intelligent

RE: 2.0.34-pre patch? Where?

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
On 16-May-98 GateKeepeR News wrote: > I have heard a lot about this, but cannot seem to find it. Anyone want > to point me in the right direction? (I've tried kernel.org with no luck) > Thanks.. ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/alan/2.0.34pre -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata an

2.0.34-pre patch? Where?

1998-05-16 Thread GateKeepeR News
I have heard a lot about this, but cannot seem to find it. Anyone want to point me in the right direction? (I've tried kernel.org with no luck) Thanks.. Bryan -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata

RE: MODEM DOES NOT RESPOND IN MINICOM !!!

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
> and I would like that someone tell me if it is a WINMODEM. Boot to DOS and try a DOS-based modem program. Even something like the following should do it: C:\> echo ata > com1: I think that should test it.. Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
> The Linux vs. Solaris on UltraSparc benchmark comparisions are lying > around on the web somewhere. A semi-inteligent search on yahoo, etc. > should find it. ftp://vger.rutgers.edu/pub/linux/Sparc/ultrapenguin-1.0/HTML/lmbench.txt -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILIN

Re: Redhat, FreeBSD, Caldera

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
>>Slackware: no package management, no PAM, more difficult config. > > Well, it does have pkgtool :). Ah, cool. As long as it wasn't created with "ln -s tar pkgtool" :) Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHa

Problem w/glibc-2.0.7-7 RPM??

1998-05-16 Thread Scott Wegener
Hey all, After going through the RH errata recently, I got the update RPM for glibc-2.0.7-7 along with several other upgrade rpms. The debug and profiling versions seem to be fine, but when attemping to install the base glibc RPM: # rpm -U -vv glibc-2.0.7-7.i386.rpm D: counting packages t

Re: libXm.so.2?

1998-05-16 Thread Greg Fall
On Sat, 16 May 1998, Marco Shaw wrote: > I just tried to install wavplay on my system, but it complains about > needing libXm.so.2. I'm running Redhat 5, so I'm wondering if anyone > thinks that this lib will break my system? If not, where can I find it? > I poked around in the redhat ftp site,

RE: Apache and SSL

1998-05-16 Thread Wendy Sarrett
Michael, I'd start on the web. Apache has a web site (www.apache.org) and you can find a lot on SSL if you start with Netscape's site. Wendy -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-l

libXm.so.2?

1998-05-16 Thread Marco Shaw
I just tried to install wavplay on my system, but it complains about needing libXm.so.2. I'm running Redhat 5, so I'm wondering if anyone thinks that this lib will break my system? If not, where can I find it? I poked around in the redhat ftp site, but couldn't find it...unless it's part of anot

Re: How can linux do this?

1998-05-16 Thread Anthony Kim
I have done this with SAMBA and W95 - not with NT workstations but you can probably do the same on a domain with an NT PDC. Just locate your profiles onto a share on the SAMBA server. Be sure to synchronize NT users with SAMBA/UNIX users. SAMBA can also act as a WINS server btw rgds, Anthony M.

Re: Redhat, FreeBSD, Caldera

1998-05-16 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 15 May 1998, Dave Wreski wrote: >FreeBSD: selfish development, less userbase meaning more difficult >install, configuration, etc. And by `less', I mean like 4.5 million >less.. In my unbiased opinion, I really don't see a need to use FreeBSD >(yet). And to be more correct, don't mentio

Re: shit, I'm hosed (fwd)

1998-05-16 Thread Eugene Leitl
On Sat, 16 May 1998, David E. Fox wrote: > Verify that the path to the cyrillic fonts is indeed correct. If so, Err, for now I am just trying to get the original configuration going. > check the permissions (they should be the same as the other As I have not changed the permissions on the orig

Re: Control-Panel

1998-05-16 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 15 May 1998, Arthur W. Taylor wrote: >I have re-installed Red Hat last week, so i have not installed GIMP yet. >Will I have problems with newer versions (0.99.29)? Should i recompile it >or i can install the RPMS? As one who has tried installing some of the GIMP rpms on Redhat 5.0, I wou

CYRIL:russification gotchas with TeTeX?

1998-05-16 Thread Eugene Leitl
Howdy, as my X configuration is still scrogged due to latest cyrillization attempt, I am unable to access the archives. (Is the search facility fixed by now?) I am trying to install the cmcyralt package upon my RH 4.2 (basically) box, which should be TeTeX. However, the Cyril-HOWTO from sunsit

RE: Apache and SSL

1998-05-16 Thread Rob Goodwin
have you looked at: http://www.apache-ssl.org/ > -Original Message- > From: Michael J. McGillick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, May 16, 1998 12:05 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Apache and SSL > > > Hello Folks: > > I'm trying to learn a little more about Apache

Re: shit, I'm hosed (fwd)

1998-05-16 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, 16 May 1998, Eugene Leitl wrote: >xset: bad font path element (#37), possible causes are: >Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions >Directory missing fonts.dir >Incorrect font server address or syntax Verify that the path to the cyrillic fonts is indeed correct. If

Re: What are popd/pushd for?

1998-05-16 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 15 May 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, > I'm trying to figure out what popd and > pushd functions are for. Since they are > build into practically every shell, I They implement a directory stack. Basically, this means that if you are in some wierd place, such as /

pwconv5 in wrong directory

1998-05-16 Thread Yeechang Lee
On my Redhat 4.2 system I decided to switch to shadow passwords. So I typed pwconv5 Only thing is, I didn't switch to /etc first like the online 4.2 manual at RedHat's web site says to do. Everything seems all right, but have I unknowingly exposed my system to all kinds of crackers, or somethi

Re: java problem

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Reed
> Hello all. I just installed the newest jdk rpm from > /pub/contrib/hurricaine/i386 and I'm having problems. The javac > compiler seems to work fine. However, when I try to run something using > > java program.class > > It won't let me. I'm pretty sure that the problem is my $CLASSPATH >

Try Again... HELP!!! debugging/detecting SPAM (fwd)

1998-05-16 Thread RedHat List
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 22:39:55 -0700 (PDT) From: RedHat List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HELP! debugging/detecting SPAM Hi everyone, I'm helping setup sendmail for a friend and have stumbled onto something strange. I set up sendma

Apache and SSL

1998-05-16 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Hello Folks: I'm trying to learn a little more about Apache, and want to learn about SSL. Anyone know of a FAQ or some documentation that they can point me to? Thanks. - Mike -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedH

Frontpage Extensions - Apache Virtual Hosts

1998-05-16 Thread Rita Meng
I am having difficulty getting MS Frontpage Extensions to work with Apache Virtual hosts. There is a mention in httpd.conf that server machine must accept IP packets for multiple addresses and this is accomplished with the ifconfig alias flag or through kernel patches like VIF. Does anyone know wh

Linux and Cable Modems

1998-05-16 Thread W.D.McKinney
Anyone on the list ever had a cable modem connection to their Red Hat linux box ? DHCP or Static ? I'd like to hear about setup issues, etc. Thanks -Dee W.D.McKinney (Dee) -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED] No claim to fame, just saved by Grace. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and th

Shockwave

1998-05-16 Thread Paul Fontenot
Anybody other than myself ever looked for a shockwave plugin for Netscape on Linux? I did and here is the reply I got. Flame me if you want but here it is ... --- >Dear Paul, > >Vivo has never offered, n

Re: Netscape products for LINUX?

1998-05-16 Thread David E. Fox
On Thu, 14 May 1998, Donovan R. Palmer wrote: >Does anyone know if there are plans by NETSCAPE to release versions of >their products for LINUX? I'm running the browser on my RedHat >machine, but am interested in their Messaging Server and other >products (which are produced for a number of vari

Re: Sendmail and virtual hosts

1998-05-16 Thread Ben Sinclair
William T Wilson wrote: > Sendmail virtual hosts is surprisingly easy to do, once you figure it out. > (heh) First, you must add the virtual hosts to sendmail.cw. Then you Thanks for the great information! I was wondering where I the extra config files came from. :) Could you send me that sendm

java problem

1998-05-16 Thread Chris Lea
Hello all. I just installed the newest jdk rpm from /pub/contrib/hurricaine/i386 and I'm having problems. The javac compiler seems to work fine. However, when I try to run something using java program.class It won't let me. I'm pretty sure that the problem is my $CLASSPATH variable. When I

Re: How can linux do this?

1998-05-16 Thread Chris Fishwick
> One of the things that a nt server can do for a win based network is store > each user's profile so that no matter what machine the user logs on at they > get the same icons, etc. on the desktop. Could that kind of nt server be > replaced with a linux server? If so, what would do the user pro

Re: Apache or Netscape problem?

1998-05-16 Thread L. M. Marchese
You need to have the "Alias /icons/" pointing to the right directory. Hope this helps Phillip Ching 605.734.71 wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a Web server running RedHat5.0 with Apache. > What I have experienced is: > > 1) If accessing the Web page with Navigator 3.03, >all images are broken.

Re: Domain mail setup?

1998-05-16 Thread L. M. Marchese
Always true for MX record. If you are running redhat 5.0 you can simply add your domain in the /etc/sendmail.cw file. Otherwise as Bryan suggested add your domain to the Cw class in the /etc/sendmail.cf Bryan Swann wrote: > First, you must have an MX record added to your DNS server that > speci

Re: Sendmail and virtual hosts

1998-05-16 Thread William T Wilson
On Sat, 16 May 1998, Ben Sinclair wrote: > Does anyone have Sendmail virtual hosts working with the stock RH5 > Sendmail? There is some nice documentation about doing so at Sendmail virtual hosts is surprisingly easy to do, once you figure it out. (heh) First, you must add the virtual hosts to

Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box

1998-05-16 Thread William T Wilson
On Sat, 16 May 1998, Steve Glines wrote: > We modified both local.mail and popper to use a substring of the MD5 > hash string to create 256 sub directories. MD5 gives us a random > distribution based on user names. We get mail files like > /var/spool/2f/joe. Just out of curiosity, why are you d

Sendmail and virtual hosts

1998-05-16 Thread Ben Sinclair
Does anyone have Sendmail virtual hosts working with the stock RH5 Sendmail? There is some nice documentation about doing so at sendmail.org, but it talks about replacing the sendmail.cf file and also references things I don't have since I didn't compile Sendmail myself. I like to stay "RedHat-off

MODEM DOES NOT RESPOND IN MINICOM !!!

1998-05-16 Thread ivan
--- Start of forwarded message --- Hi, folks !!! I have had some problems in tempting to connect my RH5.0 to the Internet. In sure, the modem doesn't work with Linux, only in win95. Actualy, it does not make any noise when I tempting to dial with minicom. However, it is possible that I am

shit, I'm hosed (fwd)

1998-05-16 Thread Eugene Leitl
In an attempt to russify my XFree86 I managed to screw up the font path so I can't even websearch for a fix, thus I'd appreciate some comments. Here's what I did: applying RatHed's Cyrillic-HOWTO, I created a .xsession with the following: xset +fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic xset fp reh

Re: installing olvwm

1998-05-16 Thread ivan
> >I had some problems installing olvwm in my RH 5.0. > >Can someone tell me HOW I can get the best package > >from any ftp site and installing succesfully ? I > >installed the xview rpm package from RH 4.2 ftp > >site, but I do not understand the relations between > >xview and olvwm ? Can someon

Re: changing colors for ls

1998-05-16 Thread ivan
> Leave the /etc/DIR_COLORS where it is, and delete the one from your home > directory. [not absolutely necessary, but only adds to the complexity otherwise] > > Then edit /etc/bashrc and add the following line: > > eval `/usr/bin/dircolors /etc/DIR_COLOR` > alias ls='/bin/ls --color=tty' > >

Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box

1998-05-16 Thread Doug Elznic
On Sat, 16 May 1998, Dave Wreski wrote: > > I'm very confident that David Miller and the other Sparc programmers can > outperform Sun on their own hardware. There is the serial port problem however. This might have been fixed but last time I knew there was thoroughput problems through the serial

Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box

1998-05-16 Thread Tony Wells
>Another point to consider is that you should install multiple boxen. Taking James' comments a step further - the extra boxes will be paid for by not having to buy Microsoft Exchange! If you look at the business case, comparing functionality, extra resilience and so on, I think you'll find t

How can linux do this?

1998-05-16 Thread M. Neidorff
Hi folks, One of the things that a nt server can do for a win based network is store each user's profile so that no matter what machine the user logs on at they get the same icons, etc. on the desktop. Could that kind of nt server be replaced with a linux server? If so, what would do the user

Re: basic X questions (was Re: X server for NT?)

1998-05-16 Thread Chris Tyler
On May 15, 10:07pm, Tony Wells wrote: > > Lastly, > Having just finished writing my POP3/SMTP proxy for 32bit windows > I'l looking for a new project, and wonder whether I might enter > into this strange world of x-windows. There doesn't seem to be > *anything* in the way of GNU-type-license X-win

Re: My system barked again. HELP PLEASE

1998-05-16 Thread Chris Evans
On Sat, 16 May 1998, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > I had two system crashes in two days. The system is running RedHat 5.0 with > a 2.0.33 kernel. It is recompiled just to include the things I want. The > system got al erreta from RedHat applied to it. It sounds like to me you are being attacked wi

Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box

1998-05-16 Thread Chris Evans
On 16 May 1998, Peter Mutsaers wrote: > Hmm, I cannot speak of all variants of hardware, but on my computer > (64MB RAM, P200, SCSI NCR 815) there's a significant difference in > favour of FreeBSD w.r.t. performance, especially when doing some > memory intensive things at the same time. Indeed.

Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box

1998-05-16 Thread Chris Evans
On Fri, 15 May 1998, Chuck Carson wrote: > Linux can out perform NT maybe, but Solaris? That is like > comparing a GEO Metro to a Mercedes Benz IMHO. > Linux wouldn't stand a chance against Solaris nor would > any other Unix save AIX. I have personally ran test suites on IRIX, [...] Chuck, L

Re: libpng.so.0

1998-05-16 Thread David Fisher
> It was a joke, and will likely change as soon as I think of something else > that's funny -- almost as often as a Windows user has to reinstall ;) Granted, even I could see its actual intent. Thing is, I am at such a low point on the Linux learning curve that such undertakings as installing Red

Re: Newbie question: Directory & File structure

1998-05-16 Thread Scott McDermott
DGM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, May 13, 1998 at 11:11:22AM -0400: > Do you know of a URL that points to these versions of the FHS? A basic web search for the string "filesystem heirarchy standard" should yield good results should it not? > >much work has gone into it WRT interoperability and s

Re: Getting DES for Linux. Where?

1998-05-16 Thread Antonomasia
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I was considering using DES ( triple DES > ) to encrypt my backup tapes. > Is there a source code, or binary > available somewhere for Linux of the > program? As I explained to somebody else a few weeks ago, encrypting tapes may

Re: libpng.so.0

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
On 16-May-98 David Fisher wrote: >> Dave Wreski >> Windows: An OS less stable than the people who use it >> > Has anyone ever given much thought to the psychological ramifications > of the anti-MS hysteria that colours the Linux community? Is it really > necessary to expend so much energy vilify

Re: libpng.so.0

1998-05-16 Thread David Fisher
> Dave Wreski > Windows: An OS less stable than the people who use it > Has anyone ever given much thought to the psychological ramifications of the anti-MS hysteria that colours the Linux community? Is it really necessary to expend so much energy vilifying Windoze? As for the statement above,

RE: libpng.so.0

1998-05-16 Thread Van Tate
No cdrom here -- I do all my installs via ftp -- running on a T3 so it does not slow me down much...I have downloaded the src files for both 89c and 96 and have ran the make installs and such and everything looks like it has went through ok, but when I run the WindowMaker rpm it stills says it has

RE: libpng.so.0

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
On 16-May-98 Van Tate wrote: > Where is this mysterious lib, this thing is driving me nuts! Next time try something like: # cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS # ls -l *png* -rw-r--r-- 1 root76114 Nov 10 1997 libpng-0.96-1.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 root71083 Nov 10 1997 libpng-devel-0.9

RE: Could not find dl

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
> My machine is running RedHat 4.2 so I can't use hurricane binaries. > So I have to compile it myself. Doesn't anybody know where to get > that missing library dl ? It looks like libdl is from libc-devel. You could also save yourself some trouble, and just get: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contri

RE: Could not find dl

1998-05-16 Thread Kari Laine
> On 16-May-98 Kari Laine wrote: > > I try to compile xcdroast and it gives me error "could not find -ldl > > - file or directory doesn't exist" > > > > Could somebody please help me to find where I can get this file dl. > > Grab the xcdroast RPM and install that with "rpm -Uvh xcdroast*" ins

Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box

1998-05-16 Thread Steve Glines
Dave Wreski wrote: > On 16-May-98 Steve Glines wrote: > > Actually Linux or free BDS can easely handle over 1 pop3 users. We > > use 2 incomming systems for anti-spam etc, 2 hosts for pop mail > > reading/www etc, and 2 outgoing systems to service 15000 users. Our > > systems don't breath ver

Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box

1998-05-16 Thread Steve Glines
Peter Chen wrote: > Dear Steve > > Sorry, just now I asked Bob instead of you the following questions: > > What are you using for SMTP? qmail or sendmail or something? Sendmail 8.8 > > > What are you using for POP3? qpopper or what? qpopper > And do you hash your /var/spool/mail directory? So

Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box

1998-05-16 Thread Steve Glines
Bob Drzyzgula wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 08:53:36PM -0400, Steve Glines wrote: > > Actually Linux or free BDS can easely handle over 1 pop3 users. We > > use 2 incomming systems for anti-spam etc, 2 hosts for pop mail > > reading/www etc, and 2 outgoing systems to service 15000 users. O

RE: Could not find dl

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
On 16-May-98 Kari Laine wrote: > I try to compile xcdroast and it gives me error "could not find -ldl > - file or directory doesn't exist" > > Could somebody please help me to find where I can get this file dl. Grab the xcdroast RPM and install that with "rpm -Uvh xcdroast*" instead. You can

SORRY (Getting KDM to work)

1998-05-16 Thread Michael
Hi again ! Sorry about that message, I apparently send it to the wrong mailing-list, it should have been send to the kde-list Sorry ;-) -- 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

Getting KDM to work

1998-05-16 Thread Michael
Hi all ! I have just been to bill motes site to get instructions for setting up KDM. He says there that if I have pam-support (which i have) then I have to untar the kdebase and do: ./configure --without -pam. Problem is that I have installed the rpm-package of KDE, so I would like to know if I

RE: My system barked again. HELP PLEASE

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
> When I was working on it yesterday, the system suddenly died. Fist symptom > was PINE dumping core and saying something about busy.. It wouldn't quit. > > Got a message in my console saying something about a block xx in the > freelist isn't free. > > All programs that the system ran start

libpng.so.0

1998-05-16 Thread Van Tate
Where is this mysterious lib, this thing is driving me nuts! Van Tate Prevue Networks Technical Information Manager Administrator Office (918) 499-6400 TIM services can be located at Pager (918) 632-1378http://sentinel.prevuenet.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Could not find dl

1998-05-16 Thread Kari Laine
I try to compile xcdroast and it gives me error "could not find -ldl - file or directory doesn't exist" Could somebody please help me to find where I can get this file dl. Thanks Kari Laine [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http:/

Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box

1998-05-16 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
> "Peter" == Peter Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> Can you just increase NR_TASKS in linux/include/tasks.h and Peter> nothing else? You will need to recompile the procps RPM after upping NR_TASKS, but yes, linux/include/tasks.h is the only place it needs to be changed. Note, however

Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box

1998-05-16 Thread James H. Cloos Jr.
Another point to consider is that you should install multiple boxen. The large box would be the primary MX, responsible for local mail delivery and the POP/IMAP daemons only. The client boxen, if they are not running a MTA, should send all outgoing mail to a `dedicated' SMTP box. And very import

RE: Window Managers

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
> So, here I am. I have finally got something to > installAfterStep -- rpm'ed fine. No dependentsbut I cannot start > the thing. I cannot figure out how to start it. I am drowning here. Any > help with any of the systems would be appreciated and of course any web > addresses with hel

Re: Window Managers

1998-05-16 Thread Gate News
in your home directory, edit .xinitrc and put afterstep in there... #!/bin/sh afterstep looks just like that.. and you can check out www.afterstep.org for more into on AfterStep, the GREATEST WM there is!!! :) Bryan -Original Message- From: Van Tate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: '[EMAIL P

Re: adding users?

1998-05-16 Thread Gate News
Of course, I have almost no programming experience whatsoever.. and it doesn't even need to support the .mbx, because the formats are the same.. -Original Message- From: Igmar Palsenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: GateKeepeR News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

My system barked again. HELP PLEASE

1998-05-16 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
Hi, Go a few questions, and I would be greatful if I got some answers: I had two system crashes in two days. The system is running RedHat 5.0 with a 2.0.33 kernel. It is recompiled just to include the things I want. The system got al erreta from RedHat applied to it. I had multiple problems t

Re: adding users?

1998-05-16 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
>Hello, >I need to add a large (~700) number of users to linux for use as a >mailserver. I really have no scripting knowledge whatsoever. My >boss >doesn't believe that Linux can handle our email (we are using NT >and >SLmail *cringe* right now). I have setup the server, but I need a way >to >add

Re:

1998-05-16 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
>On a new RH 5.0 installation, attempting to execute httpd gets me: >"cannot determine local hostname >use ServerName to set it manually" Try adding it to /etc/hosts. Use both full name and just the hostname. If that doesn't work, try adding it to /etc/httpd/conf/somename The somename is

RE: BRU2000 Problems...

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
> bru: [E134] internal error 100 - failed self consistency and > portability checks http://www.estinc.com/FAQ-2.html -- 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

Window Managers

1998-05-16 Thread Van Tate
I am dying here. If you guys have not noticed, I am kind of a newbie. Actually been in UNIX for years but have decided to switch to Linux just because I really enjoy working with it. Anyway, now I am trying to get any WM to work and I just am not having any luck. Wanted to try E,

Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box

1998-05-16 Thread Yoink!
On Fri, 15 May 1998, William T Wilson wrote: > On Fri, 15 May 1998, Chuck Carson wrote: > You won't get much support for that position. IBM makes good hardware and > AIX has a lot of nifty features (especially user and disk management) and > is robust enough, but AIX won't win any points for be

BRU2000 Problems...

1998-05-16 Thread Israel Blacklock
I'm running into problems with BRU2000. I had it running for a couple of weeks without a problem, but now I keep getting the following error: bru: [E134] internal error 100 - failed self consistency and portability checks I tried re-installing it thinking it had been corrupted somehow, but that

kernel performance and robustness, Solaris vs. Linux (was Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box)

1998-05-16 Thread Eric Smith
"Chuck Carson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only reason linux is so popular is it is free and most of the > software is free. Solaris has a far more robust kernel I beg to differ. Solaris has a huge bloated inefficient pig of a kernel as compared to Linux. They do wacky things like allow in

Re: modem differences

1998-05-16 Thread Eric Smith
Dave Wreski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The conversation stemmed from the fact that both implement the V.90 > standard, and how there could be a difference between one vendor's > implementation and another. > > Does anyone know of a doc on the web that explains the difference in more > technical