Re: No Swap space?!? Holy Moley!

1998-05-19 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 20 May 1998, Piet Barber wrote: > I thoroughly read the man page for mount, but there appears to be no > procedure for mounting a swap drive (is this how you do it?) Mount doesn't handle swap space, so that's probably the reason. :) My swap space is on /dev/hdb2. Unless your swap space

Re: No Swap space?!? Holy Moley!

1998-05-19 Thread David Mihm
On Wed, 20 May 1998, Piet Barber wrote: > As Netscape 4.04 crashed, and KDE was acting strangely, and xv crashed > when I tried to load in an image a couple of megs large, I started to > wonder... > > "Have I enough memory to partake in such technology?" > "32 megs ought to be enough, right?" I

Re: No Swap space?!? Holy Moley!

1998-05-19 Thread Win Htin
Is it defined in your /etc/fstab file? Mine looks like this: /dev/sda2 swapswapdefaults0 0 cheers > Hmm... I coulda swore I partitioned a swap drive... > wonder if there really is a swap drive left on that disk... > [root@slacker /]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/hdb > > Comman

Selecting Mouse Type

1998-05-19 Thread Richard Layton
A friend of mine's mouse doesn't work properly in XFree86. No matter which direction he moves his mouse, the cursor always makes its way to the top left corner and gets stuck there. I beleive that he has selected the wrong mouse. Now how do you select the right one? -- -kLicK ICQ UIN# 2101942

Re: Please Help: drive space - how much remaining

1998-05-19 Thread Vidiot
>I driving myself nuts. I've searched the corners of the web, and every >linux pub I have. > >How do I determine the drive space remaining on my system? Same command on all Unix systems: df MB -- System Administrator - Finnigan FT/MS - Madison WI. URL:http://www.ftms.com/ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: RedHat Support????

1998-05-19 Thread Samuel R. Kaufman
Mike Butler wrote: >Hi, >I was wondering if anybody out there has had any dealing with the RedHat >Support system. I purchased RedHat 5.0 about three weeks ago and have had >absolutley no luck getting them to honor their product support. I've done >everything except drive to their head office

Re: Kernel compilation w/o RPM

1998-05-19 Thread Ron Golan
Check the README file in /usr/src/linux/ for instructions on compiling the kernel without RPM. Also check the Kernel-HOWTO.gz in /usr/doc/HOWTO/. -- Ron Golan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 19 May 1998, Dahnke, Eric wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using RH 4.1- kernel 2.0.27. I'm trying to compile the IP

Re: Video problems narrowed down

1998-05-19 Thread Vidiot
>> Red Hat, pay attention to things that don't look like '95. I ignore >> anything that does, even if it works (although I was willing to do >> anything I could to break it, and couldn't). I'm an anti-M$ zealot. I >> didn't purchase your product for a lame windows look-and-feel. For some >> rea

No Swap space?!? Holy Moley!

1998-05-19 Thread Piet Barber
As Netscape 4.04 crashed, and KDE was acting strangely, and xv crashed when I tried to load in an image a couple of megs large, I started to wonder... "Have I enough memory to partake in such technology?" "32 megs ought to be enough, right?" I scratch my head and go to a terminal and type "free"

Promise EIDE MAX

1998-05-19 Thread Thomas Hubbell
Does anyone know if the EIDEMAX card from Promise works with Linux? The hardware compatibility guide says that, in general, most EIDE controllers will work with Linux. This particular controller also includes an onboard BIOS to allow older computers to access hard drives up to 8.4 gigs (as I'm su

Re: memory reporting

1998-05-19 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 18 May 1998, Danny Rice wrote: >I have 128 M of memory. When I do a top it reports about 108376K >used. When I do a > >ps aux | awk '{sum+=$6}END{print sum}' > >I get about 59000K It's because of shared memory. Many of the processes areas that you are reporting have shared components. F

Re: all of these emails

1998-05-19 Thread Brian Eith
> I am curious as to how all of you manage these emails in this list. I use a good email client called 'mutt'. It has a very nice threading feature. I recommend it. If you need help setting it up, I have a .muttrc file that'll make it work like pine (uses pico to edit messages and has key bind

PCMCIA support

1998-05-19 Thread john
I am new to Linux so please be easy on me. :) I have a pcmcia card reader in my desktop and during the install I am asked to place a disk in for pcmcia support. I have read the manual and can't find any reference as to how to make this disk? Or is is asking for a disk from the mfg. of the card

Re: Mistaken

1998-05-19 Thread Loay Oweis
Have you tried WindowMaker? w/ TkDesk Larsen wrote: > I said I "torture tested" all the WMs shipped with Red Hat, and I stated > that fvwm95 passed with colors. NOT SO! I didn't try changing mail > folders in that environment. So much for my definition of "Torture > Testing." Once I did try

all of these emails

1998-05-19 Thread Loay Oweis
Hello, I am curious as to how all of you manage these emails in this list. Loay -- 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

Mistaken

1998-05-19 Thread Larsen
I said I "torture tested" all the WMs shipped with Red Hat, and I stated that fvwm95 passed with colors. NOT SO! I didn't try changing mail folders in that environment. So much for my definition of "Torture Testing." Once I did try changing folders, it crashed. So! So far, it seems the only

Dave/Dan

1998-05-19 Thread Loay Oweis
Dave Wreski, I would like to thank for your input reguarding ppp. I have unfortunately held off on that project to tend some immediate tasks. I hope to refer to you again. Maybe you can answer this, I have intranet links to cgi scripts on my RH5.0 server. The links unfortunately do not execut

Re: Please Help: drive space - how much remaining

1998-05-19 Thread Aaron D. Turner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- type: df Hard huh? :-) On Tue, 19 May 1998, Dahnke, Eric wrote: > Hello, > > I driving myself nuts. I've searched the corners of the web, and every > linux pub I have. > > How do I determine the drive space remaining on my system? > > RH 4.1 > one ID

Re: Serial support in RH 5

1998-05-19 Thread Aaron D. Turner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- A few ways I can think of. - - run 'dmesg | more' see if there's any serial port inializing statments - - cat /proc/ioports & look for the lines: 02f8-02ff : serial(auto) 03f8-03ff : serial(auto) If its compiled as a module but not loaded your won't likely

Re: Please Help: drive space - how much remaining

1998-05-19 Thread Brian Eith
> How do I determine the drive space remaining on my system? type 'df' do a 'man df' for more info. Cheers, Brian. -- = | Brian Eith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~eith | ===

Re: Please Help: drive space - how much remaining

1998-05-19 Thread Chris Fishwick
> How do I determine the drive space remaining on my system? Eric, The 'df' command will tell you how much space is remaining on each mounted filesystem... Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Home Page: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal Page: http

Please Help: drive space - how much remaining

1998-05-19 Thread Dahnke, Eric
Hello, I driving myself nuts. I've searched the corners of the web, and every linux pub I have. How do I determine the drive space remaining on my system? RH 4.1 one IDE HD thx - Eric -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedH

RE: Video problems narrowed down

1998-05-19 Thread Dave Wreski
> Red Hat, pay attention to things that don't look like '95. I ignore > anything that does, even if it works (although I was willing to do > anything I could to break it, and couldn't). I'm an anti-M$ zealot. I > didn't purchase your product for a lame windows look-and-feel. For some > reason,

cgi

1998-05-19 Thread Loay Oweis
Hello all, I have intranet links to cgi scripts on my RH5.0 server. The links unfortunately do not execute upon clicking, they show up as viewable documents. Can this be a Chmod issue ? if so what setting? Thanks, loay -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIV

Re: Newcomer

1998-05-19 Thread Deryk Barker
Once upon a time Dennis Clark wrote: [...] > How about Linux capability in the thin client arena. Can it duplicate the > Citrix Winframe enviornment? Well, I'm not sure what you mean by duplicate. Citrix's Unix client is only availablre (IIRC) for HP/UX and Solaris (maybe DEC). However, if you

RE: Newcomer

1998-05-19 Thread Dave Wreski
On 20-May-98 Dennis Clark wrote: > I'm a newbie trying to install RedHat Linux 5.0 from ftp.cc.gatech.edu. > I've also looked at sunsite's distribution. The BASE directory contains > different files at each site. I'm installing from a DOS partition and can't > find a difinitive list of files f

Video problems narrowed down

1998-05-19 Thread Larsen
Howdy. I'm the guy that's been bitching about my fonts getting messed up when I launch Communicator. I was running Afterstep with some generic hardware at high virtual and physical resolutions. I played with Communicator running under the other two "offered" WMs, lesstif and fvwm95. Here are t

RE: RH5.0 refuses to find my NIC Cards

1998-05-19 Thread Joseph B. McGuirl
Yes, I have tried that. The really strange thing is that when we try exactly that the damn installation works great except... we don't seem to be able to get RH to probe for the NICs on boot. It would probably find them if RH would simply look for 'em. Any suggestions from here? hanks, Joseph

Poppasswd

1998-05-19 Thread Me
Hiyas Has anybody got a copy of poppasswd that they knows works on RH5.0. Or another decent web based changing passwd program. Kelly French -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-list

RE: 1152x864 resolution in XFree86?

1998-05-19 Thread Hoe-Teck Wee
Hello. These are my modeline settings for 1152x864 on Xfree86. It doesn't look very good though, so I have chosen to stay with 1024x768. Do note that modeline settings do depend on your monitor specifications and your video card memory. Hope that helps. - hoeteck -- PLEASE read the Red Hat

Re: LILO - Need Win95 as default

1998-05-19 Thread David Miller
Thanks to everyone who replied - between putting the default statement at the top of my lilo.conf and then actually running lilo (which I did not know about), that did the trick. -- David R. Miller Baltimore, MD ICQ# - 10562319 http://members.home.net/davmill -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ,

Re: [OT?] Ram/Kernel/Hardware Problem?

1998-05-19 Thread Rick L. Mantooth
William, Kernel is making right now, but here is from the .config: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640_ENHANCED=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000=y HDs are Orig /dev/hdb and New One is /dev/hdc (2nd MoBo Slot) w/ /dev/hda being 1.2GB Win95 and /dev/hdd Goldstar CD Next steps after new kernel is

Re: [OT?] Ram/Kernel/Hardware Problem?

1998-05-19 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 19 May 1998, Rick L. Mantooth wrote: > Opinions? I'd suggest running fsck on your drive. But a corrupt filesystem by itself shouldn't cause a kernel panic. Do you have both hard drives installed at the same time on the same IDE channel? Try moving one of them to its own IDE channel an

[OT?] Ram/Kernel/Hardware Problem?

1998-05-19 Thread Rick L. Mantooth
Hi all, Opinions? Machine (RH4.1 P5-100 48MB Ram) Stable box for ~2 years. Recently added 32MB Ram and moved OS to a new 4.3GB HD. I have booted back up to my previous 1.2GB HD and trbl is still here. Machine has recently started locking up. I can telnet into this PC login/passwd ok and telnet

Re: Reboots installing fr RH boot diskette

1998-05-19 Thread Gordon von Miller
Hello, To see what those bootup screens are, press shift and pageup or pagedown. You will be amazed. Can't help you with the rest. Gordon -- 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

Re: NIS?

1998-05-19 Thread Sergey Podushkin
Alfonso Barreto Lopez wrote: > > Does anybody knows if there is compatibility between NIS+ of Solaris and > NIS of Linux? NIS and NIS+ is the diferent approach to the same problem and incompatible in general. Sergey. -- Sergey Podushkin = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Russia 634004 Tomsk ul.Sovetskaja

Newcomer

1998-05-19 Thread Dennis Clark
I'm a newbie trying to install RedHat Linux 5.0 from ftp.cc.gatech.edu. I've also looked at sunsite's distribution. The BASE directory contains different files at each site. I'm installing from a DOS partition and can't find a difinitive list of files for the BASE directory and the proper file

Re: Reboots installing fr RH boot diskette

1998-05-19 Thread DGM
On 19-May-98 DGM wrote: > I am trying to install Red hat 5.0 from the Boot diskette. When I press > enter (or type expert and press enter) my system does the following: > > Boot: expert > Loading initrd.img.. > Loading vmlinuz... > Uncompressing linux >

Re: How can linux do this? (fwd)

1998-05-19 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
>Hello David, > >Yes, NT does do that, correct. > no Linux can not do that. using the latest (pre-alpha) version of samba, any version of unix can do that. > It is a function of user management within NT. > NT would recognize the difference because of the >security token that is passed during

Re: New Linux user w/ netbios q?

1998-05-19 Thread Richard Sharpe
At 10:59 AM 5/19/98 -0700, you wrote: >Hello fellows with RedHats, > >I am having trouble with my RH 5.0 server finding the netbios name >assigned for it by SAMBA. > >Any hints... Ummm, try 'smbclient -I -L \* It will print out a list of shares and the browse list. It should print out your serv

Re: LILO - Need Win95 as default

1998-05-19 Thread Federico Strati
Hi David, i've only one drive... but my lilo setup works ok, it's here: boot=/dev/hda compact prompt timeout=200 default=win95 message=/etc/lilo.msg image=/boot/vmlinuz-new label=linux alias=ll root=/dev/hda2 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.32 label=rescue alias=zz root=

Re: XFree

1998-05-19 Thread Federico Strati
Salut Patrick, in french: merde! (Cambronne, si je me rappeles bien ;-) this seems like a problem in your hardware configuration, what kind of video card do you have, also you're running linux on a pc desktop or a laptop? Maybe there're conflicts in IRQ assignement or base addressing, also your v

Re: X-Windows (Ctl-Alt-F?)

1998-05-19 Thread Federico Strati
Hi all, very strange thing with my X: to get back in my X from a virtual consolle i've to do only a Alt+F7 keyboard hit: the Ctrl-Alt-F7 doesn't work at all... boh? in the old days it was the reverse! someone else got this behaviour? just curious... thanks ciao fede [snipped] > Ctrl-Alt-F7

NIS?

1998-05-19 Thread Alfonso Barreto Lopez
Does anybody knows if there is compatibility between NIS+ of Solaris and NIS of Linux? __ Alfonso Barreto Lopez Inst. de Inv. de Matematicas U.N.A.M [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errat

Re: cron schedules - how do they work?

1998-05-19 Thread John Herrbach
At 12:39 AM 5/14/98 -0500, you wrote: >> 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 pre

What are /boot/System.map & /boot/module-info?

1998-05-19 Thread Ken Westerback
Two files that are distributed in the kernel rpm are System.map-2.0.32 and module-info-2.0.32. Also created in the /boot directory as a result of installing the kernel are the links System.map and module-info, which point to them. What are these files? Having applied the patch to bring the kerne

Re: ftape driver problems [SOLVED]

1998-05-19 Thread Larsen
I got a message from Dave Wreski detailing how I could use alternative methods for loading my ftape drivers, versus using an init script at startup. I haven't tried that yet, but will (maybe...more on that in a moment). He also suggested I should use modprobe to load the drivers in the correct o

Re: LILO - Need Win95 as default

1998-05-19 Thread Kelley L.
On Tue, 19 May 1998, David Miller wrote: > I have 2 physical hard drives - the master has Win95 broken into 4 > logical partitions, and I've just installed Redhat 5.0 by itself on the > slave. > > I want to have Win95 be the default option at boot time so my wife and > kids can easily get to t

Kernel compilation w/o RPM

1998-05-19 Thread Dahnke, Eric
Hello, I'm using RH 4.1- kernel 2.0.27. I'm trying to compile the IP-Masq requirements into the kernel. I've compiled the kernel plenty before, but not on this system. I can't get X running on this system, and will not waste more time trying. Upon installation I installed almost everything.

Re: LILO - Need Win95 as default

1998-05-19 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 19 May 1998, David Miller wrote: > I want to have Win95 be the default option at boot time so my wife and At the top of lilo.conf put default=dos. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips

LILO - Need Win95 as default

1998-05-19 Thread David Miller
I have 2 physical hard drives - the master has Win95 broken into 4 logical partitions, and I've just installed Redhat 5.0 by itself on the slave. I want to have Win95 be the default option at boot time so my wife and kids can easily get to their stuff. I've read the howto and man page, but I stil

Re: XFree

1998-05-19 Thread Patrick Dupre LCMI
Hello frederico, I did every things that you suggested me, by using both XFree86-3.3.1-14 and XFree-3.3.2-5 and I get the same result, it does not work. I cannot start the Xserver (see the error message in one of my previous email _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=111). I do not th

Why Windows '98 wasn't released in '97 (fwd)

1998-05-19 Thread Alfonso Barreto Lopez
Why Windows '98 wasn't released in '97 1. It takes a 300MHZ Pentium 2 to run properly. The technology wasn't available in 1997. 2. Microsoft knew it would take another year to buy off the Department of Justice 3. Only 495,242 of the 835,248 bugs in Windows '95 had been stamped out by the

RE: RH shared library issues (Re: libjpeg problems)

1998-05-19 Thread Smith, Nathan A., Capt.
Ok, This provides a lot of information on the problem, but for slow people like me - I don't see how I can actually fix the problem on my machine. Any takers??? Nathan > -Original Message- > From: Steve Dunham [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, May 15, 1998 3:28 PM > To: [EMAI

PAM configuration

1998-05-19 Thread Deryk Barker
Since installing RH5.0 am getting some very odd things happening passwd-wise (negative days until expiration for instance, being allowed to log on with no password but forced to change the password). Obviously this is something to do with PAM (yes I have shadow enabled) but how the hell do I co

Re: Extreme linux: One more question

1998-05-19 Thread Steve Curry
>Let's say I have two computers with the exact same >hardware configuration like this: >166MHz pentium >32 MB RAM >2 MB graphics card with a 250 MHz RamDac > >If I connect them and install extreme linux would it >then be the same as having a: > >332MHz pentium >64 MB RAM >4 MB graphics card with

ftp sessions not timing out?

1998-05-19 Thread Michael Jinks
I keep logging onto our ftp server and seeing sessions that I'm sure haven't been touched in many hours, sometimes a day or two. I'm pretty sure that these are sessions which were sloppily abandoned by their users (we have some real winners dialing into here sometimes), but shouldn't the sessions

Multiple file compares

1998-05-19 Thread Mark R. Cervarich
I have 4 machines running RedHat 4.2. I've done a 'rpm -qa | sort > machinename' on each machine to get a sorted listing of all of the RPMs installed on each machine. Now, I'd like to send the 4 files to some kind of script that will compare them and show which are the same and which are diff

Re: How can linux do this?

1998-05-19 Thread Michael Jinks
Shawn McMahon wrote: > Research "roaming profiles". My last word in this thread was obviously burdened by a misunderstanding of the original poster's question, but still: VNC would be a great way to handle this. You just set up one desktop per user (networked resources, preferred startup apps,

Re: telnet

1998-05-19 Thread Tony Wells
Hi JY, What happens when you try telnet what happens? What happens if you wait for 1 to 2 minutes? Can you ping the linux box? What happens if you tracert from the w95 box? Kind regards Tony Wells Phenomenal Books "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shor

Monster Sound Card (PCI)

1998-05-19 Thread Jim McMurry
I have a dilemma (sic) I have this Diamond Multimedia Monster Sound board (PCI) that has: Digital Signal Processor Analog Devices 2181 Audio Codec Analog Devices 1843 Is there a driver available for this sound card for RH 5.0 Thanks Jim McMurry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Syste

dump and T3000 drive

1998-05-19 Thread Steven W. Orr
I just thought I'd editorialize here for a second on the benefits of dump because I think we should all feel lucky to have it. 1. It is true that you have to tell dump a really big lie for the length of the tape. A 120m 4mm dat has an effective length of 44000 feet because of the funny way that t

Re: fips.exe

1998-05-19 Thread Eric L. Green
From: Stacy Brodzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I am about to install RedHat LINUX on a Windows95 machine. Therefore, I need > to do some disk repartitioning and was going to use the fips utility. However, > while reading through the RedHat installation instructions, I read a note > that said that "At

Re: dump and T3000 drive

1998-05-19 Thread Steven W. Orr
Message-ID: <01bd01bd834f$37ffadc0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -Original Message- From: Vidiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, May 17, 1998 4:13 AM Subject: dump and T

Re: 1152x864 resolution in XFree86?

1998-05-19 Thread Matt Housh
For some reason, Xconfigurator doesn't supply some of the less-used modes. You could fix it several different ways, but there are two I use, as they are pretty easy. One is to edit the display sections of XF86Config, the other is to use xf86Config instead of xconfigurator... HTH Matt --

Re: POP choices

1998-05-19 Thread Earl Sammons
We switched to cucipop so we could take advantage of a "hashed" mail spool dir. ie. mail for user "foo" would be deposited in /var/spool/mail/f/o/ (with 10-20 others) vice /var/spool/mail (with several thousand others) for the purpose of speeding mail spool lookups. This will be a help when you

Re: dump and T3000 drive

1998-05-19 Thread Vidiot
>That's really what they're for; to end a dump before tape runs out, so you >don't walk into the machine room and find a big reel ripped to shreds from >going around and around after it reached the end. > >Doesn't matter with modern tapes. dump is really old. :-) 'Tis true. Earlier versions of

Re: How can linux do this?

1998-05-19 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: David Masterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: M. Neidorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, May 18, 1998 2:50 AM Subject: How can linux do this? >NT can do that?? Not where I work. It's unlikely that two different >systems ha

Netscape with Black and White icons.

1998-05-19 Thread Bevis Mau
Hi, I have installed Netscape 4.04 in my RedHat 5.0. All icons in the browser window are of two colors: black, red (and grey from the desktop). I remembered in my Win95 Netscape they are all in color. So I tried Help. The help window comes up and but all icons in the Help window are in

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

1998-05-19 Thread Joel Robert Oliveira
Is it getting a little hot in here ?? *whew* .. settle Joel On Tue, 19 May 1998, Frederic Woodbridge wrote: > Quoting Chuck Carson: > > > > Linux can out perform NT maybe, but Solaris? That is like > > comparing a GEO Metro to a Mercedes Benz IMHO. > > Oh please! Gi

RE: "Sender:" field in mail header

1998-05-19 Thread Maxwell Smart
On 19-May-98 Doug Smoak wrote: > Hi, when I first tried to subscribe to this list, I got no confirmation. > I then mailed to "listmaster" and was informed that my mail had a > "Sender:" field of "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and that I needed to > fix my mail client. I'm using NetScape and nowhere in its

Re: dump and T3000 drive

1998-05-19 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: Vidiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, May 17, 1998 4:13 AM Subject: dump and T3000 drive >But, when using dump, there are two values that I don't know; density and >size. The blocks I obtained fro the HOWTO: 58. I ha

Re: telnet

1998-05-19 Thread Joel Robert Oliveira
Hey! When you telnet from the 95 machines are you using the linux hostnames or the IP addresses ? I could be wrong but, I'm suspecting that the other linux machines can recognize the others if they're in the same network .. but if the hostnames aren't in the DNS then the 95 machines

Re: Bind upgrade question from newbie

1998-05-19 Thread rick
rpm -Uvh bind-4_9_6-7_i386.rpm (then do) ndc restart B. Haddix wrote: > Greetings, > > I have obtained the update to bind (bind-4_9_6-7_i386.rpm). > I'm currently running bind-4.9.6-6 > > How do I go about the upgrade of bind: > > Uninstall (using rpm) 6-6, then install 6-7 ? > > Or run rpm usi

(Fwd) rvplayer RPM's (finally)

1998-05-19 Thread Jay Anderson
>From Mike Wangsmo of RH via Redhat-announc-list. HTH, Jay (Standard Disclamer...) --- Forwarded Message Follows --- To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: rvplayer RPM's (finally) Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 19:18:21 -0300 From: Mike Wangsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Re

Recap: RH Linux boot from 2nd drive

1998-05-19 Thread Keith von Borstel
- Recapping the RH Linux boot from 2nd drive post from 5/13/98. - Thanks to all who have helped! The Situation: Win95 running on 850 MB C drive (hda)

Re: RH5.0 refuses to find my NIC Cards

1998-05-19 Thread Joel Robert Oliveira
Hey Joseph, Did you turn off plug-n-play capabilities in the computer's bios ?? That did it for me, and I currently have the same card working like a charm =). I think that might be it, cuz the combonation of the dos utilities disk and the pnp in bios being turned off finally fixed the same

SIGTERM in netscape

1998-05-19 Thread pancho
Hello I have a linux box running RH-5.0 with kernel 2.0.32 netscape blows away everytime after few moments without doing nothing. the error_log gives: httpd: caught SIGTERM, shutting down huumm any suggestions? miguel -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

Samba

1998-05-19 Thread Loay Oweis
I would like to repost this with hope as to get a hint or even a direction. I have read most literature and still have a wrinkle to iron out . my server with RH 5.0 has the third level domain name server I have on our website links for example: file:SERVER/.. with server denoting the do

Bind upgrade question from newbie

1998-05-19 Thread B. Haddix
Greetings, I have obtained the update to bind (bind-4_9_6-7_i386.rpm). I'm currently running bind-4.9.6-6 How do I go about the upgrade of bind: Uninstall (using rpm) 6-6, then install 6-7 ? Or run rpm using the upgrade switch (something that I've not done before)? -- PLEASE read the R

"Sender:" field in mail header

1998-05-19 Thread Doug Smoak
Hi, when I first tried to subscribe to this list, I got no confirmation. I then mailed to "listmaster" and was informed that my mail had a "Sender:" field of "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and that I needed to fix my mail client. I'm using NetScape and nowhere in its config am I listed as root... although,

Re: X-Windows (Ctl-Alt-F?)

1998-05-19 Thread J.D.
On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 04:00:09PM +0100, L. M. Marchese wrote: > I am using RedHat 5.0 as shipped. When I start X (startx) and press > Ctrl-Alt-F2 to switch to another virtual screen I can't get back; i.e., > from the 2nd virtual screen I press F1, all I get are the messages that > X displayed

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

1998-05-19 Thread Bill McClendon
Mike, Sorry. There is no intent to ignore the procedures. It would appear the lab person has not ordered them in a timely manner. I'm taking care of it. Bill > > Quoting Chuck Carson: > > > > Linux can out perform NT maybe, but Solaris? That is like > > comparing a GEO Metro to a Mercedes

Re: X-Windows (Ctl-Alt-F?)

1998-05-19 Thread W. J. Kossler
Try Ctl-Alt-F7 Jack Kossler -- 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 Subject.

Cramming way too much onto IDE interface

1998-05-19 Thread Shawn McMahon
I've got an old box I use as a router, very-low-duty server, and host for my personal domain. 486 motherboard, with AMD 5x86/133 processor and 64Mb RAM. The heaviest load it carries is hosting a 20-user mailing list that sees about a dozen messages a week, and occasionally doing a little 10Mb Et

1152x864 resolution in XFree86?

1998-05-19 Thread Fred Whipple
Hi all, I'm using MetroX at home with RH5, but just installed RH5 on my desktop machine at work. Of course (for the license junkies =) I'm using XFree86 here. I remember long ago I used to use XFree86 at 1152x864, but that resolution wasn't an option in Xconfigurator this time around. Anyone h

Setting up an ISP using a proxy server

1998-05-19 Thread Steve Smith
RH5.0 2.0.31 Ok, I've waded through the docs but cannot find exactly what I'm looking for. I connect to my ISP using a proxy server (proxy1.integrityonline.com...no IP address per se'). Is it possible to set this up in linux? -- Steve -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and t

Re: X-Windows (Ctl-Alt-F?)

1998-05-19 Thread Matt Housh
If you haven't changed your console setup since installation, ALT+F7 is where you want to be :) Matt --- Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MicroComputer SpecialistUniversity of Tulsa

Unidentified subject!

1998-05-19 Thread Steven W. Orr
Great question! When I come up on my emergency boot floopy set, for some reason, I can't mount my hard drive until I first say: insmod st But st is the SCSI tape driver. Why would that *not* get loaded automatically when I try to mount the harddrive? Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 11:12:19 -0400 To: [

RE: modules/insmod/modprobe and kerneld operation

1998-05-19 Thread Maxwell Smart
On 19-May-98 Brian Kirkland/CADC Designer wrote: > I have been doing some reading about modules > trying to understand how they are loaded. I have > read the kerneld mini-howto, the depmod,modprobe, > and insmod man pages but I am still confused. > > I have a SCSI cdrom and an Adaptec 1510 contr

Re: Help: installing Ghostscript RPMs

1998-05-19 Thread Joe Tseng
>If an rpm package says it needs ghostscript-fonts-std >it means that either you need ghostscript-fonts-std*.rpm file >either you need an rpm file which provides this feature >but its name is different. So where can I find ghostscript-fonts-std*.rpm? Joe Tseng [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1998 New York

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

1998-05-19 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: Peter Mutsaers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Peter Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, May 15, 1998 5:23 PM Subject: Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box >Hotmail also uses FreeBSD (even after Microsoft bought

Re: Wrong tray when printing to HP5SI on JetDirect

1998-05-19 Thread Matt Porter
On Sun, 17 May 1998, Vidiot wrote: > >I just set up a machine with RH5 on a network with other non RH Linux *nix > >machines. All the *nix machines access a JetDirect lpd queue hooked to an > >HP5SI. I used the install programs printer config stuff for an lpd queue, > >and printing to the 5SI wo

RE: POP3 Server...

1998-05-19 Thread Hoe-Teck Wee
Hello, you'd need a POP3 server for that purpose. RedHat 5 comes with imapd which contains a pop3 server. You could otherwise use qpopper or cucipop, which should be available from the redhat ftp sites. Try a search on ftp.redhat.com at www.redhat.com/search/ ? It's not difficult to install a pop

X-Windows (Ctl-Alt-F?)

1998-05-19 Thread L. M. Marchese
I am using RedHat 5.0 as shipped. When I start X (startx) and press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to switch to another virtual screen I can't get back; i.e., from the 2nd virtual screen I press F1, all I get are the messages that X displayed on startup and the screen hangs. I press Ctrl-C to exit, and it does ex

Re: Print filter for laser jer 4L question

1998-05-19 Thread John D. Hardin
> I have a laser jet 4L and the filter configuration allows you to print 1, > 2, 4, 8 pages per page. It works great except I can only change it via > printtool. Is there a way to tell the lpr to do this for a single print > job? Read the man page for the "mpage" command. -- John Hardin

Re: POP3 Server...

1998-05-19 Thread Kazumoto Kondo
Currently RedHat ships the imap rpm package with 5.0 that contains a version of the popd server which will allow people to use their email clients to gather mail from a machine running popd. Check the man pages of popd for more info. You'll find the imap4.rpm. I hope this information was he

POP choices

1998-05-19 Thread Gene Wilburn
I've been using the imap/pop daemons that come with RH5 with no apparent problems, but I've noticed that others on this list are using products like qpopper, etc. Wondered if you'd mind explaining the pro's and con's of using a different POP server than the one that comes out of the box. Gene

RE: BIND 4.9.6-7 security hole

1998-05-19 Thread Elliot Lee
On Mon, 18 May 1998, W. Bryan Caudle wrote: > The redhat update DOES NOT fix the problem I have tested this exploit > against the absolute latest bind RPM's from ftp.redhat.com, and that > version IS VULNERABLE, or I would not have posted this. This > vulnerability is affecting systems across th

Re: XFree

1998-05-19 Thread Patrick Dupre LCMI
Hi Frederico, Thank for your help, before I do more, I just would like to make some remarks. > > > somebody knows want to do with such a message want I try to load xinit: > > _X11transSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect errno = 111. > > I run Redhat 5.0 with Xfree86-3.3.2-5 package > > XF86Setup do

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