Installation woes..

Hi all, I have 486DX4-100 with 16 Meg RAM and a 850Meg Quantum Trailblazer HDD Drive... I am trying to install RH on it, with no luck.. RH 4.2, starts to boot from the boot floppy, then, just after finding the HDD, gives a 'Unknown Interupt' error, and stops. RH5.0, gets a bit further,

Re: Newbe: Whats USR stand for?

On Thu, 21 May 1998 23:00:43 -0400 (EDT), <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /opt is non-standard and is being sneaked in there I guess. /opt is standard according to the FHS. -- Bryan C. Andregg * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Red Hat Software "So hang the brand-name ego at the door and th

Re: Serious hard disk corruption problem.

> Hi, > > I'm having some serious hard disk problems and I was hoping someone could help. [...] Thanks to those of you who helped me with this. The suggestion from "Tony Wells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> about the sync rates led to the solution as I had set the sync rates for the IBM drives too hig

Re: Serious hard disk corruption problem.

> >From what you are saying, this is the picture I am getting of your SCSI > system: > > -68pin- -68pin- -68pin- -68pin- This is the layout. There are two internal sockets on the 875 controller. ID's 0 and 1 are terminated as each is on a separate cable. ID0 is a 68 pin drive but it's on

partitioning questions

I am attempting to install Linux 5.0 to a secondary hd that is a 1.6 gig with a hidden extended partition on the end. My primary drive is a 3.2 with os/2 boot manager (disabled) one primary dos partition and one extended. I use system commander for the boot. HD layout below 1 boot manager (

Re: Serious hard disk corruption problem.

> >I'm having some serious hard disk problems and I was hoping > someone could help. [...] > What I did to fix it was the following. I adjusted my scsi card > parameters to drop the scsi bus speed right down to the lowest > setting. Once I verified it worked, I then worked upwards to find > the

Re: external modem

ivan jose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, everybody! > I'm looking for a external modem that > works very well in Linux, so now I'm > using a very bad winmodem. Can someone > tell me any suggestions ? > Thanks ! > > I use a USR Courier V.Everything External and it works f

Re: Changing case of filenames

On Sat, 23 May 1998, Richard Lindner wrote: > for a recursive mv, why not use find: > > find .|while true;do > read oldname > if [ z$oldname = z ];then > exit 0 > else > echo $oldname `echo $oldname|tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'` > fi > done btw - the last "echo $oldname " sh

Root directory clean-up

Hi all, I am still somewhat of a rookie at Linux, but definatly a convert from Win95. Well I have finally gotten Linux set up the way I want with most of the functions I need working. What I would like to do know is cleanup my root directory a little so I have more space. I have a stand alone s

Re: Changing case of filenames

On Fri, 22 May 1998, Fred Smith wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 01:01:25PM +0100, Simon Liddington wrote: > > > > Can anyone think of an easy way of changing the case of the names of a > > directory tree of files? > > > > Simon > > Within each directory the following will change all the names

Re: apache default docs .. and glibc question

Look in srm.conf. It is in same directory as httpd.conf. Uncomment DirectoryIndex directive or add index.html to it if not there. When I installed Apache the line was already there, not commented, and it had index.html listed so maybe this will not solve your problem. > > Couple questions h

Importing mail into MS Exchange/Outlook PST file

Looking for assistance on how to import/write mail to MS Exchange/Outlook PST file. Thanks in advance Hints -- 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 unsubscri

external modem

Hi, everybody! I'm looking for a external modem that works very well in Linux, so now I'm using a very bad winmodem. Can someone tell me any suggestions ? Thanks ! == * Ivan Jose Varzinczak * P.E.T.-Informatica-UFPR Curitiba-Parana-Brasil =

Re: Changing case of filenames

On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 01:01:25PM +0100, Simon Liddington wrote: > > Can anyone think of an easy way of changing the case of the names of a > directory tree of files? > > Simon Within each directory the following will change all the names in that directory: for i in * do mv `echo $i | tr "[A

personalizing olvwm

Hi, folks ! Finally I installed olvwm in my RH 5.0 from a RH 4.2 CD-ROM. But it is very poor in menu resources and I don't know how to personalize this window manager, so there's no option about screen or window in the Preferences menu. Are there any configuration files that are needed ? Can someo

RedHat 5.1Manhattan

Looks like RH5.1 is going to be released on July 1. No more speculations, now its a fact. And this time 3 CDs for the price of 2!!! What a deal :) Mike -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /m

RE: partitioning strategy

> "sna,c" == Smith, Nathan A , Capt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: sna,c> Ok, sna,c> I looked at the specs for the ASUS board (on thier web site) and all I could sna,c> see was up to 83 Mhz. How are you getting 373? I would love to see how you sna,c> did this (since I would love to try!!!).

RE: Linux and Cable Modems

Did you ever find that list of links ?? might be really handy in the future =) Joel > > > 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. > > There's a guy at qualcomm who has an extensi

Re: partitioning strategy

Once upon a time Smith, Nathan A., Capt. wrote: > > Ok, > > I looked at the specs for the ASUS board (on thier web site) and all I could > see was up to 83 Mhz. How are you getting 373? I would love to see how you > did this (since I would love to try!!!). I think you are confusing bus clock

Strange boot

Hello everyone I really do not understand what is going with my machine, Redhat 5.0 + kernel 2.0.32-3. It is impossible to boot correctly, it seems it always switch to runlevel 6 even it I load in runlevel 1 !!! What should I do Thank. -- =

Re: single

> > > Why the command "linux single" does not work at boot time (linux works) ? > > Thank. > > > > Try 'linux 1' at the lilo prompt. > Same thing, I really do not understand, it always switch to runlevel 6 -- Pat

apache default docs .. and glibc question

Hey everybody Couple questions here.. I might have overlooked something but I've poured through the conf files for apache but I still have this one problem. When someone visits mypage.. they have to add the default index.html file along with the address ... ie: http://123.45.66.7/~jo

RE: Serious hard disk corruption problem.

>From what you are saying, this is the picture I am getting of your SCSI system: -68pin- -68pin- -68pin- -68pin- Where ID's 0 and 1 are both terminated (with ID 1 also on a 68-50pin adapter). If this is the correct layout, you need to disable termination on the Quantum drive (the bus shoul

Apache

One other question i forgot to ask...does anyone know where i can get an rpm of apache-1.2.6? Michael Weiner The UserFriendly Network -- -- 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: Boca multiport cards?

John H Darrah wrote: > It won't show up until you open a device. Open a > port by "cat >/dev/cua_whatever" then go to > another screen and do a "cat /proc/ioports". That won't work until digiDload runs (that's what initializes the driver). But I tried it anyway, and got "operation not supported

Re: Sendmail

>G'day all - > >And a happy Memorial Holday to all of you who celebrate it. Any who, i >have two questions that i was hoping someone could answer in regards to >sendmail. > >The first, regards the newaliases command. When i type 'newaliases' i >get now get the error: > >Cannot open hash database /

Re: Boca multiport cards?

On Fri, 22 May 1998, Michael Jinks wrote: > John H Darrah wrote: > > > > > > > You don't say which Boca it is... > > Because I don't know. Like I said in my first post, this is something > we had laying around and there's no identifying information on the card > (other than PN4920). > Did yo

Re: Boca multiport cards?

On Fri, 22 May 1998, Michael Jinks wrote: > John H Darrah wrote: > > Symptoms? > > The Digi driver has been compiled into the > kernel (no mean feat) and loads on the boot. > The card appears properly in /proc/devices, but > does not show up in /proc/ioports no matter > which port I set the c

Re: PATH settings - errata

On Fri, 22 May 1998, Greg Fall wrote: > (WM) inherits the login shell's path, and any shells started by your WM > (e.g. shells running in xterms) also inherit that same path. Therefore, > people who use runlevel 5 and console logins should expect the path used > by their window manager, as well

Re: PATH settings

On Fri, 22 May 1998, Jacek Andreas Matulla wrote: > > I don't know about kdm, but xdm uses two settings, found in > > /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config. Mine works nicely when I set paths in that > > file, like this: > > > > DisplayManager._0.userPath: \ > > /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin/\

Sendmail

G'day all - And a happy Memorial Holday to all of you who celebrate it. Any who, i have two questions that i was hoping someone could answer in regards to sendmail. The first, regards the newaliases command. When i type 'newaliases' i get now get the error: Cannot open hash database /etc/mail/

unsubscrive

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Re: Serious hard disk corruption problem.

>I'm having some serious hard disk problems and I was hoping someone could help. > Hi Eze, I've had similar problems with SCSI under Linux,, esp copying large files. Linux seems to exercise the PC components more than other OS's, apart from perhaps OS2. What I did to fix it was the following. I

Re: single

> Why the command "linux single" does not work at boot time (linux works) ? > Thank. > Try 'linux 1' at the lilo prompt. Brian. -- = | Brian Eith [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~eith | =

Re: ISDN

On Fri, 22 May 1998, Matt Housh wrote: > now. My current ISP uses Ascend, anyone got a suggestion as to a specific > Ascend ISDN modem? Well, for home use you pretty much have two choices, the Pipeline 25 or the Pipeline 15. The 15 is a pure terminal adapter and uses your serial port just like

RE: partitioning strategy

Ok, I looked at the specs for the ASUS board (on thier web site) and all I could see was up to 83 Mhz. How are you getting 373? I would love to see how you did this (since I would love to try!!!). Nathan > -Original Message- > From: Patrick T. Berry [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: T

single

Hello, every body Why the command "linux single" does not work at boot time (linux works) ? Thank. -- Patrick DUPRE| | Tel: (33 4) 76-88-78-51 25 Rue des Martyrs | | Fax: (33 4)

AfterStep 1.4 problems

I upgraded from 1.0 to 1.4, and I can't seem to get it to work. I keep getting an error about a file called 'SecurityPolicy' not being found. Any idea what this means? I degraded back to 1.0, and everything works fine. Anyone have 1.4 working yet? BTW, I'm running 4.2 and using the Mach64 serv

Re: IP Forwarding Problem

Pete Durst wrote: > Hi, > > I am resending this again in hopes someone can help me. Just a minor thought. Try typing the needed parameters when the boot option comes up. In other words, type Linux (parameter ) at the Lilo prompt. For some reason, the append statement will not always

boot

Hello, For now 2 days I am trying to fix my machine, unfortunetly I am not successful. It seems that the root parttition is not well mounted (it is mounted but not weel), but I do not understand why. I enclos the /etc/mtab file. I run RH5.0 with a kernel 2.0.32-3. /dev/hda11 and hda16 are never

Unidentified subject!

And I quote from The Excellent Manual: If shutdown is called from init, it checks to see if the file /etc/shutdown.allow is present. It then compares the login names in that file with the list of people that are logged in on a virtual cons

IP Forwarding Problem

Hi, I am resending this again in hopes someone can help me. I have an interesting problem that I hope someone can help me with. I took my old 486/100 added ram so that it has 64MB and set it up to be a scsi based system. I took an adaptec 2940 and connected a seagate 1.0 gb dri

Re: PATH settings

On 22-May-98 Greg Fall wrote: > On Fri, 22 May 1998, Jacek Andreas Matulla wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have some problems with my PATH setting. When I log on as root to the >> console >> my PATH contains /sbin and /usr/sbin. When logging in with kdm my PATH is >> missing /sbin and /usr/sbin. No

shutdown -r now ...shuts down linux system but never reboots computer...

Using Redhat Linux 5.0 , when we execute the command: shutdown -r now to reboot, all the processes shutdown properly, but then a line keeps repeating to the effect that there are "no more process to kill", and the machine never reboots. This "no more processes to kill" repeats about every 30 s

Serious hard disk corruption problem.

Hi, I'm having some serious hard disk problems and I was hoping someone could help. I Installed three new IBM disks a while back to replace a Quantum that crashed. With the new drives installed I was using a Quantum Atlas and two IBM Ultrastar with the third IBM unused (I did try to install NT

Re: SCSI Tape drives

How odd. Someone else posted this same question just afew days ago...Maybe it was another list. Anyway, the devices are /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0 st1 st2 nst1 nst2 etc Dan At 01:42 PM 5/22/98 -0400, you wrote: >Greetings, > >I am trying to test a piece of software which uses the rmt program

Re: Linux IP clustering

On Fri, 22 May 1998, Shawn McMahon wrote: > What I want to do is take some thin clients and set them to boot from one IP > address, but have it round-robin to several different machines so that I'm Hmm, I guess you could abuse IP masquerading to do this (have two NIC's, the other boot hosts hidde

Re: PATH settings

The system wide path is in /etc/profile Per user PATH is appended to the system wide PATH in a file called .bash_profile in each users HOME directory. Dan At 11:55 AM 5/22/98 +0200, you wrote: >Hi all, > >I have some problems with my PATH setting. When I log on as root to the console >my PATH

Re: PATH settings

On Fri, 22 May 1998, Jacek Andreas Matulla wrote: > Hi all, > > I have some problems with my PATH setting. When I log on as root to the console > my PATH contains /sbin and /usr/sbin. When logging in with kdm my PATH is > missing /sbin and /usr/sbin. Now my /etc/profile does not contain /sbin an

Re: 3.0.3 bind update

Why not just download the -safe- bind source and compile it? Or for that matter, just use rpm to remove the bind version he has now (he has the 3.0.3 cd I asume in case this doesn't work -there's no reason it wouldn't work-), then try out the redhat 4.2 bind rpms...as far I can tell there are no

PATH settings

Hi all, I have some problems with my PATH setting. When I log on as root to the console my PATH contains /sbin and /usr/sbin. When logging in with kdm my PATH is missing /sbin and /usr/sbin. Now my /etc/profile does not contain /sbin and /usr/sbin. So where would I put these both...? Only for roo

Re: lp woes

On Thu, 21 May 1998, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote: > I have a WinNT box with an LPR port added to send printer stuff > to my Linux printer (laser). Linux is eating my print jobs! I .. Some things to check: Make sure that the "lp" module is being loaded. I.e., "lsmod", see if "lp" is in the modules

Re: 3.0.3 bind update

Just upgrade BIND. You should be able to do that with only a brief downtime, and that only a BIND downtime. BIND can be stopped and restarted without rebooting your server. -Original Message- From: Phil Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday,

3.0.3 bind update

We've got a client who is severly attached to their 3.0.3 system. We've been trying for quite some time to convince them to upgrade to at least 4.2 but so far no luck. With the recent named security holes, it looks like we may be able to convince them. Problem is, this is a very heavy use machi

Re: Overclocking Pentium 233 to 373.5 mhz

Linux, with 602 packages totaling 702 mbytes, loads in 19 minutes from cdrom, while it takes over 59 minutes on my 133mhz Cyrix P166+/soltek system, both having otherwise similar options. When I run Winbench 97, I get 411 index on Pentium 233 at 373.50 mhz. I would enjoy any help in determinin

SCSI Tape drives

Greetings, I am trying to test a piece of software which uses the rmt program in /usr/sbin/rmt. On BSDi, this remote backup procedure worked fine. I have recently scrapped BSDi and put Linux on my workstation, and it seems to be having some minor difficulties. My guess is that the problem m

HP VL7 Installation

Has anyone gotten RH5 installed on a Hewlett Packard VL Series 7 machine? Specifically, can anyone get X to run? I have chosen the Cirrus Logic 5464 chip (for the on-board Laguna3D chipset), and the system hangs within seconds to launching X. SuperProbe can't id. the video chipset at all, re

Re: Boca multiport cards?

John H Darrah wrote: > > > You don't say which Boca it is... Because I don't know. Like I said in my first post, this is something we had laying around and there's no identifying information on the card (other than PN4920). > But if it is the > IO/AT66, you set it up with a single interrupt >

Re: Another go at IPX

Graham wrote: > You need to take a look at the Netware Emulator MARS_NWE. The Win95 PCs > will need to have a Netware Client installed (either MS or Novell). Sigh. Been there, it didn't work. I followed all of the steps for setting up mars_nwe, up to the point of verifying that my /proc filesy

Re: partitioning strategy -Reply

Does this give you true 373Mhz performance? Just curios. >>> "Patrick T. Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/21/98 05:10pm >>> Ray Curtis wrote: > > "ptb" == Patrick T Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ptb> I am overclocking a 233mx at 373.5 mhz! > > Boy, I hope you have this on a block of

Re: ISDN

On Thu, 21 May 1998, William T Wilson wrote: > On Thu, 21 May 1998, Matt Housh wrote: > > Not a specific redhat question, but here goes. Can some people > > recommend to me a good ISDN modem/router for Linux that's relatively > > affordable? Even an internal modem would be ok, although I prefe

RH5.0 HD installation

I am trying to install from a DOS partition on harddrive (have been for a week now) but keep getting the error "it does not appear that you have a redhat installation tree on hda1". Can somone tell me what files I have to download? The online manual, FAQ's and how-to's (I've been reading manua

TkDesk problem

I am running RedHat 5.0 with Tcl/Tk 8.0 and I am trying to install TkDesk. I originally tried to install the rpm version (statically linked) and I got the following error message: failed dependencies: libtk4.2.so is needed by TkDesk-1.0b5-2 libtcl7.6.so is needed by TkDesk-1.0b5-

question about shutdown

According to the man page for shutdown, I can create a file in /etc called shutdown.allow with a user name per line to allow that user to shutdown the system. I have created said file and added the user I want to be able to shut down as to it, but if I run "/sbin/shutdown -r now" it says that only

Re: ISDN

At 08:18 AM 5/22/98 -0500, you wrote: > > Thanx for the input. I mentioned a router because my old gateway >box didn't have fast enough serial ports. But I've got a faster box as GW >now. My current ISP uses Ascend, anyone got a suggestion as to a specific >Ascend ISDN modem? Well, I'd sugg

Re: dump and T3000 drive

> 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. > Why don't you have a look for a good backup software called Arkeia. http://www.knox-software.com/ They have time limited eval versions for all the major platform

Re: Changing case of filenames

On Fri, 22 May 1998, James C. Bevier wrote: > > > > > "sl" == Simon Liddington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > sl> Can anyone think of an easy way of changing the case of the > > sl> names of a directory tree of files? > > > > This comes up a lot as a question. The answer involves

Re: Linux IP clustering

On Fri, 22 May 1998, Shawn McMahon wrote: > So I figure on taking 3 or 4 Linux boxes, clustering them, and being able to > boot a whole bunch at once. Why 3 or 4 Linux boxes? 1 should do the trick... The network is going to be the bottleneck here - it doesn't take a terribly powerful machine to

Re: Restoring win95 boot manager

At 06:56 AM 5/22/98 -0800, you wrote: >> I was wondering if it is possible to restore the Win95 boot manager, but = >> still retain the Linux system and the ability to boot into the Linux = >> system? What would be ideal for me is if I could have Win95 boot as = >> default (not thru LILO) and hav

Re: modem sharing - under Linux OS

You should read the windows-modem-sharing mini howto. I tried the perl script included with it but found it didn't work for me. However the mserver script that he mentions works Great! I use it all the time. Though it is only ment for serial ports, I'm sure if you have a client for it (or can fi

Linux IP clustering

There's been some talk here lately about Beowulf. But that's not the kind of clustering I want to know about. What I want to know is, what software is available to let me take several machines, put TFTP servers on all of them, and make the whole thing respond to one IP address. What I want to

Re: Newbe: Whats USR stand for?

On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 09:35:47PM -0400, DGM wrote: > I am new to the Unix world and was wondering what (if anything) the > following directory names actually stand for: > > usr user > opt > etc etc (as in the latin words "et cetera") -- Fred Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Changing case of filenames

Once upon a time Simon Liddington wrote: > > > Can anyone think of an easy way of changing the case of the names of a > directory tree of files? This was something I often wanted to do and it seemed like a good makework Python project while I was learning the language so, I append a Python scri

Re: HELP!! Upgraded mount and now system won't boot

I played some with the rescue disk last night and I don't think that 'cp' and 'mv' were available commands. Are you sure that I can use these command when I boot the rescue disk? -- Jake Colman Principia Partners LLC Phone: (201) 946-0300 Harborside Fina

Re: Boca multiport cards?

On Fri, 22 May 1998, Michael Jinks wrote: > John H Darrah wrote: > > > If it is an IO/AT66, it will work fine. It uses > > the standard serial driver and has all the signals > > to will work with modems also. I currently have in > > use a Boca IO/AT66, BB2016 and BB2008 cards. > > Hm so doe

Re: Video problems narrowed down

On Wed, 20 May 1998, Larsen wrote: > 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 "of

Re: Changing case of filenames

Ok. Here's a cool perl script called rename: #! /usr/bin/perl # Usage: rename perlexpr [files] ($op = shift) || die "Usage: rename perlexpr [filenames]\n"; if (!@ARGV) { @ARGV = ; chop(@ARGV); } for (@ARGV) { $was = $_; eval $op; die $@ if $@; rename($was,$_) unless $was

Re: Can I call subroutines on a Linux server from a VB client?

On Mon, 18 May 1998, KThorpe wrote: > I wish to be able to call subroutines on my Linux server from a Visual Basic > program on a network client. Does anything exist to allow me to do this? See if Visual Basic can do Unix-style "rpc" calls (Remote Procedure Calls). Not high-tech stuff (COM and C

Re: Changing case of filenames

> > > "sl" == Simon Liddington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > sl> Can anyone think of an easy way of changing the case of the > sl> names of a directory tree of files? > > This comes up a lot as a question. The answer involves using "tr". A > full answer appears in the comp.unix.shel

Re: modem sharing - under Linux OS

On -1 xxx -1, it was written: > <>hints wrote: > > Does anyone know of a Linux program that will allow modem sharing > or pooling? Hmm, only one I've seen is the one that Computone provides for their Intelliserver product line. We use that one here in the office to be able to access our modem po

Re: Restoring win95 boot manager

> I was wondering if it is possible to restore the Win95 boot manager, but = > still retain the Linux system and the ability to boot into the Linux = > system? What would be ideal for me is if I could have Win95 boot as = > default (not thru LILO) and have linux boot from a floppy disk. Just fdi

Re: swatch

Look at logcheck-1.00-1 in rpm format at ftp.redhat.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you never try - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - WEB: http://diesel.sy

Re: Support Wizard or AI

On Fri, 22 May 1998, W. Wade, Hampton wrote: > I have a question for you folks. Does anyone know of a > support tool for Linux where one can walk through a > series of questions to get an answer to a problem? > Is one AI based? check out

Re: NIS?

As far as I know there is not NIS+ for Linux yet __ Alfonso Barreto Lopez Inst. de Inv. de Matematicas U.N.A.M [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 21 May 1998, Mike Frisch wrote: > On Wed, 20 May 1998, Abandon_All_Hope wrot

swatch

Whatever happened to swatch? I used it on 4.2, it's included on the 5.0 CD but it doesn't work. Is there another tool to allow me to execute a command when certain events are recorded in a log file? -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.

Restoring win95 boot manager

Hi,   I was wondering if it is possible to restore the Win95 boot manager, but still retain the Linux system and the ability to boot into the Linux system?  What would be ideal for me is if I could have Win95 boot as default (not thru LILO) and have linux boot from a floppy disk.   Any sugg

X problems

I decided to upgrade my Afterstep WM from 1.0.3 to 1.4.2, but I screwed someting up along the way. Now I cannot get into X windows as a user (I can as root). Here is the error I get: error opening security policy file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy /usr/share/locale: no such file or

Support Wizard or AI

I have a question for you folks. Does anyone know of a support tool for Linux where one can walk through a series of questions to get an answer to a problem? Is one AI based? If not, such would REALLY set Linux apart from M$. The M$ help wizard sort of does this (but not very well). Suggestio

Re: HELP!! Upgraded mount and now system won't boot

> I downloaded the mount 2.71 RPM from RH's ftp site to upgrade the mount > that is included with RH5 CD. I did this because I've been getting NFS > warnings about my mount version being older than my kernel version > (2.1.97). I rebooted the system and I get a bunch of errors from mount > sayin

Re: Laptop Help Request, Motorola Mariner PCMCIA

You might need to recompile PCMCIA. It's pretty easy, and solved my problem when I upgraded a kernel and suddenly found my NIC useless :) If you want to try that, PCMCIA is readily available from RedHat's contrib, RPMS, or from http://hyper.stanford.edu/pub/pcmcia. There's cutting edge ty

Re: Changing case of filenames

If you want to make every file lowercase: shell> for i in *; do mv $i `echo $i | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`; done For the other way around (every file uppercase): shell> for i in *; do mv $i `echo $i | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'`; done You'll get some gripes if files are already uppe

Re: ISDN

Thanx for the input. I mentioned a router because my old gateway box didn't have fast enough serial ports. But I've got a faster box as GW now. My current ISP uses Ascend, anyone got a suggestion as to a specific Ascend ISDN modem? Matt --

Re: Automatical retrival of E-mail

Tom Kistner wrote: > > >> something here ? shouldn't this > >> be enough to automatically retrieve E-Mail ? > > > >Same thing with me. Automatic email retrieval doesn't seem to work even > >when set up. I gave up, now just collect email by clicking on the 'Get > >Msg' button. Anybody else had thi

HELP!! Upgraded mount and now system won't boot

I downloaded the mount 2.71 RPM from RH's ftp site to upgrade the mount that is included with RH5 CD. I did this because I've been getting NFS warnings about my mount version being older than my kernel version (2.1.97). I rebooted the system and I get a bunch of errors from mount saying that it

Re: Living on Two Networks Simultaneously

> "Shawn" == Shawn McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shawn> This should be part of the BSD networking code, so it should be Shawn> stable. I'm not a kernel hacker, though, and I've yet to IP alias a Shawn> Linux box. Done tons of it with BSD/OS and NT. So try it and don't

Re: Changing case of filenames

> "sl" == Simon Liddington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: sl> Can anyone think of an easy way of changing the case of the sl> names of a directory tree of files? This comes up a lot as a question. The answer involves using "tr". A full answer appears in the comp.unix.shell (or maybe comp.

xauth, LBX and ssh

Hey all. I'm trying to figure out how to set up xauth, LBX and ssh-forwarded X connections. To start with, I modified my system-wide startx to generate a cookie every time I run it by putting mcookie|sed -e 's/^/add :0 . /'|xauth -q xinit $clientargs -- $serverargs -auth "$HOME/

Changing case of filenames

Can anyone think of an easy way of changing the case of the names of a directory tree of files? Simon -- | Simon Liddington | Tel (home) : +44 (0)1703 346087 | | E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel (work

SUCCESS: HP Color LaserJet 5 ; SMB ; samba ; printer driver

Just to let you know that I got my HP Color LaserJet to work. I used drivers for the HP PaintJet XL300 and DeskJet 1200C. Thanks for all the helpful comments. Have fun! I will now unsubscribe since the list has too much traffic for me, being too busy currently. ciao, 'gene -- PLEASE read

RE: LPD refusal

On 22-May-98 Moore Brett wrote: > Hope someone has a quick answer to this; My machine (192.168.1.1) would > like to print to the okilaser on lp2 @ my remote machine (192.168.1.6). > > The remote machine has the printer setup & configured so local printing is > OK, the files; > > /etc/hosts.lp

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