Re: Changing hostname breaks login

1998-06-03 Thread Randy Carpenter
> Never, under any circumstances, change your machine's name to something > other than localhost. Your machine should always respond to "localhost", > as it's bound to both your default IP and 127.0.0.1. > > You can name your machine something in *addition* to localhost. Man hosts. What?? res

Re: Enlightenment

1998-06-03 Thread Michael Jinks
ryo wrote: > > > when I try to launch enlightenment or esd I get : > > esd: error in loading shared libraries > libesd.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > I'm starting to fiddle with E myself, and also having mixed luck, but I think the solution to this one is to ed

Re: Changing hostname breaks login

1998-06-03 Thread fugue
> My home system uses the default hostname "localhost." Since > I'm about to network this with a second machine, I would > like to change this. When I changed it via the netcfg > interface, I couldn't log in after rebooting. Not as root > nor as my regular username. (I log in via the TriTeal C

Changing hostname breaks login

1998-06-03 Thread Edward Scott Meadows
My home system uses the default hostname "localhost." Since I'm about to network this with a second machine, I would like to change this. When I changed it via the netcfg interface, I couldn't log in after rebooting. Not as root nor as my regular username. (I log in via the TriTeal CDE login s

Re: [linux-security] Re: RedHat5.1 security flaws.

1998-06-03 Thread Chris Evans
On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Mike Johnson wrote: > At 03:04 PM 6/2/98 +0100, you wrote: > > >Are there any other people out there interested in a concerted linux > >source security auditing process? > > Yes, yes, and yes. Did I mention, yes? OK. I've got a _lot_ of positive response about starting s

Enlightenment

1998-06-03 Thread ryo
hello, I have problem installing enlightenment, in fact it isn't really enlightenment that doesn't work, it's esound. Everything is compiling OK (imlib, fnlib, esound, enlightenment, the other are installed from rpm binaries), and seem to install properly exept esound that gives me this during t

Re: Manhattan & Netscape

1998-06-03 Thread Bryan C. Andregg
On Tue, 2 Jun 1998 13:23:16 -0700 (PDT), <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hurricane for 5.x systems > redhat-list for 4.x and prior systems > There is a manhattan list that you should subscribe to. The hurricane list will be going away within a few weeks. -- Bryan C. Andregg *

Cron Revisited

1998-06-03 Thread Trevor Astrope
I thought I knew it all about cron, so didn't pay attention to the recent thread on the subject. :-) Please excuse me if this question was asked and answerd. I would like to know the relationship between the /etc/crontab and /var/spool/cron/root files. Specifically, I would like to know the follo

Re: Fixing the console

1998-06-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > >I occasionally screw up the console output by > >accidentally grepping in a directory with binary > >data, or catting a binary file to stdout. After > >doing that, all the text displayed is garbage. > > >Does anyone know how to fix this? > > >Than

Re: egcs with RH5.0 - failure in make -k check

1998-06-03 Thread Paul Kersting
Again, thanks for the help. I downloaded egcs1.0.3 from the cygnus site, and I decided to install the complete package. As you noted, the process was relatively straightforward through the configure and build steps. I then tried the make -k check step to do the standard tests, and it fails i

.htaccess

1998-06-03 Thread Marcantonio Magnarapa
Hi, I have set up a .htaccess file with a AddHandler directive, but it is simply ignored by apache. The AccessFileName directive in the srm.conf file is ".htaccess", so it should be read and considered. But apache keeps on ignoring it. Any suggestions? Marcantonio --

RE: What's up with the E mailing list?

1998-06-03 Thread Jason Scherbarth
try [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Michael Jinks [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 1998 10:33 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: What's up with the E mailing list? > > Sorry for the tangent, but I'm trying to subscribe to the > enlightenment >

What's up with the E mailing list?

1998-06-03 Thread Michael Jinks
Sorry for the tangent, but I'm trying to subscribe to the enlightenment mailing list and getting bounces. Is anyone else subscribed to that list, and can you point me at the right address? The one I'm trying (from the FAQ on the enlightenment homepage) is [EMAIL PROTECTED] TIA, m -- PLEASE

Re: Why is a signature required at delivery?

1998-06-03 Thread Antonomasia
From: "Andy Lindeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I had a tag hanging on my door stating that Fedex needed a signature _at > delivery_ for RedHat 5.1. The tag specified that the shipper made this > requirement. I was wondering why Red Hat would require this for a $50 > product. > > I find this to be

Re: Wow, Where should cd be.

1998-06-03 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 03 Jun 1998, Abandon_All_Hope wrote: >I have been using cd fine for awhile. >But if I do a >%which cd cd is a shell built in. Unlike most other commands, which live in /bin or /usr/bin, cd must be a shell built in, otherwise it can't work. (In other words, if cd were a regular executabl

running a mailing list

1998-06-03 Thread Doug Elznic
Hello, What software is recomended for running high volume mailing lists like this on? I am interested in setting up a mailing list and have not seen a whole lot of docs for it. I am looking to have digests and web archives as well. Thank you very much... -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Ti

adding users

1998-06-03 Thread Stacy Brodzik
How do I add users?? I've tried a couple things but haven't been very successful. -- Stacy Brodzik INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Washington Dept of Atmospheric Sciences Box 351640 Seattle, WA 98195-1640 -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING L

Sendmail question

1998-06-03 Thread Randy Smith \(at work\)
Hello, I am looking to configure sendmail, or some other application, to deliver mail to specified files. The requirments are: Mail for each named user (either special group or explicit) must go to a common file. All the headers except: To, From, Subject are to be discarded. A special header line

Why is a signature required at delivery?

1998-06-03 Thread Andy Lindeman
Hello- I had a tag hanging on my door stating that Fedex needed a signature _at delivery_ for RedHat 5.1. The tag specified that the shipper made this requirement. I was wondering why Red Hat would require this for a $50 product. I find this to be a pain in the @#$. I'm going to have to leave

Re: Wow, Where should cd be.

1998-06-03 Thread fugue
> I have been using cd fine for awhile. > But if I do a > %which cd > I get nothing if I do a > find / -name cd -print I get > /usr/lib/tclX8.0.0/help/tcl/status/cd > I do not see cd under /bin or /usr/bin. Is this normal, under RH5.0 or do > I have a trojan put in a stupid place? > Thanks th

Wow, Where should cd be.

1998-06-03 Thread Abandon_All_Hope
I have been using cd fine for awhile. But if I do a %which cd I get nothing if I do a find / -name cd -print I get /usr/lib/tclX8.0.0/help/tcl/status/cd I do not see cd under /bin or /usr/bin. Is this normal, under RH5.0 or do I have a trojan put in a stupid place? Thanks - - - - - - - - - -

Re: SCSI support...

1998-06-03 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
On 03-Jun-98 Larry Lade wrote: > Jacek Andreas Matulla wrote: >> well I have an AHA 2940 from Adaptec working here with a RH 4.2. >> >> Everytime on boot the SCSI bus is reset. This will take some secondsis >> there a way to deactivate this reset...? Is it neccessary to reset the SCSI >> bus

Re: Users

1998-06-03 Thread Matt Housh
Remove the user's home dir (/home/user usually), their mail spool (if created, /var/spool/mail/user), and their entries from /etc/passwd and /etc/group (if created). --- Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mi

Re: Fixing the console

1998-06-03 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
>I occasionally screw up the console output by >accidentally grepping in a directory with binary >data, or catting a binary file to stdout. After >doing that, all the text displayed is garbage. >Does anyone know how to fix this? >Thanks, >-Mike Type reset when you have a bad screen. There is

Re: Vt bloking after doing init 3

1998-06-03 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 12:19:25AM +0100, Luis Sismeiro wrote: > > Some more details, perhaps? "Becomes crazy" is a bit vague :) > > I get the prompt of login but when I press the enter key after my login > name the ^M appears and I can login on that vt anymore. When that happens, instead of pre

Re: SCSI support...

1998-06-03 Thread Doug Ledford
Mark Malecha wrote: > > Jacek Andreas Matulla wrote: > > well I have an AHA 2940 from Adaptec working here with a RH 4.2. > > > > Everytime on boot the SCSI bus is reset. This will take some secondsis > > there a way to deactivate this reset...? Is it neccessary to reset the SCSI > > bus...?

Re: SCSI support...

1998-06-03 Thread Mark Malecha
Jacek Andreas Matulla wrote: > well I have an AHA 2940 from Adaptec working here with a RH 4.2. > > Everytime on boot the SCSI bus is reset. This will take some secondsis > there a way to deactivate this reset...? Is it neccessary to reset the SCSI > bus...? Add: append="aic7xxx=no_

Re: IP_FW_MAX_PORTS

1998-06-03 Thread hartr
On 1 Jun, Slyglif Cain wrote: > Hello. I'm not sure if this is the correct list to ask in, but I didn't see > a group which seemed more appropriate. From reading the man pages, it looks > as though ipfwadm has a limit of 10 ports which can be blocked based on > src/dest addresses. What kind of

Support for ET6000 chipset?

1998-06-03 Thread Scott
I have an STB lightspeed 128 vid card that uses the Tseng Labs ET6000 chipset. Has anyone used xwindows or metrox with this chipset in anything other than default resolution? Scott -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /

NO PRINT AFTER KERNEL UPGRADE

1998-06-03 Thread BURNS,JEREMY
After I upgraded my kernel to a version with Olicom token ring support compiled in, my NIC card works great, except now I can't print to the attached HP Laserjet 4000...it gives me: lpr: lp: unknown printer I checked /etc/conf.modules, which is empty; should there be some info here regarding lp/

Re: Encryption between two firewals

1998-06-03 Thread Joshua Heling
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Barfu Egon jun." writes: >[To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >"unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.] >- >Hi! > >Is it possible to encrypt the data between two redhat - firewalls with >fwtk 2.0 so that I can make a secure login or

Re: Fixing the console

1998-06-03 Thread Adam Procter
On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 08:53:32AM -0700, Mike Bridge wrote: > I occasionally screw up the console output by > accidentally grepping in a directory with binary > data, or catting a binary file to stdout. After > doing that, all the text displayed is garbage. The reset command should do it. --

Users

1998-06-03 Thread J. Carlos Cristobal
Hello everybody! I have a question as curiosity, how do I erase in an easy way a user? is there an script or something like that? Thanks in advance... -- J. Carlos Cristobal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mexico, D.F. -- PLEASE read th

RE: RH5.0 install problem

1998-06-03 Thread Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Mike A. Lewis, CNE wrote: > John, your wild guess was a good one, but unfortunately not the right > one. Since posting this message, I have replaced the IDE drive with a > SCSI drive. Exactly the same problem exists. [signal 13 problem, that is]. Whenever I've recieved a si

Fixing the console

1998-06-03 Thread Mike Bridge
I occasionally screw up the console output by accidentally grepping in a directory with binary data, or catting a binary file to stdout. After doing that, all the text displayed is garbage. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks, -Mike -- Mike Bridge| "We are all very depende

Re: xsysinfo?

1998-06-03 Thread Eddie Kuns
] if you have trouble finding a program to run, try typing ] find / -iname This will search from the root of ] the filesystem for files of name If you leave your system up 24/7 or leave it up over the occasional night or just run the /etc/cron.daily/updatedb.cron script by hand, as root, t

Re: Vt bloking after doing init 3

1998-06-03 Thread Matt Housh
I find that sometimes killing the process for that getty/mingetty recovers the VT, sometimes not... --- Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MicroComputer SpecialistUniversity of Tulsa

RH5.1 (manhattan): Glint | Tcl/Tk

1998-06-03 Thread Laine Juha
Hi. I've just installed RH5.1 . So far I havent had much luck with the "glint" program. It starts up OK, but with some/most of the packages it does not understand the more detailed information (= QUERY button). Instead I got some errors on my shell from which I launched the application. Fol

Re: newbie kernel compilation question

1998-06-03 Thread Matt Housh
Did you remove the old modules before installing the new ones, in /lib/modules/ ? --- Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MicroComputer SpecialistUniversity of Tulsa

Loading linux from the NT boot menu

1998-06-03 Thread Matt Housh
Since several people expressed interest in the tutorial, I'll post it instead of emailing everyone individually. http://jaeger.morpheus.net/logic/linux/ntldr.html HTH, Matt --- Matt Housh email: [EM

Re: *Anyone* using a VIA MP3 chipset with RH?

1998-06-03 Thread Matt Housh
I don't have any personal experience with the VIA MP3, but what's the other choice, just out of curiosity? :) --- Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MicroComputer SpecialistUniversity of Tuls

Application-CD only Demos?

1998-06-03 Thread Mattias Kunkel
I just read http://www.de.uu.net/shop/JFL/linux/redhat5.html. They say there: "New! Linux Applications CD - Bonus CD full of Linux Applications. Enjoy demos/lite versions of Internet Software, Office Productivity Apps, CAD, Development Tools, Sales Automation Software, Database Management, and mu

RedHat Security list/group (was: RE: [linux-security] Re: RedHat5.1 security flaws.)

1998-06-03 Thread Mike Johnson
At 08:29 PM 6/2/98 -0400, you wrote: >Yes there is a huge amount of need for some source of Info for security >in Linux/Redhat Linux. > > -Carl Johnson Just a small note, here. I would be terribly disapointed if the mailing list was only for the Linux core (

Re: Vt bloking after doing init 3

1998-06-03 Thread Luis Sismeiro
> Some more details, perhaps? "Becomes crazy" is a bit vague :) I get the prompt of login but when I press the enter key after my login name the ^M appears and I can login on that vt anymore. Regards, Luis Sismeiro -- luis.sismeiro(at)@mail.telepac.pt http://www

Re: egcs with RH5.0

1998-06-03 Thread Federico Strati
Hi Paul, Paul Kersting wrote: > > Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I'm very much a newbie at this and I >appreciate the help. > > I looked at the egcs 1.0.3a version, and after reading through the documentation, I >concluded that I need to upgrade my binuutils from 2.8.1.0.1-1

Window title bar fonts

1998-06-03 Thread Dimitris Eftaxiopoulos
Could anybody tell me how I can change the font used in the title bar of the X-windows (xterm etc.). I use RH 4.2, i386. -- 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 unsubscr

Re: newbie kernel compilation question

1998-06-03 Thread Clemens Adler
No probably everything is fine, you just should have moved the /lib/modules/2.0.32 directory to /lib/modules/2.0.32-old because make modules_install just copies the new modules to this directory, and then you have modules lying around which are not known to the module-list or the kernel ( I'm not

A GTK tip

1998-06-03 Thread Larry Lade
Here's one for anyone who's been following GIMP or GNOME development: I've noticed a lot of people have had the problem that if they install gtk+ (and uninstall gtk, which conflicts) then many gtk apps, including the RedHat control-panel, no longer function. The latest development builds of GNOM

Re: SCSI support...

1998-06-03 Thread Larry Lade
Jacek Andreas Matulla wrote: > well I have an AHA 2940 from Adaptec working here with a RH 4.2. > > Everytime on boot the SCSI bus is reset. This will take some secondsis > there a way to deactivate this reset...? Is it neccessary to reset the SCSI > bus...? WHEN does it reset? Do you mean r

Upgrading to RH5.1

1998-06-03 Thread David Masterson
Is there a document around somewhere that discusses the process of upgrading from RH5.0 to RH5.1 -- particularly via ftp? -- David Masterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-T

Re: Unsollicited mail from your site -Reply (fwd)

1998-06-03 Thread Zoki
On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Chuck Mead wrote: ->> -- Forwarded message -- ->> Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 12:03:26 -0500 ->> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ->> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ->> Subject: Unsollicited mail from your site -Reply ->> ->> Huh? ->> I am not aware of such a situation... ->> Perhaps

Re: Enlightenment?

1998-06-03 Thread Matt Kennedy
Michael Jinks wrote: > > Has anyone successfully done this recently? Is there a full rpm > somewhere? > > A source tarball (enl_BETA-0.13.3.tar.gz) failed to compile on my system > (RH5.1, slightly tweaked) with lots of missing file errors. > > I have rpm files for enlightenment-DEFAULT and e

Re: How can I change the priority of a process

1998-06-03 Thread arda
Thanks, man renice ad man nice was what i was searching for! -- 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 "un

Re: Encryption between two firewals

1998-06-03 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Barfuß Egon jun. wrote: > Is it possible to encrypt the data between two redhat - firewalls with > fwtk 2.0 so that I can make a secure login or transmit sensitive data??? SSH is your best bet. Try www.replay.com. It allows secure telnet and file transfers. -- PLEASE re

Encryption between two firewals

1998-06-03 Thread Barfuß Egon jun.
Hi! Is it possible to encrypt the data between two redhat - firewalls with fwtk 2.0 so that I can make a secure login or transmit sensitive data??? or is there another possibility to do this? thanks -- Barfusz Egon jun. Gottschallingerstr. 6 A-4030 Linz mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL P

Re: MiroVideo12 PD

1998-06-03 Thread Mario Feric
I think that chipset is AT30 and I have XF86 3.3.1. I will try to upgrade to 3.3.2. If I don't solve my problem, could You mail me Your modeline? Thanks! Mario >What chipset is on your card? I don't think Xconfigurator detects your >chipset. You have to select some card from the list. If you d

Libdb.so.1

1998-06-03 Thread Perry J. Blalock
Wher can I get the libdb.so.1 ELF? I have the aout version of the lib, but I need the ELF for my authetication software. thanks in advance. Perry J. Blalock BadgerNet Communications "If your not connected you're missing everthing!" http://www.badger1.net -- PLEASE read the Red Hat F

Upgrad question

1998-06-03 Thread Steve Hazelett
If one uses the upgrade option on the RH CD (4.2 to 5.1), does it only upgrade the RPM's that are in the RPM database on my HD? I once saw a note from someone that complained that upgrading this way would install everything on the CD, and eventually exceeded his hard disk space. I don't want t