WindowMaker and mini-icon placement

I'm experimenting w/ gnome and windowmaker (www.frostnet.coso.com/chris/linux) and was wondering if there's a way to move the mini-icons in WindowMaker to the side of the screen instead of the bottom, is there? Chris <- Visit Me At http://home.hiwaay.net/~jfrost -> <-- For My Public PGP Key Visi

Re: 2nd Try : Stealth II X-Server

As far as I know, there's no driver for the Stealth II yet. Though I've been told that there should be one soon. I don't know if there's a way to get it to work with the existing XFree86 Servers other than the VGA server. If anybody else knows if/when a driver for this card will be released, I'd

Re: virtual-X in windowsNT

Thank you for the imformation regarding virtual-X in Windows NT. Since VNC suites my needs I would try out this software. Below are the related URLs: http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc/ http://www.frontiertech.com/ http://www.greymatter.co.uk/gmWEB/Nodes/NODE0010.HTM http://www.hummingbird.com/products

Re: Linux Bigot??

Bere are some quotes from the angry mail I sent the author of that article: "You write from the point of view of someone who obviously thinks that an operating system should be drag and drop and [you obviously] never considered using the command prompt. Also, you never bothered to install Linux, t

colour printing on a canon BJC 250?

I just got a Canon BJC 250 with a color cartridge, and installed it into linux using RH 5.0 printtool. The postscript test comes out as black&white, despite the fact that the printer might (at least in Windows) be able to do color. I read somewhere that BJC 240/250 (or generically bjc200) was o

Re: crond and shutdown

Jacek, The file you want to edit is called crontab. You should read up on it and cron. You will need to add a line like the following to the crontab file. 00 04 * * * root /sbin/shutdown -h now This will shutdown your system everyday at 4am. I hope that is what you wanted. ... Steve

Re: Linux Bigot.

Welp, there was talk about this guy on [EMAIL PROTECTED] a couple days ago, so I couldn't help myself and I wrote the below message to him. Look at his response. He spent about as much time reading my email as he did using linux. This guy is a melvin. People like this need to be exposed and

Re: xpr?

Long way around the barn, but xv filename (created by xwd -out filename) and save the image as Postscript. Rick On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Michael Lees wrote: > I have been unable to find the xpr program on my redhat 5.0 installation (from > the Jan 98 infomagic set). > I contains the xwd program

xpr?

I have been unable to find the xpr program on my redhat 5.0 installation (from the Jan 98 infomagic set). I contains the xwd program for saving screen dumps, but I would like to convert these to postscript. Does anybody know where I can find xpr, or is there an alternative program for perform

Re: Linux Bigot??

>From what I read in the article, it sounds like he didn't even try to install Linux. Basically, he's knocking something he's never even experienced. Didn't his mother ever say, "How do you know you don't like Brussel Sprouts until you try them!"(Not that I am comparing Linux to Brussel Sprouts

Re: Ezppp

Richard Watts wrote: > > message saying "pppd died unexpectedly". I'm pretty sure this has to do > with permissions on files but I'm not sure, does anyone know what I can do One thing to check is to see if your options file has anything in it. IIRC, ezppp requires that the options file exists

Re: Linux Bigot??

This guy is an idiot. -jeremy > http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/opinion/0608/08week.html > > Looks as though zdnet has there eye on Linux now. > > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 110358

Re: Slow network response on RH5

On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 20:05:22 +0100, Mike Stradling wrote: >I've recently installed RH5. When a client telnets or ftps into the >server it can take upto a couple of minutes for the server to reply with >a login prompt. The network is operating correctly. I am also >experiencing the same problem

Re: Trouble mounting CD Drive

On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Paul Raupach III wrote: > David L. Martin wrote: > > mount -t ixo9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom > > I was able to get it with: > > mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom I NEVER said I could type! David L. Martin<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> R&D Software Engineer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Linux Bigot??

http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/opinion/0608/08week.html Looks as though zdnet has there eye on Linux now. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 11035810 http://table.jps.net/~jsmartnz OS Warped! OS/2 W

Re: Trouble mounting CD Drive

David L. Martin wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Paul Raupach III wrote: > > I know this seems like something that should be in the help files and > > I've looked but I can't find it. Here is what is happening if anyone > > can help. if I enter "ls -l /mnt/cdrom" I get back 0 items and there is

Sound Modules under 2.0.34

I built a 2.0.34 kernel and specified sound as a loadable module, also selecting whichever sound drivers I needed. When I look at /lib/modules/2.0.34/misc/* and compare it with /lib/modules/2.032/misc/* I see that numerous modules (such as cs4232.o, mou401.0, etc) are not there. This is even th

Re: Trouble mounting CD Drive

On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Paul Raupach III wrote: > I know this seems like something that should be in the help files and > I've looked but I can't find it. Here is what is happening if anyone > can help. if I enter "ls -l /mnt/cdrom" I get back 0 items and there is > a iso 9660 CD in the drive. > >

Trouble mounting CD Drive

I know this seems like something that should be in the help files and I've looked but I can't find it. Here is what is happening if anyone can help. if I enter "ls -l /mnt/cdrom" I get back 0 items and there is a iso 9660 CD in the drive. When I try and mount it from the file system manager i

Re: is it possible to scan for possible exploits using identd?

On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Blair Craft wrote: > As I understand identd, it allows someone from a remote computer to find out > who owns processes running on my computer. I am curious to know if this has > recently been used to gather information that would be useful to someone > trying to exploit a mac

Re: Red Hat on CD

Ok, I'm way outta my league here, but there is some info on this in the ultrapenguin.html files over in the ultra directory on ftp.redhat.com site. One section talks about "Burning your own CD" . ~12 small html files that are worth reading whether you want to load up a Ultra_Sparc or not. Looking

is it possible to scan for possible exploits using identd?

As I understand identd, it allows someone from a remote computer to find out who owns processes running on my computer. I am curious to know if this has recently been used to gather information that would be useful to someone trying to exploit a machine? I was browsing my /var/log/messages file t

Re: newuser "can't open display" part solved.

My fault, rickdman # ls -al .xsession lrwxrwxrwx 1 rickdman rickdman9 May 22 23:12 .xsession -> .Xclients My ~/.xsession is a symbolic link to ~/.Xclients It is really a "treasure hunt" .. rickdman # which startx (/usr/x is a homegrown link to /usr/X11R6 ) /usr/X11R6/bin/startx(Sub

Re: Star Office Wrapper for RH5.0

Once upon a time Deryk Barker wrote: > > I'm unsuccessfully trying to install Star Office 4.0 (sp3) onto my > RH5.0. > > I pulled off the latest glibc and the staroffice_wrapper rpm and > stuff. > > Installed those no problem, wrapper installs star office no problem. > > Then: I have to run th

Re: Red Hat on CD

I know on the redhat distrib cds they have it bootable and I'm fairly sure the install program even loads a kernel and stuff. I have never seen a way to make a cdrom bootable though. If anyone knows of a program that lets you fudge the boot sector, I would appreciate a name. Matt W. wrote: > O

Re: cool uptime :)

-Original Message- From: William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 4:37 PM Subject: Re: cool uptime :) >One of the things that I always wonder about these enormous uptimes in the >modern era is how they contend with the v

Red Hat on CD

OK... I am going to ask a very dumb question... I don't know why I am aksing but I really have to know. I was wondering if there was a way to run install linux to a CD-R. To actually install to the cd-r drive. That way I could go to a computer that has a BIOS loaded CD-rom drive and put in my c

RE: Sendmail aliases

This sounds exactly like what I was looking for. Thanks much ! Mike -Original Message- From: Shawn McMahon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 1998 9:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Sendmail aliases -Original Message- From: Mike A. Lewis

RE: Sendmail aliases

Convoluted is right. Particularily with the cc:mail mixed in there. Thanks for the ideas ! M -Original Message- From: Gene Wilburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 1998 6:41 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:Re: Sendmail aliases In a mixed Linux/No

Re: cool uptime :)

On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Randy Carpenter wrote: > Thought I would share our record uptime: One of the things that I always wonder about these enormous uptimes in the modern era is how they contend with the variety of networking bugs that have been discovered in the modern era. Such an old system sh

Re: scanner/software recommendations

Look at http://www.mostang.com/sane/ Rick On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Chris Fenton wrote: > I was wondering if anyone could recommend a good scanner/software > (OCR,...) pair for Linux. > At the moment I have been stuck with a great deal of teaching. If I > could scan diagrams directly into my lecture

Re: SAMBA

Hi Aristotle Here is a posting I made about a month ago on the same subject: SMB printing to W95 & NT was first-time for me with out-of-the box Red Hat 5.0. I used x-windows control-panel to set up my shared printer as I am lazy, but I can print out the config files if you want. Can you use

cool uptime :)

Thought I would share our record uptime: [rcarpen@ ~]$ uptime 4:51pm up 399 days, 22:51, 4 users, load average: 0.21, 0.31, 0.35 This is a pentium box that runs mail for around 1200 users, and also does major network monitoring and graphing with MRTG. It has been up since the day it was i

Re: RAID control

On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Jason Scherbarth wrote: > with a 4gb U/W drive and onboard Adaptec 7880. I get a message in > /var/log/messages on the Linux box which basically equates to: > kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid <#> > Read or Write and some hex info It MAY be a SCSI cont

Re: newuser "can't open display" part solved.

On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Gree wrote: > Thanks Rick, > > This process went pretty smooth except for one item. For some reason, when I > log in from xdm, my '.xsession' file does not execute. I have to source it > manually in order to 'xhost +localhost'. No doubt some other file needs to > source

Re: newuser "can't open display" part solved.

Thanks Rick, This process went pretty smooth except for one item. For some reason, when I log in from xdm, my '.xsession' file does not execute. I have to source it manually in order to 'xhost +localhost'. No doubt some other file needs to source .xsession. I just don't know which would be ap

RAID control

Hello All, I'm in the market for a couple of systems with high disk throughput. I work in a network test lab and a number of the tests I run read and write files to servers. I'm finding that I'm really overloading my SCSI controllers even at Ultra-Wide speeds. I'm particularly puzzled as one

Video Cards/ TV cards

Hi, I know this might be slightly off topic, but I wanted to see waht video and/or tv card people are using with Linux. I am thinking of upgrading my video card and I would like it to have TV capablites (or should I add on a TV card instead). I appreciate your repsonses. Nathan Alonzo Smith

Help with IP Aliasing and Routes

I've tried to get this to work and have read the IP Alias mini-howto and the NAG but all to no avail. I hope someone can help me. I have a private Class C network in my home office: 192.168.0.0. That network is up and running properly. I am adding a Cisco Router so that I can connect to my mai

No Valid Term Definition

hi... on a RedHat 5.1 i386 system... i'm getting the following message at boot-up... No Valid Term Definition Probably caused by an improperly installed terminfo database ... also... which may be related to this... the network doesn't start properly... named doesn't start at all... and neither

Re: Xwindows jagged blue line

On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Jack Hatfield wrote: > OK RedHat 4.2. KFC 17" Smile monitor. Trident 9680. Had Xwindows working. > > 1. RedHat 5.0 works fabulous on this setup, 4.2 stopped working. All I get > is jagged blue line at the bottom, can't do nothing without rebooting. Is > there any other way

Kernel compile warning

When I run "make zImage" on the 2.0.34-0.6 kernel sources supplied in RH 5.1, I got these warnings: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -D__ASSEMBLY__ -traditional -c entry.S -o entry.o /tmp/cca01896.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/cca01896.s:257: Warning: warning: missing prefix `*' in abso

Re: Star Office Wrapper for RH5.0

I just manual put the new libc.so.5.4.44 and libm.so.5.0.9 in the /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib directory and made major numbered links to them. Star Office installed fine from the tarball. I love it! I can't believe all the features. -Eric Wood Deryk Barker wrote: > > I'm unsuccessfully tryi

Re: eth0: wedged; searchable list archives?

>Hi; >Thanks for the reply, here's additional information. >This is a Pentium MMX 200mhz, using an Intel Ether Express card >on interrupt >11. I can determine no interrupt conflicts. I am looking only for >general >information that might lead me in the right direction. >Also, what about keywo

Missing powerd

I have the RH 5.0 release... it appears that powerd is missing from the SysVinit package... the man page is there, but no program. Was this intentional?? Randy Smith -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /R

Star Office Wrapper for RH5.0

I'm unsuccessfully trying to install Star Office 4.0 (sp3) onto my RH5.0. I pulled off the latest glibc and the staroffice_wrapper rpm and stuff. Installed those no problem, wrapper installs star office no problem. Then: I have to run the user setup script (provided by the wrapper). Unfortunat

Re: Slow network response on RH5

>People, >I've recently installed RH5. When a client telnets or ftps into the >server it can take upto a couple of minutes for the server to reply >with >a login prompt. The network is operating correctly. I am also >experiencing the same problem with another RH5 server on another >network. >

RE: cron backup & email

|I back up my system with a cron job each night invoking tar from a script |file. Works fine, but it always emails the entire listing of backup files |to root. Is there something I can add to the cron script to prevent this? | If cron jobs produce output, then the output gets mailed to the job ow

crond and shutdown

Hi all, just a newbie question. How to change the crond config, that it will automatically shutdown at a given time. E.g. 4:00 am? In which file would I change this? TIA Jacek -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedH

Xwindows jagged blue line

OK RedHat 4.2. KFC 17" Smile monitor. Trident 9680. Had Xwindows working. 1. RedHat 5.0 works fabulous on this setup, 4.2 stopped working. All I get is jagged blue line at the bottom, can't do nothing without rebooting. Is there any other way out of Xwindows besides CTRL-ALT-DEL??? I have tried e

Slow network response on RH5

People, I've recently installed RH5. When a client telnets or ftps into the server it can take upto a couple of minutes for the server to reply with a login prompt. The network is operating correctly. I am also experiencing the same problem with another RH5 server on another network. Any idea

FW: eth0: wedged; searchable list archives?

Hi; Thanks for the reply, here's additional information. This is a Pentium MMX 200mhz, using an Intel Ether Express card on interrupt 11. I can determine no interrupt conflicts. I am looking only for general information that might lead me in the right direction. Also, what about keyword searc

Redhat and mrouted 3.81

Hi, Has anyone be able to succesfully compile mrouted 3.81 under Redhat? I have no probs under Slackware (kernel setup is the same). TIA, Thomas -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-

Re: 2 controllers - Motherboard limitations.

No... It has 2 channels. >Does the card have 2 channels? My MB supports 4 IDE devices but only 2 per >channel. I have not heard of an IDE controller that has more than 2 >devices per channel. (Not that one doesn't exist). > >scott > >*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** > >On 6/10/98, at 6:1

cron layout and INN

Hello, I'm trying to find the layout of cron and the default setup for the news user under INN. Any info? TIA, Thomas -- 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

Re: SAMBA

At 10:10 PM 6/10/98 -0400, you wrote: >You folks have been very helpful and I have another request can anyone >direct me to a FAQ or website that discusses utilzing samba with a windows >network I want to utilize my printer on a win98 machine from the linux box >and would love to be able to browse

upgrading to 2.0.34 when i have 5.0 (2.0.32)

Anyone tell me what i need to do besides use rpm on the kernel-2.0.34-0.6.i386.rpm? There is no more "modules" file and now there are header files...etc... HELP! Jann Jann Linder Web Developer/CH2M Hill - SFO [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://www.jann.com/ CalendarPlus Web Site:

5.1 upgrade causes general protection error in X (RH please read)

Hello, I just upgraded to 5.1, and now whenever I try to display X applications from remote machines on my console, the X either 1) hangs or 2) dies sending me back to the xdm login screen. There's an entry in the /var/log/messages: Jun 9 21:29:19 amanda kernel: general protection: Jun 9

Re: Sendmail aliases

-Original Message- From: Mike A. Lewis, CNE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 4:13 AM Subject: Sendmail aliases >Is there a way to automatically create an entry in /etc/aliases for >[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What happened to 5.0 on the net?

On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Clemens Adler wrote: > For example at : > ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/linux/install/redhat/redhat-5.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ > and probably at other mirror sites. > cheers, > CLemens Yeah, I found it on another mirror, but I'm wondering if they're just not up-to-date with the main site. I

screen ?

Does anyone know how to start up a program with screen, and have it instantly set into the background (Like at boot time) So that it is running, but I can access it with 'screen -r' when I need to? thanks. Randy Carpenter - UNI

Re: What happened to 5.0 on the net?

i use rufus.w3.org --- Brad Wyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Jon A. Christopher wrote: > Hello, > > I have a major problem with X after I upgraded to 5.1, so I decided to > downgrade to 5.0's version of the X s

Re: What happened to 5.0 on the net?

For example at : ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/linux/install/redhat/redhat-5.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ and probably at other mirror sites. cheers, CLemens On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Jon A. Christopher wrote: > Hello, > > I have a major problem with X after I upgraded to 5.1, so I decided to > downgrade to 5.0's versio

What happened to 5.0 on the net?

Hello, I have a major problem with X after I upgraded to 5.1, so I decided to downgrade to 5.0's version of the X stuff. However, redhat-5.0 seems to have disappeared on sunsite and ftp.cc.gatech.edu, and I can't get in to ftp.redhat.com. What's the deal? Is 5.0 gone? Where do I get 5.0 versi

Re: How do I write an RPC server?

On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, KThorpe wrote: > Can anyone point me to a sensible discussion on writing RPC servers? > > I want to call database subroutines on my Linux box from Windows clients > over the internet. I'm looking at DCOM for Linux, but it's a case of using a > steamroller to crack a peanut

Re: Root through telnet (Redhat read this!)

-Original Message- From: Christopher Gorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, June 10, 1998 11:41 PM Subject: Root through telnet >I'm going away on vacation, and I want to be able to configure my system >from away. How do I enable the root a

Re: cron backup & email

>I back up my system with a cron job each night invoking tar from a >script >file. Works fine, but it always emails the entire listing of backup files >to root. Is there something I can add to the cron script to prevent >this? >Thanks, Gene Send output from TAR to /dev/null tar blabla > /dev/n

Re: Set system clock from BIOS

One thing you will have to take into acount when changing the system time is that deamons which rely on time information can get "confused" when they find files that are made in the future for example, so better not change the system time of a running system!!! set up all the timezone stuff and th

Re: Root through telnet

HINT: man login read the /etc/securetty info Chuck Milam wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Christopher Gorski wrote: > > > I'm going away on vacation, and I want to be able to configure my system > > from away. How do I enable the root account to be accessable through > > telnet? > > Using

Re: Root through telnet

On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Christopher Gorski wrote: > I'm going away on vacation, and I want to be able to configure my system > from away. How do I enable the root account to be accessable through > telnet? Using telnet allows anyone on the wire between the two machines to read your keystroke (a

RE: virtual-X in windowsNT

On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, dreamwvr wrote: > Sounds great! what kind of security does it involve so that it restricts > to those users or i.p. explicitely? None that I'm aware of beyond knowing the correct server name/IP and display number and the correct password. I don't think you could use tcp wra

Re: Set system clock from BIOS

clock -a sets the system time from the CMOS clock. clock -w sets the CMOS clock from the system time. Gene On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Mauricio Teixeira wrote: > Hi! > > I had a Slackware system here, but switched to RedHat 4.2, but > since them the system clock has been set to 2 hours more tha

scanner/software recommendations

I was wondering if anyone could recommend a good scanner/software (OCR,...) pair for Linux. At the moment I have been stuck with a great deal of teaching. If I could scan diagrams directly into my lecture notes that would be great. Thanks a bunch, Chris :) -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Ti

Re: gimp 1.0 & gnome

On 11 Jun, Chris Frost wrote: > Using gimp1 and gnome .20's rpms (now using the just released one's) gimp > dies w/ a loading shared libraries error. Where can I get gimp that will > work w/ the newer (errata) libraries? > > Chris > <- Visit Me At http://home.hiwaay.net/~jfrost -> > > <-- For My

Re: cron backup & email

On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 09:22:47AM -0400, Gene Wilburn wrote: > I back up my system with a cron job each night invoking tar from a script > file. Works fine, but it always emails the entire listing of backup files > to root. Is there something I can add to the cron script to prevent this? > Du

Getting a 'Memory Exhasted' Error running who...

Hi all, Running redhat 5.0, and get this silly Memory Exhasted error, whenever I run who. I have plenty of memory, so I figure it is buggy somewhere. Anyone else have this problem, and have been able to fix it? Thanks, Mike -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

ncurses blasted libc5?

[Sorry if this is a "repeat," unless my settings have changed surreptitiously, I should have received a copy of this the first time it posted but didn't, so I'm assuming it was lost.] Red Hat 5.0 2.0.31 Installed and compiled 2.1.85 without any problems. I upgraded ncurses with: rpm -Uvh ncurses

Re: Sendmail aliases

In a mixed Linux/Novell environment I have some scripts that create a new aliases file each evening, on the Novell side, using various criteria that relate to cc:Mail. The file gets placed in a Netware ftp directory where a Linux expect script fetches it, creates a safety backup of the previous fi

2nd Try : Stealth II X-Server

Hello everyone, I'm looking for a XFree86 3.3.x Server for my Diamond Stealth II S220 Turbo graphic card. It has a Rendition Verite 2100 chipset on it. Could somebody direct to a site where I can find the X-Server I need? Or could somebody help me with my XF86Config file so that I can run XFree8

Re: XFree-3.3.2 at RedHat 4.2 needs pam-0.59 ?

I posted this problem a few days ago and Erik responded - just use: --nodeps BTW, I also had to --force it because of errors like: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86 conflicts with file from XFree86-VGA16-3.3.1-1 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86-it.lst conflicts with file from XFree86-VGA

gimp 1.0 & gnome

Using gimp1 and gnome .20's rpms (now using the just released one's) gimp dies w/ a loading shared libraries error. Where can I get gimp that will work w/ the newer (errata) libraries? Chris <- Visit Me At http://home.hiwaay.net/~jfrost -> <-- For My Public PGP Key Visit http://home.hiwaay.net/~

RPM Problem

I am having a problem with RPM upgrading the ncurses package. I downloaded the ncurses-4.1-12 RPM and attempted to upgrade it with the command: rpm -Uvh ncurses-4.1-12.i386.rpm RPM says: ncurses #unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/termi

cron backup & email

I back up my system with a cron job each night invoking tar from a script file. Works fine, but it always emails the entire listing of backup files to root. Is there something I can add to the cron script to prevent this? Thanks, Gene -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MA

Unknown interface??? "Dial on demand" and SAMBA

Unknown interface: At boot up time, my Linux box at home displays a few errors. The one that has me stumped is this: unknown interface: down. When I first installed Linux, everything was fine. I noticed this error message after the first week or so. (I've been using Linux for three-four w

Re: Set system clock from BIOS

On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Mauricio Teixeira wrote: > Hi! > > I had a Slackware system here, but switched to RedHat 4.2, but > since them the system clock has been set to 2 hours more than the BIOS > clock, I mean: BIOS=12pm System=14pm. > > How do I make my system clock use the same time

question about ldd

can anyone explain why ldd will report that some libraries are not found even though the corresponding dynamically linked executables runs normally? i have for instance: -- [root@isbpc61 /root]# ldd `which bru` libc.so.5 => not found [root@isbpc61 /root]# file `which bru` /bin/bru: setui

GIMP

Hi, whenever I try to run Gimp from X, nothing happens. What could it be? Also, when I run other programs, such as communicator, they complain about the color depth, suggesting the "visual" parameter - that I couldn't use. Any help is appreciated. I'm using RH5.1. Marcantonio -- PLEASE read

Re: hacker

Chris, >based access, everyone can still get to your pages) this is ftp, telnet, since I need access to my own server from different servers, I cannot limit access by host number. Is there an alternative solution? Marcantonio -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LI

Re: Network configurator/Address Issue

One further note. You can have a 'machine' address by using the dummy interfaces. eg. dummy0 This is particularly useful on a box with more than one interface as it allows you to connect through the most appropriate interface by connecting to dummy0. It also means that if one interface is down

building rpm's

Hello. I'm thinking of building a rpm for xfmail 1.3 (final release), but I'm not ensure how to exactly go about doing it. I've read the RPM HOWTO and man rpm, but there ain't much examples on the specs settings and other details there. In particular, I'd like to know: 1. Is it possible to build

Re: unpacking Kernel source

bzip2 is available on the RedHat binary disk as well (as least the more recent ones.) Ray Curtis wrote: > > To unzip this package you need to move it to /usr/src and get the > package 'bzip2' to retrieve the archieve, which can be had from: > > http://www.digistar.com/bzip2/index.html > > -- >

How do I write an RPC server?

Can anyone point me to a sensible discussion on writing RPC servers? I want to call database subroutines on my Linux box from Windows clients over the internet. I'm looking at DCOM for Linux, but it's a case of using a steamroller to crack a peanut (what do you expect from something M$ has des

Re: newuser "can't open display" part solved.

Yes, with caution... > > Question 1 is still open. Is there any way to configure so I can log in as > a different user in X without first logging out and without opening a root > window. In reality there is only one console but I have different users > with different emails, configs, etc. 1)

Re: Pine, fetchmail...

Just thought I'd say I get those delays also.. Quite annoying actually.. And I swear it seems to be a lot more than 4-6 secs :)... Bryan On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Zoki wrote: |1/ Using Pine to read my system inbox of up to 1200 mails after each |download, I remark sometimes a delay between

Sendmail aliases

Is there a way to automatically create an entry in /etc/aliases for [EMAIL PROTECTED] whereby when a user is added to the system, the entry in /etc/aliases is automatically updated daily ? Thanks, Mike -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING

Problems getting Logitech bus mouse to work with Metro on RH 5.1

Hi all I can't get my Logitec bus mouse to work with Metro on RH 5.1. The machine is a '386 with 16M RAM and when I originally installed 4.2 all was fine. However on upgrading to 5.1 I now find that although the mouse works OK normally, using GPM, it is totally uncontrollable when Metro is run. Th

translation.tbl?

I have an old redhat cd and it's got files on it named trans.tbl or translate.tbl or something similar. I am fairly sure these are read by linux and fill out the windows filenames with squigglies into the full unix style filenames. My problem is when I download the whole redhat installation

Problems with QT under RH 5.1

Hi, for about a week ago I upgraded from RH 5.0 to 5.1. RH 5.1 seems to be stable and works fine, except from one thing that causes me trouble. The fact is that since the upgrade I can't compile programs using the QT-toolkit (http://www.troll.no/). The results when I try to build a program using

RE: Diald RPM??

Hello. A quick search on the ftp.redhat.com via http://www.redhat.com/search/ yields the following diald rpm's on ftp.redhat.com pub/contrib/grouped/glibc/i386/Networking/Daemons/diald-0.16.5-201.i386.rpm pub/contrib/grouped/glibc/i386/Networking/Daemons/diald-config-0.16.5-201.i386.r pm

setuid ? how? was setuid ? how?

I read all replies but I still don't know how to setuid a program. More details on this topic, please . bcd -- 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 [E

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