motif

1998-06-29 Thread UNIXMAN
I was wondering what the size is for red hat motif. Does it come as an RPM ? -- 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

Re: Should we be pushing Linux over Windows 95?

1998-06-29 Thread UNIXMAN
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Scott wrote: > On 6/29/98, at 3:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> Stating that NT has a great deal of downtime is a pretty broad > statement. > >> I think it would be better to put that NT has a greater potential for > >> downtime but it can be just as stable as Unix

Unable to load interpreter

1998-06-29 Thread Red Hat Linux User
Hello all! I have a problem, maybe someone could help. The past few mornings, my linux box has gotten these messages, and I am uanble to do anything!! I have to reboot. Any help will be greatly appreciated! I am using redhat 5.0 with 2.0.34 kernel. Jun 28 10:34:44 insanity kernel: Unable to

Re: Communicator-illegibility

1998-06-29 Thread Ray Marshall
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon 29 Jun at 23:32:18 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: > > > > I have RedHat 5.1 installed, and the list shown above is exactly what > > appears in /etc/X11/XF86Config on my machine. And, I have not modified > > that file at all. So, I don't

Re: Imap info... Does it exist?

1998-06-29 Thread chuck . mead
On 29 Jun, Cory T. Lamb shaped the somewhat mellow bitstream to say: > Thanks to everybody who helped w/ the mail thread, now I'm looking for a > howto on imap and a step by step on howto get it running. Well if you've > seen one let me know. > Thanks, > ~C > > ~

stupid/messed up install problems

1998-06-29 Thread Joel Robert Oliveira
ok .. Ihave 1.5 gigs left on my hd after a win95 install. The root partition is under the 1024th cylander. I install it and with fdisk it gets to about halfway through the rpm installs.. then it dies.. this happened every damn time I tried an install. Disk Druid just messes up in the formatt

Re: Communicator-illegibility

1998-06-29 Thread cbebber
On Mon 29 Jun at 23:32:18 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: > > I have RedHat 5.1 installed, and the list shown above is exactly what > appears in /etc/X11/XF86Config on my machine. And, I have not modified > that file at all. So, I don't understand the RedHat reference above. Hrm. I install

Re: Modprobe

1998-06-29 Thread Yoink!
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Robert W. Canary wrote: > Hi, > > For somestrange reason whenever I boot up I get all the way to > checking module dependencies and I get a message that says. > > modprobe in not ELF > > Then everything picks back up and continues on. > > Any thoughts on this. Is this a

Imap info... Does it exist?

1998-06-29 Thread Cory T. Lamb
Thanks to everybody who helped w/ the mail thread, now I'm looking for a howto on imap and a step by step on howto get it running. Well if you've seen one let me know. Thanks, ~C ~ Cory T. Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Media Lab Manager

Re: printfilters and BJC-610

1998-06-29 Thread Piet Barber
Eze Ogwuma wrote: > James Michael Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Update to a recent version of ghostscript, rh rpm versions are really > > old from what I've seen.. > > > > I grabed a tarball of gs from sunsite and all is well with the 600 > > series... > > http://www.typhoon.dircon.co.

mrouted for RH5.0?

1998-06-29 Thread David Beckemeyer
Anyone have any experience getting mrouted working with RedHat 5.0? I managed to get a kernel built with multicast routing and ipip tunnelling (kernel version 2.0.31 which came with the CD). And I found a mrouted 3.9 beta. The problem appears to be that Linux isn't forwarding the MCAST traffic

Re: hardlink vs. symlink

1998-06-29 Thread Deryk Barker
Once upon a time Dave Ihnat wrote: > > Deryk Barker wrote: > > > The only thing I'd like to add to your excellent exegesis is that many > > Unix ideas derived from Multics. <> > > Oh, never to forget or ignore that contribution. Multics was the origin > of many of the concepts that have made U

Re: Communicator-illegibility

1998-06-29 Thread Ray Marshall
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You know, I've been wondering why Red Hat's XConfigurator (or xf86config for > that matter) seem to overlook some font paths that MetroX recognise. SuSE > picks them up just fine, so I was lucky enough to find a fix. Here's what I > have in my /etc

Re: printfilters and BJC-610

1998-06-29 Thread Piet Barber
James Michael Keller wrote: > Update to a recent version of ghostscript, rh rpm versions are really > old from what I've seen.. > You aren't kidding. The Redhat distribution has versino 3.31! Thanks for the help! > James Michael Keller| [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xacc failed dependencies

1998-06-29 Thread Ray Curtis
> "dw" == Dave Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dw> Hi all, dw> I just finished downloading the xacc-1.0.18-1.i386.rpm for the dw> linas/org web site. When I try to install the rpm I get two failed dw> dependencies messages for the following libaries. dw> - libpng.so.2 dw> - libXm.so.2

Re: Why isn't XEmacs distributed with RHL?

1998-06-29 Thread Bryan C. Andregg
XEmacs is distributed as part of the powertools. On 29 Jun 1998 20:38:12 +0100, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Serge Pluess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > XEmacs is distributed with RHL. In 5.1 the file is: > > > > emacs-X11-20.2-7.i386.rpm > > > > in 5.0 it is: > > > > emacs-X11-20.

RH5.0 2.0.34 build problems

1998-06-29 Thread David Beckemeyer
I pulled down the kernel 2.0.34 files from the redhat site and ran through the instructions at http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/intel/kernel-upgrade-intel.html to get the kernel installed and running. So far so good. Since I have SCSI and I needed to enable multicast routing in the kerne

Re: Wrong message size in fetchmail

1998-06-29 Thread Ray Curtis
> "rr" == Richard Rager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: rr> On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote: >> Hi! >> >> When I use fetchmail, I inevitably get messages saying that the >> message was not the expected length: >> >> fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 2147483647 >> fetchmail: POP3< +OK 4161 oc

xacc failed dependencies

1998-06-29 Thread Dave Watts
Hi all, I just finished downloading the xacc-1.0.18-1.i386.rpm for the linas/org web site. When I try to install the rpm I get two failed dependencies messages for the following libaries. - libpng.so.2 - libXm.so.2 I was wondering where I could find these two libraries and how to install the

Re: printfilters and BJC-610

1998-06-29 Thread Eze Ogwuma
James Michael Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Update to a recent version of ghostscript, rh rpm versions are really > old from what I've seen.. > > I grabed a tarball of gs from sunsite and all is well with the 600 > series... http://www.typhoon.dircon.co.uk for RPMS. -- Eze Ogwuma --

Re: hardlink vs. symlink

1998-06-29 Thread Dave Ihnat
Deryk Barker wrote: > The only thing I'd like to add to your excellent exegesis is that many > Unix ideas derived from Multics. <> Oh, never to forget or ignore that contribution. Multics was the origin of many of the concepts that have made Unix a viable OS. (Not to mention the origin of the

Re: Wrong message size in fetchmail

1998-06-29 Thread Richard Rager
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote: > Hi! > > When I use fetchmail, I inevitably get messages saying that the > message was not the expected length: > > fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 2147483647 > fetchmail: POP3< +OK 4161 octets > fetchmail: reading message 1 of 1 (4161 bytes) > fetchmail:

Re: printfilters and BJC-610

1998-06-29 Thread James Michael Keller
Update to a recent version of ghostscript, rh rpm versions are really old from what I've seen.. I grabed a tarball of gs from sunsite and all is well with the 600 series... Piet Barber wrote: > > I have NEVER been able to get my RedHat (5.0) properly. > > System: > AMD K6 200 MHz, 32MB R

Re: vfat permissions

1998-06-29 Thread Paul Kersting
Leston Buell wrote: > I cannot seem to be able to grant write permission to non-root users for > a hard drive with a vfat file system. What do i need to do? I have a linux RH5.0 system which I use as a single user workstation. To enable me to write to a vfat partition, I put the following in my

Re: ISDN TA's

1998-06-29 Thread Paul Kersting
Art Stine wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, RTS wrote: > > > For use in a PC under Win95 what do you think the best ISDN terminal > > Adapter would be for either 64k or 128k dialup?? > > > > I've had very good luck with my USR (now 3Com) Courier I-modem on both > Linux and Win95. The same is true of

Sendmail, majordomo and spam.

1998-06-29 Thread Yoink!
I've got a rhl 4.2 box i've set up on the net which has sendmail 8.8 running on it. What I 'm using it for is ONE mailing list, but I don't want spammers using my machine as as a spam gateway. Is there any way for me to _accept_ mail from anyone but to NEVER send mail out from my system save fro

Re: Please help with netcfg problem...

1998-06-29 Thread Ray Curtis
> "dt" == David Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dt> I posted a question a few digests back about a problem I'm having with dt> netcfg... no-one has helped me yet... Please do so. I'll be ever-so dt> grateful. :-) dt> I need netcfg to expect something along the lines of: "Student HS# V3

Re: startx configX, Metro-x, which x is which

1998-06-29 Thread Eze Ogwuma
"Jack Hatfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is a continuation of the jagged blue line thread. > > Thank you for all the info, I am trying to put into order all of these > instructions, but I got one quick question. If you want to use metro-x then don't follow any of the instructions for

RE: newbie stuggles w/ recieving mail

1998-06-29 Thread Hoe-Teck Wee
Hello! There are several possible reasons why you're not receiving mail. First, mailbox loopback error, because you didn't configure your sendmail properly (Cw settings). Second, your system isn't up 24/7. For the second, you'd require domain mail forwarding facilities, and then you could use fet

Please help with netcfg problem...

1998-06-29 Thread David Taylor
I posted a question a few digests back about a problem I'm having with netcfg... no-one has helped me yet... Please do so. I'll be ever-so grateful. :-) I need netcfg to expect something along the lines of: "Student HS# V34+ : ", where '#' is any number, and then send "ppp" in reply (that is

RE: HELP!! made mistake in fdisk

1998-06-29 Thread David Taylor
I think I may have something to offer on this one! (yes, it scares me, too :-) HOWEVER, my solution is reliant on you having installed a certain application before this problem... and I'll get to it soon. I stuffed up in a way very similar to this. I think it was the primary dos partition (hd

RE: archive! [findmail]

1998-06-29 Thread Hoe-Teck Wee
Hello On 29-Jun-98 Iztok Polanic wrote: > Where can I find a searcher of this mailling list??? http://www.findmail.com/ may be a good start; contains a list of mailing lists, and archives quite a number too! - hoeteck -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIV

Re: Communicator-illegibility

1998-06-29 Thread cbebber
On Mon 29 Jun at 18:33:07 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: > Hello RH list members: > Is a person limited to Netscape > Communicator's illegible font selection or is it possible to affect their > appearance by manipulating fvwm in some manner? You know, I've bee

printfilters and BJC-610

1998-06-29 Thread Piet Barber
I have NEVER been able to get my RedHat (5.0) properly. System: AMD K6 200 MHz, 32MB RAM, 4.3 GIG drive, V.90 modem, Cannon BJC-610 printer, print to parallel port 1 (LPT1)(/dev/lp1) Symptoms: Any print job that requires a filter shows = Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in .putdevicep

startx configX, Metro-x, which x is which

1998-06-29 Thread Jack Hatfield
This is a continuation of the jagged blue line thread. Thank you for all the info, I am trying to put into order all of these instructions, but I got one quick question. How does the command startx differentiate metro-x and Xfree86 stuff. What does it use, because when I go throught the metro-x

Hard Drive IRQ Problems

1998-06-29 Thread Karl Asseily
Hello, After having fried my HD (see "Problem with Rescue Disk" subject earlier today), I decided to reinstall RHL 5.1. Everything went fine, until I chose to create a boot disk. At this time, I didn't hear any sound in the floppy drive. It stayed like that for 20 mins, until I chose to kill the

Re: Adaptec AAA-131 RAID supported?

1998-06-29 Thread Neil Lawrence
Title: Re: Adaptec AAA-131 RAID supported? I have a server with the AAA-133 It works fine if you don't want RAID from it. If you are looking for a nice scsi card the look at it, however you can buy one for much less. If you want RAID don't go there! The nice people at Adaptec won't release nay

SVGALib mouse speed?

1998-06-29 Thread Randy Carpenter
ok... got Quake2 to run great in linux. Problem. The mouse is so slow, it is unusable. I have the mouse speed cranked all the way up in Quake2, so I imagine it is an SVGALib thing. Where do I set the mosue speed for SVGALib? I have a Logitech PS/2 Mouseman... _

Adaptec AAA-131 RAID supported?

1998-06-29 Thread Steve Frampton
Hello: I'm looking at purchasing a new server and was wondering if the Adaptec AAA-131 RAID controller would have driver support for Linux. If not, what about the AAA-133? I did a search on Dejanews and things didn't look too promising, but I thought I'd check with you fine folks here. ---

FTP Problems

1998-06-29 Thread Beth Gemeny
Hi all; I have just completed another install of RHL5.0 and for some reason that could quite possibly be operator error, in.ftpd did not get built. So being a bit of hack I copied one from another RHL5.0 install machine onto the proper place on the machine without and gave inetd a HUP. So ftp

Re: Printing, can't we just print???

1998-06-29 Thread Eze Ogwuma
"Jack Hatfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to print some files from my linux box to a Panasonic KX-P2123 > color dot-matrix printer. > > Does anyone know the right commands to put in the printcap file, or some > other method to print into this box. I do not care about this printi

Re: changing default console color

1998-06-29 Thread Hal \(DCI\)
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Fred Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 02:23:49PM +0530, Salil Khamkar wrote: > > Hi , > > I want to change my default console color from black and white to blue and > > white . Can some one please tell me as to how this can be done . Also how > > setterm -foreground w

Re: my 2 cents

1998-06-29 Thread Greg Thomas
> > > my 2 cents, > laziest-opinionated-whining engineer Couldn't have said it better myself! -- 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 PROTE

Re: Please, jagged blue line!!!!

1998-06-29 Thread Eze Ogwuma
"Jack Hatfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Xfree86-SVGA cannot be installed. > > Looks like: /usr/X11r6/lib/X11/xkb/something conflicts with file from > metroess-3.1.5-1 > > I think I need something else. I am sorry for this, I am a newbie, thrown > into these waters after someone left me. >

Re: my 2 cents

1998-06-29 Thread Randy Carpenter
> i've tried word perfect for linux and i found out that it has trouble > reading msword 95 documents. the other alternative would be to > purchase applixware. spend money, why? Uhmm... you spent money on windows didnt you? > another problem with using linux, apparently the modem drivers don't

Re: newbie stuggles w/ recieving mail

1998-06-29 Thread chuck . mead
On 29 Jun, Cory T. Lamb shaped the somewhat mellow bitstream to say: > Hey, > Looking for a way to recieve mail right on my box which is on the internet > via my college and hostname provided by ml.org... I have everything > (apache, telnetd, ftpd, sendmail, etc) I just can't recieve mail. Is >

my 2 cents

1998-06-29 Thread Boom Shaka
dear redhat support, > > thank you for your reply. unfortunately, i've switched back to windows > > 95. i wasn't able to find useful applications that i could use with > > linux. specifically, i needed a wordprocessor(similar to M$Word), > > finance software(Quicken-like), games(Quake 2).

Printing, can't we just print???

1998-06-29 Thread Jack Hatfield
I am trying to print some files from my linux box to a Panasonic KX-P2123 color dot-matrix printer. Does anyone know the right commands to put in the printcap file, or some other method to print into this box. I do not care about this printing color at all. Also, if it is easier to print to my

Communicator-illegibility

1998-06-29 Thread rarab
Hello RH list members: Is a person limited to Netscape Communicator's illegible font selection or is it possible to affect their appearance by manipulating fvwm in some manner? R Arab -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: Why isn't XEmacs distributed with RHL?

1998-06-29 Thread Eze Ogwuma
Serge Pluess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > XEmacs is distributed with RHL. In 5.1 the file is: > > emacs-X11-20.2-7.i386.rpm > > in 5.0 it is: > > emacs-X11-20.2-4.i386.rpm > > and in 4.2 it is: > > emacs-X11-19.34-4.i386.rpm > > During installation you have the option of

Re: Hitachi CD-ROM on RedHat 5.0

1998-06-29 Thread olmost
You might want to try switching the cdrom master/slave switch. Also since it looks to be that you have the cdrom as the second device on the first ide controller you might want to try switching it to the first device on the second ide controller if it is available. I have heard of some people ha

Re: ##@@%%$$...cron...

1998-06-29 Thread Paul Fontenot
(+)*** It's 'sh get_mail' through an alias. (+) (+)Zoki. I missed whether or not you had the following line in your script: #!/bin/sh <---The first line. Nothing above it at all. -Paul -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/R

Re: Should we be pushing Linux over Windows 95?

1998-06-29 Thread Scott
On 6/29/98, at 3:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Stating that NT has a great deal of downtime is a pretty broad statement. >> I think it would be better to put that NT has a greater potential for >> downtime but it can be just as stable as Unix. Linux/Unix do to its >> maturaty has a greater

Re: Sony cdu33a CD-ROM.

1998-06-29 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 09:00:00AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi everybody... > > I'm new to the Linux world and I'm having trouble with RH 5.0 (2.0.31-7 > kernel) and my Sony cdu33a CD ROM. For the initial installation I had to do > it from one of the DOS Partitions and everything s

newbie stuggles w/ recieving mail

1998-06-29 Thread Cory T. Lamb
Hey, Looking for a way to recieve mail right on my box which is on the internet via my college and hostname provided by ml.org... I have everything (apache, telnetd, ftpd, sendmail, etc) I just can't recieve mail. Is there something I could read? TIA. ~C

Re: ##@@%%$$...cron...

1998-06-29 Thread Zoki
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Paul Fontenot wrote: ->(+)*** Nope. No /bash on my box. But if you're referring to the problem of ->(+)the script not working: Why should it work when invoked manually and not ->(+)when launched through cron? -> ->How are you invoking it? Are you doing this: -> ->'sh get_mail

Re: unexplaind kernel panics

1998-06-29 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Scott wrote: > I was wondering if someone could help me here. My Linux server (runs ftp > and quake2) keeps dying with a the following error: "kernel panic > skput:over". Sometimes this message is followed by a bunch of numbers, Haven't you asked about this already? It is

Re: News server

1998-06-29 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, James Michael Keller wrote: > Innd is loading at boot ok, I don't have an active list yet, and I'm not > sure how to get that down from the ISP. Ask them for it. :) > I don't want to carry the entire feed, ( ie 80% of the damn feeds are > the *.binary.* groups. ) Just a few

unexplaind kernel panics

1998-06-29 Thread Scott
Greetings, I was wondering if someone could help me here. My Linux server (runs ftp and quake2) keeps dying with a the following error: "kernel panic skput:over". Sometimes this message is followed by a bunch of numbers, somethimes just the message. I've narrrowed it down these two cuases: The

Re: HELP!! made mistake in fdisk

1998-06-29 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Guin, Jay wrote: > I used fdisk to partition my only harddrive. Thereafter I proceeded to I'm going to make some assumptions that are not made clear by your email. 1) You already had Windows 95 installed on your single hard drive 2) You installed Linux on your single hard dr

Re: I did, but i'm not sure...

1998-06-29 Thread chuck . mead
On 29 Jun, Mauricio Teixeira shaped the somewhat mellow bitstream to say: > Hi! > > I've upgraded my RH4.2 kernel from 2.0.30 to 2.0.34 using the > .tar.gz file, compiled and it's going fine now... > > But I'm still not sure about 2 things: Sistem.map and module-info > still point t

Re: Netscape help: where?

1998-06-29 Thread chuck . mead
On 29 Jun, bob jones shaped the somewhat mellow bitstream to say: > Thanks in advance to whomever responds. > > I tried posting about Netscape crashing -- no luck. So a different > question: can somebody point me to sources like redhat-list, but > aimed at Netscape problems? > > bob jones ([EM

/dev/printer weirdness

1998-06-29 Thread Brian E. Bothwell
I installed "check-packages" on our RH Linux 5.1 machine a few weeks ago. Last night I got the following message: --- check-packages run on Mon Jun 29 04:02:18 EST 1998 Listing installed packages... 376 packages installed changes from previous run... --- --- Checking Pack

Re: "ypxfrd not running" ?

1998-06-29 Thread Dan Kirkpatrick
Get the rpm from www.redhat.com it'll fix it. At 10:27 AM 6/24/98 -0700, you wrote: >Hello, > >I have setup a NIS connection between 2 machines. I have everything setup >and when I type "ypcat passwd" on the slave server, I get the master's >passwd, which leads me to believe that NIS is worki

Fvwm Config

1998-06-29 Thread William J. Salvino
I just installed Red Hat 5.1 and I am not sure which configuration file I should edit to make the FvwmPager *not* sticky which appears to be the default. The included documentation in /usr/doc/fvwm-2.0.46 refers the user to .fvwm2rc. When I "find / -name .fvwm2rc* -print" the following directory p

Netscape help: where?

1998-06-29 Thread bob jones
Thanks in advance to whomever responds. I tried posting about Netscape crashing -- no luck. So a different question: can somebody point me to sources like redhat-list, but aimed at Netscape problems? bob jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING

I did, but i'm not sure...

1998-06-29 Thread Mauricio Teixeira
Hi! I've upgraded my RH4.2 kernel from 2.0.30 to 2.0.34 using the .tar.gz file, compiled and it's going fine now... But I'm still not sure about 2 things: Sistem.map and module-info still point to files from 2.0.30 version, and I've not found anywhere on my system the same files

Re: ISDN TA's

1998-06-29 Thread Art Stine
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, RTS wrote: > For use in a PC under Win95 what do you think the best ISDN terminal > Adapter would be for either 64k or 128k dialup?? > I've had very good luck with my USR (now 3Com) Courier I-modem on both Linux and Win95. -art -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Er

Re: HELP!! made mistake in fdisk

1998-06-29 Thread Vidiot
>So basically I have repartitioned hda2. Do you think win95 on hda1 is >lost? You might try using Linux fdisk to recreate the hda1 partition and then using "t" to change the type to the type of partition it was. Hopefully it wasn't a FAT32 partition. With any luck, none of the FAT tables or di

RE: HELP!! made mistake in fdisk

1998-06-29 Thread Guin, Jay
Thanks for your reply. When I deleted the hda1 partition through Linux's fdisk, I did not create any new partition on those sectors. My new partition table looks like the following: Original partition (before using fdisk): Dev. BootBegin Start End Blocks

News server

1998-06-29 Thread James Michael Keller
Ok, now after getting the lan working, the firewall working, getting MS frontpage98 extentions working - I'm wantintg to get news working Innd is loading at boot ok, I don't have an active list yet, and I'm not sure how to get that down from the ISP. I don't want to carry the entire feed, (

Re: Off-topic: even Gates mentions Linux....

1998-06-29 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: Hal (DCI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 11:00 AM Subject: Re: Off-topic: even Gates mentions Linux >Personally, I stay away from ANYTHING that is has the I

Re: Should we be pushing Linux over Windows 95?

1998-06-29 Thread Greg Thomas
> > I've done countless NT installs (workstation and server) and about 15 RH > > installs (on the same two boxes do to my inexperience with Linux) and can > > say that Linux is not up to NT for ease of installation. Redhat is making > > great inroads but the lack up pnp support and other harware

Re: HELP!! made mistake in fdisk

1998-06-29 Thread Donnie McInis
If you deleted the partition for hda1 and that is where your win95 is . I think There's nothing you can do but repartition reformat and start over. sorry Dmc Dan Cyr wrote: > My opinion is that you are screwed. However, someone out there with more > years under their belt might know of some s

Re: Should we be pushing Linux over Windows 95?

1998-06-29 Thread jp
> Stating that NT has a great deal of downtime is a pretty broad statement. > I think it would be better to put that NT has a greater potential for > downtime but it can be just as stable as Unix. Linux/Unix do to its > maturaty has a greater potential for uptime but it can be unstable. I have >

Re: HELP!! made mistake in fdisk

1998-06-29 Thread Dan Cyr
My opinion is that you are screwed. However, someone out there with more years under their belt might know of some super duper utility to fix this, so wait for more responses before you start crying. Dan At 02:11 PM 6/29/98 -0400, you wrote: >I ran into trouble while trying to install Linux. I

decrypt.pm

1998-06-29 Thread Carlos Eduardo Anibarro Zelaya
Heya pals I was trying to install emumail on my server. the package requires decrypt.pm. where can i get the package ? is there an rpm for this ? thanks in advance Carlos Anibarro -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /

w,top,wall,finger, and talk commands

1998-06-29 Thread Joe Kerman - JVLNET Sys Adm
The folloowing commands have stopped working on my system w,top,wall,finger and talk. they re all reporting "no users logged on" Top says something about 'bad data from wtmp' but that looks okay. I have rebooted machines and cleared the wtmp files. What else could it be? Any help would be apprec

network card problem

1998-06-29 Thread Donnie McInis
I have a problem with a generic NE2000 compatible network card ( ISA ). The card has no prom or jumper, software setup only. I can't get RH linux to see the card at install using the NE2000 seting . The card works good in win95. I setup,"in linux" the same I/O and IRQ as in windows. Is there anot

Re: Why isn't XEmacs distributed with RHL?

1998-06-29 Thread Scott
I belelieve (I'm pretty sure) that these rpms are for Xwindows support of emacs. XEmacs is a different program altogether. Scott *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 6/29/98, at 10:27 AM, Serge Pluess wrote: >XEmacs is distributed with RHL. In 5.1 the file is: > > emacs-X11-20

Re: Should we be pushing Linux over Windows 95?

1998-06-29 Thread Scott
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 6/26/98, at 2:55 AM, William T Wilson wrote: >On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Tony Wells wrote: > >> For the client workstation ease of use and penetration of >> application software is the driver. Win9x and NT are the clear > >Right. We all agree that there

Re: Help !!!

1998-06-29 Thread chang
first I would check all the hardware connection. chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello. > > I met a problem with NFS while running Red Hat 5.0. The NFS has been > working > great for several month. But today the cleint machine of NFS gave the err > message "NFS server not responding". When I re

Re: Help !!!

1998-06-29 Thread Ray Curtis
> "4" == 49WANG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 4> Hello. 4> I met a problem with NFS while running Red Hat 5.0. The NFS has been 4> working 4> great for several month. But today the cleint machine of NFS gave the err 4> message "NFS server not responding". When I reboot the NFS server, I 4> no

Re: Alpha software sites.

1998-06-29 Thread chang
http://www.linux.org/ is the best start place to look at also ftp.redhat.com is good for alpha but hard to loggin ftp.sunsite.edu is the best public domain linux site. alos u can look at http://www.ctyme.com/linuxdoc.htm http://lxr.linux.no/source/ chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am looking

HELP!! made mistake in fdisk

1998-06-29 Thread Guin, Jay
I ran into trouble while trying to install Linux. I was wondering if anyone can give some advice on how to recover from it. The following is a description of the problem: I used fdisk to partition my only harddrive. Thereafter I proceeded to install Linux on the newly created partition. When I

Re: Ensoniq Soundscape & RedHat 5.1

1998-06-29 Thread Dirk Muders
Timothy King wrote: > Dirk Muders wrote: > > version). One other thing were the MSS flags. I still had them set. MSS > > CONFLICTS with the Ensoniq ! (Should have read the doc... it says there). > > I'm still trying to get my ESS1868 to work. What are the MSS flags? The MSS flags are for the Mi

X Issue

1998-06-29 Thread Wick, Ken
Listers, X Issue. I am using a newly installed RedHat 5.0 system (pristine) and Metro X (maybe I've said enough, but I'll continue). If I boot up in single user mode and run startx, everything works fine; HOWEVER, when I boot into muti-user mode and run startx I get the generic gray X screen wi

Re: hardlink vs. symlink

1998-06-29 Thread Deryk Barker
Once upon a time Dave Ihnat wrote: [...] > Kernighan, Ritchie, Thompson, et. al. originally implemented the > concept of a hard link only. They considered the equivalent of what > would eventually became a symlink too hard to maintain reliably, and > felt it would lend itself to abuse--in fact, t

Re: Ensoniq Soundscape & RedHat 5.1

1998-06-29 Thread Timothy King
Dirk Muders wrote: > version). One other thing were the MSS flags. I still had them set. MSS > CONFLICTS with the Ensoniq ! (Should have read the doc... it says there). I'm still trying to get my ESS1868 to work. What are the MSS flags? -- Timothy King [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] TV

Help !!!

1998-06-29 Thread 49WANG
Hello. I met a problem with NFS while running Red Hat 5.0. The NFS has been working great for several month. But today the cleint machine of NFS gave the err message "NFS server not responding". When I reboot the NFS server, I notice I have the messge: rpc.mountd Cannot register service: RPC: Un

Re: Why isn't XEmacs distributed with RHL?

1998-06-29 Thread Serge Pluess
XEmacs is distributed with RHL. In 5.1 the file is: emacs-X11-20.2-7.i386.rpm in 5.0 it is: emacs-X11-20.2-4.i386.rpm and in 4.2 it is: emacs-X11-19.34-4.i386.rpm During installation you have the option of installing it. If you missed it just install it pointing to yo

Problems upgrading kernel

1998-06-29 Thread Mauricio Teixeira
Folks, Im trying to upgrade my RH4.2 kernel from 2.0.30 (default that came with CD) to 2.0.34. I've got the RPMs from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-5.1/updates/i386/ as someone told me to do... But when I try to install the new kernel I get this error: [root@ser

Re: Ensoniq Soundscape & RedHat 5.1

1998-06-29 Thread Dirk Muders
Forgot to mention that sound.o seems to work as an auto-load module now (I just enabled this kernel feature; solved my FAT32 problems as well). Dirk -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /maili

RE: shells

1998-06-29 Thread Eric Cifreo
Yes, but not tremendous ones. Try bash first. It's your friend. Eric Cifreo -Original Message- From: Jordan R. K. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 29, 1998 11:30 am To: redhat list Subject: shells This maybe a dumb question, but I have not yet got Linux going on my compu

Alpha software sites.

1998-06-29 Thread c725109
I am looking for a good ftp site with linux apps specific to the alpha. -- 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

archive!

1998-06-29 Thread Iztok Polanic
Hello !!! Where can I find a searcher of this mailling list??? Bye. xx // xx xx ( o o ) xx xx/oOO-O-OOo\

shells

1998-06-29 Thread Jordan R. K.
This maybe a dumb question, but I have not yet got Linux going on my computer so I have no expierience. Are there variations in commands between different shells? Thanks, Jordan Keuseman -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat

Can't boot linux from floppy!

1998-06-29 Thread Mike Gahagan
I am kind of new to this, but I have installed Red Hat several times. I have tried to create 2 boot floppies and neither one of them work. The first disk I made was with Red Hat's install program, the second I made with mkbootdisk When I start up on a floppy, I get the Lilo prompt, then it tries

Re: Kernel 2.0.30 -> 2.0.34 on RH4.2

1998-06-29 Thread Dave Reed
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On 29 Jun, Mauricio Teixeira shaped the somewhat mellow bitstream to say: > > Hi! > > > > How can I upgrade my RH4.2 Kernel from 2.0.30 to 2.0.34? > > > > I've seen so many mesages about upgrading the Kernel on RH5.0, but > > none on 4.2... > > > > An

Re: more or less that allows horizontal scrolling?

1998-06-29 Thread Fred Smith
On Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 12:40:03PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 11:00:30PM +0900, Richard Sharpe wrote: > > Hi, > > > > what I am seeking is a program, more or less :-), that allows the user to > > scroll left or right in a document as well as up or down. > > > > Does anyon

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