Re: tar

1998-07-01 Thread Scott Buntin
Are you using "tar -x somefile.tar"? If so, that's the problem. Try "tar xf somefile.tar". Tar reads from standard input unless you specify a "-f filename". "tar xvf somefile.tar" will print a pretty list of the files which it unpacks, and "tar zxvf somefile.tar.gz" (or .tgz) will un-gzip a

RE: X programming - Hints

1998-07-01 Thread Andrew Alexander Malcolm, Dr
http://www.rahul.net/kenton/xsites.html might be a good place to start Andy > -- > From: Alfonso Barreto Lopez > Sent: Thursday, July 02, 1998 8:19 AM > To: Forum de Red Hat > Subject: X programming > > I am trying to start programming in X, but I dont know wher

Re: Redirection of Mail

1998-07-01 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Ian Paton wrote: > I am a small ISP and a requirement has come up which requires me to > redirect all mail addressed to a certain domain name to a particular user. In order to do this you have to rebuild your sendmail.cf to add support for the "virtual user table". I could s

Re: Unable to kill netscape...not a zombie

1998-07-01 Thread Jeffrey Fearn
> I then attempted to kill my netscape session with "kill " Patrick have you tried "kill -9 . Your above version 'asks' the program to die, -9 is not so polite :) Thank you, Jeffrey. Jeffrey D Fearn Network Administrator GWR Com Cor Austral

Redirection of Mail

1998-07-01 Thread Ian Paton
Hi, Can anyone help me do this? I am a small ISP and a requirement has come up which requires me to redirect all mail addressed to a certain domain name to a particular user. I am hosting the domain name on my server - (mail server + DNS server + proxy server + etc). I am using Sendmail 8.7.5 r

Apache 1.2.5 building from SRPM

1998-07-01 Thread Chris J. Magnuson
When I built Apache from the RH 5 SRPM I commented out this line in the Makefile so it would link: #LIBS1= -ldbm And added these to EXTRA_LIBS to get it to link: EXTRA_LIBS= -lgdbm -lcrypt Is this evil? Thanks, Chris -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCH

Unable to kill netscape...not a zombie

1998-07-01 Thread Patrick O'Neil
I was browsing today and ran into a problem with Netscape Communicator that I have seen many times, that is, when either stopping the loading of a some pages or trying to go back to pages, netscape window refreshes die and it becomes a blank window. I waited a nice long time because I have foun

Olympic Peninsula Linux Users Meeting

1998-07-01 Thread tom
* ** Olympic Peninsula Linux User Group Meeting Announcement ** * There will be a meeting of the Olympic Peninsula Linux Users Group (OPLUG) held at the Port Angeles High Schoo

Re: Spurious ` characters

1998-07-01 Thread Ron Golan
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Matt Nelson wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, W. Wade, Hampton wrote: > > > I posted this last week with no responses Has anyone seen > > spurious ` characters when you begin to type? I have this happening > > on 3 Dell Workstation 400 PII/300 systems with RH 5.0 and 5.1.

Re: PPP-2.3.3-4 problems still. Help me please

1998-07-01 Thread Mark Rogers
Mark Rogers wrote: > Win95 can dial into my machine great everything works, win3.x using > Trumpet winsock (any version), dials, gets authenticated, is assigned an > IP address and then no data gets over the line. > > This happens regardless of any ppp settings I've tried or anything else, > this

New SRPMS Size

1998-07-01 Thread Rob Ferguson
Hello all. I have a favour if someone could do me. Because of the large size of file XFree, Emacs, Netscape updates it would take me along time to download these files and cost me probably about as much as that actual 5.1 CD would cost me. Is there someone out there willing to do a diff fo

metrox

1998-07-01 Thread Gary Neff
Thanks for all the help and I have a few more dumb questions. 1- what file do I edit to change the menus in xmetro to add new programs 2-how do I add a file to the path so when I type its name I can simply run it without going to the directory it is located in and typing ./whatever Thanks in adva

Re: Upcoming ICQ X11 version!

1998-07-01 Thread Charlotte Crothers
If you're really interested in running ICQ, I just set it up using the latest JDK and it is much better behaved than with previous versions. Charlotte Crothers On 2 Jul 98 at 1:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Patrick O'Neil wrote: > [snip] > > If you must have ICQ, then there is a platform in

Re: xemacs rpms and hurricane

1998-07-01 Thread Hugh Lawson
Hello W. J. Kossler: You have run into the same problem I hit with xemacs. I have found a way to get RedHat xemacs rpm files to work. Download the xemacs files that appear in the powertools directory, and not those that appear in the contrib/i386 directory. On my system these installed. xemac

Backup

1998-07-01 Thread J. Carlos Cristobal
Hello everybody: I have heard alot of about a backup system which as far I see is cheaper for every MB backed up, but I want to know if its Linux compatible, I'm talking about the SparQ of Syquest, has anybody tried it? is it good? Thanks in advance...

Re: A Toughie-Linux Gurus Needed :)

1998-07-01 Thread Woody
the services that it showstry changing the group to root instead of null...I THINK that will fix it...but don't put any money on it Woody Security Administrator Localline.com, Oxford, IN [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Steve Ki-Won Lee wrote: > Greetings! > > I'm having problems

Re: Upcoming ICQ X11 version!

1998-07-01 Thread Jeff Ivany
Patrick O'Neil wrote: [snip] > If you must have ICQ, then there is a platform independent JavaICQ. I > set > it up and ran it a couple of times in OS/2 (just to try it out...but I > don't like, > nor use, IRC nor any other form of chat). You have to do a little > editing of > the program file to

PPP with user input for password?

1998-07-01 Thread srs
Hi, when connecting to an ISP with the modem I have succeded to set up Network Configurator to use in conjunction with the usernet tool. For this ISP a fixed password is given in the communication part of the setup. However, when connecting to another ISP a new password is required everytime I lo

A Toughie-Linux Gurus Needed :)

1998-07-01 Thread Steve Ki-Won Lee
Greetings! I'm having problems booting up my linuxbox. It goes thru the booting up process fine until it reaches the end when the login prompt usually comes up, but instead of that, I get the following messages: ADD: shell proto=tcp, wait.max=0.40, user.group=root.(null) builtin=0 server=/usr/s

mail

1998-07-01 Thread gkuhlen
This may be the wrong place for this question but I need some help with my email.  I installed RedHat 5.1 this past weekend after having deleted  5.0.  I left everything as defaults and have not tweaked anything.  When I use fetchmail to get my mail (keep in mind that this is the same .fetc

X programming

1998-07-01 Thread Alfonso Barreto Lopez
I am trying to start programming in X, but I dont know where to start, I am trying to get some examples, is there a place where I can find them? Thanks __ Alfonso Barreto Lopez Inst. de Inv. de Matematicas U.N.A.M [

Re: gathering network performance data?

1998-07-01 Thread E.L. Green
The best product for that is called "MRTG" (for Multi-Router Traffic Grapher). A copy of it is in contrib on the Red Hat FTP site. It is a little involved to set up, but once it is set up, you can get beautiful graphs of network usage through the router (you'll need to create a web page to link to

GIMP 1.0, gtk rpm

1998-07-01 Thread Deryk Barker
I've been trying to build gimp 1.0 and having trouble with gtk. I've got stock RH5.0 + errata, which informs me - via a rpm -qa|grep gtk - that I have gtk+-1.0.1-2 gtk-devel-0.99.970925-3 installed. However, the configure for gimp barfs because it can't find gtk-config. However

Linuxconf access?

1998-07-01 Thread Randy Carpenter
ok... I have RH5.1 installed, and linuxconf is great. BUT, how do I *disallow* root form being able to login via the web? It kinda defeats the purpose of having no remote root logins, if someone can get in via the web, with only the root password, and change all my stuff This, in my opinion

Need help for changing host name and domain name

1998-07-01 Thread Zoong
Hi all, How can I can change my Linux box host name to some thing like foo and the domain name to zoong.com ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ? I am using RedHat 5.1, kernel 2.0.34 . I use modem to dial in my ISP to access to the Internet. My box is a stand-alone computer, has no networkcard. Please send to

IBM Aptiva console/X display clutter

1998-07-01 Thread srs
Hi, I have recently installed RH5.0 and is currently upgrading to RH5.1 on an IBMAptiva 2134/351 with a SIS86C205, rev 211 video chip. Ever since the first time of installation I have problems with the screen being cluttered with garbage, making the display unredable. It happens both in console

Re: Trying to figure out "private groups"

1998-07-01 Thread John H Darrah
On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Steve Frampton wrote: > > I've created this directory. I've created a group in /etc/group called > "its" as follows: > > its:x:499:frampton,mccready > > I've done: 'chown frampton.its /archive2/its_share' as well as > 'chmod a-x,ug+x frampton.its'. I've then created a sy

Re: Upcoming ICQ X11 version!

1998-07-01 Thread Patrick O'Neil
Scott wrote: > > >> If you want a good console based one, go to freshmeat.net and look > >> up micq. It is fast and reliable, and supports a lot of the [...] > All great and wonderfull but most of the world is on wind95 and NT. IRC is > great for some things but ICQ is also great. Its free and

xemacs rpms and hurricane

1998-07-01 Thread W. J. Kossler
Having upgraded to 5.0 I'm having trouble installing xemacs. I saw a posting recently with a similar problem, but saw no answer. I've downloaded xemacs-el-20.4-1.i386.rpm and if I try to rpm -i it I get: failed dependencies: xemacs = 20.4 is needed by xemacs-el-20.4-1 So what is goin

Re: PPP and NFS conflict?

1998-07-01 Thread Paul M Dunphy
At 09:40 AM 7/1/98 -0700, you wrote: >Is portmap running? It must be running before nfs will work. > >-Paul Thanks, Paul . . . I couldn't tell because rpcinfo -p wouldn't run, either. I found out what the problem was, though. My son, who is 14, is an NT guru of sorts. He convinced me to te

linux problem !need help

1998-07-01 Thread Internet Marketing
My linux box that's working fine all the while suddently having problem tov boot-up , error message : VFS:mounted root(ext2 filesystem0 readonly) Unable to open an initial console It just freeze there , anybody can help , urgent. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILIN

Re: Upcoming ICQ X11 version!

1998-07-01 Thread Scott
>> If you want a good console based one, go to freshmeat.net and look >> up micq. It is fast and reliable, and supports a lot of the >> commands. Only problem is the icq server kicks me off every once in >> a while.. I think it's a bug in the protocol part of the program. > >This is not a surpris

Re: Connecting to NT4 Share

1998-07-01 Thread ramon
Try using SAMBA. With NT and sp3 you may have some authentication problems, but you can either configure samba to accept encrypted passwords or set NT to send plain passwords. On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Tim Larkins (EUKSHEL1PO) wrote: > I've got my linux box connected to a small LAN and I'm interest

Re: Upcoming ICQ X11 version!

1998-07-01 Thread James Curbo
Um, thanks, but I wasn't really asking for any help. The only reason I use icq is because I use it to keep up with about 5 of my close friends, who all have it too. Micq does what I need it to do. (only messages really) And yes I know all about IRC, finger, rwho, DNS, and LDAP. (most of those woul

Re: Spurious ` characters

1998-07-01 Thread W. Wade, Hampton
Matt Housh wrote: > Hey guys, I tried to respond to this, but the redhat list has been > eating my mail lately. Hope this one gets thru. Anyway, I have the same It made the list this time... >problem with our Dell P2/400s here. The guy I talked to at Dell tech >support said that one of the two B

Re: Newbie question re: install and /etc/fstab

1998-07-01 Thread Michael Jinks
Merten, Joe wrote: > > it only got as far as installing packages > when it would hang. I tried it several times, and it hung at various > packages. I.E. one time it might make it through 90% of the packages > before hanging, then another time it might only make it through 20%. This smells like

Re: Help with packages

1998-07-01 Thread Michael P. Sale
Thanks, Looks good now. I should have checked the erratta a little more closely before posting :-/ Mike -- Michael P. Sale MerchantsNet.Com [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.merchantsnet.com Ph#: 805-563-1975 -- E-Comm

Re: Host names not resolved

1998-07-01 Thread Michael Jinks
Paul Breedlove wrote: > > I am experiencing a problem with a new install of Red Hat 5.0. The > computer is attached to an ethernet network, which has a router as the > default gateway. The install worked without an error, but I am having > network problems. The problem is that after booting the c

questions about ssh and netatalk.

1998-07-01 Thread Jyan-Min Fang
Hi, a couple of questions here. 1. how can I limit the ssh access to a few hosts? Can I use hosts.allow and hosts.deny to control the ssh access into the linux box? 2. I can use netatalk to share my linux box in the Appleshare enviroment, but how can the linux box access the Appleshare's HD and

Re: Upcoming ICQ X11 version!

1998-07-01 Thread MC
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Curbo) writes: > If you want a good console based one, go to freshmeat.net and look > up micq. It is fast and reliable, and supports a lot of the > commands. Only problem is the icq server kicks me off every once in > a while.. I think it's a bug in the protocol part of

Re: POP3 server config page?

1998-07-01 Thread dreamwvr
At 03:44 PM 6/26/98 -0500, you wrote: >-Original Message- >From: dreamwvr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 2:08 PM >Subject: Re: POP3 server config page? > > >>Hi Sean, >> You had mentioned that IMAP is better than POP3 but i

PPP Scripting Problems

1998-07-01 Thread Ezekiel Urness
I have a problem with the PPP-ON and PPP-OFF scripts. When I am logged in a root they work find. If I am logged in as any one else, they do not work. Does anyone have any ideas? Thankx in Advance Ezekiel Urness /usr/bin> ls ppp* -la -rwx--x--x 1 root root 1051 Jun 30 12:09 pp

Re: Trying to figure out "private groups"

1998-07-01 Thread Michael George
> Hello: > > RedHat uses something called "private groups" to provide a bit more > flexibility, security-wise. I'm just having trouble figuring out how to > use it. > > What I want to do: > > Create a directory, /archive2/its_share, a common area for our department. > Anybody can put files in

Re: Upcoming ICQ X11 version!

1998-07-01 Thread James Curbo
>Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 19:02:45 + >From: Jeff Ivany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Upcoming ICQ X11 version! >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Jos Vos wrote: >> I just saw that the ICQ peo

Re: Anyone using GIS with Linux?

1998-07-01 Thread dreamwvr
out of curiosity i have a as400 app that uses a satellite to monitor shipments in real time. Will ARCView do anything for me here? At 01:23 PM 6/24/98 -0700, Jim Snyder wrote: >Hi > >I am a new Linux user and was wondering if anyone is using Linux to do any >GIS work particularly with ArcView or A

Re: how can i tell what program is answering port x on my machine?

1998-07-01 Thread Woody
I don't quite understand what you mean by "answering", but maybe this will help you...look at your services file in the /etc directory. /etc/services Woody Security Administrator Localline.com, Oxford, IN [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- > From: Doug Elznic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Trying to figure out "private groups"

1998-07-01 Thread Steve Frampton
Hello: RedHat uses something called "private groups" to provide a bit more flexibility, security-wise. I'm just having trouble figuring out how to use it. What I want to do: Create a directory, /archive2/its_share, a common area for our department. Anybody can put files in here. Only the owne

Re: tar

1998-07-01 Thread Woody
the best format to use when untarring files is: tar xpvf x = extract p = keep permissions of said archive v = verbose f = instructs tar that this is a file archive if "untarring" *.tar.gz files, remember to add the "z" switch in above command. z = gzipped archive -- > From: Toby Wrigh

Re: .plan file

1998-07-01 Thread Woody
The .plan file, located in respective users' directories, is a hidden file created by such users to use to put information about themselves, etc, or whatever they choose so that when a local and/or remote user "fingers" them, they will know more about that person, or will see what the person wants

Re: my 2 cents

1998-07-01 Thread UNIXMAN
Haven't you heard or IRIX and all of those high-end silicon graphics workstations? They're out there but they're expensive and many have not yet been ported to linux. UNIX has been plagued with the old mindset that it has to be hard and expensive; it was never made for the PC like DOS/W$. A

Re: ATI All-in-Wonder

1998-07-01 Thread Paul Fontenot
(+)S3 Virge is presumably a good, safe bet... I can vouche for that card. Works great for me. Spend the extra and get the 4M card. -Paul -- 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: apache error pages?

1998-07-01 Thread jb
www.apache.org check out the FAQ section(s). this is covered in great and useful detail. always check the source for FAQ's, docs and information, first. Jeff At 01:08 PM 7/1/98 -0400, you wrote: >Is there a way to modify the "ERROR 404 FILE NOT FOUND" and other default >error pages that apache

RE: ##@@%%$$...cron...

1998-07-01 Thread John H Darrah
On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Zoki wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Slyglif Cain wrote: > > *** So why is it I have #!/bin/sh as the first line in any script and it > still doesn't work? BTW, even with that line in the script, I still have > to type sh [script] in order to run it. > Probably because you di

Re: Upcoming ICQ X11 version!

1998-07-01 Thread Jeff Ivany
Jos Vos wrote: > I just saw that the ICQ people added a field on their download page in > which you can fill in your e-mail address when you want to be informed > when ICQ for UNIX (X11) is released (it says "Coming Soon"). Hate to be the bringer of bad news but... That box has been there for pu

unused space at the end of HDD

1998-07-01 Thread Alexei Nefediev
Hello, when I looked at my two HDD's using disk manager utility from WinNT 4.0 (sorry for mentioning M$ OS :-) ) I discovered that both drives contain free space (2M and 4M for 1G and 3.2G drives respectively) belonging to no partitions. I'm quite sure that when creating partitions with Linux and

Newbie question re: install and /etc/fstab

1998-07-01 Thread Merten, Joe
Hi everyone, I have a couple of questions. The first question is regarding installing RedHat 5.0 from SCSI CDROM. I have the RedHat PowerTools set (Six CD's). I created my boot disk and went through the install, but it only got as far as installing packages when it would hang. I tried it sever

Re: Help with packages

1998-07-01 Thread Damien Silveira
I had that problem as well. You need to update Glint from the redhat errata. Hope this helps. Damien -Original Message- From: Michael P. Sale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, July 01, 1998 2:07 PM Subject: Help with packages >Hello again,

Help with packages

1998-07-01 Thread Michael P. Sale
Hello again, I seem to have run into a problem with the package manager and the 5.1 disk. When I go to search for "available" packages using the package manager, the program begins to scan for available packages. I watch the meter increase to about 80% before it just stops. It seems to lock up

Host names not resolved

1998-07-01 Thread Paul Breedlove
I am experiencing a problem with a new install of Red Hat 5.0. The computer is attached to an ethernet network, which has a router as the default gateway. The install worked without an error, but I am having network problems. The problem is that after booting the computer, and then logging on ever

how can i tell what program is answering port x on my machine?

1998-07-01 Thread Doug Elznic
Well in case the subject did not give it away. How can i tell what program is answering port x on my machine? -- 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

RE: apache error pages?

1998-07-01 Thread Hoe-Teck Wee
Hello, Matt. Check out the "ErrorDocument 404" setting in /etc/httpd/conf/srm.conf. #ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html Hope that helps. - hoeteck On 01-Jul-98 Matt Teagarden wrote: > Is there a way to modify the "ERROR 404 FILE NOT FOUND" and other default > error pages that apache throws out?

NAT Help

1998-07-01 Thread Damien Silveira
Has anyone configured NAT with Redhat 5.1 on an intel box with kernel 2.0.34?? I read through the documentation on the NAT page and found a patch for 2.0.33, but no mention of 2.0.34. I would love to discuss. Thanks Damien -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

Re: ATI All-in-Wonder

1998-07-01 Thread Deryk Barker
Once upon a time Joel Robert Oliveira wrote: > > > ATI all in wonder ? good luck getting it to work in X since ATI refuses > to give out any information whatsoever for driver developers. I guess > this should be fixed with the binary only drivers that redhat will be > supplying soon.. which

read VMS tape under Linux

1998-07-01 Thread vbajaj
Hello, I have a large dataset recorded under a VMS platform on 8mm tape; our SGI, naturally, cannot read it, and I can't find any VMS-type filesystem support in the kernel. Even if I could, I'm not sure that VMS uses tar/cpio or something else that I could use under Unix to extract the data.

RE: ##@@%%$$...cron...

1998-07-01 Thread Jonathan B. Bayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 1 Jul 1998 07:54:41 +0200 (CEST), Zoki wrote: >On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Slyglif Cain wrote: >->Actually, the problem is the script. When you do "sh " from >->a command prompt, you are explicitly telling Linux what shell to use. >->For the script to work fr

Upcoming ICQ X11 version!

1998-07-01 Thread Jos Vos
Hi, [Please ignore this when you don't know what ICQ is...] I just saw that the ICQ people added a field on their download page in which you can fill in your e-mail address when you want to be informed when ICQ for UNIX (X11) is released (it says "Coming Soon"). So, everyone interested in this

RE: ##@@%%$$...cron...

1998-07-01 Thread Paul Fontenot
(+)*** So why is it I have #!/bin/sh as the first line in any script and it (+)still doesn't work? Is the script executable? Is /bin in your path? -Paul -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /

Re: No Shadow?

1998-07-01 Thread dreamwvr
has to be X issue as the /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd are interdependent but X and xdm3d are separate issue. The answer not sure ...sorry:'( At 10:54 AM 7/1/98 -, you wrote: >> >> hi, >> goto http://www.dreamwvr.com/webframe.htm >> click link called 'SHADOWING RED HAT' >> i hope that h

apache error pages?

1998-07-01 Thread Matt Teagarden
Is there a way to modify the "ERROR 404 FILE NOT FOUND" and other default error pages that apache throws out? I would like to make them a little nicer to the eyes.. -Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/Red

Re: Spurious ` characters

1998-07-01 Thread Matt Housh
Hey guys, I tried to respond to this, but the redhat list has been eating my mail lately. Hope this one gets thru. Anyway, I have the same problem with our Dell P2/400s here. The guy I talked to at Dell tech support said that one of the two BIOS fixed available for my machine would fix it, but I h

RE: ##@@%%$$...cron...

1998-07-01 Thread Zoki
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Slyglif Cain wrote: ->Actually, the problem is the script. When you do "sh " from ->a command prompt, you are explicitly telling Linux what shell to use. ->For the script to work from crontab, you have to be able to type ->"" (no alias for sh) to run the command from a prompt

ZIP Tools

1998-07-01 Thread Paul Fontenot
Anybody have a good location for the linux ziptools? -Paul -- 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 "uns

Re: gathering network performance data?

1998-07-01 Thread James Youngman
> "ml" == Maureen Lecuona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ml> We have a small network connected to the Internet via fractional ml> T1. We'd like to start collecting information about our ml> bandwidth usage, but our ISP will only provide us with those ml> statistics for a fee. ml> Ar

Re: Random number generation

1998-07-01 Thread James Youngman
> "jct" == Joseph C Tuttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jct> Is there a simple way in Linux to generate a series of three jct> hundred to four hundred unique random four digit numbers? I jct> haven't done enough programming to write my own random number jct> generator, but I do know L

Re: PPP and NFS conflict?

1998-07-01 Thread Paul Fontenot
Is portmap running? It must be running before nfs will work. -Paul -- 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

Random number generation

1998-07-01 Thread Joseph C. Tuttle
Is there a simple way in Linux to generate a series of three hundred to four hundred unique random four digit numbers? I haven't done enough programming to write my own random number generator, but I do know Linux can generate them for its own uses. I have searched man and info pages, and the "L

Re: Why are recompiled distrib so BIG ???

1998-07-01 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
>> They are a LOT bigger then the distribution binaries. >> >> For example : >> >> bash from RedHat : about 300 K >> bash compiled : about 1 MB !!! >try "strip bash" after you compile it.. Problem solved... I got the 'good' size back.. Thanks !!! Igmar -

Re: .plan file

1998-07-01 Thread tom
On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Michael Jinks wrote: > Something I've been mildly curious about for a while now -- when I > finger a user on my machine, one of the bits of info that comes back is > "no Plan". The manpage for finger mentions a .plan file, but says > nothing much about it. > > What is this f

Re: gathering network performance data?

1998-07-01 Thread Maureen Lecuona
You write: We have a small network connected to the Internet via fractional T1. We'd like to start collecting information about our bandwidth usage, but our ISP will only provide us with those statistics for a fee. Here's a sketch of our layout: (internet) | | CSU/DSU | |

Re: SCSI hard drive freezing my system

1998-07-01 Thread Michael Jinks
Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > > Yes, it does matter which BusLogic model you have. If it is a > MultiMaster model (BT-948, KT-948, BT-958, or KT-958) According to /proc/scsi/BusLogic/0, I have a model BT-946C. But I'll go check the URL you sent anyway; there might be an upgrade for this too, as

RE: route help!

1998-07-01 Thread Paul Pettit
> From: Jens Thordarson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 1998 5:24 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: route help! > > > Hi... > I got a big problem...or maybe small. [snip] > When I do route -n it gives me: > Kernel routing table > Destination Gateway Genmask

PPP and NFS conflict?

1998-07-01 Thread Paul M Dunphy
    Hi all. I am looking for an easy way out of this one (aren't we all!) I have RH 5.0 running on a 233 Mhz Pentium-II and it has been working fine for several months. It's part of a little LAN I have in the house with the other systems running 95 and NT. All worked great . . . I was using th

Netscape?

1998-07-01 Thread Wayne
Hello, I'am running Redhat version 4.2 with kernel 2.0.30, could anyone tell me which Netscape release i can use and where to get it? TIA. Wayne -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-li

Auto logout in telnet and rsh

1998-07-01 Thread Alfonso Barreto Lopez
Is there a way to logout a user after a cartain time of inactivity in a telnet and/or rsh? Thanks a lot __ Alfonso Barreto Lopez Inst. de Inv. de Matematicas U.N.A.M [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat

can't configure Acrobat Reader as Netscape 4.0.5 helper app

1998-07-01 Thread Alex T Prengel
Hello, I am having trouble configuring the Adobe Acrobat Reader as a helper-app to the Netscape version (4.0.5) supplied with RedHat 5.1. I'm running on an Intel P120 box. I'm using the latest Acrobat version on Adobe's Web site- it's described as 3.0.1 but on unpacking it appears to be 3.0. I

initscripts install fails in RH5.1

1998-07-01 Thread Joe Nestlerode
I just did an (almost) successful clean install of 5.1. All 300-some packages installed *except* for initscripts. So I got the latest rpm from the errata page, and it also fails with the same errors: root /mnt/zip/errata>> rpm -Uvh --force initscripts-3.65-2.i386.rpm initscripts

Re: Quake2

1998-07-01 Thread Randy Carpenter
> I experience the same problems, but I'm using a Cyrix 166+, so > that would be my problem. What kind of hardware are you using, and what > other programs are you running at the same time. Quake 2 is resource > hungry... K6-233, 64MB sdram, diamond monster 3d. Nothing special running...

Re: SVGALib mouse speed?

1998-07-01 Thread Brandon_ Petersen_
I experience the same problems, but I'm using a Cyrix 166+, so that would be my problem. What kind of hardware are you using, and what other programs are you running at the same time. Quake 2 is resource hungry... > Ahhh thanks. :) "30" did it for me.. :) I like my mouse *very* >

Re: tar

1998-07-01 Thread Vidiot
>its tar -xf ... >you need the 'f'so it knows to untar to files...I believe... >Toby Wright > >> for some reason tar does not work tar -x whatever nothing happens >> and prompt >> is lost.I have copied the tar file to the same directory as the file I am >> trying to untar and still nothing and pro

Re: Glint craps out when checking for available RPMs

1998-07-01 Thread Tony Molloy.
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Maurice Wick wrote: > Whenever I run Glint (in RH5.1) it spits the dummy about 2/3rds the way > through and returns this > > [root@guss rpms]# glint > Glint Graphical Package Manager -- version 2.6 > Copyright (C) 1998 - Red Hat Software > This may be freely redistribute

Re: SCSI hard drive freezing my system

1998-07-01 Thread Matthew Saltzman
Michael Jinks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >This may be a hardware problem and not a Linux problem, but if so I'd >like to be able to find out. > >I have a SCSI hard drive which is the only SCSI device currently in my >box. It appears to function properly in most respects [setup details >below],

Re: fsck manually

1998-07-01 Thread James Youngman
> "def" == David E Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: def> Well, you're essentially in single user mode (i.e., this def> happens during the start up procedure) and so you can just do def> the fsck at the time you get to the provided shell prompt. It def> is important to just say 'fsck /d

Re: No Shadow?

1998-07-01 Thread James Youngman
> "ijv" == Ivan Jose Varzinczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ijv> I also tempted to do this, but the users can't log in under ijv> Xwindow, only in the text mode prompt. I'm using xdm3d ijv> too. What can I do, please ? Use a version of xdm3d that supports PAM. -- PLEASE read the R

Re: error mesg: /dev/hdb4 is not a blocked device

1998-07-01 Thread chang
Have you formated the new partition? Zhong Sheng wrote: > Hi, everyone > I was trying to change a win95 partition into a Linux partition. > I boot Linux and use fdisk to delete the win95 partition and add a Linux > primary partition. After I save the changes (I also tried to reboot Linux) > I

IP Masquarade and PPP dial on demand

1998-07-01 Thread Jonathan B. Bayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I think there is documentation for this, but I haven't been able to find it yet. I am trying to set up a RH 5.1 box (with all the latest RPMs) on a local network in my house to do the following: 1. Dial up a specific PPP connection when needed, and then

Re: fsck manually

1998-07-01 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Michael Jinks wrote: >What has happened here (my best guess anyhow) is that your system was >rudely interrupted by some sort of crash while in the middle of writing Mine happened once (on my old setup) when the power went out in the middle of a Cnews expire. >it the root p

Re:

1998-07-01 Thread Leston Buell
Thanks. I'm going to try fixing this tonight. Sorry about the lack of a subject line, which i NEVER do intentionally. This was just an oversight due to the fact that i had to cut and paste to resend this message from a different account. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and th

Re: exploit ??

1998-07-01 Thread Cristian KAMENICZKI
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Shawn McMahon wrote: > >Is there some public exploit that lets a person get root on a linux box ? > > Lots of them. You should at the very least keep up with the security > mailing lists, such as CERT and Bugtraq. Can you please tell me how to subscribe to them? Thank you.

Re: route help!

1998-07-01 Thread Jim Snee
Jens, The 0.0.0.0/0 route IS your default route. It is pointing to 194.105.242.245 as a gateway. You want that 0.0.0.0 route to point to the Cisco which you stated should have an address of 194.105.242.254. Verify that you have the correct gateway address and gateway device in your /etc/sysco

Re: No Shadow?

1998-07-01 Thread Ivan Jose Varzinczak
> > hi, > goto http://www.dreamwvr.com/webframe.htm > click link called 'SHADOWING RED HAT' > i hope that helps you:') I did this too and don't worked. Is the problem with X or xdm3d that I use ? Thanks. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST A

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