Re: Pop3

1999-12-01 Thread Greg W
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 1/12/99 at 23:56 Rev. David P. Giffen wrote: >I am trying to set my Linux box to be to be a simple mail server. However I >can't log into the machine using POP3 protocol. I have the port already to >go. What else do I need to do? > Not sure what you

Re: Pop3

1999-12-01 Thread sixx
At 11:56 PM 12/1/99 -0600, you wrote: >I am trying to set my Linux box to be to be a simple mail server. However I >can't log into the machine using POP3 protocol. I have the port already to >go. What else do I need to do? did you install the imap package ? do a rpm -qa|grep imap to see. >Bless

Pop3

1999-12-01 Thread Rev. David P. Giffen
I am trying to set my Linux box to be to be a simple mail server. However I can't log into the machine using POP3 protocol. I have the port already to go. What else do I need to do? Blessed be, Rev. David P. Giffen ICQ# 2857084 AIM Handle: Rev Coyote "Imagination is more important than knowledg

Re: Good Book for beginner?

1999-12-01 Thread Greg W
Whoa boy Whoa...slow down Frank :-) don't worry about programming apps at the moment, your going to be programming your Linux box first.you have just become the administrator ! As for books, its really a personal thing, and another one of those holy war questions.here goes I am not

Re: radius/portmaster 3 uhhg!

1999-12-01 Thread Arni Raghu
download the cistron radiusd from freshmeat... - Original Message - From: Jim Bija <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 10:05 PM Subject: radius/portmaster 3 uhhg! > > So im looking to install radius on one of my lrh 6.1 servers. For one i am >

Re: Need help can't connect to @home Network

1999-12-01 Thread John P. Verel
At 04:47 PM 12/01/99 , you wrote: >WHat am I missing??? Steve, What follows below is from a posting I made about a year ago, specifically directed at connecting RH 5.2 to @home. It may be a helpful checklist. One poster suggested a net mask setting which is different from mine. Better off ge

ipfwadm <-> ipchains

1999-12-01 Thread sixx
Hi there, I believe that there is a site with which you could input your required parameters and it would generate the scripts for both ipfwadm or ipchains. Could someone point me to the URL? Thanks. regards, sixx -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

TABS to Pipes (was Re: script)

1999-12-01 Thread Rick L. Mantooth
Ok, Lets add a "tr" for old times sake: tr '\t' '|' < FILE > NEWFILE Steve, You getting all of this? ;-) (be careful what you ask for...) We should have run this through the [EMAIL PROTECTED] group. Have fun, -- Rick L. Mantooth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give me ambiguity or give me something else. O

RE: Good Book for beginner?

1999-12-01 Thread John Vincent M. Catral
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Re: Good Book for beginner?

1999-12-01 Thread John P. Verel
At 01:32 PM 12/01/99 , you wrote: >What is a good book for a beginner of Red Hat Linux? "Running Linux", Welsh, Dalheimer and Kaufman, is my bible. If I could only own one Linux book (fat chance of THAT ;) , this would be it. FWIW, I also think that the new Red Hat documentation which comes wi

Re: How to change file name to uppercase

1999-12-01 Thread Iain Wade
> To use it to make names lowercase, type: > > ren 'y/A-Z/a-z/' [filename(s)] And to make names uppercase (as you actually wanted!) try; ren 'y/a-z/A-Z/' [filename(s)] Regards, -- Iain Wade - Optus Internet Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: How to change file name to uppercase

1999-12-01 Thread Iain Wade
Attached is a really nifty little perl script which lets you do bulk renames very easily. To use it to make names lowercase, type: ren 'y/A-Z/a-z/' [filename(s)] Regards, -- Iain Wade - Optus Internet Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Hanigan Family <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to change file name to uppercase

1999-12-01 Thread Rick L. Mantooth
At the risk of starting another scripting thread before we finish with the previous one...heh,heh.. (I was actually working on the tr version) (hack)@ricklman# cat `which upperall` #!/bin/sh for i in $* do echo "Moving $i to `echo $i | tr [a-z] [A-Z]`" mv $i `echo $i | tr [a-z] [A

Re: Need help can't connect to @home Network

1999-12-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fixed the routing table so it shows my default route but still can't get out. Any ideas? netstat -r gives me: 24.228.46.145 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth0 192.168.0.1* 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 eth1 24.228.46.0* 255.255.255.0U 0 0 0 eth0 192.168.0.0* 255.255.255.0

How to change file name to uppercase

1999-12-01 Thread Hanigan Family
Hi, Is there a quick way to rename files from lower to uppercase. I used kermit to download a bunch of files that were all uppercase names and it converted them to all lowercase. Thanks Linda -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subjec

RE: OT home wiring for 100baseT ethernet

1999-12-01 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 09:48 AM 12/2/99 +1300, you wrote: >Never heard of it being a problem before. What's your source on this? > >You could always invest in shielded LAN cabling, I suppose... or use coax >;->. > > >-- Juha > Unless you really know what you are doing, shielded CAT 5 will probably give you more probl

OT: Perl flexing (was: Re: script)

1999-12-01 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 02:18:37PM +1100, Iain Wade wrote: : #!/usr/bin/perl -pi : s/\t/|/g; Surely someone can beat 9 bytes.. Anyone? Anyone? Beuller? Wait! I can! #!/usr/bin/perl -pi.bak y/\t/|/; That's 8 bytes. :-P : all conversion is done inplace .. thanks to Charles Galpin for the id

rpms needed for c/c++ devel

1999-12-01 Thread Brent Holmes
Hi, I recently got access to a remote rh6.1 box. Unfortunately the development rpms where not installed at setup so I cant compile. Is there a list of all the rpms I would need to install? I guessed at a few but the configure scripts are still failing and I cant compile anything. Thanks Brent

Re: Send message to Win9x /WinNt

1999-12-01 Thread Iain Wade
> Is there a way I can send "Winpopup" message to Win9x or Winnt from Linux ? Ok, to try to be a little more helpfull than "man smbclient", here's my answer .. --- http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1998/08/14/903135572.html LinPopUp is a GTK port of Winpopup, running over Samba. It permits commun

Re: script

1999-12-01 Thread Rick L. Mantooth
Busted on all accounts! Hard crowd tonight ;-) On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Jason Costomiris wrote: > On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 08:38:35PM -0600, Rick L. Mantooth wrote: > : #!/bin/sh > : # tabs.awk > : # Usage: cat Some_File | tabs.awk > > You lose points for the spurious use of cat. :-) Double point lo

Problem with Number Nine Imagine I-128 video card in Redhat 6.1

1999-12-01 Thread Michael Hannon
Greetings. We've got a bunch of similarly configured Micron PC's, all with Hitachi CM801 monitors and Number Nine Imagine I-128 video cards. Until recently all of the systems were running Redhat 6.0, and the video was OK on all systems. In particular, X-windows worked fine in 1024x768 resol

Re: icon on desktop

1999-12-01 Thread Bill Jacobs
Thank you! And I have another question. Under Windows it is very easy to tell what file launches the program. Is there a particular file to look for with Linux? It's confusing to me cause you may have a gazillion files that say -rwxrwxrwx-, but which one do I use to launch the program? On Wed, 0

Re: Send message to Win9x /WinNt

1999-12-01 Thread J. Scott Kasten
The Samba suite can do that. Read the docs. On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 09:25:43AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Is there a way I can send "Winpopup" message to Win9x or Winnt from Linux ? > > > > Thk > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" > as t

Re: script

1999-12-01 Thread Iain Wade
> Not bad though.. :-) Try this on for size.. > > #!/usr/bin/perl > while(<>){s/\t/|/g;print;} > > Invoke this as: > > convert < infile > outfile #!/usr/bin/perl -pi s/\t/|/g; Invoke this as: tab2pipe filename.ext all conversion is done inplace .. thanks to Charles Galpin for the idea... -

Re: Need help can't connect to @home Network

1999-12-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you Palmer, I seems I am having trouble with my routing. Although I have my default gateway set and my routing enabled in linuxconf it doesn't show up with netstat -r Thanks, Steve Palmer C Byrne wrote: > > At 04:47 PM 12/1/99 -0500, Steve wrote: > >I am trying to set up my linux box to

Re: cron

1999-12-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
Adam Getchell wrote: > Running crontab -e, my file looks like: > > # run-parts > 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly/logcheck.sh > 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily > 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly > 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly When I run crontab -e I g

Re: Need help can't connect to @home Network

1999-12-01 Thread Jeff Corwin
One thing that I found necessary with @home is that your hostname must be the DNS name assigned to you by @home, usually "CC" followed by a bunch of numbers. See if that helps. Jeff "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am trying to set up my linux box to work with @home cable m

Re: script

1999-12-01 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 08:38:35PM -0600, Rick L. Mantooth wrote: : #!/bin/sh : # tabs.awk : # Usage: cat Some_File | tabs.awk You lose points for the spurious use of cat. :-) Double point loss for invoking bash, then awk on top of that, rather than just #!/usr/bin/awk -f {gsub("\t","|",$0);

Re: Good Book for beginner?

1999-12-01 Thread Marc Davis
"Paul M. Foster" wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Frank Rocco wrote: > > > Hello again, > > > > What is a good book for a beginner of Red Hat Linux? I want to progress to > > programming apps someday. > > > > Regards, > > Frank Rocco > > FWIW, I'd suggest "Running Linux" 3rd Edition by Matt Welsh

radius/portmaster 3 uhhg!

1999-12-01 Thread Jim Bija
So im looking to install radius on one of my lrh 6.1 servers. For one i am having a hard time finding the tar file that includes the shadow password version of radius. i did find one but it says nothing about shadow passwords which im using and need. anyone help me find this hard to find shadow r

Re: script

1999-12-01 Thread Rick L. Mantooth
Steve, Gotta see an awk in there too.. ;-) For the experienced user: #!/bin/sh # tabs.awk # Usage: cat Some_File | tabs.awk # or cat Some_File | tabs.awk > New_File awk '{gsub("\t","|",$0); print $0}' #end tabs.awk And for the inexperience users: #!/bin/sh # tabs.sh to change TABS to | (pipes)

Re: what RH-6.1 files to download to prepare ''local 'ftp-install' server''

1999-12-01 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 01:56:28AM -0700, Johnny wrote: : I haven't the slightest idea what files or directories to download. : Could someone give me some guidance on this? Everything under i386/RedHat/ should be enough, I believe. You'll also need the images that are in i386/images. : What is

Re: Send message to Win9x /WinNt

1999-12-01 Thread Tom Savage
man smbclient On 02-Dec-99 Charles Galpin wrote: > yes, with smbclient > > On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >> >> Is there a way I can send "Winpopup" message to Win9x or Winnt from Linux -- E-Mail: Tom Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 01-Dec

what RH-6.1 files to download to prepare ''local 'ftp-install' server''

1999-12-01 Thread Johnny
Hello all I want to create an ftp server on my 'masqueraded dialup/gateway' box... that will be 'available only to machines on my private network'... that will have all the Redhat 6.1 files/directories necessary for me to use to install RH-6.1 on 'other machines' on this network by FTP.

RE: OT home wiring for 100baseT Ethernet

1999-12-01 Thread Charles Galpin
rats. I should have checked with the list *before* I had them do it! On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Dan Browning wrote: > CAT5 UTP Ethernet:Category Five Unshielded Twisted Pair Ethernet cabling. > CAT5 STP Ethernet:Category Five Shielded Twisted Pair Ethernet cabling. > > STP is when you are worr

Re: OT home wiring for 100baseT ethernet

1999-12-01 Thread Charles Galpin
I have run two cat5 and two coax cables to each drop point. They are all home run to the basement where I will make a wiring closet, get a rack, patch panels etc. I'm hoping this will be flexible enought to support things like you suggest with the voice. :) feels like christmas already. thanks c

RE: OT Question on web email

1999-12-01 Thread Jeff Graves
www.atdot.org -Original Message- From: Adrian Walters [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 6:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:OT Question on web email does anyone know if there is a free web based email program and where i can find it? thanks.

RE: OT home wiring for 100baseT ethernet

1999-12-01 Thread Charles Galpin
I wish. You would not believe what that would cost to get done in this area (northern VA). Anyway, it'a already done. I'm going in tomorrow to run some additional cat5 and coax to my office, but I do like the suggestion below about putting sheilding at key points. thanks charles On Wed, 1 Dec 19

Re: script

1999-12-01 Thread Iain Wade
that's excellent .. thanks for mentioning it ... :) > just for the record, the -p switch prints every line (after the > processing) for you, so > > perl -pie 's/\t/|/g' FILENAME > > would do it ( and the -i says edit it in place if you so desire) > > charles Warm Regards, -- Iain Wade - Optu

Re: script

1999-12-01 Thread Charles Galpin
just for the record, the -p switch prints every line (after the processing) for you, so perl -pie 's/\t/|/g' FILENAME would do it ( and the -i says edit it in place if you so desire) charles On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Iain Wade wrote: > perl -ne 's/\t/|/g; print;' FILENAME > > - Original Messa

Re: OT Question on web email

1999-12-01 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 08:38:44PM -0500, Charles Galpin wrote: : Jason, are the double single quotes a bug or a feature :) Operator error.. I had the PHP magic quotes stuff turned on, which seems to do more harm than help... Now that I've turned it off, it works as expected.. --

Re: OT Question on web email

1999-12-01 Thread Charles Galpin
Jason, are the double single quotes a bug or a feature :) charles On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Jason Costomiris wrote: > Quoting Adrian Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > does anyone know if there is a free web based email > program and where i can > > > > find it? thanks. > > I''m writing this from w

Re: printing gone to hell?

1999-12-01 Thread Brian
look at the printer options for the driver, if fast text printing is turned on, try and turn it off. On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Willy Wittesaele wrote: > Hello , > > I have similar problems with a new RH 6.1 install. > > Here with : > printtool-3.41-2 > lpr-0.43-2 > > I can only start the print

Re: Send message to Win9x /WinNt

1999-12-01 Thread Steve Borho
On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 09:25:43AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Is there a way I can send "Winpopup" message to Win9x or Winnt from Linux ? It's a smbclient command line option... I can't remember it off the top of my head, check the man page. -- Steve Borho V

Re: Send message to Win9x /WinNt

1999-12-01 Thread Charles Galpin
yes, with smbclient On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Is there a way I can send "Winpopup" message to Win9x or Winnt from Linux ? > -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Send message to Win9x /WinNt

1999-12-01 Thread kceng
Is there a way I can send "Winpopup" message to Win9x or Winnt from Linux ? Thk -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: OT Question on web email

1999-12-01 Thread Jason Costomiris
Quoting Adrian Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > does anyone know if there is a free web based email program and where i can > > find it? thanks. I''m writing this from within IMP right now. I''m very happy with it.. http://web.horde.org/imp/ -- Jason Costomiris <><

Re: Sticky Bit?

1999-12-01 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 05:47:16PM -0600, Stephen Hargrove wrote: > >Okay, I've created a little problem on my system. I have a partition >that is shared among several different offices, so I set the >permissions as follows: > >chmod -R 1666 * Directories typically are 755.

Re: script

1999-12-01 Thread Steve Lee
thank you it worked. how can i put this into a file that i can execute by typeing conver if you don't mind. Thank You again. On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Hal Burgiss wrote: > On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 03:12:43PM -0800, Steve Lee wrote: > > can someone show me a quick > > script to insert | in place

Re: script

1999-12-01 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 03:12:43PM -0800, Steve Lee wrote: > can someone show me a quick > script to insert | in place of tabs > > for example: i have 40 lines with many columns > delimited by tabs that require it to be delimited > by | but in excel i can't do that. so > i would export the exce

Re: Good Book for beginner?

1999-12-01 Thread lloy0076
Books on Linux -- The Special Edition "Using Linux" by Macmillan - latest version ships with RH 6.0 publishers edition as well as Caldera OpenLinux - is really quite useful. Furthermore it describes another linux and although it may sound quite crazy being able to compare two linuxes

Re: Need help can't connect to @home Network

1999-12-01 Thread Palmer C Byrne
At 04:47 PM 12/1/99 -0500, Steve wrote: >I am trying to set up my linux box to work with @home cable modem. In CT >@ home uses static IP's. I have read the Cable-HOWTO but have not found >it helpful. I used linuxconf to set up eth0 and all info is correct. If using linuxconf: Host set up should

Re: Good Book for beginner?

1999-12-01 Thread Fallout
> What is a good book for a beginner of Red Hat Linux? I want to progress to > programming apps someday. I bought "Redhat 6 Unleashed". It's a beginner book with several sections on programming, incl. perl/python/shell scripts. I was going to return it, because I just wanted the section on sendm

RE: OT home wiring for 100baseT ethernet

1999-12-01 Thread Paul M. Foster
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am trying to find definitive information on the topic of wiring a house > > for a 100baseT network. I have concerns about the effects of the > > it at 90 degrees (rigth angles) > > I went to a home depot & got some flexible shielding (greenlee)

Re: OT home wiring for 100baseT ethernet

1999-12-01 Thread Dave Ihnat
Charles Galpin wrote: > I am trying to find definitive information on the topic of wiring a house > for a 100baseT network. I have concerns about the effects of the > electromagnetic field around standard house electrical wiring affecting my > network cabling. You've received some good advice.

Re: Good Book for beginner?

1999-12-01 Thread Paul M. Foster
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Frank Rocco wrote: > Hello again, > > What is a good book for a beginner of Red Hat Linux? I want to progress to > programming apps someday. > > Regards, > Frank Rocco > I've tested several books on my (Windows-user wife). The one she thought was the best was "Linux for

Sticky Bit?

1999-12-01 Thread Stephen Hargrove
Okay, I've created a little problem on my system.  I have a partition that is shared among several different offices, so I set the permissions as follows:   chmod -R 1666 *   This resulted in all of the directories and files having the following permissions:   drw-rw-rwT directoryname -rw-rw

Re: Need help deciding on which Linux Distribution

1999-12-01 Thread Paul M. Foster
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Frank Rocco wrote: > Hello, > > I might have asked this before, but having trouble deciding between Red Hat, > Caldera and Corel. > > Corel and Red Hat are about the same price. Caldera is about have the price. > > Since Corel is the newer release, is it a better choice o

OT Question on web email

1999-12-01 Thread Adrian Walters
does anyone know if there is a free web based email program and where i can find it? thanks. -Adrian __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Sticky bit (wasL RE: LOGIN program)

1999-12-01 Thread Paul M. Foster
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Charles Galpin wrote: > You are misreading the man page. The t switch uses swap, the s switch sets > the user or group ID on execution. > > I'm probably going to do a lousy job of explaining it, but I'll give it a > stab anyway. > > This is the heart of the user provate g

Re: Printing under RH 6.1

1999-12-01 Thread Paul M. Foster
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Valmir C. Barbosa wrote: > > However, printing with lpr -P lp does nothing! Help will be appreciated. > Try lpr -Plp Paul M. Foster -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: script

1999-12-01 Thread Steve Lee
please if you don't mind send me a copy. anything at this point will be of great help. Thanks . On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Jason Hirsch wrote: > I wrote a VB program (yes, I know) that you could use i currently > delmit tabs to a , - but i could easily add a window that lets you put > your characte

Re: script

1999-12-01 Thread Iain Wade
perl -ne 's/\t/|/g; print;' FILENAME - Original Message - From: Steve Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: RedHat Maillist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 10:12 AM Subject: script > can someone show me a quick > script to insert | in place of tabs > > for example: i have

Re: script

1999-12-01 Thread Jason Hirsch
I wrote a VB program (yes, I know) that you could use i currently delmit tabs to a , - but i could easily add a window that lets you put your character of choice in if you'd like. Let me know- Jason Hirsch -- Make it myself? But I'm a physical organic chemist! Visit the Dorm

ttloop: peer died message???

1999-12-01 Thread Frank Carreiro
Does anybody know what this message means? telnetd: ttloop: peer died: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character Found that in my /var/log/messages file today after I noticed the following in my secure log Dec 1 12:53:54 yoda in.telnetd [26572]: connect from 208.45.17.48 I've also not

script

1999-12-01 Thread Steve Lee
can someone show me a quick script to insert | in place of tabs for example: i have 40 lines with many columns delimited by tabs that require it to be delimited by | but in excel i can't do that. so i would export the excel file as a text delimited by tabs than would like a script to insert | i

ypserv - rpcinfo: RPC: Timed out

1999-12-01 Thread Larry Kelley
Hi NIS gurus, My first crack at using NIS is proving a little rocky. When I run "/usr/sbin/rpcinfo -u localhost ypserv", I get this: rpcinfo: RPC: Timed out program 14 version 1 is not available rpcinfo: RPC: Timed out program 14 version 2 is not available When I run "/usr/sbin/rpcinfo

Re: icon on desktop

1999-12-01 Thread Anthony E. Greene
Bill Jacobs wrote: [snip] > My question is how do I put an icon on my desktop for anything I > want a "shortcut" for? Mainly for Sun office 5.1 that came with RH6.1. [snip] It depends on the desktop you run. Both KDE and GNOME allow you to right-click to add a new icon. Under GNOME, select New->L

Re: printing gone to hell?

1999-12-01 Thread Jim Millick
Michael, > I just upgraded a client's machine from 5.2 to 6.1 and now > it doesn't print. I've *never had a problem with printing > failing on upgrade before!... > Anyway, when I send a job to lp, it goes into the queue, > but the system just sits there, acting like the printer > needs to come

Re: system clock 30 min fast after reboot

1999-12-01 Thread Alan Mead
At 12:18 AM 12/1/99 -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: >My system clock always reads 30 minutes fast after a reboot. I set my >system clock daily using rdate, followed by setclock to set the hardware >clock. I don't experience any significant time slippage when the system is >running normally. However,

RE: OT home wiring for 100baseT Ethernet

1999-12-01 Thread Dan Browning
CAT5 UTP Ethernet: Category Five Unshielded Twisted Pair Ethernet cabling. CAT5 STP Ethernet: Category Five Shielded Twisted Pair Ethernet cabling. STP is when you are worried about other signals interfering. UTP is for everything else, because it's cheaper. There are several qualities

Re: printing problem SOLVED!

1999-12-01 Thread Michael George
Oh, man, that was an easy solution. Just in case anyone else might have this type of problem, I'll tell what fixed it for me. I had also noticed that printtool wasn't working, so I moved my hand-modified /etc/printcap file into printcap.old and ran printtool. I had manually used the uniprint dr

RE: OT home wiring for 100baseT ethernet

1999-12-01 Thread Kenneth_W_Fox
> I am trying to find definitive information on the topic of wiring a house > for a 100baseT network. I have concerns about the effects of the > it at 90 degrees (rigth angles) I went to a home depot & got some flexible shielding (greenlee) and grounded that to the electrical panels for what eve

Re: newbie-Help setting up 2 nic's, 2 nets on 1 box

1999-12-01 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > address but how do I set up the private domain name or do I use the same > domain name as my internet domain? Any other help tips pointers would be > greatly appreciated. I'd like to get this working before the turn of the > century :) hope this m

RE: OT home wiring for 100baseT ethernet

1999-12-01 Thread Jeff Graves
Well, i wired my house for the 3 pcs and on room has cable, electricity, cat 5, and telephone all running through the same 1 inch hole in a beam in the ceilling. All of the connections are in the same box too. I haven't noticed any problems. Of course, not really using alot of bandwith either

Re: system clock 30 min fast after reboot

1999-12-01 Thread Yoink!
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > My system clock always reads 30 minutes fast after a reboot. I set my > system clock daily using rdate, followed by setclock to set the hardware > clock. I don't experience any significant time slippage when the system is > running normally. However, aft

RE: On a new install, use GNOME or KDE

1999-12-01 Thread Juha Saarinen
> Which is a better choice when installing Red Hat? > GNOME or KDE? You'll probably find that KDE 1.1.2 is more stable and provides all the functionality you want (even though the KDE terminal apps suck), whereas Enlightenment/GNOME is "niftier" with heaps of cool features, but it's less stable.

Need help can't connect to @home Network

1999-12-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am trying to set up my linux box to work with @home cable modem. In CT @ home uses static IP's. I have read the Cable-HOWTO but have not found it helpful. I used linuxconf to set up eth0 and all info is correct. Resolver Config is set to DNS required w/ both servers IP's Under routing and gate

Re: On a new install, use GNOME or KDE

1999-12-01 Thread Rob Saul
Frank Rocco wrote: > > Which is a better choice when installing Red Hat? > GNOME or KDE? If you have the disk space you could install both and see which _you_ like best. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

RE: Problem with setting up dual boot?

1999-12-01 Thread Jeff Graves
If you want to REALLY clear the mbr use this: Format a dos disk as a bootup diskette (use /s). Copy debug.exe (or .com, cant quite remember) to the disk Run debug and type these commands: F 9000:0 L 200 0 a Mov dx,9000 Mov es,dx Xor bx,bx Mov cx,0001 Mov dx,0080 Mov ax,0301 Int 13 Int 20 g If

Re: printing gone to hell?

1999-12-01 Thread Willy Wittesaele
Hello , I have similar problems with a new RH 6.1 install. Here with : printtool-3.41-2 lpr-0.43-2 I can only start the printing via the "control-panel" select the printer icon - select a printer & restart lpd. But when I reboot the machine - same problem again. Never had such problems with

Re: VMware (Was "Microsoft Linux? This is a JOKE?")

1999-12-01 Thread Zoki
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, T. S. Collins wrote: ->Zoki wrote: -> ->> It's the Mandrake 6.0 distrib which should be equal to RH6. Vmware doesn't ->> install on it because half way it complains about wrong version of make ->> (don't have the exact error message). At this point I was wondering if ->> ther

Re: VMware (Was "Microsoft Linux? This is a JOKE?")

1999-12-01 Thread Zoki
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Leonid Mamtchenkov wrote: ->Hello Zoki, -> ->Once you wrote about "VMware (Was "Microsoft Linux? This is a JOKE?")": ->> ->> Thanks to my NT Admin. who sabotaged the perfectly working Linux box I had ->> running at work by blocking it's access to the rest of the companies ->

RE: OT-->I'Net Cafe

1999-12-01 Thread Juha Saarinen
Are you sure that ADSL is the right alternative here? It's fine for people doing Web surfing and downloading stuff, but the upstream pipe is a lot narrower than the downstream one, so I don't know how good it is for serving stuff. You might be better off with a lower-bandwidth dedicated connection

htaccess zeroes out passwd file

1999-12-01 Thread Charles Galpin
All of a sudden htaccess is zeroing out the passwd file when changing it (or trying to create a new one). Without complaining at all. Anyone seen this before? thanks charles -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Auto starting Red Hat Login in GUI mode?

1999-12-01 Thread Joseph Wagner
Change the default Runlevel in Linuxconf to Level 5 You could also type "linux 5" at the LILO prompt for a one time boot-up into X only. - Original Message - From: "Frank Rocco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 1:35 PM Subject: Auto starting

RE: OT home wiring for 100baseT ethernet

1999-12-01 Thread Juha Saarinen
Never heard of it being a problem before. What's your source on this? You could always invest in shielded LAN cabling, I suppose... or use coax ;->. -- Juha > I am trying to find definitive information on the topic of wiring a house > for a 100baseT network. I have concerns about the effects o

Re: OT home wiring for 100baseT ethernet

1999-12-01 Thread J. Scott Kasten
Sounds like you're off to a good start. On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 01:57:26PM -0500, Charles Galpin wrote: > My current understanding is that you want to keep the cat5 12 or more > inches away from the electrical wiring, and if you have to cross wires, do > it at 90 degrees (rigth angles) -- J. Sc

Re: PANIC- passwd command not changing passwd

1999-12-01 Thread scott.list
actually, 4.2 had pam and shadow. And i'm not using shadow so the accounts don't have to be in /etc/shadow. The problem it turned out was and "*" or nothing in the password field. passwd won't change them. I made them nologin, then password worked again. Thanks for the stab at it anyway. Scot

Re: 2 IPs on 1 NIC and SSH

1999-12-01 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Todd Dunbebin wrote: > Anyone point me to a how to or something for putting two IPs on one > NIC Linuxconf should do that for you. If you want to do it manually, cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts cp ifcfg-eth0 ifcfg-eth0:0 Then use your favorite editor to modify the setting

Re: Auto starting Red Hat Login in GUI mode?

1999-12-01 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Frank Rocco wrote: > How can I set Red Hat at Boot time to present the GUI login instead of the > text base version? Similar to Caldera. If you're using 6.0 or 6.1, the easiest way is to just tell it to boot into graphical mode while you install it. After installation, you ca

printing gone to hell?

1999-12-01 Thread Michael George
Oh boy, I've really stepped in it this time. I just upgraded a client's machine from 5.2 to 6.1 and now it doesn't print. I've *never had a problem with printing failing on upgrade before!... Anyway, when I send a job to lp, it goes into the queue, but the system just sits there, acting like the

2 IPs on 1 NIC and SSH

1999-12-01 Thread Todd Dunbebin
Anyone point me to a how to or something for putting two IPs on one NIC and maybe to add a secondary gateway witha higher metric As well as point me to where I can get SSH and a readme for it. I've been looking for several days and hitting ded links and dead ends and then frustrated. Thanks, -

Re: PANIC- passwd command not changing passwd

1999-12-01 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, scott.list wrote: > I can change a password on an account created with linuxconf, but not > on accounts created with user script from 4.2 box. Seems you're trying to use tools that are not compatible with PAM and shadow passwords on a box that needs them (4.2 didn't have PAM,

Best AVI player

1999-12-01 Thread Brian
What is the best AVI player for Redhat 6.1? I have xanim, but I find it IMPOSSIBLE to find an rpm that has all the different CODECS bundled with it, so that I have an avi player that will play any avi. I would pay for a commercial player that could play well. Brian --

Re: Sendmail Timeout Question

1999-12-01 Thread Edward Marczak
on 29/11/99 11:35 PM, also sprach Edward Marczak: > on 29/11/99 5:30 PM, also sprach Duncan Hill: >> If it hiccups on the MAIL or RCPT, check DNS is my suggestion. Make >> sure hosts can reverse and forard lookup. > > Thanks for the tip. I am able to manually send mail from mail.example1.com

Re: wuftp Q

1999-12-01 Thread Brian
I posted how to do this a while back so its in the archives. Also their should be some howtos on how to do this, search for wuftpd and "chroot". Brian On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Jim Bija wrote: > I have a rather frsh lrh 6.1 install, with wuftpd installed. When i ftp in > it allows me to go out of

Re: Your Web Site

1999-12-01 Thread Chris Worth
:) I'm using Warp myself... And I'm learning this wonderful thing called Linux. ABW, is a good policy for people trying to get something useful accomplished. chris On Thu, 25 Nov 1999 09:19:44 +0100, Gustav Schaffter wrote: >No harm, Fred. :-) > >The Warped guys (used to be Warped myself,

RE: OT home wiring for 100baseT ethernet

1999-12-01 Thread Scott Skrogstad
Like a database server that would be accessed by several data entry people at one time. Things like that. Or very busy ecommerce server. What I mean by the same path is don't run the wires in the same holes or conduit. Also don't twist the CAT5 wire around the electrical wire this can caus

On a new install, use GNOME or KDE

1999-12-01 Thread Frank Rocco
Hello again, Which is a better choice when installing Red Hat? GNOME or KDE? Regards, Frank Rocco -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

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