Unidentified subject!

1999-12-16 Thread Siddhartha Jain
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RPM and shell or perl scripts

1999-12-16 Thread Greg W
Hi all Has anyone got some examples of scripts that can do RPM upgrades and installs ? I want to be able to take a local or possibly remote dir and install all RPMs or upgrade the ones that exist I don't want the whole script falling over if one RPM wont install, but to continue with the others

Web server

1999-12-16 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all people, Re Web server (RedHat 6.0), kindly advise how to enable: 1) Firewall 2) Mail forwarding coming with the distribution and how to check them whether they have been enabled. Thanks B.R. Stephen Liu -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Setting system time.

1999-12-16 Thread linuxdevil
Thank you all for your suggestions! It appears I'm not the only person who's had this problem. :) I'll try these out until I find one that works. Thanks again! Aaron -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: usr vsp cablemodem, linux, and vmware?

1999-12-16 Thread Wayne Dyer
Robert H. Merriman wrote: > Connect the ethernet card directly to the cable modem OR > if you are connecting a LAN be sure to use the uplink port > of the hub to connect the modem to the hub. If your hub > doesn't have an uplink port then use a cross over cable to > connect it to the modem to the

ppp to internet

1999-12-16 Thread Kerry Blalock
I am having a problem surfing the internet. I am running RH 6.0 and using netcfg to dail in to my provider. I can make the connection, but get a timeout sending Config-Request. Using lynx for broswing, I cannot reach any site using ULR name, however, I can reach other sites by using the IP number.

makeman #2

1999-12-16 Thread Dave Ihnat
Gentlefolks, Ok, after poking at makeman on Redhat 6.x, there are two gotchas; all the rest seem sane: 1. Make sure to force it to use ksh: "#!/bin/ksh" as line 1. 2. Ispell, which replaces 'spell', requires the input to be from stdin, at least if just invoked as 'spell'. So around line

Re: Starting X w/o Login??

1999-12-16 Thread Steve Borho
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 09:32:32PM -0500, Hal Burgiss wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 07:58:37PM -0500, Steve wrote: > > I would like to know where I can find info on how to start X w/o a > > login screen. I want to have a box boot w/o a keyboard or mouse and > > start X with a monitoring program

exceed 6.1 with linux 6.0

1999-12-16 Thread Kevin Williams
I am trying to use exceed 6.1 with linux 6.0   I can get the rtelnet to work, but not to rexec, and rsh, I would like to use exceed to run the xwindows an a 95/NT station for flexability of maintenance   anyone used exceed 6.1 or a similar product with linux 6.0?   I have used this product

telnet/ftp log time to connect problem

1999-12-16 Thread Kevin Williams
I have redhat linux 6.0, running Fvwm, (fresh install, started with re partitioning the harddrive)   computer is on the network with a ne2000 card   the station has no problems getting to the outside world, but when I sit at another station (95, NT) and telnet to the linux box, the telnet se

makeman addenda

1999-12-16 Thread Dave Ihnat
Gentlecritters, Several of you've requested the makeman script, and I've sent it out. One note: I haven't spent any time tuning it to the vagaries of the 'ksh' on Linux 6.x. One of the first things to do in generic--not my--environments is to add "#!/bin/ksh" as the first line of the script to

Re: Help setting up Modem (Compaq)

1999-12-16 Thread Joel West
Generally a Compaq modem is a flavour od LTWinmodem meaning you are probably out of luck. On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, David Moore Jr. wrote: > I have Linux 6.1 (RH) installed on a Compaq with a Compaq modem and cannot > get it to find the modem. In some settings it says the modem is busy. > > David R

HPT Ultra66 controller, SOLVED

1999-12-16 Thread Edward Schernau
Downloaded that kernel patch from ftp.kernel.org, patched it, recompiled, machine dies. If you append "pci=reverse" to LILO, it works fine, the stock PCI IDE controller becomes IDE2 and IDE3, while the ATA66 controller becomes IDE0 and IDE1. Not sure how to proceed, to see if it needs tweaking,

Re: Starting X w/o Login??

1999-12-16 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 07:58:37PM -0500, Steve wrote: > I would like to know where I can find info on how to start X w/o a > login screen. I want to have a box boot w/o a keyboard or mouse and > start X with a monitoring program on it and I am not sure how. If > some one could point me in the rig

Re: Epson ActionLaser printer

1999-12-16 Thread Robert Canary
I have a 1500, and I use the HP IIISi driver. Works great. hope this helps Michael George wrote: > I have a friend who has an Epson ActionLaser 1400 printer which he cannot get > working correctly with printtool and ghostscript. He's tried the HP LaserJet > 4 setting (which this printer claim

Problems starting X after upgrade

1999-12-16 Thread TAZ Gravel, Emmanuel
Title: Problems starting X after upgrade I've recently upgraded from RH5.1 to RH6.1 I had created users when in 5.1, and everything went like a charm. Upgrade to RH6.1, still no apparent problems. Create a few more users, none of them can start X.  There are no diff's in the passwd file that I

Re: Software for Internet radio broadcasts from Linux box?

1999-12-16 Thread Edward Dekkers
> What's out there for helping my friend use a Linux box (or any box I > suppose) to broadcast his music to the world? I see you've already gotten quite a few replies to this, but I thought I'd add that I had RealProducer and RealServer running live broadcasts from my 95 box succesfully quite a w

Starting X w/o Login??

1999-12-16 Thread Steve
I would like to know where I can find info on how to start X w/o a login screen. I want to have a box boot w/o a keyboard or mouse and start X with a monitoring program on it and I am not sure how. If some one could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. TIA Steve -- To unsubsc

RE: HPT Ultra-DMA 66 controller (triones)

1999-12-16 Thread Kirk Whiting
The driver from Promise is Beta and only for kernel 2.2.5-15 To quote the readme itself "ultra66.c was written to work only with Red hat Linux 6.0 kernel version 2.2.5-15. It will not work with the newer kernels. If you choose to compile under a different version (NOT RECCOMMENDED), delete ultra

Help setting up Modem (Compaq)

1999-12-16 Thread David Moore Jr.
I have Linux 6.1 (RH) installed on a Compaq with a Compaq modem and cannot get it to find the modem.  In some settings it says the modem is busy.   David Russell Moore Jr.**  You Wanted the best, You GOT the Best  http://www.chowchowbab

rescue disk for RH6.0

1999-12-16 Thread Todd Black
I'm trying to create a rescue disk for RH6.0 before I update the kernel. I used the command # mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0 2.2.5-15 It makes the disk without reporting any errors but when i try and boot from the disk I get the error as shown in the last line below. What changes do I have to do

putting an ext2 filesystem on a zipdrive

1999-12-16 Thread Hanigan Family
Hi all, I am trying to put a linux file system on a zip drive I delete current partition, create new linux partition than I write partition table to disk. Using fdisk or cfdisk both work fine. Next I try mke2fs /dev/hdb1 and I get I/O errors I thought this was the command to format the disk but a

Re: Turning off console screen saver???

1999-12-16 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 05:34:29PM -0500, Steve wrote: > How do you turn off the screen blanker on the console? 'setterm -blank 0', IIRC. See man page for setterm. -- Hal B [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Linux helps those who help themselves -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "

Re: Micro$oft virus;

1999-12-16 Thread Allen Bolderoff
> > I have RH6.0 and Win98 on my computer. I reinstalled Win98 and > > unfortunately its files raplaced lilo on the MBR. How can I > > get lilo back on the MBR and have it dual boot again? > > boot off the rescue disk, and run /sbin/lilo > You did make a rescue disk right? if not, use the bo

Re: makeman utility--anyone want it?

1999-12-16 Thread Dave Ihnat
Michael J. McGillick wrote: > Just curious, is it in rpm format? Nope. (He says cheerfully.) It's one shellscript, and one man page. Period. -- Dave Ihnat [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

RE: Software for Internet radio broadcasts from Linux box?

1999-12-16 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Shoutcast is available for Linux. -JMS -Original Message- From: Jerry Winegarden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 9:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Software for Internet radio broadcasts from Linux box? Friends sometimes make you stretch a bit in your

Turning off console screen saver???

1999-12-16 Thread Steve
How do you turn off the screen blanker on the console? Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

RE: can't start xfree86 3.3.5

1999-12-16 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Eh, um... wrong video server... -JMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hidong Kim Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 12:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: can't start xfree86 3.3.5 Hi, I just installed xfree86 3.3.5 v

Re: DNS Problem

1999-12-16 Thread Lee Smallbone
Hello ali, Thursday, December 16, 1999, 9:59:13 PM, you wrote: aj> This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "ali jinx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> aj> Be sure to reply to that address. aj> I am configuring a dns server (primary & secondary) on a RedHat Linux 6.1 box every thing is aj> working fin

RE: restart samba

1999-12-16 Thread rpjday
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Larry Kelley wrote: > /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb reload > or > /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart i'm sure most of you know this, but using "restart" doesn't work if that service is not already running (typically). instead, use the argument "start". rday -- To unsubscribe: mail [

Re: nfs trouble: getfh operation not permitted

1999-12-16 Thread linuxlists
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Romain Kang wrote: > You haven't said anything about the contents of /etc/exports. This > file regulates what the NFS server will do with client requests from > various locations. Minimal contents would be something like: > > / myclient > /home myclient I think I have

Re: makeman utility--anyone want it?

1999-12-16 Thread Joel West
I do ! I do! On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Dave Ihnat wrote: > Gentlefolk, > > Long ago, in a galaxy far away, I wrote a utility I script I called 'makeman'. > It walks you through the creation of an nroff/troff man page, with a lot of > tutorial help if desired. I dropped it into the public domain, bu

Password Synchronization

1999-12-16 Thread ali jinx
This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "ali jinx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Be sure to reply to that address. Hello, I'm working on a ISP setup. I have 4 servers running on RedHat Linux 6.1 ,each running different services. I want my users to change their password through telnet port on ser

Re: nfs trouble: getfh operation not permitted

1999-12-16 Thread Romain Kang
You haven't said anything about the contents of /etc/exports. This file regulates what the NFS server will do with client requests from various locations. Minimal contents would be something like: / myclient /home myclient For details, see the exports(5) man page. Romain Kang

NT - Linux integration

1999-12-16 Thread ali jinx
This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "ali jinx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Be sure to reply to that address. Hello, I'm running my network on redhat linux 6.1. I've all my servers running on linux except the mail server which is running on NT 4.0 server, i'm using my NT server for webmail,pop

DNS Problem

1999-12-16 Thread ali jinx
This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "ali jinx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Be sure to reply to that address. I am configuring a dns server (primary & secondary) on a RedHat Linux 6.1 box every thing is working fine but the problem is when i ping my domain which is "netzone.net.pk" it does not

RE: restart samba

1999-12-16 Thread Larry Kelley
/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb reload or /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart -- From: Erik[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 1:23 PM To: Redhat List Subject: restart samba Hi, Ok it is time for a dumb question. i had a major brain fart and I can not for the life of me remeb

Re: restart samba

1999-12-16 Thread Steven Hildreth
/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart - Original Message - From: "Erik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Redhat List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 3:22 PM Subject: restart samba > Hi, > > Ok it is time for a dumb question. i had a major brain fart and I can > not for the life

Re: makeman utility--anyone want it?

1999-12-16 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Just curious, is it in rpm format? On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Dave Ihnat wrote: > Gentlefolk, > > Long ago, in a galaxy far away, I wrote a utility I script I called 'makeman'. > It walks you through the creation of an nroff/troff man page, with a lot of > tutorial help if desired. I dropped it int

Re: restart samba

1999-12-16 Thread Michael J. McGillick
/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start :) On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Erik wrote: > Hi, > > Ok it is time for a dumb question. i had a major brain fart and I can > not for the life of me remeber how to restart samba. can someone point > out the command to me? > > TIA, > > -e > > > -- > To unsubscribe: m

Re: what does Redhat have against kppp?

1999-12-16 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Steve, I got in contact with one of the two developers maintaining kppp (Harri Porten) and he gave me the following response: "Delete the symbolic link /usr/bin/kppp, give the real binary suid root permissions (chmod u+s /usr/sbin/kppp and call this one directly. If /usr/sbin is not in your path

[Fwd: [Fwd: kppp requires root pw]] SOLVED!

1999-12-16 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Hi, I got in contact with one of the two developers maintaining kppp (Harri Porten) and he gave me the following response: "Delete the symbolic link /usr/bin/kppp, give the real binary suid root permissions (chmod u+s /usr/sbin/kppp and call this one directly. If /usr/sbin is not in your path yo

Re: makeman utility--anyone want it?

1999-12-16 Thread Chuck Mead
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Dave Ihnat said: DI>Gentlefolk, DI> DI>Long ago, in a galaxy far away, I wrote a utility I script I called 'makeman'. DI>It walks you through the creation of an nroff/troff man page, with a lot of DI>tutorial help if desired. I dropped it into the public domain, but never re

restart samba

1999-12-16 Thread Erik
Hi, Ok it is time for a dumb question. i had a major brain fart and I can not for the life of me remeber how to restart samba. can someone point out the command to me? TIA, -e -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

NFS performance problems

1999-12-16 Thread Romain Kang
Folks, We're using a central NFS server (a mutant SVR4.0+NFS3 variant) to keep multiple platform sources and we've historically been able to compile our source trees without a significant performance hit from NFS. However, we've recently been prone to errors in the vein of "RPC timeout", "connec

RE: someone is trying

1999-12-16 Thread Chris Morton
I think that [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the correct address, as I seem to recall sending spam complaints there and receiving acknowledgements. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 3:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: someo

Re: someone is trying

1999-12-16 Thread fherman
If [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't work, try [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd also try the username 'security' at the att domain. Fred -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: someone is trying

1999-12-16 Thread fherman
Jeff Smelser wrote: > > Today, as for the last few days, I have been trying to track this down. > Please help. > > Dec 16 13:27:38 c465357-a portsentry[8432]: attackalert: Connect from > host: 12.30.163.51/12.30.163.51 to UDP port: 137 > Dec 16 13:27:38 c465357-a portsentry[8432]: attackalert: H

Re: someone is trying

1999-12-16 Thread Yashodhan Barve
[whois.arin.net] AT&T ITS (NET-ATT) 101 Crawfords Corner Rd Holmdel, NJ 07733-3030 US Netname: ATT Netblock: 12.0.0.0 - 12.255.255.255 Maintainer: ATTW Coordinator: Kostick, Deirdre (DK71-ARIN) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (888)613-6330 Domain System inverse mapping p

someone is trying

1999-12-16 Thread Jeff Smelser
Today, as for the last few days, I have been trying to track this down. Please help. Dec 16 13:27:38 c465357-a portsentry[8432]: attackalert: Connect from host: 12.30.163.51/12.30.163.51 to UDP port: 137 Dec 16 13:27:38 c465357-a portsentry[8432]: attackalert: Host: 12.30.163.51 is already blocke

Re: makeman utility--anyone want it?

1999-12-16 Thread Steve Borho
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 02:01:37PM -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: > Gentlefolk, > > Long ago, in a galaxy far away, I wrote a utility I script I called 'makeman'. > It walks you through the creation of an nroff/troff man page, with a lot of > tutorial help if desired. I dropped it into the public doma

makeman utility--anyone want it?

1999-12-16 Thread Dave Ihnat
Gentlefolk, Long ago, in a galaxy far away, I wrote a utility I script I called 'makeman'. It walks you through the creation of an nroff/troff man page, with a lot of tutorial help if desired. I dropped it into the public domain, but never really pushed it out to the world at large, figuring tha

Re: can't start xfree86 3.3.5

1999-12-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What kind of video card do you have? -- Matt Galgoci Job title: export title=`dd if=/dev/random bs=24 count=1` echo $title On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Hidong Kim wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed xfree86 3.3.5 via rpms. I used xf86config to > configure. Everything seemed to go fi

[OT?] KDat, Arkeia, & st0

1999-12-16 Thread Larry Kelley
Hi everybody, I'm upgrading a server from NT4 to RedHat6.1 ;^) and am having some difficulty getting the DAT to work the way I want. Specifically, Arkeia can use /dev/st0 just fine and "mt ... status" gets a good answer, but KDat says there's no tape in the drive. (I've tried /dev/sg1, /dev/sg

RE: HPT Ultra-DMA 66 controller (triones)

1999-12-16 Thread Jeff Graves
Promise has a driver out now. You don't need to patch if you have a promise, just download the new driver. -Original Message- From: Kirk Whiting [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 1:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: HPT Ultra-DMA 66 controlle

nfs trouble: getfh operation not permitted

1999-12-16 Thread Nate Wadduops
I have two RH6 boxes and I'm trying to get them to mount each others filesystems. I've no problem getting them to mount each others root partitions, but I can't for the life of me get them to mount each others /home partitions. Both boxes have /home on a separate partition from the root partiti

Re: Incredibily usefull utility

1999-12-16 Thread Brian Anderson
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Steven Hildreth wrote: > Excellent utility and it is available in RPM format (yea I am lazy). I use that at home to watch who's doing what to my machine :) it's also nice because on occassion i'll start a big download from work, then go home and watch iptraf to see when it'

Linux and VLAN tagging (801.q)

1999-12-16 Thread Jason Scherbarth
Anybody out there know if any network drivers for Linux support VLAN tagging? thanks, js Jason Scherbarth Extreme Networks http://www.extremenetworks.com -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Usernames...

1999-12-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
Nicola Lamarca wrote: > how may I create a username longer than 8 chars under RH6.1 ? Are you having a problem doing so? I can add them with "adduser hi_this_username_is_long" :) Some GUI tools (which I don't use) may restrict you to 8 chars, since older versions of Linux (and other Un

Re: HPT Ultra-DMA 66 controller (triones)

1999-12-16 Thread Kirk Whiting
Go to this address and get the patch for the kernel your currently using. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ The IDE patch works great. Im using Kernel 2.2.13 patched with a SIIG ATA33 and a Promise ATA-66 with the on board controller. All works smoothly. As i recall there is a

sound config in 6.1

1999-12-16 Thread Daniel Goldin
No sound after install. I have, I believe, a Crystal PNP Audio System (CODEC), MPU-401 compatible. CS4232 Audio Device Driver Not only do I not have sound, but the system freezes frequently on reboot at this point. SCSI: 0 hosts SCSI: detected total I'm a non-prog

can't start xfree86 3.3.5

1999-12-16 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, I just installed xfree86 3.3.5 via rpms. I used xf86config to configure. Everything seemed to go fine. But then, when I did startx, I got the error: /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper: can't resolve symbol '__xstat' _X11TranSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno: = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection

Anyone get TN5250 to work in GNOME or KDE?

1999-12-16 Thread Frank Rocco
Hello, I cannot get TN5250 to function correctly. I can start a session, but the screen is not refreshed properly and the function keys are not working as well. Has anyone been sucessful? What are the settings? I have had no problems running in Open Linux 2.3. I would like to get my Red Hat 6.1

Incredibily usefull utility

1999-12-16 Thread Steven Hildreth
Hey, just thought I would leave a note about a utility that I found (probably most of you already know about it), called IPTraf. It is a Network IP traffic monitoring tool, that is console based and displays all traffic (either to a specific NIC or just all traffic), shows packet size, throughput

Re: Software for Internet radio broadcasts from Linux box?

1999-12-16 Thread Robert Burton
>Friends sometimes make you stretch a bit in your knowledge! >(We can't simply say "I don't know" to a friend, now can we? ;-) > >What's out there for helping my friend use a Linux box (or any box I >suppose) to broadcast his music to the world? > >TIA. > >***

Re: Huge Gnome

1999-12-16 Thread Elliot Lee
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Jyan-Min Fang wrote: > My experience with gnome (on redhat 6.0) was that it initially ran fine, > but after a few days, it felt really sluggish. I don't think the memory > usage was the culprit, since free showed I still had many free memory > available. I recalled some artic

Re: Core Problem from Gnome

1999-12-16 Thread Elliot Lee
On 16 Dec 1999 10:26:19 -0500, Jim Kannengieser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Often under Linux and other Unix clones, when an application crashes, it >"dumps core." Core is memory, and a core dump is a snapshot of what was in >memory for that application at the time of the crash. Application >deve

Re: Adobe Framemaker for Linux

1999-12-16 Thread Vidiot
>No, I am using the stock .Xdefaults I believe. I'm october >gnome/enlightenment. Since I am using OpenWindows/olvwm, I have no idea what is in the stock .Xdefaults file. It is the only place I can think of... wait, there is another file that Frame is hauling in/defaults, that might be a problem

mgetty AutoPPP

1999-12-16 Thread Davy
Hello, i'm using mgetty on a RedHat 6.1, when i connect with my dedicated login 'davyppp', it's all folk's, everything works correctly. On the same Linux box, i use the same modem to connect with my isp, and, with a test if /var/run/ppp0.pid is existing, i check my mail with a crontab, send my I

Standard Libraries

1999-12-16 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Morning Everyone: I apologize if this is supposed to be on another list. I went to go recompile the ImageMagick rpm from the source rpm on the 6.1 CD. I installed and was able to type: rpm -ba --target i686 ImageMagick.spec > results 2>&1 This shows me all of the stuff that normally scrol

Re: disks on chip

1999-12-16 Thread Alan Mead
I've never used them but they are discussed briefly on the LRP site here: http://www.linuxrouter.org --- Alan D. Mead / Research Scientist / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institute for Personality and Ability Testing 1801 Woodfield Dr / Savoy IL 61874 USA 217-352-4739 (v) / 217-352-9674 (f) -- To

HPT Ultra-DMA 66 controller (triones)

1999-12-16 Thread Edward Schernau
Any way to get this ATA-66 beast to run in Linux? I can boot the system from it, it loads the kernel, and promptly dies since it cant access the drive (panic, cannot mount root fs). I'm seeing some patches for 2.3.x, wondering what to do to get it running in 2.2.13. TIA, -- Edward Schernau

Re: Adobe Framemaker for Linux

1999-12-16 Thread Charles Galpin
No, I am using the stock .Xdefaults I believe. I'm october gnome/enlightenment. On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Vidiot wrote: > Charles responded: > > >Well, here are the warnings. > > > >Warning: Cannot convert string > >"-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--12-*-iso8859-1" to type FontSet > >Warning: Unable

RE: Adding a route

1999-12-16 Thread Wilde, Jeff
I'd probably read the man page again! I'm kidding: vi /etc/sysconfg/static-routes eth0 net 192.246.115.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 restart your networking in init.d -or- if you have linuxconf installed you need to add it through there that is a real easy way of doing it. or from command line r

RE: redhat-digest Digest V99 #1994

1999-12-16 Thread patrick
Hmpf... I have never run into this problem, but it sounds like you are using a RH-supplied KDE, are you not? I have always used kde tarballs supplied from a kde mirror - and I also, recently, compile my own and install it where I want it to go...all of it (I choose /usr/kde). I'm not sure what

disks on chip

1999-12-16 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi all! Has anybody used disks on chip on linux? Is there something special that must to be done to make linux detect them? I've heard that they are directly detected by BIOS as another IDE disk, so I assume it will be the same as with any disk, but as I'll have to install some in a month or so,

Re: Hoax? I'm sure it is.. what do you think?

1999-12-16 Thread J. Scott Kasten
A smurf attack would be doing something like sending ICMP echo to party A with party B's return address so A and B get zapped. A think's B is doing it, but B is actually the real target and doesn't know why they're getting all this junk comming from A. This however also chews up much of the atta

Re: Micro$oft virus;

1999-12-16 Thread Steve Borho
On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 01:51:02PM +0330, Maziar Mahzari wrote: > Hi; > I have RH6.0 and Win98 on my computer. I reinstalled Win98 and > unfortunately its files raplaced lilo on the MBR. How can I get lilo back > on the MBR and have it dual boot again? > I really appreciate any help in advance. B

Re: Adobe Framemaker for Linux

1999-12-16 Thread Vidiot
>I recieved these errors also, but since I'm running Red Hat 6.1 (which is >slightly less than stock right now), It core dumps right after I get these >font errors. > >It almost draws a splash screen :-) I haven't seen a response yet to indicate if any of these font definitions are in anyone's .

RE: Removing RedHat 6.0 Server

1999-12-16 Thread Chris Morton
fdisk /mbr -Original Message- From: Alan Mead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 10:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Removing RedHat 6.0 Server You need to over write the MBR with 'sys c: /mbr' (or is it 'fdisk c: /mbr'?). I don't kn

Re: Host IP address not recognised

1999-12-16 Thread John J. Donohue
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Nigel Trivass wrote: > recently connected my Redhat 5.2 machine to the internet. As I need to dial > into other sites I required a fixed IP address. I added the ISP details and > using PPP, I was able to connect to the internet fine. However since then, > my machine was acc

Re: Adobe Framemaker for Linux

1999-12-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I recieved these errors also, but since I'm running Red Hat 6.1 (which is slightly less than stock right now), It core dumps right after I get these font errors. It almost draws a splash screen :-) -- Matt Galgoci Job title: export title=`dd if=/dev/random bs=24 count=1` echo

RE: Removing RedHat 6.0 Server

1999-12-16 Thread Tom Savage
Get a dos boot disk with fdisk on it and issue a "fdisk -mbr" On 16-Dec-99 Howard Reeves wrote: > Hi! My name is Howard. I recently installed RedHat 6.0 on one of my servers > so that I could test it and become more familiar with it. I am now needing > to remove RedHat so that I can install Windo

Epson ActionLaser printer

1999-12-16 Thread Michael George
I have a friend who has an Epson ActionLaser 1400 printer which he cannot get working correctly with printtool and ghostscript. He's tried the HP LaserJet 4 setting (which this printer claims to emulate), but that doesn't work. I don't know for sure which version of GS he has, I'm checking that

Re: USR56k external - summary

1999-12-16 Thread Greg W
make sure the phone lines and local exchange are ok firstotherwise you will be swapping ISP's for nothing if they use x2 and your modem is kflex or v90, you should still get 33.6 , 56 k modems will perform worse than 28.8 or 33.6 if the line is not top notch (that does not mean its

RE: Core Problem from Gnome

1999-12-16 Thread Stephen_Reilly
start by using file or adb they should tell you what dumped, it's fine to delete the thing though if your not concerned what caused it... --steve > -- > From: Jim Kannengieser[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 16 December 1999 15:23 > To:

Re: Hoax? I'm sure it is.. what do you think?

1999-12-16 Thread Brian
Its sounds like you are describing a smurf attack, which has been around for a very long time. On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, M. Neidorff wrote: > At 04:07 PM 12/15/1999 -0500, you wrote: > > > >Ok, I have to say I've never seen this one in the typical Hoax "alerts" > >people pass around, I'm not sur

Re: rescue.img, where?

1999-12-16 Thread Avram Aumick
Thanks, I just retrieved it. Avram On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Avram Aumick wrote: > > > Where can I find the rescue.img for Redhat 6.1. It is not on the first CD. > > ftp://people.redhat.com/bero/rescue-6.1/rescue.img > > LLaP > bero > > -- >

Re: Real Audio question

1999-12-16 Thread Brian
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Darian wrote: > On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Brian wrote: > > With rvplayer-5.0-3 one would make a link in /usr/lib/netscape/plugins > > like so: > > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Aug 18 13:23 librvplayer.so -> >/usr/lib/Real/librvplayer.so > > > > > > In order to

RE: How to tell if you've been hacked?

1999-12-16 Thread Wilde, Jeff
Well your supposed to look at syslog! Actually, you should syslog to another server so they can't fix the logs either. -Original Message- From: Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 5:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to tell if you've been hacked?

Re: Removing RedHat 6.0 Server

1999-12-16 Thread Alan Mead
You need to over write the MBR with 'sys c: /mbr' (or is it 'fdisk c: /mbr'?). I don't know how much NT is going to like that, you may need to reinstall it. -Alan --- Alan D. Mead / Research Scientist / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institute for Personality and Ability Testing 1801 Woodfield Dr / Sav

Re: pine glitch?

1999-12-16 Thread Bill Carlson
On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Brian Anderson wrote: > On Wed, 15 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, all > > I seem to have a problem with using pine on redhat 5.1. After I read all > > the incoming mails, aren't they supposed to be saved in the mail.txt in > > the home directory? But now the mai

Re: Partitioning Advice

1999-12-16 Thread Alan Mead
At 12:45 AM 12/17/99 +1000, Tim Fairchild wrote: > >I made the mistake of making a single 256 meg swap partition rather than >two 128 meg partitions as planned - but then found that apparently the >new kernal handles larger swap files. Handy that :-) >= 2.2 apparently. I would say it's safer to

Re: rescue.img, where?

1999-12-16 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Avram Aumick wrote: > Where can I find the rescue.img for Redhat 6.1. It is not on the first CD. ftp://people.redhat.com/bero/rescue-6.1/rescue.img LLaP bero -- Nobody will ever need more than 640 kB RAM. -- Bill Gates, 1983 Windows 98 requires 16 MB RAM.

Removing RedHat 6.0 Server

1999-12-16 Thread Howard Reeves
Hi! My name is Howard. I recently installed RedHat 6.0 on one of my servers so that I could test it and become more familiar with it. I am now needing to remove RedHat so that I can install WindowsNT on this machine. I have used fdisk to delete all of the partitions during the WindowsNT setup, but

rescue.img, where?

1999-12-16 Thread Avram Aumick
Where can I find the rescue.img for Redhat 6.1. It is not on the first CD. I tried searching redhat's ftp site and could not find it. I just need to be pointed in the right direction. Thanks, Avram Failure is not an option. It comes b

Re: Core Problem from Gnome

1999-12-16 Thread Jim Kannengieser
Dennis, Often under Linux and other Unix clones, when an application crashes, it "dumps core." Core is memory, and a core dump is a snapshot of what was in memory for that application at the time of the crash. Application developers can use core dumps to help debug a program. It is probably useles

Re: Adobe Framemaker for Linux

1999-12-16 Thread Bill Carlson
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Vidiot wrote: > >What's the url? > > Go to the main adobe page. > Upper right side, there is a list, one of them is for freebies > Follow the FrameMaker link. > > It was not hard to find. > > But, the site is really tough to read because the idiots did everything in > size

Re: USR56k external - summary

1999-12-16 Thread Bruce Bauer
The problem has to do with the 56k standards. Your ISP probably has older K56Flex modems while you are using and X2 or V.90 modem. Try calling your ISP and see if they have a different phone number for your type of modem. That's what it took for me with Earthlink. > > Short summary: nothing w

Re: timeout on xterm's

1999-12-16 Thread J. Scott Kasten
That's not an RH default. The timeout would actually be with the shell that xterm is using. Sometimes a sysadmin would put a 10min idle timeout or something like that. However, if this is your own box, and you obviously have not set such a thing, then you have some other problem. Start looking

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