IP Masquerading with modem and DIALD

2000-01-05 Thread mwinder
I'm semi-new to Linux and I have been trying to setup my Linux box to do IP masquerading for my home network. Read quite a few howtos over the last few days. The two machines that I currently have configured can ping each other. The client box can see both the ethernet card and the statically a

Re: disaster -- messed up xconfig file -- blank screen now

2000-01-05 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Daniel Goldin wrote: > the "Screen" section to that number... well, it didn't work. On top of > that. My system automatically boots up X at start. So now, whenever I > go into Linux... black screen. Type 'linux single' at the lilo prompt, and rerun Xconfigurator. -- Todd A.

RE: How to have a caching nameserver with a local hosts file?

2000-01-05 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Juha Saarinen wrote: > This sounds like you want to do "split DNS" -- that is, have BIND > provide resolution for your internal LAN, as well as to the rest of > the world. It can be done with some difficulty, as BIND 8.x isn't > designed to handle this kind of situation. You b

Re: disaster -- messed up xconfig file -- blank screen now

2000-01-05 Thread Wayne Dyer
Daniel Goldin wrote: > Here's what I tried to do. Being an avid reader of this list-group, I > took the advice of some source to change my display to "1024x768" by > editing /etc/X11/XF86Config by hand and changing the mode subsection of > the "Screen" section to that number... well, it didn't w

Re: disaster -- messed up xconfig file -- blank screen now

2000-01-05 Thread Jeff Mings
If you have a Linux boot disk, use that. Otherwise, you could try telnetting into your machine across the network. Remember that you can use su -l to change from a regular user to root. Once you're in, edit /etc/inittab to start runlevel 3 by default. Look for something like id:5:initdefault a

disaster -- messed up xconfig file -- blank screen now

2000-01-05 Thread Daniel Goldin
Here's what I tried to do. Being an avid reader of this list-group, I took the advice of some source to change my display to "1024x768" by editing /etc/X11/XF86Config by hand and changing the mode subsection of the "Screen" section to that number... well, it didn't work. On top of that. My syste

RE: wireless lan pcmcia

2000-01-05 Thread Scott Skrogstad
I sell the Breezecom PCMCIA wireless cards and they say they will work with Linux. They are around that kind of money. Scott Skrogstad Computer Integration Inc -Original Message- From: Piet Barber [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 7:59 PM To: [EMAIL PR

wireless lan pcmcia

2000-01-05 Thread Piet Barber
I'm looking for a wireless LAN pcmcia card that: 1) Has good integration in Linux (i.e. not too hard for me to install, I have enough problems in my life already) 2) Is cheap, like not thousands of dollars. I think my spending limit is $300 per card. 3) Works in the US 4) Isn't bulky -- like

Re: Getting a copy of RedHat 4.2 / InterBase open-source release

2000-01-05 Thread fred smith
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 08:27:04AM -0800, Chris Beaumont wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone know where I can download a copy of the RedHat 4.2 install images? > (in other words, is there an archive somewhere of older RedHat > releases.) I need it for a project I'm working on, the plan is to > ins

Re: change finger information

2000-01-05 Thread MerlintheMage1
Thanks :) zach -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Brain Cramp

2000-01-05 Thread Carey F. Cox
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Michael J. McGillick wrote: > Evening: > > Pardon my memory loss, but does anyone remember how to verify the > integrity of an RPM? Also, what is the command to make sure that the RPMs > I have installed have not been modified and are still their original > files? > $ rpm

Re: kernel rpms

2000-01-05 Thread Adam Goucher
i dont think redhat makes development kernel rpms as they are, well, development kernels and people might see a rev level higher than they currently have, install them, and then cause negative press for redhat. not to mention the fact that userland utils (initscripts for one) need to be upgraded

Re: Brain Cramp

2000-01-05 Thread Steve Dixon
is it rpm -V? i think. "Michael J. McGillick" wrote: > > Evening: > > Pardon my memory loss, but does anyone remember how to verify the > integrity of an RPM? Also, what is the command to make sure that the RPMs > I have installed have not been modified and are still their original > files? >

Re: Brain Cramp

2000-01-05 Thread tom minchin
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 08:41:29PM -0500, Michael J. McGillick wrote: > Evening: > > Pardon my memory loss, but does anyone remember how to verify the > integrity of an RPM? Also, what is the command to make sure that the RPMs > I have installed have not been modified and are still their origina

Re: change finger information

2000-01-05 Thread Steve Borho
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 07:34:31PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the command to change a users finger information ? userinfo lets them change some stuff. The rest is done by editing ~/.plan and ~/.project -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-615-6349 Network Engineer C

Re: change finger information

2000-01-05 Thread tom minchin
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 07:34:31PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the command to change a users finger information ? > chfn [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Brain Cramp

2000-01-05 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Evening: Pardon my memory loss, but does anyone remember how to verify the integrity of an RPM? Also, what is the command to make sure that the RPMs I have installed have not been modified and are still their original files? Thanks. - Mike -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "uns

change finger information

2000-01-05 Thread MerlintheMage1
What is the command to change a users finger information ? thanks, zach -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

kernel rpms

2000-01-05 Thread jack wallen jr
anyone know of a location to get an rpm of the 2.3 kernel? Jack Wallen, Jr. Editor in Chief of Linux Content www.techrepublic.com -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

readline error?

2000-01-05 Thread Alan Mead
In certain programs (notably ftp [ftp-0.15-1] and ci [rcs-5.7-10]) on my RH 6.1 machine my backspace stops working as such: [amead@hera assess]$ ftp ftp.ipat.com Connected to conan.ipat.com. 220 conan.ipat.com FTP server (Version wu-2.5.0(1) Tue Jun 8 11:19:44 EDT 1999) ready. Name (ftp.ipat.com:

Patch: DVD and/or DVD+IDE updates (fwd)

2000-01-05 Thread Chuck Mead
This is from the kernel list. You guys have been talking about DVD's on Linux... right? -- Chuck Mead, CTO, MoonGroup Consulting, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key available at: wwwkeys.us.pgp.net 2:08am up 3 days, 21:37, 2 users, load average: 0.12, 0.22, 0.25

Re: working ppp on 5.1, not on 6.0 (??)

2000-01-05 Thread Alan Mead
At 05:29 PM 1/5/00 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >something amiss. When in xterm I should be able to start (it worked before >I goofed) network config. by typing netcfg at the prompt. It doesnt happen. >I get errors that have something todo with python. I'll include them here, >but I am gonna h

[OT] DVD reading (was Re: Misc hardware questions

2000-01-05 Thread Alan Mead
At 04:05 PM 1/5/00 -0700, Philippe Moutarlier wrote: > >May I ask : who has the write to read a DVD ? This is getting VERY confusing ! There's been a lot of press. I don't know the answer to your question, someone owns the rights to licence the DVD decryption technology and you would have to spe

RE: Two NICs? [Update][Solved!]

2000-01-05 Thread Ward William E PHDN
I don't know... it's really apparent on the card itself (it was put on with a Magic Marker at the factory, no less!) I guess you WILL have to look at the card. Bill Ward -Original Message- From: Hal Burgiss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 5:17 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: Reported Bind Exploits & Other Stuff

2000-01-05 Thread Yashodhan Barve
Hi Hossein, I am using the Bind P5 from Chuck Mead's site (server.moongroup.com) and not facing any problems. why not download the RPM"s chuck has built & give it a try and see if there is any difference? regards, Yashodhan Barve [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel- 780-412-6985 On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Hossein

working ppp on 5.1, not on 6.0 (??)

2000-01-05 Thread seansdad
Ok, I appreciate all that willpower out there, I realize now that I probably deserved the RTFM! reply to my previous post and I didnt get one ;) ..must be the new year. I did some reading and poking and was able to put my hostname and domainname back (hostname and domainname commands,, go fig

mouse wierdness under 6.0 and thanks.

2000-01-05 Thread Paul Crossman
I'd like to thank everyone for the huge response to my automated file transfer question from a couple of weeks ago. I didn't expect that many responses. Looks like I've stumbled onto a community of people who know what the Internet is about. Thanks again, very much. On to my latest issue... I

Re: Two NICs? [Update][Solved!]

2000-01-05 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 05:04:18PM -0500, Ward William E PHDN wrote: > As they said in a movie I saw last night on HBO "Learn it, live it, > love it". That applies to paying attention the hardware > compatibility list and looking closely at the Rev on the cards... > 3c905-TX Rev B is NOT compatib

Re: Multiple X sessions

2000-01-05 Thread Darian
> On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Gustav Schaffter wrote: > > > > > I'd like to run X as myself on tty7 and run X as a different user in > > > for instance tty8. > > > > Run: > > > > startx -- :1 > > > > where 1 can actually be any number other than whatever's already > > running. :) The following

Re: Misc hardware questions

2000-01-05 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
May I ask : who has the write to read a DVD ? This is getting VERY confusing ! I have a lasptop with a DVD. Obvioulsy some people were able to design software (under Windoze) to use it or they would not sell it (I do have one of those) . So : what is the deal here How did those guys get t

RE: Two NICs? [Update][Solved!]

2000-01-05 Thread Ward William E PHDN
As they said in a movie I saw last night on HBO "Learn it, live it, love it". That applies to paying attention the hardware compatibility list and looking closely at the Rev on the cards... 3c905-TX Rev B is NOT compatible with Linux. Unfortunately, only one of my cards ISN'T a Rev B, the other

Re: Bulk copy shell script

2000-01-05 Thread Chris Watt
At 04:30 PM 1/5/00 -0500, you wrote: >I would like to bulk copy a file to the same location in every users >directory. What would be the command for this? There are probably easier ways to do this, but off the top of my head I'd do it like this: Assuming you are using the standard arrangement f

Re: Misc hardware questions

2000-01-05 Thread Alan Mead
At 03:18 PM 1/5/00 -0600, Brian Hand wrote: >Maybe to clarify, I am not particularly interested in decrypting and hijacking >DVD discs. I just want a linux DVD player and be able to watch DVD movies on a >linux laptop. Can this be done and if so how? Yeah, we know. But in order to play the DVD

Bulk copy shell script

2000-01-05 Thread Kevin Diffily
I would like to bulk copy a file to the same location in every users directory. What would be the command for this? InterNetWorkingSolutions Your home for Business and Personal Computing Solutions http://webpageweav

Re: counting postscript pages

2000-01-05 Thread David Taylor
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. It appears that I can't determine the number of pages that postscript will consume without printing. I will have to settle for getting this information after printing. Thanks. -- David -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as t

Re: Misc hardware questions

2000-01-05 Thread Brian Hand
Maybe to clarify, I am not particularly interested in decrypting and hijacking DVD discs. I just want a linux DVD player and be able to watch DVD movies on a linux laptop. Can this be done and if so how? Brian "Patrick M. May" wrote: > Well, go over to Slashdot.org. I'm not really sure how w

Re: Getting a copy of RedHat 4.2 / InterBase open-source release

2000-01-05 Thread Alan Mead
At 02:53 PM 1/5/00 -0600, Alan Mead wrote: >ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/old-releases/i386/images I think I meant: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/old-releases/redhat-4.2/i386/images or possibly ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/old-releases/4.2/i386/images but the point is you can visit the RH ftp si

RE: How to have a caching nameserver with a local hosts file?

2000-01-05 Thread Juha Saarinen
%-> My problem is that I don't want to replicate the hosts file on all %-> machines, because things change, etc. I would like to have the caching %-> nameserver know about the local hosts file, but don't know how to set %-> it up. %-> %-> I've read about h2n being able to convert hosts files to t

Re: Getting a copy of RedHat 4.2 / InterBase open-source release

2000-01-05 Thread Alan Mead
At 08:27 AM 1/5/00 -0800, Chris Beaumont wrote: >Hello, > >Does anyone know where I can download a copy of the RedHat 4.2 install images? I don't know that this is a good idea But anyway you mean besides Red Hat? I see this question a lot and I'm pretty sure you can get relatively ancient c

Re: Multiple X sessions

2000-01-05 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Todd, Works fine. Thanks. Gustav "Todd A. Jacobs" wrote: > > On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Gustav Schaffter wrote: > > > I'd like to run X as myself on tty7 and run X as a different user in > > for instance tty8. > > Run: > > startx -- :1 > > where 1 can actually be any number other than wh

Re: RH6.1 lpd problem...

2000-01-05 Thread Dave Reed
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I'm new to the list here. Please forgive redundancy. I recently installed > RH6.1 on a new Athlon box. Trying to set up a remote printer seems to be a > problem. I did the exact same thing with a RH5.1 system on a laptop with no > problems. Any record of any lpd prob

SMP Athlons?

2000-01-05 Thread Steve Borho
Anyone using Linux on one of these new dual 700Mhz Athlon boxes? -- Steve Borho Voice: 314-615-6349 Network Engineer Celox Communications Corp Fortune of the day: Bilbo's First Law: You cannot count friends that are all packed up in barrels. -- To unsubscribe:

RH6.1 lpd problem...

2000-01-05 Thread richards
I'm new to the list here. Please forgive redundancy. I recently installed RH6.1 on a new Athlon box. Trying to set up a remote printer seems to be a problem. I did the exact same thing with a RH5.1 system on a laptop with no problems. Any record of any lpd problems? Or clues on debuggin this? The

CD-RW trouble

2000-01-05 Thread matt boex
howdy, i am having a problem with xcdroast. try to run and i get this error in /var/log/messages- kernel: (scsi0:0:3:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. kernel: hdb: media changed kernel: hdb: media changed modprobe: can't locate module block-major-22 modprobe: can't locate module blo

Re: Abit BP6 BIOS update = no SMP!

2000-01-05 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Sean Clarke wrote: > I run an abit bp6 with 2 400C's and have upgraded the bios to the latest > and have never expirenced any of the problems that you all seem to be > expirenceing. It contains a Fujitsu UDMA66 7200 10.2gig drive a Riva TNT2 > 32meg AGP video card 128megs

Re: Module loaded?

2000-01-05 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > Is there a way to see if a particular module has been loaded into the > running kernel? lsmod > > -- > Todd A. Jacobs > Network Systems Engineer Igmar -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: mail problem again!!

2000-01-05 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On 30 Dec 1999, Daniel Goldin wrote: > I don't know what's going on. I had it working for awhile.Now I get > this error... sometimes. The problem seems to be in the sender line. > > >>From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 12:43:55 -0800 (PST) > > >>|--

RE: RH 6.1 Firewall network problems

2000-01-05 Thread R. Kuijvenhoven
> Hello, > > I have been setting up a RH 6.1 firewall/router for a LAN (Novell) with 8 > (windoze) workstations. Configuring the first 5 workstations to use the > firewall went smoothly. I did not get the other three workstations > configured however. From the first workstation I can't ping the >

can't download ms word attachments

2000-01-05 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, I use netscape for e-mail. I can't download MS Word attachments. When I double-click on the attachment, I get an error box saying Sorry, couldn't open config file /usr/lib/mswordview/config-mswordview not a problem using internal defaults I've installed the mswordview rpm, but the aforeme

Re: How do I defragment a Linux drive?

2000-01-05 Thread Brooding Origami Dreams
{ somewhat off topic, for the file system curious } On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Gustav Schaffter wrote: > OTOH, OS/2 Warp uses HPFS, which was also said (by Microsoft !-) to keep > defragmentation low and shouldn't need any defragmentation. Experience > showed, though, that defragging an HPFS partitio

Re: How do I defragment a Linux drive?

2000-01-05 Thread Brooding Origami Dreams
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Alan Mead wrote: > >How do I defragment these partitions? > I didn't see any replies so I'll throw this in and someone can correct me > if I'm wrong: I've never seen a defrag for Linux and my understanding was > that ext2 didn't need it. I would hazard a guess that this mean

Re: [OT] Re: Speaking about Java and linux

2000-01-05 Thread Brad 'GreyBear' Davis
- Original Message - From: Charles Galpin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2000 6:17 PM Subject: [OT] Re: Speaking about Java and linux > > On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Brad 'GreyBear' Davis wrote: > > As for how to do DB connectivity I don't think you necess

Re: Found one Y2K issue in logs

2000-01-05 Thread Jim Cunning
Van: John Sellens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Aan: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Verzonden: dinsdag 4 januari 2000 16:29 Onderwerp: Re: flexfax: Found one Y2K issue in logs > I emptied out my etc/xferlog file which seemed to do the > trick for me ... > > > | From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan 4 06:48:49 2000 > | Da

OT Testing Hard Drives under Linux.

2000-01-05 Thread Manuel Camacho
I am buying some SCSI hard drives and I want to test them for performance and possible failures. Does anybody knows about some Linux software that maybe helpful for this purpose, or any procedure to follow to test the drives' reliability? TIA, -Manuel. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Setting up mail for virtual domain

2000-01-05 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
Hi Scott, Since you just asked about virtual domains I'm going to assume that you have the real domain for your machine set up with a fully qualified, resolvable domain. 1) Go to /etc/sendmail.cw and add the virtual domain(s) in: * # sendmail.cw - include all aliases fo

Re: Getting a copy of RedHat 4.2 / InterBase open-source release

2000-01-05 Thread Neil Hollow
I might, might have acopy of RH4.2 on CD-rom at home, if I have I'll email you them if you want. Excuse my ignorance you do seem to know a lot more than me but is'nt the point of filling your hd with libs backwards compatability? NH -- >From: Chris Beaumont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAI

How to copy a file with cyrillic name to vfat?

2000-01-05 Thread Oleg Okunev
Hello! The question is: how to copy a file with cyrillic letters in the name to a vfat disk? What happens is that when I have a file with the name in cyrillics on my vfat partition(s), created by W95, it is perfectly well visible in Linux; however, if I create a file with cyrillics in its name

Re: How do I defragment a Linux drive?

2000-01-05 Thread Eric Wood
Here's a ext2 defragmenter: http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/11/08/942118543.html Please try it out on you less critical partitions and let us know how it did! :) -Eric Wood -Original Message- From: Gustav Schaffter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:

Getting a copy of RedHat 4.2 / InterBase open-source release

2000-01-05 Thread Chris Beaumont
Hello, Does anyone know where I can download a copy of the RedHat 4.2 install images? (in other words, is there an archive somewhere of older RedHat releases.) I need it for a project I'm working on, the plan is to install it in a virtual machine running under VMware for Linux, and then insta

Re: working ppp on 5.1, not on 6.0 (??)

2000-01-05 Thread Neil Hollow
Dear T, I don't know whether this will help, but I've never bothered with any of the built in linux ppp connection ulities since I tried them but could never get them to work. I've used a small commandline program called eznet to connect. After compiling it (it comes as c code) and setting perm

Re: How do I defragment a Linux drive?

2000-01-05 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Alan, I won't argue with you on ext2. You probably know that a lot better than me. OTOH, OS/2 Warp uses HPFS, which was also said (by Microsoft !-) to keep defragmentation low and shouldn't need any defragmentation. Experience showed, though, that defragging an HPFS partition *could* make a diff

gpm problem?

2000-01-05 Thread Oleg Okunev
Hello! I see the following messages for several last versions of gpm: Jan 4 10:57:17 oleg gpm[349]: No data Jan 4 11:00:50 oleg last message repeated 4 times Jan 4 11:01:57 oleg last message repeated 3 times Jan 4 11:02:59 oleg last message repeated 3 times Jan 4 11:04:24 oleg last message

working ppp on 5.1, not on 6.0 (??)

2000-01-05 Thread seansdad
EXTREME NEWBIE ALERT *sigh* Running RH 5.1 and everything was fine.. on a whim I decided to upgrade to 6.0. After making a few changes with fdisk I got 6.0 installed and running with gnome/enlightenment. I used the modem cofig tool to point out my modem and then used n

Re: How do I defragment a Linux drive?

2000-01-05 Thread Alan Mead
At 01:18 PM 1/4/00 -0600, Joseph Wagner wrote: >How do I defragment these partitions? I didn't see any replies so I'll throw this in and someone can correct me if I'm wrong: I've never seen a defrag for Linux and my understanding was that ext2 didn't need it. I would hazard a guess that this m

Re: Project Sheduling software?

2000-01-05 Thread Alan Mead
At 06:42 PM 1/4/00 -0600, Steve Borho wrote: >Are any of you aware of any other Linux native solutions (similar in >features to MS-Project or FastTrack Schedule)? LinuxToday last night had a link to something called Xen but (1) it's apparently around alpha quality and (2) didn't look much like P

How to have a caching nameserver with a local hosts file?

2000-01-05 Thread Jonathan B. Bayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I have a home network set up, with one machine acting as a firewall/router/nameserver. This machine is connected 24/7 via a cable modem to the net, and is running RedHat 6.1. I have installed bind with the caching nameserver files. Each machine on my n

Re: External CDR

2000-01-05 Thread Paul Crossman
Richard Brown wrote: > I'm in the market for an external CD player that has recording > capabilty. Would someone recommend a make and model? > > TIA > Richard L Brown > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" > as the Subject. Buy a Yamaha SCSI model. They are, hands do

Re: External CDR

2000-01-05 Thread Chris Watt
At 08:47 AM 1/5/00 -0600, you wrote: >I'm in the market for an external CD player that has recording >capabilty. Would someone recommend a make and model? The nicest halfway reasonably priced drive I've used is the Plextor PlexWriter 8/4/32 model no. PX-W8432Ti. It is actually an internal drive,

S/W RAID in RH6.1 installer

2000-01-05 Thread Edward Schernau
Yeah, like it will actually work right. -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" a

External CDR

2000-01-05 Thread Richard Brown
I'm in the market for an external CD player that has recording capabilty. Would someone recommend a make and model? TIA Richard L Brown -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Tape parameters for dump

2000-01-05 Thread Bruce Kall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I went through this problem a while ago. Turns out that the DAT drives are > helical. This means that the *effective* length of the tape is calculated > based on the density of a helical stripe on the tape multiplied by the > number of stripes that fit on the tape. >

Re: Tape parameters for dump

2000-01-05 Thread Kenneth_W_Fox
I went through this problem a while ago. Turns out that the DAT drives are helical. This means that the *effective* length of the tape is calculated based on the density of a helical stripe on the tape multiplied by the number of stripes that fit on the tape. [What the hell is he talking about?]

Re: Tape parameters for dump

2000-01-05 Thread Steven W Orr
I went through this problem a while ago. Turns out that the DAT drives are helical. This means that the *effective* length of the tape is calculated based on the density of a helical stripe on the tape multiplied by the number of stripes that fit on the tape. [What the hell is he talking about?]

Re: scsi host emulation

2000-01-05 Thread lloy0076
ROFL I have the same problem. I made a horrid kludge: 1) I added the modprobe to /etc/rc.d/local 2) I just accepted the fact that it hijacked my other drive to There is a way to do it in conf.modules but I can never get that to work. DAVID -- The Linux C Mailing Lists Have Moved mailto:[

making boot disk on LS120 (with normal floppy) -warning its not as simple as it sounds!

2000-01-05 Thread Neil Hollow
I've recently added a second hard drive to my pc onto which I've installed RH6. On my pre-existing drive I have SUSE linux 5.1 which eventually I will trash. I booted to this from loadlin on my windoose partition. Suse (2.0.34) recognises my LS120 drive as hdc (not fd0) with some errors on boot

Re: Increase RAID

2000-01-05 Thread Cokey de Percin
Brian wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Cokey de Percin wrote: > > > Brian wrote: > > > > > > no > > > > > > On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Kevin Diffily wrote: > > > > > > > I have a current RAID Array (Level 0) that I would like to increase > > > > in size. Is it possible to add another disk non destructiv

RE: Software RAID

2000-01-05 Thread Chris Watt
>GW>I was under the impression that 6.0 supports RAID as well ... >GW> > >Maybe it does... I didn't try it then but... I never saw an install time option >for it with 6.0 and there is with 6.1. To clarify briefly. Linux kernels as-of version 2.1.something support software RAID, if you say yes

scsi host emulation

2000-01-05 Thread Nick Thompson
Hi, (RH6.0 Kernel 2.2.5-15) Santa brought me a Ricoh 7060A ATAPI CD-RW for Christmas :-) It worked straight away as a CD-ROM device using the ide-cd module as device /dev/hdc, but I'd like to use cdrecord and so I'm setting it up to be driven by ide-scsi. cdrecord now sees the drive as the secon

Re[2]: DNS Service Request

2000-01-05 Thread Perry Blalock
Hello JD, Tuesday, January 04, 2000, 9:13:46 AM, you wrote: J> Quoting Perry Blalock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> After 5 years of operation, I am about to shutdown my ISP biz, I just >> can't do it alone any longer. >> >> I haven't offered it up for sale to anyone, but if interested drop me a >> li

Re[2]: DNS Service Request

2000-01-05 Thread Perry Blalock
Hello Jamie, Monday, January 03, 2000, 8:23:14 PM, you wrote: JC> Were you enquiring about a service that just hosts a domain name? JC> If so, then you have to choices.. In both cases you must have the JC> domain name re-delegated to the DNS service provider. JC> There is a service out there

Re[2]: DNS Service Request

2000-01-05 Thread Perry Blalock
Hello Greg, Monday, January 03, 2000, 8:19:51 PM, you wrote: GW> That's too bad Perry..I do a similar thing here for years, and have GW> thought mant times of closing as there is no money in it unless you have GW> mucho buckaleros to throw around.. GW> There are multiple service provide

Re: Masquerading & FTP - SOLVED

2000-01-05 Thread Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)
On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 11:09:42AM -0600, Steve Borho wrote: > loadable kernel modules seem to be a requirement for ip masq. This may > change with the new 2.4 kernel, but I doubt it will boot any faster on > your 386 :^) Ok, of course you were right. I should've taken the IP Masquerading HOWT

Re: Adaptec ava-2906kit pci scsi controller?

2000-01-05 Thread Harold Weiss-Wallrath
Charles Galpin wrote: > > Is this supported? I don't see it listed ont he hardware compatability > howto. > > If not, can anyone suggest a nice (cheap) linux supported SCSI card to > drive a tape backup from. > > thanks > charles > > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs