STRANGE!!

2000-01-07 Thread Perry Blalock
Hello redhat-list, I've got I very strange problem and maybe someone can help me figure this out. I'm running the DNS MX record for mail.lakeimmunogenics.com . The DNS correctly resolves the name to the ip address with an nslookup, but.when I send e-mail to the lakeimmunogenics do

Re: dircolors question

2000-01-07 Thread Bob Taylor
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> , apache@t ellico.net writes: > > I have tried to get dircolors to work, but I can't seem to get the hang > of it. I like the colors, they make it easier to view a directory listing. > I have a major problme seeing the blue on a black screen though. This is > the

Re: remote printing still a problem

2000-01-07 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
you need to create a /etc/host.lpd on your printer server (ripley) in this file, you will list all machines allowed to print do a man lpd Philippe Hidong Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I'm completely unable to print over my network. I have three Linux > machines, ripley, we

can't download ms word attachments

2000-01-07 Thread Doug McGarrett
>From: Hidong Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: can't download ms word attachments >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hi, > >I use netscape for e-mail. I can't download MS Word attachments. When

Re: DHCP IP Assignments, Linux vs Win98

2000-01-07 Thread Lance A. Brown
Sam Bayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One thing that would be kind of interesting would be to monitor the > dhcp conversation with tcpdump to see what the difference is between > the linux and windows requests. Can you even run tcpdump BEFORE you > initialize a NIC? I'm glad you've brought thi

Kernel RPMS

2000-01-07 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Evening Folks: Anyone know of a good document or reference that talks about the way Red Hat has the kernel RPMS set up? I'm looking for something that explains the purpose of each RPM, and some instructions on how to build the "elusive" kernel-modules rpm. Any insight would be appreciated. - M

Re: DHCP IP Assignments, Linux vs Win98

2000-01-07 Thread Lance A. Brown
sparsi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the dhcp server will check assigned IP's over the network based on > the global period assigned on the server ( e.g. 3 days). If the IP ( > client ) is still there, it will renew the lease ( for another 3 > days, etc.). If the client IP is not connected, it

[OT] agp question...

2000-01-07 Thread MerlintheMage1
My computer shipped with a 2x agp card; could I replace it with a 4x agp card, or do I need a new mobo ? btw, does agp 2.0 = agp 4x ? Thanks, zach -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

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

2000-01-07 Thread Doug McGarrett
I won't quote the original message, but we all learned in DOS days to back up our files before modifying them. There's nothing new here. cp your file to a new (similar) name before you modify it. Then if your modification drives the system crazy, you can simply rename files and have the worki

Re: telnet and x windows

2000-01-07 Thread manux
Set up XDM man xdm etc >Hi, >First of all I want to thank everyone for the >help you have given me. I now have the >first two linux machines on my intranet >talking to each other. I can ftp to retrieve >files and telent to log on. However I tried >startx in a telenet session and it started >X on t

Re: telnet and x windows

2000-01-07 Thread Charles Galpin
Hi Linda on the machine you are running startx on, you need to change the DISPLAY environment variable first. Using bash: export DISPLAY=othermachine:0.0 it will then display on othermachine. I'm not sure what howto covers this. It's an X thing. hth charles On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Hanigan Family

Re: RH cron job order

2000-01-07 Thread Charles Galpin
It will be alphabetical I believe. The same or ls will return probably. try it from the command line for i in $1/*[^~,] ; do echo $i done On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Alan Mead wrote: > It looks to me like the order of cron job executions in RH 'run-parts' > directories depends how the files are rea

remote printing still a problem

2000-01-07 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, I'm completely unable to print over my network. I have three Linux machines, ripley, weaver, jonesy, running Red Hat 6.0. ripley has an Epson Stylus Color 800 printer. I can print fine from ripley. I configured remote printing on weaver and jonesy using printtool. But when I try to print

Re: 6.1

2000-01-07 Thread Manuel Camacho
On Tue, 04 Jan 2000, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > Is there a list for 6.1, or is it still the hedwig list? > > Glen Hi Glen! I am not running 6.1, but I remember reading mails about a Cartman list here. -Manuel. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

dircolors question

2000-01-07 Thread apache
I have tried to get dircolors to work, but I can't seem to get the hang of it. I like the colors, they make it easier to view a directory listing. I have a major problme seeing the blue on a black screen though. This is the default for directory listings. Can someone give me a pretty much st

Re: HELP! NFS Emergency!

2000-01-07 Thread Hidong Kim
Steve wrote: > > Ok, > I am new to NFS and have to get RH installed on a box by the end of the day or > my butt is cooked. I keep getting the following error: > > mount: RPC: program not registered > > nfsd is running > > /procs/filesystems > ext2 > nodev proc > iso9660 > nodev devpts

Re: Icon collection

2000-01-07 Thread Julian Thomas
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/07/00 at 10:31 PM, Gustav Schaffter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: >When I was still Warped, I was spoiled with many collections of OS/2 >formatted icon libraries to be found on the net. >Is there any collection of .png icons available? I'm still working both sides

RE: DHCP IP Assignments, Linux vs Win98

2000-01-07 Thread M. Smith
J. Scott Kasten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: >I'm not convinced that this etiology is totally correct, (although is >on the right track.) > >Smith didn't indicate whether it was an NT server offering the DHCP. >For argument's sake, I'll assume it is. The NT server keeps a hash >with your ma

Bad Memory ? System locks

2000-01-07 Thread Brian Schneider
I was getting a sig 11 error and was told that bad memory may be the cause. I ordered in a couple new simms and replaced the memory and now my system locks up when X loads. Any ideas? TIA -- In the world of PC's. Ken Grif

Re: HELP! NFS Emergency!

2000-01-07 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Steve wrote: > mount: RPC: program not registered Are you running portmapper? That needs to be enabled to run RPC stuff. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: IP Masquerading with modem and DIALD

2000-01-07 Thread mwinder
Gordon, Thank you for emailing me about this mess.Last night I compiled the 2.2.14 kernel with all of the same options and it is now working like a charm. Quite strange, no? Take care! On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Mary-Jo~ > > There seems to be a number of entries missi

stoping magicdev or whatever it is

2000-01-07 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
which is scanning my dcrom drive and complains if I put a dvd rom instead (only when running gnome, though !). Somebody told me to uninstall magicdev or might it be gmc ?? BTW, how can I configure gnome not to run gmc ?? Philippe -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscri

Re: strange entries in /var/log/messages

2000-01-07 Thread Dave Reed
> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 11:19:38 -0800 (PST) > From: "Adv. Systems Design" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I keep getting these in /var/log/messages and can't > figure out whats causing it (3 every hour, every day) > > Jan 7 11:15:58 mecha -- MARK -- > Jan 7 11:35:58 mecha -- MARK -- > Jan 7 11:55:58

Re: SoundBlaste Live OSS drivers

2000-01-07 Thread Steve Borho
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:51:50AM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > If you're interested, I've got rpms of kernel 2.2.14, with reiserfs, > ntfs, and USB support on > ftp://ftp.duke.eburg.com/pub/linux/redhat-6.x-mycontrib/ or ftp://duke.eburg.com/pub/linux/redhat-6.x-mycontrib Muchas gracias, btw.

Re: SMP Athlons?

2000-01-07 Thread Steve Borho
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:47:49AM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Steve Borho wrote: > > > > Anyone using Linux on one of these new dual 700Mhz Athlon boxes? > > What new dual Athlon boxes? I've been waiting for smp athlons since > before the K6-2 was released :) My confusion, sorry. If/when

Re: AdvFS for Linux?

2000-01-07 Thread Steve Borho
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 01:37:48PM -0600, Chris Radi wrote: > I've been doing a lot of work with Tru64 (which will always be DEC Unix to > me) and I've learned to love the Advanced File System (AdvFS). Since AdvFS > was developed by PolyCenter, I was wondering if anyone had heard of it being > po

Re: strange entries in /var/log/messages

2000-01-07 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:19:38AM -0800, Adv. Systems Design wrote: > I keep getting these in /var/log/messages and can't > figure out whats causing it (3 every hour, every day) > > Jan 7 11:15:58 mecha -- MARK -- > Jan 7 11:35:58 mecha -- MARK -- > Jan 7 11:55:58 mecha -- MARK -- > Jan 7 12

RE: strange entries in /var/log/messages

2000-01-07 Thread Frank Carreiro
Your system is telling you "nothing has happened for a log entry but I'm gonna let you know I'm still working". We'll, that's basically what it is saying. And 3 every hour is normal. Don't remember what daemon / service is doing this. We were concerned too when we first noticed these :D Frank

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

2000-01-07 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 09:32:39AM -0800, Patrick M. May wrote: : think the studios are more worried about is the mass production of illegal : copies. And encryption won't tackle that. You can do (so I've been told) a : bit for bit copy with the right hardware (~US$5,000-10,000?) much like make :

telnet and x windows

2000-01-07 Thread Hanigan Family
Hi, First of all I want to thank everyone for the help you have given me. I now have the first two linux machines on my intranet talking to each other. I can ftp to retrieve files and telent to log on. However I tried startx in a telenet session and it started X on the wrong machine. How do I use

Re: can't download ms word attachments

2000-01-07 Thread Anthony E. Greene
Hidong Kim wrote: > 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 mswo

Re: strange entries in /var/log/messages

2000-01-07 Thread Jeff Hogg
-Original Message- From: Adv. Systems Design <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, January 07, 2000 4:08 PM Subject: strange entries in /var/log/messages >I keep getting these in /var/log/messages and can't >figure out whats causing it (3 every hour

Icon collection

2000-01-07 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Hi, When I was still Warped, I was spoiled with many collections of OS/2 formatted icon libraries to be found on the net. Is there any collection of .png icons available? Regards Gustav -- pgp = Pretty Good Privacy. To get my public pgp key, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit my web

Re: DHCP IP Assignments, Linux vs Win98

2000-01-07 Thread Sam Bayne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > the dhcp server will check assigned IP's over the network based on the > global period assigned on the server ( e.g. 3 days). If the IP ( client ) > is still there, it will renew the lease ( for another 3 days, etc.). If > the client IP is not connected, it will mark

RH cron job order

2000-01-07 Thread Alan Mead
It looks to me like the order of cron job executions in RH 'run-parts' directories depends how the files are read: for i in $1/*[^~,] ; do [ -d $i ] && continue ... if [ -x $i ]; then $i fi done How is this order determined and can I manipulate it?

Re: SoundBlaste Live OSS drivers

2000-01-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
KiwiHawk wrote: > I have been told there are some better OSS drivers out there for the > SoundBlaster Live > card than the ones Creative have released can somebody please comment or > point me to > them ? http://opensource.creative.com If you're interested, I've got rpms of kernel 2.2.14, with r

Re: SMP Athlons?

2000-01-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
Steve Borho wrote: > > Anyone using Linux on one of these new dual 700Mhz Athlon boxes? What new dual Athlon boxes? I've been waiting for smp athlons since before the K6-2 was released :) I attended a computer exposition at UW a couple of years ago, and bore witness to AMD's plans for their fu

HELP! NFS Emergency!

2000-01-07 Thread Steve
Ok, I am new to NFS and have to get RH installed on a box by the end of the day or my butt is cooked. I keep getting the following error: mount: RPC: program not registered nfsd is running /procs/filesystems ext2 nodev proc iso9660 nodev devpts nodev nfs TIA Steve -- Steve Gu

Re: scsi host emulation

2000-01-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
Nick Thompson wrote: > 1) I have to manually load ide-scsi (modprobe ide-scsi). How can I make > this happen on demand or at startup? I don't know about on demand. I had to put "modprobe ide-scsi" in my friends rc.local to get his to work. > 2) An unexpected (by me :) side effect is that my ATA

AdvFS for Linux?

2000-01-07 Thread Chris Radi
I've been doing a lot of work with Tru64 (which will always be DEC Unix to me) and I've learned to love the Advanced File System (AdvFS). Since AdvFS was developed by PolyCenter, I was wondering if anyone had heard of it being ported to Linux. Chris Radi =

PostScript font conversion

2000-01-07 Thread Vidiot
Does anyone know of a Linux program that will convert PostScript.PFB and PostScript.PFM files into Type 1 PostScript.PFA and PostScript.AFM files. It appears that the 4.1 version of Fontographer converts PFB into Type 3 PFA files and they will not work with Linux FrameMaker or the printer. MB --

Re: IP Masquerading with modem and DIALD

2000-01-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
Mary-Jo~ There seems to be a number of entries missing from your kernel config. I suggest that you run "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig". Check the network options section for the masq modules. Make sure these are being built as modules, and recompile. Alternatively, you could use one of Re

strange entries in /var/log/messages

2000-01-07 Thread Adv. Systems Design
I keep getting these in /var/log/messages and can't figure out whats causing it (3 every hour, every day) Jan 7 11:15:58 mecha -- MARK -- Jan 7 11:35:58 mecha -- MARK -- Jan 7 11:55:58 mecha -- MARK -- Jan 7 12:15:58 mecha -- MARK -- Jan 7 12:35:58 mecha -- MARK -- Jan 7 12:55:58 mecha -- M

Re: port forwarding, etc

2000-01-07 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
ipmasqadm Philippe Kurt Brust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have Rinetd setup , and it works good, however, it does not allow port > forwarding to FTP anyone know of any good port forwarding type programs? > > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" > as th

port forwarding, etc

2000-01-07 Thread Kurt Brust
I have Rinetd setup , and it works good, however, it does not allow port forwarding to FTP anyone know of any good port forwarding type programs? -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

ISDN Multi-link PPP and Courier-I modem

2000-01-07 Thread Richard
I have an ISDN line and am about to purchase a 3-com Courier-I modem. How do I get ppp (Linux 2.2.14 - RedHat 6.1) to use both b-channels, I think this is Multi-link PPP. Is it just a matter of sending some AT commands in my pre-connection chat script or do I need a special version of ppp? Ric

Re: Add swap space

2000-01-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 05:52 PM 1/7/00 +0100, Martin Alge wrote: >Hi, >How can I add swap space form a new disk to the existing swap partition? > >What are the necessary steps? > Mark the partition as swap. (For this example, I will use /dev/hdb5 as the new swap partition. Change to match your actual partition.) /sb

PPP howto? and REDHAT 6.2

2000-01-07 Thread Zaigui Wang
This is two questions combined. Sorry. The PPP howto available on the net is way too old. It talks about redhat 4.0 and PPP 2.2. Is there a new version somewhere? When is REDHAT 6.2 due out? I think it is time to upgrade my redhat 5.2. Thanks. -- | Zaigui Wang | | www.cs.siu.

Re: Add swap space

2000-01-07 Thread Rick Forrester
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > How can I add swap space form a new disk to the existing swap > partition? > What are the necessary steps? 1. On the new drive create a partition of the desired size and set the type to 82 (Linux swap). 2. Execute "mkswap ". 3. Edit the file /etc/fstab, and l

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

2000-01-07 Thread Patrick M. May
The thing with DVD-RAM is that it doesn't have the same capacity as a normal DVD (which have two layers on each side which brings the total storage into double digit GB IIRC). Plus DVD-RAM have to be played in a DVD-RAM drive. They are incased in a hard plastic...think of a DVD inside of 3-1/2" fl

Re: Setting up internet connection: can't find name server!

2000-01-07 Thread Hidong Kim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all, > > Been away some time (upgraded hardware was not compatible with older > Linux, finally upgraded yesterday to RH6.1). I've forgotten a lot! > Tried to setup my internet connection. Using the RH Dialup Wizard and > the Control Pane

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

2000-01-07 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
I tried to install this (I have got the decss also) but I am puzzled here. It looks like we need the udf filesystem, right ?? now, trying to install udf, it scream all over looking for a global named "event" that is nowhere to be found . Could you explain to me what I am supposed to do to u

Add swap space

2000-01-07 Thread Martin Alge
Hi, How can I add swap space form a new disk to the existing swap partition? What are the necessary steps? -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

SoundBlaste Live OSS drivers

2000-01-07 Thread KiwiHawk
Hi I have been told there are some better OSS drivers out there for the SoundBlaster Live card than the ones Creative have released can somebody please comment or point me to them ? Cheers Pete -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

SoundBlaste Live OSS drivers

2000-01-07 Thread KiwiHawk
Hi I have been told there are some better OSS drivers out there for the SoundBlaster Live card than the ones Creative have released can somebody please comment or point me to them ? Cheers Pete -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: viewing of /var/logs

2000-01-07 Thread Steve Borho
On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 11:08:08PM -0500, Charles Galpin wrote: > and what's really nice is if you do a search for something, it highlights > the matches. Then when in follow mode, if a match scrolls by, it still > keeps highlighting! > > On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, fred smith wrote: > > > > I just keep

RE: Problems reading mail from IMAP clients

2000-01-07 Thread Reiner Buehl
Have you tried to look on the mails using pine through IMAP? If the mails still look alright then I would suggest that you found a bug in the IMAP implementation of the Eudora-beta version. Regards, Reiner Buehl. > -Original Message- > From: Andrew Rittner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >

Problems reading mail from IMAP clients

2000-01-07 Thread Andrew Rittner
Hello! I'm finally on the verge of replacing my aging Novell fileserver with a brand new Linux server. One of the things that's been plaguing me has been how I'm going to do the mail. Currently, my department runs Pegasus mail through Mercury, on the Novell box, and all the mail files are kept

Re: Setting up internet connection: can't find name server!

2000-01-07 Thread Neil Hollow
Try eznet. Its easy and it certainly worked for me RH5.2. NH http://www.eda.bg/Linux/docs/howto/eznet.html -- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Setting up internet connection: can't find name server! >Date: Fri, Jan 7, 2000, 4:47 pm > > Hi all, > >

Setting up internet connection: can't find name server!

2000-01-07 Thread kelch
Hi all, Been away some time (upgraded hardware was not compatible with older Linux, finally upgraded yesterday to RH6.1). I've forgotten a lot! Tried to setup my internet connection. Using the RH Dialup Wizard and the Control Panel network settings I was able t

Re: RAID and new kernels

2000-01-07 Thread Chris Watt
At 10:13 AM 1/7/00 -0500, you wrote: >boot. However, I tend to like to run my own rolled kernels. Will >compiling a new kernel from source stop RAID from working? Only if you disable RAID when you're configuring your kernel. I'm using RAID-0 with kernel 2.2.12 patched with e2compr one one mach

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

2000-01-07 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 09:07:14PM -0700, Philippe Moutarlier wrote: : : Excuse my ignorance : what are those patches supposed to do exactly ? : : I am running a compaq presario + dvd with rh 6.1 , kernel 2.2.13 and I don't :experience : any trouble with the dvd used as a cdrom. Obviouly I can

RE: Deleted /var directory

2000-01-07 Thread Ward William E PHDN
If all he did was install the new drive as /var, then all he should need to do would be to unmount the new drive, rename the location it mounts to, and remount it. /var would then only be hidden, not actually deleted. Bill Ward -Original Message- From: Bill Carlson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: DHCP IP Assignments, Linux vs Win98

2000-01-07 Thread J. Scott Kasten
I'm not convinced that this etiology is totally correct, (although is on the right track.) Smith didn't indicate whether it was an NT server offering the DHCP. For argument's sake, I'll assume it is. The NT server keeps a hash with your mac and assigned address. Even if you request a new lease,

RAID and new kernels

2000-01-07 Thread Duncan Hill
I'm thinking of upgrading to RH 6.x, and using the RAID feature of the boot. However, I tend to like to run my own rolled kernels. Will compiling a new kernel from source stop RAID from working? Thanks. -- Duncan Hill Sapere aude One net to rule them all, One net to find

Re: DHCP IP Assignments, Linux vs Win98

2000-01-07 Thread sparsi
the dhcp server will check assigned IP's over the network based on the global period assigned on the server ( e.g. 3 days). If the IP ( client ) is still there, it will renew the lease ( for another 3 days, etc.). If the client IP is not connected, it will mark that IP address as available, and

Re: DHCP IP Assignments, Linux vs Win98

2000-01-07 Thread sparsi
The disadvantage ( of win9x client saving the dhcp supplied IP ) is when there is trouble on the dhcp server ( I have seen this on NT server) or network, that you have to somehow clear the IP address from the win9x client so it can get a new IP, but because it tries to renew the same address ( w

Processor overcycling

2000-01-07 Thread Adv. Systems Design
I have an AMD K62 w32mb RAM...recently upgraded to RH6.0 and I am noticing that I'm having trouble telneting into the machine. I discovered that the CPU is being cycled to death by some UNKNOWN process that I can't find, and which gets backgrounded? when I look under TOP. TOP indicates initially t

RAID1 boot question

2000-01-07 Thread A. Gent
This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "A. Gent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Be sure to reply to that address. First, thank you for everyone who sent me suggestions regarding 'multiple IDE cards'. I've installed RedHat 6.1 as root raid1 on two hard disks (hda and hdc). Each has separate /boot pa

Re: RH6.1 lpd problem...

2000-01-07 Thread richards
On 6 Jan, Joe Brenner wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Also, RH6.1 did not detect my parallel port. so something >> is screwed up with the parport package as well. A fix is >> to set the alias: >>alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc >> in /etc/conf.modules, as given by a bug report

Re: Deleted /var directory

2000-01-07 Thread Bill Carlson
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Martin Alge wrote: > Hi, > unfortunately I deleted the /var directory by adding a new > drive to my > Red Hat Server. > I have no back up. > Does the system start up without the /var directory? > How can I reinstall all the stuff that has been in the /var > directory? > Thank

RE: NOT FIXED : sendmail puts my machine name as part of the dom

2000-01-07 Thread John Horne
On 06-Jan-00 at 23:24:28 Philippe Moutarlier wrote: > BTW : is there any easier mail senders than sendmail out there ? > I've had no problems with exim. (http://www.exim.org version 3.12) John. -- John Horne, University of

Re: DHCP IP Assignments, Linux vs Win98

2000-01-07 Thread Larry Mintz
On 07-Jan-00 Hossein S. Zadeh wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, M. Smith wrote: > >> Over the past two months or so, I've been experimenting with Linux RH >> 6.0 as a gateway/firewall machine. I permanently switched to the Linux >> firewall about a week ago. One thing I've noticed during >> experimen

Re: Trying to install 5.2 on an 18gb disk

2000-01-07 Thread Paul Crossman
Rick Forrester wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > I am having major problems installing 5.2 on an 18GB EIDE disk. > > I have downloaded and created the latest 5.2 install image (boot.img) > > from Dec 29, 1998. The system can not seem to see beyond the 1024th > > cylinder of the disk. Is this

Re: RH 6.1 Printing problem

2000-01-07 Thread Scott Sharkey
Bernhard, I have a customer seeing similar problems with the 0.46 version. LPD apparently "gets stuck" sometimes when multiple jobs are in the queue. It seems to create a bunch of 0 byte jobs and the LPD daemon seems to be somehow locked out of the queue. Stopping/restarting LPD almost always c

RE: Bash Config

2000-01-07 Thread Zoki
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Brian Ivey wrote: ->>Did you even bother to read the man page? -> ->Honestly, no. I appreciate your candor and will, for future problems, ->attempt to find a solution in the man pages first. *** Brian, You'll have the opportunity to do so as I won't tell you what the option

Re: RH 6.1 Printing problem

2000-01-07 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Remi B wrote: > tried your suggestion, can recognise printer and even send data to it, > but still cannot print normally! > What gives,? > Is this an lpd problem or a hardware problem? Did you update lpr to 0.46 (updates) or 0.47 (rawhide)? I recommend the latter. LLaP bero

redhat 6.0 installation

2000-01-07 Thread Roberta Nicolis
Title: redhat 6.0 installation Hi, I tried to install Linux RedHet 6.0 on a HP NetServer 5/100 LC with a SCSI cdrom drive; the system started from the the floppy boot disk, then the system asked for CDROM, I inserted the linux cdrom, but there was the following errors: "mount failed:block de

Re: viewing of /var/logs

2000-01-07 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Bruce, Try: less /var/log/messages tail /var/log/messages tail -f /var/log/messages You may also want to look in the /var/log directory for other log files. Discover! :-) That's what makes Linux so interesting. There's always something more around the corner. (If nothing else; another corner. ;

Re: LAN woes (solved)

2000-01-07 Thread David Taylor
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: > > At 09:28 AM 1/7/00 +1100, you wrote: > >Hi guys. > > > >A while ago I setup some RH Linux machines to work on our LAN. They all > >worked fine. I was recently asked to setup another machine from scratch > >to work on the LAN. I have modified /etc/resolv.conf, /

Re: LAN woes

2000-01-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 09:28 AM 1/7/00 +1100, you wrote: >Hi guys. > >A while ago I setup some RH Linux machines to work on our LAN. They all >worked fine. I was recently asked to setup another machine from scratch >to work on the LAN. I have modified /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/hosts, >/etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/