Re: Intellectual Starvation!

2000-01-12 Thread Claudiu Balciza
how about programming ? Claudiu - Original Message - From: Jamie Carl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 08:20 Subject: Intellectual Starvation! > Hey pplz.. I'm running out of groovy things to learn under > Red Hat 6.0 .. I've just done re

apache cgi-bin in ~user ?

2000-01-12 Thread Claudiu Balciza
There is a UserDir apache config option which maps [www.myserver.com]/~user into some directory where users may keep public html docs. I would like to allow them execution of cgi-bin scripts from www.myserver.com/~user/cgi-bin How can I accomplish that ? TIA Claudiu -- To unsubscribe: mail [E

password-less account?

2000-01-12 Thread David Taylor
Just wondering ... how on earth do I create a password-less account on a RH6.1 system using MD5 shadowed passwords? I thought all I had to do was blank the password field, but that does not appear to work. I've checked "man passwd" and some of the PAM documentation... I can't find anything about

Re: Intellectual Starvation!

2000-01-12 Thread Perry Blalock
Hello Jamie, Wednesday, January 12, 2000, 10:20:24 PM, you wrote: JC> Hey pplz.. I'm running out of groovy things to learn under JC> Red Hat 6.0 .. I've just done remote X-Windows, Masqarading, JC> Software Raid, SRP Excrypted networking, Samba setup and I've JC> even got my parallel Zip driv

Intellectual Starvation!

2000-01-12 Thread Jamie Carl
Hey pplz.. I'm running out of groovy things to learn under Red Hat 6.0 .. I've just done remote X-Windows, Masqarading, Software Raid, SRP Excrypted networking, Samba setup and I've even got my parallel Zip drive working beautifully.. What else can I learn?? What other groovy tricks can Red

Re: [Fwd: New boot hd]

2000-01-12 Thread Jeff Smelser
Philippe Moutarlier wrote: > > I am confused about what you did : > > To install lilo you need a running system. If you replace you hard drive "on the >spot", > that means you probably had to install your new hard drive somewhere else than hda. >Right ? > > At the very least, at the time you

Install on IBM 701CS Laptop Crashes w/ Signal 11

2000-01-12 Thread Steve
I am trying to install RH6.1 on to an old IBM 701CS Laptop (486 8mb ram) via NFS. It starts the install and exits abnormally with a signal 11. Does any one have a clue what this means or how to fix it? TIA, Steve -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Linux network problems - need help

2000-01-12 Thread Wellington Terumi Uemura
First of all,sorry about my bad english,when we talk about linux problems it's a kind a hard to me to explain,becose,this is an english that i didn't learn at school. My server it's an Redhat 6.0 compatible (portuguese ver name Conectiva4.0,kernel 2.2.12-5)with 2 interfaces eth0 and eth1. eth0

Re: DSL/Bellsouth

2000-01-12 Thread Jim Morris
Kurt Brust wrote: > > so you have to use one of thier NIC's? No - in fact, when the installer was here, just to speed things up, we used my existing Linksys card, disconnecting it from my hub, and hooking it up to their modem. The installer comes out with a 3COM 10/100 PCI card though, intended

Re: DSL/Bellsouth

2000-01-12 Thread Jim Morris
Kurt Brust wrote: > > Time warner here in Charlotte, NC, no longer requs you to "login" , is there > such a thing with Bellsouths ADSL? if so is there a linux app out there? > No - Bellsouth simply uses DHCP assignment to a hard-coded MAC address. What this means is that if I change the ethern

RE: SW RAID Q:

2000-01-12 Thread Hossein S. Zadeh
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, yukon wrote: > For future use (and depending on if you've got autoraid compile - > something I'd advise against if you value your data), just use > raidstart /dev/md0. May I ask why you advise against autodetection of software raids? Hossein -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMA

Re: Telnet Hanging

2000-01-12 Thread Chuck Mead
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Paul R. Watkins said: PRW> PRW> PRW>I've upgraded to RH6.1 --- telnet now just hangs -- PRW> PRW>I can get the following response PRW> PRW>Red Hat Linux release 6.1 (Cartman) PRW>Kernel 2.2.12-20 on an i686 PRW> PRW>but no log in prompt. PRW> PRW>What do I need to do to get t

Re: Concept - Ipchains and VHOSTS

2000-01-12 Thread Hossein S. Zadeh
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Perry Blalock wrote: > What I'd like to do, but can't seem to visualize at the moment, is to > setup multiple domains (inside private), and virtual hosts on apache, > and access them all by name, www.this.xxx and www.that.xxx, via the > single public ip address. The bottom l

Telnet Hanging

2000-01-12 Thread Paul R. Watkins
I've upgraded to RH6.1 --- telnet now just hangs -- I can get the following response Red Hat Linux release 6.1 (Cartman) Kernel 2.2.12-20 on an i686 but no log in prompt. What do I need to do to get this working? I can ftp to the server and the httpd server works fine -- the problem seems o

RE: samba server not browseable

2000-01-12 Thread Chad W. Skinner
Something similar has occurred on my setup at work, but it generally deals with my having windows up and changing the configuration on the server or the server being down do to the power failing over night and my not knowing it (no ups, ARRGGHHH!!). Anyway, It has been my experience that you shoul

RE: SW RAID Q:

2000-01-12 Thread yukon
You have to initialize the raid-set: mkraid --really-force /dev/md0 (why someone thought we were "really" stupid and made the option "really-force" is beyond me.) The disks must be partition such that (in your case) sda1 and sdb1 are the entire disks. For future use (and depending on if you've

[OT] freeing dhcp leases under win98

2000-01-12 Thread Charles Galpin
Hi I've got myself in a bit of a bind. I was setting up a dhcp server and initially just let the server assign an ip to my win98 machine. Once I got the hardware address, I put in a hosts section and tried to give it a different fixed address. I tried using winipcfg to release/renew the lease,

Re: Opinions

2000-01-12 Thread Manuel Camacho
> it's really good if you're running a business with a lot of > seats and you're going to have a professional > IT/sysadmin/unix dude doing setup and maintenance, but for > home use by Joe Citizen, Linux is still quite a bit of > hassle compared to Microsoft or Macintosh. I guess I am in Joe's ca

RE: Reconnecting to an x-windows session

2000-01-12 Thread Uncle Meat
On 12-Jan-00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined: > I'm running intel redhat 6.1 with the KDE desktop. My question is ... Is > there a way to reconnect to the graphical x-windows session if you have > used the ++ keystroke to switch to a text session? > > I'm not dead in the water or anything, but I can't

Concept - Ipchains and VHOSTS

2000-01-12 Thread Perry Blalock
Hello redhat-list, I have single, static, public ip address on the outside of my fire wall and have assigned a private class C to the inside. I have also setup my firewall to run as the primary nameserver for my domain. Using ipmasqadm's portfw, I can also access my internal Apache web server v

Re: [ANNOUNCE] i686 only Redhat Distribution - PRE-BETA RPMS Avail.

2000-01-12 Thread Manuel Camacho
I don't have an AMD, but you may want to check December's Linux Journal article on the subject. -Manuel. On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Philippe Moutarlier wrote: > does it fit AMD-K6 II 3Dnow ?? > > Philippe > > Allen Bolderoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > --==_Exmh_28810P > > Content-Type: m

Re[2]: IPCHAINS rules for ntp?

2000-01-12 Thread Perry Blalock
Hello Edward, Tuesday, January 11, 2000, 12:49:36 PM, you wrote: EM> Hi, EM> Thanks for the rules, but I'm still getting errors. Does the EM> following info help determine what's going wrong? EM> I've tried the NTP rules as you've sent in the e-mail and in the EM> general format I've used fo

Re: Tixwish-tk4.1

2000-01-12 Thread Jeff Mings
I've never seen that file before, but I'd try searching on www.rpmfind.net. You can find several copies of most apps/libraries/etc. there. -Jeff "Pete (Online)" wrote: > Hi > > I'm lookin to find out which program provide this so I can use my > Linux Library CD seems on the custom install I mi

openSSH & login failure

2000-01-12 Thread Hal Burgiss
I am trying to get my feet wet with openSSH, but going nowhere fast. I have this installed on both machines, with pretty much a default config. sshd seems to accept my password, but the client just hangs: >From server: www:/usr/local/etc# sshd -d debug: sshd version OpenSSH-1.2 Server listening

RE: Partition manager?

2000-01-12 Thread Danny
Those Tools are good but, if your office has more than one computer I suggest - Documenting what you have now - Reinstall Linux on the second computer with the new partition - FTP all the necessary to the new box - THen use partition magic or FIPS At 09:06 12/01/00 -0600, Manuel Camacho wrote:

Re: Announcing Red Hat Linux Training in Australia

2000-01-12 Thread Danny
Hello, Regarding "Red Hat Linux Training in Australia" - That training course doesn't have the "goodwill" as MCSE, CNE, Cisco Engineer. - Even though Linux, FreeBSD is excellent. I will never pay $4000 for it. I would purchase the box instead. At 11:00 13/01/00 +1100, Greg W wrote: > >Below i

Re: SW RAID Q:

2000-01-12 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
I don't use raid but usually when we talk about disk like raid-disk below, it is supposed to be something like /dev/sda rather than /dev/sda1 (which is a partition). Might help (??) Philippe Edward Schernau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've got two 400ish MB SCSI disks of the same size, an

Tixwish-tk4.1

2000-01-12 Thread Pete \(Online\)
Hi I'm lookin to find out which program provide this so I can use my Linux Library CD seems on the custom install I missed installing sommething Cheers Pete -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: [Fwd: New boot hd]

2000-01-12 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
I am confused about what you did : To install lilo you need a running system. If you replace you hard drive "on the spot", that means you probably had to install your new hard drive somewhere else than hda. Right ? At the very least, at the time you run lilo, your /boot points to the location

SW RAID Q:

2000-01-12 Thread Edward Schernau
I've got two 400ish MB SCSI disks of the same size, and am trying to make a RAID-0 set. Here is my /etc/raidtab: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level0 nr-raid-disks 2 nr-spare-disks0 chunk-size4 device/dev/sd

Re: [OT] [Apache] Teds detailed procedure needs help.]

2000-01-12 Thread Chuck Mead
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, p-thilts said: p>I posted the following on the apache-list (that is where it belongs but p>the list is not very active yet) p>If there is anyone on this list that is an Apache expert but is not on p>the apache list could you please get in touch with me. Unless you are p>know

Re: [Fwd: New boot hd]

2000-01-12 Thread Jeff Smelser
Philippe Moutarlier wrote: > > what device is your boot drive ? /dev/hda > > can you send your lilo.conf ? Well, its kind of down right now.. so memory: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 default=linux image=/boot/bzImage-2.2.13-1 label=linux root=/dev/s

Re: samba server not browseable

2000-01-12 Thread Charles Galpin
Funny it works now. What changed? mmh. I'm not sure exactly what did it, but this is basically what I did the last few minutes changed the following samba settings preferred master = Yes local master = Yes domain master = Yes restarted the smb server. this didn't help

[OT] [Apache] Teds detailed procedure needs help.]

2000-01-12 Thread p-thilts
I posted the following on the apache-list (that is where it belongs but the list is not very active yet) If there is anyone on this list that is an Apache expert but is not on the apache list could you please get in touch with me. Unless you are knowledgeable with Apache, Perl, PHP don't waste yo

Re: samba server not browseable

2000-01-12 Thread Hidong Kim
Charles Galpin wrote: > > Hi > > I'm running RH6.1, samba-2.0.5a-12 > > Everything works great except I cannot see the samba server in the network > neighbourhood. I can map it just fine though by specifying the name. My > setup passes all tests in DIAGNOSIS.txt except for the last (#10) which

Re: [Fwd: New boot hd]

2000-01-12 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
what device is your boot drive ? can you send your lilo.conf ? Philippe Jeff Smelser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to replace my /boot drive. I ran lilo on it to boot off the > new drive, but when I reboot, no lilo or anything. It just sits there. I > can boot from my mkbootdisk

Re: samba server not browseable

2000-01-12 Thread Charles Galpin
nope. same. On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Steve Dixon wrote: > wrong workgroup? all that i can think of. they always show up around > here w/o out any intervention in 'mygroup'. > > Charles Galpin wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > I'm running RH6.1, samba-2.0.5a-12 > > > > Everything works great except I c

Re: Reconnecting to an x-windows session

2000-01-12 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
Well, I don't really know why, but for myself it switched to ctrl-alt-F8 on console 7 I get libsmb/nmblib.c error messages !?? Does anybody else experienced this shift to F8 ? Philippe Jamie Carl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oops.. Bloody shift key.. > I meant ++ > > > > -Ori

Re: samba server not browseable

2000-01-12 Thread Steve Dixon
wrong workgroup? all that i can think of. they always show up around here w/o out any intervention in 'mygroup'. Charles Galpin wrote: > > Hi > > I'm running RH6.1, samba-2.0.5a-12 > > Everything works great except I cannot see the samba server in the network > neighbourhood. I can map it ju

[Fwd: New boot hd]

2000-01-12 Thread Jeff Smelser
I am trying to replace my /boot drive. I ran lilo on it to boot off the new drive, but when I reboot, no lilo or anything. It just sits there. I can boot from my mkbootdisk just fine. Can someone point me in the right direction? -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as t

samba server not browseable

2000-01-12 Thread Charles Galpin
Hi I'm running RH6.1, samba-2.0.5a-12 Everything works great except I cannot see the samba server in the network neighbourhood. I can map it just fine though by specifying the name. My setup passes all tests in DIAGNOSIS.txt except for the last (#10) which is the browsing part. This is not crit

Re: RHCE passing rate?

2000-01-12 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, sixx wrote: > I would just like some comments from those ppl whom have taken RHCE300. > I was told by my local testers that only around 20% whom took RHCE300 passed. I think you misunderstood the tester. From what I've heard and seen, about 20% of the people who take RHCE300

RHCE passing rate?

2000-01-12 Thread sixx
Hi ppl, I would just like some comments from those ppl whom have taken RHCE300. I was told by my local testers that only around 20% whom took RHCE300 passed. There isn't an official guide book to this exam around locally and i'm stumbed at the "high" rate of failures. I'm actually quite concerned

Re: Announcing Red Hat Linux Training in Australia

2000-01-12 Thread Greg W
Below is what I returned to Redhat this morning, posted here for the comical value, I have a nice story on RH and how they cost me 40mins on the phone and about $45 as wellI was part of the reseller program, they had my home address, was clearly stated was Australia. I was invited to join

RE: Reconnecting to an x-windows session

2000-01-12 Thread Jamie Carl
Oops.. Bloody shift key.. I meant ++ -Original Message- From: Jamie Carl Sent: Thursday, 13 January 2000 10:49 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Reconnecting to an x-windows session ++ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Re: Reconnecting to an x-windows session

2000-01-12 Thread Charles Galpin
you X session should be running on virtual console 7. try + charls On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm running intel redhat 6.1 with the KDE desktop. My question is ... Is > there a way to reconnect to the graphical x-windows session if you have > used the ++ keystroke to switc

RE: Reconnecting to an x-windows session

2000-01-12 Thread Jamie Carl
++ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 13 January 2000 10:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Reconnecting to an x-windows session I'm running intel redhat 6.1 with the KDE desktop. My question is ... Is there a way to reconnec

Reconnecting to an x-windows session

2000-01-12 Thread pagebt
I'm running intel redhat 6.1 with the KDE desktop. My question is ... Is there a way to reconnect to the graphical x-windows session if you have used the ++ keystroke to switch to a text session? I'm not dead in the water or anything, but I can't find any documented method. thanks in advance [

Re: [OT]Apache URL expansion

2000-01-12 Thread Greg W
The simple answer would be no I guess All webservers operate this way, however if you turn of the default pages, you could either index all of the dir, or specify the URL as http://www.mysite.com/index.html which I suppose is obvious, and not the answer you are looking fornot su

Re: linux fdisk cannot see the whole disk!

2000-01-12 Thread Zaigui Wang
Thanks. I will try this out. On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Dave Reed wrote: > > Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:20:32 -0600 (CST) > > From: Zaigui Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I have a 13G hard disk. When I use linux fdisk to do the partitions, it > > seems like the maximun cylinder number allowed is 10

Re: Setting permissions for Fat32

2000-01-12 Thread Tom Gilbert
* Pete Online" ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi > > I wish to set the perssions on my fat32 drive so I can install > vmware to it but even as root I can't write to it can I get a little > help please, I'm the only one using this machine and it's at home > so I don't have to much to worry about as

[OT]Apache URL expansion

2000-01-12 Thread Chad W. Skinner
Is there an easy way to make apache always fully expand urls. For example if someone types in "http://www.mysite.com/" have apace show the full url of "http://www.mysite.com/index.html" Thanks, Chad -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: DSL/Bellsouth

2000-01-12 Thread J. Scott Kasten
That was my experience too. However, other telcos even go so far as to install the network card and software on you computer. On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 02:33:44PM -0500, Charles Galpin wrote: > just to add to this discussion, I have DSl through GTE and their > installers don't touch your machine.

Re: Opinions

2000-01-12 Thread Bill Carlson
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Neil Hollow wrote: > I've found another way to crash linux remove the mouse from a ps/2 port while > the machine is in linux (not X). Do that on my box and you need to a reboot. > Not that want to do this anyways of course. NH > Hmmm...that must be machine dependent, I've

Re: Hot-Swap IDE drives?- Bill Carlson answer

2000-01-12 Thread Bill Carlson
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Jeff Mings wrote: > I believe I looked at Amanda- it appeared to be robust and capable, but I > needed a way to automate the backup of the Windoze PCs from the Linux box. > I.e., if I try to coordinate 14 Windozers to drop data into a central > location, it would never wo

Re: Hot-Swap IDE drives?- Bill's 2nd answer

2000-01-12 Thread Jeff Mings
Actually, my only reason for specifying a hot-swappable IDE setup is that the drives themselves are cheap and the controller is built into the motherboard. I haven't been able to find pricing on the Raidzone stuff, but they LOOK like expensive high-end units. I'm currently trying to find out

Re: DSL/Bellsouth

2000-01-12 Thread Liam Seven
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Kurt Brust wrote: > is anyone running ADSL (any DSL) with REDHAT? Runs Great with RH6 & RH6.1 > if so, how do you like it, how often does your IP address change? Only when I power down my box... for hardware swaps, & what-not. Of course I've got a cron job: 0 1,13 * * *

Re: Hot-Swap IDE drives? - Dave Ihnat's answer

2000-01-12 Thread Bill Carlson
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Jeff Mings wrote: > Thanks Dave, > > The Kingston carriers appear to be better constructed than the units I have, > but more interestingly, they have a bus isolation system that allows > hot-swapping of SCSI devices. I can achieve the same thing with a SCSI > RAID-style

Re: DSL/Bellsouth

2000-01-12 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 12:54:37PM -0500, J. Scott Kasten wrote: [...] > I'm not sure I'd be so brazen about it. There's been a number of > people who have written into this list indicating that they've been > cut off when it was discovered that they were running something > other than the "nor

Re: Opinions

2000-01-12 Thread Steve Borho
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 08:46:18PM +0100, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Bill Carlson wrote: > > > I can see you haven't had this happen to you. The keyboard is gone, the > > mouse is gone, the display is toast. Trust me, I fiddled with this for > > quite a while, upgrading

Re: DSL/Bellsouth

2000-01-12 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 01:06:00PM -0600, Vidiot wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 11:34:51AM -0500, Hal Burgiss wrote: > >> Just a general observation that probably applies to DSL > >> implementations from all the baby bells and telcos...it is > >> inherently more complicated setup when you start

Re: Hot-Swap IDE drives?- Bill Carlson answer

2000-01-12 Thread Jeff Mings
I believe I looked at Amanda- it appeared to be robust and capable, but I needed a way to automate the backup of the Windoze PCs from the Linux box. I.e., if I try to coordinate 14 Windozers to drop data into a central location, it would never work right - I'd have to "baby-sit" every backup.

Re: Opinions

2000-01-12 Thread Dave Reed
> From: Bill Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Ward William E PHDN wrote: > > > A lot of folks, such as Nate here, have been saying that Linux rarely > > crashes. > > I was going to comment that Linux does crash, you

Re: DSL/Bellsouth

2000-01-12 Thread J. Scott Kasten
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 01:11:02PM -0500, Hal Burgiss wrote: > > Hugh? DSL should be inherently much more reliable than modem dial-up. > > I've never heard of consistend outages that couldn't be traced to > > the line or other faulty equipment. Once replaced, it should work > > rock solid. I'd

Re: DSL/Bellsouth

2000-01-12 Thread Vidiot
J. Scott Kasten has posted: >I'm not sure I'd be so brazen about it. There's been a number of people >who have written into this list indicating that they've been cut off >when it was discovered that they were running something other than the >"norm". [...] TDS Metrocom also doesn't officially

RE: Opinions

2000-01-12 Thread Bill Carlson
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Bill Carlson wrote: > > > I can see you haven't had this happen to you. The keyboard is gone, the > > mouse is gone, the display is toast. Trust me, I fiddled with this for > > quite a while, upgrading to a new release of

Re: DSL/Bellsouth

2000-01-12 Thread Vidiot
>"Should", yes, but "is"? Once replaced, sure it works great. But it is >one more link in the chain that can break. And it *does* happen. Check >some of the DSL newsgroups (like comp.dcom.xdsl), they are chock full >of people complaining loud and hard. My own service has been pretty >reliable. But

Re: DSL/Bellsouth

2000-01-12 Thread J. Scott Kasten
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 01:05:45PM -0500, Jeff Graves wrote: > How in the hell can they use dynamic IPs if you're "always > connected"? Wouldn't that require a static ip? > Nope, that's what DHCP is for. This provides a mechanism to renew/replace IP addresses on the fly. Normally, while the b

Re: Hot-Swap IDE drives? - Dave Ihnat's answer

2000-01-12 Thread Jeff Mings
Thanks Dave, The Kingston carriers appear to be better constructed than the units I have, but more interestingly, they have a bus isolation system that allows hot-swapping of SCSI devices. I can achieve the same thing with a SCSI RAID-style controller. It looks more and more like I'll have

RE: Opinions

2000-01-12 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Bill Carlson wrote: > I can see you haven't had this happen to you. The keyboard is gone, the > mouse is gone, the display is toast. Trust me, I fiddled with this for > quite a while, upgrading to a new release of XFree86 made the problem go > away. You can kill the X server

RE: Opinions

2000-01-12 Thread Bill Carlson
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Bill Carlson wrote: > > > 1. XFree86 - Nothing kills a machine faster than buggy video drivers. > > Sometimes only the display gets wacked and one can telnet in and reboot > > the machine, sometimes not. > > There's no ne

Re: DSL/Bellsouth

2000-01-12 Thread Charles Galpin
just to add to this discussion, I have DSl through GTE and their installers don't touch your machine. They simply make sure the modem self diagnoses itself and they leave. They don't have the training to setup the machine ven if you wanted them to. I guess if you have windows you would then call

Re: arkeia and a Travan NS 20 drive

2000-01-12 Thread Charles Galpin
Oh yes, I thought I said that. I did a simple (but I think effective) test of tarring up three different things on the tape ( using the non-rewind device and doing a fsf inbetween) and then untarring all three successfully. Admittedly I seem to get the followign error /dev/st0: Input/output err

RE: Opinions

2000-01-12 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Bill Carlson wrote: > 1. XFree86 - Nothing kills a machine faster than buggy video drivers. > Sometimes only the display gets wacked and one can telnet in and reboot > the machine, sometimes not. There's no needs to reboot in this case. You can just kill the X server and eve

Re: DSL/Bellsouth

2000-01-12 Thread Steve Dixon
not if you shut off your pc. Jeff Graves wrote: > > How in the hell can they use dynamic IPs if you're "always > connected"? Wouldn't that require a static ip? > > -Original Message- > From: Kurt Brust [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 10:00 AM > To: [

Re: DSL/Bellsouth

2000-01-12 Thread Vidiot
>On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 11:34:51AM -0500, Hal Burgiss wrote: >> Just a general observation that probably applies to DSL >> implementations from all the baby bells and telcos...it is inherently >> more complicated setup when you start adding the necessary hardware >> layer at the telco CO. It is j

Re: CD Recording

2000-01-12 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Philippe Moutarlier wrote: > you can get a software called xcdroast. Pretty good for me. > I think you find it in the redhat contrib rpms. It's in the Red Hat Powertools. LLaP bero -- Nobody will ever need more than 640 kB RAM. -- Bill Gates, 1983 Windows

anyone using coda? (was Re: Redundant fileservers

2000-01-12 Thread Alan Mead
You mean like this: http://proxy.iinchina.net/~wensong/ippfvs/ I believe that this site advocates coda. Is anyone is using it that can describe it's actual performance. For example, how immediate is the mirroring? I would want to use it as Kevin describes, to serve a networked fs that is comp

Re: arkeia and a Travan NS 20 drive

2000-01-12 Thread Bill Carlson
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Charles Galpin wrote: > Hi everyone > > I bought a Seagate TapeStor STT2N-C. It's a internal SCSI drive that > does hardware compression. It uses 10/20gb tapes (TR-5 aka QIC 32200), and > is the only device off a adapatec 2930 card. > My problems: > > 1. I chose STD QI

Re: DSL/Bellsouth

2000-01-12 Thread J. Scott Kasten
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 12:47:47PM -0500, Hal Burgiss wrote: > I think this is all disinformation being supplied to installers by > their employers (usually contractors). I've called tech support and I > tell them just what I am running, the answer was 'I run Redhat at home > too' ;). They could a

RE: Opinions

2000-01-12 Thread Alan Mead
At 04:03 PM 1/12/00 +1300, Juha Saarinen wrote: >%-> How timely. I came into work early this morning to work on a >%-> web project. >%-> Instead, I spent a lot of the morning wrestling with my Windows 98 >%-> workstation which is in the habit of grinding to a crawl after >%-> it has had >%-> astr

Re: linux fdisk cannot see the whole disk!

2000-01-12 Thread Jake Johnson
Did you try flashing your bios with the most recent version? How old is your mother board? On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Zaigui Wang wrote: > > I have a 13G hard disk. When I use linux fdisk to do the partitions, it > seems like the maximun cylinder number allowed is 1024, which ends up with > only ab

RE: Opinions

2000-01-12 Thread Bill Carlson
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Ward William E PHDN wrote: > A lot of folks, such as Nate here, have been saying that Linux rarely > crashes. I was going to comment that Linux does crash, you beat me to it. Over the years I've found 3 things that usually the cause of a crash (not including fork bombs and s

RE: CD Recording

2000-01-12 Thread Jeff Graves
Check out XCDRoast as well. Comes with cdrecord, the best way to make cds. -Original Message- From: casler, heather [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 12:48 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:RE: CD Recording Hi Ed, You might want to check out htt

Re: DSL/Bellsouth

2000-01-12 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 12:24:28PM -0500, J. Scott Kasten wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 11:34:51AM -0500, Hal Burgiss wrote: > > Just a general observation that probably applies to DSL > > implementations from all the baby bells and telcos...it is inherently > > more complicated setup when you

Re: caching only name server config question

2000-01-12 Thread Jerry Winegarden
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, R. Kuijvenhoven wrote: > Hello, > > I have been setting up a caching only name server (bind) on a linux > firewall/router. The name server seems to be working like it should. > > My question is: Which DNS address do I have to put in the DNS fields of the > windoze workstati

RE: DSL/Bellsouth

2000-01-12 Thread Jeff Graves
How in the hell can they use dynamic IPs if you're "always connected"? Wouldn't that require a static ip? -Original Message- From: Kurt Brust [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 10:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mike Cathey Subject:Re: DSL/Bellsouth

Re: Opinions

2000-01-12 Thread Bill Carlson
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, lloy0076 wrote: > 1) Patches are a pain and a security risk in themselves > > Apart from the fact that they smack of the crack in the dyke syndrome, > who says you can apply a patch perfectly... All depends on the patch...this is where Linux really shines, not the Code itse

Re: CD Recording

2000-01-12 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
you can get a software called xcdroast. Pretty good for me. I think you find it in the redhat contrib rpms. Philippe Edward Schernau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've just bought a Ricoh 6x2x2 CDRW drive, and am looking forward > to burning some CDs. > > Can anyone give me any quick pointers

Re: DSL/Bellsouth

2000-01-12 Thread J. Scott Kasten
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 11:34:51AM -0500, Hal Burgiss wrote: > Just a general observation that probably applies to DSL > implementations from all the baby bells and telcos...it is inherently > more complicated setup when you start adding the necessary hardware > layer at the telco CO. It is just o

RE: CD Recording

2000-01-12 Thread casler, heather
Hi Ed, You might want to check out http://howto.tucows.com/LDP/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html Hope it helps. Heather -Original Message- From: Edward Schernau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 12:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CD Recording I've just bought a

Re: Redundant fileservers

2000-01-12 Thread Dan Alexander
At 09:35 AM 01/12/2000 -0500, you wrote: >Hi all. Please comment on the following: > >We are wanting to replace our current method of backing up our fileserver >(which is via a tape drive) by making our fileserver redundant. That is, >another machine that will be a live mirror of the "in-use" fi

Re: linux fdisk cannot see the whole disk!

2000-01-12 Thread Dave Reed
> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 11:20:32 -0600 (CST) > From: Zaigui Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I have a 13G hard disk. When I use linux fdisk to do the partitions, it > seems like the maximun cylinder number allowed is 1024, which ends up with > only about 8G. Where does the rest of the disk go? How

Re: DSL/Bellsouth

2000-01-12 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 10:35:58AM -0600, Jim Morris wrote: [...] > If you sign up with BellSouth's ADSL server, be aware that their > installers are basically told NOT to hook up to anything other than > a Windows 95/98 or *NT Workstation* box. I knew they only wanted to > install on a Windows

linux fdisk cannot see the whole disk!

2000-01-12 Thread Zaigui Wang
I have a 13G hard disk. When I use linux fdisk to do the partitions, it seems like the maximun cylinder number allowed is 1024, which ends up with only about 8G. Where does the rest of the disk go? How to fix this problem? Thanks. -- | Zaigui Wang | | www.cs.siu.edu/~wang|

CD Recording

2000-01-12 Thread Edward Schernau
I've just bought a Ricoh 6x2x2 CDRW drive, and am looking forward to burning some CDs. Can anyone give me any quick pointers or point me to a modern HOWTO for this? The SCSI card sees it, and I can access /dev/scd0, but I'm unsure the best way to proceed. TIA -- Edward Schernau

Re: DSL/Bellsouth

2000-01-12 Thread Vidiot
>Actually, they force a disconnect which cause you to reconnect with a new >IP. I believe they're DHCP has this capability. >-eric Oh yuch! That would suck big time if they ever did that to me. I would bitch big time. Thank goodness I have a static DSL. BTW, it is "their" not "they're" (they

Respawning telnet session on TTY2

2000-01-12 Thread Coote, Chris F \(Regency\)
What would be the best way to get the equivalent of a respawning telnet session on TTY2? Through the inittab? I can not seem to direct this to a specific TTY... Thank you in advance. -Chris Coote [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: DSL/Bellsouth

2000-01-12 Thread Jim Morris
> Question: > > is anyone running ADSL (any DSL) with REDHAT? if so, how do you like it, how > often does your IP address change? I've had DSL service through BellSouth.net since October. It works great. My IP seems to stay pretty stay pretty constant, for at least a month at a time. The way m

Re: Lilo Stop at LI - old bios, big disk

2000-01-12 Thread Ryan Caveney
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 6:43 PM Subject: Lilo Stop at LI - old bios, big disk >I have an old Dell 486/66. I put in a new 13G drive. It boots fine >from a floppy but caLILO han

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