RE: IRQ's

2000-01-19 Thread Juha Saarinen
%-> somebody told me irq 9 is the worse to get shared (especially %-> between 5 devices !). Ouais, c'est vrai! IRQ 9 is not only a cascaded interrupt, it's also used by the power management (ACPI) on modern computers. In reality though, I've only had problems with ISA PnP cards going on IRQ 9.

RH.6.1, rpm bug fixes, failed dependencies & NEW USER

2000-01-19 Thread greg walsh
Howdy I'm brand new to linux/unix. I've been wrestling with RH.6.1 for a while now. Last night I downloaded *all* the 6.1 rpm bug fixes and installed them. Most of the packages updated well (although I haven't tried rebooting the machine yet, so I'm not sure what the total damage will be). Bu

Rescan scsi bus?

2000-01-19 Thread David Kramer
If I turn on a connected SCSI device, is there a way of telling Linux to rescan the SCSI bus? --- David Kramer http://kramer.ne.mediaone.net DK KD DKK D It is better to be defeated on principle than to w

Re: Using PPP with pcmcia card

2000-01-19 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
>From what you have down there, things look ok : > Jan 19 15:51:37 frank kernel: tty03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A > Jan 19 15:51:37 frank cardmgr[368]: executing: './network start eth0' > Jan 19 15:51:39 frank kernel: eth0: media 10BaseT, silicon revision 5 > Jan 19 15:51:39 frank inet:

Re: Using PPP with pcmcia card

2000-01-19 Thread Ron Golan
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Nicholas, Frank (TSA) wrote: > I would like some help in configuring my Xircom realport ethernet_modem56 > pcmcia card. I can connect to the network and get to the internet but am > unable to use the modem. If you are using RH 6.1, you might be having a problem kudzu. I had

Using PPP with pcmcia card

2000-01-19 Thread Nicholas, Frank \(TSA\)
I would like some help in configuring my Xircom realport ethernet_modem56 pcmcia card. I can connect to the network and get to the internet but am unable to use the modem. in my /etc/conf.modules I have this line pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start Under windows the modem is C

Re: can ipchains save the day?

2000-01-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
Edward Schernau wrote: > Is there a way I can use ipchains to forward these broadcasts across > the router, so that people on the other subnet get the messages? ipchains isn't the correct tool for the job, but Linux has the capability that you need. Check the Bridge Mini-HOWTO or the Bridge+Fir

Re: linuxconf and sendmail.cf

2000-01-19 Thread Jacques Gelinas
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Charles Galpin wrote: > yes Paul, if you look near the bottom, there are config options which let > you enable/disable linuxconf's control over processes. > > On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Paul Crossman wrote: > > > I have a few systems that regenerate the sendmail.cf file when > >

AGP card wont work, then PCI locks

2000-01-19 Thread Brian Schneider
I am building a new machine. I put in a Number Nine Revolution 3D since it is supposed to be supported. It cannot seem to find and way to get it to work. I then put in an old 1 Meg PCI STB card that has been in about all of my machines and it sets up. But once I log into an account and do anything

Re: redirected standard out vs log file

2000-01-19 Thread Charles Galpin
I've been reading this thread with much interest. It was my understanding that you can safely do cat /dev/null > file and not destroy the inode, so why can't logrotate (or anything else) simply do cp file file.1 cat /dev/null > file as a rotation scheme without restarting or signaling the proc

Re: Ethernet card D-Link DFE-530TX HOWTO

2000-01-19 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
Sorry I missed some part of this thread and I might be wrong, but from what I understand you are looking for the conf.modules file ... which doesn't exist by default ! So don't worry if you don't have it (you won't find it on the CD either) : create it under /etc/conf.modules and add to it

Re: home network

2000-01-19 Thread Bret Hughes
If you do the non public thing on samba and win98 you will most likely have some problems getting to the shared resource WIN98 USES ENCRYTPED PASSWORDS. The ENCRYTION.TXT (or something close to that) file in the samba docs does a good job of explaining it. It works very well for me. There is a

Test - Please Ignore

2000-01-19 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Just checking - My messages don't seem to be appearing. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Ethernet card D-Link DFE-530TX HOWTO

2000-01-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
on4hu wrote: > > hello Gordon > Thanks for answer, but i can read the full cdrom, i am french speaking first > then where? and how to? > andrew Get the file: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/6.0/images/i386/boot.img Write it to a disk using the rawrite.exe utility on your Red Hat CD. MSG

Re: redirected standard out vs log file

2000-01-19 Thread Bret Hughes
There appears to be a copy and truncate functions that never acually closes or deletes the file. The man page talks about it being there for programs that cannot be restarted. That is what prompted my question. I have not had a chance to try it yet though. Probably try to get to it next week.

Re: Backup Recomendations

2000-01-19 Thread Bret Hughes
I use amanda as well but man what a learning curve. The RPMs are out there but I did not know what user and directories they compiled into the binary used. Now that I have a better idea about how th thing works I may try the binaries again. RPM sure is nice. I guess if I had the time I could b

Sound

2000-01-19 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Evening: I bought the Soundblaster PCI 512 card. I'm running Red Hat 6.1. I attempted to run the sndconfig program, and the program detected that my sound card was a PCI card. It then turned around and said it was a SB Live card. It further said that it wasn't supported. Anyone know if I can

Video Question

2000-01-19 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Evening Everyone: I just bought the Diamond Viper II Video card. I'm curious if anyone know offhand whether this card works with the current release of XFree86 distributed with Red Hat 6.1. The release of XFree86 is: XFree86-3.3.5-3. It's no big deal if it doesn't, as I'll just throw it in my

Re: Passwords and Virutal Email

2000-01-19 Thread Paul R. Watkins
Yes -- there is a virtual ip alias setup and set to mail.foo.com problem seems to be in reverse IP mapping -- ?? sixx wrote: > did you specify an additional unique ip address as an aliases to your eht0? > it is needed by the vpop3d to work. > > At 01:42 PM 1/19/00 -0700, you wrote: > >I've got

Re: Passwords and Virutal Email

2000-01-19 Thread sixx
did you specify an additional unique ip address as an aliases to your eht0? it is needed by the vpop3d to work. At 01:42 PM 1/19/00 -0700, you wrote: >I've got virtual email setup under RH6.1 (using linuxconf). > >I can send mail to the virtual domain. It goes into the virtual domain >user mail

linuxconf and sendmail.cf

2000-01-19 Thread Paul Crossman
I have a few systems that regenerate the sendmail.cf file when rebooted. I have narrowed it down to linuxconf which is actually doing this. Is there a way I can stop this from happening? I have systems running 5.2, 6.0, and 6.1. I like linuxconf and would still like to use it, but just remove

Re: No more nvidia!

2000-01-19 Thread Charles Galpin
No, but **please** report back on how that dual head card works! That's going to be my next toy (and my TNT will be up for sale too) :) charles On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Svante Signell wrote: > > I've had it. I'm replacing my TNT2 32MB card with a recently purchased > G400 32MB dual head card. Long

Re: There's gotta be something better ...

2000-01-19 Thread Tom Gilbert
* Uncle Meat ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I have another, similar to the ones for NS above 4.0X: too much resource > usage. > > I'll admit I didn't spend oodles of time on it. I installed it and ran it. > It wanted more of the system allocated than I was willing to give. I > trashed it. > > I

Re: Superuser Permissions

2000-01-19 Thread p-thilts
Phing Zhaichaign wrote: > I would like to know how come when i set 'Superuser Equivalence' under linux > conf, the user doesn't have superuser equivalence. For example, can't run > linuxconf, can't change permissions on files owned by root, can't do various > other things. > > Any ideas? > > PZ

Re: scripts (awk or perl or what?)

2000-01-19 Thread Paul M. Foster
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Gate wrote: > I need to do the following two things (separately): > > First.. I have a file with comma delineated fields. The data in each field > is enclosed in double quotes ("). However, some data fields have a quote > within the quotes, and I need to remove that. What

Re: printer cleaning facility

2000-01-19 Thread Mike Stok
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Hidong Kim wrote: > I have an Epson Stylus Color 800 printer. Are there any print head > cleaning facilities for this printer? On Windows, you can do periodic > maintenance through the printer's utilities to clean and align the > heads. Is there anything like this for Linu

printer cleaning facility

2000-01-19 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, I have an Epson Stylus Color 800 printer. Are there any print head cleaning facilities for this printer? On Windows, you can do periodic maintenance through the printer's utilities to clean and align the heads. Is there anything like this for Linux? Thanks, Hidong -- To unsubscribe:

Re: IRQ's

2000-01-19 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
but how can it use IRQ 9? if IRQ 9 cascades to IRQ2, thenwouldnt that mean IRQ 0 thur 7 are unusable. -- Michael S. Dunsavage "Linux: the operating system with a CLUE... Command Line User Environment". (seen in a posting in comp.software.testing) On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Dave Ihnat wrote:

Re: IRQ's

2000-01-19 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
I had the same pb : sometimes PCI slots are "stuck together" irq wise. You can try moving one of the cards around if you still have a pci slot available (hum, looks like you are already using 5 of them ...) Are all your card PNP ? Is PNP enabled on your board ? somebody told me irq 9 is the w

which server for Linux

2000-01-19 Thread Fathi Ben Nasr
Hello, I have to set up an information system, which will be built from nearly nothing. We are now using sendmail (e-mails) as a communication vector (other departements still use papers and conventionnal methods for communicating informtions). I have chosen PostgreSQL, Apache and Php on a Li

Re: IRQ's

2000-01-19 Thread Dave Ihnat
kirk whiting wrote: > Cool. Well slap me silly. Mabey its just the cheapies i used. > > Kirk > > On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Hossein S. Zadeh wrote: > >... > > > > I have a server with 4 3Com 905 Boomerang AND an onboard Adaptec AIC7890 > > LVD SCSI controller. They ALL use IRQ 9!! I have not changed a

Performance specs and Linux kernel releases.

2000-01-19 Thread Paul Brown
Hi All, A couple of questions and an FYI: Does anyone know of a web site (not www.specbench.org) or other information source that can help me evaluate the performance differences between Linux 2.2.14 and FreeBSD 3.4? Dates when Intel-based Linux (stable) releases were made available to the publ

RE: CitrixICA for linux

2000-01-19 Thread Patrick O Neil
I was doing this but the IT department shut down both pop3 and imap. They are no longer accessible. They _believe_ that they are plugging a security hole, among other things, by shutting down imap and pop3 (Though the exchange server itself is a security hole. My own periodic scans of the vario

Re: System Access Attempts

2000-01-19 Thread Greg W
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 17/01/00 at 19:57 William B. Herman wrote: >I cannot disable telnet right now (some access points do not have an SSH >clients available). All the security updates have been installed. And I >currently use IPChains for a basic firewall. How safe am

printer drivers, make user be similar to root, fix kdepath, where to find apps, what is that with the so libs ? /many questions, rather long

2000-01-19 Thread David Krings
Hi ! Before I forget to mention what setup/system i have, i write it down here: RedHat 6.2 (Halloween V edition - if that matters, but i doubt) Kernel 2.2.11 (yea, not very up to date) 128 MB RAM P2-350 using KDE as Desktop updated the lpr today Here are a couple of questions tha

Re: Home networking

2000-01-19 Thread Charles Galpin
This ovislink price sounds attractive, but you can do much better than this for 100BaseT. More like $150 - $200 for linksys or netgear stuff. charles On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Paul Brown wrote: > > You need a NIC and a catagory 5 patch cable for each computer and 1 > hub/switch that has enough ports

Re: php3 & mysql on Red Hat 6.1

2000-01-19 Thread p-thilts
Rita Meng wrote: > I have been off this list for several months. If this is a question that is > repeatedly asked, please forgive me. > > I have tried searching the archives according to the directions but I always > get something that makes no sense. The only archive command that I can get > to

Re: Help needed with notebook installation

2000-01-19 Thread Hiten Sonpal
> This is what /etc/exports looks like now: > > /home 192.168.55.0/24(rw) > /usr1 192.168.55.0/24(rw) > /var/spool/mail 192.168.55.0/24(rw) > /mnt/cdrom 192.168.55.0/24(ro) [...] > Here are some pertinent entries from /var/log/messages: [...] To get a better idea of where it is failing

Keep copy of incoming mail?

2000-01-19 Thread Steve Frampton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello: I'm admin'ing a system which is the mail server for several hundred users. What I would like to do is have a copy of each incoming e-mail message be appended to a "logger" file (to be able to rescue the "I accidentally deleted my important ma

Re: Root doesn't accept password

2000-01-19 Thread Ryan Caveney
And if the cracker has a screwdriver and knows which jumper on your motherboard to close, he's still in. Physical security, indeed. Ryan Caveney -Original Message- From: Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 2:48

Re: RIGHT way to initiate PPP?

2000-01-19 Thread Lance A. Brown
Red Hat has /sbin/ifup and /sbin/ifdown for bring up/down interfaces. You should be able to run /sbin/ifup ppp0 to bring your ppp link. --[Lance] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

No more nvidia!

2000-01-19 Thread Svante Signell
In response to the press release by VA, SGI and NVIDIA and commenting mails on the utah-glx list. No open source drivers resulting from this cooperation!! I'm very disappointed wrt VA Linux Systems. SGI and NVIDIA position is more expected. I've had it. I'm replacing my TNT2 32MB card with a re

Re: inactive users

2000-01-19 Thread Jeff Smelser
thanks. Thats works good enough On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, rpjday wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Jeff Smelser wrote: > > > does anyone have a script/program to logout inactive users?? > > with bash and ksh, TMOUT environment variable. > > rday > > > > -- > To unsubs

Re: timed server....

2000-01-19 Thread Cheah Ling
Hi! Is anyone out there using timed server ? timed is based on a master/slave (client/server) scheme. When timed is started on a machine, it asks the master timed daemon for the network time and sets the host's clock to that time. As for my master machine I configure it as : timed

Mouse problems when returning to X from a text console.

2000-01-19 Thread Tim Hager
Hi all, I upgraded to Intel RH 6.1 last weekend and have installed all of the errata updates. Whenever I switch from a text console back into X, the mouse behaves as if both buttons are constantly pressed emulating the middle button on a 3 button mouse. This happens in Gnome and Fvwm. I

Re: No ipop3d running

2000-01-19 Thread Paul R. Watkins
Here's the exact path for the virtual pop daemon: /usr/lib/linuxconf/lib/vpop3d "Paul R. Watkins" wrote: > You need to find the pop-3 entery in your inetd.conf and uncomment it. Then > you need to replace the /usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d string with the location of > your virtual mail pop-3. ( I forge

Re: View Connecting Links

2000-01-19 Thread Bret Hughes
I don't know off hand but if I had to try I would check out the find man page seems like you can search all files pointing to a certain Inode. Sorry for the non specific "help" but since no one else answered I thought that I would give you a direction to go in should you feel so inclined. Bret

View Connecting Links

2000-01-19 Thread SoloCDM
What is the most efficient way to view all the links connected to a file? Note: Detailed Documentation(s) and Sample(s) are more than welcome. When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list and my address. *

RE: Is there a Linux version of AOL Instant messenger??

2000-01-19 Thread Juha Saarinen
There's GAIM which works quite well... search for it on Freshmeat. %-> On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Steve wrote: %-> %-> > Does anyone know?? %-> %-> There is a Java version. I haven't seen any native linux versions, %-> other than the clones listed on Freshmeat. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PRO

Re: System Access Attempts

2000-01-19 Thread William B. Herman
I cannot disable telnet right now (some access points do not have an SSH clients available). All the security updates have been installed. And I currently use IPChains for a basic firewall. How safe am I? -Bill Herman - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Home networking

2000-01-19 Thread Bruce Richardson
On 17 Jan, Chris Morton wrote: > You need a hub with as many ports as you're going to have devices on the > network. 3 network devices, at least 3 ports on the hub. > > It's possible to connect _2_ PCs back to back with a crossover Ethernet > cable. The problem is that it's usually so hard to f

Re: RH ships broken PPP dialer? I'm dumb?

2000-01-19 Thread Dave Reed
> From: Alan Mead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > RH 6.1 on Intel. When I use the setup wizard in Gnome and then use the RH > ppp dialer, pppd spews messages about "unable to find secret" all over > messages. What format is correct? I have all of the following, made by > various tools, in /etc/ppp/pap

Re: update agent

2000-01-19 Thread Tim Hager
Jack & Hidong, Have you upgraded to the latest uptodate rpm mentioned in the Errata on the Redhat Website? That solved all of my problems. Tim -- > From: Hidong Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: update agent > Date: Monday, January 17, 2000 1:09

Re: two non-related questions

2000-01-19 Thread Alan Mead
At 11:33 AM 1/17/00 -0800, matt boex wrote: > >i have two questions. first- how do i set up a secure >web page? i want someone to click on a link to a page >with a fill out form but i want that page to be >secure. Dunno about cdrw but there are (at least) two definitions of secure in this cas

Re: Dialin PPP is isolated!

2000-01-19 Thread David Taylor
Fred Herman wrote: > You probably need to add the following to your /etc/ppp/options file: > > proxyarp I'm not *exactly* sure what that does, but the idea seems sound. I'll try it out. Thanks Fred. > David Taylor wrote: > > > > I have just recently set up a dial-in server to provide ppp acce

Numbers support Red Hat more secure than MS/Sun

2000-01-19 Thread Alan Mead
Ok, leading subject. You can decide for yourself. This article provides relatively more objective data to back up an opinion that I recently asserted here re: Microsoft requires more updating than does Linux to patch security problems. I read it to say, after a number of caveats, that Red Hat (

RE: Incorrect modules loading after kernel upgrade..

2000-01-19 Thread Jamie Carl
U know, u're 100% correct... :-) I forgot to change the initrd refernce in lilo.conf to initrd-2.2.14.img so it was trying to load initrd-2.2.5-15.img. I'm just an idiot, don't mind me. :-) Now i've just got these stupid unresolved symbols errors but i'm fixing that... -Original Message--

two non-related questions

2000-01-19 Thread matt boex
i have two questions. first- how do i set up a secure web page? i want someone to click on a link to a page with a fill out form but i want that page to be secure. second- i have posted this question several times to no avail. i am having a problem wiht my cd-rw. i run xcdroast and this er

Re: Is there a Linux version of AOL Instant messenger??

2000-01-19 Thread Greg W
There is also "anybuddy" it does AOL and ICQ at same time.it is being developed as well. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 17/01/00 at 18:19 fred smith wrote: >On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 10:11:30AM -0500, Steve wrote: >> Does anyone know?? >> >> TIA >> Steve > >There is (us

RE: FrontPage and RH6.1(Apache1.3.9)

2000-01-19 Thread Steve
They do but it's not on the page. On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Jon Jackson wrote: > take a look at sysadminmag.com. I believe that is the web page. I get the > mag and they have a article on this in this months issue. > > Jon > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: System Access Attempts

2000-01-19 Thread mjbjr
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, William B. Herman wrote: > It seems that I have people who are trying to telnet into my machine. They > seem to be either changing their ISP or spoofing their IP address. There is > no reason these addresses should be telneting into our machine. My guess is > they are try

Re: MySql or postgresql

2000-01-19 Thread Bret Hughes
There is also the issue of testing and how expensive it is to fix data that is not referentially entact. If the dbms won't let you do something that does not make sense from a data model point of view then a large project with many programmers will find these bugs faster and the programming effo

RE: have win95 and linux, how to add solaris?

2000-01-19 Thread Zaigui Wang
I was trying to install it last night. When it came to the part on partition layout, I chose auto layout because I notied that solaris has already taken the drive/partition I reserved for it and marked it "solaris". I assume that the auto-layout will be restrained within that partition. Then when

Re: MySql or postgresql

2000-01-19 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 10:32:32AM -0600, Alan Mead wrote: : If COMMIT and ROLLBACK are important or : you need "true" foreign keys, then you probably need postgresql (I think : there are workarounds on the mysql website). You're correct with respect to support for transactions.. However, don't

Re: Home networking

2000-01-19 Thread Tim Fairchild
>From: > Brandon Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > If all I want is file/internet/printer sharing between, "peer" computers do > I need hubs? And how many? just one for all three or one for each > computer? > thanks. I have 3 PC's, no hub at all. Just use rg58 coax as all i wanted

Re: making a utility disk

2000-01-19 Thread Bret Hughes
Try Tom's boot disk read about it and down load it from www.toms.net/rb/ Very cool and powerful. saved my tail a couple of times. Bret Ryan Marinoff wrote: > > Is there a way I can create a diskette that has a core linux and a few linux > tools like fdisk and so forth? And if so, how would

sendmail and virtual hosts

2000-01-19 Thread ben
I'm trying to get it send mail from a couple of virtual hosts I'm running off of my site, but for some reason it's ignoring my genericstable. No errors on start up, but the mail sent to addresses I've set up in it doen't resolve. It also seems to be ignoring my virtusertable as well. I've been

Re: FrontPage and RH6.1(Apache1.3.9)

2000-01-19 Thread Duncan Hill
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had attempted to use FP on a machine some time ago. I could not get it to > configure. > At 02:41 PM 1/19/00 -0500, Steve wrote: > >Anyone have the FrontPage server extensions running on apache1.3.9??? While tricky, FP2000 is not very hard to in

Re: Incorrect modules loading after kernel upgrade..

2000-01-19 Thread Hossein S. Zadeh
uOn Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Jamie Carl wrote: > I've recently 'tried' to upgrade the kernel on a proliant 7000 server > which uses the Compaq SMART 2 driver. Thing is, if i try and boot the > new kernel it tries to load the modules from the old kernel which was > version 2.2.5-15 and i get a similar m

Re: Ethernet card D-Link DFE-530TX HOWTO

2000-01-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
on4hu wrote: > i will use a fast ethernet card at 100Mbps but seam that RedHat 6.0 2.2.5_15 > seam unknow my D-Link DFE-530TX card 10/100 adapter dual speed The Red Hat 6.0 boot disk was missing the via_rhine driver which is required for your network card. You should be able to find an updated

Re: There's gotta be something better ...

2000-01-19 Thread Vidiot
>FWIW , the hottest browser on MS has to be Opera if Java is not important, >and size / performance is. You say Java, but what about javascript? MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bart: Hey, why is it destroying other toys? Lisa: They must have programmed it to eliminate the competiti

Amaya

2000-01-19 Thread Vidiot
Many here have touted Amaya. I've been getting fed up with Netscape constantly failing. So I went and downloaded and installed the Linux binary. I understood that it could act as a browser or as an editor. Well, all it seems to want to do it be in editor mode, even when I had pushed the button

Re: There's gotta be something better ...

2000-01-19 Thread lloy0076
It is Java causing the problem. If you go to the CLI where you started X you may very well find that Netscape complains about the Java having a bad ELF header or worse. There is a fix which doesn't work...something to do with the font path. DAVID -- The Linux C Mailing Lists Have Moved mailto

Re: high-speed serial port (230400)

2000-01-19 Thread fred smith
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 08:11:35AM -0500, Eric Wood wrote: > I guess you'd do this if you're sending *highly* compressable data, ie text. > What kind of modem is that and does it offer compression at that rate?? It's a Diamond Supra-Express V90 external modem. They claim it'll do up to 230400kbp

Re: Memory check utility

2000-01-19 Thread fred smith
On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 12:32:55PM -0500, David Filion wrote: > > > > Does anyone know if there is a memory checking utility available for Linux? > Something like the old Norton Diag for DOS. I installed a couple of new SIMMs > and have been having memory problems ever since (problems crashing

IBM thinkpad 1400 series sound problem

2000-01-19 Thread Patrick O Neil
Does anyone else have an IBM ThinkPad 1472 (I think that's the model...I haven't found anything that explicitly identifies it as such) running Redhat (or any other linux)? Mine is a Celeron 366 with ESS Solo 1 sound. I have installed RH 6.1 on it and all is well except for sound. Sndconfig iden

Ram disk

2000-01-19 Thread Bruce Richardson
Earlier this evening I uncompressed a bootdisk image into /dev/ram. Now I realise that I don't know how to free up the 4mb that it consumed. Can anyone help? Be nice, I'm trying to squeeze Slackware onto a T1910 with just 4mb RAM and 200mb of disk space. -- Bruce -- To unsubscribe: mail [

RE: Ethernet Question - Take 2 :)

2000-01-19 Thread Jeff Graves
Which card is eth1? I would suggest changing the module for that one. I remember you saying that it originally used 3c59x module. I would try loading that one for eth1 so if it helps. Also, check /var/log/messages to see if it has any relevant info. -Original Message- From: Michael J

Re: Help! Still no sendmail genericstable luck

2000-01-19 Thread Charles Galpin
ok, what is in your /etc/sendmail.cG /etc/mail/genericstable files? Also remind me what exactly is and is not working. Originally I think you said the virtusetable wasn't workign either. Is it working now? On Tue, 18 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry, trouble shooting my mail server w

RE: Ethernet Question - Take 2 :)

2000-01-19 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Jeff: I just tried this on my machine: /etc/rc.d/init.d: ./network restart Shutting down interface eth0 [ OK ] Shutting down interface eth1 [ OK ] Disabling IPv4 packet forwarding [ OK ] Enabling IPv4 pac

Re: There's gotta be something better ...

2000-01-19 Thread Greg W
FWIW , the hottest browser on MS has to be Opera if Java is not important, and size / performance is. Opera is being developed for Linux as we speak, but is very Alpha, if they get it right it could be real good (cant hurt now anyways) Last Mozilla was good according to some, maybe l

Re: update agent

2000-01-19 Thread jack wallen jr
already had updated it...no luck. i'll keep trying to use the update agent (though i'm sure i'm more up2date on some packages than the errata offers - GNOME for example) and see what hapens. thanks all! yous said: Jack & Hidong, Have you upgraded to the latest uptodate rpm mentioned in

RE: FrontPage and RH6.1(Apache1.3.9)

2000-01-19 Thread Jon Jackson
take a look at sysadminmag.com. I believe that is the web page. I get the mag and they have a article on this in this months issue. Jon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 2:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fro

Re: scripts (awk or perl or what?)

2000-01-19 Thread Alan Mead
At 02:40 PM 1/18/00 -0800, Gate wrote: >I need to do the following two things (separately): > >First.. I have a file with comma delineated fields. The data in each field >is enclosed in double quotes ("). However, some data fields have a quote >within the quotes, and I need to remove that. What is

Re: Ethernet Question - Take 2 :)

2000-01-19 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Linda: What drivers do you use? - Mike On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, linda hanigan wrote: > Hi, > Just a comment, My win machines have 3c905B-Tx and > 3c905C-TX- > cards. They take different drivers. Maybe you need a > different > driver for the 3c905C-TX card. > Linda > > > -- > To unsubs

Re: Bootnet Image

2000-01-19 Thread Jonathan S. Polacheck
Kevin, Try putting your "RedHat" directory under "/home/ftp" on the ftp server. The new "bootnet" image only works with "anonymous" login, so /home/ftp appears as the root of the file system to the ftp client. Jon |+---> || Kevin Wood | |

Rescue Disk

2000-01-19 Thread Huttinger
Hi, When trying to make a rescue disk everything works like the redhat Linux 6.1 reference guide says (Pages 62-63) until I get to where I am supposed to do an ls to verify the file rescue.img is in directory /mnt/cdrom/images after mounting the cdrom. If I try to mount the cdrom again I get

Re: can't mount cdrom (fixed)

2000-01-19 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, I can mount my cd-rom now. I just recompiled the kernel from the rpms. Now it's working. Thanks, Hidong Kevin Diffily wrote: > > I don't know is this will help but I had the same problem on RH 6.0. > /dev/cdrom needed to be linked to the correct device. I did the > following: > ln -

Re: Home networking

2000-01-19 Thread Paul Brown
> If all I want is file/internet/printer sharing between, "peer" > computers do I need hubs? And how many? just one for all three > or one for each computer? Brandon, You need a NIC and a catagory 5 patch cable for each computer and 1 hub/switch that has enough ports to handle all the patch ca

How to obtain default DHCP settings as *installed*?

2000-01-19 Thread Steve Frampton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello: I installed RH 6.1 yesterday on a system networked with DHCP. After specifying "DHCP" upon installation, everything worked just dandy. I then decided that I wanted a static IP for myself, so I used 'netconf' to change from DHCP to manual, en

Re: FrontPage and RH6.1(Apache1.3.9)

2000-01-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I had attempted to use FP on a machine some time ago. I could not get it to configure. One note though, Front Page for Unix flavors is a very high security risk as it contains many security holes. There was a page about frontpage security issues but right now the address eludes me. Kirk At 02:

Re: Anyway to rebuild /usr/local/ ???

2000-01-19 Thread Steve Frampton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Steve wrote: > Pulled a knucklehead move, rm -rf in /usr/local/ nothing major in > there but is there any easy way to rebuild it? Well, as long as you haven't installed anything locally (from source, etc.) you should be fine. C

redirected standard out vs log file

2000-01-19 Thread Bret Hughes
I have a java program that spits out messages to standard out periodically. This program will run indefinetly and when I redirect the output the file gets pretty big >10MB after a week or so. There is a bunch of debug stuff in there right now and the production version will not have quite so muc

Passwords and Virutal Email

2000-01-19 Thread Paul R. Watkins
I've got virtual email setup under RH6.1 (using linuxconf). I can send mail to the virtual domain. It goes into the virtual domain user mail and I can see the message there. The inetd.conf file is setup with the /vpop3d daemon in the pop-3 entry. I can't access and read the email with the pop3

Re: Home networking

2000-01-19 Thread Frank Carreiro
I've never heard of Harmony. When I did my research on minihubs I was told that D-Link was the hub of choice. Perhaps somebody else here has some info they can provide or Harmony has a web site somewhere... Sounds like the right number of ports for a home network (the hub). I would however rec

Re: There's gotta be something better ...

2000-01-19 Thread Robert Canary
I sure it is the java. I run a number a java apps, including the an interface for my user database (MySql). It has never failed me there. But if I try to use the Messenger it craps out when click (or press) the "ok" button after putting in my mail password. Netscape ran like a champ until I up

Re: Ethernet card D-Link DFE-530TX HOWTO

2000-01-19 Thread linda hanigan
Put this in your conf.module alias eth0 via-rhine The via-rhine module comes with rh 6.0 Linda - Original Message - From: on4hu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 6:54 AM Subject: Ethernet card D-Link DFE-530TX HOWTO > Hello fel

Re: Help! Still no sendmail genericstable luck

2000-01-19 Thread Kevin Hemenway
And to think I didn't even attach the files! Ha! Kevin Hemenway -- - Total Net NH, LLC EMAIL: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 15 Pleasant St., Suite 11 WEBSITE: Concord, NH 03301 PHONE:

RE: Help! Still no sendmail genericstable luck

2000-01-19 Thread Juha Saarinen
Ben, Do yourself a favour, and get Exim 3.12. It's an excellent mailer, much easier to configure than Sendmail and as far as I can tell, works just as well. You also get a X mail queue management interface. Details at www.exim.org and RPMs at rpmfind.net. -- Juha %-> -Original Message-

Re: Memory check utility - THANKS

2000-01-19 Thread Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 09:15:43AM -0500, David Filion wrote: > > I pulled out the remaining old SIMMs before I started the testing andi > noticed a > change in system stability right away so it probably was a conflict between > the > old and the new. The documentation I have (motherboard etc)

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