Video card nightmare ! pls help...

2000-02-13 Thread Ketan Gandhi
Hi guys, I am having some trouble with my X Server config... My linux box: J-530BF motherboard, built in Sis 530 AGP VGA Card, 160 M (PC 100) RAM, AMD K6-2 400 Running Linux 6.0 (XFree86-3.3.3.1, 2.2.5 kernel) Here is the info on the sound card from the PC's manual: -Built-in high performance 3D

Re: Can't load xwindows

2000-02-13 Thread Nick Hamm
> > > > > ( I know not everyone likes it, but I'd like to have to ability to > > > try out all the different window managers - kde, gnome, afterlevel, > > > at will) Thank you. > > Simply type 'switchdesk' at the command line - a window pops up giving you various options. -- To unsubscribe:

RE: OT: Design Question: Storing web pages in a database.

2000-02-13 Thread Ed Lazor
> Yes, but now updating the pages is harder than if they are on disk! Just a > counter point. > > charles Thanks for the counter point Charles =) The main benefit would be adding a layer of abstraction for authors. All of the pages on the site are dynamic and being created by pulling different

RE: OT: Design Question: Storing web pages in a database.

2000-02-13 Thread Ed Lazor
> I would prefer mysql /php3. > > Checkout the tutorial at www.webmonkey.com to build dynamic websites with > mysql/php3. > > Looking forward to your feedback. > > > Danny Hi Danny =) I had read through the article. It covered the basics. That was good enough to get me past the first hurdle o

Re: Freezing Netscape!

2000-02-13 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
Well known pb for which I don't really remenber the solution ... sorry !. Something like the fonts not beeing set right, I think. But I am pretty sure that this is in the erratas on the redhat site. http://www.redhat.com Philippe Redhat Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi everyb

RE: OT: Design Question: Storing web pages in a database.

2000-02-13 Thread Ed Lazor
Very cool - thanks =) Question for you... the next issue I'm addressing is that this system will work very easily for storage of straight html. Do you have any recommendations on how to integrate graphics into these documents? -Ed > Simple.. Two tables something like this (MySQL specific):

Installing Sound Card

2000-02-13 Thread Redhat Mailing List
Dear Experts I have installed RH6.0 on a box with servex motherboard PII 333 MHz using onboard chipset as sound card ,but i couldn't find a proper driver for it and also it wasn't detected automatically during sound card setup.Which driver of setup list must be used and by which configuration,

Freezing Netscape!

2000-02-13 Thread Redhat Mailing List
Hi everybody Newbie comes again! Using netscape navigator 4.51 on RH 6.0 ,it freezes while loading pages containing java applets,which forces me to close all my netscape windows! (because of telepathy between them ;)...) Any sulotion? thank you for your help! -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PR

RE: OT: Design Question: Storing web pages in a database.

2000-02-13 Thread Chad W. Skinner
> Yes, but now updating the pages is harder than if they are on disk! Just a > counter point. I am in the process of writing a simple site (currently < 50 pages) and am using php, mysql and fast template. The reason I like this is no one I work with wants to update html code. I made a simple form

Re: kde/gnome

2000-02-13 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: > GDM is included and so is switchdesk? man locate -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: giftoppm belongs to which rpm?

2000-02-13 Thread Raju K V
rpm -qf /full/path/to/file Raju On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 04:34:02PM +0800, Ahkoshy2@localhost [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Hi, > > if this is repeated...sorry > > I'm trying to find out which RPM does giftoppm belong to? > Anyone knows? > I have quite a number of ppmtoXXX but not giftoppm...

Re: [OT] Perl

2000-02-13 Thread Hossein S. Zadeh
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Charles Galpin wrote: > Hi Ed > > I find the perl man pages very readable. man perl will list all the other > perl man pages (they are split up into categories - for example perlfunc > lists builtin functions, perlre deals with regular expressions etc). Also try "perldoc"

Re: kde/gnome

2000-02-13 Thread Bret Hughes
if your system is set to boot into runlevel 5 the login screen is gdm I belive. A widow with text entry fields for username and password as well as an opions button. Click on the options button to dril down to the desktop environment/windowmanger to use. switchdesk is on my system but I have ne

Re: [OT] Perl

2000-02-13 Thread Charles Galpin
Hi Ed I find the perl man pages very readable. man perl will list all the other perl man pages (they are split up into categories - for example perlfunc lists builtin functions, perlre deals with regular expressions etc). As far as your specific task, it sounds like you have the reading part f

Re: Netmask

2000-02-13 Thread Charles Galpin
Ok, I've had a couple of people contact meoff list about this. This is the common concensus, athough I'd keep them on the same class C to keep things like my firewall scripts working without modification. But back to the dhcp thing. I had failed to notice that all I needed was the correct netmas

Re: OT: Design Question: Storing web pages in a database.

2000-02-13 Thread Charles Galpin
Although there are certainly benefits to doing this, I'd say make sure you have a good reason for doing so, otherwise it's a lot of complexity for little gain. Perhaps if you explained what you are doing it a bit more detail we can comment more. For just creating pages from multiple pieces, php a

Unidentified subject!

2000-02-13 Thread Christopher Molnar
A new version of the KDE ALPHA binaries are available at nebsllc.com. These binaries are built from CVS as of 13 February 2000 at 8am Eastern Standard Time (-0500). KDEVELOP is missing as it did not compile. I will put this into the directory as soon as it does. There has been an update to th

Re: ATM on linux ?

2000-02-13 Thread erik
Hi, I don't know much about ATM, but I noticed the Case Western Reserve University uses it I think. On thier lug page, they have some tips that may help you. Go to: http://cwrulug.cwru.edu -e On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 05:04:46PM +0800, sixx wrote: >Hi ppl, > >Was wondering if anyone here have

Re: kde/gnome

2000-02-13 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
GDM is included and so is switchdesk? -- Michael S. Dunsavage On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: > > > Is there a way to start X w/ gnome or kde by choice if I install both? > > Yes. GDM gives you a choice, and you can change the defa

Re: secondary DNS

2000-02-13 Thread Rahim Valiani
When the serial #, the one the zone file, in the primary server, is > the secondary server a refresh will take place based on the interval specified in the zone file. The first few lins in a zone file typically have this info. Remember that Zone transfers require TCP connections to work on the pr

Re: OT: Design Question: Storing web pages in a database.

2000-02-13 Thread Danny
I would prefer mysql /php3. Checkout the tutorial at www.webmonkey.com to build dynamic websites with mysql/php3. Looking forward to your feedback. Danny dannyh At 12:45 13/02/2000 -0500, Jason Costomiris wrote: >On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 12:08:34AM -0800, Ed Lazor wrote: >: Has anyone done t

Re: kde/gnome

2000-02-13 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: > Is there a way to start X w/ gnome or kde by choice if I install both? Yes. GDM gives you a choice, and you can change the default with switchdesk. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "u

Re: Strange log entry

2000-02-13 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Steve wrote: > Cron generated a strange log entry last night. Does any one have any > idea what might have caused it? I mean I know the file is missing but > what is it for and how do I fix it? Seach for the filename in your weekly cron scripts: grep rec\.1 /etc/cro

Re: named as root by default

2000-02-13 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Greg Wright wrote: > there is a chrooted version, I have SRPMS here somewhere if > interested.. I'm interested in the implementation details, but prefer to tweak my own config. I don't like using "non-standard" RPM's when I could just make manual changes to exist

kde/gnome

2000-02-13 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
Is there a way to start X w/ gnome or kde by choice if I install both? -- Michael S. Dunsavage -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

How to set up SNMP??

2000-02-13 Thread Steve
Hi All, Trying to set up snmp for the very 1st time and am wondering if there is a HOWTO or a good site explaining it somewhere? Any help pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated. TIA Steve -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Serial console question.

2000-02-13 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 11:30 AM 2/13/00 -0800, David S Edwards wrote: >Hello, > >If I want to have a serial console connection via a null modem cable >between my two linux boxes, what is the best program to use on box A to >connect to box B, if box B already has serial console support compiled in >the kernel? Nei

Re: secondary DNS

2000-02-13 Thread Eric Cifreo
> what do i do to update the > secondary nameserver. ?? > i have it all setup but now > i need to set it up to > update. > > Thanks. > It should automatically update itself. If you look in the SOA values for each zone you provide name services, these configure your slave server's behavior:

Re: Please help me disable Apache Web Services

2000-02-13 Thread er-chan
in the RH6.1 standalone version of apache, you can stop it from the console by typing in the following kill -TERM `cat /var/run/http.pid` ## er-chan # at ## scn.org ### at usa.net ## On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Danny wrote: > I never heard any inter relaton between kmail /kppp

secondary DNS

2000-02-13 Thread Steve Lee
what do i do to update the secondary nameserver. ?? i have it all setup but now i need to set it up to update. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Please help me disable Apache Web Services

2000-02-13 Thread Danny
I never heard any inter relaton between kmail /kppp and apache before. But if you want to stop apache from starting. Why dont rpm -e apache.1.3.9.rpm. That will delete apache and apache from /etc/rc.d/ and prevent apache from starting up. At 17:16 12/02/00 -0600, Robert Canary wrote: >I do not

Re: Setting the correct time

2000-02-13 Thread Danny
Try using linuxconf Make sure you login as root first linuxconf does the job quite well. At 14:48 13/02/00 -0500, Juan Sanchez wrote: >Check out the following article. You might be missing a soft link that netscape (or other mail program) needs to resolve your local time zone >correctly. >Mail

Partition for Merit AAA Radius

2000-02-13 Thread Danny
Situation - I need to deploy Merit AAA Radius - I have a 13 GB HD to use Question 1) How would I assign my partitions? Looking forward to your feedback. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Setting the correct time

2000-02-13 Thread Juan Sanchez
Check out the following article. You might be missing a soft link that netscape (or other mail program) needs to resolve your local time zone correctly. Mail messages are sending and displaying the wrong timestamp in Messenger for Unix 19990228-5.

Serial console question.

2000-02-13 Thread David S Edwards
Hello, If I want to have a serial console connection via a null modem cable between my two linux boxes, what is the best program to use on box A to connect to box B, if box B already has serial console support compiled in the kernel? Neither box has X windows installed. Thanks, David -- T

Questions about /etc/group under RH 6.1 (upgraded from 5.2)

2000-02-13 Thread Thomas Porter
First thing to realize: my RH system has been upgraded many, many times from RH 2 back in 1996 on through today, so there may be a lot of kruft in the files I am discussing. I was perusing my /etc/group file the other day and noticed a few puzzling things that I thought the list might be able to

Re: Strange log entry

2000-02-13 Thread Steve
Thank you! On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote: > On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 08:42:42AM -0500, Steve wrote: > > Cron generated a strange log entry last night. Does any one have any > > idea what might have caused it? I mean I know the file is missing > > but what is it for and how do I fix it? >

Re: system - majordomo

2000-02-13 Thread Toby A. Rider
> > What kind of system would one require to run a maillist like redhat-list? > > You will find the latest version (4.94.5) of Majordomo at: > > http://www.greatcircle.com/ > > It is the most popular, free mailing list manager around. It's support > mailing lists are active and informative.

Printtool

2000-02-13 Thread Juan Sanchez
Hello, I am using printtool in redhat 6.0. The printer setup is fine, however when I print the test pages, the 0.5in border around the page is shifted up by 0.25 inch. Is there any ghostcript option to move the page down again? I am using the HP Laserjet IId driver to drive an NEC SuperScript 870

Re: Strange log entry

2000-02-13 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 08:42:42AM -0500, Steve wrote: > Cron generated a strange log entry last night. Does any one have any > idea what might have caused it? I mean I know the file is missing > but what is it for and how do I fix it? ln -sf /usr/man/man1/play.1 /usr/man/man1/rec.1 should fix

Re: OT: Design Question: Storing web pages in a database.

2000-02-13 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 12:08:34AM -0800, Ed Lazor wrote: : Has anyone done this? (or is this considered a bad thing?) Done it before, would probably do it again. Not a bad thing at all, at least from the standpoint of maintaining the site. You don't have to deal with lots of files. Particula

Re: Desktop Themes

2000-02-13 Thread Eric Cifreo
On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, James Lindley wrote: >Where can i read about installing new desktop themes. > > > >Thanks > >Jim Depends on the window manager/desktop environment you run. Try themes.org for starters. Eric Cifreo Austin, TX -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" a

Desktop Themes

2000-02-13 Thread James Lindley
Where can i read about installing new desktop themes. Thanks Jim -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: gcc-2.95 vs egcs (was RH6.2)

2000-02-13 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Sorry for the double post. I just had a little trouble with mailer (which is now fixed). I thought that the first message did not go out. Cheers, Dominic. -- Dominic Mitchell Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Economics mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Queen's University

Desktop Themes

2000-02-13 Thread James Lindley
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gcc-2.95 vs egcs-1.1.2 (was re: RH6.2)

2000-02-13 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Hi, I deleted the message where the person asked question about egcs vs gcc. I am not a specialist in this... I believe that Redhat is (was) shipping egcs-1.1.2. If you need gcc-2.95.x, there is a package for it in rawhide (gcc-2.95.2-3). Note that rawhide has also an rpm egcs-1.1.2-28. gc

gcc-2.95 vs egcs (was RH6.2)

2000-02-13 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Hi, I deleted the message where the person asked question about egcs vs gcc. I am not a specialist in this... I believe that Redhat is (was) shipping egcs-1.1.2. If you need gcc-2.95.x, there is a package for it in rawhide (gcc-2.95.2-3). Note that rawhide has also an rpm egcs-1.1.2-28. gc

Re: 6.2

2000-02-13 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Hi, I deleted the message where the person asked question about egcs vs gcc. I am not a specialist in this... I believe that Redhat is (was) shipping egcs-1.1.2. If you need gcc-2.95.x, there is a package for it in rawhide (gcc-2.95.2-3). Note that rawhide has also an rpm egcs-1.1.2-28. gc

compilation

2000-02-13 Thread Mohammed Ennasar
Hello all, I compile the kernel 3.3.10 (make bzImage), the compilation stop with this message: fs/filesysteme.a(fat.o): In fonction 'fat_file_write': fat.a (.text+0x264e): undefined reference to 'update_vm_cache' make: ***[vmlinux] Error 1 any help? Thanks a lot in advance. m.ennas

Re: OT: Design Question: Storing web pages in a database.

2000-02-13 Thread Bret Hughes
No help but curious. Isn't a multi-page web document just a bigger html file? Is there something special about these documents that I am missing? Bret Ed Lazor wrote: > Has anyone done this? (or is this considered a bad thing?) > > If you have, could you give me some pointers on the design yo

Re: [OT] Genetical Algorithms

2000-02-13 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 12:02:18AM -0600, Manuel Camacho wrote: > Dear friends: > I have to present a small project for my automatic control course about Genetic > Algorythms. I found no information about that in the library, but I got a > magazine (a Linux one) in Spanish with a nice theoretica

Re: Netscape Bookmarks

2000-02-13 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Scarlett, IIRC, Netscape does *re-create* it's files every time they are saved instead of updating them, which would explain why your symbolic link gets overwritten with a new real file every time. Potential solution would be to wait for mozilla, but that maybe isn't an option for you. Regards

Re: Setting the correct time

2000-02-13 Thread Bret Hughes
Kevin - hwclock does indeed set the time but if you set your time to UTC (I forget what it stands for, Universal Time, Coordinated or something like that ) you need to use the --utc option to get the correect offset. Is the problem with the emails that you send? The sending time stamps are put

how do i make biff work?

2000-02-13 Thread Nitesh Dhanjani
Hello, I have the following in my /etc/inetd.conf: comsat dgram udp waitroot/usr/sbin/tcpd in.comsat And I set "biff y". Now, when a new email arrives, biff does not alert me, but I find the following in /var/log/messages: Feb 13 09:48:11 labhost1 comsat[30032]: '/' in "/dev/pts/

Re: Red Hat 6.2

2000-02-13 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Dominic: Sorry for being so slow to get back to this. Based on what you said below, shouldn't the RPM in Red Hat 6.2 be called gcc-2.95-2 (if it's the latest) instead of showing egcs in the system? I guess what I'm trying to determine is: 1) Did Red Hat take the latest combined effort of bo

Strange log entry

2000-02-13 Thread Steve
Cron generated a strange log entry last night. Does any one have any idea what might have caused it? I mean I know the file is missing but what is it for and how do I fix it? Cron run-parts /etc/cron.weekly Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 04:22:03 -0500 From: root@magoo (Cron Daemon) To: root@magoo R

Re: Setting the correct time

2000-02-13 Thread David Powers
Kevsurf wrote: > > Hello, > > I am confused on how I am to set the time on my RH 6.1 system. I have been > told to use hwclock, but after reading the man file, it seems that emails > sent or received through the server display the wrong date and time. > > Any ideas what utilities support the d

RE: mail failure to some addresses

2000-02-13 Thread Uncle Meat
On 13-Feb-00 Daniel Goldin opined: > > I can't seem to send mail to certain addresses. Get the following > message. (Running redhat 6.1 with Smail). Any help gratefully > appreciated as always. > > >>>Return-Path: <> > >>>Received: from popd.ix.netcom.com by localhost with POP3 >>>(fetchmail-

Where to get mysql rpm's?

2000-02-13 Thread Brian
I am looking for mysql rpm's for version 3.22 or greater. I would prefer one that uses the same conventions as the 3.20 and 3.21 rpm's found in the redhat contrib/powertools mirrors (i.e. all binaries in the same places, so when I upgrade everything goes smooth). If anyone can help me out that

ATM on linux ?

2000-02-13 Thread sixx
Hi ppl, Was wondering if anyone here have any sucess with atm cards on a linux box? I believe there are alot of xDSL ppl out there which rely on the 25 mb atm card to link to the net, but the drivers are in M$ format. I've been looking around and seems that only the 2.3 development kernels has

Can Stylus print closer than 23mm to top of page?

2000-02-13 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear folks, I am a very happy camper. I have plug and play use of my DC290 Kodak camera using OpenDis and a Perl program I wrote to download photos simply by plugging in the camera: no touching the computer. The program also automatically puts the photos into my web site, with a new directory f

mail failure to some addresses

2000-02-13 Thread Daniel Goldin
I can't seem to send mail to certain addresses. Get the following message. (Running redhat 6.1 with Smail). Any help gratefully appreciated as always. >>Return-Path: <> >>Received: from popd.ix.netcom.com by localhost with POP3 >>(fetchmail-5.1.0) for daniel@localhost (single-drop); Sun, 13 Fe

giftoppm belongs to which rpm?

2000-02-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, if this is repeated...sorry I'm trying to find out which RPM does giftoppm belong to? Anyone knows? I have quite a number of ppmtoXXX but not giftoppm... What's the command for rpm to find out where eg. ppmhist comes from? rpm -??? ? Thansk for any help!! Regards, koshy -- To unsu

Unidentified subject!

2000-02-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I'm trying to find out which RPM does giftoppm belong to? Anyone knows? I have quite a number of ppmtoXXX but not giftoppm... What's the command for rpm to find out where eg. ppmhist comes from? rpm -??? ? Thansk for any help!! Regards, koshy ToDaY's QuOtE iS My band career ended l

Re: named as root by default

2000-02-13 Thread Greg Wright
there is a chrooted version, I have SRPMS here somewhere if interested.. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 12/02/00 at 22:03 Todd A. Jacobs wrote: >Why is named set to run as root by default in RHL? Isn't current best >practice to run named as an unpriveleged user? > >--

OT: Design Question: Storing web pages in a database.

2000-02-13 Thread Ed Lazor
Has anyone done this? (or is this considered a bad thing?) If you have, could you give me some pointers on the design you used to store and retrieve multi-page web documents using the database? I've been able to store single page web files with no problem. I'm designing something for multi-pag