Re: IDE CD-RW

2000-02-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
A couple of steps have been forgotten in other posts (I've forgotten them myself before), but the following should get you all the way there: 1) Add the line: append="hdX=ide-scsi" to /etc/lilo.conf 2) Run /sbin/lilo 3) Reboot (yes, you have to reboot) :o 4) Run "modprobe ide-scsi

Re: IDE CD-RW

2000-02-15 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
Let me correct this : you WILL be able to use it as a regular SCSI cdrom by using the generic sg devices. Once again, I did it some time ago and I don't remember what I did. But I am quite sure that enabling generic scsi in the kernel will give you normal access to your drive as a cdrom. (some

Re: IDE CD-RW

2000-02-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 22:28:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: IDE CD-RW >Be sure to place your cdcrom on an ide cable seprate from your hard >drive. I have mine on ide3 as hdg with hdf being a IBM ata66 20 hard drive. No problems. Promise Fastt

Re: IDE CD-RW

2000-02-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 22:24:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: IDE CD-RW >>you might have to load the modules which emulate scsi on top of ide (ide-scsi something). edit lilo.conf add the line: append="hdX=ide-scsi" where X is the drive letter

Re: Help on S3 server selection

2000-02-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The S3 trio is buggy at best. Get a different video card. An easy to set up card is a cheap ATI RageIIC. Mach 64 driver and will get you full color and VMware will not complain. PCI modems are not yet supported. Kirk At 07:31 AM 2/16/00 +0200, you wrote: >Hi >I'm a RH newbie. >q1: I have a new

Oracle for linux

2000-02-15 Thread Ionut Gumeni
  Hello, From where can I download for free a version of Oracle Server for Linux! Thanks. System Engineer Ionut Gumeni Office phone:  +(40)-41-60.13.14    Fax:    +(40)-41-60.13.69 Home phone: +(40)-41-63.99.28 

Help on S3 server selection

2000-02-15 Thread luc00
Hi I'm a RH newbie. q1: I have a new S3 Trio 3D/2X ,8Mb, video accelerator.     In RH 6.1 it does not to work properly.     Does anybody know a better chipset selection for the S3/SVGA         server ? q2: I have a HCF 56K PCI modem that does not work on 6.1     Does anybody know a solutio

Re: IDE CD-RW

2000-02-15 Thread Roger Dooley
Be sure to place your cdcrom on an ide cable seprate from your hard drive. Compile in scsi emulation and cdrom support. Don't probe LUNS or compile in ide-cdrom support. I can't remember the exact kernel options, but I did this today at work. If you want the exact kernel options, mail me tommorrow

Re: IDE CD-RW

2000-02-15 Thread Brandon Dorman
Could you let me know when you find something? Thanks. erik wrote: > Hi, > > I am learning more and more about linux by the day. The next thing I > would like to tackle is getting my IDE CD-RW to work under linux so > that I don't have to boot into windows except to watch my DVD's I > have

compiler can't locate header files?

2000-02-15 Thread Rmacedon
I just loaded linux on for the second time and I'm having difficulty compiling a simple hello world program. my file: Hello.cc #include void main() { cout<<"Hello World"< iostream.h No such file or directory I then tried to link manually to this file and got another odd error...can't rememb

Re: IDE CD-RW

2000-02-15 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
I doon't know about the RW but for CDR you have xcdroast (there are rpms you can find around) which does a wonderful job. Since it is an IDE (as opposed to SCSI) , be sure to read what they say about your kernel config (don't remenber really what needs to be done). I guess that if you are using

IDE CD-RW

2000-02-15 Thread erik
Hi, I am learning more and more about linux by the day. The next thing I would like to tackle is getting my IDE CD-RW to work under linux so that I don't have to boot into windows except to watch my DVD's I have looked at the HOWTO and I have found that they are outdated and are not very use

Re: downloading source code for web pages

2000-02-15 Thread Vidiot
>Because I'd never heard of it, and in the last week I've seen three posts >on different lists asking how to do this, none of which returned the >answer "wget." BTW, wget isn't on my box. >Glen Go to Freshmeat and put "wget" in the search engine and it will return the info that you need. It is

Re: downloading source code for web pages

2000-02-15 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
Because I'd never heard of it, and in the last week I've seen three posts on different lists asking how to do this, none of which returned the answer "wget." BTW, wget isn't on my box. Glen On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Vidiot wrote: >> >>Below is a script you can use to download the html source code

SIGSEGV received at befff800 in /lib/libpthread.so.0.

2000-02-15 Thread Bret Hughes
I have a java program running the IBM jre that scrolls through a list of urls displays them and then starts all over again. The thing will run for about 3.5 days and then choke. The javacore file provided by the jre has this at the beginning whith a whole bootload of stuff: SIGSEGV received at

Russian keyboard in dosemu in RH 6.1

2000-02-15 Thread psv
I can't get russian symbols when typing in dosemu, though russian font is loaded and visible. Is there anybody expierenced in this? In early versions of dosemu I done it with obvious keyboard driver for DOS, but now this way doesn't work. And how I can remap russian filenames on win partitions

Re: Gnome Slows to a Crawl

2000-02-15 Thread Rob Saul
Alan Mead wrote: > > The kids at the local LUG mentioned that they noticed that X leaks > memory... X has had this problem for a long time. I once brought at system to it's knees by start xterm kill xterm lather, rinse, repeat. Not sure if it's gotten better or just no

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

2000-02-15 Thread Chad W. Skinner
This may be a rather stupid, i.e. poor, concept, but if anyone knows of a better method of doing this I am open to suggestions. What I am doing is typing articles in word and saving them later as HTML documents (MS Word generates horrid html files). I then have a form that uploads the html file t

Re: Int'l modem standards (Germany)

2000-02-15 Thread Steve Frampton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Thomas Ribbrock (Design/DEG) wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 10:35:15AM +0100, Gustav Schaffter wrote: > > > Still, you're most likely violating the agreement with your local telco. > > This is *very* likely true in Germany, as

RE: Upload hanging problem

2000-02-15 Thread Tom K
>Tom, > >exactly what is "any upload"? >I am guessing ftp, but it isn't even clear where you are running the client: >remotely trying to upload to the linux box's ftp server, or local to the >linux box hitting another ftp server. >or what? FTP, DCC via IRC, if I attempt to send a large e-mail (

Re: Upload hanging problem

2000-02-15 Thread Carl Karsten
Tom, exactly what is "any upload"? I am guessing ftp, but it isn't even clear where you are running the client: remotely trying to upload to the linux box's ftp server, or local to the linux box hitting another ftp server. or what? Carl > I've got RH 6.1, and all of the sudden any upload I

Upload hanging problem

2000-02-15 Thread Tom K
I've got RH 6.1, and all of the sudden any upload I make hangs almost immediately. Worked fine for a week or so, then just happened. Reinstalling fresh did not fix the problem. I've had this problem for over a week now and haven't found any answers. The two suggestions I've had were: use TCPDump.

RE: samba/ net bios

2000-02-15 Thread Steve Lee
thank you. i will give it a shot tonight. On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: > > Samba produces error codes to the console when it fails to open the default > log files or the directory which they are supposed to be in does not > exist... when it is started... > > Check to see what /

Re: Gnome Slows to a Crawl

2000-02-15 Thread Philip Jenkins
I have had to watch for the ld.linux.so that netscape sends wild at times and kill it, other then that lib I normaly don't get any zombie's running.  I will search bugzilla and see if I can find the ticket you mentioned.  I did notice that gnome ran a little better after I upgraded gnome to the f

RE: samba/ net bios

2000-02-15 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Samba produces error codes to the console when it fails to open the default log files or the directory which they are supposed to be in does not exist... when it is started... Check to see what /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb thinks the file locations are... Then check to be sure that the files exist (man

Re: downloading source code for web pages

2000-02-15 Thread Vidiot
> >Below is a script you can use to download the html source code for web >pages. This allows those who don't have the LWP module and don't want to >mess with it to still access the web pages. Why the need for a script when a program called wget will download anything from the net without a hitc

downloading source code for web pages

2000-02-15 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
Below is a script you can use to download the html source code for web pages. This allows those who don't have the LWP module and don't want to mess with it to still access the web pages. If you're wondering why I'm posting it here rather than to a perl list, it's because it uses Linux specific

Re: Can not get access to local www

2000-02-15 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
Danny, I'm not the original poster, but I had similar trouble so I want to respond also. I installed the default Apache that came with 6.1. I used linuxconf to set it up. The daemon wouldn't run so I switched it over to inetd, at which point I started receiving the same error messages as Rober

Re: running lynx as nobody

2000-02-15 Thread Eric Wood
Never mind, I had to add "/home/nobody" to the passwd file. By default / is nobody's home directory. Duh! -Eric Wood -Original Message- From: Eric Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 5:17 PM Subject: running lynx as nobody

Re: Can not get access to local www

2000-02-15 Thread Danny
-If you are running a live box you should always backup httpd.conf, srm.conf everytime you make changes to it. eg:- cp /somewhere/httpd/conf/httpd.conf /home/backup/ So if you make a mess of it you can always bring apache back up by using http -f /home/backup/httpd.conf. - In regards to your a

running lynx as nobody

2000-02-15 Thread Eric Wood
The nobody user can not run "lynx". $ lynx metamail: Can't open temporary file! $ Nobody can create file in /tmp, so that's no it. I made a /home/nobody directory figuring lynx was trying to store temp files in there, but no luck. Where else could it be? Thanks, -Eric Wood -- To unsubscribe

Re: Webmail

2000-02-15 Thread Danny
Atdot can do that. It is easy to configure assuming you have knowledge of perl/ cgi / sendmail. At 10:21 15/02/00 -0300, Martin A. Marques wrote: >On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Gate wrote: > >> I'm looking for an easy-to-install Webmail system that will run under RH >> Linux 6.1, that supports folder

CDRW and kernel detection

2000-02-15 Thread Roger Dooley
I'm having a slight problem with my CDRW and hopefully someone can help. When booting the kernel (2.2.14), I get the following message: scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices scsi : 1 host. Vendor: CREATIVE Model: DVD5240E-1Rev: 1.20 Type: CD-ROM

RE: NT and Linux

2000-02-15 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
ok im wrong -- Michael S. Dunsavage On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Tanner, Robby wrote: > Granted, it would be nuts NOT to have boot and rescue floppies for > all the O/S's on your multi-boot machine. However, the bootpart process > mentioned previously I have used without incident. There is a mi

Re: MySQL WinXX and Linux

2000-02-15 Thread Alan Mead
The 3.20 is GPL, is there a Windows version or can you compile it using ... what is it... cygwin? Or get work to cough up the $200 (the euro was worth less than a dollar recently--I thought--are you sure it's not US$145? anyway, maybe the price will go down soon). Or, MyODBC is free, you can

Re: stopping ip spoofing on rh6.1 box

2000-02-15 Thread Brian Anderson
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, matt boex wrote: > i am trying to alter my firewall to not allow ip > spoofing. i have read the man pages on ipchains and > there is a small script to run on boot before any > network devices are initialized. which file would i > insert into, i don't figure that would be rc

Call for testing. (LDAP based automated mailing lists)

2000-02-15 Thread Jason Costomiris
I missed a feature that Netscape Messaging Server had. That was the ability to create email distribution lists based on an LDAP URL. This is extremely handy for managing departmental mailing lists. In smaller shops, it's not a huge deal, but I found that once my company was numbering in the 20'

Re: Gnome Slows to a Crawl

2000-02-15 Thread Alan Mead
At 08:30 AM 2/15/00 , Philip D. Jenkins wrote: >since Redhat's 6.1 rpms. It seems to get worse the more I use the Gnome >Terminal, I tend to have about 12 gnome terminals open at all the time >for several days until it gets to slow, the a simple restart of X fixes >the problem. I have always sus

Re: samba/ netbios

2000-02-15 Thread Alan Mead
What are you talking about? At 01:32 PM 2/15/00 , Steve Lee wrote: >I have samba installed and >i hate looking at all that info >flying by the terminal under tty1 >how do i set it up to not do that >everytime i tyupe on the terminal >stuff shows up. --- Alan D. Mead / Research Scientist / [E

MySQL WinXX and Linux

2000-02-15 Thread Frank J. Schmuck
I was wanting to play around with MySQL in both a WindowsNT/2000 environment and Redhat Linux. The download page points out that the new version for Windows platforms is 170 euros with a euro being $1.17. Ouch! I can see that for folks who are doing development, but does anyone know of a more l

stopping ip spoofing on rh6.1 box

2000-02-15 Thread matt boex
howdy, i am trying to alter my firewall to not allow ip spoofing. i have read the man pages on ipchains and there is a small script to run on boot before any network devices are initialized. which file would i insert into, i don't figure that would be rc.local. would it be rc.sysint? i am ru

RE: NT and Linux

2000-02-15 Thread Tanner, Robby
Granted, it would be nuts NOT to have boot and rescue floppies for all the O/S's on your multi-boot machine. However, the bootpart process mentioned previously I have used without incident. There is a mini how-to available on dual booting NT + Linux. > -Original Message- > From:

Re: NT and Linux

2000-02-15 Thread rpjday
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: > watch out for lilo, You cannot put lilo on the MBR cuz NT will have a shit > fit. ??. not in my experience. i've had more than one dual-boot nt-linux box, with lilo in the MBR. rday -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

RE: NT and Linux

2000-02-15 Thread T Churchward
I had the same problem with LILO when I installed Linux on my machine. The only way I could recover the MBR on my NT disk IIRC was to create a boot floppy using my old Win3.1 laptop and use this to recreate the MBR on the NT machine. After this experience I would recommend creating a boot flo

Re: NT and Linux

2000-02-15 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
Sorry to contradict this : I installed many times lilo on the MBR dual booting linux + NT. In fact, you can dual boot windows 9.x + NT using the NT loader, then use lilo to choose between loading linux or using NT loader. This means you can have linux + NT + Win98 on the same disk. Philippe

Re: NT and Linux

2000-02-15 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 03:46:21PM -0500, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: > watch out for lilo, You cannot put lilo on the MBR cuz NT will have a shit > fit. Really? I did that for the longest time when I was dual booting Linux and Windows NT 4.0 SP4 on my laptop. Now I use VMWare and I don

Re: logwatch scripts and attacks

2000-02-15 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Alan Mead wrote: > logwatch filter for portsentry? Or should I switch to another > logwatch (like psionic's)? I've had excellent results with psionic's. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subje

Re: Gnome Slows to a Crawl

2000-02-15 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Jeff Holzfaster wrote: > period of time with some heavy use, like 3 or 4 windows open and > working it tends to slow way down then eventually stop altogether. What version of GNOME? What version of Red Hat? How much swap space do you have? -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Syste

RE: NT and Linux

2000-02-15 Thread Tanner, Robby
There is a utility called bootpart that allows you to put Linux as one of the options in the NT boot loader. > -Original Message- > From: Michael S. Dunsavage [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 2:46 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: NT and Linux >

Re: Gnome Slows to a Crawl

2000-02-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
You could press "CTRL + ALT + F1" to get to a vt, then log in and run "top". If the problem is a runaway process, you should see it there. If it's a memory problem, press "M" (upper case), and top will sort the processes by memory use. MSG -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

Re: NT and Linux

2000-02-15 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
watch out for lilo, You cannot put lilo on the MBR cuz NT will have a shit fit. -- Michael S. Dunsavage On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, John Pfaff wrote: > How is your drive partitioned? The first step is to make at least two > partitions for Linux (one for swap, others for file system). From there > it

samba/ netbios

2000-02-15 Thread Steve Lee
I have samba installed and i hate looking at all that info flying by the terminal under tty1 how do i set it up to not do that everytime i tyupe on the terminal stuff shows up. Thanks -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: NT and Linux

2000-02-15 Thread John Pfaff
How is your drive partitioned? The first step is to make at least two partitions for Linux (one for swap, others for file system). From there it's pretty simple, as (I believe) the default installed kernel won't recognize the NT file system. I have a system here at work set up that way. If you

NT and Linux

2000-02-15 Thread Dayan
Greetings ! I have WinNTS 4.0 SP3 installled on my home server. There is 800 MB space available on my Seagate SCSI 2.1 GB for Linux. I have searched info about using these two OSes in one hard disk but there is only one in HOWTOs and its status is UNMAINTAINED. My knowledge about Linux is not eno

RE: Motherboard: dual celeron ???

2000-02-15 Thread Frank J. Schmuck
Don't know. I bought a "matched set" already installed and tested from motherboard.com. Cheep. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of C Heath Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 1:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Motherboard: dual celeron

link checker that can also detect orphan pages?

2000-02-15 Thread Zaigui Wang
Does anyone know of such a program that can check a web site for broken links and also for pages that are no longer actively linked (orphaned)? Thanks a lot. -- | Zaigui Wang | | 650-930-5335(office)| | TAOS sysAdmin Inc. | / -- To unsubscribe: mai

Re: Motherboard: dual celeron ???

2000-02-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes. I had problems with dual P2 450's of different batch numbers, they would sig11 on heavy apps. proc reported a 3 mhtz difference beteween them. I orderd 2 P3 500s and got sequential serial numbers, they are carbon copys of each other. They work great together, no more sig11s. Kirk At 10:04 A

Re: logwatch scripts and attacks

2000-02-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Psionics logcheck is an excellent program. It puts portsentry attacks at top of the list with email title of ATTACK ALERT. Try it out. Kirk At 11:38 AM 2/15/00 -0600, you wrote: >Apparently the logwatch that ships with Red Hat is no longer being >supported or developed (or I've not found the ri

Re: Motherboard: dual celeron ???

2000-02-15 Thread C Heath
Wouldn't dual processor system require the cpu to be made in same batch and not one cpu here and one cpu there for better stability? Chris "Frank J. Schmuck" wrote: > Jon, > > I'm currently running a BP6 with dual 500's. I boot Win98, W2k beta, and > Redhat 6.2 without much problem. They roc

RE: RealPort Xircom GSM+Ethernet+Modem

2000-02-15 Thread Alain Marc
Ron, Glad to know it works since I own one, but could you be more specific about the configuration (module, IRQ, and so forth) you used to get it running. TIA, Alain > I've been using the Xircom RBEM56 and it has a few problems with > Linux. It doesn't autonegotiate reliably and doesn't suspend

logwatch scripts and attacks

2000-02-15 Thread Alan Mead
Apparently the logwatch that ships with Red Hat is no longer being supported or developed (or I've not found the right list/web site). I'd like to scan my logs for portsentry attack alerts. I'm doing this now with a really simple script but it's a messy solution. Has anyone created a logwat

Re: Mail Box Lock

2000-02-15 Thread David Powers
Osman Maqsood wrote: > > HI !!! > I am using sendmail8.9.3 and Qpopper 2.53, One of my user mail box is > locked, how can i unlock before system automatically unlock, Please guide > and tell command how can i unlock it. > Osman > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" >

Re: pppd dies

2000-02-15 Thread Brad 'GreyBear' Davis
Jim, The PAP secrets (the one I suspect of causing your problem), needs to look like: # Secrets for authentication using PAP # clientserver secret IP addresses jchung * "" 63.224.101.77 Note that you need a user, server, secret AND I

Re: Root, X and /dev/dsp

2000-02-15 Thread Duncan Hill
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote: > > root, with only root having write permission. Is this meant to > > happen? > > It is PAM doing this. See /etc/security/console.perms and man > pam_console. Essentially, PAM assigns groups of devices to whoever is > currently logged in. Multiple logins

Mail Box Lock

2000-02-15 Thread Osman Maqsood
HI !!! I am using sendmail8.9.3 and Qpopper 2.53, One of my user mail box is locked, how can i unlock before system automatically unlock, Please guide and tell command how can i unlock it. Osman -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: A script to update web site?

2000-02-15 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
NCFtp has a sub program called NCFtpPut you can use. It runs from the command prompt, making it a good option to write a simple shell script to run from cron. You can set the job to run periodically, at which time NCFtpPut will ftp into machine B, compare the two files, upload the one from A if

Re: pppd dies

2000-02-15 Thread hoynacki
I've checked the files between my laptop/pcmcia modem and my desktop/3COM External Modem. Everything is the same. Also checked the files recommended in the responses below. - wvdial contains "noauth" - pap contains the appropriate client,server,secret - chap contains the appropriate

Re: Root, X and /dev/dsp

2000-02-15 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 10:02:18AM -0500, Duncan Hill wrote: > > I currently run xmms as a regular user under X. Logging in as that > user requires me to set /dev/dsp either owned by the user, or at least > globally writeable. Not a problem. As soon as I log root in from the > console, the per

Re: [offtopic]Query Modems on disconnect

2000-02-15 Thread Ric Moore
Robert Canary wrote: > > Hi, > > Please pardon the offtopic post. > > I have multimodem unit I use for dialin connections. If I inter into a > command mode I can query the modem on octets sent and recieved, reson > for discount min and max Tx/Rx. > > How can I send an At command (at&v1) and c

Re: Int'l modem standards (Germany)

2000-02-15 Thread Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 10:35:15AM +0100, Gustav Schaffter wrote: > > Still, you're most likely violating the agreement with your local telco. This is *very* likely true in Germany, as the Deutsche Telekom is rather strict - in theory, all modems have to have a suitable certification. Among othe

How can you select SCSI controller during netboot?

2000-02-15 Thread Brian
When you do a normal install of 6.1, it asks you if you want to configure any network or scsi controllers, you can pick the controller, it loads the modules, the you press on. With netboot, this doesn't seem the case. Is it possible to use the netboot install disks and install on a scsi control

Re: RealPort Xircom GSM+Ethernet+Modem

2000-02-15 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 09:30:22PM -0600, Carl Karsten wrote: : I hear Xircom isn't good about releasing their specs to the public, so the : support under Linux isn't good. Agreed. Since Intel licensed the "RealPort" idea from Xircom and is releasing their own stuff, which DOES work well, why no

Re: Good and free link checker?

2000-02-15 Thread Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)
On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 10:20:03AM -0600, Zaigui Wang wrote: > > I would like to use a tool that can go through an entire web site and > figure out those broken links. Anybody has a recommendation? wget is able to do this, using the "--spider" option: `--spider' When invoked with this opti

Root, X and /dev/dsp

2000-02-15 Thread Duncan Hill
I currently run xmms as a regular user under X. Logging in as that user requires me to set /dev/dsp either owned by the user, or at least globally writeable. Not a problem. As soon as I log root in from the console, the permissions on /dev/dsp get whacked back to owned by root, with only root

Re: RealPort Xircom GSM+Ethernet+Modem

2000-02-15 Thread Ron Golan
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 02:17:36PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi chris thanks for the info. > But I may be getting the 32 bit realport, wonder if anyone has met problems with > this kind of card? > Btw, am I right to say that the pcmcia daemon actually detectsthe card and that > u don't ha

Re: Gnome Slows to a Crawl

2000-02-15 Thread Philip D. Jenkins
I have the same problem on my home box which is Redhat 6.1 running on a AMD K6-2 300 and 64 meg and on one system at work which is an Intel pentium II 200 with 128 meg. My other work system, a Pentium III 450 with 128 meg also has the same problem but not as bad. All of my systems ran a little b

Re: Int'l modem standards (Germany)

2000-02-15 Thread Charles Galpin
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Steve Frampton wrote: > > I know that a Canadian model (modem, that is) works in Canada, the U.S., > and Japan, so is it a safe assumption that modems standards are pretty > much -- standard -- globally? I'm awfully impressed that you had to qualify that statement about the

Re: Webmail

2000-02-15 Thread Martin A. Marques
On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Gate wrote: > I'm looking for an easy-to-install Webmail system that will run under RH > Linux 6.1, that supports folders, addressbooks, users being able to create > their own accounts, and can be either installed or configured for multiple > domains. I think maybe imp will

[offtopic]Query Modems on disconnect

2000-02-15 Thread Robert Canary
Hi, Please pardon the offtopic post. I have multimodem unit I use for dialin connections. If I inter into a command mode I can query the modem on octets sent and recieved, reson for discount min and max Tx/Rx. How can I send an At command (at&v1) and collect the returned output from the modem?

Re: Int'l modem standards (Germany)

2000-02-15 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Steve, I have successfully used both 'Swedish' and 'Swiss' modems in France. In the manuals, they indicate that there are some differences. But so far, I haven't had the French telco (France Telecom) hunting me down. :-) Still, you're most likely violating the agreement with your local telco. In

Int'l modem standards (Germany)

2000-02-15 Thread Steve Frampton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello: I asked this question in comp.dcom.modems but didn't receive any response...this is really the wrong place to ask this but I hope my Red Hat brethren (and sistren) won't flame me. ;-) I have a friend who is moving to Germany, and would like

Re: Confusion with pipes

2000-02-15 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 11:39:53AM -0500, James C. Bevier wrote: | I am having some confusion about how pipes work in Linux | when being read/written with fread/fwrite. Remember that pipes aren't very special. Tapes and ttys will also exhibit this behaviour under the right circumstances. | I am