Re: saving postscript file in latex

Try: dvips file.dvi -o file.ps. See the man page for dvips. On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Hidong Kim wrote: > Hi, > > How do you save a postscript file from the .dvi file in latex? When I > do "dvips file.dvi", the postscript file automatically gets printed > out. I would like to save the .ps file. I

RE: Have I been hacked?

> 'redhat-watch' for updates. Also, there is 'linux-security' (IIRC) > that is hosted by RH. You would have seen this on both of these. Both > are low volume. Somewhere on redhat.com there is a lists of lists. Thanks for the info. I did some checking and figured I'd report the results: [EMAI

saving postscript file in latex

Hi, How do you save a postscript file from the .dvi file in latex? When I do "dvips file.dvi", the postscript file automatically gets printed out. I would like to save the .ps file. I've tried to redirect like "dvips file.dvi > file.ps", but it still prints out the document, creating a file.ps

Re: Cd-problem, can't play Audio CD's in Linux

I also have a new Acer with the same 50x Max cd-rom and the same problem playing audio cd's! I also get the same boot messages. I thought that this problem might be related to another difficulty I have had with the cd drive: VMware refuses to recognize this device. Others have mentioned similar

RE: Have I been hacked?

> you could have searched at just about any search engine (lycos, excite, > google, altavista, etc, etc) and turned up information on this hack and > just about anything else for that matter. > > deja.com is good as well. How did you run the searches? I typed "ADMROCKS" and none of those place

RE: Have I been hacked?

> I don't know about how badly you got hacked etc. But I will tell you > this. If you don't format the drive and start over you will never know > 100% if you are free of these hackers. Definitely true. I'm planning on rebuilding the machine from scratch as soon as possible. -- To unsubscri

Re: Secure Server

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > Can someone give me a semi-technical explanation of what makes a secure > server secure? ie. is the information transferred from the browser form > page to the server scrambled, etc.? The communication between the browser and server can be made se

RE: Have I been hacked?

No lu ck there either :P no information exists using that keyword... i'm rather impressed, actually. jason -- Jason Hirsch, ChemEng/Chemistry Make it myself? But I'm a physical organic chemist! Visit the Dorm Room Life may never http://icdweb.cc.purdue.edu/~hirsch Gi

Re: Have I been hacked?

On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 09:04:18PM -0800, Ed Lazor wrote: > Through this process, a few things have come to mind. Is there > someplace I could have gone to do a search on ADMROCKS to discover > this hack? Also, does RedHat have a mailing list that announces > when updates are released to fix pro

RE: Have I been hacked?

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Jason Hirsch wrote: > Actually- > > Altavista.comt - ADMROCKS- no hits. > Lycos.com - ADMROCKS- no hits. > excite.com - ADMROCKS- no hits. > > I think you get the point- > Redhat.com, linuxgazette.com- no hits. umm, search for /var/named/ADMROCKS > > Not exactly alot of

Re: Nice

>The inetd.conf did not looked changed all though I had rem out > >linuxconf stream tcp wait root /bin/linuxconf linuxconf --http > >and that was put back in. > >Scott Skrogstad According to the script that replaced the files, imap is stripped out of the config file. I saw nothing in the scrip

RE: Have I been hacked?

Actually- Altavista.comt - ADMROCKS- no hits. Lycos.com - ADMROCKS- no hits. excite.com - ADMROCKS- no hits. I think you get the point- Redhat.com, linuxgazette.com- no hits. Not exactly alot of fun if I want to actually attack my own box to see if i'm proof I like it when I buy MS product

Re: Have I been hacked?

Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Ed Lazor wrote: > > > > > Through this process, a few things have come to mind. Is there someplace > > I could have gone to do a search on ADMROCKS to discover this hack? Also, > > does RedHat have a mailing list that announces when upda

RE: Have I been hacked?

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Ed Lazor wrote: > > > There were a whole shit-load of files that got changed. ls is one of them > > that was changed. Get that put back and then go look at /tmp. > > In there you > > will find rk and rki. In the rk directory you will find rkinstall. It > > contains a list

RE: Have I been hacked?

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Ed Lazor wrote: > > Through this process, a few things have come to mind. Is there someplace > I could have gone to do a search on ADMROCKS to discover this hack? Also, > does RedHat have a mailing list that announces when updates are released > to fix problems like this?

RE: Am I in danger of the Bind attack???

> The P3 version that is in Red Hat's security download area is supposed > to be fix to include the NXT security whole. If the version on Red Hat's > site is not patched for the NXT hole, then we were lied to on this list, > because I specifically asked why the P5 version was not on the site. >

RE: Have I been hacked?

> There were a whole shit-load of files that got changed. ls is one of them > that was changed. Get that put back and then go look at /tmp. > In there you > will find rk and rki. In the rk directory you will find rkinstall. It > contains a list of all the files that got changed. I must have

RE: Have I been hacked?

> Finding out what else has been done is not exactly a trivial task. If > whoever did this isn't totally braindead, he edited .history and logfiles > to hide traces. (But then it seems to be someone stupid because he didn't > remove the ADMROCKS file). I was very lucky to have noticed that folde

hard strapped ????

Does anyone know what it means when a network card is "hard strapped" When I insmod ewrk3 I get the following: eth0: DE204-AB at 0x200, h/w address 08:00:2b:97:c6:7e, is hard strapped. Does anyone know what this means I have searched the Ethernet howto, but is says nothing

RE: Have I been hacked?

Hi =) > > On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Fred Herman wrote: > > > You have been hacked. See: > > > > http://www.cert.org/current/current_activity.html#bind > > > > You need to disconnect your box. Unless you're expert, reformat the > > hard drive and re-install. Make sure your patches are up to date. T

Re: Nice

The inetd.conf did not looked changed all though I had rem out linuxconf stream tcp wait root /bin/linuxconf linuxconf --http and that was put back in. Scott Skrogstad Computer Integration Inc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 800-522-3475 Phone On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Vidiot wrote: > >Well with all the email

Re: rpm updates via ftp

take a look at autorpm it will do this and more. Bret Steve wrote: > > Is there a way to update more than 1 rpm at a time via ftp. I just installed > 6.1 on a fresh box and wanted to update the rpm's vi updates.redhat.com and it > seems very tedious to do it 1 at a time. > > TIA > Steve > > -

Re: Nice

>Well with all the email going on about the ADMROCK I decided to check my >server and I found it on one of the servers that I just upgraded to 6.1. >It looks like the dir was put out there a few days before the upgrade. >Everything looks OK. Can I just upgrade BIND and go on or do I need to >refo

Nice

Well with all the email going on about the ADMROCK I decided to check my server and I found it on one of the servers that I just upgraded to 6.1. It looks like the dir was put out there a few days before the upgrade. Everything looks OK. Can I just upgrade BIND and go on or do I need to reformat

Secure Server

Can someone give me a semi-technical explanation of what makes a secure server secure? ie. is the information transferred from the browser form page to the server scrambled, etc.? Thanks, Glen -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: eth0 and eth1

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This may seem like a silly question, but does eth0 have to be initialized > > before eth1? [...] > > fine, but on a reboot, I found that eth1's initialization was being > > deferred. Doublechecked, all looks well, and I can bring it up manually > > after eth0 is up. >

rpm updates via ftp

Is there a way to update more than 1 rpm at a time via ftp. I just installed 6.1 on a fresh box and wanted to update the rpm's vi updates.redhat.com and it seems very tedious to do it 1 at a time. TIA Steve -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: vnc through ip masq

Thanks. I just did a test to a friend with DSL. I was just not waiting long enough - the machine I was trying to connect to was connected via AOL :( So, the http://discuss.userland.com/msgReader$6774 url was correct in that it just uses standard tcp. thanks all charles On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 [EMAI

Looking for lib

Anyone know where i can find this? rpmfind doesn't give me anything: libglide2x.so thanks. jeff -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: vnc through ip masq

> Yes, it works nicely, but not through my ip masq box > > Anyone gotten this to wrk? Is there a module for it? I've got it working through plain RH5.0, 5.2 and 6.0 masquerade firewalls with no problems or additional modules. I've also run it over Free/SWAN IPSec with no changes. I must admit

Re: Am I in danger of the Bind attack???

>I had version 8.2.2p3 on my system and got hacked. I was told >that the problem was fixed in patch level 4. The current version >is at patch level 5. My solution was to download, compile, and >install it... The P3 version that is in Red Hat's security download area is supposed to be fix to in

Re: static routes?

eth2 net 207.113.56.1 netmask 255.255.255.255 gw 207.113.56.129 eth2 n default gw 207.113.56.1 here is mine. replace 207.113.56.1 with your gateway, your isp. 207.113.56.129 is my gateway for the internal lan. hope that helps Darryl Harvey wrote: > there is a file /etc/sysconfig/static-rout

Re: static routes?

That, or just use route add etc... to your rc.local file > there is a file /etc/sysconfig/static-routes > Does anyone know the format of entries for this file? > I need to add some routes and take it that they should be > put in here? > Thanks > Darryl > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PR

static routes?

there is a file /etc/sysconfig/static-routes Does anyone know the format of entries for this file? I need to add some routes and take it that they should be put in here? Thanks Darryl -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: KMail's mail directory

cut & pasted from file:/usr/doc/kde/HTML/default/knewmail/knewmail_5.html 4.2 Mailbox Configuration Server: This is the name of the server which your mail lies on. Usually something like 'mail.someplace.com'. New as of version 2.0 is the ability to check the local machine for new mail. To use t

Re: vnc through ip masq (was Re: Attach a second client to my Xserver????)

> Yes, it works nicely, but not through my ip masq box > > Anyone gotten this to wrk? Is there a module for it? > > thanks > charles http://discuss.userland.com/msgReader$6774 This hints at what ports are used. I don't have time to experiment, but would like to know the answer to this as well

KMail's mail directory

Hi ! Being new to the list I'm curious if one of you can answer me the following question: I use Eudora Pro 4 right now and like to access my mailboxes from both systems RedHat with KDE and W98, i properly mounted the win partition with the eudora on it, just that i can't get kmail to loo

RE: Am I in danger of the Bind attack???

I had version 8.2.2p3 on my system and got hacked. I was told that the problem was fixed in patch level 4. The current version is at patch level 5. My solution was to download, compile, and install it... > -Original Message- > From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >

Re: how to erase a CD-RW

gcombust under BURN at the bottom has the option CD-RW Blank type: (x)all ( )fast {Blank CD} try that On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 19:49:40 -0500 erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > How do you erase a CD-RW? > > Thanks, -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subje

vnc through ip masq (was Re: Attach a second client to my Xserver????)

Yes, it works nicely, but not through my ip masq box Anyone gotten this to wrk? Is there a module for it? thanks charles On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Timothy Lillicrap wrote: > Thanks Vik for the info on this, I went and downloaded the source for vnc > right away, and will play with it when I have time

how to erase a CD-RW

Hi, How do you erase a CD-RW? Thanks, -e -- erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Can I pour you a beer, Mr. Peterson?" "A little early isn't it, Woody?" "For a beer?" "No, for stupid questions." --A scene from the hit show "Cheers" -- To unsubscribe: mail

Re: RPMs - Frustration sets in.

Wrote Philippe Moutarlier on Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 08:50:43AM -0700: > Chuck Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ah poor man.. RPM rocks and you are missing out on a lot of coolness. > > > > Ah, yeah, so I am a very poor man too ... > > No, rpm doesn't rock that much. A really rocking thing s

Re: RPMs - Frustration sets in.

Wrote Steven W. Orr on Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 03:02:24PM -0500: > People people people. I don't have a quick answer to this man's problem, > but I do want to point out this one particular inaccuracy. Same again here.. > > Configure and make as you mentioned above are for compiling source code into

RE: RPMs - Frustration sets in.

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Ward William E PHDN wrote: > Ah, yes. > > [root@Linus /root]# rpm --rebuilddb > failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm // = / so that's not the cause of your problem. Double slashes are explicitly allowed by the kernel for other reasons. -- \ \/ / _ |~\ _ In

Re: Am I in danger of the Bind attack???

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Timothy Lillicrap wrote: > Just a quick question. I have seen a great deal of mail about the attack made > through a weakness in Bind on someones system in the last day or so. Am I in > danger of being comprimised by this attack I have two RH 6.0 machines > (esentially

Re: Am I in danger of the Bind attack???

>Just a quick question. I have seen a great deal of mail about the attack made >through a weakness in Bind on someones system in the last day or so. Am I in >danger of being comprimised by this attack I have two RH 6.0 machines >(esentially out of the box) which both run bind. I have not u

Re: Have I been hacked?

>On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, M. Erickson wrote: > >> No need to reformat, toss that windows paradigm aside, learn a new way of >> dealing with things like this! Just update BIND, XFS, and check through >> all your .history/.bash_history files and find out what else has been >> done.. > >Finding out what e

Re: Have I been hacked?

>No need to reformat, toss that windows paradigm aside, learn a new way of >dealing with things like this! Just update BIND, XFS, and check through >all your .history/.bash_history files and find out what else has been >done.. just replace those, and you should be back in busines. > >I suggest you

Re: RH 6.1 kernel compile (as86 missing)

> > I'm having some trouble compiling a kernel with the 6.1 release. Namely > > 'make bzImage' crashes near the end, complaining: > > > > make[1]: as86: command not found > > > > Fair enough, I've probably forgotten to install the bin86 rpm > > right...uh...well, the 6.1 CD doesn't seem to have

Re: Am I in danger of the Bind attack???

Timothy Lillicrap wrote: > I think you're at risk. Upgrade the bind stuff. Fred > Just a quick question. I have seen a great deal of mail about the attack made > through a weakness in Bind on someones system in the last day or so. Am I in > danger of being comprimised by this attack I

Am I in danger of the Bind attack???

Just a quick question. I have seen a great deal of mail about the attack made through a weakness in Bind on someones system in the last day or so. Am I in danger of being comprimised by this attack I have two RH 6.0 machines (esentially out of the box) which both run bind. I have not updat

TAPE DRIVE not working

HI, I am simply trying to restore from my tape with tar xvf /dev/nst0 home and I get tar: I/O tar: Error tape at beginning of tape? tar: unrecoverable error and earlier I was able to list and start a restore before it gave me a BLOCKING MAIL FOLDER EXIT!!! over and over again... real nice...

Re: RH 6.1 kernel compile (as86 missing)

> > I'm having some trouble compiling a kernel with the 6.1 release. Namely > 'make bzImage' crashes near the end, complaining: > > make[1]: as86: command not found > > Fair enough, I've probably forgotten to install the bin86 rpm > right...uh...well, the 6.1 CD doesn't seem to have a bin86

Re: Have I been hacked?

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, M. Erickson wrote: > On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Fred Herman wrote: > > > You have been hacked. See: > > > > http://www.cert.org/current/current_activity.html#bind > > > > You need to disconnect your box. Unless you're expert, reformat the > > hard drive and re-install. Make sur

secureweb question

I am using the latest Redhat Secure Server 3.1-2. I am trying to make it so that it doesn't ask me for a password each time it starts apache. The SSL documentation says you do: cp server.key server.key.org openssl rsa -in server.key.org -out server.key chmod 400 server.key but the "openssl"

motd in color

Is there any way to make a neat motd in color? -- Michael S. Dunsavage http://members.tripod.com/~zer002 -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

2 problems: 1. Disabling "wait for dial tone" on console-only RedHat 5.x and 6.x boxes, and 2. ifup ppp0 locks up (becomes zombie)

2 problems: 1. How do I set up the "do not wait for dial tone" feature, so that I can dial 9 to get an outside line? I need to do this on mdk5.3 and rh6.1 boxes. I've been setting up various RedHat gateway/firewalls using modems over the last year or so, some running mandrake 5.3, others runnin

RH 6.1 kernel compile (as86 missing)

I'm having some trouble compiling a kernel with the 6.1 release. Namely 'make bzImage' crashes near the end, complaining: make[1]: as86: command not found Fair enough, I've probably forgotten to install the bin86 rpm right...uh...well, the 6.1 CD doesn't seem to have a bin86 package. Has as

Re: Have I been hacked?

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I got hit with a very obvious script attack a last week that was fairly > easy to track (although I still reinstalled just to make sure). As > script kiddies aren't known for creative attacks it might be the > same. Check your /usr/login and make su

Re: Have I been hacked?

I got hit with a very obvious script attack a last week that was fairly easy to track (although I still reinstalled just to make sure). As script kiddies aren't known for creative attacks it might be the same. Check your /usr/login and make sure its around 20132 in size and it's change date isn'

CPU States not Adding up

Hello, We are running an rh6.0 based system with kernel 2.2.13 and after the system has been up for a day or so, the cpu states displayed by top no longer add up. Does anyone know what could be causing this? Here is an example: 4:17pm up 1 day, 17:15, 3 users, load average: 4.86, 4.40, 3.5

Re: GeForce 256

> Hey there guys, got a question for you. I just got the Asus V6600 > (GeForce) Based video card and I know there was mention of how to get > this to run in X. Can anybody point me in the right direction or tell > me how to do it? Thanks > > Kevin > > -- > Kevin Wood

Re: Have I been hacked?

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, M. Erickson wrote: > No need to reformat, toss that windows paradigm aside, learn a new way of > dealing with things like this! Just update BIND, XFS, and check through > all your .history/.bash_history files and find out what else has been > done.. Finding out what else has

Re: Have I been hacked?

> > I suspect that I've been hacked. I found a directory titled "ADMROCKS" in > /var/named owned by root and I know that I didn't create it. Does anyone > recognize this? http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-99-14-bind.html The "nxt" one It's not a major root kit, but serious enough to wher

Re: lots of X crashes w/ netscape

On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 03:48:12PM -0500, Wade Hampton wrote: > On my Toshiba T8000 with a fresh load of RH 6.1 (w/ updates > and updated netscape 2.7), I have had a bunch of crashes > where netscape hung and took down my X server. > > Any suggestions Have you tried the font path fix for

Re: Have I been hacked?

On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Fred Herman wrote: > You have been hacked. See: > > http://www.cert.org/current/current_activity.html#bind > > You need to disconnect your box. Unless you're expert, reformat the > hard drive and re-install. Make sure your patches are up to date. This > exploit is fixed

lots of X crashes w/ netscape

On my Toshiba T8000 with a fresh load of RH 6.1 (w/ updates and updated netscape 2.7), I have had a bunch of crashes where netscape hung and took down my X server. Any suggestions -- W. Wade, Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support: Linux Knowledge Base Organization http://linuxkb.org/

RE: Attach a second client to my X server????

> From: Timothy Lillicrap [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 10:28 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Attach a second client to my X server > > > Hi, I would like to be able to attach a second client to the X server > running on my machine so that I can have tw

Re: Have I been hacked?

You have been hacked. See: http://www.cert.org/current/current_activity.html#bind You need to disconnect your box. Unless you're expert, reformat the hard drive and re-install. Make sure your patches are up to date. This exploit is fixed by updating the bind rpm's. See: http://www.redhat.c

Re: Attach a second client to my X server????

Thanks Vik for the info on this, I went and downloaded the source for vnc right away, and will play with it when I have time... It seems like an interesting piece of software : ) However, I was wondering if anyone knows if it is possible to this sort of thing without getting software, and just u

Have I been hacked?

I suspect that I've been hacked. I found a directory titled "ADMROCKS" in /var/named owned by root and I know that I didn't create it. Does anyone recognize this? Any recommendations / advice on how to move forward? I have RedHat 6.1 and all of the latest updates on the system. My guess is t

Re: Excel to Sql

I dont understand this argument against csv. Commas in CSV values are legal, and quote marks are escaped as necessary (or it's not valid CSV). charles > On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > > > Eric Cifreo wrote: > > > > > > > Is there a way to import a table from an excel spread shee

RE: RPMs - Frustration sets in.

People people people. I don't have a quick answer to this man's problem, but I do want to point out this one particular inaccuracy. -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Stranger things have happened but none stranger than this. Steven W. Orr- Does your driv

Re: Excel to Sql

> I like pipe delimited files, I just save it as tab-delimited files from > excel and run a little sed script to convert the tab's to pipe's. > > Hope this helps. > > Brian > > > On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > > > Eric Cifreo wrote: > > > > > > > Is there a way to import a table

Re: Netscape configuration

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I put the Domain and DNS in resolve.config. Actually I used linuxconf on the listing "Name Server Specification (DNS)" CH programMarty Nopola wrote: > I don't have a clue how to set up Netscape in my new RH 6.1. > > I set up all the required info thru RP3 and

Re: Netscape configuration

>From my experience I had the same problem until I entered the Domain name and DNS number. Now it works great. CH Marty Nopola wrote: > I don't have a clue how to set up Netscape in my new RH 6.1. > > I set up all the required info thru RP3 and config tools and can > make a connection to my IS

Re: Cd-problem, can't play Audio CD's in Linux

On Mar 01, Mathco Tech. Dep wrote: > That is exactely the same error i get when i try to mount > a audio cd. I tried to check the cd with cdparanoia and > it says that /dev/hdc is not a cd-rom and not a scsi cd-rom > which i know its not. I thought that all IDE CD-Rom's did > work the same but app

Re: cdrecord

Adam Sleight wrote: > use gcombust...it works great for me...I have a Yamaha SCSI 4416..it's a GUI > frontend to cdrecord and mkisofs...after testing it out make sure in preferences > to uncheck Dummy enabled by default.so. You must su to root then gcombust > though. > http://www.abo.fi/~jmun

unmounting an exported filesystem

I ocassionaly mount cdroms and export them through nfs. The problem is that I can't unmount the cd without stopping and restarting nfs. I first remove the reference to /mnt/cdrom from /etc/exports and then: [root@wamego /etc]# umount /mnt/cdrom umount: /mnt/cdrom: device is busy [root@wamego /

Re: Cd-problem, can't play Audio CD's in Linux

I just got my cd player to work, after I realized i forgot to plug the sound card into the cd or vice versa...any way I use gnome cd and I have it so the device the cdplayer uses is /dev/cdrom try chmod a+r /dev/cdrom then in your cd player setting set it to /dev/cdrom as device... ht

Re: cdrecord

use gcombust...it works great for me...I have a Yamaha SCSI 4416..it's a GUI frontend to cdrecord and mkisofs...after testing it out make sure in preferences to uncheck Dummy enabled by default.so. You must su to root then gcombust though. http://www.abo.fi/~jmunsin/gcombust/ On Wed, 01 Mar 2

Netscape configuration

I don't have a clue how to set up Netscape in my new RH 6.1. I set up all the required info thru RP3 and config tools and can make a connection to my ISP thru the dialup config tool using debug. It then disconnects and dials again. RH PPP dialer doesn't dial and Netscape gives an error messsage

RE: RPMs - Frustration sets in.

%-> I disagree. Using ./configure and make on a source distribution %-> discovers many more errors that RPM can simply miss or gloss over. Each %-> to one's own I guess...such is the power of Linux. Configure and make as you mentioned above are for compiling source code into binary, and you can d

RE: RPMs - Frustration sets in.

Are you sure that the //'s break it? [juha@vimfuego juha]$ cd /var/spool [juha@vimfuego spool]$ cd [juha@vimfuego juha]$ cd //var/spool [juha@vimfuego spool]$ [juha@vimfuego spool]$ cd [juha@vimfuego juha]$ cd /var//spool [juha@vimfuego spool]$ I can move between directories using / or //. Ther

Sparc RH6.1 install problem

Trying to install RH6.1 onto an old Sparc 1 fails. The installer crashes during the second stage, during/after reading the package list. I'm installing via TFTP from an Intel/Linux box using the RH6.1 iso image dumped to the PC disk. The only clue I've seen is a message on the Linux Usenet inst

Repost: Compiling Old Kernels

Oops! this got put into the wrong thread. I need to compile an older version of the kernel (2.0.36). I can't use a newer version, because I need to use some non-standard patches in order to netboot via PXE. --Incidentally, anyone doing that with a modern kernel? Anyway, that version of the kerne

Re: Excel to Sql

I like pipe delimited files, I just save it as tab-delimited files from excel and run a little sed script to convert the tab's to pipe's. Hope this helps. Brian On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > Eric Cifreo wrote: > > > > > Is there a way to import a table from an excel spread s

Re: cdrecord

try xcdroast. It's use is self explanatory (using scsi anyway) hth charles On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, George Chantzopoulos wrote: > Hi there! > > I just installed a Yamaha CD-RW in my computer (dual boot, Windows > 98+RedHat Linux 6.1) and I am trying to write some files in a CD. Does > anyone knows

cdrecord

Hi there! I just installed a Yamaha CD-RW in my computer (dual boot, Windows 98+RedHat Linux 6.1) and I am trying to write some files in a CD. Does anyone knows how to use cdrecord? Thanks! -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

GeForce 256

Hey there guys, got a question for you. I just got the Asus V6600 (GeForce) Based video card and I know there was mention of how to get this to run in X. Can anybody point me in the right direction or tell me how to do it? Thanks Kevin -- Kevin Wood Contact Us abo

Re: Excel to Sql

Eric Cifreo wrote: > > > Is there a way to import a table from an excel spread sheet to a MySql > table?? > > > > Kirk > > > > In Excel, select export to csv (comma separated value) file. Transport this > to your Linux machine, and take care of any Dos2Unix problems (like ^Ms, > etc.). Then go

RE: Cd-problem, can't play Audio CD's in Linux

That is exactely the same error i get when i try to mount a audio cd. I tried to check the cd with cdparanoia and it says that /dev/hdc is not a cd-rom and not a scsi cd-rom which i know its not. I thought that all IDE CD-Rom's did work the same but apparently it doesn't. Anyway i will keep this c

Re: Backup program?

I backup my mailserver using tarif I needed incremental I'd probably use something like amanda, lonetar, bru or whatever. But since mail changes daily I do a full-backup to an HP 12/24GB SCSI DLT drive with an 18GB SCSI drive. quick and easy way using linuxconf su linuxconf Control Panel Con

Re: Backup program?

I recommend dump which is free. Also cpio works fine and you can easily craft up something with a few lines of shell and a cron job. I've heard lots of talk about amanda as well, which is dump on speed, but provides a nice ui. -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. [EMAIL PROTE

RE: RPMs - Frustration sets in.

Ah, yes. [root@Linus /root]# rpm --rebuilddb failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm [root@Linus /root]# First thing I tried when I started having the problems, and the symptom I was trying to describe to folks. However, based on the first truly helpful comments on it, I was able to l

Re: Intel ZP mboards BIOS settings with RH 6.1

- Original Message - From: "Michael J. Glanovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 9:46 AM Subject: Intel ZP mboards BIOS settings with RH 6.1 > Hi All: > > Anybody using the (old) Intel Advanced ZP (aka Zappa) motherboard with > Linux? > > > A

Re: RPMs - Frustration sets in.

> > Ok, so I have to do a Microsoft and reinstall RH6.1 since the RPM > > database has become corrupted and no one seems to know how to fix > > it I can deal with that. Now I'm having problems with my other > > 6.1 system and the RPMs, but this is a side effect of the developers > > getting c

Re: Gnome crashes on multiple processor machine

On 29 Feb 2000 22:41:02 -0500, Chris \(Ski\) Kacoroski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >I have redhat 6.1 with the latest gnome patches. I am running it on an >Intergraph server with 256MB ram, a built in matrox millenium graphics card, >and 4 pentium pro processors. Gnome seems to crash when

Compiling Archaic Kernels on a Modern System

I need to compile an older version of the kernel (2.0.36). I can't use a newer version, because I need to use some non-standard patches in order to netboot via PXE. --Incidentally, anyone doing that with a modern kernel? Anyway, that version of the kernel bitches about the version of gcc. My last

Re: Backup program?

search the archives @ http://moongroup.com/redhat.phtml there have been threads on this recently, including products like arkeia, bru, and more On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Ounsted, Toby wrote: > Hi all, > I'm trying to sort out backing up my RH box to a DLT drive. What program > should I use? I vague

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