Re: disabling xscreensaver locks

At 02:11 2000-03-06 -0500, Juan Sanchez wrote: >You can do what they do at my school, get very upset with the user and threaten >them. You can always Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to close their X session. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Homepage and PGP Key:

KDE dialup and xhost

I have a friend in England with the following problem. He uses KDE. I've seen a discussion on this in the past but cannot locate anything in the archives. Does anyone have a quick explanation of what's going on?? >From my friend Nick: >OK, unless I set xhost +localhost prior to dialing-up, I c

Re: partition question

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Steven Rubenstein wrote: > obviously you can determine the name, size, and > location of hard disk partitions using fdisk. > > my question is, how can you do the same for an ide zip > drive? (i.e., how was i supposed to know to mount > hdd4 instead of just "hdd")? > As I r

RE: FTP access

Title: RE: FTP access I seem to have problem with NetKit B. I have been following a guide to setup FTP Access (and not having much luck as it happens) I decided to remove anonftp and netkit b and reinstall them. After I did, I decided to verify them.  Anon was ok but NetKit b came up wit

OpenSSL install fails -- crypto objects...

Hello All, I'm a bumbler in the world of Linux thus far. I'm trying to install, OpenSSL, for OpenSSH, etc. I get a bunch of error messages when I do the make install. under the crypto/objects directory I get a long list of undeclared variables. Any ideas? perhaps my RPM had something mis

Re: I'm beginning to wonder... (was: What else did RH6.1 install forget....)

On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 01:29:18PM +, Thomas Ribbrock Design/DEG" wrote: > On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 11:49:32PM -0600, Vidiot wrote: > [...] > > with 6.1 custom. I believed that the 6.1 installation would provide the > > same level of installation support as 6.0 did. Mistake #4. > [...] > > O

Re: What else did RH6.1 install forget....

>6.2b3 properly installs the printer support. This includes having the >support for my Epson Stylus 740 color inkjet printer. The sound was >set up properly, and automatically, on the laptop. >rickf Good news. Thanks for the update. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bart: Hey, why is it de

Re: I've read the 6.1 Installation Guide and ...

Vidiot wrote: --->8- I suggest you take this off the list and send it to redhat. This has been hashed to death now, thank you! Cheers! -- Michael B. Weiner Systems Administrator/Partner The UserFriendly Network (UFN) -- / / (_)__ __ __

mail accounts and RAM

We are using Linux mail server with 550 MHz CPU. Do you have any suggestion about how much memory can handle how many accounts on this server. Thanks Joseph -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: What else did RH6.1 install forget....

Vidiot wrote: > > You can climb off your high horse. > > That was a serious question as to why that chain of events occurs. You are > so blinded now you couldn't tell. > > MB You DONT EVEN want to get me started on this. /me goes to write a nice little procmail recipe Cheers! -- Mi

Re: Security? dump()

Thanks Wayne, I found this about two hours after I had made the post. Everything is secured according to the info I had read. thanks-- Wayne Dyer wrote: > Robert Canary wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I got these messages in the log files and can't figure out what they > > are, I believe strongly it

RE: RPMs - Frustration sets in.

I was (note, operative word) running Stock RH6.1 with the latest upgrades (via RPM... you saw what it didn't install) on Linus. Unfortunately, it died horribly sometime yesterday :( I guess I just needed to slick it after all. I'm not going to trust anything important to this system, either, as

Re: 3c509b EtherLink III

on 5/3/2000 1:38 AM, Dalibor Marceta shot down the bitstream: > Thanks a lot. At least now I know that this combination works. Below is > output. Without knowing what numbers should be plugged in, it all looks good. You are getting a host unreachable from traceroute, though: > #traceroute 24.1

RE: What else did RH6.1 install forget....

Today, when I came in, Linus, the machine I've been wrestling with now for the last week, was dead (Kernal panic, Kernal Panic, Kernal Panic, VFS corrupt, unrecoverable was about the extent of what I could make out from the screen) I tried reinstalling 6.1 (Linus was originally a 5.2 insta

Re: What else did RH6.1 install forget....

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Along with putting printer configuration support back into the > installation, sound configuration should be added, especially during > custom install. The printer gets configured, the network card gets > configured, why not the audio card? Red Hat rather prominently p

Re: Different Question on RH 6.x Installers

use expert mode, and fdisk becomes an option On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Ron Golan wrote: > > I would also like to use fdisk, even if I have to switch to another VT > and run it. I didn't find it during the install. I've resorted to > booting a Debian CDROM, using fdisk and then rebooting the RH 6.1 CD

xemacs:c++,java (fwd)

Hi >>> # Hi, # I had loaded xemacs -21.8 version from the web, and i want to use the # c++ and java modes, can someone tell how to configure this modes to # xemacs? >> Sorry, the above message was maybe not clear, indeed i installed the xemacs-21.8 either linux-2.2.5-15,

I'm beginning to wonder... (was: What else did RH6.1 install forget....)

On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 11:49:32PM -0600, Vidiot wrote: [...] > with 6.1 custom. I believed that the 6.1 installation would provide the > same level of installation support as 6.0 did. Mistake #4. [...] Ok, in fairness to Vidiot, there have been more than his mails about the RHL 6.1 installer o

Re: Problem with Redhat 6.1 server installation

I think you guys are forgetting something. Most new computers are sold with the OS installed. A lot of design considerations for the installer are probably motivated by ways to make it easy for a reseller to get a *new* machine installed easily. Installing as a means of upgrading (even if it's bec

partition question

obviously you can determine the name, size, and location of hard disk partitions using fdisk. my question is, how can you do the same for an ide zip drive? (i.e., how was i supposed to know to mount hdd4 instead of just "hdd")? thanks! -- sjr __

FTP access

Title: FTP access How long should it take to log in anonymously? I have installed (redhat 6.1) anonftp but have not edited any of the ftpaccess etc files (yet). It seems to take forever to display any of directories/files on the server. What editor should I use to edit those files? and c

RE: ( WAY OT HUMOR) RE: What else did RH6.1 install forget....

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (snipped) > > This list brings me around 100 messages a day, which I don't > mind, when it > is helpful information. > > Thank you, > > (snipped) Thats why the subject contains a hint that the message was NOT helpfull information. No one HAS to spen

Saving kernel settings

Hi all! I am making the compilation of a custom kernel automatic via autoconf/automake. My question is: which files do I need to save apart from the kernel source tree to be able to do this? Thanks -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

are my spam rules working?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I run logcheck and have noticed what appeared to be mail neing relayed by my machine. So I blocked the offender via /etc/hosts.deny and listed the IP and domain in linuxconf to disallow relaying from them also. So...logcheck reports this: Security V

Re: Ques re firewall on Redhat 6.1

tk If you installed a RedHat version 6.x, you do not need to recompile your kernel to run ipchains. Unless you have a problem with disk space, you don't need to remove the software you don't use. Just make sure that you run only the services that you need. As long as they don't run, they won't b

RE: Problem with Redhat 6.1 server installation

i did the custom install too. if i'm not mistaken, there's a small checkbox(where u select programs to include e.g. web server, x window etc) just below that...u need to check it & click next. u'll see the packages. try & see. >I installed all the different types of installation (6.1), to

Ques re firewall on Redhat 6.1

hello i've finally installed redhat using custom installation (coz i need the x window). anyway, i'll be installing a firewall here. according to the howto, i've to recompile my kernel first. my ques is,what program do i delete from my server(i.e. what are the essential programs that i shoul

xemacs:c++,java

Hi, I had loaded xemacs -21.8 version from the web, and i want to use the c++ and java modes, can someone tell how to configure this modes to xemacs? THANKS! _ mohammed Ennasar e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.ul

Re: I've read the 6.1 Installation Guide and ...

>On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Vidiot wrote: > >> Yep, it was a major mistake to take the wrong path. It went and did what >> it said it was going to do. > >good, so that's one less issue we need to beat to death. >> >> What I'd like to know is why RedHat feels that it is necessary to destroy >> all parti

S3 86C365/viewsonic 17ga/rolling screen

I am attempting to get a viewsonic 17ga monitor working with a S3 86365 (Trio 3d) card. I am using rh6.0. I have upgraded to the newest svga server and the newest XFree (3.6 I think, working from memory here). I have succeeded in getting the Xserver to work except that the screen rolls. If I just

Re: I've read the 6.1 Installation Guide and ...

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Vidiot wrote: > Yep, it was a major mistake to take the wrong path. It went and did what > it said it was going to do. good, so that's one less issue we need to beat to death. > > What I'd like to know is why RedHat feels that it is necessary to destroy > all partitions on

Re: Problem with Redhat 6.1 server installation

Please, turn off HTML e-mail, it will be appreciated by all. >I installed all the different types of installation (6.1), to see what the >differences are but when I chose Custom, it did not ask me what packages I >would like to install. It should right?? So what did I do wrong? Yes, it should

Re: Problem with Redhat 6.1 server installation

Hi I havent read the docs, mainly because the last version I actually bought was long time ago, and because I follow that rule of "if everything fails, read the manual" :); now, I have bandwidth enough, being at office, to download ISO images and burn them. If the documentation fails at that, t

Re: Different Question on RH 6.x Installers

On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 10:15:13PM -0500, Pete Peterson wrote: [snip] > Another thing that would be helpful would be to allow use of fdisk in > all installation modes -- or an option in Disk Druid to escape to fdisk. > It seems like dealing with Disk Druid is always a struggle and fdisk > is muc

Re: I've read the 6.1 Installation Guide and ...

I wanted to prove if I was right or wrong. Well, I've gone and done, proved myself right or wrong. The verdict is in... Guilty as charged Hey, at least I am admitting it. The "remove all data" and the "manually partition" screen does indeed appear for the server option. After seeing

RE: Problem with Redhat 6.1 server installation

Title: RE: Problem with Redhat 6.1 server installation I installed all the different types of installation (6.1), to see what the differences are but when I chose Custom, it did not ask me what packages I would like to install.  It should right??  So what did I do wrong? -Original Message

Re: Problem with Redhat 6.1 server installation

>Jonathan Ruano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 03:30:31PM +, tk dev wrote: >> >> > >> > hello all >> > >> > i've installed my system with redhat 6.1 server installation. >> > >> > however when i reboot i can't find the x window. can anyone help? >> > during my in