Re: Virus detection

2000-04-04 Thread mozilla
> Michael A Lane wrote: > > New to the Linux world, I have many questions, but I'll start out with > just a few. > The first one deals with Virus detection, I use Norton for Windows. > I've been told that Viruses don't seem to be a problem with Linux. > True, False, Maybe?? True. > The second q

The X Shutdown

2000-04-04 Thread lloy0076
For some reason when I use the shutdown option from X *any* user can shutdown the System...is there any way to turn off this "feature"? DAVID -- The Linux C Mailing Lists Have Moved mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe The Linux C++ Mailing Lists Have Moved mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?su

Re: how can this be? (modem speed...)

2000-04-04 Thread mozilla
Mark Ivey wrote: > > Ok, today I check my log and I see this entry: > > Apr 4 18:18:26 dimrill pppd[267]: Terminating connection due to lack of > activity. > Apr 4 18:18:26 dimrill pppd[267]: Connection terminated. > Apr 4 18:18:26 dimrill pppd[267]: Connect time 100.6 minutes. > Apr 4 18:18

Re: ncftp vs. firewall?

2000-04-04 Thread Bret Hughes
Very cool thank you. I always wondered what that was for :) Bret "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: > > At 03:41 PM 4/3/00 +0100, you wrote: > >Hi folks, > > > >I'm looking for some info with regard to ncftp and firewall. What happened > >was this: If for example I tried to connect to ftp.heanet.i

Re: how can this be? (modem speed...)

2000-04-04 Thread Chris Dowling
perhaps divide by 6000 instead? 100 minutes = 60 seconds * 100 = 6000 seconds 137291046 / 6000 = 2.1k/s (approx) On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Mark Ivey wrote: > Ok, today I check my log and I see this entry: > > > Apr 4 18:18:26 dimrill pppd[267]: Terminating connection due to lack of > activity. >

Re: how can this be? (modem speed...)

2000-04-04 Thread tom minchin
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 07:33:37PM -0700, Mark Ivey wrote: > Ok, today I check my log and I see this entry: > > > Apr 4 18:18:26 dimrill pppd[267]: Terminating connection due to lack of > activity. > Apr 4 18:18:26 dimrill pppd[267]: Connection terminated. > Apr 4 18:18:26 dimrill pppd[267]:

Re: Renaming Users?

2000-04-04 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 06:58:05AM +1000, Peter Kiem wrote: | I'm reorganising a RH6.1 box and would like to rename the users I have set | up on it. | Is it dangerous to change their userid in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow or is | there a better way? Any other files that need editing? For changing

how can this be? (modem speed...)

2000-04-04 Thread Mark Ivey
Ok, today I check my log and I see this entry: Apr 4 18:18:26 dimrill pppd[267]: Terminating connection due to lack of activity. Apr 4 18:18:26 dimrill pppd[267]: Connection terminated. Apr 4 18:18:26 dimrill pppd[267]: Connect time 100.6 minutes. Apr 4 18:18:26 dimrill pppd[267]: Sent 1705

Re: Shutdown

2000-04-04 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Rick or Charles: As a follow-up to this, is there a document or HOWTO that shows step-by-step what to do after you've compiled the new kernel? What I'm asking here is what you would need to do to System.map, and vmlinuz that get generated by building the new kernel. In /boot, there are some sym

Re: printing >1 page per piece of paper

2000-04-04 Thread John P. Verel
You can do this in enscript, which should be on your system. Try enscript -2r < textfile John On 04/04/00, 12:21:36PM -0400, Rick Ingersoll wrote: > Greetings: > > I'm sure this is an easy one. I know I used to be able to print more than a > single page (typically 2 or 4) to a single piece of

Re: [OT?] Offering free e-mail?

2000-04-04 Thread Michael A. Johnson-Bio Sci Comp Svcs
You might also check out IMP at http://www.horde.org/imp . It's one real requirement is that it would take an IMAP mail server to run with... However, that is what the Computer Society at Purdue is using to run http://www.purdueonline.com/mail/ . Mike Johnson on 4/5/00 5:57 PM, Danny at [EMAIL

Re: Broadcast on aliases of eth0

2000-04-04 Thread Darryl Harvey
At 10:27 5/04/00, you wrote: >I need to change the Broadcast on aliases of eth0 (35 aliases). Does anyone >know of a way to do this? > >(here's what it looks like... there are 35 aliases below this one that go >from 150 to 184 that all look like eth0:1) > >eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00

Re: quotas and perl..

2000-04-04 Thread Brian
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Arni Raghu wrote: > Hi, > I am using the quota perl module here is a snippet:: > > <.> > Quota::setqlim($dev,$uid,80,160,0,0,1,0); > <> the format is wrong, it should be: Quota::setqlim($dev, $uid, $quotasoft, $quotahard, 0, 0); > > This code just does not seem

Broadcast on aliases of eth0

2000-04-04 Thread Jeffrey Kehe
I need to change the Broadcast on aliases of eth0 (35 aliases). Does anyone know of a way to do this? (here's what it looks like... there are 35 aliases below this one that go from 150 to 184 that all look like eth0:1) eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:A7:CB:CA inet addr:

Re: Another change in 6.2?

2000-04-04 Thread Darryl Harvey
At 01:48 5/04/00, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: >On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Darryl Harvey wrote: > > > I have just installed 6.2 and now I find a weird occurrence within vi > (vim). > > > > When inserting text, if I type a mistake and hit to erase the > > mistake, I get a ^? on the screen and find I ca

Virus detection

2000-04-04 Thread Michael A Lane
New to the Linux world, I have many questions, but I'll start out with just a few. The first one deals with Virus detection, I use Norton for Windows.  I've been told that Viruses don't seem to be a problem with Linux.  True, False, Maybe??   The second question deals with RH 6.2.  I just ins

RE: Help: Linux and hybrid cable modems

2000-04-04 Thread Jose M. Sanchez
Linux works like a champ with CTVM (ex-pressnet.com) I just upgraded my Firewall to Mandrake 7.02 to boot. Again no problems! The error you are seeing indicates that your modem is ECHOING back all commands sent to it. Either you are initializing it to HALF duplex or you have your initialization

Re: [OT?] Offering free e-mail?

2000-04-04 Thread Danny
I don't see anything wrong with ATDOT. Using AtDOT plus doing good documentation will mean you can duplicate this FreeMAIL service to other clients easily. On Tue, 04 Apr 2000, Gate wrote: > Hi > > We have a client that wants to offer free e-mail accounts from their web > page. From what I reca

Re: Changing Uppercase files to Lower case files easily?

2000-04-04 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 04:12:28PM -0500, K Old wrote: > I was wondering if there was a way to rename files in Linux that are > upper case to the same name only in lower case? > > I have about 400 files that were renamed to upper case when I FTP'ed > them to the server and I need a quick way to m

Re: Changing Uppercase files to Lower case files easily?

2000-04-04 Thread Adam Sleight
http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/2000/01/26/948918095.html try this program called CHCASE it might be just a tad easier to use. chcase is a Perl script that renames files. You can change filenames to either all upper or all lower case, or use Perl expressions to operate on the filenames. Some f

Re: Changing Uppercase files to Lower case files easily?

2000-04-04 Thread Adam Sleight
cut and pasted from http://portico.org I did a search for "lowercase" There is a problem when you migrate web pages from NT to Apache: The filenames are in a wide range of letter cases. Example: "hello.gif" can be "HeLlo.GIF" on an NT server. Your apache can't show this gif if it isn't exactl

Re: Changing Uppercase files to Lower case files easily?

2000-04-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 04:12 PM 4/4/00 CDT, you wrote: >Hello, > >I was wondering if there was a way to rename files in Linux that are upper >case to the same name only in lower case? > >I have about 400 files that were renamed to upper case when I FTP'ed them to >the server and I need a quick way to make them lowe

Re: Samba

2000-04-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 11:01 AM 4/4/00 -0400, you wrote: >Morning Everyone: > >I'm running Red Hat 6.2 with Samba. My Linux box has 2 Ethernet cards in >it, eth0 going to my cable modem provider and getting its IP Address via >DHCP, and eth1 statically assigned 192.168.1.1. I have a Windows 2000 >machine, installed

RE: storing rpms and tarballs

2000-04-04 Thread Uncle Meat
On 04-Apr-00 Alan Mead opined: > I have a dumb question: Let's suppose I like to keep the RPMs and > occasional tarballs that I DL. Where is the "right" place to keep them? > > I've just been putting them in my home directory, but I want to move them > off of the /home partition. Any place y

Re: ncftp vs. firewall?

2000-04-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 03:41 PM 4/3/00 +0100, you wrote: >Hi folks, > >I'm looking for some info with regard to ncftp and firewall. What happened >was this: If for example I tried to connect to ftp.heanet.ie with ncftp, I >get an error message "no route to host" and my firewall log showed this: > >Mar 28 22:40:21 mag

Changing Uppercase files to Lower case files easily?

2000-04-04 Thread K Old
Hello, I was wondering if there was a way to rename files in Linux that are upper case to the same name only in lower case? I have about 400 files that were renamed to upper case when I FTP'ed them to the server and I need a quick way to make them lower case. If anyone can offer any help I wo

Re: Strange Happenings

2000-04-04 Thread linda hanigan
Hi, It is an option in linuxconf under user account - params You can set it to days are some suchthing so you don't have to worry about it otherwise it has a default value. Linda Hanigna - Original Message - From: Scott Skrogstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Red Hat Mailin

Re: storing rpms and tarballs

2000-04-04 Thread Rick Forrister
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I have a dumb question: Let's suppose I like to keep the RPMs and > occasional tarballs that I DL. Where is the "right" place to keep > them? > I've just been putting them in my home directory, but I want to move > them off of the /home partition. Alan, there's rea

Renaming Users?

2000-04-04 Thread Peter Kiem
I'm reorganising a RH6.1 box and would like to rename the users I have set up on it. Is it dangerous to change their userid in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow or is there a better way? Any other files that need editing? Regards, +---+-+ | Peter Ki

storing rpms and tarballs

2000-04-04 Thread Alan Mead
I have a dumb question: Let's suppose I like to keep the RPMs and occasional tarballs that I DL. Where is the "right" place to keep them? I've just been putting them in my home directory, but I want to move them off of the /home partition. -Alan Mead --- Alan Mead, Ph.D. / Research Scienti

Re: Resize a partion

2000-04-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
Hillel Bilman wrote: > I've got a hard drive that has Redhat linux on it, which is half used. > I'd like to resize the partion and free up some space, in which I can > install another Operating System. find "ext2resize" on freshmeat. I use it with LVM's and it's worked for me (on fairly large d

Help: Linux and hybrid cable modems

2000-04-04 Thread Joe
Has anyone in Montgomery County (MD) been able to get Linux to work with CTVM's setup? I've been trying to get this hybrid setup working for a week with no results. And the Cable Modem setup HOWTO is of no use. So far my guess is that I am running into a PAP problem where my script is simply wr

Re: Bug in zoot upgrade? Warning!

2000-04-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
Gustav Schaffter wrote: > > Makes sense, Gordon. > > > Or... they could get jiggy and create /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ and run all of > > the scripts in there!! :) The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/. I created ip-up.local scripts in my EQL rpm, too. They automat

Re: being removed from redhat lists since upgraded to 6.2

2000-04-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > The question is: can I use the same IP address for Wind*ws and RHL in a box > configured for dual booting? I need both conected to the net, but we are > short of IP addresses. As there any solution to this distinct from using > different IP adresses? Having your ma

Re: Linux and Win2k

2000-04-04 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 11:13:42PM +1000, Darryl Harvey wrote: : Anyone had any experience in dual booting with Linux and Win2K ? Yep. Doing it on my workstation at the office right now. : Is it hard like NT4 is/was to dual boot, or easy like Win95/98? None of those are hard. Just tell lilo w

Re: Zoot NFS install?

2000-04-04 Thread Rick Warner
Thanks for the reply. Not having a working NFS install is a pain as kickstart only works with NFS over the net. Guess I will have to wait for RH to come out with a fixed install disk. - rick warner - > > I've had the exact same problem. I ended up having to set up anonymous ftp for > the du

Re: Take 2, ISO vs. xcdroast

2000-04-04 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 09:12:26AM +0800, Gregory Hosler wrote: : > cdrecord -v dev=4,0 speed=8 zoot-sparc.iso : > (right out of my .bash_history) : : and the point is ? That in the current state of GUI fever, we often overlook simpler alternatives... -- Jason Costomiris <><

Setting up a tty

2000-04-04 Thread Butler, Mike
I am trying to set up a tty (virtual terminal) so that I can switch to a terminal window that is actually pointing to my serial port. I want to do this since I do some router work. I can use minicom, but I know I can set up a tty to point to serial 1 so I do not need to run minicom. I know thi

Re: printing >1 page per piece of paper

2000-04-04 Thread Peter Monta
> [ print multiple pages per sheet ] You probably want PSUtils; its home page is http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/ajcd/psutils/index.html > Is there an RPM I need for this functionality? Probably; might look in Redhat's contrib/ or find a Debian package. Redhat should consider distributing this b

Re: printing >1 page per piece of paper

2000-04-04 Thread Rick Ingersoll
Thanks, Alan. mpage was already installed on the machine and was what I was looking for. Rick. At 11:53 AM 4/4/00 -0500, you wrote: >Also years ago I used to be able to print nifty multiple pages on one >page. My RH machine has a program called 'mpage' which accomplishes this, >albeit will les

Re: How to make non-root owned mount?

2000-04-04 Thread a mole
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Trevor Astrope wrote: > Hello, > > I wish to have a separate partition for postgresql, but when I mount > /var/lib/pgsql, the mount point becomes owned by root. Is there anyway to > have fstab configured so the /var/lib/pgsql mount point is owned by the > postgres user? > >

Re: Modem question on new system

2000-04-04 Thread Janyce Wynter
Mathco Tech. Dep wrote: >I'm building a new Linux system with a >asus k7m and a A-Open FM56 ITU/2 ISA Modem, >my problem is that it it finds the modem >as a com-port during start-up but refuses >to let me use the com-port afterwards, >it does the same in the *OTHER* operating system >also. I hav

RPM for Sendmail.8.10.0

2000-04-04 Thread Steven Hildreth
hi, anyone know of where I can find a RPM for the latest Sendmail (8.10.0) I looked at www.rpmfind.net and no go. I am not real familiar with installing from a tarball and when I check out the README it doesnt exactly calm my fears.. Just trying to get the SMTP authentication stuff to work on my

quotas and perl..

2000-04-04 Thread Arni Raghu
Hi, I am using the quota perl module here is a snippet:: <.> Quota::setqlim($dev,$uid,80,160,0,0,1,0); <> This code just does not seem to work...the $dev and $uid are ok as Quota::query works fine..also quotas are set and working fine as using plain edquota works..I am just not understan

Re: printing >1 page per piece of paper

2000-04-04 Thread rpjday
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Alan Mead wrote: > Also years ago I used to be able to print nifty multiple pages on one > page. My RH machine has a program called 'mpage' which accomplishes this, > albeit will less style. I think it came off the installation CD. > > -Alan Mead > > At 11:21 AM 4/4/00

Re: Another change in 6.2?

2000-04-04 Thread Wayne Dyer
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Darryl Harvey wrote: > > > I have just installed 6.2 and now I find a weird occurrence within vi (vim). > > > > When inserting text, if I type a mistake and hit to erase the > > mistake, I get a ^? on the screen and find I cannot backspace to

Re: Resize a partion

2000-04-04 Thread William Blessum
I used Partition Commander ($40) with success - it handles both Solaris and Linux partition types as well as others, including Win enjoy drb Hillel Bilman wrote: > Hi > > I've got a hard drive that has Redhat linux on it, which is half used. > I'd like to resize the partion and free up some sp

ANNOUNCE: KDE Alpha 20000404 Binaries available

2000-04-04 Thread Christopher Molnar
As most of you know or have heard KDELIBS have been frozen, so I have just made available a new version of KDE2 Alpha binaries in RPM and -bin.tar.gz format. Also available are the sources that worked to compile these packages. Most likely there will not be another release of the Alpha bina

Re: Shutdown

2000-04-04 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Rick and Charles: Thank you both for the in-depth answers. This really clears up a lot. I will give it a shot tonight. :) - Mike On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Rick Forrister wrote: > > Mike, Charles is correct on this. As installed there is no ".config" > file in /usr/src/linux. After a "make --old

RE: Resize a partion

2000-04-04 Thread Charles Boening
I've heard bad things about Partition Magic. Try System Commander 2000. Worked like a charm for me. http://www.v-com.com/ Charlie -Original Message- From: Bret Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 6:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Resize a partion p

How to make non-root owned mount?

2000-04-04 Thread Trevor Astrope
Hello, I wish to have a separate partition for postgresql, but when I mount /var/lib/pgsql, the mount point becomes owned by root. Is there anyway to have fstab configured so the /var/lib/pgsql mount point is owned by the postgres user? Regards, Trevor Astrope [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubsc

Re: printing >1 page per piece of paper

2000-04-04 Thread Alan Mead
Also years ago I used to be able to print nifty multiple pages on one page. My RH machine has a program called 'mpage' which accomplishes this, albeit will less style. I think it came off the installation CD. -Alan Mead At 11:21 AM 4/4/00 , you wrote: >Greetings: > >I'm sure this is an easy

printing >1 page per piece of paper

2000-04-04 Thread Rick Ingersoll
Greetings: I'm sure this is an easy one. I know I used to be able to print more than a single page (typically 2 or 4) to a single piece of paper from the command line in the pre-Solaris Sun OS. I can't find my notes (they would be about 10 years old now!) and looking at the obvious man pages (lpr

Modem question on new system

2000-04-04 Thread Mathco Tech. Dep
Hi.. I'm building a new Linux system with a asus k7m and a A-Open FM56 ITU/2 ISA Modem, my problem is that it it finds the modem as a com-port during start-up but refuses to let me use the com-port afterwards, it does the same in the *OTHER* operating system also. I have tried many of the same Mo

RE: Maximum hd size

2000-04-04 Thread Brian
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Tanner, Robby wrote: > That's what I was told. I'll double check. My guess is that it would be a > SCSI drive. Are there different limits for EIDE? no, their are no "limits"...the thing is, to my knowledge, 100GB eide or scsi drives are not made. Brian > > > -O

Re: Another change in 6.2?

2000-04-04 Thread Jason Hirsch
stty erase -- 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 Give us another [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chance to do right. On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Darryl Harvey wrote:

Xcopy from Win2000 to RH6.1 Samba

2000-04-04 Thread David Brenner
To all, Have an iteresting problem. I am backing up files from a win2k ws to a rh6.1 box running Samba 2.0.5a. When my file server was an NT box I could use the following: xcopy f:\*.* z:\ /c /d /e /f /h /i to copy (backup) all my new files to the server. Worked great. When I try to do this

Re: being removed from redhat lists since upgraded to 6.2

2000-04-04 Thread José Romildo Malaquias
On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 10:39:54AM -0300, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 03:18:32PM +0200, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > > > > > The mailserver is the machine I have at my office just in front of me. > > > > Does it

Re: Linux and Win2k

2000-04-04 Thread Frank Carreiro
I can't imagine it being all that different from NT 4.0. I haven't used W2K before but if you can multiboot into DOS then you should be able to create your disk image, add it to your boot.ini (NT Boot Manager want's to be in charge). Quick Tutorial (sorry if this sounds redundant) With NT 4.0

Re: Another change in 6.2?

2000-04-04 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Darryl Harvey wrote: > I have just installed 6.2 and now I find a weird occurrence within vi (vim). > > When inserting text, if I type a mistake and hit to erase the > mistake, I get a ^? on the screen and find I cannot backspace to delete the > text. We've fixed up the t

Re: Shutdown

2000-04-04 Thread Rick Forrister
Mike, Charles is correct on this. As installed there is no ".config" file in /usr/src/linux. After a "make --oldconfig" you'll have a copy of the one that was used to build the installed kernel. Depending on what you change, you may need to type "make --oldconfig" again, as I recall. What I g

Re: smbmount vs NFS opinions

2000-04-04 Thread Frank Carreiro
My guess would be he isn't happy with NFS because it can be used to comprimise a system. Of course I would have to say "Don't export your home directory" ::grinz:: I believe NFS would be the better choice. I can't imagine SMB being all that fast or secure. It's NetBios encapsulated in IP if I

Another change in 6.2?

2000-04-04 Thread Darryl Harvey
I have just installed 6.2 and now I find a weird occurrence within vi (vim). When inserting text, if I type a mistake and hit to erase the mistake, I get a ^? on the screen and find I cannot backspace to delete the text. I must exit entry mode, then use "x" or another delete command to delete

Samba

2000-04-04 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Morning Everyone: I'm running Red Hat 6.2 with Samba. My Linux box has 2 Ethernet cards in it, eth0 going to my cable modem provider and getting its IP Address via DHCP, and eth1 statically assigned 192.168.1.1. I have a Windows 2000 machine, installed on a NTFS partiton type on another machine

ACT Database

2000-04-04 Thread Kevin Wood
Hey there, got a question for you guys. I'm looking for a program similar to ACT that will run in Linux. The potential to import an existing ACT database into the program would be great as well. Anybody got any ideas on such a program? Thanks for the help. Kevin Wood -- Kevin Wood DCG Comput

Re: permission to run commands

2000-04-04 Thread Robert Fausey
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Meghan Madel wrote: Install sudo from the powertools CD. This will allow users permission to execute specific commands as root. > How do you give a user permission to run a command such as xdm. > Currently, root only has permission. > thanks, Rob Fausey. A communication d

Re: permission to run commands

2000-04-04 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Meghan Madel wrote: > Hello, > How do you give a user permission to run a command such as xdm. > Currently, root only has permission. > thanks, > Meg chmod a+x program ¢éì¹»®&ޙ¨¥­çajÙb²Úު笶·…«\¢l"¶§²æìr¸›y«-…ä®n7œ

RE: Maximum hd size

2000-04-04 Thread Tanner, Robby
That's what I was told. I'll double check. My guess is that it would be a SCSI drive. Are there different limits for EIDE? > -Original Message- > From: Brian [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 8:51 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Maximum hd size

RE: Shutdown

2000-04-04 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Charles: If this is a fresh install of Red Hat 6.2, and I've never recompiled the kernel, shouldn;t it be configured to the default that Red Hat installed it? Or do I need to type make oldconfig to get it that way? Sorry if I wasn't clear in my previous email. - Mike On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Charl

RE: Linux and Win2k

2000-04-04 Thread Tanner, Robby
I didn't find dual booting Linux and NT4 difficult. Have you heard of bootpart? There is a mini-HOWTO for it. > -Original Message- > From: Darryl Harvey [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 8:14 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Linux and Win2k > > Anyone

Re: Linux and Win2k

2000-04-04 Thread Bruce A. Mallett
I have both Win2k and RH 6.1 on a BP6 based system. Works fine with lilo. I installed the Win2k first. - Bruce Darryl Harvey wrote: > Anyone had any experience in dual booting with Linux and Win2K ? > > Is it hard like NT4 is/was to dual boot, or easy like Win95/98? > > I am almost ready

RE: smbmount vs NFS opinions

2000-04-04 Thread Robert Burton
>At 14:39 4/04/00, you wrote: >>On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Jason Bradley Nance wrote: >> >> > > I am not a fan of NFS, but don't you lose ALL security permissions of >> > > files and directories if you use smbmount to backup your computer? >> > >> > No. You can configure Samba to preserve file permissio

Re: xterm problem with ATI Xpert 128 (Rage 128) and Xfree86 3.3.6

2000-04-04 Thread Frank Carreiro
The driver I'm using is r128 for XFree86 4.0. It was written and submitted to the Linux community and is part of the XFree86 distribution. I'm using it now with the glide library installed which is required if using their xfree86 -configure command. I ran it just fine without the command howeve

RE: Maximum hd size

2000-04-04 Thread Ward William E PHDN
It sounds an awful lot like a RAID (for example, 10 13GB disks RAID5 array) setup, with one "virtual" drive (LUN) that is 100 GB or so... Or perhaps a machine with multiple drives that TOTAL to 100 GB. Should be relatively easy to do, even with IDE drives, if you add one of the Promise adapters

permission to run commands

2000-04-04 Thread Meghan Madel
Hello, How do you give a user permission to run a command such as xdm. Currently, root only has permission. thanks, Meg -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

RE: Maximum hd size

2000-04-04 Thread Brian
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Tanner, Robby wrote: > My uncle works for a potash mining company. One of their linux file servers > has a 100GB HD with 1GB of RAM. > That was at least a year ago. Probably, you can get more RAM and larger > drives by now, but that's the largest setup I know of. Hmm...

RE: Maximum hd size

2000-04-04 Thread Tanner, Robby
My uncle works for a potash mining company. One of their linux file servers has a 100GB HD with 1GB of RAM. That was at least a year ago. Probably, you can get more RAM and larger drives by now, but that's the largest setup I know of. > -Original Message- > From: Adrian Walters [SMTP:[E

Sendmail 8.10.0 and SMTP Authentication

2000-04-04 Thread Steven Hildreth
Hi, has anyone checked out the latest Sendmail 8.10.0? Says that it does SMTP authentication. Most of my clients use Outlook Express and it also allows for SMTP auth and I was hoping that one of you's guy's had already played with the latest Sendmail and would say "Taste's Great, Less Filling" or

RE: Shutdown

2000-04-04 Thread Charles Galpin
no. run 'make oldconfig' first. this will give you the settings your installed kernel used. then, make whatever changes you want (like turing off raid). hth charles On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Michael J. McGillick wrote: > Morning All: > > On the topic of rebuilding the kernel, is my assumption corre

Re: ncftp vs. firewall?

2000-04-04 Thread Bret Hughes
Since no one responded I give it a try. I don't have any ised what port 0 is but if passive works it sound like that the firewall is (rightly so ) keeping the ftp server from establishing a connection to your machine. Under normal operation an ftp client contacts a server and tells it that is

Linux and Win2k

2000-04-04 Thread Darryl Harvey
Anyone had any experience in dual booting with Linux and Win2K ? Is it hard like NT4 is/was to dual boot, or easy like Win95/98? I am almost ready to upgrade my Win partition and was wondering what I would be in for. Thanks Darryl -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe"

Re: Resize a partion

2000-04-04 Thread Bret Hughes
partition magic will do this (used to be around $50US). There is also a fips program that I have used I think it is included on the cdrom. It is in the dosutils directory on the 6.1 cd anyway. I don't recall if fips is designed to be used on linux partitions or not. READ THE DOCS FIRST. also o

RE: Shutdown

2000-04-04 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Morning All: On the topic of rebuilding the kernel, is my assumption correct that if I were to go into the /usr/src/linux directory, and follow the steps to recompile the kernel, without making any changes to the configuration, I should get back the same kernel that Red Hat installs by default, a

Make ISO Questions

2000-04-04 Thread Moderow, Kevin
Running 6.1 Setting up a file server for Win9x/NT/2K clients using RH6.1/Samba. Two World Book CDs have to be served for client/server World Book 2000, so: I mkisofs of the two CDs. I mount them and share them through Samba. Perfect! Win9x loves it. However, WinNT/2K has a problem. It seems

Re: smbmount vs NFS opinions

2000-04-04 Thread Robert Burton
>On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Robert Burton wrote: > >> I have a Snap Server 4000 (rack mount) that I need to backup. I can >> connect to the Snap via smbmount (which I've already done) and by NFS. >> But I haven't used NFS before. Is using one better then the other? Any >> opinions on which would be be

Find gives an error always

2000-04-04 Thread Rajagopal Subash
Dear All:   Whenever I run find command with any options, I get the following error message, find : /proc/5/fd:permission denied   Can anyone help me to know the reason for the error message. Subash

Re: 6.2 install hangs ... Found (remembered) the problem

2000-04-04 Thread Pete Peterson
Yesterday, I sent in reports relating to my problem loading 6.2 on a DEC Prioris 5200XL machine. The installation hung and locked up keyboard and mouse during loading of packages, even though this machine had been running for RecHat 5.0 28 months without a hitch. I tried 2 6.2 custom installs

RE: libXm.so.2

2000-04-04 Thread Tom Watts
Hi, If I remember correctly libXm.so.2 is a Motif 2.x runtime library. I think you can get this from downloading LessTif, sorry I can't remember the URL you need. Tom. -Original Message- From: Luca Capannesi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 10:09 AM To: [EMAIL P

ncftp vs. firewall?

2000-04-04 Thread Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)
Hi folks, I'm looking for some info with regard to ncftp and firewall. What happened was this: If for example I tried to connect to ftp.heanet.ie with ncftp, I get an error message "no route to host" and my firewall log showed this: Mar 28 22:40:21 magrat kernel: IP fw-out rej ppp0 TCP MY_DYNAMI

Re: libXm.so.2

2000-04-04 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Luca Capannesi wrote: > do you know which rpm package contains the file libXm.so.2, needed by > ddd-3.2-4.sparc.rpm on Redhat 6.2 Sparc System?? lesstif, as found in powertools. LLaP bero -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

libXm.so.2

2000-04-04 Thread Luca Capannesi
Hello, do you know which rpm package contains the file libXm.so.2, needed by ddd-3.2-4.sparc.rpm on Redhat 6.2 Sparc System?? Thank you for your help!! Capannesi Luca Universita' degli Studi di Firenze Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni Laboratorio RADAR e RADIOCOMUNICAZIONI Via S

net install: NFS vs. FTP vs. HTTP

2000-04-04 Thread Edward Schernau
Cons to NFS: Requires configuring, 15 different daemons Pros: ? Cons to FTP: Requires some config, data files (install cd) must actually live in the /ftp/pub directory, no symlinking. Pros: Speed maybe? Cons to HTTP: Come config Pros: Can symlink to it in /home/httpd/html Interruptibl

Re: Bug in zoot upgrade? Warning!

2000-04-04 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Makes sense, Gordon. Gustav Gordon Messmer wrote: > > Gustav Schaffter wrote: > > OK, it seems that I was the only one having this problem(?). > > Probably not, the files were replaced by the isdn-config package. > > > Primarily, I'd like to know if this is the future, that the ip-up.local >

Re: difference between hostname and domain name

2000-04-04 Thread Peter Monta
> ... When I send a mail from Subash1 to subash2, the sender address is > read as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, this sounds normal; email addresses are "user@host". > But I would like the sender to be read as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why? If you were connected to outside you might want to masquerade your i

Resize a partion

2000-04-04 Thread Hillel Bilman
Hi I've got a hard drive that has Redhat linux on it, which is half used. I'd like to resize the partion and free up some space, in which I can install another Operating System. Unfortunately I have to get familiar with Solaris 7 and I'd like to install the Intel version on the free space. Than

rpm's not included in installation

2000-04-04 Thread Amber Nicole Ferguson
    There are several rpm packages most of them I think are for my video card that I need to use as the Xservers that come with just a typical Redhat Linux 6.2 download don't include them, and I have found it far easier in some respects to use X to set up ppp and so forth.        My questio

KDE + /dev/fd0 owner

2000-04-04 Thread gpt Guillermo Pastor Torrente
Hi all! I'm using RH6.1 and KDE (through kdm), and the /dev/fd0 belongs to the user that logs in. Who is responsible of changing the device owner? I would rather like to have free access to the floppy (mtools available to everybody). When I change the floppy owner/permissions, it works as spected