Re: Samba 2.07

> If it is not too much to ask, could you tell us/me how you instruct > printers to send something back? How do you collect the info? Well, I'm not the author because we have a guy here who is fluent in postscript. In fact he probably speaks postscript in his sleep. But from what I know about th

Re: RAW partitions for database

I know that under Oracle you can... For example under hp-ux you can issue a create tablespace command but specify the datafile as "/dev/rdsk/cot6d0/datafile01.dbf" which points to the raw disk itself... this places the datafile on a raw partition... I haven't tried this under Linux, but I think

Re: Samba 2.07

On Tue, 23 May 2000, Niclas Sodergard DC wrote: > Since all of our printers speak postscript (we have standardized on HP LJ) > we are instructing them before each printjob, using ps, to send back some > statusinformation when they are done. Among other things the exact > pagecount which otherwise

RE: RAW partitions for database

Is there any way to make a filesystem behave like a raw partition ? That is, if I dont format it and also dont mount it, can I access it ? Sarath Chandra M wrote: Hi, ---> > I hav configured a RAID 5 with four disks. I ---> would like to have a / ---> > and /usr and /some linux native p

Re: xwindows slow in general or...?

Uncle Meat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are other, lighter, faster desktops (XFCE andIceWM to name a couple). > They just don't have the right screen layout and gazillions of icons and > programs attached to make life easy for newbies. I'm not sure what you're talking about exactly, but

Re: Unidentified subject!

as far as i know raw partitions are not supported. although suse 6.4 does support them. sorry about the suse noise. Sarath Chandra M wrote: > > Hi, > I hav configured a RAID 5 with four disks. I would like to have a / > and /usr and /some linux native partitions. Apart from these, I w

Unidentified subject!

Hi, I hav configured a RAID 5 with four disks. I would like to have a / and /usr and /some linux native partitions. Apart from these, I would like to have a few raw partitions for database usage. I am using disk druid tool to do this while installation of redhat 6.0. Has anybody come acro

Re: PAP Okay - Can't see beyond... Help Needed

Thanks for the tip... I got the default route in and it works beautifully!!! I'm working on several things I've been meaning to try under Linux, this was one of them... I'm configuring the files by hand... I find it gives me a better of understanding of what's happening and how things fit togethe

xntpd/ntpdate problem

Hi. Prior to upgrading from RHL 5.2 to RHL 6.1/6.2, I've been using ntpdate from xntpd3 to keep my computer's clock accurate. ntpdate runs in my /etc/ppp/ip-up script. It was working fine, however, after upgrading to 6.1 (and the situation continues in 6.2), neither ntpdate nor the xntpd daemon

Re: Backup

Hi, How to retrive them using tar. Thanks "Bhampc.com" wrote: > tar would be the simplest - put something in one of the /etc/cron.* > directories so it will work automatically (if that's what you want) and just > do something like, > > tar zcvf /dir/archivename.tar /directorytobackup/* >

RE: xwindows slow in general or...?

On 24-May-00 Stephen King opined: > Hi, > > Is it just my installations or it is a fact that xwindows, and say KDE or > Gnome, are slower than any win95/98/NT/2000 installation on the same > machine? I'm trying hard to convince my wife not to go back to windows, > but I've done three installati

xwindows slow in general or...?

Hi, Is it just my installations or it is a fact that xwindows, and say KDE or Gnome, are slower than any win95/98/NT/2000 installation on the same machine? I'm trying hard to convince my wife not to go back to windows, but I've done three installations with XF86 (replacing MSwindows) and none of

RE: Upgrade from 6.1 to 6.2

On 24-May-00 Mobeen Azhar - moby opined: > Thanks for the reply. I am afraid my question is really what is it that > I > need to download, rather than where to download it from. I do I find out > exactly which RPMs I need to download to get from 6.1 to 6.2? > > Sorry about the confusion, At a

RE: Upgrade from 6.1 to 6.2

Thanks for the reply. I am afraid my question is really what is it that I need to download, rather than where to download it from. I do I find out exactly which RPMs I need to download to get from 6.1 to 6.2? Sorry about the confusion, --Moby -Original Message- From: Uncle Meat [mailto

Re: Problem with Gnome

Two. First, to prevent core dumps, put ulimit -c 10 in your /etc/profile. This will limit the size of core dumps to whatever number you specify, e.g. 10 Second, Gnome (on my machine) leaves old files (I think they are lock files) laying around my ~/.gnome directory. They look like ".gn

PHP4 .. Can't wait for the RPM

Now that PHP4 is 'real'. Not like there isn't a lot of other things to do :) ... but had to say it. And thanks again to the redhat team .. -pete -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: PAP Okay - Can't see beyond... Help Needed

It looks like to me you need a default route to the gateway on ATT's network. I ususally use linuxconf to set this stuff up. Not sure the tool you are using to set this stuff up but on one of my redhat 6.2 boxes the file of interest is /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0. the DEFROUTE opti

Re: PAP Okay - Can't see beyond... Help Needed

You do not have a default route set. It would look like this in your routing tables: 0.0.0.0 204.146.240.420.0.0.0 UG0 00 ppp0 You might want to set one manually: route add default gw Hope this helps Michael -- The answer to the meaning of life: perl -e

Re: Backup

On Tue, 23 May 2000, Sam Bayne wrote: > > The way around the 2G linit is to access the drive as a raw defice, > > instead of a file on the file system. > > > > tar -czvf /dev/hdc1 > > > Does anyone do this? I've been thinking about it, but how do you > deal with bad blocks, etc.? Can you put

Re: Duplicating Hard Disk...[OT]

If you need to do images of lab computers, with network multicasting, etc. check out labexpert, from www.altiris.com. We use it for our labs 'round here. It does IPX/IP multicast, remote reboot, hidden partitions to boot from(don't need boot floppies), centralized database that can be used to dow

Re: [OT] HTML question

- Original Message - From: Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 1:18 PM Subject: Re: [OT] HTML question > Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > I'm in the process of generating reports from data in a database, and > > I've chosen to use HTML for the

RE: fetchmail

On 23-May-00 Rick Knebel opined: > Hi, > Does anyone know if there is a way to run fetchmail as root and use it to > get different users mail from an ISP? > I want to start fetchamil as root and have a different line for each > user. Yes. If you have linuxconf and/ro fetchmailconf installed, it'

Re: Odd file / filesystem problems...

> > > Second, and I'm not positive that this is filesystem, but that is > > what I suspect, if I try and transefer large files (30 meg), after the > > first one my computer locks so hard that I have to power off. When I > > re-boot I usally have file damage (not to the file I was coping). Th

Re: AT&T Anyone?

Their system is very Linux friendly. I used them for years. Basically, they use chap to authenicate you. They have instructions for linux at http:??www.wurd.com Victor On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 02:05:59PM -0500, Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote: > Anyone connecting to AT&T Worldnet out there? I really need s

RE: Upgrade from 6.1 to 6.2

On 23-May-00 Mobeen Azhar opined: > Hello all, I have a rather newbie question, so please bear with me! I > just > purchased and installed RedHat Linux 6.1 and everything is up and running > fine - so far! I would like to upgrade to RedHat Linux 6.2. Is there a > way > to download just the del

Re: Backup

> The way around the 2G linit is to access the drive as a raw defice, > instead of a file on the file system. > > tar -czvf /dev/hdc1 Does anyone do this? I've been thinking about it, but how do you deal with bad blocks, etc.? Can you put multiple volumes on the same drive? If so, how do you s

PAP Okay - Can't see beyond... Help Needed

So, I have finally connected to AT&T Worldnet... but now I can't see beyond their nameserver... here is some info I captured... #ifconfig ppp0 ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:32.100.59.236 P-t-P:204.146.240.42 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNI

RE: Duplicating Hard Disk...

On Tue, 23 May 2000, Richard Harvey Chapman wrote: > IIRC Ghost and ImageCast are one and the same. Ghost was bought and > renamed. > > but I've been wrong before. I guess I'm wrong. (just checked www.storagesoft.com) R. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the

Re: fetchmail

yes, you can do just that. Rick Knebel wrote: > > Hi, > Does anyone know if there is a way to run fetchmail as root and use it to > get different users mail from an ISP? > I want to start fetchamil as root and have a different line for each user. > > Thanks > Rick > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail

RE: Duplicating Hard Disk...

IIRC Ghost and ImageCast are one and the same. Ghost was bought and renamed. but I've been wrong before. R. On Tue, 23 May 2000, Patrick M. May wrote: > > The community college I worked for/went to purchased Ghost after looking at > it and IC3 (IIRC). IC3 seemed to give you more features, but

fetchmail

Hi, Does anyone know if there is a way to run fetchmail as root and use it to get different users mail from an ISP? I want to start fetchamil as root and have a different line for each user. Thanks Rick -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

RE: Duplicating Hard Disk...

> I would really like to know a way to clone a bootable disk quickly without > having to resort to ghost and it's per workstation ghosted (used to be at > least before Norton bought it, I assume it still is). The community college I worked for/went to purchased Ghost after looking at it and IC3 (

Re: Odd file / filesystem problems...

> Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 14:48:08 -0400 > From: Timothy Reaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: RedHat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Odd file / filesystem problems... > > I have two things that are happening that I don't think should. > > First, in my home directory I have a linked directory

RE: NT Telnet Frustration

%-> Putty's pretty good. In fact, I'm using it now, but it seems to drop %-> connections randomly after periods of inactivity. I used to %-> think that it %-> was my old company's firewall, but now I'm at a new company and the %-> problem is still here. So, I thought it might be my firewall. I

Re: Backup

On Tue, 23 May 2000, Eric Sisler wrote: > Mark Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I would like to know what backup software do I need if I am using > >another Hard Disk as my Backup Device. > > Pretty much any backup utility (tar, cpio, bru, etc.) can use any media as > the backup devic

rpm update and tripwire nightmare!

Hi, How do people manage tripwire and rpm update? It is a nightmare to go through the daily tripwire result everytime after a rpm package has been updated. Any easier way for managing tripwire and rpm together? Thanks! Jimmy -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the

Re: Samba 2.07

> So you have postscript drivers (only?) installed as the default on all > your clients? Yes, postscript is the only thing allowed. It works good across all platforms we have in use (Solaris, Linux, Tru64, all Windows versions from 3.11 to w2k). Nickus -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: RedHat on SG

I thought I had seen something somewhere about Linux on SGI. I dug up this link. It looks like there is something out there. I don't know what the status is. http://www.linux.sgi.com/mips/ Max Nick wrote: > Hi > > Does anybody know if RedHat 6.x could be installed on a Silicon Graphics > Indy W

nmbd not starting from inetd

I am trying to start nmbd from inetd as I have done on RH 6.1 w/o problems. I am trying to get this working on a RH 6.2 box. Samba works fine when started manually, but for some reason inetd cannot spawn the process. I have added the correct entries to /etc/services, and /etc/inetd.conf, restarte

Re: licences

>Mark Lo wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have two server that is using RedHat Linux 6.2 as the Platform, >> I wonder how many licences do i need in this case ?? >> >> Thank you >> >> Mark >> Hi You do not have to pay for per user or per server licenses, however you do have to buy Redhat unless yo

Re: Backup

I wrote: >#I'd also recommend against backing up to a disk drive in the same server, >#unless the hard disk happens to be of the removable kind (Zip, Jaz, etc.) You replied: >why? I'm still unsure what I'm gonna buy still waiting for that lto.org tape >drives to come out 100GB native capacity.

RE: RedHat on SG

Nick, I have heard that Linux in some form (* CAVEAT - not necessarily RH, and no guarantee of what kernel version *) does support at least the MIPS 4000 CPU series, so it would be possible to run Linux, for example on a low end O2 workstation. SGI is actively working on developing something bet

Re: RedHat on SG

That sounds like a RISC machine - Linux is not yet available for RISC processors - a group called Puffin (similar to the penguin) is working to release a RISC version of Linux. Joel - Original Message - From: "Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 9

Upgrade from 6.1 to 6.2

Hello all, I have a rather newbie question, so please bear with me! I just purchased and installed RedHat Linux 6.1 and everything is up and running fine - so far! I would like to upgrade to RedHat Linux 6.2. Is there a way to download just the deltas and upgrade the system? or does it require

compiling questions

hello, I have a few quick questions. when someone does the actual make modules is it supposed to compile all/every module that there is ?? cause after I do a make mrproper then do my xconfig and start the kernel compile with (and this line is really nice) : make dep clean modules modules_install

Re: kernel compile question update

The modules problem seems to be that somthing needs a driver that is in the sound configuration. I disabled sound support and the modules always failed while compiling radiosomething.o sying it needed something else. I guessed it was the sound stuff and added it back in and the modules are now

Re: Duplicating Hard Disk...

Thanks for the tip Adam. freshmeat's search engine seems to be having a problem right now. I'll see if I can find it in a while. Tom "Adam Sleight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 05/23/2000 02:40:48 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Duplicating Har

RedHat on SG

Hi Does anybody know if RedHat 6.x could be installed on a Silicon Graphics Indy Workstation? Nick -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

AT&T Anyone?

Anyone connecting to AT&T Worldnet out there? I really need some help... please see previous posts under "Connecting to AT&T Worldnet" Ahbaid. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

PLIP - solution

You need to bring up the interface: ifcfg plip0 up THEN, give it the address: ifcfp plip0 a.b.c.d pointopoint e.f.g.h I noticed that if you bring it up and pass it the IP address(es) at the same time, you get a random MAC address. PLIP only works for me when its "MAC" address was FC:FC:FC:FC:FC:

Odd file / filesystem problems...

I have two things that are happening that I don't think should. First, in my home directory I have a linked directory I created with the command 'ln -s /opt/work /home/treaves/work'. Now, when I am in the work directory and type 'mv filename ../dev/", the file is not moved to the directo

Re: NT OS Loader + Linux = how?

Interesting... What version of Linux are you running? I recall reading all the howto's and tried making it part of my MBR and using LILO to boot up NT. It was a disaster :D Nothing worked (cept for the linux piece). Can you provide details on this? I"m no longer running NT cept at work. Just

Re: Duplicating Hard Disk...

check out a program called "mondo" on freshmeat.net...it's like DriveImage Pro for Windows. On Tue, 23 May 2000 13:08:34 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # #Ahbaid, # #I'd use a product called Ghost. Boot it from a diskette. It will clone #any HDD to another so long as the second is larger than

Re: Backup

tar would be the simplest - put something in one of the /etc/cron.* directories so it will work automatically (if that's what you want) and just do something like, tar zcvf /dir/archivename.tar /directorytobackup/* > outputfile - Original Message - From: "Mark Lo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: LILO Help

It seems to me that there was some condition with Windows2000 that required special attention in regards to LILO - it might be wise for you to investiage this problem through the support.microsoft.com system. Otherwise I would suggest simply reconfiguring LILO with linuxconf or via the commandlin

Re: Duplicating Hard Disk...

This won't allow a machine to boot from this hard drive will it? I tried the dd deal last week on a 8GB drive and it actually worked but took forever. I also tried the cpio deal before but had to run the install program to get lilo to do it's thing. At some point int the past there was a post a

Re: Duplicating Hard Disk...

The only concern that pops into my mind is that of open/locked files that woudln't be able to copy - although this may be Windoze protocol seeping into the civilized parts of my memory - so you might want to confirm that. : ) It would probably be better to use some sort of disk mirroring program

Re: NT Telnet Frustration

> Bret Hughes wrote: > > try putty nice free client Putty's pretty good. In fact, I'm using it now, but it seems to drop connections randomly after periods of inactivity. I used to think that it was my old company's firewall, but now I'm at a new company and the problem is still here. So, I th

Re: Backup

Mark Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to know what backup software do I need if I am using >another Hard Disk as my Backup Device. Pretty much any backup utility (tar, cpio, bru, etc.) can use any media as the backup device, including another disk drive. Keep in mind that Lin

Re: kernel compile question

Thanks to all for the input. Makes sense. I thought I would try the modules again berfore asking for help. I was getting a couple of errors on the make modules and incorrectly assumed that all were built. None of the ipv4 or net modules were installed amoung others I am sure. I'll run it agai

RE: NT Telnet Frustration

I like Tera Term as well. Mostly because you can get a SSH client add-on. -->Another one that I find works well in NT is Tera Term. --> -->-W- --> --> Blinding speed can compensate for a lot of deficiencies. -- -->David Nichols --> --> -->-- -->To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with --

Re: NT Telnet Frustration

Bret Hughes wrote: > try putty nice free client > Bret Another one that I find works well in NT is Tera Term. -W- Blinding speed can compensate for a lot of deficiencies. -- David Nichols -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Kerberos

Got a question, Does anyone have a good resource or know of a good resource on setting up Kerberos? The other question is if you don't have a good source, how do you shut it off when doing an rlogin? I have some systems to setup with rlogin and evertime I remote login to them, I get a krb4 erro

Re: backup software of arkeia

Stay away from Arkeia. There is a known problem with large ( greater that one gig) files. I found this out the hard way. Try BRU. Mark Lo wrote: > Hi, > > I have purchased RedHat Linux 6.2 professional edition, I would > like to know do I need a license to run arkeia backup prog

Re: disp. man pages w/o man

On Tue, 23 May 2000, Richard Harvey Chapman wrote: > What's the command to display a man page w/o using man? > I seem to remember something using troff. nevermind, from Man-page HOWTO: groff -Tascii -man manfile R. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subje

Re: Duplicating Hard Disk...

| I have a RH box with an ide drive on /dev/hda | I'd like to clone this drive... | | Question: | Can I plug in another IDE drive as say /dev/hdb and run the following | command to do the trick? | | dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 count=1 | | If not, what's the best way? Assume the person doi

Re: HELP! - PAP Authentitcation - PPP to ISP

Hi, I don't have a GUI environment to work in, but I added the name servers for AT&T to my resolv.conf file... could you verify the files I have setup such as pap-secrets? thanks again, Ahbaid. P Eads wrote: > On Tue, 23 May 2000, Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've gotten a littl

Re: Duplicating Hard Disk...

Ahbaid, I'd use a product called Ghost. Boot it from a diskette. It will clone any HDD to another so long as the second is larger than the first. One problem, I think, with your approach is that it does not consider the partitioning of the second HDD. Tom Ahbaid Gaffoor <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Duplicating Hard Disk...

Hi all, I have a RH box with an ide drive on /dev/hda I'd like to clone this drive... Question: Can I plug in another IDE drive as say /dev/hdb and run the following command to do the trick? dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=512 count=1 If not, what's the best way? Assume the person doing this i

Re: Parallel Connection

bob jones wrote: > > Hi all: > > For what it's worth: I posted a similar question several times during a > period when I tried to get PLIP running between two Linux-running PC's. > I > never did get it working completely -- always something would work, and > something would not work. Basically I

LILO Help

Hi all people, I accidentally installed the master boot file in hda5. When I started the PC, LILO could not detect NTFS to boot Win2000, only booting Linux. Kindly advise how to rectify it avoiding re-install RH 6.2 The layout of my hard disk is as follows: hda1 Win2000 hda5 RH 6.2 hda6

Re: ethernet add drivers to the kernel

The command you use to tell which services to start at boot is ntsysv You can use linuxconf to set up the ehernet card driver or add to /etc/conf.modules by hand Linda Hanigan -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Backup

Hi, I would like to know what backup software do I need if I am using another Hard Disk as my Backup Device. Thanks Mark -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: HELP! - PAP Authentitcation - PPP to ISP

On Tue, 23 May 2000, Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote: > Hi all, > > I've gotten a little further getting connected to AT&T's ISP... I do now > know that they use PAP to auhtenticate their users... I had a similar problem with my system and I finally figured out that I did not have the DNS entries setup. Un

HELP! - PAP Authentitcation - PPP to ISP

Hi all, I've gotten a little further getting connected to AT&T's ISP... I do now know that they use PAP to auhtenticate their users... Again, here is the information I have gathered so far: I ran the following command: /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/modem 115200 debug connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v '' AT OK

disp. man pages w/o man

What's the command to display a man page w/o using man? I seem to remember something using troff. Thanks, R. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Parallel Connection

Hi all: For what it's worth: I posted a similar question several times during a period when I tried to get PLIP running between two Linux-running PC's. I never did get it working completely -- always something would work, and something would not work. Basically I could never communicate both ways

Re: kernel compile question

Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >after I compile a newly configured kernel using: > >make mrproper >make menuconifg >make dep >make clean >make bzImage > >I get a vmlinuz file in /usr/src/linux (2.2.14-5.0) >and a much smaller file in arch/i386/boot/bzImage > >The kernel howto indicates th

backup software of arkeia

Hi, I have purchased RedHat Linux 6.2 professional edition, I would like to know do I need a license to run arkeia backup program. And How to run arkeia in Xwindows. eg. What command do should I use. I have read the manual, still can't find any command to run arkeia under RedHat in X

Re: Documentation needed

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I need some documentation on shell scripts. Any suggestions?? Check any bookstore carrying the O'Reilly books, or go to and look for the Bash book. Best way to learn bash & sh scripts. rickf -- Rick Forrister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Procmail question

On Tue, 23 May 2000, Edward Dekkers wrote: > :0c > * ^[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ! someuser@someaddress > > That's it. NOT! It's not working. Procmail is definately installed, but > doesn't seem to 'activate' to execute this rule. If you think procmail isn't even running, you may want to check the per

Re: kernel compile question

Bret Hughes wrote: > > after I compile a newly configured kernel using: > > make mrproper > make menuconifg > make dep > make clean > make bzImage > > I get a vmlinuz file in /usr/src/linux (2.2.14-5.0) > and a much smaller file in arch/i386/boot/bzImage > > The kernel howto indicates that bzI

kernel compile question

after I compile a newly configured kernel using: make mrproper make menuconifg make dep make clean make bzImage I get a vmlinuz file in /usr/src/linux (2.2.14-5.0) and a much smaller file in arch/i386/boot/bzImage The kernel howto indicates that bzImage is the one I should move and it seems to

Re: ethernet add drivers to the kernel

Don you will need to add the module to /etc/conf.modules. On my systems I have the following entry for a tulip card: alias eth0 tulip you can also add option for irq address etc if need be. Seems like the module howto got me going. a search of this list archive will probably return more info a

Re: Samba 2.07

On Tue, 23 May 2000, Niclas Sodergard DC wrote: > > > But can you elaborate on that "specially written accounting software"? How > > do you get number of pages printed, for example? > > Since all of our printers speak postscript (we have standardized on HP LJ) > we are instructing them before ea

Re: using ethernet

On Tue, 23 May 2000, Billy R. Nordyke Sr. wrote: > Think I have the ethernet almost working. At least there's activity on > the eth0 window in one computer when I'm trying to connect. > Where do I find information on how to use the ethernet connection? > Haven't figured out the keywords to find

ethernet add drivers to the kernel

I have a davicom ethernet card. When I installed readhat 6,2 it didn't have a driver for this card. I found a driver compiled it and followed the steps to insert it into the kernel. The steps were insmod dfme.o, ifconfig eth0 , route add default eth0. When I do these steps I can see the network.

Re: using ethernet

Hi, What are you trying to do and what steps have you done? I am running RH 6.0 and here are the steps it took for two linux machines to talk to each other. Right now I use kermit and vnc on my windows machines to talk to the linux machines . 1. Install Network Card and attach to hub. I use

Re: Documentation needed

man bash Ragnar Wiencke wrote: > Hi guys. > > I need some documentation on shell scripts. Any suggestions?? > > Thanks in advance, > Ragnar W. > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > >

Documentation needed

Hi guys. I need some documentation on shell scripts. Any suggestions?? Thanks in advance, Ragnar W. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: telnet

> That will most likely be because you have denied telnet (or (preferable) > everything) in hosts.deny and this way you explicitly allow what you > believe should be allowed in your system. See? I'm good on security and didn't even know it! Thanks for clarifying Gustav. Guess I didn't help the

Re: digests truncated (semi OT)

I subscribe to the digest and don't recall ever seeing the particular phenomenon you describe. There **HAVE** been OTHER problems, primarily with delays in sending out the digest. For instance, for the previous couple weeks there have been long delays (over a week) in the delivery of the digest

slocate causes corruption? (was NFS,RPC problems...)

Tom, I'm puzzled. "slocate" has always seemed pretty innocuous. How would running it corrupt your installation? RedHat systems have been running it (or updatedb) by default every night for years. Did the disk containing /var/lib get filled? How about running rpm verify to see what might hav

Re: Linux keyboards

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 01:58:53PM -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: > > Since my origianal rec was an IBM keyboard, I don't see the connection; > the IBM has alt, and ctrl and bs, and SysReq, it just doesn't have > the funny keys next to the spacebar that go to the start menu and > whatever the othe

Re: System Time Problem!

At 12:31 2000-05-23 +0430, Redhat Mailing List wrote: >After some days since soft and hard clock were sync'ed using >'date' and 'setclock', it is seen a two minutes differnce >between them (soft one is late). > Is there any bug with time keeping part of linux or i should >sync them manually ,using

System Time Problem!

Hi Here is a problem with the time system of Linux Mandrake 6.1. After some days since soft and hard clock were sync'ed using 'date' and 'setclock', it is seen a two minutes differnce between them (soft one is late). Is there any bug with time keeping part of linux or i should sync them manua

Re: mail filter

At 07:05 2000-05-23 +0200, Anthony E. Greene wrote: >Jake McHenry wrote: >> >> does anyone know of a mail filter so I can get all the list messages put >> into a file? I need this for linux and for aix ( i'm not sure if sendmail >> is the same for both os's or not ). thanks for your help in advan

Re: telnet

Edward, That will most likely be because you have denied telnet (or (preferable) everything) in hosts.deny and this way you explicitly allow what you believe should be allowed in your system. Regards Gustav Edward Dekkers wrote: > > > upgraded to Red hat 6.1 and telnet is not working. Has an