RE: LPR still - made some progress...

2000-12-10 Thread Uncle Meat
On 11-Dec-2000 Dan Horth opined: > Hiya - a follow up on my LPR headaches... I have just installed a new > RH 6.2 based system as we're setting up a new server - and I have > managed to get this printing absolutely perfectly well as expected. > So - I'm 100% certain that the problem is to do w

RE: Sendmail

2000-12-10 Thread Shanmuga Raj
I am trying to understand how this works. any mail sent to the linux server from a workstation, is delivered to sendmail, as sendmail is the smtp server on port 25 (correct me if I am wrong). Then if the mail is local it is passed on to procmail to process local delivery to the local recepient. If

Re: Red Hat 7.0 and 4 GB memory

2000-12-10 Thread John Indra
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 10:05:04AM -0500, Robert Fausey wrote: |You should not have to recompile the kernel in 7.0 for it to recognize the |4G of memory, unless there is something wrong with the kernel that ships. Are you sure? Anybody else can strengthen this statement? |6.2 will recognize 4G

Re: Symbolic link

2000-12-10 Thread Dan Horth
rm bar :) At 11:34 PM -0500 10/12/00, Rob Yale wrote: >Can someone please tell me how to get rid of a symbolic link created with >'ln -s foo bar'? -- Nitro - 3D Visualisation, Graphics & Animation Ph (+61 2) 9810 5177 - Fx (+61 2) 9810 0199 http:

Symbolic link

2000-12-10 Thread Rob Yale
Can someone please tell me how to get rid of a symbolic link created with 'ln -s foo bar'? Thanks, Rob Yale ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: LPR still - made some progress... (solved)

2000-12-10 Thread Dan Horth
Hi there - I had checked the printcap files against eachother - and they were identical... I thought I had gone through and checked all the permissions and stuff in the spool directory before - but since I had a working lp on the new server I thought I'd just try copying the /var/spool/lpr/lp

Re: when do environment vars get set?

2000-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
christopher j bottaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > thats cool, putting echos in those files to see when they run, but i'd still > like to know >where< all the other environment vars are being set. > > are environ vars set >only< in shell scripts? or are there other things (i > dunno, like th

Re: Sendmail

2000-12-10 Thread Kiran Kumar M
You might be in confusion. If you are typing the only user name without domain name, automatically it knows the user is local and passit to procmail. If you are specifing the domain name it will seeks the help of DNS to get the IP of that domain. Kiran On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Michael Burger wrot

Re: Symbolic link

2000-12-10 Thread christopher j bottaro
i'm still a linux newbie, but i'm guessing... change to the dir where that command was executed and rm bar On Sunday 10 December 2000 22:34, you wrote: > Can someone please tell me how to get rid of a symbolic link created with > 'ln -s foo bar'? > > Thanks, > > Rob Yale > > > >

Re: when do environment vars get set?

2000-12-10 Thread christopher j bottaro
yeah, i found that stuff in /etc/profile.d once when i was setting an environ var in /etc/profile and wondering why it was being overwritten. thats cool, putting echos in those files to see when they run, but i'd still like to know >where< all the other environment vars are being set. are envi

Re: LPR still - made some progress...

2000-12-10 Thread Herik Brown
If you haven't already done so, do a "man lpq", "man lpc". This may tell you whether your lpd daemon is working or not and that only your /etc/printcap needs tweaking. More than likely it's your /etc/printcap file. Pay attention to /var/spool/lpd/your_print_queue, as this directory needs to have t

Re: impossible to mount burned cd's?

2000-12-10 Thread christopher j bottaro
Mike's answer worked great for me. i just had to close the session, thats all. thanks for the help. On Sunday 10 December 2000 21:53, you wrote: > *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** > > On 12/12/00 at 20:56 christopher j bottaro wrote: > >hello, > > > >when i decided to ditch windows for

Re: Symbolic link

2000-12-10 Thread Statux
'rm bar' :) On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Rob Yale wrote: > Can someone please tell me how to get rid of a symbolic link created with > 'ln -s foo bar'? > > Thanks, > > Rob Yale > > > > ___ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat

Re: Sendmail

2000-12-10 Thread Michael Burger
You're half correct. Sendmail has to know that the user is local, and it then passes the message to procmail to process. The problem, as it appears to me, without having any further data, is that Sendmail probably knows that it's supposed to deliver to users at the system name, but may not know

Re: pam and file attributes??

2000-12-10 Thread Mike Burger
Assuming you have a supported sound card, first, run sndconfig from a command prompt (without KDE running)...once your sound card has been activated (and the module set to load...should be automatic once you run sndconfig), KDE should automagically start using it. On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, christopher

when do environment vars get set?

2000-12-10 Thread christopher j bottaro
weee, i like mailing lists. i have so many questions! i know at some point, these shell scripts are executed in this order... /etc/profile /etc/bashrc ~/.bash_profile ~/.bashrc but when i type "set" i see many more environment vars than i saw were set and exported in those 4 files. where

Re: Sendmail

2000-12-10 Thread Michael Burger
Can you post for us the actual error messages that show up in your mailbox, and/or the messages from your maillog? On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:15:10 +0545, Deependra B. Tandukar wrote: >Greetings! > >My sendmail works but when I send email to local users([EMAIL PROTECTED]) in a >linux box. It doesn't

Re: Sendmail

2000-12-10 Thread Kiran Kumar M
It is using procmail for local users not by sendmail. Kiran On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Deependra B. Tandukar wrote: > Greetings! > > My sendmail works but when I send email to local users([EMAIL PROTECTED]) in a > linux box. It doesn't go. In mail in gives the error [EMAIL PROTECTED] has > fatal e

Re: impossible to mount burned cd's?

2000-12-10 Thread Mike Burger
You were using the DirectCD setup...you have to go to a machine with the DirectCD software, and have it close the disc/session. Otherwise, you'll probably not be able to read them under Linux, or on a few other systems, either. On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, christopher j bottaro wrote: > hello, > > when

LPR still - made some progress...

2000-12-10 Thread Dan Horth
Hiya - a follow up on my LPR headaches... I have just installed a new RH 6.2 based system as we're setting up a new server - and I have managed to get this printing absolutely perfectly well as expected. So - I'm 100% certain that the problem is to do with the configuration of the old servers.

Re: when do environment vars get set?

2000-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
christopher j bottaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > weee, i like mailing lists. i have so many questions! > > i know at some point, these shell scripts are executed in this order... > > /etc/profile > /etc/bashrc > ~/.bash_profile > ~/.bashrc > > but when i type "set" i see many more envi

Re: impossible to mount burned cd's?

2000-12-10 Thread Greg Wright
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 12/12/00 at 20:56 christopher j bottaro wrote: >hello, > >when i decided to ditch windows for linux, i backed up a bunch of my files >with my HP 9100+ cd writer. i used that feature that lets you treat the CD-R >like a normal disk, i.e. lets you d

Re: RPM and Bzip Chasing Tails?

2000-12-10 Thread David Talkington
Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: >I'm new to Linux, but I promise I never ever nowhere under no >circumstances would upgrade an rpm.rpm with *--nodeps* ... >(exept I really knew what I do .. but new as I am to Linux: there's >always some doubt :)) Nothing will explode. When a pine rpm insists that

Sendmail

2000-12-10 Thread Deependra B. Tandukar
Greetings! My sendmail works but when I send email to local users([EMAIL PROTECTED]) in a linux box. It doesn't go. In mail in gives the error [EMAIL PROTECTED] has fatal error. But when mail is sent with the user name only (user), it works perfectly. Can anybody trace out the problem? Looking

pam and file attributes??

2000-12-10 Thread christopher j bottaro
hello again, which device do i need properties to to hear sound? i use KDE2, and only as root do i hear the startup sound. after lots of searching on the internet, i found out that something called pam resets all the device's attributes according to the first person who logs into the physica

impossible to mount burned cd's?

2000-12-10 Thread christopher j bottaro
hello, when i decided to ditch windows for linux, i backed up a bunch of my files with my HP 9100+ cd writer. i used that feature that lets you treat the CD-R like a normal disk, i.e. lets you drag and drop files on it, or from within a program "save as..." directly onto the disk. well, in l

Linux laptop www.aslab.com

2000-12-10 Thread Dave Reed
Has anyone bought a Linux laptop from www.aslab.com ? If so, any comments? Thanks, Dave ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

RE: Memory Leak

2000-12-10 Thread Statux
> > Why would you want to set a maximum percentage? I don't have a problem with > > the system using as much memory for buffers as it can, since these buffers are > > freed when needed for "real" processes. Key word there is "I." YOU may not have a problem, but obviously there is some applicable

Re: Running file

2000-12-10 Thread Statux
> #! > cd /etc/rc.d/ > ./rc.firewall > cd /root Um.. you're new to this stuff aren't you? :) it's #! then the interpreter: #!/bin/sh or #!/bin/bash in this case cd /etc/rc.d/ is fine. ./rc.firewall (provided this script exists in /etc/rc.d) is fine too. cd /root for what reason? If you do not

Re: RPM and Bzip Chasing Tails?

2000-12-10 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Reply to message from David Talkington on Sun, 10 Dec 2000, 19:26 <-0600>: > > [ ... ] > > First thing I'd try is putting all the required .rpms in the same > directory, then do: > > ls |grep .rpm|xargs rpm -Uvh > > That'll let rpm sort out the dependencies. If that doesn't work, try > the same

Sendmail ".forward" messages in log file

2000-12-10 Thread Pete Peterson
I've recently found maillog entries like the following on one of our SMTP servers running sendmail-8.9.3. The messages look like standard garden variety SPAM. -- Dec 10 07:10:26 ns1 sendmail[21241]: HAA21234: forward /var/spool/mail/.forward.ns1: Group writable direc

Re: Export variables available to Cron Daemon

2000-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
"Brad Doster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I call the following script from rc.local using the the syntax '. > /path/script-name'. This makes the variables $DYNIPADDR and $GATEWAY > available in shell sessions. > > #! /bin/bash > DYNIPADDR=`\ > /sbin/ifconfig | grep "inet addr:" | grep -v "127

Re: ipchains questions

2000-12-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 05:38:33PM +0800, Mark Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I would like to know in what circumstances should i use -s (sources) | or -d (destinations). You use -s when you want to talk about the machine originating the packet, and -d when you want to talk about where the p

Re: RPM and Bzip Chasing Tails?

2000-12-10 Thread David Talkington
>2. When attempting to run VNC after installation, we found we don't have the >required Xauth installed. Found Xauth rpm at RedHat. > >3. On trying the rpm for Xauth, it advised that a later copy of RPM itself >was required (we have rpm-3.0.2-6.0). Found upgrade at RedHat. > >4. When trying to ins

RPM and Bzip Chasing Tails?

2000-12-10 Thread Max Hugen
We're new to Linux, have bought a Cobalt RaQ3i with Redhat 6.x on it. 1. We want to load Oracle on the server, for which we need an x-window program. We thought we'd try VNC. 2. When attempting to run VNC after installation, we found we don't have the required Xauth installed. Found Xauth rpm at

Update: RH7 won't install on my new Celeron 566 machine

2000-12-10 Thread Peter Kiem
Apologies Jason, it does indeed look like faulty hardware. Now Windows 2000 is starting to hang regularly. I'm getting the memory replaced tonight so hopefully that should resolve it. You think you would be safe with a brand new machine *sigh* -- Regards, +---+--

RE: Memory Leak

2000-12-10 Thread Nitebirdz
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > > borrow_percent -- UNUSED > > Why would you want to set a maximum percentage? I don't have a problem with > the system using as much memory for buffers as it can, since these buffers are > freed when needed for "real" processes. > It makes

RE: Auto-mail Script Woes (Solved)

2000-12-10 Thread Brad Doster
Yeah, I just found some sample syntax for that a bit ago, input as a cron entry here: 0 15 * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail >/dev/null 2>&1 bd -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bret Hughes Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 10:02 AM To: [EMAIL PRO

RE: where to run firewall script with dial up connection under d

2000-12-10 Thread Uncle Meat
On 10-Dec-2000 Bob Hartung opined: > Hi again, > I have my RH 6.2 machine reinstalled, all scripts restored > and all updates applied. I have what I think is a workable > firewall script. Now, what I cannot figure out is where can > I insert a line of code that will call my firewall script >

Re: warning during make modules

2000-12-10 Thread lee
Corisen wrote: > i'm compiling kernel 2.4.0-test11 uder RH7. i've changed the CC= line to use > kgcc, executed "make clean" and "make mrproper". "make menuconfig" and "make > dep" went smoothly. however during the "make modules" process, several > warning messages (shown below) appeared: > > {sta

Re: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2000-12-10 Thread Jack Bowling
** Reply to message from hello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sun, 10 Dec 2000 16:56:34 +0100 > Hello, > > I am trying to manage three downloads at the same > time by running my netscape 4.75 three times on > different workspaces. > After I started the process I dad to leave for > some hours. When I ha

Re: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2000-12-10 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Reply to message from Wolfgang Pfeiffer on Sun, 10 Dec 2000, 20:45 <+0100>: > Reply to message from hello on Sun, 10 Dec 2000, 16:56 <+0100>: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to manage three downloads at the same > > time by running my netscape 4.75 three times on > > different workspaces

Re: why linux gets such a bad rap ...

2000-12-10 Thread Luke C Gavel
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, David Talkington wrote: > Changing the subject just a bit ... in my experience (contrary to > jude.t's, it seems), evangelizing aside, Windows is losing what was > once one of its primary strengths compared to Linux, which is ease of > install. Lately, RH is child's play to

Re: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2000-12-10 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Reply to message from hello on Sun, 10 Dec 2000, 16:56 <+0100>: > > > Hello, > > I am trying to manage three downloads at the same > time by running my netscape 4.75 three times on > different workspaces. > [ ... ] I'd try 'wget' -- I think there are some other tools for stable downloading stuff

Re: where to run firewall script with dial up connection under diald control

2000-12-10 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Bob, When your ppp connection is established, the /etc/ppp/ip-up.local script will be executed. (That is, if it exists. :-) This is indicated in the /etc/ppp/ip-up script. When your ip-up.local is called, it will have some handy parameters populated for your convenience: $1 = INTERFACE $2 = DEVI

Pine and X-sender

2000-12-10 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi, is there a possibility to stop Pine showing the X-Sender (as it probably will do in this mail, too ...) I've tried several changes to .pinerc to no avail ... I use Red Hat 6.1, Pine 4.3, fetchmail-5.3.1-1 and procmail-3.15-1cl. Thanks in anticipation. Regards. Wolfgang -- http://www.geoc

Re: where to run firewall script with dial up connection under diald control

2000-12-10 Thread Bob Hartung
Harry, Thatks! That is the best directive on where to start that I have been able to find and I have looked in quite a few. I have to go XMas shopping with the better half now but will be working on this tonight (CST). I'll holler for help if I don't get anywhere.\ Thanks again, Bob Harry

Re: where to run firewall script with dial up connection under diald control

2000-12-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Bob Hartung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi again, > I have my RH 6.2 machine reinstalled, all scripts restored > and all updates applied. I have what I think is a workable > firewall script. Now, what I cannot figure out is where can > I insert a line of code that will call my firewall scri

Re: warning during make modules

2000-12-10 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Corisen, > executed "make clean" and "make mrproper". You don't need to run a make clean if you are doing a mrproper as well. The latter will clean anything that the first will do as well. > pls kindly advise how can i resolve the warning messages, or can i can > safely ig

Re: RH7 won't install on my new Celeron 566 machine

2000-12-10 Thread Bret Hughes
Peter Kiem wrote: > WAAAH! > > I just bought a new Celeron 566 machine with 256Mb of ram and a 32 Mb TNT2 > graphics card. > > Windows 2000 installs and performs flawlessly. > > When I try to install Red Hat 7, during the package installs the installer > just hangs at random places. > If I tr

Re: Auto-mail Script Woes (Solved)

2000-12-10 Thread Bret Hughes
Brad Doster wrote: > I guess writing this up was therapeutic. :-) > > Getting mail to work from within the script was a matter using double > quotes -- instead of... > > /sbin/ifconfig | mail -s $CURRTIME-$DYNIPADDR [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ..using... > > /sbin/ifconfig | mail -s "$CURRTIME-$DYNIPAD

where to run firewall script with dial up connection under diald control

2000-12-10 Thread Bob Hartung
Hi again, I have my RH 6.2 machine reinstalled, all scripts restored and all updates applied. I have what I think is a workable firewall script. Now, what I cannot figure out is where can I insert a line of code that will call my firewall script everytime pppd opens up a new connection. I h

RE: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2000-12-10 Thread Uncle Meat
On 10-Dec-2000 hello opined: > > > Hello, > > I am trying to manage three downloads at the same > time by running my netscape 4.75 three times on > different workspaces. > After I started the process I dad to leave for > some hours. When I had look at about 2 hours all > three processes had be

warning during make modules

2000-12-10 Thread Corisen
i'm compiling kernel 2.4.0-test11 uder RH7. i've changed the CC= line to use kgcc, executed "make clean" and "make mrproper". "make menuconfig" and "make dep" went smoothly. however during the "make modules" process, several warning messages (shown below) appeared: {standard input}: Assembler mes

Re: Making a CD

2000-12-10 Thread Duane Clark
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote: > I have downloaded Oracle 8.1.7 for linux in a tar.gz file... > > I then extract the files via. > > tar -zxvf thefile > > I end up with the files and directory tree on disk... > > what I would like to do is get this onto a CD after it's been > decompresse

Returned mail: see transcript for details

2000-12-10 Thread hello
Hello, I am trying to manage three downloads at the same time by running my netscape 4.75 three times on different workspaces. After I started the process I dad to leave for some hours. When I had look at about 2 hours all three processes had bee ceased. There was an error message: Maybe y

Re: Running file

2000-12-10 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Grant, Change the script to #!/bin/sh cd /etc/rc.d/ ./rc.firewall cd /root Make the script executable (chmod 744 script), as well as rc.firewall. When running the script from the command line use "./script" instead of just "script".

Re: Writing init scripts

2000-12-10 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Chad, > I believe the problem is that jabber does not return to the prompt when run, > but rather requires you to place and & after it to make it run in the > background. > > Does anyone have any suggestions in terms of how to make the server start in > the init script? What

Re: Export variables available to Cron Daemon

2000-12-10 Thread Bret Hughes
Brad Doster wrote: > I call the following script from rc.local using the the syntax '. > /path/script-name'. This makes the variables $DYNIPADDR and $GATEWAY > available in shell sessions. > > #! /bin/bash > DYNIPADDR=`\ > /sbin/ifconfig | grep "inet addr:" | grep -v "127.0.0.1" | grep -v > "192

Running file

2000-12-10 Thread Grant Nygren
Hello, I am trying to write a script file execute the following commands, but its not working. #! cd /etc/rc.d/ ./rc.firewall cd /root The problem is in the second line. I have to really be in /etc/rc.d/ and enter "./rc.firewall" for the file to execute. I would like to automate this

Re: Running file

2000-12-10 Thread Jalal Hajiqolamali
Hi, Your Script File Will Run On The New Shell When The Script Finished Your Current Directory Will Be The Same As Before.. Jalal > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Dec 10 15:26:23 2000 > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 06:57:53 -0500 > To:

Re: Running file

2000-12-10 Thread Mike Burger
Well, first, I think you're supposed to have the name of a shell after the "#!". Second, I have to ask...why can't you simply issue "/etc/rc.d/rc.firewall" instead of having to cd to the directory in question? That having been asked, if you feel you must have the "#!" at the top of your script,

Re: Can the list owner change the "subscribe" behavior?

2000-12-10 Thread Michael Burger
I paid attention to the one that came off the Guinness list, when I subscribed. On Sat, 9 Dec 2000 22:07:44 -0700 (MST), Chuck Mead wrote: >On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Michael Burger spewed into the bitstream: > >MB>That's not the point...the list serv is capable of sending out an >MB>intro and info me