Enter Key not recognized in X-LOGIN-window (in Compaq Presario 1510US, Redhat7.2)

2002-08-10 Thread Suresh K Hegde
Title: Enter Key not recognized in X-LOGIN-window (in Compaq Presario 1510US, Redhat7.2) Hi, I have a Compaq Presario 1510US notebook. I have installed Redhat7.2. Installation went without any problem. When I strated Linux and Enter the user-name and press "ENETR". It doesn't take me to "pa

Re: How to Create Raw Partitions

2002-08-10 Thread C. Linus Hicks
On Sat, 2002-08-10 at 22:39, CP wrote: > Hi List, > > I have some unallocated/unpartitioned space within my hard drive. How > can I create raw partitions so that I can use the same for creating > Tablespaces for Oracle. Any help or pointers to resources which would > help me do this would be

changing the colors "ls" uses

2002-08-10 Thread Al Sparks
This is a trivial problem, but it bothers me that my tweaking has no affect despite documentation on the system $ info ls and $ info dircolors Anyway, I'm trying to change the behavior of the "ls" command, specifically how it displays filename colors based on the file extension. I first

Re: HOWTO Remove Cron in LogWatch

2002-08-10 Thread Joe Giles
I found the files... So, basically, I can just remove (move) the file out of the services directory and this will take care of it? Thanks Joe > On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 16:58:03 -0400 (EDT) > Joe Giles wrote: > > > > > List, > > > > This is probobly an elementary question, so please for give me

Re: How do I start wine?

2002-08-10 Thread Joe Giles
Ok, what I need you to do is tell me the mount points for all the drives you want mapped... Like /games = D:\games /storage =E:\storage /home/juser/c = C:\ Let me know that and I will try to help ya Thanks Joe > I dont know how to set the permissions as user knut in > /home/knut although I

Re: HOWTO Remove Cron in LogWatch

2002-08-10 Thread Tom Pollerman
On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 16:58:03 -0400 (EDT) Joe Giles wrote: > > List, > > This is probobly an elementary question, so please for give me :) > > How would you remove a cron job from listing in LOGWATCH? > > I run a cron job every minute and my daily logwatch report is RATHER > LARGE. > > I hav

How to Create Raw Partitions

2002-08-10 Thread CP
Hi List, I have some unallocated/unpartitioned space within my hard drive. How can I create raw partitions so that I can use the same for creating Tablespaces for Oracle. Any help or pointers to resources which would help me do this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks CP -- redhat-lis

Re: Starting driver automatically ?

2002-08-10 Thread Chris Rutledge
try 'man modules.conf' Chris On Sat, 2002-08-10 at 20:22, Tom Sanders wrote: > I have installed an Emulex HBA on my machine and have > downloaded its driver from their web site. My problem > is that I need to manually start (i.e. insmod) the > driver on every reboot. > > Is there a mechanism by

Starting driver automatically ?

2002-08-10 Thread Tom Sanders
I have installed an Emulex HBA on my machine and have downloaded its driver from their web site. My problem is that I need to manually start (i.e. insmod) the driver on every reboot. Is there a mechanism by which I can confiure the driver to start automatically on each reboot. Thanks, Tom _

Re: How do I start wine?

2002-08-10 Thread Knut Ove Hauge
I dont know how to set the permissions as user knut in /home/knut although I logged in as superuser. I copied config to /root/.wine and got several warnings when I tried to access c:drive. If you could edit the config file for me I would appreciate that. hda1 is type msdos (C:\ in windows)I think

Re: QMAIL Question

2002-08-10 Thread Joe Giles
Well, Im using Procmail... Here is my RC file #!/bin/sh # Using splogger to send the log through syslog. # Using procmail to deliver messages to /var/spool/mail/$USER by default. exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start '|preline procmail' splogger qmail If works and delives mail

Re: QMAIL Question

2002-08-10 Thread Aly Dharshi
What mode are you using Qmail in, most likely Maildir mode, so you will have to create the Maildirs manually, so look at a program called maildirmake or man it even better. Most likely you have also setup Qmail to deliver to a Maildir is the user's home directory so you may have to run maildir

QMAIL Question

2002-08-10 Thread Joe Giles
Well, maybe not a Qmail question, but I think it is related. When I installed Qmail and removed Sendmail, when I create a new user with WEBMIN it doesnt create the default /var/spool/mail/ file. I have to manually "touch" the file and set permissions. When Sendmail was installed, it would autom

Re: How do I start wine?

2002-08-10 Thread Joe Giles
Ok, assuming that you added the correct paths in the config file, make sure that you have full control (rw) on the mount, and the "C" drive for wine. Check that, and Im sure that you will be able to run it. You can check who owns the mount by doing an ls -l. Make sure that YOU have at least

Re: How do I start wine?

2002-08-10 Thread Knut Ove Hauge
Hi again. Well I tried the second solution you suggested and now I can start and stop the wineserver which I didnt could do earlier. But now I get Permission denied after I mounted c:drive with mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /home/knut/c:drive when I try wine c:\\vb\\vb.exe --- Joe Giles <[EMAIL P

keyboard problem

2002-08-10 Thread Mugurel Tudor
I have a problem which I think it's pretty anoing : if I want to delete something, or I want to move with the arrows, if I press for example up-arrow and not releasing it, it is seen as just ONE push. If I press backspace and keep it pressed, it deletes just one caracter, not all.

Re: How do I start wine?

2002-08-10 Thread Joe Giles
well, if you cant find any config files, then I would recomend reinstalling it. That way you know that the files were instaled correctly. download the tar file and extract it then go to the source root and type ./tools/wineinstall. Then you should be ok. If you dont want to do that, I attached

Re: How do I start wine?

2002-08-10 Thread Knut Ove Hauge
I know its a hidden file but its not there, nor in user dir or root. How do I find the version of wine? Knut --- Joe Giles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > Well, if you had wineinstall create it, it will be > in the home directory of the user that you used to > make wine. So, if juser was the user

Re: How do I start wine?

2002-08-10 Thread Joe Giles
Well, if you had wineinstall create it, it will be in the home directory of the user that you used to make wine. So, if juser was the user that created wine, it will be in /home/juser/.wine... Now, keep in mind that files that start with the "." are hidden (Including directories). You will need

Re: How do I start wine?

2002-08-10 Thread Knut Ove Hauge
I cant find the dir .wine Knut --- Joe Giles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > You have to add the MOUNTED drive to the drives list > in the conf file in .wine > > Let me know if you need an example > > Joe > > > I want to run a windows program that reside in > c:drive > > and I have mounted tha

Re: dgl error Redhat 7.1

2002-08-10 Thread Mike Burger
How about "export DISPLAY=you.ip.address.here"? Or, you could use ssh, which is often configured for port forwarding. On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Rajan S wrote: > > well I rlogin from my linux system to sgi system and then try to run a graphical >edit program called jot on irix(similar to gedit on l

Re: RH Upgrade 71.to 7.3 killed SSH

2002-08-10 Thread Mike Burger
Have you tried "service sshd start" and "chkconfig sshd on"? On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, CM Miller wrote: > > > Recently upgraded from RH 7.1 to 7.3 and before I did > this, I had openssh running quite well. > > Once I've upgraded to 7.3, openssh stopped working. > I'm not sure what has happened.

Re: How do I start wine?

2002-08-10 Thread Joe Giles
You have to add the MOUNTED drive to the drives list in the conf file in .wine Let me know if you need an example Joe > I want to run a windows program that reside in c:drive > and I have mounted that drive with > mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /root/c:drive > and type at the command prompt > wine

Re: kernel-headers

2002-08-10 Thread Mike Burger
Yes. On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Patrick Nelson wrote: > RH72 w/ kernel 2.4.7-10 -mv 2-> kernel 2.4.9-34 > > I'm doing an install of the kernel > > So the question is... > > Should I do and upgrade or and install of kernel-headers? > > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EM

Booting (Slightly OT):

2002-08-10 Thread Michael J. Yanowitz
I can boot into RH 7.3, but only with a boot floppy. I tried grub, lilo (whatever happened to liloconfig), and System Commander 7. None of these work. I thought any would install in the MBR, but that doesn't work. This is what I have: hda: Win ExPee C:\ hdb: Win ExPee D:\ RH

HOWTO Remove Cron in LogWatch

2002-08-10 Thread Joe Giles
List, This is probobly an elementary question, so please for give me :) How would you remove a cron job from listing in LOGWATCH? I run a cron job every minute and my daily logwatch report is RATHER LARGE. I have entered > /dev/null after the job, but it still lists in the CRON log. How can

How do I start wine?

2002-08-10 Thread Knut Ove Hauge
I want to run a windows program that reside in c:drive and I have mounted that drive with mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /root/c:drive and type at the command prompt wine /root/c:drive/vb/vb.exe I get wineserver: chdir /root/.wine : No such file or directorty. I get the same if I type wine C:\\vb\\vb.

RE: rpm info

2002-08-10 Thread Patrick Nelson
lrnobs wrote: - I don't know if this is the right answer but my Linux System Administration Black Book says: " If the RPM is not installed, use the format rpm -qlp packagename.rpm with the full path (if not in the current directory), file name, and extension." ---

Re: rpm info

2002-08-10 Thread Teodor Georgiev
rpm -qp xxx.rpm - Original Message - From: "Patrick Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RedHat List (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 7:53 PM Subject: rpm info > Is there a way to get -q info from an rpm file? > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > uns

Re: rpm info

2002-08-10 Thread lrnobs
I don't know if this is the right answer but my Linux System Administration Black Book says: " If the RPM is not installed, use the format rpm -qlp packagename.rpm with the full path (if not in the current directory), file name, and extension." lrnobs - Original Message - From: "P

RH Upgrade 71.to 7.3 killed SSH

2002-08-10 Thread CM Miller
Recently upgraded from RH 7.1 to 7.3 and before I did this, I had openssh running quite well. Once I've upgraded to 7.3, openssh stopped working. I'm not sure what has happened. I've upgraded all of the rpm packages for openssh and even used apt-get, but to no avail, I can't get it to work.

Re: SOLVED:Help find driver for Dexxa 4800 scanner.

2002-08-10 Thread Knut Ove Hauge
Thank you Ed. Thanks to your link and sane with an extra patch I got my scanner running. And that with a 200% better driver than the windows XP driver where not the preview function where running. --- Ed Wilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 10:28:33AM +0200, Knut Ove > Hau

kernel-headers

2002-08-10 Thread Patrick Nelson
RH72 w/ kernel 2.4.7-10 -mv 2-> kernel 2.4.9-34 I'm doing an install of the kernel So the question is... Should I do and upgrade or and install of kernel-headers? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listin

rpm info

2002-08-10 Thread Patrick Nelson
Is there a way to get -q info from an rpm file? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: compiling a new kernel

2002-08-10 Thread Gerry Doris
On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Ted Gervais wrote: > > Thanks Bob, and the others responding. > > I tried 'make mrproper' as well. I guess I am getting desperate. > > Somehow I am thinking that maybe there is a hardware problem? Could that be > the reason for things not working?? Ted, where exactly i

[SOLVED] RE: Up2date, BIND and kernel 2.2.16-22smp

2002-08-10 Thread Mike Pelley
Thanks to everyone who replied! As Ed Wilts correctly noted, I should have updated the kernel much earlier. However, sometimes I'm too conservative for my own good (system seems faster now with the new kernel, too!). I've up2date'd the kernel packages and everything went fine. Cheers, Mike

Re: compiling a new kernel

2002-08-10 Thread Ted Gervais
Thanks Bob, and the others responding. I tried 'make mrproper' as well. I guess I am getting desperate. Somehow I am thinking that maybe there is a hardware problem? Could that be the reason for things not working?? At 10:01 AM 8/10/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Try running >'make mrproper'

Re: dgl error Redhat 7.1

2002-08-10 Thread Rajan S
well I rlogin from my linux system to sgi system and then try to run a graphical edit program called jot on irix(similar to gedit on linux) now the jot window should open on my linux display but it doesn't and gives me the dgl error . (By the way I also give xhost + command on my linux shell which

Re: Up2date, BIND and kernel 2.2.16-22smp

2002-08-10 Thread Mike Burger
It looks like the error that caused it to fail was the inability to open named.pid. You could try deleteing the file and changing the ownership of /var/run/named to whichever user it's running as, and try again. On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Mike Pelley wrote: > Folks, > > I've just bollock'ed a nice

Re: Up2date, BIND and kernel 2.2.16-22smp

2002-08-10 Thread Mike Burger
On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Ed Wilts wrote: > > My record with recompiling the kernel is only about 30% success, so I > > don't want to go down that route unless I absolutely have to. I've run > > up2date on the kernel on other systems with success (this is a generic > > HP NetServer LD Pro, nothing sp

Re: Modules directory naming

2002-08-10 Thread Bob Hartung
Matt Thanks. I'll just leave it alone. I am not advanced enough to play with the make file for the kernel. But now I know where the name comes from. Bob Matthew Galgoci wrote: > the -custom minor version suffix is compiled into your kernel. I advise against > manually renaming your module

Re: compiling a new kernel

2002-08-10 Thread Bob Hartung
Try running 'make mrproper' before make dep clean bzImage this will clean up from any previous compile. Bob Knut Ove Hauge wrote: > Do you make xconfig > make dep > make clean > make bzImage > make modules > make install > make modules_install > > The failure could also be in the downloade

How to enable ECP mode?

2002-08-10 Thread Alimin Bijosono Oei
Hi all, How do I enable ECP/EPP mode for my parallel port? I am using Redhat 7.3. In BIOS, ECP mode is already set. Doing 'dmesg' gives: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport0: irq 7 detected parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 690C I have got a parallel port scanne

Re: Up2date, BIND and kernel 2.2.16-22smp

2002-08-10 Thread Ed Wilts
On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 12:13:45PM -0230, Mike Pelley wrote: > Folks, > > I've just bollock'ed a nicely-running 7.0 system. I ran up2date and it > came up with the new version of BIND to be installed as being > 9.2.1.0.70.2. Fine, that's seems like a good update for a buffer > overflow issue.

How to: write a shell script to change host name on command line.

2002-08-10 Thread truc nguyen
Hi First, I'd like to thank you to take the time to answer my question. How do I write a shell script named chHostName to change the hostname from Venus to Mar ( from the file /etc/sysconfig/network) ? So that when I type the command line #chHostName Venus Mar It will change the line hostname=Ve

Up2date, BIND and kernel 2.2.16-22smp

2002-08-10 Thread Mike Pelley
Folks, I've just bollock'ed a nicely-running 7.0 system. I ran up2date and it came up with the new version of BIND to be installed as being 9.2.1.0.70.2. Fine, that's seems like a good update for a buffer overflow issue. So, I run it. However, I'm still running the 2.2.16-22 kernel (working j

Re: dgl error Redhat 7.1

2002-08-10 Thread Mike Burger
Well, it's saying that the remote machine isn't capable. Assuming tha the SGI programss/desktop are running on your local machine, then the question I have is what is the remote machine? Have you checked with the owner of the remote machine? On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Rajan S wrote: > Hi everyone,

Re: compiling a new kernel

2002-08-10 Thread Ted Gervais
On Saturday 10 August 2002 10:03, Knut Ove Hauge wrote: > Do you make xconfig > make dep > make clean > make bzImage > make modules > make install > make modules_install > > The failure could also be in the downloaded source > code. Try to download it again from another source. > That is exactly

Re: compiling a new kernel

2002-08-10 Thread Knut Ove Hauge
Do you make xconfig make dep make clean make bzImage make modules make install make modules_install The failure could also be in the downloaded source code. Try to download it again from another source. --- Ted Gervais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > > I have a problem here and I have no idea ho

dgl error Redhat 7.1

2002-08-10 Thread Rajan S
Hi everyone, I am trying to display my sgi programs/desktop on my Linux workstation but when I run a command on my sgi to do so I get the following errors dgl error (protocol): remote machine not DGL capable. How do i resolve this prob ? I am using matrox g200 card on my linux system Raj

RE: how do i solve this problem ?

2002-08-10 Thread suresh
Hi thanx for yur reply ,It definetely worked (thanx a lot) Basically o am trying to upgrade postgresql,Now there are a different set of conflicts should i be following the same proceedure that i did for openssl ,ie upgrade each version ? which means that i will need to download all RPMs released f

RE: how do i solve this problem ?

2002-08-10 Thread suresh
hi Thanx for yur reply I tried that ,but this is what happens -snip--- file /usr/bin/openssl from install of openssl-0.9.6b-18 conflicts with file from package openssl-0.9.6-3 file /usr/share/ssl/openssl.cnf from install of openssl-