"Alt-Gr" key when Xkb i disabled

2002-08-21 Thread Toralf Lund
I recently tried disabling Xkb extension on a Toshiba laptop running Red Hat 7.2 because the keyboard input didn't behave very well; a lot of "double characters" were returned when they shouldn't, and changing the repeat rate didn't help. The change improved the situation a lot, but there was

Re: Hostname changes by itself

2002-08-21 Thread ramakrishna
hi, * rahul b jain cs student ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I was trying to change the host name of my linux machine. I did so by > editing the file /etc/sysconfig/network. If i reboot the system, it works > fine recognizing the new hostname. However if i reboot the system again, > it goes back to

Re: port 111 problems

2002-08-21 Thread ramakrishna
hi, * Edward Dekkers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Yep, I'm not sure off the top of my head whether portmap is running, but > I'll make sure it isn't. use nmap ex: $ nmap gatewayserver.com > > In your opinion, is the Windows XP box on the network infected with a virus > or trojan? Remem

postfix & sasl & redhat 7.3

2002-08-21 Thread William Wong
Hi there, I've looked through the list archives but the suggestions don't seem to help my problem. It goes like this... I'm using the default packages that come with the redhat 7.3 distribution for postfix & sasl. (sasl came preinstalled with the "server" type configuration). I then installed

Re: auto logout

2002-08-21 Thread Reynald I. Ngo
At 10:39 PM 8/21/02 -0700, Chakravarthi V S wrote: TMOUT=0 export TMOUT >How to disable auto-logout feature in linux,, >it closes my telnet sessions if they are idle --- Cheers, Reynald I. Ngo -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://list

auto logout

2002-08-21 Thread Chakravarthi V S
Hi, How to disable auto-logout feature in linux,, it closes my telnet sessions if they are idle Thanks chakri __ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EM

db1-devel for redhat 6.2

2002-08-21 Thread Bret Hughes
I am trying to rebuild the src rpm for openssh on a 6.2 box but I am getting a dependency error for db1-devel. I can't find a db1 anything rpm for 6.2 Any ideas? Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/li

Re: Screen for X?

2002-08-21 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
Look at VNC. It's a little like what you're describing. Jon On 21 Aug 2002, Joe Giles wrote: > I like using the screen command for my text based stuff, but is that an > X version of it so I can detach from graphical windows? > > Thanks > > Joe > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscrib

Re: Help with installation of 7.3 on a HP xe Omnibook 4500

2002-08-21 Thread Mohd Irfan R Khan
May be u can try to install linux first with the required partition and then install xp as xp partition may be different. If u do this u won't have any problems .   Regards   - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 2

Re: Installation Problem for LInux 7.2

2002-08-21 Thread Mohd Irfan R Khan
if u r not able to boot in a initial stage than your cdrom seems to be a problem. as you are not able to boot the other OS If u are able to boot but not able to properly install it than may be u can go for a dd option or advance option when booting normally if it worked earlier it should work now

Re: RPM & dependencies

2002-08-21 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 21 August 2002 08:55 pm, loophole wrote: > if you are referring to Red Hat Specific packages, do > an upgrade install and do a Custom selection of > packages to be upgraded. Select the packages that you > need and the dependencies will b

Re: RPM & dependencies

2002-08-21 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 21 August 2002 07:27 pm, James D. Parra wrote: > Hello, > > What is the quickest way to get missing dependencies when installing an > rpm? Is there a tool that can locate and grab missing dependencies? There are several possibilities for

RE: Quick Swap Question

2002-08-21 Thread Kevin Krieser
Only if some process actually needs to have the swapped memory paged back in. It is inefficient to page the data back in just to page it back in. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joe Giles Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 11:16 AM To: Red

How to speed up X-window over a slow bandwidth link: any sugestions?

2002-08-21 Thread Jose Vicente Nunez Zuleta
Greetings, We are trying to run X applications (like Xemacs) over the network from one remote office to our us office; The link is slow (i tested that with tools like traceroute, iperf and ipchar) with several bottlenecks and we already tried some tricks to optimize the application performance

Re: Hard drive identification

2002-08-21 Thread Jeff Nelson
> How to check the remaining capacity, partition information, system type, > etc. Remaining capacity: df -h Partition information: fdisk -l /dev/hda System type: cat /etc/issue Best regards Jeff -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://list

updates.redhat.com inconsistent

2002-08-21 Thread Omer van der Horst Jansen
The updates.redhat.com ftp servers don't seem to be properly synchronized with each other at the moment. I have a local mirror for the 7.x versions (more efficient than updating 7 machines individually over a dialup link), and right now the php and libpng updates for 7.1 and 7.2 keep appearing

Re: hp ljet series ii not in printconf?

2002-08-21 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 13:02, gregory mott wrote: > i've got a 'hp laserjet series ii' here. works great from winNT. > > but i was surprised not to find it as a choice in printconf. loads of > other laserjets, but not the series ii. > > so i tried choosing series iii, but that didn't work. the

Hostname changes by itself

2002-08-21 Thread rahul b jain cs student
Hi, I was trying to change the host name of my linux machine. I did so by editing the file /etc/sysconfig/network. If i reboot the system, it works fine recognizing the new hostname. However if i reboot the system again, it goes back to its old hostname. Could anyone tell me, what is the reaso

Screen for X?

2002-08-21 Thread Joe Giles
I like using the screen command for my text based stuff, but is that an X version of it so I can detach from graphical windows? Thanks Joe -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Screen for X?

2002-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 07:57 PM -0600, Joe Giles ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Anyone know if there is a screen program for X windows? I use the > screen command for my text bases apps, and now I need that same > functionality for some X apps... There's nothing that provides a precise analog of s

Re: Log Anaylisys (sp?) or Statistics for web server

2002-08-21 Thread Mike Burger
Personally, I like webalizer. On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, David Busby wrote: > List, > How do I track stastics or "hits" (browser tags, session, etc) on my > Apache 2.0.40 server? I saw a response here a few weeks ago but it > became the victim of my delete button. > > TIA > /B > > > >

RE: Linux Standard Users -- Why Needed?

2002-08-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 18:53, Eric Robinson wrote: > > It seems to me that removing fodder for brute-force password guessing > programs would be a good thing Yeah, spare accounts that can be logged in to are bad. > and so would removing accounts for services > that I don't use or need. How? A

bogus digital certificate causing problems with Mozilla, Konquero r, but not Netscape

2002-08-21 Thread John Burke
Title: bogus digital certificate causing problems with Mozilla, Konquero r, but not Netscape Just starting out with Linux. I have a system that was installed with 7.1 and then shortly after upgraded to 7.3. I started configuring basic things such as Apache and Samba and immediately ran into

intel 845gb motherboard

2002-08-21 Thread Christensen Tom
I have a system with an intel 845 chipset, (the 533 front side bus version) and a p4 1.6 processor, hdparm doesn't work, and I can't enable dma on the hard drive, is there a fix? or am I just waiting until the kernel supports the ide controller on the mb better? Tom

Re: How DNS Work?

2002-08-21 Thread Robert Vaughn
Mike Burger is correct, however, here's a little more detail... 1. You need to register you new domain name as a domain name server through Network Solutions (aka Verisign) or some other name manager. You must have a static DNS. 2. You will have to provide primary and secondary name server name

Screen for X?

2002-08-21 Thread Joe Giles
Anyone know if there is a screen program for X windows? I use the screen command for my text bases apps, and now I need that same functionality for some X apps... Thanks Joe -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mail

Re: Time Problem

2002-08-21 Thread Joe Giles
That is what I did and its all better now... I don't know what I did or installed to cause the issue in the first place, but I will be more cautious in the future for sure... Again, thanks!!! Joe On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 23:44, Taylor Spears wrote: > Well, I dunno, that seems like a pretty strange

Re: Apple connectivity?

2002-08-21 Thread Blake C. Thornton
> BCT> I just moved into an office where they have decided that Macintosh is the > BCT> way to go. Granted OSX is fine (its unix afterall), but I'm still > BCT> learning my way around the mac box. > > BCT> My Question: > > BCT> Any way to get files to and from my linux box using the apple file

Re: where can i download the redhat linux 6.1 version

2002-08-21 Thread Mike Burger
I stand corrected. On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Srinivas Rao Kollipara wrote: > > > Can anyone tell me where exactly i can download the redhat linux 6.1 > > version. > > Please give me the exact link and the address. > > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/ > > d

RE: Apple connectivity?

2002-08-21 Thread Blake C. Thornton
> Use samba on the Linux server > > Connect to network drive by specifying > smb:/// in the connect dialog on Mac OSX > > There is a .smbmount(?) file in the users' home directory on the Mac > that you can use to specify the logon details for smbmount. > > Hope that points you in the right dire

Re: information needed

2002-08-21 Thread Mike Burger
As I said, before, I don't think you can. You might be able to download 6.2...but if 6.1 is still available, the first place to look would be at ftp://ftp.redhat.com On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Srinivas Rao Kollipara wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking to download the redhat linux 6.1 version as i have to

Re: where can i download the redhat linux 6.1 version

2002-08-21 Thread Mike Burger
I don't think you can, anymore. You *might* be able to download 6.2. On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Srinivas Rao Kollipara wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone tell me where exactly i can download the redhat linux 6.1 > version. > Please give me the exact link and the address. > > Any help is appreciated. > >

sunhme driver

2002-08-21 Thread mike
Is anyone successfully using the sunhme driver with a sun qfe card on an x86 system? I'm trying this on a 2.4.9-31 system running version 1.99 of the driver. I get a kernel oops when I try to rmmod the driver. Any suggestions? mike

how to compile and deploy the cutomized syslogd program

2002-08-21 Thread Wai Iu
Hey: I have a redhat 7.2 system running. It has a syslogd daemon running. I cutomized the syslogd.c program. But Hhere is a silly question: How do I compile my customized syslogd.c program and where and how do I deploy it on my linux system? Any suggestion will be appreciated. Thanks

Re: sockets and connect() question

2002-08-21 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 10:29, Jayson Hill wrote: > I don't know if this is the correct forum for this question, so if not > perhaps someone could point me to the right spot. Anyway, I am trying to > run a connection-oriented client program on RedHat 7.2. The client IP is > 192.168.254.87 and I can

Log Anaylisys (sp?) or Statistics for web server

2002-08-21 Thread David Busby
List, How do I track stastics or "hits" (browser tags, session, etc) on my Apache 2.0.40 server? I saw a response here a few weeks ago but it became the victim of my delete button. TIA /B -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://li

Re: [Fwd: Gnome printing problem, please help.]

2002-08-21 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 09:19, mike wrote: > This was posted to gnome-list. I have forwarded it here because it may > be a common problem > > -Forwarded Message- > > From: Tan S.E. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Gnome printing problem, please help. > Date: 19 Aug 20

Re: Apple connectivity?

2002-08-21 Thread Brian Ashe
Hello Blake, Wednesday, August 21, 2002, 7:36:47 PM, you textually orated: BCT> I just moved into an office where they have decided that Macintosh is the BCT> way to go. Granted OSX is fine (its unix afterall), but I'm still BCT> learning my way around the mac box. BCT> My Question: BCT> Any

RE: Apple connectivity?

2002-08-21 Thread Garth Sperring
Use samba on the Linux server Connect to network drive by specifying smb:/// in the connect dialog on Mac OSX There is a .smbmount(?) file in the users' home directory on the Mac that you can use to specify the logon details for smbmount. Hope that points you in the right direction Garth

Re: sockets and connect() question

2002-08-21 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 10:29:40AM -0500, Jayson Hill wrote: > I don't know if this is the correct forum for this question, so if not > perhaps someone could point me to the right spot. Anyway, I am trying to > run a connection-oriented client program on RedHat 7.2. The client IP is > 192.168.254.

Re: Best Filesystem

2002-08-21 Thread Sam Ockman
Actually...reiserfs was not originally designed as a journaling file system. It was a file system (without journaling) that sped up access to small files. So, both filesystems have had journaling added after they were initially written. -Sam On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 04:40:52PM -0700, Gordon Mes

lpd/lpr/lprng/lpc problems!

2002-08-21 Thread Christensen Tom
I have a small problem. I set up 2 printers on my server computer (1 usb and 1 parallel) they print fine from the server itself, and I have samba running, and windows can connect and print fine over the network. However, my linux desktop, and my mac OSX laptop cannot connect. I opened etherea

Re: The quest for a network monitor

2002-08-21 Thread Harry Putnam
"Furnish, Trever G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't suppose just using iptraf with multiple windows open would meet your > need? Ie in one xterm, open it with the summary stuff and in another, open > it with the realtime stuff? > > Just a thought - I haven't even used iptraf. :-) Yes it i

Re: where can i download the redhat linux 6.1 version

2002-08-21 Thread loophole
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.1/en/ = `When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*".' - Linus Torvalds __ Do You Yahoo

RE: Apple connectivity?

2002-08-21 Thread David Kramer
Im not much of an Apple person but couldnt you setup Samba to allow File Sharing within that Network? Just a thought... DK -Original Message- From: Blake C. Thornton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 4:37 PM To: Redhat List Subject: Apple connectivity? I just

Question about Keyboards and mice for linux machine

2002-08-21 Thread rahul b jain cs student
Hi, I have a linux server which was bought from Penguin Computing (Atlus 130). I wanted to purchase keyboards and mice for the same. I had been looking on the net for the past week but was getting confused. My questions are 1. how do i know that a particular keyboard and mice will work with my

Re: RPM & dependencies

2002-08-21 Thread loophole
if you are referring to Red Hat Specific packages, do an upgrade install and do a Custom selection of packages to be upgraded. Select the packages that you need and the dependencies will be automatically fixed. There are RPM tools shipped with Red Hat but they are too ***dump*** to handle dep is

Re: port 111 problems

2002-08-21 Thread Edward Dekkers
> $ cat /etc/services | grep -e "111" > gives you detail about the service. port 111 is a wellknown port for > crackers. its is required only for applications using RPC(remote procedure calls) > like NFS (network file sharing). > stop the rpc service immediately . you should never activate

Re: where can i download the redhat linux 6.1 version

2002-08-21 Thread Ed . Greshko
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > But, if you actually desend into these directories you will find them to > > be quite empty. :-) > > Really? I wonder what program you're using that doesn't show you the > contents of a remote server: Well,

RE: The quest for a network monitor

2002-08-21 Thread Furnish, Trever G
I don't suppose just using iptraf with multiple windows open would meet your need? Ie in one xterm, open it with the summary stuff and in another, open it with the realtime stuff? Just a thought - I haven't even used iptraf. :-) > -Original Message- > From: Harry Putnam [mailto:[EMAIL P

Re: Linux Standard Users -- Why Needed?

2002-08-21 Thread Samuel Flory
On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 21:55, Eric Robinson wrote: > I'm sure this question has been asked and answered before, but I'd sure > appreciate some input on it. > > Why does Red Hat create all these "standard" users like adm, > operator, gopher, sync, uucp, and so on? Can I safely delete these u

Re: RH Linux 6.2 to 7.3

2002-08-21 Thread Samuel Flory
On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 20:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have RH Linux 6.2 running on a laptop. I was originally able to install > 6.2 from CDs onto the laptop. I am trying to install RH Linux 7.3 from CDs > to that same laptop, but it doesn't seem to work. Everytime I try I keep > getting a w

Re: where can i download the redhat linux 6.1 version

2002-08-21 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But, if you actually desend into these directories you will find them to > be quite empty. :-) Really? I wonder what program you're using that doesn't show you the contents of a remote server: ncftp ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.1/en/os/i386/ NcFTP 3

hp ljet series ii not in printconf?

2002-08-21 Thread gregory mott
i've got a 'hp laserjet series ii' here. works great from winNT. but i was surprised not to find it as a choice in printconf. loads of other laserjets, but not the series ii. so i tried choosing series iii, but that didn't work. the test page came out rather amusing. "@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE=PCL

Re: archives for this list

2002-08-21 Thread Keith Morse
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Frank Bax wrote: > I figured out that if I only search for one word "sound" instead of "sound > driver", I get over 1,000 hits, but the result set is presented as simply: > > 1. redhat-list/msg19268.html > 2. redhat-list/msg36135.html > 3. redhat-list/msg13774.html > > ...

Re: where can i download the redhat linux 6.1 version

2002-08-21 Thread Ed . Greshko
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/ > drwxr-xr-x3 00 4096 Mar 29 2001 6.1 But, if you actually desend into these directories you will find them to be quite empty. :-) Ed -- http://www.shorewall.net/ fo

RE: Best Filesystem

2002-08-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 16:33, Taylor Spears wrote: > Well, I decided to go with ReiserFS. Ext3fs just sorta seems like a hack > to ext2 to get journaling. You could, I suppose, look at it one of two ways: * ext3 is a hack on an old system * ext2 was designed as an extensible, modular file system i

Re: Linux Standard Users -- Why Needed?

2002-08-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 21:55, Eric Robinson wrote: > I'm sure this question has been asked and answered before, but I'd sure > appreciate some input on it. > > Why does Red Hat create all these "standard" users like adm, > operator, gopher, sync, uucp, and so on? Can I safely delete these u

Apple connectivity?

2002-08-21 Thread Blake C. Thornton
I just moved into an office where they have decided that Macintosh is the way to go. Granted OSX is fine (its unix afterall), but I'm still learning my way around the mac box. My Question: Any way to get files to and from my linux box using the apple file sharer (this is found by selecting choo

Re: VPN Software for RedHat

2002-08-21 Thread Keith Morse
On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Gary Stainburn wrote: > On Wednesday 21 August 2002 9:29 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi folks, > > Hi, > > > > > I am looking for a reliable VPN server software for RedHat 7.3. > > I should be able to establish tunnels with Checkpoint, Intel Shiva and > > Cisco PIX bas

Re: WARNING! - HP pavilion 2.2 GHz

2002-08-21 Thread julius
After spending three days with customer support from several different companies, I have finally ascertained that the harddrive controller chipset on the HP pavilion ze5000 series and xt395 is currently NOT supported by linux. I thought I would forward this information to save somebody else t

Re: where can i download the redhat linux 6.1 version

2002-08-21 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Srinivas Rao Kollipara wrote: > Can anyone tell me where exactly i can download the redhat linux 6.1 > version. > Please give me the exact link and the address. ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/ drwxr-xr-x3 00 4096 Mar 29 2001 1.0 drwxr-xr-x3 0

RPM & dependencies

2002-08-21 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, What is the quickest way to get missing dependencies when installing an rpm? Is there a tool that can locate and grab missing dependencies? Many thanks, James D. Parra [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listm

information needed

2002-08-21 Thread Srinivas Rao Kollipara
Hi, I am looking to download the redhat linux 6.1 version as i have to install a very specific tools which need this version. Can you give me the exact link where i can download this version. Thanks Kollipara Srinivas Rao -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?sub

fdisk type to access back my NTFS partition

2002-08-21 Thread francois . barret
Hello, I have 1 drive with C: 5GB, D:10GB and 5GB partition for Linux. I installed Linux. When I came back to Windows I could only see C and not anymore D. I figure out that it has to do with fdisk anf type, but I don't know which one to choose: 6,7 ,86 or 87 or?? Thank you for your re

Re: Time Problem

2002-08-21 Thread Taylor Spears
Well, I dunno, that seems like a pretty strange problem, but I'm def. no expert on this subject. I would just reinstall, and it shouldn't be that bad, especially if you set up a separate /home partition. None of your user data would be lost On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 09:49, Joe Giles wrote: > Well, rei

Quota

2002-08-21 Thread Nicholas Chua
I had quota running smoothly for some months. But recently one of the users exceeded his quota by 2GB of space. So some investigation was done and we has a error message in the log file.   Aug 20 04:03:13 ahead kernel: VFS: Quota for id 37 referenced but not present.Aug 20 04:03:13 ahead ke

Support to dual monitor

2002-08-21 Thread Rinaldo Catroque Bersi
Hi, I'm want to know if the RedHat have support to dual monitor? I find any articles that relate the use of the MATROX to have dual monitor. I don't read that support to dual monitor is made to kernel but to XFree86 4.0, is this really? Excuse me for my english Thanks, Rinaldo -- redhat-li

su in pam module

2002-08-21 Thread koo fan heng (desmond)
hi, i have try to configure the su module in pam.d for putting the below requirement but  i failed to do it : 1) only group of ABC, XYZ can su to root 2) within group of ABC, only ALi and Susan can su to root. Within group of XYZ, only Ahmad and Micheal can su to root. How would i set

rhn_register redhat release detection problem

2002-08-21 Thread Simon McCorkindale
hi i'm running redhat 7.2 with up2date-2.7.61-7.x.1 rhn_register-2.7.9-7.x.2 and when i try to register under a new/old account on RHN it gives me error 19; a category for my version/architecture can't be found. it detects beforehand my redhat release as version "1.2" instead of "7.2" i sear

R: error: failed dependencies: while upgrading PHP.

2002-08-21 Thread Stefano Bagnara
> Oggetto: error: failed dependencies: while upgrading PHP. I just upgraded my php as requested by up2date. During the upgrade up2date installed me this packets: The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy dependencies: NomeVersione R

RE: HELP!!! HELP!!! HELP!!! - HP pavilion 2.2 GHz

2002-08-21 Thread Brian Davis
I hope you got a refund for the un-used M$ software that would have come with the laptop :-) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On > Behalf Of julius > Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 11:41 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: HELP!!! HELP!!! HELP!

Re: Error while initializing the sound driver:

2002-08-21 Thread Manzabar
At 08:43 PM 8/20/02 -0400, you wrote: >I have an ASUS TUV4x motherboard that has integrated sound. >I've installed RedHat 7.3 and get the following message after I logon: > >Sound server informational message: >Error while initializing the sound driver: >device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such de

Linux Standard Users -- Why Needed?

2002-08-21 Thread Eric Robinson
I'm sure this question has been asked and answered before, but I'd sure appreciate some input on it. Why does Red Hat create all these "standard" users like adm, operator, gopher, sync, uucp, and so on? Can I safely delete these users as I am being told to do in some Linux security HOWTO

network card teaming.

2002-08-21 Thread Alexsue Tel
Hi, Can someone help me. Currently I'm searching and planning to increase my network bandwidth, and from the web site I found that it can be done by using teaming or link aggregation features. Can this be done using RedHat 7.3 ? And How ? Thanks. rgds, Alex  Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs, a Yahoo! servic

Re: Strange hard disk problem.

2002-08-21 Thread weiyan
- Original Message - From: NiteOwl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: gated.redhat-list To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 4:05 AM Subject: Strange hard disk problem. > Hello all. > > I have a strange problem with RH7.3 and my hard disks: When I power-off the > syste

mouse problems

2002-08-21 Thread Patrick Wenk
My mouse is skipping in xwindows, it jumps around the screen making it unusable instead of moving smoothly... it has worked before. i have tried pointing to com1 and 2 in the mouseconfig setup,, but this does not help, i am choosing generic serial mouse, emulate 3 buttons. The mosue stopped wo

where can i download the redhat linux 6.1 version

2002-08-21 Thread Srinivas Rao Kollipara
Hi, Can anyone tell me where exactly i can download the redhat linux 6.1 version. Please give me the exact link and the address. Any help is appreciated. Thanks Sri -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listi

RH Linux 6.2 to 7.3

2002-08-21 Thread acate
I have RH Linux 6.2 running on a laptop. I was originally able to install 6.2 from CDs onto the laptop. I am trying to install RH Linux 7.3 from CDs to that same laptop, but it doesn't seem to work. Everytime I try I keep getting a warning message that says something like "can't install rpms ve

RE: Is there any way to confirm that a third-party install is not compromised?

2002-08-21 Thread Lee Grey
Thanks for the advice, Kent. I agree, and I plan to reinstall. However, I'd really prefer to do it from the included CDs, if they're legit. (I'd also like to know if they're NOT legit!) Is there anyone out there who can provide a method to checksum the CDs? I did linux mediacheck, thinking th

RE: Best Filesystem

2002-08-21 Thread Taylor Spears
Well, I decided to go with ReiserFS. Ext3fs just sorta seems like a hack to ext2 to get journaling. I also heard that ext3 is pretty slow compared to reiser, and they are both very reliable. However, XFS looks really slick. It says it uses ACL's. Are these somewhat like NT style ACL'L, where you c

newbie

2002-08-21 Thread Venkat Raghu
Hi, I have a bash script which modifies some environment variables and does some other housekeeping things. But problem is that when script finishes running, new values of environment variables are no longer visible in parent shell. So what should I do so that these new values are visible in par

Re: Duplex mode

2002-08-21 Thread Richie Crews
By default linux should set the card to Auto.. However you can check this by running mii-tool interface IE [root@pyrodex root]# mii-tool eth0 eth0: no autonegotiation, 100baseTx-HD, link ok On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 12:07, Halvard Løvik wrote: how do i set that my nic (3com 3c905 "tornado") uses A

Help with installation of 7.3 on a HP xe Omnibook 4500

2002-08-21 Thread mauro
I have a very strange problem with a Hp xe 4500 laptop computer. First of all , i installed on it Windows Xp on hda3 (it resides on the first tracks of the HD) and i tried to install RH 7.3 on another partition. The result is that the install program lets me choose the method of partitioning

Re: [Fwd: Gnome printing problem, please help.]

2002-08-21 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21-Aug-2002/15:19 +0100, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I only have 6 HP Laser printer ranged from 5L to 1100. Share printing is >a important. > >The application used: abiword 0.99.5. > >The actual situation: >When other users send for printing

Quick Swap Question

2002-08-21 Thread Joe Giles
List, I have a question about swap file usage. I noticed that when my swap file is being used, the system is not freeing up the swap memory when the physical memory goes down. So, in other words, I have a 1024 meg swap. Ive used 127 megs of this during some processing. When my physical memory dr

Re: [Fwd: Gnome printing problem, please help.]

2002-08-21 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21-Aug-2002/15:19 +0100, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I only have 6 HP Laser printer ranged from 5L to 1100. Share printing is a >important. > >The application used: abiword 0.99.5. > >The actual situation: >When other users send for printin

Duplex mode

2002-08-21 Thread Halvard Løvik
how do i set that my nic (3com 3c905 "tornado") uses Auto Duplex? I'm using red hat 7.3 with the latest kernel. pliz answer me directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...       -Halvard-Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. Click Here -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[E

Re: help automating tasks with a script

2002-08-21 Thread Javier Gostling
On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 01:10:42PM -0700, Desmond Lee wrote: > Just a couple more questions: > > The documentation > >(http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/custom-guide/cron-task.html) > says the following: > "To start the cron service, use the command /sbin/service crond st

sockets and connect() question

2002-08-21 Thread Jayson Hill
I don’t know if this is the correct forum for this question, so if not perhaps someone could point me to the right spot. Anyway, I am trying to run a connection-oriented client program on RedHat 7.2. The client IP is 192.168.254.87 and I can ping it from the server, and can ping the server

Re: how to send email in a client application

2002-08-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 06:59, Wai Iu wrote: > I have a redhat7.2 system running. I have an application wrriten with C language. > Is there any way that I can send out simple text-based email in that application, >such as using SMTP, POP3? Any suggestion will be appreciated. Use libESMTP: http://w

Re: HELP!!! HELP!!! HELP!!! - HP pavilion 2.2 GHz

2002-08-21 Thread julius
HP Pavilion xt395 (2.2 GHz P4, 1024M RAM, 40Gig HD (IBM), CD-RW/DVD). The motherbord is identical with the one in the HP Pavilion ze5000 seies. I created the linux partitions at the beginning of the drive. Julius On Wednesday 21 August 2002 07:34 am, you wrote: > Could you list the hardware s

Re: [Fwd: Gnome printing problem, please help.]

2002-08-21 Thread Gary
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 03:19:19PM +0100 or thereabouts, mike wrote: > The actual situation: > When other users send for printing, it printed nicely at the beginning, but > after a while, the printer blinks and stop printing. I got to go into There have been a few Up2date upgrades to the prin

Re: CVS Config problem

2002-08-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 02:30, Sajeewa Chandrasekera wrote: > > 4. under "/etc/xinitd.d" I created a file called "cvspserver" and put these > lines > service cvspserver > { >disable = no >port= 2401 >socket_type = stream >protocol= tcp >wait= no >user

mount iso9600

2002-08-21 Thread Bo Peng
Morning, I mount redhat iso files as iso9600 on /mnt/vahalla . It is annoying that whenever I mount the file system, a file manager pops up and I have to close it by hand. Is there an option to stop this? Thanks. Bo -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject

Re: HELP!!! HELP!!! HELP!!! - HP pavilion 2.2 GHz

2002-08-21 Thread Bo Peng
Could you list the hardware specifications? Your harddrive might be too big and can not use the default partition. Just maybe.. Bo On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 06:40:59AM -0700, julius wrote: > Five days ago I purchased a HP Pavilion xt395, supposedly identical to HP's > ze5000 series. For the pas

Re: Error while initializing the sound driver:

2002-08-21 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 08:30, Frank Bax wrote: > A search of list archives (at redhat.com) for "sound driver" yields "no hits". > > Please forward any messages you might have on the subject. try an archive that works http://www.prairienet.org/library/redhat/ Bret -- redhat-list mailing list

Re: how to send email in a client application

2002-08-21 Thread Tim Kehres
Hello, I'm assming you are running sendmail. If not the procedures will be slightly different but close. If you have a shell script, simply construct your message either on the fly, or through a temporary file. Then send it to sendmail via a pipe: $ cat | /usr/sbin/sendmail -f Of course

Re: error: failed dependencies: while upgrading PHP.

2002-08-21 Thread ramakrishna
* Gary Stainburn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > the above error message. It looks like some serious changes have been made > to the dependancy list for php-4.1.2-7.3.3.i386.rpm. Specifically, why does > it now need 6 development RPM's installed and why does it now need mysql > installed, when th

Re: how to send email in a client application

2002-08-21 Thread Paul Branston
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 09:59:34AM -0400, Wai Iu wrote: > I have a redhat7.2 system running. I have an application wrriten with C language. > Is there any way that I can send out simple text-based email in that application, >such as using SMTP, POP3? Any suggestion will be appreciated. > There

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