Subject: Re: OpenOffice/MS Office compatibility (was Re: easy installation)

2002-12-20 Thread Pramathesh Ambasta
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 09:57:03AM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote: It's not anywhere close to being compatible. Many MS Office documents can not be read or display incorrectly in OpenOffice. This issue exists Try it out at home first with some typical documents that your office uses and see what happe

Re: Cannot Mount Thumbdrive and Zip250 at the sametime

2002-12-20 Thread CM Miller
> > mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip >>This should work. Check that the partition on the zip >>drive is >>really sda4 by running the command "fdisk -l /dev/sda" . The zip250 drive mounts aok, it is the thumbdrive that doesn't. > For the thumdrive, I use the following: > mount -t vfat /d

Re: domain auth

2002-12-20 Thread Beast
At 10:39 PM 12/20/2002 -0700, you wrote: >> ldap = is it proven techology for this purpose? >> > > LDAP is a general purpose thing now, you can really put anything in >LDAP. LDAP from companies such as Sun (Sun ONE Directory Server) have >extra plugins and if you don't mind using one of thos

Re: domain auth

2002-12-20 Thread Aly Dharshi
Hello ! On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 04:06, Beast wrote: > Currently what im thinking was nis, samba and ldap (using openldap) > nis = seem mature, is it worth in today environment? NIS/NIS+ is a dying model, soon you will see Sun even doing LDAP instead of NIS/NIS+ that is the way to go today.

Re: domain auth

2002-12-20 Thread Beast
At 08:49 PM 12/20/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Depends on what you want to be doing, I mean that there is LDAP >authentication that would be useful for certain/most tasks, using Samba >and LDAP would be a wonderful way to do some things like NT >Authentication. > >De facto would be /etc/passwd style but

Re: domain auth

2002-12-20 Thread Aly Dharshi
Depends on what you want to be doing, I mean that there is LDAP authentication that would be useful for certain/most tasks, using Samba and LDAP would be a wonderful way to do some things like NT Authentication. De facto would be /etc/passwd style but since you want to be central in account and re

Re: curious about bash script invocation variations

2002-12-20 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 07:42 20 Dec 2002, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | from the man page for bash, when you run a script normally, | it runs as a non-login, non-interactive script. but with | one or more options, you can run it as a login script, an | interactive script, or both (options being some

domain auth

2002-12-20 Thread Beast
Hi all, recently we're trying moving from window nt network to linux. we have arround 800-1000 pc client. 1. what are my options to replace ntdomain authentiation? 2. what is de facto standard to maintain account in *nix world? TIA. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: file utility

2002-12-20 Thread Bret Hughes
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 19:23, James D. Parra wrote: > > > Thank you for the reply, but that is to list users and not for a group. > Didn't see anything in the man page covering listing for groups. > That is a very nice answer to a pretty terse respnse of mine. Especially when I did not even ans

Re: Modem

2002-12-20 Thread Ben Logan
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 10:47:59AM -0600, Gibbs, Martin D. wrote: > Would anyone have tips on how to get a modem to work in Linux? Its a > modem I installed a packaged driver for, and ran, but I still cannot > get Linux to recognize that it's there to use. Martin, What is the exact model of your

RE: file utility

2002-12-20 Thread James D. Parra
Thank you for the reply, but that is to list users and not for a group. Didn't see anything in the man page covering listing for groups. ~James -Original Message- From: Bret Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 12:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: f

Solved: CRC ERROR on boot from CD (psyche)

2002-12-20 Thread Here and There
Hello, Sorry about that, folks. Apparently the message referred to means that there is a bad stick of RAM in your computer. (tried install on another -> worked; tried swapping RAM on problem -> works now). Thanks! Michael --- Here and There <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > Following the "

RE: Mozilla

2002-12-20 Thread Chris Mason
Title: Message KDE 3.1 includes a kiosk mode, that should be in release in January. As I understand it, there are lots of configuration options for running in kiosk mode. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of IS DepartmentSent: S

Re: Web Server inside firewall

2002-12-20 Thread Cliff Wells
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 17:17, Andy Elacion, Jr. wrote: > Goody day. > > I set-up a firewall in our office, it has has 2 NIC. I remove the daemon > that I do not need, basically, it's a plain linux installation. > > The network configuration is, eth0 is facing internet and eth1 is facing > secured

Re: remote X Window

2002-12-20 Thread Jack Bowling
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 04:07:38PM -0500, Hong Tian wrote: > I did the followings but it didn't work: > > At Linux box: > linux_hostname# xhost +solaris_hostname > solaris_hostname being added to access control list > linux_hostname# telnet solaris_hostname > solaris_hostname# bash > solaris_hos

RE: OpenOffice/MS Office compatibility (was Re: easy installation)

2002-12-20 Thread Fred Paredes
I have used it myself at work and I was able open our documents without any issues. I used the Windows Version of Open Office. Thanks Fred -Original Message- From: Ed Wilts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Fri 12/20/2002 2:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Re: OpenOf

CRC ERROR on boot from CD (psyche)

2002-12-20 Thread Here and There
Hello, Following the "boot:" prompt (at which I press Enter) when booting off the first of the Red Hat 8.0 5-CD set, (after "booting vmlinuz..", etc.) after the first screen clears, the following appears at the top of the cleared screen: === Uncompres

RE: Unable to telnet to redhat 6.2

2002-12-20 Thread Engstrom_Carl
Here's what I would doThere's probably a more Unix way to do this, but I not a very Unix type of guy.   1) Make sure that you can ping the address from the client.  If yes, then move to next step...otherwise fix...   2) Make sure that Telnet is set to run at startup.  Type "ntsysv" at t

Re: Unable to telnet to redhat 6.2

2002-12-20 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 02:07, Gift Admin wrote: > Hi all, > I am trying to telnet from windows 95 machine to the redhat machine. Can any body >tell me what i have to do telnet. > Thanks > karunakar First make sure that telnet-server is installed and running on the RHL box rpm -qa|grep telnet s

fuzzy cursor

2002-12-20 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, I'm having a problem with my text cursor, the little thing that looks like the cross-section of an I-beam. All of the sudden, there's a fuzzy shadow around it, like on the mouse in Windows 2000. My desktop is xfce-3.8.18. I just noticed it today. I checked on our other machines runnin

Re: Unable to telnet to redhat 6.2

2002-12-20 Thread Anthony Abby
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 03:07, Gift Admin wrote: > Hi all, > I am trying to telnet from windows 95 machine to the redhat machine. Can any body >tell me what i have to do telnet. > Thanks > karunakar Well I honestly can't recall if windows95 had a telnet client, but if it does... open up a dos pr

Unable to telnet to redhat 6.2

2002-12-20 Thread Gift Admin
Hi all,   I am trying to telnet from windows 95 machine to the redhat machine. Can any body tell me what i have to do telnet. Thanks karunakar

Linux & Common Criteria

2002-12-20 Thread Kirby, Wayne (EMA/ISF)
Hi List. I am researching my practical for SANS GSEC and am trying to find out if a Common Criteria (ISO 17779) exist for any distribution of LINUX. As you should be able to tell, I am just beginning to dabble in LINUX. Any help will be greatly appreciated. TIA <<...OLE_Obj...>> R. Wayne

boot fails on loopback init

2002-12-20 Thread Glen E. Moore
I have been away from the list for a while and away from linux in general, so I need to be refreshed on some technical issues. I bought the $200.00 7.2 box set and everything worked except my cdplay for audio cd's. I wanted to try Mandrake, so I downloaded 9.0 and installed it (all of this is

Web Server inside firewall

2002-12-20 Thread Andy Elacion, Jr.
Goody day. I set-up a firewall in our office, it has has 2 NIC. I remove the daemon that I do not need, basically, it's a plain linux installation. The network configuration is, eth0 is facing internet and eth1 is facing secured network. My question is this: How do I forward web packe to our s

CREATE NEW mouse function: how do I modify it?

2002-12-20 Thread Rob Tanner
Hi, I would like to tailor the CREATE NEW function on the mouse. Is there a config file somewhere that I can edit, or a tool like the menu editor that I can use? Thanks, Rob _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ /\_\_\_\_\/\_\ /\_\_\_\_\_\ /\/_/_/_/_/ /\/_/ \/_/_/_/_/_

ibm serveraid 3hb

2002-12-20 Thread z
Anyone using the IBM Serveraid 3HB out there? I'm curious which (rh stock) kernels people have had luck combining with the 5.11 driver. z -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: easy installation

2002-12-20 Thread David Colburn
> At my own company, our internal web site does not display properly in > Mozilla/Netscape. We've talked to our webmaster, and he simply says > that IE is the company standard and to go away. One day our CIO was > doing a demo and fired up Netscape, only to have it screw up. The web > site is st

RE: Help with RH 8.0 and VNC Solution

2002-12-20 Thread Jerry Hubbard
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 00:45, Jerry Hubbard wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 20:13, Matthews, John wrote: > > > > I'm unfamiliar with the exact behavior of vnc in RH8.0. I tend to use VNC > > I've compiled and installed myself, as such I frequently encounter the > > problem your running into. My ~/.

Re: Horrible video display

2002-12-20 Thread Martin Marques
On Vie 20 Dic 2002 11:07, Thierry ITTY wrote: > A while ago I had problems with pointers on X > A tried to add an option "hardware cursor" or "software cursor" or > something like that in the X config file, which solved the problem > maybe it's a clue which could help you... This didn't help. I'm

Re: OpenOffice/MS Office compatibility (was Re: easy installation)

2002-12-20 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:18:16AM -0600, Dave Ihnat wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 09:57:03AM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote: > > It's not anywhere close to being compatible. Many MS Office documents > > can not be read or display incorrectly in OpenOffice. This issue exists > > in both the Windows and

Re: cdrecord

2002-12-20 Thread Josep M.
Hello. I use cdrecord in a 80GB HD DRIVE with an older HP8100 4x2x24x without any problem. Josep Begin of Quote David P. Giffen : >Can cdrecord be used by non-SCSI drives. All the documentation shows samples for >SCSI. If it can what is the proper sytanx? I have been using >cdrecord dev=/de/hd

Re: cdrecord

2002-12-20 Thread Samuel Flory
David P. Giffen wrote: Can cdrecord be used by non-SCSI drives. All the documentation shows samples for SCSI. If it can what is the proper sytanx? I have been using cdrecord dev=/de/hdc Cdrecord only works on scsi devices. If you have a ide cdr you need to enable scsi emulation on that dev

Re: KDE screensavers don't work in 8.0

2002-12-20 Thread j_post
On Friday 20 December 2002 03:10 pm, you wrote: > > I once read a tip from Redhat: > "You can fix this by creating the following directories under > $HOME/.kde/share/applnk-redhat: System/ScreenSavers Then copy/link all > files from /usr/share/apps/kscreensaver/ScreenSavers You may also have > to d

RE: remote X Window

2002-12-20 Thread Bret Hughes
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 15:07, Hong Tian wrote: > I did the followings but it didn't work: > > At Linux box: > linux_hostname# xhost +solaris_hostname > solaris_hostname being added to access control list > linux_hostname# telnet solaris_hostname > solaris_hostname# bash > solaris_hostname# export

Re: OpenOffice/MS Office compatibility (was Re: easy installation)

2002-12-20 Thread Manuel Camacho
Well, I have had problems with complex files all from Excel, Word and PP. A common problem are tables of content in Word docs. As we are thinking about the transition from MS to Linux, we are setting up our Office software to save all next year docs in "more compatible" formats. For instance, W

Problem with Talk configuration

2002-12-20 Thread spj2
Hi, I have problem with Talk Configuration. It gives me an error saying, /usr/lib/kde3/libcm_ktalkd-gcc2.96.so: cannot open shared object file: No such directory or file I tried checking for this file, but it doesn't exist. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks, spj -- redhat-list

RE: remote X Window

2002-12-20 Thread David S. Wilkinson
What kind of SUN box do you have? is it a SunRay or a desktop system with it's own OS? Rigler, S C (Steve) wrote: > Can your sun box resolve "linux_hostname"? > > -Original Message- > From: Hong Tian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 3:08 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROT

RE: remote X Window

2002-12-20 Thread Rigler, S C (Steve)
Can your sun box resolve "linux_hostname"? -Original Message- From: Hong Tian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 3:08 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: remote X Window I did the followings but it didn't work: At Linux box: linux_hostname# xhost +solaris_hos

Re: KDE screensavers don't work in 8.0

2002-12-20 Thread Aad Rijnberg
Hi, > I recently upgraded a RH7.2 system to 8.0 and can't get the screensavers to > work. After much fiddling, I got the screensaver to kick in the *first* time > the timeout period expires, but not on subsequent timeouts. Only way to get > the screensaver to run again is to restart KDE and wai

RE: remote X Window

2002-12-20 Thread Hong Tian
I did the followings but it didn't work: At Linux box: linux_hostname# xhost +solaris_hostname solaris_hostname being added to access control list linux_hostname# telnet solaris_hostname solaris_hostname# bash solaris_hostname# export DISPLAY=linux_hostname:0.0 solaris_hostname# xterm xterm Xt e

Re: linxconf

2002-12-20 Thread Cliff Wells
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 12:02, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On 20 Dec 2002, Cliff Wells wrote: > > I think perhaps he's referring to the fact that linuxconf had an > > alternative text-only interface - you didn't have to run X to use it. > > you're right, i misread. my bad. there has been a fair amou

Re: cdrecord

2002-12-20 Thread Bret Hughes
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 14:38, David P. Giffen wrote: > Can cdrecord be used by non-SCSI drives. All the documentation shows > samples for SCSI. If it can what is the proper sytanx? I have been using > cdrecord dev=/de/hdc > Seems like there is a scsi -atapi interface that takes care of this. I

RE: file utility

2002-12-20 Thread Bret Hughes
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 14:10, James D. Parra wrote: > This looks very useful. Is there a switch for "lsof" that will show only > files for a particular group ID? > > ~James Lets see how do you say that? Oh yeah, RTFM. >From the man page for lsof -u s This option selects the listing of fi

Re: Best browser for kiosk (was: Mozilla)

2002-12-20 Thread Anthony E. Greene
On 20-Dec-2002/16:58 +, Nick Lindsell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You need to look at the Linux Kiosk project:- >http://kiosk.mozdev.org/ > >Basically you get the clients to run init4 by >default and then fire up X and Mozilla in full screen. >I've just done such a project and actually found >G

Re: easy installation

2002-12-20 Thread Anthony E. Greene
On 20-Dec-2002/10:45 -0600, Ed Wilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:22:23AM -0500, David Colburn wrote: >> That said, the immediate case of proprietary Web site coding and >> incompatible font collections seems to be pretty readily addressed. >> >> 1. Proprietary Web codin

cdrecord

2002-12-20 Thread David P. Giffen
Can cdrecord be used by non-SCSI drives. All the documentation shows samples for SCSI. If it can what is the proper sytanx? I have been using cdrecord dev=/de/hdc -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/re

Re: linxconf

2002-12-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 20 Dec 2002, Cliff Wells wrote: > On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 06:22, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > How can I run this redhat-config* from bash mode or do I have to run in > > > X-windows? > > > > you misunderstand. when you're in X, you can star

Re: Red Hat 8 - Instability - AGAIN

2002-12-20 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
Network card? RAM manufacturer? The RAM manufacturer could be it. Some cheap RAM has minor incompatibilities with certain mother boards which only show up under certain circumstances. With Win98 not being a multiuser OS and not having a real VM subsystem, it probably just isn't hitting those are

Re: easy installation

2002-12-20 Thread Anthony E. Greene
On 20-Dec-2002/09:15 -0800, j_post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Friday 20 December 2002 07:53 am, you wrote: > >> and (a larger) part of the problem is web sites >> that are designed for IE and nothing else. > >Send a nasty-gram to the webmaster informing him/her that the web site is >broken ;-)

Re: Red Hat 8 - Instability - AGAIN

2002-12-20 Thread Cliff Wells
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 11:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok. I apreciate all your advices.. most of all telling me to replace > hardware. I will try to ...starting changing memory. > > I have to tell you that I love Linux, but sometimes I lose my temper with > it. I have dual boot ( RH

RE: file utility

2002-12-20 Thread James D. Parra
This looks very useful. Is there a switch for "lsof" that will show only files for a particular group ID? ~James -Original Message- From: Dave Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 11:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: file utility On Friday 20 December

Re: remote X Window

2002-12-20 Thread Anthony E. Greene
On 20-Dec-2002/14:06 -0500, Hong Tian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I did it again as followings, but still didn't work: >>From RedHat Linux box: $ xhost +server_hostname >$ telnet server_hostname -> server_hostname is Sun SPARC Solaris machine. >$ bash >$ export DISPLAY=local_hostname:0.0 >$ xterm

Re: Nvidia Drivers

2002-12-20 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20 Dec 2002 14:45:08 -0500, Wes Reneau wrote: > I've downloaded and rpm's that were suggested by running NVchooser.sh > and installed thim as instruced. However, the kernmel RPM went off > w/o a hitch but the NVIDIA_GLX-10-4191.i386.rpm would not

Re: linxconf

2002-12-20 Thread Cliff Wells
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 06:22, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > How can I run this redhat-config* from bash mode or do I have to run in > > X-windows? > > you misunderstand. when you're in X, you can start any of a

Re: Red Hat 8.1?

2002-12-20 Thread sentinel
FYI.. it's not a matter of why not. As originally stated, if security is at stake then I hand roll my own. Sometimes I just don't wait for them to push out a patch. If the patch is already available to download then I say go for it. I do :D --- Yes why not ? Its their responsibility as a ve

Nvidia Drivers

2002-12-20 Thread Wes Reneau
I've downloaded and rpm's that were suggested by running NVchooser.sh and installed thim as instruced. However, the kernmel RPM went off w/o a hitch but the NVIDIA_GLX-10-4191.i386.rpm would not install. The error follows: error: NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-4191.i386.rpm: MD5 digest: BAD Expected (fa288332

Re: OpenOffice/MS Office compatibility (was Re: easy installation)

2002-12-20 Thread Cliff Wells
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 07:57, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 08:09:21AM -, Cannon, Andrew wrote: > > On another point, how compatible with M$ Office is OpenOffice? I'm trying to > > get our company away from M$ products (slowly does it...) and if the > > OpenOffice suite is (nearly) f

RE: remote X Window

2002-12-20 Thread Rigler, S C (Steve)
Make sure the solaris box is allowed to connect to your display. Do this with xhost, before you connect or from another terminal window: xhost + You can verify your access controls by typing "xhost" alone on a line. -Steve -Original Message- From: Hong Tian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] S

Re: Newbie: Simple Samba Configuration

2002-12-20 Thread Joe Polk
Others have pointed you in good directions. I recommend the following: ALWAYS turn on encrypted passwords in your conf file. This is far easier to do there then in each machine's registry (Windows). Second, install Webmin. It makes Samba setup a breeze. This along with the other information prov

RE: remote X Window

2002-12-20 Thread Hong Tian
I did it again as followings, but still didn't work: >From RedHat Linux box: $ telnet server_hostname -> server_hostname is Sun SPARC Solaris machine. $ bash $ export DISPLAY=local_hostname:0.0 $ xterm xterm Xt error: Can't open display: local_hostname:0.0 -Original Message- From: Bret

Re: file utility

2002-12-20 Thread Dave Young
On Friday 20 December 2002 10:49 am, James D. Parra wrote: > Hello, > > We have a DOS database application running on RH7.3, on a Samba share which > will have about 50 users attaching to it. Are there any administrative > tools/utilities available that can tell which files are in use by which > u

Re: Red Hat 8 - Instability - AGAIN

2002-12-20 Thread medina
- Pentium III 450MHz - 128 MB Ram - 2 HD samsumg ( 8G for RH and 16G for Win98) - Mother Board ASUS p2-99 - FD - RW Cdrom - Voodoo3 Dav

file utility

2002-12-20 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, We have a DOS database application running on RH7.3, on a Samba share which will have about 50 users attaching to it. Are there any administrative tools/utilities available that can tell which files are in use by which user, which are locked by whom, and etc? Any help will be greatly appr

Re: Red Hat 8 - Instability - AGAIN

2002-12-20 Thread David van Hoose
By the way, what is your hardware setup? -David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok. I apreciate all your advices.. most of all telling me to replace hardware. I will try to ...starting changing memory. I have to tell you that I love Linux, but sometimes I lose my temper with it. I have d

Squid Problem

2002-12-20 Thread Jake Colman
With Squid active I am unable to access certain sites such as www.rca.com. I'd get back a page from Squid stating "connection refused". Aside from that my Squid configuration works like a charm. Any ideas what I should look at? -- Jake Colman Principia Partners LLC

Network Connection Problem

2002-12-20 Thread Jake Colman
I have a very simple SOHO network toplogy consisting of an inexpensive 8-port hub and cat-5 wiring. I have a RH 7.2 server and several Win98 machines. The server has two NICs, one connected to the Internet via a cablemodem and the other connected to the hub. The server used iptables to do masqin

Re: Mozilla

2002-12-20 Thread Jack Bowling
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 04:58:14PM +, Nick Lindsell wrote: > At 23:50 20/12/2002 -0500, you wrote: > >I have 4 RH 8.0 clients. All I want them to do be able to do is act as web > >browsers, > >that is when the user logs on I would like to fire up Mozilla. It would be > >nice if nothing > >els

Re: easy installation

2002-12-20 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20 Dec 2002 11:19:40 -0600, Bret Hughes wrote: > Part of what is being discussed is apples and oranges in a way. The > "ease" of windows comes largely from the computer seller loading it > and making sure the drivers for all the hardware he is sel

Red Hat 8 - Instability - AGAIN

2002-12-20 Thread medina
Ok. I apreciate all your advices.. most of all telling me to replace hardware. I will try to ...starting changing memory. I have to tell you that I love Linux, but sometimes I lose my temper with it. I have dual boot ( RH and Win98 ) and my Win98 is much more stable than RH. They use

Re: iptables and performance issues

2002-12-20 Thread lester lasad
Thanks for the responses.  Regarding the name resolution is it looking for itself, the local machine?  The command below "iptables -L-n -V" just lists the version of iptables, nothing else.  Doing "iptables -nL" gave a much quicker response.  The main problem is that everything is slow after loadi

Up2date problem on RH 7.0

2002-12-20 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
I ran up2date -l and after it did all it's stuff it died with this: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 382, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 366, in main sys.exit(batchRun(onlyList, pkgNames)) File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 138, in batchRun upda

Re: Red Hat 8 - Instability

2002-12-20 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:48:04AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Do you have any tip for me ? Start replacing hardware. -- Hal Burgiss -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Newbie: Simple Samba Configuration

2002-12-20 Thread Patrick
On the website of o'reilly you can find a PDF that contains all information to configure Samba Op vrijdag 20 december 2002 16:35, schreef Bret Hughes: > On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 09:13, Geoffrey Lane wrote: > > I've tried to install and get samba working twice already and I have no > > idea what the

Re: Red Hat 8.1?

2002-12-20 Thread Aly Dharshi
Yes why not ? Its their responsibility as a vendor who provides updates to do so,recently they did so for Samba and KDE where they provided clean updates for these packages with serious vulnerabilities. I feel that there are certain packages that I have to absolutely build personally to get some f

Re: easy installation

2002-12-20 Thread Bret Hughes
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 10:51, Michael Schwendt wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:53:55 -0600, Ed Wilts wrote: > > > > Also, they knocked linux for having bad fonts when web surfing. But > > > at sourceforge.net there's a way to get microsoft's fon

Re: OpenOffice/MS Office compatibility (was Re: easy installation)

2002-12-20 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 09:57:03AM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote: > It's not anywhere close to being compatible. Many MS Office documents > can not be read or display incorrectly in OpenOffice. This issue exists > in both the Windows and Linux versions of OO. Try it out at home first > with some typical

Re: easy installation

2002-12-20 Thread j_post
On Friday 20 December 2002 07:53 am, you wrote: > and (a larger) part of the problem is web sites > that are designed for IE and nothing else. Send a nasty-gram to the webmaster informing him/her that the web site is broken ;-) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla

2002-12-20 Thread Christopher Henderson
Use another more minimal window manager then Gnome or KDE and I believe in the .xinitrc (sp?) file in the user directory you can list what other apps you want to launch when startx is initialized. I know that Window Maker in FreeBSD always has a terminal open at launch time. I don't remember the

Re: Mozilla

2002-12-20 Thread Nick Lindsell
At 23:50 20/12/2002 -0500, you wrote: I have 4 RH 8.0 clients. All I want them to do be able to do is act as web browsers, that is when the user logs on I would like to fire up Mozilla. It would be nice if nothing else was available for the user to run(these machines will be public use internet

Re: remote X Window

2002-12-20 Thread Bret Hughes
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 10:21, Hong Tian wrote: > Hi, > > After I logged in a Sun Solaris 8 Server from a RedHat 7.3 machine, I tried > to use "admintool" or "clock" commands. But I got the error messages as > follows: > > XView error: Cannot open connection to window server: hostname:0 (Server > p

Re: easy installation

2002-12-20 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:53:55 -0600, Ed Wilts wrote: > > Also, they knocked linux for having bad fonts when web surfing. But > > at sourceforge.net there's a way to get microsoft's fonts. Just > > search for fonts and it should be near the top. > >

Mozilla

2002-12-20 Thread IS Department
I have 4 RH 8.0 clients. All I want them to do be able to do is act as web browsers, that is when the user logs on I would like to fire up Mozilla. It would be nice if nothing else was available for the user to run(these machines will be public use internet stations) Anybody out there have

Modem

2002-12-20 Thread Gibbs, Martin D.
Would anyone have tips on how to get a modem to work in Linux? Its a modem I installed a packaged driver for, and ran, but I still cannot get Linux to recognize that it's there to use. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.

Re: easy installation

2002-12-20 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:22:23AM -0500, David Colburn wrote: > That said, the immediate case of proprietary Web site coding and > incompatible font collections seems to be pretty readily addressed. > > 1. Proprietary Web coding: When such a Web site is opened the RH user > should receive a pop-

Re: Java Problem - RH8.0

2002-12-20 Thread Marius Andreiana
On Vi, 2002-12-20 at 16:02, Kieran Hood wrote: > Does anyone know where I can get this pluggin from? Thanks Get the java sdk from ibm ( I chose it as it is rpm ) and as root cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ ln -s /opt/IBMJava2-13/jre/bin/libjavaplugin_oji.so libjavaplugin_oji.so Restart mozilla, see a

RE: OpenOffice/MS Office compatibility (was Re: easy installation)

2002-12-20 Thread Ferguson, Michael
It works fine for me. My children uses it and they say it is just like MSOffice. I replaced MSWindows and MSOffice with RH8.0 and they have not missed a beat. They are both very heavy Word and Powerpoint users -Original Message- From: Warren Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Frida

Re: OpenOffice/MS Office compatibility (was Re: easy installation)

2002-12-20 Thread Warren Johnson
Ed Wilts wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 08:09:21AM -, Cannon, Andrew wrote: On another point, how compatible with M$ Office is OpenOffice? I'm trying to get our company away from M$ products (slowly does it...) and if the OpenOffice suite is (nearly) fully compatible it might help persuade t

Re: OpenOffice/MS Office compatibility (was Re: easy installation)

2002-12-20 Thread Johnathan Bailes
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 10:57, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 08:09:21AM -, Cannon, Andrew wrote: > > On another point, how compatible with M$ Office is OpenOffice? I'm trying to > > get our company away from M$ products (slowly does it...) and if the > > OpenOffice suite is (nearly) f

devices for DVD

2002-12-20 Thread K Hargraves
Hi, I'm getting a "Error opening the secected video out" when trying to run MPlayer with a DVD mounted in the reader : /dev/cdrom if audio is to point at /dev/dsp how should MPlayer be configred for video; i.e. what is the expected video device cheers, Kyle Hargraves -- redhat-list mail

remote X Window

2002-12-20 Thread Hong Tian
Hi, After I logged in a Sun Solaris 8 Server from a RedHat 7.3 machine, I tried to use "admintool" or "clock" commands. But I got the error messages as follows: XView error: Cannot open connection to window server: hostname:0 (Server package) On Solaris to Solaris, I used "xhost" and "setup DISP

Re: easy installation

2002-12-20 Thread David Colburn
> > Also, they knocked linux for having bad fonts when web surfing. But at > > sourceforge.net there's a way to get microsoft's fonts. Just search for > > fonts and it should be near the top. > They're absolutely right. Out of the box, Linux sucks for a web surfer > compared to Windows. The use

Re: Red Hat 8 - Instability

2002-12-20 Thread Jack Bowling
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:48:04AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi... > I installed RedHat 8 recently and I have to tell you that I am getting p*** > with > it's instability. My guesses: 1) you are running the wrong kernel for your system - either running an SMP kernel on a uni box or the o

Re: iptables and performance issues

2002-12-20 Thread Jack Bowling
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 05:59:23AM -0800, lester lasad wrote: > > I am running redhat 7.3 everything is working properly until loading the iptables >rules. After loading the rules I am taking a big performance hit. It can take >anywhere from 10 - 30 seconds for my server to display the result

Re: OpenOffice/MS Office compatibility (was Re: easy installation)

2002-12-20 Thread z
Ed Wilts wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 08:09:21AM -, Cannon, Andrew wrote: On another point, how compatible with M$ Office is OpenOffice? I'm trying to get our company away from M$ products (slowly does it...) and if the OpenOffice suite is (nearly) fully compatible it might help persuade t

OpenOffice/MS Office compatibility (was Re: easy installation)

2002-12-20 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 08:09:21AM -, Cannon, Andrew wrote: > On another point, how compatible with M$ Office is OpenOffice? I'm trying to > get our company away from M$ products (slowly does it...) and if the > OpenOffice suite is (nearly) fully compatible it might help persuade the > "people

Re: easy installation

2002-12-20 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 05:02:11PM +0900, shawn wrote: > I read in ZDNET that some other distribution was better as it would find > the video card. Distributions always leap-frog each other. The last one released typically has better support for newer video cards. Software is changing every day

Re: Red Hat 8.1?

2002-12-20 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 09:35:12AM +, David Richards wrote: > thats interesting you say that. Just a few questions about this. So if > they are going to do this. why have they got that up2date system in the > installation ? I cant remember it being in 7.3, I am guess it was new to > 8.0. Inc

Re: Red Hat 8.1?

2002-12-20 Thread sentinel
Hold on a second... You wait for RedHat to provide a package update? If security is paramount (in most cases it is), then why not hand roll your own binaries? I've had CERT advisories come down, check the vender site (no patch available yet they say), I download the source and build my own. Mos

Re: init and loader source code from boot floppy

2002-12-20 Thread Robin Mordasiewicz
doh! thanks I did not realize that the boot disks were part of anaconda On 20 Dec 2002, Bret Hughes wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 23:30, Robin Mordasiewicz wrote: > > where can I find the source code for the init and loader program from the > > redhat boot floppy > > > > > > If I had to guess I

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