Re: /etc/issue ??

2001-03-22 Thread Chris Fishwick
Gary, /etc/issue is for tty logins /etc/issue.net is for network logins.. Therefore, changing /etc/issue will not change the banner when you connect with telnet. Also, these 2 files get reset at each boot by /etc/rc.d/rc.local - just remove the extranous crud from there and it won't happen agai

Re: Recursively get files thru' FTP

2001-03-07 Thread Chris Fishwick
> I have a requirement wherein I want to get all the contents of a home > directory(ofcourse,I have access to it) recursively thru' ftp. I know of > mget command.But,it doesn't create subdirectories on the local > disk.Simply gets all files into one dir. > I want the whole dir. structure to be m

Re: how to tar a filelist ?

2001-03-05 Thread Chris Fishwick
I would have thought that the easiest way to do this would be to do a 'find /usr/src/linux/arch/alpha -name *.c -print > filename', and then do a 'tar cvf your.filename.tar -T filename'. This could be easily scripted into a nice little script etc.. Regards Chris On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Mikkel L. E

Re: KDE Application Compilation Problem

2001-02-18 Thread Chris Fishwick
> > > Did you instal the KDE development packages? > > > > Yup, all packages are installed... the headers are present, in the > > /usr/include/kde dir etc, but it just won't compile anything with them.. > > > Time for #2 dumb question: Can you compile non-kde packages on the > system? I just bui

Re: KDE Application Compilation Problem

2001-02-18 Thread Chris Fishwick
> Did you instal the KDE development packages? Yup, all packages are installed... the headers are present, in the /usr/include/kde dir etc, but it just won't compile anything with them.. Regards Chris ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

KDE Application Compilation Problem

2001-02-18 Thread Chris Fishwick
Hi All, I am trying to compile some apps under KDE, and am getting the following error when I run configure: checking for extra includes... no checking for extra libs... no checking for kde headers installed... configure: error: your system is not able to compile a small KDE application! Check,

Re: Jaz drive problems (won't mount)

2001-01-14 Thread Chris Fishwick
You will probably find that you need to mount /dev/sdc4 rather than /dev/sdc1 - this is the case with both Jaz & Zip disks.. Regards Chris On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, M. Neidorff wrote: > Hi folks, > > I just got a SCSI 1 Gig Jaz drive. Attached it to my Buslogic BT948 > controller and it comes up

Re: arp - does it exist?

2000-11-14 Thread Chris Fishwick
Bob, The net-tools RPM contains the arp program, and it sits in /sbin/arp Regards Chris On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Bob Hartung wrote: > Hi! > I am trying to set up an older HP print server [stand > alone]. I do not use bootp or rarp on my system (and as far > as I can tell they are not installed

RE: Linux Monitor Tools and Memory Leak

2000-11-09 Thread Chris Fishwick
This would be for Kernel 2.2.x as opposed to RedHat 6.2 (IIRC RH 6.2 uses Kernel 2.2.14).. Regards Chris On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, ONG,AARON-WK (Non-HP-Singapore,ex3) wrote: > I'm looking for redhat linux 6.2 memory tools, Insure++ in www.parasoft.com > can only use in version 2.2. > > -Origin

Re: linux & win2000 dual boot

2000-10-13 Thread Chris Fishwick
This is unlikely to be anything to do with linux, rather more likely, either your BIOS (some of them have a 'virus warning feature'), or, your actual Virus Checking software needs to update its image of the Boot Sector.. Regards Chris On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, saleem s wrote: > I am new with Linux.

Re: MX Records

2000-10-13 Thread Chris Fishwick
How about 'host ' e.g. [rimmer@postoffice rimmer]$ host calvin.nu calvin.nu mail is handled (pri=10) by hobart.southcom.com.au calvin.nu mail is handled (pri=20) by phantom.southcom.com.au calvin.nu mail is handled (pri=5) by postoffice.calvin.nu Regards Chris On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Jonathan W

Re: memory problems

2000-10-05 Thread Chris Fishwick
> total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem: 127820 124748 3072 28396 9212 50796 > - -/+ buffers/cache: 64740 63080 > Swap: 401616 2288399328 > > I think I should definately have more 3 Megs free

Re: RED HAT 5.1 INSTLLATION

2000-03-08 Thread Chris Fishwick
You need to specify a login of root, and a password of whatever you set it to. i.,e. localhost login: root Password: ** Regards Chris On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Jimmie Brandon wrote: > I just finished installing Red Hat 5.1. > > The computer has rebooted and it is asking for > > "localhost log

Re: scanners

1999-11-14 Thread Chris Fishwick
> Is Linux going to have any programs ported to use scanners? I have an > Info Periferals scanner that works with Dozer 95 and 98. I hope so, > because there are getting fewer and fewer reasons to have dozer on my > computer. TNX Have you checked out the Sane package?? Check it out at http://

Re: What is 'command' to reformat partition for MS DOS

1999-11-03 Thread Chris Fishwick
> a: run fdisk [ inlinux] and change format to DOS. Why not just delete the partition using linux fdisk, install the drive in the DOS machine, fdisk it in DOS, and then format it? Regards Chris -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Eth0 Question

1999-01-16 Thread Chris Fishwick
Paul, How are the PC's connected?? Do you have a Hub?? If not, I assume you are aware that you will have to use a cross-over cable to connect the 2 PC's.. Regards Chris On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Paul M. Foster wrote: > > Folks: > > I've been testing the network between my machine and my wife's

Re: route help!

1998-07-01 Thread Chris Fishwick
> -BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- > Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use > MessageID: LGyi8iGeUbtFqaf2R/Tnbxa+DNGXENwu > > owGtVM1vG0UUd6GR0FZCFTc4PVIpSam92XW8iW0ELU3c4KSu8+WaUnoY7z5nB69n [SNIP] Couldn't have said it better myself.. Regards Chris -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, T

Re: dual cpu's?

1998-06-28 Thread Chris Fishwick
> Second question... My machine has dual pentiums, How do I let Linux know > that I have two chips? recompile kernel? Edit you /usr/src/linux/Makefile so that the line that reads: #SMP = 1 reads SMP = 1 Then recompile your kernel, and they both should be started on boot.. you can check th

Re: 2.0.34 kernel

1998-06-27 Thread Chris Fishwick
> can anybody give me an ftp address where I can get kernel 2.0.34 > but it is very desirable that it 'd be in tgz archive . (I'm fed up with > rpm) ftp.kernel.org /pub/linux/kernel/v2.0 (from memory).. Regards, Chris. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCH

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-25 Thread Chris Fishwick
> If Shawn is unwilling to continue to argue the case for html, I > am. Fine, but please, keep it off of the list... very few people are interested in this thread anymore... Regards Chris -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedH

Re: how do I get off this list

1998-06-25 Thread Chris Fishwick
> I need to get off this list and I should know how to do it but don't. > > can someone enlighten me?? As printed at the bottom of every email that comes through the list.. > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >"unsubscribe" as the Subject. Regards C

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-13 Thread Chris Fishwick
> If my email program was refusing to show me the main body of a message, and > instead insisting on showing me one of the attachments, I'd be grousing at > the author of the program, not the author of the email. Hmm.. I'd have to disagree here... In my opinion, HTML should *never* have been int

Re: diald config..

1998-06-12 Thread Chris Fishwick
> > diald[271]: Specified device '/dev/ttyS1' not a character device. > > diald[271]: Terminating due to damaged reconfigure. > > Shouldnt it be /dev/cuaX -- X=0,1,2 or whateverOr maybe simply > /dev/modem I tried em both... In the end, it turned out to the RPM I installed from... I dow

diald config..

1998-06-09 Thread Chris Fishwick
Hi All, Just a quick one (hopefully)... trying to configure diald on a RH4.2 system with Kernel 2.0.34. The modem is one /dev/ttyS1, and I know it works because I can get it connect to the net.. The problem is, when ever I try to invoke diald, with a bare bones diald.conf, it giv

Re: ssh

1998-06-09 Thread Chris Fishwick
> Where could I pick up an rpm for ssh? I don't think that there is an RPM available for SSH due to the fact that it needs to generate some data that is specific to your PC. It is a very easy program to compile... just download the src tarball, unpack it to wherever, run 'configure', do a 'make'

Re: 256MB RAM

1998-06-01 Thread Chris Fishwick
There are new revisions of this board out now, which, so far as I know, support the caching of 512MB without an upgrade. Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Home Page: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal P

Re: Windows Zip from Linux

1998-05-25 Thread Chris Fishwick
ki, There should be a command in /usr/bin called 'unzip' which will open these files. It is designed to open files created with PKZip.. Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Home Page: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal

RE: Installation woes..

1998-05-23 Thread Chris Fishwick
4.2 and 5 both seemed to have the problem at the same point every time... Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Home Page: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal Page: http://www.calvin.nu +-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ |

Installation woes..

1998-05-22 Thread Chris Fishwick
it further, asks if I have a Color Monitor, then freezes.. It doesn't appear to be the hardware, as dos/win will install without a problem... Is there something that I am missing?? Can anyone *please* shed some light on this??? Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Serv

Re: idiot needs help

1998-05-20 Thread Chris Fishwick
> Just where in Australia are you Bill? South Australia or Western Australia? I would guess Western Australia, as that is the main operating area of iinet (I think anyway...) Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Home Page: http://www.southcom.com

Re: Netscape Icons.

1998-05-20 Thread Chris Fishwick
roblem with the colour palette in X maybe?? Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Home Page: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal Page: http://www.calvin.nu +-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Linux - The operating system for t

Re: idiot needs help

1998-05-20 Thread Chris Fishwick
regarding different 'bits and pieces'.. I'm sure that there are plenty of good sites on the net to assist you, but I cannot think of any off of the top of my head ;-( Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services

Re: Please Help: drive space - how much remaining

1998-05-19 Thread Chris Fishwick
> How do I determine the drive space remaining on my system? Eric, The 'df' command will tell you how much space is remaining on each mounted filesystem... Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Home Page: http://www.southcom.com.au

Re: How can linux do this?

1998-05-18 Thread Chris Fishwick
h.. it is possible... I have set one up b4... Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Home Page: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal Page: http://www.calvin.nu +-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ | Linux - The operating system for thos

Re: How can linux do this?

1998-05-16 Thread Chris Fishwick
would do the user profile storage? Hi Mark, Samba can be setup to use the roaming profiles that you mention... It is pretty straight forward, and the docs are pretty good as well... Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Home Page: http://www.southcom.com

Re: RH5 - IDE Hard Drive Problems

1998-05-12 Thread Chris Fishwick
not sure of the current status of the problem.. Now I'm not so sure that it was a prob caused by the card... Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal Homepage: http://www.calvin.nu PGP Public Key available at

Re: Western Digital

1998-05-11 Thread Chris Fishwick
ble habit of just stopping, and never working again... this happened to me, and it turned out be a manufacturing fault in the eary versions of these drives... generally the 2 platter series 21600) are better, and work properly.. Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Servi

Re: creating supp.img

1998-05-11 Thread Chris Fishwick
ould be, and it should work fine ;-) Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal Homepage: http://www.calvin.nu PGP Public Key available at: http://www.southcom.com.au/~rimmer/rimmer.asc +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: Western Digital

1998-05-11 Thread Chris Fishwick
only ever used WD Drives, and have only had a problem with one drive. It was a 1.6Gig model, with a manufacturing flaw in the entire series.. So they replaced it even tho it was out of its warranty period.. but in short, I have never had a major problem with a WD drive, and I shall stick by them...

Re: PnP modems -- current (linux) modem users read this

1998-05-11 Thread Chris Fishwick
> Here's the easiest way out of this .. who on this list has a 56k modem ? > .. and works in linux ?? I do, its USRobotics Courier with x2 and v.90 code... works very nicely.. Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.sout

Re: Iomega Jaz Drives..

1998-05-10 Thread Chris Fishwick
module, in which case I shouldn't need to... (by my understanding anyway).. Regardless, the drive wouldn't work in DOS either, and the computer dealer confirmed this when I returned it.. Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southc

Re: Iomega Jaz Drives..

1998-05-08 Thread Chris Fishwick
7;s something in > the hardware. Hmm.. well it appears to be a Hardware problem, I returned it to the shop that I got it from and they agreed.. problem is they don't carry stock of them so they have to order me a replacement, which won't be here until tuesday.. *groan* Regards Chris

Re: Iomega Jaz Drives..

1998-05-08 Thread Chris Fishwick
blems... Yup, that is why I decided to get one, because everything I heard about them was positive... > Also, you might check into a couple of programs for Linux for the Jaz > drive: jaZip (gui) and jaztools (command line) Yup, got em both, but thanks anyway ;-) Regards Chris Fishwick T

Iomega Jaz Drives..

1998-05-08 Thread Chris Fishwick
card is recognized fine, and sees the drive, but thats it.. the end of the line.. any ideas, or do I need to get it replaced?? Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal Homepage: http://www.calvin.nu PGP Public Key avai

Re: Thank you and one more

1998-05-06 Thread Chris Fishwick
> root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/ksh > > Where or how do I delete the password? Your password file is probably shadowed, in which case the encrypted passwords are stored in /etc/shadow Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southc

Re: Easy question - DNS

1998-05-04 Thread Chris Fishwick
/etc/resolv.conf Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal Homepage: http://www.calvin.nu PGP Public Key available at: http://www.southcom.com.au/~rimmer/rimmer.asc +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: PostgreSQL and MS-Access ... and Interbase!

1998-05-04 Thread Chris Fishwick
ux 4.2 Now Availble for free download With the second line being a link to the licensing/download page.. Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal Homepage: http://www.calvin.nu PGP Public Key available at

Re: PostgreSQL and MS-Access ... and Interbase!

1998-05-04 Thread Chris Fishwick
> I must admit I find the idea that Borland will begin releasing Linux products > a bit unlikely. Does anyone have a pointer to more information? >From what I hear, it is going to be released as a free product... dunno how true this is... Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support

Re: Micro$oft "declaring war"?

1998-05-01 Thread Chris Fishwick
having to a seperate partition etc.. This is easier still than partitioning the HDD and getting the user to tell LILO to boot something other than Linux... All you do is tell em to put the Disk in the drive, and do a 'shutdown -r now'.. simple as that.. Regards Chris Fishwick Techn

Re: ftp continuation

1998-04-30 Thread Chris Fishwick
> Is there any program in Redhat that allows continuation of interrupted > ftp download? ncftp allows you to continue your downloads, provided the FTP site supports it. Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southcom.com.au Pe

Re: setserial

1998-04-29 Thread Chris Fishwick
> Could anyone tell me in which package I can > find the program setserial? setserial can be found in the util-linux rpm package.. Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal Homepage: http://www.calvin.nu PGP

Re: a simple question on IP-Masquerading

1998-04-27 Thread Chris Fishwick
m.com.au) with a host name of whatever else took my fancy.. It shouldn't really make much of a difference.. (Other ppl may have other opinions, but that is what worked for me).. Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southcom.com.au Perso

SMP..

1998-04-25 Thread Chris Fishwick
about SMP that I can find so that I can make full use of it I have recompiled my kernel with the SMP=1 switch set in the Makefile, but I want to trry and find out as much info as possible... Thanks in advance.. Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage:

Re: RedHat 5 and Staroffice

1998-04-19 Thread Chris Fishwick
> I'm fairly new to this list... The guys at Linux-newbie suggested I beg > here... There are a couple of us trying to get Staroffice 4 going on Redhat > 5 but to no avail... We've tried the new libc stuff with no results... What is the problem that you are having?? Rega

Re: Where's the kernel make boot made?!?!

1998-04-17 Thread Chris Fishwick
> make boot > > It's finished now but I don't know where to look for the crazy kernel. If > you have any clues to a tired hunter please advise. /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot (substitute the i386 for the proper architecture if you are not using and Intel platform).. R

Re: Cheap Serial Multi-Port Recommendation for use with RH5

1998-04-16 Thread Chris Fishwick
under Linux... Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal Homepage: http://www.calvin.nu PGP Public Key available at: http://www.southcom.com.au/~rimmer/rimmer.asc +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: StarOffice Installation troubles

1998-04-16 Thread Chris Fishwick
> To which version of libc? libc 5.4.44 Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal Homepage: http://www.calvin.nu PGP Public Key available at: http://www.southcom.com.au/~rimmer/rimmer.

re: zip drive

1998-04-16 Thread Chris Fishwick
der that cart totally useless From what I recall, it is caused by heat problems.. Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal Homepage: http://www.calvin.nu PGP Public Key available at: http://www.southcom.com.

Re: Single User Mode

1998-04-15 Thread Chris Fishwick
f this.. i.e. To boot the image names 'linux' in single user mode, at the lilo prompt, type 'linux single' as opposed to just 'linux'.. Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal Homepage

Re: Adding things to menus in XWindows (using Win95 thing)

1998-04-15 Thread Chris Fishwick
> > |Linux - The operating system for those whose IQ is above 95| > This is insulting and offensive. Come to think of it.. (and I will leave it at this) I may have to change that to 98 rather than 95 soon, provided Win98 gets released on time (haha).. Regards Chris Fishwick Technica

Re: Adding things to menus in XWindows (using Win95 thing)

1998-04-15 Thread Chris Fishwick
about everything that I thought was offensive (no matter how petty) then I wouldn't have time to work, or do anything else... Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal Homepage: http://www.calvin.nu PGP

Re: Newbie Questions...

1998-04-15 Thread Chris Fishwick
should be a file called .fvwm2rc95 (I think) in your home directory that contains menu settings, and a few other settings.. Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal Homepage: http://www.calvin.nu PGP Publi

RE: 56k modems

1998-04-15 Thread Chris Fishwick
USR Courier x2 modem.. I am using RH4.2.. on RH5.0, I have successfully connected with a v.90 modem (also a USR Courier) at 48333bps... Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal Homepage: http://www.calvin.nu

Re: StarOffice suite

1998-04-13 Thread Chris Fishwick
in getting it up and running intially. The worst part was having to download it over a 33.6k modem. Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal Homepage: http://www.calvin.nu PGP Public Key available at: http://www

Re: Adding things to menus in XWindows (using Win95 thing)

1998-04-13 Thread Chris Fishwick
> I haven't got a clue how to do this. I have looked everywhere. Which Window Manager are you using?? Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal Homepage: http://www.calvin.nu PGP Public Key available

Re: StarOffice troubles (More)

1998-04-07 Thread Chris Fishwick
box without problems. You shouldn't have any problems with it. Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal Homepage: http://www.calvin.nu PGP Public Key available at

RE: Mutitude of questions (Part 2)

1998-04-07 Thread Chris Fishwick
System which allows upto (from memory) 30 Characters in the filename. Rockridge is certainly the way for you to go as it creates a filesystem which has the full filenames on Linux systems, and 8.3 filenames on Win Systems. Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Serv

Re: mp3 files?

1998-04-06 Thread Chris Fishwick
So far as the size goes, I suppose they would probably average around 5 - 6 Meg each Keeping in mind a lot of MP3's that you may find on the net are a breah of copyright, and may be illegal, however some of them are licensed. Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern

Re: mp3 files?

1998-04-06 Thread Chris Fishwick
> Can you spare me the time, and tell me where to find it? Certainly can.. its http://www.x11amp.ml.org Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal Homepage: http://www.calvin.nu PGP Public Key available at: h

Re: mp3 files?

1998-04-06 Thread Chris Fishwick
... The list goes on, however I have found X11Amp to be an excellent player. Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal Homepage: http://www.calvin.nu PGP Public Key available at: http://www.southcom.com.au/~rimmer/r

Re: StarOffice troubles

1998-04-06 Thread Chris Fishwick
ownload the whole lot, although in my case it was coming within 5 or 6 meg of finishing then dying I ended up using the ISDN in the office to grab so that I could keep an eye on it... As an afterthought though, you could download it with ncftp, and get it resume the download if it fails...

Re: samba?

1998-04-04 Thread Chris Fishwick
't setup samba on the linux box. What sort of trouble are you having?? Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal Homepage: http://www.calvin.nu PGP Public Key available at: http://www.southcom.com

Re: USR 56k Sportster x2

1998-04-04 Thread Chris Fishwick
RQ: 4. I use a custom script given to me when I first configured my machine. Email me privately if you would like me to send you a copy of the script. Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal Homepage: http://www.

Re: USR 56k Sportster x2

1998-04-04 Thread Chris Fishwick
problems with either of them, simply plug them in, make sure all settings are correct (such as port speed), let it connect, up comes the x2 connection.. couldn't be easier.. Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal

Re: a news server that might actually work?

1998-03-30 Thread Chris Fishwick
it won't do a damn > thing. I find a combination of Suck and DNews does a great job, only problem is that DNews is a commercial product which sells for US$450. Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal Homepag

Upgrading libc..

1998-03-19 Thread Chris Fishwick
Hi All, I have an RPM titled libc-5.4.44-1rh42.i386.rpm, which is used, as indicated by the filename, to upgrade libc on RH4.2 systems. My question is, is it safe to use this same RPM on RH5.0 systems?? I need to upgrade libc so that I can run StarOffice 4.0... If it is not safe to do t

Re: Kernel problems...

1998-03-17 Thread Chris Fishwick
> So I think that it is all recompiled I just have to figure out how to boot > it instead of the default kernel. I'm sure this is a stupid question and > I apologize but I would appreciate your help. Take a look at /etc/lilo.conf and its man page Regards Chris Work Homepage: http://www.so

Problem with X Server..

1998-03-17 Thread Chris Fishwick
Hi All, Wonder if anyone has come across this before... I am running RedHat 4.2, kernel 2.0.30, upgraded libc (5.4.44), XFree86 S3 X server, KDE Beta 3 Window manager, Pentium 133 with 32 Meg RAM... Has been working flawlessly for 6 months, then all of a sudden today, whenever I try to st