RE: gpm stalls shutdown

1998-06-12 Thread David . LANDGREN
>I've noticed that there are times when I initiate a shutdown as root where >the gpm program (mouse support) seems to hang the shutdown process. If I >manually kill gpm prior to initiating shutdown, then things work fine. Any >idea why this is so and how to correct it? Dunno, but you could expl

RE: crond and shutdown

1998-06-12 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Jacek, > The file you want to edit is called crontab. You should read up on it >and cron. You will need to add a line like the following to the crontab >file. > >00 04 * * * root /sbin/shutdown -h now Actually you want to run crontab -e (e is for edit) and copy Steve's line above o

RE: Good Kernel Version

1998-06-08 Thread David . LANDGREN
>2.0.34 is the lastest stable version.it was just released afew days ago >and I have had no problems with it at all. 2.0.29 was lauded as a most stable kernel. However, a number of serious security problems (F00F on pentia and other DoS attacks) have rendered it unsafe for non-standalone syst

RE: Making perl resident

1998-06-08 Thread David . LANDGREN
> jl> i am using a REDHAT LINUX 2.0.32 kernel w/ Apache 1.2.5 and perl > jl> 5004.04 and want to know if there is a way I can make perl > jl> full-time resident instead of just launching when apache needs > jl> it? It seems to be quite slow when calls area made. > > jl> I have 36M of ram on

RE: crontab -- scripts or command-line ?

1998-06-05 Thread David . LANDGREN
>The more traditional way (and, IMHO, best way) is to write a script, and >then >have crond kick off that script. ... and it makes things easier to test, because you can just run it from the command line as easy as pi. DL -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARC

RE: zombie

1998-06-04 Thread David . LANDGREN
>What is a zombie process and how do I get rid of it? A parent process may, at some point in its lifetime, spawn a child process that does some work. Eventually, the child exits, and returns a status code to the parent, as an indication of success/failure/whatever. Now, in order for that status

RE: cron email commands to retrieve info.

1998-06-04 Thread David . LANDGREN
>anyone know how to setup cron to receive email from the owner of the account >and for cron to run a process to send all the web stats to another email >address? > >specifically i want to do this: > >1)issue a email from my desk at work to my email account on my linux box >telling cron to issue a

RE: How can I change the priority of a process

1998-06-02 Thread David . LANDGREN
>sorry but I want to change the priority of a process , for ex : inetd.. I doubt you want to change the priority of inetd itself... but anyway, man nice will tell you all you need to know. DL -- Well, I would -- if they realized that we -- again if -- if we led them back to that stale

RE: Autotshutdown...?

1998-06-02 Thread David . LANDGREN
> You must have Advanced Power Management support in the kernel, >"Power off on Shutdown" in the APM section, and also APM enabled in the >BIOS. I have done this, and it works... to a certain extent. That is, when you run shutdown -h now, the system shuts down, and you see "System halted"

RE: hmm

1998-06-02 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Well I am a new linux user. I was wondering what you guys think is the best window manager?? I would need >one that doesnt use up much ram also. someone recently mentioned that they still use twm. I used it about six years ago. In a nutshell, you drive it by clicking on the desktop and bringing

RE: Scripts...

1998-05-29 Thread David . LANDGREN
>What shell are you using? At least in (t)csh, you have either to use the >"rehash" command or to log out and log in again to get the shell to find new >programs. I don't know if bash behaves similar or not, maybe somebode else can >fill in here... :-) IIRC, you only have to rehash under bach whe

RE: Scripts...

1998-05-28 Thread David . LANDGREN
> I found out the equivalent of DOS' "%1" is "$1" in Linux, but "ls >$1" doesn't work... You are correct. What do you mean by "doesn't work"?... Do you have #!/bin/sh ls $1 Has it a protection mask of 755? (chmod 755 myscript). If it is in the current directory, rather th

RE: Speaking about CGI's

1998-05-27 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Does any one can tell me what means CGI's? >Thanks a lot, sorry for the ingnorance... CGI == Common Gateway Interface. It is a set of specifications for programs can generate HTML on the fly for sending dynamic-content pages to a browser. See http://www.w3c.org/CGI/ for more info. DL -- P

RE: CGI, etc?

1998-05-27 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Hello, >Would anyone know of a way to post something via commandline to a >remote CGI script? I want to have something automaitcally sent to my >cell phone via an online messaging center.. Thanks.. It boils down into telnetting to (probably) port 80 on a remote site, and squirting a carefully cr

RE: ppp problem

1998-05-26 Thread David . LANDGREN
>I just reinstalled RedHat do to redo the directory structures. After >restarting I began to get the message >"Sorry, ppp not supported by this kernel" >I installed the stock redhat kernel which I believe has ppp in it. Any >ideas?? Belief is not sufficient. You need certainty! Does d

RE: --help

1998-05-26 Thread David . LANDGREN
>> How to delete --help file. > >rm -- --help rm ./--help -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "uns

RE: Importing Date to Bash Script

1998-05-26 Thread David . LANDGREN
>what is the correct sytax for importing the system date and time into a bash >script? > >I need to assign this to variable that I can manipulate. TODAY = $(date) YESTERDAY = `date --yesterday` echo "Today is $TODAY" echo "Yesterday was $YESTERDAY" You use backticks to capture the output of a pr

RE: Failed depndencies using RPM

1998-05-26 Thread David . LANDGREN
> If you are sure you have all the dependencies installed, and RPM >reports >failed dependencies, try this: > >rpm -i --nodeps [package] [...] >> failed dependencies: >> /bin/sh is needed by XFree86-libs-3.3.2-5 Do you have the latest version of RPM itself? This error is usuall

RE: all of these emails

1998-05-25 Thread David . LANDGREN
>I am curious as to how all of you manage these emails in this list. Heh, well, I am reading this using MS-Exchange on NT. It has an "inbox assistant", that lets me move redhat messages to their own folder. Other rules check for text strings in the subject header; messages which match any of thes

RE: Replacing a kernel

1998-05-15 Thread David . LANDGREN
>> A newbie wants to replace the rh v4.2 stock kernel with a 2.0.32-2 kernel. >> Where should he look for a howto procedure for handling the new rpm >> kernel,kernel-header,and kernel-modules? > >http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/intel/kernel-upgrade-intel.html The HOWTO itself is also anoth

RE: What happens when you run out of swap? (load spike solved?)

1998-05-15 Thread David . LANDGREN
>I think netscape 4.0x has a memory leak. I'm using 4.03 (obtained >quite some time ago directly from Netscape) and the longer it runs the >more memory I find in use. I've got 32MB of RAM and 40MB of swap, and Well, if it's any comfort, it's a platform-independent bug. I have experienced the same

RE: date format

1998-05-15 Thread David . LANDGREN
>> HUaspro /dev/ttyC4 895203401 Start >> **END** /dev/ttyC4 895203526 Stop >> HUneria /dev/ttyC4 895206271 Start > >This is the number of seconds since Jan 01, 1970. You can calculate this value >using "date +%s" to find the current time in seconds. > >To go the other way, you'd either need some

RE: RPM problems -- please lend a hand...

1998-05-15 Thread David . LANDGREN
>It was --nodeps!! Thanks for the speedy response...now, what in the heck >was that about...why is it calling for /bin/sh -- this is just >curiositya bug maybe? This message is in fact a side effect of using an old version of RPM itself. Install the latest version and you will never be bother

RE: Database to HTML / web pages

1998-05-14 Thread David . LANDGREN
>I'm looking for tools that let an application build >dynamically-generated web pages from a database. Ideally I'd like to use >Apache as the web server, but that isn't essential. > >All the tools I've found so far are for Windows or NT. Any pointers to >tools which will run under Linux would be a

RE: To format a floppy disk

1998-05-14 Thread David . LANDGREN
>How can I format a floppy disk in DOS format ? fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 mkfs -t ext2 -c /dev/fd0H1440 change this for MS-DOS, see what your mkfs man page says ... and then you'll be able to mount it. This information appears in the DOS/Win to Linux HOWTO. DL -- Crunch

RE: Newbie question: Directory & File structure

1998-05-14 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Do you know of a URL that points to these versions of the FHS? I think you'll find what you're looking for at http://www.pathname.com/fhs/1.2/fsstnd-toc.html [...] >Sorry if this is another ignorant question but... What is WRT inter >operability? 'with respect to' -- PLEASE read

RE: pl and CGI

1998-05-12 Thread David . LANDGREN
>I dont know if this is the right place to post this,but since i got Red Hat 4.1 >here it goes.How can I make a file then ends in pl,execute in any directory, >when its called from a browser window?For example >FILE:home/user/some.pl >or >http://www.host.com/~user/some.pl > >Can this be possib

RE: pl and CGI

1998-05-12 Thread David . LANDGREN
> -- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 12 May 1998 16:37 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: pl and CGI > > I dont know if this is the right place to post this,but since i got Red > Hat 4.1 > here i

RE: redhat-digest Digest V98 #240

1998-05-07 Thread David . LANDGREN
>> Just curious how is the cua devices depreciated? What exactly do you mean? > >Their value is being reduced on the books, thereby giving us a tax >writeoff. :) > >They are deprecated because at some point in the future they will stop >working. I don't know when. So you will have to use the t

RE: Max Sites?

1998-05-07 Thread David . LANDGREN
> I was wondering what is the limit of web site domains a single linux box >can handle? Say the load is just a few small pages per hour for each of the >sites. Or heck even through hardware out of the loop for a second. What is >the max that linux and apache can handle? 10? 100? 1000? Some

RE: Passing a variable without changing the script.

1998-05-07 Thread David . LANDGREN
> I remember a long time ago, I saw > somebody pass an argument to a script > from prompt. As far as I remember, the > person was dialing different locations, > and didn't want to edit the script's > variable by editing the file every time > he wanted to

RE: Linux Vendor Accuses Microsoft of Hardball Tactics (http://ww

1998-05-04 Thread David . LANDGREN
>> Yeah. I think most people on the list use a news page, > >but not all! > >> like slashdot, >> infoworld or whatever to keep abreast of tech news in general > >personally, I welcome the ocasional reference to these articles. I don't >have the time to go browsing around the various news pages f

RE: Linux Vendor Accuses Microsoft of Hardball Tactics (http://www.pcworld.com/cgi-

1998-05-04 Thread David . LANDGREN
>The saga continues... If these news stories are becoming cumbersome, would >someone please let me know? Yeah. I think most people on the list use a news page, like slashdot, infoworld or whatever to keep abreast of tech news in general and MicroSoft in particular. Hell, most news pages have the

RE: PPP Session Drop outs

1998-05-04 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Has anyone seen this before: a PPP connection dialing from a Linux box, to a >Linux box over a 33.6K permanent PPP connection where everything works for a >while (5 - 30 minutes) and then the connection starts to get REALLY slow (ping >times around 600 - 2000ms) and then the connection drop

RE: "DOS FILES=" equivalent in Linux ?

1998-04-24 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Sometimes i get this error : >"too many open files in system" >causing my system to fail. >How do I increase the number of files ? Try something like this as root: root# cat /proc/sys/kernel/file-max 1024 root# echo 4096 >/proc/sys/kernel/file-max That should shut it up

RE: who causes segmentation fault and dumps core

1998-04-24 Thread David . LANDGREN
>I'm not sure when it broke, but all of a sudden the who command dumps core >every time I try to run it. I thought maybe it became corrupted somehow, so >I took the who command off of another RH5 machine that runs it fine, and it >still dumps core with the new one. yeah, it's a bug that crops up

RE: Moving /usr directory?

1998-04-22 Thread David . LANDGREN
>> it doesn't work, (cd /source;tar cf - ./)|(cd /dest;tar xvf -) might do as > >> well. > Work.. > > But > (cd /source;tar cf - ./)|(cd /dest;tar xvpf -) should be better And > (cd /source && tar cf - ./)|(cd /dest && tar xvpf -) > will be even better still, like I said

RE: Moving /usr directory?

1998-04-22 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Trying to move /usr directory to a second hard drive. When doing cp -r -p * >am receiving errors that: "cannot copy cyclic symbolic link". cp gets a bit lost by symlinks. Or maybe it is me who gets confused by cp. Basically, I shun using cp -r. Try something like: (cd /usr && tar cf - .) | (cd

RE: backup & web counter

1998-04-22 Thread David . LANDGREN
>First the guy who used to manage the server before has made a batch to make >an easy backup of the system on a DAT tape. The main command is >dump 0sf 61000 /dev/st0 / Dunno. Have you read dump's man page? [...] >The second ( probably stupid ) question is : what is the alias which='type >-path

Re: Tools to delegate sys admin functions

1998-04-21 Thread David . LANDGREN
> I am running Redhat Linux 4.1 on an Intel box, and need to allow a few > non-root users to change users passwords, and user accounts, etc. However, > I don't want these non-root users to have access to the root account and > privileges. I would appreciate any pointers and/or advices here. Br

Montage FR1 Film recorder (Slide maker)

1998-04-20 Thread David . LANDGREN
I just inherited a Montage FR1 film recorder. Has anyone ever heard of one of these? Hooked one up to a Linux box? (It's not in the Hardware HOWTO). I'd love to get it running one of these days. Seems like I need to acquire a SCSI card, but I fear I'm going to be out of luck acquiring a driver f

Re: different MOTD's

1998-04-20 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Can I set up a seperate MOTD per user? IIRC, /etc/motd is cat'ed from an /etc/rc.d/ file (perhaps rc.sysinit or rc.local). Assuming you don't want to use their .profile, where they could edit it out, you could create a directory, e.g., /etc/motds and then create motd files named by user. Thus, i

NEW: linusmotc - Linus Torvalds, Man of the Century

1998-04-15 Thread David . LANDGREN
The following cropped up on NEWLIST this week. It turns out Time magazine is preparing a Man of the Century (tough luck about you women!) top ten for their magazine. Now I don't really see the point in subscribing to the mailing list, but you can do your duty by voting for Linus at http:/

RE: Linux on NPR in about five minutes

1998-04-10 Thread David . LANDGREN
>> >Just heard them announce that they'll be interviewing some Linux people on >> >NPR. If you know your station and want to listen, they'll be talking in a >> >few minutes >> >> Transcription please. > > I don't have RA installed (no sound card) but you can still get >the file off of

RE: Apache Question

1998-04-09 Thread David . LANDGREN
>anyone else evr had this problem or are there some strange properties to >this file? You are doing something wrong. A shell alias, a clobbered file, a control character in the file name, a truncated file, it's not really a stripped 32-bit ELF executable, a weird symlink... the list goes on. It

RE: Grepping shell script

1998-04-09 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Are general linux questions off-topic here? I'm trying to automate some >tasks, one of which is detailed below: Many people around here (myself included) enjoy solving these sorts of problems. >With the following commands in a shell script, I want to search for files >that have been modified on

RE: Linux on NPR in about five minutes

1998-04-09 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Just heard them announce that they'll be interviewing some Linux people on >NPR. If you know your station and want to listen, they'll be talking in a >few minutes Transcription please. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/Red

RE: start up questions

1998-04-09 Thread David . LANDGREN
>> Just need a quick pointer on where linux goes when booting up, I want to >> get rid of the realplayer stuff I included when I installed RH5. Something >> like the autoexec.bat I guess. > >There are several configuration files that get read during system boot. >See the /etc/rc.d/init.d directory

RE: Copy Disk? (complete)

1998-04-09 Thread David . LANDGREN
> drive. Assuming you mount the root partition on the second > drive on /mnt, you could: > > # cd / > # tar cfpBl . - | (cd /mnt; tar xfpB - ) ^ When using this idiom, remember that the correct incantation is > # tar cfpBl . - | (cd

RE: Partitions

1998-04-09 Thread David . LANDGREN
>mostly I guess there's nothing wrong with using one partition for >everything on a desktop machine that is just that. When I first started >using linux, I did that (actually, my current desk top still does that..it There's a variant on this approach, in that you start off with swap and / partiti

RE: Grepping shell script

1998-04-09 Thread David . LANDGREN
>>ls -alR /home/higginbo | grep "`date '+%b %_d'`" | mail higginbo >> ^^^ >>This eliminates the need for a temporary file. > >Ah, yes, someone told me about this too, but I plan on modifying this basic >script to handle other operations as well.

RE: How to do this automatically....?

1998-04-08 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Currently I lig in as a user, then I have to open an Eterm, then I make a > >xhost +localhost > >then > >su > >and then as su I start ezppp. So can someone suggest what to do, that ezppp >would automagically start as root when I login as a user? Or just the >explicit one user who is allowed t

RE: Perl 4

1998-04-08 Thread David . LANDGREN
>I have olds programs on Perl 4 running under FreeBSD and I want to bring >them back on my new Linux RH5 box but I don't want to convert them for >Perl5... Is there a Perl 4 binary for RH or I must find the original >sources and compile them. And if it's the case do I need a patch or >something o

RE: Virtual Web Addresses

1998-04-08 Thread David . LANDGREN
>I want to offer my web customers the ability to point >their domains to their web pages on my server. They >currently access their pages using the standard > >http://my.domain.com/~username > >format. I want them to keep this format for their >address, but, also be able to point > >http://www.t

RE: Quake for RH..

1998-04-07 Thread David . LANDGREN
>I found a pretty good site with all the files via FTP from a local mirror >site (instead of ID's page). There is some other quake stuff there as >well. Go to :- > >http://www.min.net/~douglas/ See also http://linuxquake.telefragged.com/ http://www.botik.ru/~roma/quake/ DL -- PLE

RE: Not a Desltop OS (was: RE: thanks, but no thanks)

1998-04-07 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Adding aliases to the dist, IMO, would be very bad. People would use dir, >or md, or whatever, without ever knowing the corresponding Linux commands. >What would motivate people to learn the OS this way? Ok, what about $ cat dir echo I think you meant ls... (see: 'man ls')

RE: Not a Desltop OS (was: RE: thanks, but no thanks)

1998-04-07 Thread David . LANDGREN
Jumping in late here, I was on holidays... >I'm afraid I need to disagree with this. I picked up linux mostly because >I wanted to have some understanding of unix, but it does have potential to >be a desktop os. Think about the ease of use complaints, the original >poster complained about not kno

RE: Upgrading to 5.0

1998-03-27 Thread David . LANDGREN
>I am currentlly running RedHat Linux version 4.2 with kernel 2.0.32. >What advantages are there to upgrading to version 5.0? Are there any >disadvantages? Personally I'm holding off upgrading to 5.0 until something major forces me to, like a hardware upgrade. For now 4.2 is perfectly functional

RE: thanks, but no thanks

1998-03-27 Thread David . LANDGREN
>I personally found the RedHat docs pretty easy to follow, and at the time >my first install of RedHat and I was new to Unix. After reading on the web >and asking a few colleagues I managed to install it over a weekend and >learnt lots from my mistakes :) It's like the old software dictum: build

RE: thanks, but no thanks

1998-03-27 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Just have to chime in here. > >Who the bloody hell reads the @#%^ing manual?! Pleezze. I am bizarre. I *like* reading manuals. DL -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists

RE: Lynx under RH 5.0

1998-03-26 Thread David . LANDGREN
> I was wondering if anyone has run into the following problem >with >Lynx under RH5. > When downloading a file using Lynx everything appears to be >working fine until the end of the download. Then Lynx basically >treats >the file as if it was a standard text download. It just displa

Off topic: anyone know of an SQL list?

1998-03-26 Thread David . LANDGREN
books are miles away from here. Thanks, David -- David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe:

RE: Lynx trouble

1998-03-26 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Has anyone encountered the following Lynx problem? When downloading >using the standard Lynx that comes with 5.0 it will sometimes not ask to >download the file and basically assume the file is some kind of text based >link. This happened last night when I was trying to get jdk-1.1.5 of of

RE: How is linux not an O/S Was: Re: Want to give back to linux?

1998-03-26 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Perhaps we can find something that is the most minimal OS that >exists, >and what this provides, defines the mimimal requirement for >classification as an OS. WOOOHOOO! We haven't had a thread like this for ages! If you power on an IBM-PC without a boot disk, it will eventually drop into a Basi

RE: Turning Number Lock on by default

1998-03-25 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Theres a way to turn the number lock on by default, i remember someone >posting something to the list a while back. It involves editing one of >the linux source c files. Does anyone know how to do this ? C? You can do it from a shell script. I'm not at my home machine, but basically you just r

RE: Never share root

1998-03-24 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Well, guess I deserve what I got for sharing root access with someone I >trusted. > >They inadvertantly changed alot of permissions and now its ^ Then it's not a problem of trust -- you could have trashed it yourself. DL -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and

Intel Smart Video Recorder III

1998-03-24 Thread David . LANDGREN
lock device driver for > this card. How would I set about such a task? What information do I > need? What can I read online? What existing source code could I use as > a model? Is C enough or will I have to relearn my assembler skills? > > Thanks for the input, > David > -- >

RE: login screen

1998-03-19 Thread David . LANDGREN
> >Is it possible to change the login screen so that it does not say > > > > login: > > > >but says > > Username: > > Yes indeed. > > Two different programs deal with this display, getty and login. IIRC > correctly, the former can be configured and the la

RE: Linux-O-Tron 66 Almost Complete

1998-03-19 Thread David . LANDGREN
>by part updates on people's machines. If everyone who is subscribed to >this list sent in their machine configurations (and changes as they >happen) the traffic on this list would be unbelievable. By the way, Mike, how many people *are* subscribed to redhat-list? DL -- PLEASE read the R

RE: almost root

1998-03-18 Thread David . LANDGREN
> Is there anyway to give a user the same capabilities as root without giving the root password? The sudo package is what you want: http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/ DL -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat

RE: Cron daemon running hidden process?

1998-03-18 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Please stop sending your mails to this address >Thank You Read the last two lines of this message, do what it tells you, and you will receive no further messages from this list. DL -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ

RE: Login showing logo

1998-03-18 Thread David . LANDGREN
>> I want to change the login screen from: >> >> Red Hat Linux release 5.0 (Hurricane) >> Kernel 2.0.32 on an i586 >> login: >> >> to something with colors like ANSI graphics is that possible and what >> program should I use to make the file? If you know the ANSI escape sequences, you could pla

RE: kill and killall?

1998-03-18 Thread David . LANDGREN
>What diference exists between killing a process by: kill -9 pid and >killall "name of process", because the second one you dond need to know >the pid so save and instruction. The process name killall relies on can changed by the process itself. This is probably a non-issue, but there you are. k

RE: issue and issue.net

1998-03-18 Thread David . LANDGREN
>I suppose the removel of the issue.net lines in that file may allow >you ues >/etc/issue and /etc/issue.net ? Confirmed. Actually, I don't understand why RH clobbers the file only to write the same info. What is more interesting is to put the date. I write the date the system was booted up inst

RE: Mounting a directory to directory

1998-03-17 Thread David . LANDGREN
>I don't this this will work tho I suppose you could export the file >systems and mount them as NFS drives. Why you would want to do this is >beyond me... Perhaps they could be mounted as localhost:/ >those this would probably be kind of slow. I don't think so. (the idea, not the speed)... >Wh

RE: Unidentified subject!

1998-03-17 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Hello list, >I built a kernel & modules normally(using RedHat 5.0), but depmod -ae now >produces the following error: >/lib/modules/2.0.31/misc/iBCS: unresolved symbol(s) >kill_fasync_R1ace6ddf Did you run make modules_install? DL -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Er

RE: EMacs?

1998-03-17 Thread David . LANDGREN
>> I know I really should learn vi or emacs, so I won't look foolish if I ever >> encounter a machine without pico on it, but I don't do much editing under >> linux, since for the most part, Win95 is my actual production environment >> at work Linux is more like a hobby at the moment, unless I can

Mounting a directory to directory

1998-03-17 Thread David . LANDGREN
mount /mnt/sdb2/home /home mount /mnt/sdb2/www /www As neither of these args is a device, mount is not going to be too happy. If someone has done something like this, can they show me their /etc/fstab? Thanks, David Landgren -- David Landgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

RE: problem with who command

1998-03-16 Thread David . LANDGREN
> we've been having trouble with the who command. if the utmp file is too >large >(greater than 129 records), then who faults with "memory exhasted" error and no >other >output. This is a recurring error that keeps cropping up on the list. I think you are the first person to have isolated

RE: Sendmail Does not like MS-Exchange.!!

1998-03-13 Thread David . LANDGREN
>I am running sendmail 8.8.8 on my linux box and >it just will not accept email from a Microsoft Exchange Server. I am running 8.8.5 or so, and have no troubles sending email to it with with Exchange from work. What error messages are you getting? DL -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, E

RE: RH4.2/2.0.33 web server performance...

1998-03-13 Thread David . LANDGREN
Excellent signal/noise ratio. echo 'subscribe modperl' | mail -s 'subscribe' [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Landgren -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tip

RE: Cent character

1998-03-12 Thread David . LANDGREN
>>> I want to make use of the Cent symbol, which I think is character 0242. > >David> It's actually ASCII 162 > >You're both right. Duh! Octal is going to be the death of me! -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-

RE: Cent character

1998-03-12 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Does anyone know how to insert specific special characters in the vim editor? >I want to make use of the Cent symbol, which I think is character 0242. I >have seen it in mail to me, xterm and vim can display it, but I couldn't find >any key on my keyboard which would generate it. It's actually A

RE: X fonts

1998-03-12 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Check the source of those pages, since they may be setting the font. >That's because there are some very stupid people who think that just >because a font is available and looks good on their machine, it will >be available and look good on all others. These people should be >using PDF. I suspec

RE: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-12 Thread David . LANDGREN
>I hear they're starting [EMAIL PROTECTED] if your >interested. BBZZT I hope your (sic) the first subscriber. DL (in jest). -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /m

RE: Cool....

1998-03-11 Thread David . LANDGREN
>> > Linux IS growing no matter what ANYONE tells me... >> > >> >> Well, not the way I read the article it isn't. Maybe it could, might >> or something but growing ? I don't think so. >> > >Well, don't you think a year or two ago no large consumer group would have >even bothered asking the big

RE: HELP on a Upgrade

1998-03-11 Thread David . LANDGREN
>I downloaded RH5 using a 14.4 - can anyone beat that? I downloaded it on punched cards! DL (No, I am lying). -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail

RE: Perl5.004_04

1998-03-10 Thread David . LANDGREN
> >Yes. > > > >Firstly, I tried 'sh Configure' then 'sh Configure -des' then 'sh > >Configure -Dcc=gcc' and finally 'sh Configure -Dcc=gcc -des'. > >each time doing a 'rm -f config.sh'. > > Hmm, what is -des supposed to do? > > >the math.h file looks fine but could you tell me the best way to

RE: "mem" command does not work

1998-03-10 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Hi, >I recently installed Red Hat 4.2 in my new notebook, Compaq Armada 4131T >I tried to check for the memory with the "mem" command but when I do >a "mem" all what I get is: > >bash: mem : command not found. > > >Any idea what is going out there? > >I got the same result if I am a normal users

RE: Perl5.004_04

1998-03-10 Thread David . LANDGREN
>I have just got Sams unleashing redhat and loaded linux from the inclosed CD. Excellent! >I have downloaded perl5_004_04 and am having trouble with MAKE. It returns >errors like: > >In file included from perl.h:1214 > from miniperlmain.c:14: /usr/include/math.h:273: >par

RE: Script for public_html

1998-03-10 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Does anyone have one of those quick little scripts that scans the users >dirs every night to check for public_html? Oh, let's see now... #!/bin/sh find /home -type d -name public_html -print | mail -s 'list of public_html directories' root@localhost This will check that the directory exists...

RE: 'tip' like serial port program for linux?

1998-03-10 Thread David . LANDGREN
>I am accustomed to 'tip' on BSD and Solaris for talking to terminals and >modems. I have many TCL/expect scripts that use 'tip', so minicom >presents a problem for me. Is there a 'tip' like RPM for linux? Or a >binary? All I need is something simple. With tip you get 'connected' >when yo

RE: message digest feature?

1998-03-09 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Does anyone know if redhat-list has a message digest feature and if so, how >do I turn it on? (I already tried asking the listserver for "help") You have to subscribe to the digest list. See the info on RH's web page. Look for support; mailing lists. DL -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips

RE: X server memory leach?

1998-03-09 Thread David . LANDGREN
[...] > > PID TTY MAJFLT MINFLT TRS DRS SIZE SWAP RSS SHRD LIB DT > COMMAND > > 408 ? 12119 1585263 720 20492 36784 15572 21212 816 0 > 4921 X :0 -bpp [...] Look on the bright side! 5 megs of the process is swapped out... all you have to worry about is running out of swap..

RE: sendmail

1998-03-09 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Hello, > >Does anyone happen to know how to send attachments using sendmail at the >command line? I believe you have to assemble the bits together yourself using, say, the MIME spec, and then dump the business into sendmail as one file. DL -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and t

RE: Concatenating access_log files?

1998-03-09 Thread David . LANDGREN
[...] >for i in access* >do > cat i$ >> filename >done > >but this doesn't concatenate them quite the right way. I was looking to >append them together in order, so they would be seamless - in other words >February 15th would be the ending in one file, and Feb 16th would be the >start in the

RE: Swap File, how large can it be?

1998-03-09 Thread David . LANDGREN
>On a SCO system though you MUST have at least RAMSIZE+10% as when it >crashes, it writes the contents of ram to the swap partition. If there >isn't enough room, it will simply overwrite your root partition with the >excess. Gee, that's very thoughtful of it! I wonder how long it took the program

RE: message digest feature?

1998-03-06 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Does anyone know if redhat-list has a message digest feature and if so, >how >do I turn it on? (I already tried asking the listserver for "help") You have to unsubscribe from here and resubscribe to the redhat-digest list, or something like that. The details are described on Red Hat's web page.

RE: compile errors

1998-03-06 Thread David . LANDGREN
>Sorry to take this stuff here, but I'm trying to compile some stuff for a >class on my 5.0 machine and it keeps complaining about undefined >references. No normal error this or that. It throws up a list of files >with a .o extension all located in /tmp and then declares "undefined >refernce to: c

RE: FW: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 127

1998-03-06 Thread David . LANDGREN
>The RedHat lists generally seem to work in a way that bounce messages >from subscribers tend to occasionally get sent to the people that send >messages to the list, as opposed to the list address itself. It just >means your message to the mailing list didn't get to that person. Have you paid att

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