crond and shutdown

1998-06-11 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
Hi all, just a newbie question. How to change the crond config, that it will automatically shutdown at a given time. E.g. 4:00 am? In which file would I change this? TIA Jacek -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedH

MS .wav to what...? and vgetty.

1998-06-09 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
Hi all, I just managed to get vgetty to workand now of course I need a greeting message...;-) I have a .wav from MSWin, but I cannot play it under RH with sox, even with the man page saying, that sox is capable of playing .wav. Another thing is, that it seems that I need to get the .wav into

Copying...RH CD on MSWIn9x

1998-06-08 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
Hi all, I just want to copy the RH CD for a friend...well currently he has only Win9x running...and he has the hardware to copy it Will it be O.K. to just make a CD copy...? I remember something about Linux using different filesystems on a CD. So what's the fastest and easiest way to copy the

Re: SCSI support...

1998-06-03 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
On 03-Jun-98 Larry Lade wrote: > Jacek Andreas Matulla wrote: >> well I have an AHA 2940 from Adaptec working here with a RH 4.2. >> >> Everytime on boot the SCSI bus is reset. This will take some secondsis >> there a way to deactivate this reset...? Is it n

SCSI support...

1998-06-02 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
Hi all, well I have an AHA 2940 from Adaptec working here with a RH 4.2. Everytime on boot the SCSI bus is reset. This will take some secondsis there a way to deactivate this reset...? Is it neccessary to reset the SCSI bus...? TIA Jacek -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata an

Autotshutdown...?

1998-05-31 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
Hi all, well is it possible that on shutdown the PC will shot off as in Win9x...? Do I need some patches for the kernel..? How to accomplish this? TIA Jacek -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedH

4 GIG Partitioning...

1998-05-31 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
Hi all, well I've got a 4Gig SCSI harddisk and 64MB Ram. Now I remember that there was mention not to place the boot partition about was it 1 or 2 gigs...? Can someone tell me..? How big to make the Swap..? It's just a single workstation? I want to make a 64MB Swap, then 100 MB root partition

Re: PATH settings

1998-05-24 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
> There are a million ways you could reconcile these situations (change > various things in /etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile, or ~/.bashrc, set up > your window manager to pass an option to all xterms that makes them start > login shells, blah blah blah), but I prefer the following: Thanx a lot Gr

Re: PATH settings

1998-05-22 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
On 22-May-98 Greg Fall wrote: > On Fri, 22 May 1998, Jacek Andreas Matulla wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have some problems with my PATH setting. When I log on as root to the >> console >> my PATH contains /sbin and /usr/sbin. When logging in with kdm my PA

PATH settings

1998-05-22 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
Hi all, I have some problems with my PATH setting. When I log on as root to the console my PATH contains /sbin and /usr/sbin. When logging in with kdm my PATH is missing /sbin and /usr/sbin. Now my /etc/profile does not contain /sbin and /usr/sbin. So where would I put these both...? Only for roo

RE: xdm

1998-05-02 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
On 30-Apr-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > This happens no matter what I specify in my .xinitrc, .Xclients, or > .xsession. However, if I kill xdm and fire up X-windows via 'startx', I > get the window manager that is specified in my .xinitrc. I have checked > the files in /etc/X11/xdm and

RE: Need some help with my PPP connection

1998-04-16 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
[snip] > However, I'm experiencing some problems again. I'm unable > to successfully connect to the Net. After I dial out, I cannot ping, > not even my ISP's DNS server. I do a tail on /var/log/messages, and get > the following: Yeahthat's one of the problemsYou don't get s

leafnode nearly running SOLVED! Seems to be a bug...

1998-04-13 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
Hi all, well as I described before...I just installed leafnode from a rpm... All was setup right, but it did not work... In a way it was my fault...because I added a supplement server to the config file. As it is suggested in the manpage...it should work. But it did not. I just removed the suppl

Re: leafnode nearly running....

1998-04-12 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
On 11-Apr-98 Bob Taylor wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jacek Andreas > Mat > ulla writes: >> > [snip] >> >>Well, it does not matterit does not work with 127.0.0.1 and it does not >>work with just localhost. It seems that leafnode is not running...or Netscape >>cannot access it. 127.

Re: leafnode nearly running....

1998-04-11 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
On 11-Apr-98 Len Bussey wrote: > On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Jacek Andreas Matulla wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have installed leafnode. It added this to /etc/inetd.conf >> >> nntpstream tcp nowait news/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/leafnode >> &g

Re: leafnode nearly running....

1998-04-11 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
On 11-Apr-98 Casey Bralla wrote: > On Sat, 11 Apr 1998 12:47:29 +0200 (MET DST), Jacek Andreas Matulla > wrote: > >>>>I have installed leafnode. It added this to /etc/inetd.conf >>>> >>>>nntpstream tcp nowait news/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/

Re: leafnode nearly running....

1998-04-11 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
On 11-Apr-98 Bob Taylor wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jacek Andreas > Mat > ulla writes: >>Hi all, >> >>I have installed leafnode. It added this to /etc/inetd.conf >> >>nntpstream tcp nowait news/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/leafnode >> >>Then as suggested in a paper I added

leafnode nearly running....

1998-04-10 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
Hi all, I have installed leafnode. It added this to /etc/inetd.conf nntpstream tcp nowait news/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/leafnode Then as suggested in a paper I added to my /etc/profile export NNTPSERVER=localhost Then I set the newsserver in Netscape to localhost. But it will n

Do we have a X-GUI for mgetty+sendfax?

1998-04-10 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
Hi all, I'm trying to make faxing workbut I'm lost a bit So is there a X-GUI for sendfax+mgetty or is there any X based programm for faxing/answeringmachine? Greetings Jacek -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FA

hylafax install and faxing...

1998-04-10 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
Hi all, when I try to install hylafax-4.0-6.i386.rpm I'll get an error message like this: /usr/bin/faxrm conflicts with file from mgetty-sendfax-1.1.5-1 /usr/man/man1/faxrm.1 conflicts with file from mgetty-sendfax-1.1.5-1 error: hylafax-4.0-6.i386.rpm cannot be installed Can somebody help her

sendmail autoresponding...?

1998-04-10 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
Hi all, I see that when I read some of the mails.there will be an autoreply to the sender that it has been readI know that sendmail has this abilitybut how to stop this behaviour.? I do not want that there is an autoresponse. Someone can say how to deactivate this feature...? Or i

C programming......HOWTO begin...?

1998-04-10 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
Hi all, well I know someone who wants to learn C++ or C programming. As I just use Linux, I have no idea about programming So someone could tell me how to begin with...? He wants to learn C under Linux and M$Windows.as much as I know, it's possible to develop software for Windows under L

How to do this automatically....?

1998-04-08 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
Hi all, I just want some things to happen automatically, when I login as a userbut have no idea how to do it..? 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 w

Rebuild of FileRunner SRC fails....

1998-03-11 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
Hi all, as the FileRunner 2.4-2 needs libtk8.0 and so onI've found a message which says that it's neccessary to rebuild the package to use it with previous versions of libtk... So I downloaded the src and made a: rpm --rebuild FileRunner-2.4-2.src.rpm But this fails... I get the followin

some failed dependencies....

1998-03-11 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
Hi all, I just wanted to install/upgrade some rpms...but there are dependencies tp satisfy and some conflicts Can someone help...? [root@localhost jacek]# rpm -Uhv hylafax-4.0-6.i386.rpm /usr/bin/faxrm conflicts with file from mgetty-sendfax-1.1.5-1 /usr/man/man1/faxrm.1 conflicts with fil

Printing under RH 4.2

1998-03-11 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
Hi all, well I'm new to Linux and I tried to print with my printer...but it does not work properly. I've read the HOWTO but I do not understand all about it... So how does printing work in RH? As I understand it: printtool is a frontend to lpr? printtool uses filters in its list that come