Re: redhat 8.0 and smp kernels

2002-12-15 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
I would think the easiest way is to install the smp kernel off of the RedHat 8.0 CD 1. They are located in the /RedHat/RPMS/ directory. Choose one of the following, depending on what type of system you have (athlon or intel). kernel-smp-2.4.18-14.athlon.rpm kernel-smp-2.4.18-14.i686.rpm Then, j

Re: Why No Christmas Promo?

2002-12-10 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
It would seem that your request has come true: http://www.redhat.com/apps/commerce/ -Jon On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 11:20, Dr. David M. Colburn wrote: > Am headed out to purchase RH8 at CompUSA today and noticed that there is > no sale promo. > > It seems odd that a company interested in enlarging it

Re: Migrating to Evolution

2002-11-30 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
I assume you are using pop3, in place of imap? I hear that, for pop3, if you import your e-mail into netscape first, and then from netscape you can import it into Evolution. Netscape supposidly uses the .mbox file format, as compared to the Outlook way of doing it. Can anyone confirm, that has d

Re: Newbie Questions - root password does not work

2002-11-30 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
The work-around for this is to never login as root. You can always 'su' into root status from a normal user account. This is done with the su command, and enter the root's password. There are logs in the directory /var/log -Jon On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 13:01, lrnobs wrote: > > First, when you are

Re: Newbie Questions on new install

2002-11-30 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
First, when you are logged in as root issue the passwd command and recreate your password. This may reset it and fix your problem. Second, the reason you have mail is more than likely because of errors on your system. This is local mail, not mail from an external mail server. To access your mai

Re: How do I install if I cant boot from CD

2002-11-30 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/install-guide/s1-steps-install-cdrom.html#S2-STEPS-MAKE-DISKS Enjoy :) -Jon On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 09:06, Søren Neigaard wrote: > How do I install if I cant boot from CD? Is there a bootdisk I can get > somewhere, and how do I write it to a

Re: backing up - RAID or tape drive?

2002-11-29 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
If you can afford it, go for a tape drive. External Media is always a great thing to have, as it is just that, external. RAID does not protect against a clumsy co-worker who mistakingly deletes that key database, or all that person's important files, etc., etc. It also most definitely does not p

Re: Why No Christmas Promo?

2002-11-29 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
RedHat sells their software for the amount of money they feel it is worth, and how much they can afford to keep their operation going. I would assume that the reason they don't give discounts is because they are not like the hundreds of other software companies out there, who try to milk the most

Re: Tripwire Report via Mail

2002-11-29 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
Can you manually send an e-mail from the tripwire machine to the e-mail address you want to send the e-mail's to (ie, with the 'mail' command). Have you checked your logs to see for any error messages? Do you receive any type of error messages when you run tripwire manually? -Jon On Fri, 2002-1

Re: ANTI-SPAM & ANTI-VIRUS provisions

2002-11-28 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
I use MailScanner on my website e-mail server, it works beautifully. -Jon On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 07:20, Hugo Tavares wrote: > Greetings > > I'm starting to implement an ANTI-SPAM and ANTI-VIRUS system with sendmail. > I've searched for documentation and I found some but I would like to hear > som

Re: Problems with Netscape 7

2002-11-27 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
Guys, The latest version of the Flash plugin works without hanging Mozilla/Netscape. I had the same problem until I installed it. You can find it at http://freshmeat.net/releases/100769/ Enjoy :) -Jon On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 13:50, Guilherme A. Mendes wrote: > I have the same problem with Opera

RE: Tips to avoid full system restart?

2002-11-25 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
Awesome. Thanks to everyone who responded with their tips, etc. I had been installing the RPMS in the console (I don't like doing it in GUI, where I can't see the entire output). Thanks again to everyone, I hope that this thread helped others as well. -Jon On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 17:43, Daevid V

Re: Tips to avoid full system restart?

2002-11-24 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
been managing Linux servers now for about a year at work and at home, and I've hardly ever had to reset them! Linux is truly an amazing operating system! -Jon On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 20:09, Gary wrote: > On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 07:35:44PM -0500 or thereabouts, Jonathan Gaudette wrote: > &g

Re: Tips to avoid full system restart?

2002-11-24 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
Hi everyone. I've heard a million times over that one of the advantages of Linux is that you only need to do a full system reset when you update/change your kernel. However, I've often come in circumstances where either the full system slows down, or a certain aspect of the system crashes/slows d

Re: Screensaver not working

2002-11-21 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
issing something? > > > > Gabe > > > The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines. > -- Jonathan Gaudette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Digital Drip -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: unsubscribe

2002-11-17 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
That only works when e-mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Jon On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 19:33, Steve Keefe wrote: > unsubscribe -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: UP2DATE Notifyer Gone

2002-11-07 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
that panel? I'm new to gnome. I use KDE mainly > > > > Thanks for the reply :) > > > > Joe > > > > On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 17:21, Jonathan Gaudette wrote: > > > You aren't alone, it's another wonderful bug. I can't recover th

Re: Moving GNOME Panel

2002-11-06 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
Two ways: 1) Click and drag the space above clipper to the bottom of the screen: you'll see the outline of the taskbar go down to the bottom. 2) Right click on the System Tray, choose "preferences" and in the "Location" frame, choose bottom. -- -Jon "GenKiller" Gaudette Digital Drip Webmaster

Re: UP2DATE Notifyer Gone

2002-11-06 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
You aren't alone, it's another wonderful bug. I can't recover the space that it's suppose to be in, but I can get it back (temporarily though, it seems). run $ perl /usr/share/rhn/rhn_applet/applet.py & It seems that it will stay through a restart, but then some days I get on my system a

Re: complete system backup

2002-11-06 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
A really good program that I use is called Partition Image (http://www.partimage.org/) It makes the image in tar format, and also does file compression (bzip2 or gzip). Enjoy :) -- -Jon "GenKiller" Gaudette Digital Drip Webmaster (digital-drip.com) CNCNZ Co-Webmaster (cncnz.com) On Wed, 2002-1

Re: My 2 cents on Red Hat 8 & Blue Cruve

2002-10-30 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
GNOME and KDE are included just like every other release. BlueCurve is just a theme, you can take it off and put on the original, or anything else your heart desires from themes.org -Jon On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 13:21, Will Mendez wrote: > Is it possible to run KDE3 on RH 8? Im not to found of the

Re: md5sum on redhat cds and copies

2002-10-29 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
Just a thought ... have you tried running the RedHat "cd check" that you can do when you boot from the cd-rom's? It may be worth checking out -Jon On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 17:58, Bret Hughes wrote: > I am trying to verify a copy of a purchased RHL 7.3 cd set. > > I burned the first cd and it appe

Re: USB hard drive with Linux?

2002-10-21 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
How do you find out what usb device your hard drive is connected to? I don't see it anywhere. I am an external hard drive (comp. usa brand) that I've been trying to hook up, randomly selecting scsi devices and trying to mount them, but nothing works. I also have a palm that I want to start sync'

Re: sendmail error

2002-10-19 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
I don't have an answer to your problem. However, please do NOT reply to a message and ask a seperate question, even if you change the subject. This screws up threading for those of us who use it (a lot of us). Thanks -Jon On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 03:14, hmunoz wrote: > Hello, > > have problems

Re: Get me off this mailing list!

2002-10-19 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
look at what I found at the bottom of most e-mail sent here -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list Who would have thought. -Jon On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 16:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wro

Re: Hardware Detection confusion || DVD not CD drive

2002-10-18 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
It it suppose to be detected as a cdrom drive Matt. Do the following: ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd Now try mplayer and I betcha' it'll work ;) Have fun :) -Jon On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 17:54, MET wrote: > I'm trying to get mplayer to play my DVD however, it doesn't recognize > the drive because the

Re: New Kernel || Should I update

2002-10-18 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
It depends. Is this a production system? If so, think twice before updating the kernel. Remember the old saying, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". Otherwise, if you do plan on upgrading the kernel, make sure you have the latest up2date (RedHat says that something is wrong with older ones, I fo

Re: New NetGear Wireless PCMCIA

2002-10-18 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
You can't play music? If you are referring to XMMS and MP3's there is a fix for that. It's a simple RPM file located at http://soraas.student.nlh.no/~havardk/xmms/xmms-1.2.7-rh8-rpm/ I hope that helps in perhaps getting your wireless to work. It may work if you upgrade to the 8.0 release and us

Re: New NetGear Wireless PCMCIA

2002-10-18 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
What version of RedHat are you running? I heard that 8.0 has superb wireless support. That's just what I've heard though, I haven't gone wireless yet. -Jon On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 20:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I installed a new NetGear PCMCIA wireless card yesterday, along with a new > wirel

Re: Pop 3 Server

2002-10-18 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
Bill, I can relate with you phone ringing off the hook. I work for a school system as well and whenever our e-mail goes offline, which is a lot since we are on Exchange (I'm converting over to SuSE before X-mas though). The only reason that I could think of as to why the pop3 service is shutti

Re: Upgrade to 8.0 Questions

2002-10-14 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
You can right-click the e-mail link and click "copy e-mail address". Then go into Evolution and paste, that's what I do. No idea on the printing problem though. Sorry. -Jon On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 17:17, Gary Fallon wrote: > I upgraded to 8.0 and decided to try the Mozilla/Evolution combo. So >

Re: RH8 disk 5

2002-10-14 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
I have a mirror on http://www.digital-drip.com You can download it from me if you would like. Nobody else is. -Jon On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 22:12, Justin Alexander wrote: > > Has anyone else had trouble downloading ISO # 5 of the RH 8 distro? > > Every time I download it, it doesn't match ANY m

Re: RH 8.0, Mplayer, and KDE Arts

2002-10-12 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
I had a similar problem with my sound card (onboard). I figured it was just because the sound card was bad (in windows it intermittently blue-screens my system). If you use XMMS, does it say that your sound card is in use, and that you can't play the sound? That's what happened to me, and then

Re: fstab file reset

2002-10-10 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
Thanks guys. I've reset a couple times with making the change you guys suggested and it hasn't been "lost" yet. I appreciate the help :) -Jon On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 21:16, Tom Pollerman wrote: > On 09 Oct 2002 17:51:25 -0400 > Jonathan Gaudette <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: fstab file reset

2002-10-09 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
Hey everyone, Here's my latest problem. I've entered into the fstab file the following two entries /dev/hda1 /mnt/windowsvfatdefaults1 1 /dev/hde5 /mnt/datahd vfatdefaults1 1 Now, _sometimes_ when I restart, these two entries are removed. I have no

Re: evolution

2002-10-06 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
Are you sure? I'm using Evolution on RH8 and up in the tools menu there is a palm settings option. That launched gnome pilot. Good luck. -Jon On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 15:47, Doug Potter wrote: > Sorry this is off topic. Since installing RedHat 8, I no longer have > the conduits to sync my Palm w

Re: RH 8.0.... What do you think...

2002-10-05 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
Geforce2 64meg -Jon On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 01:41, Gerry Doris wrote: > On 5 Oct 2002, Jonathan Gaudette wrote: > > > Unfortunately I haven't gotten into WINE yet (although it is installed), > > nor VMWare. I tried installing Unreal Tournament 2003 earlier, but get

Re: RH 8.0.... What do you think...

2002-10-05 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
ver. If you have a Geforce or > an older TNT card, you can go to www.nvidia.com and get the driver for > Linux there. > > Hope this helps... > -- > Joe Giles > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > AOL: mcigiles > > Jonathan Gaudette said: > > Unfortunately I haven'

Re: RH 8.0.... What do you think...

2002-10-05 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
signing into the company VPN from home might be happening in > the near feature :-P > > Again, thanks for the feedback... > -- > Joe Giles > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > AOL: mcigiles > > Jonathan Gaudette said: > > My opinion on Red Hat 8 is a good one. I modified thei

Re: RH 8.0.... What do you think...

2002-10-05 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
My opinion on Red Hat 8 is a good one. I modified their bluecurve theme so that it was to my liking, but overall I like it. I don't see what all the fuss was about with it. I mean, it's just a theme (from what I notice) and it's just as easy to take it off to the traditional KDE theme. Overall

Re: perl-libnet RedHat 8.0

2002-10-05 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
What does this have to do with the original message "WinME partitions". Please don't just reply to messages that have nothing to do with your particular message. This screws up threading for those of us who us it. Thanks. I do not have an answer for your question though, you'll probably have t

RE: RedHat 8.0 and USB Hard Drive

2002-10-03 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
gt; http://www.linux-usb.org/usb2.html > > > I hope you have some time on your hands...I'm not sure how easy this will be > to get going smoothly, but if past experiance is any indicator...well...you > should probably order the pizza now and call in sick for work tomorrow.

RE: RedHat 8.0 and USB Hard Drive

2002-10-03 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
> > http://www.getlinuxonline.com/omp/distro/RedHat/ompntfs2.html > > If, instead, you are planning to format this USB drive as ext(x) then that > is a different story... > > > > -Original Message- > From: Jonathan Gaudette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursd

Re: RedHat 8.0 and USB Hard Drive

2002-10-03 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
Hello, I was wondering if anyone would know how I would go about mounting my usb hard drive (120gig ntfs) in RedHat 8. I want to start using RedHat 8.0 on my primary workstation (I've already installed it and have been using it) but the only thing holding me back is that I cannot figure out how

Re: Installing Red Hat on a Dell Optiplex GS240

2002-09-19 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 16:16, Ivette Reategui wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone tried to install Red Hat on a Dell Optiplex GS240. > > I've never used Linux. I got this new machine, and I was planning on > putting Linux on it. But, I just found out from a colleague that > Linux > might not be co

Re: wants to unsubscribe....

2002-07-09 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 13:05, Prashant Patel wrote: > please unsubscibe this email id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > from your email listing.. > > Prashant > Do it yourself. See below every message where it gives you all the mailing list options? See the url "https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listin

Re: Monitoring ipchains?

2002-07-09 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 10:27, Shaw, Marco wrote: > We use HP ITO/VPO at work. I'm trying to figure out how we can monitor ipchains, >and make sure it's running. I see nothing shows up in ps related to ipchains, >probably since it runs as a kernel module. > > Any ideas on how we can monitor ipc

Re: Mailserver & Webserver unable to communicate

2002-07-08 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
Hello. I have a mail server box, and a web server box sitting behind a firewall. All three of these box's are RedHat Linux. The IP's are as follows. The url that these box's serve mail/web for is .org 10.0.0.1 - firewall 10.0.0.2 - web server 10.0.0.3 - mail s

Re: ssh and sftp (was: Dell Inspiron 8000 Modem Question)

2002-07-03 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 11:24, David Talkington wrote: > What does that have to do with a Dell Inspiron modem? Please don't > start a new thread by replying to an unrelated message, even if you > change the subject line. This practice breaks threading in mail readers > that do it properly. Thank

Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 Modem Question

2002-07-03 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
Is it correct that when using ssh and sftp that all data is being sent encrypted, no matter what authentication method I use? Nothing that I see online explicitly says that even though I am using password authentication (not passphrase authentication) it is still encrypted. I understand that eve

Re: suggest-a-backup-software

2002-07-03 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 09:41, shyam wrote: > hi friends > > we have RH7.1 network ,solaris 7 and windows too ,i am searching > for a backup software which suits our network.i have tried AMANDA, > that wont work because that needs disk slices to be given as > input(am i right?),but i want only s

Re: Gnome Icons are U.G.L.Y.

2002-06-27 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
I believe GNOME 2.0 has improved icons. I'd upgrade to that :) -Jon On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 11:49, Trevor wrote: > I have just started using Linux as my desktop OS and I love it. I have > customized my gnome themes but the icons are kind of ugly (as oposed to > OSX/WinXP)... > > Anybody know ho

Re: how to tell how the HW clock is set?

2002-06-26 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
Is something stopping you from going into the BIOS and viewing / changing the hardware clock from there? -Jon On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 09:43, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 07:25:50AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > >

Re: Taskbar Crash

2002-06-24 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
worked like a charm :) Thank you! -Jon Bruce Tong wrote: >>I've had this problem twice now, and it's rather annoying. Has anyone >>here had a problem where they log in to GNOME and the toolbar on the >>bottom crashes? Then, when I restart the machine the toolbar keeps >>crashing and never "a

Re: Taskbar Crash

2002-06-24 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
I've had this problem twice now, and it's rather annoying. Has anyone here had a problem where they log in to GNOME and the toolbar on the bottom crashes? Then, when I restart the machine the toolbar keeps crashing and never "appears". If anyone has a solution for the problem I'd appreciate

Re: Samba unable to connect to Windows Share

2002-06-20 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
igure samba and >samba flyies in seconds !!! > > >good luck > >sendhil > > > >>what is the output of smbclient -L //IMP ? Just wondering what smb >>is seeing on the network. >> >>Shaun >> >>-Original Message- >>From

Re: RH7.3 boot freeze

2002-06-14 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
If you press Cntrl + C at the point where it freezes does it continue with the boot or stay frozen? -- * Jon "GenKiller" Gaudetteultra übergeek * * Webmaster / Founder -|- DDN-|- htt

Re: shell commands

2002-06-14 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
To read / edit a file you need to use a command called "vi" information about it's switches and commands in the program are at http://linux-sxs.org/vicommands.html Information on changing date/time can be found at http://www.linuxsa.org.au/tips/time.html A good place for simple commands and h

Re: Opps...

2002-06-14 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
Thank you for the information. Cd-rom and floppy bootup is disabled in the BIOS for all machines. So, as long as I make sure a bootloader password is set, we should be fine. Thank again for the info. -- * Jon "GenK

Re: can't boot 7.3

2002-06-11 Thread Jonathan Gaudette
Did you download the iso image and burn it as an ISO image (File > Burn CD Image) -Jon res0s4qi wrote: > I down loaded 7.3 from a ftp site and put them on disk using nero the > disk will not boot. HELP ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTEC