Re: up2date after eazel preview release 3

2001-01-31 Thread Uncle Meat
On Wednesday 31 January 2001 09:08, Bruce A. Mallett opined: > Yup! Does exactly the same thing here. Ditto. But, I reinstalled the old rpm and all works hunky-dory. I just had a problem with rpm-build: the eazel wouldn't uninstall (core dump with no core?), the old wouldn't install using --ol

Re: Problem upgrading the kernel

2001-01-31 Thread Uncle Meat
On Wednesday 31 January 2001 06:38, Tomás García Ferrari opined: > Hi, > > I am trying to upgrade the kernel to kernel-2.2.16-3. I did it like this: > > [root@host RPMS]# rpm -Uvh kernel-source-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm > > kernel-headers-2.2.16-3.i386.rpm > > kernel-source > > #

Re: ntsysv freezes

2001-01-31 Thread Uncle Meat
On Wednesday 31 January 2001 08:26, Peter Peltonen opined: > On RH6.2: > > What I did was that I accidently mv'ed a file in /etc/rc.d/init.d and > rebooted. > > I restored the file to it's original place after the reboot. > > Now when ever I run 'setup' or 'ntsysv' or 'netconfig' the setup utility

Re: XFree86-modules-4.0.2-6 conflict with Xconfigurator-4.5-1

2001-01-29 Thread Uncle Meat
On Monday 29 January 2001 21:45, Bob Hartung opined: > Hi, > While trying to upgrade to XFree86-4.0.2-6 I managed to goof things > up. I think that I have most of the XFree86-4.0.2-6.i586.rpm s > installed. I need to reinstall Xconfigurator the latest version of > which I can find is Xconfigur

RE: no etho start on boot

2001-01-23 Thread Uncle Meat
On 23-Jan-01 lee johnson opined: > i've read docs but can't decipher why linux isn't auto conneting me to > my @home > service...i have to manually do: > > insmod de4x5 > then go into network configuration from gnome menu and activate > it.. > > how do I automate this? :).. One way, not t

RE: Best way to keep NFS mounts

2001-01-23 Thread Uncle Meat
On 23-Jan-01 Wayne Stout opined: > Greetings, all. > > I need to make sure that my RH 6.2 server re-mounts several NFS shares > after rebooting (until I can replace the old NCR Unix box with the new > Solaris box). > > I know there are several different ways to skin this cat, but I's like > to

RE: Booting 6.2 without LILO problem

2001-01-22 Thread Uncle Meat
On 22-Jan-01 Vidiot opined: > A person I work with made a mistake and reloaded Win95 in the other > partition. Now that LILO is gone, he can't boot Linux. No, he didn't > make the emergency reboot floppy before installing Windoze. > > Is there a way to use the installation CDs to boot the inst

Re: Boot issue. INIT cannot execute etc/rc.d/sysinit

2001-01-21 Thread Uncle Meat
On 21-Jan-01 Patrick Lacchia opined: > > Yes I tried and it doesn't work. Here is what happen > > 1) I type "vi rc.sysinit" > 2) The file open and the bottom line says "rc.sysinit [readonly] > 3) I jump to the lines I want to delete and do a "dd" on the first one > 4) The bottom line becomes re

RE: Boot issue. INIT cannot execute etc/rc.d/sysinit

2001-01-21 Thread Uncle Meat
On 21-Jan-01 Patrick Lacchia opined: > Guess what? I stupidly added 3 lines to etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. It looked > safe, > you just open the file with gnupad, add the lines, save. Safe until the > next > time you reboot and find out that you can't use RedHat 6.2 anymore. > During > the launch I n

Re: .tar.gz to rpms

2001-01-21 Thread Uncle Meat
On 21-Jan-01 John Aldrich opined: > On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Ted Gervais wrote: >> Is there a simple way of converting *.tar.gz files to RPM files >> for RH7.? >> > Supposedly you can do an "rpm --tarbuild " I have > only tried it a couple times and it hasn't worked for me... > 'course I'm on RH 6.2

RE: Question about different boot configurations

2001-01-15 Thread Uncle Meat
On 16-Jan-2001 Robert Key opined: > Hi, > Does anyone know how to do the following? > > I have compiled two different kernels (version 2.2.16-22) on my system. > I would like each kernel to have its own set of modules. The problem is > if the kernel version is say 2.2.16-22 (rh7) then the module

RE: mv command (rename?)

2001-01-15 Thread Uncle Meat
On 15-Jan-2001 Tony Mueller opined: > Hello, > > I would like to rename a large directory without a copy taking place. > (i dont have disk space for both directories to exist at the same time) > the command: > mv olddir newdir > makes newdir first and copies all the files from olddir into it. A

RE: (no subject)

2001-01-12 Thread Uncle Meat
On 13-Jan-2001 tides anugraha opined: > > > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? Not if I can help it! Accidents are usually unpreventable, though. -- Death is just Nature's way of saying, "Hey! You're not alive anymore!" ___

RE: have I been cracked?

2001-01-12 Thread Uncle Meat
On 11-Jan-2001 Micah Yoder opined: > Weird happenings starting last week... > > /var/log/messages has no entries since jan 5. Permission is 600, so it > should be writable. > > the 'userhelper' program's suid bit was taken away so I could no longer > halt the system as a user. I fixed that. >

Re: have I been cracked?

2001-01-11 Thread Uncle Meat
On 12-Jan-2001 Micah Yoder opined: > "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: > >> Now, for you logs. First run "/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog status" and see >> what if the system things syslogd and klogd are running. Then run >> "/etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog restart" to get your logs going again. This >> should a

RE: No ATAPE CDR or SCSI Tape after RH 7 reinstall

2001-01-07 Thread Uncle Meat
On 08-Jan-2001 Bob Hartung opined: > Hi again, > More problems. I have had to reinstall RH7 from scratch after a > failed upgrade from which I was unable to recover with any of the tools > that I know and my limited knowledge. Now I cannot seem to get either > my SCSI tape unit or my ATAPE CD

RE: linking two partitions

2001-01-07 Thread Uncle Meat
On 08-Jan-2001 Jack Bowling opined: > I need some confirmation: my /usr and /usr/local partitions are nearing > the end of freespace. I have a 20 gigger I was going to use for backup > spinning away ready to be filled. Can I just create two new partitions > on it and link them to /usr and /usr/lo

RE: RH general suggestions/questions

2001-01-07 Thread Uncle Meat
On 07-Jan-2001 Tony Schonfeld opined: > Hello , > > I come from Debian and try RH-7.0 at this time, > i like this distribution and i've some questions/suggestions about. > 5/ Linuxconf in Xwindows seem to have some curious behaviour. Linuxconf on the commandline has some curi

RE: rpm funnies

2001-01-06 Thread Uncle Meat
On 06-Jan-2001 Bob Hartung opined: > This is a repost as there were no responses to my prior > post. I seem to be in a catch-22. > > I cannot install the RH7 errata for glibc-2.2-9.i386.rpm > because I have rpm 3.0.5 installed yet when I try to upgrade > to rpm 3.0.6-6x I receive an error tha

Re: unsubscibe

2001-01-06 Thread Uncle Meat
On 06-Jan-2001 Gustav Schaffter opined: > Hrm... > > Shouldn't that be subscibe? ;-) Damn typos! Let me try it again. > Uncle Meat wrote: >> >> On 06-Jan-2001 Àî×Ó¾ü opined: >> > unsubscibe! >> subscribe! subscibe! >> > unsubscibe!

RE: unsubscibe

2001-01-06 Thread Uncle Meat
On 06-Jan-2001 Àî×Ó¾ü opined: > unsubscibe! subscribe! > unsubscibe! subscribe! > unsubscibe! subscribe! > unsubscibe! subscribe! > unsubscibe! subscribe! Ha ha, sucker! You'll never get off of this list! -- Closet extrovert. ___ Redhat-list maili

RE: BIOS setting: should P-n-P OS be on or off?

2001-01-04 Thread Uncle Meat
On 04-Jan-2001 Jonathan Wilson opined: > For Linux should the Plug-n-Play OS setting (in the BIOS) be set to on > or off? I've seen a lot of advice about turning it off. However, I'm using 2 PCs here that both have it turned on. Neither has had any problem whatsoever with it this way. One of th

RE: File system corruption after RPM Updates

2001-01-04 Thread Uncle Meat
On 05-Jan-2001 Chuck Carson opined: > > I just had a very interesting time trying to install some updates. I > have a > cherry installed RH 6.2 box, installed with no GUI stuff what-so-ever. > I > applied all the updates from the update site except for any of the > kernel > updates. Several of t

RE: [Fwd: tulfw1.brets.elevating.com 01/04/01:11.01 system check

2001-01-04 Thread Uncle Meat
On 05-Jan-2001 Bret Hughes opined: > > Logcheck found these in my logs on my firewall. What on earth is port > 0? Coming from port 8 all all places what the heck is that? I get a > ton of stuff banging on this box all the time but I never noticed port > 0 > before. Not to say it isn't buried

Re: how to compile ide-scsi module?

2001-01-03 Thread Uncle Meat
On 04-Jan-2001 christopher j bottaro opined: > i'm not using a redhat kernel anymore, i had to recompile the kernel to > get > my athlon working properly. isn't there some option to turn on when i > do > "make menuconfig" to compile the ide-scsi module when i do "make > modules"? > thanks.

Re: GET ME OFF THIS *@$!^ LIST

2001-01-01 Thread Uncle Meat
On 01-Jan-2001 Hal Burgiss opined: > On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 12:23:21PM -0600, Uncle Meat wrote: >> >> Amazing. I get reminders every month like clockwork. From this list, >> the >> install list and the announce list. > > Let me count my lists: redhat, guinne

Re: GET ME OFF THIS *@$!^ LIST

2001-01-01 Thread Uncle Meat
On 01-Jan-2001 Michael Burger opined: > True enough. > > On Mon, 1 Jan 2001 12:36:01 -0500, Hal Burgiss wrote: > >>On Mon, Jan 01, 2001 at 12:29:17PM -0400, Michael Burger wrote: >>> Not that it ever comes out. I've been on this list for a number of >>> months, and have yet to receive the mon

Re: Installing hard drive

2000-12-30 Thread Uncle Meat
On 30-Dec-2000 Aaron Prohaska opined: > I don't currently have a boot floppy. Is there a command that will > create > one? man mkbootdisk Basically: /sbin/mkbootdisk -- Too many freaks, not enough circuses. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [

RE: Installing hard drive

2000-12-29 Thread Uncle Meat
On 30-Dec-2000 Aaron Prohaska opined: > Can someone give me some advice on how to install a IDE hard drive in a > box where I already have two SCSI drives? I have added the IDE drive to > the machine and have it setup as the master IDE and the CDROM as the > slave IDE device. > > When I boot, li

RE: MRTG and Redhat 7 upgrade

2000-12-27 Thread Uncle Meat
On 27-Dec-2000 Tony Campisi opined: > I just upgraded from Redhat 5.2 to Redhat 7.0. We were using MRTG to > check > the status of our routers throughout the company. > There is a reference to it in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S99mrtg > and the startup script is in /etc/rc.d/init.d/mrtg. The contents are as

RE: /etc/profile

2000-12-26 Thread Uncle Meat
On 27-Dec-2000 Huiyuan Ma opined: > I wonder when . /etc/profile is executed except I run > it explicitly? It gets read into a login 1. At the time of login. 2. When one types 'source /etc/profile' 3. When it's read in by a script, but then it disappears when the script finishes running. 4. At

RE: 2.2.16 Kernel & that "other" filesystem

2000-12-26 Thread Uncle Meat
On 26-Dec-2000 Harry Putnam opined: > > I finally broke down and got my wife a separate computer. She wants > nothing to do with linux. Now we have a `his' and `hers' setup. > > No more reboots for my machine. > > This new machine is running windows 2000 the NT version. > > I wanted to

RE: To run Java in Linux

2000-12-25 Thread Uncle Meat
On 25-Dec-2000 Mike McNally opined: > >> The PATH variable in /etc/profile is usually one of them. That >> requires >> either a reboot or a logout/login to reset the variable. > > REBOOT!?! Ack, bite your tongue!! :-) I think I said (correct my above quoting if I'm wrong) reboot or. Both

Re: To run Java in Linux

2000-12-25 Thread Uncle Meat
On 25-Dec-2000 Huiyuan Ma opined: > Sorry,still have two questions. > After I installed j2sdk-1-3-0-linux-rpm , when I > entered the directory of .../bin,the javac doesn't > work! I was told the command couldn't be found.And my > netscape seems doesn't work with Applet. Are there any > enviroment

re: RE: printing problems

2000-12-22 Thread Uncle Meat
On 23-Dec-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined: > > > >> ** Original Subject: RE: printing problems >> ** Original Sender: Uncle Meat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> ** Original Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 02:09:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >

Re: TERM variable/setting in console mode

2000-12-22 Thread Uncle Meat
On 22-Dec-2000 John P. Verel opined: > On 12/22/00, 01:18:02AM -0600, Uncle Meat wrote: >> >> On 22-Dec-2000 John P. Verel opined: >> > I'd like to change the font, characters per line and lines on the >> > screen >> > when in console mo

RE: Only 1 page prints -> smb/Win98/CANON

2000-12-21 Thread Uncle Meat
On 21-Dec-2000 Luke C Gavel opined: > Hi, > > I have a CANON BJC-1000 connected to a Win98 machine and > samba-1.9.18p10-3is running on a RH5.2 machine. The RH5.2 client > is using the BJC-600 filter, and everything seems to work fine > except for one little problem. > > It only prints the f

RE: TERM variable/setting in console mode

2000-12-21 Thread Uncle Meat
On 22-Dec-2000 John P. Verel opined: > I'd like to change the font, characters per line and lines on the > screen > when in console mode. I gather that setting the TERM environment > variable may be the way to do this. However, finding an alternative > description for my machine is proving daun

RE: printing problems

2000-12-21 Thread Uncle Meat
On 22-Dec-2000 Larry Mintz opined: > > -- > E-Mail: Larry Mintz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 22-Dec-2000 > Time: 06:37:16 > I get the following error when I print moderately loarge files > lpr: :temp file write error > How do I fix this problem ? > I can print smal

RE: ipchains firewalling

2000-12-20 Thread Uncle Meat
On 20-Dec-2000 Mulcahy, Chris opined: > Works, perfectly! Thanks, Charles. > > > > I'm unsure how I managed to not get the list footer. I'm fairly > certain that I sent my message Plain Text, but received a bounce from > someone complaining about HTML. Maybe I forgot to set it plain text

RE: Bug in 2.2.18?

2000-12-20 Thread Uncle Meat
On 20-Dec-2000 Steve Kieu opined: > > Hi, all I think it is too soon to say but the > performance is worse that if I run 2.2.17 with my > computer, My computer hang once with 18 after rather > long up time, never like that in 2.2.17. And yeah, > other performance seems to be worse. Now I try to

RE: Any issues with SCSI external ZIPs???

2000-12-20 Thread Uncle Meat
On 18-Dec-2000 Manuel A. Camacho Q. opined: > Hi! > > I am getting a new external SCSI ZIP (250 MB), but I want to know if > there > is any issue I should know or if I can make it work with Linux just > "out of > the box". > > I will use it for backup purposes (my file folders only) using RH 6.

Re: MOZILLA - where are you?

2000-12-17 Thread Uncle Meat
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 00:05:53 -0500 (EST) Statux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > www.mozilla.org or whatever it is? or are you talking about a rewrite of > mozilla? > > Mozilla sucks, to be completely honest and so does netscape 6 (mozilla > is > actually netscape 5 written under open source licensi

RE: No initrd-2.2.26-3 on i386 kernel-2.2.26-3 update?

2000-12-13 Thread Uncle Meat
On 13-Dec-2000 Bob Taylor opined: > I installed the kernel-2.2.16-3 updates on my wife's Pentium and > noticed that there is no initrd installed. What do I do? As root: /sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.16-3.img 2.2.16-3 That will create a new one. The next question is, do you really n

RE: make modules failure

2000-12-13 Thread Uncle Meat
On 13-Dec-2000 Bob Hartung opined: > Hi again, > Got a kernel going but the make modules crashed every time > with the following: > > In file included from radio-miropcm20.c:13: > ../sound/lowlevel/miroaci.h:9: # error compiling a driver > that needs the ACI-mixer but without ACI-mixer support

RE: gnome finding libs in KDE???

2000-12-11 Thread Uncle Meat
On 14-Dec-2000 christopher j bottaro opined: > i've have KDE2 installed. and i'm installing gnome now. the problem > (accually, i don't even know if its a problem) is that the installation > instructions for gnome says to "download, compile and install the > following > packages in order.".

RE: LPR still - made some progress...

2000-12-10 Thread Uncle Meat
On 11-Dec-2000 Dan Horth opined: > Hiya - a follow up on my LPR headaches... I have just installed a new > RH 6.2 based system as we're setting up a new server - and I have > managed to get this printing absolutely perfectly well as expected. > So - I'm 100% certain that the problem is to do w

RE: where to run firewall script with dial up connection under d

2000-12-10 Thread Uncle Meat
On 10-Dec-2000 Bob Hartung opined: > Hi again, > I have my RH 6.2 machine reinstalled, all scripts restored > and all updates applied. I have what I think is a workable > firewall script. Now, what I cannot figure out is where can > I insert a line of code that will call my firewall script >

RE: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2000-12-10 Thread Uncle Meat
On 10-Dec-2000 hello opined: > > > Hello, > > I am trying to manage three downloads at the same > time by running my netscape 4.75 three times on > different workspaces. > After I started the process I dad to leave for > some hours. When I had look at about 2 hours all > three processes had be

RE: To link some commands

2000-12-08 Thread Uncle Meat
On 08-Dec-2000 Huiyuan Ma opined: > > A simple question:How to link to some commands for > using them anywhere?For example,currently,to use the > command 'httpd'or something else in /usr/bin,I've got > to type the whole path to get the commands.Any way to > link them?Thank you. Add the director

RE: Was (Re: xfs problems) Now FIXED!!!!

2000-11-23 Thread Uncle Meat
On 09-Nov-2000 Michael Lewis opined: > Thanks to Thomas and Michele and Hal for all of your input. I learned > more > tonight about my system than in the last six months. I just started > cleaning out some old files and found some more core files in my user > directory and that did the trick

RE: Printer..

2000-11-23 Thread Uncle Meat
On 23-Nov-2000 Ted Gervais opined: > > I have a HP Deskjet 895CXi printer and the following is what I am using > in the /etc/printcap file. Also, it is attached to the computer via a > USB > connection. I can't print anything. Zip! The printer doesn't even give > out a groan. And a grep search

Re: Chastising for ignorance? [was (no subject)[comments]]

2000-11-23 Thread Uncle Meat
On 23-Nov-2000 Eric Clover opined: > am i the only one that has figured out that when the ignorant use HTML > to send out a posting to the list that there is no footer placed on the > email? > i really hope not. > eric I never figured it out because I send it straight to bitbucket hell (and /dev

Re: unsuscribe

2000-11-23 Thread Uncle Meat
On 23-Nov-2000 brian davison opined: > certainly looks like a footer. > BUT it does NOT say " to unsubscribe" ... (or: to manage your list > account) > that's probably a good idea for those of the list's users wanting out > and > not knowing computerville very well.

Re: Samba over PPP-> ********** WINNT

2000-11-23 Thread Uncle Meat
On 23-Nov-2000 Fred Edmister opined: > Well, I can't solve your problem, but I for one have my office > at > home, and have my children watching over my shoulder at times and would > VERY greatly appreciate not hearing/seeing vulgar language in my email > messages. Hope you have a saf

RE: Chastising for ignorance?

2000-11-23 Thread Uncle Meat
On 23-Nov-2000 Michael Burger opined: > On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 12:16:52 +0530, suman wrote: > >>I want to unsubscribe >>suman >> > > > Just for the record, folks, above is the entire message, quoted as it > arrived in my mailbox. > > Please note, for the record, folks, that there is no footer. >

Re: unsuscribe

2000-11-21 Thread Uncle Meat
On 21-Nov-2000 Leonard den Ottolander opined: > Hi Uncle, > >> Not that I know anything about it, but curiosity and all that: what >> mailer do you use? > > Check the headers ;). Pegasus Mail for Windows. I still didn't make > the > switch (for my desktop that is). It's a pity t

RE: Sound installation from scratch

2000-11-20 Thread Uncle Meat
On 20-Nov-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined: > it has its own rpm, go to rpmfind.net and do a search, grab the latest > edition. > > cat vmlinuz > /dev/audio to hear god I personally enjoy System.map and its reminiscience of enjoyable times past. -- It's OK; I'm an intellectual, too. ___

Re: unsuscribe

2000-11-20 Thread Uncle Meat
On 21-Nov-2000 Leonard den Ottolander opined: > Hi Uncle Meat, > >> Yes, and one on my response to your response, and one on your response >> to >> my response to your response, etc. And, I might add, there will be one >> on >> this response as

Re: unsuscribe

2000-11-20 Thread Uncle Meat
On 20-Nov-2000 Mike Burger opined: > Odd...I didn't get a footer on teh preceding message. > > Was there one on my response? Yes, and one on my response to your response, and one on your response to my response to your response, etc. And, I might add, there will be one on this response as well.

Re: unsuscribe

2000-11-20 Thread Uncle Meat
On 20-Nov-2000 Mike Burger opined: > Actually, in all fairness, there doesn't appear to be a footer at the > end > of the messages for the "redhat-list"...while there is on the > "guinness-list". Is the following _not_ a footer? If not, what is it's proper name? > __

Re: LinkSys Network Card

2000-11-19 Thread Uncle Meat
On 20-Nov-2000 Mikkel L. Ellertson opined: > On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I have replace my network card with a LinkSys 10/100 PCI Card, Model >> NC100 Version 2.1 >> >> I'm running Redhat 7.0, but I cannot get the card to come up. It uses >> the tulip drive

RE: Need help re-compiling kernel

2000-11-13 Thread Uncle Meat
On 14-Nov-2000 Aaron Prohaska opined: > I am trying to recompile my kernel and keep getting this error when > running 'make bzdisk'. If anyone has a moment to look at the output of > the command I'll send you the txt file I created. Here are the list few > lines that look like the problem thoug

Re: upgrade glibc w/o shutdown failing to umount /

2000-11-13 Thread Uncle Meat
On 13-Nov-2000 Dave Reed opined: >> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 14:34:14 -0500 (EST) >> From: Statux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII >> X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> X-Mailman

RE: gnorpm database lock - MODIFIED

2000-11-13 Thread Uncle Meat
On 13-Nov-2000 Bob Hartung opined: > Hi, > I am trying to uninstall rhs-print-filters and printtool > so I can try the cups printing system. Somehow I have a > problem with the rpm database and cannot lock the it. Is > there a way to fix the rpm database from the command line? > > I tried

Re: (no subject)

2000-11-11 Thread Uncle Meat
On 11-Nov-2000 Gustav Schaffter opined: > Michael, Bret and anoyone else, > > I'm using the 'crappy' Netscape mail client. You know, the one that > some > people talk so very negatively about. > > Edit - Preferences - Advanced > > Let's see... > > Enable JavaScript => On (Could of course be

RE: Remote X Windows Connections..........?

2000-11-10 Thread Uncle Meat
On 10-Nov-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined: > Can I connect to my machine from a remote location and use the X > Windows > (kde) interface, instead of telnet? Say this might be from either > Windows > or MacOX 9/X. > > Sorry if this question has been tackled numerous times before, I don't > curren

Re: named

2000-11-08 Thread Uncle Meat
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000 21:08:21 -0600 (CST) Scott Skrogstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It was not so much that it was RTFM is was I looked at the man. I just > don't ask a question because I am lazy. I understand what named does but > I don't understand how the heck the -u got in there. I looked

RE: CHMODE Question

2000-11-07 Thread Uncle Meat
On 07-Nov-2000 George Georgiev opined: > Hi, everybody, I need help with this little thing, > > The problem that i am trying to solve is how to find contexts of a > folder that > has 700 code. I mean it can be used only by the owner and there is no > way that > i can think of in which i can get

Re: RESPIN

2000-11-07 Thread Uncle Meat
On 07-Nov-2000 lee opined: >> >> Hmm...no KDE2 for RH7, eh? Too bad. Guess RH is too focused >> on pushing Gnome as the GUI of choice. Then again, KDE has >> always been a second-class GUI as far as RedHat is >> concerned. I'm not necessarily asking them to push it >> HARDER than Gnome, I just wi

RE: lockd: failed to monitor

2000-11-06 Thread Uncle Meat
On 06-Nov-2000 David Brewster opined: >> >> Maybe the options in your exports file aren't giving the proper >> permissions to the importing machine. >> >> I also had one that was set up properly and still didn't work. I ended >> up >> deteting the exports files, creating a new one with the same

RE: lockd: failed to monitor

2000-11-06 Thread Uncle Meat
On 06-Nov-2000 David Brewster opined: > Hi > I've had a search on the net and it seems a few people get this problem > but so far I haven't found anything that can help me. > > When I start mutt, I get an error to the console saying > > lockd: failed to monitor 10.10.10.10 > > (the tens are m

RE: tarbar installation'isms for a newbie

2000-11-05 Thread Uncle Meat
On 05-Nov-2000 Bob Hartung opined: > Okay, I can download gimp-1.1.29 to a directory named > /downloads/gimp. I can then tar -xvzf gimp-1.1.29.tar.gz > and it makes the directory /downloads/gimp/gimp-1.1.29 and > uncompresses all the files. I can 'configure' it, 'make > clean' and 'make instal

RE: [OT] Gore v Bush Website Servers

2000-11-05 Thread Uncle Meat
On 05-Nov-2000 kf opined: > > On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Uncle Meat wrote: > > = > = On 05-Nov-2000 Michael Ghens opined: > = > Well, I took the time to look at both websites. Bush runs: > = > > = > Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 > = > Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 02:

RE: [OT] Gore v Bush Website Servers

2000-11-04 Thread Uncle Meat
On 05-Nov-2000 Michael Ghens opined: > Well, I took the time to look at both websites. Bush runs: > > Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 > Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 02:11:52 GMT > Content-Type: text/html > Content-Length: 87 > > and the scripting is ASP. > > Now Gore is on > > VA Linux servers > Apache

RE: Find IP for DSL

2000-11-03 Thread Uncle Meat
On 03-Nov-2000 Rob Hardowa opined: > Hey all, > > I'm on a DSL line and I need to set up a temporary one time FTP server > to > have a co-worker transfer to me a very large uncompressed wav audio > file. > My quesiton is: > > Is there a way to find out my IP address so he can connect? > > Our

RE: rpm-3.0.5-7.5x weirdness

2000-10-28 Thread Uncle Meat
On 28-Oct-2000 guanchen KHOO opined: > I have RedHat-5.2 and upgraded rpm to rpm-3.0.5-7.5x which I think I > got > from rpm.org - cannot be sure though. Had a scary problem yesterday > when I > tried to --rebuild bison-1.27-3.src.rpm. The rebuild always fails, > complaining that it cannot find s

RE: format of hosts.deny

2000-10-27 Thread Uncle Meat
On 27-Oct-2000 root opined: > Anyone know the format of entries in the hosts.deny file? Just like in the following example, and 'man hosts.deny' can provide more information: CUT === # # hosts.denyThis file describes the name

RE: Redhat 7.0 and SCSI Devices

2000-10-26 Thread Uncle Meat
On 26-Oct-2000 Lance Spence opined: > I am posting this again in hopes that someone can help me get this > problem > resolved. I did a fresh install > of Redhat 7.0 and then re-compiled the kernel with SCSI and the AHA152x > as > a module. My SCSI Zip Drive and > Ricoh 6200s CD-Writer are yet t

RE: ver 7.0

2000-10-24 Thread Uncle Meat
On 24-Oct-2000 David Yates wrote: > I have been using RH since ver 4.0. I have also faithfully upgraded to the > next version of RH the first day I could get my hands on it. That is until > this 7.0 upgrade. I bought the cd, but I can't make myself feel good about > upgrading to ver 7.0. Between

Re: Autoresponders

2000-10-24 Thread Uncle Meat
On 24-Oct-2000 Thomas Ribbrock wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 02:00:17PM -0400, Warren Melnick wrote: >> The vacation package does this rather nicely. > > Out of interest - does the vacation package also take care not to send > autoreplies to mailing lists? That's the main reason why I use pro

RE: dd = destroy data?

2000-10-23 Thread Uncle Meat
On 24-Oct-2000 Barry L. Kline wrote: > I have a number of PC's that are going off lease and will be sent back > to be turned into dog food. Before they leave I want to wipe the hard > drives. Although there's nothing on them that requires a > military-style wipe (e.g. destroy with a hammer), I

RE: US Elections - enough is enough!

2000-10-23 Thread Uncle Meat
On 23-Oct-2000 Burke, Thomas G. wrote: > > > I'm a Persian Gulf Vet... > > I have great respect for what the flag (US) stands for. > > Because of that respect, I believe flag burning should be legal, as part of > what it stands for is free speech. By making this illegal, we desicrate > our C

RE: sendmail-masquerading

2000-10-21 Thread Uncle Meat
On 22-Oct-2000 Hyung Kim spoke something to the effect: > I am having problems with sendmail. > > I used m4 to configure sendmail.cf to masquerade > emails using the SMPT address of my ISP. > > For several months I had no problems sending email. > Then several days ago, emails to certain addre

Re: What was Gore's Role in Inventing the Internet?

2000-10-18 Thread Uncle Meat
On 18-Oct-2000 Statux spoke something to the effect: > Gore never invented the internet. End of story. The networking concept > around the internet has been around since about the dawn of UNIX (which > was over 30 years ago). :) > > Gates didn't invent the first OS either... and DOS wasn't even

Re: What was Gore's Role in Inventing the Internet?

2000-10-18 Thread Uncle Meat
On 18-Oct-2000 Vidiot spoke something to the effect: >> Can someone please tell me what Gore's role was in >>inventing the internet. (Please include all the Gory details >>as well as AlGore-ithms). (But please don't beat around >>the Bush or if there are many links get to Cheny). > > Nothing, o

RE: Linux in the developing world (fwd)

2000-10-18 Thread Uncle Meat
On 18-Oct-2000 Luke C Gavel spoke something to the effect: > > > -- Generated Signature -- > If there are epigrams, there must be > meta-epigrams. > -- End Sig -- > > -- Forwarded message -- > Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 17:22:17 -0300 (ADT) > >>Linux snubbed by development activi

RE: Simple Shell Scripting Question

2000-10-14 Thread Uncle Meat
On 15-Oct-2000 Kevin Diffily spoke something to the effect: > I have been unable to create a simple program that will kill a > running ppp connection. I have tried > cat /var/run/ppp0|kill > echo /var/run/ppp0|kill > kill etc. > > Any help will be appreciated. Here's one that will work if us

Re: odd memory access problem

2000-10-13 Thread Uncle Meat
On 14-Oct-2000 Jonathan Wilson spoke something to the effect: > I could be very wrong, but I thought the proper thing was mem="128M". > > Did you check the lilo docs? > > Other then that, I"d like to say that there's probably nothing worse then > bad RAM. It very well may be bad - consider tryi

RE: MS self-extracting .exe files

2000-10-08 Thread Uncle Meat
On 08-Oct-2000 fred smith spoke something to the effect: > Say, can any of you point me to a tool for Linux that'll unpack the > contents of those self-extracting .EXE files that MS uses to distribute > stuff? Try 'unzip ' as that usually works. -- Imitation is the sincerest form of television

Re: memory problems

2000-10-06 Thread Uncle Meat
On 06-Oct-2000 Ray Curtis spoke something to the effect: >> "k" == kabir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > k> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > k> Hash: SHA1 > > k> I am having memory problems I added the statement append=mem=128M" to > my > k> lilo.conf and it won't recognise it. > k>

Re: HELP: can't umount filesystem on shutdown!

2000-10-05 Thread Uncle Meat
On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, you opined: >On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 09:49:06PM -0500, Uncle Meat wrote: >> > Turning off quotas [ok] >> > Unmounting file systems umount2: Device or resource busy >> > umount: /usr/hda1: device is busy >> > umount2: Device or resource

RE: HELP: can't umount filesystem on shutdown!

2000-10-04 Thread Uncle Meat
On 05-Oct-2000 Ben Logan spoke something to the effect: > I really need some help here...my system won't shut down properly any > more. > > I have two drives in my RedHat 6.2 box. One of them had linux on it and > the > other windoze. I was running out of space in linux, so I wiped windows > o

RE: qt land gtk lib question

2000-10-04 Thread Uncle Meat
On 05-Oct-2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke something to the effect: > [1] Will software using qt run on GNOME ? > [2] Will software using gtk run on KDE ? KDE apps, and anything else compiled with QT run fine with anything else. The QT apps require QT to be installed. KDE apps require QT and KDE to

RE: IMAP Read Only Mailbox Help

2000-10-04 Thread Uncle Meat
On 04-Oct-2000 Kevin Diffily spoke something to the effect: > I have run into a serious problem with IMAP on my server. I can read > and write to mailboxes but when I try to delete messages I receive a > "read only mailbox error" from my email client. > > Relevant info: > -Mailboxes are locat

RE: RH support scanning?

2000-10-03 Thread Uncle Meat
On 03-Oct-2000 meijin spoke something to the effect: > I have an older scanner that uses a "generic" ISA SCSI card and was > wondering if this can be used under Red Hat? Is TWAIN supported or is > there > anything that will allo me to use it? I have d Adaptec ISA cards (aha-1505, 15

Re: diff Redhat Madrake

2000-10-03 Thread Uncle Meat
On 03-Oct-2000 John Aldrich spoke something to the effect: > On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: >> The installer looks alot like Redhat's...infact i believe it is >> Redhat's. >> > Look again. The GUI installer is a different one... I'm pretty sure > of that... I guarantee it's

RE: huge netscape cache, cant remove it within netscape

2000-09-28 Thread Uncle Meat
On 29-Sep-2000 Jack Byers spoke something to the effect: > I seem to have built up to a huge netscape cache > [byers@byers .netscape]$ cd cache > [byers@byers cache]$ du -s > 733740 . > that looks like 3/4 of a 1gig to me > > when i gointo edit preferences advanced cache > and then try to > cle

Re: ldconfig error upon installing rpms

2000-09-27 Thread Uncle Meat
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, you opined: >On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 09:47:40PM -0500, Uncle Meat wrote: > >> Since /usr/lib is on a partition by itself, it can be mounted as /usr/lib >> and not need a symlink. You just need a directory in /usr named lib and an >> fstab entry defini

re: RH 70 and $9.95

2000-09-26 Thread Uncle Meat
On 27-Sep-2000 Alan Lehman spoke something to the effect: > I beg to differ on RH not making money on the software. After being > annoyed at how quickly 6.2 followed 6.1, I waited until about 3 weeks > ago to buy 6.2. I have 6.1 pro for which I paid roughly $80. I wanted to > continue to using SW

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