easy demand dial in rh7.2?

2001-11-11 Thread dave-mlist
Has RH implemented some switch in the PPP configure GUI for configuring demand dialing? I have read the various demand dial HOWTOs for pppd, diald, and wvdial, but they all seem to circumvent the RH7.2 configure scripts. I'd like to do it the way RH meant for once... They've made so much automat

SCSI adapter recognizes external or internal but not both !?

2001-01-18 Thread dave-mlist
I have an Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI adapter, to which I want to attatch an internal Plextor CD-R drive and an external Nikon scanner. My problem is that the scanner is not recognized if the CD-R drive is connected. I think that connecting the CD-R to the internal SCSI bus is somehow defeating the ext

Re: postfix or qmail

2000-12-01 Thread dave-mlist
I'm a qmail junkie so take my reply with a grain of salt. Jonathan> I finally decided that Jonathan> 1. it seems more people use postfix Not true as of this spring, when a huge survey found qmail's share of mail service domains to be about 100 times larger than postfix's. Jonathan> 2. I heard f

1.5GB RAM seen by BIOS, but only 1.0GB seen by 2.4.0-test9 @ RH7.0 !?

2000-10-06 Thread dave-mlist
I have three 512MB PC133 dimms in an AMD T-bird 950MHz / Abit KT7 system running RH7.0. All 1.5GB are recognized by my BIOS, but only 1.0GB is recognized by linux. I compiled kernel 2.4.0-test9 with HIGHMEM4G=y: > # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set > CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y > # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not s

Why doesn't rescue mode create disk devices?

2000-08-01 Thread dave-mlist
RH6.2, PII-400, 4 IDE HD, 2 SCSI HD I had a root partition SNAFU, and I would like to mount it under the rescue mode. I booted from CD-ROM and ran "linux rescue", which booted fine, recognizing all my drives. But when I got the bash prompt, the drives are not in /dev. I have used other rescue

network print setup Q

2000-07-19 Thread dave-mlist
local printer (hostname "print") works fine: lpr "file" prints OK. /etc/hosts.lpd has workstation hostname in it. restarted lpd. on workstation, used printtool to set up remote printer at host "print" with correct spool name. but workstation doesn't print. lpq prints the following: [root@ws /r

Re: Removing Qmail...

2000-06-20 Thread dave-mlist
Mike> But maybe moving from QMail to Postfix would be extremely reasonable Mike> and the same question exists. Dave> Why in the world would you want to do that? Mike> Maybe because Postfix is more stable, better maintained, and more Mike> maintainable than QMail? That's just based on my per

Re: Removing Qmail...

2000-06-19 Thread dave-mlist
Matt> Just curious, is it reasonable to assume that I could follow Matt> the qmail install FAQs backwards (more or less) to remove Matt> qmail and switch back to sendmail? Well, I consider moving from qmail to sendmail to be unreasonable, so I would answer "no" to your question... Why in t

Alpha vendors?

2000-06-07 Thread dave-mlist
I'm looking for vendors that sell SMP Alpha servers. This will be for a high-volume database server running on RH6.2. Any recommendations? Dave -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

How to create a chroot login?

2000-02-18 Thread dave-mlist
I want to put a single user in a chroot jail from the time he logs into my machine. He will be logging in via SSH. Since normal users can't use the chroot program, I think I will have to give him an SUID program to run. Can anyone recommend the right way to do this? Dave -- To unsubscribe:

Re: ssh and 6.1

1999-11-17 Thread dave-mlist
steven> I also have a raft of 6.0 systems which I use ssh to connect with. steven> Since doing the 6.1 install I can no longer do X passthrough via ssh to steven> any of the other systems. As I continue to be able to login via ssh, steven> I'm pretty sure that something has changed in the way 6.1

Re: Cent character

1998-03-12 Thread dave-mlist
>> 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. Dave -- 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