It's not "really" broken. A recent announcement at Freshmeat itself
actually said that Freshmeat is just about to shift to a new server and
slightly improved server engines. I think, from memory, the URL to test
the pre-beta site is http://exodus.freshmeat.net but I may be wrong.
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Hi There!
You or anyone else for that matter can take a look at
http://www.rebel.net.au/~lloy0076/tutorial/redhat_ppp.html
It is a document that I wrote. It uses netcf, linuxconf and X. Please
note that it doesn't use the GNOME dialer, wvdial or kppp and has been
known to work for Redha
Aloha!
> as far as installing the rpms, I'm not sure about this, but I think the
> compiler is installed by default, you have to choose to install the kernel
> development package, I think, to get the kernel info. Here is what I
> started out with in my computer networking class in college.
One
The Netscape and Java problem is quite prevalent and well documented.
There are apparently "tweaks" but I've not heard anyone report that
these supposed "tweaks" work. I'm currently having a preview of Netsape
6.0 Pre-Release, however it has absolutely NO Java support (or
JavaScript) at all even
Or better still, take a quik look at what they normally say and filter
them to trash. Or to be even MORE nasty, the moment someone sends you an
autoreply, filter ALL e-mails from them to trash...
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It depends. If I'm only catching the window then I actually use the GIMP
:-))
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Jerry Human wrote:
>
> Ok, dang it, I keep reading/hearing how Red Hat is supposed to be so
> easy to use beacuse of it's command line mouse support such as copy, cut
> and paste, etc.
This isn't really an answer to your question, just a small diatribe from
me. Personally I refuse to use the mou
Mark[s]:
> After you have the newly compiled kernel, you need to put it in your /boot
> directory, along with the system.map file. You should name it something
> like vmlinuz-x.y.z . Then, rename the kernel that was already there to
> whatever_it_was.old.
YIKES
Rename the old ones BEFORE shif
For some reason when I use the shutdown option from X *any* user can
shutdown the System...is there any way to turn off this "feature"?
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LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
Get over it! I have my own script. I run a 64MB memory cach and a 512MB
disk cache not to mention my ISP's own proxy...I just kill Netscape and
start again...the majority of crap except for the through traffic gets
taken off relatively local parts of the Internet[work]
I disagree. Using ./configure and make on a source distribution
discovers many more errors that RPM can simply miss or gloss over. Each
to one's own I guess...such is the power of Linux.
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HEHEHE
I avoid use RPM as much as I can. If I ever use it I always use --force.
The RPM database seems to fall over even worse then the Windows Registry
if I may say so myself. It's good for a system where ALL YOU EVER
install is RPM'ed, and it's on high reliability but other than that it's
caus
Katherine Harris wrote:
>
> >chuckle. if someone was a newbie to linux, i'd probably refer them
> >to pico first, rather than emacs. just my $0.02. :-)
> It's too late; I've already frightened myself with emacs, mainly because it
> was the only one I could remember. ;)
E MACS?
Oh please! RE
Jason!
> My firewall is kept up to date, but the machines on the inside? Not worth
> the effort to update stuff that I may or may not use.
I think that is an excellent idea. RedHat could have an RPM style files
where all you did was mount /mnt/cdrom; rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/*.rpm AND a
SRPMS style
Ummm...I presume that you're saying that GNOME/ENLIGHTENMENT don't work
any more. Otherwise why would you need to install them?
Presuming that you've used an automated process AND you told the install
process to install X and GNOME (etc) you shouldn't need to worry...
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Adam et al:
> this is an easy way to get it UP and running ..but you still need to block off
> ports..but you can do that later.also is this for home or business?
> If for business...check out www.watchguard.com they have a $3,500 linux based
> firewall product "Firebox II" if you need to h
Doug McGarrett wrote:
>
> Is there a list focusing on security? I need to get
> help on firewalls. I have the ip-chains HOW-TO, I
> have a whole book on Linux security, but I don't really
> know how to implement the whole thing, including mail.
> --doug
I've never heard of a list per se but th
Eddie Strohmier wrote:
>
> Use the PPro. That will give you the 686 kernel.
>
Actually it will give you a very fast i386 kernel aligned to Pentium
standards. To actually force any kernel before 2.3.x to actually compile
to not 386 code you have to use the -march option (you have to use it
whate
Crisis wrote:
>
> For some reason I have had problems with LICQ, so I use GICQ which also has
> a GUI and works very nicely.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ::--Koshy Kerteya--~!~ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 10:20 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re
My understanding is that the current KDE is NOT multi-thread aware.
This, of course, means that you can have 64 processors but only one will
be used. The next MAJOR number release should fix this...
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Rooting is when two people have sex. It normally refers to the male
appendage being inserted into the female genitals although it can often
refer to the whole act. Furthermore in slang, it is a term for
destroying something and/or generally making it unusable or broken.
Routing, on the other han
Edward!
>
> You boys just have no downunder knowledge :)
>
> Basically they're a fictional boy and girl.
>
Are not. Sheila is my godmother and Bruce is a karate artist...
GEEZ!
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Ric!
> BUT, ... we can all share in the new users thrill of a minor-to-us,
> major-to-him victory?? Some applause is in order here.
Yes, applause is in order. It's kind of the same when someone finally
realises what they've been doing wrong in a really simple program
(like the time when I
Actually I have a similar glitch. Kudzu decides that my KEYBOARD is a
PS/2 mouse...which it obviously isn't. So I turned it off (besides it
boots faster without it)anyone experience the same thing?
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Bret Hughes wrote:
>
> Cool Should I compile my own for use on these chips then? What is the
> difference? I guess of the binary files that redhat produces the 386's
> are the ones to use? Please tell me I didn't dream up the suggestion to
> use 386.
>
> Bret
I would be inclined to compile
The KERNEL help files in make menuconfig actually have always had, at
least since 2.0.36, a suggestion to choose "K5/6" for AMD chips...I
wonder why?
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There is a patch to fix the problem with Windows 95 OSR 2.xx series. It
can be found from the AMD web site (http://www.amd.com). Most of the
time you can get 95 stable enough to run it...the trick is to actually
get it to go into safe mode. Easiest way to do that is to actually
switch the power o
Zoki!
> problems etc. Intel CPU's have been experiencing. What's the reason for
> people being so afraid when it's not an Intel CPU?
I honestly think the reason is that Microsoft bases its (in)operating
systems on the Intel chips and have been known to do dumb things in the
past like base I/O t
I have an Athlon on an MSI-6167 board, I740 Video Excel AGP card, stock
standard IDE hard drives and two CD (one ROM, other RW/RECORD). I have
had absolutely no problems, in fact I simply clicked in my hard drive
and Linux booted without a glitch...Windows on the other hand required
four reinstal
It is Java causing the problem. If you go to the CLI where you started X
you may very well find that Netscape complains about the Java having a
bad ELF header or worse. There is a fix which doesn't work...something
to do with the font path.
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> >
>
> I don't think YOU are doing anything wrong. Somehow your options state
> that your ISP has to authenticate itself against you. This is highly
> unusual...look in /etc/options and if you see anything like
> "require-pap" comment it out with a # (hash).
>
I meant /etc/ppp/options
Derek Tattersall wrote:
>
> I am trying to configure a ppp link to my isp from my computer. I am
> running RedHat 6.2.
>
> My isp uses pap.
>
> When I tried to activate the ppp link I got the following message on
> stderr:
>
> Failed to activate /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0
>
> I
Claudiu Balciza wrote:
>
> When I try to shut down my mailserver AMD K6-II/400, Soyo 5EH motherboard,
> ram 64MB, disk 30GB, RedHat 6.1, it freezes right after "starting killall".
> That means the UPS cannot protect the system on longer power failures.
> And the e2fsck on 30GB takes more time tha
Hmmm
> I think your perceptions are skewed by the sample group you're looking at.
> Many of the people who post to the lists are probably linux enthusiasts,
> who see such things as opportunities to play with their toys, not as
> hassles that impede their progress toward some other goal. I myse
LOOK
I use NT SERVER 4.0 at work and I spend about $200 per week (or a 1/3 of
my time however you see it) either waiting for it or fixing it. The sys
admin, who is an outside person because our netowork is small and I take
care of minor glitches, spends about the same amount in dollard (he is
pa
ROFL
I have the same problem. I made a horrid kludge:
1) I added the modprobe to /etc/rc.d/local
2) I just accepted the fact that it hijacked my other drive to
There is a way to do it in conf.modules but I can never get that to
work.
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David finds it totally irresistable...
> On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Daniel Goldin wrote:
>
> > When I atempted to build xemacs, I got an error saying "no acceptable
> > cc."
So you can say no, eh?
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What do you mean EMACS? Extra Meaningful Annulment Conference
SectionsI don't think so. VI is better...try telling the Vi and Vim
List (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) the same thing...
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Oh My!
I never thought I would be able to create a lovely heated discussion
about Windows by mentioning my AMD K6 III 450mHZnext time I say
something I am going to seriously duck for cover
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Arni Raghu wrote:
>
> Nothing like emacs :)
>
> But if it is real IDE u want look at kdevelop..it is free..
>
> cygnus has a more powerful IDE but costs $$
>
Oh I can't resist...
And if you want help on the actual programming...see this:
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Heh!
> > I have recently installed an MS-5184 Baby AT VI4 Motherboard with an AMD
> > K6-III running at 450MHZ. I used to run an AMD K6-II @ 366MHZ with an
> > old, 66MHZ board. The memory is exactly the same. Some people said I
>
> You're not using PC100 RAM with the new board? I'd think that
Hi There!
I have recently installed an MS-5184 Baby AT VI4 Motherboard with an AMD
K6-III running at 450MHZ. I used to run an AMD K6-II @ 366MHZ with an
old, 66MHZ board. The memory is exactly the same. Some people said I
would notice a difference; some said I wouldn't. My experiences so far
are
I know that the Athlon is all the talk at the moment, but do you think
I'd notice the difference between an AMD-K6-II and an AMD-K6-III>?
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I have RedHat 6.0, stock standard except I replaced GNOME et al with
october-gnome. Java in Netscape 4.61 still crashes me though; there's no
errors in my fonts at all. Does anyone know what's wrong?
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Nigel!
> We do not use DNS on our LAN - 'hosts' files only.
This sounds awfully obvious but have you checked:
* /etc/hosts wasn't clobbered
* /etc/resolv.conf wasn't clobbered
(on all your machines)
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Hi!
It sounds like you're loading into runlevel 5. Runlevel 5 uses XDM as
opposed to the command prompt to verify the user. Try, as root, to edit
the /etc/inittab file. Change the default run level from 5 to
3...there's annotations in the file to verify I'm not telling you to
destroy your system
"Michael J. McGillick" wrote:
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> Morning:
>
> Anyone else getting messages bounced back as undeliverable from a
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]?
>
> - Mike
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Steve Lee wrote:
>
> what does it mean to run something setuid
It means the program runs as root even though another non-root user has
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Scott Skrogstad wrote:
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> I must be missing something. One of my customers is trying to update
> their web site using Front Page I thought Apache support this. They are
> telling me it does not work. What is the first thing that I should check?
>
OOERRR
Front Page is a dog. I could be VER
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Now, the Makefile for the images in in:
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386
Of course if you're not using an IBM compatible it will be in one of the
other directories. Use vi, emacs (or another editor) to "find" bz and
you'll get the EXACT name of the image. If you make bzimage, it's not
the same as make
Gordon!
I just had a look at the Makefile. I concede that it doesn't but in my
opinion anything called "clean" should be done before you start making
anything anyway. It's just "good" practice.
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Joseph Wagner wrote:
>
> I recompiled my kernel but I'm not sure the new kernel took (I think it
> booted into the old kernel.)
>
> I executed:
> make mrproper
> make xconfig (Made the changes I wanted)
> make dep clean bzlilo modules modules_install (Waited a very long time)
> Rebooted the comp
Oh!
I don't know a thing about HP 1000s. Mind you look at its manual and see
if it can or does emulate something else. For that matter it might just
understand native postscript upon which you'd be able to use it as a
generic post script printer.
There does appear to be a generic HP LaserJet s
Oh try using printtool in Xyou'd probably best be su when you do it.
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> other=/dev/hdb1
> label=win
> table=/dev/hdb
> map-drive=0x80
>to = 0x81
> map-drive=0x81
>to = 0x80
>
> **
You will need to run "lilo" after you've adjust lilo.conf. I forgot to
when I first started and couldn't work out why my ch
Frank!
> I'm able to signon to the internet, but when I launch Netscape, it says that
> it cannot find its home page or any url I enter. I was told that a
> resolv.conf was not created automatically. How can I create this?
No, it's not created automatically. Here is the syntax:
nameserver [SOM
Hi!
> On 1/12/99 at 23:56 Rev. David P. Giffen wrote:
> >I am trying to set my Linux box to be to be a simple mail server. However
> >can't log into the machine using POP3 protocol. I have the port already to
> >go. What else do I need to do?
I presume you mean your POP server is not functionin
Books on Linux
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with RH 6.0 publishers edition as well as Caldera OpenLinux - is really
quite useful. Furthermore it describes another linux and although it may
sound quite crazy being able to compare two linuxes
Find an ftp mirror site for RedHat 6.0 and download october-gnome. The
gnome/X that comes with RH 6.0 is slightly broken. I used to use it and
although my problems weren't half as sever as yours, october-gnome has
fixed all of them (except the font problem which I fixed myself).
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I have had the same problem with all versions of Netscape on Linux that
I use. My solution was to run Apache locally on my localhost and make it
my home page. Therefore Netscape always has a TCP/IP socket connection
to look at and I always have my favourite programming documentation (the
Gtk docu
"Michael J. McGillick" wrote:
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> Ummm ...
>
> Was this an answer to my original question or just a viewpoint on SRPMS?
> :)
>
Firstly your manual pages should tell you about how to rebuild SRPMS, so
check them for the flags. Secondly I can't see any sensible reason why
it wouldn't work UNLESS
I find (S)RPMs quite good but a nuisance as well. Trying to get it to
recompile things like you want them is sometimes not difficult. I await
the day when ALL developers include an uninstall option in their make
files :-)
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Hi there!
I had an old version of RedHat 6.0. I have since intalled via RPM
october-gnome. Everything worked fine. I then downloaded gtk+-1.2.6 and
the relevant glib and recompiled them manually. I like to do this
because for base stuff I adjust the CFLAGS to suit my own setup.
However, I need
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Most source rpm's have the following (hopeless) flags:
CFLAGS=-g -O2 -m486 [blah blah blah]
This only takes your 586 to a 486 and even then doesn't produce 486
specific code. It only aligns the data for a 486. Hence you get a nicely
aligned, fantastically fast i386! Whenever I recompile at my w
In /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts there should be a script called
ifcfg-ppp[X] where X is the number of the PPP device (mine is
ifcfg-ppp0). It contains the script which chat (man chat) uses to talk
automatically with the ISP.
Essentially they do the same thing, it's just that one is automatic a
Hi There!
I would suggest there are two choices:
1) gvim
This is a graphical front-end to VIM. When you administer a unix or a
linux system the only editor you can assume will almost always work is
vi. When I first began to use linux/unix I didn't understand vi but now
it is my editor of choic
Hi There!
>
> I believe you can do this to minimise the problem. As root
>
> # echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies
That is true but you need to have this support built into the kernel. I
suspect the stock redhat kernels would...but in case they don't I'd just
voice a suspicion...
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Rick!
> Evidently I insulted some people because I was
> using stationary in my e-mail, excuse me, just trying to live in the
> 20th century here.
Unfortunately you're HTML message slipped past my HTML filters. We do
live in the 20th century. Your HTML managed to render itself as 8 point
idiot
Ahbaid:
I would suggest that if you have a problem with the langauge used in
some of the posts here, that you email RedHat directly. To be perfectly
honest I found your original post quite offensive in its own right. If
you don't like the language used on the list, then filter out all
"profane" w
The GNOME Session manager appears to be giving me serious grief. It is
giving me so much grief that I'm almost about to give up and shift to
KDE. When I try to connect to my X Server I continuously received:
GNOME-SESSION-UI: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authentication error
It only happens with GNOME; i
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