RE: Printcap for Laser Printer

1998-05-24 Thread Dave Wreski
On 24-May-98 Derek Balling wrote: Odd question: Would anyone happen to have a good printcap for a Panasonic KXP-4420 Laser printer? Typically the best thing to do is pick the HP printer that it most closely emulates, such as an HP3, assuming the printer doesn't do postscript by default.

RE: 5.1 on redhat site ?!?!?!

1998-05-24 Thread Dave Wreski
Strangest is still that they ship a not yet stable (pre-) version of 2.0.34. Well, now that Alan is working for RH, I suspect he'll make sure it's stable before releasing. I agree, though. That sure would be a show-stopper if the kernel wasn't stable.. Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat

RE: Why I'm not running RedHat.

1998-05-24 Thread Dave Wreski
On 24-May-98 Chris \"Cranky Spice\" Harshman wrote: The disks seemed to work properly, but I couldn't find any way to manually load a module from my own disk. Is this possible with RH5? It should be, if it isn't. Yes, it's possible, assuming you've compiled the module with the same

RE: Installation woes..

1998-05-23 Thread Dave Wreski
On 23-May-98 Chris Fishwick wrote: Hi all, I have 486DX4-100 with 16 Meg RAM and a 850Meg Quantum Trailblazer HDD Drive... I am trying to install RH on it, with no luck.. RH 4.2, starts to boot from the boot floppy, then, just after finding the HDD, gives a 'Unknown Interupt'

RE: Inporting mail to messagecenter

1998-05-23 Thread Dave Wreski
On 23-May-98 Michael wrote: Hi all ! I have asked this question a coupple of times before, but got no reply, so I'll just try one more time ! I have begon using communicator 405 messagecenter for my E-Mail Prior I have used kmail. Now I would like to import the messages that I have saved

RE: mail headings -- making user-name my isp name

1998-05-22 Thread Dave Wreski
On 22-May-98 Daniel Goldin wrote: The "from" line currently generated by sendmail: "From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu May 21 00:27:45 1998" This is all screwed up. "Daniel" is my user name at localhost. Don't know what "ixmail9" means, but don't like the looks of it much. How can I

Re: Communicator 4.05 dies a horrible death

1998-05-22 Thread Dave Wreski
I've installed Communicator 4.05, but when I try to start it up, I get: /usr/lib/netscape/netscape-communicator: error in loading shared libraries /usr/X11R6/lib/libXp.so.6: undefined symbol: _Xglobal_lock Try typing the following from an xterm: # export LD_LIBRARY_PATH= # export

RE: LPD refusal

1998-05-22 Thread Dave Wreski
On 22-May-98 Moore Brett wrote: Hope someone has a quick answer to this; My machine (192.168.1.1) would like to print to the okilaser on lp2 @ my remote machine (192.168.1.6). The remote machine has the printer setup configured so local printing is OK, the files; /etc/hosts.lpd reads

Re: HELP!! Upgraded mount and now system won't boot

1998-05-22 Thread Dave Wreski
I downloaded the mount 2.71 RPM from RH's ftp site to upgrade the mount that is included with RH5 CD. I did this because I've been getting NFS warnings about my mount version being older than my kernel version (2.1.97). I rebooted the system and I get a bunch of errors from mount saying

Re: NIS?

1998-05-21 Thread Dave Wreski
On 22-May-98 Mike Frisch wrote: On Wed, 20 May 1998, Abandon_All_Hope wrote: Also you should not make them compatable. You can but, it defeats the purpose of NIS+. While we're on the topic of NIS+, is there a proper server implementation for Linux? (preferably something I could apply

RE: Help: more SMB and more Ghostscript

1998-05-21 Thread Dave Wreski
On 22-May-98 Joe Tseng wrote: I still can't get Ghostscript to work... Is it me or does GS5.10 not work with the Epson Stylus Color 400? I saw the lowest printer supported was the 500 and I didn't know if I could use another driver as a substitute. Yes, keep trying them until one works

Re: sed problem

1998-05-21 Thread Dave Wreski
if [ -a /var/run/ppp0.pid ]; then IP=`ifconfig | grep P-t-P | cut -c 23-34` cat /etc/hosts-up | sed -e s/--IP--/$IP/g /etc/hosts fi If I execute the second and third lines, one at a time, from the command line myself, they work perfectly. But if I run them in a script

Re: Network Neighborhood Problem with Samba

1998-05-21 Thread Dave Wreski
I am using Samba as delivered with RH 5. I am able to successfully smbmount published resources on my Win95 box and to use my Win95-hosted printer. When I try to view my Linux resources from Network Neighborhood, I am asked for a password for IPC and cannot get past that point. You have to

RE: RedHat 5 Install problems!

1998-05-20 Thread Dave Wreski
On 20-May-98 Van Tate wrote: Well, I have made the attempt of installing redhat 5.0 via ftp over 20 times now and I keep getting failed rpm installs during the installations because for some reason it says it is for the wrong architecture. I am using the correct ftp directory and I am able

Re: RedHat Support????

1998-05-20 Thread Dave Wreski
What I did was return RH and get Caldera (the $55 version). Caldera support seems to be substantially better than RH's, and I feel better because, paradoxically, the oh-so-profit-minded Caldera advances the free software concept. Anyway, sorry to go on so much about this. Sorry, too, if

RE: rpc.mountd FATAL on re-boot

1998-05-20 Thread Dave Wreski
On 20-May-98 Chris Fenton wrote: We are experiencing a number of power outages here at the university with undesirable effects on the UNIX systems. Upon re-booting the postgres-sql deamon postmaster did not boot ? A closer look revealed this message upon re-booting rpc.mountd cannot

RE: Tape drive problems

1998-05-20 Thread Dave Wreski
On 20-May-98 Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote: I've got a RHL4.2 box with a 2.0.32 kernel and an Archive Python 25501-xxx SCSI-2 tape drive connected to an Adapted SCSI 2940UW adapter. The drive works and is configured properly (as it worked when I had WinNT on the box not too long ago). I can use

RE: Help with CD writing

1998-05-20 Thread Dave Wreski
On 20-May-98 Brian Schramm wrote: I am creating my own CD for different programs under Linux. I use RedHat 5.0 at this time. I have created the files and layout that I like on a server hard drive. These files are in long filename format. My question is how do I create the cd so Linux

RE: Help with shadow

1998-05-20 Thread Dave Wreski
On 20-May-98 Brian Schramm wrote: I have looked everywhere for a set of instructions for setting up shadow passwords on Redhat. All I can find is that it has been changed from 4.x. Since Redhat's install is too stupid to ask you wether or not you would like to use shadow passwords or

RE: Doubts on Network and Color in Minicom

1998-05-20 Thread Dave Wreski
On 20-May-98 Vivek Rajan wrote: Hi, I have got two doubts in Redhat Linux. Could u please help me out. 1. All networks access like telnet, http request etc to a server running RedHat linux takes a long time. How can I solve this? Make sure /etc/resolv.conf points to a valid nameserver.

RE: Video problems narrowed down

1998-05-19 Thread Dave Wreski
Red Hat, pay attention to things that don't look like '95. I ignore anything that does, even if it works (although I was willing to do anything I could to break it, and couldn't). I'm an anti-M$ zealot. I didn't purchase your product for a lame windows look-and-feel. For some reason,

Re: ping: Operation not permitted

1998-05-19 Thread Dave Wreski
I've just installed a new box running Debian 2.0 (hamm) and I'm having a slight problem. I can't get it working properly on the network (this is my fourth hamm install and all others are fine...). nics# ping 192.168.1.1 PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes ping: sendto:

Re: Working With Modules

1998-05-18 Thread Dave Wreski
Regarding the net- lines, do you know what these are about? From time to time I will see messages in my messages.log to the effect that the net-pf-5 modules could not be found. Doesn't seem to be harmful but it is annoying me. Make sure the following is in /etc/conf.modules: alias net-pf-3

RE: reccomend tape drive

1998-05-17 Thread Dave Wreski
On 16-May-98 steven standley wrote: Heh gang... I am looking to purchase a tape drive for backup on my home system. I have a scsi2 and scsi3UW interface available. What I need is recommendations from the list on tape drives that you have purchased and have had little or no problems

RE: How do you PPP from RH 5.0 to WINS network?

1998-05-17 Thread Dave Wreski
Apr 22 23:53:52 kilroy pppd[2730]: Using interface ppp0 Apr 22 23:53:52 kilroy pppd[2730]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/cua2 Apr 22 23:53:56 kilroy pppd[2730]: Unsupported protocol (0x8207) received Apr 22 23:53:57 kilroy pppd[2730]: Received bad configure-nak/rej: 03 06 83 c6 7c 2e Apr 22

RE: dump and T3000 drive

1998-05-17 Thread Dave Wreski
But, when using dump, there are two values that I don't know; density and size. The blocks I obtained fro the HOWTO: 58. I have them set real high at this point. If you use the T3000 and dump, please let me know what values you use. Hmm.. haven't used dump on linux, only on solaris, but

RE: startx/X links..

1998-05-17 Thread Dave Wreski
On 17-May-98 GateKeepeR News wrote: Ok, I got that to work, but now it doesn't want to read my .xinitrc! I had everything working, and don't know what I screwed up.. But now I just get the grey screen.. and my .xinitrc is jsut as it should because I was using it a few hours ago! Well, that

RE: changing colors for ls

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
I copy the /etc/DIR_COLORS to my $HOME directory with the name .dir_colors as suggested in such file, but all the changes that I do in the colors definitions has no effect in the ls --color command. I saved the .dir_colors file and exited from shell, invoking another xterm, but it do not

RE: Window Managers

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
: #!/bin/sh exec afterstep and that should do it. The first time it starts it creates a GNUstep directory in your home directory, but that path can be changed (haven't played with it enough myself to know how yet..) Dave -- Dave Wreski Windows: An OS less stable than the people who use

RE: libpng.so.0

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
-0.96-1.i386.rpm -- Dave Wreski Windows: An OS less stable than the people who use it -- 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 To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: libpng.so.0

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
On 16-May-98 David Fisher wrote: Dave Wreski Windows: An OS less stable than the people who use it Has anyone ever given much thought to the psychological ramifications of the anti-MS hysteria that colours the Linux community? Is it really necessary to expend so much energy vilifying

Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
The Linux vs. Solaris on UltraSparc benchmark comparisions are lying around on the web somewhere. A semi-inteligent search on yahoo, etc. should find it. ftp://vger.rutgers.edu/pub/linux/Sparc/ultrapenguin-1.0/HTML/lmbench.txt -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING

RE: MODEM DOES NOT RESPOND IN MINICOM !!!

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
and I would like that someone tell me if it is a WINMODEM. Boot to DOS and try a DOS-based modem program. Even something like the following should do it: C:\ echo ata com1: I think that should test it.. Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

RE: 2.0.34-pre patch? Where?

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
On 16-May-98 GateKeepeR News wrote: I have heard a lot about this, but cannot seem to find it. Anyone want to point me in the right direction? (I've tried kernel.org with no luck) Thanks.. ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/alan/2.0.34pre -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and

RE: 2.0.34-pre patch? Where?

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
On 17-May-98 GateKeepeR News wrote: Alright! Well I got it, but how do I use it? wasn't it like patch p0 blah or something? Assuming you already have a clean 2.0.33 kernel in /usr/src, do the following: # cd /usr/src # gzip -dc patch-2.0.34pre14.gz | patch -p0 -s The only output would be a

RE: startx/X links..

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
On 17-May-98 GateKeepeR News wrote: Well, somehow I screwed up my symbolic links for X and I cannot get X to start. Can anyone send me what they are supposed to be? I'd appreciate it! Thanks! # cd /usr/X11R6/bin # ln -sf X_SVGA X where "X_SVGA" represents the name of your X server. Also,

Re: What happens when you run out of swap? (load spike solved?)

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
P.S. Is there a swap alarm available? It'd be nice to have some warning that swap was about to be exhausted! Dunno about that. It seems a good idea. top can be a useful indicator of this, however. I typically run it inside its own xterm all the time so I can routinely check things like

RE: Could not find dl

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
t; instead. You can find it at ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/hurricane/i386 Dave -- Dave Wreski Windows: An OS less stable than the people who use it -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat

RE: RealAudio rvplayer and Netscape

1998-05-16 Thread Dave Wreski
On 17-May-98 Jim Gentry wrote: I apologize if this topic has been covered, but I have just installed RH5.0 and I cannot get the rvplayer to work with Netscape. There is no mention of a realaudio or rvplayer plug-in in Netscape and I am at a loss for how to get the two programs to work

RE: Newbie Network question

1998-05-15 Thread Dave Wreski
On 15-May-98 Jil Tardiff wrote: I apologize in advance for the "newbie" question, but I'm just not sure where to start... No problem, this is a good place to start. I have my main computer at home running Win95 and Linux. I am trying to move as much functionality to Linux as possible (for

RE: Printcap entry for network printer?

1998-05-15 Thread Dave Wreski
On 15-May-98 Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Several months (or possible a year) ago some kind soul (but I can't remember if it was from this list) provided a solution to using a printer connected to another machine on the network. I used it at the place I used to work at and it was a charm.

RE: Linux4.2

1998-05-13 Thread Dave Wreski
On 13-May-98 twisted wrote: Hello everyone, I am having a small problem, and was wondering if perhaps someone could help me and save me some time. A friend just installed Redhat 4.2 on Her computer. It seems that she did not isntall the linux developers .rpm's. When I tried to run "make

RE: Cyrix CPU kernel 2.0.33

1998-05-13 Thread Dave Wreski
On 13-May-98 CyberMan wrote: I recompiled the kernel with the Cyrix patches downloaded from www.linuxhq.com and now my Cyrix PR150+ CPU is recognized as an IE86??? Doing a cat /proc/cpuinfo shows the corect CPU type, but uname -m shows IE86. Because of this starnge thing I cannot

RE: Replacing a kernel

1998-05-13 Thread Dave Wreski
A newbie wants to replace the rh v4.2 stock kernel with a 2.0.32-2 kernel. Where should he look for a howto procedure for handling the new rpm kernel,kernel-header,and kernel-modules? http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/intel/kernel-upgrade-intel.html -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ,

RE: halt and ATX motherboard

1998-05-11 Thread Dave Wreski
On 11-May-98 Pere Camps wrote: Hi! How can I make a ATX motherboard to actually shut off when I execute a 'halt' ? See the APM section during a kernel compile. Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ

Re: Apache stuff - and a small bit of networking advice - FIXED

1998-05-10 Thread Dave Wreski
Everyone was right.. nothing to do with apache of course.. and all to do with one little file (as always.. damnit =). I think as Dan had mentioned previously it was the /etc/hosts file. I had also taken Dave W.'s advice and tried the `network restart` path .. and that kinda mussed up

Re: still can't mount fat32

1998-05-09 Thread Dave Wreski
I have compiled the 2.0.33 kernel and added a joliet patch 0.2.9 for fat32 support. I have the RH5.0 release installed. I included msdos, dos, fat, and vfat support into the kernel. When I try to mount one of the fat32 partitions, mount tells me "fs vfat not supported by kernel". I have

Re: Apache stuff - and a small bit of networking advice

1998-05-09 Thread Dave Wreski
thanks to Dave's suggestions I succesfully got that "moving" linux box transported to the other side of campus and working properly .. thing is, now I have another problem. For some reason I cannot start httpd .. it keeps telling me that I have no hostname .. but i do .. chacked a

Re: Problems with Apache

1998-05-09 Thread Dave Wreski
I am trying to configure Apache. When I try to invoke it by typing "httpd", I receive the following errors: getpeername: Socket operation on non-socket getsockname: Socket operation on a non-socket Error getting local address Start apache using the following command:

Re: Apache stuff - and a small bit of networking advice

1998-05-09 Thread Dave Wreski
resolv.conf is a-ok =) ... I looked through all the normal net' files and so far everything looked ok .. I'm still hackin away at trying to figure this one out. Buggin the hell outa me too =). Ok, be sure you've check the following files: /etc/hosts /etc/resolv.conf

Re: HP hardware for Linux.

1998-05-09 Thread Dave Wreski
Dear Netters: I am going to buy some HP PCs, Are there any HP hardwares which Linux has problems? Yes, winmodems, specifically. See the hardware compatibility at the RH site. Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: moving network

1998-05-08 Thread Dave Wreski
[Your mail client has a terrible problem with not using carriage returns at the end of a line. See if you can fix that.] I'm moving my linux box to another side of campus, and thus have to change all the net-configs along with the NIC. Is there a generic list of things I should be

Re: Sendmail

1998-05-08 Thread Dave Wreski
My problem is locally I keep getting bounes from the Linux box and was wondering if I have missed anything or someone has done this type of setup before. The actual bounced messages would help, but I suspect you need to tell your mail server that it is now accepting mail for those domains.

Re: defaultroute problem - Switching of IP numbers

1998-05-08 Thread Dave Wreski
I have a Red Hat 4.2 box set up to do IP masquerading and act as a gateway for the rest of my network to connect to the Internet. It was working fine and I shut the connection down and later brought it back up. From that point on it no longer works. I've looked at netcfg and the logs and

The Corel Report

1998-05-08 Thread Dave Wreski
Hey Guys. This is the summary of the Corel announcement today, written by Russell Nelson (written to slashdot.org): Eid Eid said (as head of corelcomputer) that all the system software for the NetWinder (their desktop computer originally envisioned as a Java thin client but which is now a

Re: What's in my kernel?

1998-05-08 Thread Dave Wreski
Sometimes when I'm doing lots of reconfiguration on several machines, or if it's been a while since I've tinkered with a particular box, it can be easy to forget how a particular machine's kernel was configured. Is there a way to get a kernel to spit out something that vaguely resembles

Re: How to be a linux hacker?

1998-05-08 Thread Dave Wreski
Maybe this is a little bit off topic, but I was wondering how to writing codes and packages for a linux distribution? I mean, do you actually just start writing code yourself and put it out? Is there a "offical linux wish-list" so duplicate effort won't happen? How to contact other linux

Re: How to build an RPM?

1998-05-08 Thread Dave Wreski
Greetings. I'm something of a software hack, and occasionally write something useful. Up until recently, I've been using Slackware and was content to simply throw up my work (to a website, say) in tarball format. Anymore, I'd like to do that, as well as provide a RPM that the average

Re: winass 95

1998-05-08 Thread Dave Wreski
What's the quickest way to boot in winass '95 (not reboot) from linux??? What's the quickest way to boot win95? - Hold CDROM horizontally in front of you while standing. - Release grip on CDROM. - Extend foot in such a motion as to reach the CDROM as its falling. -- PLEASE read the Red

RE: PB cumputer

1998-05-07 Thread Dave Wreski
Where do I find a program that will do a Low Level Format? Next, I insert the BootUp Floppy and proceed to do a normal install. It gets to a point, and then stops. Partition check: hda: hda1 RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Then it just stops right there. Can somebody

Re: Shutdown stuff

1998-05-07 Thread Dave Wreski
I'm wondering where, if anyplace, RedHat has a place for custom commands to be exectuted upon shutdown, similar to /etc/rc.d/rc.local or /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. I'm sharing my swap partition with Windows 95 (as described in the Tips HOWTO), but currently I have to manually run a script to

Re: Shutdown stuff

1998-05-07 Thread Dave Wreski
If you want to run something upon executing shutdown, or halt, you can either add the commands directly to /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt or add a shell script to that file that calls the commands you wish to execute. I would advise not to touch the standard scripts like /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt,

Re: Unnanounced Rebooting

1998-05-07 Thread Dave Wreski
I've got this real nasty little problem where my machine will spontaneously reboot. It's a little scary. Here's what appears in my /var/log/messages file: [...] And as you can see, it began rebooting about four lines above here. I don't know what an skb is, but it is certainly ruining my

Re: Flogging a dead Winmodem

1998-05-07 Thread Dave Wreski
After browsing though over 200 matches for the string "linux winmodem" I'm sure what the answer to my question will be, but I'll ask it just in case. There isn't any chance of my being able to get my Compaq 56K-VSC Winmodem that came with my Presario to work under Linux, is there? :( No.

Re: The Pangs of Lilo

1998-05-07 Thread Dave Wreski
I have a system tht has 3 HD /dev/hda1 ibm 4.3gb ide partitioned as 1 4.3gb win fat32 This is win95's home turf scsi adapter adaptec 2940uw /dev/sdaseagate 4.3gb uw scsi3 /root = 1 gig linux native Make your root partition below the 1024

Re: Antivirus stuff

1998-05-07 Thread Dave Wreski
There is one, somewhere, but it's pretty much ignored. Unix, in general, is pretty much invulnerable to virus's. Invulnerable? What intrinsic quality grants Unix this remarkable privilege? Ah, grasshopper, it is due to no public area for users to write over other users files, among

Re: Security Faq/Comments Please ??

1998-05-07 Thread Dave Wreski
Is there a redhat Security Faq No, but there is now a general Linux Security-HOWTO, available from the normal HOWTO archives. Comments welcome on it. Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata

Re: tcl/tk and netcfg problems

1998-05-07 Thread Dave Wreski
TclError: error reading bitmap file "/usr/lib/rhs/control-panel/loopy/dropdown.x bm" Heck, I'm bold and perfectly willing to be called an idiot :-) Seems to me that there might be a problem with /usr/lib/rhs/control-panel/loopy/dropdown.xbm. Is it corrupt? No, it was non-existant, and I

Re: RPM's

1998-05-06 Thread Dave Wreski
A problem i've recently run into is that when i go to install a new package, it tells me that i need another library which is contained in another package, and then that package tells me the same thing.. i've been downloading them off of the redhat RPM listings. does anyone know of one

Re: virtusertable problems

1998-05-06 Thread Dave Wreski
I have a mail domain set up in virtusertable as so: @primordialsoup.com bheman We are mx'ed for primordialsoup.com. When is send a test message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a local accoutn i get the following mail to root: 554 MX list for primordialsoup.com. points back to

Re: root password unknown

1998-05-06 Thread Dave Wreski
on the otherhand, it's not a huge problem with linux, because linux is ridiculously easy to get into if you have physical access. How do other unixes differ in regards to this? Its not a matter of that its easy to get into. Especially when it comes to physical access. Every OS has

Re: IOMega ZipDrive 100

1998-05-06 Thread Dave Wreski
Compiling the driver in the kernel, avoids loading of scsi_mod.o and you can directly load ppa.o. Or using "modprobe ppa" will correctly find the dependancies for you. in your /etc/conf.modules? You should also have scsi disk, scsi generic, scsi emulation either as modules or compiled

Re: time problems

1998-05-06 Thread Dave Wreski
sk [scottk@linux-serv scottk]$ export TZ=EDT sk [scottk@linux-serv scottk]$ xbru sk BRU: Unable to find/exec bru executable - ABORTING!! sk [scottk@linux-serv scottk]$ Doh! Try running as root -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: Install Hangs up

1998-05-06 Thread Dave Wreski
I go to /sbin and run lilo, says Added linux *, reboot and the system still hangs up at LIL- ... I think this is an indication either you moved /boot/map without rerunning lilo, or your disk geometry doesn't match. Try using `LBA' mode in your computer's BIOS. Be sure you have a resuce

Re: RJ45 Connection Diagram

1998-05-06 Thread Dave Wreski
OK, I said that I would put one together, and I did. It is a PostScript EPS file, that is ready to print, or haul into something else. This means that the image is scaleable. There are already many on the Internet, if necessary. This one's a great ethernet tutorial, including crossover

Re: Who

1998-05-06 Thread Dave Wreski
When I use who,it displays a message like this: who: Memory exhausted What can I do? Use `w' instead :) Actually, make sure you have updated the errata packages, as I think this was a bug that was fixed quite a long time ago. Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the

Re: Single user mode

1998-05-06 Thread Dave Wreski
I know that by default, anyone can reboot a Linux box, and type linux 1 at the lilo prompt in order to get into single user mode. I understand the benefits of a feature such as this (forgotten root's password), but I need to disable this. I can't allow people to get a root shell simply by

Re: Thank you and one more

1998-05-06 Thread Dave Wreski
Anyway here is the question, I am in single user mode editing the /etc/passwd file. I do not see any passwords, only this: root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/ksh Check out /etc/shadow, which should contain the actual password. Where or how do I delete the password? Delete? You might as well

Re: I don't want root to login, only su.

1998-05-06 Thread Dave Wreski
I want to setup linux, so that root login will not be allowed from "login:" prompt, but only thru su ( or sudo ). Is this possible? Then just under what circumstances _do_ you want root to be able to login? Currently root can only login from the console, meaning one

Re: fpt default permissions

1998-05-06 Thread Dave Wreski
I'm not quite clear on what controls the default permissions of anyone logging in through ftp on RH5.0. I want everyone in a certain work-group to have read-write permissions on each others' files, but uploads default to "-rw-r--r--". Where do I go to reset this? Use the '-u umask'

tcl/tk and netcfg problems

1998-05-06 Thread Dave Wreski
I just installed 5.0 on another PC, and while using netcfg with the stock RH 5.0 libs (with all updates) I'm receiving the errors below. Here are some of the relevant packages I'm using, just in case: tk-8.0-12 tcl-8.0-12 tclx-8.0.0.0-12 netcfg-2.19-3 XFree86-libs-3.3.2-3 AfterStep-1.4.5.2-1

Re: Single user mode

1998-05-06 Thread Dave Wreski
Physical security is useless if software itself is so flawed that one can simply boot to a passwordless o/s that allows an incredible amount of access to hardware immediately. There are several reasons it does not come more secure by default. Security is always a tradeoff, and it is not up

Re: Max Sites?

1998-05-06 Thread Dave Wreski
I was wondering what is the limit of web site domains a single linux box can handle? Say the load is just a few small pages per hour for each of the sites. Or heck even through hardware out of the loop for a second. What is the max that linux and apache can handle? 10? 100? 1000? Its

Re: Sendmail

1998-05-06 Thread Dave Wreski
How can I turn off hostname lookups in sendmail? What options should be set in sendmail.cf? I'm running Red Hat Linux 5.0 with sendmail 8.8.7. See the Sendmail mini-howto. Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: ISA SCSI for Old 486?

1998-05-06 Thread Dave Wreski
I have an old Digital 486DX33 low profile box that I'd like to use Linux with... the problem is it has a standard IDE disk controler on-board. It can't see all of a larger EIDE disk, and I need at least 2GB to use. I assume the 500MB limitation is in the old IDE controler and adding a SCSI

Re: ISA SCSI for Old 486?

1998-05-06 Thread Dave Wreski
A BIOS upgrade is one way to do the trick, but a more useful way would probably be the BIOS extension software that most drive makers include with all hard drives beyond 528 Mb in size. No, Linux definately does not need this, let alone use it. There is support for this software, sometimes

Re: 3COM Etherlink III PCI

1998-05-06 Thread Dave Wreski
When installing Linux on a Micron Pentium machine today, I couldn't get the RH installer to 'wake-up' the ethernet card, a 3COM 3C590 PCI EtherLink III. I mean, it found the card, recognized it, but the card wouldn't wake up. Like, whenever you turn on a machine with a card that wakes up

Re: Window Managers - restoring defaults for RH 5.0

1998-05-06 Thread Dave Wreski
I have recently installed RH 5.0 on a system with a STB Velocity 128/RIVA 128 video chipset. Because of this chipset, I was forced to install the new XFree86 3.3.2 to get X support. Unfortunately, when I installed the new version of XFree86, all of my window manager defaults were

Re: 3COM Etherlink III PCI

1998-05-06 Thread Dave Wreski
This would certainly be easy enough, but the real problem is that I need to install Linux on the box in the first place -- and right now, I need to install over the network. Can I update the module on the supplimentary disk? If your installing over the network, you only need the boot disk

Re: Totally off topic: RJ45 fab

1998-05-05 Thread Dave Wreski
I usually end up taking a permenant-ink magic marker and coding the white parts of pairs when I strip the ends (e.g. I untwisted this white wire from around the green, so I put a green permenant-ink stripe on it). My free telco cable must be made of wax, because that trick doesn't work

Re: SCSI Tape AutoLoaders

1998-05-05 Thread Dave Wreski
From my reading of the SCSI-HOWTO, and the various HP-UX manuals, I think the way it works is roughly analagous to the "generic scsi" driver in linux. There is a scsi device that functions as a bare-bones "pass-thru" and other programs (in this case the "mc" command) provide rudimentary

Re: IOMega ZipDrive 100

1998-05-05 Thread Dave Wreski
ppa: Probing port 0278 scsi : 0 hosts. ./ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Try 'fuser -v /dev/lp[01]' and see what it reports. Apparently there is something already using your printer port, and you must disable that first. Otherwise, /var/log/dmesg (or the 'dmesg' command) should

Re: Strange idle times in 'w' listing

1998-05-05 Thread Dave Wreski
I noticed something odd. I booted up and immeaditely went in to X. I start several xterm's from within a .xinitrc file. From inside one of the xterms I did a 'w' command and it listed one root entry for each xterm but for the idle times for all the xterms except the one I was using said

Re: Network Almost ... Ah so close

1998-05-04 Thread Dave Wreski
You should probably use the 192.168.16.0 network, since 198.168.16.0 is assigned to the Canadian Inspector General of Financial Institutions (http://rs.arin.net/cgi-bin/arinwhois.pl?arinwhoisquery=198.168.16). Look up RFC1918 for details. (I know, because I made the same mistake)) How

Re: HELP! cannot route packets between two ethernet cards

1998-05-04 Thread Dave Wreski
the two ethernet cards in machine "A" are 3com 3c905 PCI cards (as is the card in "B" if that matters). both A and B are Pentiums' running linux 2.0.33. the router is an ADSL "modem" and the hub is from 3com. I think you may have screwed up your diagram somehow. You had both machine A

Re: Two Hardware questions

1998-05-04 Thread Dave Wreski
1) Anyone have a 3c905tx NIC with the 918 chipset working in Linux? If so, where is a driver? The builtins don't work, and the one at cesdis nad varesearch doesn't either. I'll continue hacking on it unless someone knows where I can find one. What is the 918 chipset? You could try

RE: c/c++ under linux

1998-05-03 Thread Dave Wreski
On Sun, 03 May 1998, Sahar Nitzan wrote: That is exactly my problem . With commands like printf,scanf etc. I don't have any problem, but with the clrscr() function which clear the screen in dos -doesn't seem to work under linux why ? Because Linux is not DOS. clrscr() is a DOS-only

Re: Redhat_5 install problems

1998-05-02 Thread Dave Wreski
Unfortunately you would have great difficulty using the bash shell during the install. I don't seem to have difficulty...other than having to contort my fingers to press ALT-F2. If there is such difficulty, why would the installation routine provide access to the bash shell? Isn't this

Re: more Network almost :-)

1998-05-02 Thread Dave Wreski
2. rename the hosts adding a domain to the names Using .nevada as a domain isn't such a good idea. That won't work for DNS, for example, and is really nonconventional. Consider ".nevada.org". Now in all cases when I ping from either machine I always get a network unreachable error What

Re: Difference b/w IP aliasing and ProxyArp?

1998-05-02 Thread Dave Wreski
Okay, I did remember the 'proxyarp' option from when I set up my ppp box, but the stuff I read at the ProxyArp Howto (related web site) was making me think that this might be something different, or the same thing in a drastically different context. I haven't read that howto for quite a

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