Re: Linux on DECpc 433 revisited

1998-04-13 Thread Dave Wreski
aha152x=0x140,12 Aha! I totally forgot about the PCI factor. Now let's see... How would I go about finding the card settings... H... How can I tell what this thing is set to? It's not a card, it's built-in to the mb, so I can't check jumpers, maybe if I stripped everything down

Re: Linux on DecPc 433 Workstation

1998-04-12 Thread Dave Wreski
Bought a DecPc 433 Workstation for $1 at a salvage sale. I think I got a bargain: Ya think? :) Video chipset: Appian Never heard of it. But replacing it with a $5 trident might not be a bad idea. SCSI controller: Adaptec 1520 Works fine with the aha152x driver. Network: Dec100 IRQ: 5

Re: Wide Area Networks, RH5, NFS, unified logins, school district

1998-04-11 Thread Dave Wreski
I know this is bit of a newbie question, but... Not really, there are some complicated issues here.. I'm obviously considering an RH 5 based server backbone for their Win95 and Macs I would like to set things up so anyone with a username and ID will be able to sit down at any computer

Re: DNS Caching only nameserver

1998-04-11 Thread Dave Wreski
I followed the directions for setting up a caching only nameserver, and for things like nslookup it works fine. Unfortuantely it does not work with netscape at all. I can fix this by adding the Have you gotten this resolved? If not, my suggestion would be to install a full-blown DNS

Re: new redhat install keeps hanging!!

1998-04-11 Thread Dave Wreski
couple problems i am running into with this new install. first try through the first boot after install it would keep hanging on loading sendmail. i tried various things to stop it from loading but could not get it done so i ended up doing a complete reinstall and told the services

Re: Redhat 5.0 hangs often.

1998-04-09 Thread Dave Wreski
The server works quite well for 2 or 3 days but hangs up with lines of error message on the monitor: Problem: Block in the Freelist isn't free Have you applied all the RedHat errata updates? Unfortunately there were a few problems with memory leaks in the kernel that was distributed,

Re: start up questions

1998-04-09 Thread Dave Wreski
Just need a quick pointer on where linux goes when booting up, I want to get rid of the realplayer stuff I included when I installed RH5. Something like the autoexec.bat I guess. There are several configuration files that get read during system boot. See the /etc/rc.d/init.d directory to

Re: virtual domains and wildcard forwarding...

1998-04-09 Thread Dave Wreski
I need to forward all mail that is coming into one of our virtual domains into one mailbox. Is this possible? In theory i would like to have an alias type of setup that was: *@virtualdomain.com: user Have you previously checked Steve's virtual hosting link:

Re: Sony screen

1998-04-09 Thread Dave Wreski
I want to buy a 17" Sony CPD 200GST. Can anybody tell me if i can use this in Redhat 5.0 ?? Can any screen be used in linux ?? Sure, you might just need the specs from your monitor manual, and you'll be all set. Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

Re: Sendmail Virtual Hosting

1998-04-09 Thread Dave Wreski
I am using Sendmail 8.8.7 with RedhaT 5.0 and I am trying to setup Sendmail up for Virtual Hosting. I have gone through the directions at www.sendmail.org run the m4 macro and setup my .cw file but it still doesnt work. Any help would be deeply appreciated.

Linux in Radio (RealAudio)

1998-04-09 Thread Dave Wreski
Forwarded from linux-kernel... -- Forwarded message -- FYI, if you have RealAudio you might be interested in this one: http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/archives/1998/current.html there will be a Linux interview (with Linus, Don Becker and others ?!) today at 8:15

Re: RH4.2 User Guide (Whereisit?)

1998-04-09 Thread Dave Wreski
Can anyone tell me where I can get a PostScript version of the RedHat 4.2 User Guide? I see on RedHat's website they have the 5.0 User Guide in PostScript and HTML, but the 4.2 version is only in HTML. I actually don't think it exists. If not, you can grab the sgml version, if that exists,

Re: Exporting resources to Win95 non-GUI?

1998-04-09 Thread Dave Wreski
Do I want to set myself up as a Novell server? That seems like overkill, since we don't actually have any bona fide Novell clients. If you wish to export files on your Linux box via IPX, you must set yourself up as a Novell server. Its not actually that hard, though. It took me a couple of

Re: logrotate chokes w/ long pathnames?

1998-04-08 Thread Dave Wreski
One bit that's interesting is that "logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.conf" finishes to completion while both "logrotate -v /etc/logrotate.conf" "logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf" segfault... Post a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and explain to him the problem. I'm sure logrotate isn't on the top 10

Re: Apache web server and DNS

1998-04-08 Thread Dave Wreski
need to setup a nameserver. 1. Using redhat's netcfg tool, under the section of nameservers would I have to enter the ip of the primary nameserver only? If you have a secondary nameserver, there's no reason you can't add it as well. 2. By pointing the computer to the correct DNS if I was

Re: SUP

1998-04-08 Thread Dave Wreski
When In the FreeBSD world we had a tool called sup. every night i ran it via cron (SUP would go out to freebsd.org and grab all updated packages for you) and every friday night i would make world, via cron. Now granted this took place at my previous employer's who had 3 T3's, so d/l time was

Re: BRU and the Seagate 3200 Travan ??

1998-04-07 Thread Dave Wreski
Ok. I've realized that getting the T3000 to work in this machine is probably going to be a really big pain. I've been able to find a FC20 card to control it but for another $80 and I won't have it till Friday at the earliest. The place I bought it from said that they will take it back for

Re: User changing

1998-04-07 Thread Dave Wreski
Is there anyway to change users while in X? Use the `su' command, for switch-user. Provide the user name you wish to switch to, like: # su - otherusr and be sure to read the man page. Is Applexware as good as MS Office? I happen to think its better. It doesn't crash, or swallow

Re: User changing

1998-04-07 Thread Dave Wreski
Is there anyway to change users while in X? Use the `su' command, for switch-user. Provide the user name you wish to switch to, like: You should also check out the following, for some basic system administration help:

Re: More Questions

1998-04-07 Thread Dave Wreski
of these newbie questions, but everyone has to start somewhere. There are some programs that seem to do nothing when I try to load them. They are Yes, they may be newbie questions, but there is nothing wrong with that, as long as you put in some time and practice, and not expect us to do

Re: Ludicrous Speed.... Go

1998-04-06 Thread Dave Wreski
I am convinced that duals are the way to go. Check out (http://www.thechipmerchant.com) for good pricing info but you can get away with dual P166, 96mg of ram and a titan motherboard for $500 or less. It's good amount of CPU power for not a whole lot of money. Cool, good information..

Re: reading file line-by-line

1998-04-06 Thread Dave Wreski
Here is a PERL way to do it: #!/usr/bin/perl open(FILE, "filename"); while($line = FILE) #grabs one line at a time until you get to eof Gad, I hate perl. Try bash: while read line do process $line done filename -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING

mp3 files?

1998-04-06 Thread Dave Wreski
Hi all. Does anyone know anything about mp3 files? Are they only sound files, or video as well? Is there something that can play that format? Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips

Re: Will this hardware work with RH 5.0?

1998-04-06 Thread Dave Wreski
well.it should be okhowever i'm not prefect. I'm sure the gentleman asking the original question feels much better now that you said that. Its probably best not to say anything unless your absolutely sure. Additionally, one-line answers typically don't provide any valuable

Re: RH 5 reboots without warning

1998-04-06 Thread Dave Wreski
Yes. We are still deciding whether or not (and if so, how) to use Linux, and we've already overspent the modest budget for this work. Part of the problem is my having originally thought to use Linux as an RTOS, which would not be optimal. At this point, I am leaning toward something like

Re: mp3 files?

1998-04-06 Thread Dave Wreski
X11Amp (X) A good choice - just don't install it suid root as the docs suggest (unless that hole's been fixed). I didn't install suid root in the first place anyway, as I refused to give an audio player that level of privilege... Can you spare me the time, and tell me where to find it?

Re: mp3 files?

1998-04-06 Thread Dave Wreski
X11Amp (X) Well, thanks for the pointers, guys. Now, can you tell me where to find some cool mp3 files, and am I going to need a T3 to download them, as I understand they are rather large? Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: Ludicrous Speed.... Go

1998-04-06 Thread Dave Wreski
I have a bit of a strange one here that I have not seen before. I did not see this problem in the FAQ or errata so I thought this may be a good place to ask. I have a 5.0 system that has been working just fine for while but I have this funny problem that has developed with my screen

Re: BRU and the T3000 and T3000 problems

1998-04-05 Thread Dave Wreski
does anybody out there happen to have BRU working with the HP Colorado T3000? I just picked one up and really hope it isn't known to be incompatible. It says it complies with QIC-3020 Wide which ftape is supposed to work with. I have a new T4000s that gives me an I/O error every

Re: sendmail Redhat 5.0

1998-04-05 Thread Dave Wreski
ipop3d[2138]: error: cannot execute /usr/sbin/ipop3d: No such file or directory What went Wrong here??? I can send mail from and outside box, but I Have you considered the remote possibility that that file just might not be installed? Try: # rpm -qf /usr/sbin/ipop3d Dave --

Re: Best SCSI card to buy?

1998-04-05 Thread Dave Wreski
FWIW- My Adaptec 2940UW has worked flawlessly. I have a couple that work well too. The problem is that Adaptec changes their BIOS's and card specs within the the same card model number. Since they do not release their specs to the Linux community, the Linux driver for 2940 may or

RE: Real Audio RH5.0

1998-04-04 Thread Dave Wreski
On 03-Apr-98 Mike Wangsmo wrote: To all experiencing problems w/ Real Audio client: I hope to get the 5.0 Gold player out this weekend. There are still a couple issues with the Netscape plugins to be resolved. You can download the 5.0beta3 client from Real Networks for the time

Re: realaudio and RH 5.0

1998-04-03 Thread Dave Wreski
You did have a registered version, in a sense. rvplayer is free as was realaudio for the Linux program. The commercial "RealPlayer Plus" is not included in Linux, because that product only exists for the Windows and Mac(?) platforms. Hmm.. That's pretty misleading then. I can't believe more

RE: Fax Servers

1998-04-02 Thread Dave Wreski
Viva la choices!! Yes, that is very true. I only meant to point out other choices.. While we are on this subject does Hylafax do Alpha numeric pages well or for that matter at all? I heard somewhere that it will do this. If so can I configure it to just do paging? Yes, it has integrated

Re: Netscape 4.04 crashes on embed src=filename.mid

1998-04-02 Thread Dave Wreski
This page exemplifies the problem: http://arena.simplenet.com/hleft.htm Mine does the same! It'd happened before but I thought it was an anonaly. What gives? Well, report the problem, and perhaps now we can get it fixed: http://www.mozilla.org/report.html Dave -- PLEASE

RE: NYS (was: Re: Commercial use of Red Hat)

1998-04-02 Thread Dave Wreski
Is NYS extensible? Can I add the ability to configure Apache, Sendmail, or even home-grown programs? I really don't know much about NIS and its descendants. I havn't tried the Linux version (NYS), but basically NIS+ is a way to manage /etc/hosts, /etc/passwd, /etc/services, and more in a

Re: Sockets

1998-04-02 Thread Dave Wreski
First time on the list so please be gentle with me. No way, man. No mercy :) Ah, just kidding.. welcome to the list.. All the correct daemons are running, cause the root can do things, but somewhere a permission is wrong. I suspect something like the permissions on your root directory.

Re: Sockets

1998-04-02 Thread Dave Wreski
How do I check the users setuid bit? and if its not set, how do I set it? First, read the man page for chmod, as this will explain how to use the setuid bit. Next, make sure you know which binaries you are going to be applying the suid bit to, as there is significant potential for security

RE: off topic: linux artical wsj

1998-04-02 Thread Dave Wreski
It's been used by everyone from the makers of "Titanic" to NASA and it's free to all comers, yet at least two firms sell it. It's an operating system called Linux, and its backers believe that it could give Windows NT a run for its money -- contradiction and all. I also don't have a

Re: X-Server for Matrox Mill-II

1998-04-02 Thread Dave Wreski
On 03-Apr-98 David Fisher wrote: XiGraphics' CDE with their AcceleratedX will run circles around most X servers. It is neither free nor cheap, and their tech support is spotty, but the difference is impressive. We use it on a Matrox Millennium 2 driving a 21" Hitachi, and it makes Linux

RE: What does this mean?

1998-04-02 Thread Dave Wreski
On 03-Apr-98 David S Edwards wrote: Hello, I've seen this message a couple times in my syslog. Does anyone know what this means and what might be causing it? Mar 31 08:40:27 ns1 inetd[2840]: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable It means one of the services (most likely) or inetd

RE: What does this mean?

1998-04-02 Thread Dave Wreski
If only I was sitting in front of this system, I could pull the plug. :( david Try something like: # exec init 6 Which will use the resources from your current shell to try and reboot the machine. Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

RE: What does this mean?

1998-04-02 Thread Dave Wreski
Thanks. I tried that, but it terminated my session. Guess those resources were in too much of a demand. I got somebody headed over to pull the plug... Yes, it will terminate the command. It replaces your current shell with the process you are exec'ing, in this case init. You should notice

realaudio and RH 5.0

1998-04-02 Thread Dave Wreski
Hi all. I've only had 5.0 installed for a few days now on my primary machine, so I haven't subscribed to hurricane-list yet... What's the deal with rvplayer and RH 5.0? Its expired? That was one of the reasons I purchased it, thinking I had a registered version included with the purchase of

Re: Commercial use of Red Hat (was Re: Sorry,,,,,,,,,,,Sorry,,,

1998-04-01 Thread Dave Wreski
X-based utilities aren't always ideally suited for server environments. Remember, one of Linux's advantages is that it doesn't suffer the overhead NT does because the Linux GUI, X, isn't mandatory. Providing X-based tools, while nifty, reduce some of Linux's advantage. I would like to

Re: Commercial use of Red Hat (was Re: Sorry,,,,,,,,,,,So

1998-04-01 Thread Dave Wreski
SysAdmin has had several articles about Linux in it so far. My only complaint is that its pretty thin. :) But the content more than makes up for the lack of size. Isn't it like $80/yr? Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: Commercial use of Red Hat (was Re: Sorry,,,,,,,,,,,Sorry,,,

1998-04-01 Thread Dave Wreski
- Presentation. What am I supposed to use to show management what rules we have? Write it out on paper each time? Surely you can't expect an upper-level manager to view ipfwadm source to figure out what the rules are? Having sold security services as a consultant, my experience

RE: Fax Servers

1998-04-01 Thread Dave Wreski
[hmm.. is my reply-to screwed up?] Are they any good Linux fax servers? Look at the mgetty package. Not to start a fax-war, but I think the extra effort required to configure HylaFAX is well worth it. It is developed at a much faster pace, there is a larger user base, it has been around

Re: Commercial use of Red Hat (was Re: Sorry,,,,,,,,,,,Sorry,,,

1998-04-01 Thread Dave Wreski
Could you provide some more information on Linuxconf? I'm specifically interested in whether Linuxconf can be used in a non-graphical environment (on a system without X installed), whether it can be used non-interactively (from scripts), and whether it has any support for

RE: added ram got Ext2 errors

1998-04-01 Thread Dave Wreski
my current redhat 4.2 system has 64Megs of ram. i upgraded to 128Megs of ram. then i started to get this error: messages:Mar 31 01:03:13 mybox kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:03): ext2_find_e ntry: bad entry in directory #147458: rec_len % != 0 - offset=500, inode=147480 , rec_len=26,

Re: Linux games and ID software

1998-03-31 Thread Dave Wreski
For doom 2 you need the wad's. Just replace them w/ the doom 1 (I think this works, never actually tried it, I'm not much of a gamer). For quake you need the pak's in a subdirectory of quake named "id1" (notice the lowercase), which also need to be lower case. The you either need quake for

RE: New Jersey User Groups?

1998-03-31 Thread Dave Wreski
I live in northern NJ also. I would also be interested in a Linux users group. How much work would it be to start one? Can you represent Toys 'R Us? :) I think it would be as much work as we wanted to put into it. I think the linux.org people have created a HOWTO that we should check out.

RE: Html Editors and Web page design software

1998-03-31 Thread Dave Wreski
On 31-Mar-98 Bunting wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a really good Html editor and Web page authoring package for Linux. Are there any good bets out there ? Oh man if I only had the resources to develop an HTML editor for Linux... There really aren't any good ones that I know of. It

Re: RE[2]: Commercial use of Red Hat (was Re: Sorry,,,,,,,,,,,So

1998-03-31 Thread Dave Wreski
That's true, I know several people who got interested in Linux because they were shown Linux at a convention... As a matter of fact, cnet (www.cnet.com) just had a story about one of the cnet employees completly switching to Linux for a month after seeing what it could do at a convention...

Web mirror programs?

1998-03-31 Thread Dave Wreski
Hi all. I found `mirror', which is a perl script used to sync data from one machine to another, but only uses ftp, that I know of. I'd like to use ssh to sync my web servers. Is rsync stable enough to use yet? Are people typically using rdist+ssh? Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ,

Re: RE[2]: Commercial use of Red Hat (was Re: Sorry,,,,,,,,,,,So

1998-03-31 Thread Dave Wreski
Now, let's make the assumption Red Hat produces a 50% *net* on each copy they sell at $50 for the sake of formulating a SWAG at this. So in order to cover the cost of one shot in Byte they must sell (2/25) 800 units of Red Hat *just* to pay for that one ad. Ok, I guess I don't know

Re: Locate SUID files

1998-03-31 Thread Dave Wreski
One way would be to cd to / and type find -name suid* I mean I need to locate files with SUID BIT, not "suid" inside their names... To find all SUID and SGID files: # find / -type f \( -perm -4000 -o -perm -2000 \) -print Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips,

Re: Locate SUID files

1998-03-31 Thread Dave Wreski
I usually do a: find / \( -perm +4000 -o -perm +2000 \) -type f -exec ls -l {} \; Doesn't that find files that are _only_ SUID or SGID? The `+' means it requires at least those permissions. Try using a `-' instead. It looks to be the same for the most part, but I'm not sure it will

Re: Firewall and ftp

1998-03-30 Thread Dave Wreski
I´ve a problem. I compiled my new kernel with ipmasquerading for use as gateway/firewall. When I now try to open a ftp-connection from one of my clients I get the connection to the server, can login, but then don´t get a data-connection when I want to see the directory of the server.

Re: Sorry,,,,,,,,,,,Sorry,,,,,,,,,,,,Sorry

1998-03-30 Thread Dave Wreski
For one thing, it's danged hard to get companies to buy into an OS that has the pedigree Linux has. Even if supported. This brings up an interesting point... is anybody succeeding on this avenue? I have a few commercial implementations out and I'm about to recommend a government

RE: Commercial use of Red Hat (was Re: Sorry,,,,,,,,,,,Sorry,,,,

1998-03-30 Thread Dave Wreski
We are aware that there can be significant resistance inside organisations to using Linux (usually based on misconceptions about Linux compared to other operating systems). As a result we would like to offer assistance to people working on projects that would involve deploying Red Hat

Re: Commercial use of Red Hat (was Re: Sorry,,,,,,,,,,,Sorry,,,,

1998-03-30 Thread Dave Wreski
Are your management people the sort who make up their minds and then don't accept further input? The picture you draw sounds to me like you're dealing with some pretty unreasonable people, and that takes more than marketing to crack. I'm personally resigned to the fact that there is a

RE: TCF 98 Was RE: Commercial use of redhat

1998-03-30 Thread Dave Wreski
Speaking of the Trenton Computer Festival Is redhat going to be represented this year? I need to know if I should bring extra money this year. Last year you guys just showed up and I needed more money. :-) Tom, if you are going to be there, perhaps you and I need to crash the Linux-4-Newbies

Re: cheap nics

1998-03-30 Thread Dave Wreski
Anybody want to recommend a cheap 10bt nic know to work w/linux on intel? Try the tulip-based cards. Reliable, fast, 10/100, and cheap. You can find them under the SMC and Acer names that I know of. Try Donald Becker's page for a full list of manufacturers, and you can find his page in the

Re: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/rhcn/

1998-03-30 Thread Dave Wreski
Just wondering what is rhcn anyway ? See the file 'charter' in that directory. Looks like a voluntary package maintinence project.. Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips

New Jersey User Groups?

1998-03-30 Thread Dave Wreski
Hi all. If you're in New Jersey, and know of a Linux Users Group, I'd like to hear from you. I'm actually very disappointed. The Trenton Computer Fair, which happens every year at this time for the last twenty or so years, is an excellent place to advertise/publicise Linux for free, yet out

RE: RE[2]: Commercial use of Red Hat (was Re: Sorry,,,,,,,,,,,So

1998-03-30 Thread Dave Wreski
One of our project was to involve a Mixi card and GPIB equipment. I found the needed drivers to the GPIB equipment but was unable to find anything for a Mixi card. We use a National Instruments GPIB controller and asked them if they would consider making drivers for Linux, but they said

Re: RE[2]: Commercial use of Red Hat (was Re: Sorry,,,,,,,,,,,So

1998-03-30 Thread Dave Wreski
This advertising thing is great and everything, but who pays for it?? Redhat has a great thing going right now... And for right now that is all they can do!! Until they keep growing (As they are very fast)... They can't waste there money advertising to windows 95 brainwashed minds... Just

RE: logrotate on SunOS?

1998-03-27 Thread Dave Wreski
On 27-Mar-98 Grant Beattie wrote: Hi everyone, This is a little off-topic, but the most likely place that someone will be able to help.. Has anyone successfully compiled logrotate (I have v2.2) on SunOS 5.5.1? If so, could you pls tar up the source and email it to me so I can compile

Re: Newbie. How to configure on Linux and Sun Mircosystems.

1998-03-27 Thread Dave Wreski
Most of these howto's leave a lot to be desired because they don't get into trouble shooting when there suggestions suck. Well, granted, the HOWTOs aren't always as explicit as we would like, but if we had the time to teach you each and every step that needed to be done, it would be merged

Re: Newbie. How to configure on Linux and Sun Mircosystems.

1998-03-27 Thread Dave Wreski
I guarantee you that by spending an hour figuring out the difference between public-key and private-key encryption, and reading thru the minimal ssh docs you will have this going. Additionally, you can get the pre-compiled RPM from ftp.replay.com and install that, which practically

Re: Jaz Drive and kernald. (or... More how do you get the darn Jaz drive working)

1998-03-27 Thread Dave Wreski
modprobe /lib/modules/2.0.27/scsi/aic7xxx.o the module is not found any clues.? Just run 'modprobe aic7xxx' and let modprobe find the correct path. running modprobe -c and looking at the path statements show that path[scsi]=/lib/modules/2.0.27/scsi You must have missed part of my

Re: How is linux not an O/S Was: Re: Want to give back to linux?

1998-03-25 Thread Dave Wreski
Heh, anyone remember the very first CD distribution of linux? It was called LGX and later became Yggdrasil. Yeah, sure do. I remember getting 40-something floppies, and installing on my trident 8900 with 512k. I then next time ordered it on CDROM, for my single-speed proprietary

Re: Kernel panics with S3 Virge XFree86 server

1998-03-24 Thread Dave Wreski
I was wondering if anyone has experienced this and come up with a solution. Unfortunately, there is not much that can be done with the data in the format it is currently in. There are a few things you should try to do to make the data helpful. 1. Compile the oops-generator: # cd

Re: What to install?

1998-03-21 Thread Dave Wreski
On 21-Mar-98 Dan Cyr wrote: I'll answer your last question only. Yup! =) Wrong, thanks for playing.. :) At 10:32 PM 3/21/98 +1000, plaven wrote: Since I have other problems, problems that could be resolved by re-installing only to get the text based menu back, would that be the better

RE: a ping for webservers

1998-03-21 Thread Dave Wreski
On 21-Mar-98 Douglas F. Elznic wrote: Hello, I need to find a performace measuring tool for webservers. Almost like ping. In infoworld they do a performance char of 40 commercial websites in regards to response time. Is thier a tool like this available for linux? Remember statistics are

RE: Clearing out Swap?

1998-03-21 Thread Dave Wreski
Is there a command that will check the swap file for any stubs or any files that it doesn't need? Isn't the kernel supposed to do this? My Swap is up to 67% and I'm wondering if I have a memory leak. I'm not running all that much at the moment... Data/processes that is in swap and not

RE: Screen flicker in X

1998-03-21 Thread Dave Wreski
On 21-Mar-98 Kent R. Frazier wrote: I have redhat 4.2 installed using XFree86 and AfterStep 1.0. When I set up my video card settings during install I took a very conservative route. I am now noticing a slight screen flicker after installing AfterStep. My settings are as follows:

RE: How to configure sound

1998-03-21 Thread Dave Wreski
On 21-Mar-98 Bernie Borenstein wrote: I have a Yamaha OPL3 card and would like to set it up for Linux. I found the sndconfig tool and it talks about Soundblaster cards. Can anyone guide me through setting things up for the Yamaha card I don't think it works for any cards other than the

RE: Frontpage Server Extensions

1998-03-21 Thread Dave Wreski
On 21-Mar-98 Kirk Bollinger wrote: Anyone know where to find some information on getting MS Frontpage server extensions for Apache with Redhat Linux?? http://frontpage.netnation.com/ http://www.mr.net/~fritchie/frontpage.html http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage/wpp/ -- PLEASE read the Red

RE: Configure of an Internal Tape Drive?

1998-03-21 Thread Dave Wreski
On 21-Mar-98 Dave Watts wrote: Hi, I am trying to figure out how to configure the Conner Internal Tape Drive I have on my system. Being some what new at this I'm not exactly sure where to start. I do know the tape drive is using I/O port 3f0 and IRQ 6. Is there a HOW TO that relates

RE: eth0 ck_buf error

1998-03-21 Thread Dave Wreski
I got the following error yesterday: eth0: coundn't allocate a sk_buf of size 60 It froze the machine and it just kept scrolling up the screen. Does anyone know what would cause this to happen?? If it happens consistently, consider upgrading your kernel, or see:

RE: ppp shutdown

1998-03-21 Thread Dave Wreski
I am slowly working through getting my ppp connection to work. I have successfully gotten the connection to my ISP to work and stay connected. My problem now is that the ppp-off doesn't seem to work. When I do ppp-off I get the following message "var/run/ppp0.pid permission denied", and

Re: Maximal mount count - THANKS

1998-03-21 Thread Dave Wreski
On 21-Mar-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the answers, folks. Glad to know that help is out there! ...breathing easy again... :o) Just wait 'till you get the bill! :) Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: Netware client (BASE V1.2) with Redhat 5.0

1998-03-19 Thread Dave Wreski
My understanding is that it will work with 4.11 servers if they have the bindery NLM loaded, but not if they allow nds only connections. In this instance you would need to used a Caldera system. As far as I can see, it is not possible to run their novel client on a redhat 5.0 system, it may

Re: Upgrading libc..

1998-03-19 Thread Dave Wreski
I have an RPM titled libc-5.4.44-1rh42.i386.rpm, which is used, as indicated by the filename, to upgrade libc on RH4.2 systems. My question is, is it safe to use this same RPM on RH5.0 systems?? I need to upgrade libc so that I can run StarOffice 4.0... If it is not safe to do this,

Re: Memory leak in RH5.0 ??

1998-03-17 Thread Dave Wreski
What is using up all the 60MB of RAM? After another period of time bind will not be running anymore with no core dump and no error message in any logfile. This, is a seperate issue... I can't help you here... There was in fact a few memory leaks in the 2.0.30, .31, and .32 kernels. I

RE: Unable to FTP oddity. . .

1998-03-17 Thread Dave Wreski
On 17-Mar-98 David Hughes wrote: Am running a RH 4.2 box. Have created a hosts.allow scheme to allow access from specific domains only. Everything has worked fine until a few days ago when all of a sudden FTP access went south. I can telnet into it, web works, everything works fine,

Re: Unable to FTP oddity. . .

1998-03-17 Thread Dave Wreski
On 18-Mar-98 David Hughes wrote: Dave, solved. Really odd issue. Nothing appeared obvious in the hosts.allow file which is where I do most of the security (what is your feeling. . . the hosts.allow or hosts.deny file for bolstering security??). I'd say use hosts.allow, as you would most

RE: rcmd: socket: permission denied

1998-03-17 Thread Dave Wreski
On 16-Apr-98 Jörg Narr wrote: Hi there! I receive the above comment on rlogin as soon as I try to rlogin as a "normal" user. As super user "root" rlogin works fine. rlogin must be suid. Use 'chmod 4755 /usr/bin/rlogin' to fix the permissions. Be sure to only apply the suid-bit to

RE: 1) getty and 2) pppd

1998-03-17 Thread Dave Wreski
On 18-Mar-98 Ross Camm wrote: 1)I have set up a dumb terminal and modem dialin successfuly, and have edited the /etc/gettydefs file to show number of users, date, time, line spedd etc at the logon prompt. How can I do this for the logon prompt recieved when logging on at the normal

Re: Can I use 4 HD IDE-Controller w RH-4.2 ?

1998-03-16 Thread Dave Wreski
I should have stated that I'm using a 486 PC... Do you think using 4 drive controller will be possible with a 486? I don't think it will be a problem at all. Is it one of the 'Promise' cards? Is it a local-bus card? I understand using fstool to add the additional drives but do I

Re: Trouble with Adaptec 2940 and CDROM

1998-03-16 Thread Dave Wreski
I have a 2940UW w/1.25 BIOS. It works fine with the hard drive (Seagate Barracuda), but when I switched the CDROM from IDE to SCSI (Toshiba 12X), I can no longer mount the CD. The error message is "the iso9660 file system is not supported by the kernel." (prior to the switch, I recompiled

Re: Can I use 4 HD IDE-Controller w RH-4.2 ?

1998-03-16 Thread Dave Wreski
It will be an ISA card... Are the Promise cards good? Yes, I had good luck with mine, like five years ago, and several are listed as available in the kernel. Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ

Re: usercfg more problems with lots of users.

1998-03-16 Thread Dave Wreski
I am having a problem with usercfg and lots of users. There is no find user function. Scrolling through a chaotic /etc/passwd file with 600+ users is no fun. If it was arranged alphabetically it would solve the problem aslo. Can any one think of a quick way to solve the problem? I need a

Re: xconfig problem too

1998-03-16 Thread Dave Wreski
I have exactly the same problem, so i've done everything that has been said. In fact now, the problem is that i need XF86_SVGA and i'm sure it isn't installed. As i'm not very familiar with the packages, could someone tell me in which package of RH5 is XF86_SVGA and if i just have to do a

Re: 2 problems : locate and keyboard

1998-03-16 Thread Dave Wreski
As an other user i've read, i've got problem whith locate. I've executed a makewhatis and that solved most of my whereis and apropos problems but locate still doesn't work fine. I'm sorry if the answer has already been given. locate is scheduled to run at 1:04 AM. Do you shut your

Re: Multiple ethernet and IPs

1998-03-16 Thread Dave Wreski
I'm a new member of this list, and I have a problem with my RedHat 5.0. I just installed on my computer RedHat 5.0 with gcc ver. 2.7.2.3. Download the glibc-* RPM updates from ftp.redhat.com/updates/5.0/i386 and read the errata at http://www.redhat.com/errata Dave -- PLEASE read

Re: Booting LILO from Floppy

1998-03-16 Thread Dave Wreski
I think that RH 4.2 would allow one to boot up LILO from a floppy...can some tell me if it is possible to boot LILO from a floppy in RH 5.0?also how would you go about doing this? You'd like to create a floppy with lilo on it? You don't need to 'boot LILO'. You can

Re: Automating ftp

1998-03-16 Thread Dave Wreski
I'm thinking about automating the ftp process for downloading a Linux distribution (among other things). What tools do you folks use? I have looked at mirror 2.8, but couldn't get it to work with the company firewall. I have to ftp to the firewall machine first and then put the login

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