Re: EMacs?

1998-03-16 Thread Dave Wreski
I am looking for a replacement for Pico, something that is as simple to use, that I don't have to remember alot of commands, and is a full screen editor. Old habits die hard I guess. If I had to, I could learn vi or emacs, but I want to stick with something that I am familiar with. Any

Re: Multiple ethernet and IPs

1998-03-16 Thread Dave Wreski
Our problem is that we can see 192.168.1.1 from the departmental network. You can reach a machine on the 192.168.1.0 network your saying? Sounds like the router is incorrectly configured, unless its done intentionally. These addresses are never supposed to be routed. routed is not running

Re: Multiple ethernet and IPs

1998-03-16 Thread Dave Wreski
You can reach a machine on the 192.168.1.0 network your saying? Sounds like the router is incorrectly configured, unless its done intentionally. These addresses are never supposed to be routed. That's not quite correct. It is perfectly valid to route these networks. It is invalid to

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

1998-03-16 Thread Dave Wreski
Redhat 4.2 can handle... an IDE controller card which can accomodate 4 IDE devices (one of which will be my IDE CDROM). You mean like a secondary IDE controller, that is typically built-in to most Pentiums? If so, then yes, and nothing further needs to be done. If not, then it will

Re: ftpd and/or telnetd on multihomed machine

1998-03-16 Thread Dave Wreski
Does anyone know how to configure telnetd and/or ftpd to listen only on a specific interface on a machine with multiple interfaces? I want to be able to ftp/telnet into IP address 'foo' but not into address 'baz' (both on the same RedHat 5.0 box). I did this sort of thing on my

Re: Keep the program running..

1998-03-16 Thread Dave Wreski
But for those cases where nohup just won't work, there's always 'detach'. Detach isn't but should be a part of every unix/linux distribution. I got it from a usenet posting several years ago, use it on many different unix and unix-like systems (SCO, AIX, Linux, Coherent) where it always

Re: Shell Programming Book

1998-03-16 Thread Dave Wreski
Anyone know of a good Linux shell programming book (or a general shell programming book if that is better)? UNIX Applications Programming: Mastering the Shell, by Ray Swartz, ISBN: 0-672-22715-0. and UNIX Shell Programming, by Stephen G. Kochan and Patrick H. Wood. ISBN: 0-672-48448-X.

Re: uugetty - RINGBACK (??)

1998-03-15 Thread Dave Wreski
I had RHL 4.2 up and running very smoothly, and had a dial-in on cua0 using uugetty (from getty_ps) for PPP, etc. It worked perfectly with the RINGBACK=YES setting so I could call in, hang-up, and have it answer on the next call. I've recently upgraded to RHL 5.0, and in short, this

Re: sendmail.cf again..Red Hat4.2

1998-03-15 Thread Dave Wreski
I am new to Red Hat, and I like this very much!! Great! I have a question on mail setting, especially sendmail.cf. I would like to setup my server which can handle the mail not including machine name. Try and avoid having to edit sendmail.cf if you can. It is easier to use m4 to generate

Re: uugetty - RINGBACK (??)

1998-03-15 Thread Dave Wreski
The most info I've found is that the modem is set to not automatically pick-up. This is good. I've confirmed by moving it around on uugetty that it is reading my uugetty.ttyS0 file. This is also good. As per the debug info, Correct, getty should issue an `ata' to answer the phone..

Re: Iomega zip drive Linux parallel port support

1998-03-15 Thread Dave Wreski
I have an Iomega Zip drive, which is an external parallel port model. The problem with it is its slowness in Linux. In windows I get at least 160 kb/s (read/write) and in Linux I get only 24 kb/s (read/write). I have tried all the parallel port modes (ecp/epp/ecp+epp/standard) with no

Re: redhat-digest Digest V98 #450

1998-03-15 Thread Dave Wreski
Hi, I just ordered a 5 disc set from the linux mall with Redhat, slackware, caldera, debian, and linux pro. Now my question: I want to take the best software from each and slap it all together to make myself a really nice system. Now, George Toft wrote: That's easy! IMHO (having

Re: SIMMs?

1998-03-15 Thread Dave Wreski
where you would get 2 Meg 30 pin SIMMs anymore. Actually, I'm not sure they made those in a first place. 1 Meg may be the biggest available... No, they made 4M and 16M. In my opinion, you'd be better served by going out and buying a new motherboard... Sure, along with the HDD

Re: Apache 1.3

1998-03-15 Thread Dave Wreski
I realize this is a Linux list server, but I prefer to play fair. I've been running NT ever since version 3.1 and it has NEVER crashed on me without a good reason, and a solution readily available. All in all my NT has been stable as a rock. I believe people badmouth NT because they

RE: logrotate and httpd (repost)

1998-03-15 Thread Dave Wreski
On 16-Mar-98 Montana Banana wrote: In my /etc/logrotate.d/apache file, the following line accompanies the entry for each of the virtual domains on my server: postrotate /usr/bin/killall -HUP httpd endscript Is it necessary to kill/restart the apache daemon after *each*

Re: RH 5.0/Apache1.2.5 with Frontpage Extension

1998-03-15 Thread Dave Wreski
Just curious if anyone has be running Frontpage extensions with RH 5.0 and Apache 1.2.5. I see that there is a recently released version of the frontpage extensions for Apache 1.2.5. Since I have a bunch of customers wanting to use Frontpage for web publishing, I'm curious as to any bad

Re: Fwd: a good email reader?

1998-03-14 Thread Dave Wreski
My personal choice is pine+procmail but tkRat and mutt are both very good email programs. Procmail is a must, though, for the filtering. Not if you use xfmail, and don't mind having each message in a seperate file. It works very well, easy to use, constantly upgraded, and menu-based

RE: How to compile

1998-03-14 Thread Dave Wreski
I download a file named "amp-0.7.3.tgz", I extracted it , but I don't know how to complie it. the readme file says " do :edit Makefile make mv amp usr/local/bin amp" I typed "make" ,and it reported many errors.and it seems

Re: RH 5.0 without glibc (libc-6) (was: Can't execute RH 5.0 exe

1998-03-14 Thread Dave Wreski
Get youself an updated RH 4.2 RPMs directory, create a 1gig partition in /mnt/rh4.2 for example, then do a mkdir -p /mnt/rh4.2/var/lib/rpm rpm --root /mnt/rh4.2 --initdb rpm --root /mnt/rh4.2 --noscripts -ivh *.i386.rpm Then: chroot /mnt/rh4.2 bash and you are

Re: Fwd: a good email reader?

1998-03-14 Thread Dave Wreski
I would like a FULL featured mail client for linux Like Eudora that is about all I use my Mac for still Fine Procmail for filtering but what about the client multisignatures offline editing multimail boxes to read through the filters That's xfmail. You need to add `mp',

Re: ntfs support?

1998-03-14 Thread Dave Wreski
Does anyone know if linux supports NTFS? In a word...no. Eh? Sure does. Check your kernel configuration again.. 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 To

Re: modes in emacs

1998-03-14 Thread Dave Wreski
I have just installed redhat linux v5 and am trying to get xemacs to display colour syntax for modes such as html, java and c. I was wondering if I need to install further packages or what configuration needs to be done for colour (color) syntax to work for these modes and others. Check the

Re: How do I transfer a file from an IBM formatted floppy to a l

1998-03-14 Thread Dave Wreski
On 15-Mar-98 Vadim Israilevich wrote: In Linux, when you remove a floppy and insert a new one, you have to unmount the floppy drive (if it was mounted for previous floppy) and re-mount it for new one. A pain in the seat, if you ask me, but... From: Steven Hanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I

Re: ghostscript Problems

1998-03-14 Thread Dave Wreski
Well; for starters it won't read pdf files:Also, there are consistent read error messages for other types of files as well even when you select "none" for file preference type. Either there is something wrong with your gs, or you are doing something wrong. Ghostscript reads pdf

RE: postscript printer with duplex

1998-03-14 Thread Dave Wreski
Is there any driver for postscript printer HP-5N with duplex capability? I'am using RH-5.0 in a i386 machine Well, I've been using the `ljet3d' driver on my HP5Si duplex printer with no problems.. Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: How do I transfer a file from an IBM formatted floppy to a l

1998-03-14 Thread Dave Wreski
Not really a pain if you say edit .bashrc and add (you can just add this to /etc/bashrc if you want it to be a system wide user setting). alias mflop='mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy' alias uflop='umount /dev/fd0' then to change to that dir quikly alias a:='cd /mnt/floppy' Oh

Re: redhat-digest Digest V98 #445

1998-03-14 Thread Dave Wreski
I use Apache 1.2.5 And, in answer to my own question, I found a link while searching altavista on using the mod_rewrite to do just this. If you are interested, follow this link: http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/~brabec/antispam.html He details how to setup your server to recognize these

Re:ghostscript or gv

1998-03-14 Thread Dave Wreski
Dave; ok I should have said gv: Here is message aim getting: Error: /undefined in zpf_york.pdf Operand Stack both ghostscript and ghostview are installed and checked with Ok, check for an updated version, or get the one right from Aladdin: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html

Re: xfmail RPM

1998-03-14 Thread Dave Wreski
Anybody built a new xfmail RPM that works with xforms-0.88-4 and RH 5.0? The version 1.2-2 RPM installs, but doesn't work (segfault). Tried to --rebuild from the SRPM but that died. Time to hack away at a new RPM? THat would actually be a good idea. Apparently there were some problems

Re: Virtual Domain

1998-03-13 Thread Dave Wreski
I have already configured my server to run a "virtual domain" that is that another URL than the first is working on internet browsers on my server, my question is how can I add users that may have mail address with the new "domain", where can I read about this (other than

Re: The 1023 cylinder problem,lilo gets li and then 1's and 0's

1998-03-13 Thread Dave Wreski
Help, how do I find out what cylinders my root partion is on. I have a 1.6 GB hard drive. I have the first 200 MB partioned as root but lilo stil won't work. Enable LBA on your motherboard to do the proper translation. You can use fdisk to find out some of this information: # fdisk

RE: Using RH5 box for dial-in server

1998-03-13 Thread Dave Wreski
On 13-Mar-98 Aaron Walker wrote: Hello, I want to setup my RH5 box to answer incoming phone calls. This is no big thing, just my personal system which I want to be able to dial-in when I am elsewhere. How would I go about setting this up? Thanks for all your help, Read the

Re: RH 5.0 without glibc (libc-6) (was: Can't execute RH 5.0 exe

1998-03-13 Thread Dave Wreski
Once I get the round-tuit, I may figure out how to support the older programs. It should be _possible_, given intelligent linkers. Heck, a linker that reads a load map that says "for this program, use this library" would work. If you did it right, it would even operate very quickly and

Re: Why is libc5 going away and glibc gonna be It.

1998-03-13 Thread Dave Wreski
Whats the mistake? The mistake is you wrote one line of text, yet sent like a hundred. Please trim what isn't relevant, and always trim the RH subscription messages at the bottom. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

RE: Oracle for Linux/FreeBSD???????

1998-03-13 Thread Dave Wreski
On 13-Mar-98 Mark Cox wrote: Is there a version of Oracle (retail or free - preferrably the latter) available for Linux or FreeBSD? And if so, where can I get it. I don't think so. Check out www.redhat.com/linux-info for a list of links that will eventually take you to databases that are

Re: StarOffice 4.0/RH5 : install error

1998-03-12 Thread Dave Wreski
I've installed SO4 on a RH 4.2 box : it works well... But now I try to install it on a RedHat 5.0 box, the install program opens error boxes : http://www.waldherr.org/soffice4.shtml Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: StarOffice 4.0/RH5 : install error

1998-03-12 Thread Dave Wreski
By following EXACTLY http://www.waldherr.org/soffice4.shtml it works flowlessly... Thanks to all Wish I could say the same. I printed the page and checked off each item as I performed it so I know I got all of the symlinks (even tried it 3 times). Still get the same error. Pre-set

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-12 Thread Dave Wreski
An OS is nothing without applications. Windows apps have the upper hand when it comes to graphics. I am a diehard photoshop user, and though I have not had the chance to work with photoshop under linux, I hope to one day switch over completely to linux. We're an authorized Adobe Service

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-12 Thread Dave Wreski
Am I the only one left in the English-speaking world who knows the difference between "its" and "it's"? Nice to see I'm not the only one terminally-pissed that the education system doesn't see to be teaching! Gee, its either that, or people are too lazy to type the apostrophe. Hmm..

Re: Good Samba Book

1998-03-12 Thread Dave Wreski
Anyone know of a good book for learning/admin'ing Samba? Check the web site -- one was just released by one of the members of the samba team. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips

Re: RH 5.0 without glibc (libc-6) (was: Can't execute RH 5.0 executables !!!)

1998-03-12 Thread Dave Wreski
Well, the truth is that I do feel that I wasted the $50, and I am disappointed. I assume you meant do _not_ feel that you wasted the $50... I should have bought the 4.2 distribution, if at all (I have 4.1). The differences between 4.1 and 4.2 were basically bugfixes -- no real improvements

RE: Full kernels since the begining

1998-03-11 Thread Dave Wreski
On 12-Mar-98 Douglas F. Elznic wrote: Is thier a place that has all of the kernels from begining to end? I have seen all of the old patches but none of the full sources. I am doing a research project on the linux kernel so I need to be able to go back and forth between revisions easily.

RE: Full kernels since the begining

1998-03-11 Thread Dave Wreski
On 12-Mar-98 Douglas F. Elznic wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Dave Wreski wrote: Why, no other than ftp.kernel.org :) I only saw patches. I am looking for full tar.gz's. Look harder 8) ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.0/linux-2.0.* and ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.1/linux-2.1

RE: ext2fs on a floppy

1998-03-11 Thread Dave Wreski
On 12-Mar-98 Douglas F. Elznic wrote: How can I make native linux floppies? 1. insert floppy 2. fdformat -n /dev/fd0H1440 3. mkfs /dev/fd0 If the floppy has been formatted previously, you can skip step two. Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

rz/sz bug in 4.2

1998-03-11 Thread Dave Wreski
Hi all. I'm having a problem with lrzsz-0.12.15 and trying to resume interrupted transfers. I'm sure its a bug, I just can't figure out how to reproduce it. It seems sometimes it resumes interrupted transfers with '-r' correctly, yet other times it starts from the beginning, yet doesn't

RE: Linux/Xenix

1998-03-11 Thread Dave Wreski
On 12-Mar-98 Robert Hailman wrote: Hello. When I get Linux working :o) there are some games I want to import from work. At work we have a Xenix network, so could I read a Xenix disk in Linux, or would I have to email it to my Windows 95 box and transfer it on disk to my Linux box? Yes,

Re: Linux kernel 2.0.31????

1997-08-23 Thread Dave Wreski
I agree with jon here. A few weeks ago i tried to compile and run a pre-release of 2.0.31 and had all kinds of problems. I went back to 2.0.30 and everything has been peachy so far. There were two different threads of development for 2.0.31. For a few months David Miller was doing the

Re: Linux kernel 2.0.31????

1997-08-23 Thread Dave Wreski
Every Linux production server I work on is 2.0.29. Not one single 2.0.30 in the bunch... what's wrong with 2.0.30? am i missing something? I've accidentally deleted the message that talked about ip_masq being fixed in 2.0.30. I think it is fixed by applying a patch to 2.0.30, not

Re: Linux kernel 2.0.31????

1997-08-22 Thread Dave Wreski
I have been just WAINTING for someone to bring this up. In my personal opinion, Linus is making a mistake by introducing new features in the release tree and it results in having two development trees going at the same time. Somehow the old way of releasing bug-fixes only in the stable

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