boot problem

2000-06-26 Thread Srinivas Suggula
hello every1, i'm a newbie to linux. i have a problem in booting. i had linux(RedHat 6.1) on /dev/hda4 previously and to install Solaris i shifted the partition and now the linux partition is on /dev/hda3. so i'm not able to boot linux and i cant afford to loose my files so please help me

Re: boot problem

2000-06-26 Thread Richard Adams
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Srinivas Suggula wrote about, boot problem: hello every1, i'm a newbie to linux. i have a problem in booting. i had linux(RedHat 6.1) on /dev/hda4 previously and to install Solaris i shifted the partition and now the linux partition is on /dev/hda3. In what way do

Re[2]: Again Apache problem

2000-06-26 Thread Areg
Yes, this helped me. I changed users' directory permission to 711 it worked. Thanks. -- Best regards, Aregmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please

Re: [RE: Hot Linux PC found]

2000-06-26 Thread Robert Haehnel
OK, sorry, I had a hard time deciding between ASL and Xi. They both make Hot PC's with Linux pre-installed, but I wound up going with ASL becuase: 1. They seemed to have more experiance with Linux, so I'm hoping it comes out of the box ready to roll with no tweeking or bugs. One of my colligues

permission public_html

2000-06-26 Thread Batara Kesuma
hello all, what is the permission that should be set on /home/user ? so that i can access /home/user/public_html with the web browser from internet? i tried everything and it didnt work. then i read a book, it said it should be set to 2755. so it is: $ chmod 2755 /home/user what does this mean?

Re: Reconstructing partion table

2000-06-26 Thread Peter Howell Jr
cfdisk did the trick perfectly. Thanks! The partition type byte had been changed to 0x44, which didn't fit any of the known types. I changed it to FAT32, then the drive booted right up. There is a Gateway Goback on this system. Once it was able to boot, it could detect other

Re: boot problem

2000-06-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 11:35 PM 6/25/00 -0700, Srinivas Suggula wrote: hello every1, i'm a newbie to linux. i have a problem in booting. i had linux(RedHat 6.1) on /dev/hda4 previously and to install Solaris i shifted the partition and now the linux partition is on /dev/hda3. How did you do this? It's not exactly

Which distribution of Linux is better for internet server?

2000-06-26 Thread Dragon
Hello, Which distribution of Linux is better for internet server? That server would provide such services as wed ftp mail and so on, But only for LAN users. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the

copying profiles?

2000-06-26 Thread Paul Garcia
Hello all, running RedHat 6.1, and i have set up my KDE desktop (wallpaper, bookmarks, etc.) and wanted to know how to copy the same settings over to another user. i see a directory called /home/username/Desktop, but cannot determine which files there would do the trick. is 'profiles' the

Re: Which distribution of Linux is better for internet server?

2000-06-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 07:02 PM 6/26/00 +0300, Dragon wrote: Hello, Which distribution of Linux is better for internet server? That server would provide such services as wed ftp mail and so on, But only for LAN users. Whichever one you are (or your sysadmin is) most familiar with. Seriously. Running an Internet

Re: copying profiles?

2000-06-26 Thread Richard Adams
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Paul Garcia wrote about, copying profiles?: Hello all, running RedHat 6.1, and i have set up my KDE desktop (wallpaper, bookmarks, etc.) and wanted to know how to copy the same settings over to another user. i see a directory called /home/username/Desktop, but

pros and cons of compiling for i386

2000-06-26 Thread Pete
Hi all (again) BTW: thanks for the previous answers. Now it's question time again :-) I've done a fresh install of RH6.2 after playing with 6.0 and I'm going to do a bit of reading about kernel compilation. I'm a little vague about just how much of a speed increase I'm going to get by

Re: pros and cons of compiling for i386

2000-06-26 Thread Richard Adams
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Pete wrote about, pros and cons of compiling for i386: Hi all (again) BTW: thanks for the previous answers. Now it's question time again :-) I've done a fresh install of RH6.2 after playing with 6.0 and I'm going to do a bit of reading about kernel compilation.

Screen Capture

2000-06-26 Thread Mike Fletcher
Is there a way to do a screen capture in X. (I am using fvwm). Thanks Mike -- Mike Fletcher - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sheridan College - Data Systems Group Ph. (905)845-9430 x2162 Fax (905)815-4011 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message

Slackware 7.1

2000-06-26 Thread Richard Adams
Slackware 7.1 is out. Only toruble ishalf the linux world wants it, download speeds were nearly zero eariler today here. -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a

Re: Which distribution of Linux is better for internet server?

2000-06-26 Thread Richard Adams
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Dragon wrote about, Which distribution of Linux is better for internet server?: Hello, Which distribution of Linux is better for internet server? That server would provide such services as wed ftp mail and so on, But only for LAN users. That question really has no

Re: Screen Capture

2000-06-26 Thread Karthik Vishwanath
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Mike Fletcher wrote: Is there a way to do a screen capture in X. (I am using fvwm). Thanks Mike If you run xv, then you can do a grab (of a screen, window, rectangular region) with it. -Karthik. - The universe is like a safe to

Power failure

2000-06-26 Thread Karthik Vishwanath
Hi, In case of a power failure, my machine just freezes up and does not restart automatically. Is there any thing I can run so that it can restart after the failure? Thanks, -K - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Mail notifications

2000-06-26 Thread Karthik Vishwanath
I telnet to two machines and these machines are my mail servers (for two accounts). I have to keep switching to these xterms to check if I have new mail. Is it possible for me to set something up so that I get a notification so that I know I have new mail and I need not keep switching to the

Re: Power failure

2000-06-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
What do you mean by "freezes up"? What kind of machine do you have? (The difference between AT and ATX power supplies is central to this question.) At 04:39 PM 6/26/00 -0400, Karthik Vishwanath wrote: In case of a power failure, my machine just freezes up and does not restart automatically. Is

Re: Power failure

2000-06-26 Thread Karthik Vishwanath
I have a pc, and AMD-K6, Hewlett Packard Pavilion. I would have no idea about ATX/AT power supplies. Freezes means its like its been shutdown. -Karthik. On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Ray Olszewski wrote: What do you mean by "freezes up"? What kind of machine do you have? (The difference between

Re: Power failure

2000-06-26 Thread Pete
Hi Karthik. It sounds like you have an ATX power supply to me. Look in your BIOS settings under the 'Power Management' section. There should be an entry there, probably called 'power loss recovery' or something similar. I don't have one of these types of machines so I'm relying on my memory

Re: Which distribution of Linux is better for internet server?

2000-06-26 Thread Jill
Which distribution of Linux is better for internet server? I have just configured a box using Mandrake , it has a lot of security flaws, but is usable. it took me over a week to do it. I think at the moment about 80% of the Internet servers are Linux as it is more configurable. If you want

X crashing

2000-06-26 Thread TMP Company
I'm sorry I didn't write it down but X was complaining about noise from KBD "keyboard ?" cable. This happens when I have my A / B data switch set to my Win98 box for a day or two with out using it. It happens on both root and other log in. I just started testing with a prompt only. Tim... -

Re: Which distribution of Linux is better for internet server?

2000-06-26 Thread Richard Adams
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Jill wrote about, Re: Which distribution of Linux is better for internet server?: Which distribution of Linux is better for internet server? But only for LAN users. Very few people are aware of this but most later versions of Windoze have a web server for intranet

Modem is slow again...

2000-06-26 Thread Sergey Yepifanov
Hello, I failed to explain myself clearly in the previous message, this time I will try to give more detailed information... My ISA modem is set on /dev/ttyS2 and uses IRQ 4 by default, so does the mouse /dev/ttyS0. That is the reason (I think) why my modem works terribly slowly (it takes it

Re: X crashing

2000-06-26 Thread Richard Adams
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, TMP Company wrote about, X crashing: I'm sorry I didn't write it down but X was complaining about noise from KBD "keyboard ?" cable. This happens when I have my A / B data switch set to my Win98 box for a day or two with out using it. It happens on both root and other

PLIP

2000-06-26 Thread Steven
I've been experimenting with PLIP on my (five) computers. All of them work happily using DOS intersvr/interlnk, so the cable and the parallel ports are working fine. Three of them work well using Linux PLIP, but the other two do not (no ping). I've mixed and matched the computers and those two

Re: Power failure

2000-06-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 06:51 AM 6/27/00 +0930, Pete wrote: It sounds like you have an ATX power supply to me. Look in your BIOS settings under the 'Power Management' section. There should be an entry there, probably called 'power loss recovery' or something similar. ... I just checked this on one of my ATX

Re: Modem is slow again...

2000-06-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
setserial doesn't do what you think. It changes the IRQ that the /dev/ttyS* entry looks to for a device. It does not change the IRQ of the physical device in the system. So the modem is still on IRQ4, and now /dev/ttyS2 points to the wrong IRQ. You are probably right in thinking that the problem

Starting up problem.

2000-06-26 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
Hi all, ust migrated from Windoze to Linux (Mandrake 7.0) and have the following trouble when starting: I get en error message telling me /eth0 could not initialize. My ethernet adpater is NE2000 compatible, and works ok under Windoze95. In which direction should I start digging ? Grateful

Re: Starting up problem.

2000-06-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
First, tell us the exact error message you get and where in the boot/init sequence you get it. I surmise it is an ifconfig error. If so, check earlier to see if the ne.o module is loading, and if it is, what it says about finding a NIC. I forget where Mandrake does its module installation, but

Re: Which distribution of Linux is better for internet server?

2000-06-26 Thread Batara Kesuma
If you want to get the most out of a linux system use Slackware. The old saying goes, "Use slackware and learn Linux".! unfortunately slacware isnt a linux distribution, it is a tarball of someone's hard drive :P -bk- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Screen Capture

2000-06-26 Thread Shane
Hello Mike. Is there a way to do a screen capture in X. (I am using fvwm). Thanks Mike Snapshot is in the KDE menu and works OK with that. Maybe it's somewhere on your system if you did a full install and have a KDE menu entry. Something like - KDE Graphics Snapshot Shane.. - To

Re: Modem is slow again...

2000-06-26 Thread Shane
My ISA modem is set on /dev/ttyS2 and uses IRQ 4 by default, so does the mouse /dev/ttyS0. That is the reason (I think) why my modem works terribly slowly (it takes it more than 30 seconds to respond to ATZ command. Shift one of them. Easy if one of them uses hardware jumpers to set the IRQ.

Re: Which distribution of Linux is better for internet server?

2000-06-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
If this is a serious comment, then it is in error. While the packaging system of Slackware is a bit more primitive than, say, .rpm or .deb, it is a real packaging system that allows for quite a bit of system customization. I used it happily and productively for many years, before I switched over

Redhat 6.1 FontServer ? and add headers to the search path

2000-06-26 Thread Akintayo Holder
I have two questions 1. Redhat no longer uses X to render its fonts, does anyone know what is uses now ? 2. how do i change the search path for library headers ? is there an env var similar to path ? i am trying to get gcc on FreeBSD to notice a header in /usr/local/include/ Bonus: Does anyone

Re: Redhat 6.1 FontServer ? and add headers to the search path

2000-06-26 Thread Christoph Hammann
Am Mit, 28 Jun 2000 schrieb Akintayo Holder: 2. how do i change the search path for library headers ? is there an env var similar to path ? Yes, it's LD_LIBRARY_PATH . HTH! Christoph -- Random fortune quote: Mythology, n.: The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin,

server intermittently refusing connections

2000-06-26 Thread Jeff Nelson
Hi all, I have encountered a problem that I've never seen before, so I'm hoping that some of you folks with more experience can give me some clues as to what's going on... My Linux server runs on a Pentium Pro 180 with 32MB of RAM, a 3c509 network card, anda 2.2 GB hard drive with roughly equal

Re: server intermittently refusing connections

2000-06-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
"refusing connections" isn't completely clear as a problem description. What is the system actually doing that you characterize this way? That is, what does a "refusal" look like on the machine that attempts unsuccessfully to connect to the service? Not knowing that, the rest of these are

Xclients

2000-06-26 Thread Koliya N Pulasinghe.
Dears, Can you propose a xclient to run on win95/98 to connect with a linux box. It's a great help if you can send information with configuration instructions or place of a shareware. Koliya - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to