Re: PAM Authenication

1998-03-09 Thread Sam Ockman
Try running pwck...it will check the validity of /etc/passwd, and /etc/shadow, and let you know if you have any problems. Such problems may be causing this error. -Sam On Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 09:07:10PM -0800, Ken Arck wrote: I recently changed over my 5.0 system to PAM authentication, which

Re: Ghostscript Stylus 800

1998-03-09 Thread Steven Casey Jones
Mike Frisch wrote: On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, Casey Jones wrote: I was wondering if the person who u/l ghostscript.5.10 to redhat's site could possible compile in the stcolor and st800 If you're using an Epson Stylus Color 800, you should probably use the "uniprint" driver from 5.10 (as

Strange Network pause with concurrent activity

1998-03-09 Thread Adam Neat
Hello everyone We seem to have cropped up a strange problem with our networking on one of ourclient systems. They have a dedicated PPP connection to us (over standard modem) coming off a firewall/router Red Hat 5.0 linux box. The Firewall Linux box also has 2 ethernet cards in it delivering

Re: Motif 2.1 question

1998-03-09 Thread Cristian Gafton
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Andy Moskoff wrote: ddd: error in loading shared libraries libXm.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I seriously doubt that motif and lesstiff are binary compatible. You'll have to recompile your apps. Do I have to rebuild these binaries?

Re: mount clntudp_create: RPC: Program not registered

1998-03-09 Thread RedHat List
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Rodney O. Kerstetter wrote: What is the output of rpcinfo -p? - Rod Good point! On one server I have only: program vers proto port 102 tcp111 rpcbind 102 udp111 rpcbind :( while on the other I have: program vers proto

Re: usercfg no good for a lot of users???

1998-03-09 Thread Douglas F. Elznic
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Bryan Koschmann wrote: Actually it looks more like you were logged on as a user, SU'd to root, then ran netcfg, which needs a export DISPLAY=:0.0 to tell it where to draw the window... Hope this helps.. how can you tell this? -- Douglas F. Elznic [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If

re: dtc 2278E VLB IDE controller

1998-03-09 Thread Ksheff
I bought a DTC 2278EB VLB IDE controller this week for my 486. I have redhat 4.2 with kernel 2.0.27. I recompiled the kernel to use the DTC 2278 driver. Before the recompile the best transfer rate I could get using hdparm was 1.40 MB/s. With the dtc driver I can get about 3.10 MB/s. However,

Re: Best Linux Book

1998-03-09 Thread Brandon A Duhamel
There are so many Linux books out there and it is really hard to pin down the absolute best. Also many of them are NOT so good; absolute crap. i.e. Linux for Dummies (which I had the sad misfortune of purchasing. I think it best to have more than just one book. I have recently narrowed it down to

Setting Folder Permissions

1998-03-09 Thread Pork E Pigg
Is there a way to permanently set folder permissions on mounted drives? I can mount them from root and set the permissions to make them writeable by other users but, after a reboot I lose those and have to login as root to set them again. Maybe something can be set in one of the scripts that

Re: shadowed password question

1998-03-09 Thread Stephen Carville
Bench wrote: This is possible but you can't just issue a pwconv5 here since all shadowed password '*' on /etc/passwd file which is the case in Slackware instead of 'x' will be interpreted in Redhat's shadow suite a non-shadowed password itself. You can create a script that convert all '*'

Re: Need a Linux Friendly ISP/dialup provider

1998-03-09 Thread Stephen Carville
Greg Thomas wrote: I'm looking for an ISP (for a dialup/ppp connection) that is known to be helpful to Linux Users connecting by PPP. I'd appreciate a reference from you'all... With somewhat mixed feelings I can point you to Earthlink. They recently added a Linux page

mount clntudp_create: RPC: Program not registered

1998-03-09 Thread RedHat List
Hi, Can someone please help me out? I posted a similar message but got no replies! :( I'm trying to do an NFS mount and getting the above error... I see no messages in the nfs server logs or on the client side. I have portmap, nfsd and mountd all running and have /etc/exports set up such that

Correct time problem... RH5.0

1998-03-09 Thread Kevin H. Devin
I just upgraded from 4.2 to 5.0 this morning. Everything went extremely smooth. I was very impressed. There was one problem though... I'm using afterstep as my WM and asclock displays the time as GMT even though everything else is set to PST (-0800). Anyone have any clue as to what is

RE: Correct time problem... RH5.0

1998-03-09 Thread Chuck Mead
Got to http://www.moongroup.com/unix/linux_stuff.html and have a look at the Quick Tips... the fix is there! On 09-Mar-98 Kevin H. Devin wrote: I just upgraded from 4.2 to 5.0 this morning. Everything went extremely smooth. I was very impressed. There was one problem though... I'm using

Informative linux newbie page

1998-03-09 Thread mud99
hey, you guys, i created a page specifically for linux newbies, with emphasis on the redhat version. It still is under construction, but take a look. And tell everyone you know about it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

System pausing after login

1998-03-09 Thread Mark A. Pitman
Very recently, my RedHat 5.0 system started pausing for a period of time after I type in my userid and password. It pauses right after displaying the last login, and right before giving me a shell prompt. Has anyone else seen this? If I telnet to the box, it gives the message about the last time

inodes

1998-03-09 Thread Craig Kattner
After restarting linux this evening, during bootup it complained about "/dev/hda2: Deleted inodo 14989 has zero dtime" for about ten different inodes. Now, I understand what an inode is, so does this mean that a file just got the axe for each of these? Is there any means of checking what, if

Re: Informative linux newbie page

1998-03-09 Thread Pork E Pigg
mud99 wrote: hey, you guys, i created a page specifically for linux newbies, with emphasis on the redhat version. It still is under construction, but take a look. And tell everyone you know about it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the URL? An email address won't get it! -- PLEASE

mounting from aix

1998-03-09 Thread
When I try to mount from a linux box to an aix box I get an "NFS request from insecure port" error message on the linux box. How can I get around this? Thanks --Dustin -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: lowercase? (simple question)

1998-03-09 Thread Fred Smith
On Sun, Mar 08, 1998 at 06:07:19PM -0600, Larry Lade wrote: Is there a command which converts all filenames in a directory to lower case? I was about to write a perl script to do so, but I'm sure there's a standard tool to do it... one I can't seem to find or remember. yes, it's not hard to

Re: Setting Folder Permissions

1998-03-09 Thread Al Sparks
Perhaps you need to be more specific with symptoms. What do you mean by "folders"? Are you using ext2 file system? A file system's permissions are written to the disk (at least any file system that I've ever dealt with). That means when you remount a drive, the file permissions, including

security compromized?? :-(

1998-03-09 Thread Seif Zadeh Hossein
Hi there, I logged into my ISP last night, and start downloading some files. As it started to take longer than I thought I left it running over night. This morning after I logged out I checked the `messages' file, and to my surprise most of it was deleted. There was only a few lines there; to

RE: Swap File, how large can it be?

1998-03-09 Thread David . LANDGREN
On a SCO system though you MUST have at least RAMSIZE+10% as when it crashes, it writes the contents of ram to the swap partition. If there isn't enough room, it will simply overwrite your root partition with the excess. Gee, that's very thoughtful of it! I wonder how long it took the

Re: Domain maust resolve (2nd try) -Reply

1998-03-09 Thread oleg
Raymond Fung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, 09 Mar 1998 11:17:09: Are you using PINE or the so to edit / compose your E-mails, those software have configuration settings that you can preset your host/domain name when composing messages, which should normally be your ISP's domain name

Ghostscript 5.10 RPM Final available

1998-03-09 Thread Eze Ogwuma
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- The final version of my Ghostscript 5.10 RPM is now available. RPMS of the fonts and manuals are also available. Read the file ghostscript-5.10-3.README for more information. This RPM includes Epson Stylus drivers for resolutions up to 1440 dpi as well as

Re: Domain maust resolve (2nd try) -Reply

1998-03-09 Thread Jeff Douglass
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raymond Fung [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, 09 Mar 1998 11:17:09: Are you using PINE or the so to edit / compose your E-mails, those software have configuration settings that you can preset your host/domain name when composing messages,

RE: Swap File, how large can it be?

1998-03-09 Thread sma202
Well, when I ran out of my 128ram+16mb swap, X closed down all applications and dropped to console. It's strange but I didn't think I had so many apps running that my system couldn't handle. It seems that I am able to run more apps under Windows although its multitasking isn't that good. At

RE: Concatenating access_log files?

1998-03-09 Thread David . LANDGREN
[...] for i in access* do cat i$ filename done but this doesn't concatenate them quite the right way. I was looking to append them together in order, so they would be seamless - in other words February 15th would be the ending in one file, and Feb 16th would be the start in the next.

usercfg no good for a lot of users???

1998-03-09 Thread Douglas F. Elznic
Hello, I recently upgraded a server at work to linux. The box houses 650+ users and usercfg hates it. When I run usercfg it gives the following errors: [root@ian log]# usercfg Red Hat Linux usercfg 3.5 Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 Red Hat Software Redistributable under the terms of the GNU General

RE: Best Linux Book

1998-03-09 Thread Aelmans, A.A. \(Arjan\)
'O Reilly has a 2nd edition out now, completely updated. And it IS one of the best books around!! (imho) Arjan -- From: Muad'Dib[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: maandag 9 maart 1998 3:39 To:Redhat List Cc:The recipient's address is unknown.; LOCAL Subject: Best Linux Book

Re: mount clntudp_create: RPC: Program not registered

1998-03-09 Thread Rodney O. Kerstetter
On Mon, 09 Mar 1998, RedHat List wrote: Hi, Can someone please help me out? I posted a similar message but got no replies! :( I'm trying to do an NFS mount and getting the above error... I see no messages in the nfs server logs or on the client side. I have portmap, nfsd and mountd all

RE: Best Linux Book

1998-03-09 Thread Muad'Dib
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Aelmans, A.A. (Arjan) wrote: 'O Reilly has a 2nd edition out now, completely updated. And it IS one of the best books around!! (imho) Arjan That copyright is on the second book. Quoted straight from Amazon: Publication Date: August 1, 1996. Is it a lie? Misprint?

Re: usercfg no good for a lot of users???

1998-03-09 Thread Jonathan Peterson
At 05:16 AM 3/9/98 -0500, Douglas F. Elznic wrote: Hello, I recently upgraded a server at work to linux. The box houses 650+ users and usercfg hates it. When I run usercfg it gives the following errors: [root@ian log]# usercfg Red Hat Linux usercfg 3.5 Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 Red Hat Software

RE: Best Linux Book

1998-03-09 Thread Aelmans, A.A. \(Arjan\)
No, not a lie, just a (c) on the original text I guess. Like I said, it's pretty up-to-date (as far as it's possible with Linux!!), so I'd say take charge of a bookstore an look it in? Arjan -- From: Muad'Dib[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: maandag 9 maart 1998 11:38 To:'[EMAIL

RE: Segmentation Fault

1998-03-09 Thread Charles Sheehan-Miles
I'm using the same processor, no problems. Charles Sheehan-Miles Microsoft Certified Professional User Support Manager A/EX/IRM Department of State Unisys Corporation -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sendmail.cf setting

1998-03-09 Thread Miroslaw Wodniak
Try add to Cw and DM lines in you sendmail.cf:foobarbaz.com Also, you must remember about proper MX in DNS Mike KONDO Kazumoto wrote: Hello, there! I am new to Red Hat 5.0, and I like this very much!! I have a question on mail setting, especially sendmail.cf. I would like to setup my

upgrade Xfree86

1998-03-09 Thread Xun Cheng
I just upgrade XFree86 from 3.3.1 to 3.3.2 This time I build XFree86 using glibc and Threads option. Server is absolue ok. But I can't run almost all my old X11 applications. They reports some X11 library can not be loaded though I have newer version there. For example, netscape reprots "can't

ftp.pl and h2ph

1998-03-09 Thread Christopher Hicks
[ I'm forwarding this to the list since support had chewed on this for three weeks with no indications of a forthcoming fix. On further investigation it seems that the C header files related to tcp/ip have serious problems. I can't get a clean compile of diald for instance. ] The basic problem

Re: security compromized?? :-(

1998-03-09 Thread cs96sjd
Hi there, I logged into my ISP last night, and start downloading some files. As it started to take longer than I thought I left it running over night. This morning after I logged out I checked the `messages' file, and to my surprise most of it was deleted. There was only a few lines

EZFlyer Install help wanted

1998-03-09 Thread John Higginbotham
Anyone want to give me a complete walkthrough on setting up my Syquest EZFlyer parallel port drive under linux? - John Higginbotham - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Webmaster - http://www.pntprinting.com - - Designer - http://limbo.netpath.net - -

3.03-5.0

1998-03-09 Thread Gavin Lewandowski
Hi, I have an aging installation of RH 3.03 on one of our company servers, I am intending to upgrade this box to RH 5, RH3.03 box is running apache,virtual sendmail,shadow passwords,public html services. What should I watch out for when I take the box to 5.0 - is it just a case of

Re: security compromized?? :-(

1998-03-09 Thread Zach Smith
You prolly have your logs rotated by a cron job which is why you have no messages. Go look in your /var/log dir and see how many files are there. Ususally the messsages file gets rotated and appears as messages.1-messages.# As for the syslogd, thats because when the log rotates, the syslogd has

Re: Admin book of Linux and boot bypass; Thanks

1998-03-09 Thread CS
Thanks ALL, those informantion is very useful. CS Hi, All Where can I find a good Linux Admin book? Online or book store. When my linux box boots without network connected. It reports from eth0 that my box is not connected to the net,

.bashrc

1998-03-09 Thread LEBLIN JY
Hi, It's not very important but i've got problems with my .bashrc file : the system doesn't seem to take care of it. I've checked the man and it says that the option -norc ( which obliges not to read the .bashrc ) is default when the shell invoked is sh so maybe that's where the problem is

RE: X server memory leach?

1998-03-09 Thread David . LANDGREN
[...] PID TTY MAJFLT MINFLT TRS DRS SIZE SWAP RSS SHRD LIB DT COMMAND 408 ? 12119 1585263 720 20492 36784 15572 21212 816 0 4921 X :0 -bpp [...] Look on the bright side! 5 megs of the process is swapped out... all you have to worry about is running out of swap...

RE: sendmail

1998-03-09 Thread Dave Bailey
Hello, Does anyone happen to know how to send attachments using sendmail at the command line? try mpack (not sure if this is part of your linux dist, you might have to download compile, but it is very small and easy to build) e.g. mpack -s test test.txt [EMAIL PROTECTED] will encode

Netscape dumps core

1998-03-09 Thread Xavier Battle
Hi all, I don't know if my previous message made it to the list... So here it is again: I can't get Netscape to run on my pentiumII rh5.0 box. I've dowloaded and installed all the updated rpm's as well as the netscape-communicator and navigator ones. When installing with rpm, everything goes

Re: Linux Newbie Page

1998-03-09 Thread mud99
Sorry, I forgot the URL. it's - http://members.xoom.com/mud99 -- 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] with

message digest feature?

1998-03-09 Thread Troy D. Taylor
Does anyone know if redhat-list has a message digest feature and if so, how do I turn it on? (I already tried asking the listserver for "help") Thanks for your time. Troy D. Taylor System Administor U.S. Logistics INC. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

RE: message digest feature?

1998-03-09 Thread David . LANDGREN
Does anyone know if redhat-list has a message digest feature and if so, how do I turn it on? (I already tried asking the listserver for "help") You have to subscribe to the digest list. See the info on RH's web page. Look for support; mailing lists. DL -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips,

Re: mount clntudp_create: RPC: Program not registered

1998-03-09 Thread Jason Robbins
I'm trying to do an NFS mount and getting the above error... I see no messages in the nfs server logs or on the client side. I have portmap, nfsd and mountd all running and have /etc/exports set up such that the mount I attempted would have worked... Using RH5.0... I experienced the same

tytype

1998-03-09 Thread Eugen Constantinescu
Hello! Is there in Linux a file like a file called ttytype from other unix systems ? How can I know what type of terminal I use if I know the tty ? Thanks a lot! Eugen Constantinescu -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Installing Linux w/no CDROM?

1998-03-09 Thread Luis F. Orozco
Hi, I realize this might be a bit off topic, but it does have to do with installing linux. :-) I have just obtained a pentium PC with two hard drives but no CD-ROM drive, and no floppy drives. (hey, it was free!) I would like to put Linux in it, but I still can't figure out how, short of

RE: Linux Newbie Page

1998-03-09 Thread Edmunds, Keith
On Monday, March 09, 1998 2:58 PM, mud99 [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Sorry, I forgot the URL. it's - http://members.xoom.com/mud99 I don't think so. That page seems to be full of radio controlled model info. Keith -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

re: mount clntudp_create

1998-03-09 Thread William R. Kerr
After 46 days of uptime and considerable stress testing, an ethernet driver wedged. On reboot, nfs exports fail. Attempting a mount from a remote machine yields: mount clntudp_create: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive Running "rpcinfo -p" on the affected machine yields:

RE: Linux Newbie Page

1998-03-09 Thread Blees, E.J. \(Edwin\)
That's http://members.xoom.com/linuz edwin -- From: Edmunds, Keith[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: maandag 9 maart 1998 16:29 To:'[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc:The recipient's address is unknown.; LOCAL Subject: RE: Linux Newbie Page On Monday, March 09, 1998 2:58 PM, mud99

RE: Installing Linux w/no CDROM?

1998-03-09 Thread Edmunds, Keith
I had a similar problem - I built a PC from spare parts I had, but did not have a CD ROM drive I could put in it. I did, however, have access to a (very) fast Internet link. I downloaded the entire RedHat installation (about 250Mb) at work onto three ZIP disks, then restored them onto a spare IDE

Quota on mail spool

1998-03-09 Thread E Kelly Bond
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone tried setting a quota restriction on /var/spool/mail to limit a users incoming mail spool size? I am considering trying this and I wondered what would be the system effect. I am concerned what mail sendmail will do if/when quota says

Re: FAT32

1998-03-09 Thread Gregory Scott Whittier
On Sun, Mar 08, 1998 at 09:25:05PM -0600, Christopher Radi wrote: Has anyone else had success using Mtools to access FAT32 partitions? I've never been able to mount either of my FAT32 partitions, so I never tried Mtools. I accidentally did a "mdir c:" instead of an "mdir a:" and it

Re: Setting Folder Permissions

1998-03-09 Thread Pork E Pigg
Al Sparks wrote: Perhaps you need to be more specific with symptoms. What do you mean by "folders"? Are you using ext2 file system? Right you are. I meant to say dirs/subdirs. Still trying to get M$ outta my system. A file system's permissions are written to the disk (at least any file

Re: Quota on mail spool

1998-03-09 Thread Chris Evans
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, E Kelly Bond wrote: Has anyone tried setting a quota restriction on /var/spool/mail Yes, we have it running. It works well. I am concerned what mail sendmail will do if/when quota says that the restriction has been reached. If I recall, sendmail bouces with a

Re: FAT32

1998-03-09 Thread Chris Evans
On Sun, Mar 08, 1998 at 09:25:05PM -0600, Christopher Radi wrote: Has anyone else had success using Mtools to access FAT32 partitions? I've never been able to mount either of my FAT32 partitions, so I never tried Kernel support for mounting FAT32 partitions is present in the current

Re: Linux Newbie Page

1998-03-09 Thread Ron Smith
BTW... if you're not really interested in this topic (i.e. RedHat Linux, then get off the list!) Damn man -- CHILL OUT! So the guy made a mistake -- GOD!! Thanks for wasting my ISP charges and drive space reading YOUR piece of crap message! -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata

Re: Installing Linux w/no CDROM?

1998-03-09 Thread Bruce Tong
Hi, I realize this might be a bit off topic, but it does have to do with installing linux. :-) This doesn't sound off-topic. I have just obtained a pentium PC with two hard drives but no CD-ROM drive, and no floppy drives. (hey, it was free!) I would like to put Linux in it, but I

Re: Installing Linux w/no CDROM?

1998-03-09 Thread Brian Lalor
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Luis F. Orozco wrote: I have just obtained a pentium PC with two hard drives but no CD-ROM drive, and no floppy drives. (hey, it was free!) I would like to put Linux in it, but I still can't figure out how, short of getting a CDROM for it. I do have another machine

PAM Authenication

1998-03-09 Thread Ken Arck
I recently changed over my 5.0 system to PAM authentication, which works fine by the way... the only thing I noticed is that *some* accounts no longer track UID to username. That is to say, if I log on as user X, instead of getting the username in the prompt, linux tells me "[I have no

Re: Installing Linux w/no CDROM?

1998-03-09 Thread Pork E Pigg
Luis F. Orozco wrote: Hi, I realize this might be a bit off topic, but it does have to do with installing linux. :-) I have just obtained a pentium PC with two hard drives but no CD-ROM drive, and no floppy drives. (hey, it was free!) I would like to put Linux in it, but I still can't

Re: Installing Linux w/no CDROM?

1998-03-09 Thread John Higginbotham
Why go through all this? When I want to transfer files, all I do is bootup MSDOS 6.2 off floppy, with INTERLNK.EXE and INTERSVR.EXE on it, run INTERLNK on one PC, INTERSVR on the other, and poof! Instant mini-network. Works best with a parallel connection but'll use serial too. That way the hard

Printing question

1998-03-09 Thread Rick Kasten
I am printing to an HP JetDirect printer on the network, and I am using banner pages. Problem is the banner pages come out last. I'd like to print the banner pages first. I'd also like to create Postscript banner pages. How do I do that, and how can I move the banner pages to the beginning of

Dial-back modem implementation

1998-03-09 Thread Chris Schoenfeld
I am trying to set up dial-back modem access (shell only, no ppp). To make things a little more complicated, the remote modem is a Motorola UDS v.34, which has security features such as users and passwords I intend to use. If anyone has any experience with dial-back setup I would appreciate any

xmkmf

1998-03-09 Thread Craig Kattner
What package to I need to get this? I can't seem to find it right now. -- 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] with

modem problem under RH5

1998-03-09 Thread Karl Asseily
I'm sure this has been discussed on the list before but I can't seem to find what I am looking for, neither on DejaNews nor in the mailing lists archives. As a last resort, I am looking here :-) In the old days when I used redhat 4.2 with a USR 33.6 PnP (NOT WinModem), along with a Dell

Re: xmkmf

1998-03-09 Thread Greg Fall
XFree86-devel --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- Greg Fall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~gmfall -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata

Re: xmkmf

1998-03-09 Thread David Hauck
rpm -qf /usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf XFree86-devel At 07:01 AM 3/9/98 -0600, you wrote: >What package to I need to get this? I can't seem to find it right now. d -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips

NFS/NIS/automounter question

1998-03-09 Thread W. Michael Petullo
I have three machines set up with distributed home directories using NFS, NIS, and the automounter. Every once and a while, NFS will stop serving to the hosts listed in /etc/exports. When a host tries to automount a home directory, it receives a "permission denied" error. The NFS server I am

just getting started...

1998-03-09 Thread webmaster
Dear gurus: I remember reading somewhere about a command that auto detects the video card for configX. Does anyone by any chance know what the command is? Your help is greatly appreciated... "Linux now,...and forever!" -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

Stupid Netscape Trick

1998-03-09 Thread Lenny Bruce Lee
While spellchecking a message in Netscape Communicator, an attempt to use the fvwm: Start-WindowOperations-Move to move the pesky modal spellcheck window out of the way. Lo and Behold, x-windows blew up and out leaving me at a terminal prompt. Did it twice just to make sure. It happened again.

Re: Stupid Netscape Trick

1998-03-09 Thread Brian M Choc
While spellchecking a message in Netscape Communicator, an attempt to use the fvwm: Start-WindowOperations-Move to move the pesky modal spellcheck window out of the way. Lo and Behold, x-windows blew up and out leaving me at a terminal prompt. Did it twice just to make sure. It happened

Re: Stupid Netscape Trick

1998-03-09 Thread Vidiot
While spellchecking a message in Netscape Communicator, an attempt to use the fvwm: Start-WindowOperations-Move to move the pesky modal spellcheck window out of the way. Lo and Behold, x-windows blew up and out leaving me at a terminal prompt. Did it twice just to make sure. It happened again.

Re: inodes

1998-03-09 Thread William T Wilson
On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Craig Kattner wrote: After restarting linux this evening, during bootup it complained about "/dev/hda2: Deleted inodo 14989 has zero dtime" for about ten different This is usually caused by not shutting down properly. You must not shut off linux by simply turning off the

RE: Swap File, how large can it be?

1998-03-09 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which leads to my question, what really does happen with Linux when you use up all the memory, RAM + swap? What is the worst that has happened to anyone? EMWTK. Typically some of your applications will segfault. Linux itself will not crash under

Motif 2.1 and the Virtual Desktop ???

1998-03-09 Thread Ian Searle
I have another Motif 2.1 question. I just purchased the upgrade from 2.0 - 2.1. The reason being that its advertised that 2.0 won't work with RedHat 5.0 (glibc). So, I get Motif 2.1 in the mail the day before yesterday, and THE VIRTUAL DESKTOP IS GONE! As you might have guessed, the virtual

'tip' like serial port program for linux?

1998-03-09 Thread Brendan Neutra
I am accustomed to 'tip' on BSD and Solaris for talking to terminals and modems. I have many TCL/expect scripts that use 'tip', so minicom presents a problem for me. Is there a 'tip' like RPM for linux? Or a binary? All I need is something simple. With tip you get 'connected' when you

Passwords longer than 8 chars

1998-03-09 Thread Brian Landers
Our HP-UX box recognizes passwords that are longer than 8 characters (not sure what the actual character limit is). Is there a plugin module or other method to get this functionality on Linux? TIA, Brian -- Brian Landers, Web Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] T: 404/582.9018 S T U D I O A R C H E

Re: Quota on mail spool

1998-03-09 Thread RTS
Kelly, Here is what I found out... I have a quota on my mail partition of 10 megs per user.. I tried this and when they received a 10meg mail message and they tried to download it it createed an error. Because sendmail that I run copies the file to .user.pop when it does this copy it

Re: Need a Linux Friendly ISP/dialup provider

1998-03-09 Thread Matt Nelson
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Thomas P Zahm wrote: I'm looking for an ISP (for a dialup/ppp connection) that is known to be helpful to Linux Users connecting by PPP. I'd appreciate a reference from you'all... With somewhat mixed feelings I can point you to Earthlink. They recently

Re: Best Linux Book

1998-03-09 Thread Corey G.
If anyone is looking to purchase a really great shell programming book I recommend the following book. "Portable Shell Programming" by Bruce Blinn. Its small but it contains excellent examples and explanations for someone trying to learn. I have been using it for two years now and I have found

samba problem

1998-03-09 Thread ryo
Hi everybody, I have failed to find an answer in the smb.conf man page and in the samba howto, so I post this message. I have samba working on my linux box and wind95/Nt boxes can see it. but when they try to access it. they receive a message asking a for a password related to the IPC$ share

Re: .bashrc

1998-03-09 Thread Scott McDermott
LEBLIN JY [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Mar 09, 1998 at 03:01:06PM +0100: Has anybody got an idea where the mistake is ( and it is certainly stupid ). Here is what my .bashrc is like if it may help. Unless i make a source .bashrc none of the alias is available. Bash only sources bashrc on

RedHat-Apache-Netscape Question

1998-03-09 Thread David Hughes
Am running RedHat 5.0 and the Apache bundle that came off of the CD. Am running Netscape 4.04 on a Win95 workstation. The subnet is IP masq'd. I have an oddity which I would definitely like to solve if anyone can help. When I try and hit an html page on the server, if the page has a .html

Re: RedHat-Apache-Netscape Question

1998-03-09 Thread Zeev Suraski
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, David Hughes wrote: Am running RedHat 5.0 and the Apache bundle that came off of the CD. Am running Netscape 4.04 on a Win95 workstation. The subnet is IP masq'd. I have an oddity which I would definitely like to solve if anyone can help. When I try and hit an html

Re: just getting started...

1998-03-09 Thread Zach Smith
try running setup and going to the X conig section...that will let you set up X and auot-probe for your video card...as long as it is PCI., Zach Smith Ann Arbor, MI [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: modem problem under RH5

1998-03-09 Thread Zach Smith
I had the same problem...I found my fix with setserial. I set the IRQ on my modem with a jumper, and the ran: setseral /dev/modem irq # Zach Smith Ann Arbor MI [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm sure this has been discussed on the list before but I can't seem to find what I am looking for, neither on

Re: Linux Newbie Page

1998-03-09 Thread mud99
Sorry, I forgot the URL. it's - http://members.xoom.com/mud99 DOH! I have too many websites, the real address is - http://members.xoom.com/linuz [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata

Apache Manual

1998-03-09 Thread Donavan Nelson
Has anyone seen a non--html version of the apache documentation? The on-line stuff is very difficult to follow with hyper-link after hyper-link... Thanks, .dn -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata

Solved: DNS Setup

1998-03-09 Thread Casey Bralla
I got my DNS working. I had made lots of typo errors, and had been confused between the "local" configuration and the "zone" configuration. The article which really helped was "Setting up a basic DNS server for a domain" by Craig Richmond. The article can be found at

Installation on laptop

1998-03-09 Thread Les VanBrunt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have an old laptop that has no cdrom drive or slots for an ethernet card. I would like to install RedHat onto it, but if I put the rpms on the hard drive, I will have no space left to do the installation. Is there a way to install using PLIP or

Re: RedHat-Apache-Netscape Question

1998-03-09 Thread David Wollmann
Sounds like either Netscape or Apache are missing a mime type definition for the .htm extension, so the file is being handled as plain text by either the server or the client. At 04:14 PM 3/9/98 -0700, you wrote: Am running RedHat 5.0 and the Apache bundle that came off of the CD. Am running

Slow FTP

1998-03-09 Thread Ambrose 'Bo' Barry
I just set up RH5.0, downloaded the 18MB Netscape RPM file (at 28.8!) on my Win95 system, then tried to ftp it to my Linux box using Ethernet LAN cards. It took just as long on the Ethernet LAN to transfer! (about 3000 bytes/sec). Only two LAN cards on the LAN, total cable length of 10 feet! I

Re: Slow FTP

1998-03-09 Thread Keith Dart
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Ambrose 'Bo' Barry wrote: I just set up RH5.0, downloaded the 18MB Netscape RPM file (at 28.8!) on my Win95 system, then tried to ftp it to my Linux box using Ethernet LAN cards. It took just as long on the Ethernet LAN to transfer! (about 3000 bytes/sec). Only two LAN

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