Linux-Misc Digest #823, Volume #27 Thu, 10 May 01 12:13:01 EDT
Contents:
Re: SuSE Linux 7.1 ISO Download (Corne Beerse)
Logrotate NFS Safe? (Brian Seppanen)
Tape Device Name (Brian Seppanen)
Re: removing linux ("Andrew Williams")
Re: Tape Device Name ("KW")
Re: Make prompt blink in KDE (Chad Lemmen)
shell script for disk usage (Rabi Gurung)
Re: linuxconf 7.1 (Larry)
Re: Triple boot (is it possible?) (Rod Smith)
Re: Tape Device Name (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Re: shell script for disk usage (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: shell script for disk usage (Stefano Ghirlanda)
Re: time adjustment (Dustin Puryear)
compile problem (lee changkun)
Re: Make prompt blink in KDE (Stephen Rank)
Re: Possible bug in RedHat 7.1 in use of mouse (Leonard Evens)
Re: Failed to setup FTP Server in RedHat 7.1 (Christian Rose)
Re: Failed to setup FTP Server in RedHat 7.1 (Christian Rose)
Re: Failed to setup FTP Server in RedHat 7.1 (Christian Rose)
Re: Failed to setup FTP Server in RedHat 7.1 (Christian Rose)
Re: Failed to setup FTP Server in RedHat 7.1 (Christian Rose)
Re: GNOME RPMs (Christian Rose)
Re: [linux.redhat.misc] Print problems w/ RH 7.1 and Star Office 5.2 (Christian Rose)
Re: apt-get on Redhat (Christian Rose)
Re: recycling XF86Config (Christian Rose)
Re: after RH upgrade htaccess not working (Christian Rose)
Re: BIND 8.2.2-P5 DoS - Update to 9.1.2 or 8.2.3 ? (Christian Rose)
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From: Corne Beerse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE Linux 7.1 ISO Download
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 13:55:50 +0200
Aegis wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Anyone can suggest where it is possible to download SuSE Linux 7.1 ISO
> images? SuSE made its distro available only as huge 5 GB directory.
>
> Thanks in advance.
Try the suse ftp site at ftp://ftp.suse.com/ I know they are there
because a collegue of mine just downloaded them to burn them for me..
--
Everything should be as simple as possible but not simpler - A. Einstein
Corne' Beerse | Alcatel Telecom Nederland
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From: Brian Seppanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Logrotate NFS Safe?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 08:37:13 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is logrotate not NFS safe? The reason I ask is I have a linux client
that mounts an NFS drive from a Solaris Server. It's been recently
migrated to this, and I still have the linux client configured to
do logrotate. Last night at 4 a.m. when logrotate runs, my linux server
hung hard and bad.
Will logrotate run and compile on solaris? I guess I'll find out. Any
insights appreciated.
TIA.
Brian Seppanen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Brian Seppanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tape Device Name
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 08:40:59 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How do I determine the device name of a tape drive. I recently added a
SCSI Tape Drive to my machine.
Boot up finds the device properly as follows:
Vendor: HP Model: C1537A Rev: L706
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
My only problem is I don't know how to reference this device. In the
past I've used /dev/rmt. On this box that only includes /dev/rmt16 and
/dev/rmt8. I tried using taper, just cos I'm looking for something that
gives me a nice interface initially, and doing taper -T /dev/rmt16 and
taper -T /dev/rmt8 both give errors of illegal tape type.
Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
Brian Seppanen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Andrew Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: removing linux
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 13:36:42 +0100
I had a similar problem with mandrake 7.0, I had to fdisk /mbr then you
should be able to install what you want.
Goodluck A Williams
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:9cuv0i$b78$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> The CD doesn't contain Linux, but you can do a fresh install with it. If
> you
> want, just pop the CD into the drive, set the CD to be bootable(in BIOS),
and
> boot to the CD. Then, you can reformat the hard drive, or anything.
>
> Or, you can make the Floppy bootable, by the BIOS, and you should be able
to
> boot
> to the hard drive from the kernel on the floppy
>
> Justin
>
>
> In article <UtfI6.331$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kenny@BUI
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >hello,
> >our box had rh7.0 on it. my buddy used dos diskettes to book the computer
> >and format the drive. Linux will not boot up now. we tried booting with
both
> >Linux and dos boot\installation disks. our goal is to remove Linux and do
a
> >fresh install.
> >the cd drive kicks the cd out all the time. it continuously says that
Linux
> >is not found on the cd and ejects the cd.
> >
> >thank you,
> >Kenny.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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From: "KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tape Device Name
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 08:05:27 -0500
Try /dev/st0 for the first scsi tape and
/dev/ht0 for ide tape drives...
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Brian Seppanen"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do I determine the device name of a tape drive. I recently added a
> SCSI Tape Drive to my machine.
> Boot up finds the device properly as follows:
> Vendor: HP Model: C1537A Rev: L706
> Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>
> My only problem is I don't know how to reference this device. In the
> past I've used /dev/rmt. On this box that only includes /dev/rmt16 and
> /dev/rmt8. I tried using taper, just cos I'm looking for something that
> gives me a nice interface initially, and doing taper -T /dev/rmt16 and
> taper -T /dev/rmt8 both give errors of illegal tape type.
>
> Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Brian Seppanen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Chad Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Make prompt blink in KDE
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 13:16:51 -0000
David Efflandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 07 May 2001 18:04:12 -0000, Chad Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm using Caldera 2.4 with KDE 2.1.1. When I bring up a terminal window
>> in KDE the cursor does not blink. It there a way to have it blink like
>> it does at the console? Also how can I make it an underline instead of a
>> block.
I searched through the man page for xterm for cursor and blink and I can't
find where you can set the cursor to blink.
> In xterm you can set the cursor to blink and the duration of on/off times
> (see: man xterm). There might be an option to set its hight too, but I
> cannot find it at the moment.
> I don't see any such setting for options in the KDE Konsole, but I don't
> like that anyway because pasting to it seems to eat up text formatting,
> resulting in a pasty mess. It is also too big to fit 4 to a screen. So I
> typically use 'xterm -r' for terminals instead.
> --
> David Efflandt (Reply-To is valid) http://www.de-srv.com/
> http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
> http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: Rabi Gurung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: shell script for disk usage
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 13:30:09 -0000
Hi,
is there anybody who can help me with simple shell program(not perl) to
determine where the disk space is taken up having over 100 users on
system, to identify which user are taking the most storage. Accepting [ -
h ] to print a help message, [ -d ] to sort alphabetically on directory,
[ -s ] to sort numerically on size of directory and [ -s ] to sort in
reverse order.
thanks
Rabi
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From: Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: linuxconf 7.1
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 15:43:56 +0200
Same problem. I also need to use the web access so any pointers that would save
time in getting RH6.2/linuxconf functionality working in RH7.1 would be greatly
appreciated. I would expect this of MS, not RH. Thanks
Pete Barnwell wrote:
> MrEye wrote:
> >
> > I just installed rh7.1. the last rh distribution I used was rh6.2. What
> > happened to 'linuxconf'. I need it to modify the users. Does rh7.1 have a
> > different configuration tool?
>
> RH seem to have something against Linuxconf... There is a version on (I
> think) the 1st CD but leaves a lot to be desired.
>
> Best bet is download 1.25r5 from www.solucorp.qc.ca
>
> Oh -if you need to use linuxconf from a web browser RH screwed up the
> xinetd bit as well... if you need the fix to that let me know, it's a
> bit more involved.
>
> Pete
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Triple boot (is it possible?)
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 13:54:31 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jonathan Lundstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If possible, I'd like to triple-boot Linux, Windows 98, and Windows 2000.
> I have one 20GB hard drive. Can this be done?
Yes, it's possible. The biggest caveat to getting it started is simply
installing all the OSs in a way that'll let them all boot. It's probably
best to install Win98, then Win2K, then Linux. I recommend putting Win98
and Win2K each on its own primary partition. That way, they won't be
sharing any files on C: (each will have its own partition that it calls
C:). Doing it this way may require you use a third-party boot loader
(LILO should be able to do the trick, but if you use it, you'll have to
wait until you install Linux to get it booting any arbitrary OS.)
There are several HOWTOs on Linux-and-whatever dual-boot configurations.
I don't recall any on triple-boot setups, but there might be one that
I'm forgetting or that's new. Check http://www.linuxdoc.org for more
details. For MUCH more information, check my book, _The Multiboot
Configuration Handbook_ (http://www.rodsbooks.com/multiboot/).
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tape Device Name
Date: 10 May 2001 16:28:58 +0200
"KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Try /dev/st0 for the first scsi tape and
> /dev/ht0 for ide tape drives...
and /dev/nst0, /dev/nht0 in case you need the non-rewinding devices.
--
Stefano - Hodie sexto Idus Maias MMI est
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: shell script for disk usage
Date: 10 May 2001 14:31:10 GMT
Rabi Gurung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> is there anybody who can help me with simple shell program(not perl) to
> determine where the disk space is taken up having over 100 users on
> system, to identify which user are taking the most storage. Accepting [ -
> h ] to print a help message, [ -d ] to sort alphabetically on directory,
> [ -s ] to sort numerically on size of directory and [ -s ] to sort in
> reverse order.
Well, 'du -sk /home/*' will print the size in KB of every directory in /home.
>From there, 'man sort'.
I know you specified "not perl", but I've got a canned Perl script which
tracks changes in disk usage over the past day and week for any list
of directories you specify. Email me directly if you want it.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: shell script for disk usage
Date: 10 May 2001 16:35:04 +0200
Rabi Gurung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Hi,
> is there anybody who can help me with simple shell program(not perl) to
> determine where the disk space is taken up having over 100 users on
> system, to identify which user are taking the most storage. Accepting [ -
> h ] to print a help message, [ -d ] to sort alphabetically on directory,
> [ -s ] to sort numerically on size of directory and [ -s ] to sort in
> reverse order.
alphabetic sorting: du -sk /home/*
increasing in size: du -sk /home/* | sort -n
decreasing in size: du -sk /home/* | sort -n | tac
I leave the rest to you...
--
Stefano - Hodie sexto Idus Maias MMI est
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dustin Puryear)
Subject: Re: time adjustment
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:25:14 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 10 May 2001 13:27:58 +1200, Craig Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>wroot wrote:
>> I've heard that there are time servers or something that a UNIX system can
>> connect to to adjust its clock. Is it true and is it possible to do it
>> under Linux?
>rdate -s -p tock.usno.navy.mil
Alternatively, you can run ntpd. Check out freshmeat for the location since I
can't seem to remember it at the moment. Very easy to install.
Regards, Dustin
--
Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear
Integrate Linux Solutions into Your Windows Network
- http://www.prima-tech.com/integrate-linux
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Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 16:59:38 +0900
From: lee changkun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.parallel.pvm,uniro.fin.comp,comp.parallel.pvm
Subject: compile problem
Hi all,
I have trouble to compile DQS-3.2.7 under SunOS 5.7.
Can anyone help me what should i do?
Or could you tell me the newsgroup for DQS?
Thanks in advance
tag
DQS-3.2.7-> make config
cd CONFIG;make clean;make CC=cc;./config;cd ..
make[1]: Entering directory `DQS-3.2.7/CONFIG'
rm -f *.o
rm -f config *.log core core.* *~ *.bak header #*
make[1]: Leaving directory `/DQS-3.2.7/CONFIG'
make[1]: Entering directory `/DQS-3.2.7/CONFIG'
echo "#define `../UTIL/config.guess 1`" | sed s/\\./_/g | sed s/-/_/g >
Makefile.h
cp Makefile.proto Makefile.proto.c
cc -E Makefile.proto.c > Makefile.typ
rm -f Makefile.proto.c Makefile.h
make -f Makefile.typ
make[2]: Entering directory `/DQS-3.2.7/CONFIG'
cc -g -c -o main.o main.c
cc -g -c -o get_make.o get_make.c
cc -g -c -o get_dqs.o get_dqs.c
cc -g -c -o get_conf_file.o get_conf_file.c
cc -g -c -o get_resolve_file.o get_resolve_file.c
cc -g -c -o etc_services.o etc_services.c
cc -g -c -o script_config.o script_config.c
cc -g -c -o do_host_ck.o do_host_ck.c
cc -g -c -o generate_makefile.o generate_makefile.c
cc -g -c -o dqs_getdomainname.o dqs_getdomainname.c
"dqs_getdomainname.c", line 71: warning: statement not reached
cc -o config main.o get_make.o get_dqs.o get_conf_file.o
get_resolve_file.o etc_services.o script_config.o
do_host_ck.ogenerate_makefile.o dqs_getdomainname.o
Undefined first referenced
symbol in file
socket do_host_ck.o
getpeername do_host_ck.o
gethostbyname do_host_ck.o
accept do_host_ck.o
bind do_host_ck.o
getdomainname dqs_getdomainname.o
gethostbyaddr do_host_ck.o
inet_ntoa do_host_ck.o
listen do_host_ck.o
connect do_host_ck.o
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to config
make[2]: *** [config] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/DQS-3.2.7/CONFIG'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/DQS-3.2.7/CONFIG'
/bin/sh: ./config: not found
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From: Stephen Rank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Make prompt blink in KDE
Date: 10 May 2001 15:42:45 +0100
Chad Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[ ... ]
> I searched through the man page for xterm for cursor and blink and I can't
> find where you can set the cursor to blink.
Try again; it's really quite simple.
For the clue-impaired:
1) man xterm
2) search for 'blink' (type '/blink')
3) 1st match (unless your less does case-insensitive matching;
if it does, press `n' until...),
at line 171:
+bc turn off text cursor blinking. This overrides the
cursorBlink resource.
4) 2nd match (press `n'), line 174:
-bc turn on text cursor blinking. This overrides the
cursorBlink resource.
so `xterm -bc' does what you want. Not that hard to find, really.
Stephen
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: Possible bug in RedHat 7.1 in use of mouse
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:51:56 -0500
"/dev/coffee (Mark)" wrote:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/rh71-errata-bugfixes.html
That was of course the first thing I tried. It doesn't help.
With gpm disabled, the problem has now been narrowed to the fact
that both the PS/2 mouse and the module yenta_socket called when
pcmcia is bourght up want to use irq 12. I've tried various
ways to dissuade pcmcia from using irq 12, but so far everything
has failed.
Of course, there is some other basic problem because of the
fact that gpm hangs the system and yenta_socket should know that
irq 12 is reserved for the mouse.
> "Leonard Evens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Leonard Evens wrote:
> > >
> > > Continuing with a previously reported problem, I can't get
> > > the mouse to work in RH7.1 installed on a Winbook XL. If
> > > gpm runs, everything freezes, including the keyboard, as soon
> > > as I login. I can't get the mouse in X to work. This same machine
> > > worked fine in every version of RedHat up to and including RH7.0.
> > >
> > > I assume there is some hardware incompatibility with the current driver.
> > >
> > > I guess it is remotely possible there is something wrong with
> > > the CD (from a fresh RedHat boxed package).
> > >
> > > Has anyone else encountered a similar problem?
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
> > > Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
> >
> > Let me add some more. I plugged my mouse into a serial adapter
> > and plugged it into the serial port. I still have the problem
> > that gpm hangs the machine, but if I disable it, then I can
> > configure X after using mouseconfig to set the mouse to a
> > generic 3 button serial mouse.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
> > Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Christian Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Failed to setup FTP Server in RedHat 7.1
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 18:46:49 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I encountered similar problems when I installed RH71. Apparnently
> the people at Red Hat are getting more and more like Microsoft every
> day.
Please take your FUD elsewhere.
> They assume you're an idiot and they know what you really want.
No they don't.
> They assume you installed the ftp server because you don't know what
> you're doing and you don't REALLY want it.
I believe they assume that you know what you're doing and hence know how
to enable a simple service.
> Here's how I solved the problem:
>
> 1) As root, go to /etc/xinetd.d
> 2) Open the ftpd (or wu-ftpd) file.
> 3) The last line should say something like:
>
> disable = yes
>
> 4) Delete this line.
> 5) Save the file.
> 6) Reboot.
A more elegant solution is to (as root):
1) run "/usr/sbin/ntsysv", and check "wu-ftpd"
2) Click OK
3) run "/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart"
No need to reboot the machine!
Christian
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From: Christian Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Failed to setup FTP Server in RedHat 7.1
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 18:29:34 +0200
Stephen Johnson wrote:
> I encountered the same problem. RH changed to xinetd (which I gave up on)
> and just installed SuSE.
What's the problem with xinetd? I don't think running "ntsysv" to
enable/disable services is especially cumbersome.
Christian
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From: Christian Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Failed to setup FTP Server in RedHat 7.1
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 18:27:23 +0200
Eric Chow wrote:
> I installed RedHat Linux 7.1, but when I tried to use ftp in other PC(which
> in the same LAN). It always show "Login failed". The messages as following :
Did you setup a firewall at install time?
Does inet lookup work on the machine you're connecting from?
Christian
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From: Christian Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Failed to setup FTP Server in RedHat 7.1
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 19:01:47 +0200
Eric Chow wrote:
> I have done that to change "disable=no" and reboot. but still can't use FTP.
Does it work when connecting from other machines? Does ident use on the
system you're connecting from? It may be a problem with ident not
working on the machine you're connecting from.
Christian
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From: Christian Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Failed to setup FTP Server in RedHat 7.1
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 19:02:19 +0200
Christian Rose wrote:
> Did you setup a firewall at install time?
> Does inet lookup work on the machine you're connecting from?
Sorry, s/inet/ident/
Christian
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From: Christian Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GNOME RPMs
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 19:04:13 +0200
bidalah wrote:
> A simple question, but with a difficult answer:
>
> What are the packages that need to be installed in order to use GNOME?
>
> And I don't mean the the actual dependencies. I know you can get those just by
> typing "rpm -qRp gnome*.rpm". The problem with this approach is that many of
> the dependencies listed
> are located in rpm's that have completed different names! No matter where I
> look I cannot find a simle list of
> exactly which rpm's I need to install to put GNOME and all of its necessary
> dependencies on my system.
> Does anyone know?
A simple answer: Install Ximian GNOME :-)
http://www.ximian.com/
Christian
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From: Christian Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [linux.redhat.misc] Print problems w/ RH 7.1 and Star Office 5.2
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 19:07:04 +0200
Chuck Mattern wrote:
> I recently upgraded a RH 7.0 machine with a correclty functioning Star
> Office 5.2 installation and a DJ682c printer to RH 7.1. Today I tried
> for the first time to print from SO and the print came out in a very
> small fixed font with light blue-green ghosting slightly offset to the
> black letters, in some cases the ghosting was there but not the black
> at all. I tried changing to an older driver (cdj550 instead of
> cdj670) with printtool and also tried changing the font within SO to
> courier, the printer output remained the same. I can print ascii text
> and the RH printtool postscript test page with no trouble. Has anyone
> else encountered this? Any suggestions for a fix?
Have you tried setting up your printer with printconf, the printer
configuration tool in RH 7.1? AFAIK, printtool is obsoleted. I set up my
printer with printconf, and it works great.
Christian
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From: Christian Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: apt-get on Redhat
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 19:15:53 +0200
wroot wrote:
> Is it possible to use apt-get on Redhat?
I think Conectiva has a port of apt to rpm.
> There's a certain ftp site that I check regularly for updates for my RH6.2.
> When something new shows up, I install it with
> rpm -Fvh *.i386.rpm
>
> I'm wondering if there's an automated way of doing this (without being a
> subscribed and paying RH network customer of course).
You don't have to pay a thing. Get a free RHN account on
https://www.redhat.com/network/ . Then you can use up2date on as many
systems you want. You can use it to update your Red Hat systems but also
to retrieve and install packages.
For example, if I want to install wu-ftpd:
# up2date wu-ftpd
Retrieving list of all available packages...
Removing installed packages from list of updates...
########################################
Removing packages with files not specified from list...
Removing packages marked to skip from list...
########################################
Getting headers for available packages...
########################################
Removing packages with files marked to skip from list...
########################################
Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
########################################
Retrieving selected packages...
wu-ftpd: ##########################
Done.
Preparing... ###########################################
[100%]
1:wu-ftpd ###########################################
[100%]
Christian
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From: Christian Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: recycling XF86Config
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 19:26:54 +0200
wroot wrote:
> I tried FreeBSD and different distributions of Linux. On some (RH6.0, 6.2,
> 7.0, Mandrake 7.0, 7.2) I could configure and enable X without a problem,
> on others (several FreeBSDs and Debians as well as RH7.1 with the new X) I
> couldn't get X to work no matter how hard I tried.
>
> I'm wondering if I could just reuse the XF86Config file from RH6.2 on
> FreeBSD, Debian and RH7.1 on the same hardware.
Most likely not. RH 7 and 7.1 uses XFree86 4 by default, while older
releases use XFree86 3, and AFAIK the configuraion files are not
compatible. Sounds like your graphics hardware does not work nicely with
XFree86 4.
On Red Hat, you can try running "Xconfigurator --preferxf3" to setup
your graphics with XFree86 3, and see if that helps.
Christian
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From: Christian Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: after RH upgrade htaccess not working
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 19:19:58 +0200
Julie Dickerson wrote:
> Hi. After installing the newest version of Redhat, .htaccess doesn't seem to
> be working for a (formerly) secure website. It doesn't even ask for a
> password. The .htaccess file is pretty standard. I checked httpd.conf and
> .htaccess is listed as the name of the file to use. Is there something more
> to do to get it "started"?
Have you changed "AllowOverride None" to "AllowOverride AuthConfig" in
httpd.conf?
Christian
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From: Christian Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BIND 8.2.2-P5 DoS - Update to 9.1.2 or 8.2.3 ?
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 19:40:49 +0200
Jonathan Kemp wrote:
> We're running BIND 8.2.2-P5 on a RedHat 6.2 PC and since last friday,
> we are getting regular denial-of-service attacks. I've seen on
> <http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html> that updating
> could maybe help us.
>
> Now, the question is, should I update to BIND 9.1.2 or BIND 8.2.3 ? I
> know that 9.1.2 has some major changes, so we would need to review our
> config files. Is it worth the effort ? Maybe 8.2.3 would be just OK
> to stop the DoS attacks ?
Uh, sounds like you haven't updated your server properly. If you read
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-007.html , you'll see
that the DoS attacks are nothing compared to the bind remote root
exploit with bind 8.2.2.
My suggestion is to update to the Red Hat errata packages mentioned in
the errata above immediately, and subscribe to the Red Hat watch list
(send a mail with "subscribe" in the subject to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]). That way you will know when new
security updates are released. Also, using up2date to update your system
at regular intervals is a good preventive measure.
Christian
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