[LIH] To Copy files from one server to another without usinng FTP

2000-06-12 Thread john J K
Hello I wanted to copy files from one server to another server , I searched the archive I foubd the way , since i am new to linux comunity I was not able to get the meanning can some one explain it, I have two machine source and destination I want to copy "home/john" from source

Re: [LIH] higher resolution in console mode

2000-06-12 Thread Raju
Hey Rajesh, Just because U have Ontrack on your MBR should not stop U from having fun with LILO. U can always install LILO on your boot-partition and make it your active partition (using fdisk - since U have windoze). Add an entry for windoze to lilo.conf, run lilo and ensoy... Also

[LIH] Re: fetchmail : open passwds ?

2000-06-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Rajeev Jha saw fit to inform LI that: to use fetchmail i am putting .fetchmailrc in my home directory and starting fetchmail when i log in . but say , the .fetchmailrc contains my passwd in pure text , isn't this a worry ? i mean okay for my box , but in a sharing - environment ? Don't make

[LIH] culprit trident

2000-06-12 Thread tarun agarwal
hello i want to know whether trident 3D card is a problem-poser for redhat-6.2. i have samsung samtron 55E monitor and trident-3D blade card . i cannot run x-windows properly. my system has started hanging at the graphical login screen after working properly for about 10 days. i had earlier

Re: [LIH] redhat 6.2

2000-06-12 Thread Babu Kalakrishnan
Vivek, On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 10:41:40AM -0700, Vivek Pradhan typed: Remember one thing very very very carefully. specifying the frequencies for your monitor is a very important step. you cannot fool around with it. you will end up in mess. The only option is now to reinstall Linux. Clean

[LIH] A couple of questions.

2000-06-12 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
Hi all I am stuck with couple of silly questions. Please help.. 1)'ls -R' does not list recursively. Consider this.. [shridhar@neptune shridhar]$ cd Gold [shridhar@neptune Gold]$ ls -al total 23 drwxrwxr-x4 shridhar shridhar 1024 Jun 12 12:04 . drwx--5 shridhar shridhar

Re: [LIH] A couple of questions.

2000-06-12 Thread Binand Raj S.
Shridhar Daithankar forced the electrons to say: [shridhar@neptune shridhar]$ cd Gold [shridhar@neptune Gold]$ ls -al total 23 drwxrwxr-x4 shridhar shridhar 1024 Jun 12 12:04 . drwx--5 shridhar shridhar 1024 Jun 8 10:44 .. drwxr-xr-x2 shridhar shridhar19456 Jun

[LIH] FTP problem.

2000-06-12 Thread M. Selvakumar
Hi binand, If the client is Linux machine, I am able to ftp using passive mode and my problem is solved. If the client is windows what to do. How to enable forwarding of TCP connections from outside world to the LAN? Thanks and Regards selva For passive FTP, you have to enable forwarding

[LIH] Kernel 2.2.16

2000-06-12 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hi, I am facing a peculiar problem with the above kernel. I could compile the kernel with the following commands: make menuconfig make dep make clean make zImage make modules make modules_install After this copied the zImage file to /boot, set the proper image defs in the

[LIH] Problem compiling Alsa 0.5.8a

2000-06-12 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hello, I downloaded the latest alsa drivers and started compiling on my system (Kernel 2.2.15, Debian 2.1). After sometime, the process aborts with the following message: snip gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include -g -O2 -c -fPIC -DPIC pcm_misc.c -o .libs/pcm_misc.lo In

Re: [LIH] To Copy files from one server to another without usinngFTP

2000-06-12 Thread lists
This is telling a NFS server to export filesystems and telling the client to mount exported filesystems from NFS server on it's mountpoints. Are you sure you want to do this? You have to set up an NFS server first. Read the HOWTO. Easy way to transfer files is to use 'file transfer protocol' aka

Re: [LIH] .fetchmailrc doubts

2000-06-12 Thread lists
Why are you using the colon after POP3 ? Try without it. Also make sure that ip of pn2.vsnl.net.in can be resolved (always better to use ip here) On 11 Jun 2000, john J K wrote: set daemon=0 poll pn2.vsnl.net.in with protocol POP3: no dns, aka XXX.com user john@pn2 is * here password

Re: [LIH] A couple of questions.

2000-06-12 Thread Rajeev Jha
hi list one more thing , ls * in the current directory is listing the contents of my directory recursively on my machine. how is that ?( using bash ) something like echo */* . for i would expect ls * to list only the files in current directories + the directory names .. Shridhar Daithankar

Re: [LIH] Kernel 2.2.16

2000-06-12 Thread m - lokesh - babu
Did you mention/give the new kernel image name at the LILO Boot prompt? --lokee --- LIH is all for free speech. But it was created for a purpose - to help people discuss issues about installing and running Linux. If your

Re: [LIH] .fetchmailrc doubts

2000-06-12 Thread Babu Kalakrishnan
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 02:34:50PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Also make sure that ip of pn2.vsnl.net.in can be resolved (always better to use ip here) Actually it's better to use the hostname instead of IP address. Otherwise it defeats any load balancing features that your server might

Re: [LIH] MySQL - Apache

2000-06-12 Thread Hitesh
Thankx rajiv , I already have that book from Wrox Apache + PHP works fine on our systems, But when I connect to MySQL the trouble starts. It gives a error like: Fatal error: Call to unsupported or undefined function mysql_connect() in /home/httpd/html/new.php3 on line 23 Any help will be

[LIH] RedHat 6.2

2000-06-12 Thread MiteshV
Hi, I installed RH 6.2 on a PC with 2 hard-disk. Later for technical reasons, I shift that HDD to another pc. But the number of partitions change. How do get the OS get running on the new PC. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanx in advance, Mitesh Vohra ICQ: 53387084

Re: [LIH] To Copy files from one server to another without usinng FTP

2000-06-12 Thread Jiju Thomas Mathew
i had to type "typemount -t nfs m/cname : dirname mountpoint" I did not understantd this what is m/cname ? : dirname ? yea u typein "typemount -t nfs [source.hostname.dom|IP.address.of.source]:exported dirname mountpoint" eg consider i have exported /home/joe

Re: [LIH] redhat 6.2:Why reinstall??

2000-06-12 Thread Jiju Thomas Mathew
When the lilo promts you type: Lilo: linux 3 then go and edit the /etc/inittab at the first non hashed line id:5:initdefault: to read id:3:initdefault: then on you will be put to console only. this way you can press ctrl+alt+backspace to log out of X if Xlocksup or use ctrl+alt+F[23456] to

[LIH] How to go back to multi user mode from single user mode

2000-06-12 Thread Manjunathan Padua
Hi, I am new member of the Linux Usergroup, I have a problem with the Linux Os (RedHat 6.1) Today I forgot my root password, so I rebooted the system as "linux 1 " , that is the single user mode., now after logging in , I changed the password, Now i want to know how to restore the Linux

[LIH] Newsgroups

2000-06-12 Thread Sridhar
Hello I recently subscribed to vsnl internet connection. But i don't know how to subscribe to the newsgroups or configure pine to receive news. Can anyone help ? Thanx in advance Cheedu -- Domain name : cheedu.dyndns.org Smile... Tomorrow will be worse

[LIH] Please Clarify..This is very urgent.

2000-06-12 Thread Prasad, Sreenivasa
Sir, I am Sreenivasa Prasad V. working as systems Engineer for DIGITAL Equipment , Bangalore - India. I am working on a systems software called Media Robot Utility. I need this product to be supported on Linux. I need your help in getting the equivalent

[LIH] Mutt config

2000-06-12 Thread Madhu M. Kurup
Folks, Thanx to some friends of mine, I've been seriously considering mutt wrt pine. I've spend quite some time on my .muttrc, but I'm still stuck with regard to the following: a) pine equivalent key bindings - most of them - not only some b) starting up with the folder listing as a

Re: [LIH] FTP problem

2000-06-12 Thread Nick Hill
another solution is load the ip_masq_ftp module, which forwards FTP data pretty fine... it usually comes with any stock distro (atleast slackware comes with it, and the last i checked, even suse and rh have it...). Nikhil. On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 10:53:11PM +0530, Binand Raj S. wrote: For

Re: [LIH] [support@mailbox.cps.intel.com: RE: Intel 810 chipset support form for Linux*]

2000-06-12 Thread Nick Hill
to add to the fire... i've got the same problem here with Mercury i810 chipsets on stock RH6.2... and yeah... www.exocore.com/linux/i810 doesn't help... :\ the only solution is get my own kernel (RH's kernel wont patch, as they ship with some of their own), get gart (the old one, _NOT_ the new

Re: [LIH] Mutt config

2000-06-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Madhu M. Kurup saw fit to inform LI that: a) pine equivalent key bindings - most of them - not only some b) starting up with the folder listing as a default? c) shifting between folders via a macro / key binding Pine like keybindings in mutt - (just remembered) :) # # This file contains

[LIH] write error in swap and other problems

2000-06-12 Thread Susheel Chandradhas
Hi there everyone, My X windiws is still not starting . I did a 'chmod a+x ~/.Xclients' and that has cleared up the previous problem "Exec: /root/.xclients: cannot execute: permission denied" but there is still another problem. I get a message saying "usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinit/xinitrc:

Re: [LIH] Problem compiling Alsa 0.5.8a

2000-06-12 Thread Nick Hill
get a new kernel or hack the old one to sync the types... Nikhil. On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 04:01:44PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: /usr/include/netinet/in.h:204: conflicting types for `ntohl' /usr/include/asm/byteorder.h:22: previous declaration of `ntohl' /usr/include/netinet/in.h:206:

Re: [LIH] Abit WB6 = i810e and Linux

2000-06-12 Thread Shanker R Swaminathan
Mixed Experiences. The Taiwanese seem to have created sub-species out of these with varients like 810B ,C et. all. Very few of them allow sound to be configured easily, with the emulation offered being widely misdetected. and no - ALSA does not always work on them Havent tried 2.2.16 on any

Re: [LIH] i810 stuff.

2000-06-12 Thread Sudhakar Chandra
Arun Sharma proclaimed: $ cat ~/.exrc :map _f !}fmt -p ' ' The following vim macro simulates pico's CTRL-J to reformat a paragraph: " C-j will reformat a paragraph nmap C-J vipgq vmap C-J gq Thaths -- "Now, let's all turn around and pay attention to me again." --

Re: [LIH] Re: Listing Website name end with '.de'?

2000-06-12 Thread Sudhakar Chandra
"Muthu Mohan.T" proclaimed: Before 15 days I was accidentaly visited a website thru yahoo. I was forgotten that site name now. Now you know why popular browsers have a bookmark feature. Now I can remember the name of the site is 'www.ci*somethinghere*.de'. Is there any tools to list the

Re: [LIH] FTP [ I can'nt download directories ]

2000-06-12 Thread Sudhakar Chandra
john J K proclaimed: I was trying to access another Linux machine using FTP , while I try to download directories it says " not a plain text file" while I can download files, any settings to be done more Plain old FTP does not let you download directories and their contents recursively.

Re: [LIH] higher resolution in console mode

2000-06-12 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Hi Ajay, Thanks for the help. Yes now I run my console at 80x34 instead of the normal 80x25. This was possible using SVGATextMode. It was already installed. After running SVGATextMode I had to just configure the /etc/TextConfig file and specify the default mode and put /usr/sbin/SVGATextMode

Re: [LIH] higher resolution in console mode

2000-06-12 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Hi Raju, Thanks for the response. In fact I tried installing LILO but inspite of making a /boot partition below 1024 cylinder mark it was giving me error and lilo was not working. So I thought may be because of Ontrack O/S this might be happening. I had to reinstall Windows and SuSE 6.3 twice

[LIH] viewing a file on screen from an application

2000-06-12 Thread Rajesh Fowkar
Hi, Is there any utility to view a file on screen (say report file) generated in an application ? This utility should be able to scroll horizontally as well as vertically. This is needed to show the users the generated report on screen. Thanks in advance. -- Rajesh(ALIAS Shriram) Fowkar

Re: [LIH] Newsgroups

2000-06-12 Thread lists
You are in luck. The news.vsnl.net.in server was down for 3 days and woke up this evening. Use rtin to read your news, as this is much much faster than pine for reading news (though lacks user configurable features) An even better option (specially if you have a dialup connection) would be to

Re: [LIH] How to go back to multi user mode from single user mode

2000-06-12 Thread lists
Type this and press enter init 5 Just check if it happens with other window managers. If it doesn't then check the dependencies of all (particularly base) Gname packages. You might try starting Gnome from failsafe mode terminal. This will show you all error messages. If GDM is not working, go to

Re: [LIH] fsck exits with signal 10!

2000-06-12 Thread Sudhakar Chandra
Sanjeev M S proclaimed: sorry for the repost. then i got a mesg. from the list saying the mail was delayed. i myself was shocked to see it the second time! I too contributed to the duplicate. You see mj2 is smart enough to see duplicate emails (it maintains a history of checksums for

Re: [LIH] D-Link 56.6 PCI internal modem

2000-06-12 Thread Ravikant K.Rao
"Mukund" == Mukund Deshmukh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mukund Huh Impossible!. The modem must come out of data mode to Mukund accept an AT command, which can be done by sending a Mukund special sequence of character at fixed interval only. Mukund Please restrain from posting

Re: [LIH] Newsgroups

2000-06-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Sridhar saw fit to inform LI that: I recently subscribed to vsnl internet connection. But i don't know how to subscribe to the newsgroups or configure pine to receive news. Can anyone help ? In pine, S=Setup, C=Config. The third option = nntp server. Set it as news.vsnl.net.in. That

[LIH] MISC: Can somebody recommend a good public access nntp server?

2000-06-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Like the subject says. I'm not on vsnl - and they don't allow users of other ISPs to post. My nntp access is at office, and at home I have to telnet into a slow freeshell server for this. Can somebody suggest an alternative nntp server? -- Suresh Ramasubramanian + [EMAIL PROTECTED] Our

Re: [LIH] MISC: Can somebody recommend a good public access nntp server?

2000-06-12 Thread Mrinal Kalakrishnan
Hi, Suresh Ramasubramanian typed: Like the subject says. I'm not on vsnl - and they don't allow users of other ISPs to post. My nntp access is at office, and at home I have to telnet into a slow freeshell server for this. Can somebody suggest an alternative nntp server? Try

Re: [LIH] Mutt config

2000-06-12 Thread Mrinal Kalakrishnan
Hi, Madhu M. Kurup typed: a) pine equivalent key bindings - most of them - not only some Answered already. b) starting up with the folder listing as a default? At the end of your .muttrc, put in: push 'c?' Mutt literally pushes those keys, thus showing you a folder listing. c) shifting

Re: [LIH] MySQL - Apache

2000-06-12 Thread Robin Chatterjee
You need to recompile php with mysql support. redhat's php rpm doesn't come with this by default. Cheerio Robin Hitesh wrote: Thankx rajiv , I already have that book from Wrox Apache + PHP works fine on our systems, But when I connect to MySQL the trouble starts. It gives a error

[LIH] boot process stopping at eth0.....

2000-06-12 Thread nageswarap
i configured sound card in my system with sndconfig command in su mode in /user/sbin directory . now when i reboot my system it's halting at Bringing up interface eth0 . It s not giving OK or FAILED. what could have the problem awaiting ur response Thanks in advance rajm

[LIH] Re: How to go back to multi user mode from single user mode

2000-06-12 Thread Vilas Kumar C
1. Read man pages on init. Init 3 is multiuser mode. Edit your /etc/inittab set the default init. See LIH archives... 2. Sure your X-windows system hangs? Maybe just your mouse isn't working. Set it right with the command 'xf86config' in console mode. I am new member of the Linux Usergroup, I

Re: [LIH] FTP [ I can'nt download directories ]

2000-06-12 Thread Dwivedi Ajay kumar
On 12 Jun 2000, john J K wrote: Hello says " not a plain text file" regards John Use ncftp -u username machinename Read its man/doc for details --- The LIH mailing list

Re: [LIH] A couple of questions.

2000-06-12 Thread Dwivedi Ajay kumar
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: 1)'ls -R' does not list recursively. [shridhar@neptune Gold]$ ls -R *.cbl ls: *.cbl: No such file or directory No, ls -R does list recursively but the parameters must make sense. Here *.cbl implies that you are looking for some files

Re: [LIH] [support@mailbox.cps.intel.com: RE: Intel 810 chipset support form for Linux*]

2000-06-12 Thread Ajay Singh
yeh I'm also facing same problem with Intel 810e chip. any GURU there to help us! Nick Hill wrote: to add to the fire... i've got the same problem here with Mercury i810 chipsets on stock RH6.2... and yeah... www.exocore.com/linux/i810 doesn't help... :\ the only solution is get my own

Re: [LIH] [support@mailbox.cps.intel.com: RE: Intel 810 chipset support form for Linux*]

2000-06-12 Thread Shanker Balan
Nick Hill saw fit to inform LIH that: get gart (the old one, _NOT_ the new one (newagp)) and then get the XFCom from intel, and of course run Q3 on it! : Really wierd eh? There are 2 other guys out there who tried the same successfully. Something really fishy with the RHL6.2 gart module.

Re: [LIH] [Administrative] LIH list spammed

2000-06-12 Thread Mrinal Kalakrishnan
Hi, Sudhakar Chandra typed: how about everybody posts *only* pgp-encrypted emails, signed with their private keys and mj2 decrypts every post, verifies/validates the poster , from *any* domain, *even* "unsubscribed" ... would be kinda neat huh? Well. Maybe when pgp becomes