Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Steve \Stevers!\ Coile
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Scott McDermott wrote: [...] To say it isn't an operating system may be construed as being wrong. It provides the critical component for an operating system, does it not? Certainly, but the Linux kernel is a very minor part of the character of the operating system: it has

Re: Apache has slow response from certain ISPs

1998-03-24 Thread Steve \Stevers!\ Coile
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Montana Banana wrote: [...] I've been trying to convince my ISP to enable reverse DNS lookups, but they are resisting. Then you should find another ISP. Without reverse DNS, there are a significant number of anonymous FTP and IRC sites that you aren't going to be able to

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread rhl
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Tom Diehl wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Scott McDermott wrote: "Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 11:48:50PM -0500: A technical debate is not won with volume, it's won with technical merit. Frankly, there are very few

Re: scsi tape drive; which device

1998-03-24 Thread Steve \Stevers!\ Coile
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Victoria Stanfield wrote: Is there a HOWTO somewhere that tells me which device to use for my scsi tape drive? I didn't see anything in the scsi howto. My card is an Adaptec 1520B and the drive is a Travan 4/8GB made by Seagate, although the scsi card sees it as "Conner

Re: Kernel panics with S3 Virge XFree86 server

1998-03-24 Thread Dave Wreski
I was wondering if anyone has experienced this and come up with a solution. Unfortunately, there is not much that can be done with the data in the format it is currently in. There are a few things you should try to do to make the data helpful. 1. Compile the oops-generator: # cd

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Steve \Stevers!\ Coile
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] What is an OS ? Sure Linux has a kernel, but that kernel and some other things "make a computer work". Basicly, isn't that what an OS does ? Absolutely! But the kernel is just one of those things that "make a computer work". -- Steve

Re: BIND-8, when RedHat?

1998-03-24 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Scott McDermott wrote: Henrik Edlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 12:27:42AM +0100: Well, BIND-4 has been abandoned by the dev.team since May 1997. They recommend that everyone run BIND-8 ("You should be using BIND-8"). When will RedHat replace the BIND-4

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Steve \Stevers!\ Coile
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Douglas F. Elznic wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Scott McDermott wrote: This is the wrong approach and is not very dissimilar from spam. All that would be accomplished here was to prove that we are well-connected fanatics. I guess you don't vote. How is a large number of

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Steve \Stevers!\ Coile
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Ken Arck wrote: Steve Coile wrote: A technical debate is not won with volume, it's won with technical merit. Hate to say it, but if that was *always* the case, MAC would be ahead of PC by now :) Of course, MAC is based on *nix, but In this day and age of 5 second sound

Re: Proc F/S

1998-03-24 Thread Paul Fontenot
Is /proc in your /etc/fstab ? rickdman # grep proc /etc/fstab /proc /proc proc defaults rickdman # ls -ald /proc dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root0 Mar 22 11:42 /proc Yeah, except in 5.0 it's none/proc proc

Re: Question on upgrading to RH5.0

1998-03-24 Thread Steve \Stevers!\ Coile
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Steve Hazelett wrote: I have a number of files that I run under RH4.2 and I was wondering if they might break if I upgrade to RH5.0. A lot of them were built on the libc library and with going to new libraries will they still work? Not all the apps I run have been upgraded

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Steve \Stevers!\ Coile
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Bruce Tong wrote: [...] I don't mean to be ignorant here, but if I shouldn't refer to the operating system as "Linux", how should I refer to the operating system? Does "the Red Hat distribution of Linux", or more simply "RedHat Linux", convey the appropriate meaning? Yes.

Re: XFree86-3.3.2.rpm Where?

1998-03-24 Thread Ilia Dulgerov
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Steve Stuart wrote: Yes I myself download from 2 places: ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/redhat/contrib/hurricane/i386 ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/Mirrors/ftp/redhat/pub/contrib/hurricane/i386 ot at least ftp://ftp.avko.bg/pub/Linux/redhat5/i386/RedHat/updates/XFree86-3.3.2/ sucess

Re: complie question ?

1998-03-24 Thread Ilia Dulgerov
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, D.Yang wrote: Did you read INSTALL file? Are there executable Configure or configure if any start it ./configure ilia,sysadmin at avko.bg Hi, I'm new to Unix(redhat),and I don't know how to complie files. I download amp-0.7.3.tar ,and decompressd it in

RE: RH 5.0, diald and chat

1998-03-24 Thread Schlough, Mark
__ Reply Separator _ Subject: Re: RH 5.0, diald and chat Author: Paul Jakma [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] at NMB Date:3/24/98 2:35 PM In your chat script change the solitary "at" to an "atz". Good idea,

isapnp and Yamaha opl3 pnp soundcard. How ?

1998-03-24 Thread SC Altex Impex SRL
Does anybody know how to configure isapnp to activate a Yamaha OPL3 pnp soundcard ? Claudiu Balciza ALTEX IMPEX srl str.Stefan Cel Mare nr.6 5600 Piatra Neamt Romania tel: +40 33 210671 +40 33 210672 fax: +40 33 230817 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat

GLINT fails to detect packages on CDROM

1998-03-24 Thread Al Margheim
I'm a newbie and I just got Red Hat 5.0 installed a week ago. I have a question about GLINT. I'm trying to use GLINT to install some packages from CDROM 2 from the RedHat 5.0 distribution. I'm logged in as root and I have the CDROM mounted and ls /mnt/cdrom shows many package files on the CD.

recompiling the kernal

1998-03-24 Thread Smith, Nathan A., Capt.
Hi again, I posted this question a couple of days ago, and I haven't had any response so I thought I would ask again, hopefully one of you bright people out there can help me with this one. First off I am running an AMD P-90 with Redhat 5.0 (using the 2.0.32 kernel). It has 32 megs of SDRAM

Exabyte and RH 4.2

1998-03-24 Thread Doug Morris
Does anyone have experience with an getting an Exabyte 8500 to work under RH4.2? I'm seeing some strange behavior from mt -- specifically with setdensity (both in hex form and decimal). I can set density to 20 (0x14), but not 21 (0x15) which the 8500 should support. Plus, when running in 8200

Re: how can i login as root from a user account?

1998-03-24 Thread rhl
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Simeon Wood wrote: Hello, I am wondering if someone has some input for my question. I am under the impression that the less I login as root the better off I am. Since when I am as root the odds are there that something I am doing could crash the system, un

Re: alias color in ls

1998-03-24 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Dan Cyr wrote: edit .bashrc in your home directory and add alias ls='ls --color=yes' Better to use "--color=tty". "--color" works equally good. -- Henrik Edlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key available at

Re: Intel Smart Video Recorder III

1998-03-24 Thread Richard Belanger
Look into the Mbone stuff on the internet. Do a web search of "Mbone" and you'll find references to software written for the Intel Smart Video Recorder III. I would LOVE to have one too but my computer is just a 486sx with a 163 Mb hard drive. It would fill up too fast and I can't have another

RE: alias color in ls

1998-03-24 Thread Peter J Spalding
Try this too: Alias ls='ls -color=tty' You do that on the command line each time you start a shell, or, put it in the .bashrc file. -Original Message- From: Dan Cyr [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 1998 12:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; RedHat TechLine Subject:

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Lane J. Bryson
Douglas F. Elznic wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Scott McDermott wrote: This is the wrong approach and is not very dissimilar from spam. All that would be accomplished here was to prove that we are well-connected fanatics. ... messages saying you suck and so does your article. In my

Re: how can i login as root from a user account?

1998-03-24 Thread Vidiot
My Question is how can I log into my boxas root from a non root account?I start my non suid (Super User ID?) account then I try to telnet into myself and login as root but it takes the passwords and rejects it. I can login in again as myself and if I am root I can login as root again. But

Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux,...)

1998-03-24 Thread Wade Hampton
Folks, I agree we should send mail to Byte, but lets be polite and professional in doing so. We should politely point out 1) Why Linux is better, 2) What Linux does that NT/Solaris does not, and 3) How to best use Linux for WWW servers, and 4) How much a Linux box costs versus NT or Solaris.

FW: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Bradley, Greg
Steve Coile said : The Mac vs Wintel has never been a technical debate. A technical review and the editoral response is. Magazine editors are seldom intimidated. Actually, magazine editors are very often intimidated, usually by threats to pull advertising from big budget clients. The only

Intel Smart Video Recorder III

1998-03-24 Thread David . LANDGREN
I have a feeling this message got swallowed up before it made it to the list. My apologies if you are reading this for the second time. -- I'm still not quite sure how I pulled this off, but I managed to convince Intel to give me an Intel Smart Video Recorder III, a PnP card that

su

1998-03-24 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
i know this list is for redhat q's but the SU command is in ANY book RH or not. My Question is how can I log into my boxas root from a non root account?I start my non suid (Super User ID?) account then I try to telnet into myself and login as root but it takes the passwords and

Re: in.inetd?

1998-03-24 Thread Borek Lupomesky
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, GateKeepeR News wrote: Why do I keep getting these mesages in /var/log/messages? And how do I fix whatever it is? Thanks.. Mar 24 03:28:20 koalagate inetd[825]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory You don't have identd daemon installed on your

scsi tape drive; which device

1998-03-24 Thread Victoria Stanfield
Is there a HOWTO somewhere that tells me which device to use for my scsi tape drive? I didn't see anything in the scsi howto. My card is an Adaptec 1520B and the drive is a Travan 4/8GB made by Seagate, although the scsi card sees it as "Conner 8000-S". Anyone got a source for info or want to

Re: how can i login as root from a user account?

1998-03-24 Thread John Winters
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Hello, I am wondering if someone has some input for my question. I am under the impression that the less I login as root the better off I am. Since when I am as root the odds are there that something I am doing could crash the system, un likely but

Re: Clearing out Swap?

1998-03-24 Thread David S. Jackson
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, John Winters wrote: I would like to find out how if I can "restart" the swap space...I think there's deadwood in there. But I don't know whether there's a utility to tell me whether any swap space currently is being wasted. Any ideas? Define "wasted". If you think

Re: scsi tape drive; which device

1998-03-24 Thread Dan Cyr
Check out the KBackup software. It's on sunsite somewhere. You can use it to run a test to tell you what device it is called. Though I would assume it's the same as mine /dev/nst0 Dan At 06:46 AM 3/24/98 -0600, Victoria Stanfield wrote: Is there a HOWTO somewhere that tells me which device

Re: BIND-8, when RedHat?

1998-03-24 Thread Scott McDermott
Henrik Edlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 12:27:42AM +0100: Well, BIND-4 has been abandoned by the dev.team since May 1997. They recommend that everyone run BIND-8 ("You should be using BIND-8"). When will RedHat replace the BIND-4 in their distribution with BIND-8? Is there an

Re: commandline and vi

1998-03-24 Thread Scott McDermott
Paul F Almquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 04:02:07PM -0600: Interesting, I couldn't find out how to do this. I've always used the arrow keys for the command line, and various other keys outlined in the help files. No where does it mention using hjkl ok the

Re: Clearing out Swap?

1998-03-24 Thread John Winters
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Dave Wreski wrote: Data/processes that is in swap and not being used will stay there until it is used. You could very well have 32M free RAM, and still be using swap. The programs will get moved back into RAM if there is free RAM

in.inetd?

1998-03-24 Thread GateKeepeR News
Why do I keep getting these mesages in /var/log/messages? And how do I fix whatever it is? Thanks.. Mar 24 03:28:20 koalagate inetd[825]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory Mar 24 03:29:29 koalagate inetd[856]: execv /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory Mar 24

Re: mtft and root problems

1998-03-24 Thread rhl
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Chris Frost wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Michael P. Plezbert wrote: On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Chris Frost wrote: I just got ftape-3.04c and users can see the program /usr/bin/ftmt, but if you log in as root, you

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Bruce Tong
What is an OS ? Sure Linux has a kernel, but that kernel and some other things "make a computer work". Basicly, isn't that what an OS does ? Absolutely! But the kernel is just one of those things that "make a computer work". I don't mean to be ignorant here, but if I shouldn't refer to

realplayer menu

1998-03-24 Thread ryo
hi all, Realplayer (version 5.0b2) seems to work on my RH5.0 box : it can run ra files, but the GUI doesn't work properly. I can open the menus in the taskbar, but I can't select anything (open location, exit, preferences ...) What's wrong with it, has someone got the same problem. BTW what's

problem w/ ftpaccess

1998-03-24 Thread sty
I have tried several times to limit simultanious ftp-users to my site putting in the ftpaccess -file following: limit all 100 Am I missing some parameters? ftpwho program still reports: Service class all: 110 users ( -1 maximum) -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Scott McDermott
Ken Arck [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 08:59:21PM -0800: A technical debate is not won with volume, it's won with technical merit. Hate to say it, but if that was *always* the case, MAC would be ahead of PC by now :) Of course, MAC is based on *nix, but Are you suggesting

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Scott McDermott
"Douglas F. Elznic" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 07:42:49PM -0500: This is the wrong approach and is not very dissimilar from spam. All that would be accomplished here was to prove that we are well-connected fanatics. I guess you don't vote. How is a large number of well

Kernel panics with S3 Virge XFree86 server

1998-03-24 Thread Eric Knudstrup
I was wondering if anyone has experienced this and come up with a solution. This machine is a 200mhz Pentium Micron with an out-of-the-box installation of RH5.0 Please cc to my address, as I am post-only, TIA, Eric Mar 23 00:22:17 foobar kernel: VFS: Close: file count is 0 Mar 23 00:22:17

mail domain alias

1998-03-24 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I'm trying to set a mail domain alias but I don't know how to do it. The machine's name is pepito.somewhere.edu, and the alias (which is already in the DNS db) is josefa.somewhere.edu. What do I have to do in order to have sendmail accept email to user@josefa and

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Scott McDermott
"Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Mar 23, 1998 at 11:48:50PM -0500: A technical debate is not won with volume, it's won with technical merit. Frankly, there are very few people--very few--that are competent enough to technically compare Linux to any other operating system.

Re: Proc F/S

1998-03-24 Thread rhl
I encountered the same problem on a Rh 5.0, and this was the cause: - /proc was mounted, but there was no report about that in /etc/mtab. Check your /etc/mtab - is /proc mentioned there ? - to fix that i edited /etc/rc.c/rc.sysinit. See if you have this sections

RE: Clearing out Swap?

1998-03-24 Thread David S. Jackson
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Dave Wreski wrote: Data/processes that is in swap and not being used will stay there until it is used. You could very well have 32M free RAM, and still be using swap. The programs will get moved back into RAM if there is free RAM available when the program needs to be

Re: Never share root

1998-03-24 Thread rhl
If you are sure this is the only damage, just reinstall the whole shadow package. On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Ken Arck wrote: Well, guess I deserve what I got for sharing root access with someone I trusted. They inadvertantly changed alot of permissions and now its not possible to su

Re: Apache has slow response from certain ISPs

1998-03-24 Thread Montana Banana
Thank you all for your suggestions. What finally proved to be the problem is that my ISP does not allow reverse DNS lookups. Thus when I try to connect to my server, the server tries for 30 seconds to do a reverse DNS lookup on my IP address, to no avail. I've been trying to convince my ISP to

RE: Never share root

1998-03-24 Thread David . LANDGREN
Well, guess I deserve what I got for sharing root access with someone I trusted. They inadvertantly changed alot of permissions and now its ^ Then it's not a problem of trust -- you could have trashed it yourself. DL -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Al Margheim
Perhaps, if Linux Operating System isn't correct, the Official Red Hat 5.0 Linux distribution package shouldn't say "Linux Operating System" on the box in numerous places. :) Al Margheim At 10:55 AM 3/24/98 -0500, you wrote: What is an OS ? Sure Linux has a kernel, but that kernel and some

Re: tips

1998-03-24 Thread Scott McDermott
Shane French [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 01:48:37PM -0800: Can you tell me how to (via email, not the www) get a file containing Redhat tips? Well, here's one important and useful tip: +---+ |

Re: Proc F/S

1998-03-24 Thread Brian
rickdman # grep proc /etc/fstab /proc /proc proc defaults rickdman # ls -ald /proc dr-xr-xr-x 5 root root0 Mar 22 11:42 /proc Yeah, except in 5.0 it's none /proc procdefaults0 0 In 4.2

Re: scsi tape drive; which device

1998-03-24 Thread Paul F Almquist
On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 10:20:31AM -0500, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Victoria Stanfield wrote: Is there a HOWTO somewhere that tells me which device to use for my scsi tape drive? I didn't see anything in the scsi howto. My card is an Adaptec 1520B and the drive is a

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Ken Arck
Steve Coile wrote: A technical debate is not won with volume, it's won with technical merit. Hate to say it, but if that was *always* the case, MAC would be ahead of PC by now :) Of course, MAC is based on *nix, but In this day and age of 5 second sound bytes and "over with in 2 days"

Re: alias color in ls

1998-03-24 Thread Dan Cyr
edit .bashrc in your home directory and add alias ls='ls --color=yes' or to make it global for all users add it to /etc/bashrc Dan At 05:27 PM 3/23/98 -0600, Joey Officer wrote: I tried to setup color to be added when I do an ls -l -color but it says ls: unrecognized option `--color'

Re: Never share root

1998-03-24 Thread Michael George
I've fixed some of them as I remember them being. Now when trying to su from one account to any other, the message is su: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted Would I just be better reinstalling at this point (after backing up my critical files of course)? Before I did that I

Re: GLINT fails to detect packages on CDROM

1998-03-24 Thread Eric Wood
Supposedly, GLINT only show you the packages that are currently _not_ installed on your harddisk. The idea is to weed through and only show newer (or older) versions you can upgrade to. Indeed, GLINT needs an option switch to allow you to view all packages. -Eric Wood Al Margheim wrote:

Re: Never share root

1998-03-24 Thread Ken Arck
At 04:53 PM 3/24/98 +, you wrote: Before I did that I would use the "--setperms" option with rpm. Something like: rpm --setperms `rpm -qa` Well, i figured what happened. He had changed permissions on several files in /bin. The " su: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted " was

how can i login as root from a user account?

1998-03-24 Thread Simeon Wood
Hello, I am wondering if someone has some input for my question. I am under the impression that the less I login as root the better off I am. Since when I am as root the odds are there that something I am doing could crash the system, un likely but possible right? My Question

Re[2]: Proc F/S

1998-03-24 Thread Steve Hazelett
Interesting, my RH 4.2 says: none /proc proc defaults And I have never changed it with vi, just used the GUI. Steve Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In 4.2 it's: none /proc ignore 0 0 0

Question on upgrading to RH5.0

1998-03-24 Thread Steve Hazelett
I have a number of files that I run under RH4.2 and I was wondering if they might break if I upgrade to RH5.0. A lot of them were built on the libc library and with going to new libraries will they still work? Not all the apps I run have been upgraded to the new libs. In other words is

RPM on NT?

1998-03-24 Thread Jon Hale
Does anybody know if there is any effort underway to port RPM to NT? Thanks for any pointers, -jon -- 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

Re: RPM on NT?

1998-03-24 Thread Derek Balling
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Jon Hale wrote: Does anybody know if there is any effort underway to port RPM to NT? Thanks for any pointers, Isn't it called InstallShield? :) == Derek J. Balling | "Bill Gates is a monocle and

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Bruce Tong
Linux is now where Unix was when I got into it 18 years ago: the best solution available for a wide variety of problems, but perceived as the domain of the lunatic fringe because it isn't associated with The Big Names. Maybe we can "out cool" the others. The web is a great place for all

Re: scsi tape drive; which device

1998-03-24 Thread John DeCarlo
At 10:41 AM 3/24/98 -0600, Paul F Almquist wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 10:20:31AM -0500, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote: SCSI tape drives are named /dev/stN and /dev/nstN, where N represents a non-negative integer (0, 1, 2, ...). The first SCSI tape drive is /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0, the

cgi-bin trouble

1998-03-24 Thread Theo Jones
Hello, I'm trying to get a perl script to receive for the first time from a form-web-page. I've put the perl-file into the "cgi-bin" under the httpd directory, and made sure file-permissions were set correctly. My web page form has at its head: form name="something_something"

Re: compiling c and c++ code under RedHat 5.0

1998-03-24 Thread Ilia Dulgerov
On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Mark McGlone wrote: How come so many programs which compile cleanly on other versions of Linux seem to have trouble under RedHat 5.0, and what can be done about it? Mark McGlone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING

Re: scsi tape drive; which device

1998-03-24 Thread Brian Lalor
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Paul F Almquist wrote: Anybody know about the correlation or lack thereof between scsi id and device number? I'm a scsi neophyte. Usually, device numbers are assigned sequentially based on the SCSI ID. If you have three SCSI hard drives on IDs 0, 4, and 6, a CD-ROM at 5

apache

1998-03-24 Thread Canary, Robert W.
Hi, I know this question isn't completely RHL related but I hoping someone could point me in the general direction (as in what page). . . . . . . . . I have a number documents written in HTML. However, when Apache sends the documents out the some get interpreted as text even though the

RE: recompiling the kernal

1998-03-24 Thread Thomas Dell
Return Receipt YourRE: recompiling the kernal document:

RE: apache

1998-03-24 Thread Thomas Dell
Return Receipt YourRE: apache document:

Virus magic file

1998-03-24 Thread John H Darrah
Does any one know of a file containing all of the known virus signatures, including macro (CAP) type, that is in the same or similar format as /usr/lib/magic. I'm thinking about adding a filter into my mail machine to look for attachments and then "virus check" them. -- John Darrah (u05192)

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux, Solaris, Digital, HP-UXand NT)

1998-03-24 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 01:51:22PM -0500, Bruce Tong wrote: Maybe we can "out cool" the others. The web is a great place for all consumers and corporations. A nice simple "Linux Hosted" or "Developed on Red Hat Linux" graphic on all our web pages would go a long way. Then link them all to a

Re: apache

1998-03-24 Thread Hans Feringa
Go to /etc/httpd/conf and edit the file srm.conf and add the line: AddType text/html htm I tested it for you and it works: (from my srm.conf after editing): # AddType allows you to tweak mime.types without actually editing it, or to # make certain files to be certain types. # Format: AddType

Re: alias color in ls

1998-03-24 Thread Joey Officer
I've tried adding the alias command to my .bashrc ... but it still no worky... Do I have to have a new version of redhat possibly? I dunno joey -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips

Re: mail domain alias

1998-03-24 Thread Bryan C. Andregg
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998 17:11:31 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The machine's name is pepito.somewhere.edu, and the alias (which is already in the DNS db) is josefa.somewhere.edu. What do I have to do in order to have sendmail accept email to user@josefa and send it to

RE: apache

1998-03-24 Thread Canary, Robert W.
Thanks, It was srm.conf use AddType text/html html htm -- From: Jason Wilson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 1998 2:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: The recipient's address is unknown. Subject:RE: apache Check the .conf files for httpd and you will

RE: alias color in ls

1998-03-24 Thread Tempel, Philippe
I've tried adding the alias command to my .bashrc ... but it still no worky... [PT] Did you use the correct syntax? For example, I use the following to alias "dir" to "ls -al": alias dir="ls -al" Also, you can try putting the alias at the end of

Re: Never share root

1998-03-24 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Ken Arck wrote: Well, guess I deserve what I got for sharing root access with someone I trusted. Never, ever, ever, ever, share root access with anyone under any circumstances. Too many roots spoil the broth. It is far too simple to They inadvertantly changed alot

Re: alias color in ls

1998-03-24 Thread Stelios Bounanos
Henrik Edlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Dan Cyr wrote: edit .bashrc in your home directory and add alias ls='ls --color=yes' Better to use "--color=tty". "--color" works equally good. No, it doesn't

Linux and NT

1998-03-24 Thread Jason Wilson
I have a machine running NT and 95 on hda and a cdrom on hdb. I installed Linux on hdc and tried using lilo. It did not work. I then tried us nt bootloader and adding a line to the boot.ini but I apparently did not get all of the parameters in correctly. Has anyone done this with nt bootloader

Re: cgi-bin trouble

1998-03-24 Thread redhat
Check to see where you have your "ScriptAlias" set up in your httpd.conf file. It is probably not where you have your script. On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Theo Jones wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get a perl script to receive for the first time from a form-web-page. I've put the perl-file into the

Re: Where is whois?

1998-03-24 Thread W.D.McKinney
"Jeremy Domingue" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know where I can get an RPM for whois? I know it's probably part of a larger package, but I can't seem to find it anywhere! Otherwise if there's not an RPM, anyone know where I can get the source (and hope it works on glibc)? Had the same

Re: Where is whois?

1998-03-24 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Jeremy Domingue wrote: Anyone know where I can get an RPM for whois? I know it's probably part of a larger package, but I can't seem to find it anywhere! Look at the 'fwhois' package. It comes with all versions of Red Hat. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips,

Re: alias color in ls

1998-03-24 Thread Kent R. Frazier
I added the following line to my .bashrc file under #User specific aliases and functions alias ls='ls --color al' This gives me both color and a detailed listing, which being a newbie really helps :) I have version 4.2 Joey Officer wrote: I've tried adding the alias command to my .bashrc

Need FAQ on dial-in PPP

1998-03-24 Thread Casey Bralla
I want to allow users to dial in to my RH 5 machine and connect to my intranet. I know I saw a FAQ on this someplace, but now can't find it. Can somebody point me in the right direction? J R Casey Bralla [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Nerd in Residence NerdWorld Cheraw, SC USA (803) 537-8822

Linux and NT

1998-03-24 Thread Thomas Dell
Return Receipt YourLinux and NT document:

Re: Proc F/S

1998-03-24 Thread Michael P. Plezbert
I sent a message about this yesterday, but I'm not sure it made it through properly. Have you tried installing the latest initscripts rpm from redhat? It should solve the mount problems with /proc. Michael On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Paul Fontenot wrote: Anybody seen this one,

SCSI-howto Vapour wear

1998-03-24 Thread Jeffrey Fearn
I am trying to install a Quantum 200S SCSI card, the configx (kernal config) tells me that the SCSI-howto at sunsite can tell me how to install for this card. However I can not find the how to at sunsite :( Can anyone tell me where I can find the howto, or if you have it E-mail it to me?

Re: alias color in ls

1998-03-24 Thread Brandt Kurowski
Craig Kattner wrote: H. Well, I had alias dir="ls -F --color=yes" in my /etc/bashrc and for example piping things to less printed the color codes but not to more. So, I just tried it out with --color and with --color=tty and got the same results. Probably more a less issue then a ls

Dial-Up

1998-03-24 Thread Pierantonio Bonato
There is somebody that can help me in configuring a modem (Zyxxel) to dial-up to an Internet Service Provider? Thank You

Re: cgi-bin trouble

1998-03-24 Thread Theo Jones
Hey thanks, Someone else also suggested that and sure-enough that was my problem. It's now working with no problem. Thanks, -Theo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check to see where you have your "ScriptAlias" set up in your httpd.conf file. It is probably not where you have your script. On

Re: Want to give back to linux? Was Re: BYTE reviews Web servers (on Linux,...)

1998-03-24 Thread Patrick T. Berry
I am opening a store to try to educate, and sell Linux boxes at the same time. Computers Gadgets, Inc. at 4950 South Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando, Florida 32839, and I hope to serve both the local Linux Users Groups with Freebies, and share knowledge. I will sell machines at the lowest

How is linux not an O/S Was: Re: Want to give back to linux?

1998-03-24 Thread Douglas F. Elznic
On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Scott McDermott wrote: To say it isn't an operating system may be construed as being wrong. It provides the critical component for an operating system, does it not? How is linux not an OS. I really need to rethink my ideas about computers... -- Douglas F. Elznic [EMAIL

Re: Want to give back to linux?

1998-03-24 Thread Patrick T. Berry
I am trying to get to market for the two Linux users groups and the public at large, a decent Linux box at under $800. So far I have IDE stuff, and am trying to qualify the hardware before it is bought cause I don't want to blow big bucks on junk. If you want to help me "kick butt", and you