Re: BRU and the Seagate 3200 Travan ??

1998-04-07 Thread Dave Wreski
Ok. I've realized that getting the T3000 to work in this machine is probably going to be a really big pain. I've been able to find a FC20 card to control it but for another $80 and I won't have it till Friday at the earliest. The place I bought it from said that they will take it back for

Re: Fax gives up after 4or 6 pages

1998-04-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, tc wrote: Hi, when I want to send a fax with more than 3 pages, it can happen that my fax (mgetty+sendfax) hangs up with the following error. When I want to send 10 pages it is for sure that this happens. /usr/sbin/sendfax: FAILED to transmit 'f5.g3'. Transmission

RE: Partitions

1998-04-07 Thread Rob Goodwin
1024 cylinders listed in your BIOS, then a small /boot partition at the very start of the drive is a must. I'm not sure i understand how this works exactly.. if you have a small partition that only holds your kernel (or does it hold more) then how does it find the /etc directory with the

RE: Partitions

1998-04-07 Thread Jeff Douglass
The root partition (/) typically includes /etc and other key directories necessary for operation. The other filesystems are mounted during the boot. -- Jeff On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Rob Goodwin wrote: 1024 cylinders listed in your BIOS, then a small /boot partition at the very start of the

RE: Partitions

1998-04-07 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Rob Goodwin wrote: 1024 cylinders listed in your BIOS, then a small /boot partition at the very start of the drive is a must. I'm not sure i understand how this works exactly.. if you have a small partition that only holds your kernel (or does it hold more) then how

Emulators ( was msoffice 4.3)

1998-04-07 Thread Phil Risby
With all this talk of emulators ( I use Wabi 2.2D) and the need to use some win95 32 bit apps occasionally plus it makes Linux easier to 'sell' anyone any experiences of Bochs, or any others like willows with win95 on i386 Linux? I d/led Bochs and compiled it last night.Installation needs me to

Re: linux quirkiness

1998-04-07 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, aoc wrote: i may be a newbie but i do know for a fact that "killall -HUP inetd" is needed to reread the /etc/hosts.allow / /etc/hosts.deny files. Then your "fact" needs checking. Go check the source code. inetd never calls any of the hosts_access functions that check the

Re: tokens??

1998-04-07 Thread Dave Reed
The following example is taken from the xinitrc file: quote begins if [ -f $sysresources ]; then xrdb -merge $sysresources fi quote ends Is the "fi" a token? How can I find out what "fi" does? "fi" marks the end of the if statement (fi is if backwards) In

Mounting a VFAT32 parition

1998-04-07 Thread Ahsan Ali
I hope this isn't too basic a question for this mailing list but I'l like to know if RedHat 5.0 (kernel 2.0.31) supports VFAT32 partitions. Most of my files are on the Win98 partition and I would like to access them from Linux too. Any help or directions to where to get it would be very

BRU and the Seagate 3200 Travan ??

1998-04-07 Thread Rob Goodwin
Ok. I've realized that getting the T3000 to work in this machine is probably going to be a really big pain. I've been able to find a FC20 card to control it but for another $80 and I won't have it till Friday at the earliest. The place I bought it from said that they will take it back for

User changing

1998-04-07 Thread kLicK
Is there anyway to change users while in X? Is Applexware as good as MS Office? Are there any GOOD wordprocessing programs that are free? -kLicK ICQ UIN - # 2101942 -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata

Re: User changing

1998-04-07 Thread Dave Wreski
Is there anyway to change users while in X? Use the `su' command, for switch-user. Provide the user name you wish to switch to, like: # su - otherusr and be sure to read the man page. Is Applexware as good as MS Office? I happen to think its better. It doesn't crash, or swallow

Re: User changing

1998-04-07 Thread Dave Wreski
Is there anyway to change users while in X? Use the `su' command, for switch-user. Provide the user name you wish to switch to, like: You should also check out the following, for some basic system administration help:

EXMH Problem

1998-04-07 Thread Jay Daniels
Running sendmail, MH, EXMH, pine, and fetchmail with a dialup connection to my ISP. My pine config settings: personal-name= No Value Set: using "Jay Daniels" user-domain = planttel.net smtp-server =

TEST ONLY sorry

1998-04-07 Thread Al Justrabo
EN:0 CS:0 RC:0 DC:0 UR:0 SS:0 SG:0 MI:1 EX:0 FL:0 Hi. I seem to have no luck posting to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have sent several messages and none have ever appeared. I was wondering if someone could try to look into this for me and see what can be done (I need help ! :) Thank you for

Re: Newbee and second HDD problem

1998-04-07 Thread David E. Fox
hdb1 was partitioned in a single 2Gb partition and formatted. It was also permanently mounted in /etc/fstab adding the line: /dev/hdb1 /apps ext2 defaults 1 2 In order to install Applixware on hdb1, I also gave the commands: mkdir -p /mnt/hdb1/apps/opt rm -f /opt ln -s

Re: Multiple CD-ROM's

1998-04-07 Thread Pork E. Pigg
Tim Larkins (EUKSHEL1PO) wrote: I've recently added a number of new items to my RH5 system.. namely a WangDat 3200 and a 4x Sony CD-ROM.. I haven't even looked at the WangDat yet so thats not really an issue.. however, the cd-rom is another matter.. I've already got an IDE CD-Rom in my

Re: Thanks to all for hardware comments

1998-04-07 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Paul M Dunphy wrote: it'll work. my only concern is that i'm not certain that the linux triton driver recognizes and supports DMA busmastering with the 440LX chipset's integrated EIDE controller. 2.0.32 and 2.0.33 don't appear ... A good point. I don't expect that

RE: User changing

1998-04-07 Thread Russ Harrison
On 07-Apr-98 kLicK wrote: Are there any GOOD wordprocessing programs that are free? If WYSIWYG isn't a requirement for you (and even if you think it is you should still look into this) I would recommend LaTeX. Sure it isn't the newest thing out there, but it produces much better output, IMHO,

More Questions

1998-04-07 Thread kLicK
I would like to thank you all for the help that you have given me so far. I would be lost without this list. I do however have some questions and problems. First of all what is the deal with some programs made for 1024 X 768 mode? Is Xwindows designed for 21 inch monitors or something (I have

Re: Lynx Colors in Updated Version

1998-04-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Raj Singh wrote: Hi, I too find blue-on-black difficult to read with the lynx-2.8 update applied on my 4.2 version. You can change the colors of the links from blue-on-black to white-on-black by editing the /etc/lynx.cfg file. Search for COLORS with your editor (or go

Re: More Questions

1998-04-07 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, kLicK wrote: problems. First of all what is the deal with some programs made for 1024 X 768 mode? Is Xwindows designed for 21 inch monitors or something (I have a As a matter of fact, it is. :) 14 inch ): I have used Xconfigurator to try and get the best modes

Re: More Questions

1998-04-07 Thread Dave Wreski
of these newbie questions, but everyone has to start somewhere. There are some programs that seem to do nothing when I try to load them. They are Yes, they may be newbie questions, but there is nothing wrong with that, as long as you put in some time and practice, and not expect us to do

X video corruption

1998-04-07 Thread lucier
Howdy..:-) Running RH 5 and am trying to set up X. If I use startx the server background and an "X" will appear for about 4 seconds and then the video corrupts. If I use startx but delete the xinitrc file, then the X background appears with a command line window in it and no

swap error

1998-04-07 Thread Eugen Constantinescu
Hello ! I made an instalation for RH 4.2 and I made two partitions. First partition ( 50 Mb ) for swap and the second for linux. I formated all the partition and the instalation was good. But, when I rebooted the system, I got an swap error : " swap_free : swap-space map bad (entry 8000)" The

Re: HELP: ifconfig reports packet errors on ppp0... how do I debug?

1998-04-07 Thread John D. Hardin
My ifconfig: ppp0 Link encap:Point-Point Protocol inet addr:205.179.145.12 P-t-P:165.227.96.17 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:560 Metric:1 RX packets:6669 errors:92 dropped:92 overruns:0 TX packets:4788 errors:0 dropped:0

Re: Thanks to all for hardware comments

1998-04-07 Thread Tim Pickering
The new 2.1 kernels do the Triton busmastering in a completely different way which should work with more or less every Triton chip out there, including the ones on the 430VX/430TX and all the 440 boards. I'm not entirely sure how much improvement they get on UDMA type drives. In any case,

re: swap error

1998-04-07 Thread Db
I made an instalation for RH 4.2 and I made two partitions. First partition ( 50 Mb ) for swap and the second for linux. did I read somewhere it was a heathen thing to do...ie; make swap the FIRST partition? -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

RE: mp3 files?

1998-04-07 Thread Blees, E.J. \(Edwin\)
try www.mp3.com - edwin -- From: Dave Wreski[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: dinsdag 7 april 1998 1:05 To:RedHat Cc:The recipient's address is unknown.; LOCAL Subject: mp3 files? Hi all. Does anyone know anything about mp3 files? Are they only sound files, or video as

Re: Thanks to all for hardware comments

1998-04-07 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Tim Pickering wrote: well, hdparm -tT says there isn't much difference between PIO and DMA modes for EIDE in terms of thruput, but in the real world DMA mode is There isn't. Throughput is mostly bound by bus and drive speed. The difference is that the PIO modes use extra

RE: User changing

1998-04-07 Thread Linus Ã…kerlund
Are there any GOOD wordprocessing programs that are free? There is a program out there called LyX that puts what the authors call a "What you see is what you mean" frontend to LaTeX, but I haven't used it so I can't comment. I've tried out LyX a bit, and it seems to be a very good program.

Re: X - Multiple screens on Linux system

1998-04-07 Thread Graham Hemmings
I'm surprised that XFree doesn't support multiple screens, as there are references to this functionality throughout the man pages for XF86Config, such as the reference to the command ScreenNo. Are you sure there is no support for this? Graham... Wally Iimura wrote: If you insist on using

Re: X - Multiple Screens

1998-04-07 Thread Graham Hemmings
This will start another X-Display on vty8, but still on the same screen. I want to start another X-screen (as opposed to x-display), i.e. screen 0 (:0.0) on the first Matrox card and screen 1 (:0.1 ?) on the second Matrox card. BTW startx -- :0.1 doesn't do it! Thanks anyway, Graham... aoc

Iomega Ditto Max Tape Drives

1998-04-07 Thread SAUNDEMR
Hi there, I've been looking at various backup options for my Linux workstation and was wondering if anyone knew whether an Iomega Ditto Max tape drive (with Dash Accelerator) is compatible with Linux and if not, what's a good alternative? Thanks in advance, Michael Saunderson. -- PLEASE

CGI script error on RH4.2 with apache/1.2.0

1998-04-07 Thread Timothy Ayodele
I get this error when I tried to run a cgi script on RH4.2 with apache 1.2.0 access to /home/httpd/cgi-bin/webannouncer.cgi failed reason: Premature end of script headers Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: gated

1998-04-07 Thread James Youngman
"Willie" == Willie Twonk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Willie I have a suggested gated.conf from them which I am starting Willie to understand, it's more the RH5 issues that I need to deal Willie with right now. One entry in the log that bothers me is Willie "task_get_proto:

Re: linux quirkiness

1998-04-07 Thread Borek Lupomesky
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, aoc wrote: one thing that pisses me off about linux is its programs' unpredictability. take tcpd for one. i comment out a line in /etc/hosts.allow , killall -HUP inetd, test it.., uncomment out that same line, killall -HUP inetd, but the daemon still refuses to start

Re: X - Multiple screens on Linux system

1998-04-07 Thread Kenneth G.Kay
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Graham Hemmings wrote: I'm surprised that XFree doesn't support multiple screens, as there are references to this functionality throughout the man pages for XF86Config, such as the reference to the command ScreenNo. Are you sure there is no support for this?

Re: X - Multiple screens on Linux system

1998-04-07 Thread Bob Purdon
Here is a little script that opens a new display and starts your window manager: #!/bin/bash X :1 export DISPLAY=:1 ~/.xinitrc Can this be made to work with two video cards, which I assume was what the original poster was after? I'd be interested in that myself. I suspect some

Re: Newbee and second HDD problem

1998-04-07 Thread Gianmaria Fontana di Sacculmino
On 6 Apr 98, at 21:08, David E. Fox wrote: hdb1 was partitioned in a single 2Gb partition and formatted. It was also permanently mounted in /etc/fstab adding the line: /dev/hdb1 /apps ext2 defaults 1 2 In order to install Applixware on hdb1, I also gave the commands:

Required recompile of pam when configuring SMB

1998-04-07 Thread Fred Leeflang
At work I set up SMB on a Linux file server. I found out that I had to recompile the PAM stuff in order to make SMB work with user authentication again after I upgraded to glibc-2.0.7-6. The pam_unix_auth.so that's used for SMB seemed to be SEGV'ing with the new glibc. Regards, Fred Leeflang

Re: Cron email for root.

1998-04-07 Thread rhl
This happens when a program is launched in a directory and that program has no x wrights on all of the the directoryes up from it to / . -- Andrei Postolache, Romania, [EMAIL PROTECTED], +40-35-340482 -- On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Antonomasia wrote: kgibson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Everyday,

A multitude of questions..

1998-04-07 Thread Tim Larkins \(EUKSHEL1PO\)
I've been having a few probs recently.. most are unrelated but I thought I'ld get them all off my chest at once.. saves making multiple posts.. The system in question is running RH5.0... 1) I altered my settings for localhost and domain name etc. in netcfg and now

RE: Not a Desltop OS (was: RE: thanks, but no thanks)

1998-04-07 Thread David . LANDGREN
Jumping in late here, I was on holidays... I'm afraid I need to disagree with this. I picked up linux mostly because I wanted to have some understanding of unix, but it does have potential to be a desktop os. Think about the ease of use complaints, the original poster complained about not

RE: Not a Desltop OS (was: RE: thanks, but no thanks)

1998-04-07 Thread David . LANDGREN
Adding aliases to the dist, IMO, would be very bad. People would use dir, or md, or whatever, without ever knowing the corresponding Linux commands. What would motivate people to learn the OS this way? Ok, what about $ cat dir echo I think you meant ls... (see: 'man ls')

Re: Cron email for root.

1998-04-07 Thread Bruce Tong
The permissions of /root are wrong. They need to be 755. Ok, but that is silly. Here's the scoop: Cron starts out in /root, then su's to another userid. Now, as that userid it is in a directory for which it has no permissions, hence the errors. You should be able to see the problem

Re: CGI script error on RH4.2 with apache/1.2.0

1998-04-07 Thread Ulrich Czekalla
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Timothy Ayodele wrote: I get this error when I tried to run a cgi script on RH4.2 with apache 1.2.0 access to /home/httpd/cgi-bin/webannouncer.cgi failed reason: Premature end of script headers Well it's hard to tell from the information you have given. There are

Re: pcAnywhere Express and Linux?

1998-04-07 Thread Marco Iannacone
You don't need PCANYWHERE: you can have remote controll on an NT (or 95) box from Linux (and viceversa) with Virtual Network Computing http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc/ I think that it is a great GPL sw! regards, Marco Oh, I thank you for this news! hahah, I have been looking for something like

RE: RH 5 reboots without warning

1998-04-07 Thread Edmunds, Keith
On Monday, April 06, 1998 4:06 AM, David Fisher [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Judging from our experiences and those I read about in this list every day, Linux is "very intolerant" of every single brand of computer made, including all the big names. You criticize others, perhaps

RE: A multitude of questions..

1998-04-07 Thread Hoe-Teck Wee
Hello. Let me see if I could help .. The system in question is running RH5.0... 1) I altered my settings for localhost and domain name etc. in netcfg and now sendmail hangs for ages when I start the box up.. Okie, try the X-based network configuration netcfg or check out

Re: linux quirkiness

1998-04-07 Thread Willie Twonk
Apparently, sending HUP to inetd has no effect - tcpd reads its config every request inetd receives, so there's no need to do it. i may be a newbie but i do know for a fact that "killall -HUP inetd" is needed to reread the /etc/hosts.allow / /etc/hosts.deny files. further, the problem i've

Re: A multitude of questions..

1998-04-07 Thread Miroslaw Wodniak
Tim Larkins (EUKSHEL1PO) wrote: The other question is.. how do I make my system fail safe so that if I do make a dodgy kernel I can simply boot with the old kernel try and sort out the problems? You can copy your new kernel to the floppy and boot the system from there. In case of

Mutitude of questions (Part 2)

1998-04-07 Thread Tim Larkins \(EUKSHEL1PO\)
Forgot to ask one of my questions :\ I recently downloaded all the updates and contrib dirs from RH and used my CD Writer to make a CD out of them under NT.. I used Easy CD Creator Deluxe 3.01b to create the CD.. Most of the files used long file names and under NT/95 it looks fine.. however..

RE: Mutitude of questions (Part 2)

1998-04-07 Thread Tempel, Philippe
I recently downloaded all the updates and contrib dirs from RH and used my CD Writer to make a CD out of them under NT.. I used Easy CD Creator Deluxe 3.01b to create the CD.. Most of the files used long file names and under NT/95 it looks fine.. however.. if I try to look at it under

RE: Mounting a VFAT32 parition

1998-04-07 Thread BT Griffin
The Support is in the Kernal You will need to build a new kernal that supports VFAT32. William On 07-Apr-98 Ahsan Ali wrote: I hope this isn't too basic a question for this mailing list but I'l like to know if RedHat 5.0 (kernel 2.0.31) supports VFAT32 partitions. Most of my files are on

Re: Telnet hesitation

1998-04-07 Thread GBNSCHBACH
In a message dated 98-04-06 14:21:43 EDT, you write: Subj: Re: Telnet hesitation Date: 98-04-06 14:21:43 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Price) Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, I understand that this has to do with the Target machine failing

RE: Quake for RH..

1998-04-07 Thread David . LANDGREN
I found a pretty good site with all the files via FTP from a local mirror site (instead of ID's page). There is some other quake stuff there as well. Go to :- http://www.min.net/~douglas/ See also http://linuxquake.telefragged.com/ http://www.botik.ru/~roma/quake/ DL -- PLEASE

Re: Ludicrous Speed.... Go

1998-04-07 Thread Brad Dawson
- Message Text - More list fodder Dave, I notice the difference in just about all aspects, but the two areas that I can really see speed is when I compile, or use any kind of rendering tool. Povray and The Gimp really move with this system. I have the thing parked on a cable modem

Re: linux quirkiness

1998-04-07 Thread Fred Leeflang
i may be a newbie but i do know for a fact that "killall -HUP inetd" is needed to reread the /etc/hosts.allow / /etc/hosts.deny files. You are wrong. I just stopped smoking so I'll stop typing now before I become excessively cynical. further, the problem i've been having is now solved.

bru and xbru

1998-04-07 Thread Mark R. Stevens
This morning my bru and xbru stopped working. I uninstalled and then reinstalled it again only to receive the same errors. The only thing I have upgraded since I have tried it last was to glibc (whatever the latest version is under the errata). when I type: fusili: /bin 278 # bru -h bru:

Re: Ludicrous Speed.... Go

1998-04-07 Thread Ronald Pottol
btw, how much did you pay for your dual board and 166Mhz chips? Are they reasonable these days? Dave Check out www.pricewatch.com , a PPro 166 with 512k cache can be had for as little as $180, and PPro 180s are similar, and a dual PPro board goes for $250-350. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat

Re: Fax gives up after 4or 6 pages

1998-04-07 Thread Drachen
augh! I used to do ISP tech support (in a previous life)and there were a bunch of necessary fixes for the sportsters -- the bad news is that I don't remember any of them :( -- they're all init strings, though, and I'd bet that they are *somewhere* on the sportster/U.S. Robotics homepage. The

CPU's revisited

1998-04-07 Thread Phil Risby
Hi everyone I know this is not redHat specific but I am thinking of upgrading. I am trying to find out if the Pentium ll series wuld be a better bet to say a Pentium Pro 200 bearing in mind that 1) Pentium Pro is dying out 2) Pentium ll go upto what is ti now 400 Mhz? 3) Pentium Pro is a neat

Re: StarOffice troubles (More)

1998-04-07 Thread Thomas Hubbell
Well, I tried again to download SO 4.0 again last night. This time, I could not even start the download, for some reason. So, I think I'll give up on the download. I noticed on Caldera's web page that you can get a single user version of SO 4.0 on CD for about 8 dollars. I will gladly pay this

Front Page Extentions

1998-04-07 Thread Mario de Mello Bittencourt Neto
Hi, while back I read a post in this list (I think I got something in Bugtraq also) regarding security problems with frontpage extentions for linux/apache server. Does anyboy use/know if this problem has been addressed or if there is a new version of it ? Thanks, Mario Bittencourt --

Re: Front Page Extentions

1998-04-07 Thread Joe_Ferguson
The folks that host my domain offer FP extensions, and they're using Apache. You could try asking them...??? email [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/07/98 08:42 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Joe Ferguson) Subject: Front Page Extentions

Re: X - Multiple Screens

1998-04-07 Thread Pat Hennessy
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Graham Hemmings wrote: This will start another X-Display on vty8, but still on the same screen. I want to start another X-screen (as opposed to x-display), i.e. screen 0 (:0.0) on the first Matrox card and screen 1 (:0.1 ?) on the second Matrox card. BTW startx --

Colors in netscape

1998-04-07 Thread Michael
Hi all ! When I start netscape I get an error stating that it can only allocate 8 cell's for color. I would like to use more to get better image-quality, but I don't know howto ? KDE's browser shows color fine. Any suggestions ? Thanks ! -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the

Re: Cron email for root.

1998-04-07 Thread Fred Lenk
make sure you use full pathnames for commands unless you are absolutely sure of the environment in which the cron program is running (by using an "echo $PATH /tmp/junkpath" statement somewhere in the sh scr). Use full filenames for input/output files. cd to a directory in which you want to

Re: Colors in netscape

1998-04-07 Thread Vidiot
When I start netscape I get an error stating that it can only allocate 8 cell's for color. I would like to use more to get better image-quality, but I don't know howto ? KDE's browser shows color fine. Any suggestions ? Besides getting a 24-bit color card? Use the following .Xdefaults resource

RE: Telnet hesitation

1998-04-07 Thread Fred Lenk
My experience with a heterogenious network consisting of several brands of Unix, WFW, W95 WNT - with no NT Domanin servers!: When I got here, there was no DNS, and there were as many different HOSTS files as there were boxes on the network. When I setup our Linux box to be an email server, an

commands without confirmation

1998-04-07 Thread Jim Kannengieser
Hi. I'm new to Linux, having just installed Red Hat 5.0 on my system last weekend, but I'm not new to Unix. I was surprised to find that many commands ask for confirmations, particularly rm. I took a look at the man, but couldn't find a flag to turn confirmations off. Anyone have a suggestion?

SCSI card vs. Network Card

1998-04-07 Thread Steve Curry
DING DING DING.. LLet's get ready to ruuuUUmmble!!! Ok I have a Linux box with a 3com 509 card installed, but when I install an Adaptec 2940UW into the box the 3com can no longer talk to the network. Linux see's the 3com and doesn't see the Adaptec, and it

Re: commands without confirmation

1998-04-07 Thread Michael George
Hi. I'm new to Linux, having just installed Red Hat 5.0 on my system last weekend, but I'm not new to Unix. I was surprised to find that many commands ask for confirmations, particularly rm. I took a look at the man, but couldn't find a flag to turn confirmations off. Anyone have a

tokens??

1998-04-07 Thread lucier
Howdy:-) The following example is taken from the xinitrc file: quote begins if [ -f $sysresources ]; then xrdb -merge $sysresources fi quote ends Is the "fi" a token? How can I find out what "fi" does? In the expression " -f $sysresources ", is bash looking for

Cron email to root FIXED.

1998-04-07 Thread kgibson
I changed my /root directory to 755 and I didn't get any error messages from cron.daily, so it is now fixed. Thanks for the advice. --Kris Gibson--- ==-- _ / / \ ---==---(_)__ __ __/ / /\ \

Re: SCSI card vs. Network Card

1998-04-07 Thread Niclas Domack
If you haven't already tried it; - Boot up on a DOS diskette - Run the 3c5x9cfg.exe util and - Set the IRQ and I/O values to something that doesn't interfere with the resources used by the 2940. On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Steve Curry wrote: DING DING DING.. LLet's get ready to

Applix Printing problems

1998-04-07 Thread Philip Bennett
I'm using RH 5.0 and the latest Applixware 4.3.7. My printer is an HP 694 inkjet connected on the parallel port. To print from Applixware I have to use the "lp" setting to get it to print. It prints fine except, no color. OTOH, printing under Netscape produces glorious color output. I would like

Re: A multitude of questions..

1998-04-07 Thread L. M. Marchese
I know that other UNIX systems allow you to specify the kernel you boot from. You may want to look at the boot options of RH Linux. If this is the case just rename your old kernel before copying the new one, then boot from it. Miroslaw Wodniak wrote: Tim Larkins (EUKSHEL1PO) wrote:

Re: Mutitude of questions (Part 2)

1998-04-07 Thread L. M. Marchese
if you use ftp to put them on RH4.2, you will get the full names. Make sure you use a new ftp client that understands long file names. CuteFTP always works for me. Tim Larkins (EUKSHEL1PO) wrote: Forgot to ask one of my questions :\ I recently downloaded all the updates and contrib dirs

RE: tokens??

1998-04-07 Thread Tempel, Philippe
The following example is taken from the xinitrc file: quote begins if [ -f $sysresources ]; then xrdb -merge $sysresources fi quote ends Is the "fi" a token? How can I find out what "fi" does? "fi" marks the end of the if statement (fi is if

TEST, sorry

1998-04-07 Thread Al Justrabo
Testing Netscape non-root ? -- 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 "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: gated

1998-04-07 Thread Stephen Schaefer-NCS Sr SE
Deleting routed is one way to do it, but you simply need to make sure it isn't started. Unless I'm mistaken, stock RH5 does not start routed by default. Routed only supports RIP; for OSPF gated is the only choice I'm aware of short of buying a router. The IP protocol type for OSPF is 89,

Re: tokens??

1998-04-07 Thread Michael George
The following example is taken from the xinitrc file: quote begins if [ -f $sysresources ]; then xrdb -merge $sysresources fi quote ends Is the "fi" a token? How can I find out what "fi" does? "fi" marks the end of the if statement (fi is if

Re: SCSI card vs. Network Card

1998-04-07 Thread Luck Dancing
Steve Curry wrote: I have configured the RH Linux box for the Adaptec 2940 and the 3com 509. What else can I do to give this story a happy ending? I have already read up on as many HOWTO's as I can and no luck, so pointing me in that direction won't work. (Sorry :-). I think if

Re: commands without confirmation

1998-04-07 Thread Hans Feringa
Define some of the following aliases in your /etc/bashrc alias cp='cp -iv' alias mv='mv -i' alias rm='rm -i' Jim Kannengieser wrote: Hi. I'm new to Linux, having just installed Red Hat 5.0 on my system last weekend, but I'm not new to Unix. I was surprised to find that many commands ask

Email test ignore:)

1998-04-07 Thread Jay Daniels
Hope it works with exmh this time! Jay -- 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 "unsubscribe" as the

Re: mp3 files?

1998-04-07 Thread Eric Wood
Now we need a script that automatically rips the cd tracks, l3enc-odes them, and uses cddb to name the files. That'd rock. -Eric -- 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

Apache Server

1998-04-07 Thread Oh how I wish.........
I would like to set up a server on the web. I only want it up and running when I'm on the web, and i have a static i.p. when i connect. I think I remember some discussions about this a few weeks ago. can anyone point me in the right direction? Also, I have a friend who is a sysadm in another

RE: Colors in netscape

1998-04-07 Thread Tempel, Philippe
When I start netscape I get an error stating that it can only allocate 8 cell's for color. I would like to use more to get better image-quality, but I don't know howto ? KDE's browser shows color fine. Any suggestions ? Besides getting a 24-bit color card? Use the following .Xdefaults

diald any gurus?

1998-04-07 Thread Kit Cosper
I've got a friend who has diald installed on his system and it works great most of the time. However, there is something spewing packets about every 45 minutes or so that causes diald to (correctly ) establish a connection. I've spent a good deal of time wading though his configuration and

thanks: commands w/o confirmation

1998-04-07 Thread Jim Kannengieser
Thanks to everyone who responded to my request for help with rm and cp. Hope I can return the favor some day. Jim -- 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:

Identifying different versions of RH

1998-04-07 Thread Blair Craft
I have two copies of Redhat 5.0. One is the commercial version with the extras (BRU, Metro, etc...), the other is the non-commercial version. Both are from Redhat, both look very similar. I need to know which CD is which. I've taken a look at the files on the CD's, thinking that the one with

Microsoft IntelliTrackball

1998-04-07 Thread Stuart
I've been trying to get my trackball to work with Xfree86 3.3.2 for a couple of days now without any luck. I've tried all the options under xfree86config and mouseconfig and none of them work. It's a serial trackball and I could careless about getting the wheel to work, I just want the

Re: SCSI card vs. Network Card

1998-04-07 Thread Doug Ledford
Steve Curry wrote: DING DING DING.. LLet's get ready to ruuuUUmmble!!! Ok I have a Linux box with a 3com 509 card installed, but when I install an Adaptec 2940UW into the box the 3com can no longer talk to the network. Linux see's the 3com and doesn't

Sendmail Relay

1998-04-07 Thread John Kennedy
I'm having a similar problem. I host a couple of my own domains and some for clients on another fellows Redhat 5.0 (using Qmail) Web Server. I am able to pull my mail down using Netscape communicator but when I try to send mail using one of these domains I get the following error message...

At boot, just get 'LI'

1998-04-07 Thread jlorenz
Hi all, I just installed RH4.2 onto a PC, install went fine. Went to boot, and all it says is 'LI' and that's all she wrote. I'm pretty sure this issue floated past here before, but I don't remember the fix. Does anybody know the culprit (and a fix, maybe?) Thanks, Joe --

Network Monitoring

1998-04-07 Thread Son of a Preacherman
I was wondering what are the different network monitoring packages available right now. I'm looking for something that can monitor snmp, icmp, tcp/udp, and other network services along with overall network traffic without adding to the traffic too much on it's own. Lee Parker

Re: Network Monitoring

1998-04-07 Thread Derek Balling
http://www.megacity.org/pong3/ It'll at least do some of what you want. (And I wrote it myself, so I'm always open to suggestions *grin*) D On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Son of a Preacherman wrote: I was wondering what are the different network monitoring packages available right now. I'm looking

Re: gated

1998-04-07 Thread Stephen Schaefer-NCS Sr SE
OOPS! Typo: that was supposed to be 224.0.0.0. It's the multicast network. route add -net 224.0.0.0 gw local-ppp-ip-address metric 0 of course, substituting your local ppp ip address for local-ppp-ip-address. If that doesn't do it, please send the explicit error message. - Stephen

  1   2   >