RE: Red Hat can't run a wm

1998-05-01 Thread Hoe-Teck Wee
Hello, Jeff. A general note: you need to provide us with the error messages !! 1. Logging-in to RH 5.0 takes a long time Err.. does RH stop at sendmail for a long time? 2. Attempting to run XF86's latest with AS causes X11 to crash return me to the commmand-line (but works under

Re: GIMP scambles saved images

1998-05-01 Thread Scott Dorward
Stefan Volker wrote: If you save images in anything but native GIMP format (xcf) only the currently active layer will be saved. Therefore, to save an image in a non-native format you need to merge all layers into one layer, make that layer the active layer and then save the image. Hope

Re: System Load when using Linux as a router

1998-05-01 Thread Chris \Cranky Spice\ Harshman
Well, here we're running a Pentium/60 with 48 MB RAM and a 4.0 GB EIDE hard drive, with a 33.6 modem for internet feed and a 12 workstation LAN (Win95 and MacOS boxes). It also runs Apache as a proxy web-server, and X Windows (Netscape, ApplixWare) for a couple of X terminals, as well as three

Re: xbru not working

1998-05-01 Thread Greg Fall
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Brian Kirkland/CADC Designer wrote: I have RH 5.0 and I tried to use xbru today. When I ran 'xbru' it came back with: BRU: Unable to find/exec bru executable - ABORTING!! Any ideas what I am doing wrong? This is a FAQ. See the very first point here:

Sendmail check_rcpt and delivery mode delay

1998-05-01 Thread Jos Vos
Hi, [ Note: this messsages is cross-mailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], and [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Used system: Red Hat Linux 5.0, package sendmail-8.8.7-12. It appears that the check_rcpt rule does not work properly when you run sendmail with delivery mode "delay". In practice,

Re: System Load when using Linux as a router

1998-05-01 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Chuck Carson wrote: I am curious as to what kind of load using Linux as a router places on a machine. I want to use a RH box with an ISDN circuit to route to a 5 to 6 computer lan. I want to also use the Linux machine as a mail and With the Netgear ISDN router being so

Re: Using SANE-0.72 and xcam with RedHat Linux 5.0 73417.2023@compuserve.com wrote: make[1]: *** [xscanimage] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/sane-0.72/frontend' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 I did upgrade to the current version of gimp-0.99.27 from the RedHat ftp site, where I downloaded the SANE-0.72-1 package, so it would be compatible.

1998-05-01 Thread 73417 . 2023
You need to get the latest version of gtk+ in order to run both the gimp and the sane stuff. Beware, it will break some of the config tools that come from Red Hat. The control-panel for one. You'll also need to uninstall any 'gtk' rpms that came w/ Red Hat. jason OK, I have

Re: System Load when using Linux as a router

1998-05-01 Thread Derek Balling
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Chuck Carson wrote: I am curious as to what kind of load using Linux as a router places on a machine. I want to use a RH box with an ISDN circuit to route to a 5 to 6 computer lan. I want to also use the Linux

Re: System Load when using Linux as a router

1998-05-01 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Derek Balling wrote: On Fri, 1 May 1998, Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Chuck Carson wrote: I am curious as to what kind of load using Linux as a router places on a machine. I want to use a RH box with an ISDN circuit to route to a 5 to

Re: upgrading to libc-5.4.44

1998-05-01 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 01 May 1998, Kevin W. Nikiforuk wrote: Unfortunately, now my system seems to be broken. =) I'm not sure how total the brokenness is, however I do know for certain that make-3.74-8 now core dumps every time I try to run it! Should I be aware of anything else Figures. Redhat is very well

Re: Using SANE-0.72 and xcam with RedHat Linux 5.0 On Fri, 1 May 1998 73417.2023@compuserve.com wrote: OK, I have installed gtk+-0.99.10, which I downloaded from the RedHat ftp site a few days ago. I removed the old gtk-0.99.xxxx that came with RedHat Linux 5.0 so the control-panel is disabled now.

1998-05-01 Thread 73417 . 2023
You should get gtk+ 1.0 rpms from ftp.gimp.org since that is the official stable release. jason Jason, I just download the new gtk+-1.0.0-1.rpm and installed it and I was able to finally compile SANE-0.72-1 completely. It works great with my Hewlett Packard ScanJet 4c flatbed scanner.

Re: Micro$oft declaring war?

1998-05-01 Thread Chris \Cranky Spice\ Harshman
Not sure about 3Com cards (have never been able to afford 'em!), but isapnp tools works wonders with most cards, and PCI should work without running the DOS utilities. Additionally, here's a thought - what would prevent the inclusion of a small 1.44 MB or such DOS partition on the hard drive,

Re: System Load when using Linux as a router

1998-05-01 Thread Chuck Carson
Where is the cheapest place to get these routers? I haven't looked in a while, the last I checked they were $800 a piece. I already have a 3com IQ modem and with a high speed serial card, I have gotten full usage from the circuit under windows NT. (Even better with the compression) I do not know,

Re: Micro$oft declaring war?

1998-05-01 Thread Steve Curry
How about a Win32-Linux Project? There is already a Win32-OS2 Project and it is producing a PE to LX converter (pe2lx.exe) that converts Win32 programs into native OS/2 programs...no recompile necessary...and performance is essentially equivalent. This is rather easily possible with OS/2

Re: Trouble configuring bash

1998-05-01 Thread Scott McDermott
Bob Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 12:18:46PM -0400: I'm trying to get bash to behave more like "ksh" and I'm getting nowhere. Specifically I want to be able to use VI as the default command line editor. I also want to be able to do command history searching using the VI

Re: Programming questions

1998-05-01 Thread Todd Larason
On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 01:02:50PM +0100, Graham Turrell wrote: Yes they do (second edition 1998 ISBN 0-13-490012-X), and its even better. (eg Threads are now fully covered, and Linux is acknowledged!). (whats more its actually cheaper than the first edition, at least in the UK:))).

X Server for Rendition Verité 2K

1998-05-01 Thread niels
Hello, I'm looking for a XFree86 3.3.X server for my Diamond Multimedia Stealth II S220 videocard. It has a Rendition Verité 2100 chipset on it. I tried to mail both XFree86 and XSuSE but I haven't heard anything from them. Sou could somebody help me by giving me a ftp and/or www site which

Re: X Server for Rendition Verité 2K

1998-05-01 Thread Bill Nottingham
niels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: I'm looking for a XFree86 3.3.X server for my Diamond Multimedia Stealth II S220 videocard. It has a Rendition Verité 2100 chipset on it. I tried to mail both XFree86 and XSuSE but I haven't heard anything from them. Sou could somebody help me by giving

Re: Rhmask?

1998-05-01 Thread Bill Nottingham
Marco Shaw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: The RealAudio/RealMedia rpms are of the format 'xxx.rhmask' (ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/real/i386/). What is the 'rhmask' extension and will it be any different from reguar rpms? rmhask files require the original RPMs to update them. (see

RE: Newbie: Connection progress and ftp probs

1998-05-01 Thread Gerald Carl Wieder
Thanks, Jack. Seeing what was going on was most important of all. Found out I had a chat problem...Found a couple of other info sources on the WWW...should be able to puzzle it out now. -Original Message- From: Jack Byers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 30, 1998

Re: Cheap Serial Multi-Port Recommendation for use with RH5

1998-05-01 Thread Stephen Schaefer-NCS Sr SE
The Boca 8 port card is OK for terminals and printers: it comes with 8 six-wire RJ-11 cables, and RJ-11 to DB-25 ends for each cable. The ends are wired in a somewhat odd arrangement such that RTS/CTS works fine for terminals and printers, but if you add a null modem adapter, the hardware flow

Symbolic links and device drivers...set me straight, please!

1998-05-01 Thread Jil Tardiff
Ah, the saga continues. *Many* people have been very helpful as I attempt to "see" both of my SCSI CD-ROM drives: A Ricoh CDR on ID=0 A Plextor on ID=3 Redhat install apparently only "sees" the first and doesn't look any further. "cdrom" is linked to scd0 (ricoh) after installation. What I

Networking with Win95

1998-05-01 Thread Ed Lawson
Ok, obviously for situations where there isn't currently support in an existing kernel, it is necessary to recompile. Incidentally, there is no problem with using a module on an ISA NE2k card -out of the box-, given you know the correct parameters to supply the module. Additionally,

Re: Micro$oft declaring war?

1998-05-01 Thread Bruce Tong
Do you think there are M$ spies on this list? Spies? Nothing so intentionally underhanded. But I'll bet you there are MS employed developers who are also Red Hat Linux users, some of which are bound to read this list for many of the same reasons we do. (Probably not the MS attacks, but...)

Re: Micro$oft declaring war?

1998-05-01 Thread Bruce Tong
Someone posted a message today about how Linux was the only OS to gain market share in 1997. Here's an article talking about that, as well as how M$ is bullying companies, like Caldera, and preventing them from shipping an OS other than windows: http://www.msnbc.com:80/news/161590.asp "I

We are Declaring War, Not M$ Offics

1998-05-01 Thread Sekou Kande
Yesterday, I sent e-mail to this list asking for your help. I think that is why we are here. But unfortunately for me, only one person picked up my mail and said "Sekou, this is kind of beyond the scope of the list, but here is what I did to get my tac_plus.3.0.12.alpha to compile on RH5.0"

Re: System Load when using Linux as a router

1998-05-01 Thread dkc
I'm using an AMD 386/40 with 16mb of ram and ~500mb disk running RH 4.2 as an ipmasq server (with cablemodem service), mail server and (little-used) web server for a 3-4 computer network (number varies as I bring home my laptop). Load avg. rarely rises above 0.00. I have had occasion to have 5-7

Re: Networking with Win95

1998-05-01 Thread Jake Colman
Dan, Thanks for the the detailed reply. And thanks for all the other messages that this thread has generated. I appreciate the detailed help and explanation you provided. I _did_ read much of the necessary documentation and I _do_ know how to build kernels and install them. You could not

Re: Networking with Win95

1998-05-01 Thread Jake Colman
"Ed" == Ed Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ed I have followed this thread in hopes of seeing an answer to the Ed question of whether or not it is necessary to recompile RH5 in order to Ed use IP Masqing. In other words, can I check the IP forwarding box, set Ed up the IPFWADM

Kernel Build Problem

1998-05-01 Thread Jake Colman
I built a new kernel last night from the 2.0.32 sources on RH5. In addition to enabling certain features and modules not provided with the RH5 pre-built kernel, I also stripped out alot of things I knew I did not need. I built and installed modules, built and installed the kernel and

Re: Micro$oft declaring war?

1998-05-01 Thread Kirk Rafferty
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about a Win32-Linux Project? There is already a Win32-OS2 Project and it is producing a PE to LX converter (pe2lx.exe) that converts Win32 programs into native OS/2 programs...no recompile necessary...and performance is essentially equivalent.

xbru not working

1998-05-01 Thread Brian Kirkland/CADC Designer
I have RH 5.0 and I tried to use xbru today. When I ran 'xbru' it came back with: BRU: Unable to find/exec bru executable - ABORTING!! Any ideas what I am doing wrong? I checked my PATH and bru was in it. I also rpm -V'ed the 2 BRU rpms and there was no problem there. I am

Re: Kernel Build Problem

1998-05-01 Thread Ray Curtis
"jake" == Jake Colman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jake I built a new kernel last night from the 2.0.32 sources on RH5. In addition to jake enabling certain features and modules not provided with the RH5 pre-built jake kernel, I also stripped out alot of things I knew I did not need. I built and

Re: Networking with Win95

1998-05-01 Thread Ray Curtis
"jake" == Jake Colman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jake I built a new 2.0.32 kernel last night using unpatched sources and jake built/installed modules. jake 1) After rebooting, I tried pinging an internet host from win95 and got timeout jakeerrors. Looking again at the command you had me

Re: Time for a new list - commentary@redhat.com?

1998-05-01 Thread Steve Smith
John C. Flohr wrote: Linux is great! Please consider a new list, perhaps [EMAIL PROTECTED], where those so Of course, a new list is not necessary: comp.os.linux.advocacy (hopefully everyone has access to newsgroups). Steve -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING

SRPM's

1998-05-01 Thread Smith, Nathan A., Capt.
Hi again, I have a question concerning SRPMs. I have not been able to get any of them to work. I have read the man pages and it states to install a package use rpm -bi package name. Well, I have tried that (and different variations on it) and I always get the same message: Unknow Field: i

FAILED LOGIN SESSION FROM 198.7.152.243 FOR nc 205.247.138.1 113 -p 57575 -vv

1998-05-01 Thread Doug Elznic
Does anyone know what this error is? I thought I had all of the updates applied. I am running 2.0.33. May 1 08:54:21 ian login[1833]: FAILED LOGIN SESSION FROM 198.7.152.243 FOR nc 205.247.138.1 113 -p 57575 -vv, Error in service module Then: May 1 08:59:20 ian kernel: Warning: kfree_skb

Re: why shouldn't rmail be in /bin

1998-05-01 Thread Shawn McMahon
Lots of Unix programs that have ended up in the wrong directory for historical reasons have a mention in their man pages that says "this shouldn't be in /foo, it should be in /bar, but I'm leaving it in /foo so as not to break any scripts." /bin, /usr/bin, and /sbin are commonly confused.

X Login Bash 2.02

1998-05-01 Thread Greg Cornell
I have my system set up to automatically start in runlevel 5, which starts X and lets you log in. This morning I installed bash-2.02-3.i386.rpm and can no longer log in at the X login screen. I have to switch to a text terminal to log in. I'm fairly new to Linux so I'm not sure what to look

Re: Micro$oft declaring war?

1998-05-01 Thread poneil
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/30/98 at 11:00 PM, Steve Curry [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: How about a Win32-Linux Project? There is already a Win32-OS2 Project and it is producing a PE to LX converter (pe2lx.exe) that converts Win32 programs into native OS/2 programs...no recompile

Re: Cheap Serial Multi-Port Recommendation for use with RH5

1998-05-01 Thread John H Darrah
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Stephen Schaefer-NCS Sr SE wrote: The Boca 8 port card is OK for terminals and printers: it comes with 8 six-wire RJ-11 cables, and RJ-11 to DB-25 ends for each cable. The ends are wired in a somewhat odd arrangement such that RTS/CTS works fine for terminals and

Re: Micro$oft declaring war?

1998-05-01 Thread Bradley Kieser
M$'s weapon is fear and there are endless possibilities for this to be propogated: "If you have freeware in your organisation, you could have viruses", "We won't support any infrestructure that mixes operating systems not from a recognised vendor", etc, as well as playing on ignorance about

Re: xbru not working

1998-05-01 Thread Erich Eyler
When I ran 'xbru' it came back with: BRU: Unable to find/exec bru executable - ABORTING!! It has something to do with daylights savings time. just enter export TZ=your time zone) ex: export TZ=EDT (eastern daylight time) and all will be well. you can add it to /etc/bashrc or root's

Re: PostgreSQL and MS-Access

1998-05-01 Thread Bradley Kieser
---Bruce Tong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm starting to work with PostgreSQL and I wonder if there is anyone out there who wouldn't mind answering a few questions via private e-mail? I use Ingres a LOT, and am installing PostgreSQL as well, so email me if you want, and I'll do my best.

Re: Time for a new list - commentary@redhat.com?

1998-05-01 Thread Shawn McMahon
here here Folks, it occurs to me that if you're attempting to agree with someone who's complaining about wasting their time with garbage, it's not appropriate to quote their entire 2-page message back to the list with "here here" added onto the end of it. It's hypocritical to complain about

Re: Networking with Win95

1998-05-01 Thread Ed Lawson
On 01 May 1998 10:12:09 -0400, Jake Colman wrote: Bottom line: ip-masquerade is not part of the default 2.0.32 RH5 kernel. You will have to rebuild the kernel to get it. Thank you for the answer. Ed Lawson -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: Sendmail

1998-05-01 Thread L. M. Marchese
Try removing the /etc/resolv.conf from your host or properly configure DNS on your server. Your resolv.conf file may be pointing to a DNS that you specified during installation. If the DNS server is not running, accessible, or configured sendmail will take some time. Chuck Carson wrote: I

Re: Micro$oft declaring war?

1998-05-01 Thread Kit Cosper
[...] Few people who need to make money from selling software or hardware are willing to risk upsetting M$, and no court of government in the world can change that because M$ doesn'[t actually have to DO anything, the fear of losing your competitive edge is enough. We don't openly

Re: PostgreSQL and MS-Access

1998-05-01 Thread Phil Risby
I would be very interested in any Linux DB that can communicate with MS Access So any valuable infoe please cc to me Thanks Phil Bradley Kieser wrote: ---Bruce Tong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm starting to work with PostgreSQL and I wonder if there is anyone out there who wouldn't mind

Re: We are Declaring War, Not M$ Offics

1998-05-01 Thread Derek Balling
On Fri, 1 May 1998, aoc wrote: "Sekou, this is kind of beyond the scope of the list, but here is what I did to get my tac_plus.3.0.12.alpha to compile on RH5.0" Now tell me everybody, who is out of TOPIC here, me or you who are talking about M$ Office? both? this is the rh4.2

Re: fstab

1998-05-01 Thread James Youngman
"aoc" == aoc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: aoc anyone know what's wrong with this line? mount fails to aoc recognize the fs type. i think the problem's with the "gid" aoc option in the 4th column, and the mount manual which needs aoc updating. aoc snip fstab aoc /dev/hdc2

Re: Micro$oft declaring war?

1998-05-01 Thread Kirk Rafferty
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Bradley Kieser wrote: I would say that the worst thing that M$ could to to Linux is to start attaching the MS logo to the freeware products! MS Tex? MS Gnome? MS Perl? MS Apache? MS fvwm? or, worse of all MS Linux? MS might decide to publically "embrace" the freeware

technical support call tracking system

1998-05-01 Thread Doug Elznic
Hello, I work at a local ISP. We are running Redhat 5.0. I need to implement a system under redhat that will help me to track technical support calls. Basically we need a system that will allow anyone in our organization technically minded or not to add a trouble ticket into the database. So

Re: We are Declaring War, Not M$ Offics

1998-05-01 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: aoc [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, May 01, 1998 11:28 AM Subject: Re: We are Declaring War, Not M$ Offics both? this is the rh4.2 list, remember, not the hurricane list. perhaps redhat ought to consider changing the name

SMB configuration / RH 5.0

1998-05-01 Thread Timothy P. Hadley
I'm having trouble getting SMB printing to work. I'm running Linux on my computer, which is on a network dominated by Win95/NT machines. I am trying to print to a HP DeskJet 890C, which is connected to a machine running Win95. I used printtool to set up the printer as: SMB - HP DeskJet

Re: xbru not working

1998-05-01 Thread Paul Evad - Kudosnet Communications
export TZ=your time zone) ex: export TZ=EDT (eastern daylight time) and all will be well. you can add it to /etc/bashrc or root's .bashrc so you don't have to enter it all the time. I've tried that workaround myself... but it screws up my time, so there must be something else wrong with my

Re: Rhmask?

1998-05-01 Thread Eric Wood
Check out Redhat's errata page. It'll explain how to install it. -eric wood Marco Shaw wrote: The RealAudio/RealMedia rpms are of the format 'xxx.rhmask' (ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/real/i386/). What is the 'rhmask' extension and will it be any different from reguar rpms?

imapd problems with Netscape 4.05

1998-05-01 Thread Jamie Lagarde
Hello... I am having a problem with imapd. I have installed imap-4.1.BETA-9 on my REDHAT 5.0 system. I connect to my the server using the mail client in Netscape 4.05 on Windows NT. I have been having alot of problems such as slow response, no response, and deleted mail coming back into my

Offtopic: Internet Refrigerator

1998-05-01 Thread Joe Tseng
'Internet Refrigerator' Aimed for 1999 Commercial Use April 30, 1998 (TOKYO) -- V Sync Technology, a venture business, said a new household "Internet refrigerator" will be commercialized by late 1999. It already has completed a prototype, and negotiations are now taking place with two home

Which graphics card

1998-05-01 Thread Michael
Hi all ! I'm going to buy a 17" Sony screen soon and in connection with that I also want to buy a new graphics card. Only problem is that I'm not exactly sure which one to buy, so I'm turning to you for advice. I have been looking at Matrox Millennium II, but maby there are better choises ? This

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-05-01 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
Hi, Would anybody know if Red Hat 5.0 supports QIC 80 type tape drives, such as the ones used by Iomega Ditto Max backup? In other words, can I backup my data using the ftape device drivers for Linux using BRU 2000 with Iomega Ditto Max as my backup device? Off course you can. Thanks. Pankaj

RE: Micro$oft declaring war?

1998-05-01 Thread Donald Greer
Sorry guys, but there's one thing left out here that MS could use as a "weapon" and which Linux has no defense against (well, not much of one). What if Microsoft simply did not distribute drivers for those hardware products (e.g. network cards, scsi controllers, isdn cards, video cards, etc.)

Re: Difference b/w IP aliasing and ProxyArp?

1998-05-01 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
snip What's the practical difference between proxy-arp and plain old IP aliasing? Is one "better"? No, this has nothing to do with better. A proxy-ARP was "invented" because the machine that does the ARP doesn't know it's IP adress. (That is why it is doing the ARP). Proxy's don't accept IP

Which graphics card

1998-05-01 Thread Michael
Hi all ! I'm going to buy a 17" Sony screen soon and in connection with that I also want to buy a new graphics card. Only problem is that I'm not exactly sure which one to buy, so I'm turning to you for advice. I have been looking at Matrox Millennium II, but maby there are better choises ? This

Re: Device Driver help

1998-05-01 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
Well, It looks like I need to write a device driver for my hand-scanner (Mustek cg8000). Any pointers on how to get started? It isn't very hard, if you can code C. Try getting some info on your scanner, especially protocols, how it connect to the computer (SCSI, LPT, etc.) and by a good book

Compiling Apache

1998-05-01 Thread J. Carlos Cristobal
Hello: I have apache 1.2.6 on a RH5.0, and I need to recompile it, but I'm having a problem, it ends with a message like this: ... gcc -c -Iregex -O2 -DLINUX=2 mod_auth_db.c gcc -c -Iregex -O2 -DLINUX=2 mod_auth_dbm.c gcc -c -Iregex -O2 -DLINUX=2 mod_browser.c gcc-o httpd alloc.o

Re: ghostscript -- setup

1998-05-01 Thread erik
On 17 Apr, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: How do i go about setting up ghostscript so I can print with an Epson Stylus 500 from concoles AND Xfree86? Check the following URL: http://www.caldera.com/tech-ref/docs/styluscolor.html The instructions are written for OpenLinux, but my guess is they

Re: Networking with Win95

1998-05-01 Thread Dan Cyr
At 10:11 AM 5/1/98 -0400, Jake Colman wrote: Dan, Thanks for the the detailed reply. And thanks for all the other messages that this thread has generated. No problem. I appreciate the detailed help and explanation you provided. I _did_ read much of the necessary documentation and I _do_

identd daemon

1998-05-01 Thread Jeremy Domingue
Does anyone know where I could get a good, solid, and reliable identd daemon for linux? I have one now but it always spawns itself millions of times and half the time doesn't answer ident requests TIA, Jeremy Domingue [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and

Re: imapd problems with Netscape 4.05

1998-05-01 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Jamie Lagarde wrote: Maybe this is just part of the BETA version of the IMAP server. Is Actually the problem is with Netscape. Netscape's IMAP support simply isn't very good. Other mail clients such as pine, eudora, outlook, etc. all have significantly better IMAP. --

upgrading to libc-5.4.44

1998-05-01 Thread Kevin W. Nikiforuk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I'm not certain if this should be in redhat-install, but this list seemed the most likely place! In order to get a software package which requires threads working, I recently upgraded my RedHat 4.0 based system to: libc-5.4.44-1rh42.i386.rpm

Re: Micro$oft declaring war?

1998-05-01 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: Donald Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, May 01, 1998 2:22 PM Subject: RE: Micro$oft "declaring war"? Simply the inconvenience of having to insert a disk, manually locate and install some driver or the other, or

Re: Which graphics card

1998-05-01 Thread jp
Hi all ! I'm going to buy a 17" Sony screen soon and in connection with that I also want to buy a new graphics card. Only problem is that I'm not exactly sure which one to buy, so I'm turning to you for advice. You might also check out the PS400. It's a 19-ish inch screen with dual inputs

Re: Micro$oft declaring war?

1998-05-01 Thread Joe Klemmer
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Shawn McMahon wrote: Don't underestimate the power of that. Microsoft is *THE* biggest software company in the world. IBM is a close second, but doesn't make an emulator. In 1997, MS was the second (or third, I don't remember) biggest software company behind

Re: Which graphics card

1998-05-01 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Michael wrote: 3) Todays GUI's are very heavy, so I want to speed up my comp. and therefore want a card which work fast. A 220 MHz Dac or above and 8-16 MB of RAM. Actually the DAC doesn't have any effect on the speed of the card. All the speed of the DAC

Packard Bell computer

1998-05-01 Thread Peter J Spalding
Hello! I currently am running Line on two of three machines in my household. My LapTop is straight Linux, my Tower CPU is a duel Linux/Win95. Two days ago, a friend of mine gave me a computer he doesn't use anymore. I took it and decided to use it as a server or something... So I proceeded to

Re: System Load when using Linux as a router

1998-05-01 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Derek Balling wrote: Mail, News, Web, Router, and Shell on my linux box, I average around 0.80 to 1.10 on my load, which is really not that bad at all, given that its a measly 486DX4/100. A ballsier machine can, I'm sure, bring that load value Keep in mind that routing

RE: Micro$oft declaring war?

1998-05-01 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Donald Greer wrote: What if Microsoft simply did not distribute drivers for those hardware products (e.g. network cards, scsi controllers, isdn cards, video cards, etc.) which did not require NDA's and such in the interest of "Quality Control". Microsoft cannot do

Re: identd daemon

1998-05-01 Thread jp
If it's under heavy use and not answering properly, you should increase the default settings for self imposed safety limits. Most ISPs have to do this for POP3. In the inetd.conf change nowait to nowait.240 for the particular service which is troubleing. I think 40 is the default, so 240 will

Dell Response (Related to M$ Wars thread)

1998-05-01 Thread Bruce Tong
The following is a response to a note I sent TR Reid, of Dell, whom was quoted in an MSNBC article about Dell and Linux... Bruce Tong Systems Programmer Electronic Vision / FITNE mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ev.net/fitne -- Forwarded message -- Date: 1 May 98 15:19

newby ipmasquerading succes

1998-05-01 Thread Adri van Loopik
About a month ago I posted a question concerning IPMASQUERADING to this list. I received two answers the same day, from "DB" and from John D. Hardin. Both answers were very helpful to put me right. THANKS ! ! ! For other newcomers who are thinking about this subject, it is surprising how easy

3c5x9setup.c question

1998-05-01 Thread James Hartley
Donald Becker wrote: On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, James Hartley wrote: a little background . I am running a local lan (two machines) connected with a linksys workgroup hub. both machines have default ip addresses of 192.168.16.1 and 192.168.16.2. the host tables have 192.168.16.1

Re: Which graphics card

1998-05-01 Thread Chris Frost
I just got a matrox mill II (w/ 4mb's of ram for now) for $120, which is easily the best way to go for most people. It does do 3d, but is not (currently) supported by linux. It is the fastest card for x, so that's always nice ;-) I would suggest getting the rpms for xfree the newer xfree, as they

xIrc

1998-05-01 Thread Michael
Hi I have just downloaded xIrc and I was hoping that someone could provide me with some info on the servers I have to connect to. What I need is this: Group Country State City Server Ports of some IRC-servers. In Ksirc I have the following servers: eu.undernet.org irc.eu.dal.net

Re: upgrading to libc-5.4.44

1998-05-01 Thread Kevin W. Nikiforuk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 1 May 1998, Kevin W. Nikiforuk wrote: In order to get a software package which requires threads working, I recently upgraded my RedHat 4.0 based system to: libc-5.4.44-1rh42.i386.rpm libc-profile-5.4.44-1rh42.i386.rpm

more Network almost :-)

1998-05-01 Thread James Hartley
Dave Wreski wrote: Hi, I have added a route to the network since the last post. Unfortunately I can transmit packets all day long, but I still cannot recieve them on a local host. What do you mean a "local host"? Do you mean a host on the same network? If so, then you have correctly

Re: Samba and auto-file-permissions?

1998-05-01 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 20:01 4/30/98 -0500, Chris Frost wrote: I would like to setup two win95 computers so that when they make a file or modify a file on a shared directory here on my linux box so that everyone can read and write to it. Right now, the file permissions change

Re: Contact related with access a remote PNW printer

1998-05-01 Thread 73417 . 2023
On 29-Apr-98 at 05:50 Luis Membrado Giner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the first place, I apologize for contacting you without a solution to your problem. What I propose is more an interchange of opinions and experiences than anything else, and I have to admit that you seem much more

Many questions??

1998-05-01 Thread Jack Hatfield
Be prepared for an onslaught of questions because I have many, here we go: How do you prepare for a catastrophe? How is the best way to backup your linux system? Can you preserve partitions? Can you DriveCopy or some other utility? I have a tape drive inside a Win95 machine, what is the exact

Re: Trouble configuring bash

1998-05-01 Thread Antonomasia
I'm trying to get bash to behave more like "ksh" and I'm getting nowhere. Specifically I want to be able to use VI as the default command line editor. have to type "set -o vi" FYI, I'm running RH 5.0., bash 1.14.7(1) Works for me, RH 4.1, bash-1.14.7-1 --

setting up ircd?

1998-05-01 Thread Paul Evad - Kudosnet Communications
Been beating my head against the wall all day trying to setup ircd... got it from ftp.undernet.org, but there is next to NO documentation on how to set the friggin thing up. Anyone know of any HOW-To's or pointers to some good information on what needs to go in the ircd.conf file? What

Re: Which graphics card

1998-05-01 Thread Ronald Pottol
I have been looking at Matrox Millennium II, but maby there are better choises ? This is what I demand of the graphics card: 1) I have to be able to use it with Redhat Linux 5.0 without problems with drivers etc. 2) It should be possible to use all the features the card offers with Linux

Re: Difference b/w IP aliasing and ProxyArp?

1998-05-01 Thread Michael Jinks
Dave Wreski wrote: What's the practical difference between proxy-arp and plain old IP aliasing? They are totally different. IP aliasing is binding two or more IP addresses to a single interface. Proxyarp is when a server answers requests for communications with your machine for you.

Re: (please) new entry, old questions?

1998-05-01 Thread Michael Jinks
Dan Cyr wrote: At 02:54 AM 5/1/1998 +0200, Marcantonio Magnarapa wrote: But the real question is: is there some way to make linux accept incoming calls through the serially connected USR Sporster/Voice, discriminate between voice and fax calls, receive faxes, store voice messages?

Radius dying

1998-05-01 Thread Jack Hatfield
Any reason why radius would die. And is there anything that can check the d@$n thing and then restart the thing if it is in fact not running. I also noticed that 2 processes for radius are running and then when there is only 1 it does not work either. Any light can be shed on this situation??

3Com 3c905 100Mbit

1998-05-01 Thread Brian Fernald
We are running 3Com's 3C905B-TX 100MBIT cards in Dell Pentium II machines. We are also running Intel EtherPro Express 100 cards on Pentium Pro machines.. Under linux Redhat 5.0 the 3COM cards work fine when talking to other 3com cards at 100MBIT.. however if the 3com card talks to any other

Re: Radius dying

1998-05-01 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 1 May 1998, Jack Hatfield wrote: Any reason why radius would die. And is there anything that can check the d@$n thing and then restart the thing if it is in fact not running. I can't just tell you why radius would die, but it is simple enough to resolve this problem. When you start

Re: Many questions??

1998-05-01 Thread Brian
How do you prepare for a catastrophe? How is the best way to backup your linux system? Can you preserve partitions? Can you DriveCopy or some other utility? Do a 'man dump' or you could so what I do and just pack everything up in .tar.gz files and throw 'em on some sort of medium (I use a

extended characters

1998-05-01 Thread Leston Buell
I use a lot of languages other than English, for word processing, e-mail, etc. The Windows "English US International" (and the default Mac keyboard layout) really work well for this, since i can easily access extended characters (e.g. ö, ñ, à, é, ç) without having to learn a non-US (often

Re: X Login Bash 2.02

1998-05-01 Thread Leston Buell
I'd like to add a question to this one. ¿What file do you edit to change the runlevel in the first place. I'd like to change mine to runlevel 5. I have my system set up to automatically start in runlevel 5, which starts X and lets you log in. This morning I installed bash-2.02-3.i386.rpm and

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