Re: change the harddrive

1998-06-17 Thread Will Shaw
Fdisk the new disk, creating a swap partition and linux partition. Make a filesystem (mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdaX) on it and mount it on your current system. cp (--recursive) all of your data to the new disk from /. Then reinstall lilo, changing new drive/etc/lilo.conf to boot /dev/hdaX instead of

stop sending messages !

1998-06-17 Thread Michael Quardokus
-- 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: addendum: Re: sndconfig/modprobe?

1998-06-17 Thread Michael Jinks
Maxwell Smart wrote: On 16-Jun-98 Michael Jinks wrote: I've been trying to get sound to work on my 5.1 box using a soundblaster 16 (as per the post right before this one). Retracing my steps, I just re-compiled my kernel with sound support as a module. But when I did make

Re: slow ppp connection

1998-06-17 Thread Christopher Fisk
Try changing your MTU to 576 Chris On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Kevin Seguin wrote: i recently installed red hat 5.0 on my pc at home. i have noticed that my ppp connection seems considerably slower on linux than it was on win 95. anyone have any ideas why this is and/or how it can be fixed.

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-17 Thread Greg Fall
To me the troubling aspect of these HTML-formatted messages is this: implicit in them is an indication that the sender does not realize that the rest of the world doesn't use HTML for e-mail, mostly, and maybe he doesn't even realize that he is using HTML. Which sort of takes away the person's

Re: monitors: plug 'n play okay?

1998-06-17 Thread Dave Reed
From: William T Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Leston Buell wrote: actually have a section on monitors, but i want to know if the general lack of compatibility with Plug 'n Play applies to monitors as well. =BFD= o No. Plug 'n' Play with respect to monitors is a

worng domain name in email header

1998-06-17 Thread Robert W. Canary
Hi, I don't know if this a sendmail problem or network configuration. All mail that goes through my SMPT is referanced as (user)@office.ohiocounty.net it is supposed to be (user)@ohiocounty.net. If I try to send mail to an account with (user)@ohiocounty.net it gets returned to me (or whoever

MS Mouse ver 2.0 vs 2.1

1998-06-17 Thread Fred Lenk
Fixed a weird problem. After running startx, the mouse wouldn't move the cursor unless I ended the GUI session, ran mouseconfig, and ran startx again. If I ended the GUI session and logged off as root, I had to do the same thing next time I logged in. I replaced the MS serial mouse version 2.1

Re: Cut and Paste in RH 5.1 using Xfree_SVGA

1998-06-17 Thread Sim Robert
has anyone had the problem where they cannot cut and paste using the mouse after installing RH 5.1? My old RH 4.0 system had no problems, now, with same hardware, the mouse works, but I cannot select text with the first button and paste it by selecting the middle mouse button (emulating

Key end on xterm.

1998-06-17 Thread Sim Robert
Hi, Does anyone know how to set the "end" and "home" key for xterm? Mine does not work. Please help. Thanks a lot. -- 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

How to remove ,cr and ^M.

1998-06-17 Thread Sim Robert
Hi there, After I transferred some text files from DOS to Linux, I discovered that there is a cr or ^M after each line. How do I remove those cr quickly, instead of doing so one by one. Thanks. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

worng domain name in email header

1998-06-17 Thread Robert W. Canary
Hi, I don't know if this a sendmail problem or network configuration problem. All mail that goes through my SMPT is referanced as (user)@office.ohiocounty.net it is supposed to be (user)@ohiocounty.net. If I try to send mail to an account with (user)@ohiocounty.net it gets returned to me (or

worng domain name in email header

1998-06-17 Thread Robert W. Canary
Hi, I don't know if this a sendmail problem or network configuration problem. All mail that goes through my SMPT is referanced as (user)@office.ohiocounty.net it is supposed to be (user)@ohiocounty.net. If I try to send mail to an account with (user)@ohiocounty.net it gets returned to me (or

Re: Space problem?

1998-06-17 Thread Vidiot
This is a response to the lovely language in the response to the question below...I'd have to say thats pretty unappropriate...and the files he removed are really inconsequential(at least in my point of view). No, it was appropriate because it is meant to educate. Questions that ask for help

Re: Space problem?

1998-06-17 Thread Paul Fontenot
Sorry to be terse, but questions like this are impossible to answer. MB Actually the question was why he couldn't see the 20 or so Meg freed up. The answer on the other hand was out of line. We should be helping not condemning. Unfirtunately I can not help you with your disk space problem

Re: Space problem?

1998-06-17 Thread wward
Right now I have zero space. I can't even creat an email. Thanks for your reply. bye On Wed, 17 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a response to the lovely language in the response to the question below...I'd have to say thats pretty unappropriate...and the files he removed are

worng domain name in email header

1998-06-17 Thread Robert W. Canary
Hi, I don't know if this a sendmail problem or network configuration problem. All mail that goes through my SMPT is referanced as (user)@office.ohiocounty.net it is supposed to be (user)@ohiocounty.net. If I try to send mail to an account with (user)@ohiocounty.net it gets returned to me (or

Vibe, Galaxy and Visix

1998-06-17 Thread Eze Ogwuma
Hi, Does anyone know how to reach Visix the makers of Vibe and Galaxy? Thanks. -- Eze Ogwuma -- 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

Nadar Letter to Asst. Attorney General

1998-06-17 Thread Michael R. Steigman
I think I saw a request for this link and happened to have read the letter (there was a link from the Wired story). Thorough and on the money. http://www.essential.org/antitrust/ms/jkjun51998.html __ michael steigman [EMAIL

Re: newbie help with netscape-communicator4.05 print command

1998-06-17 Thread Zoki
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Paul Kersting wrote: -Hi, -I've installed netscape-communicator 4.05, and all seems to be working fine, -except for the print command. I have a local printer, and when I try to print -from netscape, it brings up the print window, and uses the printer command lpr. -When I

Re: Have any list members seen this.........

1998-06-17 Thread Eze Ogwuma
Chris Humphres [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My company recently purchased a Dell PowerEdge 2300 server WITHOUT an OS. No problems from Dell and yes we are running Linux on it.:-) That's a server. With Novell and UNIX as the main server OS's they wouldn't sell to many if they forced people to pay

Help on migrating from one old RH server to a new RH server

1998-06-17 Thread Neely Kountze
Can anyone please direct us to a howto, and tips, on migrating from an older redhat 5.0 server (P-166mhz, 128mb, IDE, Compaq Presario) to another new server running RH5.1. We are upgrading our main school server (dns, httpd, sendmail, samba,etc) to a new Pentium II -333mhz with scsi drives

configuring accentuation

1998-06-17 Thread Ivan Jose Varzinczak
Hello, everyone !!! Unfortunately, I'm a linux user that speaks and usually writes in an language that uses accents, what is not provided by linux. Pro- bably, some of you also be in this circuns- tances. May someone tell me what can I do to get accentuation working in my applica- tions?

what are the virtual terminals compatible with.?

1998-06-17 Thread Jann Linder
If I am logged into a linux box under a virt. term. and telnet somewhere...the first prompt i get is "I dont recognize term type Linux...what terminal are you using?" I type "VT100" ...just to type something it knows..unfortunately after that backspace, arrows etc do not work at the command

Re: 3c590 and PCI-SCSI card confict IRQ conflict

1998-06-17 Thread Michael Jinks
John J. Donohue wrote: Try moving one or both of the cards to different PCI slots and see if that "encourages" them to choose different IRQ's. Also suggested was disabling IRQ11 in the BIOS and forcing a different choice that way. Neither one worked. Here's what we've now done: -- In the

Re: PS/2 and RedHat Disks

1998-06-17 Thread Christopher Fisk
Juat did some searching, seems you can just add "mem=16M" (no quotes) to the command line. Lemme know how it turns out. Chris Chris, I haven't tried that! But I am not using lilo because I am using DosLinux and that doesn't appear to be there. Do you know of any switches for loadlin?

Re: Help with Xwindows fonts

1998-06-17 Thread Brian Schramm
I am using a 17" monitor with 1024x768 16 bit color. I also have a 15" monitor in the same resolution. the text is considerably smaller in X then in M$ or OS/2. Brian PS I am using FVWM and AnotherLevel (defult Redhat 5.0 install) ---Thomas C Sobczynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The

Re: Intel main boards

1998-06-17 Thread wilfrid Gaboriaud
wilfrid Gaboriaud wrote: today, (or this week) I will test Linux on a SE440BX with 1 PII 300,and on a DK440LX so I'll tell you the results. it's OK on SE440BX with 1 PII 266 /*** * Wilfrid Gaboriaud * La Rochelle * France * e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: Pine/Sendmail

1998-06-17 Thread Derek Balling
I felt the need to send this back to the list, since I chastised you on the list. I hadn't read what you posted completely and you HAD offered a Pine solution. My bad and my apologies for skimming your message. :) Derek At 08:54 PM 6/17/98 +0200, Anthony E. Greene wrote: At 09:50 6/17/98

Re: How to remove ,cr and ^M.

1998-06-17 Thread Rick L. Mantooth
Sim, cat filename | sed 's/^M//g' newfilename Where ^M is ^V^M (Ctrl+vCtrl+m) [means Insert Special Character ^M] If you have a lot and they are the only files in the directory: for file in `/bin/ls -1`# Stays away from "ls aliases" do echo "Doing $file" cat $file | sed 's/^M//g'

Re: Figuring out free IRQs.

1998-06-17 Thread Rick L. Mantooth
N, 1st thing to do is "dmesg | grep -i irq" for the quickie version. "dmesg | less" to look at all boot stuff. Rick On Wed, 17 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, This may sound stupid, but I have no idea on how to do this. I just bought additional parallel card (

Re: How to remove ,cr and ^M.

1998-06-17 Thread Dave Reed
Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown:;@redhat.com Mbox-Line: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jun 17 15:08:18 1998 Comments: Authenticated sender is [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Sim Robert" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: AA Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 12:14:29 + Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type:

Re: Vibe, Galaxy and Visix

1998-06-17 Thread Eze Ogwuma
Art Stine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 17 Jun 1998, Eze Ogwuma wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how to reach Visix the makers of Vibe and Galaxy? I used to work for Visix - they closed down a couple months ago. Thanks. [...] -- Eze Ogwuma -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips,

Re: Newbie question

1998-06-17 Thread Paul Kater
At 13:08 16-06-98 -0500, Michael Jinks enriched our cultural heritage with the following Masterpiece: . Um. . . how 'bout the PPP HOWTO? . . Actually, the PPP-HOWTO will direct you toward getting your serial line up . first; there's also a serial HOWTO. Thanks everyone for the help. I have

Re: Newbie question

1998-06-17 Thread Perry Chow
The quick and dirty way is to use netcfg in the control panel under X. It's a very easy way to set up all of the config files necessary under 5.0, you must be logged in as root to use this. It is a good idea to read the PPP Howto, there is also a ISP mini-Howto, and an older but good doc on

SMPT: We do not relay.

1998-06-17 Thread Tony Langdon
It's 17 Jun 98 11:32:40, We'll return to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and All's discussion of SMPT: We do not relay. lo It seems you have some anti spam rules engaged on your system, there lo is already a quite nice email in my box from this list explaining what lo it is so I'll skip over that.

SMPT: We do not relay.

1998-06-17 Thread Tony Langdon
It's 17 Jun 98 21:04:00, We'll return to Tony Langdon and [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s discussion of SMPT: We do not relay. TL As I have installed anti spam support on Red Hat 4.2 by hand (with the TL aid of docs from an email security site), I may be able to offer some TL form of explanation.

Auto-fetching mail on ISP connect

1998-06-17 Thread Ray Marshall
Problem: Not always sending or fetching mail, upon connection. Environment: RedHat 5.1 Details: I have added the necessary commands to /etc/ppp/ip-up.local to automatically fetch Email from my ISP, both POP and SMTP; and to automatically send any pending SMPT Email that I've written. For the

Re: Newbie question

1998-06-17 Thread Paul Kater
At 11:05 17-06-98 -0400, Ray Marshall enriched our cultural heritage with the following Masterpiece: . You didn't indicate whether 5.0 or 5.1. In addition to the other . answers already give, in RedHat 5.1, you can use linuxconf, a new . utility for configuring your system, including all of

ISP setup with IBM.NET

1998-06-17 Thread Cody Hartley
Good Day All, Does anyone have experience configuring rh5.1 to dial-in to an IBM.NET server? IBM provides instructions for setting up Linux with PPP or SLIP connections, but the setup hasn't worked yet. Thanks, Cody -- Cody Hartley Admissions Counselor Laramie County Community College

Re: How to put a carriage return in Send field?

1998-06-17 Thread Steve Borho
On 17-Jun-98 Herminio Alvarez, Jr. wrote: I'm not sure, but I think you put a ^M (Control-M) between single quotes. Simon Gao wrote: I am trying to set up PPP connection to my ISP using netcfg with Red Hat 5.0. After my modem gets connected, my remote ISP server requires user to hit

How to put a carriage return in Send field?

1998-06-17 Thread Simon Gao
I am trying to set up PPP connection to my ISP using netcfg with Red Hat 5.0. After my modem gets connected, my remote ISP server requires user to hit carriage return key to display "Username:". How do I put carriage return into chat script through netcfg? I have tried, , \r, no one

Re: SMPT: We do not relay.

1998-06-17 Thread Robert W. Canary
Hi, Tony Langdon wrote: It's 17 Jun 98 21:04:00, We'll return to Tony Langdon and [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s discussion of SMPT: We do not relay. TL As I have installed anti spam support on Red Hat 4.2 by hand (with the TL aid of docs from an email security site), I may be able to offer

Re: How to put a carriage return in Send field?

1998-06-17 Thread Herminio Alvarez, Jr.
I'm not sure, but I think you put a ^M (Control-M) between single quotes. Simon Gao wrote: I am trying to set up PPP connection to my ISP using netcfg with Red Hat 5.0. After my modem gets connected, my remote ISP server requires user to hit carriage return key to display "Username:".

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