Re: xterm font size

1998-07-01 Thread Igor N. Green
if U want to set the default font for xterm. U should go to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc then find the file font.alias at the first line U'll see somehting like that: fixed-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-1 font name

Re: SCSI hard drive freezing my system

1998-07-01 Thread Matthew Saltzman
Michael Jinks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This may be a hardware problem and not a Linux problem, but if so I'd like to be able to find out. I have a SCSI hard drive which is the only SCSI device currently in my box. It appears to function properly in most respects [setup details below], except

Re: Quake2

1998-07-01 Thread Randy Carpenter
I experience the same problems, but I'm using a Cyrix 166+, so that would be my problem. What kind of hardware are you using, and what other programs are you running at the same time. Quake 2 is resource hungry... K6-233, 64MB sdram, diamond monster 3d. Nothing special running...

Re: .plan file

1998-07-01 Thread tom
On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Michael Jinks wrote: Something I've been mildly curious about for a while now -- when I finger a user on my machine, one of the bits of info that comes back is "no Plan". The manpage for finger mentions a .plan file, but says nothing much about it. What is this for?

RE: apache error pages?

1998-07-01 Thread Hoe-Teck Wee
Hello, Matt. Check out the "ErrorDocument 404" setting in /etc/httpd/conf/srm.conf. #ErrorDocument 404 /missing.html Hope that helps. - hoeteck On 01-Jul-98 Matt Teagarden wrote: Is there a way to modify the "ERROR 404 FILE NOT FOUND" and other default error pages that apache throws out?

Re: my 2 cents

1998-07-01 Thread UNIXMAN
Haven't you heard or IRIX and all of those high-end silicon graphics workstations? They're out there but they're expensive and many have not yet been ported to linux. UNIX has been plagued with the old mindset that it has to be hard and expensive; it was never made for the PC like DOS/W$.

Re: Upcoming ICQ X11 version!

1998-07-01 Thread James Curbo
Um, thanks, but I wasn't really asking for any help. The only reason I use icq is because I use it to keep up with about 5 of my close friends, who all have it too. Micq does what I need it to do. (only messages really) And yes I know all about IRC, finger, rwho, DNS, and LDAP. (most of those

SCSI hard drive freezing my system

1998-07-01 Thread Michael Jinks
This may be a hardware problem and not a Linux problem, but if so I'd like to be able to find out. I have a SCSI hard drive which is the only SCSI device currently in my box. It appears to function properly in most respects [setup details below], except that under certain circumstances it will

bzip2 support in rpm?

1998-07-01 Thread David E. Fox
It has been intimated that rpm will support bzipped contents inside of the rpm. A while back, I got gimp-1.0.0.4.src.rpm, and although there were a few surmountable problems with the spec file, it contains a tar.bz2 within the source rpm, and I can't get rpm to treat it as such and send the

Re:

1998-07-01 Thread Michael Jinks
For starters, one gentle rebuke: Please include a subject line with your posts. Lots of people skip posts with subject lines which are meaningless or uninteresting to them (the "Digest" subjects always go in my trash bin, for example). Leston Buell wrote: snip *** An error occurred

Re: Hardware RAID - disappointment?

1998-07-01 Thread Wolfgang Brungert
Hi Steve, we are using the DPT Raid Cards over a few years with good success. They performed very well, the only minor problem are, there is no setup utility under Linux yet. We use a MSDOS boot disk with the dos utils to setup the Raid Array. bye Wolfgang Brungert --

RE: Help again please Fw: Redirecting traffic through using IP Masqerading

1998-07-01 Thread David Christensen
I think you want to look at ipportfw. Look at: http://www.monmouth.demon.co.uk/ipsubs/portfw-2.0.30.html I haven't installed it myself as I don't feel comfortable enough to patch the kernel to get it working. Maybe you're more adventurous than I. If anyone else has more on how to do this I

Re:

1998-07-01 Thread Woody
When you get that message upon kernel boot, you can simply give your root passwd and that will throw you into a seprate run level and you can execute fsck by typing: fsck /dev/hdb1 and you'll be ok...I don't think you really need to add any switches to it...BUT you might want to check out the

Re: Why are recompiled distrib so BIG ???

1998-07-01 Thread Alexei Nefediev
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Tim Hockin wrote: They are a LOT bigger then the distribution binaries. For example : bash from RedHat : about 300 K bash compiled : about 1 MB !!! try "strip bash" after you compile it.. If strip does not help, check if your bash is compiled

Re: Question: Microstation and mouse behavior.

1998-07-01 Thread Ron Golan
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] 4. Does anyone know of a 3 button serial mouse they have had good luck with that has drivers available for Linux. I don't believe Logitech make a 3 button serial mouse. I am using a very good Logitech 3-button serial mouse. I hope they

Re: Hitachi CD-ROM on RedHat 5.0

1998-07-01 Thread Ron Golan
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Andy Hu wrote: I have installed the RedHat 5.0 with an IDE CD-ROM. It works fine during installation. But after system boot-up, it cannot recognize the CD-ROM. hdb: IAH D-70 , ATAPI Type 4 - Unknown device You could try putting the following in

RFC Hardware RAID

1998-07-01 Thread dreamwvr
anyone actually attempted the RAID setup described in Sysadmin magazine thinking of implementing for a samba solution and mars solution in combination perhaps with httpd if i am convinced that it can be battened sufficiently in a internal lan. According to the writeup you should get 3 adaptec

Re: Relaying

1998-07-01 Thread dreamwvr
the latest version of mail has it desables by default of memory serves.. At 07:33 PM 6/22/98 -0500, you wrote: Where is a good spot to find info on stoping relaying?? Randy RTS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Director of Operations *The box said "Windows 95, Windows NT4.0 or better".. so I installed

Re: how to kill a zombie ?

1998-07-01 Thread brtaylor
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Taylor writes: There was an article in the March (? I think) issue of Linux Journal. It focussed on network programming - specifically daemons. Anyway, it discussed the reaping of zombies and gave example code. However, I think ONLY the parent process is

.plan file

1998-07-01 Thread Michael Jinks
Something I've been mildly curious about for a while now -- when I finger a user on my machine, one of the bits of info that comes back is "no Plan". The manpage for finger mentions a .plan file, but says nothing much about it. What is this for? -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata

Re: .plan file

1998-07-01 Thread Anthony E. Greene
At 02:28 7/1/98 -0500, Michael Jinks wrote: Something I've been mildly curious about for a while now -- when I finger a user on my machine, one of the bits of info that comes back is "no Plan". The manpage for finger mentions a .plan file, but says nothing much about it. What is this for? It's

RE: tar

1998-07-01 Thread Toby Wright
its tar -xf ... you need the 'f'so it knows to untar to files...I believe... regards. Toby Wright -Original Message- From: Gary Neff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 July 1998 01:58 To: Redhat-List Subject: tar for some reason tar does not work tar -x whatever nothing happens

Re: restricted accounts

1998-07-01 Thread iannaconem
Goes about the same what on RedHat, only that /bin/bash must be called as rbash. Yesterday I compiled bash modifying the config.h in order to have a restricted shell and now it is working fine! I recompiled bash. One disadvantage : I got a bash file of 1 MB, and distribution bash is

route help!

1998-07-01 Thread Jens Thordarson
Hi... I got a big problem...or maybe small. Anyways: The problem: I can not connect to the net... My equipment and what I've tried: I got a 3Com 3c509b (194.105.242.1) ethernet adapter. It is connected to a cisco 160x router(.254), which in turn is connected to a leased line. I'm 99% sure that

Re: No Shadow?

1998-07-01 Thread Ivan Jose Varzinczak
Run pwconv5. It converts your normal passwords into shadowed, as well as modifying the binaries to accept the shadow passwords. I also tempted to do this, but the users can't log in under Xwindow, only in the text mode prompt. I'm using xdm3d too. What can I do, please ? On Tue, 30

Re: route help!

1998-07-01 Thread Chris Fishwick
-BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: LGyi8iGeUbtFqaf2R/Tnbxa+DNGXENwu owGtVM1vG0UUd6GR0FZCFTc4PVIpSam92XW8iW0ELU3c4KSu8+WaUnoY7z5nB69n [SNIP] Couldn't have said it better myself.. Regards Chris -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips,

Re: No Shadow?

1998-07-01 Thread Ivan Jose Varzinczak
Just run pwconv, and all of your problems are solved Igmar No, this doesn't work for me. None of the users can log in under X. I did must to use pwunconv to can log in my system, but without shadow. What can I do ??? -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips,

Re: No Shadow?

1998-07-01 Thread Ivan Jose Varzinczak
hi, goto http://www.dreamwvr.com/webframe.htm click link called 'SHADOWING RED HAT' i hope that helps you:') I did this too and don't worked. Is the problem with X or xdm3d that I use ? Thanks. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

Re: route help!

1998-07-01 Thread Jim Snee
Jens, The 0.0.0.0/0 route IS your default route. It is pointing to 194.105.242.245 as a gateway. You want that 0.0.0.0 route to point to the Cisco which you stated should have an address of 194.105.242.254. Verify that you have the correct gateway address and gateway device in your

Re: exploit ??

1998-07-01 Thread Cristian KAMENICZKI
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Shawn McMahon wrote: Is there some public exploit that lets a person get root on a linux box ? Lots of them. You should at the very least keep up with the security mailing lists, such as CERT and Bugtraq. Can you please tell me how to subscribe to them? Thank you.

Re:

1998-07-01 Thread Leston Buell
Thanks. I'm going to try fixing this tonight. Sorry about the lack of a subject line, which i NEVER do intentionally. This was just an oversight due to the fact that i had to cut and paste to resend this message from a different account. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and

Re: fsck manually

1998-07-01 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Michael Jinks wrote: What has happened here (my best guess anyhow) is that your system was rudely interrupted by some sort of crash while in the middle of writing Mine happened once (on my old setup) when the power went out in the middle of a Cnews expire. it the root

IP Masquarade and PPP dial on demand

1998-07-01 Thread Jonathan B. Bayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I think there is documentation for this, but I haven't been able to find it yet. I am trying to set up a RH 5.1 box (with all the latest RPMs) on a local network in my house to do the following: 1. Dial up a specific PPP connection when needed, and then

Re: error mesg: /dev/hdb4 is not a blocked device

1998-07-01 Thread chang
Have you formated the new partition? Zhong Sheng wrote: Hi, everyone I was trying to change a win95 partition into a Linux partition. I boot Linux and use fdisk to delete the win95 partition and add a Linux primary partition. After I save the changes (I also tried to reboot Linux) I

Re: No Shadow?

1998-07-01 Thread James Youngman
"ijv" == Ivan Jose Varzinczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ijv I also tempted to do this, but the users can't log in under ijv Xwindow, only in the text mode prompt. I'm using xdm3d ijv too. What can I do, please ? Use a version of xdm3d that supports PAM. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat

Re: fsck manually

1998-07-01 Thread James Youngman
"def" == David E Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: def Well, you're essentially in single user mode (i.e., this def happens during the start up procedure) and so you can just do def the fsck at the time you get to the provided shell prompt. It def is important to just say 'fsck /dev/hda1'

Re: Glint craps out when checking for available RPMs

1998-07-01 Thread Tony Molloy.
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Maurice Wick wrote: Whenever I run Glint (in RH5.1) it spits the dummy about 2/3rds the way through and returns this [root@guss rpms]# glint Glint Graphical Package Manager -- version 2.6 Copyright (C) 1998 - Red Hat Software This may be freely redistributed

Re: tar

1998-07-01 Thread Vidiot
its tar -xf ... you need the 'f'so it knows to untar to files...I believe... Toby Wright for some reason tar does not work tar -x whatever nothing happens and prompt is lost.I have copied the tar file to the same directory as the file I am trying to untar and still nothing and prompt is

Re: SVGALib mouse speed?

1998-07-01 Thread Brandon_ Petersen_
I experience the same problems, but I'm using a Cyrix 166+, so that would be my problem. What kind of hardware are you using, and what other programs are you running at the same time. Quake 2 is resource hungry... Ahhh thanks. :) "30" did it for me.. :) I like my mouse *very*

initscripts install fails in RH5.1

1998-07-01 Thread Joe Nestlerode
I just did an (almost) successful clean install of 5.1. All 300-some packages installed *except* for initscripts. So I got the latest rpm from the errata page, and it also fails with the same errors: root /mnt/zip/errata rpm -Uvh --force initscripts-3.65-2.i386.rpm initscripts

can't configure Acrobat Reader as Netscape 4.0.5 helper app

1998-07-01 Thread Alex T Prengel
Hello, I am having trouble configuring the Adobe Acrobat Reader as a helper-app to the Netscape version (4.0.5) supplied with RedHat 5.1. I'm running on an Intel P120 box. I'm using the latest Acrobat version on Adobe's Web site- it's described as 3.0.1 but on unpacking it appears to be 3.0. I

Auto logout in telnet and rsh

1998-07-01 Thread Alfonso Barreto Lopez
Is there a way to logout a user after a cartain time of inactivity in a telnet and/or rsh? Thanks a lot __ Alfonso Barreto Lopez Inst. de Inv. de Matematicas U.N.A.M [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red

Netscape?

1998-07-01 Thread Wayne
Hello, I'am running Redhat version 4.2 with kernel 2.0.30, could anyone tell me which Netscape release i can use and where to get it? TIA. Wayne -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips

PPP and NFS conflict?

1998-07-01 Thread Paul M Dunphy
Hi all. I am looking for an easy way out of this one (aren't we all!) I have RH 5.0 running on a 233 Mhz Pentium-II and it has been working fine for several months. It's part of a little LAN I have in the house with the other systems running 95 and NT. All worked great . . . I was using the

RE: route help!

1998-07-01 Thread Paul Pettit
From: Jens Thordarson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 1998 5:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: route help! Hi... I got a big problem...or maybe small. [snip] When I do route -n it gives me: Kernel routing table Destination Gateway Genmask

Re: SCSI hard drive freezing my system

1998-07-01 Thread Michael Jinks
Matthew Saltzman wrote: Yes, it does matter which BusLogic model you have. If it is a MultiMaster model (BT-948, KT-948, BT-958, or KT-958) According to /proc/scsi/BusLogic/0, I have a model BT-946C. But I'll go check the URL you sent anyway; there might be an upgrade for this too, as it

Re: gathering network performance data?

1998-07-01 Thread Maureen Lecuona
You write: We have a small network connected to the Internet via fractional T1. We'd like to start collecting information about our bandwidth usage, but our ISP will only provide us with those statistics for a fee. Here's a sketch of our layout: (internet) | | CSU/DSU |

Re: Why are recompiled distrib so BIG ???

1998-07-01 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
They are a LOT bigger then the distribution binaries. For example : bash from RedHat : about 300 K bash compiled : about 1 MB !!! try "strip bash" after you compile it.. Problem solved... I got the 'good' size back.. Thanks !!! Igmar -- PLEASE

Random number generation

1998-07-01 Thread Joseph C. Tuttle
Is there a simple way in Linux to generate a series of three hundred to four hundred unique random four digit numbers? I haven't done enough programming to write my own random number generator, but I do know Linux can generate them for its own uses. I have searched man and info pages, and the

Re: Random number generation

1998-07-01 Thread James Youngman
"jct" == Joseph C Tuttle [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jct Is there a simple way in Linux to generate a series of three jct hundred to four hundred unique random four digit numbers? I jct haven't done enough programming to write my own random number jct generator, but I do know Linux can

Re: gathering network performance data?

1998-07-01 Thread James Youngman
"ml" == Maureen Lecuona [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ml We have a small network connected to the Internet via fractional ml T1. We'd like to start collecting information about our ml bandwidth usage, but our ISP will only provide us with those ml statistics for a fee. ml Are there

ZIP Tools

1998-07-01 Thread Paul Fontenot
Anybody have a good location for the linux ziptools? -Paul -- 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

RE: ##@@%%$$...cron...

1998-07-01 Thread Zoki
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Slyglif Cain wrote: -Actually, the problem is the script. When you do "sh filename" from -a command prompt, you are explicitly telling Linux what shell to use. -For the script to work from crontab, you have to be able to type -"filename" (no alias for sh) to run the command

Re: Spurious ` characters

1998-07-01 Thread Matt Housh
Hey guys, I tried to respond to this, but the redhat list has been eating my mail lately. Hope this one gets thru. Anyway, I have the same problem with our Dell P2/400s here. The guy I talked to at Dell tech support said that one of the two BIOS fixed available for my machine would fix it, but I

apache error pages?

1998-07-01 Thread Matt Teagarden
Is there a way to modify the "ERROR 404 FILE NOT FOUND" and other default error pages that apache throws out? I would like to make them a little nicer to the eyes.. -Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: No Shadow?

1998-07-01 Thread dreamwvr
has to be X issue as the /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd are interdependent but X and xdm3d are separate issue. The answer not sure ...sorry:'( At 10:54 AM 7/1/98 -, you wrote: hi, goto http://www.dreamwvr.com/webframe.htm click link called 'SHADOWING RED HAT' i hope that helps

RE: ##@@%%$$...cron...

1998-07-01 Thread Paul Fontenot
(+)*** So why is it I have #!/bin/sh as the first line in any script and it (+)still doesn't work? Is the script executable? Is /bin in your path? -Paul -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips

Upcoming ICQ X11 version!

1998-07-01 Thread Jos Vos
Hi, [Please ignore this when you don't know what ICQ is...] I just saw that the ICQ people added a field on their download page in which you can fill in your e-mail address when you want to be informed when ICQ for UNIX (X11) is released (it says "Coming Soon"). So, everyone interested in this

RE: ##@@%%$$...cron...

1998-07-01 Thread Jonathan B. Bayer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 1 Jul 1998 07:54:41 +0200 (CEST), Zoki wrote: On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Slyglif Cain wrote: -Actually, the problem is the script. When you do "sh filename" from -a command prompt, you are explicitly telling Linux what shell to use. -For the script to work

read VMS tape under Linux

1998-07-01 Thread vbajaj
Hello, I have a large dataset recorded under a VMS platform on 8mm tape; our SGI, naturally, cannot read it, and I can't find any VMS-type filesystem support in the kernel. Even if I could, I'm not sure that VMS uses tar/cpio or something else that I could use under Unix to extract the data.

Re: ATI All-in-Wonder

1998-07-01 Thread Deryk Barker
Once upon a time Joel Robert Oliveira wrote: ATI all in wonder ? good luck getting it to work in X since ATI refuses to give out any information whatsoever for driver developers. I guess this should be fixed with the binary only drivers that redhat will be supplying soon.. which is

how can i tell what program is answering port x on my machine?

1998-07-01 Thread Doug Elznic
Well in case the subject did not give it away. How can i tell what program is answering port x on my machine? -- 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:

Host names not resolved

1998-07-01 Thread Paul Breedlove
I am experiencing a problem with a new install of Red Hat 5.0. The computer is attached to an ethernet network, which has a router as the default gateway. The install worked without an error, but I am having network problems. The problem is that after booting the computer, and then logging on

Help with packages

1998-07-01 Thread Michael P. Sale
Hello again, I seem to have run into a problem with the package manager and the 5.1 disk. When I go to search for "available" packages using the package manager, the program begins to scan for available packages. I watch the meter increase to about 80% before it just stops. It seems to lock up

Re: Help with packages

1998-07-01 Thread Damien Silveira
I had that problem as well. You need to update Glint from the redhat errata. Hope this helps. Damien -Original Message- From: Michael P. Sale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, July 01, 1998 2:07 PM Subject: Help with packages Hello again, I

unused space at the end of HDD

1998-07-01 Thread Alexei Nefediev
Hello, when I looked at my two HDD's using disk manager utility from WinNT 4.0 (sorry for mentioning M$ OS :-) ) I discovered that both drives contain free space (2M and 4M for 1G and 3.2G drives respectively) belonging to no partitions. I'm quite sure that when creating partitions with Linux

Re: Upcoming ICQ X11 version!

1998-07-01 Thread Jeff Ivany
Jos Vos wrote: I just saw that the ICQ people added a field on their download page in which you can fill in your e-mail address when you want to be informed when ICQ for UNIX (X11) is released (it says "Coming Soon"). Hate to be the bringer of bad news but... That box has been there for

RE: ##@@%%$$...cron...

1998-07-01 Thread John H Darrah
On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Zoki wrote: On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Slyglif Cain wrote: *** So why is it I have #!/bin/sh as the first line in any script and it still doesn't work? BTW, even with that line in the script, I still have to type sh [script] in order to run it. Probably because you didn't

Re: apache error pages?

1998-07-01 Thread jb
www.apache.org check out the FAQ section(s). this is covered in great and useful detail. always check the source for FAQ's, docs and information, first. Jeff At 01:08 PM 7/1/98 -0400, you wrote: Is there a way to modify the "ERROR 404 FILE NOT FOUND" and other default error pages that apache

Re: ATI All-in-Wonder

1998-07-01 Thread Paul Fontenot
(+)S3 Virge is presumably a good, safe bet... I can vouche for that card. Works great for me. Spend the extra and get the 4M card. -Paul -- 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

Re: .plan file

1998-07-01 Thread Woody
The .plan file, located in respective users' directories, is a hidden file created by such users to use to put information about themselves, etc, or whatever they choose so that when a local and/or remote user "fingers" them, they will know more about that person, or will see what the person

Trying to figure out private groups

1998-07-01 Thread Steve Frampton
Hello: RedHat uses something called "private groups" to provide a bit more flexibility, security-wise. I'm just having trouble figuring out how to use it. What I want to do: Create a directory, /archive2/its_share, a common area for our department. Anybody can put files in here. Only the

Re: how can i tell what program is answering port x on my machine?

1998-07-01 Thread Woody
I don't quite understand what you mean by "answering", but maybe this will help you...look at your services file in the /etc directory. /etc/services Woody Security Administrator Localline.com, Oxford, IN [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- From: Doug Elznic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upcoming ICQ X11 version!

1998-07-01 Thread James Curbo
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 19:02:45 + From: Jeff Ivany [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Upcoming ICQ X11 version! Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jos Vos wrote: I just saw that the ICQ people added a

Re: Trying to figure out private groups

1998-07-01 Thread Michael George
Hello: RedHat uses something called "private groups" to provide a bit more flexibility, security-wise. I'm just having trouble figuring out how to use it. What I want to do: Create a directory, /archive2/its_share, a common area for our department. Anybody can put files in here.

PPP Scripting Problems

1998-07-01 Thread Ezekiel Urness
I have a problem with the PPP-ON and PPP-OFF scripts. When I am logged in a root they work find. If I am logged in as any one else, they do not work. Does anyone have any ideas? Thankx in Advance Ezekiel Urness /usr/bin ls ppp* -la -rwx--x--x 1 root root 1051 Jun 30 12:09

Re: POP3 server config page?

1998-07-01 Thread dreamwvr
At 03:44 PM 6/26/98 -0500, you wrote: -Original Message- From: dreamwvr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 2:08 PM Subject: Re: POP3 server config page? Hi Sean, You had mentioned that IMAP is better than POP3 but i am not

Re: Upcoming ICQ X11 version!

1998-07-01 Thread MC
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Curbo) writes: If you want a good console based one, go to freshmeat.net and look up micq. It is fast and reliable, and supports a lot of the commands. Only problem is the icq server kicks me off every once in a while.. I think it's a bug in the protocol part of the

Re: Host names not resolved

1998-07-01 Thread Michael Jinks
Paul Breedlove wrote: I am experiencing a problem with a new install of Red Hat 5.0. The computer is attached to an ethernet network, which has a router as the default gateway. The install worked without an error, but I am having network problems. The problem is that after booting the

Re: Help with packages

1998-07-01 Thread Michael P. Sale
Thanks, Looks good now. I should have checked the erratta a little more closely before posting :-/ Mike -- Michael P. Sale MerchantsNet.Com [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.merchantsnet.com Ph#: 805-563-1975 --

Re: Newbie question re: install and /etc/fstab

1998-07-01 Thread Michael Jinks
Merten, Joe wrote: it only got as far as installing packages when it would hang. I tried it several times, and it hung at various packages. I.E. one time it might make it through 90% of the packages before hanging, then another time it might only make it through 20%. This smells like a

Re: Spurious ` characters

1998-07-01 Thread W. Wade, Hampton
Matt Housh wrote: Hey guys, I tried to respond to this, but the redhat list has been eating my mail lately. Hope this one gets thru. Anyway, I have the same It made the list this time... problem with our Dell P2/400s here. The guy I talked to at Dell tech support said that one of the two BIOS

Re: Upcoming ICQ X11 version!

1998-07-01 Thread Scott
If you want a good console based one, go to freshmeat.net and look up micq. It is fast and reliable, and supports a lot of the commands. Only problem is the icq server kicks me off every once in a while.. I think it's a bug in the protocol part of the program. This is not a surprise, since

linux problem !need help

1998-07-01 Thread Internet Marketing
My linux box that's working fine all the while suddently having problem tov boot-up , error message : VFS:mounted root(ext2 filesystem0 readonly) Unable to open an initial console It just freeze there , anybody can help , urgent. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the

Re: PPP and NFS conflict?

1998-07-01 Thread Paul M Dunphy
At 09:40 AM 7/1/98 -0700, you wrote: Is portmap running? It must be running before nfs will work. -Paul Thanks, Paul . . . I couldn't tell because rpcinfo -p wouldn't run, either. I found out what the problem was, though. My son, who is 14, is an NT guru of sorts. He convinced me to tell

Re: Upcoming ICQ X11 version!

1998-07-01 Thread Patrick O'Neil
Scott wrote: If you want a good console based one, go to freshmeat.net and look up micq. It is fast and reliable, and supports a lot of the [...] All great and wonderfull but most of the world is on wind95 and NT. IRC is great for some things but ICQ is also great. Its free and easy

Re: Trying to figure out private groups

1998-07-01 Thread John H Darrah
On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Steve Frampton wrote: I've created this directory. I've created a group in /etc/group called "its" as follows: its:x:499:frampton,mccready I've done: 'chown frampton.its /archive2/its_share' as well as 'chmod a-x,ug+x frampton.its'. I've then created a symbolic

IBM Aptiva console/X display clutter

1998-07-01 Thread srs
Hi, I have recently installed RH5.0 and is currently upgrading to RH5.1 on an IBMAptiva 2134/351 with a SIS86C205, rev 211 video chip. Ever since the first time of installation I have problems with the screen being cluttered with garbage, making the display unredable. It happens both in console

Need help for changing host name and domain name

1998-07-01 Thread Zoong
Hi all, How can I can change my Linux box host name to some thing like foo and the domain name to zoong.com ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ? I am using RedHat 5.1, kernel 2.0.34 . I use modem to dial in my ISP to access to the Internet. My box is a stand-alone computer, has no networkcard. Please send to

GIMP 1.0, gtk rpm

1998-07-01 Thread Deryk Barker
I've been trying to build gimp 1.0 and having trouble with gtk. I've got stock RH5.0 + errata, which informs me - via a rpm -qa|grep gtk - that I have gtk+-1.0.1-2 gtk-devel-0.99.970925-3 installed. However, the configure for gimp barfs because it can't find gtk-config.

Re: gathering network performance data?

1998-07-01 Thread E.L. Green
The best product for that is called "MRTG" (for Multi-Router Traffic Grapher). A copy of it is in contrib on the Red Hat FTP site. It is a little involved to set up, but once it is set up, you can get beautiful graphs of network usage through the router (you'll need to create a web page to link

X programming

1998-07-01 Thread Alfonso Barreto Lopez
I am trying to start programming in X, but I dont know where to start, I am trying to get some examples, is there a place where I can find them? Thanks __ Alfonso Barreto Lopez Inst. de Inv. de Matematicas U.N.A.M

PPP with user input for password?

1998-07-01 Thread srs
Hi, when connecting to an ISP with the modem I have succeded to set up Network Configurator to use in conjunction with the usernet tool. For this ISP a fixed password is given in the communication part of the setup. However, when connecting to another ISP a new password is required everytime I

Re: Upcoming ICQ X11 version!

1998-07-01 Thread Jeff Ivany
Patrick O'Neil wrote: [snip] If you must have ICQ, then there is a platform independent JavaICQ. I set it up and ran it a couple of times in OS/2 (just to try it out...but I don't like, nor use, IRC nor any other form of chat). You have to do a little editing of the program file to fit

Backup

1998-07-01 Thread J. Carlos Cristobal
Hello everybody: I have heard alot of about a backup system which as far I see is cheaper for every MB backed up, but I want to know if its Linux compatible, I'm talking about the SparQ of Syquest, has anybody tried it? is it good? Thanks in advance...

Re: xemacs rpms and hurricane

1998-07-01 Thread Hugh Lawson
Hello W. J. Kossler: You have run into the same problem I hit with xemacs. I have found a way to get RedHat xemacs rpm files to work. Download the xemacs files that appear in the powertools directory, and not those that appear in the contrib/i386 directory. On my system these installed.

Re: Upcoming ICQ X11 version!

1998-07-01 Thread Charlotte Crothers
If you're really interested in running ICQ, I just set it up using the latest JDK and it is much better behaved than with previous versions. Charlotte Crothers On 2 Jul 98 at 1:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick O'Neil wrote: [snip] If you must have ICQ, then there is a platform

metrox

1998-07-01 Thread Gary Neff
Thanks for all the help and I have a few more dumb questions. 1- what file do I edit to change the menus in xmetro to add new programs 2-how do I add a file to the path so when I type its name I can simply run it without going to the directory it is located in and typing ./whatever Thanks in

New SRPMS Size

1998-07-01 Thread Rob Ferguson
Hello all. I have a favour if someone could do me. Because of the large size of file XFree, Emacs, Netscape updates it would take me along time to download these files and cost me probably about as much as that actual 5.1 CD would cost me. Is there someone out there willing to do a diff

Re: PPP-2.3.3-4 problems still. Help me please

1998-07-01 Thread Mark Rogers
Mark Rogers wrote: Win95 can dial into my machine great everything works, win3.x using Trumpet winsock (any version), dials, gets authenticated, is assigned an IP address and then no data gets over the line. This happens regardless of any ppp settings I've tried or anything else, this is

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