Re: Netscape slow as a snail

1998-06-23 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Patrick O'Neil wrote: connect to my ISP I use Usernet. Thing is, when I start Netscape it takes _forever_ to start. I wait and wait, wondering if it is ever is going to start (on occasion I have simply gone on to start telnet and used remote pine) but then FINALLY

Re: Space problem?

1998-06-19 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, wward wrote: My system informed me that I had no space left in the root filesystem. So, I removed a bunch of files totaling about 20meg. When I did a "df" the filesystem still shows no space available. Where is the space I freed-up? It is still in use by whatever program

Re: worng domain name in email header

1998-06-19 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Robert W. Canary wrote: 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 In /etc/sendmail.cf, put something similar to this (which is how I get my EMAIL

Re: Linux 4.2 Backup Tape compatibility

1998-06-19 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, bob jones wrote: Will I be able to backup files using tar under Linux 4.2 with what is called a 3M TRAVAN tape? I believe the tape is an IDE type and the drive is a Seagate. That's just the tape. A tape is just, well, a strip of plastic tape sprayed with

Re: RAID control

1998-06-11 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Jason Scherbarth wrote: with a 4gb U/W drive and onboard Adaptec 7880. I get a message in /var/log/messages on the Linux box which basically equates to: date name kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid # scsi device info Read or Write and some hex info It

Re: Newbe: Partition recommendations?

1998-06-10 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Eze Ogwuma wrote: partition. This will ensure that you can protect the data in the /home partition during upgrades. I know that Red Hat should protect your system during upgrades but that's not always the way things work. I'm curious; what is it that makes /home somehow

IBCS problems?

1998-06-08 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does the 2.0.34 kernel have a problem with iBCS? I ask that because I tried running a SCO Unix program that runs quite well under 2.0.33 with iBCS under Red Hat 5.0, but when I tried to run it under Red Hat 5.1 with 2.0.34 it complained "Cannot Open Console Device" and died. Any ideas? I tried

Re: RH5.0 stability compared to Windows NT4?

1998-06-08 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Hugo Rabson wrote: Do you lose your data less often when you do lose it do you take as long to recover it as you did under NT? Is your data loss more often the result of a buggy application than a result of a problem with RedHat? Whenever I venture back to Windows 95

Re: IDE tape drives / backing up images?

1998-06-08 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: I understand IDE tape drives are not yet supported by RedHat Linux - is this correct? Wrong. It is supported since kernel 2.0.33 And works fairly well. We just shipped a bunch of machines with the Seagate Tapestor 4000 IDE drives, and I have one

RE: RH5.0 stability compared to Windows NT4?

1998-06-08 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Hugo Rabson wrote: NT3.51's "older, slightly mad brother"), it's the apps. Am I right in thinking, however, that if KDE or CDE or whatever desktop you're running crashes, your apps continue running? Absolutely. In fact, it is a bit wrong to say "KDE" as if it were one

Re: Email To FAX

1998-06-08 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Bench wrote: Anybody knowws of a program that can be configured to send emails to fax? A combination of procmail and hylafax could probably do this, depending on how fancy you want to be. Actually, most instances of "mail to fax" can probably be resolved simply by

Re: Lyx 0.12.0 : Bad Window failed request HELP!!

1998-06-05 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Jeff Ivany wrote: I was wondering if anyone could help me get Lyx working on my system. Currently I can get it to configure initially but unfortunately, after the lyx window flashes on my screen, it crashes with the following: X Error of failed request: BadWindow

Re: Terminal problem after 5.1 upgrade.

1998-06-05 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Jeremy Hansen wrote: Has anyone had problems with terminal environments after a 5.0 to 5.1 upgrade. Every terminal env setting I use results in an unknown terminal error from bash. do "rpm -q ncurses" and tell us what it reports. If it doesn't report anything, that's your

Re: Are more kernel modules coming?

1998-06-05 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Rob Walker wrote: Eric Maybe someone who plays with development kernels can answer Eric this: When configuring a new kernel, why would you want to Eric answer 'yes' when a 'module' selection is available? And for speed. going through a module is slower than not. Err,

Re: Newbie trying to get started

1998-06-05 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Mike Hesse wrote: Richard Mahn wrote on 4 Jun 98, : I first try choosing hda, I then get asked "The boot manager can also boot other systems" /dev/hda1/ Unknown /dev/hdb1/ Win95 Fat32 Dos For some reason it is not recognising my master drive even though

Re: Vt bloking after doing init 3

1998-06-04 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Fred Smith wrote: On Wed, Jun 03, 1998 at 12:19:25AM +0100, Luis Sismeiro wrote: Some more details, perhaps? "Becomes crazy" is a bit vague :) I get the prompt of login but when I press the enter key after my login name the ^M appears and I can login on that vt

RE: RH5.0 install problem

1998-06-03 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Mike A. Lewis, CNE wrote: John, your wild guess was a good one, but unfortunately not the right one. Since posting this message, I have replaced the IDE drive with a SCSI drive. Exactly the same problem exists. [signal 13 problem, that is]. Whenever I've recieved a

Re: remote printer tftp and lpr, how?

1998-06-02 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Mark Malecha wrote: On Fri, 29 May 1998, Mark Malecha wrote: prints OK, but I would like to be able to invoke printing by lpr. What is the easiest way to do that? Set up a delivery filter. Do a "man printcap" and look at "if=". Yes, I got that part going.

Re: Hardware Recommendations

1998-05-27 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Thomas Hubbell wrote: I'm looking for a good, inexpensive, Linux-compatible Ethernet card. ISA/10Mb is fine. Any suggestions? Lots of folks have suggested the cheap Netgear one that's based on the DEC Tulip chipset. I would recommend against the cheap NE2000 clones --

Re: eth0

1998-05-27 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 27 May 1998, Robert Fausey wrote: Double check this for me, is your card is 3com 3c905B-TX, if it is I might be able to help, becuase it took me two weeks to be able to get it to work at last, it's a pain in butt, but I got the sucker to work :) Nope it is a 3c590. Then you

Re: linux as a RAS server

1998-05-27 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 27 May 1998, Perez, Victor wrote: Does somebody knows how to setup linux to provide RAS dial-up access just like Windows NT? Dial-in, or dial-out? Eric Lee Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Executive Consultants Systems Specialist Educational Administration Solutions

Re: 2nd ide hdd?

1998-05-26 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Peter Lavender wrote: I was just thinking, I have a spare 1gig + ide hdd. I was wondering if I can use this with linux on an old 486MB that doesn't support LBA or large hdd's at all? Sure. Just make sure that the /boot partition is below the 1024 cylinder boundary.

Re: eth0

1998-05-26 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Robert Fausey wrote: I am able to start eth0 and therefore see the local network. The network card is working fine in Windows 95 but not with RedHat. In the control panel, it is set to start at boot but it does not. Starting eth0 manually no effect. What kind of

Re: /dev/dsp, /dev/audio etc.

1998-05-25 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Iztok Polanic [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 23 May 1998, Iztok Polanic wrote: When I am doing something heavily (CPU burn) and I want to listen to a mp3 file or an audio file I get this: /dev/dsp is out of memory Why is this happening??? It is not a matter of CPU burn. It is a matter of

Re: HylaFax on RH5.0?

1998-05-25 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 24 May 1998, Jay Vassos-Libove wrote: 1. During the configuration of the modem (With 'faxaddmodem'), it complains that my fax phone number of "+1.404.876.8191" does not match my country code (1) or area code (404)... that's wierd. I could only get it to stop saying that by entering

RE: Printcap for Laser Printer

1998-05-25 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 24 May 1998, Dave Wreski wrote: On 24-May-98 Derek Balling wrote: Odd question: Would anyone happen to have a good printcap for a Panasonic KXP-4420 Laser printer? Typically the best thing to do is pick the HP printer that it most closely emulates, such as an HP3, assuming

Re: /dev/dsp, /dev/audio etc.

1998-05-25 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 25 May 1998, David E. Fox wrote: Wouldn't it be better to compile the drivers monolithically into the kernel rather than using modules in this case? It seems to me that if this is done, and you've selected a 32K buffer, then that 32K will always be available, and contiguous. The

Re: modem sharing - under Linux OS

1998-05-22 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On -1 xxx -1, it was written: File: vcard.vcfhints wrote: Does anyone know of a Linux program that will allow modem sharing or pooling? Hmm, only one I've seen is the one that Computone provides for their Intelliserver product line. We use that one here in the office to be able to access

Re: Can I call subroutines on a Linux server from a VB client?

1998-05-22 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 18 May 1998, KThorpe wrote: I wish to be able to call subroutines on my Linux server from a Visual Basic program on a network client. Does anything exist to allow me to do this? See if Visual Basic can do Unix-style "rpc" calls (Remote Procedure Calls). Not high-tech stuff (COM and

Re: Video problems narrowed down

1998-05-22 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 20 May 1998, Larsen wrote: Howdy. I'm the guy that's been bitching about my fonts getting messed up when I launch Communicator. I was running Afterstep with some generic hardware at high virtual and physical resolutions. I played with Communicator running under the other two

Re: ISDN

1998-05-22 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 21 May 1998, William T Wilson wrote: On Thu, 21 May 1998, Matt Housh wrote: Not a specific redhat question, but here goes. Can some people recommend to me a good ISDN modem/router for Linux that's relatively affordable? Even an internal modem would be ok, although I prefer

Re: lp woes

1998-05-22 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 21 May 1998, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote: I have a WinNT box with an LPR port added to send printer stuff to my Linux printer (laser). Linux is eating my print jobs! I .. Some things to check: Make sure that the "lp" module is being loaded. I.e., "lsmod", see if "lp" is in the modules

Re: Linux IP clustering

1998-05-22 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 22 May 1998, Shawn McMahon wrote: What I want to do is take some thin clients and set them to boot from one IP address, but have it round-robin to several different machines so that I'm Hmm, I guess you could abuse IP masquerading to do this (have two NIC's, the other boot hosts hidden

Re: Looking for FAX soft for RH4.2 and Courier V.Everything

1998-05-21 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 21 May 1998, Javier Hernandez wrote: I did tried to use efax with my US Robotics Courier V.Everything modem but it did not worked. I think Courier V.Everything is a Class 2.0 type modem. Does someone have experience with this modem an a fax software in Linux ? I tried efax with a

Re: Living on Two Networks Simultaneously

1998-05-21 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 20 May 1998, Jake Colman wrote: is not part of my private Class C network space. My goal is to have my Linux box resident on both networks and to allow all nodes on my private network access to the main office network. One more thing. My Linux box does not reside on both networks (because

Re: Living on Two Networks Simultaneously

1998-05-21 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 20 May 1998, Jake Colman wrote: I have a small private Class C network in my home office consisting of a Linux box and several Win boxes. This network is up and running correctly. I now have to add in an ISDN router to connect my home office network to my main office network. The main

Re: MTU for Linux

1998-05-17 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 14 May 1998, Peter J Spalding wrote: I subscribe to PC-World magazine, and read an interesting article that, although, was aimed for WIN95 users, can most likely help us also. Page 278, "Unclog Your Net Access for Fast Relief" June 1998 Basicly, what the editor suggested, is

Re: reccomend tape drive

1998-05-17 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 15 May 1998, steven standley wrote: I am looking to purchase a tape drive for backup on my home system. I have a scsi2 and scsi3UW interface available. I'm using a little Tapestor 4000 (TR-4) that I picked up for around $230. The tapes are too expensive ($30 mail-order, $35 from your

Re: ftape driver problems

1998-05-17 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 17 May 1998, Larsen wrote: One difference I've noticed is that Red Hat ships with ftape 2.x, and I was running ftape 3.x (zftape) on the Caldera box. I tried compiling zftape on the Red Hat box, and it seemed to compile OK, but when I try to insmod the zftape driver, I get a bunch of

Re: Western Digital

1998-05-13 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 11 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Reply to note from "Damond Walker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 11 May 1998 09:19:57 -0400 Is it just me, or do Western Digital drives fail as much for everyone else as they do for me. I've had to replace the same 1.2 gig drive three

Re: Routing problem..

1998-05-08 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Alfonso Barreto Lopez wrote: I need to connect to a computer that is phisically in other place from my local network, but it has the same domain that my network, is there a way to say not to search in the local network but to search directly out? Do not quite understand.

Re: ISA SCSI for Old 486?

1998-05-07 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 6 May 1998, Fred Whipple wrote: I have an old Digital 486DX33 low profile box that I'd like to use Linux with... the problem is it has a standard IDE disk controler on-board. It can't see all of a larger EIDE disk, and I need at least 2GB to use. I assume the 500MB limitation is in

Re: SCSI Tape troubles (2nd try)

1998-05-06 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Geoffrey Hunsicker wrote: On Tue, 5 May 1998, Eric L. Green wrote: No real advice except: check the SCSI ID on the tape drive (is it being detected by the OS at bootup?), check the termination (do you have a terminator installed on the end of this external SCSI bus?),

Re: DOS FILES= equivalent in Linux ?

1998-05-06 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 6 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes i get this error : "too many open files in system" causing my system to fail. How do I increase the number of files ? ok, in /usr/src/linux/include/linux/fs.h #define NR_INODE 3072 /* this should be bigger than NR_FILE 8/ #define

Re: Reducing X traffic

1998-05-06 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 6 May 1998, John DeCarlo wrote: I know this is a simple question, but I don't seem to have the right vocabulary to find what I am looking for via searches on web sites. It is my understanding that standard X traffic across a network can get pretty heavy. And that there are

Re: lpd problem

1998-05-05 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Chris Evans wrote: On Tue, 5 May 1998, Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Known problem. Check the erratta to see if Red Hat's last security update fixed it. (I doubt it, they only seem interested in security problems, not in fixing the bugs that infest the lpd

Re: Totally off topic: RJ45 fab

1998-05-05 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Shawn McMahon wrote: I'm sure you'll get lots of replies, but I'm replying too because this site has a particularly good set of graphics: http://www.k12.hi.us/~tethree/96-97/course2/RJ45diagram.html You probably want to use TIA/EIA 568B, which simplifies things with

Re: SCSI Tape troubles (2nd try)

1998-05-05 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Geoffrey Hunsicker wrote: Hi all, I've not gotten any responses to the following. Does anyone have any pointers to information which might be useful? I've checked all of the usual sources and found nothing. No real advice except: check the SCSI ID on the tape drive

Re: lpr plain text files

1998-05-04 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 3 May 1998, Felix Klee wrote: I am using a HP Laserjet 4L. If I try to print plain text files using "lpr plain.txt" the printer only outputs an empty page (There are *no* special characters/control sequences in the file). Printing postscript files, dvi files or man pages (man pages

Re: strange traceroute message

1998-05-04 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 4 May 1998, Steven Krikstone wrote: When I run: [root@router1 sdl]# /usr/sbin/traceroute 205.160.77.196 traceroute: Warning: Multiple interfaces found; using 205.160.77.162 @ eth0 traceroute to 205.160.77.196 (205.160.77.196), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 205.160.77.126

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: 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

Re: Which Ultra Wide SCSI controler? (fwd)

1998-04-29 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Usama Wazeer wrote: On Tue, 28 Apr 1998, Bryan Swann wrote: controlers. It is difficult to find cards that still have some of the older chipsets. I believe that my choices are down to an adaptec 2940UW (that may I'm using the Promise UltraSCSI (www.promise.com) card

Re: LP Spooler

1998-04-28 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Dan Octavian wrote: RedHat 5.0 has classic LP spooler ? If not, there is a place from where we can get a LP spooler ? Yes? Red Hat 5.0 includes a (very old and buggy) copy of the BSD "lpd" line printer daemon along with BSD-style line printer commands ('lpr', 'lprm',

Re: Exporting a tape drive

1998-04-27 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Michael Jinks wrote: We are suffering from a tape drive and SCSI card shortage, and I'd like to make the most out of what we have. I have one Linux box with a very nice Mylex card onto which I have chained about four different kinds of tape drives, and I'd like to be

Re: What happened to rpmcontents.gz?

1998-04-27 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Kenneth Corbin wrote: The RedHat 4.3 release included a file which listed the contents of every RPM on the CD. I found this to be incredibly useful and am somewhat dismayed to find that it isn't in the 5.0 release. I presume that there is some other way this information

Re: cannot open file

1998-04-24 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, rarab wrote: Dear RedHat list: I down loaded a Netscape rpm from the internet using Windows and copied it to a home directory on Linux partition.In the home directory I typed "rpm -i netsca~1.rpm" I got in response "error : cannot open file

Re: 3com/ RH 5.0

1998-04-24 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, David Hughes wrote: It is a 3com 3c509 internal, and also a PCI based 3com 3c509. An odder The 3c509 is an ISA card. There are no PCI-based 3c509 cards. You may be thinking about the 3c905 card, which is a 10/100mbit PCI card from 3-com. It uses the 3c59x driver when

Re: Red Hat vs S.u.S.E.

1998-04-24 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Gary Hodges wrote: Maybe the Red Hat list isn't the best place to ask this question, but what are folks feelings about SuSE vs Red Hat? I've been waiting for 5.1 to do a completely fresh upgrade, but lately have been hearing that the SuSE distribution is pretty nice.

Re: How can I rexec to my Linux box

1998-04-23 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Matthew Smith wrote: this and I even have an rexec client on the Win95 box. However, when I = rexec to my linux box, it just hangs. =20 rexec is by default commented out in inetd.conf. So just remove the pound sign in /etc/inetd.conf in the rexec line, do a "killall -HUP

RE: Writting CD's under Linux?

1998-04-23 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Tempel, Philippe wrote: You need to look at the man pages for the cdwrite and cdrecord utilities. They will specify which CDRs they will support. Linux itself doesn't care since it only provides a generic SCSI interface. See the CD Writing HOWTO at

Re: Another Question

1998-04-22 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Rick Forrester wrote: Many good points, Dave, to which I'd add two more. (1) It should be somewhat faster when it comes time to fsck a partition when they're smaller. The partitioning will also restrict the damage if/when something happens to the disk. Actually, it

Re: Database conversions on Linux?

1998-04-22 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Michael Jinks wrote: This is the Big Enchalada; our company was born and bred on DOS for the past several years, and we've got the legacy in-house apps to prove it. Specifically, we have an immense body of software written to do database conversions in MS FoxPro, now

RE: Database conversions on Linux?

1998-04-22 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, KThorpe wrote: Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 05:44:45 + From: Michael Jinks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Database conversions on Linux? This is the Big Enchalada; our company was born and bred on DOS for the past several years, and we've got the legacy in-house apps to

Re: Setting up Linux for dialup.

1998-04-22 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Ross Camm wrote: How do I get mschap working ?? http://www.replay.com. Note that stupid U.S. encryption laws prevent Red Hat from including a mschap-capable pppd with their software. Eric Lee Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Executive Consultants Systems Specialist

Re: Moving /usr directory?

1998-04-22 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Leung Yau Wai wrote: On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Matt Housh wrote: cp -a (equivalent to cp -dpR, iirc) should preserve links, but if it doesn't work, (cd /source;tar cf - ./)|(cd /dest;tar xvf -) might do as well. But (cd /source;tar cf - ./)|(cd /dest;tar

Re: Linux Mail Server serving Win 95 clients

1998-04-22 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Ping Lau wrote: I am new to Linux. I have managed to set up Samba IP Masq on my Linux box. Now I am trying to setup the Linux box as mail server. I have 10 email accounts with a local ISP. What I want to acheive is to have my Linux box dial my ISP login to each of

Re: Linux Mail Server serving Win 95 clients

1998-04-22 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Anthony E. Greene wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 14:24 4/22/98 -0500, Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The SMTP and POP3 servers come built-in with Linux. POP3 is not installed in RH5. You can install the imap*.rpm (which includes POP3 service

Re: Multi IO's

1998-04-21 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, Chas Green wrote: Hi, Just wondering Linux would handle a multi IO card/box (can't remember exactly) basically so I can have +4 com ports to handle modems with PPP dial in? What are you going to do with this? Cyclades (http://www.cyclades.com) makes a good one and they

Re: SAR?

1998-04-21 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Steve Frank wrote: Is there a place I can get sar, or is there a better non-Xwindows utilitiy available for checking loads, etc.. on RH5? There's no single equivalent of SAR on RH5. "top" is the closest -- gives system load, free memory, and a list of the top 20 or so

RE: Fetchmail

1998-04-21 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every thing looks normal. I can trace and ping m14007.wellsfargo.com. I'm lost. fetchmail: IMAP connection to m14007.wellsfargo.com failed: host is unknown fetchmail: POP3 connection to m14007.wellsfargo.com failed: host is

Re: Default Printer other than lp

1998-04-21 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Seif Zadeh Hossein wrote: On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Dale E Anglin wrote: Upon installing RH5, I configured my first and only printer with a name other than 'lp' (which matches our other systems in our network). Let me guess. You named it 'printer' (the default for SCO Unix

Re: Need Recomendation - inexp. SCSI card

1998-04-20 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Cokey de Percin wrote: Just as the subject says, I need a recommendation (and a supplier) for an inexpensive PCI bus SCSI card to be used (obviously) with Linux. I've two SCSI systems, the big one with a Buslogic 958 which is I just bought a Diamond Fireport 40 from

Re: Adaptec Compatibility?

1998-04-20 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, W.D.McKinney wrote: hand, Mylex (Buslogic), has been a favorite of Linux users with good drivers. You would be happy most likely with either a 2940UW Adaptec or a BT-958 Buslogic. If you have the money, a BT-958 Buslogic is fast, stable, and very well supported. If you're

Re: Kernal compile

1998-04-17 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Jeffrey Fearn wrote: however when I try to run lilo to recofig it it complains that the kernel is too big. It's 998077! The original is 446281, I followed all of the instructions in the installation guide; make xconfig, make dep, make clean, make boot, make modules,

Re: SU broken (Wheel)

1998-04-16 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Abandon_All_Hope wrote: Hey, I tink some one had the same problem before, sorry for the repeat. I changed /bin/su to: -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 12672 Oct 27 11:30 /bin/su and changed /etc/group to: wheel::10:root,djslatte then I $newgrp wheel $su

Re: PPP Server

1998-04-16 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Paul Breedlove wrote: machine either. The ip address that Trumpet see's is correct, as well as the netmask, gateway, etc. It seems like it is a routing problem. I have tried the proxyarp parameter with pppd, to no avail. Currently pppd is being executed with An

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

1998-04-16 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Chris Tyler wrote: (The Computone system has nice hardware, but the drivers were flakey under UW, and are wildly unstable under Linux. That's my experience only, your milage may vary. I've stuck with Computone at several sites to this point but it's time to jump ship). I

Re: Q: Swap space

1998-04-16 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Joe Tseng wrote: I am in the middle of totally hosing my computer and there is just SO MUCH SPACE TO PLAY WITH! One thought that came to mind was perhaps I could increase the size of my swap partition. However, I am under the impression this partition cannot be

Re: scsi scanner software for red hat linux

1998-04-15 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, matt wrote: i am currently using the isa adaptec 1505/a scsi card that came with the scanner. i wonder if anyone can recommend a cheap scsi card that will be red hat linux 5.x compatible and also be compatible with my current agfa scanner and also other scsi

Re: 2.0.33 kernel

1998-04-14 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Chris Cogdon wrote: Anyone know why redhat havent distributed a 2.0.33 kernel as a update RPM ?? Red Hat usually doesn't distribute new kernels unless there is a critical bug that MUST be fixed. That's because installing a new kernel can hose your system so easily. Plus

Re: Nothing but problems...

1998-04-14 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Instead of sending my address - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - it sends something like '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' or'root@localhost'. Therein probably lies the problem. Linux sendmail is by default configured to send all mail

Re: C programming......HOWTO begin...?

1998-04-13 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Mike Bridge wrote: My most-used C reference book is Harbison Steele's "C: A Reference Manual", but it's not really a good introductory book. No, but Kernighan and Ritchie, "The 'C' Programming Language", is. It's the kind of book they don't make anymore -- slim, concise,

Re: NetBIOS NetBIOS over TCP/IP

1998-04-13 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Casey Bralla wrote: I'm having trouble getting my mixed network (OS/2, Windows 3.11, Windows 95, RH 5.0) to talk to each other via NetBIOS calls. I believe it is because Linux is using "NetBIOS over TCP/IP", while OS/2 Windows use pure NetBIOS. (OS/2 can be selected

Re: Apache web server and DNS

1998-04-08 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Dan Hughes wrote: outside the network, right? 3. This is not related to DNS, just APACHE: Is there a way to create a public directory that for each user on the system apache creates an entry in the http(d?) directory that would produce: http://myserver.mydomain/~dhughes

Re: Setting up DNS

1998-04-08 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Dan Hughes wrote: I was also wondering how to set up DNS under redhat. I know that you need bind and named to set up dns but I have never done this before. Since I set up Linux on my machine to learn how to do things in a UNIX like enviorment, I was wondering if

Re: RAID and System Upgrades

1998-04-08 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 8 Apr 1998, Eze Ogwuma wrote: I have four 2.1GB SCSI drives and I want to make three of them into a RAID-0 array using the md driver. I was thinking of using part of the fourth disk as a boot partition. What I would like to know is what happens when a system upgrade is done e.g. from

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

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: Partitions

1998-04-06 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 4 Apr 1998, W.D.McKinney wrote: "Michael" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have a 4GB partition available for Linux, and I would like to know how to best partition this for Linux ? Hmmm...a religion question. I like : / 400mb /tmp 250 mb /usr 750mb /usr/local 400mb

Re: RH 5 not suitable as Server

1998-04-06 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Serge Pluess wrote: Then I decided to try out 5.0 and started from scratch, installing all the packages. Configured just the nameserver and let it go. After 2 days the nameserver was gone, just quit running. Rebooting, wait about 2 days and the same happened again. So I

Re: Locking up in X

1998-04-03 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 2 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I keep getting locked up in X! And if it doesn't lock up, it dumps me out without an error message! So far, I've changed video cards from an S3Trio64/V2DX to a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro, changed X servers from MetroX to XFree, and even swapped

Re: Firewalling performance

1998-04-03 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Fred Leeflang wrote: In the company I work for, we're considering setting up a Linux firewall. I do have some experience with it, know how to create firewall rules and such, but I've never been in the opportunity to see how well Linux holds up as a firewall under high

Re: How many disks?

1998-04-01 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On -1 xxx -1, Vidiot wrote: I remember reading that there are issues with having two different speed devices on the same EIDE channel - that the speed of the channel is that of the slowest device. In the above case, channel 0 The speed of command transmission is the speed of the slowest