Re: PLZ HELP NOW! var/log/wtmp is growing HUGE

1998-06-22 Thread dkc
Hey, You might want to do a: strings wtmp to see what's going on here that's causing the logfile to grow so fast. To get rid of the logfile, try: cp /dev/null wtmp as root. If you want to keep the old logfile copy it somewhere else first. Good luck! Deke On Mon, 22 Jun

Re: PS/2 mouse jitter

1998-05-11 Thread dkc
Hi, You _did_ check that you selected the correct mouse type in XF86Config? Under redhat, look at /etc/X11/XF86Config in the "Pointer" section. This sounds like you're using an MS mouse with the Mouse Systems' or some other driver selected in X. Deke On Sun, 10 May 1998, bob jones wrote:

Re: Shell scripting help.

1998-05-05 Thread dkc
Hey, Try this: ---cut here #!/bin/sh echo "hello\c" echo "\t\c" echo "there" echo "\n" ---cut here The \t echoes a tab character; the \c supresses the newline that would otherwise be added. Hope that helps...

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: Exporting a tape drive

1998-04-24 Thread dkc
Hi, You can do this, at least with floppy tapes. The trick is to have a .rhosts file on the machine with the tape drives specifying the name(s) of the machines you want to back up. Then you just access the tape drive with: tar cvlf machine_with_tape_drive:/dev/rft0 (or whatever). Good

Re: XWindows Display Size

1998-04-17 Thread dkc
Hi, If I understand your question correctly, this is what you want to do: In the "Screen" section, put the modes in the order you want them to come up in; for example, this will cause 1024x768 to be the default, with the other two available by C-M-+: Modes "1024x768" "800x600"

Re: XWindows Display Size

1998-04-17 Thread dkc
Oops, make changes in /etc/X11/XF86Config under redhat - other versions of linux put the file in different places but I've never seen it named anything else. Deke On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If I understand your question correctly,

Re: XWindows Video

1998-04-16 Thread dkc
Look in /etc/X11/XF86Config and find the Virtual item in the Screen section and comment that out or set it equal to the largest resolution that you're using. good luck! Deke On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Karl Miller wrote: I'm sure one of my fellow Linux users knows this off the top of his head,

Re: Windows deleted my Lilo

1998-04-16 Thread dkc
Hey, Boot linux from the install diskette and choose rescue mode. Mount your hard drive ("mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt" or whatever) and do "lilo -r /mnt". This should reinstall lilo according to lilo.conf. The -r switch has to correspond to wherever you mounted the drive you want lilo installed

Re: I broke Xwindows (but the fix might be simple?)

1998-04-15 Thread dkc
Hi, Check the permissions on /tmp - usually if something will work for root but nobody else it's a permission problem. /tmp should look like this: drwxrwxrwt 5 root root 2048 Apr 15 01:02 /tmp Good Luck! Deke On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Michael Jinks wrote: I'm not sure what I did;

Re: Memory utilization and swap on RH 5.0

1998-04-09 Thread dkc
Hi, Put this at end of /etc/lilo.conf: append="mem=64M" and run lilo as root. Should fix your problem. Good Luck! On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Eugene Dale Tyler wrote: Hello, We have recently installed RH5.0 from the Power Tools set on a system. The system also runs OS/2 and NT (rarely).

Re: Advansys ABP940UW ?

1998-04-09 Thread dkc
Hello, Yes I am using an ABP940UW. The drivers for this latest card have not been integrated into the kernel source tree yet, so you will need to get the boot image from the Advansys website to be able to boot the machine and have this card recognized. Also, there is a new advansys.c file to

RE: RH 5 reboots without warning

1998-04-06 Thread dkc
[PT] I *do* know about having problems with Compaq. In my case it was a DeskPro 6150 (Pentium Pro 150) system with a built-in AMD SCSI chip. The only Linux distribution that would install on the box was Slackware 3.4 since it used a regular non-modular

Re: Random Password Generation script

1998-03-26 Thread dkc
# random password generator # dkc 4/97 print "Enter length of password: "; chomp ($length = STDIN); print "Enter number of passwords: "; chomp ($count = STDIN); # set random number seed srand( time() ^ ($$ + ($$ 15)) ); # All lowercase, uppercase, and numeric except zero (