RE: Sendmail vs MS Exchange Server + MS Outlook

1998-04-08 Thread Greg Thomas
I am just a newbie here on the RH list, so please excuse any bad manners of crashing into a conversation, but uh-h-h, could you be just a bit more detailed in what you mean when you say Outlook is 'feature poor', and what more Eudora has to offer as far as features. The one big thing

Re: RH 5 reboots without warning

1998-04-08 Thread David Fisher
Have you looked at QNX? I have not used it, but I've heard good things about it. replied. So, we lost interest. It's annoying to have to chase after a vendor and repeatedly ask him to sell to us. There was a good editorial to this effect in InfoWorld Actually, we may very well take

Re: Sendmail vs MS Exchange Server

1998-04-08 Thread Stephan Greene
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Steve Curry wrote: Ok we have some clients that want to put in an M$ Exchange server for internal company mail. The workstations are Win95 machines that are running Micro$oft Outlook as the client. I suggested a Linux box with sendmail over Exchange because it would be

Re: HTTP Proxy

1998-04-08 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Jeffrey Fearn wrote: NB. Just a note to clear up any questions about what I'm trying to do. We currently have an NT/95/Novell network with an NT box as the web/mail server. We require a firewall to protect our site (don't It is actually considered the better way to

Re: Sendmail Relay

1998-04-08 Thread Kelley L.
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I having trouble with relay on my redhat 5.0 machine. I have many virtual domains that I want to be able to receive email on it. I have added the domains in the following files: /etc/sendmail.cw /etc/mail/relay.allow /etc/mail/name.allow

Re: Sendmail Relay

1998-04-08 Thread Kelley L.
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, John Kennedy wrote: I'm having a similar problem. I host a couple of my own domains and some for clients on another fellows Redhat 5.0 (using Qmail) Web Server. I am able to pull my mail down using Netscape communicator but when I try to send mail using one of

Re: CPU's revisited

1998-04-08 Thread GateKeepeR News
Whoa there, a PPro is far superior to a PII.. I have compared them, PII is nothing. I would get the PPro ( I would have if I didn't need 95) B. On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Phil Risby wrote: |Hi everyone | |I know this is not redHat specific but I am thinking of upgrading. |I am trying to

re: CPUs revisited

1998-04-08 Thread GateKeepeR News
Ahh, but the PII is actually just a transitional piece, made to fill in the time between the P classic and the next chip. Not to mention it just sucks compared to all the hype about it. On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Larry Lade wrote: |At 09:16 a 04/08/98 +1000, you wrote: |I am trying to find out if the

Sendmail vs MS Exchange Server

1998-04-08 Thread David Masterson
"Steve" == Steve Curry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok we have some clients that want to put in an M$ Exchange server for internal company mail. The workstations are Win95 machines that are running Micro$oft Outlook as the client. I suggested a Linux box with sendmail over Exchange because it

RE: Apache web server and DNS

1998-04-08 Thread Hoe-Teck Wee
Hello. need to setup a nameserver. 1. Using redhat's netcfg tool, under the section of nameservers would I have to enter the ip of the primary nameserver only? Yupe, but as a norm, it is advisable to enter the ip of your secondary nameserver as well. Do key in your hostname too! All these

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: make menuconfig does funny (kernel 2.0.33)

1998-04-08 Thread Hoe-Teck Wee
hello. "#make menuconfig" has some trouble on my system due to the ncurses package i think. I actually do make xconfig instead in an xterm running in X. Hope that helps :) BTW, the kernel readme has lots of useful info on compiling the kernel. - hoeteck Make menuconfig seems to fail on

Re: Setting up DNS

1998-04-08 Thread Chuck Mead
On 7 Apr, Dan Hughes wrote: Hello, 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: logrotate chokes w/ long pathnames?

1998-04-08 Thread Dave Wreski
One bit that's interesting is that "logrotate -d /etc/logrotate.conf" finishes to completion while both "logrotate -v /etc/logrotate.conf" "logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf" segfault... Post a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and explain to him the problem. I'm sure logrotate isn't on the top 10

Re: Sendmail vs MS Exchange Server + MS Outlook

1998-04-08 Thread Dave Price
Steve, The server has to have pop3 support installed as well as sendmail. Configure outlook as a pop3 client. It works great except that outlook is a very 'thick' client - takes forever to load, and wastes a lot of ram if all you use it for is email - look at eudora pro or calypso as better

The mouse, the magic, the madness

1998-04-08 Thread Db
Ok guys...back onto this mouse lockup rubbish. Thanx to the poster about checkiing /var/lock /dev and assc. linkings. They were all fine btw. Just as a sure measure though, I removed and redid them. Gpm was something else I hadn't actually considered, but doing the suggested gpm -K before

Re: Sendmail vs MS Exchange Server

1998-04-08 Thread Patrick Scott Darden
Pros: cheaper, no per user license, more reliable, more secure Cons: exchange is a messaging server, not just email--you lose a lot of functionality unless you also employ a program like ICQ, plus perhaps a local news server, etc. -Sincerely, Patrick On Tue, 7 Apr

Re: HELP: ifconfig reports packet errors on ppp0... how do I debug?

1998-04-08 Thread Stefen Boyd
At 08:45 PM 4/6/98 -0700, John D. Hardin wrote: Kernels prior to 2.0.33 have problems when the MTU and MRU are not the same. First try making sure your MTU and MRU are the same. Then try the 2.0.33 kernel. I made sure my MTU and MRU are the same... I guess I need to go up to 2.0.33. My only

Re: Apache web server and DNS

1998-04-08 Thread Dave Wreski
need to setup a nameserver. 1. Using redhat's netcfg tool, under the section of nameservers would I have to enter the ip of the primary nameserver only? If you have a secondary nameserver, there's no reason you can't add it as well. 2. By pointing the computer to the correct DNS if I was

Apache web server and DNS

1998-04-08 Thread Dan Hughes
Hello all, I will need to install apache on a macine at my school. I have a few questions on DNS. There is already a DNS server at my school, I don't need to setup a nameserver. 1. Using redhat's netcfg tool, under the section of nameservers would I have to enter the ip of the primary

RAID and System Upgrades

1998-04-08 Thread Eze Ogwuma
Hi, 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 RH4.2 - 5.0 or 5.0-5.1. Does

rvplayer : file compression not supported

1998-04-08 Thread beaner
I just upgraded to rvplayer-5.0-2 and I am now getting this file compression not supported error #38. I get the same error under both netscape 3.0x and 4.0x. I did not have this problem with rvplayer-5.0b2-4, though I *did* constantly have to acknowledge that my license had expired ;) Any

OT: Pine and Netscape?

1998-04-08 Thread Jeff
Greetings. I have a couple of (hopefully) simple questions for someone here: How can I set up Communicator 4.04 to (1) check to see if Pine is running, and pass the address to it if so (or start Pine with the address otherwise), and (2) fill-in the MIME type field in the Preferences menu?

Re: Sendmail vs MS Exchange Server + MS Outlook

1998-04-08 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Steve Curry wrote: Standard E-Mail as in MS Office 97's Outlook. Has anyone used outlook with sendmail as the server before? If so where there any problems? Lots, because sendmail isn't the server that Outlook uses. You should be looking at the IMAP and/or POP3 servers

Re: Setting up DNS

1998-04-08 Thread Dan Cyr
Read the DNS-HOWTO it has all the info you need to know in it, except for the fact that if you are setting up a DNS Server that will be on the internet, and that it will be either a 'primary' or 'secondary' server, that you MUST tell the authority for your DOMAIN where it is and what it's named

dump-0.3-8 gets SIGSEGV: anyone else have this problem?

1998-04-08 Thread Stefen Boyd
I've been getting a segv with dump-0.3-8. I'm currently running redhat4.2 I'll be moving to a newer release soon, but wanted to backup everthing first! I'll use amanda with tar to try to work around this, but it sure seemed strange. stefen -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata

Kernel

1998-04-08 Thread Paul Fontenot
As a recent convert from FreeBSD 2.1.7, what do i need to grap from kernel.org to run a 2.1.93 kernel? -Paul (What a newbie question huh... Go ahead you can laugh. I don't mind) Freedom of Speech... just watch what you say. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

Re: BRU failing internal consistency checks?

1998-04-08 Thread Eze Ogwuma
Tom Moertel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know what's causing the following message from BRU under RH5? bru: [E134] internal error 100 - failed self consistency and portability checks If I enter "bru -h" on the command line, that's what I see. However, rpm -V BRU2000

Re: HTTP Proxy

1998-04-08 Thread Jeffrey Fearn
Thanks to all thoes who responded I have now down loaded squid, and am trying to configure it :) NB. Just a note to clear up any questions about what I'm trying to do. We currently have an NT/95/Novell network with an NT box as the web/mail server. We require a firewall to protect our site

ignore, email test.

1998-04-08 Thread Jay Daniels
TESTING Tue April 07, 1998 Last damn test -- maybe? Jay -- 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

Xterm

1998-04-08 Thread Joe_Ferguson
Anyone know of a command-line option for starting Xterm with large font, rather than having to control-right-click??? -- 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

Re: At boot, just get 'LI'

1998-04-08 Thread Kevin Mernick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- ... Went to boot for the first time, and instead of LILO, I get LI -- D-E-D dead. ... What should I do with the LBA settings? Lilo prints out one letter of its name as it finished a major step of booting your computer. When it prints 'LI' and stops,

BusLogic BT-958 and SyJet

1998-04-08 Thread Matthew Saltzman
Hey, y'all (as the vernacular would have it...)- I'm running 4.2 (kernel 2.0.32) on a P-166 with a BusLogic BT-598 SCSI controller, a 2.1G Quantum Atlas Wide SCSI drive at target 0, a Sony 4mm 2-4G DAT at target 4, and a SyJet at target 3. On occasion (possibly in response to a sequence of

Re: Apache web server and DNS

1998-04-08 Thread Dan Cyr
At 11:26 PM 4/7/98 -0400, Dan Hughes wrote: Hello all, I will need to install apache on a macine at my school. I have a few questions on DNS. There is already a DNS server at my school, I don't need to setup a nameserver. 1. Using redhat's netcfg tool, under the section of nameservers

logrotate chokes w/ long pathnames?

1998-04-08 Thread Jason Ingham
The following works fine when placed in /etc/logrotate.d/apache and "included" in /etc/logrotate.conf Works! ~~ ~~ /var/log/httpd/access.log { monthly rotate 3 olddir /var/log/httpd/archive postrotate

Re: SCSI card vs. Network Card

1998-04-08 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Steve Curry wrote: Ok I have a Linux box with a 3com 509 card installed, but when I install an Adaptec 2940UW into the box the 3com can no longer talk to the network. The 3c509 is an ISA card, is it not? This makes me think that there is something funky going on with your

Re: Sendmail vs MS Exchange Server

1998-04-08 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Larry Lade wrote: One concern I do have with a Linux-based email system is the relative inability to do scanning for virii, trojan horses, etc... on the server. Well, the server itself is going to be 100% immune to virus attacks about about 99.5% immune to trojan horses

Re: commands without confirmation

1998-04-08 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Jim Kannengieser wrote: Hi. I'm new to Linux, having just installed Red Hat 5.0 on my system last weekend, but I'm not new to Unix. I was surprised to find that many commands ask for confirmations, particularly rm. I took a look at the man, This is a Redhatism, and I

RE: Sendmail vs MS Exchange Server + MS Outlook

1998-04-08 Thread Chuck Mead
On 7 Apr, Greg Thomas wrote: I am just a newbie here on the RH list, so please excuse any bad manners of crashing into a conversation, but uh-h-h, could you be just a bit more detailed in what you mean when you say Outlook is 'feature poor', and what more Eudora has to offer as far as

Re: CPU's revisited

1998-04-08 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Phil Risby wrote: I am trying to find out if the Pentium ll series wuld be a better bet to say a Pentium Pro 200 The only advantages to the Pentium II is the megahertz speed and the MMX. Since Linux doesn't use the MMX (in fact practically nobody uses the MMX due to

Re: X - Multiple screens on Linux system

1998-04-08 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Graham Hemmings wrote: I'm surprised that XFree doesn't support multiple screens, as there are It does. You simply run a second copy of XFree on the second screen. As far as I know there is no way to make a single XFree session handle two screens, however. (I might be

Boca 56k PNP modem

1998-04-08 Thread Stuart Christian
I know this has probablem been discussed to death, but can someone tell me how to get a Boca 56k PNP modem to work? I've read some posts about isapnptools but I was hoping there was an easier way to solve this. I have the Plug and Play OS flag on in the BIOS. Thanks.. -Stuart -- PLEASE

Re: Kernel

1998-04-08 Thread Pat Hennessy
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Paul Fontenot wrote: As a recent convert from FreeBSD 2.1.7, what do i need to grap from kernel.org to run a 2.1.93 kernel? ftp ftp.kernel.org cd /pub/linux/kernel/v2.1 get linux-2.1.93.tar.gz bye cd /usr/src rm linux (this should remove the symbolic link) tar -zxvf

rhbackup and restoring

1998-04-08 Thread Troy D. Taylor
Thanks all of you who replyed. I got it working. It now restores the files. One more problem. After it restores the files it appears to continue searching through the tape. It will say: [root@primary /]# tar -xvf /dev/nst0 backup/04_01_98 Date: Tue Apr 7 03:00:11 MDT 1998 *** Volume:

Re: At boot, just get 'LI'

1998-04-08 Thread Pat Hennessy
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Kevin Mernick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- ... Went to boot for the first time, and instead of LILO, I get LI -- D-E-D dead. ... What should I do with the LBA settings? Lilo prints out one letter of its name as it finished a major step of

Setting up DNS

1998-04-08 Thread Dan Hughes
Hello, 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 anyone knew: 1. What packages are

Re: Kernel

1998-04-08 Thread Derek Balling
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Pat Hennessy wrote: cd /usr/src rm linux (this should remove the symbolic link) I would insert here: mkdir linux-2.1.93 ln -s linux-2.1.93 linux tar -zxvf /path/to/linux-2.1.93.tar.gz cd linux cd Documentation there is a changes file or maybe its in the readme,

Re: Sendmail vs MS Exchange Server

1998-04-08 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Patrick Scott Darden wrote: Cons: exchange is a messaging server, not just email--you lose a lot of functionality unless you also employ a program like ICQ, plus perhaps a local news server, etc. Well, the best thing about Unix is that you don't have

RE: Sendmail vs MS Exchange Server + MS Outlook

1998-04-08 Thread StarrDust
I am just a newbie here on the RH list, so please excuse any bad manners of crashing into a conversation, but uh-h-h, could you be just a bit more detailed in what you mean when you say Outlook is 'feature poor', and what more Eudora has to offer as far as features. Thanks for your time,

Re: diald any gurus?

1998-04-08 Thread Ed Jaeger
FWIW my diald/ppp setup was dialing out every two hours and I couldn't figure out why. Since it wasn't causing any problems I just left things alone. I then "upgraded" to bind8 and it began dialing out every 10 minutes, so it may have something to do with DNS lookups. (Our masq box is also a

Re: Kernel

1998-04-08 Thread Dan Cyr
At 12:54 AM 4/8/98 -0500, Derek Balling wrote: On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Pat Hennessy wrote: cd /usr/src rm linux (this should remove the symbolic link) I would insert here: mkdir linux-2.1.93 ln -s linux-2.1.93 linux I'd rather do this: mv linux linux-2.1.93 ln -s linux-2.1.93 linux But,

Re: At boot, just get 'LI'

1998-04-08 Thread slugg
Dave Price wrote: Change the LBA settings for your boot device in the bios ... dave OK, yeah I should have mentioned more (what an idiot I am...) I had originally had the drive set for LBA, but I had major problems during the file system stage of install. Even Win95 had problems. So, I

sane inode number for quota?

1998-04-08 Thread Jason Ingham
What's a "ggod" number to use for inode quota on say, 10MB disk space. Thanks! ~Jason -- 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: Sendmail vs MS Exchange Server + MS Outlook

1998-04-08 Thread Steve Curry
Standard E-Mail as in MS Office 97's Outlook. Has anyone used outlook with sendmail as the server before? If so where there any problems? If you are just going to be using standard e-mail then as per the above there is absolutely no reason to use Exchange. You can set up Linux and Sendmail

SUP

1998-04-08 Thread Paul Fontenot
When In the FreeBSD world we had a tool called sup. every night i ran it via cron (SUP would go out to freebsd.org and grab all updated packages for you) and every friday night i would make world, via cron. Now granted this took place at my previous employer's who had 3 T3's, so d/l time was not

Re: SCSI card vs. Network Card

1998-04-08 Thread Larry Lade
If you haven't already tried it; - Boot up on a DOS diskette - Run the 3c5x9cfg.exe util and - Set the IRQ and I/O values to something that doesn't interfere with the resources used by the 2940. It strikes me as a little strange that the NIC would have a conflict with the SCSI card. The Adaptec

Re: sane inode number for quota?

1998-04-08 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Jason Ingham wrote: What's a "ggod" number to use for inode quota on say, 10MB disk space. Couple thousand, I suppose. Inodes are just so abundant that the quota is really just a check on runaway usage, not really needed because of a general lack of resources. --

Re: Sendmail vs MS Exchange Server

1998-04-08 Thread Larry Lade
Scalability: If your server workload on Sendmail is running too high, you can mirror the box over to another machine and load-balance your email simply by adding an MX record of equal priority. Heh, I saw an Oracle ad today boasting about how their mail server could outpreform something like a

Re: RAID and System Upgrades

1998-04-08 Thread William T Wilson
On 8 Apr 1998, Eze Ogwuma wrote: partition. What I would like to know is what happens when a system upgrade is done e.g. from RH4.2 - 5.0 or 5.0-5.1. Everything breaks. The best way to upgrade between major versions of Red Hat is by reinstalling. Does anyone have any experience upgrading

re: CPUs revisited

1998-04-08 Thread Larry Lade
At 09:16 a 04/08/98 +1000, you wrote: I am trying to find out if the Pentium ll series wuld be a better bet to say a Pentium Pro 20 Correct me here if wrong, but hasn't the devel of the PentiumII been slated as discontinued by intel?? Certainly not. The Pentium Pro, not the Pentium II, has been

BRU failing internal consistency checks?

1998-04-08 Thread Tom Moertel
Does anyone know what's causing the following message from BRU under RH5? bru: [E134] internal error 100 - failed self consistency and portability checks If I enter "bru -h" on the command line, that's what I see. However, rpm -V BRU2000 returns no results, indicating that my bru

Re: Sendmail vs MS Exchange Server + MS Outlook

1998-04-08 Thread Greg Thomas
As painful as using Outlook 97 is for e-mail it worked for me. I was just using Outlook for my calendar and contacts so I figured I'd try it as an e-mail client. I didn't use it long because it was very feature poor. With the Outlook internet mail connectors I believe it's your basic, poorly

Re: At boot, just get 'LI'

1998-04-08 Thread Phil Risby
Been a whiel sinbce I had these errors It is I think a problem at the second stage of the boot loader, meaning Lilo was able to find the second stage boot loader but failed to execute it most likely because of a geometry mismatch of the hard disk. What you need to do is to edit your lilo.conf

Re: Sendmail vs MS Exchange Server

1998-04-08 Thread Larry Lade
One concern I do have with a Linux-based email system is the relative inability to do scanning for virii, trojan horses, etc... on the server. While server-based scanning is not a replacement for protection at the desktop, many companies now insist on it at the mail server as well. While there

Re: At boot, just get 'LI'

1998-04-08 Thread Dave Price
Change the LBA settings for your boot device in the bios ... dave On Tue, 7 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I just installed RH4.2 onto a PC, install went fine. Went to boot, and all it says is 'LI' and that's all she wrote. I'm pretty sure this issue floated past here

Re: CPUs revisited

1998-04-08 Thread Jack Hatfield
The Intel Pentium II 400 Mhz is already out. We sell them in our newest multimedia monster. Now my experience has been to get a regular Socket 7 flat pentium and blow out at 233 Mhz with 256MB RAM. Linix screams on these demons. I also have not had many problems on an old Cyrix 200L (not M2).

Re: SUP

1998-04-08 Thread Dave Wreski
When In the FreeBSD world we had a tool called sup. every night i ran it via cron (SUP would go out to freebsd.org and grab all updated packages for you) and every friday night i would make world, via cron. Now granted this took place at my previous employer's who had 3 T3's, so d/l time was

Clarify? Re: Sendmail vs MS Exchange Server

1998-04-08 Thread Dave Price
On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Derek Balling wrote: ..snip.. Scalability: If your server workload on Sendmail is running too high, you can mirror the box over to another machine and load-balance your email simply by adding an MX record of equal priority. Derek - how is this implemented in a pop3

Re: Setting up DNS

1998-04-08 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 23:36 4/7/98 -0400, Dan Hughes wrote: I was also wondering how to set up DNS under redhat. Have you read the DNS-HOWTO? Tony PGP Key: 0x78CD4329 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.5.3i Comment: What is PGP

Default 16bpp

1998-04-08 Thread Pork E. Pigg
I want to set up graphic login (init 5) and am having a problem. I can get it to work but, the login defaults to 8bpp and I want 16. I've looked thru 4 books, not counting Doctor Linux, trying to find info. I've scanned info in the man pages and docs in the X11 dir. I've rerun Xconfigurator and

newbie question - no space left on device

1998-04-08 Thread Daniel Goldin
Running redhat4.2. I keep getting the error message "no space left on device" when writing to /etc. Help anyone? -- 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

Re: newbie question - no space left on device

1998-04-08 Thread Pork E. Pigg
Daniel Goldin wrote: Running redhat4.2. I keep getting the error message "no space left on device" when writing to /etc. Help anyone? Is /etc on its own drive? What does df tell you? Possibly you have too much installed? How big is the drive/partition? How much is installed?

Re: newbie question - no space left on device

1998-04-08 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Daniel Goldin wrote: I keep getting the error message "no space left on device" when writing to /etc. The answer is simple... your disk is full. :) Erase some files. :) Use the 'df' command to check your free space on the various partitions. (it's normal for free space +

Re: newbie question - no space left on device

1998-04-08 Thread Bill Nottingham
William T Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Under Red Hat, the /var directory tends to pile up with useless cruft. The 'logrotate' program keeps it organized, but never erases anything. Since /var and /etc are both typically on the / partition, if it is small, the giant log files can fill

RE: Mutitude of questions (Part 2)

1998-04-08 Thread Tim Larkins \(EUKSHEL1PO\)
On 07 April 1998 22:15, Chris Fishwick[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: [PT] It probably is a Joliet filesystem (which is Microsoft's extensions to ISO9660). So you will need to check your kernel for Joliet support. If not, then

Re: Apache web server and DNS

1998-04-08 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 21:06 4/7/98 -0700, Dan Cyr wrote: By default, if there is a user, his account will have HTML access at ~username IF he makes a directory off his home directory called public_html and put his index.html file in there. ...and his home directory and

RE: Boca 56k PNP modem

1998-04-08 Thread Tim Larkins \(EUKSHEL1PO\)
On 08 April 1998 6:29, Stuart Christian[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I know this has probablem been discussed to death, but can someone tell me how to get a Boca 56k PNP modem to work? I've read some posts about isapnptools but I was hoping there was an

Shadow Doc's? proftpd help?

1998-04-08 Thread Jason Ingham
Is there anything newer than the Shadow Howto (Dated April '96) on this? Is it just a matter of "pwconv" -ing the old [/etc/passwd] file and then fixing anything that breaks. I know I'll have to recompile portslave, anyone know what's required for proftpd? Anything else? While I'm at it, what

reinstallation of windows

1998-04-08 Thread ptleung
Hi. Due to a disaster, my window95 cannot run properly. Some error message MSGSRV32 caused a general protection fault in module CSPMAN.DLL at 0001:13a1. Registers: EAX=0003 CS=2177 EIP=13a1 EFLGS=0246 EBX=17770003 SS=0e7f ESP=2bb6 EBP=803d2bca ECX=0e7f

POP3 service doesn't work

1998-04-08 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I'm using RH5 with no settings in hosts.allow or hosts.deny (I need to get it working first). I can telnet or FTP into the machine, and the machine receives/sends mail via SMTP. But if I try to connect with a POP3 client on a Win95 box, the connection appears

RE: Sendmail vs MS Exchange Server + MS Outlook

1998-04-08 Thread StarrDust
Thats ok, thanks anyway. I was just curious why you thought Outlook was feature poor. I just installed an Exchange5.5 server and Outlook98 for 150 user LAN, and frankly, i was kinda wishing outlook didnt have so da*n many features to have to mess with. StarrDust -- From: Greg

How to do this automatically....?

1998-04-08 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
Hi all, I just want some things to happen automatically, when I login as a userbut have no idea how to do it..? Currently I lig in as a user, then I have to open an Eterm, then I make a xhost +localhost then su and then as su I start ezppp. So can someone suggest what to do, that ezppp

Re: reinstallation of windows

1998-04-08 Thread Jim Slick
Yes you'r right windows will overwrite your MBR, but just install Windows, boot linux from a floppy and run lilo witch will write your earlier MBR to the bootsector. Regards Gordon Hi. Due to a disaster, my window95 cannot run properly. appears. So I decide to reinstall window 95.

Re: Sendmail vs MS Exchange Server

1998-04-08 Thread James Youngman
"Pat" == Pat Hennessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pat I'm willing to bet money that you could use nfs to mirror your Pat mail directory (/var/spool/mail and their home directories if Pat you have people wanting to telnet in and use pine or something) Mail delivery to NFS-mounted volumes is

Re: Default 16bpp

1998-04-08 Thread Seif Zadeh Hossein
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Pork E. Pigg wrote: I want to set up graphic login (init 5) and am having a problem. I can get it to work but, the login defaults to 8bpp and I want 16. I've looked thru 4 books, not counting Doctor Linux, trying to find info. I've scanned info in the man pages and docs

Re: Sendmail vs MS Exchange Server

1998-04-08 Thread James Youngman
"Stephan" == Stephan Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stephan - Works with *any* pop (or imap if used) client versus Stephan proprietary clients for Exchange. Including free versions Stephan of Eudora, Netscape, and Pegasus. Exchange will work with any POP3 client; I use fetchmail with

Re: Xterm

1998-04-08 Thread Jeff Ivany
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know of a command-line option for starting Xterm with large font, rather than having to control-right-click??? Try -font large or -size large from the command line. Can't remember of the top of my head. All of the xterm flags are in the man page for future

pound sign problems

1998-04-08 Thread Sharpes International
I'm having difficulty in entering / displaying the British pound symbol. I either get a beep or a cross hatch depending on the terminal type when I enter the pound sign. The system was set up with a UK keyboard specified. Help please. Justin. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and

Re: Of men mice (tad off topic)

1998-04-08 Thread Patrick T. Berry
I would like to see your list, DB, as (Computers Gadgets, Inc.)is selling IDE Linux boxes for less than $800 (+ tax) in Florida with monitor, modem, sound, etc. and Linux on system. Sorta like bundled Windoze, but Linux instead. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Db wrote: returned to normal. (hahaha) It was

386 w/ 4MB Ram, can do?

1998-04-08 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At my school I am trying to get them to start a c++ class. The only thing standing in our way is that they think the class would need pentiums, w/ at least 32mb of ram (to run ms c++ or whatever). All they have right now in this classroom are a bunch

Re: 386 w/ 4MB Ram, can do?

1998-04-08 Thread Bruce A. Locke
Chris Frost wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At my school I am trying to get them to start a c++ class. The only thing standing in our way is that they think the class would need pentiums, w/ at least 32mb of ram (to run ms c++ or whatever). All they have right now

Re: Sendmail vs MS Exchange Server

1998-04-08 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 12:29 4/8/98 +0100, James Youngman wrote: You missed one; where you need a centrally-maintained address book for use by remote users. I conquered that using a set of restricted access Web pages. With newer mail clients, LDAP would also work. Maintenance of

burn my own cd

1998-04-08 Thread Jim Slick
I just downloaded Red Hat 5.0 and I wonder how to set up the three structure to look like a original Red Hat cd ? I burned a cd recently but when i booted up, the installation program didn't recognize my cd as a Red Hat and halted. Best regards Gordon

Re: Default 16bpp

1998-04-08 Thread Bernard Cena
Good question :) Solution: man XF86Config and look under the Screen section for a little happy option called DefaultColorDepth :) Here's my extract from my XF86Config: Section "Screen" Driver "accel" Device "S3 864" Monitor "OPTIQUEST 4000DC" DefaultColorDepth 16 SubSection "Display"

re: of men mice

1998-04-08 Thread Db
I would like to see your list, DB, as (Computers Gadgets, Inc.)is selling IDE Linux boxes for less than $800 (+ tax) in Florida with monitor, modem, sound, etc. and Linux on system. Sorta like bundled Windoze, but Linux instead. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eh? Which list of mine are you talking about?

Re: of men mice

1998-04-08 Thread Patrick T. Berry
Dear Db: We in the USA have been there, done that, but did not notice our Consumer Affairs "Police" doing much beyond confiscating outright counterfeit equipment and software. We tend to vote with our feet here. Word of mouth kills the bad guys quick! I was referring to the list of what

RE: Virtual Web Addresses

1998-04-08 Thread David . LANDGREN
I want to offer my web customers the ability to point their domains to their web pages on my server. They currently access their pages using the standard http://my.domain.com/~username format. I want them to keep this format for their address, but, also be able to point

Advansys ABP940UW ?

1998-04-08 Thread Jay Vassos-Libove
I see that Advansys (http://www.advansys.com/linux.htm) claims full support for all of its products under Linux, and their ABP940UW (PCI bus, fast/ultra, wide, single ended) SCSI controller is certainly priced well (I found it at $127 from www.necx.com). Is anyone using an ABP940UW under RedHat

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