Re: diald+masq ?

1998-06-15 Thread Dan Cyr
grin Ok, cd /etc/sysconfig edit the network file and comment out both gateway entries. Then type this; /etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start ok, so you know that ttyS1 is com2 right? And you changed the connect script that you copied from /usr/doc/diald* to /etc/ppp to

Re: can't cut and past text in AfterStep

1998-06-15 Thread David Mihm
On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Steve Smith wrote: I installed RH5.1, using XFreeSVGA server with Matrox Millenium (4MB). I can't cut and paste text using the mouse, it seems there is nothing mapped to 3rd mouse button (I chose 3 button emulation in XF86Setup). Did I do something wrong or is this the

XFree-3.3.2 upgrade RH42 broke GLINT.

1998-06-15 Thread Javier Hernandez
Hi, I recently send a message to the list asking for help because I was not able to open glint anymore. I have found that the reason is the recent upgrade to XFree86-3.3.2 in my Red Hat 4.2 system. I can not open glint neither at my notebook. I did opened it with XFree86-3.3.1 which was the

Re: MIME as msg: was 5.1 Security Hole

1998-06-15 Thread Robert W. Canary
Hi, Shawn McMahon wrote: -Original Message- From: KHOO Guan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, June 13, 1998 11:13 PM Subject: MIME as msg: was 5.1 Security Hole Yeah, I also wonder why people insist on using M$ in a list with so many

Apache and CGI config problem

1998-06-15 Thread Richard Carter Jr
In a nutshell, I just can't seem to get CGI/perl scripts to run from the Apache server on an intranet. I've tried just about every combination of settings in the various files in /etc/httpd/conf except the one(s) that work. The test script is very simple: #!/usr/bin/perl print "Content-type:

RE: NE2000 network card

1998-06-15 Thread niels
If it's a NE2000 PCI clone do the following command for indenfication of your network card. "cat /proc/pci | more" . Look for networkcard or NE2000 Compatible It will give you your card's configuration. Remember it, you will need it. Than use the network configuration program in X Window or

ext2 fs

1998-06-15 Thread Iztok Polanic
Hello !!! I got this error on a console: EXT2-fs warning (device 16:02): ext2_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 140730 What does it mean??? Bye. xx // xx xx

Re: smp (pre-steps)

1998-06-15 Thread altex
I've decided to make one of my boxes an smp machine, and was wondering what thing I need to do before I go smp. I know I need to uncomment the setserial line in rc.local, and of course recompile, but what else do I need to do (it a p5 box fwiw). uncomment SMP=1 from /usr/src/linux/Makefile I

mwm behavior and pppd

1998-06-15 Thread altex
Motif 2.0.1 on rh 5.0 before firing pppd I had cool menus and I could change focus by clicking the window body. after, all menus dissapear (so the only mwm exit is ctrl+alt+backspace) plus I can only change the window focus by clicking the titlebar why ? how can I fix that ? TIA Claudiu

S3 Virge-GX/2 and X

1998-06-15 Thread Jon Biddell
Has anyone tried one of these (It's in a MediaCampV card)... Jon -- 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: NIC Not Recognized After Kernel RPM Upgrade

1998-06-15 Thread Dan Cornilescu
Steve Ki-Won Lee wrote: After I had upgraded my kernel to 2.0.34 using rpm, upon reboot (but was not able to compile the new kernel-see my previous post please) my NIC is not being recognized. There isn't that mention of Mr. Becker at nasa and of my card, "3Comboomerang...etc, etc..".

Re: Could this script be speeded up a bit?

1998-06-15 Thread James Youngman
"n" == nimennor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: n Hi, nI have the following code repeated for about 100 ndirectories, and in each directory there are about n200 files: n cd /directory n for file in * n do n if [ -f $file ] ; then n echo -e "From -

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-15 Thread James Youngman
"smm" == Shawn McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: smm Microsoft Outlook Express, and most other email programs that smm allow HTML formatting, put the plain-ASCII text in the main smm body, and attach the HTML-formatted version as a MIME smm attachment. Indeed. However, this more than

Re: exmh xauth ?

1998-06-15 Thread Rick knebel
At 01:43 PM 6/15/98 +0300, you wrote: when I start exmh it keeps sending a error message : BgRegister X server insecure (must use xauth-style authorisation); command You can go throughthe preferences menu and turn off seperate backround processes and this will get rid otf this message. Also if

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

1998-06-15 Thread Jon Biddell
I will be speaking to Micro$hit Australia tomorrow (16th - to their Legal Department) - I'll send them the text of the "research" and see what they are willing to officially or unofficially say... I know a WinDoze magazine or two that will (a) be interested and (b) give Lunix a fair hearing...

Re: Getting a 'Memory Exhasted' Error running who...

1998-06-15 Thread Chris Humphres
I've seen the same thing for months now. I have discovered it can be fixed by removing utmp and restarting syslog without shutting the machine down. It would appear that utmp is not being rotated safely as this always seems to occur after a log rotation. Chris On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Brian

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-15 Thread Chris Humphres
If I remember correctly, the email in question only contained the html. I deleted it and yes I use pine. When you've got hundreds of emails to go through, you don't have the time to save to a tmpfile and browse with netscape or scan with a text editor. I agree with the others, if you want

Re: Swap Problems

1998-06-15 Thread Matt Housh
Yes, since it hangs at the unmounting every time... --- Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MicroComputer SpecialistUniversity of Tulsa Engineering and Natural

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

1998-06-15 Thread Chris Humphres
My company recently purchased a Dell PowerEdge 2300 server WITHOUT an OS. No problems from Dell and yes we are running Linux on it.:-) Chris On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Dale Leonard wrote: List members, This link was listed on the Mac OS Rumours site on Thursday.

Re: Missing modules- net-pf-4/5

1998-06-15 Thread Matt Housh
net-pf-4 refers to IPX, net-pf-5 refers to appletalk. You might check out /usr/src/linux/Documentation/modules.txt :) --- Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MicroComputer Specialist

BRU in 5.1

1998-06-15 Thread Greg Fall
Two easy questions re upgrading to 5.1. Is there a newer version of BRU in RH 5.1, v. the version in 5.0 (15.0P-2) ? The one I have running on 5.0 works okay, but it totally screwed up all the file permissions when I actually used it to restore some things. Not that this is a bona-fide bug

connecting linux to NT via parallel ports ?

1998-06-15 Thread Abdelmajid Bouazza
Hello, Does anyone know how to import files from a desktop (under Win/NT) to a laptop (under linux RedHat 5.0) via parallel port (laplink cable) thank's in advance -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata

Help with weird behavior when tarring to tape

1998-06-15 Thread Gary Nielson
This morning, as is my usual drill, I ran a script to backup many of my directories to tape. It's tar cvf /dev/rst0 /home. Works great every time. This morning, however, I ran this command and nothing happened, the tape drive didn't do anything to indicate it had received the command and I got

XFree86-3.3.2-14.i386.rpm from Errata ?

1998-06-15 Thread Wanderlei Antonio Cavassin
Hello, In the Errata: http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/rh51-errata-general.html#XFree86 there's mention to XFree86-3.3.2-14.i386.rpm, but on the RH ftp site I can see only rpms release 13... It's a mistake of Errata or ftp site? Wanderlei Antonio Cavassin Conectiva - Brazil

Re: Apache and CGI config problem

1998-06-15 Thread George Toft
In a nutshell, I just can't seem to get CGI/perl scripts to run from the Apache server on an intranet. I've tried just about every combination of settings in the various files in /etc/httpd/conf except the one(s) that work. The test script is very simple: #!/usr/bin/perl print

Error running Majordomo on Redhat

1998-06-15 Thread Michael Hatchard
Can anyone help me fix this. I can su to any account and run the test program which functions fine, with no errors. But I can't get it to function properly. Error reply from email. The original message was received at Tue, 16 Jun 1998 01:32:47 +0930 from q.northside.net.au [203.38.164.218]

Re: Linux and the AS/400

1998-06-15 Thread David Wollmann
At 10:00 AM 6/15/98 -0400, you wrote: Does anyone know of any projects to create a 5250 emulator on a Linux system? I am still stuck with having to use Win 95 on one of my desktops at work because I need several sign-on screens to our AS/400 system. Seems to me I just read something about a

RHL5 and Postgres 6.2.1

1998-06-15 Thread gary steve shelton
greetings: i've been so far unsuccessful in my attempts at accessing PostgreSQL from remote machines, UNIX or Win32 (using ODBC for Win32). I guess it takes a bit more than editing the pg_hba.conf file, eh? at one time, long ago and on another RHL5 box, I had it working; unfortunately, i

Re: no shadow !?

1998-06-15 Thread Alex de Joode
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: : Hi, all! : I wonder when I verify that there's no shadow file : in my /etc directory. I am using RH 5.0. : Maybe is necessary install the shadow ? : Is the default no installing it ? : May someone tell me what can I do to get the shadow : working in

Re: Linux and the AS/400

1998-06-15 Thread Alan E. Derhaag
Does anyone know of any projects to create a 5250 emulator on a Linux system? I am still stuck with having to use Win 95 on one of my desktops at work because I need several sign-on screens to our AS/400 system. Try x3270.. it doesn't emulate a 5250 but 3270s are usually good enough to do

Alternative to mc.

1998-06-15 Thread Sim Robert
I am just asking this question. Is there any alternative to mc that is better or provides more functions?. Thanks. -- 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: Help with weird behavior when tarring to tape

1998-06-15 Thread Gary Nielson
I just posted a message to the redhat group but failed to include the actual error message: tar: Cannot open /dev/rst0: Operation not supported by devide tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now This goes to explain more the message below: This morning, as is my usual drill, I ran a script

Booting 2.1.106 -- CRC Errors!!

1998-06-15 Thread Jake Colman
I built and installed from sources Linux 2.1.06 and all seemed well. When I try to actually boot the kernel, it craps out while uncompressing kernel with the 'crc error -- system halted". I deleted the kernel, did a fresh make (totally from scratch) and the exact same thing happened. Any

Re: burning redhat cd

1998-06-15 Thread Graham Hemmings
First, let me assure you that appending .tar to a required directory name does work at redhat (and most other FTP sites I suspect), I have just downloaded RH5.1 using this method. Second, the full procedure I (successfully) use to burn a working, bootable RH CD has been posted to this list - See

Re: wheel group

1998-06-15 Thread William T Wilson
On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Steve Frampton wrote: The various BSD' have a 'wheel group' with users allowed to 'su' into root, is there such a scheme for Linux (RH5.1) ? There is no such wheel group by default in Red Hat. The wheel group exists but doesn't have this effect for su. But you can

RE: Anti-trust

1998-06-15 Thread Dale Leonard
Beth Gemeny, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how a formal, FTC evidence-worthy version of this survey could be done? This is very alarming, I knew it was bad out there, but if this is a true indication of the grip of M$ on the O/S market, there really is no market at all, let alone

help on Apache and php installation

1998-06-15 Thread Rishi Gangoly
I wanted to install apache with php. I downloaded this from the Internet. and got this error. I could not find any rpm with libpq. - root@woi-gw:/misc/updates# rpm -ih apache_php-1.2.6-4.i386.rpm failed dependencies:

Advice Requested: Apache RPM's and PHP

1998-06-15 Thread Gene Wilburn
If I want to run Apache with the PHP module on RH50, am I better off working with the Apache RPM's or compiling Apache from a tarball? I'm thinking medium- to long-term. Nothing against RPM's -- I generally love 'em -- but for some programs that have possible add-in's, like Apache, I wonder if

Re: upgrading and configuration files

1998-06-15 Thread Clemens Adler
Well, upgrading the kernel is no pain, just get an kernel rpm. I belive that's all. about the rest of your question upgrading the system I'd be interested also. cheers, Clemens - Clemens Adler e-mail:

Large password file problem

1998-06-15 Thread Aaron Holtz
Folks: I'm having a problem with logins on a 4.2 (and 5.1 test) machine that have large password files. The password file is about 50,000 lines long. People near the top of the file get logged in very quickly, while those at the bottom can take up to 10 seconds to get in (those who

Re: RHL5 and Postgres 6.2.1

1998-06-15 Thread Derek Balling
At 09:54 AM 6/15/98 -0700, gary steve shelton wrote: i've been so far unsuccessful in my attempts at accessing PostgreSQL from remote machines, UNIX or Win32 (using ODBC for Win32). I guess it takes a bit more than editing the pg_hba.conf file, eh? at one time, long ago and on another RHL5 box,

help running mirror over proxy

1998-06-15 Thread Brad Wyman
i need a hand setting up mirror to connect over an ftp proxy. the proxy answers and wantes the responce to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] and i can tell if mirror is donig this or not. --- Brad Wyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE

snmpd, I don't want it!

1998-06-15 Thread Mauricio Teixeira
Hi! How do I disable the snmpd daemon to run, but without uninstaling it? __ Mauricio Teixeira - Amazonline Internet Provider - Belem/PA/Brazil [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mauricioteixeira.eti.br

video card incompatibility

1998-06-15 Thread Eric Cifreo
Just upgraded myself to 5.1, and having fun with it. Turned a programmer friend of mine on to Redhat. He took 5.1 home for the weekend and came back frustrated, saying his video card is unsupported. He needs an Xconfig file for a Diamond Stealth II 3D-2000 Pro. Anybody got support for this

Re: snmpd, I don't want it!

1998-06-15 Thread Elliot Lee
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Mauricio Teixeira wrote: How do I disable the snmpd daemon to run, but without uninstaling it? Run 'ntsysv' as root, clear the check box, and select the OK button. -- Elliot When I die, I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather... ...not

Re: snmpd, I don't want it!

1998-06-15 Thread Mauricio Teixeira
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Elliot Lee wrote: How do I disable the snmpd daemon to run, but without uninstaling it? Run 'ntsysv' as root, clear the check box, and select the OK button. uh?? what is 'ntsysv'??? __

Re: video card incompatibility

1998-06-15 Thread George Henry C. Daswani
Just upgraded myself to 5.1, and having fun with it. Turned a programmer friend of mine on to Redhat. He took 5.1 home for the weekend and came back frustrated, saying his video card is unsupported. He needs an Xconfig file for a Diamond Stealth II 3D-2000 Pro. Anybody got support for

RE: Advice Requested: Apache RPM's and PHP

1998-06-15 Thread Paul Pettit
From: Gene Wilburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 15, 1998 12:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Advice Requested: Apache RPM's and PHP If I want to run Apache with the PHP module on RH50, am I better off working with the Apache RPM's or compiling Apache from a tarball?

Netscape memory problem

1998-06-15 Thread Philip Bennett
I have recently been having problems with Netscape eating up the memory in my root partition. It seems to affect both 4.05 and 3.01. I'm running RH 5.1. I've tried emptying the Netscape cache but doesn't seem to help. Any suggestions. I just recently upgraded from 5.0 Thanks, Phil Bennett --

Beginner's question on partitioning

1998-06-15 Thread CodFish88
I'm new to Linux, and to Unix for that matter, and am curious about partitioning. The Red Hat Linux manual says you can have a simple setup using just one partition but suggests the following... - swap partition - root partition - /usr partition - /home partition The advantage of this setup

Here is an easy one...

1998-06-15 Thread Paul VanDyke
what do I have to change to make my screen go blank quicker. The linux box blanks out the screen after so many minutes of inactivity... About 5 right now. I want it to do it after one minute. Thanks, Paul VanDyke -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

Re: apache 1.3.0 lockfile problem!

1998-06-15 Thread Joel Robert Oliveira
uhh... WOOPS ! =). Right after I sent this I just made the directory that the lockfile was supposed to be in and voila. it worked.. ! Sorry.. that was just a boneheaded mistake on my part =). thanks anyways people! Joel On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Joel Robert Oliveira wrote:

Re: Beginner's question on partitioning

1998-06-15 Thread James Michael Keller
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Generaly you split up the directories to different partitions because of hardware failure tolerances. Ie if you lose the root drive, you still have all your users stuff safe. Also it lets you format / and install a new version of the OS and all the

amd Vs cyrix

1998-06-15 Thread Mccorkle Joe
Just curious: I saw in my Tiger catalog for June that the AMD K6-2 300mhz w/3D now beats out a 400mhz Pentium II. The price for the chip (www.pricewatch.com) is 158.00, the AMD K6 300mhz is 128.00 and the Cyrix M2 300mhz is 109.00. Anyone out there use the K6-2 w/3D now? If so, does/will

LILO and NT

1998-06-15 Thread Russell Foster
Hi all, I've got a small problem booting NT and Redhat 5.0 Kernel 2.0.32. When I install LILO on the MBR on my friends system Linux boots with no trouble but NT won't boot. A good thing I hear some of you say but thats beside the point :). Anyway NT comes up with a message

Re: amd Vs cyrix

1998-06-15 Thread Randy Carpenter
Just curious: I saw in my Tiger catalog for June that the AMD K6-2 300mhz w/3D now beats out a 400mhz Pentium II. The price for the chip (www.pricewatch.com) is 158.00, the AMD K6 300mhz is 128.00 and the Cyrix M2 300mhz is 109.00. Anyone out there use the K6-2 w/3D now? If so,

Re: LILO and NT

1998-06-15 Thread Steve Smith
There is a NT / Linux dual-boot how to or some such HOWTO. Steve Smith National Renewable Energy Laboratory 1617 Cole Blvd/|\ Golden, CO 80401 * * * --* *--

Re: Beginner's question on partitioning

1998-06-15 Thread Woody
Basically, when you run an ISP for example and have a large server, it is "wise" to split partitions up that way because of faster data transfer rates.That's how we run it on our server for our ISP.we have partitions set up for /home and /usr and it allows everything to run a little

Re: Netscape memory problem

1998-06-15 Thread Woody
Ya know, I've had the same problemI'm using RH 4.2 with a 2.0.33 kernel and get this, 80 M of RAMnow you tell me what the hell is going on! I actively test devel kernels as well, and the newer kernels do a better job at memory management, but you might want to check which X manager your

Re: Here is an easy one...

1998-06-15 Thread Woody
setterm -blank (seconds) OR (minutes) Can't remember:) -- From: Paul VanDyke [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Here is an easy one... Date: Monday, June 15, 1998 3:01 PM what do I have to change to make my screen go blank quicker. The linux box blanks out the

Re: Trio64V2/DX started failing with XDM under 3.3.2!

1998-06-15 Thread Woody
The only way that I could see Win95 doing this, is if you were to use loadlin out of Win95 and boot from Win95 itself(which you can do believe it or notnice little program :) ) -- From: Lawrence Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Trio64V2/DX started

Re: Linux Bigot??

1998-06-15 Thread dreamwvr
At 10:35 AM 6/12/98 -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote: -Original Message- From: Jeremy Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 8:27 PM Subject: Re: Linux Bigot?? That's not useful at all. He's

xrootenv vs /root/.bashrc

1998-06-15 Thread Sim Robert
Hi, Would anyone please tell me the relationship between xrootenv and /root/.bashrc? Does xrootenv have precedence over .bashrc? Thanks. -- 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: Beginner's question on partitioning

1998-06-15 Thread Woody
Actually I can agree with you totallyjust one thingI don't think that you will ever use a full 128 M swap space UNLESS you are running some big daddy server.I think you can get by with a good 50 M swap in Linuxunless, like I say, your doing something that's really hammering

Re: Linux Bigot??

1998-06-15 Thread Woody
I can't agree with you more!!! That's been my opinion for a lng timeget it into the stores...get those Windows apps converted for the Linux users and watch em' come a flockin' to a better, and more robust operating system. -- From: dreamwvr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

slow ppp connection

1998-06-15 Thread Kevin Seguin
i recently installed red hat 5.0 on my pc at home. i have noticed that my ppp connection seems considerably slower on linux than it was on win 95. anyone have any ideas why this is and/or how it can be fixed. thanks in advance. -- Kevin Seguin --- Hoover's Inc.

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-15 Thread Deryk Barker
Once upon a time Shawn McMahon wrote: Hmm.. I'd have to disagree here... In my opinion, HTML should *never* have been integrated with email. Email should always have been a text only medium rather than all this colour and font crap that people are putting in with it... And yet, you

FW: Linux Bigot.

1998-06-15 Thread Bradley, Greg
While I can see that this may be the case in Australia, all folks in the US have to do is pick up the phone and dial a toll-free number to order a preinstalled Linux system. Actually, I read the Nader letter to IBM, he was unable to purchase a computer from anyone that he tried, and he provided

Netatalk: Appletalk for Linux

1998-06-15 Thread Paul VanDyke
Is the appletalk stuff resident in redhat 5.0? Anyone know? I'm trying to do a mac server w/ my linux box and I'm not sure if I installed it or if I need to... How can I tell -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ

Re: amd Vs cyrix

1998-06-15 Thread Scott
The numbers on the k6-300/3d vs the Pii400 are using the 3Dnow instructions. If you do not use these instructions then it is no different than the curent k6-300. Unless Linux and or Linux software is written to take advantage of the 3Dnow instructions I'd not spend the cash for it and do the

FW: 1023 cylinder clarification

1998-06-15 Thread Bradley, Greg
The 1023 cylinder issue is only relevant to the boot partition. The problem arises because the bios must be able to read the kernel to load it and the bios can only see 1023 cylinders. Once the kernel is active, this restriction does not apply as the kernel does not use the bios at all. This can

re: RHL5 and Postgres

1998-06-15 Thread gary steve shelton
nope, that didn't do it. made sure that i have postgres usernames for everyone (me, for right now) who's going to use it. as per your message, added a user for my hostname. still nada. argh. ah, well... i'll keep plugging away. can one have more than one allow line in the pg_hba.conf? i've got

Can anyone help with FAT32 mounting?

1998-06-15 Thread Doug Smoak
I'm still trying to mount FAT32 partitions under RH5.0 w/2.0.34 kernel. Here's a session "transcript". First the kernel version: [root@localhost /root]# uname -r 2.0.34 Then fdisk output: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 638 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device

Netscape Communicator-- fixed! Thank you!

1998-06-15 Thread getrhd
Hi, ladies and gentlemen. I was the grumpy fellow complaining about the rpm'ed Netscape in RHL 5.1 not supporting Big-5 (traditional) Chinese characters. I feel that I owe the folx at RH an apology, as they did provide a new netscape rpm in their /updates which did in fact fix this. I

Diamond Fire GL Pro 1000

1998-06-15 Thread Kyle Moore
I was wondering if anyone is using a Diamond Fire GL Pro 1000 with Redhat 5.1. I want to buy one of these cards but don't look forward to spending $90 for Accelerated-X. Does this card work with XFree86 and if so, was it a pain to set up? It's not shown in the Hardware compatibility list but I

Kernel panic question

1998-06-15 Thread Scott
I'm running a linux RH 5.0 kernel version 2.0.31. All it is used for is running a quake2 server. The server is giving me the following panic and then it crashes: "kernel panic skput:over" Does anyone have any idea what this means. My isp recommended that I first upgrade to kernel 2.0.34 and

Re: FW: 1023 cylinder clarification

1998-06-15 Thread Scott
Thanks, I tried to do the install and Redhat kept getting part way thru the format of the partitions and would get mount failures. I tried many things and had to give up. I'm using a 1 gig scsi and half of a 2 gig with no problems. Thanks. FYI. For those looking to set up a dual boot on a

RE: sendmail-8.9.0

1998-06-15 Thread Hoe-Teck Wee
Hi, hi. Just some more ideas. I guess it's always possible to back up the configuration files before installing the new sendmail rpm, though if the rpm had been properly built, it ought to be able to identify the configuration files and make a backup of these files instead of overwriting them.

Re: Diamond Fire GL Pro 1000

1998-06-15 Thread Kevin Smith
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Kyle Moore wrote: I was wondering if anyone is using a Diamond Fire GL Pro 1000 with Redhat 5.1. I want to buy one of these cards but don't look forward to spending $90 for Accelerated-X. Does this card work with XFree86 and if so, was it a pain to set up? It's not

re: RHL5 and Postgres

1998-06-15 Thread gary steve shelton
just one more detail (should've done this to start with): it returns the following error: Connection to database 'template1' failed. PQexec() -- Request was sent to backend, but backend closed the channel before responding. This probably means the backend terminated abnormally before or while

SMPT: We do not relay.

1998-06-15 Thread Robert W. Canary
Hi, I have about 15 dialin users. All accounts are ppp. Since I do not have a permenant IP I don't offer email. However, I have paticular free email service from www.netaddress.com that also uses a pop3 server. Why dialin users configure thier mail clients as folows: outgoing (SMPT)

Re: Netscape memory problem

1998-06-15 Thread Philip Bennett
At 03:55 PM 6/15/98 -0500, you wrote: Ya know, I've had the same problemI'm using RH 4.2 with a 2.0.33 kernel and get this, 80 M of RAMnow you tell me what the hell is going on! I actively test devel kernels as well, and the newer kernels do a better job at memory management, but you

RE: Netatalk: Appletalk for Linux

1998-06-15 Thread Dale Leonard
Paul VanDyke, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is the appletalk stuff resident in redhat 5.0? Anyone know? I'm trying to do a mac server w/ my linux box and I'm not sure if I installed it or if I need to... How can I tell add a user to the Linux Box, then go to the Mac and pick appleshare from the

BRU?

1998-06-15 Thread Anthony S. Nixon
I have had Linux running on my system for several months now and all of a sudden bru stops working (xbru that is...)? Anyone else have this happen? I used the updates to no avail. I have even deleted and reinstalled the entire linux o/s and still no workie. Any clues please? I have many critical

Slow audio CD mounting

1998-06-15 Thread Alex C. Le Dain
I have a DX66 with creative 2x CD connected directly to the sound card. Yes it's the really really old type, but it works ... sorta. I can mount a data CD okay (it immediately mounts), but when mounting an audio CD (say using xplaycd) it appears that all the addresses of all the creative

Re: SMPT: We do not relay.

1998-06-15 Thread Robert W. Canary
Thanks Kevin, That did the trick! Can you tell me where these files are documented? I found nothin n the man sendmail about them. -- robert Kevin Smith wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Robert W. Canary wrote: Hi, I have about 15 dialin users. All accounts are ppp. Since I do not

Re: BRU?

1998-06-15 Thread Greg Fall
FAQ. Go to www.estinc.com and look for the BRU FAQ. The answer is right at the top. --=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-- Greg Fall [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~gmfall -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips,

Re: Beginner's question on partitioning

1998-06-15 Thread Michael Jinks
Woody wrote: Actually I can agree with you totallyjust one thingI don't think that you will ever use a full 128 M swap space UNLESS you are running some big daddy server. Fair enough. I seem to remember some past threads around here that took up this issue, and the general

chfn broke after one use (5.0) more info

1998-06-15 Thread John Weber
Below is my first question. Since then I've ascertained that this problem doesn't happen on a virgin redhat 5.0 system. It only happens on the systems I've done the security updates on (2 of each). Maybe this will help narrow down the problem. John Hi, I used chfn and it worked once and after

Cannot bind virtual IPs

1998-06-15 Thread Zhenhua
Hi, Everyone: I tried to use: /sbin/ifconfig eth0:1 199.207.158.2 /sbin/route add -host 199.207.158.2 dev eth0:1 to add a virtual IP to the server. The first command gives error: SIOCSIFADDR: Invalid argument The second command gives error: SIOCADDRT: Operation not supported by device Anyone

rpm for pdftex ?

1998-06-15 Thread Michael Lees
Hi Does anyone know if there is an rpm package for pdftex? Regards Michael -- 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: Kernel panic question

1998-06-15 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Scott wrote: what this means. My isp recommended that I first upgrade to kernel 2.0.34 and see what that does. Any clues would be helpfull. They gave you a good recommendation. Upgrade to 2.0.34. This is a bug in 2.0.33 and lower. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat

Re: Can anyone help with FAT32 mounting?

1998-06-15 Thread John J. Donohue
Now try to mount "/D": [root@localhost /root]# mount /D mount: mount point /D does not exist Am I doing something dumb here? Anyone have FAT32 working? Dunno about the FAT32 part, but generic mount requires that 1) the /D directory exists (well, DOES it?!) and 2) that you tell mount

RPM Manager

1998-06-15 Thread Matt W.
OK... I just installed RH5.1 on my box. But I cannot use the RPM Manager in Xfree. I start up the manager and select 'Available'. It starts to scan the CD it gets to about 90% and stops scanning. I don't understand! I have tried this on 3 different CDs. I even coppied a RPM from the CD to

Re: RPM Manager

1998-06-15 Thread W.D.McKinney
"Matt W." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK... I just installed RH5.1 on my box. But I cannot use the RPM Manager in Xfree. I start up the manager and select 'Available'. It starts to scan the CD it gets to about 90% and stops scanning. I don't understand! I have tried this on 3 different CDs.

Re: RPM Manager

1998-06-15 Thread Rick knebel
At 06:20 PM 6/15/98 -0800, you wrote: "Matt W." [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK... I just installed RH5.1 on my box. But I cannot use the RPM Manager in Xfree. I start up the manager and select 'Available'. It starts to scan the CD it gets to about 90% and stops scanning. I don't understand!

Re: Kernel panic question

1998-06-15 Thread Scott Tyson
Well Rock-n-Roll. At least I didn't screw up my install.. the ultimate fear of the Linux newbie :-D *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 6/15/98, at 9:54 PM, William T Wilson wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Scott wrote: what this means. My isp recommended that I first upgrade to

RH 5.1, BRU, ide TR-4

1998-06-15 Thread Slyglif Cain
Hello. I am currently using the above combination and am getting some kernel error messages whenever I do a backup. As far as I can tell (by doing a verify with BRU) the backup completes successfully, but I don't like having error messages come up when there shouldn't be. Has anyone seen this

Small xlock inconvenience

1998-06-15 Thread Stelios Bounanos
Hello all, As you may have noticed, one can bypass an xlock'ed display by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Fn or Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to return to the console. Does anyone know of a way to make the above useless, besides putting ``DontZap'' in the XF86Config file or exec'ing startx from the console? I know I

Re: Small xlock inconvenience

1998-06-15 Thread jp
Hello all, As you may have noticed, one can bypass an xlock'ed display by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Fn or Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to return to the console. Does anyone know of a way to make the above useless, besides putting ``DontZap'' in the XF86Config file or exec'ing startx from the console?

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