reccomend tape drive

1998-05-17 Thread steven standley
Heh gang... I am looking to purchase a tape drive for backup on my home system. I have a scsi2 and scsi3UW interface available. What I need is recommendations from the list on tape drives that you have purchased and have had little or no problems with. Ease of installation is a plus. In

How do you PPP from RH 5.0 to WINS network?

1998-05-17 Thread Eddie Kuns
My workplace allows PPP access, assuming you are using Win95's dial in network options. I don't have Win95 on this machine and I don't want to. (Not a slam at anyone, just I don't want to shutdown and change operating systems back and forth all the time and I prefer to keep Linux up.) So. I

RE: reccomend tape drive

1998-05-17 Thread Dave Wreski
On 16-May-98 steven standley wrote: Heh gang... I am looking to purchase a tape drive for backup on my home system. I have a scsi2 and scsi3UW interface available. What I need is recommendations from the list on tape drives that you have purchased and have had little or no problems

RE: How do you PPP from RH 5.0 to WINS network?

1998-05-17 Thread Dave Wreski
Apr 22 23:53:52 kilroy pppd[2730]: Using interface ppp0 Apr 22 23:53:52 kilroy pppd[2730]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/cua2 Apr 22 23:53:56 kilroy pppd[2730]: Unsupported protocol (0x8207) received Apr 22 23:53:57 kilroy pppd[2730]: Received bad configure-nak/rej: 03 06 83 c6 7c 2e Apr 22

RE: How do you PPP from RH 5.0 to WINS network?

1998-05-17 Thread Richard Sharpe
At 01:52 AM 5/17/98 -0400, Dave Wreski wrote: Apr 22 23:53:52 kilroy pppd[2730]: Using interface ppp0 Apr 22 23:53:52 kilroy pppd[2730]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/cua2 Apr 22 23:53:56 kilroy pppd[2730]: Unsupported protocol (0x8207) received Apr 22 23:53:57 kilroy pppd[2730]: Received bad

Trident ProVidia 9685 driver - Where can I find it?

1998-05-17 Thread Philip Tong
Does anybody know where I can find the Trident's ProVidia 9685 X-Windows driver? Or is there another driver that I could try? Thanks In Advance.

Re: How can linux do this?

1998-05-17 Thread Scott Kindley
Chris Fishwick wrote: One of the things that a nt server can do for a win based network is store each user's profile so that no matter what machine the user logs on at they get the same icons, etc. on the desktop. Could that kind of nt server be replaced with a linux server? If so,

Re: Compiling Kernel under RH 5.0 system fails on a Cyrix processor

1998-05-17 Thread Ben Sinclair
Richard Sharpe wrote: gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11 Many times that's a sign of bad RAM. Might want to run some memory tests, try some new RAM, etc. I never had problems compiling with my Cyrix chip... -- Ben Sinclair -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ,

Re: Trident ProVidia 9685 driver - Where can I find it?

1998-05-17 Thread W.D.McKinney
"Philip Tong" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know where I can find the Trident's ProVidia 9685 X-Windows driver? Or is there another driver that I could try? Thanks In Advance. Simple see http://www.xig.com for the demo and http://www.xig.com/board/trident.html to see which

Unidentified subject!

1998-05-17 Thread Sahar Nitzan
Hi Can I make an alias for a group, so when I will send e-mail to that group it will reach all the group members ? -- 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: Compiling Kernel under RH 5.0 system fails on a Cyrix processor

1998-05-17 Thread Ray Curtis
"rs" == Richard Sharpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rs Hi, rs I tried compiling the 3.0.32 kernel with the IPChains stuff in it on my rs Cyrix-based machine last night, and I got a rude shock. rs The build failed with the following messages: rs gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal

Re: How can linux do this?

1998-05-17 Thread Michael Jinks
M. Neidorff wrote: Hi folks, One of the things that a nt server can do for a win based network is store each user's profile so that no matter what machine the user logs on at they get the same icons, etc. on the desktop. Could that kind of nt server be replaced with a linux server? If

mt commands fail with ftape

1998-05-17 Thread Vidiot
I'm trying to position the tape of a T3000 drive so that I can add another dump to the tape, but when I issue the following command, it fails: mt -f /dev/nrft0 eod /dev/nrft0: Input/output error It won't do a "fsf 1" either. Any clues? Thanks. MB -- System Administrator -

Re: CYRIL: russifying Linux ; shit, I'm hosed (fwd)

1998-05-17 Thread Eugene Leitl
I have been so *stupid*. Sheesh. I forgot to check whether I could startx as another user than root. (Meanwhile I rpm -Uhv --force'd my entire XFree86 distribution, and reran XF86Setup as well, have rebuilt X font databases, and whatnot). Of course I could, so it must have been some crappy .x*

RE: dump and T3000 drive

1998-05-17 Thread Dave Wreski
But, when using dump, there are two values that I don't know; density and size. The blocks I obtained fro the HOWTO: 58. I have them set real high at this point. If you use the T3000 and dump, please let me know what values you use. Hmm.. haven't used dump on linux, only on solaris, but

Re: reccomend tape drive

1998-05-17 Thread David Fisher
I have a HP T4000s SCSI Travan that is new and doesn't work at all with Linux. If the IDE does, grab one, but I'd watch out for the SCSI ones. We used this drive on NT. It was extremely unreliable, and HP/Colorado refused to provide any support or warranty service. We ended up throwing a

Re: dump and T3000 drive

1998-05-17 Thread Antonomasia
But, when using dump, there are two values that I don't know; density and size. The blocks I obtained fro the HOWTO: 58. I have them set real high at this point. If you use the T3000 and dump, please let me know what values you use. I've been using dump and T3000 successfully for over a

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-05-17 Thread L. M. Marchese
Edit the /etc/aliases file and add an entry there. After doing so, run the command "newaliases". Sahar Nitzan wrote: Hi Can I make an alias for a group, so when I will send e-mail to that group it will reach all the group members ? -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the

Re: Sendmail and virtual hosts

1998-05-17 Thread L. M. Marchese
Is qmail as easy to setup as sendmail? is it as simple as adding entries to files in /etc/mail? Just curious if there is a document which compares the two. Also are the ip_allow, name_allow, and relay_allow features in RedHat's Linux 5.0 sendmail or are they standard? Thanks in advance Trevor

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-05-17 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On Sun, 17 May 1998, Sahar Nitzan wrote: Hi Can I make an alias for a group, so when I will send e-mail to that group it will reach all the group members ? The short answer is yes. The method you chose will vary depending on your needs, skills and amount of money you're willing to spend.

Re: Frontpage Extensions - Apache Virtual Hosts

1998-05-17 Thread Wolfgang Brungert
Hi Rita, you can put several IP Numbers to one physical Ethernet Card. For Example: if your first Adress is 192.168.0.1 1.st alias ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.0.2 2.nd alias ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.0.3 and so on. That´s all :-) bye, Wolfgang --

Win95-Linux-MAC

1998-05-17 Thread hUnTeR
Good Day ALL!! I have posted this question, I believe, twice before but didnt really get any clear concise information leading to a solution. So, please forgive me for posting again. Here's what I have: RH Linux 5.0 (kernel 2.0.33) server connected to the internet and connected to a DEC

Re: 2 NICs in one box seem to clash

1998-05-17 Thread Fred Whipple
Antonomasia wrote: I have recently got 2 old 486 boxes which I am trying to connect to my existing pentium like this: modemthin ether - - - [notatla]-[slash]--[quote] A B C DE A=194.222.156.169 B=192.168.0.1

Voodoo X Server?

1998-05-17 Thread Kirk Bollinger
Hello, I have a Hercules Stingray 128 Voodoo Card. Does anyone know of an X server that will work or how to configure the default one Or Metro-X to work? Thanks. **L I N U X** * * * CHOICE OF A GNU

Need: Web Site Search Script

1998-05-17 Thread L. M. Marchese
Does Apache have a standard cgi search program. Wherecan I find such a program which allows my users to search my Web site based on various options (title, contents, etc.). The programs output would be similar to those of standard search engines (i.e., hyperlink to the documents found). Thanks

Classless IP address and DNS

1998-05-17 Thread L. M. Marchese
Recently someone posted a similar questions, but I didn't see any replies. I am very familiar with bind but am having problems setting up DNS with subnetted class C address. I basically want to have an authoritative name server for mydomain.net which consits of a class C network, e.g.,

Re: Win95-Linux-MAC

1998-05-17 Thread Fred Whipple
hUnTeR wrote: Good Day ALL!! I have posted this question, I believe, twice before but didnt really get any clear concise information leading to a solution. So, please forgive me for posting again. Here's what I have: RH Linux 5.0 (kernel 2.0.33) server connected to the internet and

Re: Need: Web Site Search Script

1998-05-17 Thread Fred Whipple
L. M. Marchese wrote: Does Apache have a standard cgi search program. Wherecan I find such a program which allows my users to search my Web site based on various options (title, contents, etc.). The programs output would be similar to those of standard search engines (i.e., hyperlink to

Re: Win95-Linux-MAC

1998-05-17 Thread hUnTeR
Fred - "Buy that man a case of champagne" IT WORKED! thank you!! Apparently, my build of netatalk was NOT working as you had suspected. Now, the MAC can see the unix box thru the chooser, and get to her home dir, i also have a share setup for several users on the unix box...any ideas how

Re: Voodoo X Server?

1998-05-17 Thread W.D.McKinney
Kirk Bollinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a Hercules Stingray 128 Voodoo Card. Does anyone know of an X server that will work or how to configure the default one Or Metro-X to work? Thanks. **L I N U X**

Re: Sendmail and virtual hosts

1998-05-17 Thread Trevor Astrope
On Sun, 17 May 1998, L. M. Marchese wrote: Is qmail as easy to setup as sendmail? is it as simple as adding entries to files in /etc/mail? Just curious if there is a document which compares the two. I found qmail easier to set up. And it is as easy as adding entries to /etc/qmail/ or

Re: reccomend tape drive

1998-05-17 Thread Eddie Kuns
I'll second what Dave Wreski said. I have a TR-4 IDE Travan drive. I have the Exabyte Eagle TR-4i, and I'm very happy with it. It just works as expected. I did have to recompile my kernel to include IDE tape support, which I turned off long ago when I disabled everything I don't use. My

Re: java problem

1998-05-17 Thread Larsen
Chris Lea wrote (regarding CLASSPATH): Does anybody know where this variable is set? I don't, but a handy way to find would be: find / -type f -print | xargs grep CLASSPATH It'll take awhile, but it'll do the job. Mike -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING

IB Linux Download page, Interbase DBMS for Red H. 4.2

1998-05-17 Thread Alex Fabrega
http://www.interbase.com/download/linux/ Title: IB Linux Download page

Compileing a Kernel!

1998-05-17 Thread Pat Swanson
how can I compile a kernel without losing the old setting by the redhat distribution, I have no problems with compiling kernel 2.0.32 but with more support, but when I do it, I end up losing the support for some other devices, is there a way I can add more support with keeping the current

Re: kernel performance and robustness, Solaris vs. Linux (was Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box)

1998-05-17 Thread Peter Mutsaers
On 16 May 1998 05:14:23 -, Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: ES "Chuck Carson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only reason linux is so popular is it is free and most of the software is free. Solaris has a far more robust kernel ES I beg to differ. Solaris has a huge

Re: Linux and Cable Modems

1998-05-17 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
Anyone on the list ever had a cable modem connection to their Red Hat linux box ? DHCP or Static ? Yep. I'm running a server on a cable modem with Linux as OS. I've set up this one using s dynamic and a static IP adres. No problems at all. I'd like to hear about setup issues, etc. What

Re: kernel performance and robustness, Solaris vs. Linux (was Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box)

1998-05-17 Thread Eric Smith
I wrote: I beg to differ. Solaris has a huge bloated inefficient pig of a kernel as compared to Linux. They do wacky things like Peter Mutsaers [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied: We just bought some SUN Ultra's with Solaris 2.6. The Ultra's have only 64MB of RAM, but still I find them very

Re: 2.0.34-pre patch? Where?

1998-05-17 Thread tomas
look for it at http://freshmeat.net tomas On Sat, 16 May 1998, GateKeepeR News wrote: I have heard a lot about this, but cannot seem to find it. Anyone want to point me in the right direction? (I've tried kernel.org with no luck) Thanks.. Bryan -- PLEASE read the Red

Re: icq

1998-05-17 Thread Matt Kennedy
On Sun, 17 May 1998, Iztok Polanic wrote: Hello !!! I want ot install ICQ for Java on my linux machine, but I'm getting this error: SIGSEGV 11* segmentation violation stackbase=(nil), stackpointer=(nil) Full thread dump: NULL (TID:0x409490b0, sys_thread_t:0x808e5b8, state:R)

simple question on ftp

1998-05-17 Thread ptleung
Dear all, Could anybody tell me how to ftp a directory containing subdirectories, files , etc? If it needs tar first, how can I tar a directory as above? Thanks. yours, cwlai -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

can they cohabitate?

1998-05-17 Thread Omit Expungermier
AAh!! okay.. i have tried to install RH 5.0 several times on my computer, (compaq presario 4712, monster 3d, maxtor 8 7000d8, quantum bigfoot, 40 megs of ram, 166mhz) and i succeded once, and that was when i did just linux, but then i tried to get it to do a dual boot thing with win95,

Re: Linux and Cable Modems

1998-05-17 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
Hello Igmar, What cable modem are using ? I'm using a LanCity LCPET-2 What version of Linux ? Version 5.0 running a 2.0.33 kernel What NIC card are you using ? Ne2000 clone What setup on the Linux box is required for a client using the same modem ? IP-Masquerade. The cable modem is

Re: My system barked again. HELP PLEASE

1998-05-17 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
When I was working on it yesterday, the system suddenly died. Fist symptom was PINE dumping core and saying something about busy.. It wouldn't quit. Got a message in my console saying something about a block xx in the freelist isn't free. All programs that the system ran start

Re: can they cohabitate?

1998-05-17 Thread Rich Shepard
At 01:42 PM 5/17/98 -0700, you wrote: AAh!! okay.. i have tried to install RH 5.0 several times on my computer, (compaq presario 4712, monster 3d, maxtor 8 7000d8, quantum bigfoot, 40 megs of ram, 166mhz) and i succeded once, and that was when i did just linux, but then i tried to get it

Re: My system barked again. HELP PLEASE

1998-05-17 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
I had two system crashes in two days. The system is running RedHat 5.0 with a 2.0.33 kernel. It is recompiled just to include the things I want. The system got al erreta from RedHat applied to it. It sounds like to me you are being attacked with nasty packets. Either use the latest RedHat

Re: redhat-digest Digest V98 #313

1998-05-17 Thread Eric Goforth
I've beentrying to figure out how to get my Linux PPP connection to Compuserve to work. I've looking through a HOWTOPPP text file that I downloaded off of the Unix forum on Compuserve, but I'm a little unsure about some of the settings that I should use. Here is what I've come up with for

Re: kernel performance and robustness, Solaris vs. Linux (was Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box)

1998-05-17 Thread William T Wilson
On 17 May 1998, Peter Mutsaers wrote: We just bought some SUN Ultra's with Solaris 2.6. The Ultra's have only 64MB of RAM, but still I find them very efficient. It's a bit of an exaggeration to say that Solaris requires 128MB to do anything useful, it runs very nicely in 64MB, maybe 32MB if

Re: Advice for 4000 mail users on a Red Hat 5.0 box

1998-05-17 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 15 May 1998, Peter Chen wrote: I can't find a qmail SRPM or RPM package. Moreover, since I don't have much There isn't any. The qmail author permits free use of the program, but won't allow redistribution of it. So you have to get it from him. (Well, now he allows redistribution,

Sundry minor problems

1998-05-17 Thread Larsen
I'm having a problem with Communicator 4.04-3 on my system. I'm a fresh install of Red Hat 5.0. If I go to any web site, my fonts become munged. I mean, all my X-Window fonts. The title bars on xterms get whacked, the fonts within the browser get whacked, the fonts on menus get whacked. The

netscape forever

1998-05-17 Thread Miguel A. de Avillez
Hello All I need nestcape to be on all the time. How can I get that? thanks miguel -- 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: Frontpage Extensions - Apache Virtual Hosts

1998-05-17 Thread Rita Meng
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Wolfgang. This made my virtual hosts work with FP extensions. First thing that has worked first time with FP ext. you can put several IP Numbers to one physical Ethernet Card. For Example: if your first Adress is 192.168.0.1 1.st alias ifconfig eth0:0

Re: netscape forever

1998-05-17 Thread Miguel A. de Avillez
What is hapenning is that if I start netscape and then dont make anything, it disapears after say 5 minuts or so. I would like to have it running all the time. Each time I do nothing, then I have to restart the thing and it is a pain. miguel -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata

Re: netscape forever

1998-05-17 Thread Marco Shaw
You may have bigger problems!! Disappears? Like you open it...go for coffee...come back, and the netscape is GONE?! Marco What is hapenning is that if I start netscape and then dont make anything, it disapears after say 5 minuts or so. I would like to have it running all the time. Each

kernel lacks PPP support Q?

1998-05-17 Thread Steve Hazelett
Hi All, When I go from run level 2 to 1 with telinit 1 and back to 2 (telinit 2) and attempt to run my mail script that pulls off mail from my provider I get a message that the kernel lacks PPP support. If I reboot everything is just fine. Anyone have any ideas? Running Rh 4.2 kernel ver

HD Installation of Redhat

1998-05-17 Thread Mike Butler
Hello All, Having failed in my attempt to get support from Redhat for my newly purchased Redhat 5.0, I'm hoping someone can help with this. I have an external backpack CDRom and I can successfully start the install from the CDRom but when the installation procedure asks me to identify

Oh where could my Netscape be?

1998-05-17 Thread Steve Curry
I just installed RedHat 5.0 which came with Applix. So I didn't get a manual with it. I need to know where I can find Netscape(shouldn't it be on the RedHat 5.0 CD-ROM?) anywhere and *NEED* to install it. Also i'm a old-school command line person, and really new to X-Windows. Once I install

RedHat Support????

1998-05-17 Thread Mike Butler
Hi, I was wondering if anybody out there has had any dealing with the RedHat Support system. I purchased RedHat 5.0 about three weeks ago and have had absolutley no luck getting them to honor their product support. I've done everything except drive to their head office and beat the snot out

RE: HD Installation of Redhat

1998-05-17 Thread Maxwell Smart
On 21-May-98 Mike Butler wrote: Hello All, 1. Create a Redhat directory on my dos partition 2. Copy the "base" directory to the Redhat directory 3. Copy the RPM directory to the Redhat directory 4. Boot off the boot disk and

Re: RedHat Support????

1998-05-17 Thread Rich Shepard
At 01:41 AM 5/21/98 -0400, you wrote: I was wondering if anybody out there has had any dealing with the RedHat Support system. I purchased RedHat 5.0 about three weeks ago and have had absolutley no luck getting them to honor their product support. I've done everything except drive to their

Re: RedHat Support????

1998-05-17 Thread Gary
Hi Mike, So far I've had good responses on weekdays. My first request was answered within24hrs with a detailed installation procedure for XFree86 upgrades to support my card. I haven't heard from my next question which was posted yesterday, and technically it probably is not covered. Have you

Re: reccomend tape drive

1998-05-17 Thread Art Stine
On Fri, 15 May 1998, steven standley wrote: Heh gang... I am looking to purchase a tape drive for backup on my home system. I have a scsi2 and scsi3UW interface available. What I need is recommendations from the list on tape drives that you have purchased and have had little or no

RE: startx/X links..

1998-05-17 Thread GateKeepeR News
Ok, I got that to work, but now it doesn't want to read my .xinitrc! I had everything working, and don't know what I screwed up.. But now I just get the grey screen.. and my .xinitrc is jsut as it should because I was using it a few hours ago! On Sat, 16 May 1998, Dave Wreski wrote: | |On

RE: startx/X links..

1998-05-17 Thread Dave Wreski
On 17-May-98 GateKeepeR News wrote: Ok, I got that to work, but now it doesn't want to read my .xinitrc! I had everything working, and don't know what I screwed up.. But now I just get the grey screen.. and my .xinitrc is jsut as it should because I was using it a few hours ago! Well, that

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: [RH-ISP] Need: Web Site Search Script

1998-05-17 Thread Jim Hebert
There isn't a "standard" search program for apache, no. I recommend htdig. It was a no-brainer to set up and will do what you want it to. Free... Incidentally, I think I saw some announcement about redhat doing a bundle of apache-ssl with log analyzers and search engines for around a hundred

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: Ongoing IP_forwarding problem

1998-05-17 Thread Brent Foster
In summary, we had (note had) a RH 5.0 box as a gateway/firewall for a private subnet (192.168.1.x) and a public subnet off two ethernet cards, and then a ppp link to the 'Net. Something new in the RedHat Network configs caught me off guard as well. Make sure that you have