Re: Executing Java as a CGI

1998-05-26 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 25 May 1998, Fred Whipple wrote: I'm trying to work my way through the Java-CGI HOWTO, but have run into Although I can't imagine why you'd want to write CGI scripts in Java other than the "coolness factor," I think I can point out your problem. # test.class is in the same directory

Re: what is portmap used for?

1998-05-26 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 25 May 1998, Neely Kountze wrote: I am trying to find our about the function of portmap, and cannot find Portmap is used so that programs on one system can connect to a single well-known port (belonging to the portmapper) on another system and ask the portmapper where it can find other

Re: KDE Setup

1998-05-26 Thread Magnus Schoultz
Make a file called .Xclients in your home directory and put the command startkde in it. -Magnus Dave Watts wrote: Hi folks, I am trying to set up KDE on my system running RH 5.0. I have successfully installed the support, libs, base, utilities, and admin binary rpm files. I've added

Importing Date to Bash Script

1998-05-26 Thread Canary, Robert W.
Hi, what is the correct sytax for importing the system date and time into a bash script? I need to assign this to variable that I can manipulate. Also, How do I write to the message log file via the syslogd? thanks in advance -- robert -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and

bru and remote dumps

1998-05-26 Thread pancho
hello all several questions: 1. Where do I define bru to make remote dumps? 2. When using /sbin/dump in a remote machine a get always the following error: /sbin/dump 0usf 265000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/nst0 / DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue May 26 02:03:57 1998 DUMP: Date of last

xfree 3.3.2 and Xwrapper

1998-05-26 Thread Ron Golan
I have xfree 3.3.2 and fvwm2 working now somewhat. I can startx as root but not as a regular user. As a regular user if I type Xwrapper I get an X session starting but just a gray screen and now xclients start up. How is Xwrapper supposed to be invoked? Where is the documentation for Xwrapper?

Netscape broke in xfree 3.3.2

1998-05-26 Thread Ron Golan
Another problem since upgrading to xfree86 3.3.2 is the following: [rgolan@ozenfant xinit]$ netscape [1] 2849 [rgolan@ozenfant xinit]$ /usr/lib/netscape/netscape-navigator: can't resolve symbol '__xstat' I think I read that this has something to do with libraries. Does anyone know how to fix

RE: Failed depndencies using RPM

1998-05-26 Thread David . LANDGREN
If you are sure you have all the dependencies installed, and RPM reports failed dependencies, try this: rpm -i --nodeps [package] [...] failed dependencies: /bin/sh is needed by XFree86-libs-3.3.2-5 Do you have the latest version of RPM itself? This error is usually an

RE: Importing Date to Bash Script

1998-05-26 Thread David . LANDGREN
what is the correct sytax for importing the system date and time into a bash script? I need to assign this to variable that I can manipulate. TODAY = $(date) YESTERDAY = `date --yesterday` echo "Today is $TODAY" echo "Yesterday was $YESTERDAY" You use backticks to capture the output of a

PB perl after upgrading from Redhat 4.2 to Redhat 5.0.

1998-05-26 Thread Laurent BODIN
After upgrading from Redhat 4.2 to Redhat 5.0. I have noticed that the following perl script doesn't work : #!/usr/bin/perl use Sys::Syslog; print "Hello"; ### # Error Message

Re: TkDesk won't work for me...

1998-05-26 Thread Claire Bradford
David Taylor wrote: I thought I'd resend this because I'm not sure if it was received the first time. I am running RedHat 5.0 with Tcl/Tk 8.0 and I am trying to install TkDesk. I originally tried to install the rpm version (statically linked) and I got the following error message:

Re: Another go at IPX

1998-05-26 Thread Graham
Maybe I am missing the point, but why cannot you not continue to use Samba over TCP/IP on the Win95 machines? Graham... Michael Jinks wrote: Graham wrote: You need to take a look at the Netware Emulator MARS_NWE. The Win95 PCs will need to have a Netware Client installed (either MS or

RE: Importing Date to Bash Script

1998-05-26 Thread Canary, Robert W.
Hi, Thanks for the explaination on the $(). It worked very nicely. As far as " How do I write to the message log file via the syslogd?", someone post to me with a clue of "man logger". I looked at it but it really didn't give me alot of explaination. I really want to post an entry under

RE: --help

1998-05-26 Thread David . LANDGREN
How to delete --help file. rm -- --help rm ./--help -- 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

Compaq 4000 NIC Problems

1998-05-26 Thread Steve_G_Jones
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: From: Steve G Jones @ SB_PHARM_RD Date: 26-May-98 10:24:35 AM Subject: Compaq 4000 NIC Problems Categories: Hello, Has anyone had any luck getting RedHat 5.0 to recognise the embedded Netelligent Network Interface Card found on a Compaq 4000? Linux

Re: single

1998-05-26 Thread James Youngman
"pd" == Patrick Dupre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why the command "linux single" does not work at boot time (linux works) ? Try 'linux 1' at the lilo prompt. pd Same thing, I really do not understand, it always switch to pd runlevel 6 No idea why this would happen (unless you've

Re: Compaq 4000 NIC Problems

1998-05-26 Thread Peter Chen
Go to http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/index.html and download the TI ThunderLAN driver, re-compile your kernel and install it. Regards Peter -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Compaq 4000 NIC Problems Date: Tuesday, May 26, 1998 5:24 PM

RE: ppp problem

1998-05-26 Thread David . LANDGREN
I just reinstalled RedHat do to redo the directory structures. After restarting I began to get the message "Sorry, ppp not supported by this kernel" I installed the stock redhat kernel which I believe has ppp in it. Any ideas?? Belief is not sufficient. You need certainty! Does dmesg

Re: Upgrade to XFree86 3.3.2

1998-05-26 Thread Patrick Dupre
Just rpm -Uvh XFree86... --force -- Patrick DUPRE| | Tel: (33 4) 76-88-78-51 25 Rue des Martyrs | | Fax: (33 4) 76-85-56-10 CNRS/LCMI (GHMFL) BP 166 | |

Re: floppy

1998-05-26 Thread David Spencer
Bill Lewis wrote: Help, I can't access my floppy . when Linux boots up I see a line that says device fd0 is 1.44. However I can't access the floppy to format, copy to or from or read. I get this Have you tried using the mtools: mdir mcopy etc? If you want to format the floppy to DOS

Re: System Commander overwrote my MBR:

1998-05-26 Thread James Michael Keller
Michael J. Yanowitz wrote: Thanks for the quick reply (though I won't try it 'til tonight), but I have two more questions: 1) Should there be anything after the initrd= , or is that the correct syntax? 2) Do I need to do anything in System Commander to let it know where the LILO or

Error messages

1998-05-26 Thread Kevin A. Pieckiel
I don't have the slightest clue where the problem is. I get this message daily and it's getting annoying. Any clues? Suggestions welcome: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 26 08:05:07 1998 Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 01:02:01 -0400 From: Cron Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: Working with SRC RPMS

1998-05-26 Thread Jakob 'Sparky' Kaivo
On 26 May 1998, Jake Colman wrote: I wanted to upgrade some packages on my system and decided to downloaded source RPMs. Looking at the RPM MAN page, I thought that rpm --recompile would compile and install the package. I tried it, it recompiled but a rpm -q showed that the older package

System Commander overwrote my MBR:

1998-05-26 Thread Michael J. Yanowitz
I used to boot with LILO without any problems, but I wanted to install System Commander so that I can also install Window's NT. LILO was installed in the MBR in /dev/hda, but my Linux partition is in /dev/hdb2. So I installed System Commander and now I can no longer boot into Linux. Any

shell scripts

1998-05-26 Thread Linux user
Coul anyone point me to a Howto or something about gnu bash scripts ? Thanx in advance . -- Andrei Postolache, Romania, [EMAIL PROTECTED], +40-35-340482 -- -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ

Re: Working with SRC RPMS

1998-05-26 Thread Kelley L.
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Jakob 'Sparky' Kaivo wrote: On 26 May 1998, Jake Colman wrote: I wanted to upgrade some packages on my system and decided to downloaded source RPMs. Looking at the RPM MAN page, I thought that rpm --recompile would compile and install the package. I tried it, it

Re: StarOffice 4.0

1998-05-26 Thread Ray Curtis
"jmk" == James Michael Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jmk I got the wrapper for 4.0, I open up an xterm in X and try and rpm -Uvh jmk the wrapper and it says that it can only be installed from X - but the X jmk server is running ... what gives? jmk Anyone got this thing to install? Sure

Re: networking RedHat and win95 help

1998-05-26 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
I have RedHat and win95 connected to each other via ethernet. The network card runs fine on both systems. I want to be able to set up the RH machine so it dials into my local ISP, and be able to go on the Internet with both my RH and win95 machine. Also basically to be able to use the RH as a

Working with SRC RPMS

1998-05-26 Thread Jake Colman
I wanted to upgrade some packages on my system and decided to downloaded source RPMs. Looking at the RPM MAN page, I thought that rpm --recompile would compile and install the package. I tried it, it recompiled but a rpm -q showed that the older package was still installed. I did a rpm

Re: System Commander overwrote my MBR: errata

1998-05-26 Thread Federico Strati
ok, i posted my second mail without reading the others... ;-) follow the hints from real users os System Commander ciao fede Michael J. Yanowitz wrote: Thanks for the quick reply (though I won't try it 'til tonight), but I have two more questions: 1) Should there be anything after the

Re: RH5 routing problems... Help!

1998-05-26 Thread John J. Donohue
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Kevin Currie wrote: I recently switched from Debian to RedHat, however, RedHat is giving me some rather annoying problems. I have a server with two ethernet cards. The kernel finds both of them okay. I want to configure eth0 on a 192.168.1.x class C network.

X Quick Poll

1998-05-26 Thread Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD
Hope you guys don't mind, but I am about to set up my X manager and wonder which ones you guys like best. Not overwhelmed by Metro-X and having done a bit of reading, I am considering XFree, but also considering olvwm, fvwm as well. Which are easy to install and which are more widely

Re: libc5 vs libc6

1998-05-26 Thread Greg Fall
On 26 May 1998, Jake Colman wrote: Can someone please explain to me what libc is all about? Some binary packages provide different versions of the RPM depending on whether you want libc5 or libc6. Which is provided with RH5? Which do I or should I prefer? Why? libc-4 was the old a.out

Re: System Commander overwrote my MBR:

1998-05-26 Thread Federico Strati
Hi michel, Michael J. Yanowitz wrote: Thanks for the quick reply (though I won't try it 'til tonight), but I have two more questions: 1) Should there be anything after the initrd= , or is that the correct syntax? it's the correct spelling, however check the redhat manual (it's called

Re: X Quick Poll

1998-05-26 Thread Rick Forrester
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hope you guys don't mind, but I am about to set up my X manager and wonder which ones you guys like best. Not overwhelmed by Metro-X and having done a bit of reading, I am considering XFree, but also considering olvwm, fvwm as well. Which are easy to install and

Re: StarOffice 4.0

1998-05-26 Thread Dr. Meridian
I got the wrapper for 4.0, I open up an xterm in X and try and rpm -Uvh the wrapper and it says that it can only be installed from X - but the X server is running ... what gives? I've had the same problem with it and would like to know too :) Meridian- -- #

eth0

1998-05-26 Thread Robert Fausey
I am able to start eth0 and therefore see the local network. The network card is working fine in Windows 95 but not with RedHat. In the control panel, it is set to start at boot but it does not. Starting eth0 manually no effect. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the

Re: System Commander overwrote my MBR:

1998-05-26 Thread Federico Strati
hi Michael, boot with the bootdisk of redhat specifing at the prompt: linux single root=/dev/hdb2 initrd= this will mount your root partition and give you a shell, then rerun lilo ciao fede J. Yanowitz wrote: I used to boot with LILO without any problems, but I wanted to install System

X Quick Poll -Reply

1998-05-26 Thread Jeffrey Waters
Just my .02 worth here but I would stay as far away from Metro-X as possible. I have several support e-mail's from them, telling me that my equipment is not supported even though its on their list. I had XFree up and running within 10min of starting and have not had a single problem yet.

Re: System Commander overwrote my MBR:

1998-05-26 Thread Damon Andrew Wasson
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Michael J. Yanowitz wrote: I used to boot with LILO without any problems, but I wanted to install System Commander so that I can also install Window's NT. LILO was installed in the MBR in /dev/hda, but my Linux partition is in /dev/hdb2. So I installed System

Re: RH5 routing problems... Help!

1998-05-26 Thread Kevin Currie
NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4=false HOSTNAME=eddie.sirius.cybernetics.net DOMAINNAME=sirius.cybernetics.net GATEWAY= GATEWAYDEV= You haven't set a route to the local net. Either fill in GATEWAY= and GATEWAYDEV= in /etc/sysconfig/network and then reboot OR do some manual ROUTE

Re: X Quick Poll

1998-05-26 Thread Derek Balling
You seem to be confusing X _SERVERS_ with X _WINDOW MANAGERS_. There are two basic popular X Servers for Red Hat users : MetroX and XFree86. (Yes, others exist, but we're talking about popularity with RH customers, a good chunk of whom will use one of the two that came on their CD). There are a

questions.......

1998-05-26 Thread Matt Teagarden
I just subscibed to this wonderful list and have noticed a few posts about turning a linux machine into a sniffer box. How is this done? any FAQ on the subject? And also, anyone who is familiar with apache, how do you get apache to log what type of browser that a client is using. I run

networking RedHat and win95 help

1998-05-26 Thread Stephen Schroeder
I have RedHat and win95 connected to each other via ethernet. The network card runs fine on both systems. I want to be able to set up the RH machine so it dials into my local ISP, and be able to go on the Internet with both my RH and win95 machine. Also basically to be able to use the RH as a

Re: X Quick Poll

1998-05-26 Thread Vidiot
Hope you guys don't mind, but I am about to set up my X manager and wonder which ones you guys like best. Not overwhelmed by Metro-X and having done a bit of reading, I am considering XFree, but also considering olvwm, fvwm as well. Which are easy to install and which are more widely

Graphical login app

1998-05-26 Thread Michael
Hi all ! Does anyone here know of a grapphical login app. which allows me to login to various WM. ig. I would like to be able to choose if I want to login to WindowMaker, Enlightenment etc. I'm currently using Login.app 1.2.1, but that only allows me to login to one WM. Any suggestions will be

Re: shell scripts

1998-05-26 Thread altex
Coul anyone point me to a Howto or something about gnu bash scripts ? read man pages (man bash) or search for bash-doc-*.rpm (try rufus.w3.org or ftp.redhat.com) Claudiu Balciza -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Interbase for RH4.2 - JDBC ??

1998-05-26 Thread altex
(Talking about RH5.0) There is JDK for Linux There is Interbase 4.0 for RH4.2 (works fine on 5.0) It is supposed the above can "communicate" through JDBC But where is the InterBase JDBC driver ? I guess I have a problem because the (free) InterBase 4.0 / Linux isn't delivered with an

Re: How to add another IP (different NETWORK) with single Ethern

1998-05-26 Thread Jake Colman
"Dave" == Dave Wreski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave If you have X configured, you can try using the netcfg utility. Dave Otherwise, copy the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to Dave /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0. Then edit this new file Dave so it looks

libc5 vs libc6

1998-05-26 Thread Jake Colman
Can someone please explain to me what libc is all about? Some binary packages provide different versions of the RPM depending on whether you want libc5 or libc6. Which is provided with RH5? Which do I or should I prefer? Why? Thanx! -- Jake Colman Principia Partners

RE: X Quick Poll

1998-05-26 Thread Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD
Thanks for setting me straight on this... In this case, when I setup up Metro-X or Xfree86 which window manager comes up by default...? I never chose a window manager when I had Metro-X running... Mike Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD Resident Physiatrist - R3 Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Re: floppy

1998-05-26 Thread Antonomasia
Have you tried using the mtools: mdir mcopy etc? If you want to format the floppy to DOS format, better let DOS do it. This works for me. fdformat /dev/fd0H1140 mkdosfs /dev/fd0H1140 -- ## # Antonomasia [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RedHat network printing problem. Please help.

1998-05-26 Thread Jon A. Christopher
Hello, I've been beating my head against the wall about what's probably a simple problem, so I thought I'd ask the list for help. I've set up my RH 5.0 PC as a print server for several machines using lpd. Unfortunately, it only works if the remote user has an account on the local machine. The

/dev/modem?

1998-05-26 Thread Peter Lavender
Hi Everyone, I'm trying to get my modem 'seen' in linux, I have an external modem connected to com2. I have seen references to a symlink(?) to cua(n), (I'm guessing that com2 would be cua1?) for /dev/modem. On my system this doesn't exist, but cua1 does. Just to see if I can talk to the

RH5 routing problems... Help!

1998-05-26 Thread Kevin Currie
I recently switched from Debian to RedHat, however, RedHat is giving me some rather annoying problems. I have a server with two ethernet cards. The kernel finds both of them okay. I want to configure eth0 on a 192.168.1.x class C network. The server will be .2, and an NT box will be

Re: Defragment utilities??? (and other questions)

1998-05-26 Thread Alexei Nefediev
Defragmentation utility for ext2 partition does exist. It is called 'defrag' :-). The latest version I know is defrag-0.73-2. But be VERY careful with it. If smth goes wrong with your system when this utility is working over some partition, this partition may be lost completely and you'll have

The destruction of Linux as GNU PL

1998-05-26 Thread Michael
Hi folks ! I'm a bit curious about what other linux-users think about KDE being built on non-free libs. The reasson I'm asking is that, apparanty, more and more people are reccomending KDE and due to the license of the qt-libs one might fear that this will mean the end to linux as we know it,

Re: The destruction of Linux as GNU PL

1998-05-26 Thread Jon A. Christopher
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Michael wrote: Hi folks ! I'm a bit curious about what other linux-users think about KDE being built on non-free libs. The reasson I'm asking is that, apparanty, more and more people are reccomending KDE and due to the license of the qt-libs one might fear that this

Re: The destruction of Linux as GNU PL

1998-05-26 Thread Deryk Barker
Once upon a time Michael wrote: Hi folks ! I'm a bit curious about what other linux-users think about KDE being built on non-free libs. The reasson I'm asking is that, apparanty, more and more people are reccomending KDE and due to the license of the qt-libs one might fear that this

Re: Working with SRC RPMS

1998-05-26 Thread Jake Colman
"Kelley" == Kelley L [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kelley I used to do it this way myself, until I found out about, rpm Kelley --rebuild foo-1.0-1.src.rpm Well that's what I do too. So this is the accepted practise? Build a binary RPM from the source RPM and then install/upgrade from

Re: xfree 3.3.2 and Xwrapper

1998-05-26 Thread Ron Golan
Since uprading to XFree86 3.3.2 I have been struggling with trying to use X as a normal user. I can get X to work as root if I keep the following: [rgolan@ozenfant bin]$ ls -al X Xwrapper XF86_SVGA lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root9 May 26 13:27 X - XF86_SVGA -rwxr-xr-x 1 root

Bus Mouse woes, the sequel

1998-05-26 Thread Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD
Have Xfree running, thanks for all your input, it looks real nice, supports my trident and 1024 mode and looks great. However, it still does not recognize my bus mouse. I have a bus mouse card at a definable irq, now at 5 and cannot understand why even on install, the system could not

Re: The destruction of Linux as GNU PL

1998-05-26 Thread Chris Frost
All I can say w/o starting a huge asbestos shortage grin is to check out www.gnome.org. Chris - Visit Me At http://home.hiwaay.net/~jfrost - -- For My Public PGP Key Visit http://home.hiwaay.net/~jfrost/pgp_key.txt -- -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

channel bonding?

1998-05-26 Thread Matt
Has anyone ever accomplished a successful connection to the inet using two modems bonded under linux? "channel bonding" a similar product for win95/98 is availible, but i would rather run linux. -matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

Re: kernel compile question

1998-05-26 Thread Matt Housh
You probably don't have as86 installed. It's in the bin86 RPM, bin86-0.4-3 on my system. HTH Matt --- Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MicroComputer SpecialistUniversity of Tulsa

Re: AMD K-6 Questions

1998-05-26 Thread Stephen Schroeder
I installed RH 4.2 on a K-6/200 on a Intel 430VT chip set and had no problem at all and actually have gone through a few installs (just learning) and each time it went without hitch. At 03:44 PM 5/26/98 -0500, you wrote: What's the word on the AMD K6 compatibility with Linux? The RH hardware

Re: 2nd ide hdd?

1998-05-26 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 10:50:04PM +, Peter Lavender wrote: Hi everyone, I was just thinking, I have a spare 1gig + ide hdd. I was wondering if I can use this with linux on an old 486MB that doesn't support LBA or large hdd's at all? Sure! If you're going to use it as a SECONDARY

RE: X Quick Poll

1998-05-26 Thread Dr. Meridian
- afterstep and fvwm2 (and I guess the personally-hated fvwm95) are pretty popular window managers. Space-fantasy types seem to dig enlightenment. The other ones, I don't know. - I guess im the only one that is using ctwm? Meridian- __

kernel errors?

1998-05-26 Thread GateKeepeR News
I just ran a make mrproper and then tried a make menuconfig but it gave me the following errors.. [root@postal linux]# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.31/scripts/lxdialog' gcc -O2

Re: eth0

1998-05-26 Thread Abdullah Al-Molah
At 02:05 PM 5/26/98 -0400, you wrote: I am able to start eth0 and therefore see the local network. The network card is working fine in Windows 95 but not with RedHat. In the control panel, it is set to start at boot but it does not. Starting eth0 manually no effect. -- PLEASE read the

Compromise?!?!?!?

1998-05-26 Thread Jack Hatfield
I am probably opening myself up for all kinds o '$h|t with this problem but, does RedHat 5.0 come shipped with what version of BIND, 4.9 or so, and if so, Does it contain that BIND patch for backdoor intruders running vulnerable versions of named? Does anyone know what I am talking about? How

RE: X Quick Poll

1998-05-26 Thread Jil Tardiff
I've enjoyed using WindowMaker so far. It doesn't seem to be too resource-hungry and even looks pretty good on my laptop! Jil -- 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: Cannot find X server : not installed

1998-05-26 Thread Federico Strati
Eric Fowler (Eastman Software) wrote: I have rh5. I installed, ran xf86config, then startx. Startx fails because /usr/X11R6/bin/X is linked to /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_S3, which does not exist. I tried again with standard 16 color vga and the same thing happened. What's up? hi Eric, have you

cursor speed -Reply

1998-05-26 Thread Dennis Clark
That's the typematic rate and can be set in the BIOS (for most motherboards). Don't know if Linuz has settings to override the BIOS settings. Danny Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/24/98 12:15pm When you are editing and hold down the right or left arrow key the cursor will begin to move after a

RE: Cannot find X server : not installed

1998-05-26 Thread Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD
I believe manual page 94-95 should help... Mike Mike Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD Resident Physiatrist - R3 Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Department of Rehabilitation Medicine Philadelphia, PA, 19026 E-Mail Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Eric Fowler (Eastman

Re: adduser

1998-05-26 Thread Craig Kattner
Now what? Do I manually make an entry in /etc/passwd? And if so, what do I use for a passwd since it's encrypted in that file?? I think as root you can do "passwd houze" and change that users password. Or log on as that user and just run passwd. (I don't know if you can log on as that user

No Subject

1998-05-26 Thread mika-redhat
On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 11:11:09AM -0700, Jason Scherbarth wrote: I don't know of Enlightenment being available as an RPM. It's possible that it might be a goal of the upcoming .14 release, but there's not much word about what is in and what is not. I know that Rasterman is working with

Re: all of these emails

1998-05-26 Thread Michael Jinks
I use Communicator's mail filtering feature. It's not perfect but it will at least separate mails from the various lists that I'm subscribed to. That helps a lot. I do a lot of highlighting and alt-d, but it beats letting the computer guess at what I'm interested in. -- PLEASE read the

Re: adduser

1998-05-26 Thread Stacy Brodzik
I tried using "passwd houze" from root and it seemed to work ok since it prompted me for a new password and verification. Then it came back with this: passwd: User not known to the underlying authentication modeule Stacy Now what? Do I manually make an entry in /etc/passwd? And if

Re: adduser

1998-05-26 Thread Brian Eith
On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 06:10:04PM -0700, Stacy Brodzik wrote: I tried using "passwd houze" from root and it seemed to work ok since it prompted me for a new password and verification. Then it came back with this: passwd: User not known to the underlying authentication modeule Stacy

Re: Linux/MAC/NT/Win95 Networking

1998-05-26 Thread felix k sheng
On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 02:47:02PM -0600, Kyle Moore wrote: I have read everything I can find about Linux and learned a ton but still haven't found the answer to this problem. I have Linux, Macintosh, Win95 and NT4.0 machines that need to be able to network together. I have never set up a

5.1 and the Expo?

1998-05-26 Thread Michael Jinks
If anyone from RedHat is listening, I'm curious -- is there any relationship between the apparently imminent release of 5.1 and the timing of the Expo this weekend? More to the point, will copies be ready in time to pick one up from you guys in person? -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips,

Re: The destruction of Linux as GNU PL

1998-05-26 Thread Jakob 'Sparky' Kaivo
On Tue, 26 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If i remember correctly, www.gnu.org has something about creating a replacement for qt that has the normal GNU public license. Yeah, this is coming (kinda) in the form of GNOME, except GNOME is all qt is plus a bunch more. When GNOME has matured a

RE: pthreads and Chapeau Rouge 5.0

1998-05-26 Thread Eric Fowler \(Eastman Software\)
I need to reopen this issue, as I had set it aside. I have installed rh5 with all the dev options except X-development. I have written a very short piece of code that calls pthread_create() and pthread_join(), and am getting what us Microsofties call an unresolved external. I cannot find glibc2

RE: AMD K-6 Questions

1998-05-26 Thread DSmoak
What's the word on the AMD K6 compatibility with Linux? I'm running RH5.0 on a 200MHZ K6 and a Shuttle 569 MB. I've just used kernels that were RPMed on the RH site... seems fine to me. The RH hardware compatibility guide suggests that there may be some problems with installing Linux on a K6

Re: Defragment utilities??? (and other questions)

1998-05-26 Thread Dave Reed
From: "George Lenzer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. Does Linux have/need a defragmenting program? I looked around on the net and found some indications that as long as 10% of the file system is free, ext2 doesn't need defragmenting? Is that true? I noticed that my system mentions The file

RE: X Quick Poll

1998-05-26 Thread Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD
Publish details about your video card, video RAM capacity, monitor, etc., and then I think we can help a bit more. Thanks so much... Actually, I had trouble getting Metro-X to recognize my video setup, which is one reason I have been veering towards Xfree86... My problem areas are **.

Re: 2nd ide hdd?

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

Re: Linux/MAC/NT/Win95 Networking

1998-05-26 Thread Stephan Greene
On Tue, 26 May 1998, Kyle Moore wrote: I have read everything I can find about Linux and learned a ton but still haven't found the answer to this problem. I have Linux, Macintosh, Win95 and NT4.0 machines that need to be able to network together. I have never set up a network before but

Re: eth0

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

Re: Error messages

1998-05-26 Thread Rick L. Mantooth
Kevin, The getwd usually means that you're (or cron) is trying to do something from a directory that doesn't exist. Example, cd /usr/trash Then in another xterm or VC, type rmdir /usr/trash Now in the first xterm or VC, type "ls" or "cd .." and you should get the getcd error. You can then cd

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Re: Pls help me..

1998-05-26 Thread Chris Lea
I think that setserial just helps you to configure IRQs and such. I'd recommend netcfg for basic configuration. At least, that's what worked for me. -Chris Lea Sony lloyd wrote: What should I do to configure my modem? Somethin like setserial /dev/modem..or? Amanda -- PLEASE read

Re: Pls help me..

1998-05-26 Thread osama bin zia
I tell you the best way is to go to xwindows then go to the terminal screen and give command modemtool . -osama Sony lloyd wrote: What should I do to configure my modem? Somethin like setserial /dev/modem..or? Amanda -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

networking help

1998-05-26 Thread Tony Langdon
It's 26 May 98 17:23:55, We'll return to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and All's discussion of networking help sc One Machine is running Winblows 95 and the other one is running RH 4.2 sc I want to basically set up the RH box so it a firewall and it dials sc into the ISP and the 95 proxies through the

Re: Problem just don't leave me alone ;-))

1998-05-26 Thread impu choudhury
This is how I can it to work now... I login as root su to my username type, xhost + localhost and then run Circus (the IRC program) and don't get the error anymore . So far, its working well for me. Thanks for all the help. ---impu choudhury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tony, Hi

Re: PPP Over ISDN

1998-05-26 Thread Mukesh Sundaram
There are probably a couple of fine points that I've gleaned in working with ISDN vs analog modem. Treating an ISDN modem as an analog modem is fine if you're only interested in 56Kb, i.e. 1B channel. If, like me, you have a 3Com Impact IQ, and would like to avail of features like multi-link PPP