Re: Metro-X or Xfree86?

1998-06-17 Thread Scott Tyson
Thanks, I'll make sure I upgrade to the latest Xfree86 before configuring it. Right now it sets it to the SVGA driver which is not accelerated. My guess is the version I have on my cd is at 1 or to revs behind. Metro-X is 2. *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 6/16/98, at 4:25 PM,

Q: news servers

1998-06-17 Thread Joe Tseng
Anyone here ever set up a news server with Linux? What software do you use to host the groups? How hard is it to do? I'd like to do this to demonstrate to management that Linux is indeed a viable system for the enterprise. (In any case we need one.) Any useful help will be greatly

Re: What's so great about Linux?

1998-06-17 Thread Chuck Mead
Comments are in line! Redhat tells me no where how its kernal installs default. It only gives me 2 options in its chapter "next steps after install".. To do a modular or monolithic compile. My netowrk card (Linksys 10/100 using the PNIC chip) is not supported by Redhat's driver. It

Re: What's so great about Linux?

1998-06-17 Thread Chuck Mead
Just remember what happened between VMS and Berkeley Unix. All the comments you are making now were made 15 years ago, when that struggle became visible. The outcome? Unix built the Internet. Ken Olsen's insistence on VMS destroyed DEC and allowed companies like Sun to blossom. ---Rsk

[Q] NFS Allow/Deny Files

1998-06-17 Thread Raj Singh
Hi, How can I setup NFS so that only certain hosts can nfs-mount the exported file system and other hosts are denied nfs-mount access ? It appears that hosts.allow (and hosts.deny) are for TCP/IP services only. -- Raj +---+ | Raj Singh

beginners help for redhat linux

1998-06-17 Thread terry
Hi Is there a list for linux newbies thats not quite as busy as this one. I find that when I get 125 messages in the morning I end up deleting, without reading, most of them. That seems like defeating the object to me. Regards Terry -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the

starting programs when motif starts

1998-06-17 Thread altex
how do I start programs when motif mwm starts ? Claudiu -- 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: addendum: Re: sndconfig/modprobe?

1998-06-17 Thread Maxwell Smart
On 16-Jun-98 Michael Jinks wrote: I've been trying to get sound to work on my 5.1 box using a soundblaster 16 (as per the post right before this one). Retracing my steps, I just re-compiled my kernel with sound support as a module. But when I did make install_modules, I got this: Just

StarOffice 'system' fonts

1998-06-17 Thread altex
I'm quite unhappy with StarOffice's "system" fonts (you know, the ones in the menus and stuff) on my 15" 1024x768 monitor. How can I enlarge them ? Claudiu -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata

RE: Staroffice won't uncompress!

1998-06-17 Thread Maxwell Smart
On 16-Jun-98 Jason Belich wrote: after getting assorted uncompression errors with SO4sp3 both using the wrapper and manually using tar -xvzf, I attempted to just gzip -d the tarball and I get consistantly the error invalid compressed data--crc error I've dnlded from several different

RE: beginners help for redhat linux

1998-06-17 Thread David Buddrige
Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] regards David Buddrige -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 3:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: beginners help for redhat linux Hi Is there a list for linux newbies thats not quite as

pam ncp under RH5.1

1998-06-17 Thread irger
Hi, how can i run pam with ncp under RH5.1 ?? And how can i start pam Please help. cu armin irger -- 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

gcc + egcs Mix...

1998-06-17 Thread Joerg Mertin
This should be a little Criticism to Redhat Folks... It´s nice for you folks to alway be on top of LiNUX World, but if you do so, please stick to one Package (B.e. gcc + egcs Stuff). I´m b.e. not able to compile applications needing both Codes, C and C++ Code, since I have severe Linker

sendmail installation and users guide

1998-06-17 Thread Robert W. Canary
Hi, Where is the "sendmail installation and users guide" that the sendmail man page refers too. thanks in advance -- robert -- 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

Sound Solutions

1998-06-17 Thread Lee Kirby
Someone was having a tough time getting their sound card configured. Here's how I did it: o I read/scanned the Sound-HOWTO first (I have a SB16 non-PnP (as far as I know) sound card) o If you're using Win95, make a note of your sound card's IRQ, DMA channels via Control Panel - System (or

Re: [Q] NFS Allow/Deny Files

1998-06-17 Thread James Youngman
"rs" == Raj Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rs How can I setup NFS so that only certain hosts can nfs-mount the rs exported file system and other hosts are denied nfs-mount access rs ? From "man nfsd":- SEE ALSO exports(5), mountd(8), ugidd(8C) man exports vi /etc/exports --

Re: Q: news servers

1998-06-17 Thread James Youngman
"jt" == Joe Tseng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jt Anyone here ever set up a news server with Linux? What software Yep. jt do you use to host the groups? How hard is it to do? I'd like inn, from the Red Hat CD. Unless you have particularly special needs, in which case you may get away

Real Audio

1998-06-17 Thread GateKeepeR News
Where can I find the non-expiring real audio/video server at? Thanks.. Bryan P.S. If anyone has a site with FP98 extensions in RPM format, I'd appreciate it if you sent it to me :) -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: SECURITY: new XFree86 packages now available

1998-06-17 Thread argathin
Dave Reed writes: From: Ron Golan [EMAIL PROTECTED] I checked what version of PAM I'm using since I am using XFree86 3.3.2 (see below) but I am using RH5.0. What is the reason for not using this version with 4.2? Is it a glibc thing? [root@ozenfant /tmp]# rpm -qvi pam Name

Pine/Sendmail

1998-06-17 Thread wward
Hello, I'am trying to standardized my "From:" in my e-mail. To be more specific I'am trying to use the name my ISP has assign me, which is different than my user name. I tried to use the Pine mechanism, customize-header, but when I went to send an e-mail it told me I couldn't cutomize "From". My

Re: sendmail aliases for outbound username?

1998-06-17 Thread argathin
Andy Lindeman writes: hoeteck- I already have the fetchmail part going. I want my outgoing email to look like it's coming from my ISP account [EMAIL PROTECTED], when it is really coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (my own unregistered, always changing IP addr, not on the net 24x7 linux box).

Re:MC broken?!?

1998-06-17 Thread hUnTeR
Good day all - Just a short question. I upgraded from ncurses-1.9e-8 to ncurses-4.2b980516-1 to get BitchX-74p4-1 working, and now it seems that mc doesnt work any more. Is there a fix for this? I noticed mc requires libncurses.so.3.0 which still seems to be on the system

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-17 Thread argathin
Chris Humphres writes: 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

Re: FW: Linux Bigot.

1998-06-17 Thread Anthony E. Greene
At 09:06 6/17/98 +1000, Bradley, Greg wrote: The problem is still, that I must know that Linux exists and that I want it, before I can subscribe to a journal to find somewhere that I can get it from. WIN95 screams at me from every newspaper advertisment and editorial. When was the last time you

Re: Burning a RedHat CD - The Full Story

1998-06-17 Thread Graham
Steve Frampton wrote: 6) The next thing to do is create an ISO image, you can then burn this image onto a CD using your favourite platform - or even Windows ;) To do this enter the following as one line: mkisofs -b misc/boot/autoboot.img -c misc/boot/boot.catalog -a

Re: [Q] NFS Allow/Deny Files

1998-06-17 Thread Clemens Adler
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Raj Singh wrote: Hi, How can I setup NFS so that only certain hosts can nfs-mount the exported file system and other hosts are denied nfs-mount access ? It appears that hosts.allow (and hosts.deny) are for TCP/IP services only. NFS acess is controlled by the

Re: burning redhat cd

1998-06-17 Thread Graham
Kevin Smith wrote: On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Graham Hemmings wrote: 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

Re: sendmail installation and users guide

1998-06-17 Thread James Youngman
"Robert" == Robert W Canary [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robert Where is the "sendmail installation and users guide" that Robert the sendmail man page refers too. /usr/doc/sendmail/doc/op/op.me -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Space problem?

1998-06-17 Thread wward
Hello, My system informed me that I had no space left in the root filesystem. So, I removed a bunch of files totaling about 20meg. When I did a "df" the filesystem still shows no space available. Where is the space I freed-up? TIA. Wayne -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the

Re: What's so great about Linux?

1998-06-17 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 09:43:27PM -0500, Dave Ihnat wrote: MS is trying to simplify the world too much; most Linux advocates (as, to be fair, most Unix advocates I've known for the last quarter-century) try to trivialize the difficulties of configuring and maintaining a complex OS. I

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-17 Thread Anthony E. Greene
I see formatted email (via HTML or any other scheme) as useful only within organizatons or specified groups. Within those limits it can be *very* useful. I have a newsletter that I'd like to publish in a fashion that's readable with all it's formatting from within the recipient's mail client.

ppp minicom

1998-06-17 Thread Bijaya Hamal
Dear Sir /Madame , I am a newbie at redhat linux . I want to connect to my isp using minicom. I am using redhat 4.2 . When I read the minicom howto , it talks about loading ppp dameon (pppd) through the minicom software and unloading too after finishing . I have compiled my ppp into my

RE: Q: news servers

1998-06-17 Thread KThorpe
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 21:01:24 PDT From: "Joe Tseng" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Q: news servers We aren't running news here anymore, but I installed it once to try it. The server is INN (inn-1.7-2 in RH5.0). Read /usr/doc/HOWTO/News-HOWTO or take a quick hike to:

Perl/TK

1998-06-17 Thread Brian Wilson
Can anyone tell me if there is a rpm for the Perl/TK on Redhat 5.1. If not how would I go about getting this package. Thanks for any help on this problem. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-17 Thread CodFish88
In a message dated 98-06-16 21:37:24 EDT, you write: Personally, I can say that HTML-formatted mail also has many advantages. I do not wish to elaborate them here for various reasons. However, I was very surprised at the lack of appreciation by a technical group. Most importantly, I think

Re: Q: news servers

1998-06-17 Thread Will Shaw
I use Dnews, which is commercial software. (www.netwinsite.com) The only reason for doing this is that our internet provider doesn't give us a news feed, and I have to suck the feed from Supernews (www.supernews.com). 'suck' proved less than useful for an operation of this size (a few hundred

Re: 3c590 and PCI-SCSI card confict IRQ conflict

1998-06-17 Thread John J. Donohue
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Michael Jinks wrote: The ethernet card and the SCSI controller are both PCI, and both _really_ want to claim IRQ 11. I think that this should be workable under PCI (right?), but at the moment any command I try to send to eth0 returns a SCSI error. Try moving one or

Re: Staroffice won't uncompress!

1998-06-17 Thread Jason Belich
Maxwell Smart wrote: Similar problem but, only tried staroffice-wrapper. Followed the exact same procedure I used to get it working for 5.0 and keep getting it to start, look for the file-link in /tmp and then just stop. A query shows the wrapper installed. Tried manually installing the

Re: Space problem?

1998-06-17 Thread James Youngman
"mt" == Mauricio Teixeira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mt On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, wward wrote: the filesystem still shows no space available. Where is the space I freed-up? mt Sometimes the space freed-up os shown only after a reboot... I mt dunno why... See the first paragraph of the

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-17 Thread James Boorn
Maybe I am just dense, so please enlighten me. What problem does HTML email solve? I see no reason for it, and am one of those that just deletes it. But maybe if I knew the problem it solved I'ld be willing to consider it a solution. On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, David Hauck wrote: In the responses

Re: Space problem?

1998-06-17 Thread Vidiot
My system informed me that I had no space left in the root filesystem. So, I removed a bunch of files totaling about 20meg. When I did a "df" the filesystem still shows no space available. Where is the space I freed-up? Wayne Excuse me, but how the Hell are any of us supposed to know what files

Re: PS/2 and RedHat Disks

1998-06-17 Thread Christopher Fisk
Unfortunately I don't have much knowledge about loadlin, I'll look for some info and letcha know whut i find. Chris On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, LT wrote: Chris, I haven't tried that! But I am not using lilo because I am using DosLinux and that doesn't appear to be there. Do you know of any

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-17 Thread James Boorn
Waste of bandwidth. Put up a web page and email the url to subscribers when it gets updated. On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Anthony E. Greene wrote: I see formatted email (via HTML or any other scheme) as useful only within organizatons or specified groups. Within those limits it can be *very*

Setting Default Root Cursor in Xwindows/FVWM95

1998-06-17 Thread Anthony E. Greene
I'd like to set my default cursor to a left pointer. Anyone know where this is set? Tony -- Anthony E. Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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: Pine/Sendmail

1998-06-17 Thread Derek Balling
At 06:15 6/17/98 -0400, wward wrote: Hello, I'am trying to standardized my "From:" in my e-mail. To be more specific I'am trying to use the name my ISP has assign me, which is different than my user name. I tried to use the Pine mechanism, customize-header, but when I went to send an e-mail it

Can anybody elaborate on this?

1998-06-17 Thread Robert Nicholson
This is a little vague for me. Supposing I have a RedHat tree on a FAT filesystem ... What does it mean by [Intel Systems: If you are using a DOS filesystem, you will not be able to use the full Linux filenames for the RPM packages. The installation process does not care what the filenames

Endless Loop O' Links

1998-06-17 Thread Robert Hailman
HELP! I tried to change my X server to VGA_16 while I figure out my new video card (I am using 4.2), and when I run startx, it says there is no server. When I run the server itself (X), it says there are to many links, and when I runm XF86VGA_16, it says the same thing. Turns out the two are

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-17 Thread Anthony E. Greene
At 08:15 6/17/98 -0600, James Boorn wrote: Maybe I am just dense, so please enlighten me. What problem does HTML email solve? I see no reason for it, and am one of those that just deletes it. But maybe if I knew the problem it solved I'ld be willing to consider it a solution. HTML can serve

change the harddrive

1998-06-17 Thread Nima Mortazavi
Hi I have my linux system on a 420 Mb harddrive (/dev/hdc) This harddrive has 2 partition one for linux system (/dev/hdc2) and one partition for swap (/dev/hdc1). lilo has master boot in /dev/hdc I have now a new harddrive (/dev/hda) and want to move alla my linux system and swap to this new

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-17 Thread Anthony E. Greene
At 08:19 6/17/98 -0600, James Boorn wrote: [about emailing HTML formatted documents] Waste of bandwidth. Put up a web page and email the url to subscribers when it gets updated. • Some people prefer push. • Some do not have toll-free local calling (not everyone lives in the U.S.).

RH 5.1, 2940UW, Linux 2.1.106, failure

1998-06-17 Thread W. Wade, Hampton
Folks, I have a Dell Workstation 400 with an Adaptec 2940 UW. My software is RedHat 5.1 (5.0 upgrade). With the Linux kernel 2.0.34, this system works fine. With kernel 2.1.106, at boot time it finds the controller then reports a timeout, then goes into an infinite loop with reset/timeout

Re: Pine/Sendmail

1998-06-17 Thread Mike Johnson
Hello, I'am trying to standardized my "From:" in my e-mail. To be more specific I'am trying to use the name my ISP has assign me, which is different than my user name. I tried to use the Pine mechanism, customize-header, but when I went to send an e-mail it told me I couldn't cutomize "From". My

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-17 Thread Robert Ruedisueli
Anthony E. Greene wrote: I see formatted email (via HTML or any other scheme) as useful only within organizatons or specified groups. Within those limits it can be *very* useful. I have a newsletter that I'd like to publish in a fashion that's readable with all it's formatting from within

LPRng

1998-06-17 Thread wilfrid Gaboriaud
Has anyone install LPRng on RedHat 5.0 ? i have tryed LPRng-3.4.2-1 and LPRng-3.5.1 but both won't print to SMB printer they print to Network printer but only the first 3 lines because a newline begin at the end of the preceeding line. HELP /*** *

Re: Endless Loop O' Links

1998-06-17 Thread Robert Ruedisueli
Robert Hailman wrote: HELP! I tried to change my X server to VGA_16 while I figure out my new video card (I am using 4.2), and when I run startx, it says there is no server. When I run the server itself (X), it says there are to many links, and when I runm XF86VGA_16, it says the same

Re: monitors: plug 'n play okay?

1998-06-17 Thread Robert Ruedisueli
Leston Buell wrote: I'm a newbie considering upgrading to a 17" monitor from one of those online auctions. I've read the Red Hat hardware support page, which doesn't actually have a section on monitors, but i want to know if the general lack of compatibility with Plug 'n Play applies to

Re: monitors: plug 'n play okay?

1998-06-17 Thread Ed Jaeger
I use linux on pnp monitors. No problems w/XFree86 or console mode - I think the video drivers just ignore pnp info, which is fine with me. Two systems dual (duel :P) boot NT, one is dedicated linux. Leston Buell wrote: of compatibility with Plug 'n Play applies to monitors as well. ¿Do

Re: monitors: plug 'n play okay?

1998-06-17 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Leston Buell wrote: actually have a section on monitors, but i want to know if the general lack of compatibility with Plug 'n Play applies to monitors as well. ¿Do No. Plug 'n' Play with respect to monitors is a marketing gimmick. It effectively means that it is a

change the harddrive

1998-06-17 Thread Nima Mortazavi
Hi I have my linux system on a 420 Mb harddrive (/dev/hdc) This harddrive has 2 partition one for linux system (/dev/hdc2) and one partition for swap (/dev/hdc1). lilo has master boot in /dev/hdc I have now a new harddrive (/dev/hda) and want to move alla my linux system and swap to this new

Re: monitors: plug 'n play okay?

1998-06-17 Thread Dan Cyr
There is no such thing as a Plug 'N Play Monitor. It's just the computer manufacturers that are feeding on peoples lack of knowledge to suck them into buying their monitor. They think (and with good cause) that people will buy it because Plug 'N Play is supposed to be such a 'great' thing. I

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-17 Thread Derek Balling
One size does not fit all. Besides, the only bandwidth saved will be for those users that do not retrieve the document. That will vary on a case-by-case basis. There _is_ a place for HTML mail. That may be. But not in my mailbox. :) -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the

monitors: plug 'n play okay?

1998-06-17 Thread Leston Buell
I'm a newbie considering upgrading to a 17" monitor from one of those online auctions. I've read the Red Hat hardware support page, which doesn't actually have a section on monitors, but i want to know if the general lack of compatibility with Plug 'n Play applies to monitors as well. ¿Do plug 'n

Re: Space problem?

1998-06-17 Thread tyrant
This is a response to the lovely language in the response to the question below...I'd have to say thats pretty unappropriate...and the files he removed are really inconsequential(at least in my point of view). As an answer to Wayne's question, don't go by the percentage necessarily, because

Re: beginner's question re RH 5.0 install

1998-06-17 Thread Maureen Beck
Can anyone advise me on how to install RH 5.0 from a CD-rom ? I get as far as the menu that asks what kind of CD-rom driver -- my CD -rom drive is a USDRIVEs 24DT . It is an atapi compliant drive attached to a Soundblaster card. My problem is: when I get to the menu, I am offered a choice of

Reinstall problem

1998-06-17 Thread Darque
I am needing to reinstall RH5.0, but would like to retain the /home and /usr/local directories. I created each as seperate partions as recomended in my initial install, but didn't write details anywhere. When I start to reinstall and it asks for all the partition info, I'm not sure how to

Figuring out free IRQs.

1998-06-17 Thread nimennor
Hi, This may sound stupid, but I have no idea on how to do this. I just bought additional parallel card ( ISA, not p-n-p ), and I have to set jumpers for IRQ. I cat'ed /proc/devices, to see if the first number represent IRQ, however, I saw

Bug? Powerd not owned by a package..

1998-06-17 Thread Tim Hockin
/sbin/powerd used to be owned by SysVinit - but now it is not owned at all. It is still INSTALLED, but no man page is found, and no package claims ownership. was this intentional? Tim -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

sendmail error

1998-06-17 Thread redhat
Does anyone know why I would get this error from sendmail when I try to access the inbox via POP? "Could not log into the mail server. The server responded: being read already /var/spool/mail/username. Please enter new password for user [EMAIL PROTECTED]" I get this

RE: 3c590 and PCI-SCSI card confict IRQ conflict

1998-06-17 Thread Paul Pettit
From: Michael Jinks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 12:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 3c590 and PCI-SCSI card confict IRQ conflict John J. Donohue wrote: Try moving one or both of the cards to different PCI slots and see if that "encourages" them

Several problems...RH 5.0 kernel 2.0.31

1998-06-17 Thread Patrick O'Neil
I have posted to several linux newsgroups in search of an answer to these questions, but so far, no answer so here I go again. I am having difficulty setting up my window manager, fvwm2, and getting both my PPA Zip drive and the connected Epson Color Stylus 600 working. When I installed RH

RE: redhat-digest Digest V98 #507

1998-06-17 Thread Tony Garland
Here's how to unsubscribe: Subcription/unsubscription/info requests should always be sent to the -request address of a mailinglist. If a mailinglist for example is called "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", then the -request address can be inferred from this to be: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". To subscribe to a

Re: printing problems, ppa zip disk, and RH 5.0

1998-06-17 Thread Ignacio Rodriguez
Patrick O'Neil wrote: I have finally gotten my RH system configured and ALMOST up to full functionality. I do have a problem with printing, however. I have an Epson Stylus Color 600 attached to lpt1 as well as a PPA Zip drive. I installed scsi support for the PPA during initial install

RE: beginners help for redhat linux

1998-06-17 Thread Paul Pettit
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 2:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: beginners help for redhat linux Hi Is there a list for linux newbies thats not quite as busy as this one. I find that when I get 125 messages in the morning I end up

RE: beginner's question re RH 5.0 install

1998-06-17 Thread Paul Pettit
From: Maureen Beck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 12:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: beginner's question re RH 5.0 install Can anyone advise me on how to install RH 5.0 from a CD-rom ? I get as far as the menu that asks what kind of CD-rom driver --

Re: Space problem?

1998-06-17 Thread Woody
A lot of times you will find that when running low on space...and you delete say, like you said, 20 M, that the df binary will show your respective filesystem as 0 M left. But if you look at the actual amount to the left of the 0, you will find that there is still some space leftI don't know

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-17 Thread Robert Hailman
At 08:19 6/17/98 -0600, James Boorn wrote: [about emailing HTML formatted documents] Waste of bandwidth. Put up a web page and email the url to subscribers when it gets updated. • Some people prefer push. • Some do not have toll-free local calling (not everyone lives in the U.S.).

Re: Named for an Intranet

1998-06-17 Thread Casey Bralla
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998 12:27:56 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guy's, need some help with my home network, specifically named.. Great how to at "www.dns.net/dnsrd/docs/basic/txt". I got my DNS system working for my home intranet. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and

Re: Vibe, Galaxy and Visix

1998-06-17 Thread Art Stine
On 17 Jun 1998, Eze Ogwuma wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how to reach Visix the makers of Vibe and Galaxy? I used to work for Visix - they closed down a couple months ago. If you do a 'whois visix.com', you should be able to get a number for Deborah Bedell, who is the President now. They

Re: worng domain name in email header

1998-06-17 Thread Dave Parker
Robert W. Canary wrote: Hi, I don't know if this a sendmail problem or network configuration problem. All mail that goes through my SMPT is referanced as (user)@office.ohiocounty.net it is supposed to be (user)@ohiocounty.net. If I try to send mail to an account with (user)@ohiocounty.net it

Making a RedHat CD-R

1998-06-17 Thread Brian Wright
Hello! Yesterday, I downloaded RedHat 5.1 from Sunsite. I want to make a CD-R with the RedHat distribution. The problem is, I only have Windoze 95 (gag!) and a Smart and Friendly CD-RW 226, and I have two software programs, CdQuadrat WinOnCD 3.5 and Adaptec EZ CD Creator 3.01b. I used WinOnCD

re: configuring accentuation

1998-06-17 Thread Michael Lees
Try LaTex (use the tetex rpm). There is a package called Babel that deals with a variety of languages. LaTex itself can produce a large variety of accents. I would be quite surprised if it is unable to produce the accents that you are after. Regards Michael "Ivan Jose Varzinczak"

Re: beginner's question re RH 5.0 install

1998-06-17 Thread Dan Cornilescu
Maureen Beck wrote: Can anyone advise me on how to install RH 5.0 from a CD-rom ? I get as far as the menu that asks what kind of CD-rom driver -- my CD -rom drive is a USDRIVEs 24DT . It is an atapi compliant drive attached to a Soundblaster card. My problem is: when I get to the menu, I

lpd 0.31 broken

1998-06-17 Thread Jacob A. Langford
lpd is broken (i386 version at least). redhat 5.1 - lpr 0.21.2 - updated to lpr 0.31.1 redhat 5.1 - lpr 0.31.4 Between 0.17 and 0.21 something got broken. The daemon acts as if every printcap entry had :rs=true:, thus only honoring remote print requests from valid users. Intentional

Re: boot disk

1998-06-17 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Kevin Seguin wrote: is it possible to create a disk to boot from during installation of rh5.0? i have NT on my machine now, and i want to install red hat so i It seems pretty convoluted, and I would think that somewhere in there there's something redundant, but I don't know

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-17 Thread Tony Wells
Greg Fall writes: snipand maybe he doesn't even realize that he is using HTML. end of snip Since I accidentally started this thread, I've kept silent, waiting for a response of this type. Now it has popped up, here is my reply. The snip above digs deep into the golden thread of why this list

Re: 3c590 and PCI-SCSI card confict IRQ conflict

1998-06-17 Thread Tony Wells
Hi Michael, I havn't used a 3c590 before, but the following usually works for other 3coms. The technique includes running the configuration program for the card. If there isn;t a configuration program, just miss out the config steps. 1. Reset the motherboard to factory defaults. 2. Take the

Re: Reinstall problem

1998-06-17 Thread Dan Cornilescu
Darque wrote: I am needing to reinstall RH5.0, but would like to retain the /home and /usr/local directories. I created each as seperate partions as recomended in my initial install, but didn't write details anywhere. Good that you did that. "df -a" should give an idea about who's who.

Sorry

1998-06-17 Thread RTS
Sorry about the returned mail to the list Shouldn't happen again... Anyway .. For the cause of it... I am trying to set up a virtual mail server for a client... I am having a brain beating time doing it. I have sendmail-8.8.5-4 on an older RedHat Linux system. (rpm version) I have tried

stdio.h

1998-06-17 Thread Paul VanDyke
what rpm does the file stdio.h come in? I just can't seem to find it on my system and I am thinking I just didn't install it. I am running RedHat 5.0 Thanks!! Paul VanDyke -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ

Re: Scourge of Armagon on Linux?

1998-06-17 Thread Christopher Fisk
yes On Wed, 17 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have searched the web, looking if it is possible to run Scourge of Armagon ( Quake add-on pack ) on Linux. So far, I did not find any definite answers. Is it possible? Thanks, Nikita. -- PLEASE read

Environment variables

1998-06-17 Thread J. Carlos Cristobal
Hello!: Just a curious question, where do I read about the Environment variables for RH? I've read some instructions which tell me to change or add them but I just don't know anything about this, For example, when I call edquota it says it will call "vi" or the editor is defined for me,

Re: Burning a RedHat CD - The Full Story

1998-06-17 Thread Cheng Yuan-Chung
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 07:54:40PM +0800, Graham wrote: mkisofs -b misc/boot/autoboot.img -c misc/boot/boot.catalog -a -A "RedHat Linux 5.0 with Patches to 06/02/98" -d -L -o /temp/RH5.iso -P "Publisher ID" -p "Preparer ID" -r -T -N /temp/rh5

Sound Card [Q]

1998-06-17 Thread Oleg Bulavsky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have a Vibra16 PnP in my Linux box. In MustDie'95 it looks that it have io220, irq10 and two dma 1 0. And it works as true 16-bit card. When I boot Linux it tell me that there are no 16-bit dma then use dma1 for 8 bit. So I have not 16-bit sound in Linux.

Applixware question (been awhile)

1998-06-17 Thread Bozarth
Folks, I know I should post this to the Applix list, but I'm not a member, I don't have time to sign up, and I *sure* don't have time to read another list. I hope someone here can help me with what I think may be a minor problem, but could possibly prove to be a "suite-buster". I suspect I'm

Re: ircd make errors...

1998-06-17 Thread hUnTeR
Evening all - Another set of problems/questions...not sure how many of you have compiled ircd on your rh linux boxes but i am trying to recompile ircd (ircu2.9.32) on a newly installed rhl5.0 kernel 2.0.34 server (formerly freebsd). I ran the Config and edited the /include/config.h file and

login problems

1998-06-17 Thread Eric Cifreo
OK Just moved from 4.0 to 5.1 and I've hit some quick snags. After adding a couple aliases to my /etc/profile (alias ls= ls -color, etc.) I can only log in as root. No other account works, not my personal or my ppp account. I don't understand it. I've tried "passwd eric" and all "tokens

Re: Setting Default Root Cursor in Xwindows/FVWM95

1998-06-17 Thread Sergey Podushkin
Anthony E. Greene wrote: I'd like to set my default cursor to a left pointer. Anyone know where this is set? According RedHat's Custom-X-Tips: xsetroot -cursor_name cursorname what you want is: xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr other versions: xsetroot -cursor_name {drapped_box, hand1,

YP/NIS+ on Red Hat 5.1?

1998-06-17 Thread Kirk Bauer
Okay, I am looking for a good information source for getting Yellow Pages -- or even better, NIS+ -- working on my three Red Hat Linux 5.1 machines here... I see ypserv, etc... but I also see a /var/nis directory that is supposed to be for NIS+. There is a /var/yp directory, that is obviously

Re: Making a RedHat CD-R

1998-06-17 Thread Kevin Smith
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Brian Wright wrote: Hello! Yesterday, I downloaded RedHat 5.1 from Sunsite. I want to make a CD-R with the RedHat distribution. The problem is, I only have Windoze 95 (gag!) and a Smart and Friendly CD-RW 226, and I have two software programs, CdQuadrat WinOnCD 3.5

Sorry

1998-06-17 Thread RTS
Sorry about the returned mail to the list Shouldn't happen again... Anyway .. For the cause of it... I am trying to set up a virtual mail server for a client... I am having a brain beating time doing it. I have sendmail-8.8.5-4 on an older RedHat Linux system. (rpm version) I have tried

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