RE: POP3 server config page?

1998-06-23 Thread Hoe-Teck Wee
Hello. You might like to give Eudora's qpopper POP3 server a go. As with most POP3 servers, minimal configuration is required unless U require APOP or support for shadow passwords. ftp://mudflap.cafes.net/pub/redhat5/qpopper*.i386.rpm Just make sure that u've got inetd [/etc/inetd.conf] set up

Re: IP Masqurading

1998-06-23 Thread Ed Jaeger
Rather than rc.local, you _could_ modify [root@firewall /root]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4=yes Change THIS from "no". HOSTNAME=firewall.internal.bgcorp.com DOMAINNAME=internal.bgcorp.com # GATEWAY= # GATEWAYDEV=

Re: IP-Mapping/translation

1998-06-23 Thread Barfuß Egon jun.
Hi, No I´m not changing my provider. We have 3 subnets, one on the internetside (before the firewall) and two behind the firewall. Behind the firewall we use real ip-addresses and 10-nets (10.0.0.*) What I try to do is listening, if someone wants to connect to x.x.x.x I want the firewall to

Re: Web Database

1998-06-23 Thread Mike Edwards
Postgres is easy to install, easy to use, and has a beautiful Perl interface module already written so integrating it into your Perl CGI's is a snap. Agreed! And if you use PHP, it's even easier! http://www.php.net Just my $0.02... Mike == Mike Edwards, MIS

Re: what is easiest upgrade path 5.0 - 5.1 ?

1998-06-23 Thread Wes Parker
Or, if Redhat is unwilling to help you out, go to www.cheapbytes.com and get 5.1 (CD only) for $1.95. No manuals, but you shouldn't have a problem with the upgrade. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23 Jun, Geoffrey S. Knauth shaped the bitstream to say: Two weeks ago I purchased and installed RH

Re: Configuring AfterStep 1.4.5

1998-06-23 Thread David Mihm
On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, David Taylor wrote: I am running Redhat 5.0, AfterStep 1.4.5, kernel 2.0.31 ... If you are running the "real" version of AfterStep, and not RH's fvwm95 hack of it; your questions should be directed to the AfterStep mailing list. Go here for instructions on

Re: X Font path??

1998-06-23 Thread David Mihm
On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Darque wrote: HELP!!! Something I installed has hosed me! I can no longer get into X. It aborts with the following error message: === _FontTransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 failed to set default font path

Re: Netscape slow as a snail

1998-06-23 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Patrick O'Neil wrote: connect to my ISP I use Usernet. Thing is, when I start Netscape it takes _forever_ to start. I wait and wait, wondering if it is ever is going to start (on occasion I have simply gone on to start telnet and used remote pine) but then FINALLY

RE: md tools?

1998-06-23 Thread Bruno Prior
I don't think there is an md rpm. If you want RAID-0 or RAID-linear, you've got everything you need in the kernel source. If you want RAID-1, 4 or 5, you need the raid145-971022-2.0.31 patch from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/. I think the reason you couldn't access the site

Re: Best way to configure sound card

1998-06-23 Thread Scott Tyson
I don't even know for sure if sndconfig has the ability, by itself, to alter settings in the card; I think you have to match it to whatever the card is set for. But I may be wrong about this; my Linux-sound experience ends at the sb16. WRT the OSS drivers, I had mixed luck myself. The

Re: WP7 Package missing items

1998-06-23 Thread Dan Cornilescu
Cody Hartley wrote: More on WP7 Package: Immediately after sending my message to the list I received a reply from RH. They don't support the bonus CD (disc 3 w/ RH5.1). In my opinion, asking them to provide the complete program, though it is not part of the required OS distribution,

Re: Relaying

1998-06-23 Thread David S. Jackson
Thus spake RTS ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Where is a good spot to find info on stoping relaying?? www.sendmail.org has lots of info for configuring various versions of sendmail. You can also check the Realtime Blackhole List at http://maps.vix.com/rbl Sendmail 8.9 turns off relaying by

Re: NTFS

1998-06-23 Thread Woody
2.1.89 and above, I THINK...2.1.97 reliably...no write support YET. Woody Security Administrator Localline.com, Oxford, IN [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Paul Fontenot wrote: Does anyone know, off the top of their heads, what kernel version will read NTFS? -Paul -- PLEASE

Re: qmail ?

1998-06-23 Thread Greg Fall
Hossein, I assume there aren't RPMS of qmail, especially at RH ftp, because the author of qmail has pretty serious restrictions on distribution. See www.qmail.org. ++ Gregory Fall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) University of

Re: Have y'all seen this?

1998-06-23 Thread Scott Tyson
Maybe try installing communicator 4.05? *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 6/21/98, at 4:40 PM, Patrick O'Neil wrote: I have RH 5.0 with kernel 2.0.31 installed. I have upgraded Usernet and installed Netscape Communicator 4.04. When I start Netscape, the navigator browser starts

Re: Reading a Windows95 (DOS) floppy

1998-06-23 Thread buntin
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Richard Sharpe wrote: At 01:07 PM 6/22/98 -0500, you wrote: Can I read data on a Windows95 generated floppy? If so, how do I do it? I'm running Linux version 5.0 (Red Hat) Use the mtools suite of programs. Do a "man mtools" for a list of the available tools. Once

Re: NEW INSTALL- NEED HELP!

1998-06-23 Thread Dan Cornilescu
Michael Jinks wrote: Cory T. Lamb wrote: It sounds like you haven't setup apache or installed the ftp server. As root startx then with the control-panel run the apache configurator. (The very bottom icon on the panel.) Minor kvetch: apache configurator isn't always the bottom

RH51: can't open /lib/modules/preferred/modules.dep

1998-06-23 Thread Javier Hernandez
Hi, I just received my RH 51 and installed it without problems. I did recompiled the 2.0.34 kernel from the sources (linux-2.0.34.tar.gz) but now the only thing which I can see strange at boot time is a message: Finding modules dependencies... can't open /lib/modules/preferred/modules.dep I

Re: NTFS

1998-06-23 Thread Paul Fontenot
Thanks for the info. Anybody have any gotcha's they've found with these kernels? -+-The 2.1.x kernels (not sure as of what though) read ntfs. Just get -+-2.1.106, and stay pretty-current w/ them. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: NEW INSTALL- NEED HELP!

1998-06-23 Thread Cory T. Lamb
For some reason it has it's own installation package in X11/utilities it is apache configurator or something close to that. On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Dan Cornilescu wrote: Michael Jinks wrote: Cory T. Lamb wrote: It sounds like you haven't setup apache or installed the ftp server.

Re: Real Audio

1998-06-23 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, William J. Salvino wrote: There is no rvplayer5.0 subdirectory for $HOME. $HOME is your home directory. It is just an example - I'd put it somewhere else, such as /usr/local/lib/rvplayer5.0. BTW, you've re- ferred to /root - you really shouldn't run programs as root, but

Re: NEW INSTALL- NEED HELP!

1998-06-23 Thread Paul Fontenot
apachecfg is the package you are looking for. -Paul On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Dan Cornilescu wrote: -+-Michael Jinks wrote: -+- -+- Cory T. Lamb wrote: -+- -+- It sounds like you haven't setup -+- apache or installed the ftp server. As root startx then with the -+- control-panel run the

DNS Problems ...

1998-06-23 Thread Paul Fontenot
Got a problem I hope someone can help with, problem follows: Log entries ... Jun 21 23:58:21 router named[8365]: starting. named 4.9.6-REL Tue Mar 31 13:35:17 EST 1998 ^[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/bind-4.9.6/named Jun 21 23:58:21 router named[8365]: cache zone "" loaded (serial 0)

Re: Symbios Logic SCSI

1998-06-23 Thread Eze Ogwuma
Jason Scherbarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all, Just wondering if anybody knew if there was work going on for a driver for the Symbios Logic U/W SCSI controller... Which controller exactly? The 875 has been fully supported for a long time now and the 895 is supported on paper. --

Re: NEW INSTALL- NEED HELP!

1998-06-23 Thread Ray Curtis
"ctl" == Cory T Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ctl For some reason it has it's own installation package in X11/utilities it ctl is apache configurator or something close to that. Try 'comanche'. ctl On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Dan ctl Cornilescu wrote: Michael Jinks wrote: Cory T. Lamb

Xircom PCMCIA

1998-06-23 Thread Mike A. Lewis, CNE
I've recently installed RH5.0 on my Toshiba laptop. During the install, the option for a Xircom PCMCIA NIC was not available, therefore I just skipped installing networking. Can someone tell me what steps are necessary to install this Xircom card now ? The card is a Xircom CE3 10/100 NIC.

Re: NEW INSTALL- NEED HELP!

1998-06-23 Thread Dan Cornilescu
Cory T. Lamb wrote: For some reason it has it's own installation package in X11/utilities it is apache configurator or something close to that. Not on my official RH5.1 CD, with the 10138-1 number on it: [/cdrom]# ls -R | grep apac apache-1.2.6-4.i386.rpm apache-msg-1.11r11.cfr

Re: Symbios Logic SCSI

1998-06-23 Thread Peter Chen
Symbios Logic U/W SCSI controller is using the ncr53c875 chip which has been supported since kernel 2.0.29. In fact the ncr53c8xx driver in kernel 2.0.34 is quite good and I am very happily using it. Just put "alias scsi_hostadapter ncr53c8xx" in your /etc/conf.modules. I strongly encourage you

Re: DNS Problems ...

1998-06-23 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Paul Fontenot wrote: Got a problem I hope someone can help with, problem follows: Couple of problems with this zone file. Jun 21 23:58:21 router named[8365]: named.forward:1: expected a number Indicative of having your parenthesis at the end of the first line pointing

OUPS lpr bug with remote users.

1998-06-23 Thread Tressens Lionel
If you have a problem with remote users and lpr, the correct url is http://www.etud.insa-tlse.fr/~tressens/lpr sorry Lionel - Lionel TRESSENS R4-1897 4, All des Sciences Appliquees 31400 TOULOUSE (FRANCE) Tel : (+33) 6 12 48 94 77

Re: DNS Problems ...

1998-06-23 Thread Richard Sharpe
Hi, At 12:06 AM 6/22/98 -0700, Paul Fontenot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got a problem I hope someone can help with, problem follows: See below for answers ... Log entries ... Jun 21 23:58:21 router named[8365]: starting. named 4.9.6-REL Tue Mar 31 13:35:17 EST 1998 ^[EMAIL

Re: DNS Problems ...

1998-06-23 Thread Vidiot
And the offending named.forward file ... cuda.org. IN SOA router.cuda.org. root.router.cuda.org. ) 1998072101 ; Serial Number 10800 ; Refresh after 3 hours 3600; Retry after 1 hour

Re: Web Database

1998-06-23 Thread George Toft
Subject: Web Database Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 22:12:20 -0400 From: James Michael Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: redhat-list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Slowly building up my systems knowlage now :) Next thing to get under my belt, I want to be able to have a form based database take entries, insert

Re: NEW INSTALL- NEED HELP!

1998-06-23 Thread Dan Cornilescu
Ray Curtis wrote: "ctl" == Cory T Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ctl For some reason it has it's own installation package in X11/utilities it ctl is apache configurator or something close to that. Try 'comanche'. Got it. It actually is close enough, I *should* have thought about it.

Re: X Font path??

1998-06-23 Thread flaw
On 21 Jun, Darque wrote: You're right, it probably is the last entry in your font path (i.e. inet/127.0.0.1:7100), and you can fix the problem by removing (or commenting out) that line in the font path section of your XF86Config file (located in your /etc/X11 directory). Did you install xfstt

IRT: MetroX won't work - solved

1998-06-23 Thread George Toft
Strangest thing - Metro stopped working after several months of faithful service. It stopped cold (see my post from last week). In desparation, I reloaded Linux (several times, different distros) and could not get any X server working in more than 16 colors. I was willing to sell my laptop

Mailing to redhat-list - Returned mail: Can't create output: Error 0?

1998-06-23 Thread Dan Cornilescu
Are you guys getting the ugly errors below? dan Subject: Returned mail: Can't create output: Error 0 Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 23:56:52 -0700 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The original message was received at Mon,

Re: having to ethernet interfaces

1998-06-23 Thread Richard Sharpe
Hi, At 01:49 AM 6/23/98 -0400, someone wrote: Kevin Seguin wrote: actually, i only have one ethernet card, but i want to use it on two networks. is this even possible? Yes, but surely not in the same time on two _physical_ networks :) Ummm, I have run two different networks on the same

RE: linux on a compaq box

1998-06-23 Thread Etienne Joubert
i'm running a compaq deskpro. with 200Mhz procces. 2.1gig harddrive 3com vortex. and what not Now c, i partioned my drive so that i can dual boot to windowz and linux ( nice to have both ). and linux doesn't want to install. It installs as much as the size of the swap partition and

FW: linux on a compaq box

1998-06-23 Thread Etienne Joubert
I'm using the same but i want it to dual boot.(windows and linux) but it only installs the equivalent amount of my swap space. Doesn't matter if i change it to 50Mbs or if it's 127Mbs, it does the same thing every time. , What Compaq box are you doing this on? I have a deskpro 2000 and it

X Not Starting After Having Upgraded Kernel

1998-06-23 Thread Steve Ki-Won Lee
Greetings! First of all, my sincere thanks go out to the individuals who took the time to reply back with answers to my last post about my kernel compilation problem. I'm afraid though, that the problem I was hoping that would be resolved by compiling is still persistent and need more help. I

RE: POP3 server config page?

1998-06-23 Thread Dodd Graham Civ USAFE CSS/SCBS
I set this up recently for a local company. They use Outlook Express to POP in and get their mail, plus send local intranet mail, the server dials out at preset times to deliver outgoing mail and pickup any incoming mail. Install the IMAP rpm it has the POP3 server in it, enable the POP3 service

Fw: Web Database

1998-06-23 Thread altex
Slowly building up my systems knowlage now :) Next thing to get under my belt, I want to be able to have a form based database take entries, insert into the database, and be able to do key searches in each catagory, keywords, etc... ... I'm looking for some pointers to

Re: OS Fuss (IRT: What Good is Linux)

1998-06-23 Thread argathin
Greg Thomas writes: This is an honest query from someone who does not understand how the real world works. In my job, the OS is totally transparent to the users. It was VMS, now it's NT (with obvious hardware replacement). What the user sees (and what my graduate school books

Re: Best indexing software?

1998-06-23 Thread Jim Chisholm
Gene Wilburn wrote: Am putting together an Intranet using RH50 and Apache. I'll need to provide an index to the site. What are most folks using? Glimpse? Any suggestions and/or war stories appreciated. Gene -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

Adding A New Partition

1998-06-23 Thread Charlotte Crothers
I finally have everything working well. Now I've decided I need to steal some space from Windows. Made another 250meg available for Linux, but now I can't figure out how to move things to that partition. I would really like to do this without doing a re-install since I just got everything

re: WP7 Package missing items

1998-06-23 Thread gmoore
On 22 Jun, David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Cody Hartley wrote: I hate to be cheap, but knowing that the RH5.1 distrib came with WP7 was one of the larger incentives to pay for the official package. You do realize it's supposed to be a demo, not the whole thing, right? I assumed

Re: Xircom PCMCIA

1998-06-23 Thread Matt Housh
Mike A. Lewis, CNE wrote: I've recently installed RH5.0 on my Toshiba laptop. During the install, the option for a Xircom PCMCIA NIC was not available, therefore I just skipped installing networking. Can someone tell me what steps are necessary to install this Xircom card now ? The card

Re: Netscape slow as a snail

1998-06-23 Thread Rodney O. Kerstetter
Patrick O'Neil wrote: I have a Netscape question/problem. I am running RH 5.0 with kernel 2.0.31 and recently installed Communicator 4.04 and to connect to my ISP I use Usernet. Thing is, when I start Netscape it takes _forever_ to start. I wait and wait, wondering if it is ever is going

Funny problem with wu-ftpd on RH 5.1

1998-06-23 Thread Grant Bayley
Just installed all the various bits and pieces for RH 5.1 on two machines that were previously running 5.0. Very smooth upgrade... I rebooted, the boxes came up fine, and one of them, being a server started being used immediately. People started downloading from it using ftp, as they usually

Re: DNS Problems ...

1998-06-23 Thread Paul Fontenot
-+-And the offending named.forward file ... -+- -+-cuda.org. IN SOA router.cuda.org. root.router.cuda.org. ) -+- -+-UMMM,^ bingo Damn, it's getting late when you overlook that... -Paul -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ,

accessing connection variables

1998-06-23 Thread Robert W. Canary
Hi, I need to access some variables (or system information). As follows: When a dialin connection it made: (into and from my Linux box) 1. the ppp device 2. the physical device that ppp is attatch to (ie ttyC0) 3. the logon name When I execute a script:(more than once with different

accessing connection variables

1998-06-23 Thread Robert W. Canary
Hi, I need to access some variables (or system information). As follows: When a dialin connection it made: (into and from my Linux box) 1. the ppp device 2. the physical device that ppp is attatch to (ie ttyC0) 3. the logon name When I execute a script:(more than once with different

Re: Web Database

1998-06-23 Thread Derek Balling
I have had the exact opposite results. My first experience with web-based database applications was at my last employer using first Postgres95, then PostgreSQL 6.x. I'm now using PostgreSQL 6.3.1 on a RH5 system for all manner of database apps for my current employer - trouble ticket tracking,

Re: OS Fuss (IRT: What Good is Linux)

1998-06-23 Thread Damond Walker
3. Do companies have IS departments to fix problems, or do the IS people call Microsoft? Yes, and yes. When they run into an MS problem where the code needs to be fixed they call MS and they wait a year or two and maybe it gets fixed. Or they're simply told "not to do that." :)

RE: Web Database

1998-06-23 Thread Edmunds, Keith
No go. The commercial SQL server that came with The Linux Database (Just Logic) would not work on the 486 web server. Why not use PostgreSQL? Works fine on my system, and coupled with PHP gives a good web/database programming environment. Keith -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips,

IP-Mapping

1998-06-23 Thread Barfuß Egon jun.
Hi! Because of some technical problems of our provider (IBM) I want to map one IP-address from our first subnet to another IP-address of our second subnet. What I want is that the firewall should listen to the network if packet with a specified ip-address comes along, then change the

RE: Mailing to redhat-list - Returned mail: Can't create output: Error 0?

1998-06-23 Thread Etienne Joubert
Yes i got it about 4 times now but don't fear, there's probably just a line crossing failure somewhere on the super highway. Probably there admin guys who made a screw-up again. Are you guys getting the ugly errors below? dan Subject: Returned mail: Can't create output: Error

linux and swap partition on compaq

1998-06-23 Thread Etienne Joubert
This compaq machine still installs to the capacity of the swap partition and then sends the termination signals. I'm getting slightly ticked off by this but i'm open for suggestions. Thanx. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

what is easiest upgrade path 5.0 - 5.1 ?

1998-06-23 Thread Geoffrey S. Knauth
Two weeks ago I purchased and installed RH 5.0. It works great, and I'm very happy with it. However, I see everyone talking about 5.1, so I'm interested in getting 5.1. I'm less psyched about paying another $50 for an incremental upgrade just two weeks after my last purchase. Is there an

Two hardware problems with a Gateway server

1998-06-23 Thread Dana Canfield
I've just received a Gateway ALR-7200 server, and I'm having two sets of problems with the built-in hardware. 1) The SCSI controller is an AIC-7890, which is not recognized by the AIC-7xxx driver. I've got information on it from /proc/pci which I can send to the maintainers of the driver, but I

Re: Web Database

1998-06-23 Thread Richard Sharpe
At 09:17 PM 6/22/98 -1000, George Toft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Web Database Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 22:12:20 -0400 From: James Michael Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: redhat-list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Slowly building up my systems knowlage now :) Next thing to get under my belt, I

How can I upgrade ncurses?

1998-06-23 Thread Jake Colman
I have RH 5.0 and want to upgrade to ncurses-4.2-6. How do I deal with all the dependency issues for all the other packages that depend upon libncurses.so.3.0 and complain about the libncurses.so.4.0 that is part of ncurses-4.2-6? As a general question, how do you upgrade packages like

Shadow X/xdm problem

1998-06-23 Thread Ivan Jose Varzinczak
Hi, everyone ! I followed all the suggestions and the steps in the tutorial in http://www.dreamswvr.com/shadow_pw.html , that is, I executed pwconv as root and it created the/etc/shadow file and modified the /etc/passwd. The problem is that after this no users can log in in the X window,

Re: What's so great about Linux?

1998-06-23 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 04:24:03PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: Installation isn't the be-all of OSes ease of use - it's only a minor part, yet it usually becomes the focus of the discussion. We thus have a bunch of people who can't see the ease of use of whatever OS they might want to get

Re: having to ethernet interfaces

1998-06-23 Thread Kevin Seguin
Dan Cornilescu wrote: Kevin Seguin wrote: actually, i only have one ethernet card, but i want to use it on two networks. is this even possible? Yes, but surely not in the same time on two _physical_ networks :) Even if it's a combo card (i.e. it has 2 connectors), only one can be

Re: DNS Problems ...

1998-06-23 Thread Richard Rager
On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Paul Fontenot wrote: Got a problem I hope someone can help with, problem follows: Log entries ... Jun 21 23:58:21 router named[8365]: starting. named 4.9.6-REL Tue Mar 31 13:35:17 EST 1998 ^[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/bind-4.9.6/named Jun 21 23:58:21

Problems installing from cdrom with adaptec scsi (2940ua)

1998-06-23 Thread Alexander Woodby
OK, I'm about to give up on this 5.1 and stick with 5. I'm trying to install 5.1 on a new system. In brief, here's the specs: PII-300 Abit LX6 Motherboard 64megs pc100 sdram cheapie Trident vidcard Intel EtherExpress Pro100 Adaptec 2940ua Toshiba 32x SCSI cdrom Quantum Fireball SE 6.4gig The

GLINT upgrade problem

1998-06-23 Thread CodFish88
I'm running RedHat 5.0 and had a problem with glint 2.4 (the "Available" selection problem). I installed glint 2.6 and now it won't even start. I obtained glint 2.6 from the 5.1 upgrades. Are these upgrades incompatable with 5.0? I went back to glint 2.4 and that runs but I'm back to the original

Re: OS Fuss (IRT: What Good is Linux)

1998-06-23 Thread Greg Thomas
This is an honest query from someone who does not understand how the real world works. In my job, the OS is totally transparent to the users. It was VMS, now it's NT (with obvious hardware replacement). What the user sees (and what my graduate school books say

No Subject

1998-06-23 Thread Albert Leung
I have got RedHat 5.1 which comes with kernel 2.0.34. In the documents it says that the kernel can see 32-bit fat but I can't seem to be able to mount my hd that has Win95 on it. Do you know how I can fix this? Thanks in advance, Albert Leung

RE: OS Fuss (IRT: What Good is Linux)

1998-06-23 Thread Etienne Joubert
on the contrary, the users should always be informed of what is happening in the admin department so they don't come and bother you. In the end they are the stupid one's as far as the working of the puters go, so if you tell them what's going on they feel a certain importants and they'll

PPP.2.3.3-4 problems.

1998-06-23 Thread Mark Rogers
Hi. I was running 2.2.0f and all was good. Win95, Mac (FreePPP), and Win3.1 (Winsock 2.0b) worked fine. Now I upgrade to 2.3.3 and all I see in Winsock is ppp frame check errors and no connection. Mgetty parses the info fine but PPP dies with messages like: serial link is not 8-bit clean or

Linuxconf ver?

1998-06-23 Thread Darque
I was wondering if anyone could tell me the difference in the Linuxconf that is distributed by a group in Canada, and the one that comes with RH5.1. I had been running the latest(1.10r34 i think) of the former on 5.0, and just last night, I upgraded(?) to RH5.1, and it installed 1.11r11 which

Getting modem to report connection speed with PPP

1998-06-23 Thread Richard Whitcombe
Hi, I have checked the various FAQs and MAN pages but no real luck. I am dialing my ISP usng PPPD / CHAT using a perl script i obtained off my ISP site. I want to get the actual connection speed reported preferably to screen but failing that, a file would do. I gather i need to put REPORT

Sound freeze problem

1998-06-23 Thread Kjetil Thuen
After repartitioning one of my hard drives while very tired (one never learns!) i managed to mess up my system a bit. Fortunatly I had back ups of most of my config files, and all the rpms lying around. Now only one problem remains, and I can't seem to figure it out. The problem is sound

[ODD PROBLEM] corrupted compressed files on RH5.0

1998-06-23 Thread Jason Belich
Greetings, On my RH5.0 box, my compressed files tend to be corrupted. I get "Invalid compressed data --crc error" with my gzips about 2/3 of the time. I've reinstalled gzip several times BTW, no luck. THE REALLY ODD THING IS... this problem affects my Win95 zip files _and_ my

Re: Web Database

1998-06-23 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
Slowly building up my systems knowlage now :) Next thing to get under my belt, I want to be able to have a form based database take entries, insert into the database, and be able to do key searches in each catagory, keywords, etc... Then generate result. Projects to "play" with this - a

Re: Adding A New Partition

1998-06-23 Thread Michael Jinks
Charlotte Crothers wrote: I finally have everything working well. Now I've decided I need to steal some space from Windows. Made another 250meg available for Linux, but now I can't figure out how to move things to that partition. I would really like to do this without doing a re-install

Re: XWindows damaging my monitor?!

1998-06-23 Thread Robert Hailman
What is the monitor sitting next to, specifically what is near the lower-right corner of the monitor. Sounds like an external force is causing what you are seeing (gotta be the X-Files :-) A speaker. 480W GLi 768. It's turned off. Could this be the problem, even tho' it's turned off?

Re: Best way to configure sound card

1998-06-23 Thread Michael Jinks
Scott Tyson wrote: The awe32 is a sb16 + a n advanced MDI card all in one but they each have their own configs so its like setting up 2 cards. As far as the possibility of waking up a conflic goes this is very possible on say win95 where 95 moves stuff around to resolve the conflict but

mail(1) locking problems?

1998-06-23 Thread Matt Nelson
a user on my system just reported a problem using mail(1) to delete some at(1) logfiles. i use pine instead of mail(1), so i hadn't seen the problem before. below is a sample of the problem: man:mnelson mail Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help. "/var/spool/mail/mnelson": 1 message

Mounting Win95 HD

1998-06-23 Thread Albert Leung
I have got RedHat 5.1 which comes with kernel 2.0.34. In the documents it says that the kernel can see 32-bit fat but I can't seem to be able to mount my hd that has Win95 on it. Do you know how I can fix this? Thanks in advance, Albert Leung

NE2000-compatible card, doesn't work. I am new do this stuff.

1998-06-23 Thread Robert Hailman
Hello. I recently started setting up a network of all the computers in my house. I have two on it, the one I am sending this one, a win95 box, and the computer I am having trouble with, a Linux/Win95 box. Both computers have an NE2000 ISA card, and both are found in Win95. This was fine for

Re: having to ethernet interfaces

1998-06-23 Thread Cristian KAMENICZKI
On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Kevin Seguin wrote: i want to be able to use two ip addresses on two different networks. i tried using the network configuration in the control panel and adding a second ethernet interface. when i tried to activate the ethernet interface, i couldn't get it to work.

RE: Mailing to redhat-list - Returned mail: Can't create output: Error 0?

1998-06-23 Thread Greg Fall
I'm getting those. If this gets through it's my first in a while. ++ Gregory Fall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) University of Michigan Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences

Email client

1998-06-23 Thread Son of a Preacherman
A number of the users on my RH5.0 mail server recieve mail with attachments that Pine can't view. Are there any mail client programs that can view MSWord attachments and such? Lee Parker _ "Oh gaze of love so melt my

Re: Ensoniq Soundscape RedHat 5.1

1998-06-23 Thread Dirk Muders
Somewhere on the web I found a comment saying that the 2.0.34-0.6 version of the kernel, that comes with RedHat 5.1, is not the latest (stable) release. Therefore, I went to kernel.org and got the real 2.0.34. In that version the sound driver is again one module (sound.o) as opposed to several

Re: Mailing to redhat-list - Returned mail: Can't create output: Error 0?

1998-06-23 Thread Joe Nestlerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] asked: Are you guys getting the ugly errors below? Subject: Returned mail: Can't create output: Error 0 Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 23:56:52 -0700 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem [EMAIL PROTECTED] Affirmative. Got one this morning just like that.

Re: what is easiest upgrade path 5.0 - 5.1 ?

1998-06-23 Thread Michael Jinks
Geoffrey S. Knauth wrote: Two weeks ago I purchased and installed RH 5.0. It works great, and I'm very happy with it. However, I see everyone talking about 5.1, so I'm interested in getting 5.1. I'm less psyched about paying another $50 for an incremental upgrade just two weeks after my

test only; please ignore

1998-06-23 Thread Mike Edwards
== Mike Edwards, MIS Edwards Graphic Arts, Inc. mailto:[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 To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL

Crashes

1998-06-23 Thread Lance Robertson
I'm using Redhat 5.0, Pine 3.96-3, and sendmail 8.8.7-12 and am having Pine crash regularly when new mail comes into a mailbox. I'll be sitting in Pine and all of a sudden it core dumps. Has anyone else had this problem? Should I upgrade the pine or sendmail? Thanks Lance -- PLEASE read the

Damn screensaver!

1998-06-23 Thread Phil Garrett
I know I've asked this before but all the messages I get back simply tell me to RTFM. I've done that and I'm still stuck. We have a Linux box set up as a demo machine. we need it to be an eye-catcher. (running RH 5.1 and AfterStep). Default config blanks the screen after a few minutes. We

Re: What's so great about Linux?

1998-06-23 Thread chuck . mead
On 23 Jun, Rich Kulawiec shaped the bitstream to say: On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 04:24:03PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: Installation isn't the be-all of OSes ease of use - it's only a minor part, yet it usually becomes the focus of the discussion. We thus have a bunch of people who can't see

Re: Ensoniq Soundscape RedHat 5.1

1998-06-23 Thread Dirk Muders
Somewhere on the web I found a comment saying that the 2.0.34-0.6 version of the kernel, that comes with RedHat 5.1, is not the latest (stable) release. Therefore, I went to kernel.org and got the real 2.0.34. In that version the sound driver is again one module (sound.o) as opposed to several

Re: what is easiest upgrade path 5.0 - 5.1 ?

1998-06-23 Thread chuck . mead
On 23 Jun, Geoffrey S. Knauth shaped the bitstream to say: Two weeks ago I purchased and installed RH 5.0. It works great, and I'm very happy with it. However, I see everyone talking about 5.1, so I'm interested in getting 5.1. I'm less psyched about paying another $50 for an incremental

Re: Have y'all seen this?

1998-06-23 Thread Patrick O'Neil
Dan Cornilescu wrote: Patrick O'Neil wrote: Has anyone else experienced this inordinately long delay before the mailbox starts in Communicator 4.04? Yeap, also on 5.1. I have the option to leave the messages on the server set (in order to also get them on another machine). More

8 Gig Drive?

1998-06-23 Thread Bruce Tong
A friend mention he saw an 8 Gig IDE drive for sale at a local computer show for $200. I was curious if anyone knew a reason why this wouldn't work under Linux? Could I get away with treating one of these as "just another hard drive"? Bruce Tong | Got me an office; I'm there

Re: What's so great about Linux?

1998-06-23 Thread Michael Jinks
Rich Kulawiec wrote: My suggestion? Hmmm...easy for me to suggest this, since I don't have the knowledge or the time to do the work: a Linux configuration web page where visitors can indicate which hardware they have and which would then indicate which Linuxes/free Unixes support it. The

Re: SMTP

1998-06-23 Thread dreamwvr
At 07:49 AM 6/22/98 -0500, Derek Balling wrote: At 06:47 AM 6/22/98 -0500, you wrote: I have a 5.1 box running IMAP and POP3 that lets me read mail from a pop3 or imap client fine, but when I try to send mail from these clients, I get an error saying the server can't forward mail. What did I

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