Re: TCP/IP UDP priority

1998-06-29 Thread William T Wilson
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Richard Sharpe wrote: priority than the HTTP packets, however, this depends on both the routers handling the TOS field correctly (which Ciscos do, I believe) and the PPP server doing likewise, and I am not convinced that the Linux based ones do that, but Cisco 5260s may

(Off Topic) Motherboard Question

1998-06-29 Thread Josh Goins
I saw a great deal on an Intel Providence PR440FX mb and was wondering if anyone had any experience with them and Linux. The reason that I'm asking is that it has a built in Adaptec 7880 UW SCSI and Intel fast ethernet. I thought that having both on the mb might introduce some unforseen

libncurses.so.4

1998-06-29 Thread Igor N. Green
Can anybody send me the file libncurses.so.4, from redhat 5.1. thanks in advance. Regards, Igor N. Green -- 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

Page Faults

1998-06-29 Thread Robert W. Canary
Hi, On boot up I get an error message as follows Page faults with physical I/O:311 Can anyone tell me what this means. I am get a bios fault at boot time also saying System Configuration Data Read Error. I can't figure out where it is comming from. I hit F1 to resume and I still come up

Re: RFC

1998-06-29 Thread dreamwvr
Thanks for the pointer:') At 03:34 AM 6/28/98 -0600, you wrote: that is great but where might these man pages for pop b as i have tried man ipop3d and man imapd and so on with no man... man;') At 03:22 AM 6/27/98 +0200, you wrote: At 12:05 6/26/98 -0600, dreamwvr wrote: Well ??? been looking for

Re: ##@@%%$$...cron...

1998-06-29 Thread Zoki
On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Dan Cornilescu wrote: -Zoki wrote: - - get_mail script looks like this: - - #!/bash/sh - -Is sh installed in /bash on your system? *** Nope. No /bash on my box. But if you're referring to the problem of the script not working: Why should it work when invoked manually and

Re: ##@@%%$$...cron...

1998-06-29 Thread Zoki
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Paul Fontenot wrote: -(+)I think we're getting closer to the reason of my problem: I just noticed -(+)that /usr/sbin/crontab doesn't exist!?? Next thing I looked at is where - -Slow down Zoki, don't get SO excited 8) The file is: /usr/bin/crontab NOT *** I'm not, it's my

HP Colorado in RH4

1998-06-29 Thread niclas
Hi, I wonder if there's anyone out there who has any experiences running the HP Colorado 5GB IDE-backup drive with RH Linux. Are there any problems, is it stable? Regards, Niclas Hi, I wonder if there's anyone out there who has any experiences running the HP Colorado 5GB

Re: ##@@%%$$...cron...

1998-06-29 Thread Paul Fontenot
(+)*** Nope. No /bash on my box. But if you're referring to the problem of (+)the script not working: Why should it work when invoked manually and not (+)when launched through cron? How are you invoking it? Are you doing this: 'sh get_mail' OR, are you doing this: 'get_mail' -Paul --

RE: TCP/IP UDP priority

1998-06-29 Thread Wim Raets
First of all, many thanks for the responses. Well, I think I have a theoretical solution. Situation: I am happy ftp'ing a big new kernel.tar.gz from ftp.kernel.org. What happens is, ftp.kernel.org send me the data of the kernel.tar.gz in big packets. I ( actually my PC) receive this data and

RE: TCP/IP UDP priority

1998-06-29 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Wim Raets wrote: The solution: If I could somehow make my PC wait 'a few seconds, but not to long' before responding to the server, the throughput would drop. Because the server has to wait for the confirmation before sending the next packet. This is probably a bad

RE: SMTP

1998-06-29 Thread dreamwvr
Hi everyone! noticed the thread and was hoping i could get some pointers:') Just finished reading SENDMAIL cover to cover and am planning to set up a double mail server arrangement with one mailer for outside a firewall that the local users have their outgoing mail relayed to. Is their

Logging on via telnet and ftp

1998-06-29 Thread Damien Silveira
I changed the IP address of my eth0 adapter and can no longer log on as root any ideas?

Driver for Chips and Technologies 65555 PCI ?

1998-06-29 Thread KThorpe
Does anyone know of an X driver for the Chips and Technologies 6 PCI video card? It's in a new laptop we've just got. = Kevin Thorpe Purchasing Index (UK) Limited LONDON, England Tel: (44) 171 350 4200 Message created by ExpressIT! 2000 trial

Why isn't XEmacs distributed with RHL?

1998-06-29 Thread Jose Romildo Malaquias
Could someone please show explain to us why the XEmacs editor is not distributed with Red Hat Linux? Things would be easier for those who has it as his preferred editor if it was distributed. Romildo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

Re: HP Colorado in RH4

1998-06-29 Thread Dave Ihnat
Niclas Domack wrote: I wonder if there's anyone out there who has any experiences running the HP Colorado 5GB IDE-backup drive with RH Linux. Are there any problems, is it stable? Regards, Niclas First, please append a signature that shows your personal return E-mail address. This has

KDE help please... :(

1998-06-29 Thread Peter Lavender
Hi everyone, I have installed all the kde stuff (hopefiully) and I have been trying to get X started wtih the kde desktop, but I have so far failed to find how to do this. I have the RH5.0 installed with Xfree86 as the X server and it continually defaults to FVWM95. Just where is this

RE: help!!! cant log on to my box!!! (fwd)

1998-06-29 Thread Brad Wyman
for some reason this didnt get to the list i think --- Brad Wyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] No root, or any other user. ill look and see if that file is there tho, and i think ill just rename it or somthing. Hmm, you

Sony cdu33a CD-ROM.

1998-06-29 Thread Juan_Carlos_Linares
Hi everybody... I'm new to the Linux world and I'm having trouble with RH 5.0 (2.0.31-7 kernel) and my Sony cdu33a CD ROM. For the initial installation I had to do it from one of the DOS Partitions and everything seemed to go as expected (even I could configure my Sounblaster 16 card

Re: KDE help please... :(

1998-06-29 Thread Ryan Wilhm
If you are invoking KDE via XDM, add or create an executeable shell file calles ".xsession". Add the line "startkde" to it. If you are invoking KDE via the command line in character mode with "startx", do the same thing with the file called ".xinitrc". (These files are in the individual user's

Re: Swap Space Maximum Limit and Not Used?!

1998-06-29 Thread Rick Forrester
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Can anyone tell me why I can't get the 265041 blocks I have allocated for my swap space. 'cat /proc/meminfo' shows this: total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 130859008 126644224 4214784 57282560 74412032 16134144 Swap: 133885952

Kernel 2.0.30 - 2.0.34 on RH4.2

1998-06-29 Thread Mauricio Teixeira
Hi! How can I upgrade my RH4.2 Kernel from 2.0.30 to 2.0.34? I've seen so many mesages about upgrading the Kernel on RH5.0, but none on 4.2... Any help would be apreciated. __ Mauricio Teixeira -

Re: Driver for Chips and Technologies 65555 PCI ?

1998-06-29 Thread Rick Forrester
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Does anyone know of an X driver for the Chips and Technologies 6 PCI video card? It's in a new laptop we've just got. There is support in XFree86 v3.3.2 as distributed in Red Hat v5.1. My laptop has the CT65554, also supported. The driver you'll end up using

Re: Kernel 2.0.30 - 2.0.34 on RH4.2

1998-06-29 Thread chuck . mead
On 29 Jun, Mauricio Teixeira shaped the somewhat mellow bitstream to say: Hi! How can I upgrade my RH4.2 Kernel from 2.0.30 to 2.0.34? I've seen so many mesages about upgrading the Kernel on RH5.0, but none on 4.2... Any help would be apreciated. I really don't

More Apache Problems

1998-06-29 Thread Brian Bothern
I have downloaded Apache 1.3.0, unziped, untared, and all that stuff. Now my problem is this: Error: could not find any of these C compilers anywhere in your PATH: gcc cc acc c89 Now I probaly don't have one but where do I find them and where do I need to put them for this thing to work.

NFS Errors

1998-06-29 Thread Paul Fontenot
Anybody know what this is? nfs_hget: getattr error = 13 nfs_read_super : get root inode failed -- 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

routing problem with 2 NICs (future proxy)

1998-06-29 Thread Jason Robbins
I probably overlooked something obvious, but here's my problem: I've got two NICs in a old 486 that I am trying to configure as a proxy firewall. Acording to the Firewall-HOWTO, it is to the point where I should be able to ping machines on either side of the firewall, but eth0 seems to be the

Re: More Apache Problems

1998-06-29 Thread chuck . mead
On 29 Jun, Brian Bothern shaped the somewhat mellow bitstream to say: I have downloaded Apache 1.3.0, unziped, untared, and all that stuff. Now my problem is this: Error: could not find any of these C compilers anywhere in your PATH: gcc cc acc c89 Now I probaly don't have one but

External MIDI with SB16 on Red Hat 5.1

1998-06-29 Thread Manuel A. McLure
Has anyone been able to get external MIDI (actually a WaveBlaster compatible daughtercard) on a Sound Blaster 16 (non-pnp) working with the Red Hat modularized sound system? $ cat /dev/sndstat Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630

Re: Please, jagged blue line!!!!

1998-06-29 Thread Jack Hatfield
Xfree86-SVGA cannot be installed. Looks like: /usr/X11r6/lib/X11/xkb/something conflicts with file from metroess-3.1.5-1 I think I need something else. I am sorry for this, I am a newbie, thrown into these waters after someone left me. Now I got to learn it all, quickly. Anyway, it took me

External MIDI with Sound Blaster 16 and Red Hat 5.1 sound modules.

1998-06-29 Thread Manuel A. McLure
Has anyone been able to get external MIDI (actually a WaveBlaster compatible daughtercard) on a Sound Blaster 16 (non-pnp) working with the Red Hat modularized sound system? $ cat /dev/sndstat Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630 Kernel:

Re: changing default console color

1998-06-29 Thread Fred Smith
On Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 02:23:49PM +0530, Salil Khamkar wrote: Hi , I want to change my default console color from black and white to blue and white . Can some one please tell me as to how this can be done . Also how setterm -foreground white -background blue can i enable this at boot time

Re: more or less that allows horizontal scrolling?

1998-06-29 Thread Fred Smith
On Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 12:40:03PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 1998 at 11:00:30PM +0900, Richard Sharpe wrote: Hi, what I am seeking is a program, more or less :-), that allows the user to scroll left or right in a document as well as up or down. Does anyone know of

Re: Kernel 2.0.30 - 2.0.34 on RH4.2

1998-06-29 Thread Dave Reed
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 29 Jun, Mauricio Teixeira shaped the somewhat mellow bitstream to say: Hi! How can I upgrade my RH4.2 Kernel from 2.0.30 to 2.0.34? I've seen so many mesages about upgrading the Kernel on RH5.0, but none on 4.2... Any help would be

Can't boot linux from floppy!

1998-06-29 Thread Mike Gahagan
I am kind of new to this, but I have installed Red Hat several times. I have tried to create 2 boot floppies and neither one of them work. The first disk I made was with Red Hat's install program, the second I made with mkbootdisk When I start up on a floppy, I get the Lilo prompt, then it

shells

1998-06-29 Thread Jordan R. K.
This maybe a dumb question, but I have not yet got Linux going on my computer so I have no expierience. Are there variations in commands between different shells? Thanks, Jordan Keuseman -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

archive!

1998-06-29 Thread Iztok Polanic
Hello !!! Where can I find a searcher of this mailling list??? Bye. xx // xx xx ( o o ) xx xx/oOO-O-OOo\

RE: shells

1998-06-29 Thread Eric Cifreo
Yes, but not tremendous ones. Try bash first. It's your friend. Eric Cifreo -Original Message- From: Jordan R. K. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 29, 1998 11:30 am To: redhat list Subject: shells This maybe a dumb question, but I have not yet got Linux going on my

Re: Ensoniq Soundscape RedHat 5.1

1998-06-29 Thread Timothy King
Dirk Muders wrote: version). One other thing were the MSS flags. I still had them set. MSS CONFLICTS with the Ensoniq ! (Should have read the doc... it says there). I'm still trying to get my ESS1868 to work. What are the MSS flags? -- Timothy King [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hardlink vs. symlink

1998-06-29 Thread Deryk Barker
Once upon a time Dave Ihnat wrote: [...] Kernighan, Ritchie, Thompson, et. al. originally implemented the concept of a hard link only. They considered the equivalent of what would eventually became a symlink too hard to maintain reliably, and felt it would lend itself to abuse--in fact, the

Re: Alpha software sites.

1998-06-29 Thread chang
http://www.linux.org/ is the best start place to look at also ftp.redhat.com is good for alpha but hard to loggin ftp.sunsite.edu is the best public domain linux site. alos u can look at http://www.ctyme.com/linuxdoc.htm http://lxr.linux.no/source/ chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking

Re: Should we be pushing Linux over Windows 95?

1998-06-29 Thread Scott
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 6/26/98, at 2:55 AM, William T Wilson wrote: On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Tony Wells wrote: For the client workstation ease of use and penetration of application software is the driver. Win9x and NT are the clear Right. We all agree that there is less

Re: Why isn't XEmacs distributed with RHL?

1998-06-29 Thread Scott
I belelieve (I'm pretty sure) that these rpms are for Xwindows support of emacs. XEmacs is a different program altogether. Scott *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 6/29/98, at 10:27 AM, Serge Pluess wrote: XEmacs is distributed with RHL. In 5.1 the file is:

network card problem

1998-06-29 Thread Donnie McInis
I have a problem with a generic NE2000 compatible network card ( ISA ). The card has no prom or jumper, software setup only. I can't get RH linux to see the card at install using the NE2000 seting . The card works good in win95. I setup,"in linux" the same I/O and IRQ as in windows. Is there

Re: HELP!! made mistake in fdisk

1998-06-29 Thread Dan Cyr
My opinion is that you are screwed. However, someone out there with more years under their belt might know of some super duper utility to fix this, so wait for more responses before you start crying. Dan At 02:11 PM 6/29/98 -0400, you wrote: I ran into trouble while trying to install Linux. I

Re: Should we be pushing Linux over Windows 95?

1998-06-29 Thread jp
Stating that NT has a great deal of downtime is a pretty broad statement. I think it would be better to put that NT has a greater potential for downtime but it can be just as stable as Unix. Linux/Unix do to its maturaty has a greater potential for uptime but it can be unstable. I have NT

Re: HELP!! made mistake in fdisk

1998-06-29 Thread Donnie McInis
If you deleted the partition for hda1 and that is where your win95 is . I think There's nothing you can do but repartition reformat and start over. sorry Dmc Dan Cyr wrote: My opinion is that you are screwed. However, someone out there with more years under their belt might know of some

News server

1998-06-29 Thread James Michael Keller
Ok, now after getting the lan working, the firewall working, getting MS frontpage98 extentions working - I'm wantintg to get news working Innd is loading at boot ok, I don't have an active list yet, and I'm not sure how to get that down from the ISP. I don't want to carry the entire feed,

Netscape help: where?

1998-06-29 Thread bob jones
Thanks in advance to whomever responds. I tried posting about Netscape crashing -- no luck. So a different question: can somebody point me to sources like redhat-list, but aimed at Netscape problems? bob jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the

Fvwm Config

1998-06-29 Thread William J. Salvino
I just installed Red Hat 5.1 and I am not sure which configuration file I should edit to make the FvwmPager *not* sticky which appears to be the default. The included documentation in /usr/doc/fvwm-2.0.46 refers the user to .fvwm2rc. When I "find / -name .fvwm2rc* -print" the following directory

Re: ypxfrd not running ?

1998-06-29 Thread Dan Kirkpatrick
Get the rpm from www.redhat.com it'll fix it. At 10:27 AM 6/24/98 -0700, you wrote: Hello, I have setup a NIS connection between 2 machines. I have everything setup and when I type "ypcat passwd" on the slave server, I get the master's passwd, which leads me to believe that NIS is working

Re: Netscape help: where?

1998-06-29 Thread chuck . mead
On 29 Jun, bob jones shaped the somewhat mellow bitstream to say: Thanks in advance to whomever responds. I tried posting about Netscape crashing -- no luck. So a different question: can somebody point me to sources like redhat-list, but aimed at Netscape problems? bob jones ([EMAIL

Re: I did, but i'm not sure...

1998-06-29 Thread chuck . mead
On 29 Jun, Mauricio Teixeira shaped the somewhat mellow bitstream to say: Hi! I've upgraded my RH4.2 kernel from 2.0.30 to 2.0.34 using the .tar.gz file, compiled and it's going fine now... But I'm still not sure about 2 things: Sistem.map and module-info still point to

Re: HELP!! made mistake in fdisk

1998-06-29 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Guin, Jay wrote: I used fdisk to partition my only harddrive. Thereafter I proceeded to I'm going to make some assumptions that are not made clear by your email. 1) You already had Windows 95 installed on your single hard drive 2) You installed Linux on your single hard

unexplaind kernel panics

1998-06-29 Thread Scott
Greetings, I was wondering if someone could help me here. My Linux server (runs ftp and quake2) keeps dying with a the following error: "kernel panic skput:over". Sometimes this message is followed by a bunch of numbers, somethimes just the message. I've narrrowed it down these two cuases:

Re: ##@@%%$$...cron...

1998-06-29 Thread Zoki
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Paul Fontenot wrote: -(+)*** Nope. No /bash on my box. But if you're referring to the problem of -(+)the script not working: Why should it work when invoked manually and not -(+)when launched through cron? - -How are you invoking it? Are you doing this: - -'sh get_mail' - -

Re: Sony cdu33a CD-ROM.

1998-06-29 Thread Fred Smith
On Mon, Jun 29, 1998 at 09:00:00AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody... I'm new to the Linux world and I'm having trouble with RH 5.0 (2.0.31-7 kernel) and my Sony cdu33a CD ROM. For the initial installation I had to do it from one of the DOS Partitions and everything

Re: Should we be pushing Linux over Windows 95?

1998-06-29 Thread Scott
On 6/29/98, at 3:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stating that NT has a great deal of downtime is a pretty broad statement. I think it would be better to put that NT has a greater potential for downtime but it can be just as stable as Unix. Linux/Unix do to its maturaty has a greater

Re: Hitachi CD-ROM on RedHat 5.0

1998-06-29 Thread olmost
You might want to try switching the cdrom master/slave switch. Also since it looks to be that you have the cdrom as the second device on the first ide controller you might want to try switching it to the first device on the second ide controller if it is available. I have heard of some people

Re: Why isn't XEmacs distributed with RHL?

1998-06-29 Thread Eze Ogwuma
Serge Pluess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: XEmacs is distributed with RHL. In 5.1 the file is: emacs-X11-20.2-7.i386.rpm in 5.0 it is: emacs-X11-20.2-4.i386.rpm and in 4.2 it is: emacs-X11-19.34-4.i386.rpm During installation you have the option of installing it.

Communicator-illegibility

1998-06-29 Thread rarab
Hello RH list members: Is a person limited to Netscape Communicator's illegible font selection or is it possible to affect their appearance by manipulating fvwm in some manner? R Arab -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

Printing, can't we just print???

1998-06-29 Thread Jack Hatfield
I am trying to print some files from my linux box to a Panasonic KX-P2123 color dot-matrix printer. Does anyone know the right commands to put in the printcap file, or some other method to print into this box. I do not care about this printing color at all. Also, if it is easier to print to my

my 2 cents

1998-06-29 Thread Boom Shaka
dear redhat support, thank you for your reply. unfortunately, i've switched back to windows 95. i wasn't able to find useful applications that i could use with linux. specifically, i needed a wordprocessor(similar to M$Word), finance software(Quicken-like), games(Quake 2). I also

Re: newbie stuggles w/ recieving mail

1998-06-29 Thread chuck . mead
On 29 Jun, Cory T. Lamb shaped the somewhat mellow bitstream to say: Hey, Looking for a way to recieve mail right on my box which is on the internet via my college and hostname provided by ml.org... I have everything (apache, telnetd, ftpd, sendmail, etc) I just can't recieve mail. Is

Re: Please, jagged blue line!!!!

1998-06-29 Thread Eze Ogwuma
"Jack Hatfield" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Xfree86-SVGA cannot be installed. Looks like: /usr/X11r6/lib/X11/xkb/something conflicts with file from metroess-3.1.5-1 I think I need something else. I am sorry for this, I am a newbie, thrown into these waters after someone left me. Now I

Re: my 2 cents

1998-06-29 Thread Greg Thomas
snipped a lot of close-minded whining about lack of apps, difficulties, etc my 2 cents, laziest-opinionated-whining engineer Couldn't have said it better myself! -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ

Re: changing default console color

1998-06-29 Thread Hal \(DCI\)
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Fred Smith wrote: On Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 02:23:49PM +0530, Salil Khamkar wrote: Hi , I want to change my default console color from black and white to blue and white . Can some one please tell me as to how this can be done . Also how setterm -foreground white

Re: Printing, can't we just print???

1998-06-29 Thread Eze Ogwuma
"Jack Hatfield" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to print some files from my linux box to a Panasonic KX-P2123 color dot-matrix printer. Does anyone know the right commands to put in the printcap file, or some other method to print into this box. I do not care about this printing

FTP Problems

1998-06-29 Thread Beth Gemeny
Hi all; I have just completed another install of RHL5.0 and for some reason that could quite possibly be operator error, in.ftpd did not get built. So being a bit of hack I copied one from another RHL5.0 install machine onto the proper place on the machine without and gave inetd a HUP. So ftp

Adaptec AAA-131 RAID supported?

1998-06-29 Thread Steve Frampton
Hello: I'm looking at purchasing a new server and was wondering if the Adaptec AAA-131 RAID controller would have driver support for Linux. If not, what about the AAA-133? I did a search on Dejanews and things didn't look too promising, but I thought I'd check with you fine folks here.

Re: Adaptec AAA-131 RAID supported?

1998-06-29 Thread Neil Lawrence
Title: Re: Adaptec AAA-131 RAID supported? I have a server with the AAA-133 It works fine if you don't want RAID from it. If you are looking for a nice scsi card the look at it, however you can buy one for much less. If you want RAID don't go there! The nice people at Adaptec won't release

Hard Drive IRQ Problems

1998-06-29 Thread Karl Asseily
Hello, After having fried my HD (see "Problem with Rescue Disk" subject earlier today), I decided to reinstall RHL 5.1. Everything went fine, until I chose to create a boot disk. At this time, I didn't hear any sound in the floppy drive. It stayed like that for 20 mins, until I chose to kill the

startx configX, Metro-x, which x is which

1998-06-29 Thread Jack Hatfield
This is a continuation of the jagged blue line thread. Thank you for all the info, I am trying to put into order all of these instructions, but I got one quick question. How does the command startx differentiate metro-x and Xfree86 stuff. What does it use, because when I go throught the metro-x

printfilters and BJC-610

1998-06-29 Thread Piet Barber
I have NEVER been able to get my RedHat (5.0) properly. System: AMD K6 200 MHz, 32MB RAM, 4.3 GIG drive, V.90 modem, Cannon BJC-610 printer, print to parallel port 1 (LPT1)(/dev/lp1) Symptoms: Any print job that requires a filter shows = Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in

Re: Communicator-illegibility

1998-06-29 Thread cbebber
On Mon 29 Jun at 18:33:07 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] done said: Hello RH list members: Is a person limited to Netscape Communicator's illegible font selection or is it possible to affect their appearance by manipulating fvwm in some manner? You know, I've been

RE: HELP!! made mistake in fdisk

1998-06-29 Thread David Taylor
I think I may have something to offer on this one! (yes, it scares me, too :-) HOWEVER, my solution is reliant on you having installed a certain application before this problem... and I'll get to it soon. I stuffed up in a way very similar to this. I think it was the primary dos partition

Please help with netcfg problem...

1998-06-29 Thread David Taylor
I posted a question a few digests back about a problem I'm having with netcfg... no-one has helped me yet... Please do so. I'll be ever-so grateful. :-) I need netcfg to expect something along the lines of: "Student HS# V34+ : ", where '#' is any number, and then send "ppp" in reply (that is

RE: newbie stuggles w/ recieving mail

1998-06-29 Thread Hoe-Teck Wee
Hello! There are several possible reasons why you're not receiving mail. First, mailbox loopback error, because you didn't configure your sendmail properly (Cw settings). Second, your system isn't up 24/7. For the second, you'd require domain mail forwarding facilities, and then you could use

Re: startx configX, Metro-x, which x is which

1998-06-29 Thread Eze Ogwuma
"Jack Hatfield" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is a continuation of the jagged blue line thread. Thank you for all the info, I am trying to put into order all of these instructions, but I got one quick question. If you want to use metro-x then don't follow any of the instructions for

Sendmail, majordomo and spam.

1998-06-29 Thread Yoink!
I've got a rhl 4.2 box i've set up on the net which has sendmail 8.8 running on it. What I 'm using it for is ONE mailing list, but I don't want spammers using my machine as as a spam gateway. Is there any way for me to _accept_ mail from anyone but to NEVER send mail out from my system save

Re: vfat permissions

1998-06-29 Thread Paul Kersting
Leston Buell wrote: I cannot seem to be able to grant write permission to non-root users for a hard drive with a vfat file system. What do i need to do? I have a linux RH5.0 system which I use as a single user workstation. To enable me to write to a vfat partition, I put the following in my

Re: printfilters and BJC-610

1998-06-29 Thread James Michael Keller
Update to a recent version of ghostscript, rh rpm versions are really old from what I've seen.. I grabed a tarball of gs from sunsite and all is well with the 600 series... Piet Barber wrote: I have NEVER been able to get my RedHat (5.0) properly. System: AMD K6 200 MHz, 32MB RAM,

Re: Wrong message size in fetchmail

1998-06-29 Thread Richard Rager
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote: Hi! When I use fetchmail, I inevitably get messages saying that the message was not the expected length: fetchmail: POP3 TOP 1 2147483647 fetchmail: POP3 +OK 4161 octets fetchmail: reading message 1 of 1 (4161 bytes) fetchmail: about to

Re: printfilters and BJC-610

1998-06-29 Thread Eze Ogwuma
James Michael Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Update to a recent version of ghostscript, rh rpm versions are really old from what I've seen.. I grabed a tarball of gs from sunsite and all is well with the 600 series... http://www.typhoon.dircon.co.uk for RPMS. -- Eze Ogwuma --

RH5.0 2.0.34 build problems

1998-06-29 Thread David Beckemeyer
I pulled down the kernel 2.0.34 files from the redhat site and ran through the instructions at http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/intel/kernel-upgrade-intel.html to get the kernel installed and running. So far so good. Since I have SCSI and I needed to enable multicast routing in the

Re: Why isn't XEmacs distributed with RHL?

1998-06-29 Thread Bryan C. Andregg
XEmacs is distributed as part of the powertools. On 29 Jun 1998 20:38:12 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Serge Pluess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: XEmacs is distributed with RHL. In 5.1 the file is: emacs-X11-20.2-7.i386.rpm in 5.0 it is: emacs-X11-20.2-4.i386.rpm

Re: printfilters and BJC-610

1998-06-29 Thread Piet Barber
James Michael Keller wrote: Update to a recent version of ghostscript, rh rpm versions are really old from what I've seen.. You aren't kidding. The Redhat distribution has versino 3.31! Thanks for the help! James Michael Keller| [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Communicator-illegibility

1998-06-29 Thread Ray Marshall
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know, I've been wondering why Red Hat's XConfigurator (or xf86config for that matter) seem to overlook some font paths that MetroX recognise. SuSE picks them up just fine, so I was lucky enough to find a fix. Here's what I have in my

mrouted for RH5.0?

1998-06-29 Thread David Beckemeyer
Anyone have any experience getting mrouted working with RedHat 5.0? I managed to get a kernel built with multicast routing and ipip tunnelling (kernel version 2.0.31 which came with the CD). And I found a mrouted 3.9 beta. The problem appears to be that Linux isn't forwarding the MCAST

Re: printfilters and BJC-610

1998-06-29 Thread Piet Barber
Eze Ogwuma wrote: James Michael Keller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Update to a recent version of ghostscript, rh rpm versions are really old from what I've seen.. I grabed a tarball of gs from sunsite and all is well with the 600 series... http://www.typhoon.dircon.co.uk for RPMS.

RE: Apache problems - pages not showing up inside frames as HTML

1998-06-29 Thread Bruno Prior
Copied my web page from my ISP to my local network server ( RH 5.0 with current errata updates ) the frame page loads fine, however the interal pages show up as raw text, and not as rendered web pages. It works fine if there is just a single frame. The http header for each page should

Re: ##@@%%$$...cron...

1998-06-29 Thread Paul Fontenot
(+)The backup commands work, anything works for that matter, but not the (+)get_mail script to process mail. I'm sure the problem is so obvious it's (+)pulling me by the nose and I still can't see it! This is a question that probly should have been asked first, is the script executable? chmod

Re: installation : pb with AIC7895

1998-06-29 Thread wilfrid Gaboriaud
"Matthew G. Marsh" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : You have to install to IDE then go get the AIC7xxx driver 5.0.8 (current is 5.0.19) and patch the kernel with it. You can also get the driver source and compile it as a module before install on a friends machine and then mount the kernel disk

Re: KDE help please... :(

1998-06-29 Thread Brandon_ Petersen_
Add this line into the .xinitrc file, which is located in your user's directory /usr/local/kde/bin/startkde You may have to create this file. Then just type startx, and it will start KDE instead of FVWM Brandon P.

RE: HELP!! made mistake in fdisk

1998-06-29 Thread Guin, Jay
Thanks for your reply. When I deleted the hda1 partition through Linux's fdisk, I did not create any new partition on those sectors. My new partition table looks like the following: Original partition (before using fdisk): Dev. BootBegin Start End Blocks

Re: News server

1998-06-29 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, James Michael Keller wrote: Innd is loading at boot ok, I don't have an active list yet, and I'm not sure how to get that down from the ISP. Ask them for it. :) I don't want to carry the entire feed, ( ie 80% of the damn feeds are the *.binary.* groups. ) Just a few

RE: archive! [findmail]

1998-06-29 Thread Hoe-Teck Wee
Hello On 29-Jun-98 Iztok Polanic wrote: Where can I find a searcher of this mailling list??? http://www.findmail.com/ may be a good start; contains a list of mailing lists, and archives quite a number too! - hoeteck -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

SendMail Help

1998-06-29 Thread michael elizabeth crocombe
Hi, how do I do this?, sendmail seems to work really well for an ISP with individual user accounts but how to I set it upfor a mail server to direct all mail addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to a single account, say tom (where xxx is any name at all and tom is a user in my password file and

Re: What is BIND pls?

1998-06-29 Thread dreamwvr
it is more powerful than the one used by M$ as a byte of advice run to your store and get 'DNS and BIND' read it and you won't be sorry:') At 12:11 PM 6/28/98 +0700, Chaiya Intasoie wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Internet Microtec wrote: Hi, Is BIND the equivalent of Microsoft s windows NT