Updated ISO image for RH 6.1 available ?
Hi, does anyone know if there is an updated ISO image of RH 6.1 available ? I think many of us have the same problem: for already running boxes it's ok to install the bugfixes, but when installing new ones, it's a big waste of time to install the ton of bugfixes everytime. Is there an updated ISO image available somewhere ? (third parties included). Or alternatively it would be nice to have some "giant-fix" against RH 6.1: a big rpm , or a collection of all the rpms in the update dir in a single tar file with a simple "install" script which upgrades all the rpms in the right order. This would save a LOT of headaches for many people. Benno. -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
monitor
I have been having trouble installing Red Hat 6.0 on my computer. The problem seems to be one of two things. First I have a high frequency monitor. At 800X600 it runs at 105 HZ. I could bump the resolution up but that would make everything real small. It is a CTX, model VL 950 S. I know that there has to be some way that it can be done. The second is the video card but I really doubt it. I have an ATI All-in-Wonder Pro 128 AGP2. I have tried putting a different card in but I still did not get a good picture. Any subjections would be helpful. Robert Cobb -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Updated ISO image for RH 6.1 available ?
Benno Senoner wrote: This would save a LOT of headaches for many people. I have an updated redhat with all the updates but it is not for public distribution as I have changed some other things also. Namely removed sendmail and inserted qmail, included gnofin nmap knmap and some other tools. Some of the games had to be removed to fit it all in but While this is still a "redhat" OS it is not a redhat distribution. What is RedHats position on this sort of thing. Can this be distributed or would there be legal problems? I could make an updated iso available. If not I suppose I could simply create a RedHat iso with the updates supplied by redhat. Then I would need somewhere to use as a ftp as the demand would be greater than my humble connection could cope with creating your iso is also simple and there is a HOW-TO or mini HOW-TO somewhere. All you need is a cd-r and some HDD space. I am working now on incorportating the 2.4 kernel which is now at 2.3.34 devel but gives me some sort of guide. Kevin -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Updated ISO image for RH 6.1 available ?
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Benno Senoner wrote: This would save a LOT of headaches for many people. While this is still a "redhat" OS it is not a redhat distribution. What is RedHats position on this sort of thing. Can this be distributed or would there be legal problems? I could make an updated iso available. If not I suppose I could simply create a RedHat iso with the updates supplied by redhat. Then I would need somewhere to use as a ftp as the demand would be greater than my humble connection could cope with creating your iso is also simple and there is a HOW-TO or mini HOW-TO somewhere. All you need is a cd-r and some HDD space. Redhat itself should provide this updated ISO image, and would save them headaches too, since a user which downloads the RH 6.1 ISO image now (assume that it would be updated with the latest fixes) will not complain about 2-3 months old security flaws. It should be Redhat's responsibility to provide the up-to-date distribution in ISO format, in order to mantain linux's reutation as a "secure operating system". So agian my wishes for Redhat are: -provide an updated ISO every week or so - or provide a "giant-fix" with the latest update. Any official response from the Redhat people ? Is there any reason why this has not been implemented ? Benno. I am working now on incorportating the 2.4 kernel which is now at 2.3.34 devel but gives me some sort of guide. Kevin -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Benno Senoner E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux low-latency audio / scheduling latency benchmarks http://www.gardena.net/benno/linux/audio -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: monitor
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Robert Cobb wrote: I have been having trouble installing Red Hat 6.0 on my computer. The problem seems to be one of two things. First I have a high frequency monitor. At 800X600 it runs at 105 HZ. I could bump the resolution up but that would make everything real small. It is a CTX, model VL 950 S. I know that there has to be some way that it can be done. The second is the video card but I really doubt it. I have an ATI All-in-Wonder Pro 128 AGP2. I have tried putting a different card in but I still did not get a good picture. You don't specify the exact nature of your problem, e.g. is the screen all black, doesn't the monitor manage to synchronize the video signal, is the picture blurred? Without describing the problem exactly people don't have a chance to solve it. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: root password requests in 6.1
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, John Summerfield wrote: I have recently upgraded some machines to RH 6.1 and have noticed an alarming tendency for dialog boxes to appear saying please type the root password. This really is not acceptable. Any old trojan horse program can do this and get the password. It may be designed to make things easier for new users, but they need to understand about su/logging in as root. I have come across it on kppp (amazingly, even if you make it suid root!) which does not need to run as root (eg as in 6.0) and gnorpm (which means you get this just by inserting a RH CD in gnome). I've been seeing this when I login and the dialogue box doesn't even indicate what's asking!! Coupled with a few other things, it's almost enough to make me remove gnome (I I tend to use kde more anyway). To clarify things, this is a Red Hat'ism (forgive the wording) -- i.e. Red Hat Linux 6.1 has wrapped some programs that need to be run as root through consolehelper, regardless if they're console, KDE or GNOME programs. It's just coincidence that the wrapper is a gtk/gnome program. BTW: If something bugs you about GNOME, why don't you complain? I grepped through my archives of gnome-list and gnome-devel-list and couldn't find a single post by you. Even developers can't read minds. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: root password requests in 6.1
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, John Summerfield wrote: I have recently upgraded some machines to RH 6.1 and have noticed an alarming tendency for dialog boxes to appear saying please type the root password. This really is not acceptable. Any old trojan horse program can do this and get the password. It may be designed to make things easier for new users, but they need to understand about su/logging in as root. I have come across it on kppp (amazingly, even if you make it suid root!) which does not need to run as root (eg as in 6.0) and gnorpm (which means you get this just by inserting a RH CD in gnome). I've been seeing this when I login and the dialogue box doesn't even indicate what's asking!! Coupled with a few other things, it's almost enough to make me remove gnome (I I tend to use kde more anyway). To clarify things, this is a Red Hat'ism (forgive the wording) -- i.e. Red Hat Linux 6.1 has wrapped some programs that need to be run as root through consolehelper, regardless if they're console, KDE or GNOME programs. It's just coincidence that the wrapper is a gtk/gnome program. Well I am inclined to report this as a bug with major security implications. As far as I can see it is only acceptable to be asked for a root password if you have explicitly requested root access (eg su or login). Adding a graphical way of requesting root access (eg a program called [gxk]root say that simply produced a menu of programs that would then be run as root) could be acceptable, but producing unrequested root password requests is not acceptable, indeed is a major security problem. Justin -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: root password requests in 6.1
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Justin Cormack wrote: I have recently upgraded some machines to RH 6.1 and have noticed an alarming tendency for dialog boxes to appear saying please type the root password. This really is not acceptable. Any old trojan horse program can do this and get the password. It may be designed to make things easier for new users, but they need to understand about su/logging in as root. If there is a trojan in your path you've been compromised already. You would need to be breached to get the trojan in your path in the first place. Even if you didn't, blocking a single way for a malicious program to burn you doesn't stop the other n ways. The value of n is very large... That does not make it the right way to do things. 90%+ of users of a Linux system will normally not know the root password anyway (or indeed the system may use kerberos or sudo so root passwords should be unnecessary). Asking for a root password just because you have inserted a RH disk in the CD drive is simply wrong, against any sensible way of teaching new users about security. And you wouldnt need security to be breached to have a Trojan: a naive user could install any old program (Word for Linux say...) which just happened to ask for the password and would not realise why the program should or should not need the password. Justin -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: root password requests in 6.1
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 24/12/99 at 15:30 Justin Cormack wrote: Well I am inclined to report this as a bug with major security implications. As far as I can see it is only acceptable to be asked for a root password if you have explicitly requested root access (eg su or login). Adding a graphical way of requesting root access (eg a program called [gxk]root say that simply produced a menu of programs that would then be run as root) could be acceptable, but producing unrequested root password requests is not acceptable, indeed is a major security problem. Justin Maybe I am missing something Any OS can have things that are meant to be run as an eqv to root, but will prompt for passwd if the requestors level is not high enough a bug maybe.but a security problem, how so ? -- Greg Wright IT Consultant Sydney Australia PH 0418 292020 Available for Global Contracts Int. +61 418 292020 web http://www.ausit.come-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Delivery problems with your mail : vger.rutgers.edu
Tried to find out what mail-lists are avail at vger.rutgers.edu ( which has the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list ) of which i tried to report a scsi ( aic7xxx ) spin-up problem. I'd like to participate - if there is a discussion - but cannot find instructions or any one on their web . Anyone know ? gat The Post Office wrote: A copy of your message is being returned to you due to difficulties encountered while attempting to deliver your mail. The following errors occurred during message delivery processing: smtp fosters.rutgers.edu [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0: ...\ expired after 3 days, problem was: smtp; 500 (connect to fosters.rutgers.edu [128.6.126.64|25|128.6.190.2|5108]: Connection timed out) Following is a copy of MESSAGE/DELIVERY-STATUS format section below. It is copied here in case your email client is unable to show it to you. The information here below is in Internet Standard format designed to assist automatic, and accurate presentation and usage of said information. In case you need human assistance from the Postmaster(s) of the system which sent you this report, please include this information in your question! Virtually Yours, Automatic Email delivery Software Reporting-MTA: dns; vger.rutgers.edu Arrival-Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 09:31:45 -0500 Original-Recipient: rfc822;[EMAIL PROTECTED] Final-Recipient: RFC822;[EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.4.1 (TCP/IP-connection failure) Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 500 (connect to fosters.rutgers.edu [128.6.126.64|25|128.6.190.2|5108]: Connection timed out) Remote-MTA: dns; fosters.rutgers.edu (128.6.126.64|25|128.6.190.2|5108) Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 09:14:03 -0500 Reporting-MTA: dns; vger.rutgers.edu Arrival-Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 09:31:45 -0500 Original-Recipient: rfc822;[EMAIL PROTECTED] Final-Recipient: RFC822;[EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.4.1 (TCP/IP-connection failure) Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 500 (connect to fosters.rutgers.edu [128.6.126.64|25|128.6.190.2|5108]: Connection timed out) Remote-MTA: dns; fosters.rutgers.edu (128.6.126.64|25|128.6.190.2|5108) Last-Attempt-Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 09:14:03 -0500 Subject: How do I access the mail-lists @vger ? Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 08:28:06 -0500 From: Uncle George [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Big-Endian To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] going to vger.rutgers.edu does not give u a hint of what mail-list are there or how to subscribe. gat -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Updated ISO image for RH 6.1 available ?
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Benno Senoner wrote: This would save a LOT of headaches for many people. While this is still a "redhat" OS it is not a redhat distribution. What is RedHats position on this sort of thing. Can this be distributed or would there be legal problems? I could make an updated iso available. If not I suppose I could simply create a RedHat iso with the updates supplied by redhat. Then I would need somewhere to use as a ftp as the demand would be greater than my humble connection could cope with creating your iso is also simple and there is a HOW-TO or mini HOW-TO somewhere. All you need is a cd-r and some HDD space. Redhat itself should provide this updated ISO image, and would save them headaches too, since a user which downloads the RH 6.1 ISO image now (assume that it would be updated with the latest fixes) will not complain about 2-3 months old security flaws. It should be Redhat's responsibility to provide the up-to-date distribution in ISO format, in order to mantain linux's reutation as a "secure operating system". So agian my wishes for Redhat are: -provide an updated ISO every week or so - or provide a "giant-fix" with the latest update. Any official response from the Redhat people ? Is there any reason why this has not been implemented ? Benno. I am not a RedHat employee so I think I can speak freely here and I will translate a french expression: You want the butter, the money of the butter and in addition the woman selling it You ask RedHat to spend resources (ie $$$) in provinding for free a far better product than the boxed version. This is _far_ more than what is demanded by GPL. -- Jean Francois Martinez Project Independence: Linux for the Masses http://www.independence.seul.org -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Delivery problems with your mail : vger.rutgers.edu
Uncle George wrote: Tried to find out what mail-lists are avail at vger.rutgers.edu ( which has the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list ) of which i tried to report a scsi ( aic7xxx ) spin-up problem. I'd like to participate - if there is a discussion - but cannot find instructions or any one on their web . Anyone know ? gat Try "help" as the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Andrew E. Mileski - Software Engineer REBEL.COM http://www.rebel.com/ -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: monitor
Currently I am unable to run any X-Server. I just recently returned to the US and my Linux Box which has Red Hat 5.2 installed on it is still in Germany. I have a new computer here that I built and I picked-up a distribution of Red Hat 6.0 and 6.5 Mandrake. I have been trying to convince the DOIM "Department of Information Management" that we should stop spending Money on MS crap. But, if I can't even get it on my own system without changing the hardware then it is going to be a tough battle. Robert Cobb Computer Specialist Unites States Military Academy -Original Message- From: Kirk Whiting [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 24, 1999 12:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: monitor On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Robert Cobb wrote: I have been having trouble installing Red Hat 6.0 on my computer. The problem seems to be one of two things. First I have a high frequency monitor. At 800X600 it runs at 105 HZ. I could bump the resolution up but that would make everything real small. It is a CTX, model VL 950 S. I know that there has to be some way that it can be done. I have a CTX monitor that works fine. Not sure on the model right now its at home. Try setting it up with Xconfigurator under custom monitor. The second is the video card but I really doubt it. I have an ATI All-in-Wonder Pro 128 AGP2. I have the ATI Xpert 128 if your card is similar to this its not supported, I switched to an ATI RageIIc works great. Which X server are you using? I have tried putting a different card in but I still did not get a good picture. Any subjections would be helpful. Robert Cobb -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: monitor
During installation one muse specify which monitor and video card. Since my monitor is not listed in the hardware I tried the custom settings first. When it goes to check the configuration the screen is black and no picture what so ever. I have tried all the CTX monitors none of which worked. Robert Cobb Computer Specialist Unites States Military Academy -Original Message- From: Nils Philippsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 24, 1999 9:16 AM To: Robert Cobb Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; recipient list not shown: ; Subject:Re: monitor On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Robert Cobb wrote: I have been having trouble installing Red Hat 6.0 on my computer. The problem seems to be one of two things. First I have a high frequency monitor. At 800X600 it runs at 105 HZ. I could bump the resolution up but that would make everything real small. It is a CTX, model VL 950 S. I know that there has to be some way that it can be done. The second is the video card but I really doubt it. I have an ATI All-in-Wonder Pro 128 AGP2. I have tried putting a different card in but I still did not get a good picture. You don't specify the exact nature of your problem, e.g. is the screen all black, doesn't the monitor manage to synchronize the video signal, is the picture blurred? Without describing the problem exactly people don't have a chance to solve it. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: root password requests in 6.1
Hello, As far as I can see it is only acceptable to be asked for a root password if you have explicitly requested root access (eg su or login). Adding a graphical way of requesting root access (eg a program called [gxk]root say that simply produced a menu of programs that would then be run as root) could be acceptable, but producing unrequested root password requests is not acceptable, indeed is a major security problem. I second this opinion. Such behaviour violates the principle of least necessary privileges and it teaches the users bad habits. If you want to do it this way, please, at least don't ask for the _root_ password. There is not a slightest need for a password unlocking everything, when the userhelper itself is setuid root. Define another password unlocking the way to the controlled services and define a way (configurable by a real root) to control who can do what. Regards -- Stano -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Tar questions
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, cajun wrote: Is it possible to direct a tar file to extract to a certain directory ? i'm not sure i'd recommend doing this, but gnu tar has the "-P" or "--absolute-paths" option that will leave leading slashes on the filenames in the archive to guarantee that the restore is done to that absolute location. is that what you were looking for? just be warned that this removes the flexibility of restoring anywhere else. you're better off cd'ing to the appropriate location first before running the restore. How can dotfiles be included in a tar ? (yes, I've looked at the man page but haven't been able to figure it out) the easy way is to archive by directory name if you can. if you want to archive your home directory, first cd there, then $ tar cvf /dev/fd0 . the period refers to a *directory*, and this automatically picks up everything inside the directory, including hidden files. if you want to get hidden files specifically, try the wildcard pattern ".[!.]*". but if you can, just use the directory way of doing it, it's way easier. rday -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: bus error / racing? / SMP
Edward, I'm running two instances of setiathome on a 2*550PIII system with kernel 2.2.12-20smp. I also extensively use NetScape and I've had no problems like what you describe. Are you sure you run the latest version of NetScape? I'm running 4.7-1, which can be found at the RedHat site. Regards Gustav Edward Schernau wrote: On my new system (SMP), I've twice now had Netscape running in X, the RC5 client running on a tty, and suddenly the disk will start thrashing, and the system will totally bog down. Last time, all the Netscape windows disappeared one by one, and then it was fine. This time, I had to Alt-SysRq-S the thing to emergency sync (since I figured I'd have to shut it off). It then paused briefly, dropped me out of X, and then I got a message on tty1 that the RC5 client died with a "bus error". So I'm wondering if there are any SMP gotchas, or bugs people have had with the RC5 crypto client and its "SMP-awareness". System: RH6, 2.2.13 kernel using kernel.org tarball 2x550 MHz Celeron HPT366 ATA-66 HDC 64 MB PC-100 RAM Thanks in advance for any lucid ideas. Incidentally, can anyone give me a reference benchmark for keys/sec that a 550 Celeron should compute? -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject. -- pgp = Pretty Good Privacy. To get my public pgp key, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit my web site at http://www.schaffter.com -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, bob jones wrote: Thanks in advance: Does the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit script always get run on bootup? I'm running (sorry, I like it, it's running on an old machine, and I'm afraid to upgrade ..) RHL4.2, so maybe the filename might be a little different in later versions of RHL. It seems to me that this script is not being run on boot on my system. This conclusion is based on the failure of diagnostic "echo" commands I have put into the script to write either to the console or, with redirection, to a file that I could use as a check ... Maybe I don't understand whether such commands *should* be able to write to the console or to a file during boot, in which case I need a better way to check. Any ideas that would help? This question is important to me because the system in question is not any longer running fsck during boot as it should under some circumstances (this I have posted earlier and have not as yet been able to resolve). I'm keying on the logical commands WRT "/fastboot" in the rc.sysinit file to help me understand my problem, because those commands control whether fsck gets run. If I remove the command in the rc.sysinit that deletes the /fastboot file, I still don't find it in the / directory. Hence I'm messing around to try to understand what is going on with /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. Thanks again, bob jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I have RHL 6.0 so there may be some diferences but in 6.0: 1. The /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit has to run every time on bootup. 2. If I "touch /forcefsck", I get an fsck on next bootup when I should not. 3. If I "touch /fastboot", then fsck doesn't run when it should. What I would do is: a. Double check that fsck is in the path. The path gets set at the top of rc.sysinit b. Use "tune2fs -l /dev/??? to check Maximun-mount-count and Check-interval. c. Set in /etc/sysconfig/init LOGLEVEL=7 and BOOTUP=verbose. d. In /etc/inittab change the line that has: 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mimgetty tty1 by the following: 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mimgetty --noclear tty1 This way you will keep all the bootup messages and you can scroll back with shift+page_up and shift+page_down. HTH Agustin -- ~~ Agustin Navarro P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58.2.9630746 -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
AMD K6-III @ 450MHZ
Hi There! I have recently installed an MS-5184 Baby AT VI4 Motherboard with an AMD K6-III running at 450MHZ. I used to run an AMD K6-II @ 366MHZ with an old, 66MHZ board. The memory is exactly the same. Some people said I would notice a difference; some said I wouldn't. My experiences so far are: * StarOffice actually looks like it's doing something and reacts straight away * Netscape loads almost at the click of a button * X runs significantly faster * The GIMP loads significantly faster In my opinion the upgrade has been worth it. Besides, I now have two relatively fast machines. The older KG II @ 366MHZ was certainly quite fast and I still have it; just gotta get round to installing it into a case somewhere. The only glitch is that it killed my Windows (again). Because some of the I/O port addresses are different, Windows is asking this and asking that and asking this and askng that. I will eventually get around to installing the stupid thing DAVID -- The Linux C Mailing Lists Have Moved mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [subject: subscribe] The Linux C++ Mailing Lists Have Moved mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [subject: subscribe] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Anyone with Progress knowledge?
If somebody with knowledge of keyboard shortcuts concerning the function keys (F1 to F12) with Progress could be so kind to mail them to me? I was able to find out that F1 = Ctrl+X and F4 = Ctrl+E. Now I just need the rest. ;-) Cheers! _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ Zoran GRBIC_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] _/ _/ Sys Analyste UNIX Oracle _/ Paris, FRANCE_/ _/ Linux advocate _/ Micro$oft clean _/ / _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ Mailed with Linux Pine... "gawk; talk; date; wine; grep; touch; unzip; touch; gasp; finger; gasp; mount; fsck; more; gasp; umount; make clean; make; mkproper; sleep" -- Gavin, Linux mailing list -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
RH 6.1: setting up Epson Stylus Color 600 and sound
Hello, I've just installed RedHat 6.1 on my father's Dell box, going for a standard Gnome Workstation installation. However, I can't get the sound card or printer to work. I believe the soundcard is integrated, unfortunately. The manual which came with the computer just says "Dell Integrated Audio User's Guide, Technology from Creative Technology's Sound Blaster". Win 95 reports it as a Creative Sound Blaster 16 Plug and Play. However, it doesn't seem to show up when I use sndconfig in Linux. Can anyone help? He also has an Epson Stylus Color 600, connected to the parallel port. RedHat didn't seem to set this up when I installed it, and the printtool doesn't detect anything on any of /dev/lp0 lp1 or lp2. As root, I've tried doing lptest /dev/lp0 but I get a "No such device" error. There are 'files' called lp0, lp1, and lp2 in /dev, though. Again, can anyone advise? Many thanks to you all, Douglas -- Douglas Pierce-Price| Queens' College Cavendish Astrophysics Group| University of Cambridge Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge | -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
X on the Toshiba 4000CDT
Hi, I am trying to configure X to work on a Toshiba 4000CDT (which has a CT6 chip). If someone is using such a configuration, can you please send a copy to me? Thanks, Brad Williamson. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: AMD K6-III @ 450MHZ
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, lloy0076 wrote: In my opinion the upgrade has been worth it. Besides, I now have two relatively fast machines. The older KG II @ 366MHZ was certainly quite fast and I still have it; just gotta get round to installing it into a case somewhere. The only glitch is that it killed my Windows (again). Well, I have a case right here in my room where it would feel perfectly ;) Have a Merry X-mas, David! P.D.: Thanks for all your help -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: Finding a file
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, K Old wrote: I have used 'find', 'locate', and 'grep' to try to find it. Hi Kevin! Have you tried upgrading the locate database? It is updated automatically... at about 3:00 am. If you do not have your system on at that time, it just wont update. On 5.2 you can run updatedb as root. On 6.0 and later you can use locate -u. Run them in the background so you can keep up working meanwhile. Then try locating it again. -Manuel. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: RH 6.1: setting up Epson Stylus Color 600 and sound
At 11:55 AM 12/24/99 +, you wrote: Hello, I've just installed RedHat 6.1 on my father's Dell box, going for a standard Gnome Workstation installation. However, I can't get the sound card or printer to work. I believe the soundcard is integrated, unfortunately. The manual which came with the computer just says "Dell Integrated Audio User's Guide, Technology from Creative Technology's Sound Blaster". Win 95 reports it as a Creative Sound Blaster 16 Plug and Play. However, it doesn't seem to show up when I use sndconfig in Linux. Can anyone help? He also has an Epson Stylus Color 600, connected to the parallel port. RedHat didn't seem to set this up when I installed it, and the printtool doesn't detect anything on any of /dev/lp0 lp1 or lp2. As root, I've tried doing lptest /dev/lp0 but I get a "No such device" error. There are 'files' called lp0, lp1, and lp2 in /dev, though. Again, can anyone advise? Look under Tech support on Redhat's page. There is a category called RedHat 6.1 Gotcha's or something like that. There is a fix form that problem there. Rick Many thanks to you all, Douglas -- Douglas Pierce-Price| Queens' College Cavendish Astrophysics Group| University of Cambridge Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge | -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject. Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rknebel.uplink.net -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
The Memory-HOWTO
When Linux Documentation goes to far... http://dolinux.org/docs/memory.html -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Linux FTP Servers Slower than IIS4?
Well for my Christmas eve message; I would like to ask the experienced IT folks out there what do you think of this statement made by one of the FTP Server sites I use regularly . "Our site has been up for months at a time with out ever being rebooted,.. We use IIS4 because it is arguably one of the fastest FTP servers out there." Is This in fact true or basically the "party line" because most of the employees of this company are MSIE trained kind of individuals with very little Linux literacy. They do claim one of their Senior Admins, " an experienced UNIX administrator of 13 years" said this. Not meaning to start a "holy war" this time of year, but was curious? William Bouterse Juneau Alaska -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
proc_ide_write_settings(: parse error
hi all, when i type echo max_kb_per_request:32 /proc/ide/hdb/settings i get proc_ide_write_settings(: parse error this work fine on my other machine. what am i doing wrong? thanks linda -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: Linux FTP Servers Slower than IIS4?
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, WH Bouterse wrote: "Our site has been up for months at a time with out ever being rebooted,.. We use IIS4 because it is arguably one of the fastest FTP servers out there." I don't have a lot of experience, but running a FTP site for my apartment-intranet, FTP speeds jumped from about 1-1.5Mb/s to over 3 when I switched from NT4 Server SP6 w/ IIS to Linux. For the simple reason that Linux has less overhead and a better TCP/IP stack, I'd be willing to wager that NT is not faster under equal circumstances. /me Mike Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.fix.net/~merickson/ "The world is my country and my religion is to do good."-T Paine -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: can a mounted iso9660 image file really be RW?
I'm scared to try writing to it in case the image gets messed up before I burn it. If I try writing to it to update a few packages, will the image file be in good shape for making a CD? Yes.. I do it on a regular bases... Thanks Igmar -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re:RE: [OT] History of the mouse
Yes, QuarterDeck was the manufacturer of DeskView. I have the original version. Man, those were the days! :) Cary R. Wagner Sr. Systems Engineer Cranel, Inc. 949.448.8777 x203 503.678.5790 Fax--eMail Reply Separator Subject:RE: [OT] History of the mouse Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 12/23/99 7:57 PM The original software was developed 1983ish and was called Deskview under one of it's incarnations. Deskview was licensed to a number of other companies for "tweaking" improvements, and resold... I used to own (still do, if I could find the disk) a copy of Deskview by Indian Head Software, but I'm pretty sure that was a tweaked version. I think Deskview was owned at one time by Symantec. Windows Version 1.0 was nearly identical in performance and abilities with Deskview ie., it was pretty primitive. It did allow for multitasking for the first time on an x86 architecture, though. Windows 2.0 was superior to Deskview so clearly that Deskview faded from the picture, and was all but gone by 1989. In return, of course, Windows 2.0 was supplanted in 1990 by Windows 3.0, a much more usable (no snickering) interface and system. The rest everyone knows, I'm sure. This isn't the same as QuarterDeck's DesqView, is it? I used it long before Windows 3.0 came out, multi-tasking DOS apps. Worked great on a 386-25. -- Juha -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: can a mounted iso9660 image file really be RW?
Igmar Palsenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm scared to try writing to it in case the image gets messed up before I burn it. If I try writing to it to update a few packages, will the image file be in good shape for making a CD? Yes.. I do it on a regular bases... So do I but could replacing base redhat packages confuse the installer ? I am far from sure about this. It would nice if someone could tell if the installer is looking for specific revisions of the packages or if upgrading prior to install is OK. Philippe Thanks Igmar -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
png format and netscape
I thought netscape had the inherent ability to "see" png images. Apparently it doesn't because I cannot view png images. What app or plugin do I need to make netscape 4.7 be able to display png files? patrick -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
RE: Tar questions
Thanks Vidiot, Hossein, and rday. Interesting that tar will get the dotfiles in the subdirectories, but not the current directory. Thanks for all of the pointers. Merry Xmas ! Mike [snip] On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, cajun wrote: Is it possible to direct a tar file to extract to a certain directory ? i'm not sure i'd recommend doing this, but gnu tar has the "-P" or "--absolute-paths" option that will leave leading slashes on the filenames in the archive to guarantee that the restore is done to that absolute location. is that what you were looking for? just be warned that this removes the flexibility of restoring anywhere else. you're better off cd'ing to the appropriate location first before running the restore. How can dotfiles be included in a tar ? (yes, I've looked at the man page but haven't been able to figure it out) the easy way is to archive by directory name if you can. if you want to archive your home directory, first cd there, then $ tar cvf /dev/fd0 . the period refers to a *directory*, and this automatically picks up everything inside the directory, including hidden files. if you want to get hidden files specifically, try the wildcard pattern ".[!.]*". but if you can, just use the directory way of doing it, it's way easier. rday -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: can a mounted iso9660 image file really be RW?
Igmar Palsenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm scared to try writing to it in case the image gets messed up before I burn it. If I try writing to it to update a few packages, will the image file be in good shape for making a CD? Yes.. I do it on a regular bases... So do I but could replacing base redhat packages confuse the installer ? I am far from sure about this. It would nice if someone could tell if the installer is looking for specific revisions of the packages or if upgrading prior to install is OK. You need to rebuild the packages DB... The program that does this is on the CD. I can look it up for you if you want to... Philippe k Igmar -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
RE: can a mounted iso9660 image file really be RW?
The program you're looking for is /misc/src/anaconda/utils/genhdlist. The file that should get updated is /RedHat/base/hdlist. HTH. Mike [snip] Igmar Palsenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm scared to try writing to it in case the image gets messed up before I burn it. If I try writing to it to update a few packages, will the image file be in good shape for making a CD? Yes.. I do it on a regular bases... So do I but could replacing base redhat packages confuse the installer ? I am far from sure about this. It would nice if someone could tell if the installer is looking for specific revisions of the packages or if upgrading prior to install is OK. You need to rebuild the packages DB... The program that does this is on the CD. I can look it up for you if you want to... [snip] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: Finding a file
I can't get slocate to run. Is it in a seperate "package" from locate? TIA Andy -- From: Eddie Strohmier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Finding a file Date: Thursday, December 23, 1999 10:27 PM locate should find it unless it's name has been changed. How are you using locate and what file? If it is a new file locate will not find till your machine runs /usr/bin/slocate which is done via cron I believe nightly. You can run slocate yourself to get your machine to update it's file locations. Eddie Strohmier Bonwell Globalnet www.bonwell.com - Original Message - From: K Old [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Red Hat List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 24, 1999 1:14 AM Subject: Finding a file Hello, I am trying to find a file that is somewhere on my system, but I can't seem to find it. I have used 'find', 'locate', and 'grep' to try to find it. Can someone tell me how to simply find a file in any directory on my system? Thanks, Kevin -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: Finding a file
no, [root@pooh majordomo]# which slocate /usr/bin/slocate [root@pooh majordomo]# rpm -qf `which slocate` slocate-2.0-3 [root@pooh majordomo]# rpm -qf `which locate` slocate-2.0-3 hth charles On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Andy Thomas wrote: I can't get slocate to run. Is it in a seperate "package" from locate? TIA Andy -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
RE: RH 6.1: setting up Epson Stylus Color 600 and sound
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Larry Mintz wrote: 2. Add this to /etc/conf.modules alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc Thanks to everyone for their help! D -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
pump using significant CPU
I don't understand this. I am running RH 6.1 and have pump-0.7.2-2 installed. I have been running setiathome for months and months nonstop as well. It usually sits at 80% or higher in CPU usage (with nice 19) if I am not really doing much. For the last two days, I have seen that it is sitting at about 3% CPU usage and no higher while pump is using 45% or higher of the CPU. Why in the world would pump need to use that much of the CPU for a prolonged period? It should only need to run for a few seconds at bootup to negotiate/get an IP address assigned to my box (DHCP with ADSL thru USWest). Can anyone enlighten me as to why pump would need to run for such a long time, or even if that is normal, why does it use so much of the CPU for such a long time? What do I need to do to fix this? The situation is that I used to have my box setup to start my eth0 at bootup. I have a 3Com EtherlinkXL PCI card that works nicely. Letting pump run at bootup after setting it up to do so via inetcfg led to a LONG wait when it came to eth0 initialization. Bootup would stop for a long time but then FINALLY continue with an OK for the eth0 initialization. This was intolerable so I unchecked the start at bootup option in inetcfg and opted to place /sbin/pump into my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file outside the if statement. This allowed bootup to proceed quickly, with no inordinate delay while waiting for an IP to be successfully assigned to my box AND it would still allow me to immediately start up netscape or telnet, etc, after logging in. Whatever delay was occuring ceased to affect my use of the system upon doing this. Would my doing this somehow have led to this periodic OVERUSE of the CPU by pump? I cannot tolerate the incredibly long delay at bootup caused by pump if I select start at bootup for eth0 but it is also intolerable for pump to use so much CPU for such a long period (no activity lights flashing on my Cisco 675 router while pump is running thusly either) and deprive setiathome of CPU cycles. I am using a 2.2.13 kernel with my ethernet's driver compiled in - no as a module. The driver is the 3c59x driver. Any suggestions, aid, or explanations would be greatly appreciated. patrick -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: pump using significant CPU
I have no real suggestions there but I can testify the same kind of behaviour with the network setting during the bootup phase as well. It looks like it is coming from the fact that it tries to access DNS somehow before realizing the network is not up yet so it gives up with DNS. (well, this is just a feeling I have about what is happenning). There are a couple of pbs like that this the redhat boot up. Like setting up an alias for your eht0 when using DHCP for the primary IP. If I use the linuxconf stuff to do this, it will try to setup the alias during the bootup which will always fail (no asking me why), but if I start aliasing manually in the rc.local everything is fine. Philippe "patrick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't understand this. I am running RH 6.1 and have pump-0.7.2-2 installed. I have been running setiathome for months and months nonstop as well. It usually sits at 80% or higher in CPU usage (with nice 19) if I am not really doing much. For the last two days, I have seen that it is sitting at about 3% CPU usage and no higher while pump is using 45% or higher of the CPU. Why in the world would pump need to use that much of the CPU for a prolonged period? It should only need to run for a few seconds at bootup to negotiate/get an IP address assigned to my box (DHCP with ADSL thru USWest). Can anyone enlighten me as to why pump would need to run for such a long time, or even if that is normal, why does it use so much of the CPU for such a long time? What do I need to do to fix this? The situation is that I used to have my box setup to start my eth0 at bootup. I have a 3Com EtherlinkXL PCI card that works nicely. Letting pump run at bootup after setting it up to do so via inetcfg led to a LONG wait when it came to eth0 initialization. Bootup would stop for a long time but then FINALLY continue with an OK for the eth0 initialization. This was intolerable so I unchecked the start at bootup option in inetcfg and opted to place /sbin/pump into my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file outside the if statement. This allowed bootup to proceed quickly, with no inordinate delay while waiting for an IP to be successfully assigned to my box AND it would still allow me to immediately start up netscape or telnet, etc, after logging in. Whatever delay was occuring ceased to affect my use of the system upon doing this. Would my doing this somehow have led to this periodic OVERUSE of the CPU by pump? I cannot tolerate the incredibly long delay at bootup caused by pump if I select start at bootup for eth0 but it is also intolerable for pump to use so much CPU for such a long period (no activity lights flashing on my Cisco 675 router while pump is running thusly either) and deprive setiathome of CPU cycles. I am using a 2.2.13 kernel with my ethernet's driver compiled in - no as a module. The driver is the 3c59x driver. Any suggestions, aid, or explanations would be greatly appreciated. patrick -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: AMD K6-III @ 450MHZ
On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 06:44:45PM +1030, lloy0076 wrote: Hi There! I have recently installed an MS-5184 Baby AT VI4 Motherboard with an AMD K6-III running at 450MHZ. I used to run an AMD K6-II @ 366MHZ with an old, 66MHZ board. The memory is exactly the same. Some people said I You're not using PC100 RAM with the new board? I'd think that would cost you BIG on performance since you can't (shouldn't) run old RAM at the 100Mhz bus speed the K6-III will prefer. would notice a difference; some said I wouldn't. My experiences so far are: * StarOffice actually looks like it's doing something and reacts straight away * Netscape loads almost at the click of a button * X runs significantly faster * The GIMP loads significantly faster In my opinion the upgrade has been worth it. Besides, I now have two relatively fast machines. The older KG II @ 366MHZ was certainly quite fast and I still have it; just gotta get round to installing it into a case somewhere. The only glitch is that it killed my Windows (again). Yeah, I learned the hard way last spring when I put a new motherboard in my system that Windoze positively *hates* it when the hardware changes out from under it. I'm told I should have gone to "control panel" "system" and removed all the system devices when shutting down the old motherboard for the last time. I didn't, and had a major war with Windoze to get it to even work. Even after the war there's still a skirmish or two (every time it boots Windows kindly "finds new hardware" for me, and it's always my sound card and my IDE disk controller--which it already knows about and which work fine. I've got to tell it CANCEL else it'll install a second copy of them. Every time!). Because some of the I/O port addresses are different, Windows is asking this and asking that and asking this and askng that. I will eventually get around to installing the stupid thing You could TRY doing what I suggest above, i.e., remove all the devices under control-panel/system, shut it down then reboot windoze and let it re-find all the hardware again. Reputed to work. Helped when I did it, except for the ongoing issue I mention above which is not helped by that technique. Thank goodness I rarely boot windoze on that system (I've got an old 486 on which I run Windoze when I absolutely have to) so it's not much of a problem anymore. Fred -- Fred Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. --- Romans 5:8 (niv) -- -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
odd netatalk permissions problem
we have a mac, running os 9 on the network. it accesses the linux box over netatalk (netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3-6) it sets some wierd bit that i've never seen: drwx--Srwx 6 gaelen 522 1024 Dec 15 14:13 Network Trash Folder ^ what is that? even as root i can't see the contents of the directory, du reports 1K, ls -la says 0 files... if i chmod the directory to something w/o the S bit, it's all fine. what is the S, and how can i prevent it? brian -- ---'---,---'--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---,---'---,--- E! Evil... Bright... Yellow... Thing...!! That must be the Daystar. I've heard talk about it. User Friendly, 12/8/1999 --'--,--'--,-- http://diabolis.net --'--,--'--,-- -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
xntp broacast?
Anyone know how to set xntp to broadcast the time on a local subnet? -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: xntp broacast?
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Stefan Smietanowski wrote: You want all your machines to be synced with the ntp server simply? Two ways, one is to install xntpd on all machines, enter the config and insert your server there, then they'll sync with an internval you set. No, what I'm trying to do is set up my Linux box as a Stratum 2/3 server for a domain. The idea behind using either broadcast or multicast is to reduce the load on the interface by sending out a time "heartbeat" instead of having the overhead of responding to UDP queries. The Win32 machines in the subnet won't be affected enought by the small drift incurred by using broadcast instead of unicast for it to matter. -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: xntp broacast?
Hi, You want all your machines to be synced with the ntp server simply? Two ways, one is to install xntpd on all machines, enter the config and insert your server there, then they'll sync with an internval you set. No, what I'm trying to do is set up my Linux box as a Stratum 2/3 server for a domain. The idea behind using either broadcast or multicast is to reduce the load on the interface by sending out a time "heartbeat" instead of having the overhead of responding to UDP queries. The Win32 machines in the subnet won't be affected enought by the small drift incurred by using broadcast instead of unicast for it to matter. Seems I was wrong. I just double checked. Check /usr/doc/xntp-your_version. Read the xntpd.html. There's info there how to do it. You want the 'broadcastserver' or 'multicastserver' keyword. I appologize for not remembering correctly regarding b.cast/m.cast. Hope this helps. // Stefan -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: xntp broacast?
On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Stefan Smietanowski wrote: Read the xntpd.html. There's info there how to do it. The documentation sucks. The keyword is actually in confopt.html. The usage is: # Send out a time-signal "heartbeat" to my local network. broadcast 192.168.1.255 broadcastdelay 0.008 or whatever is appropriate to the local network. Thanks for trying to help, though--especially when everyone else is off getting plastered on eggnog. :) -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: xntp broacast?
Hi. Read the xntpd.html. There's info there how to do it. The documentation sucks. The keyword is actually in confopt.html. The usage is: # Send out a time-signal "heartbeat" to my local network. broadcast 192.168.1.255 broadcastdelay 0.008 or whatever is appropriate to the local network. Thanks for trying to help, though--especially when everyone else is off getting plastered on eggnog. :) No problem. I must have followed a link to the option or something, but that's the file I used to get there :) // Stefan -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: png format and netscape
PNG images display just fine here with 4.7. But I'm not using 4.7 from the RPMs. I grabbed the tarball from ftp.netscape.com. Dunno if that makes a difference. I doubt it. Mohammad -- = http://www.haque.net/ Post your screenshots: http://www.haque.net/screenshots/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] = patrick wrote: I thought netscape had the inherent ability to "see" png images. Apparently it doesn't because I cannot view png images. What app or plugin do I need to make netscape 4.7 be able to display png files? patrick -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
sophisticated trickery(AfterStep)
Ok, I finally had AfterStep running (which is cool by the way) but after I rebooted the system, it was back on Gnome and now I can't find the option to change window managers. 1) what the hell? There's a file called .AfterStep-errors in my home dir now, 2) does that mean something? the menu with the shortcuts at the bottom of the screen (with the start botton) left somewhere without my permission, 3) how do I get it back? 4)what desktop (AfterStep, gnome, etc...) does everyone else recommend I use? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
trickery - AfterStep
Ok, I finally had AfterStep running (which is cool by the way) but after I rebooted the system, it was back on Gnome and now I can't find the option to change window managers. 1) what the hell? There's a file called .AfterStep-errors in my home dir now, 2) does that mean something? the menu with the shortcuts at the bottom of the screen (with the start botton) left somewhere without my permission, 3) how do I get it back? 4)what desktop (AfterStep, gnome, etc...) does everyone else recommend I use? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: sophisticated trickery(AfterStep)
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Darin Bailey wrote: Ok, I finally had AfterStep running (which is cool by the way) but after I rebooted the system, it was back on Gnome and now I can't find the option to change window managers. 1) what the hell? I have been having the opposite problem: mine keeps defaulting back to enlightenment. Running switchdesk doesn't seem to help; somehow, .wm_style keeps being reset. 4)what desktop (AfterStep, gnome, etc...) does everyone else recommend That's strictly a matter of taste. Gnome isn't a window manager, though, it's a session manager. You should be able to run afterstep under gnome, although certain features might not work as well as with enlightenment or windowmaker. Both gnome and KDE chew up huge amounts of RAM, as does E. If you're light on memory, use afterstep or windowmaker (or whatever else you like), but don't run the KDE or gnome session managers. Then again, if you have the RAM to spare, it doesn't really matter much what you run, as long as you like it. :) -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
named caching
Other than rebooting, how to I clear out the named cache? I am running the stock RH6.0 /etc/named.conf. Of course, I would prefer an option other than rebooting :-) Happy Holidays. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bart: Hey, why is it destroying other toys? Lisa: They must have programmed it to eliminate the competition. Bart: You mean like Microsoft? Lisa: Exactly. [The Simpsons - 12/18/99] Visit - URL:http://www.vidiot.com/ (Your link to Star Trek and UPN) -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: named caching
On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 12:03:18AM -0600, Vidiot wrote: Other than rebooting, how to I clear out the named cache? I am running the stock RH6.0 /etc/named.conf. Of course, I would prefer an option other than rebooting :-) ndc restart should do the trick. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
Re: named caching
On Sat, Dec 25, 1999 at 12:03:18AM -0600, Vidiot wrote: Other than rebooting, how to I clear out the named cache? I am running the stock RH6.0 /etc/named.conf. Of course, I would prefer an option other than rebooting :-) ndc restart should do the trick. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, that was too easy. It has been a long week fighting PeeCee hardware for my multimedia box and my brain in fried. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bart: Hey, why is it destroying other toys? Lisa: They must have programmed it to eliminate the competition. Bart: You mean like Microsoft? Lisa: Exactly. [The Simpsons - 12/18/99] Visit - URL:http://www.vidiot.com/ (Your link to Star Trek and UPN) -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
