Re: Automatic Updates

2002-10-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
Not necessarily, try http://updates.redhat.com/xxx where xxx is your version number. From what I understand, perl scripts are available once installed can do the updates for you. However krud is probably going to be a better value than rhns since both cost he same but krud provides a set of cd's

Re: Debian install issue

2002-10-07 Thread Ray Olszewski
There are a couple of things that are unclear from what you wrote. 1. Are you installing using dpkg or apt-get? 2. What version of X are you installing (I know what Woody, the current Debian Stable, installs, but I don't remember what Potato was doing or what package names it used, and I don't

Debian install issue

2002-10-07 Thread James Miller
Hello. I have an old machine I use mostly for email and light duty browsing - nothing fancy. It is a P 75 with 32 MB RAM 1 MB (forgot which) PCI video card and < 1 GB HD. I have an old AOC B&W monitor hooked up to it. I had RH 6.2 on there, but was not very happy with it. I was running fvwm f

Re: Fetchpop Problem

2002-10-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
hmmm, mail coming from such sources usually contains the program identification string that wrote the mail in the first place if memory serves. Why not reject any email from a non-compliant mta attaching a message onto the rejected email stating x is a non-compliant mail transport agent and messa

Patching problems

2002-10-07 Thread Marco Calistri
What does it means and how can I correct? [root@linux securetar]# patch -p3 < securetar.c.diff patching file securetar.c Hunk #1 FAILED at 231. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file securetar.c.rej ---here the files---: #securetar.c [end part] /**

Identifying computers behind a NAT

2002-10-07 Thread Lee Chin
Hi, For billing and licensing reasons in our product, I need to be able to identify machines when they connect to our server... The issue that we have is that these machines may be behind a NAT firewall and we dont see the real IP of the machine... Is there any way at all to identify a socke

RE: free JSP host

2002-10-07 Thread Mojo Jojo
http://java.isavvix.com/devspace.jsp http://www.webappcabaret.com/index.html try those two... > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ramzez > Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 5:47 PM > To: linux > Subject: free JSP host > > > -BEGIN

Automatic Updates

2002-10-07 Thread Dan Bentson-Royal
Hello, I am trying to decide between RedHat and SuSE distributions for my next Linux project. I have heard that SuSE has free update system that is automatic - I don't have to search and apply each related update. Anyone know if that is true? RedHat has something similar, but isn't that a pai

something wrong with konqueror

2002-10-07 Thread Ramzez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi... I have a trouble with konqueror "file manager"... I copied some Image files in one directory; i use the preview to see icons with the image... later I use the console and rename some files with names that are in the directory.. ok; now if I wa

free JSP host

2002-10-07 Thread Ramzez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi... first excuse me for this off-topic... but I need some FREE host to support JSP ( it'll be better if support DataBase too) Somebody know something about this type of hosting? I find mycgiserver.com but I need other too so thanks - --

Re: block-major-33

2002-10-07 Thread Elias Athanasopoulos
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 01:54:11PM +, Heimo Claasen wrote: > So why starting up Linux _does_ demand to have them insterted ? > I found numbers of such indications in articles, Howtos etc. >From the man page of mount: The mount command serves to attach the file system found on some device t

Re: block-major-33

2002-10-07 Thread Heimo Claasen
> The kernel hasn't load the appropriate module when fstab is parsed > during the boot process, so you get the error. I don't think this is the reason; the module _is_ loaded with the kernel but if the adapter with a CF card is not present/inserted it's with executing 'fstab' that the "[FAILED]"

Re: Fetchpop Problem

2002-10-07 Thread Heimo Claasen
Yes, there is an problem with an increasing number of mail troubles. No, this is not a Fetchpop problem: I see it with all sorts of mail transport agents (MTAs) not only under Linux. My suspicion for the reasons go towards a specific recent version of the Outhouse Excremental Exploder, perhaps ev

Re: Copying files to CD-ROM discs

2002-10-07 Thread Frank Roberts - SOTL
On Sunday 06 October 2002 22:20, Ray Olszewski wrote: > Sorry, but you can't do it that way. To write to a CD, you actually have to > control the CD burner part of the CD device ... it's not just like writing > to a filesystem. Thinks It appears that I will have to try a different approach. Tha

Re: Suggestions on Backups

2002-10-07 Thread Paul Furness
Hmm, there are a lot of different things to consider for this. Many people will give (and probably already have given) you their opinion as to what is best. Just to add to the confusion, here are my thoughts on these issues: The concept of a "backup server" is fairly good. Because disk space is s

Re: Command line questions

2002-10-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
sure, ls * | less - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs

Re: breaking up a zip file

2002-10-07 Thread Paul Furness
Thanks, everyone. 'split' is my friend and works beautifully. P. On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 14:30, Paul Furness wrote: > Hi, everyone. > > I seem to remember seeing somewhere a handy Linux prog that will take a > gz or zip file, and re-package it into a number of smaller zip files. I > don't remem