Re: ext2fs on a floppy

1998-03-11 Thread Paul Fontenot
mkfs /dev/fd0 <-- or whatever your floppy device is called. -Paul On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Douglas F. Elznic wrote: > How can I make native linux floppies? > > > > -- > Douglas F. Elznic > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "If they give you lined paper, write the other way." > Freedom through Electronic Resis

Random Password Generator

1998-03-11 Thread Wesley W. Owen
Is there a way to get RHL5 to generate a random password when I create a new user? Or, is it somewhere in passwd? Thanks for the help! Wes -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists

Re: CD ROM problems With Creative Labs Infra 1800

1998-03-11 Thread Vidiot
>I just got Red Hat just a couple of days ago, well, I was trying to mount my >CD and it wont eaven eject, it only seems to work in windows. Is it because >of the Infrared?. I would really apreciate some help Thanks! I'm currently running a Creative Labs Infra1800 CD-ROM IDE drive and have zero p

Re: An easy passwd checker...

1998-03-11 Thread Ray Abbitt
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Billy Bushong - Concord, NH wrote: > Is there a *quick* (In other words don't knock yourself out trying to make > one up) hack that will just verify a username and password match and tell > the user if he is right?? Preferably in PERL?? > See the llama book. (O'Reilly and As

Re: HELP on a Upgrade

1998-03-11 Thread Robert Lay
I was doing real well with my Paper Tape Punch, but I ran out of fanfold paper tape - too bad, so sad. 73 de Bob, W9DMK -- 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 unsubscr

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-11 Thread Fred W. Noltie Jr.
> > > Am I the only one left in the English-speaking world who knows the difference > > > between "its" and "it's"? > > > > Don't you have anything better to than pick-out grammatical errors? I > > didn't join a Linux mailing list to hear about "its and it's"... > > Yes, I have many better things

Re: CD ROM problems With Creative Labs Infra 1800

1998-03-11 Thread Billy Bushong - Concord, NH
-Original Message- From: Esteban Molano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 22:52 PM Subject: CD ROM problems With Creative Labs Infra 1800 >Hello, > >I just got Red Hat just a couple of days ago, well, I was trying to mount my >C

re:linux laptops, digest mode

1998-03-11 Thread Ray Abbitt
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Blake Thornton wrote: > as for redhat digest list, its really great, but replying to messages is > a pain. I am using pine, is there an easy way to reply to a message and > get the message below. you see what i get: > Do you have procmail installed? If so, it can split

Re: CD ROM problems With Creative Labs Infra 1800

1998-03-11 Thread Keith Dart
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Esteban Molano wrote: > Hello, > > I just got Red Hat just a couple of days ago, well, I was trying to mount my > CD and it wont eaven eject, it only seems to work in windows. Is it because > of the Infrared?. I would really apreciate some help Thanks! Ugh. You may need the

Re: non root ppp

1998-03-11 Thread Keith Dart
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Blake Thornton wrote: > I can't get ppp to work for non root users. > I know this is a common question, but I have searched the archive and > tried everything there. Specifically I have: > > chmod u+s pppd > chmod +rwx ppp-on ppp-on-dialer ppp-off > chmod +rwx chat > chmod

Re: Apache with ~/public_html

1998-03-11 Thread Ken Arck
At 09:33 PM 3/11/98 -0600, Chris Frost wrote: >I just checked my /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file and I don't have >anything there, so I assume you just make /home/some_user executable (not >readable, unless you want to), and /home/some_user/public_html readable >and executable. This is defined in

An easy passwd checker...

1998-03-11 Thread Billy Bushong - Concord, NH
Is there a *quick* (In other words don't knock yourself out trying to make one up) hack that will just verify a username and password match and tell the user if he is right?? Preferably in PERL?? Bill Bushong - Concord, NH -- Web Page: h

RE: Linux/Xenix

1998-03-11 Thread Dave Wreski
On 12-Mar-98 Robert Hailman wrote: > Hello. When I get Linux working :o) there are some games I want to import > from work. At work we have a Xenix network, so could I read a Xenix disk in > Linux, or would I have to email it to my Windows 95 box and transfer it on > disk to my Linux box? Yes, `

CD ROM problems With Creative Labs Infra 1800

1998-03-11 Thread Esteban Molano
Hello, I just got Red Hat just a couple of days ago, well, I was trying to mount my CD and it wont eaven eject, it only seems to work in windows. Is it because of the Infrared?. I would really apreciate some help Thanks! -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

non root ppp

1998-03-11 Thread Blake Thornton
I can't get ppp to work for non root users. I know this is a common question, but I have searched the archive and tried everything there. Specifically I have: chmod u+s pppd chmod +rwx ppp-on ppp-on-dialer ppp-off chmod +rwx chat chmod +rw /dev/cua? when nonroot, i type ppp-on and here is what

Re: Apache with ~/public_html

1998-03-11 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just checked my /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file and I don't have anything there, so I assume you just make /home/some_user executable (not readable, unless you want to), and /home/some_user/public_html readable and executable. Chris <- Visit Me At

Linux/Xenix

1998-03-11 Thread Robert Hailman
Hello. When I get Linux working :o) there are some games I want to import from work. At work we have a Xenix network, so could I read a Xenix disk in Linux, or would I have to email it to my Windows 95 box and transfer it on disk to my Linux box? Your Linux Impaired Friend, Robert Hailman

Re: New Strategy for Linux

1998-03-11 Thread Robert Hailman
> >-Original Message- >From: Robert Hailman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: New Strategy for Linux > > >>Okay. Would this system work, so I don't go out and buy all the stuff >before >>I find out it doesn't: > > >In short, yes, it should all work. I put Linux on an old '386sx with

Re: ext2fs on a floppy

1998-03-11 Thread Keith Dart
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Douglas F. Elznic wrote: > How can I make native linux floppies? > fdformat /dev/fd0 mke2fs /dev/fd0 You may also have to (after doing the above): mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy HTH, = Keith

RE: Full kernels since the begining

1998-03-11 Thread Keith Dart
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Douglas F. Elznic wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Dave Wreski wrote: > > > > > Why, no other than ftp.kernel.org :) > I only saw patches. I am looking for full tar.gz's. They are there. Look again.

RE: ext2fs on a floppy

1998-03-11 Thread Dave Wreski
On 12-Mar-98 Douglas F. Elznic wrote: > How can I make native linux floppies? 1. insert floppy 2. fdformat -n /dev/fd0H1440 3. mkfs /dev/fd0 If the floppy has been formatted previously, you can skip step two. Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

RE: Full kernels since the begining

1998-03-11 Thread Dave Wreski
On 12-Mar-98 Douglas F. Elznic wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Dave Wreski wrote: > >> >> Why, no other than ftp.kernel.org :) > I only saw patches. I am looking for full tar.gz's. Look harder 8) ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.0/linux-2.0.* and ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.1/linux-2

ext2fs on a floppy

1998-03-11 Thread Douglas F. Elznic
How can I make native linux floppies? -- Douglas F. Elznic [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If they give you lined paper, write the other way." Freedom through Electronic Resistance -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errat

RE: Full kernels since the begining

1998-03-11 Thread Douglas F. Elznic
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Dave Wreski wrote: > > Why, no other than ftp.kernel.org :) I only saw patches. I am looking for full tar.gz's. -- Douglas F. Elznic [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If they give you lined paper, write the other way." Freedom through Electronic Resistance -- PLEASE read the Red Hat

RE: Full kernels since the begining

1998-03-11 Thread Dave Wreski
On 12-Mar-98 Douglas F. Elznic wrote: > Is thier a place that has all of the kernels from begining to end? I have > seen all of the old patches but none of the full sources. I am doing a > research project on the linux kernel so I need to be able to go back and > forth between revisions easily. S

DNS/BIND problemo --> Help -Reply

1998-03-11 Thread Raymond Fung
If you just want DNS lookup service, and any name server should work. AFAIK, there is no constraint / security control on who can use your name server. So, basically, you can point your name server searching to some other ISP's name servers, so, for example, you can : >nslookup >server ns.nasa.go

Re: New XFree86 packages

1998-03-11 Thread Mike Wangsmo
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998 19:52:00 -0600 (CST), Vidiot wrote: >>>What is the difference between these and the 3.3.2 RPMs that are already >>>in the hurricabne area? >> >>The only other 3.3.2 RPMS on ftp.redhat.com are in /contrib. > >OK, so they are in /contrib/hurricane/i386. It is still the hurrica

Re: Graphics cards

1998-03-11 Thread Bunting
O.k. I'll give it a try. How do I switch from Metrox to XFree86 without re-installing Redhat. Is there a new XFree86 out. I think so. Thanks guys. -Original Message- From: Larry Lade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 10:14 PM Subj

rz/sz bug in 4.2

1998-03-11 Thread Dave Wreski
Hi all. I'm having a problem with lrzsz-0.12.15 and trying to resume interrupted transfers. I'm sure its a bug, I just can't figure out how to reproduce it. It seems sometimes it resumes interrupted transfers with '-r' correctly, yet other times it starts from the beginning, yet doesn't trunca

Re: Graphics cards

1998-03-11 Thread Bunting
With XFree86 I have to continuously reset the monitor display area when I switch to windoze. -Original Message- From: Paul Fontenot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 10:00 PM Subject: Re: Graphics cards >> Hi, >> I'm curren

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-11 Thread David Fisher
> > Am I the only one left in the English-speaking world who knows the difference > > between "its" and "it's"? > > Don't you have anything better to than pick-out grammatical errors? I > didn't join a Linux mailing list to hear about "its and it's"... Yes, I have many better things to do, but, a

Re: Graphics cards

1998-03-11 Thread Larry Lade
>Right now I'm enterested in the Matrox Millenium II 4MB card. > >Is anyone getting trouble with the millenium card and MetroX server. > >Hey I only $175 to spend. > >Thanks Everyone >Chris Well, my recommendation would be to stick with XFree86 on the Millennium. On my Millennium (I, at least, m

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-11 Thread David Fisher
Maybe, just maybe, there's hope... Larry Lade wrote: > >> > enough to bite the Dachshund's neck, the Dachshund opened it's > > > >Am I the only one left in the English-speaking world who knows the difference > >between "its" and "it's"? > > Nope. Hooray, I'm not the only one who knows when it's

Re: How do you use a DIFF?

1998-03-11 Thread Anthony S. Nixon
Thanks for the info. I tried using patch with the file, but was told that "patch" doesn't exist. Could you tell me which package contains "patch". Your help is very much appreciated. Shon -Original Message- From: Tempel, Philippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Kernel size limit ??

1998-03-11 Thread David E. Fox
> >This is my first foray into the world of Linux kernel building. I have > built kernels > for other commercial unix systems, without any real problems.I noticed > that > I built a kernel that was too big. I think it was 1.2 meg. Why is this > too big? Well, the build process

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-11 Thread David Fisher
> > Am I the only one left in the English-speaking world who knows the difference > > between "its" and "it's"? > > No there are a few of us. Glad to hear it. DF -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /

Re: Graphics cards

1998-03-11 Thread Paul Fontenot
> Hi, > I'm currently running linux with a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 2MB and I > would like to changed it. > 1) because of the S3 Virge Bug in MetroX that keep messing up my text. > 2) I want to go to 4MB or more. I have an S3 Virge DX card and use it with XFree86, it also has 4MB memory. I gu

get_kernel_sys failed: Cannot find Kernel symbols! (fwd)

1998-03-11 Thread Brett Charbeneau
Okay, I'm dumb. This is quite perturbing to me and I can't for the life of my figure out what the problem is. ANY assistance would be GREATLY appreciated. Help me, Spock! WHAT I'M TRYING TO DO: Install ftape on a server (a P100) I inherited from a predecessor who at one

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-11 Thread Paul Fontenot
> > > enough to bite the Dachshund's neck, the Dachshund opened it's > > Am I the only one left in the English-speaking world who knows the difference > between "its" and "it's"? Don't you have anything better to than pick-out grammatical errors? I didn't join a Linux mailing list to hear about

Re: New XFree86 packages

1998-03-11 Thread Vidiot
>>What is the difference between these and the 3.3.2 RPMs that are already >>in the hurricabne area? > >The only other 3.3.2 RPMS on ftp.redhat.com are in /contrib. OK, so they are in /contrib/hurricane/i386. It is still the hurricane area. It doesn't answer the main question. What is the diff

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-11 Thread Larry Lade
>> > enough to bite the Dachshund's neck, the Dachshund opened it's > >Am I the only one left in the English-speaking world who knows the difference >between "its" and "it's"? Nope. Hooray, I'm not the only one who knows when it's correct to use "its" and "it's!" -- -

Full kernels since the begining

1998-03-11 Thread Douglas F. Elznic
Is thier a place that has all of the kernels from begining to end? I have seen all of the old patches but none of the full sources. I am doing a research project on the linux kernel so I need to be able to go back and forth between revisions easily. Space is not a problem as I am going to burn the

Re: X fonts

1998-03-11 Thread Larry Lade
>I have finally worked with the Xconfigurator enough to get my screen in >1024x768 and now I can hardly read some of the pages that I pull up on >Netscape, and my xterms can sometimes be difficult to read. I have >already tried changing the font within Netscape and there are still some >pages tha

Re: Re: Cool....

1998-03-11 Thread Phil Risby
Xun Cheng wrote: > fly to Mars and create a now world ;-) > > xun > > Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 16:57:01 -0800 (PST) > From: Keith Dart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Re: Cool > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-11 Thread Deryk Barker
Once upon a time David Fisher wrote: > > > > enough to bite the Dachshund's neck, the Dachshund opened it's > > Am I the only one left in the English-speaking world who knows the difference > between "its" and "it's"? No there are a few of us. -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Mu

Re: Can't execute RH 5.0 executables !!!

1998-03-11 Thread Rob Riggs
Adoram Rogel wrote: > > I have just upgraded one of my machines to Red Hat 5.0. > I did a full install, added all the RPMs from their website, > and compiled a new 2.0.33 kernel. > All is fine, except that the executables that I get from > compiling on this machine do not run on my other machines

Re: apache not identifying html?

1998-03-11 Thread Alexander Woodby
I may have missed some of the progress of this, but there's several places you may want to check, first off look in /etc/httpd/conf at mime.types use vi and do a /html and add the htm here, restart your httpd and you may be ok --alex Douglas F. Elznic wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Sam Ockma

Graphics cards

1998-03-11 Thread Bunting
Hi, I'm currently running linux with a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 2MB and I would like to changed it. 1) because of the S3 Virge Bug in MetroX that keep messing up my text. 2) I want to go to 4MB or more. Can anyone please give there experiences with other graphics cards and linux and which one

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-11 Thread David Fisher
> > enough to bite the Dachshund's neck, the Dachshund opened it's Am I the only one left in the English-speaking world who knows the difference between "its" and "it's"? -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Erra

Re: apache not identifying html?

1998-03-11 Thread Douglas F. Elznic
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Sam Ockman wrote: > Ummm...rename the files so they end in .html :) > > (I know, I know, not the answer you were looking for.) > Not the best answer to my customers. Ummm I don't know how to fix it, so go ahead and change your web pages, even though it worked on the old sco

Re: Re: Cool....

1998-03-11 Thread Xun Cheng
fly to Mars and create a now world ;-) xun Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 16:57:01 -0800 (PST) From: Keith Dart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Re: Cool In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEX

Re: Re: Cool....

1998-03-11 Thread Keith Dart
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Phil Risby wrote: > > Recently I have been asked about installing Linux on some laptops and > other > PC'sthese are at present in the MS stronghold, but frustration of the > daily > reboot has led the owners to > look at alternatives. What reboots? > > I have seen many wa

Re: Cool....

1998-03-11 Thread Phil Risby
Gordon Filby wrote: > > http://www.pcworld.com/cgi-bin/database/body.pl?ID=980309225518 > > > > Linux IS growing no matter what ANYONE tells me... > > > > Well, not the way I read the article it isn't. Maybe it could, might > or something but growing ? I don't think so. > > Would you recommend Li

Re: New XFree86 packages

1998-03-11 Thread Lawrence Houston
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Xun Cheng wrote: > good question. > Someone just wasted their time. But still appreciated, > > xun If these are LIBC5 Based instead of the GLIBC ones already available for RH 5.0 (Hurricane), then they are much appreciated? Just this afternoon I had to download the V3.3.2

RE: How do you use a DIFF?

1998-03-11 Thread Tempel, Philippe
> How do you use a .diff file with a program? I have one with asclock, > but > don't know how to use it. [Tempel, Philippe] You can use the patch program to apply the diff file to the source code. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! h

Re: New XFree86 packages

1998-03-11 Thread Mike Wangsmo
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:28:34 -0600 (CST), Vidiot wrote: >>Intel:/pub/home/wanger/XFree86/i386 >>Alpha:/pub/home/wanger/XFree86/alpha >>Source: /pub/home/wanger/XFree86/SRPMS > >What is the difference between these and the 3.3.2 RPMs that are already >in the hurricabne area?

Re: How do you use a DIFF?

1998-03-11 Thread Sam Ockman
You apply it with the program patch. The options can get a little hairy, but the basic idea is patch < patchname Patch is probably the Unix utility that shows the most "artificial intelligence" by the way. -Sam On Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 06:53:06PM -0500, Anthony S. Nixon wrote: > How do you use

How do you use a DIFF?

1998-03-11 Thread Anthony S. Nixon
How do you use a .diff file with a program? I have one with asclock, but don't know how to use it. Shon -- 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

RE: HELP on a Upgrade

1998-03-11 Thread Blair Craft
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I downloaded RH5 using a 14.4 - can anyone beat that? > > I downloaded it on punched cards! > > DL > (No, I am lying). I had to transcribe it by hand. In binary. --- end message --- __________ __ __/ Bl

Re: Can I install RHL in an extended partition?

1998-03-11 Thread Lloyd Parsons
-Original Message- From: James R. McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 5:08 PM Subject: Can I install RHL in an extended partition? >Before I go any further let me say I am a Linux/Unix Virgin so be >gentle. 8-> > >The o

Re: New XFree86 packages

1998-03-11 Thread Xun Cheng
good question. Someone just wasted their time. But still appreciated, xun From: Vidiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: New XFree86 packages To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 17:28:34 -0600 (CST) In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> from "Mike Wangsmo" at

Re: Can I install RHL in an extended partition?

1998-03-11 Thread Brian
> I know absolutely nothing about the how-to's or the how-not-to's. > Subscribing to this litserv was suposed to help but you folx are way > over my wee-little head. > Not really. It'll all get clear once you get passed the steep learning curve. > All questions and/or statements are based o

Re: New XFree86 packages

1998-03-11 Thread Vidiot
>Intel: /pub/home/wanger/XFree86/i386 >Alpha: /pub/home/wanger/XFree86/alpha >Source:/pub/home/wanger/XFree86/SRPMS What is the difference between these and the 3.3.2 RPMs that are already in the hurricabne area? MB -- System Administrator - Finnigan FT/MS - Madison WI. URL:http://www.f

fw:Re: Modem or tty on parallel port?

1998-03-11 Thread Dave Mielke
Can Linux be configured to operate either a modem (preferrable) or a tty (less preferrable) on the parallel port? If so, how? Thanks. -- Dave Mielke | home: 1-613-726-0014 | Nortel Technologies | dept: 7H65 856 Grenon Ave. | work: 1-613-765-4671 | P.O. Box 3511, Stn. C | mail: stop 274 Otta

re:linux laptops, digest mode

1998-03-11 Thread Blake Thornton
I have x working great on my visionbook plus (4350 or something like that) and i just ran Xconfigurator and choose custom monitor, I think i then chose a 800x600 display, i cant remember which one, there were 3 choices and they all seemed to work so i dont know the differences between them. an

David E. Myers

1998-03-11 Thread Craig Zody
I apologize in advance for sending this to the mailing list, but the email address that is in the .rpm package for his files doesn't work, nor does root or postmaster at that address. This seems the next best way to try and find David E. Myers. Sorry for the inconvenience to everybody else.

Re: New Strategy for Linux

1998-03-11 Thread Damond Walker
-Original Message- From: Robert Hailman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: New Strategy for Linux >Okay. Would this system work, so I don't go out and buy all the stuff before >I find out it doesn't: In short, yes, it should all work. I put Linux on an old '386sx with 16 megs of ra

Can I install RHL in an extended partition?

1998-03-11 Thread James R. McKenzie
Before I go any further let me say I am a Linux/Unix Virgin so be gentle. 8-> The only experience I have is with MS - DOS/Windows/Windows95. Sorry to put that in for those of you that are eating. I know absolutely nothing about the how-to's or the how-not-to's. Subscribing to this litserv was

Re: New Strategy for Linux

1998-03-11 Thread Robert Hailman
Okay. Would this system work, so I don't go out and buy all the stuff before I find out it doesn't: 486SX/25 (I know it sucks, but I have it lying around in my house) 8MB RAM ('Cuz 16 would cost to much :o) Tseng ET4000 Video Card ('cuz I have one) 524 MB hard drive (hda): ('cuz I freed this up wh

Re: X fonts

1998-03-11 Thread Alan Shutko
> "S" == Son of a Preacherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: S> I have already tried changing the font within Netscape and S> there are still some pages that that had no effect on. How do I S> change the font on these two items? Check the source of those pages, since they may be setting the fon

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-11 Thread Karl Asseily
when we get those great flight sims, strategy, and action-type games, all configurable with the best and most up-to-date joystick (wheel) devices, then I'll be ready for a TOTAL and UNCONDITIONAL switch to linux ;-) until then.I'm stuck with Win95 at home :-( >agree, especially those cool of

Re: New Strategy for Linux

1998-03-11 Thread Robert Hailman
>On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Robert Hailman wrote: > >> As some of you know, I have been having great difficulty installing Linux >> onto my Windows 95 computer. So... looking for other ideas, I put together >> this wonderful strategy... using my old 286 case, I put my old 486SX/25 into >> a 486 motherbo

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-11 Thread Xun Cheng
agree, especially those cool office suites and games. xun Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:47:13 -0800 From: Sam Ockman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A little humor to break the monotony Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.85 In-Reply-T

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-11 Thread John Higginbotham
At 01:47 PM 3/11/98 -0800, you wrote: >Actually I'd go further than that, at least as refers to Windows. The >reason people like windows is the applications that it will run, not the OS, >nor the user interface shell. I think that says it all right there. I am involved in a virtual flame war wi

Re: Apache with ~/public_html

1998-03-11 Thread Mairi Maloney
At 03:37 PM 3/11/98 -0600, you wrote: >Hey, > > I was just wondering what I would need to do to make it so Apache >will read /home/user/public_html when they use ~user to access the web >server. I looked all in the docs, and played around with the config file >and couldn't find out exactly h

X fonts

1998-03-11 Thread Son of a Preacherman
I have finally worked with the Xconfigurator enough to get my screen in 1024x768 and now I can hardly read some of the pages that I pull up on Netscape, and my xterms can sometimes be difficult to read. I have already tried changing the font within Netscape and there are still some pages that th

Rebuild of FileRunner SRC fails....

1998-03-11 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
Hi all, as the FileRunner 2.4-2 needs libtk8.0 and so onI've found a message which says that it's neccessary to rebuild the package to use it with previous versions of libtk... So I downloaded the src and made a: rpm --rebuild FileRunner-2.4-2.src.rpm But this fails... I get the followin

Re: New Strategy for Linux

1998-03-11 Thread James Boorn
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Robert Hailman wrote: > As some of you know, I have been having great difficulty installing Linux > onto my Windows 95 computer. So... looking for other ideas, I put together > this wonderful strategy... using my old 286 case, I put my old 486SX/25 into > a 486 motherboard. I

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-11 Thread Sam Ockman
On Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 01:23:20PM -0800, Keith Dart wrote: > > Monotony? What could be more exciting than this list? ;-) > > On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Fred W. Noltie Jr. wrote: > > > John Higginbotham wrote: > > > > > > But that's nothing compared to the years their programmers have spent > > try

Re: Success: Packet filtering firewall

1998-03-11 Thread John D. Hardin
> Anybody interested in long boring details should feel free to mail me > off line, but the gist is that the dotfile generator saved my butt and > my few remaining shreds of sanity. Many thanks to the many people on > this list who helped, particularly John Hardin for holding my hand, and > to Jo

Re: fortran compiler doesn't work

1998-03-11 Thread Sam Ockman
Have you installed it? g77 does not ship with redhat 4.2. You have to get it and install it yourself. (It does have g2c though...but this is only recommended for small fortran programs...) -Sam On Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 01:14:18PM -0800, Estberg wrote: > > > i have three rather complex pro

Re: Apache with ~/public_html

1998-03-11 Thread Ken Arck
At 03:37 PM 3/11/98 -0600, you wrote: >Hey, > > I was just wondering what I would need to do to make it so Apache >will read /home/user/public_html when they use ~user to access the web >server. I looked all in the docs, and played around with the config file >and couldn't find out exactly h

modules question

1998-03-11 Thread Red Hat Linux User
Where does the module-info file come from? I've read the module-HOWTO and the module-miniHowto. As well as the kernel-HOWTO. I've even searched every month of every year in the redhat-list archive (obsessive-compulsive). Where does this file come from??? Thank you, Martin McGreal -- PLEA

Apache with ~/public_html

1998-03-11 Thread natedogg
Hey, I was just wondering what I would need to do to make it so Apache will read /home/user/public_html when they use ~user to access the web server. I looked all in the docs, and played around with the config file and couldn't find out exactly how to enable this feature. -- PLEASE re

Re: New Strategy for Linux

1998-03-11 Thread Keith Dart
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Robert Hailman wrote: > As some of you know, I have been having great difficulty installing Linux > onto my Windows 95 computer. So... looking for other ideas, I put together > this wonderful strategy... using my old 286 case, I put my old 486SX/25 into > a 486 motherboard. I

Re: I Need a Linux Friendly 'National' ISP

1998-03-11 Thread David S. Jackson
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Jyan-Min Fang wrote: > > Where did you get the idea they didn't offer flat rate service? > > No, IBM will drop its flat rate service this April. As a result, I am > shopping for a new ISP now. Well, I've been so happy with my new ISP I haven't needed IBM lately, and I had

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-11 Thread Keith Dart
Monotony? What could be more exciting than this list? ;-) On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Fred W. Noltie Jr. wrote: > John Higginbotham wrote: > > > But that's nothing compared to the years their programmers have spent > trying to make Windows look like an operating system. how true. remember that wha

Re: Drive sizes

1998-03-11 Thread Vidiot
>If LILO is on the MBR, and / goes past the 1024 cylinder mark, will I still >be able to boot? For some reason this drive is 1060 cylinders. Don't worry, since a swap size of 32 MB means that you will use about 65 cylinders (if I did my math right :-). Just put swap at the end of the drive. The

fortran compiler doesn't work

1998-03-11 Thread Estberg
i have three rather complex programs to compile and run using the fortran compiler. the specific linux comand that i give is g77 -r8 -o main main.f eig.f fft.f the current version of linux seems not to compile. the message that i get back is "language f77 not recognized". i have compiled the

Re: Drive sizes

1998-03-11 Thread Robert Hailman
>>Hm... All this talk is making me wonder... I have a lowly 524MB drive for >>linux. What should the sizes of my partitions be. I was thinking somewhere >>around this: >>SWAP: 32MB >>/: 50MB >>/usr: 300MB >>/home: 142MB >> >>Not sure if I need the last one that big, because I will be the only use

Re: Strange sox sounds...

1998-03-11 Thread Alan Shutko
> "P" == Pete Toscano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: P> I'm having a strange problem here. I'm using the "play" that comes P> with the sox in RHL 5.0 (sox-11g-6) to play various sound files. P> Occasionally, I'd have problems with play just emitting a loud, P> high-pitched screeching sound. Fo

Re: Drive sizes

1998-03-11 Thread Vidiot
>Hm... All this talk is making me wonder... I have a lowly 524MB drive for >linux. What should the sizes of my partitions be. I was thinking somewhere >around this: >SWAP: 32MB >/: 50MB >/usr: 300MB >/home: 142MB > >Not sure if I need the last one that big, because I will be the only user on >my

Drive sizes

1998-03-11 Thread Robert Hailman
Hm... All this talk is making me wonder... I have a lowly 524MB drive for linux. What should the sizes of my partitions be. I was thinking somewhere around this: SWAP: 32MB /: 50MB /usr: 300MB /home: 142MB Not sure if I need the last one that big, because I will be the only user on my system. T

Strange find at bootup

1998-03-11 Thread Red Hat Linux User
Has anyone experienced, or does anyone know of a weird little find procedure run by user 'nobody' at bootup, and periodically thereafter? Th process table looks something like this: 763 nobody find / ( -fstype nfs -o -fstype NFS -o type d -regex \(^/t... 765 nobody sort -f 766 nobody frcode

Re: apache not identifying html?

1998-03-11 Thread Sam Ockman
On Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 01:07:31PM -0500, Douglas F. Elznic wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Chuck Mead wrote: > > > That is exactly correct! > Can someone explain how to fix this? Ummm...rename the files so they end in .html :) (I know, I know, not the answer you were looking for.) -Sam -- Sam

RE: Kernel size limit ??

1998-03-11 Thread Tempel, Philippe
> In my understanding, the kernel size is limited by the size of the > master-boot-record, > [PT] Nope. It is due to the size of the Intel processor's real mode versus its protected mode. All PC clones still boot into real mode (640KB) because the BIOS is still

Re: New Strategy for Linux

1998-03-11 Thread Sam Ockman
I don't know how much it would cost...but I do know as long as your going to bother buying it you should try and find a way to have at least 16mb of ram. -Sam On Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 02:13:41PM -0500, Robert Hailman wrote: > As some of you know, I have been having great difficulty installing Li

Re: some failed dependencies....

1998-03-11 Thread Vidiot
>I just wanted to install/upgrade some rpms...but there are dependencies tp >satisfy and some conflicts > >Can someone help...? > >[root@localhost jacek]# rpm -Uhv hylafax-4.0-6.i386.rpm >/usr/bin/faxrm conflicts with file from mgetty-sendfax-1.1.5-1 >/usr/man/man1/faxrm.1 conflicts with file

RE: Problems with sound...

1998-03-11 Thread Tempel, Philippe
> Well, I'm just starting in the Linux world, and I hope someone can > help > me with this. > > I had a working kernel compiled with sound support. My ATAPI CD-ROM > was > the Master Device in the secondary controller. But now I bought a new > IDE hard disk and I put it as the Master and moved th

some failed dependencies....

1998-03-11 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
Hi all, I just wanted to install/upgrade some rpms...but there are dependencies tp satisfy and some conflicts Can someone help...? [root@localhost jacek]# rpm -Uhv hylafax-4.0-6.i386.rpm /usr/bin/faxrm conflicts with file from mgetty-sendfax-1.1.5-1 /usr/man/man1/faxrm.1 conflicts with fil

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