Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-12 Thread Bob Taylor
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998 05:20:53 +, Pork E Pigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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"? Nice to see I'm

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-12 Thread Bob Taylor
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998 22:04:07 -0600, "Fred W. Noltie Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Two things: 1) "Tolerance and open-mindedness" on *your* part in the first place might have moved you to "tolerate" the fact that someone else made a mistake. Practice what you preach. 2) If you want

Re: StarOffice 4.0/RH5 : install error

1998-03-12 Thread Dave Wreski
I've installed SO4 on a RH 4.2 box : it works well... But now I try to install it on a RedHat 5.0 box, the install program opens error boxes : http://www.waldherr.org/soffice4.shtml Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: Need a Linux Friendly ISP/dialup provider

1998-03-12 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Matt Nelson wrote: I've found the people at ATT pretty helpful. They don't officially support Linux, but they have clear and concise directions on their web site. I also like the quality of their service. agreed. i, too, am with ATT. although their web page has

Re: Random Password Generator

1998-03-12 Thread Sam Ockman
Actually I believe Red Hat comes with it's own program to generate passwords (it's part of expect) and called mkpasswd. Give it a try. -Sam On Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 11:21:53PM -0600, Ryan McCowan wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Wesley W. Owen wrote: Is there a way to get RHL5 to generate a

Re: StarOffice 4.0/RH5 : install error

1998-03-12 Thread Dave Wreski
By following EXACTLY http://www.waldherr.org/soffice4.shtml it works flowlessly... Thanks to all Wish I could say the same. I printed the page and checked off each item as I performed it so I know I got all of the symlinks (even tried it 3 times). Still get the same error. Pre-set

Re: TTY on COM1.

1998-03-12 Thread Rick L. Mantooth
Dave, I browsed thru the /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Consoles file (Consoles?, ya gotta be flexible...) and noticed the reference to /dev/ttySx for Terminals. Used uppercase ttyS . Don't know, but I thought I remembered this needing to be the case several years ago. Now? clip - Use *getty of your

Re: RH 5.0 without glibc (libc-6) (was: Can't execute RH 5.0 exe

1998-03-12 Thread Adoram Rogel
On 12 Mar 98 at 20:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "ar" == Adoram Rogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ar Dave Wreski wrote: Well, the truth is that I do feel that I wasted the $50, and I am disappointed. I assume you meant do _not_ feel that you wasted the $50... ar Actualy, I

Re: RH 5.0 without glibc (libc-6) (was: Can't execute RH 5.0 exe

1998-03-12 Thread Adoram Rogel
On 12 Mar 98 at 20:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 98 18:54:35 -0500, "Scott Drake" wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 1998 18:07:14 -0500, Adoram Rogel wrote: Scott Drake wrote: So what you are saying Mike is that anyone who purchased RH 5.0 and needs to compile libc5 programs

Re: RH 5.0 without glibc (libc-6) (was: Can't execute RH 5.0 exe

1998-03-12 Thread Mike Wangsmo
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998 21:59:06 -0600 (CST), Bug Hunter wrote: I second and third that. Unfortunately, because you did _NOT_ provide backward compatibility of any sort, I was unable to put 5.0 into production. I _will_ _not_ put RH 5.1 or 5.2 or 5.x into production unless I can figure out ways

Re: ftp core dumps

1998-03-12 Thread Paul Fontenot
I have a Pentium 166 with 96 Megs RAM, and I'm sorry I can't verify that for you. -Paul On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Douglas F. Elznic wrote: Hello, I found some curious behaivior with the ftp client installed with redhat 5.0. I am running redhat 5.0 on an amd k5pr133. I also noticed this

Re: which packages to install

1998-03-12 Thread Chuck Mead
I have to say that after installing my latest WS five times to get it right I agree with Robert! I didn't install it five times because of packages... I did it because I was learning new things and I didn't understand how things worked well enough to "undo" them after screwing up. Get real

test

1998-03-12 Thread Mario Manuel Costa ESDI-Estrangeiro
mc test -- 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 PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Problems with SQUID under RH5.0

1998-03-12 Thread Brett Olsen - 8080
Dear Linuxer's I am currently having some problems with Squid under RH5.0, previously using slakware i have not had any problems. The first problem i have solved, it would not run as nobody cause, and i quote "Another problem is that RedHat 5.0 Linux seems to have a broken

Re: Full kernels since the begining

1998-03-12 Thread Scott McDermott
"Douglas F. Elznic" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 08:45:58PM -0500: 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

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-12 Thread Scott McDermott
Sam Ockman [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 01:47:13PM -0800: 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. Applications are the driving force, while

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-12 Thread Scott McDermott
John Higginbotham [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 05:27:38PM -0500: I think that says it all right there. I am involved in a virtual flame war with this local guy who's been using computers for two years, poor guy has been trapped in 95/NT since the beginning. He doesn't know any

Re: Random Password Generator

1998-03-12 Thread Ryan McCowan
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Wesley W. Owen wrote: 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 It's pretty trivial in just about any language to write something to read bytes from /dev/random or

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-12 Thread Pork E Pigg
John Higginbotham wrote: An OS is nothing without applications. Windows apps have the upper hand when it comes to graphics. I am a diehard photoshop user, and though I have not had the chance to work with photoshop under linux, I hope to one day switch over completely to linux. We're an

Good Samba Book

1998-03-12 Thread Muad'Dib
Anyone know of a good book for learning/admin'ing Samba? Brian Homepage: http://www.olemiss.edu/~usul/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-12 Thread Dave Wreski
An OS is nothing without applications. Windows apps have the upper hand when it comes to graphics. I am a diehard photoshop user, and though I have not had the chance to work with photoshop under linux, I hope to one day switch over completely to linux. We're an authorized Adobe Service

Re: Graphics cards

1998-03-12 Thread Chuck Mead
Something along the lines of rpm -e metroess ought to work for the uninstall of Metrox. Then you'd do rpm -ivh Xfree86-x.rpm where "x" is your video card type. Then you'd have to run Xconfig to set up your new X server for your card and mouse and that'd be about it. On 12-Mar-98 Bunting

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-12 Thread Dave Wreski
Am I the only one left in the English-speaking world who knows the difference between "its" and "it's"? Nice to see I'm not the only one terminally-pissed that the education system doesn't see to be teaching! Gee, its either that, or people are too lazy to type the apostrophe. Hmm..

Re: Good Samba Book

1998-03-12 Thread Dave Wreski
Anyone know of a good book for learning/admin'ing Samba? Check the web site -- one was just released by one of the members of the samba team. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-12 Thread Paul Fontenot
hahahaha A TRU brake in the munotonie... 'tanks Dave. -Paul (Did I spell that write?) On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Dave Wreski wrote: I hear they're starting [EMAIL PROTECTED] if your interested. Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

RE: Good Samba Book

1998-03-12 Thread Chuck Mead
Samba: Integrating UNIX and Windows by John D. Blair, Samba Team ISBN 1-57831-006-7 Being sold through Computer Literacy Bookstores @ http://www.clbooks.com You can order it on line, it's 23.95 plus shipping. On 12-Mar-98 Muad'Dib wrote: Anyone know of a good book for learning/admin'ing

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-12 Thread Chuck Mead
Between The GIMP and POVray (using the xfpovray GUI interface of course) Linux *rocks* graphic design! On 12-Mar-98 Dave Wreski wrote: An OS is nothing without applications. Windows apps have the upper hand when it comes to graphics. I am a diehard photoshop user, and though I have not

Gimp (was Re: A little humor to break the monotony)

1998-03-12 Thread Larry Lade
switch over completely to linux. We're an authorized Adobe Service Center. Maybe I can talk the boss into getting me Photoshop for linux. :) I would also be insterested in hoow well PS works under Linux. I don't use it but, my girlfriend does. That's THE major stumbling-block to getting her to

Re: Gimp (was Re: A little humor to break the monotony)

1998-03-12 Thread Pork E Pigg
Larry Lade wrote: I would also be insterested in hoow well PS works under Linux. I don't use it but, my girlfriend does. That's THE major stumbling-block to getting her to test it out. I don't think you can get Photoshop for Linux (yet) although I know you can get it to run under Linux

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-12 Thread David S. Jackson
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, 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"? "its" is a 3rd person possessive singlular pronoun. "it's" is a contraction.

Re: New Strategy for Linux

1998-03-12 Thread Fred Smith
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 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

re:nonroot ppp

1998-03-12 Thread Blake Thornton
Keith: ppp wont work unless i'm root. in my ppp scripts i have the following: ppp-on: exec /usr/sbin/pppd debug lock modem crtsct /dev/modem115200 \ asyncmap 20A escape FF kdebug ... more stuff ppp-on-dialer: exec chat -v (then the TIMEOUT, etc...) when i run ppp as non root i get

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-12 Thread Magnus Solvang
Quoting Bob Taylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | On Wed, 11 Mar 1998 22:04:07 -0600, "Fred W. Noltie Jr." | [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | [snip] | | Two things: 1) "Tolerance and open-mindedness" on *your* part in the | first place might have moved you to "tolerate" the fact that someone | else

RE: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-12 Thread David . LANDGREN
I hear they're starting [EMAIL PROTECTED] if your interested. BBZZT I hope your (sic) the first subscriber. DL (in jest). -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-12 Thread Keith Dart
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Bob Taylor wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 1998 22:04:07 -0600, "Fred W. Noltie Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Two things: 1) "Tolerance and open-mindedness" on *your* part in the first place might have moved you to "tolerate" the fact that someone else made a

RE: X fonts

1998-03-12 Thread David . LANDGREN
Check the source of those pages, since they may be setting the font. That's because there are some very stupid people who think that just because a font is available and looks good on their machine, it will be available and look good on all others. These people should be using PDF. I suspect

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-12 Thread Michael George
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. But some days it seems like damn few... --

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-12 Thread Michael George
"He who is without sin, let them cast the first stone." "If somone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the left one also." Pleae take this off this list. = Keith Dart, Devtest Engineer

Cable Modem

1998-03-12 Thread Jeff Ivany
Hi All. I have a friend who is thinking of getting a Cable Modem and we're trying to figure out if Linux supports them. This is not a bidirectional modem. It uses the cable (basically an ethernet card I think) to pull and a 28.8 modem to push. This is all in one external package though. So,

RE: bind: Address already in use (??)

1998-03-12 Thread Joe Nestlerode
I've searched the entire hard drive for any file with "lock". Nothing pertaining to applix. I've even rebooted. Still getting the same error. Any other thoughts? Chuck Mead suggested: It's gotta be a lock file which didn't get closed up... serach the Applixware directory structure

Graphics cards, RedHat 5.0, MetroX

1998-03-12 Thread poneil
In Pine.LNX.3.96.980311183923.1947B-10@localhost, on 03/11/98 at 06:44 PM, Paul Fontenot [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 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

LILO ouch

1998-03-12 Thread LEBLIN JY
Hi, I've just tried to install RH 5 on a 486 DX2 66 ( a bit optimistic ), everything was ok even for LILO setup but when i tried to reboot i just got a "LI" and nothing else. I've tried to setup once more - the same. I made a fdisk /mbr and one more setup, idem. I've first tried to put LILO in

Re: Graphics cards, RedHat 5.0, MetroX

1998-03-12 Thread Gregory Scott Whittier
On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 07:34:59AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm... I have only just recently added Linux to my system (RedHat 5.0). I have a Matrox Mystique 220 and I installed the MetroX server. So far I have had no luck at all running X. I have run configX and selected a generic

Re: Gimp (was Re: A little humor to break the monotony)

1998-03-12 Thread Erich Eyler
If they'd only port quark photoshop to linux, my live would be way easier. I think they're afraid of that if everyone knew the speed increase those other OS's would never sell anything. -Erich - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Gimp (was Re: A little humor to break the monotony)

1998-03-12 Thread John Higginbotham
At 10:36 AM 3/12/98 -0400, you wrote: If they'd only port quark photoshop to linux, my live would be way easier. Photoshop is available for linux, isn't it? - John Higginbotham - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - Webmaster - http://www.pntprinting.com - -

Re: StarOffice 4.0/RH5 : install error

1998-03-12 Thread Pork E Pigg
Dave Wreski wrote: I've installed SO4 on a RH 4.2 box : it works well... But now I try to install it on a RedHat 5.0 box, the install program opens error boxes : http://www.waldherr.org/soffice4.shtml Errr.I personally followed the info there to the letter. Still got the error

Cent character

1998-03-12 Thread Michael George
Does anyone know how to insert specific special characters in the vim editor? I want to make use of the Cent symbol, which I think is character 0242. I have seen it in mail to me, xterm and vim can display it, but I couldn't find any key on my keyboard which would generate it. Thanks for any

Re: Gimp (was Re: A little humor to break the monotony)

1998-03-12 Thread John D. Hardin
The web site says Gimp 1.0 will be out in less than 10 days. Hopefully somebody will be cool enough to put together some RPMs for us all. (hint) ...and hoping that they don't overlook those of us still running 4.2 (i.e. RPMs that don't need glibc or the newer RedHat system management

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-12 Thread Alfonso Barreto Lopez
I think that the point of the messages is not giving a gammatical class but to take off a smile for your seriousness. Don't worry be happy __ Alfonso Barreto Lopez Inst. de Inv. de Matematicas U.N.A.M --

Re: wabi worked, now crashes system

1998-03-12 Thread George Toft
David Woodhouse wrote: ( Grrr. Reply-To is being played with. I'd expect Caldera to know better. http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Worked fine since installation, now it locks up the system. Program loads (showing clouds), but does not

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-12 Thread Matt Woodbridge
As yet, the GIMP can never be a full replacement of Adobe Photoshop. In comparison, the GIMP is slow, handles memory poorly, is full of bugs and isn't even out of development stages yet. It also lacks a tremendous number of features that are employed every day by Photoshop users. The GIMP

Re: Stupid proposition [TID Re: Cool....]

1998-03-12 Thread Vidiot
I've got a very stupid idea, however, a stupid idea is sometimes better than none... Please don't flame me... No flame, but... What about PostScript import filters for documents for both Win soft and Applixware? You print to a PostScript file on Win machine and then load it into editor on

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-12 Thread Robert Hailman
On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, 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"? "its" is a 3rd person possessive singlular pronoun. "it's" is a contraction.

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-12 Thread John Higginbotham
At 10:16 AM 3/12/98 -0600, you wrote: And finally, there is no version of Adobe Photoshop for Linux. The Application is only available for Windows, Mac OS, SPARC Solaris and Irix. If you would like this to change, email Adobe. You have to actually be willing to _pay_ for the software, though.

RE: Cent character

1998-03-12 Thread David . LANDGREN
Does anyone know how to insert specific special characters in the vim editor? I want to make use of the Cent symbol, which I think is character 0242. I have seen it in mail to me, xterm and vim can display it, but I couldn't find any key on my keyboard which would generate it. It's actually

Install exited abnormally

1998-03-12 Thread Jose Romildo Malaquias
When installing RH 5.0 in a Pentium machine, I got the following error: error -2 reading header: Success install exited abnormally sending termination signal... done sending kill signals... done unmounting filesystems... /tmp/rhimage /proc

Re: mem command does not work

1998-03-12 Thread Paul F Almquist
On Tue, Mar 10, 1998 at 03:06:07PM -0600, Peter Kulupka wrote: On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Javier Hernandez wrote: Hi, I recently installed Red Hat 4.2 in my new notebook, Compaq Armada 4131T I tried to check for the memory with the "mem" command but when I do a "mem" all what I get is:

Re: Cent character

1998-03-12 Thread dave-mlist
I want to make use of the Cent symbol, which I think is character 0242. David It's actually ASCII 162 You're both right. Dave -- 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: Cent character

1998-03-12 Thread David . LANDGREN
I want to make use of the Cent symbol, which I think is character 0242. David It's actually ASCII 162 You're both right. Duh! Octal is going to be the death of me! -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata

Re: Linux/Xenix

1998-03-12 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 10:42:27PM -0500, 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

which packages to install

1998-03-12 Thread Joe Bob
howdy, im just installing linux and was wondering if anybody could give me sugestions on which packages to install to begin with. thanks. nick -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips

Re: Cent character

1998-03-12 Thread Michael George
It's actually ASCII 162, at least in the ISO-8955 Latin-1 Character set (don't quote me on that ISO number). I'm not even sure you can insert a char via its numeric representation under vim (although I'd be happy to stand corrected). You can quote the next char, but that's not quite the same

multiplatform organizer

1998-03-12 Thread Local knowledgebase
Hi, I don't know is this the right list to write... I'm looking for a ogranizer-style application for Linux (RH5), like StarFish SideKick98 or Lotus Organizer or MS Outlook 97. Do You know any kind of organizer for Linux? Liivo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips,

Re: Cent character

1998-03-12 Thread Bryan C. Andregg
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998 15:46:53 + (), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to insert specific special characters in the vim editor? I want to make use of the Cent symbol, which I think is character 0242. I have seen it in mail to me, xterm and vim can display it, but I couldn't find

Re: How do you use a DIFF?

1998-03-12 Thread Sam Ockman
Name: patch Distribution: Red Hat Linux Biltmore II Version : 2.1 Vendor: Red Hat Software Release : 5 Build Date: Mon Jun 2 13:46:11 1997 Install date: Tue Nov 25 13:24:06 1997 Build Host:

Re: multiplatform organizer

1998-03-12 Thread Sam Ockman
Ical (part of Red Hat) springs immediately to mind for managing your calendar. There are quite a few others as well. Try poking around sunsite.unc.edu. -Sam On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 07:46:28PM +0200, Local knowledgebase wrote: Hi, I don't know is this the right list to write... I'm

RH 5.0 without glibc (libc-6) (was: Can't execute RH 5.0 executables !!!)

1998-03-12 Thread Adoram Rogel
So, I read how to have both libc-5 and glibc (libc-6). I don't even want to start with this. I don't need libc-6 at all, so why go thru all of this ? So, the question is: Can I install RH 5.0 without glibc ? I just want libc-5. Can I remove glibc now and have just libc-5 ? If not, I'll install

Re: which packages to install

1998-03-12 Thread Sam Ockman
If you have enough disk space, install them all. It will make your life easier in the long run. -Sam On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 12:28:25PM -0600, Joe Bob wrote: howdy, im just installing linux and was wondering if anybody could give me sugestions on which packages to install to begin with.

Re: StarOffice 4.0/RH5 : install error

1998-03-12 Thread Jean-Christophe Praud
It works !!! I would have missed some symlinks for the libs. By following EXACTLY http://www.waldherr.org/soffice4.shtml it works flowlessly... Thanks to all -- Jean-Christophe PRAUD - LUDEXPRESS Game Web: http://www.pbm-chronos.com Perso Web: http://www.brutaltruth.com Ph'nglui mglw'nafh

PCMCIA not detected

1998-03-12 Thread David S. Jackson
Has there been a problem reported with the smc9194 pcmcia ethernet card driver? I was able to detect and use my old Megahertz CC10BT just fine under 4.0 through 4.2. But now I fail with "bad chip signature" error. Any ideas? TIA -- David S. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dsj.net "Linux:

LILO Question/Problem

1998-03-12 Thread Robert_Floyd
My friend has just started his installation of RH 5.0. He tells me everytime he tries to run LILO, his whole screen starts scrolling 'LO' and he has to shut off the computer. He's tried alternate methods the the HOWTO's have shown but to no avail...any suggestions??? --

Re: Install exited abnormally

1998-03-12 Thread Pork E Pigg
Jose Romildo Malaquias wrote: When installing RH 5.0 in a Pentium machine, I got the following error: error -2 reading header: Success install exited abnormally sending termination signal... done sending kill signals... done unmounting

Re: A little humor to break the monotony

1998-03-12 Thread Chuck Mead
On 12-Mar-98 Matt Woodbridge wrote: As yet, the GIMP can never be a full replacement of Adobe Photoshop. In comparison, the GIMP is slow, handles memory poorly, I disagree... I don't think it renders any slower (or faster) than any other image tool I've used (i.e. Mo' RAM, mo' processor...

Re: StarOffice 4.0/RH5 : install error

1998-03-12 Thread Pork E Pigg
Jean-Christophe Praud wrote: It works !!! I would have missed some symlinks for the libs. By following EXACTLY http://www.waldherr.org/soffice4.shtml it works flowlessly... Thanks to all Wish I could say the same. I printed the page and checked off each item as I performed it so I

Is gcc-2.7.2.3 compatible with RH 4.2?

1998-03-12 Thread Ramin Sina
Hi all, I have RH 4.2 on my pentium machine and since I need g77 along with gcc, I upgraded (via rpm) to gcc-2.7.2.3-5 and installed the same version of gcc-g77 rpm as well. There was no error during the upgrade other than that there was an incompatibility between g77 and f2c and I had to

Linux Video Capture/TV

1998-03-12 Thread Frederick D. Kass
I am sure this question has been anwsered before, however since the arcive search isn't working I was forced to ask it again, sorry. I am looking for a video capture card to take a snapshot of a video signal and dump it to .gif or .jpg every 5 min. or so for web access. The signal is currently

Re: RH 5.0 without glibc (libc-6) (was: Can't execute RH 5.0 executables !!!)

1998-03-12 Thread Mike Wangsmo
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998 13:11:23 -0500, Adoram Rogel wrote: So, the question is: Can I install RH 5.0 without glibc ? I just want libc-5. Can I remove glibc now and have just libc-5 ? Nope. Every bin on a RH5.0 system (minus a very small number) is linked against glibc. If you want a libc5

Re: multiplatform organizer

1998-03-12 Thread Ray Curtis
"so" == Sam Ockman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so Ical (part of Red Hat) springs immediately to mind for managing your so calendar. There are quite a few others as well. Try poking around so sunsite.unc.edu. Or there is also the calendar function already in Emacs, just another reason to use

Re: LILO Question/Problem

1998-03-12 Thread Vidiot
My friend has just started his installation of RH 5.0. He tells me everytime he tries to run LILO, his whole screen starts scrolling 'LO' and he has to shut off the computer. He's tried alternate methods the the HOWTO's have shown but to no avail...any suggestions??? You

Re: Stupid proposition [TID Re: Cool....]

1998-03-12 Thread Alan Shutko
"K" == Krzysztof Zaraska [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: K What about PostScript import filters for documents for both Win K soft and Applixware? You print to a PostScript file on Win machine K and then load it into editor on Linux machine and vice-versa? When a document is converted into

Re: UNIX/Linux?

1998-03-12 Thread Paul Anderson
Robert Hailman wrote: This is a bit like my Linux/Xenix question earlier, but I'm new, so don't laugh. I have heard of Linux apps, and I have heard of Unix apps, as well as Minix apps, Posix apps, Xenix apps, etc... But my question is... If I download a plain UNIX app of the 'net, will it

RE: RH 5.0 without glibc (libc-6) (was: Can't execute RH 5.0 executables !!!)

1998-03-12 Thread Tempel, Philippe
So, I read how to have both libc-5 and glibc (libc-6). I don't even want to start with this. I don't need libc-6 at all, so why go thru all of this ? So, the question is: Can I install RH 5.0 without glibc ? I just want libc-5. Can I remove glibc now and have just libc-5 ? If not, I'll

RE: StarOffice 4.0/RH5 : install error

1998-03-12 Thread Tempel, Philippe
Wish I could say the same. I printed the page and checked off each item as I performed it so I know I got all of the symlinks (even tried it 3 times). Still get the same error. Pre-set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH before setup.bin executes. In other words, edit the `setup' shell script, and

Re: TTY on COM1.

1998-03-12 Thread Randy Carpenter
I connected a terminal to the COM1 port, but could not get it to respond. echo /dev/ttys0 ... Use /dev/cua0 yielded "input/output error". What do I need to do to get it to work correctly? P.S.: I eventually want to get to the point where GETTY is running on COM1, and the

Test Transmission - Please Ignore

1998-03-12 Thread Gary Gale
Just tryin to see if I can post to this d**n mailing list - please hit "next" in your mail reader to resume normal service ;-) Gary -- Gary Gale / G-Tech Ltd / Chiswick / London Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:

Rephrasing LILO Boot Problem

1998-03-12 Thread Robert_Floyd
Sorry, I probably didn't phrase my question properly I suppose I don't understand what is going on here when we are talking about the 1023 cylinder limit...Is there something you do during the installation to force the root to be placed before the 1023 limit?

Linux ISP

1998-03-12 Thread E Kelly Bond
Off Topic... At one time there was a LinuxISP mailing list up and operational. Does anyone know if it is still operational and if so, where it is currently housed? K -- E Kelly Bond [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key = http://www.gnat.net/~ekbond SSH

Re: StarOffice 4.0/RH5 : install error

1998-03-12 Thread Teresa D. Dodson
Check the replacement script. I had the same problem - I followed the instructions to the letter only to get the same error. I then proofread my script and found that I had a spelling error. Teresa -Original Message- From: Pork E Pigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

RH4.2/2.0.33 web server performance...

1998-03-12 Thread Chad Wagner
We are currently running 5 servers that are RH4.2/2.0.33 and 1 server that is FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE, and what I am interested in is if anyone has built a kernel that can handle alot of file descriptors (is this dynamic in 2.0.33, like it is in FreeBSD 2.2.5?) and process the listen() backlog

Re: RH4.2/2.0.33 web server performance...

1998-03-12 Thread Mike Johnson
At 04:54 PM 3/12/98 -0500, you wrote: We are running Apache, and 2.0.33 kernel. I will even consider opinions on other platforms. Check out http://www.qosina.com/~awm/apache/linux-tcp.html and see if that helps. Mike -- Mike Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Engineer/Network

Re: UNIX/Linux?

1998-03-12 Thread Scott McDermott
Robert Hailman [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 03:30:59PM -0500: Minix apps, Posix apps, Xenix apps, etc... But my question is... If I download a plain UNIX app of the 'net, will it run on Linux? If it's available in source form, then you can compile it yourself and if it's written

Re: RH 5.0 without glibc (libc-6) (was: Can't execute RH 5.0 executables !!!)

1998-03-12 Thread Adoram Rogel
Mike Wangsmo wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 1998 13:11:23 -0500, Adoram Rogel wrote: So, the question is: Can I install RH 5.0 without glibc ? I just want libc-5. Can I remove glibc now and have just libc-5 ? Nope. Every bin on a RH5.0 system (minus a very small number) is linked against

Re: Installing my Zipplus. How??

1998-03-12 Thread Robert Lay
Let's assume that there is little difference between using my Linux (RHL5.0 - Hurricane 2.3.32) and yours, and let's also assume no difference between the Zip 100 PPA drive that I have and your Zip Plus. I'm a newbie and just got mine working very recently, so I think I can identify with your

Re: Rephrasing LILO Boot Problem

1998-03-12 Thread Vidiot
I suppose I don't understand what is going on here when we are talking about the 1023 cylinder limit...Is there something you do during the installation to force the root to be placed before the 1023 limit? Maybe someone could help me gain some understanding on this one.

Re: LILO ouch

1998-03-12 Thread Robert Lay
Well, it certainly isn't because of your processor chip. I'm running a brand new installation of RHL5.0 that I just put up last weekend on a 386DX40 with 8MB of RAM and everything is working except sound and I'll be working on that soon. It may be that you will have to simplify your

Re: Cent character

1998-03-12 Thread Robert Lay
In my reference the cent symbol is decimal 155. Normally, I can expect to insert special characters, such as the cent sign, by holding down the Alt key while typing in the decimal value on the keypad. However, I note that in VI or VIM editors that doesn't work the way I expected it to.

Re: Stupid proposition [TID Re: Cool....]

1998-03-12 Thread Robert Lay
Frankly, Gentlemen, I don't see the problem. I have a Win95 PC and my RHL5.0 box sitting almost side by side. I keep DOS formatted diskettes and DOS formatted Zip cartridges handy, and I have Zip 100 drives on each of the two machines and 1.44MB floppy drives on each machine. Whenever I have a

Re: which packages to install

1998-03-12 Thread Robert Lay
None. Wait until you get a system up an running. Using rpm (which I prefer over "glint"), will do the package installation very nicely. In fact, use the Midnight Commander "mc" to find the package that you want to install in /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS and just hit the "enter" key, and it's almost

Re: TTY on COM1.

1998-03-12 Thread Dave Mielke
Use /dev/cua0 Echoing to cua0, rather than ttys0, no longer yields an input/output error. The output, however, does not appear on the terminal which is plugged into COM1. I have tried with and without a null modem connector in series with the cable. As a point of curriosity, what's the

Re: HELP on a Upgrade

1998-03-12 Thread Josh McNutt
Douglas F. Elznic said in Re: HELP on a Upgrade at 10/Mar/1998 23:20:22. or you can buy the book "Linux for Dummies". It's only $25 and it comes with RedHat 5.0. Crappy book, but good way to get the OS cheap. On Tue, 10 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello,I need somebody to help me.

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