Re: Hey.. whats happening??

1998-03-28 Thread plaven
What is the red hat digest? This is the first message I have seen in this list(?) since subscribing to it ages ago..? Cya, Pete -- > From: Tim Larkins (EUKSHEL1PO) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Hey.. whats happening?? > Date: Wednesday, March 25, 1998 11:00

Re: Pine

1998-03-28 Thread Greg Thomas
> > ::I am not sure I understand the the question is. I am using pine as well > ::and the 'reply to' is set to the list. as listed below > :: > I think he's talking about something I've seen too. When I send a > reply to something someone has posted to redhat-list, I see something > like "TO:

Re: QuakeWorld Server

1998-03-28 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, RTS wrote: > Go to > > http://quakeworld.stomped.com > > and download the CTF game > > Create a directory on the server and place these files in it. I've done the above. > > In the server.cfg file you'll need to ad the g

Moving /usr to a new drive

1998-03-28 Thread Heath Doane
Greetings All, I am getting a little cramped for space, and I was thinking of moving my /usr to a new drive. What I had in mind was mounting the new drive as a temp. directory on the root, copying the /usr structure over to the new drive, renaming the /usr to something (like /usr-old) ju

Re: kaffe

1998-03-28 Thread Alex Heiphetz
try echo $CLASSPATH to see if CLASSPATH *is* set correctly. It is quite possible that you have it in *main* (template) profile, but it wasn't passed correctly to your .profile/.bash_profile It might be the reason both jdk and kaffe don't work. Regards, A.Heiphetz At 03:39 PM 3/25/98 -0500,

Re: rebooting while booting

1998-03-28 Thread Damond Walker
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Aaron Walker wrote: > gremlins??? > Often ignored in the beginning because of their general cuteness. Don't let them fool you though, these little critters can wreak havoc all throughout a system. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips,

Re: Do I need a bigger swap partition?

1998-03-28 Thread William T Wilson
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Drachen wrote: > yes, but if you run a machine with high memory req's that you don't reboot > often (like a server) it's a good idea, because otherwise the machine > can't defragment its memory, which affects performance, etcetc This isn't true. Only Macintoshes have to wor

Re: Do I need a bigger swap partition?

1998-03-28 Thread Drachen
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote: > Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 12:57:02 -0500 (EST) > From: "Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Casey Bralla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Do I need a big

Re: rh5 and ip forwarding

1998-03-28 Thread Bill Nottingham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Does anyone know why 5.0 disables packet forwarding on a kernel that has it > compiled in? While I can't speak for RedHat, I'd assume it's because the default kernel has IP forwarding compiled in, but it's not something that's needed on most machines

Re: rh5 and ip forwarding

1998-03-28 Thread Shmoe
On Sun, 29 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > IPv4 packet forwarding: disabled > > Please note that this kernal was compiled with ip forwarding enabled. > Try echo "1" >> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward -- Shmoe http://quadrant.tec.pa.us http://www.metallica.org "They see it right, They see

Re: QuakeWorld Server

1998-03-28 Thread RTS
Go to http://quakeworld.stomped.com and download the CTF game Create a directory on the server and place these files in it. In the server.cfg file you'll need to ad the gamedir ctf and map (whatever) You can call at 618-281-8686 and I can explain better... Randy At 05:00 PM 3/28/98 -060

sndconfig error

1998-03-28 Thread Joe_Ferguson
I've downloaded and upgraded to sndconfig-0.20.1, but every time it gets to the point where it's going to play a sound sample, it tells me there was an error encountered running the modprobe program. How the heck am I supposed to fix it if it doesn't tell me what's wrong? Am I overlooking someth

rh5 and ip forwarding

1998-03-28 Thread jdickins
hello all, I have a weird problem with a new rh5.0 installation. I am currently using 4.2 and want to upgrade to 5.0. I installed 5.0 on a fresh hard drive and all went well. I then copied over the kernel that I currently use on the same system (I changed hd's so that I could fall back to 4.2 jus

Re: rebooting while booting

1998-03-28 Thread William T Wilson
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Aaron Walker wrote: > gremlins??? Yes. Little furry creatures which cause machinery to not work. :) I am trying to think of something that would cause Linux to mis-boot even from CD and Floppy both. You might try taking a functioning Linux-installed hard drive out of the

Re: Cannot compile kernel 2.0.32-2 w/ sound support

1998-03-28 Thread Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Dave Price wrote: >I am trying to add sound support to kernel 2.0.32 - from src-rpm Why are you trying to build it from the SRPM? If you haven't done an "rpm -bp" yet, the kernel source may not have necessary patches applied. Install the binary RPM and use that, instead. --

Re: Network card help

1998-03-28 Thread Kristoffer Stovring
well i just had the precise same problem (my first night trying to install linux) and it would f the love of god (pick one) not find the netcard... well it would appear, that all i needed was to disable PnP in the bios, check the new settings, and use them instead. with PnP disabled and with the N

Re: rebooting while booting

1998-03-28 Thread Aaron Walker
William T Wilson wrote: > Obviously, you have a hardware problem in your 233! Are you overclocking > it? Do you have mixed-speed RAM? Do you have gremlins? overclocking... I'll have to check.mixed-speed RAM... no. Both are 60ns. gremlins??? -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Erra

Re: Network card help

1998-03-28 Thread Dan Cyr
Actually if you just installed, it may be simplier to reinstall it. When it comes to the LAN bit, enter NE2000, then specify options. io=0x300 irq=11 Should work in a pinch. Dan At 02:02 PM 3/28/98 -0800, Dan Cyr wrote: > >Add this to your kernel option in /etc/lilo.conf > >append="ether=1

_Xsetlocale_

1998-03-28 Thread R. Maiale
Hi I am new to this list so please forgive me if I am rehashing an old topic. My issue is with _Xsetlocale_ . I cannot run any java applications, Aim and ICQ specifically. I have done as much research as I can and haven't come to any resolutions. BTW, I run RH 5 with all the updates I can find.

Re: rebooting while booting

1998-03-28 Thread William T Wilson
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Aaron Walker wrote: > key." It says this with all floppies I try. But it works on the 166. ... > reboots. I put the CD in my 166 and it boots fine. ... > works fine in the 166. Obviously, you have a hardware problem in your 233! Are you overclocking it? Do you have mixe

QuakeWorld Server

1998-03-28 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just got the quakeworld server and would like to serve capture the flag games. How do I do this? I have 2.10 of qwsv and of course the registered version of quake. the normal quake server allows -game and +map stuff (which doesn't seem to do what I

Re: Network card help

1998-03-28 Thread Dan Cyr
Add this to your kernel option in /etc/lilo.conf append="ether=10,0x300,eth0" 10= Network cards IRQ 0x300 = Network cards IO Base eg. Mine is set for 2 network cards. image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/sda1 initrd=/boot/initrd read-only append

Re: Can't map to private Samba share

1998-03-28 Thread Kevin A. Pieckiel
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Sebastien Boving wrote: -> i don't get it. if you work on share security, as you do, your username -> shouldn't even be looked at for authentication purposes (user mapping is -> another issue). Or maybe you're talking about the [Homes] section? Not the homes section... Just

rebooting while booting

1998-03-28 Thread Aaron Walker
I have 2 computers: Intel 166, and Intel 233. I already have RedHat 5 on the 166 but not on the 233. This is what happens when I boot - floppy- it says something like, "Bad floppy, replace and press any key." It says this with all floppies I try. But it works on the 166. CD-ROM- it starts th

Re: printing HTML files

1998-03-28 Thread David E. Fox
> > Hello everybody, > how can I print HTML files? If you have Netscape loaded up, it's extremely easy to print them. Just enter the URL of the html you want to print, wait for it to load, and press the print button. Netscape on Linux is already configured for Postscript via lpr, so if that part

Re: Can't map to private Samba share

1998-03-28 Thread Kevin A. Pieckiel
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Sebastien Boving wrote: -> After installing SP3, NT switches to encrypted passwd authentication. -> Samba still requires clairtext passwds. To solve your problem, you need to -> tell your NT machines not to encrypt the passwds. To do this, you have to -> make a small change t

Network card help

1998-03-28 Thread Eduardo Egues
I just installed redhat-5.0 and my network card don't work. I tried with Microdyne NE2000 Compatible and with an Accton EN166X MPX (PNP and jumperless options had been tested) following networking installation steps. Where do i can find driver for Accton card? Any other sugestion

Re: favourite linux RAD IDE

1998-03-28 Thread William T Wilson
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Scott McDermott wrote: > You know, that's a very good question!! Unices, Unixen, Unixes, > capitalized variants, anything else...I've never been able to figure out > which is appropriate. Traditionally, 'Unices' is correct. According to grammar rules, 'Unixes' would probabl

Re: MS Site crashes Netscape?

1998-03-28 Thread Greg Kucharo
From Windows NT, accessing that page requires a plugin. Specifically, the Futuresplash plugin. Do you get this message at all? This may the the source of your crash. > On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, W. Wade, Hampton wrote: > > > On my RH 5, Netscape 4.04 laptop, when I access: > > http://www.mi

Re: MS Site crashes Netscape?

1998-03-28 Thread Keith Dart
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, W. Wade, Hampton wrote: > On my RH 5, Netscape 4.04 laptop, when I access: > http://www.microsoft.com > and click on the link: > With Web TV, Surifing will never be the same > my Netscape crashes every time! > > Anyone else seeing this? Any lib upgrade for RH 5 that

MS Site crashes Netscape?

1998-03-28 Thread W. Wade, Hampton
On my RH 5, Netscape 4.04 laptop, when I access: http://www.microsoft.com and click on the link: With Web TV, Surifing will never be the same my Netscape crashes every time! Anyone else seeing this? Any lib upgrade for RH 5 that might make Netscape more stable? I look forward to their G

Re: favourite linux RAD IDE

1998-03-28 Thread David Fisher
> > I know that RAD tools do exist for various Unices (is that the correct > > plural?), > > You know, that's a very good question!! Unices, Unixen, Unixes, > capitalized variants, anything else...I've never been able to figure out > which is appropriate. For those with a classical education, how

Re: Toshiba 100CS

1998-03-28 Thread Cohen Liota
said: >> I am trying to install RH5 on my laptop . Everything >> went well until I tried to write lilo to the harddrive. I was given >> the choice of writing it to the MBR or the first sector of the linux >> partion. I tried both with no success. If anyone out there has done >> this before or

Re: favourite linux RAD IDE

1998-03-28 Thread Scott McDermott
"Michael P. Plezbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, Mar 27, 1998 at 12:27:26AM -0600: > Programming is usually difficult enough; why not use everything available > that makes the job easier? Of course, it must actually make the job > easier or faster, else there's not much point in using it. Hmmm.

Re: MS<->Linux version of ?

1998-03-28 Thread Scott McDermott
"Douglas F. Elznic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, Mar 27, 1998 at 05:56:51PM -0500: > Try : > unzip-5.31 > Or something higher. It is on redhat's ftp. It came on the 5.0 cd if you > have that lying around. Also note that zip is in a separate package from unzip, which is a bit retarded if you ask me

Re: Cannot compile kernel 2.0.32-2 w/ sound support

1998-03-28 Thread Dave Wreski
> I am trying to add sound support to kernel 2.0.32 - from src-rpm Try the updated RPMS in /updates/5.0/i386 on ftp.redhat.com 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: Toshiba 100CS

1998-03-28 Thread Cohen Liota
Hi again, I forgot to mention that I have gone through the documentation at http://www.linux.org for my laptop but it doesn't mention anything about it. Thanks again, Cohen -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-E

Cannot compile kernel 2.0.32-2 w/ sound support

1998-03-28 Thread Dave Price
I am trying to add sound support to kernel 2.0.32 - from src-rpm I have an awe-32 - works under DOS at io=220 irq=5 dma's 1 and 5 make zImage fails as follows: [root@dbx linux]# make zImage > tmp drivers/sound/sound.a(soundcard.o): In function `soundcard_init': soundcard.o(.text+0x487): undefi

Toshiba 100CS

1998-03-28 Thread Cohen Liota
Hi, I am trying to install RH5 on my laptop . Everything went well until I tried to write lilo to the harddrive. I was given the choice of writing it to the MBR or the first sector of the linux partion. I tried both with no success. If anyone out there has done this before or has any ideas

Can't map to private Samba share

1998-03-28 Thread Kevin A. Pieckiel
Please reply private to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi! I'm on an NT4 (SP3) box trying to browse or map a drive to a network share on a RHL 5.0 box running Samba 1.9.17p4 and I keep getting the error message "The account is not authorized to login from this station." My password is being typed correctly.

Re: Do I need a bigger swap partition?

1998-03-28 Thread Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Casey Bralla wrote: >I build RH 5 with a 32 MByte swap partition (doiuble my current 16 >MBytes of RAM). I plan to increase my RAM to 64 MBytes. Will I need >to repartition my disk to increase the swap space to 64 MBytes? (or >132 MBytes?) Only if you want to. There is no

Rebooting while booting

1998-03-28 Thread Aaron Walker
I am trying to install RH5 on my friends box, which is Intel 233 MMX with 32MB RAM. When either booting off the floppy, CD-ROM, or the DOS autoboot program, it will say: loading linux . (Then it will start detecting hardware as usual) (It does that for about 5 seconds

Do I need a bigger swap partition?

1998-03-28 Thread Casey Bralla
I build RH 5 with a 32 MByte swap partition (doiuble my current 16 MBytes of RAM). I plan to increase my RAM to 64 MBytes. Will I need to repartition my disk to increase the swap space to 64 MBytes? (or 132 MBytes?) J R Casey Bralla [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Nerd in Residence NerdWorld Cheraw,

Very slow tar operation

1998-03-28 Thread Jeff Ivany
Hi All. I just recently switched from Slackware to RedHat 5.0 and I've noticed one major problem. Well, not really a problem but more an annoyance. Untaring files takes about 5 times longer on my new RedHat system. It took almost 10 minutes to untar the 2.0.33 kernel source file. Previously

Re: custom kernel compilation -Help

1998-03-28 Thread Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Bijaya Hamal wrote: [...] >But I get this message when I boot the new Kernel as Kernel Panic : >This is what it looks like :- >eth0:NE2000 found at 0X300 , using IRQ3 >VFS:Cannot open root device 03:02 >Kernel panic VFS : unable to mount root fs on 03:02 I suspect a problem

custom kernel compilation -Help

1998-03-28 Thread Bijaya Hamal
> > Dear Sir , > I am using Red hat linux 4.2 on a intel machine i.e. 486 / 66 hp vectra > with ide harddrive 850 , ne2000 network card , normal 1.44 floppy drive, > color monitor . The installation is fine , it does work but I do get > problem when I compile a custom kernel. I have consulte

Re: Some confusion with some Red Hat UPDATES

1998-03-28 Thread Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Javier Hernandez wrote: [...] >I am following periodically the updates of Red Hat 4.2 and I have observed >several times that an upgrade is released and it correspond in version to >a package that already was updated to that status; apparently the only >different with the new

printing HTML files

1998-03-28 Thread Norberto Grassi
Hello everybody, how can I print HTML files? (I got RGH 5.0 and Ghostcript 5 working; I can print plain text, ps and pdf fine). How can I do it from Netscape? Thanks everybody, Norberto. P.S.: if you can help me please CC me because I'm subscribed to the post-only list. -- PLEASE read th

Re: SMTP

1998-03-28 Thread Hans Feringa
How would I configure it to relay for a whole subnet range of Ip addresses, without configuring each one of them individually in the /etc/mail/ip_allow? (like the whole subnet 172.16.100.0) Hans Bill Nottingham wrote: > > ramon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > I'm using RedHat 5.0 and I'm trying

Re: Apache compile problem

1998-03-28 Thread John Winters
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Hello, >I'm trying to compile Apache 1.2.5 with the module mod_block.c off of >Apache's web site http://www.apache.org/dist/contrib/modules/mod_block.c >When I run make, I get the following error. > >gcc -c -Iregex -DLINUX=2 -DSTATUS mod_block.c >mod_

Re: SMTP

1998-03-28 Thread John Winters
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Hello, > >I'm using RedHat 5.0 and I'm trying to use eudora to read my email from >home. I could do this when I had RedHat 4.2 installed, but now it only >works when I go to read my email. When I try to send or reply it gives me >an error relay error. Do

Re: Internal Modem

1998-03-28 Thread Marko Räihä
On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote: > On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Vidiot wrote: > [...] > >Most users will want to have activity on com1/3 (com2/4) at the same > >time,... > > They will? Why? In my experience, users typically have *at most* two > serial devices: a mouse and a modem, an

fvwm2 feature problems

1998-03-28 Thread Marc Heckmann
Hi, Sorry if this has already been discussed here... I know that the fvwm2 included with RH-5.0 is very hacked up for fvwm95 support and the fancy afterstep like animation stuff and I've noticed that this completely breaks some of the features of fvwm2-2.0.46 , I'm talking about

Re: TIN Displaying INCORRECTLY in an Xterm!

1998-03-28 Thread Lawrence Houston
Red Hat USER: Last year about this time I posted about a problem I was having while using TIN within an Xterm Window and just recently had another user reading from a different USENET Group experience the same problem with the xterm contained in "XFree86-3.3.1-1.i386.rpm" (Red Hat 4.2)! Same "fi

Re: FVWM

1998-03-28 Thread Paul Fontenot
> When I log into my shell and startx, a big FVWM appears and X windows > starts. My question is, how do i get it back to wm 95, or Lesstif. when > I log in as root, wm 95 comes up and i can switch between which version > of wm i want. You may want to compare the /root/.xinitrc to the /user/.xini

FVWM

1998-03-28 Thread BenRoss Productions
When I log into my shell and startx, a big FVWM appears and X windows starts. My question is, how do i get it back to wm 95, or Lesstif. when I log in as root, wm 95 comes up and i can switch between which version of wm i want. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

Apache compile problem

1998-03-28 Thread David S Edwards
Hello, I'm trying to compile Apache 1.2.5 with the module mod_block.c off of Apache's web site http://www.apache.org/dist/contrib/modules/mod_block.c When I run make, I get the following error. gcc -c -Iregex -DLINUX=2 -DSTATUS mod_block.c mod_block.c:109: warning: initialization from incompa

Some confusion with some Red Hat UPDATES

1998-03-28 Thread Javier Hernandez
Hi all, I am still running Red Hat 4.2 in my two computers. I suppose that someone else have observed the fact that I am going to explain here and that I am not "dreaming". :-) I am following periodically the updates of Red Hat 4.2 and I have observed several times that an upgrade is released and

Bug in libc-5.3.12 resolver

1998-03-28 Thread Chris Adams
There appears to be a bug in the resolver in libc-5.3.12. When a program uses gethostbyaddr() to do a reverse DNS lookup and that returns a CNAME instead of a PTR, the gethostbyaddr returns "Host name lookup failure" instead of following the CNAME and returning the cannonical name or "Unknown hos

Re: Is the list down?

1998-03-28 Thread Richard E. Ravich
Victoria Stanfield wrote: > On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, nearly comatose, Richard E. Ravich managed to scribble: > > ::I haven't seen anything from this list in three days. Is it down? If > ::anyone gets this message, please respond to me via email so that I will > ::know. Thanks and regards, > :: > :

Re: Upgrading to 5.0

1998-03-28 Thread Eric Lee Green
In linux.redhat.list, you wrote: >I am currentlly running RedHat Linux version 4.2 with kernel 2.0.32. >What advantages are there to upgrading to version 5.0? Are there any >disadvantages? Advantages: Most new software is being compiled for 5.0, so if you want to run the latest greatest of anyth

Re: Problems getting Network up with NE2000 clone

1998-03-28 Thread Eric Lee Green
In linux.redhat.list, you wrote: >I'm trying to get an Allied Telesyn International AT-2000 (NE-2000 clone) >to work with RedHat v5.0 (kernel 2.0.32) and am having no luck. I've spent I don't know if RedHat has patched the 2.0.32 kernel. However, the "stock" 2.0.3x kernels have a NE2000 driver t

Re: Need help with RADIUS2.0 on RH 4.2

1998-03-28 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Fri, Mar 27, 1998 at 06:33:22PM +, L. M. Marchese wrote: : I got radius 2.0 from livingston's site and installed it on RedHat's : Linux 4.2. When I ran the radiusd server the first time, it crashed and : asked for libdb.so.1 (ELF). So I created a a link to the new : libdb.so.2.0. Radius n

Re: Internal Modem

1998-03-28 Thread Dave Ihnat
Vidiot wrote: > Are you trying to use the modem on com3 or com4? If so, don't. I've never > gotten that to work correctly. Hmm...no problem here on COM4, but I had to make sure to give it a unique, unused IRQ. -- Dave Ihnat [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED]