Re: reinstallation of windows

On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Lai Chi Wai wrote: > > to make a boot disk... > > (as root) > > 1. put floppy in drive > > 2. find which kernel image your using (vmlinuz, zImage, bzImage, etc...) > > 3. copy image to floppy (do not mount the floppy) > > > > dd if=/boot/zImage of=/dev/fd0 > > > > if stand

glibc upgrade causes weird log behaviour?

[repost, sorry folks.. forgot the subject line the first time.. ] On monday, as part of my quest for a fix to the BRU/Date problem, I upgraded my glibc at the suggestion of one of the posts... glibc-2.0.7-6.i386.rpm Didn't notice, but shortly thereafter my PAM entries into /var/log/messages sta

Re: Pipes screensaver

On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Victoria Stanfield wrote: > :: It uses OpenGL (or MesaGL). You must have that installed first or > :: the pipes (and other GL screensavers) wont be built. You should be > :: able to get it from: > :: > :: > > Are the Mesa rpms which are

Re: export display - xlib question...

Is there a how to out there describing how to display Xwindows on a different machine? I've always been confused on how to do this. Thanks -- > From: Greg Fall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: export display - xlib question... > Date: Thur

Re: Pipes screensaver

On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Victoria Stanfield wrote: > :: It uses OpenGL (or MesaGL). You must have that installed first or > :: the pipes (and other GL screensavers) wont be built. You should be > :: able to get it from: > :: > :: > > Are the Mesa rpms which are

Re: Recommendation for an Xwindow email Client

I use the email client that comes with Netscape, and I also have Redhat CDE and Applixware which come with x-window email clients. They seem to be the best ones around, at least that I have seen. I had tried several other clients before the CDE and Applixware but I ended up just using pine be

Unidentified subject!

On monday, as part of my quest for a fix to the BRU/Date problem, I upgraded my glibc at the suggestion of one of the posts... glibc-2.0.7-6.i386.rpm Didn't notice, but shortly thereafter my PAM entries into /var/log/messages started getting garbled... Apr 9 18:29:31 beast ^IB^CD$^Cz^Qv^I>^?^?

Recommendation for an Xwindow email Client

Looking for a good Xwindow email client. Any recommendations? Thanks, Jeff -- 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

Re: export display - xlib question...

>> I'm attempting to run an x app from a remote machine on my own >> desktop. I'm obviously missing something along the way. > Did you do "xhost +remote_machine" on your machine? > Ya gotta tell your machine to let the other machine > pop gui screens up on your machine. > > And how. User-bas

Help, need to upgrade

Running RH 5.0 2.0.31. Would like to upgrade to the latest of 2.0.33. What files do I need and how do I do this. Being a newbie at this. Thanks, Jeff -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mail

Date/time fixed

Hey everyone- I got my date problem fixed. Had nothing to do with linux at all (you guys were right.) I just had my CMOS set wrong. It's odd, however, because win95 seemed to be on schedule. Oh well, everything is fine now. Thanks for the help...

Re: Pipes screensaver

Vicki, I got curious last night and d/l the files: Mesa-2.6-1.libc5.i386.rpm Mesa-demos-2.6-1.libc5.i386.rpm Mesa-glut-2.6-1.libc5.i386.rpm Mesa-glut-devel-2.6-1.libc5.i386.rpm xlockmore-GL-4.03-2.i386.rpm Also found out that I had to ^grade pam, pam,pamconfig, and pwdb to: pam-0.57-2.i386.rpm pa

Re: export display - xlib question...

smitty, huh? No Problem. Way I do it (probably wrong, but it works) is: created an /etc/fontconfig file on the AIX risc box and then exported it. (we're behind firewalls so security isn't really a problem) Then on the Linux box, put this in my ~/.xsession file: xset fp +tcp/machine:7001 whe

Re: Pipes screensaver

:: It uses OpenGL (or MesaGL). You must have that installed first or :: the pipes (and other GL screensavers) wont be built. You should be :: able to get it from: :: :: Are the Mesa rpms which are in Redhat's contrib directory the same as what you mean? I h

pci device (V98 #64)

Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 01:20:14 + (GMT) From: Yoshihiro Yamazaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1 ) When booting my system there are two warning : unknown pci device (8086:7180). Please read include/linux/pci.h " " (8086:7181). " "" I also get this error

Re: export display - xlib question...

On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Rick L. Mantooth wrote: > Kevin, > > Did you do "xhost +remote_machine" on your machine? > Ya gotta tell your machine to let the other machine > pop gui screens up on your machine. > > > > Rick > > On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Kevin H. Devin wrote: > > > I'm attempting to run an

testing

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Re: RH5/Apache problems

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 20:49 4/9/98 -0400, William S. Page wrote: > 2) This one is even stranger. I have several web sites which are >hosted from user areas (i.e., www.mydomain.com/~theuser). All the user >codes that were in existance before I upgraded to RH5 work fine. Today

Re: Redhat 5.0 POP3 acounts setup

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 13:22 4/9/98 -0700, Sekou Kande wrote: >Has anyone got the POP3 server under RedHat 5.0 with SMTP? >How should I configurate it so that the users will be able to setup >mail client software like "Eudora"? TIA You should install the IMAPd RPM. Then edit your

Re: htpasswd update

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 16:15 4/9/98 -0500, webmaster wrote: >I also changed the AllowOverride None to AllowOverride AuthConfig. I >then create a directory called htdocs at /home/httpd/html. In that >new directory, I created a file called .htaccess and entered the >following li

Re: export display - xlib question...

Kevin, Did you do "xhost +remote_machine" on your machine? Ya gotta tell your machine to let the other machine pop gui screens up on your machine. Rick On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Kevin H. Devin wrote: > I'm attempting to run an x app from a remote machine on my own > desktop. I'm obviously missing

export display - xlib question...

I'm attempting to run an x app from a remote machine on my own desktop. I'm obviously missing something along the way. step 1. Fire up X on my machine. step 2. Telnet to remote machine. step 3. On remote machine, export DISPLAY=192.168.0.21:0.0 step 4. Attempt to run X app... xeyes The res

Re: Latest Netscape

from the contrib folder on ftp.redhat.com - or a mirror like sunsite ... there are rpm for navigator and communicator (no mail client in navigator. dave On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Jeff Tomich wrote: > Where can I get the latest RPM of Netscape? > > thanks, > > > -- > PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ,

Re: Latest Netscape

ftp.netscape.com (a tar,not an rpm) ftp.redhat.com (an rpm) On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Jeff Tomich wrote: > Where can I get the latest RPM of Netscape? > > thanks, > > -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-E

IPX set up, but invisible

Okay, now I really do have a question about this. I have a RH5 box serving ipx; when I type slist on that box, it finds itself like so: [michael@alice michael]$ slist Known NetWare File Servers Network Node Address -

Latest Netscape

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Re: dynamic date in mail?

use `date` to evaluete the date command in your command line for mail dave On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Karl Asseily wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to insert the date in a mail subject. Every day, I want cron to > send me a mail with the subject "Daily Report, ". > I wanna know how I can replace by a

pci device

Help !!! [redhat 5.0 - hurricane] Problems : 1 ) When booting my system there are two warning : unknown pci device (8086:7180). Please read include/linux/pci.h " " (8086:7181). " "" 2 ) During installation I could not include my ethernet ne2000pci network

Re: dynamic date in mail?

karl, Try this: rickdman # mail -s "Date test `date`" rickdman Howdy, Work? me. . EOT And the results: Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 20:01:49 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Rick L. Mantooth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Date test Thu Apr 9 20:01:41 CDT 1998 Howdy, Work? me. Notice the (`) backti

dynamic date in mail?

Hello, I am trying to insert the date in a mail subject. Every day, I want cron to send me a mail with the subject "Daily Report, ". I wanna know how I can replace by a string which will insert the current date. (I am using the command 'mail -s'). Any hints? Thanks karl "Through the fir

Re: htpasswd

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 14:11 4/9/98 -0500, webmaster wrote: >Dear Linux/Unix Gurus: > >I'm trying to setup user authentication using htpasswd. Refering to >the instructions at >http://www.apacheweek.com/features/userauth > >I was told to edit a file called access.conf. Is there

RH5/Apache problems

Since moving to RH5, I have had two problems with Apache: 1) Apache doesn't seem to be paying attention to the mime.types file. I added .htm to the same line as .html (as I did with RH4.1) but that had no effect. I was able to fix the problem by adding an "AddType text/html .htm" to the

error compiling Qmail

I got this error trying to install Qmail ("make"): ./compile qmail-local.c gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11 make: *** [qmail-local.o] Error 1 (Unfortunately) having been raised on Windoze systems, I'm new to this idea of compiling stuff... Can't think what's up or wh

Re: Boca 56k PNP modem

The way i do it with my motorola modemsurfer and SB awe64 is to run the programs that configure both in dos, then start up linux through loadlin- works like a charm, and if you put it all in a batch file, it's easy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Tim Larkins (EUKSHEL1PO) <[

RE: Joliet disks

You can make ISO9660 v I with the CD writers. By default, they make ISO9660 v III. All you have to do is make your CD, then copy it onto another CD directly. Make sure you use the CD copying utility!! > -Original Message- > From: Vidiot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Ap

Inetd/tcpd problem? - HELP!!! (fwd)

Hello, After installing tcp-wrappers from redhat-4.2 I was able to get inetd working again. However, I am still getting the following messages and upon looking deep into /var/log/messages I discovered I was getting them for about a day before the inetd related services died last night: Apr 9

Re: CPU's revisited

On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Phil Risby wrote: > Thats a valid commetnt, but I was wondering abput yourt upgrades? > Doesnt the Pll use and ATX m/b and need an ATX case? Not necessarily. There's no direct correlation between PII's and ATX. ATX and AT are both available for all modern CPU's. -- PL

Re: CPU's revisited

Bryan Swann wrote: > >From what I understand, the Pentium II and Pentium Prp are very similar. > Except, the Pentium II runs older 16bit applications faster. I don't see any > new Pentium Pro processors being developed, so I would go with a Pentium II. I > just upgraded a 486 to a Pentium II wi

DNS , Sendmail, Virtual Hosts

I am an ISP who is co-locating (hosting) a Redhat 5.0 Linux box and I want the LInux box to handle its own Virtual mail accounts. I have set the the Virtual Hosting feature up via Sendmails instructions at their site but I can't seem to get mail to the box. I am wondering if I am missing somethin

Re: IMAPd/POP3 Service -- fix

can also do the following: kill -HUP "inetd's pid" depending on your system inetd's pid may be in a file (e.g. inetd.pid), or you can just do a "ps -aux | grep inetd" Anthony E. Greene wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > It turns out that 'init q' was not enough to get ipop3d runn

Re: RAID and System Upgrades

"Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 8 Apr 1998, Eze Ogwuma wrote: > > I have four 2.1GB SCSI drives and I want to make three of them into a > > RAID-0 array using the md driver. > > > > I was thinking of using part of the fourth disk as a boot > > partition. What

Re: Kernel difficulties

On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, William T Wilson wrote: > On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, I. Dwayne Koonce wrote: > > > It's already commented out, so that's not it. > > Bummer. What devices do you have in your system? Can you still boot your > old kernel? An NCR53c875 SCSI controller and a 3c900 Ethernet card. Bot

Re: SUN OS and RH 5.0

On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: > I know that Red Hat has secured many many holes. Does any one know any > major holes that SUN OS has compared to Hurricane? SunOS (being the old BSD-style pre-Solaris OS) is going to be mostly an exercise in getting all the software updated. Wh

Re: reinstallation of windows

If you can get booted into linux, runing /sbin/lilo will read /etc/lilo.conf and write the MBR. Reboot after this and walla! If you want the Windows/dos boot info back on, run, from dos, fdisk /mbr. that will put the win95/dos boot on mbr. bug On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Lai Chi Wai wrote: > Hi

Re: Kernel difficulties

On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, I. Dwayne Koonce wrote: > It's already commented out, so that's not it. Bummer. What devices do you have in your system? Can you still boot your old kernel? Typically the first thing the kernel does after being uncompressed is initialize the display, then the PCI bus, then

Re: DNS underscores - I'm wrong

I ran into this same problem at work when I upgraded my machine from RedHat 4.2 to 5.0. There are underscores in ever machine name on our WAN, and 5.0 just won't go there. Oh well, It's something I have been able to work around by adding machines to /etc/hosts (just the ones that are necessary).

Re: Kernel difficulties

On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, William T Wilson wrote: > On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, I. Dwayne Koonce wrote: > > > Okay, I'm recompiling the kernel in order to raise NR_TASKS in > > linux/include/tasks.h from 512 to 4096. I thought the fastest way to do > > Watch out - some kernels have SMP defined by default.

Re: Kernel difficulties

On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, I. Dwayne Koonce wrote: > Okay, I'm recompiling the kernel in order to raise NR_TASKS in > linux/include/tasks.h from 512 to 4096. I thought the fastest way to do Watch out - some kernels have SMP defined by default. If SMP is compiled in, your kernel will behave as you des

Re: Netscape 4.04 crashes on embed src=filename.mid

Jay Vassos-Libove ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: "On my RedHat 5.0 system, my Netscape Navigator 4.04 crashes every time it sees an "embed src=filename.mid" tag. My older Navigator 3.x does not have a problem with this, and Navigator 4.04 on WindowsNT plays the MIDI just fine." This is a well-known p

Kernel difficulties

Okay, I'm recompiling the kernel in order to raise NR_TASKS in linux/include/tasks.h from 512 to 4096. I thought the fastest way to do it would be to use the same config Redhat compiles their distribution kernels with, so I could just drop it into place. When I boot with the new kernel, however,

Re: reinstallation of windows

> to make a boot disk... > (as root) > 1. put floppy in drive > 2. find which kernel image your using (vmlinuz, zImage, bzImage, etc...) > 3. copy image to floppy (do not mount the floppy) > > dd if=/boot/zImage of=/dev/fd0 > > if stands for infile, of stands for outfile > zImage is what my curr

Re: Exporting resources to Win95 non-GUI?

Dave Wreski wrote: > If you wish to export files on your Linux box via IPX, you must set > yourself up as a Novell server. > > Its not actually that hard, though. It took me a couple of hours when I > did it (more than a year ago). Most of the time was spent configuring > printing, and making s

DNS underscores - I'm wrong

While using underscores didn't cause a problem on our RHL3.0.3 DNS server, I just noticed the RHL5.0 replacement I'm building up did show error messages in the /var/log/messages file on all canonical names which had underscores! I stand corrected. I will be changing all the offending names in

NETWARE BOOTP AND RH5.0

Many thanks to everyone who helped with my Xserver woes. Updating Xfree Mach64 stuff was the trick. I am doing a little dance right now for you... My latest fun project is trying to get a net connection. I am hooked up by Olicom token ring to a NetWare LAN, and they appear not to be speaking. A

Re: reinstallation of windows

Hi. Could any one explain a little more on how to write my earlier MBR to the bootsector? If it needs parameter specific to my system, how do I know that? Thanks cwlai > > > Yes you'r right windows will overwrite your MBR, but just install > Windows, boot linux from a floppy and run lilo witc

Re: virtual domains and wildcard forwarding...

On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Doug Elznic wrote: > Hello, > I need to forward all mail that is coming into one of our virtual domains > into one mailbox. Is this possible? In theory i would like to have an > alias type of setup that was: > *@virtualdomain.com: user > > > www.sendmail.org has documenta

Re: virtual domains and wildcard forwarding...

> I need to forward all mail that is coming into one of our virtual domains > into one mailbox. Is this possible? In theory i would like to have an > alias type of setup that was: > *@virtualdomain.com: user Have you previously checked Steve's virtual hosting link: http://patriot.net/~scoile/i

virtual domains and wildcard forwarding...

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Re: Exporting resources to Win95 non-GUI?

> Do I want to set myself up as a Novell server? That seems like > overkill, since we don't actually have any bona fide Novell clients. If you wish to export files on your Linux box via IPX, you must set yourself up as a Novell server. Its not actually that hard, though. It took me a couple o

Re: glibc upgrade failure

On 9 Apr 1998 09:55:25 -0700, Ed Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Running glibc-2.0.6-9 on an RH 5 system with errata installed. When >upgrading to any of the new errata rpm's (glibc) including using the >texinfo upgrade I am >unable to login without reverting to 2.0.6-9 and texinfo-3.9.7. Error

Exporting resources to Win95 non-GUI?

I have a couple of RH5 machines which can export and import resources to/from NT and 95 machines over samba, but we also have several machines in house which run 95 without the GUI, which means they won't run TCP/IP. They will mount NT shares over IPX though, so I'd like to do the same thing with

Redhat 5.0 POP3 acounts setup

I subscribed to Redhat-list TODAY. I am very sorry for being late. I met you are helping about pop3 account which I want you to help me about. I don't know if or not my question has been answered: Has anyone got the POP3 server under RedHat 5.0 with SMTP? How should I configurate it so that t

htpasswd update

Okay, here is what I found after hacking around my system... I found access.conf in /etc/httpd/conf/. There are quite a # of configuration files there. The file to edit for "user authentication" feature is not access.conf, but access.conf-dist (there is a comment in that file for .htaccess).

Read: redhat-digest Digest V98 #61

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Re: Apache web server and DNS

>Hello all, >I will need to install apache on a macine at my school. I have a >few questions on DNS. There is already a DNS server at my school, >I don't >need to setup a nameserver. 1. Using redhat's netcfg tool, under the >section of nameservers would I have to enter the ip of the primary >n

Re: Sendmail vs MS Exchange Server

Linux does nfs serving with busted file locking. You can easily get messages inserted inside eachother in inboxes. However, if you have an nfs server based on Sun or Network Appliance, then you are ok. We have a Sun based NFS server exporting to several POP servers and a couple of SMTP server

Re: Kernel

On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Pat Hennessy wrote: > > >> cd /usr/src > > >> rm linux (this should remove the symbolic link) > > > > > >I would insert here: > > > > > >mkdir linux-2.1.93 > > >ln -s linux-2.1.93 linux > > > > > > > I'd rather do this: > > > > mv linux linux-2.1.93 > > ln -s linux-2.1.93

Re: Compiling Differences.

>-Original Message- >From: kgibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: maandag 6 april 1998 17:56 >Subject: Compiling Differences. >I sent this out earlier, I don't know if anybody noticed, but I'll >truncate the message this time. >I wrote a program in

NT 4.0 hoses Stanford, UNIX saves the day

Seems that NT 4.0 is responsible, at least in part, for a big snafu at Stanford Business School. Poor backup procedures contributed to the loss of years of work for various grad students. According to the San Jose Mercury article, the students who used Unix and Macintosh machines we're not

Re: Sendmail vs MS Exchange Server

> On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Larry Lade wrote: > > > >One concern I do have with a Linux-based email system is the relative > > >inability to do scanning for virii, trojan horses, etc... on the server. Check out http://www.cyber.com Their Vfind software claims to be able to scan your system for virii

Re: Advansys ABP940UW ?

Hello, Yes I am using an ABP940UW. The drivers for this latest card have not been integrated into the kernel source tree yet, so you will need to get the boot image from the Advansys website to be able to boot the machine and have this card recognized. Also, there is a new advansys.c file to repl

FW: Diald

> -Original Message- > From: Smith, Nathan A., Capt. > Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 1998 11:07 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Diald > > Hi again, > > I have one other question I would like to ask - I have set up diald on > my system, but whenever I try to start up somet

Test, please ignore

I love Netscape. Honest. Especially the mail client that makes my return address something random and meaningless. -- 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:

Re: Advansys ABP940UW ?

On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Jay Vassos-Libove wrote: > I see that Advansys (http://www.advansys.com/linux.htm) claims full > support for all of its products under Linux, and their ABP940UW (PCI bus, > fast/ultra, wide, single ended) SCSI controller is certainly priced well > (I found it at $127 from ww

DNS setup

Hi folks, I am trying to setup a DNS server for a small network I have at home. I am presently using the bind rpms included with Redhat 5.0. The first question is whether or not I should upgrade to Bind 8.0 (what would it buy me?) Secondly - I am having trouble setting up Bind 4.0. I get the

Sony screen

Hi all ! I want to buy a 17" Sony CPD 200GST. Can anybody tell me if i can use this in Redhat 5.0 ?? Can any screen be used in linux ?? Thanks ! -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-l

Can not get hostbyname.

When I try to run xlockmore, I get the following error: xlock: Can not get hostbyname. A search of dejanews, brought up an Italian email of the same probleml, but I don't read Italian very well. I am running the xlockmore that came with Redhat 5.0. THis system was a clean install of 5.0. Can

Re: handling lots of POP acounts

Told to us by Nils ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 11:09:24AM + > > You can simply add a line in /etc/passwd, with the shell set to /dev/null, > > and run 'passwd' as root to set the password in their passwd or shadow file. > > this will give them a mailbox but no shell accoun

Re: DNS setup

underscores ('_') are not allowed in hostnames --that's a lot of your problem...clean those up (change them to dashes ['-'] or soemthing) and see if your problem doesn't go away. Vinnie -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Epoch Internet "Connecting The World, One Business At A Time..

RE: burn my own cd

> I just downloaded Red Hat 5.0 and I wonder how to set up the three > structure to look like a original Red Hat cd ? > > I burned a cd recently but when i booted up, the installation program > didn't recognize my cd as a Red Hat and halted. > [PT] I've recently burned RH 5.0 for Int

Re: Setting up DNS

check out the dns howto.../usr/doc/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO -- it talks about setting up a caching name server, but changing that to a nameserver for a domain is nothing once it's set up. basically, the files you're worried about are /etc/named.boot (lists config info for named -- directory, hints file(ak

Re: RH4.2 User Guide: PS or SGML ???

> Sure, SGML, DVI, I don't care. Even ASCII!. Just would prefer > to have it all in one file. Try using "site exec locate " next time: /ftp/pub/redhat/redhat-4.2/Users-Guide/RHL-4.2-Users-Guide-HTML.tar.gz /ftp/pub/redhat/redhat-4.2/Users-Guide/RHL-4.2-Users-Guide.a4.ps.gz /ftp/

Re: dosemu

>Is it possible to use the dos emulator without booting from the >floppy? I >would like to try and run some old dos games from my hard drive(like xwing >or tie fighter). >Dan Hughes Just read the manual. It answers all your questions. Igmar -- PLEASE read the

handling lots of POP acounts

I'm going to set up POP accounts for above 200 different email accounts. As I see it, the normal way is to create a user account (with a non-shell shell if you know what I mean) which the popper daemon will use for password verification. I must admit I have reservations about creating so many use

Linux on NPR in about five minutes

Just heard them announce that they'll be interviewing some Linux people on NPR. If you know your station and want to listen, they'll be talking in a few minutes Jeff __ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeff Roberts [EMA

Re: Problem Installing RedHat Linux 5.0 for Intel

-Original Message- From: Weston D Pawlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: maandag 6 april 1998 3:45 Subject: Problem Installing RedHat Linux 5.0 for Intel >Hello, I just bought RedHat Linux 5.0 for Intel. I tri

Re: handling lots of POP acounts

> > On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Bug Hunter wrote: > > > > > You can simply add a line in /etc/passwd, with the shell set to > > /dev/null, > > > and run 'passwd' as root to set the password in their passwd or > > shadow file. > > > this will give them a mailbox but no shell account. What if you don't

Re: RAID and System Upgrades

On 8 Apr 1998, Eze Ogwuma wrote: > "Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 8 Apr 1998, Eze Ogwuma wrote: > > > partition. What I would like to know is what happens when a system > > > upgrade is done e.g. from RH4.2 -> 5.0 or 5.0->5.1. > > The only real "secret" is

Unable to find/exec

so I try to launch xbru and it tells me: Unable to find/exec bru executable - ABORTING it looks like it's there to me? -Erich - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCH

IMAPd/POP3 Service -- fix

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- It turns out that 'init q' was not enough to get ipop3d running after editing /etc/inetd.conf. I ended up rebooting the machine. -- Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Keys: -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: Memory utilization and swap on RH 5.0

> "edt" == Eugene Dale Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: edt> total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: edt> Mem: 65581056 17104896 48476160 20381696 2461696 8929280 edt> Swap:000 edt> MemTotal: 64044 kB edt> MemFree: 47340 kB edt> MemSh

Re: handling lots of POP acounts

You can simply add a line in /etc/passwd, with the shell set to /dev/null, and run 'passwd' as root to set the password in their passwd or shadow file. this will give them a mailbox but no shell account. bug Nils wrote: > I'm going to set up POP accounts for above 200 different email accoun

Re: Sendmail vs MS Exchange Server

> "Pat" == Pat Hennessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pat> On 8 Apr 1998, James Youngman wrote: >> Mail delivery to NFS-mounted volumes is a risky business and wisely >> widely avoided. Pat> just delivery or retrieval too?? Mainly delivery. The problem is that it's all too easy to h

Re: 386 w/ 4MB Ram, can do?

> > in this classroom are a bunch of assorted 386's, w/ mostly 4mb's of ram, a > > 40 to couple hundred meg hd, etc. Can I install linux on these? I wouldn't > > in 4MB of RAM. It is very full featured and has Wordstar and Emacs You can get 4MB RAM for around $5.00 now (pricewatch.com). Probab

Re: More Questions

Jumpin' in > > The best way is to use your .Xdefaults and .Xclients files to set the > > default fonts to larger sizes, then bump up your resolution. > > I tried this resetting of font sizes and it did abslolutely nothing. > Does anyone have a sample line from these files which does change

Re: Netware vs. Linux

> In the month or two I've been on this list (ditto when I was monitoring some > comp.os.linux.* groups), I have yet to see (so far as I can recall) any > comparisons of Linux to Netware. So if you're reasonably familiar with both: > how do the two compare? Does Netware have any strong points in c

Re: RH4.2 User Guide: PS or SGML ???

> > > > Can anyone tell me where I can get a PostScript version of the > > RedHat 4.2 User Guide? > > I see on RedHat's website they have the 5.0 User Guide in PostScript > > and HTML, but the 4.2 version is only in HTML. > > I actually don't think it exists. If not, you can grab the sgml vers

Re: Inetd problem? - HELP!!!

If you have an "official" readhat 4.1 or 4.2 cdrom, you can get the binary of inetd off of the cdrom and copy it to your hard drive, then kill inetd and restart it. also look for /etc/inetd.conf and make sure it is in good shape. from that point on, I would compare ls, login, telnet, b

videocard sorte, mousebumper makes prototype

This bit...a post feeling the ground of experiences; I've bought (rather cheaply ;) a tektronix fixed-scan monitor. There's a couple of ways of driving these things...or so I'm led to believe. 1> Build your own sync_on_green generator (just gates the h/v-sync onto the green line), and try and f

Re: handling lots of POP acounts

On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Bug Hunter wrote: > You can simply add a line in /etc/passwd, with the shell set to /dev/null, > and run 'passwd' as root to set the password in their passwd or shadow file. > this will give them a mailbox but no shell account. I'd set /bin/passwd (or whereever it may be)

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