Re: large 8.3GB drives?

1998-04-20 Thread Skylord
>>You haven't had the "Full Body Shudder"(tm) until you hear the >>"clank,clank,clank,etc..." a WD drive makes when it goes to find >>the never,never land >>(I can recognize a dying WD in the dark) > >Hey, that is exactly the sound it made when my WD died. I've always thought of WD as a qual

RH5 Time Problems

1998-04-20 Thread W. Bryan Caudle
Is anyone out there having problems with system clock on RH5? I am consistently having problems with time being 4 hours behind or ahead. I set the timezone and the time on the motherboard to the correct time, and date produces correct output. However, utilities such as mrtg, web counter/date sc

Re: large 8.3GB drives?

1998-04-20 Thread James F. Versyp
I tried to use 3 different Maxtor 8.4 Gbyte drives with Windows 95 and all of them were bad. Something strange would happen after messing with the partition tables and they would never work correctly after that. I either got into a bad lot or there's something wrong with Maxtor's 8.4 Gb drives.

Re: printing from Linux to Appletalk printer

1998-04-20 Thread Fred Whipple
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello, > > I just finished reading the Printing HOWTO and searching Usenet for an > answer to this question. Needless to say, I did not find a suitable answer. > > Is there anyone out there that is successfully printing from a Linux box to > a shared Mac printer? Yes.

Re: large 8.3GB drives?

1998-04-20 Thread Vidiot
>You haven't had the "Full Body Shudder"(tm) until you hear the >"clank,clank,clank,etc..." a WD drive makes when it goes to find >the never,never land >(I can recognize a dying WD in the dark) Hey, that is exactly the sound it made when my WD died. MB -- System Administrator - Finnigan FT/

Re: KDE Beta4 + RedHat 5.0

1998-04-20 Thread David E. Fox
> libc6 version that RH 5.0 requires.. nobody can find the libc6 version > as of 3:30pm EST April 20th.. I guess it'll take a few days to get out > to the mirror sites. It's still not there (as of perhaps two or so hours ago PDT) on ftp.kde. org. All I saw were some source RPMs, but they were inc

Re: large 8.3GB drives?

1998-04-20 Thread Rick L. Mantooth
I have to agree here. We have ~70-75 Gateway machines in our office with WD drives. I/we have replaced 11 of them in the last 45 days. Guess what, the 3 year warranty is up in August! Anyway, I run Maxtors here at home with absolutely no trouble at all. (Except that W95 can't handle the 4.3s')

Re: large 8.3GB drives?

1998-04-20 Thread Chris \"Cranky Spice\" Harshman
> >I think I found the problem.. I personally have had nothing but bad > >luck with Maxtor... take it back and spend the extra money for Western > >Digital or IBM. I don't want to start a holy war, but here's my recent experiences with Maxtor and Western Digital. I had two drives crash within a

Re: large 8.3GB drives?

1998-04-20 Thread W. Bryan Caudle
Yes, I have a Maxtor 8.4 gig drive, probably the same model as you, on a news server we are running. I do get the timeout errors as follows: Apr 19 08:34:06 sulu kernel: hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } Apr 19 08:34:06 sulu kernel: hda: disabled DMA Apr 19 08:34:06 sulu kernel: ide0: reset:

Re: users do not login

1998-04-20 Thread Billy Bushong - Concord, NH
-Original Message- From: Dave Ihnat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, April 20, 1998 22:21 PM Subject: Re: users do not login >Not to criticize; just pointing out that the "0:0" is not permissions; it's >the user and group ID. This is important

Re: Intel Celeron Processor

1998-04-20 Thread Brent Maney
The performance is about equal to a 233 P5.Spend the extra $70 for a regular 266. Brent George Toft wrote: > Anybody know _if_ this processor will run Linux, > and what kind of performance it might provide? > > Info: > http://www.intel.com/celeron/index.htm > > Pricing: > http://www.intel.co

What RPM's to update, etc...

1998-04-20 Thread Chuck Carson
I have completely con*$#@ my system installing various rpm's both from the contrib and redhat directories. I have since reinstalled from scratch. (I originally screwed everything up trying to install gcc 2.8 and then the jdk) Anyways, of the rpm's in the 'redhat' directory (not contrib), which sh

Intel Celeron Processor

1998-04-20 Thread George Toft
Anybody know _if_ this processor will run Linux, and what kind of performance it might provide? Info: http://www.intel.com/celeron/index.htm Pricing: http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/dp041598.htm George -- MSID:04091998 -- Microsoft Independence Day No MS Windows, No MS Office,

Re: large 8.3GB drives?

1998-04-20 Thread Vidiot
>Ulrich Czekalla wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I was just wondering if linux has general problems handling large drives. >> I have a maxtor 8.3GB drive and I keep getting seek timeout errors and my > ^^ > >I think I found the problem.. I personally have had nothing but bad >luck with Max

%%[ LastPage ]%% suppression

1998-04-20 Thread Chris \"Cranky Spice\" Harshman
Greetings. I've got a server setup running RedHat Linux 5.0 and have a HP LaserJet 5L printer (local) configured using the print-tool control panel. I print to it from the RedHat machine, a few Macintoshes (Netatalk, using the Laserjet IINT PPD), and a few Windows 95 workstations (Samba, using

Re: Hey! What happened to netscape-dynMotif?

1998-04-20 Thread edgar
"Herisanu Nicolae" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What version of Netscape are you using? Sorry. I seem to have sacrificed the virgin of clarity on the altar of impatience. Eschew obfuscation, that's what I always say. Ahem. Sorry. Once upon a time, I had downloaded Communicator 4.02 from Netsc

2.0.32 kernel problem: general protection 1018

1998-04-20 Thread W. Bryan Caudle
I am currently running RedHat 5.0 with kernel 2.0.32 on an Intel Pentium 233MMX with 128 MB of RAM, Adaptec 2940U PCI scsi controller, 3com 3c905 PCI NIC, and multiple SCSI and IDE drives. The problem I am having started after upfrading from RH4.2 to 5.0, but it also was happening when I upgraded

Custom boot disk for AIC-7895

1998-04-20 Thread Braden N. McDaniel
I have an Intel DK440LX motherboard with an on-board AIC-7895 SCSI controller. The boot disk for RH5 (made from the image on the CD) does not recognize the controller, and thus I cannot install Linux. Might anyone have a custom boot disk that includes the updated driver for this chip? Prismatic B

Re: users do not login

1998-04-20 Thread Dave Ihnat
Billy Bushong - Concord, NH wrote: > Add the following line to your passwd file: > > user1::0:0:test user:/root:/bin/bash >... > If that works, change the permissions (That's the 0:0 part) to something a > lot higher ... Not to criticize; just pointing out that the "0:0" is not permissions; it's

Re: users do not login

1998-04-20 Thread Billy Bushong - Concord, NH
>Simply nothing. The same message appears on the screen:"Not directory >/home/user1" >I tried to create a directory /user1 to make sure that the problem >is not with only /home and change corresponding part in the >passwd file, but the problem persists. Good call on the creation of the /user1 di

Re: Default Printer other than lp

1998-04-20 Thread Seif Zadeh Hossein
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Dale E Anglin wrote: > Upon installing RH5, I configured my first and only printer with a name > other than 'lp' (which matches our other systems in our network). > > When I invoke some command such as 'ls | lpr', I receive the following message: > lpr: lp: unknown pri

Re: Slowness w/ large passwd file

1998-04-20 Thread Kelley L.
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Rich Burroughs wrote: > I've been seeing a kind of weird problem with a new RH5 server that I > recently built. It's using a fairly large passwd file (close to 11,000 > lines), and when I put that file in place things really slow down on the > box. Logins take up to several

Re: crt1.o

1998-04-20 Thread Kevin Ng
Thanks, but I found out that the crt1.o-file didn't excist on my system. Correct, otherwise you won't be triying to install it in the 1st place. have tried to install the libc-devel-package, but I got an error message wich said that it was missing kernel-headers(?). Exactly! rpm is telling you

Internet via RH 5.0

1998-04-20 Thread Ivan Jose Varzinczak
I am using Red Hat 5.0 and just recently I got access to internet from my house. I never play attention to the details of linux configuration to the internet, so I had used it from the university. Now that I have the possibility of access the web from my machine, I would like to configure the lin

Re: users do not login

1998-04-20 Thread Ivan Jose Varzinczak
Billy Bushong - Concord, NH wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Ivan Jose Varzinczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: ivan jose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sunday, April 19, 1998 19:46 PM > Subject: Re: users do not login > > Ok... I've watched this

Re: libgif needed by kde, where?

1998-04-20 Thread Fred W. Noltie Jr.
From: Chris Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To install the graphics rpm of kde I need libgif.so.2...where can I get an >rpm for this? I looked in contrib at redhat but didn't see anything... I'm not in Linux at the moment :-( but I think you can get it either of two ways: check the libgr rpm, which

__register_frame_info undefined

1998-04-20 Thread bwoodard
Anyone ever figured this one out before? Ever since I upgraded to the glibc-2.0.7 rpms. I have been having trouble with certain programs which I compile with egcs. ./fetchmail: error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol: __register_frame_info It seems that something is going wrong

Apache setup

1998-04-20 Thread Dan Hughes
Hello, I am currently setting up a webserver on my college campus. I was wondering if anyone knew what the"Servername" of the httpd.conf file did. Also I was wondering if anyone knew where the name of the computer you were running went (for example localhost).

Re: Netscape 4.04 problem

1998-04-20 Thread Bill Nottingham
Andy Moskoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Has anybody had netscape 4.04 crash when downloading a particular web > page? I was trying to visit www.siskel-ebert.com and the thing just barfed. > Appreciate it if someone would verify this. Thanks. See if you've got a file called 'libnullplugin.so' in

Netscape 4.04 problem

1998-04-20 Thread Andy Moskoff
Has anybody had netscape 4.04 crash when downloading a particular web page? I was trying to visit www.siskel-ebert.com and the thing just barfed. Appreciate it if someone would verify this. Thanks. -- Andy Moskoff

RedHat 5.0 install & Cyrix

1998-04-20 Thread CyberMan
I'm trying to install Redhat 5.0 on a Cyrix PR150+, but the system hangs after some time (not always in the same place). I have a i430VX motherboard with 16Mb EDO RAM. I have tried to install RedHat 4.1 and it works fine, the instalation procedure finishes properly and everything

Re: bz2 format?

1998-04-20 Thread Stelios Bounanos
> I think in ftp.redhat.com in the contrib directory you will find an rpm called > bzip and anopther called bzip2. Grab these and install them > You can then use the command bunzip2 to decompress them > Phil > Matt Stevenson wrote: > > > I know this is something I must have just missed, but I've

Re: bz2 format?

1998-04-20 Thread Ray Curtis
> "ms" == Matt Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ms> I know this is something I must have just missed, but I've downloaded a ms> few files in BZ format (not tar.gz, but tar.bz, or tar.bz2) how the heck ms> do you uncompress them? I've tried gunzip, uncompress, and tar.. no ms> luck! Che

Re: Default Printer other than lp

1998-04-20 Thread Rick L. Mantooth
Dale, I'd make it easy on yourself ;) Change the line for your printer and add lp| to the beginning: lp|myprinter|whatever:\ My thoughts only, Rick On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Dale E Anglin wrote: > Hi, > > Upon installing RH5, I configured my first and only printer with a name > other than 'lp' (wh

FW: W98 Crashes at Comdex

1998-04-20 Thread Beth Gemeny
Hey all; Check out http://www.washingtonpost.com it is front page news. Beth Gemeny SysAdmin HHN.com "...For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market, is a nation that is af

Re: W98 Crashes at Comdex

1998-04-20 Thread nimennor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Finally According to Dairin Mckay: > > If you haven't heard, apparently Bill Gates was trying to demo Win98, > the latest upgrade, at the Comdex Spring Computer Show, and it crashed on > him in front of everyone. The story is on most of the majo

rvplayer 5.0 problem accessing internet files

1998-04-20 Thread Jeff Corwin
I'm attempting to get rvplayer 5.0 working on my P6 based system. I have RealAudio installed in /usr, its in my path, it's world readable and executable, and it plays local files opened with the rvplayer file menu without any problem. However, I cannot get it to play any files from the internet. I

Re: Fetchmail

1998-04-20 Thread John J. Donohue
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Of course this is off-topic, but I'm stuck and this is THE list for info. I > am using RH 5.0 in a Novell 3.12 environment, and I get this error when I > try to get my email: > > fetchmail: IMAP connection to m14007.wellsfargo.com failed: host is un

Re: Setting up Linux for dialup.

1998-04-20 Thread Dan Cyr
http://www.valleynet.bc.ca/~dan/autoppp.html The page itself is a mess (it's being worked on) but if dialin ppp access is what you want, that's how to do it. Dan At 09:21 PM 4/20/98 +0200, Anthony E. Greene wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >At 12:35 4/20/98 -0500, Cory T. Lamb wro

Re: bz2 format?

1998-04-20 Thread Phil Risby
I think in ftp.redhat.com in the contrib directory you will find an rpm called bzip and anopther called bzip2. Grab these and install them You can then use the command bunzip2 to decompress them Phil Matt Stevenson wrote: > I know this is something I must have just missed, but I've downloaded a >

using control-function keys in emacs

1998-04-20 Thread Roger Miller
Emacs tells me that the command "beginning-of-buffer" is bound to the Control-Home key. However it appears that Emacs never sees control, shift, etc. modified function keys. Pressing Control-Home runs whatever is bound to Home. I think I need to modify my key map, but I don't see how. Help?

Re: Cards for terminals

1998-04-20 Thread Steve Glines
Check out www.cyclades.com for great multi cards. SG Sean Winters wrote: > What card is needed to connect "dumb terminals" to a Linux box? > > Also, what is a good source for purchasing the cards and terminals? > > Thanks! > > Sean Winters > > -- > PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata an

Mysterious web server crashes

1998-04-20 Thread I. Dwayne Koonce
Our web server has crashed three times in as many days, and I'm having some trouble tracking down the cause. The machine is a Pentium 233 running RedHat 5 with most of the errata applied, and a 2.0.33 kernel patched to allow 1024 open fd's per process (so apache can keep logfiles open for all our

printing from Linux to Appletalk printer

1998-04-20 Thread bsc
hello, I just finished reading the Printing HOWTO and searching Usenet for an answer to this question. Needless to say, I did not find a suitable answer. Is there anyone out there that is successfully printing from a Linux box to a shared Mac printer? I examined the Netatalk docs and they don't

NFS Problems...

1998-04-20 Thread Keith von Borstel
Hello... During installation, after preparing all hda partitions, RH 5.0 sez, "mount failed: Invalid argument" Most likely a problem with the way I configured the NFS filesystem (by selecting "Add NFS" from Disk Druid). NFS Server : linus-nfs NFS Path : /usr/

kernel-modules package

1998-04-20 Thread Greg Cornell
Hi, I tried to update the kernel-modules package. I used 'rpm -Uvh kernel-modules-2.0.32-3.i386.rpm'. Now I have two packages installed. When I execute 'rpm -q kernel-modules', I get: kernel-modules-2.0.32-2 kernel-modules-2.0.32-3 If I execute 'rpm -e kernel-modules-2.0.32-2', I get: You cann

Re: Converting WebServer to WorkStation( Advice Needed)

1998-04-20 Thread John Kennedy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Jay for the advice. On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Jay Daniels wrote: > > > > I have a 486 PC with Redhat 4.2 installed which I had previously used as > > a webserver. I am trying to decide whether I can convert it to a > > workstation (w/ dialup to a natio

Re: Remote Login

1998-04-20 Thread Keith von Borstel
Stephen Zedalis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thanks for the pointers. Probably the best solution is to create a special super user with the permissions I need (mostly would be convenient with FTP). Keith ___ ~ Keith - http://foothill.net/~keithvbe-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: KDE Beta4 + RedHat 5.0

1998-04-20 Thread bsc
Sorry I was unclear on this. I am currently using KDE Beta 3, I have not yet ftp'd and installed 4. I agree with your statement about why your install is not working -- I'm sure a libc6 version will be along shortly. Blair. On Mon, Apr 20, 1998 at 03:39:03PM -0400, Matt Stevenson wrote: > So wa

Slowness w/ large passwd file

1998-04-20 Thread Rich Burroughs
I've been seeing a kind of weird problem with a new RH5 server that I recently built. It's using a fairly large passwd file (close to 11,000 lines), and when I put that file in place things really slow down on the box. Logins take up to several seconds when the server is basically idle, and it see

Re: large 8.3GB drives?

1998-04-20 Thread Keith Schoenefeld
Ulrich Czekalla wrote: > > Hi, > > I was just wondering if linux has general problems handling large drives. > I have a maxtor 8.3GB drive and I keep getting seek timeout errors and my ^^ I think I found the problem.. I personally have had nothing but bad luck with Maxtor... tak

Re: redhat-digest Digest V98 #130----------

1998-04-20 Thread jayell
<---snip---> X-Mailer: MR/2 Internet Cruiser Edition for OS/2 v1.40 From: Michael Jinks To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: recipient.list.not.shown Subject: $LD_LIBRARY_PATH? Date: Saturday, 18 April 1998 6:44AM >From the archives, I found what might be a solution to the glibc-never-compiles problem. M

libgif needed by kde, where?

1998-04-20 Thread Chris Frost
To install the graphics rpm of kde I need libgif.so.2...where can I get an rpm for this? I looked in contrib at redhat but didn't see anything... Chris <- Visit Me At http://home.hiwaay.net/~jfrost -> <-- For My Public PGP Key Visit http://home.hiwaay.net/~jfrost/pgp_key.txt --> -- PLEASE r

Re: pcAnywhere type application

1998-04-20 Thread Mike Bridge
The address for VNC is: http://www.orl.co.uk/vnc/ It seems they've updated the documentation for X Windows this last week on their site. -Mike > I have been told that pcAnywhere express will run under Netscape in Linux, but > the package I downloaded was aimed at a DOS machine (lots of DLL's,

Re: redhat-digest Digest V98 #133

1998-04-20 Thread Phil Risby
I am assuming this refers to my earlier blunder in sending the libXPM file to list and not to the recipient personally I have made a few private apologies and do so again publically Honestly I forgot to change the automated reply to field that always comes up as this list. My intention was to send

RE: RedHat 5.0 install sucks

1998-04-20 Thread Trenton D. Adams
If I had had a larger HD to install on, I am sure I wouldn't have had any problems. However, I only have 100 megs set aside from my 2g, and 270 megs for a another HD. And my root is on the 270 meg HD. It doesn't seem to want to upgrade all that well. I did a total reinstall. I don't know why,

W98 Crashes at Comdex

1998-04-20 Thread Dairin Mckay
If you haven't heard, apparently Bill Gates was trying to demo Win98, the latest upgrade, at the Comdex Spring Computer Show, and it crashed on him in front of everyone. The story is on most of the major news sites including the Washington Post, entitled "Windows (Ooops!) 98". Rather embarrass

Default Printer other than lp

1998-04-20 Thread Dale E Anglin
Hi, Upon installing RH5, I configured my first and only printer with a name other than 'lp' (which matches our other systems in our network). When I invoke some command such as 'ls | lpr', I receive the following message: lpr: lp: unknown printer I can set the PRINTER environment variab

Re: Where to get kde

1998-04-20 Thread Phil Risby
Go to www.kde.org and look under mirrors or if you cant get into their site at all try ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/Incoming/ Phil Chris Frost wrote: > Where can I get glibc rpm's of beta 4 for kde? Their site is completely > dead! > > Thanks, > Chris > <- Visit Me At http://home.hiwaay.net/~j

Re: expect / password automation

1998-04-20 Thread Rich Burroughs
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I apologize for not reading your original post so I don't know if this will > address your problem. I too could not get autopasswd to work until I > implemented a small pause in the expect script. Try adding: > > pause 2 > > after each entry of `ex

BRU/PE shipped with RH 5.0

1998-04-20 Thread Rich Shepard
OK. Here we go. The "official" boxed set of RH 5.0 comes with BRU2000 personal edition. No docs, except a couple of README files and the equivalent of a man page. I downloaded all the online docs for the vendor, but they assume that the drive is visible to the kernel. The software is device i

Re: RAM

1998-04-20 Thread Rich Shepard
At 02:27 PM 4/20/98 -0400, you wrote: > Quick question this time: When I installed RH 4.2, I didn't specify >any memory, but the system I installed onto has 128MB RAM. When I did a >"free", I get a Mem of 63204 and a Swap of 102812. Am I missing something >here? Do I have to set somethi

Re: Xfree86 3.3.2 rpms for RH 5.0?

1998-04-20 Thread Rich Shepard
At 02:12 PM 4/20/98 -0400, you wrote: >Just wondering if anyone has located .rpm's of the new and improved >Xfree! Yes. I went to S.u.S.E.'s web server and it had a link to xfree86.org. The new servers come in three flavors: the mach chip series, the accelerated chip series (such as the Diam

bz2 format?

1998-04-20 Thread Matt Stevenson
I know this is something I must have just missed, but I've downloaded a few files in BZ format (not tar.gz, but tar.bz, or tar.bz2) how the heck do you uncompress them? I've tried gunzip, uncompress, and tar.. no luck! Matt -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST A

Sendmail and virtualusertables

1998-04-20 Thread Doug Elznic
Hello, I recently uncommented the relevant virtusertable lines from my sendmail.cf file. after restarting sendmail i got the following errors: [root@ian /etc]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail start Starting sendmail: sendmail 554 /etc/sendmail.cf: line 146: readcf: map virtuser : class dbm not availab

Cards for terminals

1998-04-20 Thread Sean Winters
What card is needed to connect "dumb terminals" to a Linux box? Also, what is a good source for purchasing the cards and terminals? Thanks! Sean Winters -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips

Netscape and Fonts

1998-04-20 Thread Brian Landers
I'm having a bit of a problem with Netscape Communicator 4.05 and XFree86 on RedHat 5.0. Frequently, I get a largbe popup window (containing output from stderr I believe) that says: Warning: Name: Text Class: XmTextField Character 'h' not supported in font. Discarded. Warning: Name:

Re: Xfree86 3.3.2 rpms for RH 5.0?

1998-04-20 Thread Kelley L.
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Eric Wood wrote: > Just wondering if anyone has located .rpm's of the new and improved > Xfree! > > I here is finally has a DefaultColorDepth option. Finally. > > -Eric Wood > I am using the one's located at ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/home/wanger/XFree86 , they went

Re: Remote Login

1998-04-20 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 10:28 4/20/98 -0700, Keith von Borstel wrote: >Hi... > >I can login to Linux 5.0 with FTP and TelNet as a user but... > > How can I login via FTP as "root"? Try removing root from /etc/ftpusers. There may be more required but this is not genearally a good id

Re: Setting up Linux for dialup.

1998-04-20 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 12:35 4/20/98 -0500, Cory T. Lamb wrote: >Hello, >at my college we have ppp in all of the buildings except dorms. We have a >limited supply of dialup lines. So I was wondering if there is a good way >to setup a 386 on the ethernet network and then dial into

Re: Still trying to get default Redhat desktop back..

1998-04-20 Thread Jil Tardiff
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Michael Jinks wrote: > > !! Don't do that! > > [pointless irrelevant aside: having come to Linux via 95/NT fairly recently, I > used to re-install frequently; now my challenge to myself is to see how many > problems I can fix without even rebooting or, if I'm really fee

Fetchmail

1998-04-20 Thread fontep
Of course this is off-topic, but I'm stuck and this is THE list for info. I am using RH 5.0 in a Novell 3.12 environment, and I get this error when I try to get my email: fetchmail: IMAP connection to m14007.wellsfargo.com failed: host is unknown fetchmail: POP3 connection to m14007.wellsfargo.co

Re: RAM

1998-04-20 Thread Vidiot
>Greetings again, All > Quick question this time: When I installed RH 4.2, I didn't specify >any memory, but the system I installed onto has 128MB RAM. When I did a >"free", I get a Mem of 63204 and a Swap of 102812. Am I missing something >here? Do I have to set something to utilize

RE: Need Recomendation - inexp. SCSI card

1998-04-20 Thread Northrup, Wilson
try Qlogic. www.qlc.com > -- > From: Beth Gemeny[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 20, 1998 1:54 PM > To: 'RedHat List' > Subject: FW: Need Recomendation - inexp. SCSI card > > > Once again I must extol the virtue of

Re: Netscape install in redhat 5.0

1998-04-20 Thread Chuck Carson
Try ./ns-install If this fixes the problem, you need to add the CWD to your path. Append a :. to the end of your path. For bash, add this to your .bahrc file PATH=$PATH:. export PATH CC -Original Message- From: Mccorkle Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTE

large 8.3GB drives?

1998-04-20 Thread Ulrich Czekalla
Hi, I was just wondering if linux has general problems handling large drives. I have a maxtor 8.3GB drive and I keep getting seek timeout errors and my whole systems crashes. It's a new drive and any scan for errors turns up empty. So, is linux's handling of large drives buggy, i.e. has anyone el

Re: AHA1520B Install of RH 5

1998-04-20 Thread John Golovich
I have always found that the best way to determine what the driver for the SCSI and Ethernet card being used (as well as things like irq and mem address) boot up with a slackware scsinet.s boot disk. I usually do this, write down the results then finish my RedHat install. -- PLEASE read

Re: KDE Beta4 + RedHat 5.0

1998-04-20 Thread Matt Stevenson
So wait, you have a working KDE beta 3 or beta 4?? I believe the problem I'm getting is because I installed the libc5 version not the libc6 version that RH 5.0 requires.. nobody can find the libc6 version as of 3:30pm EST April 20th.. I guess it'll take a few days to get out to the mirror sites.

Re: redhat-digest Digest V98 #133

1998-04-20 Thread Tony Preston
Wouldn't it be a good idea to give a person a pointer to the location of a rather large file(at least large for an email message base64 encoded) then to send the file to umpteen zillion people in a mailing list...:) If there are 500 people in this list, only 1 needed the file, not the other 499.

Re: Passwd file problem

1998-04-20 Thread adam
On 20 Apr, Alfonso Barreto Lopez wrote: > For some reason my passwd file is empty and I cant login as root, how can > I resolve this problem? > Thanks a lot... Boot off of a rescue disk, mount the root partition, and reconstruct /etc/passwd. If you need step by step instruction

Re: Remote Login

1998-04-20 Thread adam
On 20 Apr, Keith von Borstel wrote: > Hi... > > I can login to Linux 5.0 with FTP and TelNet as a user but... > > How can I login via FTP as "root"? > > Can I TelNet in as "root" or must I login as a normal > user then "su" + password to get root priviledges? You cannot do either a

Re: Passwd file problem

1998-04-20 Thread Abandon_All_Hope
> For some reason my passwd file is empty and I cant login as root, how can > I resolve this problem? > Thanks a lot... What do you mean? What is empty. The whole file, just passwd's what. Can anyone log in? Can you su to root? Do you have a backup of the /etc/passwd. Can you replace /etc/passwd

Re: SECURITY: Kernel updates

1998-04-20 Thread Owen Gray
Thanks to David and Adam for responding to my question. I found that rpm -ivh kernel-2.0.32-3.i386.rpm followed by rpm -e kernel-2.0.32-2.i386.rpm did what I wanted, i.e., upgraded the 2.0.32 kernel without interfering with the 2.0.31 kernel I still had o

Remote Printing from Non-Linux host

1998-04-20 Thread GBNSCHBACH
I am printing to a RH 5.0 host from a SCO box. The printer is an okidata dot matrix. I pauses in the middle of a print job for up to 5 seconds, then finishes. I wonder if this is SCO specific. It might be a SCO thing. It can take a while to get a job to print. I am going to remove an

PCI questions

1998-04-20 Thread Michael Jinks
I have a RH5 machine which contains a brand-new Mylex Flashpoint PCI-SCSI card. It works just fine using the BusLogic drivers. But my boss is being a scrooge about ordering cables for it, so sometimes I have to switch in a different BusLogic card, also a PCI, and this one also works, but when it

Read: redhat-digest Digest V98 #124

1998-04-20 Thread Meffan, Rob
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Read: redhat-digest Digest V98 #123

1998-04-20 Thread Meffan, Rob
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SAR?

1998-04-20 Thread Steve Frank
Is there a place I can get sar, or is there a better non-Xwindows utilitiy available for checking loads, etc.. on RH5? 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-lists To u

RE: Help: telneting inbound via a ppp connection

1998-04-20 Thread Rob Goodwin
Hi there, thanks for your reply. All that you mention checks out fine. perhaps I wasn't clear in my original post or I misunderstand what you are getting at. IP forwarding is working fine. I've setup PC's on the hub with 192.168.1.1 as their gateway. when i pull up a browser and request http

Where to get kde

1998-04-20 Thread Chris Frost
Where can I get glibc rpm's of beta 4 for kde? Their site is completely dead! Thanks, Chris <- Visit Me At http://home.hiwaay.net/~jfrost -> <-- For My Public PGP Key Visit http://home.hiwaay.net/~jfrost/pgp_key.txt --> -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHI

imlib help

1998-04-20 Thread Herisanu Nicolae
I found this Window Manager, Enlightenment. It requires Imlib. I tried to compile it but: make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory '/kituri/imlib' Making all in Imlib make[2]: Entering directory '/kituri/imlib/Imlib' make[2]: *** No rule to make target '/usr/include/gnu/stubs.h', needed bt

PPP Problem

1998-04-20 Thread Herisanu Nicolae
I have an ungly ppp problem. After I'm connected, (got my username & passw ) i can't get a ppp conection. I also reinstalled RedHat 4.2, pppd, recompiled the kernel. ... nothing. Here's /var/log/messages Apr 20 17:49:29 localhost kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of C

XForms Problem

1998-04-20 Thread Herisanu Nicolae
I recently got xisp. It requires Xforms-0.88. Got that. I tried to install XForms-0.88, but when i compile it (make) _ gcc -O -s freedraw.o -o freedraw -L../FORMS -lforms -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lm ../FORMS/libforms.so: file not reconized: File format not reconized _- Ever

Re: TOTAL Weirdness

1998-04-20 Thread Herisanu Nicolae
I had this problem once with my DX2/66 It had a VLB arhitecture. It seemed to be a bug in the usage of cash memory with Linux,NT,etc. (any 32-bit working program). I disabled the cash memory and it worked. Have you changed something lately ( hardware )? Alex mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Origin

Re: Hey! What happened to netscape-dynMotif?

1998-04-20 Thread Herisanu Nicolae
What version of Netscape are you using? Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 20 aprilie, 1998 01:38 Subject: Hey! What happened to netscape-dynMotif? >Like, I *need* this, man. Half the pag

Re: Setting up Linux for dialup.

1998-04-20 Thread Michael Jinks
You need ppp, which turns a modem connection into a network connection. There's a ppp howto; for now, read that, concentrating on the server section (which is buried fairly deep into the document). Once you've read that, if you still have questions, come on back. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat F

Re: Help: telneting inbound via a ppp connection

1998-04-20 Thread Michael Jinks
Usually this is an IP-forwarding problem; I don't know why the ppp howto doesn't tell you that you need to have IP forwarding compiled into the kernel AND ENABLED on the startup (or whenever you plan to use ppp or any other service that forwards IP). Even if IP forwarding isn't enabled, you shoul

Re: Remote Login

1998-04-20 Thread Stephen Zedalis
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Keith von Borstel wrote: > How can I login via FTP as "root"? You can't. Unless you change the default setup. > Can I TelNet in as "root" or must I login as a normal > user then "su" + password to get root priviledges? Same, you can't in the default setup. Your use of

Re: pcAnywhere type application

1998-04-20 Thread Michael Jinks
I have been told that pcAnywhere express will run under Netscape in Linux, but the package I downloaded was aimed at a DOS machine (lots of DLL's, EXE's and other bullshit like that) so needless to say it didn't work for me. It should though; the whole point of Java is not to care which machine i

RAM

1998-04-20 Thread Karl Miller
Greetings again, All Quick question this time: When I installed RH 4.2, I didn't specify any memory, but the system I installed onto has 128MB RAM. When I did a "free", I get a Mem of 63204 and a Swap of 102812. Am I missing something here? Do I have to set something to utilize all

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