Re: IPC- what and when

1998-04-30 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Pankaj Kumar R wrote: i know that one can choose from Messg queue, Shared mem, Semaphore opn, (std ipc) or create unix domain socket or a socket stream. Well, obviously which one you need depends on what you are going to do with it. My personal preference is domain

Re: hacked!

1998-04-30 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Kevin W. Reed wrote: What exactly is "lots of evil stuff" It is definitely evil stuff and not the usual mysterious looking but harmless things that shells tend to collect. In this case it is smurfing attacks. There's also another "mystery process" running which I

Re: RH5.1 - not when, but WHAT?

1998-04-30 Thread Differential Form
On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Dave Wreski wrote: I'm not worried about stability per se. I'm worried about the upgrade process screwing things up. I've heard that the upgrade process is not transparent, in the sense that packages get updated and the amount of tweaking to get the installation

Re: Newbie: Partition setup, Etc...

1998-04-30 Thread Dave Wreski
I just got my RH5.0 CD yesterday, and quickly started installing. It seemed to go quite well at first, but I cannot get Metro-X or XFree either one to load. Upon inspection of log files and things those files pointed to, I think I am missing many files, and that this is due to running out

Re: hacked!

1998-04-30 Thread William T Wilson
On 30 Apr 1998, James Youngman wrote: wtw tcpd was replaced with a trojan one. Ouch. That's an easy problem to fix. The RPM database is what I'm concerned about, since it contains the MD5 information in the first place. Does anyone know a way to compare the MD5 of an installed package

Re: Micro$oft declaring war?

1998-04-30 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Drachen wrote: I know zilch about PnP as you can probably tell. What does it take for Linux to work with that stuff? in my experience, taking it out of PnP mode and hand configuring it. You can't do this with all cards, though.. The isapnptools (on sunsite, I

Re: Micro$oft declaring war?

1998-04-30 Thread Chris Frost
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Drachen wrote: For what it's worth, The current version of NT does not support pnp... Also, the next version "Which will support pnp," will only do so if you have a computer w/ the new power management stuff (no procducts even use it yet!), fwiw. Chris - Visit Me At

Re: Conflict Tac_plus (Sekou)

1998-04-30 Thread David A. Edwards
Sekou, This is kind of beyond the scope of the list, but here is what I did to get tac_plus.3.0.12.alpha to complile on RH 5.0: -- 1) Makefile changes: diff Makefile~ Makefile 40c40 # OSLIBS=-lcrypt

Re: Micro$oft declaring war?

1998-04-30 Thread Chris \Cranky Spice\ Harshman
I'm using an el-cheapo D-Link DE220 ($29 ISA PnP ethernet card from CompUSA) with Linux, no problem. ISAPNP configured it correctly, then it was a simple matter to modprobe in the ne.o module (the card's a NE2000 clone) in with the i/o port and irq values specified by ISAPNP. Works flawlessly.

Re: GIMP scambles saved images

1998-04-30 Thread Stefan Volker
If you save images in anything but native GIMP format (xcf) only the currently active layer will be saved. Therefore, to save an image in a non-native format you need to merge all layers into one layer, make that layer the active layer and then save the image. Hope this helps, Stefan -

Re: why shouldn't rmail be in /bin

1998-04-30 Thread Dave Wreski
man rmail says that rmail should not be in /bin. Why not... Hmm.. Don't exactly know why the man page states that, but typically binaries that the superuser uses are stored in /bin. Normal users use /usr/bin, which is where that should go. Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips,

Re: yy - help !!!!!!!

1998-04-30 Thread Rick L. Mantooth
Did you by chance install a copy of StarOffice on the RH box? I had that on RH4.1 after installing an earlier of SO and adding the svdaemon (memory speaking!) into my .bash_profile. Commented the SOffice stuff out and all was well again. Just a thought, Rick On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Yoshihiro

RE: How best to move a source code trees back and forth from NT.

1998-04-30 Thread Dave Wreski
Could you NFS mount the Linux stuff on NT? Probably, but I do most of my development under NT, and my company has some funny ideas about using lots of small source modules instead of combining them into logical units. If my C compiler has to read hundreds of files over the network off an

Re: Networking with Win95

1998-04-30 Thread Dan Cyr
At 09:17 PM 4/30/1998 -0400, Dave Wreski wrote: I assume that the recent 2.0 series of kernels (the one supplied with RH 5) support IP Masquerade? I don't need to move to a 2.1 series kernel? What does Nope. They only have the bare necessities in there to run your system. The normal

Re: Networking with Win95

1998-04-30 Thread Dave Wreski
No, this is not good advise. We need to produce commodity software here. People can't possibly be expected to recompile their kernel every time. Unless there is a specific need, it should not be necessary. Wait for the next vendor release. It won't make your system faster, use less

Re: samaba and multiple guests

1998-04-30 Thread Chris Frost
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Dave Wreski wrote: You should be able to: - set the service to be 'public' - use the 'null passwords' option - use the 'guest only' option How do I setup multiple users to be guests? You should at least spend some time, and use ipfwadm to configure your upstream

Re: Time for a new list - commentary@redhat.com?

1998-04-30 Thread Bunting Family
John C. Flohr wrote: Linux is great! RedHat is great! It's very important to me that I know what is happening in the Linux technical world! We use RedHat extensively in our own shop and with our customers. _However_, I'm just about ready to remove my name from the RedHat mailing

hacked!

1998-04-30 Thread William T Wilson
Sucks to be me! I am using a Red Hat 5.0 system with (as far as I know) all the errata applied, so this doesn't bode well for Red Hat security in general. :) I am using kernel 2.0.34pre11b, so I can't absolutely rule out the possibility of a kernel bug. However I think it's unlikely since

Re: Help: using Ghostscript

1998-04-30 Thread Eze Ogwuma
"Joe Tseng" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was told by someone I could use Ghostscript to filter output to my Epson Color Stylus 400. I tried doing that just now by using: gs -dSAFER -sDEVICE=epsonc -sOutputFile=/dev/lp1 - as the print statement for Netscape. Well I got just alot of

HELP: xinit gone

1998-04-30 Thread Leston Buell
I'm a newbie running Red Hat 5.0. X Windows has been running fine for me, but now when i use the "startx" command i get the following error message: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111):

Re: Choosing a wordprocessor

1998-04-30 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 11:24 4/29/98 -0400, Jil Tardiff wrote: Since it will be a mixed environment I will need **good** file-sharing capabilities (basically only for Wordprocessing). I haven't used any wordprocessors for Linux, but I can attest to it's file sharing abilities. I

zombie-ville

1998-04-30 Thread Joel Oliveira
hey everyone.. There was a security problem on my previous redhat5 box also and I'm writing to ask if anyone's ever seen anything like this before... Basically what happened was that I just randomly did a `ps aux` and saw to my horror that there were close to 2 or 3 dozen

Re: HELP: xinit gone

1998-04-30 Thread Leston Buell
A little more detail on my problem: My "Xerrors" file includes the following two lines: Fatal server error: Cannot open mouse (Device or resource busy) ¿Could this be the whole problem? I think i may have fiddled with the mouse settings in metroX. But nothing improves when i

Re: rc.local problem

1998-04-30 Thread Yoink!
On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Donnie McInis wrote: Hey, I can't edit rc.local. I have a problem with my swap. The FAO says to see if swapon is in the /etc/rc.local. When I type "ls" I see the file but I can't use "vi" on it or "cat" it. I get "no file by that name". I also tried "chmod" but get the

Re: HELP: xinit gone

1998-04-30 Thread Dave Wreski
Fatal server error: Cannot open mouse (Device or resource busy) ¿Could this be the whole problem? I think i may have fiddled with the mouse settings in metroX. But nothing improves when i change the mouse settings. Try killing gpm before you run startx, although I thought this

mail not being delivered?

1998-04-30 Thread Ronald Pottol
I have a fresh red hat 5 install, done with the "install everything" option, static ip dial up ppp to my isp, and ethernet to my local lan, which is using the 10.10.10.0 network, and ip masquerading to reach the internet. I can send mail, I can check the mail at my isp, but I have one problem.

Re: rc.local problem

1998-04-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Yoink! wrote: On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Donnie McInis wrote: Hey, I can't edit rc.local. I have a problem with my swap. The FAO says to see if swapon is in the /etc/rc.local. When I type "ls" I see the file but I can't use "vi" on it or "cat" it. I get "no file by

dvi previewer via svgalib ?

1998-04-30 Thread Alexei Nefediev
Hi everybody, Does anybody know how to preview dvi files without X? dvi2tty programme is not very good for producing a readable output. Another way is to use dvips first and than gs with the device svgalib (or smth like this), but the result is also very far from what I am dreaming about :). Any

IPC- what and when

1998-04-30 Thread Pankaj Kumar R
hi all, i am part of the design team whic is developing infrastructure for mobile computing. we have developed these two daemons which come up during bootup. what we needed was some form of IPC between these two processes. i know that one can choose from Messg queue, Shared mem, Semaphore opn,

Re: TCP wrappers

1998-04-30 Thread LEBLIN JY
Here is my hosts.deny file (just testing it out with ftpd): in.ftpd: ALL: (/usr/sbin/safe_finger -l @%h | \ /bin/mail -s %d-%h root) Hi, Brian This is mine, i don't use it only for ftpd but for ftpd, telnetd . I hope this helps. ALL:ALL:spawn (/usr/sbin/safe_finger -l @%h |

Enlightenment

1998-04-30 Thread Bench
This error happens when I start X windows. Does anyone have an idea what causes this error? /usr/local/enlightenment/bin/enlightenment: error in loading shared libraries /usr/lib/libImlib.so.1: undefined symbol: jpeg_std_error -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING

Transfering a 100MB website

1998-04-30 Thread Phil Blancett
Hello All, I need some help with commands that would enable me to transfer a directory and all of its subs from one Linux box to another, I want to use a telnet session to do it. Looked though some commands but its seems vague for directories. TIA Best Regards, Phil Blancett [EMAIL

Re: Transfering a 100MB website

1998-04-30 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Phil Blancett wrote: me to transfer a directory and all of its subs from one Linux box to another, I want to use a telnet session to do it. Looked though some commands but its seems vague for directories. If you can use FTP, then ncftp has a facility where you can use

test (ignore)

1998-04-30 Thread rhl
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Re: hacked!

1998-04-30 Thread James Youngman
"wtw" == William T Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: wtw On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Kevin W. Reed wrote: What exactly is "lots of evil stuff" wtw tcpd was replaced with a trojan one. Ouch. wtw As it happens, the exploit process is still running, even wtw though the exploit itself

Re: more in the Linux versus Micro$oft war .. news at 11

1998-04-30 Thread argathin
Joel Oliveira writes: more stuff to gobble up : http://www.msnbc.com/news/161590.asp " Dell spokesman T.R. Reid said ... [...] Though some estimates place the current population of Linux users at 5 million to 10 million, "I haven't been able to find any examples

Re: more in the Linux versus Micro$oft war .. news at 11

1998-04-30 Thread James Youngman
"TRi" == argathin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: TRi Joel Oliveira writes: more stuff to gobble up : http://www.msnbc.com/news/161590.asp TRi " Dell spokesman T.R. Reid said ... TRi[...] TRi Though some estimates place the current population of Linux

ftp continuation

1998-04-30 Thread Bench
Is there any program in Redhat that allows continuation of interrupted ftp download? -- 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

Need Help w/Samba Server Locking Issue

1998-04-30 Thread Jeffrey L. Odell
I use a Samba server on Red Hat Linux 5.0 as a file server to Windows 95 and Windows NT. One of the files I share is a large (200MB) code respository file used by my development environment. When I set my environment to single user, ther performance is excellant. On the server, the file is

Re: Programming questions

1998-04-30 Thread L. M. Marchese
I use "UNIX NETWORK PROGRAMMING" by W. RICHARD STEVENS (ISBN 0-13-949876-1, Prentice-Hall, Inc.). It is an excellent book about client/server and socket programming. The book was published in 1990, I am not sure if they have a newer release. cheers. Joel Oliveira wrote: Chris,

Re: Programming questions

1998-04-30 Thread Graham Turrell
L. M. Marchese wrote: I use "UNIX NETWORK PROGRAMMING" by W. RICHARD STEVENS (ISBN 0-13-949876-1, Prentice-Hall, Inc.). It is an excellent book about client/server and socket programming. The book was published in 1990, I am not sure if they have a newer release. Yes they do (second

Re: mail not being delivered?

1998-04-30 Thread Bradley Kieser
Ronald You can force a send by issuing: sendmail -q when you have dialled into your ISP. The defualt RH timeout for delivreing mail is every hour. I changed that to every 10 mins, and now I don't have mail queues. This is set up in the sendmail startup (the paramater -q1h should become

RE: ftp continuation

1998-04-30 Thread Russ Harrison
On 30-Apr-98 Bench wrote: Is there any program in Redhat that allows continuation of interrupted ftp download? I think you'll find that the ftp client (on my machine came from the ftp-0.10-1) does this quite happily. The command within the program is reget, do a 'man ftp' for more info.

Re: HELP: xinit gone SUMMARY

1998-04-30 Thread Leston Buell
¡Thanks for the fix, Dave! Here's my summary of the problem and the fix: THE PROBLEM: After fiddling with the mouse settings in MetroX (i think), i was no longer able to open X Wiundows. I got the following error message: _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111

Re: ftp continuation

1998-04-30 Thread Chris Fishwick
Is there any program in Redhat that allows continuation of interrupted ftp download? ncftp allows you to continue your downloads, provided the FTP site supports it. Regards Chris Fishwick Technical Support Southern Internet Services Work Homepage: http://www.southcom.com.au Personal

Xfree 3.3.2

1998-04-30 Thread Matt Stevenson
Hi, are there any .rpm's for X 3.3.2? If so, where? I checked the /pub/contrib on ftp.redhat.com but there didn't seem to be any. Thanks, Matt -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips

yy - help !!!!!!!

1998-04-30 Thread Yoshihiro Yamazaki
After installing RH5.0 I am unable to use XWindow of my server. The procedure I allways do is : xhost + -- on my PC (under RH5) rlogin to main server -- on a alpha server ( under DEC-OSF3.2) setenv DISPLAY pcname:0.0 and when I try to use dxnotepad I am getting the following : " X

Newbie: Connection progress and ftp probs

1998-04-30 Thread Gerald Carl Wieder
Hi all, Well I've finally gotten RH5 and XFree86 running not too badly on my machine. I've also configured (I think) the PPP networking setup for my local provider. However, after dialup, I'm not able to see if a connection is actually made, or what sort of progress my dialup attempt is

Is an X version of info available?

1998-04-30 Thread Al Margheim
I have to admit that I find the info command set less than intuitive, and I don't use it enough to make its command set second nature. Is there an X version with menus available, or some other alternative that would make it easier to navigate through info documents? TIA, Al Margheim --

Read: redhat-digest Digest V98 #205

1998-04-30 Thread Shankar Chakkere
Your Message To: Shankar Chakkere(MS:DENRO/DENRO/SChakkere) Entitled: redhat-digest Digest V98 #205 And Sent On: 1998-04-30 03:08 Was Read At: 1998-04-30 09:55 Priority: C -- -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips,

Read: redhat-digest Digest V98 #173

1998-04-30 Thread Shankar Chakkere
Your Message To: Shankar Chakkere(MS:DENRO/DENRO/SChakkere) Entitled: redhat-digest Digest V98 #173 And Sent On: 1998-04-24 17:13 Was Read At: 1998-04-30 09:55 Priority: C -- -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips,

Read: redhat-digest Digest V98 #193

1998-04-30 Thread Shankar Chakkere
Your Message To: Shankar Chakkere(MS:DENRO/DENRO/SChakkere) Entitled: redhat-digest Digest V98 #193 And Sent On: 1998-04-28 04:30 Was Read At: 1998-04-30 09:55 Priority: C -- -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips,

Re: more in the Linux versus Micro$oft war .. news at 11

1998-04-30 Thread Michael George
TRi " Dell spokesman T.R. Reid said ... TRi[...] TRi Though some estimates place the current population of Linux TRiusers at 5 million to 10 million, "I haven't been able to find any TRiexamples of customers requesting Linux," Reid said. [...]"

Re: Xfree 3.3.2

1998-04-30 Thread Matt Housh
I suggest you try ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/contrib/grouped/glibc/i386/X11/XFree86, and the Servers directory therein. :) --- Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MicroComputer Specialist

How best to move a source code trees back and forth from NT.

1998-04-30 Thread Al Margheim
I have to regularly move an entire source code tree back and forth between Linux and NT. When I move the tree of code I need to maintain the directory structure, convert carriage returns appropriately for the destination platform, and not change the date/time of last modification. Maintaining

Re: HELP: xinit gone SUMMARY

1998-04-30 Thread Dave Wreski
¡Thanks for the fix, Dave! Here's my summary of the problem and the fix: No problem. Cool exclamation points you have there :) THE FIX: Before opening X-Windows, enter the following command to kill "general purpose mouse": There is a real fix to this, not just this workaround. Has

Newbie: Partition setup, Etc...

1998-04-30 Thread Darque
I just got my RH5.0 CD yesterday, and quickly started installing. It seemed to go quite well at first, but I cannot get Metro-X or XFree either one to load. Upon inspection of log files and things those files pointed to, I think I am missing many files, and that this is due to running out of

Re: Read: redhat-digest Digest V98 #173

1998-04-30 Thread Frederic Woodbridge
Cut this crap out!! No one needs to know when you have read a message!! quote:: Your Message To: Shankar Chakkere(MS:DENRO/DENRO/SChakkere) quote:: Entitled: redhat-digest Digest V98 #173 quote:: And Sent On: 1998-04-24 17:13 quote:: Was Read At: 1998-04-30 09:55 quote:: Priority: C quote::

RE: How best to move a source code trees back and forth from NT.

1998-04-30 Thread Edmunds, Keith
On Thursday, April 30, 1998 3:16 PM, Al Margheim [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I have to regularly move an entire source code tree back and forth between Linux and NT. Could you NFS mount the Linux stuff on NT? Keith -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

Re: ftp continuation

1998-04-30 Thread Vidiot
Is there any program in Redhat that allows continuation of interrupted ftp download? ncftp MB -- System Administrator - Finnigan FT/MS - Madison WI. URL:http://www.ftms.com/ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (608) 273-8262 ext: 612 fax: (608) 273-8719 Visit - URL:http://www.vidiot.com/

Re: How best to move a source code trees back and forth from NT.

1998-04-30 Thread Dave Wreski
I have to regularly move an entire source code tree back and forth between Linux and NT. When I move the tree of code I need to maintain the directory structure, convert carriage returns appropriately for the destination platform, and not change the date/time of last modification.

Re: ftp continuation

1998-04-30 Thread Alfonso Barreto Lopez
The same ftp program let you make that, take a look at the help in the ftp program I dont remember the exact command but I have done that __ Alfonso Barreto Lopez Inst. de Inv. de Matematicas U.N.A.M On Thu, 30

Re: How best to move a source code trees back and forth from NT.

1998-04-30 Thread James Youngman
"Al" == Al Margheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Al I have to regularly move an entire source code tree back and Al forth between Linux and NT. When I move the tree of code I need Al to maintain the directory structure, convert carriage returns Al appropriately for the destination

MX Record question

1998-04-30 Thread Mark Wiacek
I thought maybe somebody on this list could answer an MX record question for me. I have several virtual hosts on my server and when they send email their return address always appears as my domain name instead of their own domain. I've tried adding several different MX and A records to their

RE: How best to move a source code trees back and forth from NT.

1998-04-30 Thread Stephan Greene
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Edmunds, Keith wrote: On Thursday, April 30, 1998 3:16 PM, Al Margheim [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I have to regularly move an entire source code tree back and forth between Linux and NT. Could you NFS mount the Linux stuff on NT? Or use smbmount/samba?

mount in next dist. release

1998-04-30 Thread Andrea Borgia
Hi. Just curious: will the next release have a mount more recent than 2.7f? Last time I checked, the devel tree still had 2.7f, while I've seen a 2.7l release in the contrib area. Perhaps the newer versions are incredibly bug-ridden? -- Undergraduate student of Computer Science Alias: [EMAIL

Micro$oft declaring war?

1998-04-30 Thread Michael Jinks
My boss told me yesterday about an article (he didn't say where he saw it) which said that Linux was the only non-M$ operating system to gain market share last year. The same article said that this fact hasn't been wasted on our good friends at M$, and that a whole new round of nastiness is

Re: RAID

1998-04-30 Thread Michael Jinks
Bench wrote: Thanks for the answer. My 2 SCSI drivers are Seagate Barracuda, 4GB each. Sorry for the lack of details, I'm planning to use it using RAID 0. Whoo-ee! The md driver should make you a very happy hacker. Man, six gigs striped into one device. What a joy. Have you found the

Re: How best to move a source code trees back and forth from NT.

1998-04-30 Thread Al Margheim
At 03:44 PM 4/30/98 +0100, James Youngman wrote: Why not just control the source with a CVS server? CVS can deal with changing line-ends etc. You then designate one machine at the server and the other as the client. I have been considering setting up CVS for other reasons. I hesitate to

RE: How best to move a source code trees back and forth from NT.

1998-04-30 Thread Al Margheim
At 03:26 PM 4/30/98 +0100, Keith Edmunds wrote: Could you NFS mount the Linux stuff on NT? Probably, but I do most of my development under NT, and my company has some funny ideas about using lots of small source modules instead of combining them into logical units. If my C compiler has to read

Difference b/w IP aliasing and ProxyArp?

1998-04-30 Thread Michael Jinks
On the suggestion of Dave Wresky, I just took a look at the ProxyArp mini-Howto on Sunsite. And I'm confused. What's the practical difference between proxy-arp and plain old IP aliasing? Is one "better"? In case it matters, my goal is to set up a bastion server so that it routes certain

Linux Vendor Accuses Microsoft of Hardball Tactics (http://www.pcworld.com/cgi-

1998-04-30 Thread Beth Gemeny
The saga continues... If these news stories are becoming cumbersome, would someone please let me know? Thanks, Beth Gemeny http://www.pcworld.com/cgi-bin/database/body.pl?ID=980429110235 Linux Vendor Accuses Microsoft of Hardball Tactics.url

Re: Is an X version of info available?

1998-04-30 Thread Al Margheim
At 03:36 PM 4/30/98 +0100, James Youngman wrote: The X version of info(1) is Emacs. So I could trade the cryptic command set of info for the cryptic command set of Emacs? H. Thanks anyway. :-) Al -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: MX Record question

1998-04-30 Thread Frederic Woodbridge
Setting MX records don't have anything whatsoever to do with sendmail's behaviour wrt outbound mail. You will need to insert rewriting sections in the sendmail configuration file or better yet, use Eudora to set your return address for the different virtual hosts. Good luck... -- Frederic

Trouble configuring bash

1998-04-30 Thread Bob Ross
Hello all, I'm trying to get bash to behave more like "ksh" and I'm getting nowhere. Specifically I want to be able to use VI as the default command line editor. I also want to be able to do command history searching using the VI commands, since I have found the default (EMACS?) commands to

Re: Transfering a 100MB website

1998-04-30 Thread Serge Pluess
Hi there just use the tar command and if size matters you can have it also compress it into the gzip format (if you have the GNU tar). If not then you can still use gzip to compress the tar file. Let's say you have a directory called "public_html" that you want to transfer. Go to the directory

Re: How best to move a source code trees back and forth from NT.

1998-04-30 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- At 09:15 4/30/98 -0500, Al Margheim wrote: I have to regularly move an entire source code tree back and forth between Linux and NT. When I move the tree of code I need to maintain the directory structure, convert carriage returns appropriately for the

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-04-30 Thread Shawn McMahon
Ditto Max is *NOT* a QIC-80 compatible drive. It uses it's own controller, and good luck getting any help from Iomega with it. It took months just to get them to support the operating systems they claim to support on the back of the box, much less others. -Original Message- From:

Re: How best to move a source code trees back and forth from NT.

1998-04-30 Thread Al Margheim
At 10:40 AM 4/30/98 -0400, Dave Wreski wrote: - I think NT has an rdist implementation, which I think should be able to do the carriage return processing as well. Thanks, I'll investigate rdist (and rsync) when I get more time. - Create a windows-share on the NT machine, and mount it from

'dump'ing to multiple volumes?

1998-04-30 Thread Matt Nelson
according to the man page for the 'dump' included with Red Hat 4.2 (dump-0.3-8): "The Linux port of dump is not able yet to produce correct multi-volume backups." is this really the case? or is it (hopefully) just a matter of the documentation not keeping up with development? -matt

changed shell, can't log in as root.

1998-04-30 Thread redhat
I was changing the shell for root today and I accidently typed in the wrong path to the shell. So, now I can't log in as root. I have tried to go into single user mode, but the delay on lilo is set to 0, and I can't catch it before it boots. Can anyone tell me how I can get in to change the

X server without viewer?

1998-04-30 Thread Michael Jinks
I'm setting up an RH5 machine on a 486/33 with a tiny (~200M) hard drive. The installation will be a minimal one, but I'd like to be able to display X windows remotely on my desktop (for ease of reconfiguration, dotfile generator, etc.). The new machine probably won't even have a monitor after

check_rcpt install

1998-04-30 Thread Milos Prudek
Hi All, Our server seems to be prone to relay spam. I have installed m4 macros from http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/%7Eca/email/check.html These seemed to work fine and generate valid sendmail.cf, and looked allright when checked according to steps at the above adress. But test from

xdm

1998-04-30 Thread Brown2C
Hello, I am having a problem with xdm that I'm hoping someone can clear up for me. I'm runing Redhat 5.0, kernel 2.0.3.3. When running XDM (spawned from inittab), no matter what window manager I choose in my "dot" files, I always get booted into the following window managers, in the following

Re: Is an X version of info available?

1998-04-30 Thread Eze Ogwuma
Al Margheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 03:36 PM 4/30/98 +0100, James Youngman wrote: The X version of info(1) is Emacs. So I could trade the cryptic command set of info for the cryptic command set of Emacs? H. No. It's still the info command set but you get a more friendly

Re: Sendmail

1998-04-30 Thread John D. Hardin
Hello, everyone. My RH42 is not having a good morning. When I powered up the system, it appears to start normally; however, when it gets to the "Starting sendmail: sendmail" in the boot seq, everything stops. If I do a Ctrl-Alt-Del, it shuts back down and reboots the systemwhich

3Com Token Ring Card

1998-04-30 Thread Michael Butler
Hello All, Anyone have any luck installing a 3Com PCI token ring card with Redat 4.2? I understand token ring cards can be difficult to work with. I have a Dell 233 and I want to be able to get this PCI card to work but I fear it may not be compatible with 4.2. Thanks Mike -- PLEASE

Re: changed shell, can't log in as root.

1998-04-30 Thread Matt Housh
Hold down shift when you boot. That will get you a lilo prompt. Type 'image init=/bin/sh'. Assuming that is where sh resides, which is almost always the case, you will get a shell without login. Edit the /etc/passwd file manually to fix your shell. HTH

(please) new entry, old questions?

1998-04-30 Thread Marcantonio Magnarapa
Hi, here's a new entry. And here are a few questions already. I have installed right now my brand new RedHat 5.0 which I purchased from RedHat. To those of you who have some time and patience: will you help me please, if you can? :) The ftp installation didn't work - exactly as in 4.1. I

Re: Micro$oft declaring war?

1998-04-30 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Michael Jinks wrote: Naturally, I thumped my chest and said "Let 'em try," but I do wonder, if M$ did decide to go after the Linux community in force, what might they be able to do to us? Anything? They couldn't come to my office Unless they hire a couple of 300 pound

Re: X server without viewer?

1998-04-30 Thread Kevin Mernick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Michael Jinks wrote: I'm setting up an RH5 machine on a 486/33 with a tiny (~200M) hard drive. The installation will be a minimal one, but I'd like to be able to display X windows remotely on my desktop (for ease of reconfiguration, dotfile generator,

Re: Programming questions

1998-04-30 Thread Fred Lenk
Sorry if this has already been mentioned. I found the following not only Linux usefull, but generally Unix C usefull also. "Beginning Linux Programming" by Neil Matthew Richard Stones, pub by Wrox Press Ltd. (www.wrox.com , [EMAIL PROTECTED]) fred Fred Lenk, SysAdmin, CommPower mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Newbie: Connection progress and ftp probs

1998-04-30 Thread Jack Byers
to see ppp connect messages try: tail -f /var/log/messages thisshould spit back all of your ppp stuff with responses regards, Jack __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata

Re: changed shell, can't log in as root.

1998-04-30 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wrong path to the shell. So, now I can't log in as root. I have tried to go into single user mode, but the delay on lilo is set to 0, and I can't So hold the shift key down while it is booting. That will give you the LILO prompt even if the

Re: Micro$oft declaring war?

1998-04-30 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: William T Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, April 30, 1998 1:49 PM Subject: Re: Micro$oft "declaring war"? free. That combined with the lack of a single target to sue would probably prevent this; and the emulators

Simple Samba Questions

1998-04-30 Thread Jake Colman
I have a network of two machines: linux and win95. I am trying to access resources published by the win95 machine. TCP/IP connectivity is fine between the two systems. 1) Why would smbmount only find the win95 server is the win95 machine name ws in the linux box's hosts file? I though that

Networking with Win95

1998-04-30 Thread Jake Colman
I know that this has been discussed and I've tried to find the anwnser to this but to no avail. I have printed out and read many, many manuals but if the answer is RTFM, just tell me which one. The question is simple: how do I route such that my win95 box can fully access the internet through

Re: Micro$oft declaring war?

1998-04-30 Thread Bruce Tong
Naturally, I thumped my chest and said "Let 'em try," but I do wonder, if M$ did decide to go after the Linux community in force, what might they be able to do to us? Anything? They couldn't come to my office I don't know if this fits your criteria or not, so I'll try it... We're getting

PostgreSQL and MS-Access

1998-04-30 Thread Bruce Tong
I'm starting to work with PostgreSQL and I wonder if there is anyone out there who wouldn't mind answering a few questions via private e-mail? I've read the docs and played with it a bunch but I stand to have a few things clarified. One thing I'm trying, for instance, is just to get MS-Access to

Re: Transfering a 100MB website

1998-04-30 Thread John H Darrah
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Serge Pluess wrote: Hi there just use the tar command and if size matters you can have it also compress it into the gzip format (if you have the GNU tar). If not then you can still use gzip to compress the tar file. Let's say you have a directory called

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