RE: Why I'm not running RedHat.

1998-05-24 Thread Dave Wreski
On 25-May-98 Chris \"Cranky Spice\" Harshman wrote: >> Use insmod and the module name, like "insmod driver.o". Doesn't that work? >> What type of error does it produce? Perhaps it depends on other modules to >> be >> loaded as well? > > I couldn't even get the disk to mount (no shell seemed t

control-panel

1998-05-24 Thread Steve Ki-Won Lee
Greetings! I can't start my control-panel and can somebody help please? I get this error message when I try to open it: [root@(none) /root]# control-panel ** WARNING **: Creating pixmap from xpm with NULL window and colormap control-panel: error in loading shared libraries : undefined symbol:

Re: TkDesk installation?

1998-05-24 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
>Has anyone had any success installing tkdesk 1.0 with RedHat 5.0? > >I posed the problems I've been having in an earlier e-mail but no-one >seems to know/care... ;-) > >I would just like to know if anyone had been successful, and if so, could >you please indicate the steps you took to install it?

FW: Another go at IPX

1998-05-24 Thread Bradley, Greg
I have MARS_NWE running here. I had some probelms at first with it not seeing our local servers. As it transpired, it was because we had so many servers, they didn't fit into the table it stores the server names. I had to increase the max server and route counts to 7,500 before they all fitted. If

DhcpcD!

1998-05-24 Thread Abdullah Al-Molah
Anyone got any ideas on how to configure DHCPCD to work in redhat 5.0 running kernel 2.1.102?, I successfully installed the latest 2.X version of the deamon, read it's docs, but, it wasn't very clear on how to get it to work!, any help will be greatly appreciated :) Abdullah Al-Molah -- P

wierd log entries

1998-05-24 Thread Robert W. Canary
Hi, The following are lines from my ppp log. I have a user trying to dial in but I keep getting these errors. Can someone try to explain this? May 24 21:51:14 office pppd[5842]: Using interface ppp-1073742208 May 24 21:51:14 office pppd[5842]: Connect: ppp-1073742208 <--> /dev/ttyC6 May 24 21

RE: Why I'm not running RedHat.

1998-05-24 Thread Chris \"Cranky Spice\" Harshman
> Use insmod and the module name, like "insmod driver.o". Doesn't that work? > What type of error does it produce? Perhaps it depends on other modules to be > loaded as well? I couldn't even get the disk to mount (no shell seemed to be running on any other VT), and I couldn't get past the dial

Re: network with win95

1998-05-24 Thread Robert W. Canary
Hi Gary, This is really relatively easy. First make sure you do have network continuity between your machines. Second configure each win98 machine to have a gateway address of the Linux box. Third turn on Ip Forwarding in the Network Config. Forth configure the IP Fordwarding/Masq. I have pas

Qpopper(2.4) and Quota

1998-05-24 Thread Bench
I've got this message when a user tries to retrieve his email even though he hasn't exceeded his quota yet. My guess is that when qpopper tries to create the .username.pop file in the mail directory the ownership of the file is set to the username, in effect the mail consumption of the user is d

libpng.so.0 is needed by xemacs-20.4-1

1998-05-24 Thread Ken Westerback
I have been trying all day to install xemacs on my RH 5.0 with a singular lack of success due to the above message. First I tried the xemacs .rpm's off the RH5.0 PowerTools CD, then the ones I laboriously downloaded from /pub/contrib/i386 on the Red Hat ftp site. Both had the same problem, though

tkdesk

1998-05-24 Thread Shane French
Hi David, I've got redhat 5.0 and downloaded an rpm version of tkdesk from some tdkesk site (don't remember where). didn't work anyway, had msgs similar to your failed dependencies: libtk4.2.so is needed by TkDesk-1.0b5-2 libtcl7.6.so is needed by TkDesk-1.0b5-2 ...errors. Th

Re: Netscape for linux?

1998-05-24 Thread Dean A. Arbs
you can find netscape communicator RPM package on Redhat's ftp site: ftp://ftp.redhat.com (browser) ftp.redhat.com (ftp program) -- 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 T

RE: Netscape for linux?

1998-05-24 Thread Maxwell Smart
On 25-May-98 David L Taylor wrote: > Hi, me again... > > Does anyone know of a good ftp site for retrieving netscape communicator > for linux? Is there an rpm version for redhat? Is there a small > version? ftp.redhat.com/updates (or /pub/updates, not sure) "Small" is large. Even Navigator-o

Re: Netscape for linux?

1998-05-24 Thread Rick L. Mantooth
I was "passing thru" ftp.caldera.com today and noticed rpm versions of Communicator and Netscape. Haven't tried those. Small and Netscape . Rick On Mon, 25 May 1998, David L Taylor wrote: > Hi, me again... > > Does anyone know of a good ftp site for retrieving netscape communicator >

Netscape for linux?

1998-05-24 Thread David L Taylor
Hi, me again... Does anyone know of a good ftp site for retrieving netscape communicator for linux? Is there an rpm version for redhat? Is there a small version? (I'm running out of hdd space) Thanks in advance. Regards, _/_/_/ -- _/

pcmcia modem

1998-05-24 Thread Dean A. Arbs
Recently I installed RH50 on my Hitachi visionbook. Every thing seems to work fine! Even the Iomega Zip works!! :-) However, the pcmcia modem card doesn't dial. In the Xwin control panel I set modem to NONE, and when i configured my interface I directed it to ttyS2. Any ideas? -- PL

Re: network with win95

1998-05-24 Thread Chuck Mead
On 24 May, Gary Neff wrote: > I have two computers setup on win98 (I know but thats what beta testing gets > you) I have just built a p60 (all left over parts) to run linux as an > internet server. Well not really a server what I want to do is allow both of > my win98 computers to access the inter

gimp dumps core

1998-05-24 Thread Marcantonio Magnarapa
Hi, I have tried to launch GIMP under X but it says something about a problem with the screen depth. It then dumps core. I have a fresh redhat-5 installation on a intel 486. Is there anything I missed? Marcantono -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and th

Re: kde setup

1998-05-24 Thread Federico Strati
hi Dave, > > Hi all, > > I have taken a quick look at KDE and would like to try it on my stand > alone machine. My problem is that when I start installing the rpm files > to /opt/kde, it quickly maxs out my disk space on the root partition. I > only have 50M for the root partition and when it

network with win95

1998-05-24 Thread Gary Neff
I have two computers setup on win98 (I know but thats what beta testing gets you) I have just built a p60 (all left over parts) to run linux as an internet server. Well not really a server what I want to do is allow both of my win98 computers to access the internet on my local dial up ISP which I

RE: Why I'm not running RedHat.

1998-05-24 Thread Dave Wreski
On 24-May-98 Chris \"Cranky Spice\" Harshman wrote: >> > The disks seemed to work properly, but I couldn't find any way to manually >> > load a module from my own disk. Is this possible with RH5? It should be, >> > if it isn't. >> >> Yes, it's possible, assuming you've compiled the module wi

quoata problem

1998-05-24 Thread Carlos Eduardo Anibarro Zelaya
Hello all Im running Red Hat 5 on my system. How do I install disk quotas? I have a hard drive with thi file systems: /dev/hda1 / ext2defaults1 /dev/hda6 /home ext2defaults1 /dev/hda5 /usu

RE: Why I'm not running RedHat.

1998-05-24 Thread Chris \"Cranky Spice\" Harshman
> > The disks seemed to work properly, but I couldn't find any way to manually > > load a module from my own disk. Is this possible with RH5? It should be, > > if it isn't. > > Yes, it's possible, assuming you've compiled the module with the same version as > the kernel. How, then? > > wher

kde setup

1998-05-24 Thread Dave Watts
Hi all, I have taken a quick look at KDE and would like to try it on my stand alone machine. My problem is that when I start installing the rpm files to /opt/kde, it quickly maxs out my disk space on the root partition. I only have 50M for the root partition and when it gets full, as you all pr

Re: personalizing olvwm - thanks!

1998-05-24 Thread ivan jose
---Vidiot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Thanks all for the suggestions. Now > >the olvwm is working very nice. > > And the reason it wasn't working was because of .. ??? The problem was with the definition of $OPENWINHOME in /etc/profile and with some errors in .openwin-init and .openwin

RE: cursor speed

1998-05-24 Thread Dave Wreski
On 24-May-98 Danny Rice wrote: > > When you are editing and hold down the right or left arrow key the > cursor will begin to move after a period of time (T) at some speed > (S). How do you change the settings for T and S? /sbin/kbdrate -r 32 -d 1 Try adding it to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local so it

RE: Why I'm not running RedHat.

1998-05-24 Thread Dave Wreski
> The disks seemed to work properly, but I couldn't find any way to manually > load a module from my own disk. Is this possible with RH5? It should be, > if it isn't. Yes, it's possible, assuming you've compiled the module with the same version as the kernel. > So, Plan B, I boot into Win95

RE: 5.1 on redhat site ?!?!?!

1998-05-24 Thread Dave Wreski
> Strangest is still that they ship a not yet stable (pre-) version of > 2.0.34. Well, now that Alan is working for RH, I suspect he'll make sure it's stable before releasing. I agree, though. That sure would be a show-stopper if the kernel wasn't stable.. Dave -- PLEASE read the Red Hat

Re: olvwm - another question

1998-05-24 Thread Vidiot
>Only another question: >I installed my olvwm from a RH 4.2 CD in >my RH 5.0, but there aren´t the programs >file manager, mailtool, etc... that usua- >lly came with olvwm. Can someone tell me >why this occurs ? The olvwm program doesn't come with anything else. It is an upgrade to the olwm that

Re: personalizing olvwm - thanks!

1998-05-24 Thread Vidiot
>Thanks all for the suggestions. Now >the olvwm is working very nice. And the reason it wasn't working was because of .. ??? MB -- System Administrator - Finnigan FT/MS - Madison WI. URL:http://www.ftms.com/ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Oooohhh, I need a hug] phone: (608) 273-

Why I'm not running RedHat.

1998-05-24 Thread Chris \"Cranky Spice\" Harshman
I went to install RedHat 5.0 on my laptop yesterday, with no luck whatsoever. It does not have a CD-ROM drive, but I do have an accton parallel port ethernet adapter that I've compiled a module for. I loaded the Redhat CD into my server, mounted it, and linked the /mnt/cdrom directory to the /ho

RE: 5.1 on redhat site ?!?!?!

1998-05-24 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Sun, 24 May 1998, Dave Wreski wrote: > > On 24-May-98 Andrej Todosic wrote: > > hey , > > > > i was just browsing through package listings for redhat 5.0 , > > and they all point to /redhat-5.1 which doesnt exist .. and the versions > > are not > > the ones that 5.0 comes with ... > > h

Re: more colors

1998-05-24 Thread Chris Frost
On Sun, 24 May 1998, Danny Rice wrote: > > I am running XFree86 and out of all the colors in rgb.txt I can only > display 67 of them. What should I set to display more colors? Assuming your video card can do more, try startx -- -bpp 16 (or use 24, or even 32 at the end, each one is the bits you

more colors

1998-05-24 Thread Danny Rice
I am running XFree86 and out of all the colors in rgb.txt I can only display 67 of them. What should I set to display more colors? -- Danny Rice -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailin

cursor speed

1998-05-24 Thread Danny Rice
When you are editing and hold down the right or left arrow key the cursor will begin to move after a period of time (T) at some speed (S). How do you change the settings for T and S? -- Danny Rice -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redh

RE: HylaFax on RH5.0?

1998-05-24 Thread Dave Wreski
On 24-May-98 Jay Vassos-Libove wrote: > I downloaded the HylaFax RPM's from ftp.redhat.com in the hurricane i386 > contrib directory and installed it (and its docs and the newer ghostscript > fonts and code) on my RH50 system. Start with a list that is more specifically geared towards these type

RE: Printcap for Laser Printer

1998-05-24 Thread Dave Wreski
On 24-May-98 Derek Balling wrote: > Odd question: > > Would anyone happen to have a good printcap for a Panasonic KXP-4420 Laser > printer? Typically the best thing to do is pick the HP printer that it most closely emulates, such as an HP3, assuming the printer doesn't do postscript by default.

RE: 5.1 on redhat site ?!?!?!

1998-05-24 Thread Dave Wreski
On 24-May-98 Andrej Todosic wrote: > hey , > > i was just browsing through package listings for redhat 5.0 , > and they all point to /redhat-5.1 which doesnt exist .. and the versions > are not > the ones that 5.0 comes with ... > however there is no mention of 5.1 anywhere else ... > there

module-info

1998-05-24 Thread Ed Jackson
I upgraded my kernel to 2.0.33, using source code. How do I generate the /boot/module-info-2.0.33 file?? Later. ed. -- 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 uns

5.1 on redhat site ?!?!?!

1998-05-24 Thread Andrej Todosic
hey , i was just browsing through package listings for redhat 5.0 , and they all point to /redhat-5.1 which doesnt exist .. and the versions are not the ones that 5.0 comes with ... however there is no mention of 5.1 anywhere else ... there is also a 2.0.34 kernel rpm ... of course none of i

Re: SCSI Tape probs.

1998-05-24 Thread W.D.McKinney
Mark Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ng: 7bit > > Howdy all.. > > I've got an old(ish) adaptec SCSI adapter (model escapes me). > And when I issue a command like mt -f /dev/st0 rewind or tar -tf > /dev/st0 it spends ages making a few clicking noises then drops back to > the prompt with the

RE: To SCSI Jaz users

1998-05-24 Thread J. Maynard Gelinas
Thanks Dave! A DejaNews search got me similar results from a posted Jaz-SCSI mini howto which then got me to the jaztools homepage. For those who may be interested see: http://www.cnct.com/~bwillmot/jaztool/ --jmg Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 03:59:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Dave Wreski <[EMAIL PRO

Re: PATH settings

1998-05-24 Thread Jacek Andreas Matulla
> There are a million ways you could reconcile these situations (change > various things in /etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile, or ~/.bashrc, set up > your window manager to pass an option to all xterms that makes them start > login shells, blah blah blah), but I prefer the following: Thanx a lot Gr

Re: TkDesk installation?

1998-05-24 Thread Maxwell Smart
On 24-May-98 Jim Gentry wrote: > On Sun, 24 May 1998 00:39:59 -0500 (CDT), you wrote: > >>Didn't see the earlier mail but, I installed it from the rpm earlier >>today >>(from one of the contrib directories). It works fine. This is version >>1.0b5 >>I think. >> >>Sounds like you've been trying t

need some quick hardware advice

1998-05-24 Thread Harold . Weiss-Wallrath
Hi all, I need to upgrade my system and got a generous offer from a local dealer. Does anybody know if the combination of a Chaintec motherboard with a K6 processor doesn't work with both Redhat 4.2 and Win95? The MB (I don't know the exact model off-hand) contains primary and secondary IDE, 2 se

olvwm - another question

1998-05-24 Thread ivan jose
Only another question: I installed my olvwm from a RH 4.2 CD in my RH 5.0, but there aren´t the programs file manager, mailtool, etc... that usua- lly came with olvwm. Can someone tell me why this occurs ? Thanks ! == * Ivan Jose Varzinczak * P.E.T.-Informatica-UFPR

Re:personalizing olvwm - thanks!

1998-05-24 Thread ivan jose
Hi! Thanks all for the suggestions. Now the olvwm is working very nice. == * Ivan Jose Varzinczak * P.E.T.-Informatica-UFPR Curitiba-Parana-Brasil "WINDOWS: The first Plug-and-PRAY operating system" _

Printcap for Laser Printer

1998-05-24 Thread Derek Balling
Odd question: Would anyone happen to have a good printcap for a Panasonic KXP-4420 Laser printer? Derek -- 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 [EMAI

Re: TkDesk installation?

1998-05-24 Thread Andy Moskoff
On Sun, 24 May 1998, Jim Gentry wrote: > will not install. The rpm complains that the package needs libtk4.2.so and > libtcl7.6.so. On inspection, I seem to have tk and tcl 8.0. > The MAJOR number of library versions MUST match. So, you need to install libtk4.2.so and libtcl7.

Re: PATH settings

1998-05-24 Thread Greg Fall
On Sat, 23 May 1998, David Masterson wrote: > > Set the xdm resources like this in /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config: > > > DisplayManager._0.userPath: \ > > /usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin/:\ > > /usr/bin/mh: > > DisplayManager._0.systemPath: \ > > /usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bi

Re: TkDesk installation?

1998-05-24 Thread Jim Gentry
On Sun, 24 May 1998 00:39:59 -0500 (CDT), you wrote: >On 24-May-98 David L Taylor wrote: >> Has anyone had any success installing tkdesk 1.0 with RedHat 5.0? >> >> I posed the problems I've been having in an earlier e-mail but no-one >> seems to know/care... ;-) >> >> I would just like to know

RE: YPBIND: local passwd file not checked?

1998-05-24 Thread Henrick Alex Ninaber
I wasn't aware of '/etc/nsswitch.conf'. Changing the default(?) entry from 'files nisplus nis' to 'compat [NOTFOUND=return] files' for the group and passwd entries did the job. Thank you, Alex -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.

SCSI Tape probs.

1998-05-24 Thread Mark Rogers
Howdy all.. I've got an old(ish) adaptec SCSI adapter (model escapes me). And when I issue a command like mt -f /dev/st0 rewind or tar -tf /dev/st0 it spends ages making a few clicking noises then drops back to the prompt with the following errors : st0: error with sense data: Current error st0

HylaFax on RH5.0?

1998-05-24 Thread Jay Vassos-Libove
I downloaded the HylaFax RPM's from ftp.redhat.com in the hurricane i386 contrib directory and installed it (and its docs and the newer ghostscript fonts and code) on my RH50 system. I ran through the configuration, and the code identified my modem as having a Rockwell chipset with Fax class 2 su

TkDesk won't work for me...

1998-05-24 Thread David Taylor
I thought I'd resend this because I'm not sure if it was received the first time.   I am running RedHat 5.0 with Tcl/Tk 8.0 and I am trying to install TkDesk.   I originally tried to install the rpm version (statically linked) and Igot the following error message:   failed dependencies:

Re: personalizing olvwm

1998-05-24 Thread ac
do you have export OPENWINHOME=/usr/openwin in /etc/profile? On Sat, 23 May 1998, ivan jose wrote: > Hi everyone ! > Thanks for all suggestions that were gived to me. > But, none of those worked in fact. I modified the > configuration files (.olvwm, .openwin-menu, .open- > win-init ...) and si

Re: PATH settings

1998-05-24 Thread Dave Wreski
> BTW, who handles the MAN pages for rlogin and rsh? Right now, I can't > get rsh to work for me ("Permission denied"). Isn't creating a > .rhosts file enough? This could be described better in the MAN pages. There's more to it for the root user. 8. Rshd then validates the user using r

Re: PATH settings

1998-05-24 Thread David Masterson
I haven't had the chance to play around with PATH setting on RH 5.0 yet, but some things I've learned from other systems may play here. > "Greg" == Greg Fall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are a million ways you could reconcile these situations > (change various things in /etc/profile,

Re: To SCSI Jaz users

1998-05-24 Thread Dave Wreski
> I thought about a Jaz Drive but with SCSI drives autioned off cheap, why > bother. Just got a great Seagate 4.3gig SCSI FAST/WIDE for less than $200.00. Several reasons: - The $200 drives typically are 5400 RPMs, which offers as much thruput as a typical UDMA IDE disk - Joe's Hard Disk Vendo

Re: To SCSI Jaz users

1998-05-24 Thread W.D.McKinney
"J. Maynard Gelinas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tatus: RO > > Anyone know how to get a SCSI Jaz drive to change a cartridge from > write protected to Read/Write? I don't run Windows and so have no use for > the 'Jaz Tools' software, but great use for the disk if formatted ext2fs. > ;-)

RE: To SCSI Jaz users

1998-05-24 Thread Dave Wreski
On 24-May-98 J. Maynard Gelinas wrote: > Anyone know how to get a SCSI Jaz drive to change a cartridge from > write protected to Read/Write? I don't run Windows and so have no use for > the 'Jaz Tools' software, but great use for the disk if formatted ext2fs. > ;-) This is a RH5 box runni

To SCSI Jaz users

1998-05-24 Thread J. Maynard Gelinas
Anyone know how to get a SCSI Jaz drive to change a cartridge from write protected to Read/Write? I don't run Windows and so have no use for the 'Jaz Tools' software, but great use for the disk if formatted ext2fs. ;-) This is a RH5 box running x86. Thanks! --jmg -- PLEASE read

RE: Apache

1998-05-24 Thread Hoe-Teck Wee
Hello. A good start is always to use the search engine on http://www.redhat.com/search/ to search the redhat ftp sites. I'm quite sure I had seen the apache-1.2.6 rpm there. Anyhow, I got my apache-1.3b6 rpm there, though I'm beginning to have second thots about apache 1.3b6 since it uses more me

libncurses.so.4

1998-05-24 Thread Van Tate
Ok, was trying to install good ol BitchX and it said that it had a failed dependency of libncurses.so.4 which I supposes was supplied by ncurses-4.1-12.i386.rpm -- I tried to install rpm -ivh nurses*** and there was a whole bunch of conflicts...so I figured...ah! Upgrade time -- so I pulled a rpm

RE: TkDesk installation?

1998-05-24 Thread Maxwell Smart
On 24-May-98 David L Taylor wrote: > Has anyone had any success installing tkdesk 1.0 with RedHat 5.0? > > I posed the problems I've been having in an earlier e-mail but no-one > seems to know/care... ;-) > > I would just like to know if anyone had been successful, and if so, could > you please

TkDesk installation?

1998-05-24 Thread David L Taylor
Has anyone had any success installing tkdesk 1.0 with RedHat 5.0? I posed the problems I've been having in an earlier e-mail but no-one seems to know/care... ;-) I would just like to know if anyone had been successful, and if so, could you please indicate the steps you took to install it? Rega

Re: personalizing olvwm

1998-05-24 Thread Vidiot
>Thanks for all suggestions that were gived to me. >But, none of those worked in fact. I modified the >configuration files (.olvwm, .openwin-menu, .open- >win-init ...) and simply nothing occured. I tempted >to do the same thing with the files openwin-init, >openwin-menu, etc... in the /usr/openwi