Re: IDT win Tel chips

1998-06-08 Thread Joe Cooper
Which new chips?? IN Has any one had any experience with the new wintel chips and RH5 He's referring (as he perhaps slightly misstated) to the IDT Winchip (AKA C6) CPU's, I assume. They are x86 compatible chips that currently come in speeds of 180, 200 and 225 MHz. They are dirt cheap, but

Re: Backspace key not working in Netscape

1998-06-08 Thread Clemens Adler
On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Leston Buell wrote: I'm curious... ¿Where did you "choose" the US English 101 keyboard, as you mentioned? I'm asking, because i do a lot of work in languages other than English and would like to be able to easily access the Latin-1 character set like i can with the US

RE: Making perl resident

1998-06-08 Thread David . LANDGREN
jl i am using a REDHAT LINUX 2.0.32 kernel w/ Apache 1.2.5 and perl jl 5004.04 and want to know if there is a way I can make perl jl full-time resident instead of just launching when apache needs jl it? It seems to be quite slow when calls area made. jl I have 36M of ram on this

RE: Good Kernel Version

1998-06-08 Thread David . LANDGREN
2.0.34 is the lastest stable version.it was just released afew days ago and I have had no problems with it at all. 2.0.29 was lauded as a most stable kernel. However, a number of serious security problems (F00F on pentia and other DoS attacks) have rendered it unsafe for non-standalone

Re: I give up...help with Communicator?

1998-06-08 Thread Claire Bradford
Clemens Adler wrote: On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Larsen wrote: Howdy. Red Hat is the only Linux distribution I've ever tried that shipped with a crippled browser. In fact, it's the only *OS* I've ever tried that shipped with a crippled browser. What do I have to do to make Communicator

RE: Need PLIP info other than crappy HOWTO

1998-06-08 Thread Edmunds, Keith
From: Shawn McMahon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] If you're going to post to a list that's hosted in the US, and devoted to a US-produced product, then it's "evangelize". Linux is a US-produced product??? Funny, I thought contributions came from all over the world (including west of

Package htdig

1998-06-08 Thread Tressens Lionel
Hello, Has some1 already installed the package htdig on his system ? I did it but when I ran rundig, I get these errors : htdig: Unable to open/create document database '/var/lib/htdig/db/db.docdb' htmerge: Unable to create temporary word file '/var/lib/htdig/db/db.wordlist.new Thanks,

(more) X config questions for ATI 3D Charger

1998-06-08 Thread Harold Weiss-Wallrath
Hi all, I need to configure an ATI 3D Charger graphics card (ATI 3D Rage II+ chipset). I got as far as getting four identical squished screens into one after I added the line VideoRam 4096 to the device section of the XFConfig file. I later read somewhere that the accelarated Mach64 servers

RE: Email To FAX

1998-06-08 Thread Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD
Eudora has Jfax.com service that gives fax --- mail inbox and e-mail -- fax as well. http://www.eudora.com/ Mike Michael Hatzakis Jr, MD Resident Physiatrist - R3 Department of Rehabilitation Thomas Jefferson University Medical Center Philadelphia, PA, 19026 My E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

IBCS problems?

1998-06-08 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does the 2.0.34 kernel have a problem with iBCS? I ask that because I tried running a SCO Unix program that runs quite well under 2.0.33 with iBCS under Red Hat 5.0, but when I tried to run it under Red Hat 5.1 with 2.0.34 it complained "Cannot Open Console Device" and died. Any ideas? I tried

RE: IDT win Tel chips

1998-06-08 Thread Doug McNash
I wonder how you go about optimizing a chip for one OS and not another. For Windows they implement the CRAB (CRash And Burn) and HOB (Hang On Branch) instructions on chip. Windows executes these instructions quite frequently whereas for other OS's software emulation is sufficient as they are

RE: Apache with SSL

1998-06-08 Thread Paul Pettit
From: Wanderlei Antonio Cavassin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, June 07, 1998 4:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Apache with SSL Just get the SSLeay's rpm, wich provides these libs. ftp://ftp.replay.com/pub/replay/pub/redhat/i386/SSLeay-0.8.1-1 .i386.rpm, See more

Re: 3Com 3C905B in Linux

1998-06-08 Thread James Hartley
KThorpe wrote: Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 15:36:57 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Has anyone used 3COM 3c905B network card in Redhat Linux 4.2 or 5.0? What do i have to do to get it working? I run kernel 2.0.30. Hello: I am running two of these cards in my network, the only thing I did was to

RE: HelP!

1998-06-08 Thread Zoki
On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Eric Cifreo wrote: -No, I didn't use cabaret. That must be a 5.x thing. My copy is on a UPS -truck headed to Texas right about now. My fstab didn't list the cdrom: -just all my hda partitions and my floppy (and proc). I found the driver -for my Matshita CR581: it's

Re: nedit

1998-06-08 Thread Dale E Anglin
Lebin Jy, At 9:43 AM -0500 6/8/98, LEBLIN JY wrote: Does anybody know where i can find a rpm version of nedit ? I am not sure about an RPM, but these links may help. We just compile and run. nedit_discuss has an archive at http://www.findmail.com/listsaver/nedit_discuss/ nedit_announce is at

Kernel Patched

1998-06-08 Thread Robert Hailman
Hello. I have Kernel 2.0.30. Where could I find the patches to bring me up to the latest (stable) version? Thanks In Advance Robert Hailman -- You have been honored with a message from the great Robert Hailman -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

RE: Newbie question: Hardware support

1998-06-08 Thread Paul Pettit
From: Russell Foster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 08, 1998 8:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Newbie question: Hardware support Hi all, I'm just about to move from Windoze NT4 to Redhat 5.1 but I want to know which parts of my hardware are compatible. I know

RE: Copying...RH CD on MSWIn9x

1998-06-08 Thread George Lenzer
I was able to make a successful copy by creating an iso9660 image of the disc first. The program that you use should be able to create an iso9660 image. This is important because it will copy the bootable CD data as well as the rest of the data. What program will be used to make the copy?

Where is Netscape Navigator 4.04

1998-06-08 Thread George Toft
Does anyone know where 4.04 is? I'm trying to isolate the cause of a repeatable crash, and I need the previous version (in rpm format) to check. Thanks. George -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata

PANIC Solved

1998-06-08 Thread Alfonso Barreto Lopez
Thanks for the people who tried to help, the problem was solved, there was some kind of configuration problem in the setup of the PC, As I have a BusLogic SCSI card it has some kind of separate setup, and in the normal setup onlu have IDE setup options and supouse to be off to let work the scsi

Re: nedit

1998-06-08 Thread Eze Ogwuma
LEBLIN JY wrote: Hi, Does anybody know where i can find a rpm version of nedit ? Look in the contrib directory. -- Eze Ogwuma -- 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

GIMP configure problem

1998-06-08 Thread Aaron Walker
Hello, I just downloaded GIMP-1.0.0 and GTK+-1.0.4. I installed/compiled GTK with no problem, then I ran the ./configure script for the gimp. It said that if failed to compile the GTK test program. I have attached the config.log file that contains the error message. What do I need to do to

Re: Where is Netscape Navigator 4.04

1998-06-08 Thread Aaron Walker
ftp.redhat.com/pub/updates/5.0/i386/netscape-communicator-4.04-3.i386.rpm OR a mirror ftp.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/updates/5.0/i386/netscape-communicator-4.04-3.i386.rpm Aaron Maxwell Smart wrote: On 08-Jun-98 George Toft wrote: Does anyone know where 4.04 is? I'm

Re: telnet rlogin

1998-06-08 Thread Blair Craft
By default you are not allowed to telnet in as root. The 'usual' method is to telnet in via a standard user account and su to root. It's set up this way as a security feature. If you still can't telnet in to your machine check /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny. Your hosts.deny may be setup to

Re: bash, sh,...?

1998-06-08 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: Zoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Red Hat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, June 07, 1998 1:38 PM Subject: bash, sh,...? in a "*.bat" file - so I would also like to ask some info about a good simple book about scripting. Any ideas? From the O'Reilly and

Re: NSF mount from SUN

1998-06-08 Thread Clemens Adler
Hallo Monika, I have in my /etc/exports file : /'filesystemtobeexported' machinename(rw) I did a /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs stop then/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs start and the stuff was visible. We don't have SUNs here but it worked for HP's running HP-UX, so I guess the linux part of the export should

Re: NT vs. Unix on servers

1998-06-08 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: Mike Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Hatzakis, Jr MD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Red Hat List Serv (E-mail) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, June 07, 1998 2:20 PM Subject: Re: NT vs. Unix on servers Not THIS again??!! GROA.. Especially

Memory

1998-06-08 Thread marc
Hello all. Yesterday, I installed 64 more MB's of ram in my linux box. I am running Redhat linux 5.0. Could someone tell me the command to make linux realize that the new memory is there? I have seen it before on a help page, and have been seaching all morning with no luck. It finds it on

Re: Need PLIP info other than crappy HOWTO

1998-06-08 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: Edmunds, Keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, June 08, 1998 5:11 AM Subject: RE: Need PLIP info other than crappy HOWTO Linux is a US-produced product??? Funny, I thought contributions came from all over the world

Dummy Failure

1998-06-08 Thread Chris Newbill
The initilazation of my 99th dummy keeps failing. Where do i need to look to figure this out? All other dummys work and the lines are typed correctly in my file( i've copied and modified them since the first one). thanks Chris Newbill

Re: Memory

1998-06-08 Thread Mark R. Stevens
add: append="mem=128M" to /etc/lilo.coinf, run /sbin/lilo, reboot. . he replies while pulling his hair out after having to answer this yet again. On Mon, 08 Jun 1998, marc wrote: Hello all. Yesterday, I installed 64 more MB's of ram in my linux box. I am running Redhat linux 5.0.

17 monitor recommendations

1998-06-08 Thread Chris Frost
I'm looking for a less expensive 17" monitor that will run 1600x1200 (I'm using an 4mb (soon to be 8) Mill II). Any suggestions? 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,

Re: LILO Errors

1998-06-08 Thread Chris Newbill
First off do you have a brother named Jared? Anyway when LILO displays LI and hangs this is usually the problem. The hard drive you boot of off contains more than 1024 cylinders. This has been a problem with lilo for sometime if i can recall. Hope it helps Chris Newbill -Original

metro x missing in 5.1

1998-06-08 Thread Aristotle Zoulas
I just installed 5.1. No prob. Is it my imagination or is Metro X missing Aristotle Zoulas [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

2nd cpu?

1998-06-08 Thread Chris Frost
I'm often compiling one or two things, running a mp3 player, running netscape, etc. My cpu load is obviously high, should I consider adding a second cpu (166 p5)? I'd keep running stable kernels, and maybe July-sometime I'd start trying the development stuff, since it'll be getting into

Re: LILO Errors

1998-06-08 Thread Blair Craft
There is a list of LILO errors listed in the Lilo User Guide which, assuming you installed the HOWTO's and are running RH5.0, you will find at: /usr/doc/lilo-0.20/doc/User_Guide.ps There is a technical guide there as well if you need more information. I am running 5.0 right now, if you are

Re: hacker

1998-06-08 Thread Piet Barber
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had the following messages on my daily report for one of my web servers today: Checking Packages... changes from previous run... --- [snip] SM5. /usr/sbin/in.rshd 118a128 SM5. /bin/login --- I assume this means I have been hacked. Am I

Memory

1998-06-08 Thread Gree
I'm writing you directly, since none of my posts ever show up. Try a /etc/lilo.conf with something like this (with the other stuff too, of course): image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.33 label=linux root=/dev/hdb1 append="mem=128M" Your root= and kernel versions of course might be

Re: X Window Manager Programming

1998-06-08 Thread Elliot Lee
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Robert Hailman wrote: Does anyone know where I could find a guide to programming Window Managers for X The O'Reilly Xlib programming reference manuals. or recommend a small ( 30k) window manager that I could use as the base for my own simple window manager?

Re: LILO Errors

1998-06-08 Thread Chris Newbill
Cool I went to Helena High with Jared. Hmm. someone gave an address on where to look for errors i would try that before trying a different hard drive. But that has fixed every time i run into LILO errors. I've run it to it on 4.2, 5.0, and 5.1. Chris -Original Message- From: Brian M.

X Windows Blanking

1998-06-08 Thread Phil Garrett
What do I have to do to stop X Windows from blanking out on me? (RH 5.1, running dm and afterstep.) This is a display machine so I need the screen up whether displaying the xdm signon screen or the afterstep window manager. I have the command 'xset s noblank' in the Xsetup_0 file for Xbanner,

Re: GIMP configure problem

1998-06-08 Thread Matt Housh
Did you make sure you put the GTK directory (/usr/local/lib I think) in /etc/ld.so.conf, and then run ldconfig -v afterwards, checking for GTK in the output? (and glib?) HTH --- Matt Housh email: [EMAIL

Re: 2nd cpu?

1998-06-08 Thread Matt Housh
Seems that stable kernels don't do SMP, iirc. --- Matt Housh email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MicroComputer SpecialistUniversity of Tulsa Engineering and Natural Sciences

Re: e2fsck

1998-06-08 Thread Matt Housh
It's not *common* for numerous fs errors to pop up, but easy to happen. If, for example, the power goes out or your HD parks while doing a find, etc... (hd not cleanly unmounted, that sort of thing). And yes, it really could have recovered, depending on the data and the drive, etc. The

Dummy Failure

1998-06-08 Thread Chris Newbill
Third time i've sent this... Anyone??? even a clue? The initilazation of my 99th dummy keeps failing. Where do i need to look to figure this out? All other dummys work and the lines are typed correctly in my file( i've copied and modified them since the first one). thanks Chris Newbill

Howto Update Install LILO on bootdisk ?

1998-06-08 Thread W.D.McKinney
How does one get a boot disk to see 128 megs of mem ? Using 2.0.34 for a kernel ? -Dee -- 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: IBCS problems?

1998-06-08 Thread Michael Jinks
Eric L. Green wrote: Does the 2.0.34 kernel have a problem with iBCS? I ask that because I tried running a SCO Unix program that runs quite well under 2.0.33 with iBCS under Red Hat 5.0, but when I tried to run it under Red Hat 5.1 with 2.0.34 it complained "Cannot Open Console Device" and

Help! I've been used as a SPAM launch point!

1998-06-08 Thread Mike Edwards
When I got back from lunch today, I heard our server's hard drive spinning like crazy. We don't get a lot of traffic, so this concerned me. A quick look at ps aux and my debug.log showed that I was being used as a SPAM host. I'm pretty mad right now! What can I do to prevent this from

Re: Multiple harddrives seen as one?

1998-06-08 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
Ok, sorry Clemens For what ??? No need to be sorry... Thing could also be done with RAID 0 Igmar -- 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

With SO 4.0 sp 3 work with RH 5.0?

1998-06-08 Thread Eric Wood
If so, is there a step-by-step install page? Tbanks, -Eric Wood -- 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: Help! I've been used as a SPAM launch point!

1998-06-08 Thread Chris Newbill
A firewall will not help with sendmail. What version do you have? You need an 8.8.5 sendmail.cf file at least so that it will stop Relayers. We have had this problem until recently when we made this move. Now the spammers get a message saying relaying denied. Much better. Chris

Re: Multiple harddrives seen as one?

1998-06-08 Thread fugue
Don't think RAID is what he means. I think he means combining multiple block-devices in one. RAID is putting the SAME data on more then one device. RAID level 0 is striping. RAID level 1 is mirroring. RAID levels 3, 4, and 5 are striping with parity. RAID level 0 is often not

Re: Question about upgrading to 5.1

1998-06-08 Thread Chris Newbill
An upgrade is exactly what it says an upgrade. A general rule of thumb is not to upgrade every time a new release comes out. I would wait for 5.2 or maybe 5.3 before you upgrade from 5.0. chris -Original Message- From: Gary Nielson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Sendmail problems

1998-06-08 Thread Alexander Morales
It seem like there is a problem with my mail server. Either it is slowing down or something else. I have noticed lately it takes a while to send a message and at others it does not. Just a few minutes ago I tried to send a message and it timed out. I quickly move to the Linux box and this is the

Re: hacker

1998-06-08 Thread redhat
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Chris Newbill wrote: Do you have your hosts.allow set for everyone to come in and do whatever the heck they want? I did, but I don't anymore. look in /etc/hosts.allow, if there's a line in there that say's ALL: ALL Then your server is fair game. You should limit

Re: hacker

1998-06-08 Thread redhat
I would agree with this assessment. Check your BIND first, it's the biggest hole that hackers are using these days. RedHat had an RPM for the BIND vulerability, but it seems the description had downplayed the importance of the upgrade. I think that was my problem. I sill had the old

Re: hacker

1998-06-08 Thread Alfonso Barreto Lopez
How did you get that information? what commando did you use? __ Alfonso Barreto Lopez Inst. de Inv. de Matematicas U.N.A.M [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

Change login to username?

1998-06-08 Thread Casey Bralla
I want to change the login script presented by Linux on a dial in account. Instead of saying "login", I want it to say "username". I have set up my mgetty line with the "-p" command to say: mgetty -p "username: \r\n password: \r\n" This forces Linux to print these two lines as a prompt, but

Multiple Default-routes w/ IP-Aliasing?

1998-06-08 Thread Oliver Schade
Hi please consider the following situation: computer A has multiple IP-addresses from totally different nets, as an example 194.95.11.12 132.231.91.152 195.35.38.177 on the same system. How do I setup multiple default-routes for each net, from which those IPs are from? E.g. use

Alt key not working in emacs

1998-06-08 Thread hcheng
Hi, When I run the X version of emacs (RH 5.1), the "Alt" keys on my keyboard doesn't get recognized as the Meta key. Instead, the "Windows" key become the Meta key. Other applications still recognize the Alt key instead of the Windows key, and emacs in terminal mode (but not in xterm) still

Re: hacker

1998-06-08 Thread redhat
How did you get that information? what commando did you use? rpm -q bind -- 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

vidoe on the motherboard

1998-06-08 Thread Paul Raupach III
Hi all, I'm trying to install 5.1 on a ASUS SP97-V Mainboard with Sis 5598 (integrated VGA). I get through the install but when I call startx I'm falling down something about screen res ... Am I going out to buy a video card? Thank you, The Very Green Newbie, Paul begin: vcard fn:

Newbie question on xstart video

1998-06-08 Thread Stephen Schroeder
I ran the Xconfigurator and answered to the best of my abilities the questions ... (like I am suppose to know the vertical refresh rate on my monitor) Anyways got xstart to work and run . but I can only see 1/18 of the overall area and what I can see looks like I am on the old Commodore 64

Re: 17 monitor recommendations

1998-06-08 Thread Thomas Hubbell
I'm looking for a less expensive 17" monitor that will run 1600x1200 (I'm using an 4mb (soon to be 8) Mill II). Any suggestions? I've been looking for the same type of thing. I found a KDS VS-9 which matches those specs. It is $369 at Tiger Direct. I have no idea of the quality of these

Changing the root window manager...how?

1998-06-08 Thread poneil
I am running Redhat 5.0 and not too long ago, I did...something (I do not know exactly what) such that now the default window manager when I "startx" is plain ole fvwm. I hate it. I would like to get back to, I believe, fvwm2 so I can use one of the alternative "flavors", ie, fvwm95, afterstep,

Re: 17 monitor recommendations

1998-06-08 Thread Brian M. Choc
Check out the CTX 1785xa. Under $400, and some great specs. I got one for a friend and I'm pretty impressed so far. http://www.ctxintl.com/sp1785xa.htm -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips

Changind the default route on-the-fly

1998-06-08 Thread Jake Colman
I have a local private Class C network in my home office. My linux box connects to my ISP via dial-up PPP and uses IP-Masq so that the rest of the network can access the Internet. All is well and good. I am adding a router to connect via ISDN to the main office. I plan on using IP Aliasing

imlib anyone?

1998-06-08 Thread Michael Jinks
Has anyone else tried to upgrade to Raster's new release of imlib (the rpm I have is imlib-1.4-2.i386.rpm)? I get failed dependencies, but I can't find (anywhere) the libraries that it says it needs: [root@fred E]# rpm -U imlib-1.4-2.i386.rpm failed dependencies: libgdk-1.1.so.0 is

Re: Hard drive is being read continuously

1998-06-08 Thread Michael Jinks
My first guess would be to run top and see if anybody is conspicuously active that shouldn't be. How's your processor load? -- 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

RH5.1 and Corel rpm

1998-06-08 Thread Andy Moskoff
Hi: Am I the only one having problems installing the Corel WordPerfect RPM from the Apps CD? Has anybody installed it successfully? When I do an "rpm -Uvh" on the package, it goes about half-way and then barfs. Any help appreciated. TIA

GLINT problem in RH5.0

1998-06-08 Thread Andy Moskoff
Hi: When I run Glint I get the following errors: bad option 'bzip2bin' at /usr/lib/rpmrc:12 bad option 'instchangelog' at /usr/lib/rpmrc:16 Glint Graphical Package Manager -- version 2.4 I have the latest rpm package installed (from the errata). I looked for /usr/bin/bzip2 but it is not on

Running netcfg as a regular user

1998-06-08 Thread David Chappell
Hi, I'm using RedHat 5.0. I have finished configuring my system as root so I created a regular user for myself. As root I used netcfg to start a ppp connection with no problem. But, when I start netcfg as a regular user I get a bunch of errors. I suspect it is a permission issue. What would be

Re: 17 monitor recommendations

1998-06-08 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 08 Jun 1998, Chris Frost wrote: I'm looking for a less expensive 17" monitor that will run 1600x1200 (I'm using an 4mb (soon to be 8) Mill II). Any suggestions? I have a Nokia 17" that I got for $400 some six months ago. It's great. I think it'll do 1600x1200, although I don't drive it

Re: 2nd cpu?

1998-06-08 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 08 Jun 1998, Chris Frost wrote: I'm often compiling one or two things, running a mp3 player, running netscape, etc. My cpu load is obviously high, should I consider adding a second cpu (166 p5)? Well, there is one school of thought that says that if your CPU load is consistently over 1,

Re: [OFFTOPIC] GCC Stuff

1998-06-08 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 08 Jun 1998, Michael J. McGillick wrote: Hello: First, let me apologize for the off topic post. I've been playing around with gcc on my system, and monitoring the kernel mailing list. There are lots of emails posted with "diffs" and "patches". I would like to learn There's a really

Re: Multiple harddrives seen as one?

1998-06-08 Thread Clemens Adler
Ok, sorry Clemens - Clemens Adler e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institut fuer Kernphysik Universitaet Frankfurt office phone:

Re: RH5.0 stability compared to Windows NT4?

1998-06-08 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Hugo Rabson wrote: Do you lose your data less often when you do lose it do you take as long to recover it as you did under NT? Is your data loss more often the result of a buggy application than a result of a problem with RedHat? Whenever I venture back to Windows 95

Re: IDE tape drives / backing up images?

1998-06-08 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: I understand IDE tape drives are not yet supported by RedHat Linux - is this correct? Wrong. It is supported since kernel 2.0.33 And works fairly well. We just shipped a bunch of machines with the Seagate Tapestor 4000 IDE drives, and I have one

Re: PANIC, please help!!

1998-06-08 Thread Alfonso Barreto Lopez
I have the RedHat 5.0 and I am using SCSI, it was detected well, and the system was working well, then I had to restart it because it was dead and that was it... __ Alfonso Barreto Lopez Inst. de Inv. de Matematicas

RE: RH5.0 stability compared to Windows NT4?

1998-06-08 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Hugo Rabson wrote: NT3.51's "older, slightly mad brother"), it's the apps. Am I right in thinking, however, that if KDE or CDE or whatever desktop you're running crashes, your apps continue running? Absolutely. In fact, it is a bit wrong to say "KDE" as if it were one

Re: Email To FAX

1998-06-08 Thread Eric L. Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Bench wrote: Anybody knowws of a program that can be configured to send emails to fax? A combination of procmail and hylafax could probably do this, depending on how fancy you want to be. Actually, most instances of "mail to fax" can probably be resolved simply by

[OFFTOPIC] GCC Stuff

1998-06-08 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Hello: First, let me apologize for the off topic post. I've been playing around with gcc on my system, and monitoring the kernel mailing list. There are lots of emails posted with "diffs" and "patches". I would like to learn more about what these are, and they get applied to standard C code.

Re: Penguins -OFF TOPIC!

1998-06-08 Thread Rick L. Mantooth
Larry Ewing is the man for this: http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/ Rick On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Gate News wrote: Does anyone know where I could find the Linux Penguin in its true 3d format? Not rendered, but maybe in 3d studio (or whatever) format? Thanks and sorry for the off topic

PPP?

1998-06-08 Thread enzyme
Hello, I'm trying to use PPP to connect to my ISP. My modem does not dial when pppd is evoked. I get the error message: "pppd: peer authentication required but no suitables secret(s) found for authentication any peer to us (hostname.domain)". I don't know what this means. However, my