RE: stdio.h

1998-06-18 Thread John Weber
rpm -qf /usr/include/stdio.h returns glibc-devel-2.0.5c-10 on my 5.0 system John Weber Center for Computational Mathematics System Administrator University of Colorado at Denver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Campus ext: 65394 (303)556-5394 off campus http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jweber -- PLEASE

Getting around in Emacs

1998-06-18 Thread Chris Wegrzyn
I have been typing up a document in emacs for a while and find it necessary to go to the end of lines. On windoze word processors, I can just hit end or home and get to the start or end of a line. Is there any way to set up Emacs so that I can use home and end to go to the beginning and end of a

Unreal for Linux

1998-06-18 Thread Thomas Hubbell
I was checking out the website for the new PC game Unreal. Anyway, it has a very advanced scripting language modeled on C++/Java. It sounds like it would be an extremely customizable game engine for 3d games. After reading the info, I though that this would be the perfect thing for Linux. After

RE: stdio.h

1998-06-18 Thread Woody
And the same binary execution yields the following on my personal RH 4.2 box: libc-devel-5.3.12-18 Woody Security Administrator Localline.com, Oxford, IN [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, John Weber wrote: rpm -qf /usr/include/stdio.h returns glibc-devel-2.0.5c-10 on my 5.0

RE: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-18 Thread David Chappell
Here's my 2 cents: Maybe you all should create an "linux-HTML-formatted-mail" list Time to kill this thread, don't you all think so? :) Dave C. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips

Re: Pine/Sendmail

1998-06-18 Thread flaw
On 17 Jun, Mike Johnson wrote: Hello, I'am trying to standardized my "From:" in my e-mail. To be more specific I'am trying to use the name my ISP has assign me, which is different than my user name. I tried to use the Pine mechanism, customize-header, but when I went to send an e-mail it told

Virtual Hosting / DNS Question

1998-06-18 Thread Lance Robertson
Ok, big question here. First off the basics. I'm pretty new to linux but am seeming to get around pretty good. I have Redhat 5.0. I'm trying to set up Name-Based Virtual Hosting as a test for another server. My domain is DOMAIN and I've got the Apache 1.3 Web server so it will serve the web

Re: Getting around in Emacs

1998-06-18 Thread Ray Curtis
"cw" == Chris Wegrzyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cw I have been typing up a document in emacs for a while and find it cw necessary to go to the end of lines. On windoze word processors, I can cw just hit end or home and get to the start or end of a line. Is there any cw way to set up Emacs so

Re: printing problems, ppa zip disk, and RH 5.0

1998-06-18 Thread flaw
If you're using RedHat's default kernel then the modules needed for both the printer and the zip drive are probably present. To start the zip driver use the following command (if you're using RedHat 5.1 -- if not then substitute the proper module directory): insmod

Re: beginner's question re RH 5.0 install

1998-06-18 Thread Mattias Kunkel
Am Wed, 17 Jun 1998 schriebst Du: Can anyone advise me on how to install RH 5.0 from a CD-rom ? I get as far as the menu that asks what kind of CD-rom driver -- my CD -rom drive is a USDRIVEs 24DT . It is an atapi compliant drive attached to a Soundblaster card. My problem is: when I get to

RE: HTML 2 TEXT?

1998-06-18 Thread Maxwell Smart
On 18-Jun-98 wward wrote: Hello, Is there program that will convert HTML to text? TIA. One called html-strip is located someplace in the contrib directories. I have html-strip-0d1-1.i386.rpm if you can't locate it. --- We all be gwine upta hebbin! -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips,

Cut and Paste Problem in Redhat 5.1

1998-06-18 Thread Jackson Chan
Has anyone had the problem where they cannot cut and paste using the mouse after installing RH 5.1? My old RH 5.0 system had no problems, now, with same hardware, the mouse works, but I cannot select text with the first button and paste it by another button. Is this a bug in RH 5.1 or

Re: Inserting comment characters, etc...

1998-06-18 Thread Daniel Goldin
On 16 Jun 1998 17:01:29 -0500, M Maxwell (M) wrote: M Once again, I'm stumped with something. I've looked at the books and M info pages, but no luck. M What I need to do is insert a comment character (ex: '#') at the M beginning of a range of lines in a file. Basically, I'd like it to do M

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-18 Thread Ian Burrell
At 08:15 6/17/98 -0600, James Boorn wrote: Maybe I am just dense, so please enlighten me. What problem does HTML email solve? I see no reason for it, and am one of those that just deletes it. But maybe if I knew the problem it solved I'ld be willing to consider it a solution. HTML

Re: Space problem?

1998-06-18 Thread Ian Burrell
A lot of times you will find that when running low on space...and you delete say, like you said, 20 M, that the df binary will show your respective filesystem as 0 M left. But if you look at the actual amount to the left of the 0, you will find that there is still some space leftI

Re: Perl/TK

1998-06-18 Thread Ian Burrell
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Brian Wilson wrote: Can anyone tell me if there is a rpm for the Perl/TK on Redhat 5.1. If Uh... Sorry, dumb question: what is Perl/TK? Where is it main site? It is a perl module that interfaces with Tk for producing GUIs in Perl. It has its own newgroup

Re: HTML 2 TEXT?

1998-06-18 Thread Anthony E. Greene
At 21:19 6/17/98 -0400, wward wrote: Is there program that will convert HTML to text? There are programs to do this but our can save a loaded document from within a browser too. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING

Re: HTML 2 TEXT?

1998-06-18 Thread argathin
wward writes: Hello, Is there program that will convert HTML to text? Lynx will do it, use: lynx -force_html -dump YOUR_FILE_OR_URL TEXTFILE I'm using that as a text converter in mutt (for those infamous HTML mails...) As an aside: If you want to keep the formatting and just want to get a

RH5.x install ?

1998-06-18 Thread Mike A. Lewis, CNE
I have a Toshiba laptop running WinDoze95. I plan to put RH5.x on the second partition. Is there a HOW-TO covering this or can anyone provide any pitfalls I may encounter ? Thanks, Mike -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: lpd 0.31 broken

1998-06-18 Thread Tressens Lionel
Yes, this is a bug. lpd tries to fork the printing process with the username of the user who is printing. I have submitted this bug to the RedHat bugs page. I made some changes on the sources of the lpr package to be able to print. If you want my solution, please mail me. Lionel

RE: Have any list members seen this.........

1998-06-18 Thread KThorpe
Chris Humphres [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My company recently purchased a Dell PowerEdge 2300 server WITHOUT an OS. No problems from Dell and yes we are running Linux on it.:-) We've just bought one of those, I think you'll find you've actually paid for a licence for MSDOS in the deal. Dell

RE: printing problems, ppa zip disk, and RH 5.0

1998-06-18 Thread Dodd Graham Civ USAFE CSS/SCBS
Ignacio, just for the record, the manufacturer doesn't know what he's talking about, I have a zip drive hooked up to my Epson 600 and it works great. The problem is having the correct modules loaded, either lp.o or ppa.o Check the Zip mini-howto, it explains all. Graham

Re: lpd 0.31 broken

1998-06-18 Thread Tony Molloy.
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Jacob A. Langford wrote: lpd is broken (i386 version at least). redhat 5.1 - lpr 0.21.2 - updated to lpr 0.31.1 redhat 5.1 - lpr 0.31.4 Between 0.17 and 0.21 something got broken. The daemon acts as if every printcap entry had :rs=true:, thus only honoring

Re: Burning a RedHat CD - The Full Story

1998-06-18 Thread Jos Vos
Cheng Yuan-Chung wrote: But can anyone tell me that where can I find "autoboot.img" and "boot.catalog" ??? I can't find these two files in the misc/boot . :( The file boot.catalog is created by mkisofs itself, so you don't need it (in fact, it's overwtitten if it's

Re: How to remove ,cr and ^M.

1998-06-18 Thread James Youngman
"mt" == Mauricio Teixeira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mt On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Sim Robert wrote: After I transferred some text files from DOS to Linux, I discovered that there is a cr or ^M after each line. How do I remove those cr quickly, instead of doing so one by one. mt Use

mirroring

1998-06-18 Thread LEBLIN JY
Does anybody know where i can find a package or a script or a HOWTO to setup a mirroring system on my RH5, with 2 HDD. I've heard of RAID, could this do it well ? Thanks / \ LEBLIN Jean-Yves / _ _ \IAE de Nantes

Re: Virtual Hosting / DNS Question

1998-06-18 Thread Claire Bradford
Lance Robertson wrote: the web browser when it points to DOMAIN. I want to be able to set up fred.DOMAIN and blah.DOMAIN so they will serve via the HTTP as well but will server out of their own directories. I have a Cacheing DNS running. I have one "real" IP address which is pretty

Re: mirroring

1998-06-18 Thread James Youngman
"l" == LEBLIN JY [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: l Does anybody know where i can find a package or a script or a l HOWTO to setup a mirroring system on my RH5, with 2 HDD. I've l heard of RAID, could this do it well ? Take a look at the Software-RAID HOWTO. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ,

Re: mirroring

1998-06-18 Thread Roger
On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 11:21:28AM +0100, James Youngman wrote: l heard of RAID, could this do it well ? Take a look at the Software-RAID HOWTO. There's also a Hardware RAID-1 available as well. You will need a DOS disk though to initially mirror the disks and then if a HD fails you need

Re: lpd 0.31 broken

1998-06-18 Thread Tressens Lionel
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Wolfgang Brungert wrote: Hi Lionel, Hi i have another problem related to printing from a Windows NT Server. Under Redhat 5.0 with lpr-0.21 or Redhat 5.1 with lpr-0.31 i'm not able to print any job. When i stop the queue, i see the job in the spool directory but

Re: How to remove ,cr and ^M.

1998-06-18 Thread Iztok Polanic
Hello !!! On 18 Jun 1998, James Youngman wrote: AFAIK it is not included with Red Hat 5.0. Here is a shell script which I use in its place:- If you're alredy looking for dos2unix command it is in redhat's contrib directory!

RE: 3c590 and PCI-SCSI card confict IRQ conflict

1998-06-18 Thread Joseph Doran
Free up any unused ISA IRQ's Disable some unused devices such as Com2. This will provide free such as irq 3. Move cards around try slots furthest apart first. I have had this problem with 3c590 and DPT controller. Hopefully this will resolve problem. If not ask 3com for a later rev of the

RE: RH5.x install ?

1998-06-18 Thread Jon Biddell
Yes, the one non-Linux command you MUST execute is; FORMAT C: Then all your problems will be gone...:-) I have a Toshiba laptop running WinDoze95. I plan to put RH5.x on the second partition. Is there a HOW-TO covering this or can anyone provide any pitfalls I may encounter ? Thanks,

RE: LPRng

1998-06-18 Thread Ronnie . N . Glasscock
I installed LPRng on RH5.0 Slackware (kernel 2.0.30). I don't use SMB. Ended up LPRng was the only solution I could find to allow Linux to rec print jobs from a mainframe application. Spent about a month trying everything I could come up with, and other's suggestions. Linux would not allow

RE: Upgrade to 5.1 - DPT RAID fails..

1998-06-18 Thread Joseph Doran
Are you sure that the DPT cards Address has not changed? check it in the DPT bios by CTRL D at boot up. Joe. -Original Message- From: Tim Hockin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 June 1998 23:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Upgrade to 5.1 - DPT RAID fails.. We have a

in market for new computer; want no problems

1998-06-18 Thread Swartzbaugh, Mr. Richard A.
I want to buy a new computer through a mail-order supplier (like Gateway) but I want no problems. I've loaded Linux before but could never get past installing the network card. Has anyone recently bought a mail-order computer with a network card and had no problems installing RH5.x? Andy

Re: How to remove ,cr and ^M.

1998-06-18 Thread Dave Parker
Iztok Polanic wrote: Hello !!! On 18 Jun 1998, James Youngman wrote: AFAIK it is not included with Red Hat 5.0. Here is a shell script which I use in its place:- If you're alredy looking for dos2unix command it is in redhat's contrib directory! You might also take a look at /usr/bin/tr.

Re: Unreal for Linux

1998-06-18 Thread Joe Nestlerode
One enterprising Linux user has put up a website where people can sign a petition to indicate that they would support a Linux port. The address is: http://www.voicenet.com/~shaitan/ I'm not a gamer, but I've added my name to the petition. IMO, the more commercial ports and exposure for

Re: Getting around in EMACS

1998-06-18 Thread W. Wade, Hampton
Folks, there was a great article a few years ago on customizingt EMACS. You might want to check out http://www.ssc.com. Also, adding the following lines to your .emacs file should do it: (global-set-key [end] 'end-of-line) (global-set-key [home]'beginning-of-line) I have a rather

Linux 4.2 Backup Tape compatibility

1998-06-18 Thread bob jones
I hope somebody knows about this or can tell me where to look. Thanks in advance. Will I be able to backup files using tar under Linux 4.2 with what is called a 3M TRAVAN tape? I believe the tape is an IDE type and the drive is a Seagate. I believe this tape is available in 3 and 4GB

Re: beginners help for redhat linux

1998-06-18 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Is there a list for linux newbies thats not quite as busy as this one. I find that when I get 125 messages in the morning I end up There's '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. As far as I know, it is still up, but it's not redhat-specific. Terry --

boot disk and boot sector for bootloader

1998-06-18 Thread chang
Hi, all: I try to install RedHat 4.1 ( I bought the CD two years ago, have not upgrad yet) to HP pavilion 8275 with HD 8GB. During the installation process, everything is ok untill it try to install bootloader in the master boot sector or the first sector of the partitioned disk or on floppy

reconfiguring NIC

1998-06-18 Thread webmaster
Dear Linux Gurus: If I yank my existing NIC on my linux box, and install a new(different) NIC, how do I reconfigure the OS to recognize the new NIC? TIA... Vincent Tan [CNE, NCIP, CNA4, CNA3, MCP] Commonwealth Credit Union Network Coordinator mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the

Network throughput using Chargen?

1998-06-18 Thread Graham
I want to measure network throughput between two points in a network. Until now I have just enabled the chargen service in /etc/inetd.conf and used NetScan Tools on a Windows Laptop. This sends data to the chargen server and gives me a throughput in KBytes/Sec. However, this means that I have to

Afterstep won't load.

1998-06-18 Thread Brett A. Noe
I've got a machine with 4.2 on it, and I want to load the Afterstep windows manager. I downloaded the RPM, but when I try to install it I get an error saying that it needs /bin/sh. I checked, and it is already there. Any ideas? -- Brett A. Noe Network Administrator Ink Image, Inc.

Re: printing problems, ppa zip disk, and RH 5.0

1998-06-18 Thread Vidiot
just for the record, the manufacturer doesn't know what he's talking about, I have a zip drive hooked up to my Epson 600 and it works great. The problem is having the correct modules loaded, either lp.o or ppa.o Check the Zip mini-howto, it explains all. Graham Actually, RedHat isn't

Re: beginner's question re RH 5.0 install

1998-06-18 Thread Maureen Beck
thanks! At 08:31 PM 6/17/98 -0400, you wrote: Maureen Beck wrote: Can anyone advise me on how to install RH 5.0 from a CD-rom ? I get as far as the menu that asks what kind of CD-rom driver -- my CD -rom drive is a USDRIVEs 24DT . It is an atapi compliant drive attached to a Soundblaster

Re: Applixware question (been awhile)

1998-06-18 Thread Mike
Are you using "Save As..." or "Export..." from the file menu? You should be using "Export...". I see ASCII Paragraphs, HTML, Interleaf, Frame, MS Word, etc... Hope that helps... By the way, on my applix cdrom the filters are in: /mnt/cdrom/applix/axfilter On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Bozarth

making a bootdisk

1998-06-18 Thread Chris Frost
How should you make a bootdisk for your box? 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 ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ

Re: login problems

1998-06-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
OK Just moved from 4.0 to 5.1 and I've hit some quick snags. After adding a couple aliases to my /etc/profile (alias ls= ls -color, etc.) I can only log in as root. No other account works, not my personal or my ppp account. I don't understand it. I've tried "passwd eric" and all "tokens

Re: startx

1998-06-18 Thread Alfonso Barreto Lopez
You have to find the Horizontal and Vertical rates of your monitor and then changes them in the /etc/X11/XF86Config file. Try tu put the highest resolution mode of your monitor, in the card part of this file. __ Alfonso

Re: startx

1998-06-18 Thread tyrant
Try xf86config (assuming this is xfree which i think it is) and look for a part about virtual screen...exat question for me is Do you want a virtual screen that is larger than the physical screen? answer no :) hope that helps On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, webmaster wrote: Dear Linux Gurus: I

depmod, /lib/modules/preferred, ...

1998-06-18 Thread Jos Vos
Hi, Some surprises... I see that "depmod -a" works on RHL 5.1, that is, it creates a modules.dep in /lib/modules/preferred. I also see that rc.sysinit calls "depmod -a" with an extra "preferred" parameter. A few questions: - Why does it also work _without_ the extra parameter (there is no

Re: How to remove ,cr and ^M.

1998-06-18 Thread Mauricio Teixeira
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Sim Robert wrote: After I transferred some text files from DOS to Linux, I discovered that there is a cr or ^M after each line. How do I remove those cr quickly, instead of doing so one by one. Use the command "dos2unix"...

Re: MS Mouse ver 2.0 vs 2.1

1998-06-18 Thread Alex Ardalich
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Fred Lenk wrote: Fixed a weird problem. After running startx, the mouse wouldn't move the cursor unless I ended the GUI session, ran mouseconfig, and ran startx again. If I ended the GUI session and logged off as root, I had to do the same thing next time I logged in.

Re: Getting around in EMACS

1998-06-18 Thread skip
Wade Also, adding the following lines to your .emacs file should do it: Wade (global-set-key [end] 'end-of-line) Wade (global-set-key [home]'beginning-of-line) In recent versions of XEmacs at least (I use 20.3), these are the default bindings for the Home and End keys.

Off Topic: Web site maping

1998-06-18 Thread Joe Klemmer
I seem to remember that the issue of mapping a web site was discussed in this list quite a while ago. For some reason I seem to think that this can be done with lynx and some switch or other. I don't seem to be able to find the correct information on how to do this so I ask this august

slrn-pull problems on 5.0

1998-06-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
I got the old version of slrn-pull (0.9.4.3-3)F9 from /contrib but it segfaults on 5.0. There is a more recent version in /5.0/contrib but it depends on a more recent version of slrn which in turn requires a more recent version of slang, and I'm not happy about installing this from /5.0/contrib

Stardent 19 monitor

1998-06-18 Thread Smith, Nathan A., Capt.
Hi again, I know this might be a bit off topic, but I was wondering if anyone has the specification on a Stardent 19" monitor. Stardent was a workstation manufacturor a couple of years back. The monitor is actually made by SONY, but because it was made for Stardent they don't have any

Re: printing problems, ppa zip disk, and RH 5.0

1998-06-18 Thread Zoki
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Ignacio Rodriguez wrote: - so I can mount/umount it? How do I get my printer working under - the circumstances? - -I also have a Zip at /dev/lp0 (lpt1) and the manufacturer says it's not -compatible with Linux. I have never tried printing, but, have you tried -disconnecting

Re: in market for new computer; want no problems

1998-06-18 Thread Dave Reed
From: "Swartzbaugh, Mr. Richard A." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 13:59:25 +0200 I want to buy a new computer through a mail-order supplier (like Gateway) but I want no problems. I've loaded Linux before but could never get past installing the network card. Has anyone recently

Fetchmail question

1998-06-18 Thread Darque
I'm having trouble figuring out how to configure fetchmail to do what I need it to do... Here's my situation. I have a domain mailbox that I poll. The mail from that account would be either for myself(under multiple names) or to be piped to lists that I have setup under Smartlist on my

RE: in market for new computer; want no problems

1998-06-18 Thread Beth Gemeny
We just bought a little Pentium 200 MMX from a local vendor, and I installed a Lynksys 10BT network card... since it was NE2000 compatible, it was a breeze (after I did a DOS boot to run the mfr's config software to disable the card's PnP mode). FWIW, Beth Gemeny SysAdmin HHN -Original

Microsoft Mouse

1998-06-18 Thread DW Towner
Hi all, I have recently bought a new mouse after my old one broke, and I decided to treat myself to a proper Microsoft Mouse that everyone seems to rave about these days. However, after plugging it in, my machine will no longer recognise the mouses presence. If I plug in my old mouse first on

RE: in market for new computer; want no problems

1998-06-18 Thread Jamie D
Dell and Gateway sck bottom line and if it does screw up, forget tech support, (even if you dont put win95 on it) -Original Message- From: Dave Reed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 18, 1998 11:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: in market for new computer;

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-18 Thread dreamwvr
Hi, Just felt i suppose like agreeing. Nothing more frustrating than recieving a email from someone who thinks they are being so informed that is formatted wrong so that it is all HTML tags. That is rm without hesitation. What i found amazing is that the people sending this info get so

Re: Raid ( new topic grin )

1998-06-18 Thread dreamwvr
Hi noticed your request for raid info for linux... check out http://linas.org/linux/raid.html Best Regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 01:34 AM 6/14/98 -0400, James Michael Keller wrote: Ok, with

Re: startx

1998-06-18 Thread Cody Hartley
Vincent, I had a similar problem. Editing XF86Config and changing the Vconsole to match my resolution took care of it. I don't think you'll need to worry about the refresh rates, nor do I think you'll find an option for virtual consoles in XConfigurator. There will possibly several

X client shutdown

1998-06-18 Thread Cody Hartley
Another X question for RH5.1: When I exit from X using the menu exit command or ctrl-alt-backspace I get a blank screen. Commands still function, but my console doesn't echo. I suspect that the screen mode is not being changed, but I don't know how to force it to restore text mode. Is there a

Re: Network Card autoprobing

1998-06-18 Thread John J. Donohue
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Damien Silveira wrote: I have reinstalled redhat numerous times now and am having no success. I am installing from retail cd with one network card and choosing expert mode. I set the i/o addr and the irq and then get the system running and add an additional network card

Re: slrn-pull problems on 5.0

1998-06-18 Thread gmoore
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 06/18/98 at 06:22 PM, Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I got the old version of slrn-pull (0.9.4.3-3)F9 from /contrib but it segfaults on 5.0. There is a more recent version in /5.0/contrib but it depends on a more recent version of slrn which in turn

drop from x server to console screen

1998-06-18 Thread Tom Elsesser
Hi, Is it possible to cntl-alt-f# to a console screen from the x server, and not kill the server? For example, if I login on F1, startx on F2 and fire up a ppp session, can I go back to F1 without shutting down the x server and the programs (ppp) that were running in it? Thanks, Tom --

Re: HTML 2 TEXT?

1998-06-18 Thread Phillip Ching 605.734.71
Hi Tony,, Execuse me for interrupting the conversation. What do you mean by 'our' ? Is it a Linux package? Thanks! Philip At 21:19 6/17/98 -0400, wward wrote: Is there program that will convert HTML to text? There are programs to do this but our can save a loaded document from

RE: Several problems...RH 5.0 kernel 2.0.31

1998-06-18 Thread Jamie D
since the Zip drive is attached to your Printer port, why would you want SCSI support, (2 totally different buses)! a parallel Zip will not work on a scsi for M$ PC's why would make LInux be an exception -Original Message- From: Patrick O'Neil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

Aztech again

1998-06-18 Thread Alfonso Barreto Lopez
I would like to know if some one have installed and Aztech Galaxy Nova 16 sound card. I tried the program made by James (Thanks to him, for giving me another choice) but it did not worked. Thanks for your time. __

Re: Getting around in Emacs

1998-06-18 Thread Brian Gorka
"argathin" == argathin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you are using the X version of Emacs, you can type: M-x pc-bindings-mode and M-x pc-selection-mode (where M-x is ALT-x or ESC-x) argathin ?? Just a question - is that a new feature in the later argathin

Re: in market for new computer; want no problems

1998-06-18 Thread Matt Housh
Rather close-minded of you, don't you think? I happen to have a Dell P2/400 sitting in front of me right now that works great, straight off. Dell is great about mail ordering. Granted, it had windows 95 on it when it came, but that was EASILY taken care of, and besides, I wouldn't want someone to

Re: Burning a RedHat CD - The Full Story -HELP

1998-06-18 Thread Steve Frampton
Hello! I'm trying to get a CD burned for 5.1. I followed the procedure according to the "Full Story", and when it came time to follow step #5: 5) You now need to create a new hdlist file... I got: bash: ./genhdlist: No such file or directory The file *is* there, and is chmod a+x. If I

RE: Microsoft Mouse

1998-06-18 Thread Jon Biddell
I had a problem with the MS-Rodent (v1.1a) under RH5.1 - fixed it by selecting NO MOUSE, then re-running MOUSECONFIG and selecting SERIAL (no emulation) Jon -Original Message- From: DW Towner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 19 June 1998 1:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Tip on burning your own RedHat CD

1998-06-18 Thread Brian Wright
First of all, many thanks to the folks (Eric, Kevin, and others) for their tips to make a RedHat CD-R. I did find a link that has instructions on how to make your own. The URL is: http://www.users.fast.net/~rodsmith/rhjol.html This should be in the RedHat FAQ as well. Thanks again, Brian

Re: drop from x server to console screen

1998-06-18 Thread tyrant
Yes, try F7 though instead of F1...and nothing will be closed down. On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Tom Elsesser wrote: Hi, Is it possible to cntl-alt-f# to a console screen from the x server, and not kill the server? For example, if I login on F1, startx on F2 and fire up a ppp session, can I go

Re: drop from x server to console screen

1998-06-18 Thread Darque
On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 02:43:28PM -0400, Tom Elsesser wrote: Hi, Is it possible to cntl-alt-f# to a console screen from the x server, and not kill the server? For example, if I login on F1, startx on F2 and fire up a ppp session, can I go back to F1 without shutting down the x server and

Re: drop from x server to console screen

1998-06-18 Thread Blair Craft
CNTL+ALT+F# will take you to a console screen. Assuming everything is default, alt+F7 should take you back to X. Regards, Blair. On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 02:43:28PM -0400, Tom Elsesser wrote: Hi, Is it possible to cntl-alt-f# to a console screen from the x server, and not kill the server?

Re: XFree86 rpm

1998-06-18 Thread Christopher Fisk
You need to reinstall the XFree86-libs rpm. Many things seem to break those in RH5.x :( You'll prolly have to do a --force. HTH Chris On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Rick Ingersoll wrote: I have just completed an upgrade from RedHat 4.2 to RedHat 5.0. I then proceeded to apply all of the security

Large Files bombing POP-3

1998-06-18 Thread Doug Elznic
I remember reading something a while back about large files and pop-3 clients. We have complaints from time to time about mail retrieval bombing with big files. There was something on this list (i think) about are configuration that you can do with the pop-3 daemon to help this? Anyone remember?

Re: Fetchmail question

1998-06-18 Thread Chuck Mead
Darque wrote: I'm having trouble figuring out how to configure fetchmail to do what I need it to do... Here's my situation. I have a domain mailbox that I poll. The mail from that account would be either for myself(under multiple names) or to be piped to lists that I have setup under

Linux person to talk to

1998-06-18 Thread Kyle Moore
I know this really isn't the place for this and that's why I would appreciate private replies. I don't know anyone that uses Linux. Right now I use Win95 and NT 4.0 (I have installed and used Linux a bit) but I am buying a new computer and will be putting Linus on as the main OS. I have been

Re: Microsoft Mouse

1998-06-18 Thread LG
Are you having the problem with gpm? If so, it might be that your mouse type is set wrong... Trye gpm -t ms Hope this helps, mike On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, DW Towner wrote: Hi all, I have recently bought a new mouse after my old one broke, and I decided to treat myself to a proper Microsoft

RE: in market for new computer; want no problems

1998-06-18 Thread Jamie D
a real; computer is one that you build, not one that someone builds for you, and the fact that YOU want to put linux on it is all the more reason that YOU should build it, not michael dell!!! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June

Re: in market for new computer; want no problems

1998-06-18 Thread Thomas Hubbell
I want to buy a new computer through a mail-order supplier (like Gateway) but I want no problems. I've loaded Linux before but could never get past installing the network card. Has anyone recently bought a mail-order computer with a network card and had no problems installing RH5.x? We

AS400 files rolled over to linux .db is this possible and robust?

1998-06-18 Thread dreamwvr
Hi Everyone, Am looking for a method to convert AS400 files over to linux if at all possible so that users can access the files according to their rights of ownership by browser. Is their a method. Note i am no wiz at as400 data but the mnframe in question is at peak and need to

Re: wheel group

1998-06-18 Thread dreamwvr
Yes there is a wheel group available by default on red hat linux:') At 11:21 AM 6/14/98 -0400, Steve Frampton wrote: On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Alex de Joode wrote: The various BSD' have a 'wheel group' with users allowed to 'su' into root, is there such a scheme for Linux (RH5.1) ? Yes, I believe

Network card problem.

1998-06-18 Thread Yoink!
A friend gave me some junk network cards I'm trying to salvage for redhat 5.1. the problem is that i have no idea what this card is, no documentation, drivers, etc. I tried sticking it in win95 to no avail. the only hint is that the (main?) chip identifies Western Digital. It says:

NFS Error: nfssvc: Function not implemented

1998-06-18 Thread Doug Elznic
Hello, When /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs start is executed I get: [root@calvert /root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs start Starting NFS services: rpc.mountd rpc.nfsd nfssvc: Function not implemented Does anyone know what that error means? -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

Good backup solution for two linux boxes on same ethernet.

1998-06-18 Thread Doug Elznic
Hello, I have two linux boxes I would like to backup over the network. One has he tape drive and the other has the data. They are both stock 5.0 (intel) boxes. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata

Re: Network throughput using Chargen?

1998-06-18 Thread Blair Craft
IPTraf may do what you want. http://cebu.mozcom.com/riker/iptraf Regards, Blair. On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 02:48:18PM +, Graham wrote: I want to measure network throughput between two points in a network. Until now I have just enabled the chargen service in /etc/inetd.conf and used

Re: Burning a RedHat CD - The Full Story -HELP

1998-06-18 Thread Netlink Tech
Thanks Graham, I still have a problem though. I still get a seg fault/core dump. Same place, without the "Emulating a 1.44 meg floppy" line. Here is a bit of the core dump: ^@Can't allocate memory for excluded filename ^@ Seek error on old image

Re: Linux person to talk to

1998-06-18 Thread Michael Jinks
Kyle Moore wrote: I know this really isn't the place for this and that's why I would appreciate private replies. I don't know anyone that uses Linux. Right now I use Win95 and NT 4.0 (I have installed and used Linux a bit) but I am buying a new computer and will be putting Linus on as the

Printing on both sides with inkjet printer.

1998-06-18 Thread Sim Robert
Hi, Does anyone know how to print on both sides of paper with inkjet printers. Can I do that with lpr or mpage? Any special drivers or programs available? Thanks a lot. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ

AIC-7xxx and Adaptec AIC-7890?

1998-06-18 Thread Dana Canfield
I just got a Gateway ALR-7200 Server and it has two Adaptec AIC-7890 controllers built into the motherboard. I cannot get redhat 5.1 to recognize these controllers. I know the 7890 is not on the list of supported Adaptec chipsets, but I suspect that the controller would work with AIC-7xxx

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