Re: make problem - cc1pluss?

1998-06-25 Thread Brandon_ Petersen_
I had the same problem when compiling QT and KDE... This is what I did cd /usr/bin mv gcc gcc-back ln -s egcs gcc I compiled everything without a problem cd /usr/bin rm gcc

Re: XWindows damaging my monitor?!

1998-06-25 Thread David Taylor
Fred Whipple wrote: The speakers are magnetically-shielded. I have no idea about the monitor tho'. But even if the monitor's not, the speakers wouldn't be the problem if they are shielded, or would they? Well, technically, magnetic shielding is a two way thing. That is, though yes a

Re: word processor votes

1998-06-25 Thread Geoffrey S. Knauth
Glad you like Word Perfect 7. Since my wife uses an older Word Perfect for her dissertation, there's then a chance she could use WP7 on Linux some day too. In general my wish is to have Linux software that can read/write .doc (Word) and .xls (Excel) files, so that I don't have to reboot a Win95

Re: FW: Anyone using GIS with Linux?

1998-06-25 Thread Geoffrey S. Knauth
I don't actually use it but, there is a free GIS called Grass that is available for Linux. I grabbed GRASS to try it the other day. To compile it, I needed Motif. I compiled/installed LessTif, then noticed that Adobe Acrobat Reader had stopped working, hence my earlier post about that. Not

Re: Adding BitchX to AfterStep Wharf

1998-06-25 Thread Craig Maloney
Try this command... *Wharf "35" bitchx.xpm Exec "BitchX" rxvt -T "BitchX" -pixmap ~/backgrounds/xpms/14.xpm -bg black -fg white -fn vga -e BitchX This is from my Wharf configuration. Of course, you may want to remove the pixmap definition. The VGA font should be part of your XFree

Re: ##@@%%$$...cron...

1998-06-25 Thread Paul Fontenot
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Zoki wrote: -+-I'm trying to make the...##@@%$ cron to connect to my ISP, send mail, -+-download new ones and switch off. -+-00 08 * * * sh /usr/local/sbin/get_mail I am assuming you are trying to get this to go at 8AM? I have a similar set up that connects evry hour,

Re: ##@@%%$$...cron...

1998-06-25 Thread John H Darrah
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Zoki wrote: I'm trying to make the...##@@%$ cron to connect to my ISP, send mail, download new ones and switch off. Pritty straight forward I would think. Nevertheless it doesn't work. Another mistake I made was thinking this would be simple. How about this:

Re: Problem with Linux

1998-06-25 Thread David L. Martin
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Chris Seto wrote: Hi Everyone, I've been running Redhat 5.0 for a while now without any problem, but lately I've been getting these messages sent to root : queuename: Cannot create "qfBAA13142" in "/var/spool/mqueue" (euid=9): Permission denied does anyone have these

Re: Should we be pushing Linux over Windows 95?

1998-06-25 Thread Cristian Tibirna
On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Tony Wells wrote: For the client workstation ease of use and penetration of application software is the driver. Win9x and NT are the clear winners here. Those client OSs will stay with us until another supplier provides a viable alternative. I'm not holding my breath.

Is there a manhatten list?

1998-06-25 Thread Scott Kindley
The list page at redhat (http://archive.redhat.com) does not show a manhatten listing. However I have seen a couple of posts referring to it as if it indeed did exist. If it does what is the address to subscribe. Ive tried [EMAIL PROTECTED] but soon recieve a bounce leading me to believe its

RE: Problem reading 32-bit fat partitions

1998-06-25 Thread Tim Larkins \(EUKSHEL1PO\)
Doesn't support FAT32? I know this is incorrect since I'm using a stable release (2.0.34) that certainly does support FAT32. It's great to be able to steal 95's HD space. 8-) -- Doug Just out of interest, How does your FAT32 partition show

Re: users groups accross many systems

1998-06-25 Thread Michael Jinks
Chris Frost wrote: Also, is nfs much faster in 2.1? This network is going to be loaded w/ nfs stuff (seeing as how 10 computers will be disk-less), and I'll need all the performance I can get. Hopefully someone else can be more precise about this, but at the Linux Expo there was a talk

Re: users groups accross many systems

1998-06-25 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Chris Frost wrote: I'm beginning to setup a cluster here, and most of the nodes will be disk-less (and thus nis isn't needed), but for those that will have their Probably should use it anyway. It keeps your password files organized, it is better than mounting /etc/passwd

Re: Warm reboot?

1998-06-25 Thread Michael Jinks
Bertram M. Krueger wrote: Always when I restart my computer using "reboot" or "shutdown -r" it effects an cold restart. Is ist somehow possible to make a warm reboot (that way as at MS-DOS with CTRLALTDEL)? I'm not sure, but I think that the analogous process on a system-V-style *n*x box is

Re: Warm reboot?

1998-06-25 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Michael Jinks wrote: I'm not sure, but I think that the analogous process on a system-V-style *n*x box is changing runlevels. Whenever you change from one runlevel Not exactly. shutdown -r does a change to runlevel 6. The fact that the system reboots cold instead of

Re: IP Forwarding on Linux PPP Server

1998-06-25 Thread Richard Sharpe
At 01:06 PM 6/24/98 -0500, "John J. Donohue" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Anthony E. Greene wrote: I'm having routing trouble with a PPP connection to a Linux server using a Win95 client. The PPP connection works. I can ping the Linux box from the Win95 box. But I can't see

FW: Anyone using GIS with Linux?

1998-06-25 Thread Bradley, Greg
I don't actually use it but, there is a free GIS called Grass that is available for Linux. It now comes with a tk/tcl front end (which I haven't got to work yet) and imports and exports to several formats arcinfo being one of them I believe. Regards Greg -- From: Jim Snyder To: [EMAIL

Re: What's so great about Linux?

1998-06-25 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Tim Pickering wrote: that's not entirely true. if you build under solaris 2.4, it's likely that it will work under solaris 2.4. however, if you build something on 2.5.1 or 2.6, it will NOT work under 2.4 because of library Does anything work under 2.4? :) I wouldn't

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: Derek Balling [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 1:38 PM Subject: Re: HTML-formatted mail case-by-case basis. There _is_ a place for HTML mail. That may be. But not in my mailbox. :) The funny thing is,

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: dreamwvr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Chris Fishwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, June 18, 1998 1:53 PM Subject: Re: HTML-formatted mail right tool for the job i often think to myself?

Re: PCI Sound?

1998-06-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: Randy Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 12:07 AM Subject: PCI Sound? example, The Ensoniq PCI cards are available for dirt cheap, and are listed as compatible with OSS. Do they work good? I haven't

Re: POP3 server config page?

1998-06-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: Dodd Graham Civ USAFE CSS/SCBS [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 9:28 AM Subject: RE: POP3 server config page? BTW take a look at IMAP, it is better than POP3.

Re: Win95 to Linux

1998-06-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: Bill Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, June 19, 1998 9:47 AM Subject: Win95 to Linux without using network cards? If network cards are necessary, how much do you think it would cost? If you're willing to go extra

Re: Cookies

1998-06-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: Robert L. Willsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, June 22, 1998 7:02 AM Subject: Re: Cookies way to much space. I am sure most people have their machines set this way. I I'm curious; why are you sure of this? My

Re: Adding A New Partition

1998-06-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: Brian Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 2:44 PM Subject: Re: Adding A New Partition You can use PowerQuest's PartitionMagic to non-destructively resize partitions. It does support Linux ext2, but I've

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: Greg Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 12:44 PM Subject: Re: HTML-formatted mail The rest of the tags make extremely annoying messages. Also, it's funny that HTML proponents never address the

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: GateKeepeR News [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Shawn McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 8:41 PM Subject: Re: HTML-formatted mail Came here to read intelligent information and comments, not stupid shit from an ignorant prick like you. Well excuse

Where I can find the PDF file about Linux administrate

1998-06-25 Thread Cui Jian
Any body hnow where I can find the PDF file about Linux administrate. Thanks a lot. Cui Jian China OnLine Fax: 86-29-5219746 Tel: 86-29-5219748 Pager: 86-29-8405566-19189 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: X Not Starting After Having Upgraded Kernel

1998-06-25 Thread Sheng Lo
When I try to start X, it produces this output: I got the same problem when I first upgraded from RH4.2 to RH5.1. The problem? Try using '/sbin/ifconfig' and see if your 'lo' is being set up. Somehow the localhost disappeared after upgrading. I am not an expert, but I wonder if that is the

No Subject

1998-06-25 Thread dreamwvr
James, ??? do have a url to POP3 FAQ /HOWTO i have snedmail running on red hat 5.1 but do not know how to setup POP3 or IMAP to deliver mail. TIA At 03:53 PM 6/24/98 -0500, Dana Canfield wrote: 2987 users. Serving 100 pop connections per minute, plus web, Samba Appletalk. Now what were

Re: Should we be pushing Linux over Windows 95?

1998-06-25 Thread Robert W. Canary
Wonderful Idea! So when do we start! -- robert Michael Jinks wrote: 20:35 6/24/98 -0400, Dale Leonard wrote: If RH makes X windows a little easier to configure, then MS will have NOTHING on Linux, as most people (esp. newbies) are uncomfortable with the command line interface.

INN setup without an upstream provider (was,Re: Q: news servers)

1998-06-25 Thread Scott Kindley
OK heres a question. Ive read the documentation on setting up INN from redhat and the how to stuff from LDP. Both of those talk about feeds from an upstream provider. It said you would need a copy of some file from this provider. Cant remember the name of the file off hand. Seems this is where

[retry][Q] Kernel Messages Meaning

1998-06-25 Thread Raj Singh
Hi, Why should I be getting the following kind of messages. This happens once in a while and seems to have no effect on the working of the system which is RedHat Linux 4.2 with all updates applied. === kernel: Warning: dev (04:01) tty-count(4) != #fd's(5) in tty_open kernel:

RE: XWindows damaging my monitor?!

1998-06-25 Thread David Buddrige
If it bothers you, why not start a project to code an "easier" way to do it... (I've been thinking the same sorts of things myself) - a number of projects have swum around in my mind, to resolve this like maybe looking at putting together a "cut-back" version of linux with bare essentials and

Re: INN setup without an upstream provider (was,Re: Q: news servers)

1998-06-25 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Scott Kindley wrote: It said you would need a copy of some file from this provider. Cant Yes, the newsgroups file. :) If you are not connecting to an upstream, you create this file yourself. It's a plaintext file. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the

Question about logons...

1998-06-25 Thread James Michael Keller
I run logwatch to condence all the system logs each night. I've been getting the connections from the net.mx address ( or variants - as I assume they are from a dial up pool ) for the last week. From two to three times. Now I know the ipop3d is netscape and biff checking my inbox...

Re: INN setup without an upstream provider (was,Re: Q: news servers)

1998-06-25 Thread Scott Kindley
William T Wilson wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Scott Kindley wrote: It said you would need a copy of some file from this provider. Cant Yes, the newsgroups file. :) If you are not connecting to an upstream, you create this file yourself. It's a plaintext file. -- William,Never have

Book Layouts?

1998-06-25 Thread James Michael Keller
I've had a manuscript laying around for a few years now, and I've desided to get it into a printable form so I can run some copies off and bind them up. ( it happens to be an RPG system and I'm actualy getting time and people to play test ) Now, I spend the last few days using StarOffice 4.0

rangecheck error printing with ghostscript to BJC-4000

1998-06-25 Thread Peter Marks
Clean RH 5.1 install, configure printer as a Cannon BJC-4000, print the test postscript file and I get: "Unrecoverable error: rangecheck on .putdeviceprops" followed by some sort of stack dump on the printer. I searched the news groups and can see a few other reports of this but no answer. Can

RE: other option than IP Masquerade?

1998-06-25 Thread Michael Traffanstead
From what you describe... you have to masq. The main issue is that your isp is only going to issue you one ip which is assigned to your ppp link. You can route the traffic from the other linux boxes through the ppp link, but you'll never get anything back... when the remote machine trys to send

Re: redhat-digest Digest V98 #553

1998-06-25 Thread wilfrid Gaboriaud
From: Chris Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: users groups accross many systems I'm beginning to setup a cluster here, and most of the nodes will be disk-less (and thus nis isn't needed), but for those that will have their own hd, is nis the best way to have the same users on all machines?

Found! Possibly not totally compatible motherboard.

1998-06-25 Thread Db
Is someone keeping tabs on these? Cite recent purchase of an Aristo AM-535+ (aka. AM-535 VPX), with the VIA VT82C580VP. AFAICT, there was no problem as such with the chipset itself, except to mention the SAME CPU (PR150) in the Aristo mo'bo, must've been running at least twice as hot as it was

Re: addendum Re: Real Audio (fwd)

1998-06-25 Thread argathin
Michael Jinks writes: I get an error saying that compressed formats are not supported, and a URL with instructions to check error #38: For more information, please see Error 38 at: http://www.realaudio.com/help/error [...] Has anyone else had this problem? Do you know if the

Where I can find the Documenttition with PDF formated about Linux administrate

1998-06-25 Thread Cui Jian
Where can I find the Documenttition with PDF formated about Linux administrate. Cui Jian China OnLine Fax: 86-29-5219746 Tel: 86-29-5219748 Pager: 86-29-8405566-19189 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: Is there a manhatten list?

1998-06-25 Thread Anthony E. Greene
At 03:40 6/25/98 -0400, Scott Kindley wrote: The list page at redhat (http://archive.redhat.com) does not show a manhatten listing. However I have seen a couple of posts referring to it as if it indeed did exist. If it does what is the address to subscribe. Ive tried [EMAIL PROTECTED] but soon

Re: Novell IP

1998-06-25 Thread Tony Wells
Just before Tony's bedtime, William T Wilson wrote: Everything you talked about here should be doable using NIS, or (for the security-minded) Kerberos. Well, William (Bill?) I'll gladly trade NDS info for info on NIC and Kerboros and how to implement it on Linux ! NDS is a encrypted, loosly

Re: Is there a manhatten list?

1998-06-25 Thread Scott Kindley
Anthony E. Greene wrote: Try [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Note the third "a" in manhattan. Tony -- Got it now, Thanks.Scott -- 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

Kernel upgrade

1998-06-25 Thread Ruud de Bruin
I am trying to upgrade the kernel from RH 5.1 to 2.0.34-1. According the information on www.redhat.com it should be easy: download all the RPM's in a temp. direcotry an run: rpm -Uvh kern*.rpm. However, it doesn't work. The system complains about /lib/modules/2.0.34/modules.dep does not exist.

Adding BitchX to wharf in Afterstep

1998-06-25 Thread Tim Larkins \(EUKSHEL1PO\)
Like the subject title says, I'm trying to add a nice little button to open up BitchX from wharf in Afterstep. I've modified /usr/share/afterstep/wharf and added a line which sucessfully puts the new icon on wharf. The problem I've got is that it doesn't appear to work quiet right..

##@@%%$$...cron...

1998-06-25 Thread Zoki
The only thing that's keeping me from smacking something against the screen right now is the outlook to a possible solution... I'm trying to make the...##@@%$ cron to connect to my ISP, send mail, download new ones and switch off. Pritty straight forward I would think. Nevertheless it doesn't

RE: redhat-digest Digest V98 #554

1998-06-25 Thread KThorpe
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 14:31:16 +1100 From: David Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XWindows damaging my monitor?! OK. Would it cause lasting damage, or just interference? That is, I've taken the speakers away from the monitor and it seems to have made no change. It may leave marks on

collision on eth0

1998-06-25 Thread Etienne Joubert
What could the problem be when the prompt brings up an error: eth0..collision on 802.2 and 802.3 The good news is that i got it to install on the compaq box.but only 4.2 i'm going to upgrade to 5.1 soon but need to get the problems out of the way first. Thanx _

Re: Where I can find the Documenttition with PDF formated about Linux administrate

1998-06-25 Thread Anthony E. Greene
At 16:59 6/25/98 +0800, Cui Jian wrote: Where can I find the Documenttition with PDF formated about Linux administrate. The Linux Documentation Project has the System Administrator's Guide in several formats, including PDF. http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/ Tony -- Anthony E. Greene [EMAIL

Re: How Linux Could Kill Windows NT

1998-06-25 Thread Jos Vos
William T Wilson wrote: Fortunately some Tier One applications are coming to Linux. There's WordPerfect and friends, Star Office, Oracle (which SCO version works, as I just learned), Netscape, as well as the traditional server apps that have always worked on Linux. Others like GIMP make

lo device (loop back) will not activate

1998-06-25 Thread rfinks
I am trying to connect to my ISP. I am able to dial out and connect but I get disconnected immediately. The one thing I've noticed is that the lo device will not activate. When I try to activate it in netcfg nothing happens. If I try to edit the device I get the following message: "The loopback

Help in Setup Configuring Intel NetportExpress XL Print Server.

1998-06-25 Thread Victor Pang
Hello, A friend of mine gave me an Intel NetportExpress XL Print Server without the manual. I went to Intel web site to search for information on installing it on a Linux or Unix system, and the information I can find is for printing on Unix System V and it looks confusing (the rest is for

Re: word processor votes

1998-06-25 Thread Michael George
wordprocessor voting tally -- 1 KLyX/LyX 1 StarOffice 0 Applixwareno response from anyone 0 Corel WordPerfect no response from anyone 1 vi + troff Hmmm... Is there anyone out there using Applixware and WordPerfect? How do you like

Re: Question about logons...

1998-06-25 Thread Brian Bothern
James Michael Keller wrote: I run logwatch to condence all the system logs each night. I've been getting the connections from the net.mx address ( or variants - as I assume they are from a dial up pool ) for the last week. From two to three times. Now I know the ipop3d is netscape and

exporting /dev/tape

1998-06-25 Thread Michael J. Yanowitz
I know this question isn't Redhat specific, but it is one of the best lists for getting answers to this type of question: How do I export the device file /dev/tape so that other computers can mount or write to it? Thanks in advance:

LPR Printing to Microsoft Windows NT LPD

1998-06-25 Thread Jim Snee
I am running RH5.1 and setting up a network printer that prints over IP (LPR; not Samba), to a WinNT server that is running LPD. I use the printer configuration utility from X-windows, but am having some problems. Here are the symptoms: 1. The NT LPD has been configured and works properly

Danger - Newbie Question

1998-06-25 Thread Sean Winters
Just got RH 5.0 installed and networking. I have a few questions that would really help if I could get them solved. 1. What is the path to the file that needs to be modified to allow root to telnet in? 2. Any sources for info on Samba? (I want to (secretly) replace a NT file server.) 3. Any

Re: Is there a manhatten list?

1998-06-25 Thread chuck . mead
On 25 Jun, Scott Kindley shaped the bitstream to say: The list page at redhat (http://archive.redhat.com) does not show a manhatten listing. However I have seen a couple of posts referring to it as if it indeed did exist. If it does what is the address to subscribe. Ive tried [EMAIL

Re: Kernel upgrade

1998-06-25 Thread chuck . mead
On 25 Jun, Ruud de Bruin shaped the bitstream to say: I am trying to upgrade the kernel from RH 5.1 to 2.0.34-1. According the information on www.redhat.com it should be easy: download all the RPM's in a temp. direcotry an run: rpm -Uvh kern*.rpm. However, it doesn't work. The system

Re: word processor votes

1998-06-25 Thread Greg Fall
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Raul Oteyza wrote: money management software - 1 GNUcash (not out yet though) xacc hasn't evolved into gnucash yet, but xacc itself works just fine. There's also xfinans, which is rickety and hasn't been updated in two years, but that also works

Re: Danger - Newbie Question

1998-06-25 Thread chuck . mead
On 25 Jun, Sean Winters shaped the bitstream to say: Just got RH 5.0 installed and networking. I have a few questions that would really help if I could get them solved. 1. What is the path to the file that needs to be modified to allow root to telnet in? Telnet for root is a horrible idea

No more HTML mail messages

1998-06-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
I'm no longer in that thread. Feel free to write me privately if you want to discuss it. Sorry for carrying it on so long. In my defense, however, I took a week off while my son was born, so I was catching up on 2000+ messages. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING

Re: Q: news servers

1998-06-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: William T Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 4:57 PM Subject: Re: Q: news servers It really seems to have ballooned. A year ago a full feed was only 4GB per day. Which is when my info's from; I got

Re: exporting /dev/tape

1998-06-25 Thread James Youngman
"mjy" == Michael J Yanowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mjy How do I export the device file /dev/tape so that other mjy computers can mount or write to it? Make sure /sbin/rmt exists (it's from the package named rmt). Then haave the users grant themselves rsh access to that machine from

Re: INN setup without an upstream provider (was,Re: Q: news servers)

1998-06-25 Thread Bryan C. Andregg
Using the standard setup you can simply issue ctlinnd newgroup commands for the newsgroups that you want to create. On Thu, 25 Jun 1998 02:26:15 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK heres a question. Ive read the documentation on setting up INN from redhat and the how to stuff from LDP. Both of

Re: Danger - Newbie Question

1998-06-25 Thread Cristian KAMENICZKI
Hi Sean! On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Sean Winters wrote: 1. What is the path to the file that needs to be modified to allow root to telnet in? You can try editing /etc/securetty and adding there ttyp0, ttyp1, ttyp2, and so on. But allowing root to login by telnet directly is not a good idea, for

Running java in RHL 5.1

1998-06-25 Thread Kirk Bauer
Okay, I am trying to use RHL5.1 to do my Java programming homework, and I can't figure out how to get 'kaffe' to run even a simple program. I try the following shell script: ### #!/bin/bash export

having numlock on by default

1998-06-25 Thread Kevin Seguin
i know i've seen the answer for this somewhere before, but i can't find it now. anyway, how do you get numlock to be on by default when you start X? -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips

Re: 8 Gig Drive?

1998-06-25 Thread jp
A friend mention he saw an 8 Gig IDE drive for sale at a local computer show for $200. I was curious if anyone knew a reason why this wouldn't work under Linux? Could I get away with treating one of these as "just another hard drive"? Bruce Tong | Got me an office; I'm

Re: Kernel upgrade

1998-06-25 Thread Phil Watkinson
At 09:49 25/06/98 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Thus when you install the kernel rpm it goes along fine until it tries to remove the 32 modules and then it errors out. What I ended up with was a partial install of an RPM... (Whoa!). I was all set

redhat SSL server?

1998-06-25 Thread Paul Evad - Kudosnet Communications
Couple of things I'm wondering, can't seem to find the answer on the web site anywhere and the manual is in the office (2,000 miles away). Is there a mailing list for the Redhat SSL server? If not, anyone out there know if it can be compiled with PHP 3 support and other apache modules? - Paul

RE: LPR Printing to Microsoft Windows NT LPD

1998-06-25 Thread Richmond, Jeff
Hmm, I have a very similar setup, but mine seems to work ok. Let me describe my network to you (briefly of course). Windows NT 4.0 Server running LPD * All clients print through this machine, including: * Win95, Win98 * Win NT * Mac * Solaris 2.x * Linux I

Wangdat 3200 DAT

1998-06-25 Thread Tim Larkins \(EUKSHEL1PO\)
I've got a Wangdat 3200 4mm DAT drive and I'm not overly sure how to use it under linux.. I'm sure that I could work it out if I knew which device under /dev/ it was referenced by.. whats the method for working out which entry under /dev coresponds to which device on your PC?

Re: POP3 server config page?

1998-06-25 Thread dreamwvr
Hi Sean, You had mentioned that IMAP is better than POP3 but i am not certain how to configure it:'( do you simply add it to /etc/services and have it listen for requests for mail. From what i understand it does the delivery rather than sendmail. That way sendmail sends mail and recieves

lines don't print...

1998-06-25 Thread Zoki
I noticed to my horror - after printing 68 pages - that I'm constantly missing the 5 last lines of each file at the end of the page. I was printing from the commandline with the lpr command: lpr -Pbj200 -hms [file name] This is probably one of those days where even the most simple thing

How to change the Upercase file name to lowercase

1998-06-25 Thread Cui Jian
I just migrate my web file form Windows NT to Linux, in NT,the file name is uppercase, now I need lowercase file name. How to do this. I know the "tr" command can to this, but I don't familiar with linux command. and body can help me ? Thanks a lot. Cui Jian China OnLine Fax: 86-29-5219746

Re: Danger - Newbie Question

1998-06-25 Thread Bruce Tong
2. Any sources for info on Samba? (I want to (secretly) replace a NT file server.) Paper Reference: SAMBA: Integrating UNIX and Windows by John D. Blair, SAMBA Team. Published by SSC man smbd man nmbd vi /etc/smb.conf Another handy man reference: man smb.conf And some handy

Re: No more HTML mail messages

1998-06-25 Thread Cristian KAMENICZKI
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Shawn McMahon wrote: I'm no longer in that thread. Feel free to write me privately if you want to discuss it. Sorry for carrying it on so long. In my defense, however, I took a week off while my son was born, so I was catching up on 2000+ messages. Congrats!!

Re: Q: news servers

1998-06-25 Thread Patrick Scott Darden
Howdy, A full news feed is about 28GB, 30,000 news groups, 700,000 articles, all per day. About 80% of that is binaries, 65% of which are in alt.bin*, with alt.warez* taking up most of the rest of that binary bandwidth. We (NEGIA, a mid sized ISP) are testing a super-fast news server we got

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-25 Thread argathin
Shawn McMahon writes: From: Greg Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] The rest of the tags make extremely annoying messages. Also, it's funny that HTML proponents never address the addtional size of HTML mail. But I'll address it again the way we always do: Mail is tiny. It's a miniscule

Re: Q: news servers

1998-06-25 Thread Patrick Scott Darden
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, William T Wilson wrote: On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Shawn McMahon wrote: 56k won't cut it. Last time I checked, 128k would, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's gone past that now. I don't think you have. A full newsfeed is up over 10GB per day. It requires almost a

Root login stumper

1998-06-25 Thread Bruce Tong
I've got a friend who cannot sign on as root from the console. Everytime he tries is says "root login refused on this terminal." He can logon under another account and su to root, however. I looked in his /etc/securetty file and tty1 through tty8 are listed. The only other (possible) clue we've

Re: Should we be pushing Linux over Windows 95?

1998-06-25 Thread Shawn McMahon
-Original Message- From: Michael Jinks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 9:52 PM Subject: Re: Should we be pushing Linux over Windows 95? What if (and I won't be surprised if RH does this when the gnome and E get a little further

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-25 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 02:49:59PM -0700, Kenyon Ralph wrote: Shawn McMahon wrote: Most of the rest of the world does have the ability to read it, however. That wasn't true as late as a year ago, but I'll bet you dollars to donuts it is now. And if your mail reader can't, then your web

Re: Hurricane control-panel problem after installing GTK-1.0.4

1998-06-25 Thread Greg Fall
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Hendry Wijaya wrote: Dear Linuxers ... the problem i had with Hurricane is RH controlpanel wont start after installing GTK-1.0.4 No it won't. gtk+ is not backward-compatible with the gtk they used to make the rh5.0 control-panel (and a couple of other admin tools too),

Re: Danger - Newbie Question

1998-06-25 Thread Michael Jinks
James Youngman wrote: "sw" == Sean Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sw 1. What is the path to the file that needs to be modified to allow root sw to telnet in? Don't do that. Telet in as yourself and then use su(1). . . . and before you run into the problem where you appear to

Question About Netscape Communicator 4.x and Scrollable lists

1998-06-25 Thread Rocky Giannini
Hi, I have a question about Netscape communicator for Linux (and Solaris for that matter) and scrollable lists (I don't know if that's the correct technical term). The website http://www.carmax.com has a good example of what I'm asking about. If I go to the site with Netscape for Windows,

XDM and failsafe session

1998-06-25 Thread Andreas Prohaska
Hello, I have problems starting a failsafe session from xdm. I've included the following lines into my ../lib/X11/xdm/Xresources file, which is loaded before the login widget is displayed. xlogin*login.translations: #override\ KeyF1: set-session-argument(failsafe) finish-field()\n\

Re: Book Layouts?

1998-06-25 Thread anavarro
On 25 Jun 98, at 4:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. SNIP . Also I have yet to find a postscript emulator for NT like ghost script to be able to print out test pages on my canon 620) Any recomendations? ... SNIP You can get a version of ghostscript

Re: Real Audio: closer but still not quite

1998-06-25 Thread Michael Jinks
Okay. . . I think I'm getting closer. I've now set MOZILLA_HOME to /usr/lib/netscape and LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/lib/Real. I don't get a 'compressed files not supported' error any more. Instead, when I try to use the player, it says "Buffering [n]Kbps clip" indefinitely, while top reports that

Re: Kernel upgrade

1998-06-25 Thread chuck . mead
On 25 Jun, Phil Watkinson shaped the bitstream to say: At 09:49 25/06/98 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Thus when you install the kernel rpm it goes along fine until it tries to remove the 32 modules and then it errors out. What I ended up with was

Re: Kernel upgrade

1998-06-25 Thread Paul Fontenot
-+-kernel rpm it goes along fine until it tries to remove the 32 modules -+-and then it errors out. What I ended up with was a partial install of -+-an RPM... (Whoa!). -+- -+-I was all set up to upgrade my RH 5.0 to the 2.0.34 kernel, but now I'm -+-worried. (BTW, I have kernel 2.0.31 - not

Re: Kernel upgrade

1998-06-25 Thread chuck . mead
On 25 Jun, Phil Watkinson shaped the bitstream to say: At 09:49 25/06/98 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Thus when you install the kernel rpm it goes along fine until it tries to remove the 32 modules and then it errors out. What I ended up with was

Re: word processor votes

1998-06-25 Thread flaw
On 25 Jun, Geoffrey S. Knauth wrote: Glad you like Word Perfect 7. Since my wife uses an older Word Perfect for her dissertation, there's then a chance she could use WP7 on Linux some day too. In general my wish is to have Linux software that can read/write .doc (Word) and .xls (Excel)

troubling /var/log/messages output

1998-06-25 Thread Rick Ingersoll
I recently upgraded from RH 4.2 to 5.1 and installed requisite updated RPMs. I just had a gander at /var/log/messages and noticed some troubling entries. Our LINUXBOX gets name service from a SunOS box (OURYPSERVER) and NFS and mail service from a Solaris box (OURNFSSERVER). The log will be

Re: HTML-formatted mail

1998-06-25 Thread Deryk Barker
Once upon a time Shawn McMahon wrote: A tremendous number of people agree that there should be some kind of markup language established as a standard for email. Every commercial email package supports one or more markup methods. Sorry, but your second sentence does not either

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