Re: documentation on /proc

1998-07-02 Thread fugue
I'm new with linux. I've read so much my mind is fogged! However, I don't recall reading any documentation on the directory /proc. The commands stored there look very interesting, but I get the error "Permission denied" when I try to execute them. What's wrong? Where can I get more bedside

Re: Random number generation

1998-07-02 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, David E. Fox wrote: One thing in particular I noticed early on - especially on DOS, is that the rand() function isn't good enough for certain applications, for Well, what do you expect, working libraries on DOS? :) The random number generator under Linux is reasonably

Re: gathering network performance data?

1998-07-02 Thread Hal \(DCI\)
Why don't you load the RPM with the nodependency option? == Hal Davison Your Internet Petroleum Gateway Davison Consulting A PROGRESS Product driven by Sarasota Florida

RE: Mail servers??

1998-07-02 Thread Hoe-Teck Wee
Hello. Several sources that you can refer to to set up email with dyn ip: 1. PC Quest's Linux Special: http://www.pcquest.com/may98/e-mail.html 2. Project n0vix: http://kgr.home.ml.org/n0vix/ 3. There's a offline email HOWTO somewhere, just can't locate it at the moment. 4. Monolith MMD

Unable to kill netscape...not a zombie

1998-07-02 Thread Patrick O'Neil
I was browsing today and ran into a problem with Netscape Communicator that I have seen many times, that is, when either stopping the loading of a some pages or trying to go back to pages, netscape window refreshes die and it becomes a blank window. I waited a nice long time because I have

Apache 1.2.5 building from SRPM

1998-07-02 Thread Chris J. Magnuson
When I built Apache from the RH 5 SRPM I commented out this line in the Makefile so it would link: #LIBS1= -ldbm And added these to EXTRA_LIBS to get it to link: EXTRA_LIBS= -lgdbm -lcrypt Is this evil? Thanks, Chris -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST

Redirection of Mail

1998-07-02 Thread Ian Paton
Hi, Can anyone help me do this? I am a small ISP and a requirement has come up which requires me to redirect all mail addressed to a certain domain name to a particular user. I am hosting the domain name on my server - (mail server + DNS server + proxy server + etc). I am using Sendmail 8.7.5

Re: Unable to kill netscape...not a zombie

1998-07-02 Thread Jeffrey Fearn
I then attempted to kill my netscape session with "kill pid" Patrick have you tried "kill -9 pid. Your above version 'asks' the program to die, -9 is not so polite :) Thank you, Jeffrey. Jeffrey D Fearn Network Administrator GWR Com Cor

Re: Redirection of Mail

1998-07-02 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Ian Paton wrote: I am a small ISP and a requirement has come up which requires me to redirect all mail addressed to a certain domain name to a particular user. In order to do this you have to rebuild your sendmail.cf to add support for the "virtual user table". I could

RE: X programming - Hints

1998-07-02 Thread Andrew Alexander Malcolm, Dr
http://www.rahul.net/kenton/xsites.html might be a good place to start Andy -- From: Alfonso Barreto Lopez Sent: Thursday, July 02, 1998 8:19 AM To: Forum de Red Hat Subject: X programming I am trying to start programming in X, but I dont know where to

eth setup

1998-07-02 Thread George Toft
Well, I went to CompUSA yesterday to buy a NIC, and much to my surprise (NOT!) every single one of them were plug and pray. Anyone know how to set up P-N-P ethernet card under Linux? I have nine more days to get it to work before I have to return it. I'd like to minimize my server's downtime.

Re: eth setup

1998-07-02 Thread Paul Fontenot
(+)Anyone know how to set up P-N-P ethernet card under Linux? I have (+)nine more days to get it to work before I have to return it. I'd (+)like to minimize my server's downtime. Use the installation disk that came with it to disable plug and pray, and then treat it like anyother NIC under

Re: eth setup

1998-07-02 Thread death
try this , cat /proc/pci that will give you the info of the card least it does in rh :) then manually do ifconfig eth0 with the info for that card :) there again what do i know ;) cya -Original Message- From: George Toft [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: luau [EMAIL PROTECTED]; redhat [EMAIL

Re: scsi refuses wide negotiation

1998-07-02 Thread altex
scsi0:0:5:0 may be your CD-ROM/tape with a narrow SCSI interface. There's no error. Claudiu -Original Message- From: Michael P. Sale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, July 01, 1998 4:03 a Subject: scsi refuses wide negotiation Hi all, I'm

Re: PPP with user input for password?

1998-07-02 Thread Howdy Doody
On Wed, 01 Jul 1998, srs wrote: Hi, when connecting to an ISP with the modem I have succeded to set up Network Configurator to use in conjunction with the usernet tool. For this ISP a fixed password is given in the communication part of the setup. However, when connecting to another ISP a new

Re: Random number generation

1998-07-02 Thread Fred Smith
On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 12:40:21PM -0400, Joseph C. Tuttle wrote: Is there a simple way in Linux to generate a series of three hundred to four hundred unique random four digit numbers? I haven't done enough programming to write my own random number generator, but I do know Linux can generate

control-panel

1998-07-02 Thread Angelika Mann
When I try to start the control-panel from the Xwindow I get the error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) Aborted (core dumped). Can anybody help? Angelika Mann -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: Upcoming ICQ X11 version!

1998-07-02 Thread MC
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 17:10:13 -0500 From: James Curbo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Um, thanks, but I wasn't really asking for any help. Well, most of it wasn't directed against your article, but as a sort of comment in passing, to be read by anyone interested in the subject. I apologize if I somehow

sendmail alias set to file

1998-07-02 Thread Hoe-Teck Wee
Hello! I encountered the following error message when I set my sendmail alias to a file, with the intention of maintaining an archive of all mail sent to that alias: Jun 27 00:43:23 home sendmail[581]: AAA00581: to=/home/hoeteck/mail/linuxsg-mail, ctladdr=linuxsg-list, delay=00:00:00,

Linuxconf... any potholes to watch out for

1998-07-02 Thread David Taylor
Hi, Does anyone have any comments they can give me on Linuxconf? How useful do you find it? Is it stable/dangerous? I heard a couple of problems already with people losing root access. Are there any specific potholes I should look out for? Regards, David Taylor. -- PLEASE read the Red

Re: Trying to figure out private groups

1998-07-02 Thread Dave Ihnat
John H Darrah wrote: In order for users frampton and mccready to be able to work within the "its" group, the have to become part of the group by typing "newgrp its" which makes their effective group "its" rather than their private group. I will point out that Linux uses BSD-style

Apache1.3.0+php3.0

1998-07-02 Thread Arisandy
where can I get Apache 1.3.0 + php 3.0 rpm version..??? if I get httpd-php from www.php.net it point another httpd.conf. thanks all happy computing, ~~, mailto : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ~~' starring at your windows with a

dialup to chap/mschap server ??

1998-07-02 Thread Toby Wright
I got my redhat 5.0 box finally working G, and can successfully dial in to my normal ISP, using the 'usernet' program, which I configured using the netcfg tool.. But, I now want to log into another ISP... I added the details for the second isp in netcfg, and it added a ppp1 box... Now, if I try

Re: dialup to chap/mschap server ??

1998-07-02 Thread James Youngman
"tw" == Toby Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: tw It has been suggested that this isp uses chap/mschap authentication, and tw that linux doesnt work with this ? tw So, anyone know a way around this ? Or where / if there is a chap/mschap tw program ?? The ppp that ships with Red Hat has

Log for modem connection speed?

1998-07-02 Thread An Khanh Duy Nguyen
Hello, I'm using RH 5.1. I'm trying to locate the log which records the connection speed of my modem (using dip) but couldn't find it. Also, is there a way to display the modem activities in X-Windows since my modem is internal. Thanks in advance. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips,

Re: RH5.1 SMP *

1998-07-02 Thread James Youngman
"kw" == Ken Walenta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: kw I have 2 a Tyan Tomcat III motherboard with 2 P166 processors on kw it and I just installed RH5.1 about 2 weeks ago. How can I tell kw if RH5.1 is seeing and using both processors? /proc/cpuinfo would show two columns. See the top of

Back up to CDR

1998-07-02 Thread Robert Fausey
Has any one been successful creating an imiage of their HD to a CDR? I can create a ISO image but it wiil not write to the CDR. I have sucessfully written other ISO imanges. Rob Fausey. ''~`` ( @ @ )

Re: Trying to figure out private groups

1998-07-02 Thread John H Darrah
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Dave Ihnat wrote: John H Darrah wrote: In order for users frampton and mccready to be able to work within the "its" group, the have to become part of the group by typing "newgrp its" which makes their effective group "its" rather than their private group. I

kill all processes that are accessing a directory

1998-07-02 Thread RedHat List
Is there a way to kill every process accessing a directory or a file ? Thanx. -- Andrei Postolache, Romania, [EMAIL PROTECTED], +40-35-340482 -- -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ

Re: Apache1.3.0+php3.0

1998-07-02 Thread Jason Belich
Arisandy wrote: where can I get Apache 1.3.0 + php 3.0 rpm version..??? if I get httpd-php from www.php.net it point another httpd.conf. try the contrib direcotry at redhat's ftp site. get apache 1.3 and mod_php rpms. these files are not mirrored, IMHE, at the contrib mirrors.

Anybody have today's Boston Globe?

1998-07-02 Thread Michael R. Steigman
Hi all, Thought I'd let the list know about a very nice column on the FRONT PAGE of The Boston Globe's Business section today (7.2.98). The column is titled "Linux's window". The column is also available online @ http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe/globehtml/183/Linux_s_window.htm

documentation on /proc

1998-07-02 Thread Lenny Stoltz II
I'm new with linux. I've read so much my mind is fogged! However, I don't recall reading any documentation on the directory /proc. The commands stored there look very interesting, but I get the error "Permission denied" when I try to execute them. What's wrong? Where can I get more bedside

/var/run/utmp growing without bounds??

1998-07-02 Thread Chris Evans
Hi, The following problem has afflicted RedHat for a while. Our /var/run/utmp file is slowly growing, seemingly without bounds. Our system is RH5.1. This happened with RH4.2. The file is now 300k in size. Obviously, certain system actions are now getting slower. The only thing we run outside

Re: unable to open an initial console !

1998-07-02 Thread Stefan Miltchev
I had the same problem once when either a careless administrator or a hacker had moved the /dev files somewhere else. You could boot from the linux floppies and copy the /dev/console file from another machine. Stefan ### #

Re: scsi refuses wide negotiation

1998-07-02 Thread Michael P. Sale
Thanks for taking the time to reply. After looking into it further, I was obviously misreading the startup log (It is the CD-ROM). Although not serious, it is nice not having to wonder anymore. :-) Thanks again, Mike scsi0:0:5:0 may be your CD-ROM/tape with a narrow SCSI interface. There's

test

1998-07-02 Thread drdisk
pls ignore Ciao Chris -- Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Christian 'Dr. Disk' Hechelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] TC Interactive GmbH - Alt-Wuertemberg-Allee 89 - 71638 Ludwigsburg Tel.: ++49-7141-128-212 Fax: ++49-7141-128-240 -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

unable to open an initial console !

1998-07-02 Thread Internet Marketing
help on fixing linux box needed, message above display when boot-up freeze there, anybody know why how to fix it ? any utility or image that's help, pls. e-mail along too ! thanks. -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

(no subject)

1998-07-02 Thread Robert Fallen
Can anyone point me to documentation to the correct the following error. (Using Redhat 4.2 /Novell 3.12 the server number is 3. IPX: NETWORK NUMBER COLLISION 3 eth0 802.3 and 802.2 Thanks -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!

Re: Quake2 stuff

1998-07-02 Thread Randy Carpenter
Can anyone suggest away of allowing me to use the wheel on my mouse when playing Quake2 under linux? Not sure about this... I would think SVGALib would have to support it.. On another quake2 issue.. I've configured my Voodoo2 card so that Quake2 can use it, but its VERY dark,, (yes..

Sendmail problems.... I need help !!

1998-07-02 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
Hi, I got a little problem with sendmail : All mail I send to myself doesn't arrive. Sendmail doesn't return it either... My server is known under multiple name, for ftp, www, etc. It is set up the following way : Domein blabla.com IP 10.200.200.200 Hosts : ftp.blabla.com www.blabla.com

Re: unused space at the end of HDD

1998-07-02 Thread Ed Jaeger
I have had the same thing happen with an NT 3.5 Server installation - it left an unused 1mb chunk at the end of an 850mb disk. I used linux's fdisk to make it into a partition used it. Have done several NT installations since it has not recurred, although the one where it did occur is the

Mail servers??

1998-07-02 Thread George Lenzer
Hello, Does anyone know if there is a way to use a Linux machine connected to the net via PPP with a dynamic IP address as a Mail server? I know I can use sendmail to send messages out, but I would like to be able to receive messages without using a real domain. For instance, would it be

Sendmail problems.

1998-07-02 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
Hi, Update on the last one : I now get mail that is posted to the exact hostname : [EMAIL PROTECTED] I want sendmail also to accept mail that goed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyone know how to set this up ??? The /etc/hosts file contains all the hostname under which this host is known, but

Re: Sendmail problems.... I need help !!

1998-07-02 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
Hosts : ftp.blabla.com www.blabla.com mail.blabla.com All refer to 10.200.200.200 How do I set up sendmail with this configuration I want it to receive mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you tried entering your domain name "blabla.com" into /etc/sendmail.cw yet? Yes. I put both

Re: Sendmail problems.... I need help !!

1998-07-02 Thread James Youngman
"Igmar" == Igmar Palsenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hosts : ftp.blabla.com www.blabla.com mail.blabla.com All refer to 10.200.200.200 How do I set up sendmail with this configuration I want it to receive mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you tried

Can't mount CD-ROM

1998-07-02 Thread Mike Clifton
I've got a fresh install of Red Hat 5.1, nothing changed whatsoever, and I wanted to take a look at what was on the second CD. Unfortuantely, when I run: mount /mnt/cdrom I get the error: mount: fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel My first thought was this is crazy - the default Red Hat

Re: Linux not ready for average user (was: Redhat 5.1 Internet Installation)

1998-07-02 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Andrew wrote: A novice user won't even know which modules to install without tons of reading. The SuSE distribution has rather good explanations on all the packages, and tells beginners when they're doing something that's probably not right (like not installing bash).

Re: Linux not ready for average user (was: Redhat 5.1 Internet Installation)

1998-07-02 Thread DeAnn Iwan
Jeremy Crabtree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in article [EMAIL PROTECTED]... [Well folks, I smell troll, but maybe not] . Hmm, I was a bit grumpy this morning when i posted about unsupported hardwareI guess it showed through. Never post before drinking a cup of coffee

Re: Can't mount CD-ROM

1998-07-02 Thread Michael Jinks
Mike Clifton wrote: I've got a fresh install of Red Hat 5.1, nothing changed whatsoever, and I wanted to take a look at what was on the second CD. Unfortuantely, when I run: mount /mnt/cdrom I get the error: mount: fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel I think that the default

Re: gathering network performance data?

1998-07-02 Thread Michael Jinks
E.L. Green wrote: Anyhow. Get MRTG. Nice product. Thanks. I went and got the RPM, but it failed with this line: # rpm -i mrtg-2.4.1-1.i386.rpm failed dependencies: libgd.so.1 is needed by mrtg-2.4.1-1 Do you know where this library comes from? Naturally there's no single rpm

Re: Linux not ready for average user (was: Redhat 5.1 Internet Installation)

1998-07-02 Thread Rick Forrester
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Since you offered help with new hardware, I'll be specific. My husband likes to configure new machines very "hot". He is totally enamored with the ASUS-P2B-LS. This board, and every other board he really likes, uses Adeptec scsi chips on the motherboard.

Re: Sendmail problems.... I need help !!

1998-07-02 Thread fugue
"Igmar" == Igmar Palsenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hosts : ftp.blabla.com www.blabla.com mail.blabla.com All refer to 10.200.200.200 How do I set up sendmail with this configuration I want it to receive mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have

Re: Linux not ready for average user (was: Redhat 5.1 Internet Installation)

1998-07-02 Thread Andrew
1) Setting them too low can't hurt (like the default values in xf86config) 2) They're in the monitor manual Yes, but novice users don't even know what a refresh rate is to begin with. Painfull but true. the chipset of their video card, SuperProbe, lspci Which assumes they have a card that

Idea: Linux @Home Distribution

1998-07-02 Thread RHS Linux User
--- Do not reply to the email address listed in the from field --- Use j.perXrynosXpam.lynx.dac.neu.edu - without the words nospam or the Xs keep the dot after the j --- and keep the lowercase x RedHat provides an excellent distribution for technical types but it occurs to me their is an

Re: gathering network performance data?

1998-07-02 Thread Gil Nielsen
Michael Jinks wrote: E.L. Green wrote: Anyhow. Get MRTG. Nice product. Thanks. I went and got the RPM, but it failed with this line: # rpm -i mrtg-2.4.1-1.i386.rpm failed dependencies: libgd.so.1 is needed by mrtg-2.4.1-1 Do you know where this library comes from?

Anyone using Compaq WorkStation 5000?

1998-07-02 Thread Michael Jinks
I just found an ad for a Compaq WorkStation 5000 with a PPro 200 for $800. Looks like a serious monster for the price, but I don't want to get it unless I know it will run Linux. Has anyone tried it yet? Any war stories? thanks. . . -- Michael Jinks mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: control-panel

1998-07-02 Thread Tony Wells
Try going in as root (su root from the command line once logged in) Kind regards Tony Wells Phenomenal Books "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter" - Blaise Pascal. [EMAIL PROTECTED] bookstuff: www.phenomenal-books.com anyotherstuff: [EMAIL

Re: Idea: Linux @Home Distribution

1998-07-02 Thread Michael Jinks
big snip I like the sound of this -- I've been thinking that exactly something like this would be a coup, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if RH did do something very much like this once the GNOME gets a little further along. As for helping to develop such a distribution -- I try to grab all

Re: Idea: Linux @Home Distribution

1998-07-02 Thread Thomas Hubbell
This seems like a pretty good idea to me. I guess someone could create a "server" version of Linux and a "workstation" version. In both cases it would be nice to have all of the same tools available - in other words all of the same software would be available for each distribution, but the

Game programming library

1998-07-02 Thread Aaron Walker
Does anyone know if there's any kind of game programming libraries available for Linux? I was looking for something along the lines of DJGPP's Allegro. Any ideas? Thanks, Aaron -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ

Marginal hardware (Re: Advice Wanted...)

1998-07-02 Thread Andrew Comech
Perhaps the real problem is the people who purchase marginal hardware in the name of "cost savings" and then expect the world to recognize their ill-chosen no-name cost-cutting hardware? ... I stick to well-known names and mainstream models. Adaptec. Matrox. USR. Creative Labs. Intel.

MIDI interface drivers

1998-07-02 Thread George Lenzer
I have a MIDI/Audio workstation currently running Win95. I would like to try out a few of the Linux MIDI and Audio apps, but I wanted to know if there are drivers (preferably free) for the hardware I have: MIDI interface: MusicQuest 8Port SE (Parallel MIDI interface) Audio Card: Zefiro

fonts in netscape

1998-07-02 Thread Iztok Polanic
Hello !!! For some reason my internet sites look much more bigger then they used too. I haven't installed any fonts. What could be wronganynone! Bye. xx // xx xx

Re: Idea: Linux @Home Distribution

1998-07-02 Thread William T Wilson
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, RHS Linux User wrote: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and will be interested in their reply. If they are not interested in it perhaps others will take on the challenge and create this new distribution. You need to look at independence.dunadan.com and www.seul.org. These focus on

Samba

1998-07-02 Thread John Banghart
I am having trouble with getting the [homes] section to work properly on my Redhat 5.0, kernel 2.0.34. I added the following section to my smb.conf: [homes] writable=yes However, whenever I log in from NT(I haven't tried it on 95), it takes me to the top-level directory("/") instead of

Data type 9 not supported?

1998-07-02 Thread Walter B Kulecz, PhD
What the hey does this mean! I finally managed to download the bind and other new security fixes for redhat 4.2 and when I tried to upgrade I get this lamer on all the new rpms! I have rpm 2.3.11-1, If I need a new rpm version why isn't it on the errata list? First the wrong PAM version in the

Re: Advice Wanted...

1998-07-02 Thread Jonathan Michael Hawkins
Try trimming your quotes. Much, much better idea. Is it really that difficult to cut out what you're not responding to? Jon In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], William Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try WinNT... Much, much better view.. -- Jonathan Michael Hawkins {} "If this is a crush, then I

News Daemon

1998-07-02 Thread Volf
How do I start IT? -- 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 "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Advice Wanted...

1998-07-02 Thread Steve Winter
On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, mike wrote: Timotei wrote: What the hell do you want to dump Windoze for Linux. Instead of your OS crashing you will have a stable OS in which you cannot do an thing with because none of your devices will work nor NIC cards or Modems unless you have some how the

Re: Linuxconf access?

1998-07-02 Thread Robert W. Canary
Hi, Randy Carpenter wrote: ok... I have RH5.1 installed, and linuxconf is great. BUT, how do I *disallow* root form being able to login via the web? It kinda defeats What do you mean via the web? Telnet, HTML page, ftp, the purpose of having no remote root logins, if someone can

Re: Data type 9 not supported?

1998-07-02 Thread Dave Reed
From: "Walter B Kulecz, PhD" [EMAIL PROTECTED] What the hey does this mean! I finally managed to download the bind and other new security fixes for redhat 4.2 and when I tried to upgrade I get this lamer on all the new rpms! I have rpm 2.3.11-1, If I need a new rpm version why isn't it

Netscape locks up Hurricane constantly

1998-07-02 Thread Jeff
Greetings. Ever since I've upgraded to any release of glibc-2.0.7, no version of Netscape will run on my RH 5.0 system (64 MB RAM, 686) for very long without completely locking up the computer (not just XF86--the whole shebang). I upgraded glibcs because I use other programs which want newer

Re: Unable to kill netscape...not a zombie

1998-07-02 Thread Robert W. Canary
Jeffrey Fearn wrote: I then attempted to kill my netscape session with "kill pid" Patrick have you tried "kill -9 pid. Your above version 'asks' the program to die, -9 is not so polite :) -9 never worked for me I always use -10 and if that doesn't work I use -20. -- robert --

Re: gathering network performance data?

1998-07-02 Thread Hugh Lawson
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Michael Jinks wrote: Thanks. I went and got the RPM, but it failed with this line: # rpm -i mrtg-2.4.1-1.i386.rpm failed dependencies: libgd.so.1 is needed by mrtg-2.4.1-1 This raises an question. When you get a failed dependency like this, how do you

Re: News Daemon

1998-07-02 Thread Benji Spencer
At 11:50 PM 7/2/98 +0200, you wrote: How do I start IT? at least in 4.2 /etc/rc.d/rc.news assuming 1) you have INN installed/configured 2) you are root if things aren't configured properly, you will probably get some messages in /var/log/messages Benji Benji

Re: Marginal hardware (Re: Advice Wanted...)

1998-07-02 Thread Jonathan Michael Hawkins
Also, according to my audio experience, premium paid for Sony is not worth it. I would assume this user isn't referring to Sony audio but rather to the excellent Trinitron CRTs which are manufactured by Sony. Of course, that's going to start a whole 'nother ball of wax with the debate over

Presario 4706 Linksys EtherPCI LAN Card II

1998-07-02 Thread Jason Cone
I've installed Red Hat 5.0 on a Compaq Presario 4706. It worked fine until I installed a Linksys EtherPCI LAN Card II. With the card installed, the system fails to come up at all. Normally when you power it on the word "Compaq" comes up on the screen, then it goes through its boot process,

Re: Advice Wanted...

1998-07-02 Thread Michael Jinks
Timotei wrote: What the hell do you want to dump Windoze for Linux. Instead of your OS crashing you will have a stable OS in which you cannot do an thing with because none of your devices will work nor NIC cards or Modems unless you have some how the magic Linux touch that will

Problem Writing to Dos Partition on Linux Samba Server

1998-07-02 Thread David Hattery
I have a dos partition on my RH5.0 computer that I want to serve with write access to other machines on the network which are running NT4.0 or W95. I have upgraded to Samba 1.9.18p5-1 and have encryption on and passwords set up. All computers can now browse all published shares (including the

RHL 5.1 Kernel 2.0.34-1 Compile Fail

1998-07-02 Thread Robert Doidge,WSU/Dir Information Technology
I am compiling RHL 5.1 kernel 2.0.34-1 on our student access system. We have two other RHL 5.1 system, using the same kernel and very similar hardware. On the system in question, compiling the kernel fails in the tools/build section, with an Error 1 code. The system appears to be missing:

Re: KDE..

1998-07-02 Thread dizzy
try to download the qt library from www.troll-tech.com, install it and it should work Mb wrote: I've just downloaded all the KDE files (apart from kdegames), but I cannot seem to be able to use rpm to install them - When using the graphical version (Redhat 5.0), I can select all the various

Re: Advice Wanted...

1998-07-02 Thread TEX
Just try to find out how to custom configure your windoze box. Find those instructions. Oh ye of little faith. One thing that one must learn is that there is a karma with linux that negativity causes many problems. All my hardware ran at bootup. This might not happen if you have bought into

quota

1998-07-02 Thread Marxen, Sara
I've read the HOWTOS but the quoat package is not responding as I expected, I have set up my fstab to use quotas run edquota for a group and put in hard and soft limits and added grace time using edquota -g "group" -t. But when I run repquota -ga it still says under the grace column "none",

Re: Unable to kill netscape...not a zombie

1998-07-02 Thread Jeffrey Fearn
Jeffrey Fearn wrote: I then attempted to kill my netscape session with "kill pid" Patrick have you tried "kill -9 pid. Your above version 'asks' the program to die, -9 is not so polite :) -9 never worked for me I always use -10 and if that doesn't work I use -20. -- robert

Remote root login

1998-07-02 Thread Paul M Dunphy
At 05:21 PM 7/2/98 -0500, Robert W. Canary wrote: snip The only way I know root can logon directly is at the physical termunal. Telnet requires su - root. With Solaris, there is an /etc/default/login file. In there, there is be a line:

Re: News Daemon

1998-07-02 Thread Mark Brown
"Volf" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How do I start IT? Assuming you have an appropriate RPM installed and 5.1 hasn't done anything too drastic: /etc/rc.d/init.d/news start By default it gets started at bootup. You really need to read the documentation in /usr/doc/inn-version and configure

Re: Apache1.3.0+php3.0

1998-07-02 Thread Hossein S. Zadeh
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Jason Belich wrote: Arisandy wrote: where can I get Apache 1.3.0 + php 3.0 rpm version..??? if I get httpd-php from www.php.net it point another httpd.conf. try the contrib direcotry at redhat's ftp site. get apache 1.3 and mod_php rpms. these files

Re: @home cable modem

1998-07-02 Thread Piet Barber
I'm replying to your message using a @home cable internet connection. It has been extremely reliable, and trivially easy to set up with linux, since you get a static IP address. Static IP address. That's cool. Dynamic IPs are so sucky. I suppose you have set up a hostname with ml.org by

Re: gathering network performance data?

1998-07-02 Thread Michael Jinks
Hal (DCI) wrote: Why don't you load the RPM with the nodependency option? 'Cuz the dependencies are there for a reason. If it needs a library to run, and I install it without the library, it won't run. Unless the rpm file lies. Then I'll break its little neck. But after I installed gd

Re: Can't mount CD-ROM

1998-07-02 Thread Robert Burrows
On Thu, 02 Jul 1998 17:04:04 GMT, Mike Clifton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortuantely, when I run: mount /mnt/cdrom I get the error: mount: fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel yet an option for this machine, either.) So, do I really need to rebuild the kernel, or what else can I do to

Re: Random number generation

1998-07-02 Thread David Taylor
Hi, I just jumped in on this thread because I'm curious about something. William Wilson wrote: random() is better than rand(), but only because you can set more options on the function call. rand() is probably there for compatibility. "man 3 rand" on my RH5.0 system produces:

Re: Advice Wanted...

1998-07-02 Thread Sparty Broderick
In comp.os.linux.help ChrisEilbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Timotei wrote: : : You must admit that Linux is a damn pain in the ass to get working correctly : and if someone can't get windows to work then how could they ever expect to : get Linux working. : It takes much more time to get

Re: Can't mount CD-ROM

1998-07-02 Thread Mark E. Byers
Mike Clifton wrote: I've got a fresh install of Red Hat 5.1, nothing changed whatsoever, and I wanted to take a look at what was on the second CD. Unfortuantely, when I run: mount /mnt/cdrom I get the error: mount: fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel My first thought was this

Re: Marginal hardware (Re: Advice Wanted...)

1998-07-02 Thread Benjamin Protas
Or buy Adaptec, as I did, only to find out that it is so high quality that they don't feel the need to tell anybody how to write drivers for it, so Linux supports half of Adaptec's stuff, and the other half is hit and miss. Or buy Matrox, and run into the same problem. On Thu, 2 Jul 1998

Re: Apache1.3.0+php3.0

1998-07-02 Thread Hossein S. Zadeh
On Thu, 2 Jul 1998, Jason Belich wrote: Arisandy wrote: where can I get Apache 1.3.0 + php 3.0 rpm version..??? if I get httpd-php from www.php.net it point another httpd.conf. try the contrib direcotry at redhat's ftp site. get apache 1.3 and mod_php rpms. these files

RE: Presario 4706

1998-07-02 Thread DSmoak
I've installed Red Hat 5.0 on a Compaq Presario 4706. It worked fine until I installed a Linksys EtherPCI LAN Card II. With the card installed, the system fails to come up at all. I'm using this card in my system. It REQUIRES kernel version 2.0.32 or greater... I found this out at the

Re: Marginal hardware (Re: Advice Wanted...)

1998-07-02 Thread Eze Ogwuma
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Benjamin Protas) writes: Or buy Adaptec, as I did, only to find out that it is so high quality that they don't feel the need to tell anybody how to write drivers for it, so Linux supports half of Adaptec's stuff, and the other half is hit and miss. They've recently

Strange PPP (?) problem?

1998-07-02 Thread Adam Neat
Hello We have several clients who seem to be experiencing similar problems to this. After some period of time, their permanent PPP connection stalls to our routers. They are all running Intel platforms with Redhat 5.0 and stock standard ppp out of the box. It seems the problems are

Problem

1998-07-02 Thread J. Carlos Cristobal
Hello: I have a server on the net running Redhat, yesterday it had some errors on disk I think, and from then to now, I not able to use any of the following commands: w who top talk And I had to unconvert my passwords because shadow stoped working, also I lost the "PATH" environment

a newbie question

1998-07-02 Thread An Khanh Duy Nguyen
Hello I'm upgrading some of my modules by rpm and was wondering if it is essential to recompile the kernel image with make boot ..etc after doing the upgrade??? If no, then are there any other things that I should do after doing a rpm upgrade? Thanks in advance! Danny -- PLEASE read the

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