Re: Date wierdness

2000-01-20 Thread Matt Wilson
Works fine in sh-utils-2.0.1 On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 10:37:22AM -0300, Ivan Jager wrote: How can this be??? "today" is the same as "yesterday" or "tomorrow"!! [ivanj@radius ivanj]$ date Wed Jan 19 10:14:12 PYST 2000 [ivanj@radius ivanj]$ date --date yesterday Wed Jan 19 10:15:19 PYST

Re: redirected standard out vs log file

2000-01-20 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Charles, I don't know how logrotate does, but this scheme would lose data if (on a busy system) the process is actively writing to the log file in the moment of the 'rotate' action. From the moment you have made a copy until you truncate the contents of the file, a number of lines (and/or part

Problem with -static compiling things for X

2000-01-20 Thread Marek Antozi
hello ... ia have problem with static compiling (linking) with my prog for X ... when i'm compiling it dynamicaly, it runs ok ... here is the listing: cc -static -O2 -Wall -D__RELEASE -DNO_SEAL -o bin/lxwin.so lxwin.o -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXext -lXxf86vm -lXxf86dga -lXdpms -lXi -lXp -lXss

Dreaded Dmail Problem

2000-01-20 Thread danny
Need to create a "hotmail" like solution for the ISp user Currently I have, /boot 16 / 1.5g swap 125mb /usr 3gb /mail 6gb /news 25gb I have installed Apache, Dmail and Dwebmail I did a test by typing http://ipaddress/cgi-bin/dwebmail.cgi and it works Problem 1) When I want to edit

Re: Rescan scsi bus?

2000-01-20 Thread Cokey de Percin
David Kramer wrote: If I turn on a connected SCSI device, is there a way of telling Linux to rescan the SCSI bus? Yup, try this. Works for me. --cut--- #!/bin/sh # # # Add a SCSI device dynamically # # This is for the CDRoms 1

Re: Passwords and Virutal Email

2000-01-20 Thread sixx
The reverse has to be the exact virtual domain which you are hosting. else the vpopd doens't know which directory to serve. At 07:00 PM 1/19/00 -0700, you wrote: Yes -- there is a virtual ip alias setup and set to mail.foo.com problem seems to be in reverse IP mapping -- ?? sixx wrote: did

setting up network card

2000-01-20 Thread Neil Hollow
My colleage has managed to install RH6.1 (6 wouldn't install). As I say he wants to use it as a fileserver. However, network configurator won't recognise the network card which is an intel ether express pro. It is finding a card on device eth0. But ping an ip address) reveals it is not

Re: Sound

2000-01-20 Thread Neil Hollow
Try one of the other cards in the selection. For me the last one works. I think its windows sound card (something like that) or try MAD16. I've read that SB compatable usually means not. I have an aztech galaxy nova card. I still cannot get my CD player to work though it plays but no sound

Re: redirected standard out vs log file

2000-01-20 Thread Charles Galpin
Agreed. On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Gustav Schaffter wrote: Charles, I don't know how logrotate does, but this scheme would lose data if (on a busy system) the process is actively writing to the log file in the moment of the 'rotate' action. From the moment you have made a copy until you

Ethernet Question - Take 2 :)

2000-01-20 Thread Jeff Graves
Try assigning a lower i/o and a lower irq. Try irq 7 and i/o 350 on eth1. It looks like it recognized that second card okay. The first one is what it doen't recognize. But since it works, i'd just as soon leave it alone. Did you check the 3com website to see if there's a newer driver you can

Re: squid ACL ?

2000-01-20 Thread Robert Glover
I didn't see anyone explain this (I may have missed it though) so I'll attempt to explain it myself for you. IIRC the components of an acl declaration are OR'ed and the components of an http_access declaration are AND'ed ( I hope I don't have these backward! ) So, if I may alter your

OT-Vmaware

2000-01-20 Thread Steve
Sorry for the OT post but I need some feedback on VMware I am thinking about format c:\ on my windows box and turning it into a linux server. The problem is that I still have some mission critical apps that are winblows only and I have a few games I like to play on winblows. Is running Winblows

Digital cameras under linux?

2000-01-20 Thread James Peret
newbie I am thinking of buying a digital camera, but would like to download the pictures to my linux box. Does anyone know of a manufacturer that supports linux, or is there a utility I can use? -red /newbie -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Digital cameras under linux?

2000-01-20 Thread Brian Tenerowicz
I am able to get photos from a Nikon Cool pics 900 to my Linux box. I have a PCMCIA reader installed in the computer. I simply use this to transfer photos in. Let me know if you would like more info. Brian -Original Message- From: James Peret [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Digital cameras under linux?

2000-01-20 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 10:38:11AM -0500, James Peret wrote: newbie I am thinking of buying a digital camera, but would like to download the pictures to my linux box. Does anyone know of a manufacturer that supports linux, or is there a utility I can use? I'm using a Philips ESP80X

Re: Digital cameras under linux?

2000-01-20 Thread Gustav Schaffter
James, Sony produces the 'Mavica' series of digital cameras. Though big, they come in handy since they store the pictures as .jpg files on a std DOS formatted 3.5" diskette. This way you become independent of hardware/software issues as long as you can load a DOS formatted diskette and show

Re: Digital cameras under linux?

2000-01-20 Thread Jason Hirsch
Not to get wrapped up in the quality debate, but do you really want to be carrying around a box full of floppy disks ... ? :) Besides; 1.4meg jpg is the *best* you can save an image as. Limited, IMHO. Jason -- Jason Hirsch, ChemEng/Chemistry Make it myself? But I'm a physical organic

Re: RH.6.1, rpm bug fixes, failed dependencies NEW USER

2000-01-20 Thread Alan Mead
At 11:01 PM 1/19/00 -0800, greg walsh wrote: But several packages had missing dependencies. I did a full install originally, everything but some of the developer stuff. It seems to me that I should have the requisite files, given that I installed 6.1 and am updating 6.1 --but given the

Right list for printer questions?

2000-01-20 Thread Juan Martinez
I'm not sure if this is the right list for this question. If it's not, please let me know where I should be sending it. At work we have an HP 5SiMX printer. I haven't been able to get it to print reliably for my RH6.1 box. Does anyone have experience with configuring RedHat for use with this

Problem recompiling 2.2.14 with bootable raid

2000-01-20 Thread Jake Johnson
I am having a problem booting my newly compiled kernel. The new kernel will not mount /root which is raid0. I looked through the configuration 5 times and cannot see what I am doing wrong. I am using 2 1gig disks with an Adaptec 2940, abit bh6 with a celeron ppga 400. My machine runs fine

network printer question...apple laserwriter

2000-01-20 Thread Patrick O Neil
I do not need to use appletalk/netatalk (or shouldn't) because an apple laserwriter 16/600PS that I wish to setup on my linux box (RH 6.1) is not on an appletalk network, but is shared on a TCPIP network. I assume I will need to use samba. Am I correct? In any case, in trying to start out

Re: Problem with PPP using netcfg

2000-01-20 Thread Brett Morrow
I have this exact same problem and I can not figure it out either. Nine is on a portable that we did not have Modem card for at first, but we got one later. I sent in and tried to set up PPP the same as I have done on other boxes, but this is all the messages I get. -Brett Derek Tattersall

[Fwd: Installing PHP/MYsql on a RH 5.2 Box ...]

2000-01-20 Thread p-thilts
The requests are increasing for this procedure. I haven't had time to clean it up. So I'm just forwarding you what I sent to the others requesting this procedure. Lots of verbage. Just read through it until you get to the DETAILED PROCEDURE with numbered steps. I've also obtained

Re: Problem recompiling 2.2.14 with bootable raid

2000-01-20 Thread Juan Martinez
Jake, Did you make a ram disk image to load your raid software? I had a problem like that when i upgraded kernels. None of my scsi drivers were loading. After you make a ramdisk, you'll need to tell lilo to use that when it boots up the system. Here's the relevant entry from my lilo.conf:

Re: Problem recompiling 2.2.14 with bootable raid

2000-01-20 Thread Eric Sisler
Jake Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having a problem booting my newly compiled kernel. The new kernel will not mount /root which is raid0. I looked through the configuration 5 times and cannot see what I am doing wrong. I am using 2 1gig disks with an Adaptec 2940, abit bh6 with a

Re: redirected standard out vs log file

2000-01-20 Thread Tom Gilbert
* Bret Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: There appears to be a copy and truncate functions that never acually closes or deletes the file. The man page talks about it being there for programs that cannot be restarted. That is what prompted my question. I have not had a chance to try it yet

Re: Problem recompiling 2.2.14 with bootable raid

2000-01-20 Thread Steve Borho
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 10:53:08AM -0700, Eric Sisler wrote: I was just getting ready to ask a similar question. I just installed 6.1 on a testbed server and configured all the filesystems as RAID1, including / and /boot. I was wondering about the mechanics of this with a custom kernel.

Re: Digital cameras under linux?

2000-01-20 Thread Wade Hampton
I have an Olympus D-320R and it works well. GPhoto tends to crash when downloading, but the PhotoPC package seems to be quite reliable. Overall, I have been VERY impressed with digital cameras and Linux -- great combination. You can use EE and GIMP to process the images :) Cheers, --

Re: Performance specs and Linux kernel releases.

2000-01-20 Thread Tom Gilbert
* Paul Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi All, A couple of questions and an FYI: Does anyone know of a web site (not www.specbench.org) or other information source that can help me evaluate the performance differences between Linux 2.2.14 and FreeBSD 3.4? Dates when Intel-based Linux

OT-Re:Vmaware

2000-01-20 Thread Rob Saul
Steve wrote: Sorry for the OT post but I need some feedback on VMware I am thinking about format c:\ on my windows box and turning it into a linux server. The problem is that I still have some mission critical apps I've used VMware to run Quicken without any problems (so far). This is

Re: Problem recompiling 2.2.14 with bootable raid

2000-01-20 Thread Jake Johnson
I made an initrd image /sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.14.img 2.2.14 (kerel name is vmlinuz-2.2.14) My adaptec 2940 is being found but my system cannot mount / and stops because of this. Is there anyway I can capture the output of the startup even though it doesn't complete? (dmesg would be

masq and icq

2000-01-20 Thread Carl Karsten
I am running icq on win98, which gets to the net via linux masq and a cable modem (always up). From my point, it works fine. other icq users see me as going on and off line every min or 2, which makes sending me a message a bit of a pain for them. Environment: mandrake linux 2.2.13-22. I have

Re: masq and icq

2000-01-20 Thread Jeff Smelser
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Carl Karsten wrote: I am running icq on win98, which gets to the net via linux masq and a cable modem (always up). From my point, it works fine. other icq users see me as going on and off line every min or 2, which makes sending me a message a bit

Re: Problem recompiling 2.2.14 with bootable raid

2000-01-20 Thread Eric Sisler
Steve Borho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just getting ready to ask a similar question. I just installed 6.1 on a testbed server and configured all the filesystems as RAID1, including / and /boot. I was wondering about the mechanics of this with a custom kernel. I'm guessing that initrd

Determining Execution Success or Failure for Commands

2000-01-20 Thread SoloCDM
1) Is it possible to effectively determine if a command executed successfully or failed? 2) If so, does it work on every command? Note: Detailed Documentation(s) and Sample(s) are more than welcome. When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list and my address.

Re: php3 mysql on Red Hat 6.1

2000-01-20 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 09:49:57AM -0500, Rita Meng wrote: : Has anyone gotten mysql to work with php3 on red hat 6.1? I have tried : several different installs. http://www.jasons.org/modssl.phtml If you don't want SSL, only pay attention to the PHP and MySQL parts. -- Jason

KDE freezes more info..

2000-01-20 Thread Arni Raghu
Hi, I am yet to get the version that Bernard talked about.. But here is something more that i want to ask..sometimes when there is a freeze the standard ctrl-alt-bkspc works fine and I am thrown to the prompt but sometimes it refuses to do anything...But i can telnet from someother machine and

Re: Problem recompiling 2.2.14 with bootable raid

2000-01-20 Thread Jake Johnson
I just recompiled again but without the initrd, but said yes to all block raid choices as well as for my scsi adapter(2940). I just don't know! On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Eric Sisler wrote: Steve Borho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just getting ready to ask a similar question. I just

Re: Problem recompiling 2.2.14 with bootable raid

2000-01-20 Thread Steve Borho
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 12:11:54PM -0700, Eric Sisler wrote: If you're / is a software raid device, then you'll need to either compile in that raid level into the kernel, or make it modular and create an initrd. So what you're saying is that it works either way, just like SCSI card

Re: Problem recompiling 2.2.14 with bootable raid

2000-01-20 Thread Jake Johnson
Not all true my friend. I installed redhat 6.1 and have two scsi disks. /boot is raid 1 and / is raid 0. Everything works great but I recompiled my kernel and now I am out of luck. How did Redhat do it? I am here because I want the question answered? That is my 2 cents,

Network Setup Difficulties

2000-01-20 Thread Rod Flancher
I've been recently frustrated by a network problem that I can seem to get my arms around. I have a 3 node network, a work machine running NT4.0, a family machine running Win98, and my old family machine running RedHat 6.1. I am in the process of implementing the Linux box (Cyrix 6x86 P120+)

Re: Problem recompiling 2.2.14 with bootable raid

2000-01-20 Thread Steve Borho
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 01:08:48PM -0600, Jake Johnson wrote: Not all true my friend. I installed redhat 6.1 and have two scsi disks. /boot is raid 1 and / is raid 0. Everything works great but I recompiled my kernel and now I am out of luck. How did Redhat do it? I am here because I want

Re: squid ACL ?

2000-01-20 Thread Jim Morris
I've been watching this Squid ACL discussion for a while now, and have my own question, since the subject is under discussion. Does anyone know of anywhere on the Internet I can download a list of "bad" WWW sites to block? Preferably in a format that I can pull right into the Squid ACL's? I

Re: [ANNOUNCE] i686 only Redhat Distribution - PRE-BETA RPMS Avail.

2000-01-20 Thread Jeff Mings
Hi All, I believe the point was made earlier that these binaries will also run on celerons and AMD Athlons (K7s) as well. -Jeff Allen Bolderoff wrote: We are proud to announce a PRE-BETA release of i686 compiled RPMS for Redhat 6.1 Feel free to test them. YOU MUST UPGRADE TO gcc

Re: Problem recompiling 2.2.14 with bootable raid

2000-01-20 Thread Chuck Milam
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Jake Johnson wrote: Not all true my friend. I installed redhat 6.1 and have two scsi disks. /boot is raid 1 and / is raid 0. Everything works great but I recompiled my kernel and now I am out of luck. How did Redhat do it? So, what you're saying here is that you

Re: OT - VMWare

2000-01-20 Thread Jim Morris
Steve wrote: Sorry for the OT post but I need some feedback on VMware I am thinking about format c:\ on my windows box and turning it into a linux server. The problem is that I still have some mission critical apps that are winblows only and I have a few games I like to play on winblows. Is

RE: squid ACL ?

2000-01-20 Thread Juha Saarinen
%- I know a lot in the mailing list may consider this to be censorship, but %- I have a real problem with an otherwise good employee who apparently has %- a tendency to go surfing for pornography on the WWW. I would like to %- block it if I can... Instead of trying to manage and maintain a list

RE: scripts (awk or perl or what?)

2000-01-20 Thread Coote, Chris F \(Regency\)
I don't recall how to regexprepl all occurences with one pass, but using a script lang like tcl w/sed: ## Repeat using a do while to change from CSV to oeSV: set newdata [exec sed -e s/","/oe/ $data] ## ##Then: set listdata [split $newdata oe] ## -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: inactive users

2000-01-20 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Jeff Smelser wrote: does anyone have a script/program to logout inactive users?? clobberd -- Todd A. Jacobs Network Systems Engineer -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: squid ACL ?

2000-01-20 Thread Jim Morris
You've got a point. I'm pushing for a written Internet policy for the company, but its taking a little while to get one published. I was hoping to block the stuff anyway Thanks! Juha Saarinen wrote: %- I know a lot in the mailing list may consider this to be censorship, but %- I have

Re: System Access Attempts

2000-01-20 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, William B. Herman wrote: It seems that I have people who are trying to telnet into my machine. They seem to be either changing their ISP or spoofing their IP address. There is no reason these addresses should be telneting into our machine. My guess is they are

dsl and pumpd

2000-01-20 Thread matt boex
i am running rh6.1 and using pumpd to obtain my ip from my dsl modem. when i activate the ethernet device, i get the ip, but it hangs ifconfig. why is this and where exactly is the ip stored? __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with

Athlon processor

2000-01-20 Thread Carey F. Cox
I remember reading some posts recently about the Athlon processor. I didn't pay attention to those at the time, but now I have someone asking about putting Linux on one of those chips. How compatible are these chips with RH6.0 or greater? What are the problems being experienced? Thanks,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] i686 only Redhat Distribution - PRE-BETA RPMS Avail.

2000-01-20 Thread Eric Wood
When Allen Bolderoff mentioned the "higher" in "RUN THEM ON A PENTIUM-PRO, PII, PIII or Higher", he was subconsiously refering to the Athlon. :) -eric wood -Original Message- From: Jeff Mings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, January 20, 2000

DSL Multiplexing?

2000-01-20 Thread Brad 'GreyBear' Davis
I remember a while ago someone was asking a question related to running in multiple DSL lines for an ISP. I find that I now need to do something similar for our company. Does anyone have a line on an appliance that will take multiple incoming DSL lines and multiplex them into a single large data

Newbie: need help w/ devices

2000-01-20 Thread Steve
I know this is probably easy and I'having a brain fart but I had 2 cdroms in my linux box /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom2 I removed the cd that was linked to /dev/cdrom and want change the other cdrom drive from /devcdrom2 to /dev/cdrom How do I do this?? TIA Steve -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL

RE: squid ACL ?

2000-01-20 Thread Juha Saarinen
While you're at it, make sure that email and email attachements are covered by the policy. IANAL, but I believe that email is treated no differently than normal company correspondence in law, with all the implications that has. Cheers, -- Juha %- -Original Message- %- From: Jim Morris

Re: DSL Multiplexing?

2000-01-20 Thread Jim Kannengieser
Netopia makes DSL routers that can handle multiple DSL lines. Jim On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Brad 'GreyBear' Davis wrote: I remember a while ago someone was asking a question related to running in multiple DSL lines for an ISP. I find that I now need to do something similar for our company.

RE: Network Setup Difficulties

2000-01-20 Thread Paul B. Brown
Rod, I've been recently frustrated by a network problem that I can seem to get my arms around. I have a 3 node network, a work machine running NT 4.0, a family machine running Win98, and my old family machine running RedHat 6.1. I am in the process of implementing the Linux box (Cyrix 6x86

Re: Athlon processor

2000-01-20 Thread Tom Gilbert
* Carey F. Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I remember reading some posts recently about the Athlon processor. I didn't pay attention to those at the time, but now I have someone asking about putting Linux on one of those chips. How compatible are these chips with RH6.0 or greater? 100%

Re: Newbie: need help w/ devices

2000-01-20 Thread Tom Gilbert
* Steve ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I know this is probably easy and I'having a brain fart but I had 2 cdroms in my linux box /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom2 I removed the cd that was linked to /dev/cdrom and want change the other cdrom drive from /devcdrom2 to /dev/cdrom How do I do this??

Re: OT-Vmaware

2000-01-20 Thread Reiner Rusch
Sorry for the OT post but I need some feedback on VMware I am thinking about format c:\ on my windows box and turning it into a linux server. The problem is that I still have some mission critical apps that are winblows only and I have a few games I like to play on winblows. Is running

Re: Video Question

2000-01-20 Thread Tom Gilbert
* Michael J. McGillick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Evening Everyone: I just bought the Diamond Viper II Video card. I'm curious if anyone know offhand whether this card works with the current release of XFree86 distributed with Red Hat 6.1. The release of XFree86 is: XFree86-3.3.5-3.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] i686 only Redhat Distribution - PRE-BETA RPMS Avail.

2000-01-20 Thread Allen Bolderoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: When Allen Bolderoff mentioned the "higher" in "RUN THEM ON A PENTIUM-PRO, PII, PIII or Higher", he was subconsiously refering to the Athlon. :) -eric wood whack Thats what it must have been :) -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the

Re: SOLVED-Newbie: need help w/ devices

2000-01-20 Thread Steve
Thanks Tom! I was making it way more dificult than it had to be. Steve On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Tom Gilbert wrote: * Steve ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I know this is probably easy and I'having a brain fart but I had 2 cdroms in my linux box /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom2 I removed the cd

Re: Determining Execution Success or Failure for Commands

2000-01-20 Thread J. Scott Kasten
If you are doing this synchonously, as in the processes are not backgrounded, then most shells have a shell variable that evaluates to the return code from the last separate command executed. Try $? in bash, zsh, ksh, and perl. If it is backgrounded, then this requires more advanced scripting

Re: [ANNOUNCE] i686 only Redhat Distribution - PRE-BETA RPMS Avail.

2000-01-20 Thread Michael George
On Jan 20, Eric Wood wrote: When Allen Bolderoff mentioned the "higher" in "RUN THEM ON A PENTIUM-PRO, PII, PIII or Higher", he was subconsiously refering to the Athlon. :) Thank you for that information. I was wondering about that... BTW, is the Athalon a good processor, or does it have

Re: DSL Multiplexing?

2000-01-20 Thread Brad 'GreyBear' Davis
Thanks, but Netopia's products are all SDSL or IDSL. Service here is limited to ADSL currently. Any other ideas from folks? Perhaps discrete routers and a VPN scheme would solve my problem? Brad 'GreyBear' Davis - CTO, PeoplePublish, Inc. On

Re: Athlon processor

2000-01-20 Thread J. Scott Kasten
For the most part, it's just an x86. However, you should run I think it's 2.2.12 minimum, maybe it's 2.2.13, but around that anyway. Devel kernels from 2.3.30 on should be ok to. There's just a little funky stuff to get the chip to really sing that's in those kernels. You should go to deja

Re: Athlon processor

2000-01-20 Thread Michael George
On Jan 20, J. Scott Kasten wrote: For the most part, it's just an x86. However, you should run I think it's 2.2.12 minimum, maybe it's 2.2.13, but around that anyway. Devel kernels from 2.3.30 on should be ok to. There's just a little funky stuff to get the chip to really sing that's in

Re: extractinging just one file from an rpm

2000-01-20 Thread Tom Gilbert
* Rob Saul ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is there a way to extract just one file from an rpm? ~Rob Try "man rpm", or even easier, use mc to browse the contents of an rpm like a directory, and copy stuff out. Tom. --

Re: [ANNOUNCE] i686 only Redhat Distribution - PRE-BETA RPMS Avail.

2000-01-20 Thread Charles Galpin
working great here (500mhz) on a stock 2.2.5-15 RH6.1 kernel. On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Michael George wrote: On Jan 20, Eric Wood wrote: When Allen Bolderoff mentioned the "higher" in "RUN THEM ON A PENTIUM-PRO, PII, PIII or Higher", he was subconsiously refering to the Athlon. :) Thank

Re: OT-Vmaware

2000-01-20 Thread Charles Galpin
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Reiner Rusch wrote: P.S.: Excuse my bad english! Just learned from the error-messages of WINDOWS!! :-) lol. no sir, you made much more sense than someone who learnt engish that way! -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Athlon processor

2000-01-20 Thread Jason Hirsch
The biggest problem I have had with the Athlon Proc is envy. Yes, pure, green, envy. I built one around an ASUS K7M board... and I want it. bad. 128 megs ram, 32meg video just watching it do a memory test in less than 1/2 second gives me shivers. Bye bye pentiums... I'm going Athlon from

NFS Install?

2000-01-20 Thread Mark A. Zottola
I have a K6-3 450 that I has Redhat6.0 installed. As I did not do the install myself, there were several features which were lacking. So I would like to deal with the mess by upgrading to RH6.1. Unfortunately this machine does not have a CD-ROM in it. I would like to mount the CD-ROM on another

Re: Athlon processor

2000-01-20 Thread Alan Mead
I'm in a similar situation (except no Athalon on the horizon)... IIRC, The HCL at Red Hat's web site claims that some Athalon MB's are partially incompatible with Linux but the chip itself is no problem. At 03:10 PM 1/20/00 -0600, Carey F. Cox wrote: I remember reading some posts recently

Re: Athlon processor

2000-01-20 Thread Charles Galpin
sorry, I should have mentioned that linux only saw 64MB of RAM, so I had to tell it about the other 192MB :) So yes, the MB has an issue there, but no others that I have noticed. On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Alan Mead wrote: I'm in a similar situation (except no Athalon on the horizon)... IIRC, The

Re: NFS Install?

2000-01-20 Thread Charles Galpin
yes, providing the other machine runs *nix you can install via nfs. I have not done it myself, but you can also do installs via http and smb (if the other PCs are windows). On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Mark A. Zottola wrote: I have a K6-3 450 that I has Redhat6.0 installed. As I did not do the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] i686 only Redhat Distribution - PRE-BETA RPMS Avail.

2000-01-20 Thread David
Charles Galpin wrote: working great here (500mhz) on a stock 2.2.5-15 RH6.1 kernel. On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Michael George wrote: On Jan 20, Eric Wood wrote: When Allen Bolderoff mentioned the "higher" in "RUN THEM ON A PENTIUM-PRO, PII, PIII or Higher", he was subconsiously refering

s/w RAID boot

2000-01-20 Thread Edward Schernau
You need to make sure you have persistent superblocks, and also set the partition types to "fd". Then pass the right parameters to LILO. -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing

Re: [ANNOUNCE] i686 only Redhat Distribution - PRE-BETA RPMS Avail.

2000-01-20 Thread Charles Galpin
yup, excpet we will all need to wait a while for a fast one. Looks really interesting though. I was a bit surprised though. I fully expected a 64 bit architecture, but I guess their arch. allows them to know layer a 64 chipset on top of it. On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, David wrote: Charles Galpin

Re: OT-Vmaware

2000-01-20 Thread Matt Nelson
On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Reiner Rusch wrote: Sorry for the OT post but I need some feedback on VMware I am thinking about format c:\ on my windows box and turning it into a linux server. The problem is that I still have some mission critical apps that are winblows only and I have a few

Crusoe

2000-01-20 Thread Brandon Dorman
Don't know what I may be getting myself into here, but what do you guys think about the Crusoe? Sounds absolutely awesome!! (with Linus there, how could it not be??) And IBM seems to be a friend of Linux too. I think this could be the start of the dethroning of bad software (M$) for good.

Re: [RedHat-List] Re: NFS Install?

2000-01-20 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 05:55:08PM -0500, Charles Galpin wrote: | yes, providing the other machine runs *nix you can install via nfs. I have | not done it myself, but you can also do installs via http and smb (if the | other PCs are windows). Well I have done it. Works just fine. Make a floppy

Re: redirected standard out vs log file

2000-01-20 Thread Bret Hughes
Good to know also. I tried the cat /dev/null logfile technique and while I did not loos any data there is about 4K or so of garbage at the begining of the logfile. In less it shows up as all '@' (noquotes) symbols. Does not look good for the cat dev/null technique. I am going to use the

Re: [RedHat-List] Determining Execution Success or Failure for Commands

2000-01-20 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 12:23:09PM -0700, SoloCDM wrote: | 1) Is it possible to effectively determine if a command executed | successfully or failed? Sure. Every command has an exit status, which is zero on success and nonzero on failure (some commands have a well documented assortment of

Re: Crusoe

2000-01-20 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 03:12:20PM -0800, Brandon Dorman wrote: Don't know what I may be getting myself into here, but what do you guys think about the Crusoe? Sounds absolutely awesome!! (with Linus there, how could it not be??) And IBM seems to be a friend of Linux too. I think this

Re: Athlon processor

2000-01-20 Thread J. Scott Kasten
It's not really processor specific, but specific to the IDE chip sets you're using. However, a board for an advanced processor like the athelon is going to have an advanced IDE chip set as well. I think your best bet is the deja archives in both cases. On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 05:32:35PM -0500,

pdf to gif

2000-01-20 Thread Carl Karsten
I need to convert a few pages of a pdf to a few gif files. I have gotten as far as converting them to pbm, using pdftopbm, but can't figure out how to go from pbm to gif, or anything else that can go to gif. On a related but non linux subject: does anyone know where I can get a 4up W2 image?

Re: pdf to gif

2000-01-20 Thread Tom Gilbert
* Carl Karsten ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I need to convert a few pages of a pdf to a few gif files. I have gotten as far as converting them to pbm, using pdftopbm, but can't figure out how to go from pbm to gif, or anything else that can go to gif. On a related but non linux subject: does

Re: [ANNOUNCE] i686 only Redhat Distribution - PRE-BETA RPMS Avail.

2000-01-20 Thread David
Charles Galpin wrote: yup, except we will all need to wait a while for a fast one. Looks really interesting though. I was a bit surprised though. I fully expected a 64 bit architecture, but I guess their arch. allows them to know layer a 64 chipset on top of it. h...yes, i was

Re: [ANNOUNCE] i686 only Redhat Distribution - PRE-BETA RPMS Avail.

2000-01-20 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
I have the feeling I am just about to make myself look very silly, but what is this "Crusoe" you are talking about ??? Philippe David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Charles Galpin wrote: yup, except we will all need to wait a while for a fast one. Looks really interesting though.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] i686 only Redhat Distribution - PRE-BETA RPMS Avail.

2000-01-20 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, Philippe, Have you been reading slahdot? Try this http://www.transmeta.com. Hidong Philippe Moutarlier wrote: I have the feeling I am just about to make myself look very silly, but what is this "Crusoe" you are talking about ??? Philippe David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

RE: Using PPP with pcmcia card

2000-01-20 Thread Nicholas, Frank \(TSA\)
Dan where is kudzu started? I did not add the pre-install pcmcia_core line. It was already there Frank Nicholas -Original Message- From: Ron Golan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 20 January 2000 3:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Using PPP with pcmcia card If you are

/var/spool/mail

2000-01-20 Thread Ganbold
How to safely move /var/spool/mail directory to somewhere else? Because my /var partition is filling up. thanks in advance, Ganbold Ts. System engineer -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Digital cameras under linux?

2000-01-20 Thread linda hanigan
I have a sony Mavica 781 and love it. The pictures are great quality even at 8X10. Yes I use alot of floppy but the upside is when you run out on vacation you can but more anywhere. I have just started playing with compupic and it looks really promising of course to use my hp photosmart I still

Re: /var/spool/mail

2000-01-20 Thread Bret Hughes
Wait and see what the gurus say, but I would probably create a partition, mount it, copy everything in /varspool/mail to it, delete everything under var spool mail, and remount the new partition at mount point /var/spool/mail. Ought to work. Might not even have to delete the stuff under

RE: /var/spool/mail

2000-01-20 Thread Uncle Meat
On 21-Jan-00 Ganbold opined: How to safely move /var/spool/mail directory to somewhere else? Because my /var partition is filling up. The easiest, not necessarily best, way: mv /var/spool/mail /destination ln -s /destination/mail /var/spool All as root. No config changes or

RE: Using PPP with pcmcia card

2000-01-20 Thread Ron Golan
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Nicholas, Frank (TSA) wrote: Dan where is kudzu started? kudzu is started where all the other services are started. If your default runlevel is 3, then kudzu is started in the boot process by a symbolic link in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/ (it should be called S95kudzu) which

Re: /var/spool/mail

2000-01-20 Thread Eric Sisler
Ganbold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to safely move /var/spool/mail directory to somewhere else? Because my /var partition is filling up. If you have another disk or empty space you can create a new filesystem on, you can probably do something like the following: Create the new filesystem,

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