Re: Any way to beat DOS FDISK?

2000-02-22 Thread C C H
Initially I used Win98 fdisk to set up the primary partition because I wanted fat32 partition but no extended nor logical drives then install Win98. When completed I start installing RH Linux using Disk Druid allowing me to make logical drives such as Dos 16=>32 and linux native boot, root, swap.

Re: [OT] Processor Recommendation

2000-02-22 Thread Greg Large
I prefer Supermicro Motherboards. I have been having good results with the supermicro P6SBA with a PII 450 mhz chip. (I have not brought one up as Linux yet tho) The celeron is a sx vs a dx type chip for $50 bucks more I would buy the PII. The P6SBA uses the slot type chip not the socket 7 type.

Re: Cron run-parts /etc/cron.weekly

2000-02-22 Thread Ron Golan
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 01:05:54AM -0500, erik wrote: > Hi, > > I am getting some errors when my weekly cron job runs. I get this error: > > > Read file error: ./rec.1 No such file or directory > > I think its because the name of the file should be rc.1 but I dont > know where to change it.

Cron run-parts /etc/cron.weekly

2000-02-22 Thread erik
Hi, I am getting some errors when my weekly cron job runs. I get this error: Read file error: ./rec.1 No such file or directory I think its because the name of the file should be rc.1 but I dont know where to change it. Any ideas? TIA, -e -- erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Can I pour

Re: [OT] Processor Recommendation

2000-02-22 Thread John J. Donohue
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Chad W. Skinner wrote: > I am getting ready to start purchasing parts to build a couple of computers > so I can learn more about networking. I am curious about what processor to > buy though. I have found a Celeron 500 for $102.00 and PII 400-450 for about > $150+. I am not p

Re: [OT] Processor Recommendation

2000-02-22 Thread Hidong Kim
This is a pretty good site for hardware info http://www.tomshardware.com. Good luck, Hidong "Chad W. Skinner" wrote: > > I am getting ready to start purchasing parts to build a couple of computers > so I can learn more about networking. I am curious about what processor to > buy though. I

[OT] Processor Recommendation

2000-02-22 Thread Chad W. Skinner
I am getting ready to start purchasing parts to build a couple of computers so I can learn more about networking. I am curious about what processor to buy though. I have found a Celeron 500 for $102.00 and PII 400-450 for about $150+. I am not planning on doing anything real demanding except for m

Re: keeping up connection

2000-02-22 Thread Dean
you could add it to your pppd line as an option as in /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS1 57600 persist connect... Not trying to be difficult, but with netcfg, setting up a dialup takes a couple of seconds, then the ifup and ifdown commands work also... Dean Irvin 8:20pm up 2 days, 8:45, 1 user,

Re: security list? [Now: firewalls]

2000-02-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
Gustav Schaffter wrote: > Did you compare the results by using DENY instead of REJECT? Yes. With DENY, the remote machine sent connection requests until it timed out. With REJECT, the remote machine sent the connection requests, and was told (in some way) that the port was unavailable. It didn

Re: keeping up connection

2000-02-22 Thread Stephen M Lavelle
Dean, i do not use /sbin/ifcfg-ppp0 instead i have a script: #!/bin/sh #This script is for the case where you log on to your ISP /usr/sbin/pppd /dev/ttyS1 57600 connect "/usr/sbin/chat -f $HOME/chatscript" with $HOME/chatscript being like this: ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT "NO DIALTONE" ABORT "ERRO

Re: Sb Live upgrade/support in RedHat

2000-02-22 Thread Chris Dowling
Peter Cague wrote: > > Hi > > Anmybody know how far away the updates to the sound config are theat > have support > for SB Live card, I tried the 6.2 Beta but that doesn't seem to do it or > am I missing > something. I got everything that looks like a sound files the onlt > thing I have yet t

Re: keeping up connection

2000-02-22 Thread Dean Irvin
how about adding PERSIST=yes to your ifcfg-ppp0 file then the crontab entries could be /sbin/ifup ppp0 in the morning and /sbin/ifdown ppp0 at night Dean Irvin 7:42pm up 2 days, 8:07, 1 user, load average: 1.35, 1.48, 1.35 On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Stephen M Lavelle wrote: > I have a cron job

Re: gui samba client

2000-02-22 Thread Stephen M Lavelle
Have a look at: http://us1.samba.org/samba/GUI/ many of these are config tools but http://www.public.iastate.edu/~chadspen/ might be what you need. Regards Stephen Pira, Joel wrote: > > try TkSmb > > -Original Message- > From: erik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February

RE: gui samba client

2000-02-22 Thread Pira, Joel
try TkSmb -Original Message- From: erik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 12:03 AM To: Redhat List Subject: gui samba client Hi, Does anyone know of a program that resembes the window network neighborhood? I woiuld like to be able to browse my schools networ

(ifconfig)MTU and Rx

2000-02-22 Thread Robert Canary
Hi, ifconfig ppp0 reads: MTU: 1500 RX packets: 1202 TX packets: 994 The total on the /proc/cyclades reads: Bytes in: 14458 Bytes Out: 38278 How do you use the ifconfig report to figure up my Rx/Tx Octets? -- robert canary system services OhioCounty.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] (270)298-9331 Office (2

Port forwarding into a private network for multiple domains

2000-02-22 Thread Toby A. Rider
I got a good response on this question from an admin on the linux-admin list. When I get home tonight I'll have to try it out. He said: > instead of an ipchains rule to accomplish this sort of port forwarding, > i've used a small tcp port redirector called redir - short for on firewall >

keeping up connection

2000-02-22 Thread Stephen M Lavelle
I have a cron job which dials up and establishes a ppp link to our ISP at 6am each morning. The link is killed at 6pm. Occassionally between these hours the line drops out and the connection is lost. How can i reconnect when this happens? (I do not wish to use the 'demand' option or diald) Thanks

Networking problems (Was: cannot access Internet sites)

2000-02-22 Thread Michael D Green
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Mike Green wrote: > Now on to the next level of my endeavor: trying to get my Linux machine to > talk to my Windows 95 and 98 machines over the network where those Windows > machines are already talking to one another (on a peer basis)... I'll likely > have more questions. W

Re: Port forwarding into a private network for multiple domains

2000-02-22 Thread Perry J. Blalock
I'm glad someone finally cleared this up cuz I wuz pullin me hais out myself trying to figure a way. Although, I take exception to the statement that "ipchains has no knowledge of the HTTP protocol," I'm sure that is not what you really meant to say. >> Does anyone have some sample IPCHAI

Re: [OT] - Parsing Apache Configuration File with PERL

2000-02-22 Thread Alan Mead
I don't have time to write real perl but I would do something like this: open FIL or die; my $flag = 0; while { if (/

HP9000

2000-02-22 Thread Paul Brown
> Will Redhat Alpha run on an HP9000 system. I have the oppotunity to get > one of these and before I make this leap I would like to know. Kirk, Nope. Paul --- Paul B. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: access mounted partition via ftp / access ext2 from W9x

2000-02-22 Thread David
Hi ! Thank you very much for your reply ! and you are not an asshole ! ;) >> 1.) What do I have to do to be able to access the mounted vfat partition >>when i ftp to my server ? > >Configure your permissions to allow browsing to that mount point. man ftpd. >It works as you would ex

[OT] - Parsing Apache Configuration File with PERL

2000-02-22 Thread Matt Housh
Does anyone know how (or could anyone point me to a good reference to LEARN how) to perform a parsing sequence with PERL that would be useful for listing configured Virtual Hosts in an Apache web server config file? The format of the VirtualHost directives, for anyone who has not used the

Re: [offtopic]Perl:assigning an array(close)

2000-02-22 Thread Robert Canary
Thanks Charles, I ended up using a while as you explained, as I could not get the foreach to work. The reason I would rather use this method over your first suggestion; there are some other log entries that have the same $getty_dev and $ttydev but the left side of the *other* item/value pairs

"open" Linux sys admin training materials

2000-02-22 Thread Alan Mead
I want to offer some training here at work in basic Linux system administration. One possibility would be that I provide the training. I was wondering if anyone knows of materials already available for this? I envision fix or six weeks consisting of a half day "lecture" followed by one or m

Re: Port forwarding into a private network for multiple domains

2000-02-22 Thread Charles Galpin
I sort of vaguely remember seeing somehwere that apache could act as some sort of proxy and redirect virtual hosts to other internal machines (and I'm assuming back out transparantly), but that could just be wishful thinking. Anyone know about something like this? charles On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, I

RE: Enlightment and Anti-aliasing true type fonts support?

2000-02-22 Thread Juha Saarinen
%-> This is down to the individual applications. The GNOME team are %-> working on gnome-print for doing stuff like this, for example. %-> %-> Most current applications? No. That's a shame... seems like a requirement for Linux to take off at the desktop. -- Juha -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMA

Ipchains again still

2000-02-22 Thread Peter Cague
Hi I put up some ipchains a while back and it seems I need to put more info up so i have taken the whole thing and put it in here: As I'm a couple of days passed new and I have not done ipchains as yet, I'm thinking this is a script and I make it into an exc file and run it the link to the Inte

Re: Port forwarding into a private network for multiple domains

2000-02-22 Thread Kurt Brust
Well I was using a Linux 6.0 box, and was able to use EASYFW and RINETD , it worked smooth only issue is, you can not re-direct FTP ports with RINETD (software issue) .. I had tried NETMAX's FIREWALL/ROUTER but IP address kept changing... so now I am stuck using NAT32 (on a WINBLOWS machine) ,

Sb Live upgrade/support in RedHat

2000-02-22 Thread Peter Cague
Hi Anmybody know how far away the updates to the sound config are theat have support for SB Live card, I tried the 6.2 Beta but that doesn't seem to do it or am I missing something. I got everything that looks like a sound files the onlt thing I have yet to do is try upgradeing the kernel. Ch

Re: LAN/messages

2000-02-22 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> > Hi all, > > I had just configured my intenet connection under linux with an ethernet > card, my problem is that, i recieve 2-3 messages per minute from my > localhost. Below is an example message: > > Thanks a lot in advance. > m.ennasar > --- > rpm -e arpwatch, you proba

Re: "who" command does not produce any output?

2000-02-22 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Zaigui Wang wrote: > I just noticed that the "who" command will nto produce any output. What > could be the problem? I am using rh6.1. Corrupt utmp or wtmp file is the most likely cause.. Don't remove / repair these file from multiuser mode, do it from single user mode,

Re: Compiling issues / HELP :P

2000-02-22 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Jason Hirsch wrote: > Problem: Attempting to compile with gcc -c ip_masq_netmeeting.c > > Fails for the following reason(s): > ip_masq_netmeeting.c:87: net/protocol.h: No such file or directory > ip_masq_netmeeting.c:88: net/udp.h: No such file or directory > ip_masq_netm

Re: Port forwarding into a private network for multiple domains

2000-02-22 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> Does anyone have some sample IPCHAINs rules to forward http requests > to > multiple web servers on a private network, based on the requested > domain? > I know that's not very clear, so let me explain a little > better: lets > say 192.168.0.10 and 192.168.0.11 are webservers on

Re: [offtopic]Perl:assigning an array

2000-02-22 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Robert Canary wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry for the perl question. > > I have extracted from a log file ta line that reads that reads something > like this: > item1='value', item2='value2', item3='value3' > > i am trying to get parse the line as to assign to an array as suc

Re: kernel recompile

2000-02-22 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Ketan wrote: > I am trying to install Oracle8i on my linux6.1 > box and this requires setting some kernel > parameters like SHMMAX, SHMMIN, SHMMNI, SHMSEG, > SEMMSL, SEMMNI, SEMOPM, SEMVMX. these are the > kernel parameters to adjust the shared memory and > semaphores. ech

Re: reinstall and be more careful??

2000-02-22 Thread Ric Moore
Jasper Jans wrote: > > asshole? > thats a nice why of saying thanx for the info. > the way to go if u want more help. > > J. > > - Original Message - > From: "Ed Schernau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, 22 February, 2000 8:40 PM > Subject: reinstall and b

Re: [offtopic]Perl:assigning an array(close)

2000-02-22 Thread Charles Galpin
yes, but it won't work with foreach (I cannot explain why - anyone?). this does work though while( /(\S+?)='(.*?)'/g) { $getty{$1}=$2; } I originally did something like this, but since you only wanted to match a few things I thought the straight match would be simpler. Keep in mind that

Re: Processor Type & Features- custom kernel

2000-02-22 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> I'm compiling a custom kernel for the first time, and have a question about > which processor option I should use- I'm using a Celeron, compiling kernel > version 2.2.5-22. > > > The options listed that look likely are: > 586/K5/5x86/6x86 > Pentium/K6/TSC > PPro/6x86MX > > > So, which one s

Re: memory useage

2000-02-22 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: > [zeus@localhost zeus]$ cat /proc/meminfo > total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: > Mem: 97861632 61251584 36610048 11558912 12476416 34770944 > Swap: 125886464 3244032 122642432 > MemTotal: 95568 kB > MemFree: 3

Re: access mounted partition via ftp / access ext2 from W9x

2000-02-22 Thread Eric Cifreo
> Now my questions: > > 1.) What do I have to do to be able to access the mounted vfat partition >when i ftp to my server ? Configure your permissions to allow browsing to that mount point. man ftpd. It works as you would expect: if the user you log in as has rights to read/write to the mount p

PowerChutePlus does not communicate with device

2000-02-22 Thread Kraszewski, Marcin
Hi everyone, I just replaced a SmartUPS 1000 with a brand new SU700. The 1000 was visible to my Linux RH6.0 machine, running PowerChutePlus 4.5.2 software. It was set-up for ttyS0. I could remotely test and monitor the UPS. After the switch, I am getting the following error when running Config.sh

Re: reinstall and be more careful??

2000-02-22 Thread Jasper Jans
asshole? thats a nice why of saying thanx for the info. the way to go if u want more help. J. - Original Message - From: "Ed Schernau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, 22 February, 2000 8:40 PM Subject: reinstall and be more careful?? | Asshole, thanks for yo

Re: Enlightment and Anti-aliasing true type fonts support?

2000-02-22 Thread Tom Gilbert
* Juha Saarinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > %-> You can use ttf fonts in X though, just not AA. > > What about printing with TT fonts? Is that supported currently? This is down to the individual applications. The GNOME team are working on gnome-print for doing stuff like this, for example. Mos

Re: Mount Error

2000-02-22 Thread Stuart Christian
That did the trick, thanks! -Stu Dave Reed wrote: > Unless your floppy is already formatted with the ext2 filesystem, you > want to change ext2 to vfat in the fstab file for /dev/fd0. > > Dave -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: [offtopic]Perl:assigning an array(close)

2000-02-22 Thread Robert Canary
Thanks Charles, Once I knew what I was looking for I found it inthe books under "Backrefference" I liked your explaination better. What if one want to implement certain code each time a match was found. And do something like this. while () { if (/pid=$getty_pid/ && /dev=$ttydev/) {

Re: Mount Error

2000-02-22 Thread Dave Reed
Unless your floppy is already formatted with the ext2 filesystem, you want to change ext2 to vfat in the fstab file for /dev/fd0. Dave > From: Stuart Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'm trying to mount my floppy and I keep getting this error log: > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad s

access mounted partition via ftp / access ext2 from W9x

2000-02-22 Thread David
Hi ! I'd like to exchange files between W98 and Linux residing on the system. I have no problem to mount vfat partitions under Linux. I have a non-anonymous ftp server running (proftpd, mainly to access my documents via ftp), now i want to link a mounted vfat partition to the ftp-director

all-in-one printer/fax/scanner/copier

2000-02-22 Thread John Sterling
I'm planning on gettting a an "all-in-one" printer/fax/scanner/copier and I'm trying to find out if any are supported under linux. I've looked around (eg., the Hardware-HOWTO) and can't find mention of any such boxes. Haven't decided on whether to go cheap (e.g., HP OfficeJet 600) or higher e

Mount Error

2000-02-22 Thread Stuart Christian
I'm trying to mount my floppy and I keep getting this error log: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0 or too many mounted file systesms This is my fstab file /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda1

Re: [offtopic]Perl:assigning an array(close)

2000-02-22 Thread Charles Galpin
I guess I'll keep it on list since there seems to be some interest in regular expressions (and I'm left wondering why this is deemed such complicated code) If I'm not mistaken, the code really just needed to be (minus error handling) the following since all you cared about was the getty info. So

Re: SupraMax modem installation

2000-02-22 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Marty, I don't know your modem, but the fact that you need to run some installation software to get it running scares me. ;-) Is this an internal modem? If yes, is this a 'Winmodem'? Winmodems will only work with Winxx. Or, at least, they will *not* work with Linux. AFAIK, they will not work wi

Re: Any way to beat DOS FDISK?

2000-02-22 Thread Adahma
Quoting Jasper Jans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > | In DOS, used FDISK to make a new logical drive in > | the extended partition, rebooted and formatted it. > | > | Turns out that D: is now /dev/hda5, and thus my entire > | Linux installation is toast. I haven't written to D: > | yet, is there any hope

Re: [OT][REDHAT] Re: [offtopic]Perl:assigning an array

2000-02-22 Thread Robert Canary
Fantastic rp! Will you not write your own Perl book? It should push O'Reilly of the shelf. (Well my shelf anyway) O'Reilly is mostly perl man pages given a better format. I love O'Reilly books but their perl books sucks!! Escpecially on the sections of pattern matching and magic variables. Late

Re: certificate

2000-02-22 Thread Alan Mead
At 07:23 PM 2/21/00 , GSM wrote: >Alan Mead wrote: > > The way it was explained to me is that the name of the site gets decrypted > > too late for name-based redirection. Now you can have multiple name-based > > virtual hosts and a single SSL virtual host but it's cheating to say that > > it's n

Re: Any way to beat DOS FDISK?

2000-02-22 Thread Jasper Jans
| In DOS, used FDISK to make a new logical drive in | the extended partition, rebooted and formatted it. | | Turns out that D: is now /dev/hda5, and thus my entire | Linux installation is toast. I haven't written to D: | yet, is there any hope? the f-word is in here... formatted.. hence.. no lu

Re: Any way to beat DOS FDISK?

2000-02-22 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Ed Schernau wrote: > Had Linux installed to /dev/hda5, with a /dev/hda6 > as swap. > > In DOS, used FDISK to make a new logical drive in > the extended partition, rebooted and formatted it. > > Turns out that D: is now /dev/hda5, and thus my entire > Linux installation is t

Re: [offtopic]Perl:assigning an array(close)

2000-02-22 Thread Robert Canary
Hi Charles, Hey thanks for your and everyones help on such an offtopic subject. I have all of the O'Reilly Perl books, but I something I never picked up on was the assignment of values to the $17. I am still sure how this works, but had I understood it before it would have made things allot

Any way to beat DOS FDISK?

2000-02-22 Thread Ed Schernau
Had Linux installed to /dev/hda5, with a /dev/hda6 as swap. In DOS, used FDISK to make a new logical drive in the extended partition, rebooted and formatted it. Turns out that D: is now /dev/hda5, and thus my entire Linux installation is toast. I haven't written to D: yet, is there any hope?

SupraMax modem installation

2000-02-22 Thread Marty Nopola
I have just installed RH Linux 6.1 on a new Microsoft-free hard disk. I also bought a Diamond SupraMax 56k modem and found installation to be on a WIN95/98 CD. Diamond tech support referred me to RH. Is there any software that will install it thru Linux or even DOS 6.22 on a 3.5 inch diskette?

Re: RH6.1: Epson Stylus 740 printer driver?

2000-02-22 Thread Rick Forrister
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I'm in the market for a color printer to operate under RH6.1. I can > get > an Epson Stylus 740 for $100, including rebate, but I'm somewhat > curios > about the driver provider by RH6.1. The closet driver, that I see, > would > appear to be: > > "Epson

Re: gui samba client

2000-02-22 Thread jack wallen jr
you could try gnomba but you'll have to have GNOME running. a chimp told me that you said: :Hi, : :Does anyone know of a program that resembes the window network neighborhood? I woiuld like to be able to browse my schools network with a gui. Any ideas? : :TIA,

RE: hub connection dies over weekend

2000-02-22 Thread Charles Boening
It's not some sort of power saving thing is it? When you move it to another port or "replug" it into the original port, you're waking up something in the system. Kind of like the "wake on LAN" functionality. Just a shot in the dark. Charlie -Original Message- From: linda hanigan [ma

Re: gui samba client

2000-02-22 Thread Olmy
> > Does anyone know of a program that resembes the window network neighborhood? I >woiuld like to be able to browse my schools network with a gui. Any ideas? although there are several samba GUI browsers out there (some written to QT and some to GTK), not all are equal in support for browsing

Re: hello

2000-02-22 Thread Eduardo Arista
Try the man and info pages. Did you read the How To?s. And let us Know what troubles you and of course your harware and configuration. * Date forwarded: 22 Feb 2000 02:26:30 - Date sent: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 20:28:24 -0600 To:

gui samba client

2000-02-22 Thread erik
Hi, Does anyone know of a program that resembes the window network neighborhood? I woiuld like to be able to browse my schools network with a gui. Any ideas? TIA, -e -- erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Can I pour you a beer, Mr. Peterson?" "A little early isn't it, Woody?"

bug in installer?

2000-02-22 Thread getrhd
I finally found a way around the problem 2x PII/400 in MicroStar MS-6120N (440BX), 512MB ECC SDRAM AMI MegaRAID 428 (OEM w/ 2 channels) with Channel 1: WD Enterprise UW-SCSI 4GB IBM UltraStar 2S UW-SCSI 4GB Channel 2: 3x Seagate Hawk 4GB SCA w/ W-SCSI adapter

Re: My X problem

2000-02-22 Thread lloy0076
Katherine Harris wrote: > > >chuckle. if someone was a newbie to linux, i'd probably refer them > >to pico first, rather than emacs. just my $0.02. :-) > It's too late; I've already frightened myself with emacs, mainly because it > was the only one I could remember. ;) E MACS? Oh please! RE

Re: security list? [Now: firewalls]

2000-02-22 Thread David Filion
I just started reading the IPCHAINS-HOWTO but from what I can remember, your telling any packet wishing to make a connection coming in on the input chain using TCP/IP on port 1023 that it is rejected. As a result, no connections are being permitted. > As long as we're on the subject of firew

RE: My X problem

2000-02-22 Thread Vince Negri
> > 2515CDS Toshiba Satellite. > > The video chip is a Chips & Tech 69000, with 2 MB RAM. > > The screen is your typical LCD screen. > > Windows can manage 800x600 16bpp with no problem. > > Right now, when I load X, I get a teensy screen, that I think ends up being > > about 320x400 with 256 c

Re: making a home partition

2000-02-22 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, erik wrote: > I have linux installed and running pretty much to my satisfaction for > now. What i would like to do tho is make a separate partiton for my > /home directory so when i upgrade, it is easy to keep all of my > configurations. Is there an easy way yo do this? I

Re: Rawhide sndconfig

2000-02-22 Thread Frank Carreiro
When I run sndconfig the error message I get contains this "Isolate Preserve" then jumps to the menu. When I select something (say Sound Blaster 16 or Pro) I get a segmentation fault then it core dumps. I'm thinking I need to upgrade sndconfig to resolve this issue. Running 5.2 with all patches

Re: [OT][REDHAT] Re: [offtopic]Perl:assigning an array

2000-02-22 Thread Bret Hughes
I appreciate the explanation. It does exactly what I figured but the explanation helps especially with the "magic" $_ variable. This is without a doubt the most readable perl code I have ever seen, but remember I am not even a newbie when it comes to perl. I also agree with Dave that the crypti

making a home partition

2000-02-22 Thread erik
Hi, I have linux installed and running pretty much to my satisfaction for now. What i would like to do tho is make a separate partiton for my /home directory so when i upgrade, it is easy to keep all of my configurations. Is there an easy way yo do this? I am going to use partition magic to

Re: 3 Com US Robotics 56k Int and RH 6.1

2000-02-22 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Larry, JH, Linux supports PCI modems unless they are Winmodems. Regards Gustav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Larry , > > I have a 3Com/USRob Internal 56k PCI modem but I believe Linux doesn't support > PCI modems yet. > I'm still using my 33k ISA modem until PCI support comes along. > > JH >

Re: hub connection dies over weekend

2000-02-22 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Rich, Or just doing a ping? Regards Gustav Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, linda hanigan wrote: > > > I think the hub is shutting down the port after a long period of > > inactivity. > > Linda, > > Isn't this interesting! Ever since I upgraded our small network (3 > workstati

Re: security list?

2000-02-22 Thread Gustav Schaffter
This can partially be countered (but not fully be solved) by using portsentry. Regards Gustav Robert Glover wrote: > > > > localbox:1055 --> 1.2.3.4:80 > > > > > >The firewall sees this and for some > > >period of seconds or until the > > >connection is closed will allow > > >in

Re: My X problem

2000-02-22 Thread Ric Moore
Katherine Harris wrote: > > >chuckle. if someone was a newbie to linux, i'd probably refer them > >to pico first, rather than emacs. just my $0.02. :-) > It's too late; I've already frightened myself with emacs, mainly because it > was the only one I could remember. ;) pico is your friend, K

Re: new question!

2000-02-22 Thread Ric Moore
Katherine Harris wrote: > > when I've got the brightness turned to a readable level for the $ prompt, I > can barely see X when I load it. Vice versa, when I've got X turned to a > manageable brightness, the shell is almost completely washed out. Shall I > merely go on dialing the brightness up

start/XEmacs?

2000-02-22 Thread Mohammed Ennasar
Hi all, I had just dowloading the xemacs-sumo-.tar.gz and installed it by cd /usr/lib/xemacs ; gunzip -c | tar xf - so i don't know what to do again m.e -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: My X problem

2000-02-22 Thread Ric Moore
Katherine Harris wrote: > > I, perhaps foolishly, have transformed my brother's Toshiba 2515CDS > Satellite into a RedHat 6.1 box. It all works! except for, naturally, X. > Here's the story: > 2515CDS Toshiba Satellite. > The video chip is a Chips & Tech 69000, with 2 MB RAM. This chip is > su

Re: My X problem

2000-02-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Katherine Harris wrote: > >chuckle. if someone was a newbie to linux, i'd probably refer them > >to pico first, rather than emacs. just my $0.02. :-) > It's too late; I've already frightened myself with emacs, mainly because it > was the only one I could remember. ;) T

Re: 3 Com US Robotics 56k Int and RH 6.1

2000-02-22 Thread jlhagen
Larry , I have a 3Com/USRob Internal 56k PCI modem but I believe Linux doesn't support PCI modems yet. I'm still using my 33k ISA modem until PCI support comes along. JH [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 02/21/2000 03:53:58 PM Please respond to larry mintz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hub connection dies over weekend

2000-02-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, linda hanigan wrote: > I think the hub is shutting down the port after a long period of > inactivity. Linda, Isn't this interesting! Ever since I upgraded our small network (3 workstations; 2 portables) to RH 6.1, I've experienced the same problem on one workstation: it w

LAN/messages

2000-02-22 Thread Mohammed Ennasar
Hi all, I had just configured my intenet connection under linux with an ethernet card, my problem is that, i recieve 2-3 messages per minute from my localhost. Below is an example message: Thanks a lot in advance. m.ennasar --- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 13:44:20 +0100 From: Arpwa

Re: apache, mod_perl

2000-02-22 Thread hUnTeR
"Martin A. Marques" wrote: > > I have installed mod_perl, but I don know how to add the modules in the > apache config file (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf). > > I asked to the list because jasons web is down (due to a broken disk). > > Thanks. Martin - I will send what i have from jason in a sep

Re: [OT][REDHAT] Re: [offtopic]Perl:assigning an array

2000-02-22 Thread Dave Ihnat
Bret Hughes wrote: > Got to something worng with this code. Are you sure it's perl? I mean, > I can understand it. too easy. I wrote a perl script to parse a bunch > of stuff from debug logs in a long running program about a year ago > (thanks to O'riley and this list) and when I went back a

Re: security list?

2000-02-22 Thread Robert Glover
> > localbox:1055 --> 1.2.3.4:80 > > > >The firewall sees this and for some > >period of seconds or until the > >connection is closed will allow > >incomming packets on port 1055 > >only from IP address 1.2.3.4 > > OK, but what, exactly, does that buy you that blocking SYN p

Re: apache, mod_perl

2000-02-22 Thread hUnTeR
Jason Costomiris wrote: > > Which brings me to the bad news... > > The disk is really fried badly. I've recovered some of the pages from > browser caches and Google's cached pages. Notably, the modssl page > is not among them. :( > > Anyone got a copy of the page that they downloaded? I coul

Re: I love all of you

2000-02-22 Thread Shane Ally
Katie Can you tell us spectators which suggestion fixed your prob. Thanks Congrats. -Original Message- From: Katherine Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 12:06 AM Subject: I love all of you >it works. it's pretty.

Re: My X problem

2000-02-22 Thread Katherine Harris
>chuckle. if someone was a newbie to linux, i'd probably refer them >to pico first, rather than emacs. just my $0.02. :-) It's too late; I've already frightened myself with emacs, mainly because it was the only one I could remember. ;) Katie [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL

Re: Correction HP9000 Server

2000-02-22 Thread Louis . Francoeur
For all port of linux go see: http://perso.wanadoo.es/xose/linux/linux_ports.html For HP9000 PA-RISC, go see: http://thepuffingroup.com/parisc/ Hope this is what you're looking for. Louis Francoeur Unix system administrator Phoenix International -- To unsubscribe: mail [E

Re: CPIO: verbose broken ?

2000-02-22 Thread Giulio Orsero
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 09:21:59 +0100, hai scritto: >After the upgrade from RHL 5.2 to RHL 6.1 I noticed a change in the behaviour >of cpio with the "v" option: >Using command "find ... | cpio -oacv" I get >the list of processed files on RHL 5.2 with cpio-2.4.2-9 > but NO output on RH

Re: security list? [Now: firewalls]

2000-02-22 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Gordon, I'm not very sure about the low level details of ipchains, but I'll give my input anyway. I hope I'm not shooting below your knowledge line here, but... Did you compare the results by using DENY instead of REJECT? ipchains says REJECT to tell the caller that he is not allowed to connect

Re: new question!

2000-02-22 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Katherine Harris wrote: > when I've got the brightness turned to a readable level for the $ prompt, I > can barely see X when I load it. Vice versa, when I've got X turned to a > manageable brightness, the shell is almost completely washed out. Shall I > merely go on dialin

Re: "who" command does not produce any output?

2000-02-22 Thread Chris Dowling
Zaigui Wang wrote: > > I just noticed that the "who" command will nto produce any output. What > could be the problem? I am using rh6.1. > > -- > > | Zaigui Wang | > | 650-930-5335(office)| > | TAOS sysAdmin Inc. | > / > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAI

Re: hello

2000-02-22 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Katherine Harris wrote: > Hi. I'm completely new to Linux, and have been wrestling with my first > Linux box since yesterday. Welcome to the better world. ;) > The command line works wonderfully, but X won't > configure to anything useful at all, so we're not on speaking t

External SCSI2 CDRom Problems

2000-02-22 Thread Matt Housh
As this does not seem to be a sparc-specific problem, I'm cross-posting this message to redhat-list and sparc-list, please bear with me. :P I've put together an external SCSI2 CDRom to connect to one of my Sparc machines (specifically an IPX). It's a Plextor PX32TSi, a 32X intern

CPIO: verbose broken ?

2000-02-22 Thread Frank Elsner
After the upgrade from RHL 5.2 to RHL 6.1 I noticed a change in the behaviour of cpio with the "v" option: Using command "find ... | cpio -oacv" I get the list of processed files on RHL 5.2 with cpio-2.4.2-9 but NO output on RHL 6.1 with cpio-2.4.2-13 I've tried the "--verbose"

"who" command does not produce any output?

2000-02-22 Thread Zaigui Wang
I just noticed that the "who" command will nto produce any output. What could be the problem? I am using rh6.1. -- | Zaigui Wang | | 650-930-5335(office)| | TAOS sysAdmin Inc. | / -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the

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