Re: pcmcia install on 6.2 beta?

2000-03-12 Thread Chris Abbey
bah... nevermind... the disk image was bad... last blasted thing I would have thought of cabbey at home dot net <*> http://members.home.net/cabbey I want a binary interface to the brain! Today's opto-mechanical digital interfaces are just too slow! -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMA

With your help, my printer works.

2000-03-12 Thread 耿立宏
Thank you for your help. I checked /etc/sysconfig/hwconf, it didn't contain "class: PRINTER". Then I run kudzu. Turn off the printer and turn it on again. Run printtool, I found the printer could print. Thank you very much. - Original Message - From: "Rick Forrister" <[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: how to get text only man pages?

2000-03-12 Thread Ed Lazor
Title: RE: how to get text only man pages? Thanks bunches =) -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 9:01 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: how to get text only man pages? After man, pipe the output to col -b (R

Re: My monitor hangs the systen - PLEASE HELP!!

2000-03-12 Thread Bret Hughes
can you ctl alt + to switch to the next resolution? It would still be a bug but it sounds like Gnome is trying to switch resolutions and hanging. Also your description of the sony behavior implies that the resolution was ok there is that correct? You might try looking at the first virtual termi

RE: how to get text only man pages?

2000-03-12 Thread sangeet
Title: RE: how to get text only man pages? After man, pipe the output to col -b (Reverse line feed filter), then pipe the output to a text file. -- From:   Ed Lazor[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:   Monday, March 13, 2000 10:28 AM To:     RedHat Mailing List Subject:    how to get

how to get text only man pages?

2000-03-12 Thread Ed Lazor
What would be a quick way to get text only man pages? The man command formats output by including extra characters to specify bold, font color, etc. If I pipe the output to a text file, I end up with undisplayable and unprintable characters throughout the document. Is there a way to tell man n

pcmcia install on 6.2 beta?

2000-03-12 Thread Chris Abbey
has anyone successfully installed the 6.2 beta via a pcmcia card? specifically my setup is an IBM ThinkPad 600E (2645-4BU) with a Turbo 16/4 token ring card. Booting from the pcmcia disk hard locks the system. I suspect there is something about the mwave dsp that it doesn't like... one of the las

RE: secure ftp

2000-03-12 Thread Chris Dowling
man-in-the-middle attack: say you ssh from aaa to ccc. somewhere along the line some hacker at bbb intercepts your stream (like, from the start of the connection). He/she can then connect you to their sshd, which will then forward to ccc. what does this acheive? he is dycrypting the data, readin

gnome pager (on helix gnome)

2000-03-12 Thread Charles Galpin
Hi I somehow lost the multiple desktops on my gnome pager. There are 4 by default, but now I have one. The properties shows settings for rows and columns of desktops, but changing those settings doesn't help. I tried removing it and adding it, but that didn't fix it either. Also, I find the pa

Re: Windowmaker Problem

2000-03-12 Thread AlphaByte
I would suggest that if you run the application from a console you will get a constant stream of output messages, until it crashes then the stream will stop. At this point you will see what commands were called that caused it to crash. >From there you will see what may need to done/fixed in order

RE: secure ftp

2000-03-12 Thread Chad W. Skinner
> AND I don't have to worry about the man-in-the-middle attack. Never heard of this one what is it? Chad -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

RE: secure ftp

2000-03-12 Thread Chad W. Skinner
> ...You can do some port forewarding tricks to get normal ftp > to work over ssh, but most people won't expend the effort to > do something that's not automatic. SSH V 1.x does not support > ftp except as a foreward, but is available completely free > through the OpenSSH project. ... This is pr

Re: My monitor hangs the systen - PLEASE HELP!!

2000-03-12 Thread psv
Jukka Lindgren ïèøåò: > HOW ON EARTH CAN A MONITOR CRASH THE SYSTEM?? Usualy not (but wrong confiured system CAN destroy monitor!), but... may be Alpha?! ;) I think not too! :) All that you need it's to find in /etc/X11/XConfig line with your card definition and rearange (or simple leave only th

Re: (Way to Humor) Re: My monitor hangs the systen - PLEASE HELP!!

2000-03-12 Thread Edward Dekkers
> I didn't know that Kentucky Fried Chicken makes KFC monitors. ;-D Where have you been? The picture quality is finger licking good! -- Edward Dekkers (Director) Triple D Computer Services Pty. Ltd. P: +61 8 9397-1040 F: +61 8 9397-0548 -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

(Way to Humor) Re: My monitor hangs the systen - PLEASE HELP!!

2000-03-12 Thread CCH
I didn't know that Kentucky Fried Chicken makes KFC monitors. ;-D CH Jukka Lindgren wrote: > Newbie Alert - On. > > I have seen similar problems discussed on this list before - now it is my > time to get stuck: > > I installed RH6.1 clean using Sony Multiscan 100ES monitor - all went fine. > I

My monitor hangs the systen - PLEASE HELP!!

2000-03-12 Thread Jukka Lindgren
Newbie Alert - On. I have seen similar problems discussed on this list before - now it is my time to get stuck: I installed RH6.1 clean using Sony Multiscan 100ES monitor - all went fine. I then replaced the monitor with Smile KFC CA1515VS - and the display was very dark and distorted. OK, monit

Re: APM vs. SMP

2000-03-12 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 09:47:16AM -0800, Toby A. Rider wrote: : Edward Schernau wrote: : > The kernel will not use APM on an SMP system; I tried : > and it gave me a message like: : > : > APM not SMP-safe, disabling... : : Right, APMD doesn't get along with SMP. Why would you need power :

Re: Using fdisk during install

2000-03-12 Thread er-chan
## er-chan # at ## scn.org ### at usa.net ## On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Vidiot wrote: > It was mentioned here that if you don't like disk druid (like me) and > you want to use fdisk, just go to one of the other consoles and run fdisk. ##If at the beginning of the install you

Re: what is runlevel 6 ?

2000-03-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 07:19:34PM -0500, Jason Costomiris wrote: | On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 09:41:53PM -0800, linda hanigan wrote: | : What is runlevel 6? | Depends on how your init was configured. | | If you're talking about the stock RedHat (and most *nixen), runlevel 6 | initiates a system reb

Re: Is xrdb broken?

2000-03-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 02:13:05PM -0600, Vidiot wrote: | I'm looking into a resource problem with FrameMaker and when I ran | "xrdb -query" to see what all of my current setting are, I get NOTHING. | I just get a new prompt. I know the command can work, as I used to use it | under the X that Sun

Re: Using fdisk during install

2000-03-12 Thread Vidiot
> During the Red Hat install, drives are accessed as devices in the /tmp >directory, rather than /dev. So, if you want to use fdisk during >install, switch to the second console and run something like 'fdisk >/dev/sda' to use it. >Matt Thanks. I assume you meant /tmp/sda, instead of /dev/s

Re: Using fdisk during install

2000-03-12 Thread Matt Housh
During the Red Hat install, drives are accessed as devices in the /tmp directory, rather than /dev. So, if you want to use fdisk during install, switch to the second console and run something like 'fdisk /dev/sda' to use it. Matt ---

Re: fixed fonts

2000-03-12 Thread Hidong Kim
Hi, Hal and Vidiot, Thanks again for the info on fonts. Hidong Hal Burgiss wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 11, 2000 at 06:21:28PM -0800, Hidong Kim wrote: > > Thanks for the continuing help on getting my fonts right. I have > > another question. I tried to change my default xterm font to > > Verda

Re: redhat-digest Digest V00 #341

2000-03-12 Thread Joe Cooper
> Subject: Promise UltraDMA/66, cannot enable Busmaster DMA > Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 00:51:34 +0800 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Red Hat Partisan) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hello, I have another (probably stupid) problem. A server is running > a Micronics M6Me mainboard w

Re: file cannot be stat-ed???

2000-03-12 Thread Martin Brown
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Brian wrote: > > Is this an NFS partition? If this is just an ext2 partition, I would > suspect your drive is going out, you may wish to fsck it to see what kind > of errors that gives. > Nope, not an NFS, but earlier in the week the drive did start gronking quite badly a

driver

2000-03-12 Thread Indra D.Kurniawan
Hello redhat-list-request, I'm a newbie, so please tell me how to install a driver for my sound card. I have its linux driver but I can't install it. I'm using redhat 6.1. Best regards, Indra mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Is xrdb broken?

2000-03-12 Thread Vidiot
I'm looking into a resource problem with FrameMaker and when I ran "xrdb -query" to see what all of my current setting are, I get NOTHING. I just get a new prompt. I know the command can work, as I used to use it under the X that Sun runs on their systyems. I've just never had to use it under Li

Re: Why is /etc/hosts being set wrong?

2000-03-12 Thread Vidiot
>It's put there by default to get over the sendmail hanging problem with a >new install. >Eric Is it mentioned somewhere that it needs to be manually repaired? MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bart: Hey, why is it destroying other toys? Lisa: They must have programmed it to eliminate th

(Repost) Automounting a volume to a subdirectory

2000-03-12 Thread Matthew Saltzman
I posted this a while ago, and I haven't solved the problem yet, so I will repeat my question. I am using autofs to automount an NFS volume. I would like to mount server:/var/remotedir on /net/server/var/remotedir. I have set up the following: auto.master contains /net/etc/au

RE: Why is /etc/hosts being set wrong?

2000-03-12 Thread Eric St. Amand
It's put there by default to get over the sendmail hanging problem with a new install. Eric -Original Message- From: Vidiot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2000 2:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Why is /etc/hosts being set wrong? I've noticed twice now that 6.1

Using fdisk during install

2000-03-12 Thread Vidiot
It was mentioned here that if you don't like disk druid (like me) and you want to use fdisk, just go to one of the other consoles and run fdisk. Well, I tried that this weekend and it doesn't work, because fdisk wants a device name and /dev/hda is not valid at that point. If there is a magic dev

Why is /etc/hosts being set wrong?

2000-03-12 Thread Vidiot
I've noticed twice now that 6.1 has set /etc/hosts incorrectly. I do not remember if 6.0 got it wrong as well. This weekend I had to reinstall Linux for a small ISP that got hacked. After the install, something just wasn't working right and I looked at /etc/hosts and discovered the same problem

Re: D P I

2000-03-12 Thread Vidiot
Please, turn of HTML e-mail to this list, it will be appreciated by all. >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >--=_NextPart_000_0005_01BF8D2E.20B666A0 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="windows-1256" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >Dear Friends > I've i

Re: localhost.localdomain:0.0 refused by server

2000-03-12 Thread sgulick
Thanks! On 12-Mar-2000 Vidiot wrote: >>You should be executing /sbin/shutdown. If you just type "shutdown" then >>that will execute /usr/bin/shutdown, which is a link to consolehelper, >>which is what you are seeing. >> >>So to reboot a redhat box its: /sbin/shutdown -r now > > If you are goin

Re: localhost.localdomain:0.0 refused by server

2000-03-12 Thread Vidiot
>You should be executing /sbin/shutdown. If you just type "shutdown" then >that will execute /usr/bin/shutdown, which is a link to consolehelper, >which is what you are seeing. > >So to reboot a redhat box its: /sbin/shutdown -r now If you are going to do it instalantly, i.e., not give a time wa

Re: simple arp question

2000-03-12 Thread Vidiot
>You would need to put it into rc.local. >Brian Feeny (BF304) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, I basically expected that. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bart: Hey, why is it destroying other toys? Lisa: They must have programmed it to eliminate the competition. Bart: You mean like

D P I

2000-03-12 Thread A H Fekry
Dear Friends I've installed RH 6.0, but the screen lines need to be fixed because the x windows and the font are too small.    I read in the help that this could be done from the dpi in the x server, could you guide me to a direct steps to do that without ( destroying ) the system.

Re: localhost.localdomain:0.0 refused by server

2000-03-12 Thread Brian
You should be executing /sbin/shutdown. If you just type "shutdown" then that will execute /usr/bin/shutdown, which is a link to consolehelper, which is what you are seeing. So to reboot a redhat box its: /sbin/shutdown -r now Nothing is broken on your box. On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: simple arp question

2000-03-12 Thread Brian
You would need to put it into rc.local. On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Vidiot wrote: > On a system I set up a /etc/ethers file in order to get data packets to > an Ascend dialup box. With the system already running, I used arp -f > to read the file. > > The simple question is... if the system is reboo

localhost.localdomain:0.0 refused by server

2000-03-12 Thread sgulick
If I telnet to my firewall box on my private net and run shutdown -r now I get the following error message: [root@CV256316-A magoo]# shutdown -r now Xlib: connection to "localhost.localdomain:0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Broadcast message from root (

Re: The Awk Programing Language

2000-03-12 Thread Rick L. Mantooth
Toby, Sorry for the late reply, I found mine at Barnes and Noble for 30 something $US. I also have to recommend "Effective AWK Programming" from www.ssc.com. Tim Robbins, ISBN 1-57831-000-8 It's mostly gawk, but describes the differences. It filled in a lot of gaps the "Bible" left. -- Rick L. M

Re: Netatalk )MAC-Linux file and print sharing)

2000-03-12 Thread Toby A. Rider
Darnit, sorry about posting that to the list! I was't paying attention to the reply-to address. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Netatalk )MAC-Linux file and print sharing)

2000-03-12 Thread Toby A. Rider
hUnTeR wrote: > > For anyone else interested in seeing how i got file and print sharing to > work for a MAC and Linux server, you can email me off list. The > instructions and details are a bit lengthy and i didnt want to fill up > everyone's email box with something they dont need. > > Regards

Re: APM vs. SMP

2000-03-12 Thread Toby A. Rider
Edward Schernau wrote: > > The kernel will not use APM on an SMP system; I tried > and it gave me a message like: > > APM not SMP-safe, disabling... > -- > Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com > Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Rational Computing

Re: UDMA 66? Correction

2000-03-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
Gate wrote: > Oops I screwed up a little, I'm running RH 5.2 on this box. I didn't think > there should be any problems but it just doesn't work. I guess maybe I > will just have to play around with it a little... You can patch the 2.2 kernel to support some of the UDMA/66 chipsets, as I did in m

APM vs. SMP

2000-03-12 Thread Edward Schernau
The kernel will not use APM on an SMP system; I tried and it gave me a message like: APM not SMP-safe, disabling... -- Edward Schernau http://www.schernau.com Network Architect mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rational Computing Providence, RI, USA -- To uns

Promise UltraDMA/66, cannot enable Busmaster DMA

2000-03-12 Thread Red Hat Partisan
Hello, I have another (probably stupid) problem. A server is running a Micronics M6Me mainboard with integrated SCSI. I want to add extra drive(s) into a RAID0 of aging Seagate Elite 9GB `bricks', and thought that I might make do with a 7200rpm Fujitsu MPE (13GB UDMA-66) as the third drive in t

Re: Windowmaker Problem

2000-03-12 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 07:15:14AM -0700, Dave Watts wrote: > I've recently installedthe Windowmaker RPMs on to my system (RH6.2) > and when I start that window manager I get the following error > message: "The application menu could not be loaded. Look at the > console output for a detailed descr

Netatalk )MAC-Linux file and print sharing)

2000-03-12 Thread hUnTeR
For anyone else interested in seeing how i got file and print sharing to work for a MAC and Linux server, you can email me off list. The instructions and details are a bit lengthy and i didnt want to fill up everyone's email box with something they dont need. Regards -- Michael B. Weiner Systems

Re: pdf files and ghostview

2000-03-12 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Maybe this can help you... For some pdf files that I want to print with Acrobat, I need to disable the option "download fonts once" in the print configuration. This is mostly the case if I have documents with a lot of math equations in it. I am using Acrobat Reader 4.0. With these documents

Windowmaker Problem

2000-03-12 Thread Dave Watts
I've recently installedthe Windowmaker RPMs on to my system (RH6.2) and when I start that window manager I get the following error message: "The application menu could not be loaded. Look at the console output for a detailed description of the error." I don't know what this means, I I'm not sure

simple arp question

2000-03-12 Thread Vidiot
On a system I set up a /etc/ethers file in order to get data packets to an Ascend dialup box. With the system already running, I used arp -f to read the file. The simple question is... if the system is rebooted, will the file be read automatically, or will I need to run arp in rc.local to build

Re: XFree 4.0 packaging timeline...

2000-03-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > 4.0 is MUCH too broken for 6.1 or 6.2 at this time. I'll agree with that :) I built rpms yesterday (building set two to fix a few things right now :), and installed them on a friend's machine to test them out. I had two problems that we couldn't fix: 1. XFS doe