Re: Md5 Checksums re: zoot-386i.iso

2000-03-30 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Is there any way of doing the md5sum test on an already burnt CD? I have the download done in one site (Win-NT), burn the CD and then bring it home. At home, under Linux, I'd like to check the CD before launching the upgrade. Regards Gustav "John P. Verel" wrote: > > And this time...sucess!

Re: Installing a 2nd NIC

2000-03-30 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Jack, If modutils so require: Shouldn't be too tricky to setup a symlink (unless zoot already did it). (Downloaded the .iso, but haven't found time to install yet. :) Regards Gustav Charles Galpin wrote: > > No, not on the box I upgraded (from 5.2) to. > > On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Jack Bowling w

Re: Threads !!

2000-03-30 Thread Gustav Schaffter
I know that in OS/2 Warp each thread is scheduled independently, which means that in an SMP you'll have to assume that more than one of your threads might be executing at the same time. Agreed, if you write it with that assumption, it will be portable. (At least from that point of view. :-) Rega

mgetty config probs

2000-03-30 Thread Bret Hughes
I am trying to get mgetty setup to answer a modem on /dev/ttyS3 but I think I am having problems with the modem. I can dial out using minicom but the response is really slow during the modem init stage. I can dial out using atdtphonenumber and the modem dials out pretty quick way before the key

Re: Md5 Checksums re: zoot-386i.iso

2000-03-30 Thread John P. Verel
And this time...sucess! Thanks all for the checksum tips. I was otherwise poised to use a corrupted image to upgrade. Much misery averted! Thank you. John. On 03/30/00, 11:56:27PM -0500, John P. Verel wrote: > > Off we go on another overnight pickup ;) > > > > > $ md5sum --binary zoot-i38

Re: where is 6.2 ?

2000-03-30 Thread Gregory Hosler
On 31-Mar-00 Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Is 6.2 ISO containing the files ready for burning a CD? For upgrade or for > a new complete installation? > > Kindly advise where is the site for download all necessary ready-burn files > to upgrade RH 6.0 to RH 6.2 (not beta version). My p

Upgrade 6.1-> 6.2 Kppp fails to start

2000-03-30 Thread Paul R. Brandariz
After upgrading RH6.1 to RH6.2 kppp failed to start with Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server kppp: cannot connect to X server :0 Now I know I can do xhost + and use kppp but why did it failed at all. Wouldn't I own the display at

Re: Md5 Checksums re: zoot-386i.iso

2000-03-30 Thread John P. Verel
Thanks, Wayne. Did the check -- didn't match the file! So, I guess it got corrupted en route, no? Off we go on another overnight pickup ;) On 03/30/00, 10:16:27PM -0600, Wayne Dyer wrote: > John P. Verel wrote: > > Hi. I went to the download site where I got zoot-i386.iso and printed > > the

Re: Term::ReadKey

2000-03-30 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:42:14PM -0600, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: > Anybody have a Term::ReadKey rpm for i386 they could email me? > > >It contains gcc, etc. Should be on the CD, or download site: > > > > egcs-1.1.2-24*rpm. > > Well, I down loaded egcs and cpp (dependency requirement) and insta

Re: Term::ReadKey

2000-03-30 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
At 10:42 PM 3/30/00 -0600, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: >Anybody have a Term::ReadKey rpm for i386 they could email me? > >>It contains gcc, etc. Should be on the CD, or download site: >> >> egcs-1.1.2-24*rpm. > >Well, I down loaded egcs and cpp (dependency requirement) and installed >both. "make tes

Re: Term::ReadKey

2000-03-30 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
Anybody have a Term::ReadKey rpm for i386 they could email me? >It contains gcc, etc. Should be on the CD, or download site: > > egcs-1.1.2-24*rpm. Well, I down loaded egcs and cpp (dependency requirement) and installed both. "make test" returned the following error. Bear in mind that I'm gre

Re: where is 6.2 ?

2000-03-30 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi everybody, Is 6.2 ISO containing the files ready for burning a CD? For upgrade or for a new complete installation? Kindly advise where is the site for download all necessary ready-burn files to upgrade RH 6.0 to RH 6.2 (not beta version). My preference to upgrade instead of a complete new

Re: Md5 Checksums re: zoot-386i.iso

2000-03-30 Thread Wayne Dyer
John P. Verel wrote: > Hi. I went to the download site where I got zoot-i386.iso and printed > the Md5 checksums. I then ran cksum (under RH 6.1) and got a print > out that was completely different from the one from the Purdue site: > The Purdue site was 31 digits in length, my result was 20, co

Md5 Checksums re: zoot-386i.iso

2000-03-30 Thread John P. Verel
Hi. I went to the download site where I got zoot-i386.iso and printed the Md5 checksums. I then ran cksum (under RH 6.1) and got a print out that was completely different from the one from the Purdue site: The Purdue site was 31 digits in length, my result was 20, counting an embedded blank. Ob

Re: Need troubleshooting help - home network

2000-03-30 Thread Johnnio
Hi Brian [and all the others who helped], Thanks very much to all who gave me advice the last couple of days. The problems turned out to be mostly 'bad hardware'... 2 bad Nics and a bad cable. Routing seems to work ok on two of the machines but I'm having problems pinging between BOX-1 and

6.2 install problems

2000-03-30 Thread Morse
I have just downloaded and burned the 6.2 image file. I then boot off the CD and started a New install on a PC with RH 6.1. I choose to delete and format the existing Linux Native partition and use the existing swap and install everything. This is a 3 GIG partition. I go through the install...

Daul Sessions, Netscape, WangDat 3200

2000-03-30 Thread Daryl Herzmann
Hello All, Congrats on 6.2, it is an awesome distribution. Keep up the good work! I have a comment/question and a two problems... -> Comment/question: I am wondering if any has this setup working, or if it is currently being worked on. I, a while back, was workin

Re: Installation of Voodoo 2/Banshee AGP graphic card

2000-03-30 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Attached hereto please find the xoutput.txt file Thanks B.R. Stephen Liu - Original Message - From: "gpt Guillermo Pastor Torrente" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 7:37 PM Subject: Re: Installation of Voodoo 2/Banshee AGP graphic card > A

Re: Pine doesn't work in 1600x1200

2000-03-30 Thread Charles Galpin
I find the height nice - but usually the width need not be very wide with most mailers wrapping around 80 chars anyway. Pine seems quite happy this way too (although I realize this doesn't help understand or solve the problem). I usually make the xterm that pine is running in sticky so it follows

Re: Installing a 2nd NIC

2000-03-30 Thread Charles Galpin
if they are PCI, yes. If they are ISA, you will need to configure them with the utilties provided by the manufacturer (usually from a DOS boot disk) first, then provide that info. Just curious why you care which one ends up eth0? charles On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Juan Sanchez wrote: > For 2 ident

Re: Installing a 2nd NIC

2000-03-30 Thread Charles Galpin
No, not on the box I upgraded (from 5.2) to. On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Jack Bowling wrote: > > Just an aside: did RH6.2 change to modules.conf from the supposedly > deprecated > conf.modules? I believe the latest modutils require modules.conf. > > jack charles -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROT

Re: Installing a 2nd NIC

2000-03-30 Thread Jack Bowling
** Reply to message from Jerry Winegarden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 30 Mar 2000 15:21:43 -0500 (EST) > On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Charles Galpin wrote: > > > I wasn't asking how to do it, I was commenting that their statement about > > need the driver compiled into the kernel to run two nics of the

Re: Threads !!

2000-03-30 Thread Dave Ihnat
Gustav Schaffter wrote: > Interesting thoughts about context switching. But, correct me if I'm > wrong, I guess that in a multi processor environment, this may be quite > complicated since two (or more) threads are *really* executed in > parallel. Right? Well, maybe, but you can't know about tha

Re: checking mail delivery; suid

2000-03-30 Thread Chris Dowling
Hi Stan You can get sudo from ftp://ftp.falsehope.com/pub/sudo ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/sites/ftp.falsehope.com/sudo ftp://ftp.freshmeat.net/pub/rpms/sudo I can't remember how, but I think you need to do special things to gets scripts to be setuid. Anyone out there know how to do this? Chris. On

Re: [RHSA-2000:008-01] ircii buffer overflow

2000-03-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
Dave Reed wrote: > Ok. I thought there would be compatibility problems since they're > compiled against different version of glibc, but maybe not. I won't > clutter the list with any more replies. I will :) Red Hat's employees have assured us on many occasions that all minor releases (e.g., 6

ANNOUNCE: KDE Alpha 20000330 Binaries available - Finally!

2000-03-30 Thread Christopher Molnar
Sorry it took so long, but I think the wait is worth it I have just made available a new version of KDE2 Alpha binaries in RPM and -bin.tar.gz format. Also available are the sources that worked to compile these packages. Please read the README file in the directory, this tells you most

Re: checking mail delivery; suid

2000-03-30 Thread Bret Hughes
how 'bout posting the file on a webserver? I don't know how many students you have but if you do not want to let everyone see that someone else sent you a message then you could modifiy your script to keep a seperate file for each student and let cron run it evry 10 minutes or so. Then all they

Re: HP Printing

2000-03-30 Thread Bret Hughes
one instance of lpd running? I had a problem at one time that ended up putting several lpd running and confused everything. Don't remeber what I did to fix it though. Is this the updated lpd from redhat/errata? What did you put in the field for remote print queue? Bret Ray Parish wrote: >

Re: Annoying color features in RH6.2

2000-03-30 Thread Allen Bolderoff
try putting alias ls='ls' and put in into your ~/.bashrc > Does anyone know how to turn off the annoying color feature for the man pages > in RH 6.2? > > I renamed the colorls.* files in /etc/profile.d and changed > > COLOR tty > to > COLOR none > > in /etc/DIR_COLOR, b

Re: HP Printing

2000-03-30 Thread Ray Parish
yes... my ip is 172.16.32.10 and the printer is 172.16.32.181 subnet 255.255.248.0 Thanks Ray - Original Message - From: "Jason Bradley Nance" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 6:39 PM Subject: RE: HP Printing > Is the printer on the same subnet

RE: HP Printing

2000-03-30 Thread Jason Bradley Nance
Is the printer on the same subnet as the print server and client attempting to print to it? > -Original Message- > From: Ray Parish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 5:28 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: HP Printing > > > Sorry. > I can ping the printer

Re: HP Printing

2000-03-30 Thread Ray Parish
Sorry. I can ping the printer 172.16.32.181 (HP 4000TN) Can not print test pages. I cat the status file and it says waiting for printer to come ready. Thanks Ray - Original Message - From: "Bret Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 5:59 PM Su

Re: Pine doesn't work in 1600x1200

2000-03-30 Thread Isaiah Weiner
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 03:14:25PM -0600, Brian wrote: > > > > See if you can start pico at the same resolution and term size. > > pico dies as well Try another editor that typically uses ncurses (vim for example). If that one breaks too, consider filing a bug report about ncur

Re: chown

2000-03-30 Thread Stan Isaacs
> > On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Stan Isaacs wrote: > > > After looking at both the redhat archives, and freebsd, I guess I'm > > convinced that chown won't work, by default, for non-root users. Is there > > any way to change that default on Redhat Linux 6.1? > > It's not a default, it's a concep

Re: HP Printing

2000-03-30 Thread Bret Hughes
Send us a little, or even a lot, more information and we can try to help you. What are the symptoms? can you print test pages? Can you ping the printer? If no ping worky there is some other problem that printool will never fix. Try posting the printcap along with some more info like the results

Re: Fetchmail question

2000-03-30 Thread Bret Hughes
Sort of implied but I thought that I would clear it up. Using the .fetchmailrc file with the password will NOT expose the password to ps or anything else that I know of. I have been unig it for over a year with no problems other thatn the fact that the isp mailserver freaks out every now and the

Kernel - Redhat 6.0

2000-03-30 Thread Stephen M Lavelle
How do i tell if my kernel (stock redhat server 6.0 server install) has the necessary modules for a external parallel port zip drive loaded. If it hasnt, i will have to compile a new kernel - will this effect anything else on my system? Regards Stephen -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.post

Samba dies when DNS stops? eh?

2000-03-30 Thread Steven Hildreth
Ok, so any ideas on why my private IP samba server, which is also the lan WINS server dies (quit's talking to the Windows clients) when the DNS server is shutdown? I have put the ALL:10.10. in the /etc/hosts.allow file and also in the smb.conf file. Perhaps samba is needing something else other t

Re: Annoying color features in RH6.2

2000-03-30 Thread Prentice Bisbal
It happens in *any* man page in an xterm - whether it is on my local linux machine or another machine (Linux, Solaris, DUX). I haven't tried it from a console. I imagine it's something with X-windows (Xresources? ) but I can't find it... On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, you wrote: > On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Pren

Re: chown

2000-03-30 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Stan Isaacs wrote: > After looking at both the redhat archives, and freebsd, I guess I'm > convinced that chown won't work, by default, for non-root users. Is there > any way to change that default on Redhat Linux 6.1? It's not a default, it's a concept. Allowing anyth

ANNOUNCE Code Rush on PBS in USA

2000-03-30 Thread Bill Ries-Knight
PBS (Public Television in USA) is airing in most areas a 1 hour show on Silicon Valley Programmers. JUST an FYI. San Francisco and Sacramento stations will air it at 11:00 pm CODE RUSH Life on the edge in Silicon Valley – home of high tech, high anxiety, and high stakes. Take a revealing look

Re: Annoying color features in RH6.2

2000-03-30 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > Turning off the color ls feature is easy. What about getting rid of the color > in man pages? What color? I'm not seeing color in man pages. Can you tell me a sample man page that is colorized? Does it happen on the console, or only in xterms? It's

Re: Annoying color features in RH6.2

2000-03-30 Thread Prentice Bisbal
Turning off the color ls feature is easy. What about getting rid of the color in man pages? On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > That's why we didn't configure it to use light blue on white or dark blue > on black for anything. Then why is the blue it uses on the black backgrou

chown

2000-03-30 Thread Stan Isaacs
After looking at both the redhat archives, and freebsd, I guess I'm convinced that chown won't work, by default, for non-root users. Is there any way to change that default on Redhat Linux 6.1? In my unix class, I have the students give me their scripts, by copying them into my directory,

Re: Annoying color features in RH6.2

2000-03-30 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Pete Peterson wrote: > I haven't loaded 6.2 yet, but I detest the color "ls" that has been around > for a while. It makes things much harder to read on just about any kind > of background. That's a matter of taste; most people seem to like it. > The light blue is nearly un

Re: Need a program that imports adobe illustrator files??

2000-03-30 Thread Ron Golan
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 02:56:31PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know of a vector based graphics program for linux that will > import adobe illustrator files?? I believe sketch will do that. Do a google search for it. -- Ron Golan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EM

Re: Annoying color features in RH6.2

2000-03-30 Thread Pete Peterson
I haven't loaded 6.2 yet, but I detest the color "ls" that has been around for a while. It makes things much harder to read on just about any kind of background. The light blue is nearly unreadable on a white background and the dark blue is nearly unreadable on a black background. Other backgr

Re: IBM DB2 and Red Hat Linux 6.2

2000-03-30 Thread David D.W. Downey
"David D.W. Downey" wrote: > > I'm going to attempt to install the IBM DB2 that was bundled with Red > Hat Linux 6.2. I have the fix for it that the Linux Journal was talking > about in it's article on installation. > hehe, I meant to say the one bundled with Red Hat Linux 6.1 not 6.2. -- Dav

IBM DB2 and Red Hat Linux 6.2

2000-03-30 Thread David D.W. Downey
I'm going to attempt to install the IBM DB2 that was bundled with Red Hat Linux 6.2. I have the fix for it that the Linux Journal was talking about in it's article on installation. What I'm wondering is, now that I'm at 6.2, does anyone know if this will work under 6.2 or will it blow up? Anyon

Re: Pine doesn't work in 1600x1200

2000-03-30 Thread Brian
> > See if you can start pico at the same resolution and term size. pico dies as well > > > > > - > > Brian Feeny (BF304) [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 318-222-2638 x 109 http://www.shreve.net/~signal > > Network Administrator Sh

Re: where is 6.2 ?

2000-03-30 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Morse wrote: > OK I have logged on to ftp.redhat.com site but I'm confused...where is the > correct image file? > In pub/redhat/current/iso I see zoot-i386.iso and other zoot iso files but > what are these? > where is the 6.2 ISO ?? You found them - zoot is the code name

Re: [RHSA-2000:008-01] ircii buffer overflow

2000-03-30 Thread Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 02:31:31PM -0500, Dave Reed wrote: [...] > Ok. I thought there would be compatibility problems since they're > compiled against different version of glibc, but maybe not. I won't > clutter the list with any more replies. Just as an additional option: Often it is sufficie

Re: Installing a 2nd NIC

2000-03-30 Thread Jerry Winegarden
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Charles Galpin wrote: > I wasn't asking how to do it, I was commenting that their statement about > need the driver compiled into the kernel to run two nics of the same kind > is not true. > > Anyway, allI did was simply put this in /etc/conf.modules, and it worked > fine (p

Re: where is 6.2 ?

2000-03-30 Thread Jasper Jans
That is the correct iso current poits to 6.2 J. 10:21pm up 24 day(s), 11:55, 3 users, load average: 0.12, 0.12, 0.24 *** * Jasper Jans Vrije Universiteit* * Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: checking mail delivery; suid

2000-03-30 Thread Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:46:29AM -0800, Stan Isaacs wrote: [...] > Anybody have a method that will allow someone on the same machine to > check if mail was delivered? [...] Just an idea: How about using procmail to generate either an automatic reply or some kind of "delivery status file" (in ca

Re: where is 6.2 ?

2000-03-30 Thread Steven Hildreth
The name of the 6.2 release is "Zoot" so the zoot-i386 iso is the 6.2 release. Be sure and check out the Md5 sums for the downloaded ISO to make sure you get a good ISO download. Regards, Steven Hildreth Information Technology Manager Aprotex Corporation, http://www.aprotex.com "Proven Property

where is 6.2 ?

2000-03-30 Thread Morse
OK I have logged on to ftp.redhat.com site but I'm confused...where is the correct image file? In pub/redhat/current/iso I see zoot-i386.iso and other zoot iso files but what are these? where is the 6.2 ISO ?? Thanks morse -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the S

Re: colored MOTD

2000-03-30 Thread Dave Ihnat
Michael H. Warfield wrote: > On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:44:10AM -0500, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: > > I'm curious if there is a way to make the MOTD come up in color? > > Yes, of course. You just have to bury the color escape sequences > in the ascii text. Uh, I'd *really* recommend agai

Re: Threads !!

2000-03-30 Thread David D.W. Downey
Dave Ihnat wrote: > > Reentrancy simply addresses the question of consistent deterministic > behavior for multiple sequential or concurrent instantiations of a > given reentrant object. You're talking about persistent intermediate > state preservation, which, strictly speaking, is NOT defined as

NFS problems

2000-03-30 Thread Trevor Jennings
Hello, I'm having a slight problem with NFS that a file that is being written to on a NFS mounted drive keeps being reset to 0 bytes. I am using linuxPPC R5 as the client, redhat 5.2 as the NFS server, and I basically setup apache to save logs onto a nfs drive. The access log works fine, th

Re: Threads !!

2000-03-30 Thread Dave Ihnat
Ward William E PHDN wrote: > Reentrant is more than just that. It also means that if a thread is > killed, at any point short of completion of the thread, I can restart > the thread from the original starting parameters and it will perform > properly. Actually, not really. Someone else gave an

Need a program that imports adobe illustrator files??

2000-03-30 Thread redhat
Does anyone know of a vector based graphics program for linux that will import adobe illustrator files?? TIA Steve Uptime: 2:53pm up 6 days, 20:55, 0 users, load average: 0.32, 0.25, 0.16 -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

checking mail delivery; suid

2000-03-30 Thread Stan Isaacs
Here's another question, for a tool I need in teaching beginning Unix using Redhat 6.1 Linux. I have the users mail me history files, comments, questions, etc. But, since they are just learning unix basics, they keep asking me if the mail worked, if it got to me successfully. So I wrote a si

Re: Installing a 2nd NIC

2000-03-30 Thread Juan Sanchez
For 2 identical plug and play NIC's, do I leave the base addresses and IRQ's zeroed out and place eth0 closest to the power supply? Thanks, Juan > I wasn't asking how to do it, I was commenting that their statement about > need the driver compiled into the kernel to run two nics of the same kind

Re: [RHSA-2000:008-01] ircii buffer overflow

2000-03-30 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 02:17:39PM -0500, Dave Reed wrote: > > From: Jasper Jans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > A buffer overflow exists in ircii, > > 2. Relevant releases/architectures: > > Red Hat Linux 4.2 - i386 alpha sparc > > Red Hat Linux 5.2 - i386 alpha sparc > > Red Hat Linux 6.0 - i386 alph

Re: [RHSA-2000:008-01] ircii buffer overflow

2000-03-30 Thread Dave Reed
> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 14:29:14 -0500 > From: "Michael H. Warfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 02:03:18PM -0500, Dave Reed wrote: > > > No, you missed my point. They released an updated ircii (security > > problem) for 4.2, 5.2 and 6.2, but not 6.1. Now maybe the 6.2 RPM

Re: Fetchmail question

2000-03-30 Thread Philippe Moutarlier
Put something like that in your .fetchmailrc poll with proto POP3 user "pop_username" there with password "pop_password" is "local_username" here options no fetchall warnings 3600 Works great for me Philippe "Mathco Tech. Dep" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a question a

Re: [RHSA-2000:008-01] ircii buffer overflow

2000-03-30 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 02:03:18PM -0500, Dave Reed wrote: > No, you missed my point. They released an updated ircii (security > problem) for 4.2, 5.2 and 6.2, but not 6.1. Now maybe the 6.2 RPM > will work on a 6.1 system, but the announcement didn't say. My point > is that many people are st

Re: [RHSA-2000:008-01] ircii buffer overflow

2000-03-30 Thread Dave Reed
> From: Jasper Jans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > A buffer overflow exists in ircii, > > 2. Relevant releases/architectures: > > Red Hat Linux 4.2 - i386 alpha sparc > Red Hat Linux 5.2 - i386 alpha sparc > Red Hat Linux 6.0 - i386 alpha sparc > Red Hat Linux 6.1 - i386 alpha sparc > Red Hat Linux 6.

Re: [RHSA-2000:008-01] ircii buffer overflow

2000-03-30 Thread David D.W. Downey
Dave Reed wrote: > No, you missed my point. They released an updated ircii (security > problem) for 4.2, 5.2 and 6.2, but not 6.1. Now maybe the 6.2 RPM > will work on a 6.1 system, but the announcement didn't say. My point > is that many people are still running 6.1 (at least those who only b

Re: [RHSA-2000:008-01] ircii buffer overflow

2000-03-30 Thread Jasper Jans
A buffer overflow exists in ircii, 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Linux 4.2 - i386 alpha sparc Red Hat Linux 5.2 - i386 alpha sparc Red Hat Linux 6.0 - i386 alpha sparc Red Hat Linux 6.1 - i386 alpha sparc Red Hat Linux 6.2 - i386 sparc the above is from the mail send out and it cl

Re: [RHSA-2000:008-01] ircii buffer overflow

2000-03-30 Thread Dave Reed
> > Dave Reed wrote: > > > It seems absurd to release updates to 4.2, 5.2, 6.2, but not 6.1 when > > 6.2 is not even available in stores yet. Not everyone has the net > > connection to download an iso image. This is really a slap in the > > face to those of us who support RedHat by buying a bo

Re: Pine doesn't work in 1600x1200

2000-03-30 Thread Brian
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Charles Galpin wrote: > funny, it does the same thing to me. No answer for you though. > > What I want to know is why on earth you need to run it full screen at > 1600x1200! > > charles I use one of my virtual screens just for my pine. Full Screen is nice, since you can f

Re: Better backup plan? Suggestions or comments - anyone?

2000-03-30 Thread Eric Sisler
Steven Hildreth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, so here is the deal I am wanting to backup my two servers onto a single >tape backup. I have a Redhat/Samba server and a redhat/mail/dns/router >server. > >What I am doing now is having the Redhat/mail/dns/router server nightly >smbtar all the share

Re: voodoo2 monster 3d II???

2000-03-30 Thread David D.W. Downey
Jake Johnson wrote: > > I am about to get a voodoo2 monster 3d II and I am wondering if this is ok > to use with a diamond viper v550 tnt in linux. Any concerns are great! > Yeah just make sure that you use the Glide drivers for the Voodoo2 and the SVGA drivers for the v550. Just install the Gl

voodoo2 monster 3d II???

2000-03-30 Thread Jake Johnson
I am about to get a voodoo2 monster 3d II and I am wondering if this is ok to use with a diamond viper v550 tnt in linux. Any concerns are great! Jake R. Johnson Academic Computing Information Technology Desktop Support Intern Phone 424-3020 (Help-desk will redirect) -- To unsubscribe: mail

script(1), history, subshells

2000-03-30 Thread Stan Isaacs
I am teaching a beginning Unix class, using Redhat Linux 6.1, and use the "script" command as a way for students to turn in labs. However, the script command runs in a subshell, which therefor really messes up history (which keeps a separate history list for each shell, and only combines them

Re: Pine doesn't work in 1600x1200

2000-03-30 Thread Isaiah Weiner
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 12:22:12PM -0600, Brian wrote: > > I am having a strange occurance happen. > > I normally run X in 1280x1024.and open a full screen Xterm to run > pine in. I changed today to 1600x1200which works fine with my > monitor and display card.and for wha

Re: Pine doesn't work in 1600x1200

2000-03-30 Thread Charles Galpin
funny, it does the same thing to me. No answer for you though. What I want to know is why on earth you need to run it full screen at 1600x1200! charles On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Brian wrote: > > I am having a strange occurance happen. > > I normally run X in 1280x1024.and open a full scre

Re: Installing a 2nd NIC

2000-03-30 Thread Charles Galpin
I wasn't asking how to do it, I was commenting that their statement about need the driver compiled into the kernel to run two nics of the same kind is not true. Anyway, allI did was simply put this in /etc/conf.modules, and it worked fine (pci nics) alias eth0 tulip alias eth1 tulip no reboot

Re: [RHSA-2000:008-01] ircii buffer overflow

2000-03-30 Thread David D.W. Downey
Dave Reed wrote: > It seems absurd to release updates to 4.2, 5.2, 6.2, but not 6.1 when > 6.2 is not even available in stores yet. Not everyone has the net > connection to download an iso image. This is really a slap in the > face to those of us who support RedHat by buying a boxed version > d

Pine doesn't work in 1600x1200

2000-03-30 Thread Brian
I am having a strange occurance happen. I normally run X in 1280x1024.and open a full screen Xterm to run pine in. I changed today to 1600x1200which works fine with my monitor and display card.and for whatever reason, pine refuses to work in an Xterm that is full screene

Re: Fetchmail question

2000-03-30 Thread Anthony E. Greene
"Mathco Tech. Dep" wrote: > > I have a question about fetchmail. > Is there anyway you can specify the password > on the command line, i want to create a script > that goes out like every 10 minutes and check > my mail, i suppose i have to do that with crontab, > but to do that i have to specify

RE: Installation of Voodoo 2/Banshee AGP graphic card

2000-03-30 Thread Mike Lewis
The correct syntax you are looking for is: startx >& ~/xoutput.txt > -Original Message- > From: Stephen Liu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 6:15 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Installation of Voodoo 2/Banshee AGP graphic card > > > Hi Kirk, > >

Re: Fetchmail question

2000-03-30 Thread Brad Cramer
why set up a script, you can run fetchmail as a daemon read the man page and it will give you the options to start the daemon and specify how offen to poll your mail Brad -Original Message- From: Mathco Tech. Dep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Redhat request <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, Ma

Re: Off-Topic

2000-03-30 Thread mozilla
Rick Forrister wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > I know this is off topic but has anyone noticed the large decline in > > Redhat stock price lately and the news today that IBM has sold off 14 > > + million worth of shares recently. I hope this not a sign of things > > to come. I always thoug

Free WP Office download???

2000-03-30 Thread redhat
Sorry but did some one say there was a free WP Office download? I looked on linux.corel.com but could not find it. Could some one on the list give me the scoop? TIA Steve Uptime: 12:31pm up 6 days, 18:33, 1 user, load average: 0.38, 0.28, 0.26 -- Steven J.

[RHSA-2000:008-01] ircii buffer overflow

2000-03-30 Thread Dave Reed
Eric (and cc'ed to redhat-list), You were the one who approved the announcment so I'm sending this to you hoping that you will forward it if you're not the correct person. It seems absurd to release updates to 4.2, 5.2, 6.2, but not 6.1 when 6.2 is not even available in stores yet. Not everyon

Better backup plan? Suggestions or comments - anyone?

2000-03-30 Thread Steven Hildreth
Hi, so here is the deal I am wanting to backup my two servers onto a single tape backup. I have a Redhat/Samba server and a redhat/mail/dns/router server. What I am doing now is having the Redhat/mail/dns/router server nightly smbtar all the shares on the Redhat/Samba server and then writing thes

Re: after samba 2.0.6 upgrade, annoying message...

2000-03-30 Thread Adam Sleight
In Global Parameters try putting the following...should work. map to guest = Bad User On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 08:26:15 -0600 Alan Mead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # I upgraded samba from 2.0.5a to 2.0.6 to fix a problem mounting Windows 95 # shares on my home LAN. Fixed the problem but since the u

Re: Off-Topic

2000-03-30 Thread Alan Mead
At 09:49 PM 3/29/00 , you wrote: >Hello: > >I know this is off topic but has anyone noticed the large decline in Redhat >stock price lately and the news today that IBM has sold off 14 + million >worth of shares recently. I hope this not a sign of things to come. I always I don't think IBM got int

Re: Installing a 2nd NIC

2000-03-30 Thread David D.W. Downey
Charles Galpin wrote: > > I don't think this is true. I have used a stock RH6.1 kernel with two > idnetical cards using a module. > OK here ya go.. In your /etc/lilo.conf file add the following line: append="ether,0x000,00,eth0 ether,0x000,00,eth1" Replace 0x000 with the io port for the c

Re: ATI Rage Fury (32 Mb card AGP)

2000-03-30 Thread Frank Carreiro
I received some fine suggestions recently (such as below). SVGA didn't work under XFREE 4.0. For some reason I didn't see the driver get installed and the XFREE 4.0 binaries didn't seem to have it there. Tonight I'm thinking of trying the source (downloaded that also) or switching to XFree 3.3.

Re: colored MOTD

2000-03-30 Thread David D.W. Downey
Yes, all you have to do is add the color codes like the old ANSI color screens for the BBSs. Remember Renegade BBS? :-) Just remember to comment out the lines in the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file. -- David D.W. Downey Red Hat Certified Engineer Cert# 806100581800665 Assistant Site Manager http

HP Printing

2000-03-30 Thread Ray Parish
I am trying to get my linux box to print to an HP 4000 using tcp/ip. I have tried various printtool configurations and nothing seems to work. Any ideas? Thanks Ray -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: redhat-list archives - How?

2000-03-30 Thread Charles Galpin
http://moongroup.com/redhat.phtml On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Stan Isaacs wrote: > I just joined the Redhat-list mailing list, and am trying to search the > archives before asking a couple of questions. But when I go to the > redhat site, I see archives for a dozen lists, none of them named > "redhat

redhat-list archives - How?

2000-03-30 Thread Stan Isaacs
I just joined the Redhat-list mailing list, and am trying to search the archives before asking a couple of questions. But when I go to the redhat site, I see archives for a dozen lists, none of them named "redhat-list". Further, when I try to go to one of them (which seems necessary to get the

Re: colored MOTD

2000-03-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
"Michael H. Warfield" wrote: > Attached below is a sample "issue" file with their color ascii art > in it. Try gzip'ing the file before you send it :) (Or send it as an attachment) MSG -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: Fetchmail question

2000-03-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
"Mathco Tech. Dep" wrote: > Is there anyway you can specify the password > on the command line I think what you want to do is use "fetchmailconf" to create a useable .fetchmailrc file. Once you have that, you can just type "fetchmail". You can also specify "daemon " in the .fetchmailrc file, an

Fetchmail question

2000-03-30 Thread Mathco Tech. Dep
I have a question about fetchmail. Is there anyway you can specify the password on the command line, i want to create a script that goes out like every 10 minutes and check my mail, i suppose i have to do that with crontab, but to do that i have to specify the whole command line including the pass

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