Re: Upgrade blues

2000-07-12 Thread Steve Manuel
Bob Hartung wrote: > > Tried "make symlinks" > I get the same error > > Bob > > "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: > > > > On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Bob Hartung wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I needed to upgrade my stock 6.2 kernel for a) security fixes on this > > > future masquerade server and b) tulip dri

running smartlist...want to have a web archive

2000-07-12 Thread erik
Hi, I got smartlist up and running, and i want to have a web archive of the list (only running one now). I dont think smartlist can do this my itself, but I am not sure tho. Is there a good program that can do this for me? Thanks erik -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscr

Re: Photo deluxe file converter (*.pdd) for Linux?

2000-07-12 Thread Zoki
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Bret Hughes wrote: ->ANy one know how I can convert a pdd file to jpeg in linux? ->having a hell of a time finding any in Linux that will do ->this. *** Never heard of one existing for Linux. Can't you save your files in Photoshop deluxe directly to jpeg or ask people to se

Re: Genius NetMouse Pro PS/2

2000-07-12 Thread Jim Travnick
John Aldrich wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, J. Carlos Cristobal wrote: > > Hello Everybody! > > > > I installed a PS/2 Genius NetMouse Pro mouse in my PC with linux RH > > 6.2 and I haven't been able to make the scroll buttons to work, but I've > > > > seen a computer with tha same OS that h

using Linux as a serial console

2000-07-12 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
Minicom (at first glance) appears to be more of a modem dialer. What program should I be using if I simply want to use the serial port to console into a null-modem-attached device, e.g. a headless Solaris box? -- Todd A. Jacobs Senior Network Consultant -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECT

innd is rejecting feeds !!!

2000-07-12 Thread Suheyl Husain
Hi !!! I am using pullnews on localhost to act as a feeder ... but first time the newsfeed is rejected. If I get pull it again it gets refused. Also first time it also appends something in history file and next time it appends news file. My active file contains this group. Does anyone have any id

eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status 0x01

2000-07-12 Thread Owen V. Gray
I am seeing these entries for the first time on a machine running RH5.2. Can anyone tell me what they might mean? Jul 12 23:31:05 medarb kernel: eth0: Too much work at interrupt, status 0x01 Jul 12 23:32:05 medarb last message repeated 3 times Jul 12 23:36:23 medarb last message repeated 3 times

Re: Genius NetMouse Pro PS/2

2000-07-12 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, J. Carlos Cristobal wrote: > Hello Everybody! > > I installed a PS/2 Genius NetMouse Pro mouse in my PC with linux RH > 6.2 and I haven't been able to make the scroll buttons to work, but I've > > seen a computer with tha same OS that has the same mouse model with that >

Re: Linux Machine

2000-07-12 Thread Jake McHenry
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Alan Mead wrote: --Next you may want a network which you can also find on ebay. Just got an --old 12 port SMC 10BASET hub for about $35, including shipping; around here, --you can buy a new 10/100 switch for about $100. Probably less in places --like Silicon valley. -- -

Re: security: crontab

2000-07-12 Thread ben
Neat! I hadn't heard of this before and I am very impressed. Nice little program, thank you Bell Labs. This is going in my "Need to install on all new systems" list. -Ben Newman "Before I'm done you will all taste my meaty brain chunks." Spider

[Fwd: FW: samba?????]

2000-07-12 Thread Bret Hughes
Meant to send this to the list too. I really need to get that procmail recipe in place. Bret Hughes wrote: > dattatraya wrote: > > > sorry, im a newbie so can anyone plase tell me what is samba, and can i use > > it on a standalone machine that has both win98se and rh6.0 so that i can > > each

Re: FW: [ot]change of email id...

2000-07-12 Thread Bret Hughes
dattatraya wrote: > how can i change the email id that i use to receive mails from this list? > > sorry for this post. didnt know where else i could have sent it! > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" > as the Subject. unsubscribe using the instructions above and re

Re: how to rename files beginning with -

2000-07-12 Thread Bret Hughes
Gordon Messmer wrote:Close, it's functionality of the getopt() library. The shell > interperets command lines, but not arguments. > Makes sense thanks. > > > BTW I ended up changing it from a win98 machine that could access the > > partition via samba. No problems at all. I wonder what the

Re: can't "make"

2000-07-12 Thread Bigdog
> "j" == Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: j> hmmm, i'm trying to run: j> ./configure j> make j> make install j> but j> bash reports command not found. j> What did I forget to install? Duh, make is part in the make rpm for 6.2 it would be: make-3.78.1-4 -- Ray Curtis Unix Prog

Re: how to rename files beginning with -

2000-07-12 Thread Bret Hughes
Thomas Ribbrock wrote: > > > GNU rm, like every program that uses the getopt function to > parse its arguments, lets you use the -- option to indicate > that all following arguments are non-options. To remove a > file called `-f' in the current directory, you could ty

Re: copy & paste in pine

2000-07-12 Thread Chuck Mead
On 0, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > my mouse won't select text in pine. > i have "enable mouse in xterm" checked. > > what's wrong? Hold down the shift key while you select text to copy in pine. -- Chuck Mead, CTO, LinuxMall.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG Public Key Available: http://pgp

Re: can't "make"

2000-07-12 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Jeff wrote: > What did I forget to install? Probably some or all of the following: automake pmake pmake-customs make -- Todd A. Jacobs Senior Network Consultant -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject

Re: copy & paste in pine

2000-07-12 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Jeff wrote: > i have "enable mouse in xterm" checked. Uncheck it. -- Todd A. Jacobs Senior Network Consultant -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

RE: An idea I've been tossing around....

2000-07-12 Thread Chad W. Skinner
> Although I only know the basic usage of RPM, there is one feature which I > would like on any package manager. That is, to -in a more or less > automatical way- install the available packages require for the > package been > installed to work properly. I have experienced the same problems, but

Re: security: crontab

2000-07-12 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Michael Ghens wrote: > I just cannot believe this. I just tested an old vixie cron exploit > against crontab. It was a clasic buffer overflow attack. I have a > RH6.2 WITH UPDATES. It worked. This exploit is almost over a year old. Have you tried installing libsafe on your s

Re: How does rpm determine kernvel version?

2000-07-12 Thread Nitebirdz
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Lew Randerson wrote: > > How does rpm determine the kernel version. I am having a package > > # /bin/rpm -ivh knfsd-1.4.7-7.alpha.rpm > > error: failed dependencies: > > kernel >= 2.2.5 is needed by knfsd-1.4.7-7 > > rpm -q kernel > > What ve

copy & paste in pine

2000-07-12 Thread Jeff
my mouse won't select text in pine. i have "enable mouse in xterm" checked. what's wrong? thanks Jeff -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

can't "make"

2000-07-12 Thread Jeff
hmmm, i'm trying to run: ./configure make make install but bash reports command not found. What did I forget to install? Jeff -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: security: crontab

2000-07-12 Thread Michael Ghens
If you want the code. Do not ask, it is readily available in the bugtraq archive. On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Michael Ghens wrote: > Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 15:40:23 -0700 (PDT) > From: Michael Ghens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: security: crontab > > I just cannot believe thi

security: crontab

2000-07-12 Thread Michael Ghens
I just cannot believe this. I just tested an old vixie cron exploit against crontab. It was a clasic buffer overflow attack. I have a RH6.2 WITH UPDATES. It worked. This exploit is almost over a year old. It's standard permistions are: -rwsr-xr-x My advice, change the permissions on /usr/bin/cro

Re: Linux Machine

2000-07-12 Thread Alan Mead
At 07:07 AM 7/12/00 , you wrote: >I've been looking for a new computer that I can put Linux only on, but haven't >been able to find any older computers for sale. I don't really want to go and >buy a brand new Pentium III just for Linux. I was looking for like a Pentium >133, or something around th

Re: software raid question!!

2000-07-12 Thread Eric Sisler
>Mark Lo wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have software raid 1 running on my system, how can i find out > > whether the raid is working properly without shutting down my server. > > As I know, If there is a raid error, the system will prompt at the > > startup time. So , how to find out wheth

glibc-2.1.2 on a RH 6.0 system?

2000-07-12 Thread Kevin Hemenway
Good day... We run ProFTPd 1.2.0pre7 and just ran across the glibc-2.1.1 bug about a single group being longer than 1,024 characters. According to some various material we've read, this has been fixed in glibc-2.1.2. However, looking around, I can see an rpm for 2.1.2, but its for RH 6.1. Is

hardware check

2000-07-12 Thread kabir
I will be upgrading my system to CPU:P3 500 mhz Motherboard:ASUS P3V4X Anybody have a setup like this? I checked hard specs at redhat.com From what I see it doesn't seem to cause a problem. Any opposing opinions ? Larry Mintz<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Download NeoPlanet at http://www.neoplanet.com

gopher server

2000-07-12 Thread ben
For nostalga's sake I'm looking to install a gopher server on my system, but I cant find a linux port of it. Does anyone know where (or if) one exists? -Ben Newman "Before I'm done you will all taste my meaty brain chunks." Spider Jerusalem --

RE: An idea I've been tossing around....

2000-07-12 Thread Manuel Antonio Camacho Quesada
Hi! Although I only know the basic usage of RPM, there is one feature which I would like on any package manager. That is, to -in a more or less automatical way- install the available packages require for the package been installed to work properly. For instance, I have an old version of SuSE and

RE: Linux Machine

2000-07-12 Thread Manuel Antonio Camacho Quesada
Take a look at www.compgeeks.com . They used to have very good deals on refurbished PCs. What you require depends on what you want to do. I got a couple of boxed to play with: an AMD 5x86 with 8MB and a 541MB HDD running 6.0 on text mode (Emacs and Octave -and DoomII =) -) and a 486/66 with 24MB

FW: [ot]change of email id...

2000-07-12 Thread dattatraya
how can i change the email id that i use to receive mails from this list? sorry for this post. didnt know where else i could have sent it! -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

FW: samba?????

2000-07-12 Thread dattatraya
sorry, im a newbie so can anyone plase tell me what is samba, and can i use it on a standalone machine that has both win98se and rh6.0 so that i can each os can access each others info... sorry if this is too dumb. just guide me to where i can find more info thanks dattatraya -

Re: source vs. rpm

2000-07-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
Mark Basil wrote: > G's on a system that sputters. Anyway, my question is what needs to be done > to compile these two programs ( the many packages that make them up). You have to have several -devel packages installed (imlib-devel, fnlib-devel, gtk+-devel, glib-devel, ...). My advice would be

Re: binary file format under linux

2000-07-12 Thread Ronald W. Heiby
Another approach would be to use Perl. It isn't necessarily any easier than using C, but I'd guess it's slightly more likely to be loaded on a system. Ron. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: software raid question!!

2000-07-12 Thread treaves
You don't. That's as specified in the RAID HOW-TO. Mark Lo wrote: > Hi, > > I have software raid 1 running on my system, how can i find out > whether the raid is working properly without shutting down my server. > As I know, If there is a raid error, the system will prompt at the > sta

Genius NetMouse Pro PS/2

2000-07-12 Thread J. Carlos Cristobal
Hello Everybody! I installed a PS/2 Genius NetMouse Pro mouse in my PC with linux RH 6.2 and I haven't been able to make the scroll buttons to work, but I've seen a computer with tha same OS that has the same mouse model with that function fully working... How can I do that? Than

Re: how to rename files beginning with -

2000-07-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
> > I was surprised that mv '-filename' filename or mv "-filename" filename > > didn't work. That's because the shell interperets the quotes and removes them before passing the option to mv. The commands: mv "this" "that" mv 'this' 'that' are both equivalent to : mv this that mv is launched with

software raid question!!

2000-07-12 Thread Mark Lo
Hi, I have software raid 1 running on my system, how can i find out whether the raid is working properly without shutting down my server. As I know, If there is a raid error, the system will prompt at the startup time. So , how to find out whether the raid is working fine without reboot

Re: DNS server

2000-07-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, John Gao wrote: > I have a Redhat 6.1 box that works as our DNS server. > now our web server changed to a different IP, > How do i make the change on the DNS server so that it will pointing to the > new IP. > > Thank you for your advices.. > > John > Edit the zone files i

RE: binary file format under linux

2000-07-12 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
what kind of data does it need? C program (this is an untested quickie): /* creates a binary file with MAXDATA integers */ /* includes go here */ #include #include /* define global variables */ #define MAXDATA 2000/* maximum number of data points */ /* function prototypes go here */ unsi

RE: Linux Machine

2000-07-12 Thread Jeff Graves
I have this config running on my machine right now (well, 6.0). The only thing is, three separate hard drives (2GB IDE NT4.0, 8GB IDE linux, 34GB IDE Win98). Let me know if you want help setting this up. > I have been dual-booting win98se, winNT4.0, and Linux 6.1 for a while now, but > I've been

3D HUDs and Linux

2000-07-12 Thread Ward William E PHDN
Does anyone out there have experience with 3D HUDs (NOT LCD pass through glasses that require a separate monitor) and Linux? If so, can you let me know a bit about your experience (what software, what Kernel, resources, performance, etc.). Also, does anyone know of any major manufacturers other

RE: An idea I've been tossing around....

2000-07-12 Thread Chapman, Matt
Good idea but what about something similar to the pkgadd,pkgrm,pkginfo form of Sun but cross platform...? -matt chapman -Original Message- From: Gordon Messmer To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 7/12/2000 2:54 AM Subject: An idea I've been tossing around I've been thinking about something

Endian problem in hdparm?

2000-07-12 Thread Wayne Dyer
It's likely to be cosmetic, but I just found that if I do 'hdparm -I /dev/hda' It returns in the identification "aMtxro9 31306D " which should read "Maxtor 91306 D" Likewise for hdb, which returns "BI-MHDAE3-4815" instead of "IBM-DHEA-38451" 'cat /proc/ide/hd[ab]/model' returns the correct stri

logrotate problem

2000-07-12 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
Hel all, I seem to be having a logrotate problem of some sort... This is what I see inside my /var/log/samba directory: -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jul 9 04:02 log.smb -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jul 9 04:02 log.smb.1 -rw-r--r--1 root root

Re: how to rename files beginning with -

2000-07-12 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 07:43:10AM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote: > > Thanks to both of you. I hope I can remember it next time but at least now > it is archived :) [...] > Gordon's suggestion of -- seems to be using > functionallity of the shell, Well, the "--" approach is what's listed in the rm m

Re: Users??

2000-07-12 Thread Bret Hughes
Ward William E PHDN wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Martin Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 4:54 AM > Subject: Re: Users?? > > > Last night I used the following to kill a user's processes: > > > ps aux | grep username | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill >

binary file format under linux

2000-07-12 Thread Johan Lim
Dear all, I run a simulator program under linux. This simulator requires an input file in binary file format (xxx.bin). The contents of this input file is simply integers (unsigned). If anybody can point out how to make this binary file, i'd really appreciate. Thanks, Johan

quota notification

2000-07-12 Thread Michael Dungan
(This is a re-post, as our 'Net connection was wonky yesterday, and the first may or may not show up.) Hi, I have quotas enabled on one of my servers, but users aren't being notified when they reach the soft/hard limits. Is there something I need to enable for this? Other *nices I've enabled quo

Re: An idea I've been tossing around....

2000-07-12 Thread Chuck Mead
On 0, Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been thinking about something for the last couple of days, and I'd > like to share some of my thoughts with other users. > > Please let me know what you think, and I hope this doesn't waste too > much time and bandwidth :) > > MSG > >

Re: Linux Machine

2000-07-12 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Jake McHenry wrote: > I've been looking for a new computer that I can put Linux only on, but haven't > been able to find any older computers for sale. I don't really want to go and > buy a brand new Pentium III just for Linux. I was looking for like a Pentium > 133, or someth

RE: Not got any e-mail since Friday #733

2000-07-12 Thread Jeff Graves
Yeah, and what's up with the 1+ hour message return time? -Original Message- From: Headtechnician @ Mathco [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 9:05 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Not got any e-mail since Friday #733 Is the list down? --Mathias Bjorkman --Mathco

Re: Users??

2000-07-12 Thread Gregory Cox
My advice is to stick to the "simple". I prefer to use ps -ef to obtain the Pid of the login question. Then, as the others suggested, use kill on the PID. However, with ps -aef, you can tell what that user is doing and what PID is attached to the task. Incidentally, if you "kill" the lowest PID

Software Raid 1 for Redhat.

2000-07-12 Thread Mark Lo
Hi, Does anybody have tried out redhat software raid 1, please tell me the performance of software raid 1 for Redhat 6.2. I am using Ultra 160 scsi card and disk. Thank You mark -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

DNS server

2000-07-12 Thread John Gao
I have a Redhat 6.1 box that works as our DNS server. now our web server changed to a different IP, How do i make the change on the DNS server so that it will pointing to the new IP. Thank you for your advices.. John -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject

Not got any e-mail since Friday #733

2000-07-12 Thread Headtechnician @ Mathco
Is the list down? --Mathias Bjorkman --Mathco LLC --e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

RE: Users??

2000-07-12 Thread Ward William E PHDN
-Original Message- From: Martin Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 4:54 AM Subject: Re: Users?? > Last night I used the following to kill a user's processes: > ps aux | grep username | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill > ps aux - get the process list > grep use

Re: how to rename files beginning with -

2000-07-12 Thread Bret Hughes
Wes Owen wrote: > At 06:11 PM 7/11/00 , you wrote: > >some program, gphoto I think, named a bunch of files -004.jpg -005.jpg > > > >when I try to issue a command on them to rename them like chmod or mv it > >won't work because the command interprets -0 as an option (and of course > >there is

RE: RPM problem: only packages with major numbers

2000-07-12 Thread Jeff Graves
Sounds like you need a new version of RPM? I've never heard of this problem. What version of Redhat are you running? -Original Message- From: Simons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 6:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RPM problem: only packages with major numbe

RE: An idea I've been tossing around....

2000-07-12 Thread Jeff Graves
Sounds like a great idea. I had wanted to get invovled in something like this but don't have a deep enough programming background and how current package managers work. One suggestion I would make (and i don't know if this would fall under shawdow packages) is to include all dependent packages for

RE: winmodems vs. Lucent vs. open source

2000-07-12 Thread Ward William E PHDN
-Original Message- From: Chris Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 12:57 AM Subject: Re: winmodems vs. Lucent vs. open source > Has anyone used a Zoom LT 56k Voice/Faxmodem with the jumpers set for > plug-n-play? > thanks, > Chris Chris, try http://www.linux

Linux Machine

2000-07-12 Thread Jake McHenry
I've been looking for a new computer that I can put Linux only on, but haven't been able to find any older computers for sale. I don't really want to go and buy a brand new Pentium III just for Linux. I was looking for like a Pentium 133, or something around that. I've been looking at auctions, bu

Re: Users??

2000-07-12 Thread Jake McHenry
do a ps -fu "username" and see what process numbers the user has open. then kill -9 "process id" which will close the persons shell. Jake On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Steven Pierce wrote: -- -- --Hi There, -- --I am a newbie so please bare with me for some simple ( to most) questions. --I have a Li

Re: Users??

2000-07-12 Thread Anthony E. Greene
At 01:53 2000-07-12 -0700, Martin Brown wrote: >Last night I used the following to kill a user's processes: > >ps aux | grep username | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill > >ps aux - get the process list >grep username - get lines from the list that contain the username >(potential prob

Re: Users??

2000-07-12 Thread Maynard B. Fernando
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Steven Pierce wrote: > Hi There, > > I want to kick off Erin, what would be the process short > of reboot the machine. I have looked in books read man pages. Nothing > gives you specific information on kicking off a user. I know that I could > also close the account, but

Re: Users??

2000-07-12 Thread Martin Brown
Last night I used the following to kill a user's processes: ps aux | grep username | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill ps aux - get the process list grep username - get lines from the list that contain the username (potential problem here if the username has similarities

RPM problem: only packages with major numbers

2000-07-12 Thread Simons
Hello, I get the XFree86-4.0.1-0.30.i386.rpm from rawhide and issue the command: rpm -Fvh XFree86-4.0.1-0.30.i386.rpm to upgrade the XFree86, but it give me the following error message: only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM query of XFree86-4.0.1-0.30.i386.rpm

Re: lilo mod'd, but mem still not seen

2000-07-12 Thread Martin Brown
Yeah, I actually edited '/etc/lilo.conf' with the new mem parameter before I shutdown for the install. When it didn't work, I double checked 'lilo.conf' and ran lilo again, but still no joy. On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Wes Owen wrote: > At 07:07 PM 7/11/00 , you wrote: > >[RH6.1] > > > >I had 128MB o

Re: Help setting qt version in 6.2

2000-07-12 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Brian R. Thacker wrote: > I am trying to compile a few KDE apps under 6.2, but when I run the configure > script I get the can't link KDE application error. I know it is due to the fact > that it finds qt-2.x instead of the qt-1.45 directory. I tried to manual set my > path a

Re: Apache-SSL

2000-07-12 Thread Greg Wright
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 11/07/00 at 14:51 Gordon Messmer wrote: >Juan Martinez wrote: >> I've generated a dummy certificate and the httpsd daemon >> starts. When I try to load a page however, the client shows >> a "Network: Broken Pipe" error. For each attempt to read a >

Re: Really easy question

2000-07-12 Thread Anthony E. Greene
At 14:08 2000-07-11 EDT, George Georgiev wrote: >Hey everybody, i'm kinda new, > >so my question is when i install Red Hat6.2 do i need to install everything i >mean server support both kdi and gnome all the different tools and all other >stuff, because in the beginning all i am going to use linu

Re: Users??

2000-07-12 Thread Anthony E. Greene
At 21:10 2000-07-11 -0700, Steven Pierce wrote: >I am a newbie so please bare with me for some simple ( to most) questions. >I have a Linux server and I logged in last night three times. I was checking some >of the log in's that I set up. After I was done, I had closed the screen that I was >usi

Re: how to rename files beginning with -

2000-07-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
Bret Hughes wrote: > some program, gphoto I think, named a bunch of files -004.jpg -005.jpg ... > past this is NOT an option but I cannot find it if it exists. How can I > rename these files? prefix the name with -- mv -- -004.jpg 004.jpg rm -- -005.jpg MSG -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL P

An idea I've been tossing around....

2000-07-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
I've been thinking about something for the last couple of days, and I'd like to share some of my thoughts with other users. Please let me know what you think, and I hope this doesn't waste too much time and bandwidth :) MSG I've used rpm, dpkg, FreeBSD's ports and InstallSheild for a numbe

Re: lilo mod'd, but mem still not seen

2000-07-12 Thread Wes Owen
At 07:07 PM 7/11/00 , you wrote: >[RH6.1] > >I had 128MB of memory, but just added an additional 256MB. > >In '/etc/lilo.conf', I did have > >append = "mem=128" > >and all the memory was seen. > >After adding the memory, I have modified '/etc/lilo.conf' with the >line(s): > >append = "mem=

Re: how to rename files beginning with -

2000-07-12 Thread Wes Owen
At 06:11 PM 7/11/00 , you wrote: >some program, gphoto I think, named a bunch of files -004.jpg -005.jpg > >when I try to issue a command on them to rename them like chmod or mv it >won't work because the command interprets -0 as an option (and of course >there is no option 0) I thought that

RPM problem: only packages with major numbers

2000-07-12 Thread Simons
Hello, I get the XFree86-4.0.1-0.30.i386.rpm from rawhide and issue the command: rpm -Fvh XFree86-4.0.1-0.30.i386.rpm to upgrade the XFree86, but it give me the following error message: only packages with major numbers <= 3 are supported by this version of RPM query of XFree86-4.0.1-0.30.i386.rpm

Re: Really easy question

2000-07-12 Thread Manuel A. Camacho Q.
No, you don't need to install everything. You can perform a workstation install, and after some time, you will be prepared to make your custom install and choose exactly what you require. Good luck! -Manuel. George Georgiev wrote: > > Hey everybody, i'm kinda new, > > so my question is when i

Re: Apache-SSL

2000-07-12 Thread Juan Martinez
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Greg Wright wrote: > *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** > > On 11/07/00 at 11:21 Juan Martinez wrote: > > >Hello listers, > > > >I've installed apache-ssl-1.3.6_1.35-3.i386.rpm and > >openssl-0.9.5a-1.i386.rpm on a RedHat 6.2 system. > > > >I've generated a dummy cert

Re: Apache-SSL

2000-07-12 Thread Michael J. McGillick
Juan: My RPM is just about finished (putting the final touches on it now). It installs completely configured with a dummy certificate, and blends flawlessly into a Red Hat 6.2 installtion. The httpsd.conf file comes preconfigured to run both http and https connections off just the one server.

Photo deluxe file converter (*.pdd) for Linux?

2000-07-12 Thread Bret Hughes
ANy one know how I can convert a pdd file to jpeg in linux? having a hell of a time finding any in Linux that will do this. Thanks, Bret -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Error: You don't have permission to access / on this server

2000-07-12 Thread Alessandro Coppelli
Hi to all. ( RedHat 6.2) I obtained these errors ( in error.log ) from httpd: /home/httpd/html/.htaccess pcfg_openfile : unable to check htaccess file, ensure it is readable or [error] [client number_IP ] client denied by server configuration: /home/httpd/html Th