Re: Is there a way....

2000-10-27 Thread Fred Edmister
Thanks Kris! :) I appreciate the quick and latenight responce! (well, latenight on my end anyway! LOL) Thanks again! Fred At 01:12 AM 10/28/00 -0500, you wrote: >You can go to http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage and look at the information >they have on the Frontpage Extens

Re: Is there a way....

2000-10-27 Thread Kris Keele
You can go to http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage and look at the information they have on the Frontpage Extensions kit. It is pretty easy to install. Kris - Original Message - From: "Fred Edmister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 1:01 AM Subjec

Is there a way....

2000-10-27 Thread Fred Edmister
Just wondered if there is a way to have front page extensions on a linux 6.2 server If anyone knows anything about this, it would be great! Thanks in advance! Fred Fred Edmister President / Networking Specialist Northside Networking [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.northsidenet

USB disk - boot?

2000-10-27 Thread Edward Schernau
Is it possible to make a USB device bootable? Can I boot from a USB Zip or HD ? ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Font problem in Xapps and netscape

2000-10-27 Thread vikas
I am running Zoot on i686. Emacs, telnet when executed from gnome do not show any fonts. When I browse the net from Netscape 4.73 the fonts size cannot be changed and so everything appears bvery small. I do not know the exact reson for this problem. Please help, Vikas

Re: gecko-1.6.0

2000-10-27 Thread Statux
Nothing with rpm -qi ? On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, guanchen KHOO wrote: > > RedHat-5.2 have this gecko rpm installed. What on earth is it? There is > no documentation on it at all, even in the src.rpm. > > > -- > Cheers > Richard KHOO Guan Chen > > > > > _

RH7.0 ... Now printer won't print postscript

2000-10-27 Thread Paul R. Ganci
I recently upgraded from RH6.2 to RH7.0 and since that time have been unable to get my printer (an Epson Stylus 850ne which according to printtool is using the stc800ih, Stylus Color 800, 1440x720DpI, Inkjet Paper input filter) to print postscript. It treats postscript as if it were a text file. I

Re: Mailing List

2000-10-27 Thread Anthony E . Greene
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 14:18 Scott Skrogstad wrote: >I have about 1900 users on my system and I am looking for a fast and EASY >way to mail all of my users and tell them about things happening on our >network. I have played with Majordomo but I try and send a message to the >list that I have created

Re: RPM 4 database gone

2000-10-27 Thread Etienne Larrivee
Hi John, Now that's interesting! And so disappointing. This kind of problems is nothing good to get new Linux users, especially (near)computer-illiterate ones (the upgrade of a software should be so smooth and straight forward... particularly the packages manager package of a system -- well, is

rpm-3.0.5-7.5x weirdness

2000-10-27 Thread guanchen KHOO
I have RedHat-5.2 and upgraded rpm to rpm-3.0.5-7.5x which I think I got from rpm.org - cannot be sure though. Had a scary problem yesterday when I tried to --rebuild bison-1.27-3.src.rpm. The rebuild always fails, complaining that it cannot find some files (I think the info files) in the build ro

gecko-1.6.0

2000-10-27 Thread guanchen KHOO
RedHat-5.2 have this gecko rpm installed. What on earth is it? There is no documentation on it at all, even in the src.rpm. -- Cheers Richard KHOO Guan Chen ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

DVD and ...

2000-10-27 Thread Frank Jacobberger
I have dvdplay loading the dvd, but wondered if the default res had to be 1024x768 on the desktop or less? Frank ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

automount on red-hat 6.2

2000-10-27 Thread Hendrick Chan
I try to map everyone's home directory on to red-hat 6.2 machine, and I have created the files /etc/auto.master and /etc/auto.direct. I tried to start automount daemon, but fail to success. Can someone help me to get automount working. begin:vcard n:Chan;Hendrick tel;fax:408-735-9653 tel;wo

Re: How to do port scan on your own machine

2000-10-27 Thread Justin Zygmont
there's also a site that will do that, can't remember the name... On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Ning Zhu wrote: > Hello, > > Does any one know how to do a port scan on RedHat 6.2? During the scan, it > shouldn't open any port, just a simple check. > > As a matter of fact, what I am trying to do is to

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and voodoo 3

2000-10-27 Thread Statux
Did you go through the part about creating a new XF86Config file and editing it to add all the necessary stuff? ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: format of hosts.deny

2000-10-27 Thread Statux
RTFM:) man hosts.deny On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, root wrote: > Anyone know the format of entries in the hosts.deny file? > > Chris > > > > ___ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -

Re: Samba/printing/No Postscript

2000-10-27 Thread Hendrick Chan
You can send an e-mail to hp at http://www.hp.com/cposupport/mail_support.html, then support for my product (under e-mail hp), hp LaserJet e-mail support, finally pick the appropriate Color LaserJet and fill-out the content of the e-mail. Steve Lee wrote: > all the printer works now. Thanks for

Re: Samba/printing/No Postscript

2000-10-27 Thread Steve Lee
all the printer works now. Thanks for the help. I last question, though. We are planning to get a HP color laser printer. I will setup the print server as i have using samba and printtool. In the list of printers, i would use the postscript printer for this printer? ___

Re: format of hosts.deny

2000-10-27 Thread Bret Hughes
root wrote: > Anyone know the format of entries in the hosts.deny file? > > Chris It depends on what you want to do. Take a look at man hosts.deny. ALL:ALL will deny everything to everyone and require you to put some entries into hosts.allow Here is one built by portsentry on my firewall box:

XFree86 4.0.1 and voodoo 3

2000-10-27 Thread Mark Ivey
Well, I just upgrade to XFree86 4.0.1 using the binary installer off xfree86.org, but I can't get any 3D acceleration for my voodoo 3. I've been over the documentation that came with it several times but can't figure it out. (System is running almost-stock RH 6.2) README.DRI says this about Pre

Re: Handspring PDA on Linux

2000-10-27 Thread Mark Ivey
you might want to check out the Handspring-Visor mini-HOWTO at: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Handspring-Visor.html Also, the visor doesn't come with the serial cable, you have to buy it seperately... -Mark- On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Charles Galpin wrote: > A serial cable is also available (si

RE: format of hosts.deny

2000-10-27 Thread Uncle Meat
On 27-Oct-2000 root opined: > Anyone know the format of entries in the hosts.deny file? Just like in the following example, and 'man hosts.deny' can provide more information: CUT === # # hosts.denyThis file describes the name

RE: RPM 4 database gone

2000-10-27 Thread John MacLean
> -Original Message- > From: Etienne Larrivee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 4:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: RPM 4 database gone > > > Hi Marco, > > I am using Redhat 6.2. I had RPM 3.0.4-0.48 installed, since > that's the version > that cam

Re: APM under RH7

2000-10-27 Thread Rick Warner
Best to use the same source as RedHat; get the SRPM from RedHat, install, untar, then look at it. - rick warner ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: APM under RH7

2000-10-27 Thread Charles Galpin
these are patches which coem with the 2.78 rpm # ls /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/ sulogin-nologin.patchsysvinit-2.77-md5-be.patch sysvinit-2.78-md5.patch sysvinit-2.78.tar.gz sysvinit-2.74-man.patch sysvinit-2.78-halt.patch sysvinit-2.78-sigint.patch charles On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Larry Grove

Fw: [mv] Interchange 4.6.0 now available

2000-10-27 Thread Brian Wright
For those of you using Red Hat's e-commerce distribution or are looking for a kick-ass e-commerce system! Read on... - Original Message - From: "Jon Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 10:04 AM Subject: [mv] Interchange 4.6.0 now available

Re: How to do port scan on your own machine

2000-10-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 12:18:11PM -0700, Carson, Chuck wrote: | Just check netstat to see if anything is listening on that port. | | netstat -a | grep LISTEN | more | | If a listening process is defined in /etc/services, the service name will | appear instead of the port number in the netstat o

cdrom mounting problem in RH7

2000-10-27 Thread Jeferson J. Arenzon
I installed the new RH7 and cannot mount the cdrom. The message I get is: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too many mounted file systems (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition, instead of some logical partition inside?) and in the

killall -HUP lpd RH7.0

2000-10-27 Thread Adam Sleight
printing via Samba Server with LPRng on RH 7.0 it works for a few hours then constantly stops working...I always have to do a killall -HUP lpd and it magically works again. I can't babysit this and would like to roll it out but this isn't RELIABLE at all if one has to constantly reset lpd. I had

generating a .config file for kernels

2000-10-27 Thread Eric Wood
I know you can 'make xconfig', or 'make menuconfig', etc. to help you generate a .config file right before you compile a kernel. I just grabbed the lastest 2.4-pre source. Does Redhat have a .config file floating out there that would compile the new 2.4 series that would generally produce a "sto

RPM prob on RH 7.0

2000-10-27 Thread fred smith
At work I've got a RH 7.0 installation, which was a fresh, complete, custom install, not an upgrade. The other day I grabbed a whole pile of the updated RPMs for 7.0 that have been released since the ISO images and went to try to install them. For almost every one, RPM gave me an unresolved depe

Re: Mailing List

2000-10-27 Thread Lee Howard
I use SmartList with very little trouble (only when I mess it up). But Marjordomo should be fine, too. Many people also like Mailman. Lee Howard At 01:18 PM 10/27/00 -0500, you wrote: >I have about 1900 users on my system and I am looking for a fast and EASY >way to mail all of my users and t

format of hosts.deny

2000-10-27 Thread root
Anyone know the format of entries in the hosts.deny file? Chris ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: RPM 4 database gone

2000-10-27 Thread Timothy Reaves
I tried upgrading a highly modified RH 6.2 system. I wanted to do the upgrade to RPM to get around that damned version number limitation. Giving the command to rebuild the db seemed to have effect. I'm really not sure what else to say. I had upgraded all the RPM dependencies at the sam

Re: APM under RH7

2000-10-27 Thread Larry Grover
I had gotten curious enough about this go to the source, too. I looked SysVinit up on Freshmeat, got an URL for the source (www.ibiblio.org), and downloaded the SysVinint-2.78.tar.gz. But after downloading and untarring, I couldn't find anything that looked like it would create these files

Re: dhcp & named question

2000-10-27 Thread Charles Galpin
Jim, it wouldn't surprise me if there was a better way, but here is what I do. Pick IP address you want your machines to have and put entries for them in /etc/hosts. Then in your dhcpd.con put blocks liek this host piglet { hardware ethernet 00:e0:98:03:9d:7b; fixed-address piglet.your

Re: RPM 4 database gone

2000-10-27 Thread Etienne Larrivee
Hi Marco, I am using Redhat 6.2. I had RPM 3.0.4-0.48 installed, since that's the version that came with my distribution CD. I tried upgrading to version 4.0.0.67.6x of RPM, and then tried 'rpm -qa' and saw that my installed packages disapeared. It's kind of straight forward, maybe my rpm comm

NFS Question

2000-10-27 Thread kwood
Hey there, question for you. I did a server install on a group of machine and then applied the updates. I am running RH6.2. The problem I have is that when the machine starts up, I get all the NFS daemons starting up, but when I do a ps ax, I get no listing. Also, when I restart the daemons fr

Re: dhcp & named question

2000-10-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, James C. Bevier wrote: > Hi all, > > Having had such a good response from the list about "dhcpcd vs pump" > question, here is another one. I have installed dhcp to serve several > local computers on the 192.168.1.0 network. I can assign ip numbers > to the requesting syste

Re: dhcp & named question

2000-10-27 Thread Bret Hughes
"James C. Bevier" wrote: > Hi all, > > Having had such a good response from the list about "dhcpcd vs pump" > question, here is another one. I have installed dhcp to serve several > local computers on the 192.168.1.0 network. I can assign ip numbers > to the requesting systems, but I don't know

RE: RPM 4 database gone

2000-10-27 Thread Jamin Collins
I've experienced a similiar problem in upgrading my version of RPM on one of my systems. RPM doesn't work anymore at all, however GnoRPM seems to be working just fine. I've been hesitant to remove RPM 4 and attempt to restore the original version for fear of losing the RPM database completely.

RE: dhcp & named question

2000-10-27 Thread Jamin Collins
I'm using a Dynamic DNS package written by Stephen Carville. The package is a set of Perl scripts that update the zone file through named and restart the service. If you would like more information on this, please let me know. Jamin W. Collins -Original Message- From: James C. Bevier [

RE: How to do port scan on your own machine

2000-10-27 Thread Mulcahy, Chris
Title: RE: How to do port scan on your own machine netstat -a is your friend. hth Chris Mulcahy -Original Message- From: Ning Zhu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 12:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to do port scan on your own machine Hello, Do

Re: How to do port scan on your own machine

2000-10-27 Thread Jeff Hogg
-Original Message- From: Ning Zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, October 27, 2000 2:19 PM Subject: How to do port scan on your own machine >Hello, > >Does any one know how to do a port scan on RedHat 6.2? During the scan, it >shouldn't open

Mailing List

2000-10-27 Thread Scott Skrogstad
I have about 1900 users on my system and I am looking for a fast and EASY way to mail all of my users and tell them about things happening on our network. I have played with Majordomo but I try and send a message to the list that I have created and nothing happens. I don't get any errors and I d

RE: How to do port scan on your own machine

2000-10-27 Thread Carson, Chuck
Just check netstat to see if anything is listening on that port. netstat -a | grep LISTEN | more If a listening process is defined in /etc/services, the service name will appear instead of the port number in the netstat output. So first check /etc/services for anything on 8000, then check netsta

Re: How to do port scan on your own machine

2000-10-27 Thread Marco Shaw
www.nmap.org or a simple 'netstat -an' (or some other flags to netstat) will tell you what's open/listening. Marco - Original Message - From: "Ning Zhu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 2:30 PM Subject: How to do port scan on your own machine >

Re: netscape crash

2000-10-27 Thread lee johnson
John Aldrich wrote: > On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, lee johnson wrote: > > anyone have issue with netscape 4.75 ( what came with RH7.0) in that it > > crashes when i double click on address in address book. > > > I think there's an issue with ALL 4.7x versions of Netscape > with this problem. I *thin

Re: Upgrading from 5.1 to 7.0

2000-10-27 Thread Marco Shaw
This is not to upgrade from version X to Y, but only has bug fixes, errata, etc. for version Z. Marco - Original Message - From: "Manuel A. Camacho Q." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 1:57 PM Subject: RE: Upgrading from 5.1 to 7.0 > You may wan

Re: RPM 4 database gone

2000-10-27 Thread Marco Shaw
Can both of you give more details? You tried to upgrade a fresh 6.2 system, etc.? Marco - Original Message - From: "Etienne Larrivee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 1:41 PM Subject: Re: RPM 4 database gone > Hi Timothy, > > I got exactly the

dhcp & named question

2000-10-27 Thread James C. Bevier
Hi all, Having had such a good response from the list about "dhcpcd vs pump" question, here is another one. I have installed dhcp to serve several local computers on the 192.168.1.0 network. I can assign ip numbers to the requesting systems, but I don't know how to tell named what system has wh

Re: APM under RH7

2000-10-27 Thread Charles Galpin
yeah, but not much more use. So I downloaded the source, and see that in halt.c the halt/poweroff command creates them. do_shutdown just calles shutdown. if (c != '0' && c != '6') { char *file; if (do_poweroff) {

How to do port scan on your own machine

2000-10-27 Thread Ning Zhu
Hello, Does any one know how to do a port scan on RedHat 6.2? During the scan, it shouldn't open any port, just a simple check. As a matter of fact, what I am trying to do is to assign a new port for our httpd(Apache server) instead of using the standard port 80 since Linux is shipped with one

RE: Upgrading from 5.1 to 7.0

2000-10-27 Thread Manuel A. Camacho Q.
You may want to take a look at redhat store. They have an upgrading CD, but I *guess* it was meant for 5.2 up. -Manuel. > -Mensaje original- > De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]En > nombre de Marco Shaw > Enviado el: Viernes, 27 de Octubre de 2000 10:28 a.m. > Para: [EMAI

Re: RPM 4 database gone

2000-10-27 Thread Etienne Larrivee
Hi Timothy, I got exactly the same problem. I tried to rebuild the database, without success. I finally decided to downgrade back to version 3 and everything got back correctly. Now, I would like to upgrade to RPM 4, because some packages need it to be installed, but I am affraid to make the m

Re: APM under RH7

2000-10-27 Thread Rick Warner
Using a combination of find, grep, and strings, the following are the only files that reference /poweroff: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt /usr/share/doc/initscripts-5.49/ChangeLog /usr/share/doc/SysVinit-2.78/changelog The latter two may be the most useful. - rick

Re: Upgrading from 5.1 to 7.0

2000-10-27 Thread Marco Shaw
If you could describe your environment better, that would be great. Doesn't sound like you have RAID or SCSI drives. I would definitely try this on some kind of lab box that duplicates your environment, and try the upgrade there. I always caution going to the latest, and greatest on any product

Upgrading from 5.1 to 7.0

2000-10-27 Thread Bill Luckett
Hi, We run a mail server using RH5.1. While I've kept up with updates we want to upgrade to 7.0. for various reasons. Is this a pretty straightforward procedure or is everything from my user accounts to my MTA (qmail) to tcp daemons going to break. Any gotcha's to be wary of? Thanks, ***

Re: Problems with xntpd.

2000-10-27 Thread Bret Hughes
"Steven W. Orr" wrote: > I need some help trying to figure out why ntp is dying in me. Here's the > symptom: > > Oct 25 15:51:36 syslang ntpd: ntpd startup succeeded > Oct 25 15:51:36 syslang ntpd[11148]: ntpd 4.0.99j Wed Aug 23 13:11:23 EDT > 2000 (1) > Oct 25 15:51:37 syslang ntpd[11148]: preci

Re: APM under RH7

2000-10-27 Thread Larry Grover
I found the answer to one of these questions myself: rc.sysinit (line 540) rm's /halt, /poweroff, and a few other files that might be lying around. But I haven't found out what creates these files during shutdown. Does anyone know? __ Larry Grover, PhD Assoc Prof of Physiology Marshall Univ S

Re: Problems with xntpd.

2000-10-27 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Steven W. Orr wrote: > I need some help trying to figure out why ntp is dying in me. Here's the > symptom: > Oct 25 15:51:37 syslang ntpd[11148]: bind() fd 12, family 2, port 123, > addr 224.0.1.1, in_classd=1 flags=0 fails: Address already in use The problem would appear to

RPM 4 database gone

2000-10-27 Thread Timothy Reaves
I upgraded RPM from version 3 to 4. Now my RPM database is hosed. Gnorpm shows only rpm 4 installed. I did the --rebuilddb. Is there any way to get it back? Can I rebuild the database from the system? What about restoring the db from a backup? Thanks. _

Which UK locale to use?

2000-10-27 Thread John Horne
Hello, Running RedHat 7.0 with KDE (1.1.2) which locale should be used within the United Kingdom? Should it be "en_UK" or "en_GB"? The former gives 'charset' errors with some software, whereas the latter does not. Thanks, John. --

Problems with xntpd.

2000-10-27 Thread Steven W. Orr
I need some help trying to figure out why ntp is dying in me. Here's the symptom: Oct 25 15:51:36 syslang ntpd: ntpd startup succeeded Oct 25 15:51:36 syslang ntpd[11148]: ntpd 4.0.99j Wed Aug 23 13:11:23 EDT 2000 (1) Oct 25 15:51:37 syslang ntpd[11148]: precision = 17 usec Oct 25 15:51:37 sysla

SRPM install path

2000-10-27 Thread Michael George
Hello! I am trying to install an *.srpm file. Every time I try to recompile, rebuild, or just install it, though, it tries to install into a path under my home directory. This happens whether I am myself or root. I checked what I thought were the relevant shell variables, but they come up empt

building with the compat-glibc includes and libraries

2000-10-27 Thread Michael George
I want to rebuild my copy of xv from source, but it seems to want the include directories which are from the compat-glibc package. Which GCC-HOWTO didn't mention anything about using such a package, which isn't surprising since the packages are more RedHat specific than GCC specific... Which HO

Re: What file is "Valid shells" stored in?

2000-10-27 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > I've noticed that in Linuxconf you can only give users shells that are > in the valid-shells list. Does anyone know what file that info is > actually stored in? /etc/shells Note that root can give anyone any shell he wants, even if it isn't in there

Re: kde2.0

2000-10-27 Thread burk
I just finished compiling from source. I took perhaps 8 hours on a 550 Mhz K6-3, while I was doing other work in X. Pay special attention to setting the QTDIR environment variable. Compliled and installed like a champ. ./configure make make install for all the source directories, including Qt 2

re: RH7 and SCSI devices

2000-10-27 Thread Edward Schernau
Try putting the 152x support into the kernel - it might be running into a sort of chicken-and-egg problem - it needs to load support for a SCSI adapter so it can mount filesystems, but the SCSI support exists as a module, on a yet-unmounted system. Build the 1520 stuff into the kernel. -- Edward

Re: NFS

2000-10-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:58:11AM +0200, Olivier Thibault wrote: | With older version of nfsd, the -r option allows remote machines to | mount already mounted | filesystem. | nsfd in Redhat 6.2 hasn't this option. I tried to mount an already | mounted filesystem. The mount | succeeded but if i do

Re: Redhat 7.0 and SCSI Devices

2000-10-27 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Lance, > My SCSI Zip Drive and > Ricoh 6200s CD-Writer are yet to be recognized. I also have > "append="aha152x=0x340,11,7,1" in my lilo.conf file. If you want to load this driver at boot you will have to create an initrd.img that contains the module (man mkinitrd). Since y

Re: stupid linux tricks??

2000-10-27 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Michaell and Sam, > but > to have a new fortune on every login, you just call /usr/games/fortune in > the /etc/profile(or maybe the /etc/bashrc). It's been a while since I have used Slackware, but iirc this is just what Slackware does.

Re: US Elections - STOP THIS THREAD

2000-10-27 Thread Yuri K
> >PLEASE take this off list! > >-- >Regards, >+---+-+ >| Peter Kiem| E-Mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | >| Zordah IT | Mobile: +61 0418 798 121| >| IT Consultancy &| WWW : www.zordah.net | >|

RE: technical/practical knowledge WAS -> Re: US Elections

2000-10-27 Thread kf
This distinction between "technical" and "practical" knowledge goes back to Aristotle ca. 500 BC. He called it a distinction between theoretical and technical (Gk. techne), "technical" meaning being able to do something with your hands. Similarly, Karl Marx saw differences between "theory" and

NFS

2000-10-27 Thread Olivier Thibault
With older version of nfsd, the -r option allows remote machines to mount already mounted filesystem. nsfd in Redhat 6.2 hasn't this option. I tried to mount an already mounted filesystem. The mount succeeded but if i do a 'ls' of the mount point, it lists all the files and says for each one 'no s

Re: PostScript conversion tools

2000-10-27 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 09:30:35PM -0400, Michael George wrote: > A think I've seen references to software that will convert from PostScript to > GIF, TIFF, JPEG, etc, but I can't find any on my system. All I have are > the ones which came with ghostscript and tetex. I have checked my 6.1 CDROM

Re: What file is "Valid shells" stored in?

2000-10-27 Thread Jalal Hajiqolamali
Hi, Look at /etc/shells Thanks Jalal > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 27 10:21:25 2000 > Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 01:18:34 -0500 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Wilson) > Subject: What file is "Valid shell