RH7 + new kernel + root RAID-5 = ext2 corruption on boot?

2000-11-04 Thread Dan Browning
GOAL RedHat 7.0 Kernel 2.4.0-test10 (also have tried 2.2.17 + ide + raid patches) '/' mounted on RAID-5 PROBLEM * When booting with newly created '/dev/md0' as '/', it is reported corrupt

Keyboard config for X

2000-11-04 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Hi, I have attached a national keyboard to one of my PCs. I've run kbdconfig to configure the new keyboard in one of my ptys. The problem is that X will not recognize the new keyboard. It still believes I have a US keyboard attached. What utility should I use to make X recognize my national

Re: AW: ATAPI CD Writer and RH 7

2000-11-04 Thread Wade Hampton
At the cdrecord site, there are some notes on getting ide CD-R/RW drives working. See: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/man/README/README.ATAPI Rday, send your notes to the cdrecord folks and they may add them to the ATAPI notes! Cheers, -- W. Wade,

RE: hdparam (was Re: Linux Network Performance Slower Than NT, please help)

2000-11-04 Thread Jamin Collins
In answer to your first statement about drive max speeds. They are just that max speeds. They are not sustained speeds. I fell under the same misconception (has to do with how manufacturers advertise the product). In practice if I get 30% or more of the max transfer rate as a sustained rate,

Re: Keyboard config for X

2000-11-04 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Gustav Schaffter wrote: Hi, I have attached a national keyboard to one of my PCs. I've run kbdconfig to configure the new keyboard in one of my ptys. The problem is that X will not recognize the new keyboard. It still believes I have a US keyboard attached. What

RE: hdparam (was Re: Linux Network Performance Slower Than NT, please help)

2000-11-04 Thread Charles Galpin
which would be 24 MB/sec for my 80MB/sec max. I am getting more like 15%. I guess that's my gripe then. Any tips on how to get closer to 30%? I never expected 80 MB/sec, but a lot more than 13 MB/sec. charles On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Jamin Collins wrote: In answer to your first statement about

Re: Find IP for DSL

2000-11-04 Thread Terry Williams
If the modem is doing NAT then it is probably also blocking ftp - Original Message - From: Rob Hardowa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 10:28 PM Subject: Re: Find IP for DSL That's also something I'd had real troubles with. The modem I have is

Re: Find IP for DSL

2000-11-04 Thread Terry Williams
do you think this may be your ip ? 142.165.36.9 - Original Message - From: Rob Hardowa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 10:28 PM Subject: Re: Find IP for DSL That's also something I'd had real troubles with. The modem I have is the alcatel

Re: Linux Network Performance Slower Than NT, please help

2000-11-04 Thread Ed Lazor
At 01:38 PM 11/3/2000 +0100, you wrote: your benchmark is a mindcraft like. you want to compare 2 OS in network performance so use the same hardware I said it before, but you might have missed it. I'm not performing a comparison between the two operating systems yada yada. I'm just trying to

RE: hdparam (was Re: Linux Network Performance...)

2000-11-04 Thread Duane Clark
Charles Galpin wrote: I'm not trying to play dumb or anything. I realize it's newer technology which has higher maximums. I guess I'm really just surprised that a controller/disk combination which is supposed to have a maximum rate of 80MB/sec only gets 13 MB/sec in practice :(. I paid way

Something like PC Anywhere for Gnome?

2000-11-04 Thread Ed Lazor
Is there a program I can install on my Windows 2000 workstation that will allow me to remotely run a Gnome desktop from my Linux machine? You know, like PC Anywhere does for Windows. I have Exceed from Hummingbird software, and it works great as an X-Windows manager for the X86 stuff.

Re: Something like PC Anywhere for Gnome?

2000-11-04 Thread Marco Shaw
You're looking for 'VNC'. Here's a link: http://linuxfocus.org/English/July2000/article155.shtml Marco - Original Message - From: "Ed Lazor" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 2:05 PM Subject: Something like PC Anywhere for Gnome? Is there a

Re: Something like PC Anywhere for Gnome?

2000-11-04 Thread Kurt A. Brust
do a search for VNC on the internet On Sat, 04 Nov 2000, you wrote: Is there a program I can install on my Windows 2000 workstation that will allow me to remotely run a Gnome desktop from my Linux machine? You know, like PC Anywhere does for Windows. I have Exceed from Hummingbird

Re: Find IP for DSL

2000-11-04 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 03 Nov 2000, Rob Hardowa wrote: That's also something I'd had real troubles with. The modem I have is the alcatel speed touch home. I've downloaded both the users manual and advanced manual from their site and just cannot get that thing to use the web or telnet interface. It has a

Re: Something like PC Anywhere for Gnome?

2000-11-04 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 04 Nov 2000, Ed Lazor wrote: Is there a program I can install on my Windows 2000 workstation that will allow me to remotely run a Gnome desktop from my Linux machine? You know, like PC Anywhere does for Windows. I have Exceed from Hummingbird software, and it works great as an

Re: Something like PC Anywhere for Gnome?

2000-11-04 Thread Ed Lazor
Great =) Thanks =) At 01:16 PM 11/4/2000 -0500, you wrote: do a search for VNC on the internet On Sat, 04 Nov 2000, you wrote: Is there a program I can install on my Windows 2000 workstation that will allow me to remotely run a Gnome desktop from my Linux machine? You know, like PC

Re: Something like PC Anywhere for Gnome?

2000-11-04 Thread Ed Lazor
Cool - Thanks John =) VNC -- it'll work for both Gnome and KDE. John ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Screen remote control ?

2000-11-04 Thread Mike Lewis
Is there some utility that would allow me to view/modify another users screen? In other words, I would be seeing on my display exactly what the user is seeing on their display. I've seen such utilities in the Winblows world for use in classroom settings where the teacher could view and

Re: Keyboard config for X [SOLVED]

2000-11-04 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Mikkel, Thanks for the tip. I had to edit the file. Now it works fine. :-) Regards Gustav "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote: On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Gustav Schaffter wrote: Hi, I have attached a national keyboard to one of my PCs. I've run kbdconfig to configure the new keyboard in one of

Re: Find IP for DSL

2000-11-04 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Alternative solution: http://www.xdrive.com (You may want to encrypt what you put there. pgp and gpg are your friends. ;-) Regards Gustav Rob Hardowa wrote: Hey all, I'm on a DSL line and I need to set up a temporary one time FTP server to have a co-worker transfer to me a very large

Re: Screen remote control ?

2000-11-04 Thread Jonathan Wilson
x2x VNC are two off the top of my head. Search www.freshmeat.net for "remote X" JW At 12:20 PM 11/4/2000 -0800, you wrote: Is there some utility that would allow me to view/modify another users screen? In other words, I would be seeing on my display exactly what the user is seeing on

RE: Screen remote control ?

2000-11-04 Thread Mike Lewis
Cool. Thanks Jonathan ! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jonathan Wilson Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 12:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Screen remote control ? x2x VNC are two off the top of my head. Search

7.0 respin! What is it?

2000-11-04 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
Hello I wonder whether someone could tell me what respin means? Is an update? Thanks a lot Eduardo ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

how to adjust xterm screen size?

2000-11-04 Thread Ed Lazor
How can I increase the resolution of the screen? Gnome is now showing up through VNC and looks great. It will look even better if I can increase it's window up to around 1024x768. thanks! =) -Ed ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: hdparam (was Re: Linux Network Performance Slower Than NT, p lease help)

2000-11-04 Thread Jamin Collins
What devices do you have on the SCSI chain? For most controllers, if you mix SCSI types, the entire chain drops to the lowest SCSI type. Jamin W. Collins -Original Message- From: Charles Galpin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 11:00 AM To: '[EMAIL

Re: how to adjust xterm screen size?

2000-11-04 Thread Etienne Larrivee
Hi Ed, The default resolution of VNC is 1024x768 and the default depth is 8 bpp. You can use vncserver -geometry 1280x1024 -depth 32 or any combination and configuration. It works pretty well! On a LAN, I prefer using an X Server such as eXceed, it's much faster (no need to always send

Re: Screen remote control ?

2000-11-04 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Mike Lewis wrote: Is there some utility that would allow me to view/modify another users screen? In other words, I would be seeing on my display exactly what the user is seeing on their display. VNC supports shared sessions. See http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ for

Terminal Emulation error

2000-11-04 Thread Kelly Scroggins
I've committed stupidity. Please don't beat me up too much... even though I deserve it. I've been experimenting with different security settings and locked myself out of the gnome terminal window. Even worse, I don't really know which setting I changed that produced the problem. I know, I

Re: Terminal Emulation error

2000-11-04 Thread Marco Shaw
Backup first! This could be dangerous... You can start verifying your packages. Do a 'man rpm', and read through it. I think a 'rpm -Va' will check your entire system, so you would want to redirect that to a file, and go through that. If you didn't play with permissions, you'll be able to see

Where is Ping?

2000-11-04 Thread Dave
Anyone know what RPM Ping comes in, I did a reinstall and for some reason it isn't available. D. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

RE: 7.0 respin! What is it?

2000-11-04 Thread Dave
Not sure, but I just downloaded it and did a complete reinstall, looks like the latest version to me, anyone else know, I sure wish they put info on that stuff. D. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes Sent: Friday,

Samba problems - can't mount

2000-11-04 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
I'm trying to mount linux box "a" to linux box "b" or vice versa. Both are running samba-2.0.7-4.i386.rpm, samba-client-2.0.7-4.i386, and samba-common-2.0.7-4.i386. I have the following in /etc/fstab: //glen/home/glenlee/firelight /home/glenlee/GlensPC/c smbfs

bin86 or dev86 for C?

2000-11-04 Thread Marco Shaw
To compile most programs I used to install bin86 RPMs. I now have a dev86 package providing these files. The descriptions I've found seem to indicate that this is the same thing. Not knowing, I tried to install bin86 on a system with dev86 and got conflicting file errors. So which one should

Re: Something like PC Anywhere for Gnome?

2000-11-04 Thread Justin Ballou
Is there a program I can install on my Windows 2000 workstation that will allow me to remotely run a Gnome desktop from my Linux machine? You know, like PC Anywhere does for Windows. I have Exceed from Hummingbird software, and it works great as an X-Windows manager for the X86 stuff.

RE: [OT] Gore v Bush Website Servers

2000-11-04 Thread Uncle Meat
On 05-Nov-2000 Michael Ghens opined: Well, I took the time to look at both websites. Bush runs: Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 02:11:52 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 87 and the scripting is ASP. Now Gore is on VA Linux servers Apache and PHP.

Re: Samba problems - can't mount

2000-11-04 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
Glen Lee Edwards wrote: I'm trying to mount linux box "a" to linux box "b" or vice versa. Both are running samba-2.0.7-4.i386.rpm, samba-client-2.0.7-4.i386, and samba-common-2.0.7-4.i386. I have the following in /etc/fstab: i could be wrong about this, but if you're connecting two linux

Re: Where is Ping?

2000-11-04 Thread Statux
rpm -qa | grep iputils -Statux On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Dave wrote: Anyone know what RPM Ping comes in, I did a reinstall and for some reason it isn't available. D. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Terminal Emulation error

2000-11-04 Thread Statux
If you are using Linux 2.2.x with glibc 2.1.x, this is probably due to incorrectly setting up Unix98 ptys. Please read Linux/Documentation/Changes for how to correctly set them up. - - --- -- I've searched my entire system looking for the

How to setup Linux on a cable modem?

2000-11-04 Thread Mark Milano
How can I do this? I just loaded Red Hat 7.0 and would like to get connected to the cable modem. Thanks Mark _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself,

RE: Where is Ping?

2000-11-04 Thread Dave
Thx for the help :) D. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Statux Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 6:52 PM To: Red Hat List Subject: Re: Where is Ping? rpm -qa | grep iputils -Statux On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Dave wrote: Anyone know what

How can I start the GUI login?

2000-11-04 Thread Mark Milano
When I boot up Linux (Red Hat 7.0) it leaves me at a command line login prompt. I would like to know how to get to the GUI login. Also how do I make it boot up to the GUI login. Thanks Mark _ Get Your Private, Free

Re: ulimit

2000-11-04 Thread Michael Ghens
Just a report. It may benefit someone else. Clobberd (http://sourceforge.net/projects/clobberd-util/) (Thanks Todd A. Jacobs) is good resource manager. However, it does not do user memory limitation (suchas resident, data, rss). In SysAdmin, the journal for UNIX system adminitrators, September

Re: Where is Ping?

2000-11-04 Thread Michael Ghens
On my RH 6.2 system, it is: rpm -qf /bin/ping iputils-2121-2 On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Dave wrote: Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 18:04:31 -0800 From: Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Red Hat List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Where is Ping? Anyone know what RPM Ping comes in,

RE: How can I start the GUI login?

2000-11-04 Thread Dave
do you mean to get into xwindows, use startx, I am not sure how to set it up for auto gui boot, but I believe you configure it in xwin. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Milano Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 7:00 PM To: [EMAIL

RE: How can I start the GUI login?

2000-11-04 Thread Jamin Collins
Take a look at /etc/inittab. I suggest pico /etc/inittab as root. You need to change your run level from 3 to 5. Jamin W. Collins -Original Message- From: Mark Milano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 9:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How can I start

Re: How can I start the GUI login?

2000-11-04 Thread Marco Shaw
1. 'startx' will start the GUI from a command line 2. Read /etc/inittab. It has a line for you to change a '3' to a '5' so your system will boot directly into X. Marco - Original Message - From: "Mark Milano" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 10:59

RE: How to setup Linux on a cable modem?

2000-11-04 Thread Jamin Collins
There is a Cable Modem HOWTO located at: http://www.linuxdocs.org/Cable-Modem/index.html Jamin W. Collins -Original Message- From: Mark Milano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 8:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to setup Linux on a cable modem? How

Re: Where is Ping?

2000-11-04 Thread Alan Mead
If you happen to be running 6.1 though: [amead@rh61server amead]$ rpm -qf `which ping` netkit-base-0.10-37 - Original Message - From: Statux [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Red Hat List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 6:52 PM Subject: Re: Where is Ping? : rpm -qa | grep

Re: [OT] Gore v Bush Website Servers

2000-11-04 Thread Alan Mead
Gore's main page also used to have a little comment for folks who look at the code.. something like "Thanks for checking out the code... it's innovators like you who make this country great" I wouldn't vote for someone because they use Linux.. but I might avoid someone who thinks NT is a good

tarbar installation'isms for a newbie

2000-11-04 Thread Bob Hartung
Okay, I can download gimp-1.1.29 to a directory named /downloads/gimp. I can then tar -xvzf gimp-1.1.29.tar.gz and it makes the directory /downloads/gimp/gimp-1.1.29 and uncompresses all the files. I can 'configure' it, 'make clean' and 'make install' and whalla the gimp works [and it is much

tarbll installation'isms for a newbie (corrected and extended).

2000-11-04 Thread Bob Hartung
Okay, I can download gimp-1.1.29 to a directory named /downloads/gimp. I can then tar -xvzf gimp-1.1.29.tar.gz and it makes the directory /downloads/gimp/gimp-1.1.29 and uncompresses all the files. I can 'configure' it, 'make clean' and 'make install' and whalla the gimp works [and it is much

Re: tarbll installation'isms for a newbie (corrected and extended).

2000-11-04 Thread Marco Shaw
My question: After installation are the files in the '/downloads/gimp/gimp-1.1.29' now superfluous? Can I delete this directory to recover the disk space without affecting the installed program and its required files, libraries, etc.?? You can blow the orginal directory away...As long as

Re: Terminal Emulation error

2000-11-04 Thread Kelly Scroggins
Nope, I don't have the kernel source. I didn't even compile the kernel, I'm still running the stock kernel for Red Hat 6.1. I know there are options for "Unix98 ptys" in when you compile the kernel, but I didn't do that. :-/ Thanks anyway, kelly Quoting Statux [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you

Re: How can I start the GUI login?

2000-11-04 Thread Mark Milano
That's what I thought. I tried to shutdown the box using 'init 5' and I got the GUI. So I am learning Linux is a bit different than Solaris. :) Thanks Mark From: "Marco Shaw" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How can I start the GUI login?

RE: hdparam (was Re: Linux Network Performance Slower Than NT, p lease help)

2000-11-04 Thread Charles Galpin
0943 76784 0 Writes: 209711891 568 67 43 9 47 0 "new" cgalpin@kanga 20001104]$ cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST318436LW Rev: 0010 Type: Direct-Access

Re: tarbll installation'isms for a newbie (corrected and extended).

2000-11-04 Thread Bob Hartung
Marco, Thanks. I agree that RPMs are nice, except it seems to be very hard to find RPMs that are up do date. I could not find any RPMs on the gimp-1.1.29 unles there is some source other than gimp.org. Also, I like to keep installed programs in /usr/local . . . and it seems that at least

Re: Samba problems - can't mount

2000-11-04 Thread Bret Hughes
Glen Lee Edwards wrote: I'm trying to mount linux box "a" to linux box "b" or vice versa. Both are running samba-2.0.7-4.i386.rpm, samba-client-2.0.7-4.i386, and samba-common-2.0.7-4.i386. I have the following in /etc/fstab: //glen/home/glenlee/firelight /home/glenlee/GlensPC/c smbfs

Re: tarbll installation'isms for a newbie (corrected and extended).

2000-11-04 Thread Marco Shaw
True, RPMs install where they want to. I only found RPMs upto 1.1.28. I'm not able to get into a few of the contrib (ftp://ftp.redhat.com/contrib or ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/linux/distributions/redhat/contrib) directories of some FTP sites to see if they have any newer versions. marco

RE: hdparam (was Re: Linux Network Performance...)

2000-11-04 Thread Charles Galpin
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Duane Clark wrote: Charles Galpin wrote: I'm not trying to play dumb or anything. I realize it's newer technology which has higher maximums. I guess I'm really just surprised that a controller/disk combination which is supposed to have a maximum rate of 80MB/sec

Re: Something like PC Anywhere for Gnome?

2000-11-04 Thread Charles Galpin
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Justin Ballou wrote: Is there a program I can install on my Windows 2000 workstation that will allow me to remotely run a Gnome desktop from my Linux machine? You know, like PC Anywhere does for Windows. I have Exceed from Hummingbird software, and it works

Books exchange offer

2000-11-04 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Gentle folks, I am interested in books exchange. I offer several great illustrated books in english, covering this part of globe, its history and culture. In return, if you are interested in and able to get for me some Linux literature in english in bookshops, let me know via this mailing list

Re: Where is Ping?

2000-11-04 Thread kf
You probably know this already, but for others... To find if you have a package (e.g., ping) installed, do one or more of the following: which ping whereis ping locate ping find / -name ping* These are different ways to hunt down a command (or file). The latter methods will give more output.

Re: ATAPI CD Writer and RH 7

2000-11-04 Thread Wayne Dyer
Christoph Klempau wrote: You might see if the ide-scsi module is loading, use 'lsmod' to get a list of loaded modules. If it isn't loaded try 'modprobe ide-scsi' and then see if cdrecord -scanbus works. Hi ! lsmod said that its loaded, but cdrecord -scanbus still says: Cannot