Re: Multi-interface problem

2000-12-21 Thread Matt Fahrner
Ok, well I have more information now (so I'm hoping this will jog someone's memory about the same issue)... I'll summarize first and then explain more. What appears to be happening is if we're trying to reply to a packet that came in from an interface that isn't the default route to a host that

Re: Multi-interface problem

2000-12-21 Thread Matt Fahrner
Sorry I gave the same info for "eth0" twice. "eth1" is: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:D0:B7:44:2D:41 inet addr:172.16.130.79 Bcast:172.16.131.255 Mask:255.255.254.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1810 errors:0

Re: Multi-interface problem

2000-12-21 Thread Venkatesh Krishnamurthi
Hi, I could be wrong, but I think this behavior is compliant with RFC 1122 Section 3.3.4.2. Thanks, Venkatesh Sorry I gave the same info for "eth0" twice. "eth1" is: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:D0:B7:44:2D:41 inet addr:172.16.130.79 Bcast:172.16.131.255

Re: Another subnetting question

2000-12-21 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
David, That's the exact setup. We did finally get it to work - I started on it last Friday and just got it all going tonight, although mail is jerry-rigged until I get the DNS set up right. I have to tell you getting this going made me think I'd made a big mistake! Glen Monday, at 21:10,

RE: sa2

2000-12-21 Thread Reiner Buehl
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19129 says: 0 * * * 0,6 root /usr/lib/sa/sa1 600 6 should be 0 * * * 0-6 root /usr/lib/sa/sa1 600 6 Else it will only run on sunday and saturday. --- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2000-10-23 07:30 --- Why not make it

Re: Sound broke

2000-12-21 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
Hi Russ! On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 12:34:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several weeks ago my sound simply stopped working one day. I haven't had time to mess with it until now. I have noticed this in my logs, something that I've never seen before: Dec 19 11:01:04 behne modprobe:

(no subject)

2000-12-21 Thread Jim Baxter
Hi, Could someone please tell me how I can determine when a programs was run and who ran it? I hope this is possible. The parameters associated with it would be most helpful also. I need to find out who did a major dumb dumb. Jim Baxter Morrison Supply Company MIS

RE: (no subject)

2000-12-21 Thread Jason Holland
Hmm, if you don't know the username, it would be slightly harder. first, if you know about what time the command was run, you can use last and also check /var/log/messages to see who was logged in. then, go to their home dir and see if they have a history file. course that depends on which

Determining who ran a program and when

2000-12-21 Thread Jim Baxter
Hi, First let me say I am sorry about the no subject message. Not a good day so far. Could someone please tell me how I can determine when a programs was run and who ran it? I hope this is possible. The parameters associated with it would be most helpful also. I need to find out who did a

RE: Determining who ran a program and when

2000-12-21 Thread Jason Holland
you must not be subscribed to the list, because this was already answered. Hmm, if you don't know the username, it would be slightly harder. first, if you know about what time the command was run, you can use last and also check /var/log/messages to see who was logged in. then, go to their

RE: Determining who ran a program and when

2000-12-21 Thread Charles Galpin
If you know what the program does, and it doesn't run suid, you might be able to tell. For example, if the program generates temproray files with a predictable name you might be able to see the uid and time on the files. hope your day goes better :) charles On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Jason Holland

Re: Determining who ran a program and when

2000-12-21 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 08:25:24AM -0600, Jim Baxter wrote: First let me say I am sorry about the no subject message. Not a good day so far. Da nada. Could someone please tell me how I can determine when a programs was run and who ran it? I hope this is possible. The parameters associated

Re: ABC's of Linux Red Hat 5.0

2000-12-21 Thread Bret Hughes
"Michael H. Warfield" wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 10:35:41PM -0600, Bret Hughes wrote: syed riyaz wrote: Dear friend, Hi ! I beleive you will be in pink of health in good mood. I have recently installed the Red Hat LINUX 5.0 on my PC(Pentium/100-Mhz, 32-MB

Re: backup script

2000-12-21 Thread Andrew So Hing-pong
thanks On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Thornton Prime wrote: On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Andrew So Hong-pong wrote: All, I would like to write a script for backup purpose. I have a file which contains all the backup files list like, # cat file.lst ./a/foo.c ./b/c/voo.c At all, how can

Re: network install problems

2000-12-21 Thread Bret Hughes
Justin Zygmont wrote: it didn't work at all, said it couldn't find a server. If you got to the point where it had permission problems, then you got a lot farther than I did. I'm wondering of the correct information is in the right place, What were the 4 IP addresses that you used?

Re: awk FS

2000-12-21 Thread David Brett
Hi Cameron It does! I don't know how I missed that combination. I tried almost every other combination. thanks david On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Cameron Simpson wrote: On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 05:26:19PM -0500, David Brett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Does anybody know how to set the field separator

Macromedia director movies in netscape?

2000-12-21 Thread Bret Hughes
Long Shot Does any know if (and if so how) I can set up an html page to play a macromedia director movie in netscape on RedHat 6.2? I have the flash /shockwave plugin installed but netscape pukes on the .dcr file type. I tried to add the application:x-director mime type for .dcr files in

RE: Determining who ran a program and when

2000-12-21 Thread Stew Benedict
This won't tell you when, but who: whodunit.sh: #!/bin/sh for HOMEDIR in `ls /home`; do echo "$HOMEDIR:" grep $1 /home/$HOMEDIR/.bash_history; done Run with the offending application as a parameter: whodunit some_bad_command You might want to redirect output to a file or pipe it to

Re: network install problems

2000-12-21 Thread Stew Benedict
Nah, you don't need DNS if you are specifying IP's. It's probably an issue with the NFS setup. Stew Benedict At 09:29 AM 12/21/00 -0600, you wrote: Justin Zygmont wrote: it didn't work at all, said it couldn't find a server. If you got to the point where it had permission problems, then

RE: awk FS

2000-12-21 Thread Stephen_Reilly
cut -f2 -d'=' means you don't have to fire up awk to do it steve -Original Message- From: David Brett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 21 December 2000 16:36 To: Cameron Simpson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: awk FS Hi Cameron It does! I don't know how I missed that combination.

VNC on different ports - how?

2000-12-21 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
This is a little OT, as I'm using the server on a WinNT box, but here goes... I want to run my NT box (at work) from home. I can connect just fine from another machine at work to my machine, but cannot connect from home. I suspect that the company's firewall is the culprit. The FAQ alludes to

Re: VNC on different ports - how?

2000-12-21 Thread Michael Burger
Maybe you could just open up that port on the firewall? On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:22:57 -0500, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: This is a little OT, as I'm using the server on a WinNT box, but here goes... I want to run my NT box (at work) from home. I can connect just fine from another machine at work

RE: VNC on different ports - how?

2000-12-21 Thread Reiner Buehl
Or check with your companies security policy if what you want to do is aligned with it? Normaly there is a good reason to block incoming traffic on the firewall. This kind of stuff can often be a reason for losing the job! Best Regards, Reiner. Maybe you could just open up that port on the

RE: VNC on different ports - how?

2000-12-21 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
I don't have access to the firewall - company owns that... -Original Message- From: Michael Burger [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 10:39 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: VNC on different ports - how? Maybe you could just open up that port on

RE: VNC on different ports - how?

2000-12-21 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
Well, the company does license PC anywhere... Maybe I oughta just get a license... I was just trying to learn something new avoid all the paperwork at the same time... -Original Message- From: Reiner Buehl [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 11:45 AM To:

Re: [RHL] Re: plain text email client?

2000-12-21 Thread John T. Douglass
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Anthony E . Greene wrote: On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:55:36 John T. Douglass wrote: I personally use a combination of fetchmail/procmail/pine to interface to my exchange server and am quite pleased with it. What mail transfer protocol do you use? My Exchange server does not

Re: network install problems

2000-12-21 Thread Justin Zygmont
thanks, I actually got it to go a little farther, I found out (the hard way) that if your IP information is wrong you can't just go back and change it, you have to reboot over and over well, now it's hanging where it says Loading /mnt/runtime ramdisk... Have you ever heard of this one?

Re: network install problems

2000-12-21 Thread Luke C Gavel
Hi, I found the following HTML link from linuxdoc.org to be straight-forward enough to help me temporarily enable NFS on my system. Check it out at: http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/lame/LAME/linux-admin-made-easy/x1273.html G'luck, LG -- Generated Signature -- Q: How many Marxists does it

Re: network install problems

2000-12-21 Thread Bret Hughes
Justin Zygmont wrote: thanks, I actually got it to go a little farther, I found out (the hard way) that if your IP information is wrong you can't just go back and change it, you have to reboot over and over well, now it's hanging where it says Loading /mnt/runtime ramdisk... Have you

Re: network install problems

2000-12-21 Thread Bret Hughes
Luke C Gavel wrote: Hi, I found the following HTML link from linuxdoc.org to be straight-forward enough to help me temporarily enable NFS on my system. Check it out at: http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/lame/LAME/linux-admin-made-easy/x1273.html Good page! Bret

Re: Extra Serial Ports

2000-12-21 Thread Shaheen Tonse
Ken, I cannot give specific help specific, but you did say "all help is appreciated", so: 1) In the later releases of RH they talk about the cua devices becoming obsolete and the ttys devices replacing them. 2) The documnetaion at The Linux Documentation Project's:

email client?

2000-12-21 Thread Shaheen Tonse
While the thread of email clients is alive... I switched about a year ago from Rmail (built-in emacs mailer) to Netscape Communicator as an email reader, for the reasons: 1) Needed to look at attachments frequently (gifs, Mime etc.), and wanted included URL's automatically would show up on

Re: email client?

2000-12-21 Thread David Brett
A text email which will do everything you want (I think) is pine. It works by spawning an external view. It is not as easy set-up as netscape. david On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Shaheen Tonse wrote: While the thread of email clients is alive... I switched about a year ago from Rmail (built-in

RPM shell script question

2000-12-21 Thread Chad W. Skinner
I need advice as to where to begin. I am trying to create RPMs to install the Jabber server and have some that work, but I still need to write an init script before I am finished with the server package. My question is that I am trying to create RPMs for the transports which is not a problem,

Re: email client?

2000-12-21 Thread Ray Curtis
"st" == Shaheen Tonse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: st While the thread of email clients is alive... I switched about a year st ago from Rmail (built-in emacs mailer) to Netscape Communicator as an st email reader, for the reasons: st 1) Needed to look at attachments frequently (gifs, Mime etc.),

superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread christopher j bottaro
i'm logged in as a normal user most of the time on my linux machine, but i download and install a lot of stuff too. this requires me to switch back and forth between superuser and my normal login. my friend told me that at his work, they have a das (do a superuser) alias on their play linux

Only 1 page prints - smb/Win98/CANON

2000-12-21 Thread Luke C Gavel
Hi, I have a CANON BJC-1000 connected to a Win98 machine and samba-1.9.18p10-3is running on a RH5.2 machine. The RH5.2 client is using the BJC-600 filter, and everything seems to work fine except for one little problem. It only prints the first page of any print job sent to the Win98

numerous linux questions

2000-12-21 Thread christopher j bottaro
i've been meaning to ask these for a while...=) 1) what file/files are used to determine what modules are loaded when the system boots? 2) what file/files are used to determine what daemons are loaded when the system boots? 3) how can i find source for specific shared libraries on the

Re: numerous linux questions

2000-12-21 Thread David Brett
Hi christopher In answer to your first question I will forward you an email I received from Michael R. Jinks. It explains the boot sequence very well. 'ps -A' will show all the process which are running, but I don't think this is what you are looking for in answer to your second question.

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread Mike Burger
Check your system for "sudo". On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, christopher j bottaro wrote: i'm logged in as a normal user most of the time on my linux machine, but i download and install a lot of stuff too. this requires me to switch back and forth between superuser and my normal login. my friend

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread David Brett
If you find sudo let me know I did a search for it without success david On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Mike Burger wrote: Check your system for "sudo". On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, christopher j bottaro wrote: i'm logged in as a normal user most of the time on my linux machine, but i download and

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread Luke C Gavel
Umm...(not sure this will work), alias das="su -c $1" das "mv blah /usr/local" Well, it's close...*shrugs* -LG On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, christopher j bottaro wrote: i'm logged in as a normal user most of the time on my linux machine, but i download and install a lot of stuff too. this

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread Mike Burger
Point your browser at http://rpmfind.net, and do a search for sudo. It came up with 82 possible options...sudo-1.6.3-4-i386.rpm is the one you want. On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, David Brett wrote: If you find sudo let me know I did a search for it without success david On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Mike

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread rpjday
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Mike Burger wrote: Point your browser at http://rpmfind.net, and do a search for sudo. It came up with 82 possible options...sudo-1.6.3-4-i386.rpm is the one you want. as another option, if you work in a graphical environment, just bring up a gnome-terminal or xterm,

fdisk related question

2000-12-21 Thread Mike Burger
One of my customers asked me this question, today, and I really didn't have an answer...since the same phenomenon appears on my systems, I assume them to be normal. However...here it is. If anyone has an answer, I'd sure love to hear it: --- Here is a

Re: Extra Serial Ports

2000-12-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Ken Cole wrote: RH5.2 Standard kernel Base machine only had one serial port /dev/cua1 Added PCI multi i/o card with two serial ports which supposedly auto set up as DOS com2 and com3 if put in a machien with a com1 only. cat /proc/pci sees the card as follows:

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 05:10:00PM -0500, Mike Burger wrote: Point your browser at http://rpmfind.net, and do a search for sudo. It came up with 82 possible options...sudo-1.6.3-4-i386.rpm is the one you want. Even easier: [hal@feenix hal]$ rpmfind sudo Installing sudo will require 291

Re: numerous linux questions

2000-12-21 Thread Statux
1) what file/files are used to determine what modules are loaded when the system boots? /etc/conf.modules 2) what file/files are used to determine what daemons are loaded when the system boots? /etc/rc.d -Statux ___ Redhat-list mailing

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread David Brett
show off :) I tried using search engines and over looked the obvious thanks david On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Mike Burger wrote: Point your browser at http://rpmfind.net, and do a search for sudo. It came up with 82 possible options...sudo-1.6.3-4-i386.rpm is the one you want. On Thu, 21 Dec

rpm upgrade

2000-12-21 Thread J. Carlos Cristobal
Hello: I have rpm-3.0-6 and want to upgrade to rpm-4.0-4, but when I try it says: only packages with major numbers = 3 are supported by this version of RPM error: rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm cannot be installed How could I upgrade? Thanks in advance... J. Carlos Cristobal

Re: fdisk related question

2000-12-21 Thread rpjday
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Mike Burger wrote: One of my customers asked me this question, today, and I really didn't have an answer...since the same phenomenon appears on my systems, I assume them to be normal. However...here it is. If anyone has an answer, I'd sure love to hear it:

Re: fdisk related question

2000-12-21 Thread Fred Edmister
From my experience, the +'s mean that when the system was configured, those partitions were set to expand to fill the disk should there be any room left... I have one partition set on my servers to expand, I'm not sure what the details are on the expansion... (wether it only expands

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread David Brett
I was doing something very similiar, but I still needed sudo. david On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, rpjday wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Mike Burger wrote: Point your browser at http://rpmfind.net, and do a search for sudo. It came up with 82 possible options...sudo-1.6.3-4-i386.rpm is the one you

Re: fdisk related question

2000-12-21 Thread rpjday
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Fred Edmister wrote: From my experience, the +'s mean that when the system was configured, those partitions were set to expand to fill the disk should there be any room left... I have one partition set on my servers to expand, I'm not sure what the details are

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread Michael Burger
Works fine if you have the rpmfind executable on your system. A little bit of a catch 22, eh? G On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 17:28:30 -0500, Hal Burgiss wrote: On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 05:10:00PM -0500, Mike Burger wrote: Point your browser at http://rpmfind.net, and do a search for sudo. It came up

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread Michael Burger
Am I allowed to gloat, now? wink Happy holidays, everyone. On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 18:27:43 -0500 (EST), David Brett wrote: show off :) I tried using search engines and over looked the obvious thanks david On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Mike Burger wrote: Point your browser at http://rpmfind.net, and

Re: fdisk related question

2000-12-21 Thread rpjday
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, rpjday wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Fred Edmister wrote: From my experience, the +'s mean that when the system was configured, those partitions were set to expand to fill the disk should there be any room left... I have one partition set on my servers to

Re: What is this telling me?

2000-12-21 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Bob, But then then make command fails. I don't remember the error retured but will post it when I get home tonight (Central Time - USA). Thanks for the answer! /usr/include/linux/in.h:129 :warning: 'IN_CLASSA' redefined /usr/include/netinet/in.h: 117: warning:

Re: fdisk related question

2000-12-21 Thread Michael Burger
Interesting...I don't recall seeing that as an option when I set this disk up. (Oh...did I mention that I was the one who partitioned the drive? G) On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 17:28:18 -0500, Fred Edmister wrote: From my experience, the +'s mean that when the system was configured, those

Re: fdisk related question

2000-12-21 Thread Michael Burger
Excellent...thanks. On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 18:03:29 -0500 (EST), rpjday wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, rpjday wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Fred Edmister wrote: From my experience, the +'s mean that when the system was configured, those partitions were set to expand to fill the disk

Re: fdisk related question

2000-12-21 Thread Fred Edmister
Never said I was perfect :) Now I know what it REALLY means Musta just been coincidence that my partitions that were expandable were also on odd blocks! ROFL But OH what a coincidence! :) Fred At 06:03 PM 12/21/00 -0500, you wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, rpjday

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 05:42:00PM -0400, Michael Burger wrote: Works fine if you have the rpmfind executable on your system. A little bit of a catch 22, eh? G True, but it is included with std RH, so if not installed, now is a real good time. Very handy little tool IMHSHO. Of course, maybe

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread Mike Burger
I dunno...I did a pretty standard server install on both my boxes, as well as my laptop, there's no such file as rpmfind on any of them (a 6.1 and 2 7.0 boxes). On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Hal Burgiss wrote: On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 05:42:00PM -0400, Michael Burger wrote: Works fine if you have the

Re: VNC on different ports - how?

2000-12-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:22:57 -0500, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: | I want to run my NT box (at work) from home. | I can connect just fine from another machine at work to my machine, but | cannot connect from home. | I suspect that the company's firewall is the culprit. Most likely. There are "clean"

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 06:11:51PM -0500, Mike Burger wrote: I dunno...I did a pretty standard server install on both my boxes, as well as my laptop, there's no such file as rpmfind on any of them (a 6.1 and 2 7.0 boxes). I did a custom upgrade 6.2 - 7.0, and it is my log saved from the

Re: [RedHat-List] Re: backup script

2000-12-21 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 08:30:42AM -0800, Thornton Prime [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I would like to write a script for backup purpose. I have a file | which contains all the backup files list like, | # cat file.lst | ./a/foo.c | ./b/c/voo.c | At all, how can redirect this file list to

use of 'cut' to pull dynamic IPADDR from ifconfig

2000-12-21 Thread Bob Hartung
Hi, Progress slow but sure. Got everything running withh diald - not sure why it works but it does. There was recently a message using grep, cut and ifconfig output to pluck a dynamically assigned IP address to use in firewalls. Does someone have the message. I can get it to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

ipfwadm syntax

2000-12-21 Thread Terry Williams
ok I'm using ipfwadm and I would like to open ports 2000-2001 so that I canget streaming video on my windows machinesthe windows box is ip 192.168.100.2-5I've checked the docs but it confuses me more then I was before reading them8)I think the command should be:ipfwadm -F -a accept -b -P

Re: Moving from sendmail to postfix?

2000-12-21 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 01:13:27AM -, Peter Kiem wrote: : Under sendmail I have each mailbox as a real system user, eg: : vh123 is the web login (ftp only, web served from their public_html) : vh12301 is the first mailbox (no login, home dir to keep sent mail folders : for TWIG) : vh12302 is

Re: email client?

2000-12-21 Thread Bret Hughes
Ray Curtis wrote: "st" == Shaheen Tonse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: st While the thread of email clients is alive... I switched about a year st ago from Rmail (built-in emacs mailer) to Netscape Communicator as an st email reader, for the reasons: st 1) Needed to look at attachments

Re: Anybody got Microsoft Intellimouse to work with RH 7.0

2000-12-21 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 10:23:27PM -0500, Herik Brown wrote: : I got one of the Intelli-eye mouse, but I use it with the ps2 adapter tacked : on. I don't like the usb power, system resource overhead. Besides USB is no : better than PS2 as far as mouse is concerned. Right? Sure, the USB is

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread Bret Hughes
christopher j bottaro wrote: i'm logged in as a normal user most of the time on my linux machine, but i download and install a lot of stuff too. this requires me to switch back and forth between superuser and my normal login. my friend told me that at his work, they have a das (do a

Re: use of 'cut' to pull dynamic IPADDR from ifconfig

2000-12-21 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 07:08:02PM -0600, Bob Hartung wrote: Hi, Progress slow but sure. Got everything running withh diald - not sure why it works but it does. There was recently a message using grep, cut and ifconfig output to pluck a dynamically assigned IP address to use in

Re: fdisk related question

2000-12-21 Thread Bret Hughes
rpjday wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, rpjday wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Fred Edmister wrote: From my experience, the +'s mean that when the system was configured, those partitions were set to expand to fill the disk should there be any room left... I have one partition set

Re: email client? (Netscape address book fix)

2000-12-21 Thread Shaheen Tonse
It worked, the Netscape address book works fine after removing "locale" lines. Thank you very much! Our help desk guys scratched their heads for 2 days on this one. Shaheen. Bret Hughes wrote: Or fix the address book. Mine works ok. Found this in the

Re: [RHL] rpm upgrade

2000-12-21 Thread Kirk
Upgrade to rpm-3.0.5-9.6x first it understands rpm-4 format, then you should be able to upgrade to 4 from there. Kirk On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, J. Carlos Cristobal wrote: Hello: I have rpm-3.0-6 and want to upgrade to rpm-4.0-4, but when I try it says: only packages with major numbers =

Re: numerous linux questions

2000-12-21 Thread Charles Galpin
you should be using rpm to simplify thi ssort of thing. Also check out rpmfind (also see rpmfind.net) to find packages etc. charles On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, christopher j bottaro wrote: to elaborate on 3), frequently i download source, compile it, then try to run the program only to find it

Re: email client? (Netscape address book fix)

2000-12-21 Thread Bret Hughes
Shaheen Tonse wrote: It worked, the Netscape address book works fine after removing "locale" lines. Thank you very much! Our help desk guys scratched their heads for 2 days on this one. Shaheen. Glad I could help Bret

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 03:08:10AM -0600, christopher j bottaro wrote: i'm logged in as a normal user most of the time on my linux machine, but i download and install a lot of stuff too. this requires me to switch back and forth between superuser and my normal login. my friend told me that

Re: Extra Serial Ports

2000-12-21 Thread Ken Cole
Mikkel, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: We will need a bit more information about the card. Chances are, it came with drivers to make it work with DOS/Windows. Yes a CD of DOS/Windoze stuff You will probably have to use setpci to configure it for use under Linux, and then use setserial to

Re: fdisk related question

2000-12-21 Thread Gregory Hosler
On 22-Dec-00 Bret Hughes wrote: rpjday wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, rpjday wrote: On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Fred Edmister wrote: From my experience, the +'s mean that when the system was configured, those partitions were set to expand to fill the disk should there be any

solaris maillist?

2000-12-21 Thread Steve Lee
does anyone know of the solaris maillist? ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

TERM variable/setting in console mode

2000-12-21 Thread John P. Verel
I'd like to change the font, characters per line and lines on the screen when in console mode. I gather that setting the TERM environment variable may be the way to do this. However, finding an alternative description for my machine is proving daunting. My hardware is a Dell Precision

Re: fdisk related question

2000-12-21 Thread Michael Burger
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:26:30 +0800 (SGT), Gregory Hosler wrote: no, it's not a "bad" thing. It means that due to the sizes you specified for the partition, fdisk needed to allocate part of a cylinder (and the rest of that cylinder is waster/unused). This is your clue (when you are running

printing problems

2000-12-21 Thread Larry Mintz
-- E-Mail: Larry Mintz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22-Dec-2000 Time: 06:37:16 I get the following error when I print moderately loarge files lpr: file:temp file write error How do I fix this problem ? I can print small postscript and text files But when I print large

Re: fdisk related question

2000-12-21 Thread rpjday
On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Michael Burger wrote: On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:26:30 +0800 (SGT), Gregory Hosler wrote: no, it's not a "bad" thing. It means that due to the sizes you specified for the partition, fdisk needed to allocate part of a cylinder (and the rest of that cylinder is

Have anyone installed w3mail on a redhat box?

2000-12-21 Thread Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
Hello I wonder whether someone out there has managed to install w3mail in a redhat box. Herte it is my problems . I have installed w3mail, at least, I think I have but I don't know how to call (use) w3mail. My http is xxx.yyy.zzz and there is nothing there

Re: printing problems

2000-12-21 Thread Bret Hughes
Larry Mintz wrote: -- E-Mail: Larry Mintz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22-Dec-2000 Time: 06:37:16 I get the following error when I print moderately loarge files lpr: file:temp file write error How do I fix this problem ? I can print small postscript and text

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FTP auto-script

2000-12-21 Thread Joel Lansden
If anybody can help me with this, I'd be greatly appreciative! I need to come up with a way to set up my wu-ftp server to automatically execute a shell script whenever a specific user logs in via ftp. Example: User 'joe' logs in with his password, everything is ok. Before the system gives him

Sometimes it's the little things.

2000-12-21 Thread David Talkington
Anyone notice that RH7 has a much nicer xcalc than previous releases had? =) -d ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

RE: rpm upgrade

2000-12-21 Thread Drew Hunt
Install rpm-3.0.5-9 (rpm-3.0.5-9.i386.rpm at RedHat under system 6.2). It can handle both RPM 3.x and RPM 4.x formats. #rpm -Ivh --force rpm-3.0.5-9.i386.rpm Use RPM3.0.5-9 to install rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm. #rpm -Fvh rpm-4.0-4.i386.rpm When finished, issue command #rpm --rebuild This will

RE: ipfwadm syntax

2000-12-21 Thread Drew Hunt
Does the server need to receive some kind of feedback, like an "I'm ready to receive" packet? it appears as though this would be blocked, thus the transfer would never start. I can guess at how to fix in ipchains, but I don't know anything about ipfwadm. Maybe allowing outgoing packets to

Re: use of 'cut' to pull dynamic IPADDR from ifconfig

2000-12-21 Thread Eddie Strohmier
Bob: A "Chris Dowling" was kind enough to share this for some other subscriber to this list. I have been looking for a script of this sort for a while as what I had been doing before was getting cron to e-mail me every hour so I know the IP address of network server on a dynamic dialup ISP. His

Re: fdisk related question

2000-12-21 Thread Vidiot
ok, i was wrong when i initially guessed that the "+" meant not on a cylinder boundary. certainly, linux is not going to waste the remainder of a cylinder. all the "+" means is that the partition is not an integral number of logical blocks -- there's an extra physical block in there as well. so

RE: printing problems

2000-12-21 Thread Uncle Meat
On 22-Dec-2000 Larry Mintz opined: -- E-Mail: Larry Mintz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22-Dec-2000 Time: 06:37:16 I get the following error when I print moderately loarge files lpr: file:temp file write error How do I fix this problem ? I can print small

Re: superuser alias?

2000-12-21 Thread christopher j bottaro
hey all, thanks for all the answers...=) i don't have that command (rpmfind)...=( On Thursday 21 December 2000 22:28, you wrote: On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 05:10:00PM -0500, Mike Burger wrote: Point your browser at http://rpmfind.net, and do a search for sudo. It came up with 82 possible

RE: TERM variable/setting in console mode

2000-12-21 Thread Uncle Meat
On 22-Dec-2000 John P. Verel opined: I'd like to change the font, characters per line and lines on the screen when in console mode. I gather that setting the TERM environment variable may be the way to do this. However, finding an alternative description for my machine is proving

RE: Only 1 page prints - smb/Win98/CANON

2000-12-21 Thread Uncle Meat
On 21-Dec-2000 Luke C Gavel opined: Hi, I have a CANON BJC-1000 connected to a Win98 machine and samba-1.9.18p10-3is running on a RH5.2 machine. The RH5.2 client is using the BJC-600 filter, and everything seems to work fine except for one little problem. It only prints the first