NIS problem

2001-12-02 Thread Avrahami, David
Whenever my NIS server goes down the client seems to obstinately refuse anything unless I restart it. Is there any patch for ypbind or kind of reconnect or refresh mechanism for those clients? David Avrahami Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

About mount

2001-12-02 Thread Sheng Yue
Hi, all: I want to read Dos or Windows98 files in Red Hat Linux 7.1. but I didn't mount the necessary block devices. Now, I even can't see the files in the Dos partitions of my hard disk. Could anyone tell me how to mount my dos partitions to RH Linux? Thank you!

RE: About mount

2001-12-02 Thread Matthew Gavin
Mount -a (requires partition to be in /etc/fstab) The manual way is mount -t vfat /dev/dos /dos. Run, man mount for further options. Hi, all: I want to read Dos or Windows98 files in Red Hat Linux 7.1. but I didn't mount the necessary block devices. Now, I even can't see the files in the

Re: About mount

2001-12-02 Thread rpjday
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Sheng Yue wrote: Hi, all: I want to read Dos or Windows98 files in Red Hat Linux 7.1. but I didn't mount the necessary block devices. Now, I even can't see the files in the Dos partitions of my hard disk. Could anyone tell me how to mount my dos partitions to RH Linux?

RE: About mount

2001-12-02 Thread rpjday
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Matthew Gavin wrote: Mount -a (requires partition to be in /etc/fstab) The manual way is mount -t vfat /dev/dos /dos. Run, man mount for further options. just an aside about mounting dos/vfat partitions. i just tested this with a dos floppy and, even if it's a vfat

Re: Fonts on RH7.2 - Netscape VS Kconquerer

2001-12-02 Thread ethan
Is there any reason why my Netscape fonts and Kconquerer display fonts seem different for the same webpage despite my having installted windows fonts and if so, is there a way to ensure the same display - ie. Kconquerer display = Netscape display ? thanks. [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> [EMAIL

Re: Fonts on RH7.2 - Netscape VS Kconquerer

2001-12-02 Thread Brad Cox
Is this specific to RH7.2 perhaps? Never heard of XftConfig. On RH7.0 it failed like this: ...snip times32.exe: Fetching ... done Extracting ... done courie32.exe: Fetching ... done Extracting ... done Creating fonts.scale ... done Creating fonts.dir ... done Adding true type

Re: Fonts on RH7.2 - Netscape VS Kconquerer

2001-12-02 Thread Devon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 December 2001 08:23 am, Brad Cox wrote: Is this specific to RH7.2 perhaps? Never heard of XftConfig. On RH7.0 it failed like this: [snip] Creating fonts.scale ... done Creating fonts.dir ... done Adding true type fonts to the first

RE: Bridge + NAT -- will 2 dhcp servs cause probs?

2001-12-02 Thread Chad and Doria Skinner
No patch or project AFAIK. Built-in already. I saw in described in Netfilter documentation. Whoa! Looked all over that a while back and don't remember seeing it at all. I guess I need to start with the basic components and work up from there huh! Thanks this should help a great deal. Chad

Re: Fonts on RH7.2 - Netscape VS Kconquerer

2001-12-02 Thread Devon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 December 2001 04:50 am, ethan wrote: Is there any reason why my Netscape fonts and Kconquerer display fonts seem different for the same webpage despite my having installted windows fonts and if so, is there a way to ensure the same

Re: scsi - CD Writer

2001-12-02 Thread Dan Egli
This looks to me to indicate that the CD is not terminated properly, unless you really have devices on SCSI ID's 1-7 (and 7 is usually the scsi card). Its either a bad card, bad mobo or incorrectly terminated device in my opinion. - Original Message - From: mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Why do these modules get loaded at boot?

2001-12-02 Thread Gordon Charrick
I've got a Toshiba laptop with RH 7.2 and the 2.4.9-13 kernel loaded. Every time at boot the modules ipx and appletalk get loaded. They aren't in use and no other module I use depends on either one. What, other than modules.conf (which is below) is telling the kernel to load them? $ cat

Re: scsi - CD Writer

2001-12-02 Thread sc0ubid0u
Warning Unable to process data: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol=application/pgp-signature;boundary==-JxH8xaPO70XSwBogDF5g

Re: scsi - CD Writer

2001-12-02 Thread sc0ubid0u
Warning Unable to process data: multipart/mixed; boundary==-5yjY2Nm6UAHb+fpDV/C9

RE: XSnow

2001-12-02 Thread Lance Spence
I have been unable to find that option under Control Center - Desktop. Is this the correct location? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chad and Doria Skinner Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 7:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE:

RE: XSnow

2001-12-02 Thread Lance Spence
I'm using Sawfish. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Ashe Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 7:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XSnow On Saturday 01 December 2001 06:30, you babbled something about: On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at

mutt started giving errors after rh72 updgrade

2001-12-02 Thread Peter Peltonen
I upgraded my rh71 system tup rh72. After the upgrade mutt has been given me the error message fcntl: No locks available (errno = 37) after my login to my IMAP server. What is wrong and how can I fix it? My homedirectory is NFS mounted from a rh71 server. In that server I use mutt without

restore from ext2 to ext3?

2001-12-02 Thread Peter Horst
Beginner's question: I had a 20GB ATA drive go bad (RH7.1, ext2 filesystems). I took it out of the machine and replaced it with an old 2.1GB drive. I would like to do 2 things: first, get some data off the bad drive; second, move the data from both the bad and good drives onto a third drive

Re: restore from ext2 to ext3?

2001-12-02 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Horst wrote: I would like to do 2 things: first, get some data off the bad drive; second, move the data from both the bad and good drives onto a third drive (separate machine, SCSI), which is running RH7.2 with ext3 filesystems. I'm not sure

Re: Fonts on RH7.2 - Netscape VS Kconquerer

2001-12-02 Thread Duane Clark
On Monday 03 December 2001 04:50 am, ethan wrote: Is there any reason why my Netscape fonts and Kconquerer display fonts seem different for the same webpage despite my having installted windows fonts and if so, is there a way to ensure the same display - ie. Kconquerer display = Netscape

Re: restore from ext2 to ext3?

2001-12-02 Thread Peter Horst
Thanks for your reply--indeed, I was vague about part of the problem. I'm glad to know that the filesystems won't be an issue, but after copying data from the bad ATA drive to the good ATA drive, I'll still be trying to move that data to another, physically separate SCSI drive on another

dial in broken after 7.2 upgrade

2001-12-02 Thread cgalpin
Has anyone run into this? Before upgrading, this 6.2 box had a working dialin setup - ppp-2.3.11-4 mgetty-viewfax-1.1.21-4 mgetty-sendfax-1.1.21-4 mgetty-voice-1.1.21-4 mgetty-1.1.21-4 After the upgrade to 7.2, /tmp/upgrade.log made no mention of any changes to the mgetty or ppp configs, and I

Re: restore from ext2 to ext3?

2001-12-02 Thread cgalpin
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Peter Horst wrote: Thanks for your reply--indeed, I was vague about part of the problem. I'm glad to know that the filesystems won't be an issue, but after copying data from the bad ATA drive to the good ATA drive, I'll still be trying to move that data to another,

general 7.2 upgrade process observation

2001-12-02 Thread cgalpin
Hi I have this thought everytime I upgrade a Red Hat system, and thought I'd share it this time, since I (like all the other times) probably won't get around to doing anythign about it anytime soon. I always tar up /etc before an upgrade (in addition to normal backups). The changes are logged

Re: restore from ext2 to ext3?

2001-12-02 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Horst wrote: copying data from the bad ATA drive to the good ATA drive, I'll still be trying to move that data to another, physically separate SCSI drive on another machine--my understanding is that I would need SAMBA or NFS (which I don't

Re: restore from ext2 to ext3?

2001-12-02 Thread Peter Horst
Great, thanks! One last question: would the syntax of the command you provided change at all in case I were trying to sync data from a second HD on the source machine, that I had mounted on the primary HD e.g.: rsync -av -e ssh /mnt/baddrive/mydata target.machine:/target/dir Hope this isn't a

Re: OT: CD images on hard drive

2001-12-02 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 11/25/2001 09:37 AM +0200, you wrote: I suggest ftp or NFS. It is pretty easy to run a NFS or FTP server on the Linux box. After that you can access the files from the Win 98 either with any ftp client or nfs client for windows. (for example for NFS client you can use the Frontier

screen lockup problem

2001-12-02 Thread List
My fresh install of RH 7.2 on a Dell L400c is having problems as the computer locks up. No response from keyboard or mouse. Have to powercycle the machine. I searched the archives and found that it may be this: Programs/Settings/Multimedia/Sound for Gnome I am using KDE so not sure if that

Re: OT: CD images on hard drive

2001-12-02 Thread cgalpin
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: Hence my search for something that would allow you to fake having a disk in you CD-ROM drive under Windows 98/2000. Ok, one last thing to try. The software is probably looking for the CD's on D: right? I think it's more of that than needing to be an

need help with scsi HDD

2001-12-02 Thread Admin
Attached is my system ,as displayed on the compaq site... for some reason, upon install, in the boot messages...i see that the scsi HDD is seen and setup...but , after x starts, and I try to access it thru konqueror file manager...under /mnt ??? I don't see it listedso i can't mount it,

POP/SMTP Service

2001-12-02 Thread Iulian
Hello World! How do I install service SMTP/POP3 on RedHat 7.1! Thanks a lot!

Re: need help with scsi HDD

2001-12-02 Thread Robert Dege
Have you checked /etc/fstab to see if it's listed in there? If you are concerned about dual booting, I suggest that you concern yourself with the lilo setup (unless this is redhat 7.2 you're using grub). What device is it? /dev/sd{a,b,c,d} do a dmesg | more to see if the kernel found the

Re: restore from ext2 to ext3?

2001-12-02 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Horst wrote: Great, thanks! One last question: would the syntax of the command you provided change at all in case I were trying to sync data from a second HD on the source machine, that I had mounted on the primary HD e.g.: You mean can you

pidof troubles on RH6.2

2001-12-02 Thread David Ruggiero
A client recently rebooted his RH 6.2 system, and complained that samba wasn't coming up. I telnetted in and tried starting it via the service script and got errors - then found that even statusing it produced this output: # service smb status usage: pidof [ -e ] name ... pidof -V

Re: need help with scsi HDD

2001-12-02 Thread Ray Curtis
k == kompukit Admin writes: k Attached is my system ,as displayed on the compaq site... k for some reason, upon install, in the boot messages...i see that k the scsi HDD is seen and setup...but , after x starts, and I try to k access it k thru konqueror file manager...under /mnt ??? k I don't

Re: Fonts on RH7.2

2001-12-02 Thread cameron
/usr/X11R6/bin/fetchmsttfonts This command doesn't seem to work for me. It asks me to continue, I say yes and nothing happens. Hrmm, does it display the Microsoft EULA? Hit enter and see if that helps? If not, let me know what is displayed, and I'll have a look at it. Sorry, I was

rpm database

2001-12-02 Thread Chris Mason
I'd like to backup the rpm database for added security, but I am not sure what files I should backup. Any one know what files on a RH 7.1 system are required? Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264 497 8463 Take a virtual tour

Re: rpm database

2001-12-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to backup the rpm database for added security, but I am not sure what files I should backup. Any one know what files on a RH 7.1 system are required? All of /var/lib/rpm ___ Redhat-list mailing list

Re: Fonts on RH7.2

2001-12-02 Thread Reuben D Budiardja
Hi, I have some questions here: Is this true type font for browser only, or can it be used for another program, such as word processor (abiword, kword, staroffice, etc)? Does a program needs to have the ability to support truetype fonts before it can use them, or will it just work? Hope this

Re: POP/SMTP Service

2001-12-02 Thread Mike Burger
RedHat also comes with a POP3 daemon (called uw-imap). On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Robert Dege wrote: Redhat comes with SMTP server (called Sendmail). POP3 - try qpopper (www.qpopper.org) Hello World! How do I install service SMTP/POP3 on RedHat 7.1! Thanks a lot!

Re: need help with scsi HDD

2001-12-02 Thread Admin
okay, I'm using my laptop so I can send/receive emails while i do this... I did what you said...and got the following message , in a terminal: wrong fs type, bad option,bad superblock on /dev/sda or too many mounted filesysytems what do I do now? Ray Curtis wrote: k == kompukit Admin

Re: Fonts on RH7.2

2001-12-02 Thread Ed Wilts
On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 16:49, Reuben D Budiardja wrote: Hi, I have some questions here: Is this true type font for browser only, or can it be used for another program, such as word processor (abiword, kword, staroffice, etc)? Does a program needs to have the ability to support truetype

Re: [RH List] Re: need help with scsi HDD

2001-12-02 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Admin wrote: I did what you said...and got the following message , in a terminal: wrong fs type, bad option,bad superblock on /dev/sda or too many mounted filesysytems Um, generally, if there's any partition information on a device, you'll have to specify it: mount -t vfat

Re: need help with scsi HDD

2001-12-02 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Admin wrote: Device Boot StartEnd Blocks ID System /dev/sda1 1 1106 8883913 c Win95 Fat32 (LBA) I don't understand why it says win95, as I run win98 2nd ed, System Types are the same between Win95 and 98. but this

Re: need help with scsi HDD

2001-12-02 Thread Admin
ok...I figure out that much...and before I read this email...I did what you suggested already...then I edited fstab to reflect this change... and now...I can access it...fine, thanks... but, now what i need to do...is be able to setup lilo so that upon boot...I can select between redhat and win

Re: OT: CD images on hard drive

2001-12-02 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 07:22:01PM +, Rodolfo J. Paiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | [...nfs etc...] | These solutions are all good, and I've now got the encyclopaedia, | dictionary, music, pictures, etc. are all mounted this way on the Linux | server. But her software for learning languages,

Re: need help with scsi HDD

2001-12-02 Thread Ray Curtis
k == kompukit Admin writes: k ok...I figure out that much...and before I read this email...I did k what you suggested already...then I edited fstab to reflect this k change... k and now...I can access it...fine, k thanks... k but, now what i need to do...is be able to setup lilo k so that

Re: POP/SMTP Service

2001-12-02 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 07:21:20PM +0200, Iulian wrote: Hello World! Hum... Reminds me of a C program I wrote once. How do I install service SMTP/POP3 on RedHat 7.1! SMTP is handled by Sendmail and POP3 by uw-imap. You'll find both of these on the CD. Install, read the docs and configure!

Re: need help with scsi HDD

2001-12-02 Thread Admin
ok...didn't get any error messages...when i did the rerun of lilo...but I don't see any changes in booting selections...when I rebooted, all i see...is text messages displayed while it boots. perhaps i should shutdown completely, instead of just rebooting. as soon as i can get this setup to

Re: need help with scsi HDD

2001-12-02 Thread Ray Curtis
k == kompukit Admin writes: k ok...didn't get any error messages...when i did the rerun of lilo...but k I don't see any k changes in booting selections...when I rebooted, all i see...is text k messages displayed while it boots. k perhaps i should shutdown completely, instead of just

SSH help

2001-12-02 Thread Jeremy
Hi, I'm trying to connect to my server remotly though SSH. I'm using the SSH extension to Tera Term on windows ME. I've created my keys (with a password)on the remote machine (the linux box) and ftp'd it to my windows machine. I setup Tera Term to use the keys. But the server will never

Re: need help with scsi HDD

2001-12-02 Thread Admin
this is odd... I shutdown completelythen restarted the machine... when i seen the screen with the redhat blue screen giving the selections for booting it gave the following two selections: linux dos so I chose dos when I did this... it changed to a black screen and at the top said

Re: need help with scsi HDD

2001-12-02 Thread Ray Curtis
k == kompukit Admin writes: k this is odd... k I shutdown completelythen restarted the machine... k when i seen the screen with the redhat blue screen giving the selections k for booting k it gave the following two selections: k linux k dos k so I chose dos when I did this... k it

Re: SSH help

2001-12-02 Thread Keith Morse
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Jeremy wrote: Hi, I'm trying to connect to my server remotly though SSH. I'm using the SSH extension to Tera Term on windows ME. I've created my keys (with a password) on the remote machine (the linux box) and ftp'd it to my windows machine. I setup Tera Term to use

Re: Fonts on RH7.2

2001-12-02 Thread cameron
Hrmm, does it display the Microsoft EULA? Hit enter and see if that helps? If not, let me know what is displayed, and I'll have a look at it. Problem solved, I was typing 'y' instead of 'yes' to continue with the install. Cameron ___

ssh ( telnet )

2001-12-02 Thread EdwardSPL
Hello, My system is Red Hat 6.2... So, how can I use ssh telnet ? Thank for your help ! Edward. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: SSH help

2001-12-02 Thread Jeremy
I did the first steps in opposite order. I ran keygen on server (linux machine) via telnet, and then ftp'd the keys down to my windows machine. Then added the public key to the authorized_keys file. I think sshd needs to be configured... Thanks, Jeremy ~

Re: need help with scsi HDD

2001-12-02 Thread Admin
this is my current lilo.conf as for the drive win98 is on...it's sda1 boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message linear default=linux image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2 label=linux initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.2-2.img read=only

Re: SSH help

2001-12-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Jeremy wrote: I'm trying to connect to my server remotly though SSH. I'm using the SSH extension to Tera Term on windows ME. I've created my keys (with a password) on the remote machine (the linux box) You should do that from the client machine. The client machine

Q's on Xircom NIC

2001-12-02 Thread Art Ross
I have a Dell Inspiron with a Xircom CBE2-100 NIC. Everthing has worked fine except for one small problem. When the laptop boots it has trouble bringing up the NIC and delays the systems eth0 initialization. It still manages to configure the NIC, it just seems that it doesn't happen the first

Re: sendmail - system config error !! again

2001-12-02 Thread rupendralist
No suggestions then is it my problem ??? if not can there be a solution on my side ?? do mailer tables help in this somehow ??? - Original Message - From: Brian Ashe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 11:56 PM Subject: Re:

Sound driver problem for motherboard - 2th max 8KHA

2001-12-02 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Gordon, Re your previous advice on sound driver for motherboard 2th max 8KHA built-in sound card. I have following 2 files downloaded ; 1) alsa-driver-0.9.0beta9-1.72.i586.rpm 2) alsa-driver-0.9.0beta9-1.72.1.src.rpm I put them on floppy. (REDHAT 7.2) Under root when I typed rpm -ivh

Auto-typing a file name

2001-12-02 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All People, (Redhat 7.2) How to config Linux so that when you type the first character of a file name the rest can be selected by pressing the right arrow key e.g. When type k by pressing the right arrow key ernel-2.14.9.i586.rpm will be typed When type c by pressing the right arrow

Re: Auto-typing a file name

2001-12-02 Thread Darryl Harvey
Try using TAB instead... That is the bash auto-complete key. Darryl At 03:59 PM 3/12/2001, you wrote: Hi All People, (Redhat 7.2) How to config Linux so that when you type the first character of a file name the rest can be selected by pressing the right arrow key e.g. When type k by

Midrange video card?

2001-12-02 Thread David Kramer
I'm looking for a video card for my latest linux box, and the hardware support pages are driving (no pun intended) me crazy, because there's seven variations of each video card name. I see lots of conflicting data on Radeon and other ATI cards (because they use the same buzzwords in different

Re: need help with scsi HDD

2001-12-02 Thread Ray Curtis
k == kompukit Admin writes: k this is my current lilo.conf k as for the drive win98 is on...it's sda1 k boot=/dev/hda k map=/boot/map k install=/boot/boot.b k prompt k timeout=50 k message=/boot/message k linear k default=linux k image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2 klabel=linux k

Re: dial in broken after 7.2 upgrade

2001-12-02 Thread cgalpin
On Sun, 2 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone run into this? Before upgrading, this 6.2 box had a working dialin setup - But!! Dialin no longer works. At the point I see user julia logged in on the server, the client (win98 dialup) still shoes verifying username and password.

Re: Sound driver problem for motherboard - 2th max 8KHA

2001-12-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Stephen Liu wrote: Re your previous advice on sound driver for motherboard 2th max 8KHA built-in sound card. ... error : failed dependenices kernel = 2.4.9-13 is needed by alsa-driver-0.9.0beta9-1.72 Yep. kernel 2.4.9-13 is the current errata kernel release from Red

How to mount CD-RW in multi-read CDRom and how to burn it in CD burner

2001-12-02 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all people, RH 7.2 1) Which file I have to modify to mount CD-RW in a multi-read CDRom and how ? 2) How to burn CD-RW in a CD recorder ? Thanks in advance. B.R. Stephen Liu ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Midrange video card?

2001-12-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, David Kramer wrote: -This is NOT for gaming, but I want high-res X with excellent font legibility. I've always heard that Matrox cards are favored by the XFree86 developers. They have excellant visual quality, and their drivers almost always have the most complete

grub.conf

2001-12-02 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All People, My hard disc has 3 partitions. I used the 1st partition to install Win2k first, the 2nd partition for Redhat 7.2 and the 3rd as spare in Fat32. After installing Redhat 7.2 I could not get Win2k started. The grub.conf is as follows #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=10