File transfer agent like Intranet ICQ corp

2002-02-02 Thread sachin lamsoge
Hi all, Is there a intranet file transfer agent like ICQ corp. for quickly transferring files in a LAN. thanks sachin --- Michael Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I too was unable to locate the cfdisk command in Red Hat7.2. I was wanting to use it a couple of days ago. I have a dual

Re: What kernel RPM packages to install from Rawhide?

2002-02-02 Thread José Romildo Malaquias
On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 09:31:04PM -0500, Matthew Galgoci wrote: On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 07:03:47PM -0200, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: Hello. I am going to rebuild and install the binary RPM packages of the Linux kernel from Rawhide in my RedHat Linux 7.2 box. I am not sure what

Re: What kernel RPM packages to install from Rawhide?

2002-02-02 Thread ABrady
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 08:16:09 -0200 José Romildo Malaquias [EMAIL PROTECTED] implied: SNIP And after rebuilding the Rawhide kernel rpms I surprisingly noticed that kernel-headers is gone. There is no kernel-headers produced by the kernel source rpm from Rawhide. So I have just installed (not

Re: What kernel RPM packages to install from Rawhide?

2002-02-02 Thread ABrady
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 04:37:55 -0600 ABrady [EMAIL PROTECTED] implied: On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 08:16:09 -0200 José Romildo Malaquias [EMAIL PROTECTED] implied: SNIP And after rebuilding the Rawhide kernel rpms I surprisingly noticed that kernel-headers is gone. There is no kernel-headers

Compaq Proliant 1600 Redhat 7.2 with Grub [repost]

2002-02-02 Thread James Pifer
I posted about month and a half ago on this and didn't get any replies. Anyone have experience with installing Redhat 7.2 on Compaq Proliants? I installed 7.2 on a 1600 and used Grub. Now I can't get into the Compaq Smartstart partition. For those of you that don't know, on a Proliant system

System Information

2002-02-02 Thread James Pifer
I searched the archives for this without success. Is there any way to query the hardware for it's specs? For example, is there any way to find out what the processors are on the machine? ie Dual Pentium III 450Mhz? Thanks, James ___ Redhat-list

User/Group Rights - [repost]

2002-02-02 Thread James Pifer
I posted on this a few days ago and didn't get a response. On systems like NT and Netware you can look at a directory or file and tell who has rights to the file. They show you all the users and all the groups and what rights they have. How can I do the equivalent on Linux? Is there a place I

NTP again

2002-02-02 Thread James Pifer
I have a couple installations of Linux that I'm running as Guest OSes with VMWare on Windows 2000. For some reason I cannot get ntpd to sync time with my Linux machine that is a time server. Several people have tried to help on this forum, but it's still not working. I don't know if VMWare has

Re: Sendmail SMTP with Auth Howto??

2002-02-02 Thread Pieter De Wit
Re: Sendmail SMTP with Auth Howto??Hello Rodolfo, Are you gonna make the Micro-Howto avail. on a web site ? Thanks, Pieter - Original Message - From: Rodolfo J. Paiz To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 2:45 AM Subject: Re: Sendmail SMTP with Auth Howto?? At

Re: increasing number of allowed processes per user

2002-02-02 Thread Ben Logan
I'm not sure about this, but I think you can change it in /etc/profile. (Assuming your login shells are bash.) You could add (if it doesn't already exist) a line near the top like ulimit -H -u 30 to limit the number of processes to 30. Type help ulimit at the bash prompt to see the various

Re: System Information

2002-02-02 Thread Ben Logan
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 05:53:05AM -0500, James Pifer wrote: I searched the archives for this without success. Is there any way to query the hardware for it's specs? For example, is there any way to find out what the processors are on the machine? ie Dual Pentium III 450Mhz? One way is to

rpm database does not exist?

2002-02-02 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi When I try to run up2date I'm being told that the rpm database does not exist. What should I do? If someone can tell me how to direct stderr to a file I'll post whats's happening. Many thanks - -- Nick Wilson Tel:+45 3325 0688 Fax:

Re: rpm database does not exist?

2002-02-02 Thread Mike Burger
rpm --initdb or rpm --rebuilddb On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Nick Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi When I try to run up2date I'm being told that the rpm database does not exist. What should I do? If someone can tell me how to direct stderr to a file I'll post

Re: rpm database does not exist?

2002-02-02 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then Mike Burger declared rpm --initdb or rpm --rebuilddb Okay. I get Unable to open /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc file does not exist? I don't know how I've done this? - -- Nick Wilson Tel:+45 3325 0688 Fax:+45 3325 0677 Web:

Re: Compaq Proliant 1600 Redhat 7.2 with Grub [repost]

2002-02-02 Thread Devon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 02 February 2002 05:50 am, James Pifer wrote: I posted about month and a half ago on this and didn't get any replies. Anyone have experience with installing Redhat 7.2 on Compaq Proliants? I installed 7.2 on a 1600 and used Grub. Now

Re: NTP again

2002-02-02 Thread Devon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 02 February 2002 06:11 am, James Pifer wrote: What does work is if I stop ntpd and run ntpdate 192.168.1.2. I know this isn't pretty, but is there a way I can schedule that process to run every so often? Every 5 minutes, 60 minutes,

Re: System Information

2002-02-02 Thread James Pifer
That worked great. I also checked out the other info in /proc. Very cool. Thanks, James At 06:34 AM 2/2/2002 -0500, you wrote: On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 05:53:05AM -0500, James Pifer wrote: I searched the archives for this without success. Is there any way to query the hardware for it's

Re: rpm database does not exist?

2002-02-02 Thread Mike Burger
I've attached a copy of my /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc file. Save it to your system and see if it helps. On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Nick Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then Mike Burger declared rpm --initdb or rpm --rebuilddb Okay. I get Unable to open

Re: Compaq Proliant 1600 Redhat 7.2 with Grub [repost]

2002-02-02 Thread Devon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 02 February 2002 08:38 am, James Pifer wrote: Yes, I believe the partition does still exist, but I'll have to check. Same as you, I figured worst case I could run it off floppy. I'm planning an upgrade on the machine in a few weeks and

Re: User/Group Rights - [repost]

2002-02-02 Thread Ed Wilts
From: James Pifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] On systems like NT and Netware you can look at a directory or file and tell who has rights to the file. They show you all the users and all the groups and what rights they have. How can I do the equivalent on Linux? On Linux it's unfortunately fairly

Re: System Information

2002-02-02 Thread Ray Curtis
jp == James Pifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: jp That worked great. I also checked out the other info in /proc. Very cool. jp Thanks, jp James Even more info to archive for your machine can be derived from 'sysreport' As root try 'sysreport' -- Ray Curtis

Re: DHCP completely new to me - please help

2002-02-02 Thread Gerry Doris
If your other hosts have received new ip addresses from what is in your dns or routing tables how will ping find them? The only way I know is to enable dynamic dns. For my research that is too much trouble for a small home lan. Gerry On Sat, 2 Feb 2002, Edward Dekkers wrote: With the

make problems

2002-02-02 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
I'm currently running RH 6.2 on a server I have, using the perl-5.00503-10 rpm that shipped with 6.2. I'm trying to install the GD, DBI, and DBD::mysql perl modules but am not having any luck. $ perl Makefile.pl works, but I'm getting the following errors when trying to install DBI when I $

Re: rpm database does not exist?

2002-02-02 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then Mike Burger declared I've attached a copy of my /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc file. Save it to your system and see if it helps. Thanks Mike, I've created the /etc/lib/rpm dir and put your rpmrc in it but now what I'm getting when trying rpm

reinstalling GRUB boot sector

2002-02-02 Thread fred smith
Gentlepersons: I've got a dual boot RH72/W95 system here, on which I'm installing a W98 upgrade. I know it's gonna wipe out the boot sector, so I've got two (2) working boot floppies for the Linux partition. What I don't know ( and haven't gleaned by reading the grub docs) is how do I reinstall

Re: Compaq Proliant 1600 Redhat 7.2 with Grub [repost]

2002-02-02 Thread Bret Hughes
On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 04:50, James Pifer wrote: I posted about month and a half ago on this and didn't get any replies. Anyone have experience with installing Redhat 7.2 on Compaq Proliants? I installed 7.2 on a 1600 and used Grub. Now I can't get into the Compaq Smartstart partition. For

Re: NTP again

2002-02-02 Thread Bret Hughes
On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 05:11, James Pifer wrote: I have a couple installations of Linux that I'm running as Guest OSes with VMWare on Windows 2000. For some reason I cannot get ntpd to sync time with my Linux machine that is a time server. Several people have tried to help on this forum,

Re: make problems

2002-02-02 Thread Bret Hughes
On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 09:27, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: I'm currently running RH 6.2 on a server I have, using the perl-5.00503-10 rpm that shipped with 6.2. I'm trying to install the GD, DBI, and DBD::mysql perl modules but am not having any luck. $ perl Makefile.pl works, but I'm getting the

Re: make problems

2002-02-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 07:27, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: /usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:27: linux/limits.h: No such file or directory ... 1) What am I missing? kernel-headers, either the package isn't installed or the symlinks are broken. On 6.2, there should be symlinks something like:

rpm trouble

2002-02-02 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all Whenever I try to do *anything* with rpm I get this message: error: unrecognized db option: db3 ignored. Which stops it doing anything, what can I do? Thanks - -- Nick Wilson Tel:+45 3325 0688 Fax:+45 3325 0677 Web:

Re: What kernel RPM packages to install from Rawhide?

2002-02-02 Thread Matthew Galgoci
And after rebuilding the Rawhide kernel rpms I surprisingly noticed that kernel-headers is gone. There is no kernel-headers produced by the kernel source rpm from Rawhide. So I have just installed (not updated) the binary packages kernel and kernel-source. iirc, kernel-headers has been

Re: reinstalling GRUB boot sector

2002-02-02 Thread Dale Kosan
Boot with floppy and run grub-install /dev/hdx (where x is the letter of your hard drive...) -- ICQ# 55846749 Registered Linux user #191829 A Cherokee Prayer: Oh Great Spirit, Help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak and to remember

Re: Compaq Proliant 1600 Redhat 7.2 with Grub [repost]

2002-02-02 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 10:38 02 Feb 2002, Bret Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 04:50, James Pifer wrote: | Anyone have experience with installing Redhat 7.2 on Compaq Proliants? I | installed 7.2 on a 1600 and used Grub. Now I can't get into the Compaq | Smartstart partition. For those

hp laser printer

2002-02-02 Thread Samer Nassar
Hi, Can someone suggest a simple, good, and not terribly expensive hp laser printer that works with redhat for simple printing tasks (grayscale, postscript, pdf files). Thanks, SN _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and

Re: hp laser printer

2002-02-02 Thread Ray Curtis
sn == Samer Nassar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: sn Hi, sn Can someone suggest a simple, good, and not terribly expensive hp laser sn printer that works with redhat for simple printing tasks (grayscale, sn postscript, pdf files). Hp 5L, 6L , if you are willing to try another

Re: xdm default kde

2002-02-02 Thread George Abdo
I missed the beginning of this thread, so correcty if I am wrong: you are trying to change the display manager to KDM instead of the default GDM or something similar. You can actually do this throught the prefdm file in /etc/X11/ folder, or in the inittab file. The last few lines of

Re: hp laser printer

2002-02-02 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sat, 02 Feb 2002 22:55:27 + Samer Nassar [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: Hi, Can someone suggest a simple, good, and not terribly expensive hp laser printer that works with redhat for simple printing tasks (grayscale, postscript, pdf files). I use

Re: Compaq Proliant 1600 Redhat 7.2 with Grub [repost]

2002-02-02 Thread James Pifer
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions here. I'm not real familiar with Grub, but need to be, so I'm going to play with what you're saying before going to the real server. Last thing I want to do is make the server not bootable or something. Thanks! James At 09:18 AM 2/3/2002 +1100, you

Re: URGENT - Vi problems

2002-02-02 Thread Jesus Ortega (a.k.a. Nitebirdz)
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, LuisMi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was editing a file called firewall2002.sh over my ssh connection when the connection crash :-( I enter again into my computer and start again to finish my work. Now, when I try to execute that file I

Re: hp laser printer

2002-02-02 Thread Vidiot
On Sat, 02 Feb 2002 22:55:27 + Samer Nassar [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: Hi, Can someone suggest a simple, good, and not terribly expensive hp laser printer that works with redhat for simple printing tasks (grayscale, postscript, pdf files). I use

Re: NFS problem

2002-02-02 Thread Jesus Ortega (a.k.a. Nitebirdz)
On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Marko Frelih wrote: I have an laptop with CDROM malfunction and I want to install linux via NFS server. I've established nfs server succesfully, but linuxconf doesn't want to mount nfs system with cdrom source. What is wrong?? Marko, I'm not sure I understand what you

Re: does redhat have this utility http://pfortin.com/Linux/LinkSys/logging.shtml

2002-02-02 Thread Matthew Galgoci
Yes, syslogd as shipped (for as long as I can remember) has the capability to recieve syslog remotely. Just edit /etc/sysconfig/syslog and add the -r option there. syslogd also has had a man page for as long as I can remember. Take a look some time (man syslogd) :) Matt On Fri, Feb 01, 2002

Symbolic links

2002-02-02 Thread Go, Jeffrey
Hi guys, What are the real value of symbolic links?? Thanks in advance, jeff ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: kernel RPM upgrades change permissions on /boot/grub/grub.conf

2002-02-02 Thread Matthew Galgoci
I encourage you to file a bug at bugzilla.redhat.com. grub.conf should arguably be treated the same as /etc/shadow. Matt On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:29:23PM +, Jim Breton wrote: Hi all. Been using Red Hat (7.2) for about a week or two now (was a Debian user for a couple years). I've

Re: Portal Software

2002-02-02 Thread Matthew Galgoci
What's a portal? On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 06:12:46PM -0600, Kevin G. Hammond wrote: Is there any decent portal software available for Linux? We are currently running vanilla RedHat 7.2. Anything that has a relatively pain free installation would be preferred.

Re: Symbolic links

2002-02-02 Thread Matthew Galgoci
Saving disk space? Allowing a file to have multiple filename pointers to it? On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 02:29:39AM +0100, Go, Jeffrey wrote: Hi guys, What are the real value of symbolic links?? Thanks in advance, jeff ___

Re: Portal Software

2002-02-02 Thread Steve Arnold
On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 17:31, Matthew Galgoci wrote: What's a portal? On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 06:12:46PM -0600, Kevin G. Hammond wrote: Is there any decent portal software available for Linux? We are currently running vanilla RedHat 7.2. Anything that has a relatively pain free

Re: DHCP completely new to me - please help

2002-02-02 Thread Edward Dekkers
here are the first few lines in one of my dhcp servers subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { # --- default gateway option routers 192.168.0.1; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; To all who replied: Thanks. That did it. Had a feeling it was that, but the terminology

Re: Looking for redhat LUG in spanish

2002-02-02 Thread Enrique Bory Simon
http://www.linux.cu/ this is other ! in cuba ! greeting - Original Message - From: Manuel A. Camacho Q. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 8:49 PM Subject: Re: Looking for redhat LUG in spanish www.linux.or.cr LuisMi wrote:

Re: Symbolic links

2002-02-02 Thread ABrady
On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 20:38:05 -0500 Matthew Galgoci [EMAIL PROTECTED] implied: Allow a binary to have more than one name (abiword vs. AbiWord). Saving disk space? Allowing a file to have multiple filename pointers to it? On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 02:29:39AM +0100, Go, Jeffrey wrote:

Re: Symbolic links

2002-02-02 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Go, Jeffrey wrote: What are the real value of symbolic links?? It is frequently true that what is the optimum location for data is not a convenient location for the human or the system. Symbolic links allow as many paths of access to data as you

RE: Symbolic links

2002-02-02 Thread Go, Jeffrey
Thanks David... -Original Message- From: David Talkington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 7:36 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:Re: Symbolic links -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Go, Jeffrey wrote: What are the real value

Re: Symbolic links

2002-02-02 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Talkington wrote: Symbolic links ... also provide device independence for filesystems, I'll correct that poorly worded assertion myself, before someone smacks me: Symbolic links can also help provide some location and device independence

Re: hp laser printer

2002-02-02 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Samer Nassar wrote: Hi, Can someone suggest a simple, good, and not terribly expensive hp laser printer that works with redhat for simple printing tasks (grayscale, postscript, pdf files). Hop over to http://www.linuxprinting.org. The low-cost

*.ps and printing thru smbclient

2002-02-02 Thread Harry Putnam
I once had an epson 900 hooked directly to my linux box. With that setup, my printer knew all about postscript files and handled them as if it were a big time postscript printer, thanks to the Redhat print filters that take care of that. And as I recall I just used a fairly stock printcap. Its

Re: Symbolic links

2002-02-02 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 08:33:19PM -0600, ABrady wrote: On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 20:38:05 -0500 Matthew Galgoci [EMAIL PROTECTED] implied: Allow a binary to have more than one name (abiword vs. AbiWord). Saving disk space? Allowing a file to have multiple filename pointers to it? On