Zombie process

2002-03-10 Thread Linux
According to top I have 1 zombie process. How do 1 find out which one it is so I can kill it? Many Thanks Mike Linux: because rebooting is for adding new hardware. Your mouse has moved. Windows NT must be restarted for the change to take effect. Reboot now [OK]?

Re: cvs locally

2002-03-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Patrick Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So I'm wondering what the problem is. Is it that I can't be su to run cvs? The problem is that the files I'm creating come from the output of commands that are run as root user. I'd rather not su the exit and then commit. So I guess I'm asking what

Re: cvs locally

2002-03-10 Thread Bill Crawford
On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Patrick Nelson wrote: I get an error that says cvs [commit aborted]: cannot commit files as 'root' Try running the commit like su $user -c 'cvs commit ...' So I'm wondering what the problem is. Is it that I can't be su to run cvs? The problem is that the files I'm

Re: Zombie process

2002-03-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 21:18 10 Mar 2002, Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | According to top I have 1 zombie process. How do 1 find out which one it | is It'll show up in ps axf with [square brackets] around its name. | so I can kill it? You can't, and don't need to. After a process dies its details are left

RE: cvs locally

2002-03-10 Thread Patrick Nelson
Patrick Nelson wrote: - Bill Crawford Try running the commit like su $user -c 'cvs commit ...' Restrictions on doing things as root are usually there with good reason, I'd try to figure a way of avoiding it. Can you not run the root stuff in one screen/terminal and the cvs stuff

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 22:38 09 Mar 2002, Vidiot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What the hell is going on with Netscape? I have the 4.77 RPM version installed | on RH7.1 and the damn thing is screwing up URLs way too often. | | For example: | |

lilo multiple disks

2002-03-10 Thread Mark Neidorff
Hi Folks, I'm running 6.2 (on /dev/sda) now and I've installed 7.2 on a separate disk (/dev/sdb)so that I can configure it before changing over. I don't want to install grub until I have 7.2 going (priorities). Lilo works well with partitions on one disk, but I have multiple disks. How can I get

Print Driver Ghostscript question

2002-03-10 Thread Robert Jones
I have finally decided to replace my 1987 dot matrix printer with something a little more modern. After some looking, it appears that the HP940c would probably represent a decent tradeoff 'tween budget and needs/wants. But before I rush out and buy any printer, I want to know it's gonna work on

MSN, IPTABLES and NAT

2002-03-10 Thread Ragnar Wiencke
Hi there. I installed a Linux box as a router firewall for my home adsl connection. We use MSN on both win and mac boxes and that works just fine until we try to use voice conversationor netmeeting vith video, there are communcation problems. I used it before using the linux router so I

RE: Samba

2002-03-10 Thread Travis McCarter
Title: Message Yes, they are in the same workgroup. I can see all computers from the local network, and I can access them when I dial into my Linux server from Win98, but nothing shows up in the Net Neighborhood except from the Lan. Travis -Original Message-From: [EMAIL

Re: MSN, IPTABLES and NAT

2002-03-10 Thread Rick Warner
Best advice - forget NetMeeting. If you search through the MS knowledgebase for NetMeeting and firewalls you will find that NetMeeting needs the other end to be able to establish a data connection back to you ... on any port. So, to be able to use NetMeeting you need to have a pretty open

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rick Warner wrote: My web team tests against the top 5 browsers ... IE, NS, Moz, Opera ... Konqueror? - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp - --

Re: Print Driver Ghostscript question

2002-03-10 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Jones wrote: I guess that what I'd like to know are 1) Any bad reports on the HP940c? and 2) Am I in for any nasty surprises if I install ghostscript 6.53 on top of 5.10-7 that came with RH 6.0? You should browse

Re: MSN, IPTABLES and NAT

2002-03-10 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rick Warner wrote: channel on one, and only one, port. Until that happens, NetMeeting and secure networks are at different poles. Sort of. There is support for H-323 over NAT in iptables, though its (last I checked) experimental, and not

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Ed Wilts
My web team tests against the top 5 browsers ... IE, NS, Moz, Opera ... Konqueror? My web site reports (from analog) the following from the last 6 months: 1. MSIE/5 2. MSIE/6 3. Mozilla/4 4. MSIE/4 5. Mozilla/5 6. Netscape (compatible) A Mac browser made it into the 23rd spot. There

Re: Samba

2002-03-10 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
Title: Message is nmbd running? - Original Message - From: Travis McCarter To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 12:15 PM Subject: RE: Samba Yes, they are in the same workgroup. I can see all computers from the local network, and I can access

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ed Wilts wrote: My web site reports (from analog) the following from the last 6 months: 1. MSIE/5 2. MSIE/6 3. Mozilla/4 4. MSIE/4 5. Mozilla/5 6. Netscape (compatible) A Mac browser made it into the 23rd spot. There are no other non-Windows

RE: Zombie process

2002-03-10 Thread Linux
Thanks Cameron On 21:18 10 Mar 2002, Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | According to top I have 1 zombie process. How do 1 find out which one it | is It'll show up in ps axf with [square brackets] around its name. | so I can kill it? You can't, and don't need to. After a process dies its

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Vidiot
Cameron Simpson responded: I found my problem. A while back, and I totally forgot that I did it, someone posted a bunch of as site URLs, which were then put into your local host file and redirected to your localhost 127.0.0.1 address. Well, Netscape doesn't like that. It effectively strips

Re: How to modify evironment variables in a C program

2002-03-10 Thread Alan Peery
Xanh wrote: How do I export a change to an environment variable made in a C program? $export MyTest=Current Value $./testenv current value: Current Value new value: New value here $echo $MyTest Current Value The old value is retained. As designed. If any child program

Re: xhost and dhcp

2002-03-10 Thread Alan Peery
Hidong Kim wrote: Hi, I have an IBM Thinkpad running Red Hat 7.2. Its networking protocol is DHCP. I can't run a remote X session on this machine. For example, I put it on our network, and do 'xhost +192.168.230.201', which is a machine on our Linux NIS network. Then when I log in to

Subject: Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Garys
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 12:42:58PM -0600 or thereabouts, Vidiot wrote: Isn't there a fast and smart program that can be placed between the browser and the net that read the HTML coming back to the browser that removes the ad links from the incoming web page, replacing them with nothing? Yep,

Re: xhost and dhcp

2002-03-10 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Peery wrote: I have an IBM Thinkpad running Red Hat 7.2. Its networking protocol is DHCP. I can't run a remote X session on this machine. For example, I put it on our network, and do 'xhost +192.168.230.201', which is a machine on our

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 12:42:58PM -0600, Vidiot wrote: Isn't there a fast and smart program that can be placed between the browser and the net that read the HTML coming back to the browser that removes the ad links from the incoming web page, replacing them with nothing?

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hal Burgiss wrote: http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net This a continuation of the old Junkbuster, with a lot of enhancements. Quoting from docs: For what it's worth, Opera can do a lot of that stuff for you -- GIF de-animation, blocking of popups, tight

RE: cvs locally

2002-03-10 Thread Patrick Nelson
Bill Crawford wrote: - Try running the commit like su $user -c 'cvs commit ...' Restrictions on doing things as root are usually there with good reason, I'd try to figure a way of avoiding it. Can you not run the root stuff in one screen/terminal and the cvs stuff in another?

newbie kernel help

2002-03-10 Thread Caleb Chaplin
Kind of an embarrasing question here. I'm trying to modify/optimize the stock kernel that shipped with redhat; I've used up2date to get the kernel to 2.4.9-31 (i think that's the latest) but i'd like to make some small changes - and generally learn more about some of the kernel options.

Re: newbie kernel help

2002-03-10 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Caleb Chaplin wrote: However after digging around and looking at various kernel howtos I'm stuck early on; each one mentions that I should begin with the source in /usr/src/linux (or wherever) but that folder is empty on my machine - I've got

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 01:55:12PM -0800, David Talkington wrote: Hal Burgiss wrote: http://ijbswa.sourceforge.net This a continuation of the old Junkbuster, with a lot of enhancements. Quoting from docs: For what it's worth, Opera can do a lot of that stuff for you -- GIF

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Vidiot
This a continuation of the old Junkbuster, with a lot of enhancements. Quoting from docs: Hal Burgiss Thanks. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is God's job to forgive bin Laden. It is our job to set up the meeting.

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Vidiot
For what it's worth, Opera can do a lot of that stuff for you -- GIF de-animation, blocking of popups, tight (and flexible) control over cookies, user-configurable stylesheets. David Talkington I'd switch to opera, if it were to have less bugs. It has trouble displaying many sites I visit.

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 05:26:49PM -0500, Hal Burgiss wrote: For what it's worth, Opera can do a lot of that stuff for you -- GIF de-animation, blocking of popups, tight (and flexible) control over cookies, user-configurable stylesheets. Mozilla does a lot of this too, but I don't think

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Vidiot
Mozilla does a lot of this too, but I don't think we are talking the same degree of flexibility. Quote from the re_filterfile (filters/modifies web page content), and some other examples to demonstrate flexibility: # / # The

RE: cvs locally

2002-03-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 13:56, Patrick Nelson wrote: Bill Crawford wrote: - Try running the commit like su $user -c 'cvs commit ...' Restrictions on doing things as root are usually there with good reason, I'd try to figure a way of avoiding it. Can you not run the root stuff

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vidiot wrote: I'd switch to opera, if it were to have less bugs. It has trouble displaying many sites I visit. Which sites? Make sure you're using the latest one. The last technology preview occasionally crashed mysteriously, but I've had very

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hal Burgiss wrote: On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 05:26:49PM -0500, Hal Burgiss wrote: For what it's worth, Opera can do a lot of that stuff for you -- GIF de-animation, blocking of popups, tight (and flexible) control over cookies,

Re: newbie kernel help

2002-03-10 Thread Caleb Chaplin
Heh, ok here's the thing. I'm in no rush to get my other machine setup as router/server/firewall/juijitsu-master quite yet (though that's the idea for later on); hence my mention of looking at different modem modules. Firstly, I'd just like to compile a fresh kernel from scratch to get out some

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Vidiot
Which sites? Make sure you're using the latest one. The last technology preview occasionally crashed mysteriously, but I've had very little trouble with the latest. I'll grab the latest and they them again. MB -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is God's job to forgive bin Laden.

Re: newbie kernel help

2002-03-10 Thread Gregg DeLong
Try this: Download and install the src rpm, it will go in /usr/src itself Down and dirty cd to /usr/src/linux-2.4.9-31 make mrproper make xconfig make dep make bzImage or whatever make modules make modules_install Garf [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday 10 March 2002 05:59 pm, you wrote:

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 04:45:58PM -0600, Vidiot wrote: Mozilla does a lot of this too, but I don't think we are talking the same degree of flexibility. [...] OK, is the above for Netscape (which version) or opera? It would effect any and all content passing through the proxy. It effects

FTP Server

2002-03-10 Thread Gregg DeLong
Now that I finally got my RH7.2 box loaded and updated..I was wondering if there was a X based FTP server avaiable for Linux ? Thanks, Garf Gregg DeLong [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FTP Server

2002-03-10 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gregg DeLong wrote: Now that I finally got my RH7.2 box loaded and updated..I was wondering if there was a X based FTP server avaiable for Linux ? Assuming you mean 'X based FTP client', gftp. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key:

sendmail book

2002-03-10 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
What is a good senamil book? --Michael S. Dunsavage

Re: Print Driver Ghostscript question

2002-03-10 Thread Robert Jones
I guess that what I'd like to know are 1) Any bad reports on the HP940c? and 2) Am I in for any nasty surprises if I install ghostscript 6.53 on top of 5.10-7 that came with RH 6.0? You should browse http://www.linuxprinting.org. Good info. - -d - -- David Talkington Very

rpm updates

2002-03-10 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
I have an NFS directory that contains all of the RPM updates that you can download from any mirror. On a freshly installed system (same version as the RPMs), can I simply run 'rpm -Uvh NFS_DIR/*' and assume it'll update only those packages installed on that new system, or will it attempt

Mailman and postfix GID error??

2002-03-10 Thread Darryl Harvey
Has anyone set up mailman and Postfix on their RedHat box?? I am getting the dreaded GID error, and have read the mailman help file as to the fix, It suggests rebuilding mailman with; ./configure --with-mail-gid=thegid If I am installing from a Redhat RPM, I cannot do this... I have altered

Re: rpm updates

2002-03-10 Thread Werner Puschitz
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: I have an NFS directory that contains all of the RPM updates that you can download from any mirror. On a freshly installed system (same version as the RPMs), can I simply run 'rpm -Uvh NFS_DIR/*' and assume it'll update only those

Re: rpm updates

2002-03-10 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Werner Puschitz wrote: rpm -Uhv will install/upgrade all of the RPMs. You need to use rpm -Fvh which updates only those RPMs which are currently installed. Those RPMs which are not installed but included in the list will not be updated. Thank you very much! -- H | Life is the art of

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Richard Potter
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, David Talkington wrote: The usual problem with these numbers is that they don't account for the Opera users who choose to identify their software as MSIE to keep from being locked out of poorly written sites ... Exactly. Opera rocks. Cheers, -- Richard Potter RHCE

Lilo question

2002-03-10 Thread Paul Greene
I'm trying to play with the NSA selinux kernel and am having trouble getting the system to boot. The Redhat version is 7.1. When the lilo boot menu pops up it gives me a choice of linux (the standard kernel) or selinux (the NSA selinux kernel). If I select selinux the line booting selinux

Re: Netscape screwup

2002-03-10 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 09:19:04 -0800 (PST) David Talkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled in frustration: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rick Warner wrote: My web team tests against the top 5 browsers ... IE, NS, Moz, Opera ... Konqueror? Left out

Re: sendmail book

2002-03-10 Thread Mike Burger
The O'Reilly Sendmail book? Also known as The Bat Book. On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Michael S. Dunsavage wrote: What is a good senamil book? -- Michael S. Dunsavage ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

compile error 2.4.9-31

2002-03-10 Thread Bob Hartung
Hi all, I have downloaded 2.4.9-31 from rh7.2 updates. While trying to compile a new kernel I continually have a failure in the networking code. I have run (in order) make mrproper make xconfig (saved the changes to a file and saved exited) make dep clean

Re: Lilo question

2002-03-10 Thread Mark Neidorff
Looks like a bad kernel download to me. OH, you do have all of the correct modules for that kernel, right? Mark On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Paul Greene wrote: I'm trying to play with the NSA selinux kernel and am having trouble getting the system to boot. The Redhat version is 7.1. When the

RE: Samba

2002-03-10 Thread Travis McCarter
Title: Message Yes, I have nmbd running. I start smbd and nmbd manually by entering 'smbd -D' and 'nmbd -D'. They show up in my list of processes. Could it not be working when I dial in because netbios cannot be routed? Travis -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Samba

2002-03-10 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
Title: Message no samba takes care of that u do have a netbios name set up in samba globals? can u post your global section of smb.conf - Original Message - From: Travis McCarter To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 9:58 PM Subject: RE: Samba

RE: Samba

2002-03-10 Thread Travis McCarter
Title: Message Here is my entire smb.conf: Workgroup = Workgroup [global] smb passwd file = /home/admin/samba/private/smbpasswd update encrypted = yes encrypt passwords = yes wins support = yes [default] guest ok = no read only = no [user] path = /home/%U read only =

Re: Lilo question

2002-03-10 Thread Paul Greene
So, nothing was obviously wrong with the lilo.conf file? (just to make sure the lilo.conf file was eliminated as a potential problem or not) I downloaded the src file from the NSA website, used the 7.1 Redhat version they said was the version used for developing selinux (just to avoid any

Re: Samba

2002-03-10 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
Title: Message in /etc/hosts when u set up your network did u name it or just put in an IP? ie: [root@zeus /etc]# cat hosts127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost10.1.1.1 zeus.dconsulting.com zeus # Zeus10.1.1.2 hercules - Original Message - From: Travis McCarter

RE: Samba

2002-03-10 Thread Travis McCarter
Title: Message 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.3.11 norad norad.sunrisenetwork.net It shows Norad in the Net Neighborhood of computers on the network, but I can't see anything in Net Neighborhood when I dial in, although I can type in the IP and see the shares.

Re: Samba

2002-03-10 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
Title: Message what do u mean dial in - Original Message - From: Travis McCarter To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 10:35 PM Subject: RE: Samba 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.3.11 norad norad.sunrisenetwork.net It

FTP Problem

2002-03-10 Thread ebinc
The pro ftp server I have takes for ever to loggin and then whenever I upload or download stuff it does the same the network seems fine I get the port 80 apache server great and I also checked port 21 to see if its open at grc.com;s port scan. this exact set worked fine before I installed a new

Re: Mailman and postfix GID error??

2002-03-10 Thread cgalpin
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Darryl Harvey wrote: Has anyone set up mailman and Postfix on their RedHat box?? I am getting the dreaded GID error, and have read the mailman help file as to the fix, It suggests rebuilding mailman with; ./configure --with-mail-gid=thegid If I am installing from a

Printer partially works

2002-03-10 Thread bbales
Hi, list, I'm running RH7.2 on 800 MHz Athlon with SIS motherboard and Canon bjc6000 printer. Gimp prints a pretty fair picture in full color, but I can't print text. lpr test.txt gets me nothing. If the printer is turned off, I get a message lp0 offline in var/log/messages, but if the

Installing XFree86 4.20

2002-03-10 Thread Billy R Nordyke
How do I get an executable of the Xinstall.sh script? I've downloaded all the files from XFree86.org but the Xinstall.sh downloads as text as does Xinstall.bin. The names are changed to Xinstall.sh.htm and Xinstall.bin.htm. I first fried to install them manually but had problems and figured it

Re : sendmail book

2002-03-10 Thread somasundaram mohanraj
hi If you do stay with sendmail, I stronly urge you to use M4. Here's how to do it on a RedHat system: First, create your mc file: # cd /usr/lib/sendmail-cf/cf # cp redhat.mc myconfig.mc # vi myconfig.mc If you want to try sendmail, you should really consider to get the sendmail book from

RE: Samba

2002-03-10 Thread Pieter De Wit
And you do get the correct WINS ip address etc ? if you go ping server - from the dial up - does it resolve ? -Original Message- From: Travis McCarter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 10 March 2002 19:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Samba Yes, I can see it when I do this and

Re: star office install from rh 7.2 cd

2002-03-10 Thread Willem van der Walt[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I once had a simelar problem. mount the cd by hand. umount /mnt/cdrom mount -tiso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom Do ls and look if the setup file is there. If not, there should be a directory like Linux. cd to that directory and ls there to look for setup. If it is there, do ./setup from there.

RE: cvs locally

2002-03-10 Thread Patrick Nelson
Gordon Messmer wrote: - Set the repository up as a normal user, not root. For lots of information on cvs, read the cvs book here: http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/ - Setting the repository as a normal user (i.e. my username) and the group name as cvs (yep has the

Re: Installing XFree86 4.20

2002-03-10 Thread Billy R Nordyke
Hi, Found an executable Xinstall.sh on the Norway ftp. Appear to have XFree86 4.2.0 installed now. Still can't get my Radeon 7500 video card to work. If anyone can give me the proper settings, driver, etc, I would really appreciate it. Thanks Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED]

getting hostname from mac address

2002-03-10 Thread Rahul Torvi
Hi, How can i get the hostname from mac address ?? is there any way?? RT

RE: cvs locally - My Solution

2002-03-10 Thread Patrick Nelson
Patrick Nelson wrote: - Setting the repository as a normal user (i.e. my username) and the group name as cvs (yep has the proper people there, include my username) did not change any of the errors. The book seem good so I will read through it. However, a quick glance into very