To display CJK italic and bold fonts

Xft and xfs dosn't process cjk xtt fonts.dir like this: simhei.ttf -misc-SimHei-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gb2312.1980-0 ai=0.3:simhei.ttf -misc-SimHei-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gb2312.1980-0 ds=y:simhei.ttf -misc-SimHei-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-gb2312.1980-0 ds=y:ai=0.3:simhei.ttf

Re: the oddness of swap

hi, does it ever get used? do i have to enable something somewhere to make sure it gets used? here's the output of df: Filesystem1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 7872920 3926616 3546380 53% / /dev/hda1 51206 13282 35280 28%

RE: How to give commands to Linux

Thanks for your response, Yes, I can see GNOME. But I can give read/write/execute permission to only one individual file (by right click the file - properties). But I need to give permission to directory, how to do it ? I also found a command line option - terminal (some thing like DOS) I

RE: How to give commands to Linux

Ok step by step: 1) 'chmod' is the command you can use. It need more parameters. To see usage type man chmod. 2) Using chmod you will be able to change permissions on a single file or a directory. To recursively change permissions in a directory tree use -r option. 3) To be able to create files

Re: Detection of a SCSI scanner

Hi Linus, First, make sure you have sg (SCSI generic) support in your system. It is almost always built as a module. sg is supported and loaded. Also, make sure the scanner is being detected by your SCSI adapter before Linux starts booting. If you mean being detected by the adapter even

Re: PregresSQL tutorial

is the URL correct? i can't get through . . . - Original Message - From: R Talbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 1:06 PM Subject: PregresSQL tutorial Anyone know of a great postgresql tutorial? I have been through postgresql.org as well as the

RE: PregresSQL tutorial

I think the URL that your looking for is this one: http://techdocs.postgresql.org/ At least it is the one I have found in the past. Eddie Strohmier -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Maynard B. Fernando Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 2:14

Re: PregresSQL tutorial

tnx :-) - Original Message - From: Eddie Strohmier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 3:38 PM Subject: RE: PregresSQL tutorial I think the URL that your looking for is this one: http://techdocs.postgresql.org/ At least it is the one I have

tftp

Hello I have Redhat Seawolf 7.1 running on a fileserver. Two Extreme switches are uploading their configuration daily onto a Windows server ( on which Pumpkin-TFTP server) has been installed. I am working on the task of making the fileserver a tftp server . On the Linux server,

Re: How to give commands to Linux

hi, I am totally new to Linux. I want to give write permission to one directory - want to create and write into the file - I can open the directory (like explorer in windows), but then how to give the write permission ? Can anybody explain in detail the steps involved? I am sorry to ask

Re: CD Burning Questions/Problems

From: James Pifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: redhat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CD Burning Questions/Problems Date: 29 May 2002 20:40:37 -0400 I'm looking for some help regarding CD Burning. Right now I use X-CD-Roast version 0.98alpha9. I can burn CD's with it, but it does not see my regular

Problem installing/upgrading to RH7.3

Hi all, I've now had this problem twice plus the person I received my CD's from has had it once. While doing an upgrade (in my case) or doing a fresh install (his case) everything goes fine until it gets to the part of the process where it's installing RPMS. It stops while installing the

Re: PregresSQL tutorial

hi, i know a site which offers a book on practical postgresql for free!!! it can be of great help for everyone interested in postgresql check out this site http://www.commandprompt.com/ppbook/ cheers -rk- Anyone know of a great postgresql tutorial? I have been

ipchains

Hello How can I set ipchains manually or where I can get example documentation about it? Thank you ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

the importance of a boot floppy?

given that the last couple releases of RH have come with a CD that can boot into linux rescue mode, is there still any compelling reason to build an emergency floppy, either at install time or later with mkbootdisk? i know that you can never have too many recovery tools, but is there

Re: Problem installing/upgrading to RH7.3

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 30 May 2002 06:49 am, Gary Stainburn wrote: Hi all, I've now had this problem twice plus the person I received my CD's from has had it once. While doing an upgrade (in my case) or doing a fresh install (his case) everything goes

Re: ipchains

How can I set ipchains manually or where I can get example documentation about it? google search with search string ipchains cheers -rk- --- Ramakrishna| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exocore Consulting | http://www.exocore.com Bangalore, India |

Changing boot.img

Hi, I have done the following. Opened up the boot.img from cd1 by the following command: mount -o loop boot.img /home/matt/temp Then I cd to that dir and changed the text in the *.msg file. Then umount /home/matt/temp I then do a syslinux (new version) to the boot.img file to update it to

Re: ipchains

On Thu, 30 May 2002, ramakrishna wrote: How can I set ipchains manually or where I can get example documentation about it? google search with search string ipchains not sure if this is an issue or not, but the lokkit and gnome-lokkit utilities in red hat 7.3 appear to configure

Re: Ordering Redhat CDROMs from Linuxcentral.com

Linuxcentral.com is quite efficient, I've ordered RH70 cds, RH71 cds, Source rpm cds, mandrake, suse, slackware cds in the past and have never ever had any problems!! I decided to download RH73 because university has got the bandwidth to do that!!! If your college/uni has the bandwidth, I'd

SMTP server question

Hello! My company just put a server on Rackspace.com and I'm the one who will be administering it. To keep things easy, we don't use any fancy mail interface software, we just made an account with password for each employee. Then the IMAP/POP3 server just hands out the mail that way. The

Re: ipchains

On Thu, 30 May 2002 08:03:43 -0400 (EDT), rday wrote: not sure if this is an issue or not, but the lokkit and gnome-lokkit utilities in red hat 7.3 appear to configure ipchains, when i'm assuming most folks will be using iptables. this might give users a false sense of security after the

Re: ipchains

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Kevin Myers wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2002 08:03:43 -0400 (EDT), rday wrote: not sure if this is an issue or not, but the lokkit and gnome-lokkit utilities in red hat 7.3 appear to configure ipchains, when i'm assuming most folks will be using iptables. this might give

Re: tftp

We had this problem with RH 7.0 and 7.1. What you need to do is downgrade from tftp-server-0.17-5 to tftp-server-0.16-5. There's a bug in 0.17-5 that prevents uploading. You might also try getting a newer version...rpmfind.net has a number of updated tftp-server packages. On Thu, 30 May

Re: the importance of a boot floppy?

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 07:21:07AM -0400, rpjday wrote: given that the last couple releases of RH have come with a CD that can boot into linux rescue mode, is there still any compelling reason to build an emergency floppy, either at install time or later with mkbootdisk? I haven't

Re: CD Burning Questions/Problems

Thanks. That worked. I can now see both cdroms. Any ideas on how to disable autorun? James On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 06:45, Brian Hanks wrote: From: James Pifer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: redhat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CD Burning Questions/Problems Date: 29 May 2002 20:40:37 -0400

Re: CD Burning Questions/Problems

On 05/29/02, 08:40:37PM -0400, James Pifer wrote: Is there a better Howto or some more explicit instructions somewhere? Am I going about this the correct way or is there a better way? There is Winfried Trumper's, CD-Writing HOWTO, easily found with Google. -- John P. Verel Living Proof

OT: automounted file timestamps

I have a filesystem I am exporting from our server and automount it on other machines. There is a delay from anywhere from 1-45 seconds before a modified/touched file on the server is updated on the system which automounts it. How can I close this gap? I export it with (rw,sync,no_wdelay)

Re: SMTP server question

Michael George wrote: Hello! SNIP Currently, I run sendmail on that server. Mostly because that's what I've used at home and I've become used to the sendmail-cf configuration tools that come w/ Red Hat. If qmail does what we want, I'll switch in a heartbeat... IMO qmail would be the

Glut package changed, no documentation in 7.3

Here's my problem: While playing around with some 3d programs, I kept running into the problem of glut.h not being found. Now, I knew from 7.2 days that this file was in the Mesa package, or more precisely the Mesa-devel package. So I do a rpm -qa|grep Mesa. Nothing. Look on the cd,

Re: Detection of a SCSI scanner

On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 02:53, Ricardo J. Méndez Castro wrote: Hi Linus, First, make sure you have sg (SCSI generic) support in your system. It is almost always built as a module. sg is supported and loaded. Also, make sure the scanner is being detected by your SCSI adapter

Re: SMTP server question

Hello Michael, Thursday, May 30, 2002, 8:39:08 AM, you textually orated: snip MG Anyway, with sendmail I think I can tell it to relay any mail from the local MG machine to the outside world and then tell it to relay any mail from our MG office network to the outside world (by allowing relaying

Re: How to give commands to Linux

On Wednesday 29 May 2002 11:24, Manisha wrote: Yes, I can see GNOME. But I can give read/write/execute permission to only one individual file (by right click the file - properties). But I need to give permission to directory, how to do it ? odd, do you 'own' and/or have write permission

Re: Glut package changed, no documentation in 7.3

On Thursday 30 May 2002 09:53, Patrick Paul wrote: But, why wasn't this documented? It should have been, but... my guess would be an oversight on somebody's part. You could always submit a bug report to RedHat. effectively wasted my time. Sour experience definitely. I wonder what

RE: PregresSQL tutorial

R Talbot wrote: - Sorry I didn't notice this post earlier but... I have done quite a bit with PostgreSQL and have found more then I needed at http://techdocs.postgres.org What is your project specifically maybe I can point you.. - Having someone

Slow Network w/ CNet

Hi! I have strange problem with slow telnetting to other computers from Linux 7.2. After I get connected to remote computer, each letter (root) comes after 7-10 sec., after typing. I install 5 computers (with Identical HardWare) with Linux 7.2 All of them have NIC CNet 10/100. After I change

Re: PregresSQL tutorial

Patrick nelson referred the original poster to http://techdocs.postgres.org This URL does not resolve. Is there a typo? S, Bob R Talbot wrote: - Sorry I didn't notice this post earlier but... I have done quite a bit with PostgreSQL and have found

Four companies to gang up on RH

hello all, Don't know if you have seen this yet, but on Linuxtoday and ./, then have articles on four different distros now banding together to deliver a single distro for business and enterprise markets.. Caldera, Conectiva, TurboLinux, and SuSE, to try and take market share away from RH..

Re: FW: New 7.3 Install leaves me at the GRUB prompt

On install, you selected to use password for grub. Now everytime you boot up, it'll prompt for the password. You may have to reinstall to get rid of it. During re-install, don't use the password option for Grub. On Thursday 30 May 2002 11:44 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just loaded up RH

Re: Slow Network w/ CNet

My advice on how to fix the problem is that you've already fixed the problem. If the problem appears to be a direct result of using the CNet NIC, don't use the CNet NIC and stick with teh 3Com card you currently have installed. On Thu, 30 May 2002, Oleg Green wrote: Hi! I have strange

Re: FW: New 7.3 Install leaves me at the GRUB prompt

On Thu, 30 May 2002, Michael Sorrentino wrote: On install, you selected to use password for grub. Now everytime you boot up, it'll prompt for the password. You may have to reinstall to get rid of it. During re-install, don't use the password option for Grub. the grub password is required

close() hangs on file in NFS-mounted dir using 'ar'

Hi All - This is a killer. I've recently installed a few 7.3 boxes here (completely up to date with patches), all with NFS-mounted home directories (off of a Solaris 8 box). If I run 'ar rc outlib.a somelib.o' where outlib.a is a file in an NFS-mounted dir, the process hangs forever. ('ps

RE: PregresSQL tutorial

Patrick Nelson wrote: - Bob Hartung Patrick nelson referred the original poster to http://techdocs.postgres.org This URL does not resolve. Is there a typo? - Not me I just mistakenly had it included in a reply... However, techdocs.postgresql.org will

Re: PregresSQL tutorial

Patrick nelson referred the original poster to http://techdocs.postgres.org This URL does not resolve. Is there a typo? It should be techdocs.postgresql.org (there were two letters missing). Cheers, Ricardo J. Méndez Castro http://www.sheertalent.com/rmendez/

Re: Detection of a SCSI scanner

Also look in your boot logs to see what the SCSI driver is doing. [...] Looking at dmesg, the only SCSI device I found mentioned was the integrated Promise FastTrack lite controller. Here's the sub-section: Journalled Block Device driver loaded SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 Promise

Re: Four companies to gang up on RH

I belive the company is called UnitedLinux, a Microsoft Company ;} At 5/30/02 11:56 AM, you wrote: hello all, Don't know if you have seen this yet, but on Linuxtoday and ./, then have articles on four different distros now banding together to deliver a single distro for business and

Re: Four companies to gang up on RH

I wouldn't exactly call it ganging up on Red Hat. Anyone ever seen the original Disney movie, Snow White. Remember the scene where the dwarves stood on each others shoulder so they could dance with Snow White? It takes the four of these companies standing on each other's shoulders to dance

Re: !!!! My tape drive is not working, it has cost me several days

I'm not sure what is happening here. /tmp is not a great directory to try to back up since the system is changing it all the time. If you're just running some tests, I would try backing up /etc rather than /tmp. When it hangs when you try to extract from the tape does the entire system hang?

Re: Four companies to gang up on RH

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 04:25:16PM -0400 or thereabouts, Bob Staaf wrote: I wouldn't exactly call it ganging up on Red Hat. Anyone ever seen the original Disney movie, Snow White. Remember the scene where the dwarves stood on each others shoulder so they could dance with Snow White? It

HELP!!! RE: FW: New 7.3 Install leaves me at the GRUB prompt

Actually, I didn't select the boot password option. In fact, when I boot up, I go directly to a GRUB prompt, not a password challenge prompt. If I hit the [TAB] button, I can get a list of commands like: Kernel, boot, etc... I tried typing boot, but then it says to get the Kernel loaded... I

openoffice 1.0 under RH 7.3

Hi, I'm trying to install OO 1.0 under RH7.3. Started the installation with the -net switch. Everything went fine, or so I thought. The /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0 directory is then drwx--, so when trying to install it for my user I couldn't change to the directory. Chmod'ed

Re: Four companies to gang up on RH

I wonder where this leaves good old Mandrake. Since it is more oriented towards desktop users, which UnitedLinux plans to disregard, it might be an opportunity for them: UnitedLinux distracts Red Hat, Red Hat focuses more on servers, Mandrake snaps the desktop market up. Interesting times.

Re: openoffice 1.0 under RH 7.3

at == Anders Thoresson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: at Hi, at I'm trying to install OO 1.0 under RH7.3. Started the installation with at the -net switch. Everything went fine, or so I thought. The at /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0 directory is then drwx--, so when trying to at

missing lpr on Redhat 6.0-7.3 upgrade on Pentium 4

Background: --- I upgraded a P4 machine from Redhat 6.0 to 7.3 recently. I added *all* packages during the upgrade. The upgrade seemed to go without a hitch. I just connected a USB printer and ran printconf-gui which set up the printer. (I had no printer connected with the 6.0

upgrading to 7.3

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, I want to set myself a little weekend project and upgrade from 7.2 to 7.3 and as I've found nothing on the redhat site about this thought to ask for a little advice. I've not done an upgrade before and I have tons of stuff on my

Re: NOT FOR THE TIMID: RPM, up2date, LPD server problems

Chris Watt wrote: At 22:40 2002/05/28 -0400, Carole Womeldorf wrote: Hi all - I sent this but it didn't show up on the posting so I'm sending it again - sorry if you get it twice... I have three (at least) major problems that I've been struggling with for a good while. What does df -h

Re: openoffice 1.0 under RH 7.3

This should show you some error, also check that the link /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/setup is pointing to a real file. The only information I get when running ./setup is Segmentation fault. And yes, /opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/program/setup exists. Get's the same Segmentation fault when trying to

Re: missing lpr on Redhat 6.0-7.3 upgrade on Pentium 4

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Higgins wrote: * Am I supposed to manually add links for lp, lpq, lprm? It seems odd that one should have to do this. * Has lpc gone away? I cannot answer authoritatively, but will point out that Red Hat has finally begun shipping CUPS

RE: upgrading to 7.3

I would make sure to backup your important data before doing the upgrade. Either send it to tape, send it to another machine, or put it on a different physical drive and partition from the rest of your OS. Call me over cautious, but I can't tell you how many times I've fried my home directories

Re: missing lpr on Redhat 6.0-7.3 upgrade on Pentium 4

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 02:54:51PM -0700, Joe Higgins wrote: Background: --- I upgraded a P4 machine from Redhat 6.0 to 7.3 recently. I added *all* packages during the upgrade. The upgrade seemed to go without a hitch. I just connected a USB printer and ran printconf-gui which

Re: ipchains

There you go.. http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IPCHAINS-HOWTO.html Regards, - Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka Chief Technology Officer Gem Internet Services (Pvt) Ltd. web: www.gem.net.pk Vice President Pakistan Computer Emergency Responce Team (PakCERT) web: www.pakcert.org Chief Security

Re: upgrading to 7.3

I've not done an upgrade before and I have tons of stuff on my machine that I don't want to lose. So my question is, if I upgrade, am I likely to lose any information? I've never had a data loss. However, what I do is tar up my /etc, /root and /home directories and send the tar balls off

Re: Glut package changed, no documentation in 7.3 - bugzilla complaints

At least you got a response to your report. My bug, http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60930 still has no response after almost three months. But I suppose they have other priorities. Andreas - Original Message - From: Patrick Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

drive spin for the impatient

you know how a lot of hard drives are designed to spin down when they're not being used? is there a way to turn that off in redhat 7.3? the machine is being used by multiple people in the office as a db/file/web server and when activity on it stops for only a few minutes, the spin up sequence

Re: NOT FOR THE TIMID: RPM, up2date, LPD server problems

On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 07:57, Carole Womeldorf wrote: Chris Watt wrote: What does df -h tell you? You haven't mentioned disk space, so I apologize if this is too obvious... No need to apologize...You've hit it on the money - [carole@bgp543409bgs etc]$ df -h Filesystem

Re: drive spin for the impatient

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 daniel wrote: you know how a lot of hard drives are designed to spin down when they're not being used? is there a way to turn that off in redhat 7.3? man hdparm. -d - -- David Talkington PGP key:

Re: Detection of a SCSI scanner

On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 15:58, Ricardo J. Méndez Castro wrote: Also look in your boot logs to see what the SCSI driver is doing. [...] Looking at dmesg, the only SCSI device I found mentioned was the integrated Promise FastTrack lite controller. Here's the sub-section: Journalled

Re: Detection of a SCSI scanner

The above information suggests that (a) your Adaptec SCSI adapter is not being detected, and (b) the sg module is not loaded. Your system should look like it has two SCSI adapters, one for the Promise controller and the other for the Adaptec. Depending on what order they are detected, one

Re: Detection of a SCSI scanner

From this information, you still need to load the aic7xxx module which is the driver for the 2930 (and many other Adaptec controllers.) As root do modprobe aic7xxx' and it should detect and make the appropriate entries in /var/log/messages (and dmesg I think will show it.) For this I either run

Re: Interface To Sign Up For A User Account

On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 06:39, Jim Hale wrote: I know this may be a bit offbase, but I'm running my website/email server on a RH 7.3 box. I was just wondering if someone out there has written any sort of Web Page interface that would allow a person to sign up for, say, a webmail account. I'm

relay other domain based on email user

hi folks: i only want relay other domain based on email account, for example, email user [EMAIL PROTECTED] can send email to any domain on my email server; user [EMAIL PROTECTED] can only exchange email within domain iaspec.com,and can not send mail to any other domain. how could i reach this

Re: SMTP server question

On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 05:39, Michael George wrote: Is there a way to have authentication and then doing an SMTP relay in sendmail? in qmail? In another SMTP server? I recommend using Courier MTA: http://www.courier-mta.org/ Setup is very easy, you can use rpm packages from

Re: Changing boot.img

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 30 May 2002 07:39 am, Chapman, Matt wrote: I have done the following. Opened up the boot.img from cd1 by the following command: mount -o loop boot.img /home/matt/temp Then I cd to that dir and changed the text in the *.msg file.

Hesiod?

Ok. I keep seeing this package running around on my systems. I did a little digging on the Internet, and so far I came up w/ this link: http://www.linux.ncsu.edu/lug/linux-at-ncsu-faq/ Looks interesting. How does something like this compare to NIS or similar systems. Anyone here able to

Want to Dowload RH7.3 and Burn it to CDROM...But Can't

Bandwidth is no problem for me. Except that I could never get XCDRoast to work under RH7.1. I don't know how to load SCSI modules into the kernel... How can I burn RH7.3 to CDROM under Windows? I have an HP Burner. thanks -Chris Linuxcentral.com is quite efficient, I've ordered RH70

Re: Hesiod?

I've never heard of it, but it sounds something like a text based raduisd server. Very interesting. I have allways thought about how would one go about causeing all macines to look at one authentication server. Without going with a radius server. However, a radius server would be fine, but I

RE: Want to Dowload RH7.3 and Burn it to CDROM...But Can't

I used Nero. Was the easiest way for me - and the CD's work just fine. :) Jim Hale --- Jim Kathy's Website Collection http://hale.dyndns.org -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of CM Miller Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 9:29 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: Want to Dowload RH7.3 and Burn it to CDROM...But Can't

How can I burn RH7.3 to CDROM under Windows? I have an HP Burner. Just pull the iso images of the cds off the web via a mirror and then burn them using your Windows burner software. Most software has an option to burn a CD from an image file - which is what the iso files are. You can find

Re: Detection of a SCSI scanner

On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 20:28, Patrick May wrote: ... snip ... it.) For this I either run another xterm or log in as root on a virtual terminal and 'less /var/log/messages'. Press the space bar until you see END highlighted and then give it a capital F. shift+f. This will put less into follow

Re: Detection of a SCSI scanner

As root do modprobe aic7xxx' and it should detect and make the appropriate entries in /var/log/messages (and dmesg I think will show it.) That did the trick, thanks! It did involve several attempts where Linux got hung up, I cursed profusely and had to hard-reset it, but it ended up being

Re: Hesiod?

On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 19:12, Monte Milanuk wrote: http://www.linux.ncsu.edu/lug/linux-at-ncsu-faq/ Looks interesting. How does something like this compare to NIS or similar systems. Anyone here able to comment on using this from personal experience? Nope, just that most of the world

Re: Detection of a SCSI scanner

On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 20:24, Ricardo J. Méndez Castro wrote: SG is NOT listed, but I had assumed (probably incorrectly) that it was compiled in scsi_mod. I'll re-check. The SCSI generic module is separate and (assuming it is compiled as a module) will show up by itself as can be seen here:

PostgreSQL Tutorial

I think the URL that your looking for is this one: http://techdocs.postgresql.org/ At least it is the one I have found in the past. Eddie Strohmier Eddie Thank you for correcting my URL reference.. Bad Typo I usually proof read my posts more carefully. Bob T.

Re: Hesiod?

On 30 May 2002 20:04:28 -0700 Gordon Messmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 19:12, Monte Milanuk wrote: http://www.linux.ncsu.edu/lug/linux-at-ncsu-faq/ Looks interesting. How does something like this compare to NIS or similar systems. Anyone here able to comment on

Re: Detection of a SCSI scanner

On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 19:28, Patrick May wrote: From this information, you still need to load the aic7xxx module which is the driver for the 2930 (and many other Adaptec controllers.) As root do modprobe aic7xxx' and it should detect and make the appropriate entries in /var/log/messages

autofs? (was Re: Hesiod?)

Errr... now the question is: is autofs worth keeping around on a home LAN server? I've never used it before, seemed to get by O.K., and don't really see a need for a server to be automounting things. Am I missing something here? BTW, the reason I ask is that autofs depends on libhesiod and

Re: Hesiod?

On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 22:04, Gordon Messmer wrote: On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 19:12, Monte Milanuk wrote: http://www.linux.ncsu.edu/lug/linux-at-ncsu-faq/ Looks interesting. How does something like this compare to NIS or similar systems. Anyone here able to comment on using this from

Re: Hesiod?

On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 20:24, Bret Hughes wrote: I just migrated from NIS to LDAP+Kerberos in my home network in preparation for doing the same thing where I work. Works well :) can windows machines also authenticate through LDAP for samba shares? I don't think so... Samba can be

openLDAP administration

Does anyone know of a good Graphical LDAP browser that will allow you to administrate openLDAP. We have been using Microsoft's MMC to manage a few things at works does anyone know where I can find a snap in for LDAP servers? Thanks, Chad ___

Re: Hesiod?

On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 22:49, Gordon Messmer wrote: On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 20:24, Bret Hughes wrote: I just migrated from NIS to LDAP+Kerberos in my home network in preparation for doing the same thing where I work. Works well :) can windows machines also authenticate through LDAP for

Can kickstart be configured to auto-check for dependancies and install them as well?

Hi I'm using Redhat 6.2 and created a ks.cfg. httpd gave an error problem when starting up. Starting httpd: Syntax error on line 248 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/libphp3.so into server: libttf.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

install linux in IBM microdrive 1GB

Hi, I am trying to install redhat linux 7.3 into IBM microdrive 1GB. Themicrodrive is inserted into a Compact Flash II to IDE adapter, and theadapter is connected to IDEcable. (http://www.mesanet.com/diskcardinfo.html)however the installation always stoped at the beginning. it stoped

usb flash reader rocks

for those interested the Dazzle flash card reader reader works too well in RHL 7.2. I pluged it into an open usb port, looked in /var/log/messages and saw that it loaded the scsi module. hmm says I. A 2 minute search of the archives at prairienet ( thanks again david and charles) and a very

Re: ipchains

hi, not sure if this is an issue or not, but the lokkit and gnome-lokkit utilities in red hat 7.3 appear to configure ipchains, when i'm assuming most folks will be using iptables. this might give users a false sense of security after the configuration when, in fact, they really haven't

Re: HELP!!! RE: FW: New 7.3 Install leaves me at the GRUB prompt

hi, Actually, I didn't select the boot password option. In fact, when I boot up, I go directly to a GRUB prompt, not a password challenge prompt. If I hit the [TAB] button, I can get a list of commands like: Kernel, boot, etc... I tried typing boot, but then it says to get the Kernel

Re: openLDAP administration

On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 20:54, Chad and Doria Skinner wrote: Does anyone know of a good Graphical LDAP browser that will allow you to administrate openLDAP. We have been using Microsoft's MMC to manage a few things at works does anyone know where I can find a snap in for LDAP servers? There

Re: install linux in IBM microdrive 1GB

*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 30/05/2002 at 11:03 PM Li Tan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [gregausit/redhat-list] wrote: Hi, I am trying to install redhat linux 7.3 into IBM microdrive 1GB. The microdrive is inserted into a Compact Flash II to IDE adapter, and the adapter is connected to