RE: cron.d

2002-07-28 Thread Ed . Greshko
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, suresh wrote: > hi > i tried that > basically i am having a script which needs to be run after 5 mins of > bootup(since the script hangs if run during bootup). > I am doing this by adding a dynamically configured file in cron.d before > reboot. > > Any other way of doing thi

RE: cron.d

2002-07-28 Thread suresh
hi i tried that basically i am having a script which needs to be run after 5 mins of bootup(since the script hangs if run during bootup). I am doing this by adding a dynamically configured file in cron.d before reboot. Any other way of doing this ? Thanx Suresh -Original Message- From

Re: How to use firewire drive with 7.3?

2002-07-28 Thread S. Cowles
using a firewire disk under linux is not trivial, but it does work reliably and repeatably. i am quite satisfied with the operation. in my setup, i am running a sony vaio laptop, pcg-xg29k, with redhat 7.3. i have a maxtor 1394 external 80G drive connected to the vaio. the steps i've taken to

Re: please..anyone dual boot linux w2k frustrations

2002-07-28 Thread Kevin Myers
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 00:00:32 -0500, David wrote: >As far as I know Win2K needs to be on the primary drive. At least that is >how I have dual booted a machine and havin't had any problems. Not so. I have Win2k, XP, ME and linux here. All except the ME are on a second drive. ___

Re: Large Excel Files

2002-07-28 Thread Dominic Mitchell
I believe that gnumeric can open files with up to 65000 lines. If I am correct, both gnumeric and Excel have this limit. They will open larger files, but they will truncate the files at line 65 000. This is what I recall from a colleague who have used these softwares on large files. Cheers

RE: please..anyone dual boot linux w2k frustrations

2002-07-28 Thread Rev. David P. Giffen
As far as I know Win2K needs to be on the primary drive. At least that is how I have dual booted a machine and havin't had any problems. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of script this > Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 10:29 AM > To: [EMAIL

Re: sendmail working with 2 network cards

2002-07-28 Thread Brian Ashe
Roger, On Sunday July 28, 2002 10:33, you said something about: > Hi > > I have a box with tow networkd cards and one sendmail, as my know that > sendmail can only sit on one ipaddress (DAEMON_OPTIONS in sendmail.mc), but > now, I want tow network cards have the mail transfering function, how do

Re: please..anyone dual boot linux w2k frustrations

2002-07-28 Thread Kevin Myers
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 12:21:28 +0800, Pranay wrote: >On Behalf Of Kevin Myers ??? ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: sendmail working with 2 network cards

2002-07-28 Thread Aly Dharshi
You may find that Exim version 4.x would be a better solution to what you are looking for, it will support the two network cards as well as it has the same command line options as sendmail to promote compatability, as well as its easier to use. Try that. http://www.exim.org/ Cheers,

RE: please..anyone dual boot linux w2k frustrations

2002-07-28 Thread Pranay Kumar
After putting in your win2k hdd, what all changes did you do. Hope you changed your lilo.conf and ran lilo. What is the error when you select the windows boot from lilo prompt.. need details to be able to help. - PK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On

Re: please..anyone dual boot linux w2k frustrations

2002-07-28 Thread Kevin Myers
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 08:29:18 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >scenario: > >running redhat linux 7.2 for over a year on >preinstalled hd. purchased second drive with w2k >preinstalled. hooked up second drive as secondary ide >drive (hdb), kept primary drive with linux as hda. > >problem: > >w2k will no

Re: Help w/ Tulip NIC and Buslogic SCSI card

2002-07-28 Thread Mohd Irfan R Khan
u can try changing the tulip driver with  de4x5 driver 1) remove the tulip driver from conf.modules and reboot 2) insmod or depmod de4x5 and try to configure ur ip addr. This should help u out Regards. Mohd Irfan R Khan - Original Message - From: Mark To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Help

2002-07-28 Thread Mohd Irfan R Khan
type the root password and run fsck fsck /dev/hd? (depends on ur harddrive partition) u can get the partition name by cat /etc/fstab wish ur problem will be solved by this   Regards Mohd IrfanR Khan     - Original Message - From: Chris To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: S

RE: How to use firewire drive with 7.3?

2002-07-28 Thread Pranay Kumar
Redhat 7.3 kernel (2.4.18) comes with firewire support. Just plug in the fw hdd and modprobe ohci1394. -PK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Edward Dekkers Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 10:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to use

sendmail working with 2 network cards

2002-07-28 Thread Roger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I have a box with tow networkd cards and one sendmail, as my know that sendmail can only sit on one ipaddress (DAEMON_OPTIONS in sendmail.mc), but now, I want tow network cards have the mail transfering function, how do i do that? Any sugguest

Re: How to use firewire drive with 7.3?

2002-07-28 Thread Edward Dekkers
> I'm using RH7.3. Must I recompile my kernel to be able to use a firewire > drive with my pentium 3 triple boot (bootmagic, 98/xp/rh7.3) laptop? Is it > safe (for my very expensive data) to use a firewire drive? > I've never compiled a kernal; wish there were an easier way for this newbie. > Any

Slow incoming net speeds

2002-07-28 Thread Kevin - KD Micro Software
Hi all,   I have what I think is a strange problem. I have a 7.2 box on the net, and has a few server processes running. Whenever I access the machine remotely, the connection itself is almost instant, but then is slow. By this, I mean when you load a web page from the machine, it comes back

neighbour table overflow -help!

2002-07-28 Thread Daniel Tan
Hi, can anyone help me with this error (neighbour table overflow)? urgently need help because my mail server keeps giving me this crap message...i tried using ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 and this doesn't help in terms of rebooting my server and the config is gone againonc

RE: changing scsi cards after install/ scsi cd burn dies on fixa

2002-07-28 Thread Gregory Hosler
On 28-Jul-02 clover wrote: > hello, > i used to have a 6.2 machine. i wiped > everything and install 7.3. i also changed the > advansys to an adaptec aha-2940w/2940uw scsi > card before the new install. now i want to use > my old advansys and try to burn a cd and see if > it still dies

Re: Large Excel Files

2002-07-28 Thread Frederic Herman
AFAIK, OpenOffice is the same as StarOffice, but without the "support" from Sun. I switched from StarOffice to OpenOffice and so far, I have had no problems with it. I used to have some MS file formats crash StarOffice, but never have had that with OpenOffice 1.0. I just upgraded to 1.0.1,

RE: Large Excel Files

2002-07-28 Thread Jim Hale
How about StarOffice? Anyone have experience with that? :) We were looking at the possibility of using it at the Hospital to cut down on the M$ Licenses that we have to have to stay legal. Thanks! Jim Hale --- http://hale.dyndns.org -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[

How to use firewire drive with 7.3?

2002-07-28 Thread Jim
I'm using RH7.3. Must I recompile my kernel to be able to use a firewire drive with my pentium 3 triple boot (bootmagic, 98/xp/rh7.3) laptop? Is it safe (for my very expensive data) to use a firewire drive? I've never compiled a kernal; wish there were an easier way for this newbie. Any advice

Re: Large Excel Files

2002-07-28 Thread Frederic Herman
I'd like to know how whether you're successful of not. Fred Mike Flannigan wrote: >I believe OpenOffice is what I used. I see from other postings >that both OpenOffice and gnumeric have been updated and may >be able to import large Excel files now. I may try again someday. > >I appreciate al

Re: Large Excel Files

2002-07-28 Thread Mike Flannigan
I believe OpenOffice is what I used. I see from other postings that both OpenOffice and gnumeric have been updated and may be able to import large Excel files now. I may try again someday. I appreciate all the replies. Mike > Subject: Re: Large Excel Files > Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 11:54:1

ARG! Please help, TNT2 woes

2002-07-28 Thread Sweet Chuck
I am trying to get dual-head working under 7.3 with 2 TNT2 M64's (one pci one agp). I have the exact same system at work with the exact same cards working under SuSE 8.0 with almost no effort. Here are my problems: 1) Probing the PCI bus with "XFree86 -scanpci" returns nothing. 2) Probing the

SUDO

2002-07-28 Thread Jesse Angell
Hello everyone, I need to setup a php control panel that allows clients to execute commands in their home directory.. The only way I can think of doing this would be to install it's own apache for the control panel, and have that run under a username that has permission to use su $username -c

How to turn off sound notifications in KDE?

2002-07-28 Thread Doug Lerner
I am trying KDE today and it looks quite nice. But how on earth can I turn off the "sound notifications" when you open and close windows? I tried going into the KDE Control Panel, and selected Sound > System Notifications > The KDE Window Manager and there I unchecked the sound play checkbo

Re: What could be causing this?

2002-07-28 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
Please provide the output of route -n and all firewall configs. Jon On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Furnish, Trever G wrote: > [root@enterprise root]# ping wr-providence > PING hj_providence-fa0.hj-net (192.168.180.1) from 192.168.10.123 : 56(84) > bytes of data. > > --- hj_providence-fa0.hj-net ping stat

Re: KDE and Gnome (was Re: KDE in Gnome)

2002-07-28 Thread Brian Ashe
Doug Lerner, On Sunday July 28, 2002 04:44, you said something about: > So: > > (1) Would a KDE app run faster directly under KDE than in Gnome? Not necessarily run faster, but it would load faster. > (2) Why not design all apps like Netscape so they are > non-desktop-manager-specific? For int

Re: KDE and Gnome (was Re: KDE in Gnome)

2002-07-28 Thread Duncan Hill
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Doug Lerner wrote: > So: > > (1) Would a KDE app run faster directly under KDE than in Gnome? I can't say I've noticed a slow down running K apps under Gnome, or vice versa. There is a definite difference in looks of course. > (2) Why not design all apps like Netscape so

KDE and Gnome (was Re: KDE in Gnome)

2002-07-28 Thread Doug Lerner
So: (1) Would a KDE app run faster directly under KDE than in Gnome? (2) Why not design all apps like Netscape so they are non-desktop-manager-specific? (3) Are both KDE and Gnome equally "active" as far as support and on-going development and enthusiasm goes? (4) Are there KDE/Gnome warz, or

Re: Large Excel Files

2002-07-28 Thread Reuben D. Budiardja
You might want to try gnumeric. Probably upgrade to a more updated stable version (1.0.x) than the one provided by Redhat (unless you're using 7.3, which I think the gnumeric is quite updated). In my opinion, gnumeric is better than open office in spreadsheet area. In claims to be fully compatible

Re: KDE in Gnome

2002-07-28 Thread Duncan Hill
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Doug Lerner wrote: > What does it mean, though, for there to be KDE desktop themes settings > from inside Gnome? Gnome picks up the entire (or almost entire) KDE configuration tree of menus etc. Desktop themes happens to be in the KDE menu system, so it gets pulled in. >

Re: KDE in Gnome

2002-07-28 Thread Doug Lerner
On 7/29/02 1:22 AM, "Michael Scottaline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What does that mean? > = > That Linux desktops can be versatile. Most KDE apps will easily run w/i > Gnome and vice versa. In fact apps from both will run on just about any > desktop or environmen

Re: Linux vs Mac vs Windows

2002-07-28 Thread Alan Harding
On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 14:19, Doug Lerner wrote: > On 7/28/02 10:12 PM, "Michael Scottaline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > If you mean something quite large, w/calendering, etc., you can give > > evolution 1.0.8 a look. Takes a little while to load up,

Thoughts on LDAP Anyone ?

2002-07-28 Thread Aly Dharshi
Hi All, Were are building a server running RedHat 7.3 which among other things will provide ldap services for authentication and information for a variety of other applications. I know that upon installing there is a point whereby the installer asks what mode for authenticati

Re: Quick Samba Question

2002-07-28 Thread Aly Dharshi
Hello All, True, that I could use Samba via PAM but the actual idea is I want to move most of the RID and other similar information into LDAP, using PAM will just allow me to authenticate against an LDAP server the passwords, but the other information will remain in a flat files. I wa

Re: Large Excel Files

2002-07-28 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28-Jul-2002/12:40 -0500, Michael Flannigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >My brief foray into Linux was more than a year ago. I installed >RedHat version 7. I left it and returned to Windows when the >Excel-like program in Linux (free version) wou

Re: Quick Samba Question

2002-07-28 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27-Jul-2002/23:40 -0600, Aly Dharshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I prefer to use the rpms usually shipped by RedHat and try not to compile >to many pkgs unless required. I wanted to find out if the samba package >shipped with RedHat Linux 7.3 has l

What could be causing this?

2002-07-28 Thread Furnish, Trever G
[root@enterprise root]# ping wr-providence PING hj_providence-fa0.hj-net (192.168.180.1) from 192.168.10.123 : 56(84) bytes of data. --- hj_providence-fa0.hj-net ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss [root@enterprise root]# ping -I eth0 wr-providence PIN

RE: please..anyone dual boot linux w2k frustrations

2002-07-28 Thread Dirk
I have had similar problems your solution is in linux in a nutshell. It is something to do with copying nt boot onto you r boot loader. This is if win2k is ntfs. Hope this helps. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of script this Sent: 28 July 2

Re: Large Excel Files

2002-07-28 Thread Frederic Herman
Have you tried OpenOffice? I Can't speak about large Excel files, but the current version seems to be very stable and I've had no problems opening MS files. Check: http://www.openoffice.org/ Michael Flannigan wrote: >My brief foray into Linux was more than a year ago. I installed >RedHat

Large Excel Files

2002-07-28 Thread Michael Flannigan
My brief foray into Linux was more than a year ago. I installed RedHat version 7. I left it and returned to Windows when the Excel-like program in Linux (free version) would not open my large (20,000+ row) Excel files. It tried to, but gave an error that I no longer remember. Has anybody had

Re: KDE in Gnome

2002-07-28 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 00:16:15 +0900 Doug Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled intuitively: >Well, since my old 6 GB HD died I went over to Shinjuku today and got a >new IBM 40 GB HD - just $64! > >Anyway, everything is re-installed. > >Since I had more disk space this time I installed also KDE in

please..anyone dual boot linux w2k frustrations

2002-07-28 Thread script this
scenario: running redhat linux 7.2 for over a year on preinstalled hd. purchased second drive with w2k preinstalled. hooked up second drive as secondary ide drive (hdb), kept primary drive with linux as hda. problem: w2k will not boot at all. all things i've tried: 1. lilo.conf: prompt t

KDE in Gnome

2002-07-28 Thread Doug Lerner
Well, since my old 6 GB HD died I went over to Shinjuku today and got a new IBM 40 GB HD - just $64! Anyway, everything is re-installed. Since I had more disk space this time I installed also KDE in addition to Gnome. But what does it mean that there is a KDE menu inside Gnome? I thought they w

Re: Linux vs Mac vs Windows

2002-07-28 Thread Kevin MacNeil
On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 10:02:10PM +0900, Doug Lerner wrote: > I like using Entourage (I admit it!) in OS X, so I hope I can find a > really nice, complete, multi-account, multi-user email solution in > Linux. And guess what - I don't even mind paying for software I like! > :-) But you probably w

Re: Linux vs Mac vs Windows

2002-07-28 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 22:19:36 +0900 Doug Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled intuitively: >On 7/28/02 10:12 PM, "Michael Scottaline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> If you mean something quite large, w/calendering, etc., you can give >> evolution 1.0.8 a lo

Re: Linux vs Mac vs Windows

2002-07-28 Thread Doug Lerner
On 7/28/02 10:12 PM, "Michael Scottaline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you mean something quite large, w/calendering, etc., you can give > evolution 1.0.8 a look. Takes a little while to load up, but I believe > ithandles all of the things Entourage does

Re: Linux vs Mac vs Windows

2002-07-28 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 22:02:10 +0900 Doug Lerner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled intuitively: >Interesting note. Thanks, Jonathan. Actually, no, there is nothing in >particular I am looking for at the moment. But I am just getting started. > >I like using Entourage (I admit it!) in OS X, so I hope I

Re: Linux vs Mac vs Windows

2002-07-28 Thread Doug Lerner
Ah! The Palace! I used to run one of those! [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 7/28/02 3:32 PM, "Jesse Angell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My main problem is I host palace chat servers, so I obviously need to be > able to use the palace chat client. There is no linux version, and the > people who created it

Re: Linux vs Mac vs Windows

2002-07-28 Thread Doug Lerner
I must be in another world, but I have never heard of a Brother MFC 9200c, Linksys or SpeedStream. :-) doug On 7/28/02 2:28 PM, "Todd A. Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Doug Lerner wrote: > >> "Are there particular applications or peripherals you use, or would >>

Re: Linux vs Mac vs Windows

2002-07-28 Thread Doug Lerner
Interesting note. Thanks, Jonathan. Actually, no, there is nothing in particular I am looking for at the moment. But I am just getting started. I like using Entourage (I admit it!) in OS X, so I hope I can find a really nice, complete, multi-account, multi-user email solution in Linux. And guess

System cpu use - scheduling overhead or what?

2002-07-28 Thread Andreas Hansson
I was looking at the cpu use of my linux machine and noticed a strange effect when running more than one process. I am having it encode wave files ripped on another machine to mp3s for my music library. This sample was taken while copying wave files from the other machine: 01:36:54 PM PID

Re: cron.d

2002-07-28 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 03:11, suresh wrote: > I have configured cron to run a task at a perticular time of the day, but it > runs during bootup as well. I wud wish it runs only at that particular time > irrespective of whether m/c boots or not. > any ideas?? Turn off the "anacron" service? ___

Re: weird logwatch sendmail message

2002-07-28 Thread Duncan Hill
On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Chet Nichols III wrote: > Hey, > > In the sendmail portion of my LogWatch, I've gotten this a couple times > lately..not sure what it means, and if I should be worried at all, and why > it's happening. Here's the message: > > Authentication warnings: > apache set sender