Question about versions of libstdc++

2002-08-11 Thread Yuval Kfir
Hello, I'm confused by the multitude of versions of libstdc++ I find on my Red Hat Linux installation, and the purpose of each one. Basically, my question is: which of these supersedes which, and which is the latest? My problem is a run-time incompatibility between a module I compile here,

Enter Key not recognized in X-LOGIN-window (in Compaq Presario 1510US, Redhat7.2)

2002-08-11 Thread Suresh K Hegde
Title: Enter Key not recognized in X-LOGIN-window (in Compaq Presario 1510US, Redhat7.2) Hi, I have a Compaq Presario 1510US notebook. I have installed Redhat7.2. Installation went without any problem. When I strated Linux and Enter the user-name and press ENETR. It doesn't take me to

Re: How do I start wine?

2002-08-11 Thread Knut Ove Hauge
Ok. /home/knut/d:drive=D:\ /home/knut/c:drive=C:\ /home/knut/cdrom=E:\ I think that is all. Knut --- Joe Giles [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Ok, what I need you to do is tell me the mount points for all the drives you want mapped... Like /games = D:\games /storage =E:\storage /home/juser/c =

gcc 3

2002-08-11 Thread maillist
hi, i tend to upgrade my gcc version 2 onto version 3, but have one question: as the two compilers are not binary-compatible, is it true that i need to recompile each and every library in my system (*-devel packages)? and will there be an easy upgrade path, if redhat switches onto gcc3? yours

Re: How do I start wine?

2002-08-11 Thread Knut Ove Hauge
Hi Joe. Now I have edit the config file so I only got this error. [roo[root@localhost .wine]# wine c:drive/vb/vb.exe Invalid path 'c:\windows' for windows directory: does not exist Perhaps you have not properly edited or created your Wine configuration file. This is '/root/.wine/config' Knut

newbie question: how to speed up linux

2002-08-11 Thread Anders Thoresson
I've just taken my first stumbling steps down on the Linux road, installing Redhat 7.3. Many things have impressed me so far, but the over all speed of my system is a big dissappointment. Compared to when I run Windows 95 and Windows 2000 on the same computer, almost everything seems to take for

Checking Hard Drive Sizes

2002-08-11 Thread Jim Hale
What's the command (or program) that I can run to show me the space used/left on the Hard Drives? Jim Hale --- Visit Our MIDI Digital Audio Website at http://hale.dyndns.org or Our Forums At http://haleforum.dyndns.org -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Checking Hard Drive Sizes

2002-08-11 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 07:29:33 -0500 Jim Hale [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: What's the command (or program) that I can run to show me the space used/left on the Hard Drives? Jim Hale --- Visit Our MIDI Digital Audio Website at http://hale.dyndns.org or Our Forums At

Re: newbie question: how to speed up linux

2002-08-11 Thread Mike Burger
I have a similarly configured machine, with the exception of hte RAM...my PII 266 only has 64MB, and I often note a slowness in KDE, but I assume it to be a lack of RAM, as I often note the system swapping. Check free to make sure your system is recognizing the full complement of memory in

Re: Checking Hard Drive Sizes

2002-08-11 Thread Anthony Abby
df On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 08:29, Jim Hale wrote: What's the command (or program) that I can run to show me the space used/left on the Hard Drives? Jim Hale -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe

RE: newbie question: how to speed up linux

2002-08-11 Thread Chris Mason
I have a Dell Latitude 233 MHz laptop which I run RH 7.3 and KDE. It's not fast but I use it as a lot when I don't want to sit in front of my workstation, especially as I have wireless and can be anywhere in the house. I have two similar machines, I installed windows on the other and it

Re: newbie question: how to speed up linux

2002-08-11 Thread Trapazode
Mike Burger wrote: I have a similarly configured machine, with the exception of hte RAM...my PII 266 only has 64MB, and I often note a slowness in KDE, but I assume it to be a lack of RAM, as I often note the system swapping. Check free to make sure your system is recognizing the full

Re: compiling a new kernel

2002-08-11 Thread Ted Gervais
At 12:50 PM 8/10/2002 -0400, you wrote: On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Ted Gervais wrote: Thanks Bob, and the others responding. I tried 'make mrproper' as well. I guess I am getting desperate. Somehow I am thinking that maybe there is a hardware problem? Could that be the reason for

RE: newbie question: how to speed up linux

2002-08-11 Thread Kevin Krieser
I've noticed too that Evolution doesn't seem to be the fastest program out there. Probably still a matter of maturity. In tests, it downloaded and moved mail slower than Mozilla, for instance. Though I liked the program better. So I don't think it is Linux thats to blame. -Original

RE: Checking Hard Drive Sizes

2002-08-11 Thread Jim Hale
Thanks All :) Now - there wouldn't be anyway using the 'Konquerer' program to view the information there? I'm a bit spoiled when I use the File Explorer in WinBloze. Thanks! Jim Hale --- Visit Our MIDI Digital Audio Website at http://hale.dyndns.org or Our Forums At

RE: newbie question: how to speed up linux

2002-08-11 Thread Calbazana, Al
I assume you are booting straight to some X environment (KDE, Gnome, and Enlightenment). IMO, using a GUI with such low resources is asking for it. If you are going to use a machine like that, consider booting straight to command line :) Besides, that's the best way to learn! Thanks,

RE: newbie question: how to speed up linux

2002-08-11 Thread Mike Burger
The problem with this answer is that the guy has 192MB of RAM, and 2 hard drives. I can't vouch for his disk space availability, but 192MB should still be plenty of RAM in which to run KDE. On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Calbazana, Al wrote: I assume you are booting straight to some X environment

RE: Checking Hard Drive Sizes

2002-08-11 Thread Bret Hughes
On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 09:59, Jim Hale wrote: Thanks All :) Now - there wouldn't be anyway using the 'Konquerer' program to view the information there? I'm a bit spoiled when I use the File Explorer in WinBloze. is gtop installed? try that if so. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list

Re: newbie question: how to speed up linux

2002-08-11 Thread Kevin MacNeil
You didn't say which desktop you're using, but both the gnome and kde GUIs are pretty resource intensive. One possibility is to try a leaner desktop like xfce (www.xfce.org). You should be able to switch back and forth between it and what you're using now. If you're using gnome and want to

newbie question: upgrading software through redhat network andup2date

2002-08-11 Thread Anders Thoresson
Are new versions of software like Evolution put on Redhat Network and made available through up2date, or do I have to get newer packages somewhere else? Is up2date/RHN just for critical bugfixes? If, does that mean that if I get a newer version of Evolution from somewhere else the RHN, then I

RE: newbie question: how to speed up linux

2002-08-11 Thread Anders Thoresson
The problem with this answer is that the guy has 192MB of RAM, and 2 hard drives. I can't vouch for his disk space availability, but 192MB should still be plenty of RAM in which to run KDE. I'm running Gnome. Is Gnome more hungry for memory than KDE? Right now, 95% of my 192 MB RAM is

Re: HowTo : Extract word with 'sed'

2002-08-11 Thread John H Darrah
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Paul Branston wrote: On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 11:40:32AM -0400, Michael C Tiernan wrote: On Thursday 08 August 2002 08:59, Nick Lindsell said: At 14:34 08/08/2002 +0200, you wrote: File_21_05082002 and i would like to extract 21 from this. How can i do it

Re: newbie question: how to speed up linux

2002-08-11 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 08:56:05PM +0200, Anders Thoresson wrote: The problem with this answer is that the guy has 192MB of RAM, and 2 hard drives. I can't vouch for his disk space availability, but 192MB should still be plenty of RAM in which to run KDE. Sure, its plenty to start with.

RE: newbie question: how to speed up linux

2002-08-11 Thread Mike Burger
Just remember...even though Linux is reporting your RAM as used, it's not all actually being used. Take a look at your cached and -/+ buffers to get an idea of what's actually in use. On 11 Aug 2002, Anders Thoresson wrote: The problem with this answer is that the guy has 192MB of RAM, and

Re: redhat-list digest, Vol 1 #5045 - 14 msgs

2002-08-11 Thread CM Miller
Well i learned a new command here, ckconfig, but either one of these along with ps -aux yields any ssh. I think that the default ipchains is doing something with it. I've also nmap my machine and it doesn't show anything. How do I permantely remove the ipchains module from the kernel. I've

Another question about enabling SMP

2002-08-11 Thread Arthur Chan
Hi ! Is there anyway to enable SMP without doing a full install again ? I recall seeing a search engine for the archive database, just can't remember where. How do I search the archive for the emails ? Thx

Re: compiling a new kernel

2002-08-11 Thread ABrady
On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 10:08:39 -0300 Ted Gervais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:50 PM 8/10/2002 -0400, you wrote: On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Ted Gervais wrote: Thanks Bob, and the others responding. I tried 'make mrproper' as well. I guess I am getting desperate. Somehow I am

RE: newbie question: how to speed up linux

2002-08-11 Thread Saul Arias
At 02:56 PM 11-08-02, Anders Thoresson wrote: The problem with this answer is that the guy has 192MB of RAM, and 2 hard drives. I can't vouch for his disk space availability, but 192MB should still be plenty of RAM in which to run KDE. I'm running Gnome. Is Gnome more hungry for memory

Re: Another question about enabling SMP

2002-08-11 Thread Joe Giles
I think all you have to do is install the smp verion of the kernel, then boot from it. This is what I did to enable my SMP server. I installed the Red Hat SMP Kernel and kernel headers from RPM. It was simple. Hope this helps Joe Hi ! Is there anyway to enable SMP without doing a full

Lower MTU on NIC?

2002-08-11 Thread Peter Kiem
Hi all, I'm having problems with a mailserver and I think it may be an MTU problem. The NIC is currently set to 1500. 1. How do you lower the MTU on the NIC, preferably without a reboot. 2. What MTU would you suggest? -- Regards, +---+-+

RE: newbie question: how to speed up linux

2002-08-11 Thread Calbazana, Al
I'm just going from my limited experience... I've had RH on a PII-200 w/ 128MB and w/ 256MB, a PII-233 w/ 256 MB RAM, and an AMD K something or other 300. Running an X environment on any of the above was not much fun. Given those setups, I found it less of a hassle to run in the shell. I

Re: HOWTO Remove Cron in Logwatch

2002-08-11 Thread Tom Pollerman
On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 08:43:02 -0400 (EDT) Joe Giles wrote: I found the files... So, basically, I can just remove (move) the file out of the services directory and this will take care of it? The preferred method is to list the Services that you want Logwatch to monitor in:

RE: Lower MTU on NIC?

2002-08-11 Thread Darryl Harvey
man ifconfig Rgds, Darryl -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Peter Kiem Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 9:08 AM To: Red Hat Mailing List Subject: Lower MTU on NIC? Hi all, I'm having problems with a mailserver and I think it

Re: What's Up with RH73?

2002-08-11 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 09 August 2002 06:13 pm, Patrick Nelson wrote: OK, I've just got to say something and I hate the fact that I am able to say it. Something has changed with the install process of RH73 and it is cutting out a large percentage systems.

pppd not replacing existing default route to eth0

2002-08-11 Thread Kevin - KD Micro Software
Hi all, When I run pppd, it's connecting to the ISP ok, but traffic doesn't go anywhere and in /var/log/messages, I'm getting "not replacing existing default route to eth0". I can see why outgoing traffic isn't going anywhere cause its trying to go out via eth0, but why is this? I *think*

Re: What's Up with RH73?

2002-08-11 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 11 August 2002 08:33 pm, Michael Fratoni wrote: Why didn't you continue? You can install 7.3 after booting off a RH 7.2 boot disk. OK, so it's not obvious, but this install method works fine. I doubt Red Hat could/would support it,

Re: pppd not replacing existing default route to eth0

2002-08-11 Thread Ed . Greshko
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Kevin - KD Micro Software wrote: When I run pppd, it's connecting to the ISP ok, but traffic doesn't go anywhere and in /var/log/messages, I'm getting not replacing existing default route to eth0. I can see why outgoing traffic isn't going anywhere cause its trying to go

LDAP administration

2002-08-11 Thread Chad Skinner
What graphical administration programs do any of you use and/or which would you recommend. I am trying to learn more about LDAP and its administration so if any of you know of software I should investigate or resources I should read please let me know. Thanks, Chad -- redhat-list mailing

Re: pny Compact flash Reader

2002-08-11 Thread Edward Dekkers
me too! ;-) now i have a useless pny flash card reader. any suggestions? ;-) Sell it to an M$ user? Hang it from your rearview mirror in your car? Make a necklace out of it? Just off the top of my head. :) Regards, Ed. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

Re: mouse not working with KVM switch and Compaq Remote Inside Lights Out board

2002-08-11 Thread Edward Dekkers
I have a compaq RACK mount keyboard with integrated mouse and Compaq KVM 8 port switch. Also I have Compaq Remote Insight Lights Out management board. More than likely the mouse doesn't like the KVM or the KVM doesn't like the mouse. I've seen this before. Try a different mouse. Sometime the

Re: Checking Hard Drive Sizes

2002-08-11 Thread Mohd Irfan R Khan
u can use df -ah on a shell prompt - Original Message - From: Jim Hale [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 8:29 PM Subject: RE: Checking Hard Drive Sizes Thanks All :) Now - there wouldn't be anyway using the 'Konquerer' program to view the

Re: LDAP administration

2002-08-11 Thread Aly S.P Dharshi
Chad Skinner wrote: What graphical administration programs do any of you use and/or which would you recommend. I am trying to learn more about LDAP and its administration so if any of you know of software I should investigate or resources I should read please let me know. Thanks, Chad There

UUCP

2002-08-11 Thread Bruce Conmee
I am using Linux RedHat 5.2 and I connect remotely to another machine using UUCP. The system work fine for most of the time. However if the system fails to connect to the remote machine for any reason I get an error message "retry time out not reached" I cant see where I can alter the retry

about memory leak when I call gethostbyname at platform Redhat Linux 7.2

2002-08-11 Thread Gu Jian
emergence problem! I need your help! Platfrom Rredhat Linux 7.2, I called the system function gethostbyname, then I used memory leak tools(mtrace and valgrind) to trace memory leak, I found the gethostbyname having a memory leak. I can use command "man freehostent", but I can not use,

Re: pppd not replacing existing default route to eth0

2002-08-11 Thread Kevin Myers
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 08:46:09 +0800, Kevin wrote: When I run pppd, it's connecting to the ISP ok, but traffic doesn't go anywhere and in /var/log/messages, I'm getting not replacing existing default route to eth0. I can see why outgoing traffic isn't going anywhere cause its trying to go out

Re: pppd not replacing existing default route to eth0 [solved]

2002-08-11 Thread Kevin - KD Micro Software
Thanks for the quick response Ed. I knew it had something to do with the routing, and I had had trouble with the static-routes file before but it didn'tappear to be it this time.I dunno why I didn't think of this before, but a simple route del default and then route add default ppp0 sorted

Re: pppd not replacing existing default route to eth0

2002-08-11 Thread Kevin - KD Micro Software
ah, same thinking :) didn't see your message before I replied then. Thanks. - Original Message - From: Kevin Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 1:01 PM Subject: Re: pppd not replacing existing default route to eth0 On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 08:46:09

RAM Used by processes

2002-08-11 Thread harish . k
Hi list, How do I find out how much RAM and swap is used by different processes? 'free' gives me a total and ps -aux gives me a % output. I need a per-process usage of physical and swap memory in MB. TIA, Harish -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

Re: LDAP administration

2002-08-11 Thread Ziad Samaha
Chad LDAP Browser is good but I'd rather stick to the command line utilities. Cheers, Ziad From: Chad Skinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: redhat-list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LDAP administration Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 20:15:32 -0500 What graphical administration