RE: SOS! Why there are so many redefinitions?

2002-11-09 Thread Jiangbo
It seems that the problem is caused by the difference between RH8.0 and RH7.2, I will try it under RH7.2 later. Send Redhat-devel-list mailing list submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit

Thought y'all might like this....

2002-11-09 Thread John Nichel
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/nm/20021109/tc_nm/tech_microsoft_opensource_dc_1 -- By-Tor.com It's all about the Rush http://www.by-tor.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman

Re: How to get boring vi back

2002-11-09 Thread John Nichel
I don't have a .vimrc file on my system anywhere. vim-common *-minimal and *-extended are all installed. Can someone post the layout of this file? Mike Davison wrote: Yeah, isn't that annoying? I especially like the impossible-to-read lime green. To get the normal/sane vi back put 'syn off'

Re: add user and get mail

2002-11-09 Thread Mike Burger
Nothing...;the mail spool is /var/spool/mail/watchdog. On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, James wrote: I want to create an email address that I can bcc all mail to. I have added the user as adduser watchdog -d /home/watchdog -g postfix -p boguspassword. The user added but there are no mail folder in the

Re: Webmin

2002-11-09 Thread Mike Burger
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, ABrady wrote: Lynx supports cookies...not sure about links, but lynx, does. I don't use it, so I don't know. Does it do tables and forms yet? Java? Those _are_ the requirements for Webmin. An external graphical browser will work, anyway. Most will, at least. It

Re: How to get boring vi back

2002-11-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks I removed the vim-enhanced package it still has a weird twist if you type vi instead of /bin/vi it gives you the error /usr/bin/vim No such file I just added an alias to my .bashrc for now but does anyone know where it is telling the system

Re: Thought y'all might like this....

2002-11-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, John Nichel wrote: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/nm/20021109/tc_nm/tech_microsoft_opensource_dc_1 this, and the previous halloween memoes are covered in detail at www.opensource.org/halloween. there's a copy of the latest memo, with typically acerbic markup

Devices and console

2002-11-09 Thread JPC Baldrick
Hi! I have a cople of issues, which I hope has not been posted before. My system is a Red Hat 8.0, with lates updates from up2date $ uname -a Linux deimos 2.4.18-17.8.0 #1 Tue Oct 8 11:48:09 EDT 2002 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux 1) First question is about devices. One user (user) logs in

bug in RH8 rpm ?!?

2002-11-09 Thread Michael Grosseck
Hi folks, I noticed on several computers the same problem with the rpm-system. Sometimes if I erase or install a pakage the process goes sleeping and doesn't wake up again. I run my machine all night long, but nothing changed, the process is still sleeping. I just can kill the process. But then I

Re: bug in RH8 rpm ?!?

2002-11-09 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 09 November 2002 06:41 am, Michael Grosseck wrote: Hi folks, I noticed on several computers the same problem with the rpm-system. Sometimes if I erase or install a pakage the process goes sleeping and doesn't wake up again. I run my

Upgrading gcc, cpp, and more.

2002-11-09 Thread papapep
How should I do to upgrade gcc, cpp, libgcc, gcc-c++ and binutils? When I try to upgrade one rpm tells me it needs previously the other ones upgraded to the same version, and I can't find any one of these packages that upgrades without the others to begin work. I'm stuck in a circle. Thanks in

Re: Netscape version 4.x on RH8

2002-11-09 Thread Matthew Saltzman
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Hal Burgiss wrote: On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:48:43PM -0600, houston92 wrote: Is there anyway to get Netscape 4.79 working on RH8.0? I have tried to load the rpm and the gz file from Netscape. I am able to install the software, but I am having problems with it

Re: Upgrading gcc, cpp, and more.

2002-11-09 Thread Riemer Palstra
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, papapep wrote: How should I do to upgrade gcc, cpp, libgcc, gcc-c++ and binutils? When I try to upgrade one rpm tells me it needs previously the other ones upgraded to the same version, and I can't find any one of these packages that upgrades without the others to begin

DVD+RW?

2002-11-09 Thread Chris Mason
Anyone had success burning dvd+rw disks on Redhat? I have a HP 100i that I would like to replace my CD Recorder with on my linux server, but there seems to be little out there for DVD+RW. Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] Box 340, The Valley, Anguilla, British West Indies Tel: 264 497 5670 Fax: 264

USB HUB

2002-11-09 Thread Patrick
Hi, Im using RH 7.3 kernel 2.4.18-17.7.X I laptop Aces Aspire as 2 two usb ports, and they are always occupied. I need 3-4 usb ports but when connection a usb-hub my machine start booting and then stops half way or the usb-hub is not reccognised by the OS, and the devides connected to it don't

Re: Netscape version 4.x on RH8

2002-11-09 Thread Patrick
Op zaterdag 9 november 2002 13:15, schreef Matthew Saltzman: What about upgrading to Netscape 7 ? I use it also with a iplanet Mailserver and this works fine PAtrick On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Hal Burgiss wrote: On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:48:43PM -0600, houston92 wrote: Is there anyway to get

Re: Netscape version 4.x on RH8

2002-11-09 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 11:26:05PM -0800, Jack Bowling wrote: abending? OK. I'll pretend that I'm not shocked that you have never heard the term before, Hal. But here is your definition: Wow, that's what I get for being an English major. I consider my vocabulary now += 1 :)

GCC 3.X

2002-11-09 Thread Patrick
Hi, at this moment i have gcc 2.96 on my RH 7.3 machine, but for OpenOffice 1.0.1 dutch i need gcc3.x hase anyone a idee where to find it, or if its on the RH 80 cd's can i use it from there? Thanks Patrick -- Kennis in een databank is als eten in een diepvries: Niets komt er beter uit dan

Re: Netscape version 4.x on RH8

2002-11-09 Thread Lawrence Houston
On 8 Nov 2002, houston92 wrote: Is there anyway to get Netscape 4.79 working on RH8.0? I have tried to load the rpm and the gz file from Netscape. I am able to install the software, but I am having problems with it abending due to a segmentation error. This happens when I log into an

Re: GCC 3.X

2002-11-09 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 9 Nov 2002 15:19:07 +0100, Patrick wrote: at this moment i have gcc 2.96 on my RH 7.3 machine, but for OpenOffice 1.0.1 dutch i need gcc3.x hase anyone a idee where to find it, or if its on the RH 80 cd's can i use it from there? You can

Re: GCC 3.X

2002-11-09 Thread Patrick
Op zaterdag 9 november 2002 15:51, schreef Michael Schwendt: Thank you, i han no idee there where subchannels Patrick -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 9 Nov 2002 15:19:07 +0100, Patrick wrote: at this moment i have gcc 2.96 on my RH 7.3 machine, but for OpenOffice

Re: ipsec IKE

2002-11-09 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 03:29 PM, Simpson, Doug wrote: I am trying to set up a gateway with RH7.3 and IPSEC. I have reconfigured the kernel with the latest freeswan and x509. It boots with no problems. I then try to connect to it with SSHSentinel off a win2k laptop dialed into the

redhat update

2002-11-09 Thread Patrick
Hi, i dit a update true the update agent but there whent something wrong. Not all files are installed but the update agent keep saying that the are installed. Is there a way to 'reset' up update program so that it don't know wirh upaters there are installed. patrick -- Kennis in een databank

Re: virtual memory exhausted!?

2002-11-09 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
+++ Hicham Amaoui [RedHat] [Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 06:33:17PM +0100]: Hello, I have problems compiling aRts under RH8: after ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/opt --with-alsa make give me a 'virtual memory exhausted' error. An strace reveals an error in mremap. Script started on Thu Nov 7

CD-burner install question

2002-11-09 Thread linux power
I have a fresh rh 7.2 and have problems installing the cd-burner. The problem is that in lsmod it is called sg, while cdrecord and eroaster require scd0 as the name of the device.I have relly trouble with this so I would appreciate a quick

CourierIMAP server side sorting

2002-11-09 Thread MET
I was wondering if anyone knew of any documentation on setting up the server-side-sorting in the CourierIMAP mail server. Naturally I have found their website, but it lacks any documentation past the very basic install from what I can see. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in

installing software in RH 8.0

2002-11-09 Thread Michael A Loux
Greetings fellow travellers! I am new (1 week) to the Linux system, and I have a basic question. HOW in the HELL di I install downloaded software through the GUI? When I go to execute shell command all I get is a notice stating that permission is denied (for bin) or I get what

Re: redhat update

2002-11-09 Thread Yoink!
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Patrick wrote: i dit a update true the update agent but there whent something wrong. Not all files are installed but the update agent keep saying that the are installed. Is there a way to 'reset' up update program so that it don't know wirh upaters there are installed. Try

Re: redhat update

2002-11-09 Thread Ed Wilts
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 05:43:52PM +0100, Patrick wrote: i dit a update true the update agent but there whent something wrong. Not all files are installed but the update agent keep saying that the are installed. Is there a way to 'reset' up update program so that it don't know wirh upaters

Re: redhat update

2002-11-09 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 9 Nov 2002 17:43:52 +0100, Patrick wrote: i dit a update true the update agent but there whent something wrong. Not all files are installed but the update agent keep saying that the are installed. Is there a way to 'reset' up update

Re: MBR problem

2002-11-09 Thread Josh
Boot into DOS. Switch to the cd:\windows directory. Type FDISK /MBR This will clear your Master Boot Record, a special section of the BIOS that tells the computer what disk to boot from. -Josh On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 11:14 PM, ORACLE ADMINISTRATOR wrote: Hi, I am trying to install

Re: Netscape version 4.x on RH8

2002-11-09 Thread Jack Bowling
** Reply to message from Matthew Saltzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, 09 Nov 2002 07:15:42 -0500 (EST) snip [hal@cadillac hal]$ rpm -q netscape-navigator netscape-navigator-4.79-1 I guess that's the package from 7.3. Runs OK ... I've been using that for some sites that refuse to work

need to allow non-root user to run shutdown

2002-11-09 Thread Billy Davis
We are running RH 7.2 and need a way to allow a non-root user to login in text mode, and select a Shutdown option from atext menu that isdisplayed by a shell script. Currently,when theuserselectsShutdown, the scripttries to execute a '/sbin/shutdown -ah now' command, but the system replies

Re: CD-burner install question

2002-11-09 Thread Yoink!
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, [iso-8859-1] linux power wrote: I have a fresh rh 7.2 and have problems installing the cd-burner. The problem is that in lsmod it is called sg, while cdrecord and eroaster require scd0 as the name of the device.I have relly trouble with this so I would appreciate a quick

Re: installing software in RH 8.0

2002-11-09 Thread Yoink!
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Michael A Loux wrote: HOW in the HELL di I install downloaded software through the GUI? When I go to execute shell command all I get is a notice stating that permission is denied (for bin) or I get what looks like the beginning of an install readme. You don't mention

Re: Netscape version 4.x on RH8

2002-11-09 Thread houston92
A problem is going to be the site. It is a company remote access site using iPlanet portal server 3.0. It asks which kind of keycode I am using, I select secure id. The page then directs me to an https site asking for login id and password. After accepting the login and password it starts

RE: need to allow non-root user to run shutdown

2002-11-09 Thread Babu, Sreedhar (CAP, GCF, Satyam, Consultant)
Title: Message i am not sure if RH 7.2 comes with sudo utility installed on it. i am working on RH 8.0 and sudo utility is bundled with OS and its installed by default. Using visudo utility configure this normal user to be able to execute shutdown command the way you need. man sudoers and

Re: need to allow non-root user to run shutdown

2002-11-09 Thread Ski Dawg
On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 17:32, Billy Davis wrote: We are running RH 7.2 and need a way to allow a non-root user to login in text mode, and select a Shutdown option from a text menu that is displayed by a shell script. Currently, when the user selects Shutdown, the script tries to execute a

Re: Upgrading gcc, cpp, and more.

2002-11-09 Thread houston92
Because rpm checks dependencies, you can get stuck in this loop. The only consistent way I have seen is Riemer's suggestion. I put all the related rpms in a temp directory, then use rpm -Fvh *.rpm. If I see another dependency check I get that package until all install. Wayne On Sat,

Re: Netscape version 4.x on RH8

2002-11-09 Thread houston92
Many pieces do work with Mozilla/Netscape 6 and 7. If you don't have the java netlets it will work fine, it is just this small but for my very important piece. The newest release of iPlanet will allow use of java2 for the netlets, unfortunately we seem to be having problems getting it to accept

Re: need to allow non-root user to run shutdown

2002-11-09 Thread Anthony Abby
man sudo On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 12:32, Billy Davis wrote: We are running RH 7.2 and need a way to allow a non-root user to login in text mode, and select a Shutdown option from a text menu that is displayed by a shell script. Currently, when the user selects Shutdown, the script tries to

Re: How to get boring vi back

2002-11-09 Thread hanfamily
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Robert P. J. Day wrote: snip note the vim.sh file, which sets an alias for you. so you have a choice: 1) remove the vim.sh file or, in any other way, deactivate it. snip There was no vim.sh file on my computer I guess when I removed the vim-enhanced it removed it I

Re: need to allow non-root user to run shutdown

2002-11-09 Thread hanfamily
sudoers allows you to set shutdown to work for all users. The list actually gave me three or four ways to do this about a month ago but this is the way I choose to do it. Linda Hanigan On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Billy Davis wrote: We are running RH 7.2 and need a way to allow a non-root user

RE: mangled man page output

2002-11-09 Thread Joe Giles
Adding POSIX fix it for me as well Thanks Joe On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 17:09, Cowles, Steve wrote: -Original Message- From: Todd A. Jacobs Subject: mangled man page output Has anyone else been experiencing mangled man page output with Psyche? I get strange things like

NFS lock problems

2002-11-09 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
I'm using one server as a 'mailstop' right now (all incoming email gets delivered to this one machine), and the real users server does an NFS mount of the /var/spool/mail directory from the mailstop. The setup looks like this: mailstop is the mail server - exports /var/spool/mail

xmms not playing in RH8 ?

2002-11-09 Thread João Pedro
I just installed RH8 ( twice ) and have used various previous versions before, without this problem : -when an mp3 file ( this is the format I tried but I believe anyone will do the same ) is opened with Konqueror in KDE a sygfault occurs . -when the same file (any mp3 file, for that matter) is

RE: xmms not playing in RH8 ?

2002-11-09 Thread Mark Parsons
The reason this happened is because Redhat decided not to ship any mp3 decoding software in RH 8.0 If you go to http://www.xmms.org/ you will be able to download an update that will allow you to play mp3's Hope this helps Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: virtual memory exhausted!?

2002-11-09 Thread Hicham Amaoui
It's after the build. It doesn't even try to compile something: [amaouipenguin arts]$ cd flow/ [amaouipenguin flow]$ make make: *** virtual memory exhausted. Stop. [amaouipenguin flow]$ I don't know if it's a bug in make or in the kernel. I was running Mandrake before, and I have not such

Re: xmms not playing in RH8 ?

2002-11-09 Thread Alex Mamtchenkov
Hello João Pedro, Once you wrote about xmms not playing in RH8 ?: -when the same file (any mp3 file, for that matter) is opened with xmms ( or opened in Nautilus with Gnome, wich does the same) the selected file (or files) doesn't appear in the player . I had the same problem until I

opinions on programming books

2002-11-09 Thread christopher j bottaro
hello, i know there are a lot of expert unix/linux programmers on these mailing lists. i'd like to ask yall's opinion on the following books: Richard W. Stevens, Advanced Programming in the UNIX environment Andrew Tannenbaum, Modern Operating Systems Kurt Wall, Linux Programming Unleashed (2nd

NAT and speedtouch under RH 8.0

2002-11-09 Thread Geoffroy Hallard
Hi all, I can't configured my computer for the NAT with my Speedtouch. My first computer has get an eth0 ethernet card (realtek 8092, right configured, I think...) and my Speedtouch USB modem for an ADSL internet connection. I want to share this connection with my second compter. When I start

Re: bug in RH8 rpm ?!?

2002-11-09 Thread Peter Zengota
There is currently an open bug in BugZilla regarding this issue: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68056 Seems to be widespread issues with rpm in RedHat 8... From: Michael Fratoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: bug in RH8

Re: opinions on programming books

2002-11-09 Thread fred smith
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 04:29:22PM -0600, christopher j bottaro wrote: hello, i know there are a lot of expert unix/linux programmers on these mailing lists. i'd like to ask yall's opinion on the following books: Richard W. Stevens, Advanced Programming in the UNIX environment An EXCELLENT

Re: bug in RH8 rpm ?!?

2002-11-09 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 09 November 2002 08:56 pm, Peter Zengota wrote: There is currently an open bug in BugZilla regarding this issue: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68056 Seems to be widespread issues with rpm in RedHat 8... Yes, many

Re: opinions on programming books

2002-11-09 Thread John Nichel
Linux in a Nutshell and Running Linux are two real good books too...but then again, I'm partial to O'Reilly books. fred smith wrote: On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 04:29:22PM -0600, christopher j bottaro wrote: hello, i know there are a lot of expert unix/linux programmers on these mailing lists.

RE: setting up ssh without a password

2002-11-09 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 02:10, Jonathan Carter wrote: thanks for the sshd -d tip when I ran it I realised that jon1 has 4 ip addresses and, of course, it was using a different one to connect than the one that i set up the trusted relationships for Thanks Glad I could help. FWIW I

A dumb Fortran question

2002-11-09 Thread Mike Westkamper
how does one equate a Fortran unit number to a file name? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Multimedia on RH 8.0

2002-11-09 Thread tapeculo cuevas
Hello guys! I downloaded and installed RedHat 8.0 and it is really nice, however I have not been able to detect my sound card which is an ESS1868 and due to that I can not make XMMS and any other multimedia Work which I think would be a nice thing to have. Can anybody tell me if there is a way

Re: Webmin

2002-11-09 Thread Bret Hughes
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 15:55, Edwin Humphries wrote: Can anyone report their experiences with Webmin for the configuration of Linux server services? We're particularly interested in: 1. Does it break services the way Linuxconf used to? 2. Does it provide a comprehensive level of

Re: Other sources of help

2002-11-09 Thread Bret Hughes
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 18:29, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote: Jon Etkins wrote: Since it appears that nobody has a solution to my redirected port timeout problem, I guess I need to take it to the ipchains and/or firewall gurus - any idea where I should start looking? I would try the linux-net

Re: root ssh restricted by ip

2002-11-09 Thread Bret Hughes
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 12:00, Richard Nghiem wrote: Hello, I have restricted root login to all my machines through ssh by setting PermitRootLogin no. I do most of my work as root and distribute configs files through scp to the correct places. Currently I have to su -l after I login as

Re: Netscape version 4.x on RH8

2002-11-09 Thread Lawrence Houston
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Lawrence Houston wrote: On 8 Nov 2002, houston92 wrote: Is there anyway to get Netscape 4.79 working on RH8.0? I have tried to load the rpm and the gz file from Netscape. I am able to install the software, but I am having problems with it abending due to a

OT what do people use to create image maps?

2002-11-09 Thread Bret Hughes
I am designing a web based application for internal use and I am examining the use of imagemaps to graphically present links to additional information about a large building using imagemaps on a floor plan of the building. I have never used imagemaps before but a little googleing has led me to

Re: root ssh restricted by ip

2002-11-09 Thread Werner Puschitz
On 9 Nov 2002, Bret Hughes wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 12:00, Richard Nghiem wrote: Hello, I have restricted root login to all my machines through ssh by setting PermitRootLogin no. I do most of my work as root and distribute configs files through scp to the correct places.

boot option

2002-11-09 Thread ORACLE ADMINISTRATOR
Hi, what to do so that at the time of booting i can give boot option like single etc... now when i select linux from lilo it boots automatically Thanks. atul -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe

tripwire and samba question?

2002-11-09 Thread Don Leeper
I was hoping someone could give me some input on tripwire? I have redhat servers that do IDS, DNS, and webserver. What would you do as far as tripwire goes? Should I run it on all of them? Just the dns and webserver? Any thoughts would be helpful. Thanks in advance. I was also having