problem with kde

Hi I am facing typical problem. I have a compaq machine with Compaq Monitor 7500. This is p4 machine. When we login either root or user, The console font is not behaving properly. It gives some space after shell prompt. This works fine in gnom. Unless and untill you set font for root or user

Re: dhcp

Stand H said: > Hi, > > How can I view all the ip addresses that my dhcp > server is leasing to my clients? not sure about redhat, but check in /var/lib/dhcp ? if that doesnt work try find /var -name "*leases" nate -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=u

dhcp

Hi, How can I view all the ip addresses that my dhcp server is leasing to my clients? Thanks, Stand __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto

File System Errors

I have a box with RH 8.0 installed, and upgraded to kernel 2.4.18-18.8.0smp. I now am getting an error message that an error was found during the initial fsck, and it drops me into a shell. I tried fsck ( complains about running e2fsck on a mounted system), and fsck.ext3 ( with same complaint).

RH 7.3 NTP Client Problems

I am having problems with the NTP client end of the software the comes as part of Red Hat 7.3. I am talking to a RH 7.2 NTP server, and before I upgraded my notebook to 7.3 (it was vaguely at 7.2) it could get the time, and now it can't. When I ask it what it is doing, it just sits there: [roo

RE: NT to Linux transition ideas/advice

Talking about cost, I am managing a win2kPRO computer acting as a file server. The company is getting their 9th user in January to connect to the server. It is only used as a file server so I am hoping to learn Linux in time to replace it with a Linux computer by the time they add that 11th user

Re: which config was used to make my kernel?

christopher j bottaro said: > hello, > i have the following two rpm's installed: > kernel-2.4.18-17.8.0 > kernel-source-2.4.18-17.8.0 to get the config of the running kernel: ls -l /boot/config-`uname -r` (those are backticks not single quotes) for me: [root@redhat boot]# uname -r 2.4.18-17.7.x

RE: NT to Linux transition ideas/advice

Windows better at??? I'm not sure about the others, but I am sure Pro/E andf Unigraphics started life as programs based on Unix-workstations. Only comparatively recently have they migrated towards ms-windows. I think those packages have been converted to use the native win-32 graphics environment b

which config was used to make my kernel?

hello, i have the following two rpm's installed: kernel-2.4.18-17.8.0 kernel-source-2.4.18-17.8.0 i'm compiling the TI Graphic Link USB driver and it requires a .config file in /usr/src/linux (which i have as a sym link to /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-17.8.0). so to make the .config file appear, i do a

Re: Why No Christmas Promo?

Perhaps they heard us? I already bought mine at full price and am happy that I did so. doc On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 17:52, Jonathan Gaudette wrote: > It would seem that your request has come true: > http://www.redhat.com/apps/commerce/ > > -Jon > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto

Re: Acrobat 5 with RH8.0 won't work

Hi You just type "LANG=C acroread " at the shell prompt if using bash.ksh or sh. Read release notes for this. Aftab Alam Roger Harrington wrote: I have downloaded from the Adobe site, linux-506.tar.gz. It seemed to successfully install into my nominated directory: - /usr/local/Acrobat5

Re: backup script

Look into cron. Add a line like the following to /etc/crontab: 00 2 * * 6 root /path/to/my/script.sh You will need to write a script that executes the backup operation. As soon as you modify the file, the setting changes are noticed by crond. Make sure your script is executable (chmod 755 sc

RE: crontab

> -Original Message- > From: Jianping Zhu > Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 8:18 PM > Subject: crontab > > > ect/crontab > > SHELL=/bin/bash > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin > MAILTO=root > HOME=/ > > # run-parts > 01 * * * * root run-parts /

Re: gnorpm replacement in RH8

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Bob Hartung wrote: > Ryurick >Package manager is okay for the packages supplied by RH but I do not see > any way to install OTHER packages using the GUI. There does not seem to be > any way to list packages residing in a directory, etc. > >Why would RH move us back

Re: USB mouse How to configure? novice need help

Thanks Edward Dekkers. By the way, i don't think i have load the use module in. i can't see usb in the /proc/bus and only have pci but no usb. nonthing inside the /var/logs/messages. How do i load the usb module in? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubs

Re: USB HDD on RH8 : comments

> 2. the RH8 OS only mounts the p4 partition. > its size is BELOW 20 Go ... > so, maybe that partitions over 20 Go are too large to be mounted > > i did not do any other test for the moment to confirm if the size is the > only parameter to take in account. > > > so, any comment would be app

crontab

ect/crontab SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/ # run-parts 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4 * * * root run-oarts /etc/cron.daily 22 4 * * 0Hroot run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron

Re: backup script

Jianping Zhu said: > I have redhat 7.1 server. > Because i have several dictories need to be backup, I want to write a > script do it automatically say every Satuerday a 2:00am. is there a way > to do that? how are you planning to back it up? I mean, some backup to CDR, some backup to tape, s

Re: gnorpm replacement in RH8

Ryurick Package manager is okay for the packages supplied by RH but I do not see any way to install OTHER packages using the GUI. There does not seem to be any way to list packages residing in a directory, etc. Why would RH move us backward [at least for some!] to a command line installati

backup script

I have redhat 7.1 server. Because i have several dictories need to be backup, I want to write a script do it automatically say every Satuerday a 2:00am. is there a way to do that? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.c

Re: NT to Linux transition ideas/advice

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10-Dec-2002/16:54 -0600, "Henderson, TL Todd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] >The main apps that will be of issue will be 2 CAD packages, >PRO/E and Unigraphics, metaphase, SAP, and the obvious desktop >office apps. I think the open office with

Re: gnorpm replacement in RH8

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Bob Hartung wrote: > Okay so call me stupid. And yes I have RTFM! They just don't happen to > mention what gnorpm has beeen turned into in RH 8 and the re-write of the > default GUI. So please point me in the right direction! redhat-config-packages If uou upgrade rather

Re: gnorpm replacement in RH8

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 10 December 2002 08:59 pm, Bob Hartung wrote: > Okay so call me stupid. And yes I have RTFM! They just don't happen > to mention what gnorpm has beeen turned into in RH 8 and the re-write > of the default GUI. So please point me in the ri

gnorpm replacement in RH8

Okay so call me stupid. And yes I have RTFM! They just don't happen to mention what gnorpm has beeen turned into in RH 8 and the re-write of the default GUI. So please point me in the right direction! Thanks Bob Hartung -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subje

RE: FTP trouble at the iptables firewall of the Redhat Linux.

Ben, thanks very much for the comments. (B (B> I have never seen .XXX.XXX notation? Have you tried 219.105.0.0/16 (B> instead? And I have another question, is eth0 your internet facing (B> interface? And is eth1 your internal interface? (B (BI am sorry and the XXX.XXX was be used to hide m

USB HDD on RH8 : comments

hello RH-list members ! from last week, i sent one or two messages concerning questions about the installation of large-storage USB-HDD on RH8. since 2 weeks, i try to install a 120 Go USB-HDD (4 FAT32 partitions). this USB-HDD is seen by the OS, but no possibility to mount it. i used it be

Re: Nautilus refuses to load/ can't use gnome

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10-Dec-2002/15:01 -0600, Jody Cleveland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: {about "Error start GNOME settings daemon"] >> This is 'gconfd'. Try renaming your ~/.gconf directory. > >Still does the same thing. A post at

Winbook XL and RH8

I just installed RH8 on my winbook xl laptop and everytime I hit the Delete button (I think I’ve nailed it down to this) the keyboard will not input anymore characters as if the system was locked up, but the command prompt keeps blinking. Any suggestions or comments?   Paul   ---

Re: Presario 1500 hangs at Partition Check on RH8 install

> I tried that, the text mode, rescue mode etc and nothing works. I am just so > furstrated. There must be someone who has had the same issue with the > Presario Laptops. Did this model come with the BIOS on the hard drive? I seem to recall some earlier Compaqs used to have their BIOS stored th

Re: USB mouse How to configure? novice need help

> Any idea? I am using samsung optical mouse. Thanks you 1st Yep, it's not working right? Seriously though, that is not enough information. Which version of RedHat? Does /var/log/messages say anything about the mouse? Kudzu? Have you searched google? Regards, --- Edward Dekkers (Direct

Re: webserver help

Do you have "index.php index.php4 index.php3" on the DirectoryIndex line in your httpd.conf file? On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Don Leeper wrote: > I was working with apacheconf to configure a php application but it is not > working correctly. Everytime I pull up the page it shows all the folders and > n

Need help compiling kernel for SMP

I have an old IBM PC Server 520 with 2 P133 processors. I have tried to compile the kernel some times now, and without any luck. When I run "make modules_install" and "make install" I get a LOT of these errors: depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18-14duke/kernel/drivers/scsi/qla1

rhn up2date leads to printer problem

Hi there, Not sure where to even begin looking this time -- I've been running the up2date program and got most of it completed now. Included were the Omni drivers and foomatic (I think), well now my old Okidata OLe 600 laser printer won't work anymore. It took forever to get a printer going in

Re: logrotate error

cd /var/log/samba touch snmbd.log /etc/cron.daily/logrotate The last line is just to check. On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 18:06, Matthew Simpson wrote: > Does anyone know what this error is and how to correct it. We had a > situation when we rebooted our server that our BIOS battery went flat > and ju

Re: logrotate error

Matthew Simpson said: > Does anyone know what this error is and how to correct it. We had a > situation when we rebooted our server that our BIOS battery went flat and > jumped the clock to the year 2009. We have touched all the future dated > files to 2002 but are still receiving this cron email

Re: NT to Linux transition ideas/advice

nate said: > Henderson, TL Todd said: > >> The main apps that will be of issue will be 2 CAD packages, >> PRO/E and Unigraphics, metaphase, SAP, and the obvious desktop >> office apps. I think the open office with RH 8.0 will take care of >> most of the desktop office app stuff, but the others I'm

Re: NT to Linux transition ideas/advice

There is some SAP stuff that runs on Linux, Don't know how much or exactly how it works?? (Never used any SAP stuff myself) But I read about this in ComputerWorld Magazine about 18 months ago. http://www.sap.com/linux/ On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 17:54, Henderson, TL Todd wrote: > I am currently tryi

logrotate error

Does anyone know what this error is and how to correct it. We had a situation when we rebooted our server that our BIOS battery went flat and jumped the clock to the year 2009. We have touched all the future dated files to 2002 but are still receiving this cron email each day. /etc/cron.daily/lo

Re: NT to Linux transition ideas/advice

Henderson, TL Todd said: > The main apps that will be of issue will be 2 CAD packages, > PRO/E and Unigraphics, metaphase, SAP, and the obvious desktop > office apps. I think the open office with RH 8.0 will take care of most > of the desktop office app stuff, but the others I'm not > so sure ab

NT to Linux transition ideas/advice

I am currently trying to plant the seed of transition from NT/2000 to Linux at the company I work at and was hoping to get some input from the Redhat list community. First some background. I am basically an end user of our desktops, but have knowledge of Linux because I manage and use a cluster/

Re: Why No Christmas Promo?

It would seem that your request has come true: http://www.redhat.com/apps/commerce/ -Jon On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 11:20, Dr. David M. Colburn wrote: > Am headed out to purchase RH8 at CompUSA today and noticed that there is > no sale promo. > > It seems odd that a company interested in enlarging it

Re: Fetchmail and Fetchmailconf

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 10 December 2002 09:05 am, Awuku Danso wrote: > Hi all > Does any anyone know where I can get a fetchmailconf rpm that will work > with the version of fetchmail (5.9.0-20.i386) that comes with RedHat > 8.0? I got hold of Fetchmailconf-5.9.

Re: Possible: Painless switch of hard drive to new box?

Put both hard drives in the old box, but booting off the old one. Then use fdisk to partition up the new drive the way you like (don't forget swap space). make your filesystems Then mount up the new partitions in temporary mount dirs and cp -a the old file-systems to the new hard drive partitio

Re: GRC Port Scan Question/IPTables

Slightly OFF-TOPIC, I have a Cable Modem that dishes out a DHCP address to my Linux Gateway/Firewall server behind which is my home network. I used to get scanned several times a day the time until I started dropping ICMP Echo-requests, now I only get scanned once or twice a week, and usually jus

Re: Question about Kernels

Joe Giles wrote: List, I was wondering. I want to play with building my own Kernel. My question is this. Can I download a Kernel from the source tree at kernel.org, say 2.5.50 (Just released) and use the Red Hat config file from an RPM installed kernel (/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-18.8.0/configs) and

Re: Question about Kernels

Joe Giles said: > List, > > I was wondering. I want to play with building my own Kernel. My question > is this. > > Can I download a Kernel from the source tree at kernel.org, say 2.5.50 > (Just released) and use the Red Hat config file from an RPM installed > kernel (/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-18.8.0/c

Re: Linux activex?

Codeweavers Crossover Office will let you run IE 5.5 SP1 I think that is what you mean On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 15:51, Jim Baxter wrote: > We have a need to run activeX on a Linux box so we can drop MS. Does > anyone know of a product that will let us do this? > > Thanks > > -- redhat-lis

Question about Kernels

List, I was wondering. I want to play with building my own Kernel. My question is this. Can I download a Kernel from the source tree at kernel.org, say 2.5.50 (Just released) and use the Red Hat config file from an RPM installed kernel (/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-18.8.0/configs) and compile it? Would

Re: postgresql database script idea

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 03:05, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08-Dec-2002/21:06 -0600, Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am working on porting an application to postgres and as I was tweaking > >the RI It dawned on me that I should go ahea

RE: Nautilus refuses to load/ can't use gnome

Hello, Thank you, Anthony for writing me back. > This is 'gconfd'. Try renaming your ~/.gconf directory. Still does the same thing. Jody -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

RE: AGGH! LI..... not LILO.... ???!!!!

Greg - Check this link for some info on LILO error messages: http://user.fundy.net/cyclist/linux/troubleshoot-LILO.html I got "LI" after installing RH 7.3 on an old Pentium 233. After reading the possibilities, I figured a drive geometry problem might be caused by an outdated BIOS. Updated the

Linux activex?

We have a need to run activeX on a Linux box so we can drop MS. Does anyone know of a product that will let us do this? Thanks -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

webserver help

I was working with apacheconf to configure a php application but it is not working correctly. Everytime I pull up the page it shows all the folders and not the index.php. I can click on it from there and then it works but when I logout again it goes back to the folders view. What is the pro

Re[2]: /proc not mounting on boot

On further investigation it seems my link /etc/init.d that is supposed to point to /etc/rc.d/init.d is gone. In trying to recreate it say's it's a read only file system. However, looking at mtab and the mount command shows it to be rw. Any ideas? Tuesday, December 10, 2002, 1:59:01 PM, you wrote

Re: /proc not mounting on boot

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Patrick Sitton wrote: > I could use a little help here please. I have a problem with my > Thinkpad 390x on boot with RH 8. During the startup process I get an > error that /proc can't be mounted. From there I get several errors > about not being able to find various commands.

Re: Nautilus refuses to load/ can't use gnome

On 10-Dec-2002/10:11 -0600, Jody Cleveland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm having a problem with redhat 8, where I can't get into gnome at all, I >have to use kde. Here's my problem: > >After startx and gnome just starts to load, a dialogue box comes up: > >There was an error starting the GNOME S

/proc not mounting on boot

I could use a little help here please. I have a problem with my Thinkpad 390x on boot with RH 8. During the startup process I get an error that /proc can't be mounted. From there I get several errors about not being able to find various commands. Errors like "Couldn't open /proc/partitions: No such

Re: Compiling 2.4.18 kernel - missing module-info file?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:06:51 -0800, Jeff Davis wrote: > >No. The module-info file is only for your Linux distributor's > >installation and hardware configuration utilities which maintain > >kernel driver entries in /etc/modules.conf. The file is not c

SNMP Trap Collection & Deduplication

I plan on trying out some network management type software on Redhat 8.0. I'm looking at playing around with OpenNMS, Nagios, and possibly Big Brother. One thing I'm looking for is deduplication of snmp traps, something like the commercial Micromuse Netcool product can do. If it receives a trap th

Re: Compiling 2.4.18 kernel - missing module-info file?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Davis wrote: | Huh. So, if I want or need to create a ramdisk image for the new | kernel, how do I get mkinitrd to quite whining about not being able to | find my ncr53c8xx module. The file (ncr53c8xx.o) is in the | /lib/modules/scsi directory.

RE: Installing Win98 on a linux box

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please do send it to me... I'm quite interested. - -Original Message- From: Reuben D. Budiardja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 11:49 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: Burke, Thomas G. Subject: Re: Installing Win98 on

Re: Compiling 2.4.18 kernel - missing module-info file?

At 09:46 AM 12/10/2002 +0100, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 09 Dec 2002 08:50:32 -0800, Jeff Davis wrote: *snip* > So, am I missing something obvious? Do I need to install an > additional package to make this work? modutils perhaps? No. The module-info file

Re:

Hi Gagman, Thanks for your reply, I tried to include the boot command "ide=nodma" but with no sucess. All I get is: Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 _ 2pin. ---Original Message--- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: > Sent: Dec 10 2002 17:2

Re: Presario 1500 hangs at Partition Check on RH8 install

I tried that, the text mode, rescue mode etc and nothing works. I am just so furstrated. There must be someone who has had the same issue with the Presario Laptops. On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:14:09 -0500 Ajith Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Rodolfo Can

RH8.0 halts after partition check.

Hello all, I would happy if anyone has an idea why after installing RH8.0 the machine boots on it's own up until the partition check when it halts after displaying the hda etc. info. I do not think that the problem is with the partitions as I have tried many configurations (the disk was empty

RE: Mozilla Crashes

I agree. Tried that (actually deleted the whole thing and started it from scratch) but it didn't work. If I login as myself it works fine (hence the $HOME/.mozilla suspission). Is a puzzlement. This morning I am going to go to the mozilla site and get the latest stable release and see if that fix

RE: Mozilla Crashes

No it was just fine. It was for our Search & Rescue group. Free tri-tip & ham we bring the sides. Didn't want to miss it just to mess with Mozilla hahaha. Terry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dave Ihnat Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 6:1

Re: Misbehaving Linux Routers

rahul b jain cs student wrote: What happens next is very strange. I open the network configuration tool, look up all the setting without modifying any entry. Click on apply and then type the command 'service network restart'. Once the network is restarted, if I try to ping to the any router / def

Re: Misbehaving Linux Routers

Login as root and # ifconfig You should see the interfaces eth0 thru eth? Insure they are sending and receiving packets, if they exist. If they don't exist, check your /var/log/boot.log and see why they didn't initialize. I've seen some Nics just don't initialize properly on startup even tho

Re: Installing Win98 on a linux box

On Monday 09 December 2002 03:46 pm, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: > Hey gang, > > I've got to do some develompnet for a USB solution, & my Windows > machine's USB stuff doesn't seem to be working. Is it possible for > me to install Win98 on my linux server, such that I can occasionally > take it

Re: help with bootable raid

Bill Dossett wrote: Does anyone from redhat ever hang out on these lists? Yes, they do--but you'll find them more frequently on the lists for new releases (psyche-list right now) than on the main redhat-list. Remember that most of the time that the good people at Redhat spend replying to t

Re: Acrobat 5 with RH8.0 won't work

On Tuesday 10 December 2002 15:41, Hardy Merrill wrote: > Lucky for you, someone I work with just ran into that problem > the other day. The problem seems to be that Acrobat does not > like the RH8.0 default of UTF-8 - it expects ISO8859-1. The > way we got around that was to create this alias in

search for telnet logging

Update I posted a request looking for a telnet package which would allow me to log the session. It was suggested I look at turning logging on in an xterm session. With RedHat this capablite is turned off. I finally had a look at the source code (I am not a good programmer) and found note saying

RE: Apache Config

Rick, I found the archive in question, however I'm having a bit of a hard time understanding it all. Since I am a newbie to RH/Apache, some of this is beyond my brain right now. Hopefully, I can figure it all out. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Rick Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Nautilus refuses to load/ can't use gnome

Hello, I'm having a problem with redhat 8, where I can't get into gnome at all, I have to use kde. Here's my problem: After startx and gnome just starts to load, a dialogue box comes up: There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background set

RH8.0 halts after partition check.

Hello all, I would happy if anyone has an idea why after installing RH8.0 the machine boots on it's own up until the partition check when it halts after displaying the hda etc. info. I do not think that the problem is with the partitions as I have tried many configurations (the disk was empty

Re: Presario 1500 hangs at Partition Check on RH8 install

El mar, 10-12-2002 a las 16:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > Dear Linux Mentors: > > Please help with this issue. Compaq Presario 1516US laptop hangs at Partition > Check: If anybody in this list have some tips, please help as it is impacting > my paycheck severely. I need Linux terribly. Hel

Presario 1500 hangs at Partition Check on RH8 install

Dear Linux Mentors: Please help with this issue. Compaq Presario 1516US laptop hangs at Partition Check: If anybody in this list have some tips, please help as it is impacting my paycheck severely. I need Linux terribly. Help, Help, Help. I have been to Linux on Laptop links and other posts.

Re: Apache Config

Delao, Darryl W wrote: I need to know the best way to configure an apache server to handle roughly 1000 requests at any given time. I have seen where it is possible to change some settings, then apache has to be recompiled. Does anyone know what these settings are and how to re compile apache?

Apache Config

I need to know the best way to configure an apache server to handle roughly 1000 requests at any given time. I have seen where it is possible to change some settings, then apache has to be recompiled. Does anyone know what these settings are and how to re compile apache? Thanks! -- redhat-l

Re: Possible: Painless switch of hard drive to new box?

Ryan, I've used this method with surprising success on linux and windows system alike. For example, I have a couple of desktop systems that are clones of my laptop. Boot up both systems with the bootnet.img and use "linux rescue" at the boot prompt. (You'll need a network source for the redha

Re: launching additional X sessions?

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 16:28, ABrady wrote: > On 09 Dec 2002 15:38:41, gregory mott wrote: > > how do i allow non-root users to launch an additional X session in a > > virtual terminal? (rh7.3) > > > > root can do it like so: > > xinit /usr/bin/gnome-session -- :1 > > > > but if any other user tr

zip250

Acutally I got it to work, horray! I went here and got the info: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Linux/Q_11381978.html Just added a few modules and away I went. thanks -Chris >The "Using a Parallel-Port ZIP Drive" section at: > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/articl

Re: Acrobat 5 with RH8.0 won't work

Lucky for you, someone I work with just ran into that problem the other day. The problem seems to be that Acrobat does not like the RH8.0 default of UTF-8 - it expects ISO8859-1. The way we got around that was to create this alias in .bashrc: alias acroread='LANG=en_US.iso885915 /usr/bin/acro

Re: Acrobat 5 with RH8.0 won't work

Roger Harrington wrote: Can someone "spoonfeed" me on how to get Acrobat working? What locale are you running with? I live in England with my system set accordingly, and one of the latest Mozilla builds reading what appeared to be locale information... I suspect commonality between the two

Re: FTP trouble at the iptables firewall of the Redhat Linux.

Wow, how complicated. Seems like you could just set your INPUT and FORWARD default policies to ACCEPT. I mean you ACCEPT everything NEW, RELATED, ESTABLISHED both in INPUT, and in FORWARD. The only thing you are doing is protecting yourself from scans with invalid TCP/IP flag combinations. I ha

SCSI 320 in RH 8?

Are any SCSI 320 cards supported in RH 8? I tried looking in the hardware compatibility page but navigating that thing is hell. For what its worth FreeBSD 4.7 does and Linux usually stays up with *BSD and vice versa on these kind of things. Thnx folks. ~Christopher -- redhat-list mailing lis

Re: help with bootable raid

Ben Russo wrote: Well, I guess that might be a bug, open a bug in RedHat's Bugzilla, you might get a free T-shirt out of it. ok.. I haven't done that before, some morning around 4am when I have some time to myself, might give it a try ;-) But I think that their answer will be that softwa

Fetchmail and Fetchmailconf

Hi all Does any anyone know where I can get a fetchmailconf rpm that will work with the version of fetchmail (5.9.0-20.i386) that comes with RedHat 8.0? I got hold of Fetchmailconf-5.9.0-20.i386.rpm which happens to have the same version number as the mail program itself but it wouldn't run af

truetype fonts can slow down system?

hi some time ago a lot of fonts used to slow down windows. does the same happen with linux (xfs)? yours josef -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: launching additional X sessions?

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 16:28, ABrady wrote: > On 09 Dec 2002 15:38:41, gregory mott wrote: > > how do i allow non-root users to launch an additional X session in a > > virtual terminal? (rh7.3) > > > > root can do it like so: > > xinit /usr/bin/gnome-session -- :1 > > > > but if any other user tr

Re: how about phoenix?

On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 07:20, Kevin MacNeil wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:53:36AM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > Mozilla has some times a bug or so, and it's probably still not > > perfect, but in case of problems with a Mozilla.rpm I'd simply try to > > get the original stuff from

Re: In need of a UPS

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 06:38:42AM -0500, fred smith wrote: > I don't mean to refute those who say APC makes good UPSes,... I haven't > used that brand. Hmm...I will, and I have. APC software runs deep-cycles on the batteries; effectively, the batteries MUST be replaced every two years in 24x7 se

Re: help with bootable raid

> > So... why, then, does the Redhat install default to grub, when I am > doing a bootable software raid install? Seems a bit silly to load up a > system that won't work... with no suggestions etc on how to fix it. > Well, I guess that might be a bug, open a bug in RedHat's Bugzilla, you mig

Re: Installation of redhat 8.0 fails on

Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Priority: NORMAL X-Mailer: Execmail for Win32 5.1.1 Build (10) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" I have tried that as well...same result. I believe to think this problem is related to a multiprocessor board with only one processor on b

Acrobat 5 with RH8.0 won't work

I have downloaded from the Adobe site, linux-506.tar.gz. It seemed to successfully install into my nominated directory: - /usr/local/Acrobat5; well, I didn't see any error messages generated! On running it by typing "acroread", I get after a couple of seconds, Warning : charset "UTF-8" not suppo

how about phoenix?

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:53:36AM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Mozilla has some times a bug or so, and it's probably still not > perfect, but in case of problems with a Mozilla.rpm I'd simply try to > get the original stuff from mozilla.org ... and in case your machine is > faster than t

Re: Possible: Painless switch of hard drive to new box?

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 07:14:03AM +, Ryan wrote: > I've got hundred of hours invested into my redhat 7.3 box software > configuration, but I'd like to move the system to a faster CPU, hard drive, > etc. My problem is that I would like to maintain all the following during > the switch: [...

Re: GRC Port Scan Question/IPTables

Thanks to everyone to suggested rejecting packets instead of dropping them. I should be able to make that change soon, and I'll let you know if it helped. Thank you! -- Jeff Stillwall [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https:

upgrade to RH8.0

I upgrade my RH7.3 to 8.0 and my gnome session look now pretty bad. It seems be a font problem because I could'n see any text, but anything else work good. What's my problem? Forgot a package? dc -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subj

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