Samba problem. Folder permission change not allowed.

2002-12-12 Thread Radu Popa
Hi! Here is what I want to do: I have a server runing samba in a mixed Lin/Win domain. In the same pc I have 2 hard disks: 1 for linux, and the other one it is the old hard disk in the pc where it used to be windows 98 os. All the shares on the linux hdd work just fine for r/w. I have mounted the

Re: driver problem

2002-12-12 Thread nate
Patrick Law said: > I having some problem with few network cards, can anyone recommend some > website that I can download driver from? (beside the vendor website) depends on the card.. but the best place I have found is http://www.scyld.com/network tons of drivers there, and instructions on how

Re: driver problem

2002-12-12 Thread Teodor Georgiev
    In my opinion the Linux kernel has inside the drivers for 97% of the network cards that one can see on the market :) Which exactly you have problem with?   - Original Message - From: Patrick Law To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 9:38 AM Su

driver problem

2002-12-12 Thread Patrick Law
I having some problem with few network cards, can anyone recommend some website that I can download driver from? (beside the vendor website)   Are there documentations around for compiling network card drivers?   -Patrick

Re: Boot up Problem. Plz Help.

2002-12-12 Thread ABrady
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 19:14:30 -0500 (EST) rahul b jain cs student <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI, > > This problem is related to X-windows boot up. After every couple of > days, my machines fails to boot up in the x-windows mode. When I > delete some of the log files, it boots up properly in the

Re: GUI Performance

2002-12-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 14:11, Jim Slocomb wrote: > > When comparing the performance of the GIU and related applications Open > Office or Star Office take minutes to load where MS Office 2000 on Win2K pro > will take 10-15 seconds on the same machine. That is unfortunately normal for that applicati

RE: Only static IPs works, DHCP hangs .....

2002-12-12 Thread Cameron . Davidson
Mike, I noticed you said you were running linuxconf - which RH version are you using? I though linuxconf had been retired from recent systems - I didn't get it on a recent clean 7.3 installation but it was left in place after a 6.2 to 7.3 upgrade. there's been lots of useful info so far

RE: Dell(TM) PowerEdge(TM) Web Server Version 3.1 Powered by RedHat Linux

2002-12-12 Thread fluke
I can not find any such written notice right now at the URL you give below. The General Public License states that the notice must be given at the time of redistribution of the GPL work. Is there someplace on the Dell website that I can download the Dell PowerEdge Web Server Version 3.1 Power

Possible GPL violation by Red Hat/Dell alliance

2002-12-12 Thread fluke
I am working with friends in the GNU/Linux Users of Northern Illinois on putting together a web page detailing the issues with the following product: Dell(TM) PowerEdge(TM) Web Server Version 3.1 Powered by Red Hat Linux I am seeking any feedback which would indicate if any of the claims

Re: backup file to cdrom

2002-12-12 Thread Yoink!
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Jianping Zhu wrote: > I tried but get error msg, > no manual entry for cdrecord > no manual entry for mkisofs > what can i do next? > > Thanks > > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Yoink! wrote: > > > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Jianping Zhu wrote: > > > what is the command to backup files (direct

Re: backup file to cdrom

2002-12-12 Thread Jianping Zhu
I tried but get error msg, no manual entry for cdrecord no manual entry for mkisofs what can i do next? Thanks On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Yoink! wrote: > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Jianping Zhu wrote: > > what is the command to backup files (directories) to CDROM in linux? > > man mkisofs > man cdrecord >

Re: backup file to cdrom

2002-12-12 Thread Yoink!
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Jianping Zhu wrote: > what is the command to backup files (directories) to CDROM in linux? man mkisofs man cdrecord -- \ \/ / _ |~\ _ In God We Trust. All Others Pay Cash. > < / \|\ /|+-< | |"The world is a comedy to those that think, / /\ \\_/| \/ ||__)|_|

backup file to cdrom

2002-12-12 Thread Jianping Zhu
what is the command to backup files (directories) to CDROM in linux? Thanks Jianping Zhu Department of Computer Science Univerity of Georgia Athens, GA 30602 Tel 706 5423900 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EM

CD-RW (scsi)

2002-12-12 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
I've got a Yamaha CRW4416SX CD-RW (scsi) on an Adaptec AHA-2940/2940W SCSI PCI controller. This drive used to work fine as a RW under RH 7.3. Since I've upgraded to 8.0 however, I can only burn disks. I can't use RW CD's (which is really bothering me because I use them to backup data). Anybody

Re: USB mouse How to configure? novice need help

2002-12-12 Thread Edward Dekkers
> 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? OK, the fact that you don't have a /proc/bus/usb is problem #1. First off -

Re: Re: Total nOOb question: uninstalling software (Ben Russo)

2002-12-12 Thread Alex RENE
Thanks Ben!! That little script idea will certainly come very handy!! > Message: 1 > Subject: Re: Total nOOb question: uninstalling software > From: Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Organization: > Date: 12 Dec 2002 14:30:31 -0500 > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Wed,

Re: File Sizes

2002-12-12 Thread Alex Janssen
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 04:10, IS Department wrote: > I would like to get a listing of the 100 or 500 or 1000 largest files on my system. >Does anyone know of a command or script to do this? I would want file name/location >and size in bytes. > > Thanks Try : find . -size +2000 -size -400

Samba vs. WIndows XP

2002-12-12 Thread Linux Admin
I am trying to access a Samba share from a Windows XP PC. The share is configured with SHARE security mode. Guest access is disabled. The "valid user" entry has the user ID with which I want to access. I have done "cat /etc/passwd |mksmbpasswd.sh >/etc/samba/smbpasswd". The smb password file is poi

RE: Linux Kernel Configurator

2002-12-12 Thread Adam H. Pendleton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 No, there is no other way. Consider the Linux Kernel Configurator a pretty replacement for the "make xconfig" command. ahp > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Behalf Of Ted Gervais > Sent: Thursd

Re: LPI or RHCE?

2002-12-12 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Ben Russo wrote: [...] > A person who is a UNIX guru, and knew PC hardware well, > could take the RHCE and pass it *IF* he just had more time > to take the EXAM. Maybe, maybe not. There are things which are very Linux (and PC) specific. E.g. the bootloaders. And various othe

Re: boot error with grub..

2002-12-12 Thread Rick Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Gervais wrote: | I am trying to install a new kernel in grub and this is what I have added: | | title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-18.8.0ax25) | root (hd1,0) | kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-18.8.0ax25 ro root=LABEL=/1 hdd=ide-scsi | initr

boot error with grub..

2002-12-12 Thread Ted Gervais
I am trying to install a new kernel in grub and this is what I have added: title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-18.8.0ax25) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-18.8.0ax25 ro root=LABEL=/1 hdd=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.18-18.8.0ax25.img It is identical to the 'block' before it,

Re: Boot up Problem. Plz Help.

2002-12-12 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, rahul b jain cs student wrote: > HI, > > This problem is related to X-windows boot up. After every couple of days, > my machines fails to boot up in the x-windows mode. When I delete some of > the log files, it boots up properly in the X-windows mode. > > Is there a permanen

Re: audio cd in red hat

2002-12-12 Thread Ben Russo
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 17:44, greg wrote: > All sorted now. Thanks Ben. The setting were turned off as default. > > regards Greg > > On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 06:04, Ben Russo wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 03:12, greg wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I can't play music cds on my computer under RH8. The

Re: GRUB

2002-12-12 Thread Keith W. Sheffield
> "Ted" == Ted Gervais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now with that said - how do I amend the grub config file found in > /boot/grub. Do I just edit it as I would lilo.conf? Or is there a more > sophisticated way of doing it? You can just edit them, but I _think_ that when you add or remove

Re: grub and .img files

2002-12-12 Thread Keith W. Sheffield
> "Ted" == Ted Gervais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here is a portion of my grub.conf file and I am wondering how to make the > *.img files? (ie: /initrd-2.4.18-18.8.0.img) mkinitrd is what creates these files. It's manual page does a good job of explaining how to use it. The simplest

Re: GRUB

2002-12-12 Thread Ben Russo
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 19:17, Ted Gervais wrote: > I am new to GRUB but am willing to learn it. Lilo was becoming 'old hat' so I > did an 'install' of Redhat8.0 and allowed GRUB to become the Linux loader. > > Now with that said - how do I amend the grub config file found in /boot/grub. > Do I j

Re: grub and .img files

2002-12-12 Thread Thornton Prime
> > Here is a portion of my grub.conf file and I am wondering how to make > the *.img files? (ie: /initrd-2.4.18-18.8.0.img) The easiest way is with the mkinitrd command. man mkinitrd for details. If you install or remove a RedHat kernel RPM it should add or remove associated initrd's. thor

Re: KDE vs Gnome

2002-12-12 Thread Keith W. Sheffield
> "-Taylor" == -Taylor - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > An age old question for the collective...KDE or Gnome... > Greetings all! I have an older (266MHz 96MB RAM) PC running RedHat 7.3. It > plods along at a decent rate. I installed the KDE desktop just out of force > of habit and was won

Boot up Problem. Plz Help.

2002-12-12 Thread rahul b jain cs student
HI, This problem is related to X-windows boot up. After every couple of days, my machines fails to boot up in the x-windows mode. When I delete some of the log files, it boots up properly in the X-windows mode. Is there a permanent solution to this problem ? Thanks, Rahul. -- redhat-list ma

Linux Kernel Configurator

2002-12-12 Thread Ted Gervais
I just found this 'Linux Kernel Configurator' in Kcontrol>System of KDE and I am running just how to use it? I already went through the various paramaters of the Kernel and made the changes needed, and than saved the file to the Kernels directory as .config. Now that I did all that, how are t

RE: Redhat Advanced Server 2.1 and Sendmail configuration?

2002-12-12 Thread Justin M. Lokitz
It workedthank you. -Justin --- "Cowles, Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Justin M. Lokitz > > Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 3:12 PM > > Subject: RE: Redhat Advanced Server 2.1 and > Sendmail configuration? > > > > > > I am not getting a server

Re: grub and .img files

2002-12-12 Thread Rick Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Gervais wrote: | Here is a portion of my grub.conf file and I am wondering how to make the | *.img files? (ie: /initrd-2.4.18-18.8.0.img) | | - | title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-18.8.0) | root (hd1,0) | kernel /vmlinuz-2

Re: LPI or RHCE?

2002-12-12 Thread Ben Russo
I agree with almost everything you said. Just have something to add. Having taken and passed the RHCE myself.. A person who is a UNIX guru, and knew PC hardware well, could take the RHCE and pass it *IF* he just had more time to take the EXAM. A person who knows RedHat on PC hardware extremely we

grub and .img files

2002-12-12 Thread Ted Gervais
Here is a portion of my grub.conf file and I am wondering how to make the *.img files? (ie: /initrd-2.4.18-18.8.0.img) - title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-18.8.0) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-18.8.0 ro root=LABEL=/1 hdd=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.18-18.8

Re: Is there a list of chkconfig --list descriptions

2002-12-12 Thread Bret Hughes
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 16:47, Ben Russo wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 17:26, Søren Neigaard wrote: > > Is there somewhere I can find a description of each service in > > chkconfig --list so I know what I need running and what I don't? > > > > -- > > Med venlig hilsen/Best regards, > > Søren Neiga

RE: Redhat 8.0 Questions

2002-12-12 Thread Engstrom_Carl
I guess I need to clarify. I'm using 2 addresses from my IPS for a number of reasons. I can't have the RH system running as a client off the router. Both addresses are in fact dynamic from my provider, thus the need for dyndns. So my config looks more like: ISP <-> Cable Modem <-> D-Link <-> Sw

GRUB

2002-12-12 Thread Ted Gervais
I am new to GRUB but am willing to learn it. Lilo was becoming 'old hat' so I did an 'install' of Redhat8.0 and allowed GRUB to become the Linux loader. Now with that said - how do I amend the grub config file found in /boot/grub. Do I just edit it as I would lilo.conf? Or is there a more sop

Re: KDE vs Gnome

2002-12-12 Thread Johnathan Bailes
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 17:52, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > On 12-Dec-2002/14:54 -0600, -Taylor - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >An age old question for the collective...KDE or Gnome... > > > >Greetings all! I have an older (266MHz 96MB RAM) PC running RedHat 7.3. It > >plods along at a decent rate.

Re: Is there a list of chkconfig --list descriptions

2002-12-12 Thread mklinke
View the files in: /etc/init.d and /etc/xinetd.d as each one begins with a short sentence describing what it's for. For more info you can hit the man pages for each service. Regards, Mike Klinke On Thursday 12 December 2002 22:26, Søren Neigaard wrote: > Is there somewhere I can find a descr

Re: Disk Druid use after install - Fin

2002-12-12 Thread Bob Hartung
Thanks to Michael and Robert. I'll read up on parted. Thanks again, Bob Michael Schwendt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:12:01 -0600, Bob Hartung wrote: Does anyone know is DiskDruid is available after install to modify partitions on an EMPTY

Re: Is there a list of chkconfig --list descriptions

2002-12-12 Thread Randy Franklin
Just type... bash# chkconfig --list And remember than "man" is your friend. Deciding on what you wish to run or not depends on what you plan to do. RH8 is pretty nice about turning most superfluous services off as default, but you may still be able to trim it down. It really just depends an

Re: Is there a list of chkconfig --list descriptions

2002-12-12 Thread Terry Moore-Read
Actually chkconfig also lists services handled by xinetd  so you will need to look in /etc/xinetd.d too   Terry Moore-ReadLukins & Annis, P.S.RedHat Certified Engineer #808002961106871>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/12/02 02:47PM >>>On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 17:26, Søren Neigaard wrote:> Is there somew

Re: Composing accented characters using UK keyboard

2002-12-12 Thread Michael Leuty
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 20:16, Michael Leuty wrote: > I am aware that I can change the keyboard layout to US International and > then use dead keys, but I wondered if there is any way of generating > these characters using the UK English keyboard layout? Excuse me answering my own post. I've found t

Re: KDE vs Gnome

2002-12-12 Thread Anthony E. Greene
On 12-Dec-2002/14:54 -0600, -Taylor - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >An age old question for the collective...KDE or Gnome... > >Greetings all! I have an older (266MHz 96MB RAM) PC running RedHat 7.3. It >plods along at a decent rate. I installed the KDE desktop just out of force >of habit and wa

Re: LPI or RHCE?

2002-12-12 Thread Jose Vicente Nunez Z
Hello to all, On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 16:11, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: > > > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Patrick Law wrote: > > > > > > > I don't have a lot experience in Linux, > > > > This is a key issue. You will have a very hard time going for RHCE > >

Re: Is there a list of chkconfig --list descriptions

2002-12-12 Thread Ben Russo
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 17:26, Søren Neigaard wrote: > Is there somewhere I can find a description of each service in > chkconfig --list so I know what I need running and what I don't? > > -- > Med venlig hilsen/Best regards, > Søren Neigaard mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > "The test of a first-ra

Re: GUI Performance

2002-12-12 Thread Ben Russo
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 17:11, Jim Slocomb wrote: > Hi all, > Please excuse a possibly dumb question from a newbie. I am evaluating rh8 > for a small local government and a couple of local NGOs. So far the most > significant single glitch I have encountered is the extremely slow speed of > the graphi

Re: audio cd in red hat

2002-12-12 Thread greg
All sorted now. Thanks Ben. The setting were turned off as default. regards Greg On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 06:04, Ben Russo wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 03:12, greg wrote: > > Hi, > > I can't play music cds on my computer under RH8. The Red Hat > > documentation points you towards a program in

RE: Redhat Advanced Server 2.1 and Sendmail configuration?

2002-12-12 Thread Cowles, Steve
> -Original Message- > From: Justin M. Lokitz > Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 3:12 PM > Subject: RE: Redhat Advanced Server 2.1 and Sendmail configuration? > > > I am not getting a server error, rather, I am not able > to Telnet to port 25. I did restart Sendmail and got > the follow

Re: Decent Word / Excel Conversion: Not yet?

2002-12-12 Thread Bret Hughes
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 16:08, Rick Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > James Francis wrote: > | Raj, Well-worded. > | Like it or not, and trust me I hate it, Microsoft Word is a standard. For > | what it is worth, I receive .lwp documents from IBM all the time. I

RE: Only static IPs works, DHCP hangs .....

2002-12-12 Thread Chris Watt
At 09:34 2002/12/12 -0600, you wrote: This is not a silly question at all because I do not know much about configuring DHCP. The answer to your question is none of them. The only thing that I did was click the DHCP button in linuxconf on the nic that needs to be hooked up to my ISP. I must now

Is there a list of chkconfig --list descriptions

2002-12-12 Thread Søren Neigaard
Is there somewhere I can find a description of each service in chkconfig --list so I know what I need running and what I don't? -- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards, Søren Neigaard mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mi

Re: Disk Druid use after install

2002-12-12 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:12:01 -0600, Bob Hartung wrote: > Does anyone know is DiskDruid is available after install to modify > partitions on an EMPTY harddrive - hdb that was set up as a single > data directory but now needs to be partition prior to

Re: Disk Druid use after install

2002-12-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Bob Hartung wrote: > Does anyone know is DiskDruid is available after install to modify > partitions on an EMPTY harddrive - hdb that was set up as a single data > directory but now needs to be partition prior to storing any data? install time only. rday -- redhat-li

GUI Performance

2002-12-12 Thread Jim Slocomb
Hi all, Please excuse a possibly dumb question from a newbie. I am evaluating rh8 for a small local government and a couple of local NGOs. So far the most significant single glitch I have encountered is the extremely slow speed of the graphic interface. The platform is my 750mhz laptop with 256 mb

Re: Decent Word / Excel Conversion: Not yet?

2002-12-12 Thread Rick Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Francis wrote: | Raj, Well-worded. | Like it or not, and trust me I hate it, Microsoft Word is a standard. For | what it is worth, I receive .lwp documents from IBM all the time. I can't | open them up in OpenOffice and I can't open them up in

Disk Druid use after install

2002-12-12 Thread Bob Hartung
Does anyone know is DiskDruid is available after install to modify partitions on an EMPTY harddrive - hdb that was set up as a single data directory but now needs to be partition prior to storing any data? TIA Bob -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsu

Re: LPI or RHCE?

2002-12-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote: > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Patrick Law wrote: > > > > I don't have a lot experience in Linux, > > This is a key issue. You will have a very hard time going for RHCE > and I suspect likely for LPI as well. admittedly, i don't know as much about these a

Re: KDE vs Gnome

2002-12-12 Thread Ben Russo
IMHO, they are both big resource hogs. But I like them both on high powered workstations. :-) For my older boxes I use TWM or FVWM2. I've heard that blackbox is really good too. (you can get good RPM's for blackbox at freshrms.net) -Ben. On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 15:54, -Taylor - wrote: > An age ol

RE: Redhat Advanced Server 2.1 and Sendmail configuration?

2002-12-12 Thread Justin M. Lokitz
I am not getting a server error, rather, I am not able to Telnet to port 25. I did restart Sendmail and got the following output from "netstat -pant|grep :25": [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]#tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 911/sendmail: accep Thank you, Justi

Re: LPI or RHCE?

2002-12-12 Thread Ryurick M. Hristev
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Patrick Law wrote: > I don't have a lot experience in Linux, This is a key issue. You will have a very hard time going for RHCE and I suspect likely for LPI as well. > but I got some experience in Windows 2000 networks. Except for the very basic stuff (like basic TCP/IP ne

Re: KDE vs Gnome

2002-12-12 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 14:54, -Taylor - wrote: > An age old question for the collective...KDE or Gnome... > > Greetings all! I have an older (266MHz 96MB RAM) PC running RedHat 7.3. It > plods along at a decent rate. I installed the KDE desktop just out of force > of habit and was wondering if

Re: LPI or RHCE?

2002-12-12 Thread Francisco Neira
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Law wrote: | Hi, | | | | I don't have a lot experience in Linux, but I got some experience in | Windows 2000 networks. If I want to go for Linux certification, should I | go for LPI or RHCE? Any comment for these exams? Which one is more popula

RE: Decent Word / Excel Conversion: Not yet?

2002-12-12 Thread James Francis
Raj, Well-worded. Like it or not, and trust me I hate it, Microsoft Word is a standard. For what it is worth, I receive .lwp documents from IBM all the time. I can't open them up in OpenOffice and I can't open them up in Microsoft Word. After research, I realized that lwp is for Lotus Word Pro.

KDE vs Gnome

2002-12-12 Thread -Taylor -
An age old question for the collective...KDE or Gnome... Greetings all! I have an older (266MHz 96MB RAM) PC running RedHat 7.3. It plods along at a decent rate. I installed the KDE desktop just out of force of habit and was wondering if Gnome would run quicker or if there is really no drast

Re: Decent Word / Excel Conversion: Not yet?

2002-12-12 Thread Ben Russo
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 15:32, Michael A. Peters wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 08:30, Ed Wilts wrote: > > That's naive. The vast majority of us have absolutely no control over > > somebody else's desktops. What if you decided to start sending me MS > > Word documents? Are you going to let me chan

RE: Problem with man pages

2002-12-12 Thread James Francis
> -Original Message- > From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 2:15 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Problem with man pages > > > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Michael Tyrrell wrote: > > > I am running Red Hat 8.0 If I try to read the man pag

Re: Decent Word / Excel Conversion: Not yet?

2002-12-12 Thread Michael A. Peters
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 08:30, Ed Wilts wrote: > That's naive. The vast majority of us have absolutely no control over > somebody else's desktops. What if you decided to start sending me MS > Word documents? Are you going to let me change your desktop? What > about my customers? > > We need good

Re: Redhat Advanced Server 2.1 and Sendmail configuration?

2002-12-12 Thread Ben Russo
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 13:51, Justin M. Lokitz wrote: > I would like to use the > preinstalled version of Sendmail on one of the > machines to receive outside email. I read over some of > the forums out there and learned that Redhat's 7.1+ > version of sendmail is pre-configured to inly listen > to

Composing accented characters using UK keyboard

2002-12-12 Thread Michael Leuty
I live in England, have a UK English keyboard, and usually type in English. So far so good. But sometimes I try to type in French, and need to generate characters with accents that do not appear on the UK English keyboard. I am aware that I can change the keyboard layout to US International and the

Re: browser discrimination article

2002-12-12 Thread Ben Russo
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 10:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > > I remember having seen a web page which explained why its a bad idea to create > a web page for a specific browser. I beleive it was posted in this list but I > can't find the link to the article. > > The basic point of the arti

RE: Redhat Advanced Server 2.1 and Sendmail configuration?

2002-12-12 Thread Cowles, Steve
> -Original Message- > From: Justin M. Lokitz > Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 12:51 PM > Subject: Redhat Advanced Server 2.1 and Sendmail configuration? > > > I have successfully installed Redhat AS2.1 on two > machines, however, I would like to use the > preinstalled version of Sendm

How to enable MSN Messenger uploads

2002-12-12 Thread cotty
How to enable MSN Messenger uploads from within a masq net behind a linux firewall with RedHat 8.0 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Custom kernel support

2002-12-12 Thread Warren Sypteras
Thanks for the reply but let me refine the question a bit. Let's say you wanted to enable a kernel option that by default is disabled in the out of the box kernel and is not a option that can be passed on the boot line or some other method? You've probably wanted or needed to do this at some poi

Re: LPI or RHCE?

2002-12-12 Thread Ben Russo
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 02:31, nate wrote: > Patrick Law said: > > If I want to go for Linux certification, should I go for LPI or RHCE? Any > > comment for these two exams? Which one is more popular if I using it to > > apply job. > > not completely related, but as a linux "expert" whos been lookin

RE: Decent Word / Excel Conversion: Not yet?

2002-12-12 Thread Periyasamy, Raj
You are contradicting your own statement. Just because you want to use a particular format, does not mean every one should change over to that format. The solution is compatibility and conversion tools. Every document format has its own advantages and disadvantages. Hence, you can not expect people

Re: Custom kernel support

2002-12-12 Thread Ben Russo
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 22:01, Warren Sypteras wrote: > Folks; > > I read that Red Hat no longer supports custom kernels. I take that to > mean any rebuilt kernel. My quesiton is: What happens to customers that > have to re-compile to add support for hardware? > > Thanks > > Warren I guess that

Re: Total nOOb question: uninstalling software

2002-12-12 Thread Ben Russo
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 11:27, Alex RENE wrote: > Hi all... I know, it's REALLY a nOOb type of question but... How do you > uninstall stuff you did not install by RPMs like from tar.gz and the > likes ... I have WAY too many browsers installed on my machine, and I d > like to get rid of a few other t

Re: Please help me with this kernel problem

2002-12-12 Thread Ben Russo
Does the box work with the stock RedHat SMP i586 kernels? If so then you may be choosing a combination of config options that doesn't work well together. I have this problem myself quite a lot. What I usually do is load the /boot/config-* for the RedHat stock kernel that works in make xconfig. T

Re: Problem with man pages

2002-12-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Michael Tyrrell wrote: > I am running Red Hat 8.0 If I try to read the man pages I get the > garbage you see below. This problem is on all servers I install Red Hat > on. I have this problem no matter how I access the server Xwindows or > Telnet. I've also tried different term

Re: Problem with man pages

2002-12-12 Thread mklinke
Michael, Take a look at "man less" . The section on character sets and locale may be appropriate to your case since the man pages are displayed via the "less" program according to "man man". I use RH 7.3 and I'm going to assume that 8.0 operates the same for this reply. If not, disregard this

Re: File System Errors

2002-12-12 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 02:00:54PM -0500, Ben Russo wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 01:04, Dale Satterfield wrote: > > Maybe someone from RedHat could tell us all what the magic > command line option for the rescue CD is to boot from the > rescue CD but *NOT* mount the filesystems? I use the resc

Re: Decent Word / Excel Conversion: Not yet?

2002-12-12 Thread gabriel
On December 12, 2002 11:30 am, Ed Wilts wrote: > We need good conversion tools, that's all there is to it. We need to > play in their world, not assume world domination by making them change. it may sound naive, but it's not. how else can we expect people to stop using proprietary formats? wai

Anyone familar with autoupdate?

2002-12-12 Thread James Pifer
I posted this message to the autoupdate list this morning, but I have not seen a single message come in from the list, including my own. Someone on this list mentioned autoupdate, which is how I found out about it. Can anyone here give me a hand? Thanks, James

Re: Redhat 8.0 samba setup

2002-12-12 Thread Samuel Flory
Jeremiah Johnson wrote: Ok, according to the rpm package GUI, the samba components are installed, but I have no clue on how to configure it to let me see my windows box on the network, and vice versa, if anyone could point me in the right direction, i'd be VERY happy. A couple of more ways t

Re: audio cd in red hat

2002-12-12 Thread Ben Russo
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 03:12, greg wrote: > Hi, > I can't play music cds on my computer under RH8. The Red Hat > documentation points you towards a program in menu/sound&video/CD > Player, but this is not in my menu. I installed the complete package > (everything), so it should be there really. W

Re: Problem with man pages

2002-12-12 Thread Rick Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Tyrrell wrote: | I am running Red Hat 8.0 If I try to read the man pages I get the | garbage you see below. This problem is on all servers I install Red Hat | on. I have this problem no matter how I access the server Xwindows or | Telnet. I've

Re: File System Errors

2002-12-12 Thread Ben Russo
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 01:04, Dale Satterfield wrote: > 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

Re: Redhat 8.0 Questions

2002-12-12 Thread Joe Polk
I'm confused. If you have static addresses, what do you want with DYNDNS? Stock fw for RH is ipchains/iptables. Why, if you're already behind a NAT router do you want to turn on NAT? Maybe I'm confused about your router. You will make you're like MUCH simpler to let the router do NAT, give your R

Re: crontab

2002-12-12 Thread Ben Russo
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 21:18, Jianping Zhu wrote: > 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 *

Redhat Advanced Server 2.1 and Sendmail configuration?

2002-12-12 Thread Justin M. Lokitz
I have successfully installed Redhat AS2.1 on two machines, however, I would like to use the preinstalled version of Sendmail on one of the machines to receive outside email. I read over some of the forums out there and learned that Redhat's 7.1+ version of sendmail is pre-configured to inly listen

Problem with man pages

2002-12-12 Thread Michael Tyrrell
I am running Red Hat 8.0 If I try to read the man pages I get the garbage you see below. This problem is on all servers I install Red Hat on. I have this problem no matter how I access the server Xwindows or Telnet. I've also tried different terminal types. When I print the man page it looks just a

Re: backup script

2002-12-12 Thread Ben Russo
On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 21:11, Jianping Zhu wrote: > 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? Check this out. I use this on my machines to back up c

Redhat 8.0 Questions

2002-12-12 Thread Engstrom_Carl
I have a couple of questions that I would love to see if anyone can answer...Answer any or all of them...   Configuration: I'm Running Stock RH 8.0 (Fresh install) on an X86 system.  (2) NIC cards one attached to hub with cable modem and D-Link Router, other connected to switch and interna

[jkinz@rcn.com: Re: browser discrimination article]

2002-12-12 Thread jkinz
This URL: http://www.htmlhelp.com/feature/art2.htm is the web site I was looking for. The title of the page is: "This page optimized for ..." - arguing with customers - Excellent explanation of why you need to support ALL browsers on your web site. -- Jeff Kinz,

Custom kernel support

2002-12-12 Thread Warren Sypteras
Folks; I read that Red Hat no longer supports custom kernels. I take that to mean any rebuilt kernel. My quesiton is: What happens to customers that have to re-compile to add support for hardware? Thanks Warren begin:vcard n:Sypteras;Warren tel;cell:978-973-2311 tel;fax:508-841-3015 tel;home

just a minor problem

2002-12-12 Thread bbeanl1
My Redhat 8.0 system seems to work fine in all the windows I open up in GNOME. The only problems is that it hangs and I have to reboot if I go into the preferences window (the "preferences://" page). Anybody have any idea what's wrong? I was getting the same problem earlier with just browsing

Re: Red hat free download vs. Advanced server

2002-12-12 Thread Ski Dawg
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 18:16, Periyasamy, Raj wrote: > Hello Experts, > What is the key difference between the Red hat free download and Red hat > Advanced Server 2.1. Can the free download version bee a full functional > server ? > > Regards, > > Raj For a starter comparison, check out http://ww

Re: Red hat free download vs. Advanced server

2002-12-12 Thread Joseph A Nagy Jr
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 12:16, Periyasamy, Raj wrote: > Hello Experts, > What is the key difference between the Red hat free download and Red hat > Advanced Server 2.1. Can the free download version bee a full functional > server ? > > Regards, > > Raj > > > Yes, it can. I'm currently running 4

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