Re: RH 8 - Default GNOME and KDE Installations

2002-12-25 Thread Aly Dharshi
Go to KDE or GNOME's site download the package and then read the INSTALL file or thereof that is equivalent and compile away. Cheers, Aly. On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 00:22, David Giraud wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm writing a paper for school comparing the KDE and GNOME window managers.

RH 8 - Default GNOME and KDE Installations

2002-12-25 Thread David Giraud
Hello everyone, I'm writing a paper for school comparing the KDE and GNOME window managers. I'd like to get the default versions of KDE and GNOME running (without any bluecurve or any RedHat 8 influence at all). I'd like stock versions, like the ones that can be downloaded and installed from

how to telnet two system

2002-12-25 Thread gihas
Hai, I am a new user in linux.I installed linux in two systems. I want to telnet one system to another or rlogin.Both I tried but it is telling connection refussed.I tried ping & it is working fine .Internet is also working fine.What configuration change i have to do for proper working of telnet.

Disk druid

2002-12-25 Thread Linux Admin
Is it possible to run disk druid after installation to add a second disk to the system. If not what is the best tool to manually add second disk and partitions ? How can I format the new partition ? Thanks VZ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscrib

Re: Unable to build a custom kernel since 2.4.18-5

2002-12-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Michael Fratoni wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 25 December 2002 02:02 pm, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > [snip] > > > > 2.4.18-5 builds fine > > 2.4.18 generic builds fine > > 2.4.20 generic builds fine > > > > 2.4.18-1

Re: Unable to build a custom kernel since 2.4.18-5

2002-12-25 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 25 December 2002 02:02 pm, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 11:51:46PM -0800, Jack Bowling wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 12:27:14AM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > Bad day... Bad w

Re: command line history

2002-12-25 Thread Mike Burger
Set the user shell to bash, which stores the command history in ~/.bash_history On 26 Dec 2002, shawn wrote: > when I work as root I get a nice history of the commands I've done on > the command line. > > that dissappears when I am just a user. I don't need the root history > but just that for

Re: CDROM CDRW Not Accessible

2002-12-25 Thread Mike Burger
If he's using the ide-scsi module, it would, without any help, set up both drives as scd0 and scd1...the cdrw, being the master, would no doubt be scd0, with the cdrom identified as scd1. On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Michael Fratoni wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wedne

Re: CDROM CDRW Problems

2002-12-25 Thread Mike Burger
Assuming that this is a cd that has been written to, and the session closed, try the -t iso9660 option again. On 25 Dec 2002, Thomas A. Hulslander wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 15:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I did what you suggested, i.e., manually mount the CDROM with: > > # mount /dev/

Re: CDROM CDRW Not Accessible

2002-12-25 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 16:45 25 Dec 2002, David Colburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 12:32, Alan Harding wrote: | > On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 15:08, Thomas A. Hulslander wrote: | > > OK. I found vi tutorial on line and found our that saving is done with | > > ZZ. Who would have guessed. That's "save

Re: software

2002-12-25 Thread Dave Eells
I did that once before when i ran mandrake..on a partitioned hard drive...now i use 2 drives separate..1 with windows 2000 pro and the other with rh8...will Rh accept programs off the rpm from the mandrake CD..it was mandrake 7.2...kind of like back-wards compatibility?..there are programs on the m

command line history

2002-12-25 Thread shawn
when I work as root I get a nice history of the commands I've done on the command line. that dissappears when I am just a user. I don't need the root history but just that for the user. how can I set it so that the command line with remember the commands I do as a user too? TIA, Shawn -- r

Re: CDROM CDRW Problems

2002-12-25 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 15:38, Thomas A. Hulslander wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 15:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I did what you suggested, i.e., manually mount the CDROM with: > > # mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom > > and I got the following: > > /dev/hdd: Input/output error > mount: block device

Re: CDROM CDRW Not Accessible

2002-12-25 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 15:45, David Colburn wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 12:32, Alan Harding wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 15:08, Thomas A. Hulslander wrote: > > > OK. I found vi tutorial on line and found our that saving is done with > > > ZZ. Who would have guessed. > > Isn't it amazing how

Re: software

2002-12-25 Thread Steve & Patti Getzinger
Dave Eells wrote: thank you..that is awesome..being a windows user i had no problems...but Linux is way cool and now i need to learn that...got my work cut out for me don't i..thanks a ton..will try it promptly On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 12:22, Alan Harding wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 17:30, An

Re: definite weirdness in building 2.4.20-2.2 kernel

2002-12-25 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 25 December 2002 04:14 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > ok, there's definitely something weird in the latest kernel -- > 2.4.20-2.2 -- that affects (although not in a fatal way) which > config file will be used as a default if there is no c

Re: software

2002-12-25 Thread Dave Eells
thank you..that is awesome..being a windows user i had no problems...but Linux is way cool and now i need to learn that...got my work cut out for me don't i..thanks a ton..will try it promptly On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 12:22, Alan Harding wrote: > On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 17:30, Andrew Pasquale wrote:

Re: Clock problem on RedHat 8

2002-12-25 Thread Julien Olivier
Thanks a lot, I'll try that. Le mar 24/12/2002 à 16:53, Roger Schmeits a écrit : > For some odd ball reason unknown to me redhat does like the clock > sometimes. Using the 'hwclock' command I have had to either sync the > bios clock to the o/s. > > hwclock --hctosys > > This sets hardware clcok

Re: Clock problem on RedHat 8

2002-12-25 Thread Julien Olivier
Thanks for the advice. PS: I don't have the _other_ OS anymore thanks to RedHat :) Le mar 24/12/2002 à 17:46, Matthew Saltzman a écrit : > On 24 Dec 2002, Julien Olivier wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I have a weird problem with Red Hat 8 on my Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo D > > laptop. > > > > I live in Fran

Re: CDROM CDRW Not Accessible

2002-12-25 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 25 December 2002 03:57 pm, Mike Burger wrote: > He's already noted that he's put the CDRW as secondary master, and the > CDROM as secondary slave. Those are, by definition, /dev/hdc > and/dev/hdd, respectively. Unless he is using scsi em

Re: CDROM CDRW Not Accessible

2002-12-25 Thread mklinke
Vi (vim) is so rich in features that the bottom of the screen likely isn't big enough for most tastes. Don't know if it'll satisfy your desire for a "list of critical" commands or not, but you can issue the ":help" command while in the editor to search for any kind of help you'll need. It sho

Re: CDROM CDRW Not Accessible

2002-12-25 Thread David Colburn
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 12:32, Alan Harding wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 15:08, Thomas A. Hulslander wrote: > > OK. I found vi tutorial on line and found our that saving is done with > > ZZ. Who would have guessed. Isn't it amazing how something so critical to the use of a common Linux tool like v

definite weirdness in building 2.4.20-2.2 kernel

2002-12-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ok, there's definitely something weird in the latest kernel -- 2.4.20-2.2 -- that affects (although not in a fatal way) which config file will be used as a default if there is no current config file. (i've verified that the same problem exists in earlier kernel source trees.) in my brand new

CDROM CDRW Problems

2002-12-25 Thread Thomas A. Hulslander
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 15:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did what you suggested, i.e., manually mount the CDROM with: # mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom and I got the following: /dev/hdd: Input/output error mount: block device /dev/hdd is write-protected, mounting read-only /dev/hdd: Input/output error

Re: VoIP Telephony

2002-12-25 Thread Henry The BIG
I try... but dose'n work very good :(( Henry - Original Message - From: "Teodor Georgiev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 4:08 PM Subject: Re: VoIP Telephony > > www.openh323.org > > i think this is what you are searching for. > > -

Re: VoIP Telephony

2002-12-25 Thread Teodor Georgiev
www.openh323.org i think this is what you are searching for. - Original Message - From: "Henry The BIG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 9:01 PM Subject: VoIP Telephony > Hi, > > Where can I find a free VoIP Telephony server on Internet?

Re: CDROM CDRW Not Accessible

2002-12-25 Thread Mike Burger
He's already noted that he's put the CDRW as secondary master, and the CDROM as secondary slave. Those are, by definition, /dev/hdc and/dev/hdd, respectively. On 25 Dec 2002, Alan Harding wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 15:08, Thomas A. Hulslander wrote: > > OK. I found vi tutorial on line and

Re: Unable to build a custom kernel since 2.4.18-5

2002-12-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Michael H. Warfield wrote: (snip) > 2.4.18-18.* Fails building modules > 2.4.18-19.* Fails building modules (snip) i'm seeing *exactly* the same thing here -- failure on "make modules". i wasn't going to say anything since i figured i must have done

Re: Unable to build a custom kernel since 2.4.18-5

2002-12-25 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 01:48:01PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 00:27:14 -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > Bad day... Bad week, and more... Last several kernel updates > > from RedHat have been impossible to use to build custom kernel builds. > > > > I swear

Re: Unable to build a custom kernel since 2.4.18-5

2002-12-25 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 11:51:46PM -0800, Jack Bowling wrote: > On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 12:27:14AM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Bad day... Bad week, and more... Last several kernel updates > > from RedHat have been impossible to use to build custom kernel builds.

Happy Holidays!

2002-12-25 Thread Christopher Henderson
Happy holidays to everyone on the list! ~Christopher -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

VoIP Telephony

2002-12-25 Thread Henry The BIG
Hi, Where can I find a free VoIP Telephony server on Internet? Thank you, Henry -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: next question on kernels -- the config files

2002-12-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 12:09:02 -0500 (EST), Robert P. J. Day wrote: > some of this has come up before, but i wanted to make dead > sure i got it right. > > occasionally, someone asks "where is the config file for > the currently running kernel?", a

Re: Anyone on product life span?

2002-12-25 Thread Ben Russo
On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 13:49, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hi, > > I am a little surprised that I haven't heard anyone on the new "product end > of life" policy. Maybe I haven't been looking to well though... RedHat is trying to make money. I don't disparage RedHat for what they are doing. Th

Re: CDROM CDRW Not Accessible

2002-12-25 Thread Alan Harding
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 15:08, Thomas A. Hulslander wrote: > OK. I found vi tutorial on line and found our that saving is done with > ZZ. Who would have guessed. I think that I have successfully added the > following to fstab: > > /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 > /dev/hdd

next question on kernels -- the config files

2002-12-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
some of this has come up before, but i wanted to make dead sure i got it right. occasionally, someone asks "where is the config file for the currently running kernel?", and the answer is that a number of config files reside in the kernel directory /usr/src/linux-???/configs. you just have to

Re: software

2002-12-25 Thread Alan Harding
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 17:30, Andrew Pasquale wrote: > On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 12:13:01PM -0500 or thereabouts, Dave Eells wrote: > > Are there websites where I can go to download freeware for RH 8.0? > > Ex:gnucash is the financial software that comes with 8.0 but it is not > > an acceptable softw

Kernels and Graphics Cards Drivers...

2002-12-25 Thread Alex Réné
Hi guys and Gals… and MERRY XMAS!!!   I brought this one up before, but it seems to be an ongoing thing…   I Installed RH 8 …. AGAIN… and as I was finishing up the install and going through up2date, I realized – too late of course – that  the kernel was being updated to 2.4.19 instead o

Modem whoas sortta

2002-12-25 Thread Steve & Patti Getzinger
I have a multipronged question. First is I am using an external USR Sportster which Kudzu found. Using Internet configuration wizard I show generic modem. How do I change this to reflect the USR modem? Does it even matter? Next on my list: Is there a db somewhere that houses config for modems i

Re: Nvidia driver problems - SOLVED

2002-12-25 Thread Albert A. Ogonevskij
On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 04:12:06PM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 20:42:42 -0500, Albert A. Ogonevskij wrote: > > > Very strange thing: > > [root@abyss NVIDIA]# ls > > NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.src.rpm > > [root@abyss NVIDIA]#

Re: sharing network

2002-12-25 Thread Ian Thomas
On Wednesday, December 25, 2002, at 09:25 AM, Francisco de Assis Teixeira Folhadella wrote: I have installed in this machine two plates of net duly configured by RedHat 8.0. However I am not obtaining to share the InterNet with the MAC (X 10,3) and Notebook (PC). Somebody has some solution?

Re: Nvidia driver problems - SOLVED

2002-12-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 20:42:42 -0500, Albert A. Ogonevskij wrote: > Very strange thing: > [root@abyss NVIDIA]# ls > NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.src.rpm > [root@abyss NVIDIA]# rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.src.rpm > NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.src.rpm: No s

CDROM CDRW Not Accessible

2002-12-25 Thread Thomas A. Hulslander
OK. I found vi tutorial on line and found our that saving is done with ZZ. Who would have guessed. I think that I have successfully added the following to fstab: /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 Now, however, when I t

Re: the first of (probably) several kernel questions

2002-12-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Michael Fratoni wrote: > As of the 8.0 release, you won't get a kernel package at all. I haven't > tried, but I assume the installer will bail out on an i386. While i386 > processors haven't been supported for some time, for Psyche, Red Hat > removed the i386 kernel package

Re: cron jobs

2002-12-25 Thread Hauser Marcel
Anthony E. Greene wrote: Make copies of the log files for the analysis tool. :) hehe.. yep... for a 500MB logfile :) Disk space is cheap. 500MB isn't as much as it used to be in terms of percentage of a typical IDE disk. I would avoid altering the workings of things like logrotate. It makes th

Re: Nvidia driver problems - SOLVED

2002-12-25 Thread Albert A. Ogonevskij
On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 07:43:43AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Albert A. Ogonevskij wrote: > > > Hi there! > > > > i'm trying to install NVIDIA drivers for my redhat 7.3 and i see such > > thing: > > > > [root@abyss NVIDIA]# rpm -ivh NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.rh73up.i386.

Re: CDROM CDRW not accessible

2002-12-25 Thread Jim Webb
On Wed, 2002-12-25 at 09:26, Thomas A. Hulslander wrote: > Mike (et al) thank you. Some lights are starting to turn on. For > example, I was thinking all wrong about the fstab--I realize now it is > like a config file. (I needed that) > > Now I need to understand how to save changes to it using vi

Re: the first of (probably) several kernel questions

2002-12-25 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 25 December 2002 08:03 am, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > in my attempt to document some of the more obscure features of > kernel construction, i'm sure i'm going to ask the occasional > silly question, but here's the first. > > i'm assumin

CDROM CDRW not accessible

2002-12-25 Thread Thomas A. Hulslander
Mike (et al) thank you. Some lights are starting to turn on. For example, I was thinking all wrong about the fstab--I realize now it is like a config file. (I needed that) Now I need to understand how to save changes to it using vi. I'm getting there (slowly) Thank you again. -- redhat-li

sharing network

2002-12-25 Thread Francisco de Assis Teixeira Folhadella
I have installed in this machine two plates of net duly configured by RedHat 8.0. However I am not obtaining to share the InterNet with the MAC (X 10,3) and Notebook (PC). Somebody has some solution? Thank you Francisco Folhadella -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL P

Re: the first of (probably) several kernel questions

2002-12-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 08:03:57 -0500 (EST), Robert P. J. Day wrote: > in my attempt to document some of the more obscure features of > kernel construction, i'm sure i'm going to ask the occasional > silly question, but here's the first. > > i'm a

can i safely dispense with building an initrd.img?

2002-12-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
for the longest time, when i was teaching students how to rebuild a kernel, i would explain the purpose of the file /boot/initrd.img, but suggest that they could avoid having to deal with one by just compiling the necessary modules into the kernel and be done with it once and for all, and not ha

the first of (probably) several kernel questions

2002-12-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
in my attempt to document some of the more obscure features of kernel construction, i'm sure i'm going to ask the occasional silly question, but here's the first. i'm assuming that, at installation time, the kernel is installed from one of the pre-built kernel RPMs on the install CDs, yes?

Re: Nvidia driver problems

2002-12-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Albert A. Ogonevskij wrote: > Hi there! > > i'm trying to install NVIDIA drivers for my redhat 7.3 and i see such > thing: > > [root@abyss NVIDIA]# rpm -ivh NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.rh73up.i386.rpm > Preparing...### > [

Nvidia driver problems

2002-12-25 Thread Albert A. Ogonevskij
Hi there! i'm trying to install NVIDIA drivers for my redhat 7.3 and i see such thing: [root@abyss NVIDIA]# rpm -ivh NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-4191.rh73up.i386.rpm Preparing...### [100%] 1:NVIDIA_kernel

sendmail, fetchmail

2002-12-25 Thread Albert A. Ogonevskij
hi there! on my RedHat 7.3 i have sendmail+fetchmail+procmail. i've dicided to use ssmtp instead of sendmail muttrc : set sendmail="/usr/sbin/ssmtp" everything works fine. But after uninstalling sendmail fetchmail dunno works i've found such thing in maillog: Dec 24 16:14:05 abyss procmail[1381

Re: Unable to build a custom kernel since 2.4.18-5

2002-12-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 00:27:14 -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: > Bad day... Bad week, and more... Last several kernel updates > from RedHat have been impossible to use to build custom kernel builds. > > I swear I must be doing something