the missing apps

2002-12-28 Thread Robert Storey
I know some people are going to take this as a troll, though it's not meant to be. It's a constructive criticism of Redhat 8.0. I hope the RH management people are reading this. I'm a long-term Redhat user, recently defected to Debian. I still have a Redhat installation on one partition, and I'

RH8.0 UI: Adding to menus and modifying desktop links

2002-12-28 Thread Peter Davie
Hi, Does anyone know of a way of adding entries to the menus under Bluecurve? I've looked everywhere and no menu editor (a la KDE) to be found. The FAQ on the GNOME site refers to right-clicking on the menu and then choose Properties, etc. Not on my system! I only get two options to add menu to

opening whole in iptables for a vpn

2002-12-28 Thread Wes James
I have tried to get the right iptables rules to work for a vpn connection. Usually anything going out this rh8 box works fine. Why do I need to punch a hole for the vpn.? I have noticed that holes need to be punched for the dns and bootp, but why - when this box is the originator of the traffic?

Re: Networking question.

2002-12-28 Thread Peter Davie
Jeffrey, You are a star! I had the same problem a couple of days ago (on a T23). Your fix solved the problem on my machine as well. Thanks to you and Ben Russo for your help. Peter On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 11:21, Eric Ladner wrote: Bingo.. Many thanks, Jeffrey! Eric On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 20:

RE: modem installation confirmation

2002-12-28 Thread george
Thanks for your reply, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of nate Sent: Sunday, 29 December 2002 1:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: modem installation confirmation george said: > A little help would be much appreciated. > first, what

Re: Update icon disappeared on 8.0 Gui

2002-12-28 Thread Edward Dekkers
> The redhat network update icon in the lower right hand corner of my GUI > screen disappeared in 1100x768 (don't remember the exact numbers but it is > the one just above 1024X???) mode. I did a reinstall and the icon was gone. > It is there but it is so thin I cannot see it. > > Any ideas > > Tha

Re: Fetchmail, Sendmail and multiple usernames

2002-12-28 Thread Edward Dekkers
> I'm not sure how simple or difficult it is to do this with sendmail, however > the approach is guaranteed to misdeliver mail. The reason is that when > Internet mail is in transit - it is sent with two components - the message > content (what you see with your client plus 822 message headers),

Re: Video Card

2002-12-28 Thread Edward Dekkers
> On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 08:15:46PM -0800, Amit Mhatre wrote: > > Ur Video Card must be either Located on com1 or com2. > > You're joking, right? Ofcourse not, I have mine hooked up to my parallel port, and have a symlink from the parallel dev to the com one. Achieves the same result. :) --- E

Re: Networking question.

2002-12-28 Thread Eric Ladner
Bingo.. Many thanks, Jeffrey! Eric On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 20:01, Jeffrey Tadlock wrote: > On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 01:02:41PM -0600, Eric Ladner wrote: > > I have an IBM T23 laptop that worked just dandy under 7.2 for over a > > year, then I did a clean install of RH 8.0. > > > > Now, periodicall

Re: Networking question.

2002-12-28 Thread Eric Ladner
It stops working under normal circumstances. No sleep required. ifconfig eth0 reports a healty interface. I do see lines like this in the messages file when it stops working: (date) hostname kernel: eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout! (sometimes this message is repeated many times) That seems

Re: deskjet 3320

2002-12-28 Thread John Floren
I'm sorry, I'm a bit confused. I have downloaded the driver from this site, but I don't know how to configure for my specific printer version. I just need to know how to make it recognize the printer version, as it isn't listed in "printtool". Thanks On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 10:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: modem installation confirmation

2002-12-28 Thread nate
george said: > A little help would be much appreciated. > first, what brand/model of modem? second, is it internal or external? third, if it's internal what is the settings it is configured for? most older modems have jumpers on them. Since you say this was in a P133 hopefully it's an older modem(

Re: Networking question.

2002-12-28 Thread Jeffrey Tadlock
On Sat, Dec 28, 2002 at 01:02:41PM -0600, Eric Ladner wrote: > I have an IBM T23 laptop that worked just dandy under 7.2 for over a > year, then I did a clean install of RH 8.0. > > Now, periodically, the machine will forget about the built int network > card (IBM eepro100). > > When it works, ev

Re: building 2.4.18 kernel

2002-12-28 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 December 2002 08:29 pm, pfigg wrote: > I just got the RH 8.0 installed on a machine - it was an update from > the 7.3. I'm trying to build the 2.4 kernel straight from the install > and keep running into an error when it tries to build t

modem installation confirmation

2002-12-28 Thread george
A little help would be much appreciated. I have read the redhat how to and they suggest i run the command cat /proc/ioports and cat /proc/interrupts . this presupposes the output is understood. I list below the examples they give and then my real life results. could someone plese indentify whic

Re: Sticky bit...

2002-12-28 Thread Bret Hughes
On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 18:59, John Nichel wrote: > Yeah, I know how groups / permissions work. What I was wondering, is > there a way to set a sticky bit recursively, so that no matter what the > default group of a user is, any file or directory that the user creates > in a certain directory wil

Re: virtual mail accounts

2002-12-28 Thread fluke
How to approach this depends on if you willing to force your users to fudge their POP/IMAP login names or not. By forcing them to modify their login name to not be identical to their email username then you can do purely "soft" virtual POP/IMAP accounts where you only need to make a triva

building 2.4.18 kernel

2002-12-28 Thread pfigg
I just got the RH 8.0 installed on a machine - it was an update from the 7.3. I'm trying to build the 2.4 kernel straight from the install and keep running into an error when it tries to build the cipe module. Specifically, I get the following error: make -C cipe modules make[3]: Entering dir

Newbie: Avantgo / Syncing with Palm (Jpilot)

2002-12-28 Thread Geoffrey Lane
I was looking at some sites describing how to sync your palm with the avantgo server using pilot-link, I installed and I think I configured it right but I got a message: -L./pilot-link-0.11.5/libpisock/.libs -lpisock -ldl -lm malsync.o: In function `Connect': /Temporary/malsync/malsync.c

Re: Sticky bit...

2002-12-28 Thread John Nichel
Yeah, I know how groups / permissions work. What I was wondering, is there a way to set a sticky bit recursively, so that no matter what the default group of a user is, any file or directory that the user creates in a certain directory will be set to the group of that directory. I don't want

RE: JAVA - JRE or SDK

2002-12-28 Thread Chad Skinner
On a side note if you want to use a JSP or servlet engine you will need the SDK as it is used to compile the JSP files. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ted Gervais > Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 10:37 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: Sticky bit...

2002-12-28 Thread David Kramer
On Saturday 28 December 2002 01:00 pm, John Nichel wrote: > Hello fellow RedHatters, > >Can someone tell me if it's possible to set a sticky bit recursively > on a directory? What I'm looking to do is to have multiple users > creating files and directories in a certain place, and I want those

Re: Documentation of RMI ( Remote Method Invocation )

2002-12-28 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 15:05 28 Dec 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Who can send me about RMI ? http://search.java.sun.com/search/java/?qt=rmi&Search.x=0&Search.y=0&Search=search I don't think you looked very hard. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~c

Re: i seem to have misplaced USB hotplug support

2002-12-28 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 December 2002 03:40 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > ever since i moved from kernel 2.4.18-14 to 2.4.20-2.2, > my USB hotplug support has vanished. > > in my earlier kernel, whenever i plugged in my zip drive > or my Sharp zaurus, i'd g

Re: Networking question.

2002-12-28 Thread nate
Eric Ladner said: > I have an IBM T23 laptop that worked just dandy under 7.2 for over a year, > then I did a clean install of RH 8.0. > > Now, periodically, the machine will forget about the built int network > card (IBM eepro100). how does it forget? and is there any similar set of circumstances

Re: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read

2002-12-28 Thread nate
Chris St. Pierre said: > Error reading block 32770 (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted > in short read) while reading inode and block bitmaps. Ignore error? this is a fairly common error. Though it's been a while since I encountered it. I think it is the result of failing hardware. M

Re: virtual mail accounts

2002-12-28 Thread Teodor Georgiev
A clever adm can always achive this using all the possible MTA packages. Though it is very easy to do this with Qmail or Courier-MTA. - Original Message - From: "Ashley M. Kirchner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Red Hat Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 11:28

Re: virtual mail accounts

2002-12-28 Thread nate
Ashley M. Kirchner said: > > What are people using for virtual pop/imap accounts? In other > words, accounts that can receive mail, but that don't have a physical log > in to the server. I need something I can roll out that can work across > multiple domains (hosted on the same server), and

virtual mail accounts

2002-12-28 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
What are people using for virtual pop/imap accounts? In other words, accounts that can receive mail, but that don't have a physical log in to the server. I need something I can roll out that can work across multiple domains (hosted on the same server), and that will (hopefully) allow me t

i seem to have misplaced USB hotplug support

2002-12-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
ever since i moved from kernel 2.4.18-14 to 2.4.20-2.2, my USB hotplug support has vanished. in my earlier kernel, whenever i plugged in my zip drive or my Sharp zaurus, i'd get a confirmation, both in the graphical "usbview" display, and tailed at the end of /var/log/messages. now, und

Help needed on getting ghostscript working (at all)

2002-12-28 Thread mike
Hi I have been struggling with trying to get printing working and so far I have instaklled the following RH8 SRPMS foomatic ghostscript ghostscript-fonts cups gimp-print and it is getting worse - I now cant even print text - this is the output from gs with a plain text file This software comes wi

Re: kernel-2.4.18-19.7.x

2002-12-28 Thread Peter Robb
On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 17:28, Info wrote: > I was trying to run up2date -u to install the new kernel, but somehow, it does not >install completely. I have a partial package installed. > > [root@ns1 /]# locate vmlinuz- > /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 > /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-18.7.x > /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-19

Re: APM probs redhat 8

2002-12-28 Thread Ian Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, December 27, 2002, at 06:14 PM, jason davidson wrote: Hi, im having problems disabling the service that sends my pc into standby with redhat 8, i've shutdown the apmd service not only by stopping it (and pc still went to standby) but als

APM probs redhat 8

2002-12-28 Thread jason davidson
Hi, im having problems disabling the service that sends my pc into standby with redhat 8, i've shutdown the apmd service not only by stopping it (and pc still went to standby) but also by shutting down the service on this runlevel. ps ax shows no results for a ps ax | grep apmd (its actually s

Networking question.

2002-12-28 Thread Eric Ladner
I have an IBM T23 laptop that worked just dandy under 7.2 for over a year, then I did a clean install of RH 8.0. Now, periodically, the machine will forget about the built int network card (IBM eepro100). When it works, everything works great. When it stops, I can't ping anything except the loca

Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read

2002-12-28 Thread Chris St. Pierre
I've got linux installed on a laptop, and it has just die. When I start it up, it tells me I have to do a manual fsck; when I do so, it comes to one particularly problematic line: Error reading block 32770 (Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read) while reading inode and bloc

Re: No CD-WRITER or CD-ROM device

2002-12-28 Thread Dale Satterfield
Would this work for a IEEE1394 ( FireWire ) CD ? My system is SCSI based, and has a SCSI CD ( Rd only) installed. I have installed a firewire/usb card, and have an external connected to it. The system loads an ieee1394 driver, and an sbp2 driver, and shows the Cd as a node. On Saturday, Decembe

Mount points missing -- They're back

2002-12-28 Thread Thomas A. Hulslander
Sorry folks. The mount points are back in /mnt. It's got to be something I am doing with vi in /etc/fstab. When I go into it it says something about newer one being found. I guess I have to be careful about which one I use/edit. If there is a way to clean house here and get rid of the ones not be

SM56 Motorola

2002-12-28 Thread rafanuar
Help Necessary of aid with the modem of motorola the SM56, I tried to install contained driver in the site of motorola and it did not function. Driver installs more it modem nào does not function is using the Linux Red hat 7,3 will be that they alguem already obtained to install this modem in kern

Re: rlogin

2002-12-28 Thread Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka
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Re: Libaries

2002-12-28 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 17:58:38 -, Gordon Stewart wrote: > I had to update a libary libcrypto.so.0 to libcrypto.so.2 in order for > me to get imapd installed correctly. The problem is that pine uses > libcrypto.so.0 and I can not run pine. How can

Re: deskjet 3320

2002-12-28 Thread rafanuar
it enters in the site of hp and follows the instructions of installation of the package that will count driver for its printer. http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/install.php#download -- Use o melhor sistema de busca da Internet Radar UOL - http://www.radar

ATI All-In-Wonder VE issues.

2002-12-28 Thread Andrew MacKenzie
This may be a bit off-topic for this list, but I've recently picked up an ATI All-In-Wonder VE, and it works just great, aside from a few issues. 1) From the minute the bttv module is loaded, sound begins to play from the tuner through my sound card. I can mute 'line-in', but I figure there *must

Floppy Drive Detached ?

2002-12-28 Thread Thomas A. Hulslander
Based on another post I saw, I just looked at /etc/sysconfig/hwconfig and find that the floppy is detached? class: FLOPPY bus: MISC detached: 1 device: fd0 driver: unknown desc: "3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive" What does this mean and what can I do about it? Thank you... Also... I am making progress

Re: No CD-WRITER or CD-ROM device

2002-12-28 Thread Ted Gervais
On Saturday 28 December 2002 12:57 pm, Dale Kosan wrote: Dale - Thanks very much for your response. You are right on the number!! I just needed another way of telling the system where and what my CDROM driver was. I added '/ hdd=ide-scsi' to the end of my "kernel' line in Grub.conf and that d

Re: Libaries

2002-12-28 Thread Mike Burger
Go to http://rpmfind.net and do a search for libcrypto.so.0. There should be a compatibility library rpm that will provide libcrypto.so.0 for you. On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Gordon Stewart wrote: > Dear List > > I had to update a libary libcrypto.so.0 to libcrypto.so.2 in order for me to > get imapd

Libaries

2002-12-28 Thread Gordon Stewart
Dear List I had to update a libary libcrypto.so.0 to libcrypto.so.2 in order for me to get imapd installed correctly. The problem is that pine uses libcrypto.so.0 and I can not run pine. How can I run both pine and imapd without upseting the libaries? What RPM do I need to get to fix this probl

Sticky bit...

2002-12-28 Thread John Nichel
Hello fellow RedHatters, Can someone tell me if it's possible to set a sticky bit recursively on a directory? What I'm looking to do is to have multiple users creating files and directories in a certain place, and I want those files / directories to be group readable / writeable, and belongi

deskjet 3320

2002-12-28 Thread John Floren
Hello I have a HP Deskjet 3320 printer and RH7.3 (Valhalla). I need to set it up, but it doesn't show up under the "printtool" list. Help? Thanks -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: No CD-WRITER or CD-ROM device

2002-12-28 Thread Dale Kosan
Well, if it is IDE you need to have scsi emulation set up in grub. Here is an example for my burner: #boot=/dev/hde default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-2.2) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-2.2 ro root=LABEL=/ hda=ide-scsi vga

Re: No CD-WRITER or CD-ROM device

2002-12-28 Thread nate
Ted Gervais said: > This leaves me with the question - where else do I look? Or does anyone > have a suggestion as to how to get this CD-WRITER to work? what kind of CD-R ? I have only used X-CD roast on SCSI CDRs. If it is a SCSI CD-R be sure that the driver for the controller is loaded. If

No CD-WRITER or CD-ROM device

2002-12-28 Thread Ted Gervais
I just noticed that my CD-WRITER is not working in RH-8.0, and yet it worked fine in previous versions. My CD-ROM reader works fine. But not the Writer and yet it is mounted in the /etc/fstab file ok. ( /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 ) When I bring up XCD

Re: Newbie Network question

2002-12-28 Thread Ben Russo
>>On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 20:32, Peter Davie wrote: >> >> >>>"eth0 has an alias to module eepro100 in modules.conf, instead of >>>currently loaded module CDC Ethernet Class! " >>> >Peter Davie wrote: Ben, Thanks for your reply. After getting the CD-ROM replaced, I've done a clean install (format

Re: Fetchmail, Sendmail and multiple usernames

2002-12-28 Thread Tim Kehres
Awuku, I'm not sure how simple or difficult it is to do this with sendmail, however the approach is guaranteed to misdeliver mail. The reason is that when Internet mail is in transit - it is sent with two components - the message content (what you see with your client plus 822 message headers),

Re: can't mount cdrom

2002-12-28 Thread Jim Webb
Try the following: #depmod -ae Thanks, Jim On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 05:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! All > I can mount cdrom via /dev/hdc but while mounting via mount via /mnt/cdrom or > /dev/cdrom, it says invalid block device. How can I solve these problem. File > /etc/fstab seems to be ok

Re: rlogin

2002-12-28 Thread Alexey Fadyushin
You don't need to restart the server after disabling the service. If you want to test that the rlogin service is disabled you can use the command 'netstat -t -a' and check that no program is listening at the 'login' tcp port (see the column 'Local address' in the netstat output). Alexey Fadyushin

Re: ssl attachment problem

2002-12-28 Thread nate
Michael Rubin said: > > Has anyone else had the problem of attachments not working with ssl? I > have a script which displays a file in the browser window. Everything is > fine with http but does not work correctly with https. The one fix that I > managed to find on the net (see below) does not

Re: can't mount cdrom

2002-12-28 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 16:07:36 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I can mount cdrom via /dev/hdc but while mounting via mount via > /mnt/cdrom or /dev/cdrom, it says invalid block device. How can I > solve these problem. File /etc/fstab seems to be ok.

Re: rpc.mountd: getfh failed

2002-12-28 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Ian wrote: Yes but i've already tried UNmounting /disk/export I've even removed the line giving permission to mount to /disk, and just left it as /disk/export and exportfs -a still complains about machine2 mounting to disk even though that line is not in the exports file anymore. Restart n

Re: [RH List] Re: rpc.mountd: getfh failed

2002-12-28 Thread Ian
At 02:30 AM 12/28/2002, you wrote: Ian wrote: > mount machine:/ /machine/ > mount machine:/disk/export /machine/disk/export > > the above 2 mount statements will work. > > mount machine:/disk /machine/disk > > that mount statement does not work, regardless of what i put in the exports This i

Re: [RH List] Re: rpc.mountd: getfh failed

2002-12-28 Thread Ashley M. Kirchner
Ian wrote: > mount machine:/ /machine/ > mount machine:/disk/export /machine/disk/export > > the above 2 mount statements will work. > > mount machine:/disk /machine/disk > > that mount statement does not work, regardless of what i put in the exports This is a known issue. /disk is within

can't mount cdrom

2002-12-28 Thread nlimbu
Hi! All I can mount cdrom via /dev/hdc but while mounting via mount via /mnt/cdrom or /dev/cdrom, it says invalid block device. How can I solve these problem. File /etc/fstab seems to be ok. With Regards Nabin Limbu -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=un

Re: rpc.mountd: getfh failed

2002-12-28 Thread Ian
At 12:48 AM 12/28/2002, you wrote: On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 00:09, Ian wrote: > Hey all, > > i've got 2 redhat machines. I'm trying to mount on one machine and having > one hell of a problem. > > mount machine:/ /machine/ > mount machine:/disk/export /machine/disk/export > > the above 2 mount stateme

Re: rpc.mountd: getfh failed

2002-12-28 Thread Joshua Schmidlkofer
On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 00:09, Ian wrote: > Hey all, > > i've got 2 redhat machines. I'm trying to mount on one machine and having > one hell of a problem. > > mount machine:/ /machine/ > mount machine:/disk/export /machine/disk/export > > the above 2 mount statements will work. > > mount machin

rpc.mountd: getfh failed

2002-12-28 Thread Ian
Hey all, i've got 2 redhat machines. I'm trying to mount on one machine and having one hell of a problem. mount machine:/ /machine/ mount machine:/disk/export /machine/disk/export the above 2 mount statements will work. mount machine:/disk /machine/disk that mount statement does not work, reg