Re: DSL, ethernet card

2003-08-14 Thread Blake Thornton
> On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 16:46, Blake Thornton wrote: > > I've been struggling to get my dsl connection working (pppoe) and I bought > > a router which I set up using a windows machine. > > > > Now, when I boot up my linux (redhat 9) box, the eth0 connection f

DSL, ethernet card

2003-08-14 Thread Blake Thornton
I've been struggling to get my dsl connection working (pppoe) and I bought a router which I set up using a windows machine. Now, when I boot up my linux (redhat 9) box, the eth0 connection fails to come up and does not appear in `ifconfig`. So, I figured that there is a problem recognizing my eth

Routers

2003-07-31 Thread Blake Thornton
Due to problems connecting with my dsl line (using rp-pppoe) I bought a cheap router (Belkin) and set it up using a windows machine. It seems to work great with the windows machine, but I still can't get a connection from my redhat box. I admit that I don't really know exactly where to start and

RE: Adsl, pppoe, network card

2003-07-02 Thread Blake Thornton
Can you see any network traffic at all on the linksys card? > > Generally RH has not support linksys cards that well. Some of the older > D-Links and nearly any 3-COM would be a better choice. > > BobB > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailt

Adsl, pppoe, network card

2003-07-02 Thread Blake Thornton
I've been trying to get this fixed for some time and nothing is working: - Running redhat9. - LinkSys ethernet card - adsl modem (provider: sbc), running pppoe I can't connect to the network. Before installing redhat9, I connected fine using adsl-setup and adsl-start. I have temporarily borrowed

Digital Voice Recorders (OT?)

2003-06-25 Thread Blake Thornton
Has anyone found a digital voice recorder that they like that works well with linux. Specifically, it seems that the issues I am finding are: - memory card is important so that I can use a card reader to transfer files to the computer. - file format. Some of these recorders store files in an o

.dvr files - sound question

2003-06-24 Thread Blake Thornton
Has anyone here delt with these sound files in linux? I would like to be able to convert a .dvr file to a .wav file in linux. I have a program to do this in windows, but that isn't so useful. Thanks! Blake (Redhat 9) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www

pppoe, PADO?

2003-06-21 Thread Blake Thornton
I'm struggling with pppoe using rp-pppoe. I've used the adsl- scripts and I keep getting the messages: PADO packet timeout (or something very similar) My reading of the adsl documentation says that this is likely to be a problem on the provider's side of things. In the logs I can see the P

ADSL Problem

2003-06-20 Thread Blake Thornton
I am having dsl problems and I am quite sure that it is probably something quite easy to get going. I am printing out the DSL howto and the ppp howto, but I won't have a network connection at home where my dsl problem is so I want to make sure I know everything to try before heading home. - I jus

Hardware Question (OT)

2003-01-17 Thread Blake Thornton
I just bought some new components and am having trouble. I will likely try to narrow down the possible sources this weekend, but I could still use some help. I tried to do a fresh install of Redhat 8.0 and everything moved at a snail's pace (it took well over an hour to install everything).

Up2date

2002-11-07 Thread Blake Thornton
I recently installed redhat 8.0 and up2date keeps hanging up on me. It seems to try to log in (and my login is correct because I can login on the rhn.redhat.com page). Am I missing something. up2date-nox doesn't seem to work either. Thanks, Blake -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe m

More on apples text files

2002-09-06 Thread Blake Thornton
I'm running into problems with sharing text files between macs and my linux machine. The problem seems to be that on linux my text files have end of lines (\n) and on the mac text files have something else (shown as '^M' when I look at it in Linux). Maybe there are other problems too, but th

Re: What is stealing my keys?

2002-09-04 Thread Blake Thornton
> On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 10:45, Blake Thornton wrote: > > that certain key bindings are not being passed into the application but > > are perhaps being used by the window manager (although I'm not sure this > > is what is happening - I just know the application i

What is stealing my keys?

2002-09-04 Thread Blake Thornton
I'm running KDE3 and sometimes I have shortcuts available to my applications and sometimes I don't seem to. It seems that when I first log in my applications will accept the keys, but after a while, it seems that certain key bindings are not being passed into the application but are perhaps b

RE: sound help

2002-08-29 Thread Blake Thornton
> Have you run sndconfig? That did the trick! Thank you very much! blake -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

sound help

2002-08-29 Thread Blake Thornton
I think that /dev/dsp is the sound device for both recording and playback? Could someone tell me if that is correct. I'm trying out some softward and it is telling me it can't open the audio device that I have set as /dev/dsp. I just wanted to make sure I had the device set correctly and the

Whats in my kernel?

2002-08-28 Thread Blake Thornton
Does anyone know how I can tell what has been compiled into my kernel? Right now, I would like to know if appletalk has been compiled in, but this would seem to be a useful thing to be able to know for any kernel options. Thanks, Blake -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

Apple talk?

2002-08-28 Thread Blake Thornton
I've been struggling to find a solution to this for a while. I posted last week and got some suggestions, but nothing is exactly what I am looking for yet. I would like to talk from my Redhat Linux box to a mac server using Apple talk (maybe its called apple speak?). I have absolutely no con

C/C++ Help

2002-05-12 Thread Blake Thornton
I'm stuggling learning C++ and was hoping someone could point me to a source for help. The language is not the problem (I think I can figure out the language issues) but I'm having trouble compiling and linking from multiple source files (using make or not using make). Can anyone point me to

shaking screensaver

2002-04-26 Thread Blake Thornton
I'm trying to help a friend who just installed linux (Mandrake) and he says everytime xscreensaver runs for about 5 minutes the monitor begins "shaking." I've never experienced anything like this and don't even know where to start looking and any suggestions would be great. Sorry I can't be m

Re: perl/tex question

2002-03-26 Thread Blake Thornton
> >Get the whole bookshelf on a CD thing O'Reilly sells. It has 6-7 books on > >it, and it's searchable. It costs $70-80 - about the cost of 2 books. Thanks to all who responded. I'll look into this and probably buy it. Thanks for reminding me about the perldoc command as well. b ___

Re: perl/tex question

2002-03-26 Thread Blake Thornton
> That's Perl's way of scoping a variable. > > Sounds like you should do some more studying before you put a script > online, especially if this is a publicly accessible server. At your > skill level (and please understand that I'm cautioning, not > criticizing), your use of system() calls in

Re: perl/tex question

2002-03-26 Thread Blake Thornton
> > > >Q: How do I make perl run programs in a given directory? > > > > So, what now happens is that all the output from running tex is displayed > > on the webpage. How do I redirect the output from this to /dev/null ? > > (So, I still want it to create a .dvi file, but I want all the tex > > de

Re: perl/tex question

2002-03-25 Thread Blake Thornton
> >Q: How do I make perl run programs in a given directory? > > system("cd /path/to/latex/files; latex filename.tex"); > > Quick and dirty. Well, mostly good - at least tex is running (before it wouldn't even run). Now, I need to run this from a cgi script on a webpage (basically, I'm hoping

perl/tex question

2002-03-25 Thread Blake Thornton
I have a perl question (related to tex) that I can't figure out. How can I run latex from a perl script? I know that the following is a possibility: system "latex filename.tex" But, the problem is that I need to run latex in the given directory because tex needs access to all the auxil

Apache Q

2002-01-20 Thread Blake Thornton
Should I care about about people hitting my webserver like this: 208.225.213.7 - - [20/Jan/2002:16:37:31 -0700] "GET /scripts/..%c1%1c../winnt/system32/cmd.exe?/c+dir HTTP/1.0" 404 561 "-" "-" I think I've read that this is trying to exploit an NT weakness, but should I care? I suppose I can

Re: Sendmail HELP!!

2002-01-18 Thread Blake Thornton
> On Friday 18 January 2002 12:59 am, Jake McHenry wrote: > > Hello everyone. Please get back to me as soon as possible with this > > one. I just installed 7.2 on a new server here at work, and I can send > > mail out, but I am not receiving anything. In the mailq of the sending > > machine, I'm g

Re: Apache Question

2002-01-18 Thread Blake Thornton
> > > > >I have a website that is being spidered by 1 host at in-opertune times, > > >I'm trying to see if there is a way I can block the host in apache for a > > >few hours of the day but allow it the rest of the day. > > > > It wouldn't be too hard to add the appropriate iptables calls to a

Re: run-levels

2002-01-13 Thread Blake Thornton
> Hi > Can someone please tell me which file I have to edit to have the boot > process wind up at run level 3. > I did this once before but have been re-installing and now can't work > out how to stop X from starting. /etc/inittab ___ Redhat-list ma

Solved: Sendmail and domain names - Help?

2002-01-06 Thread Blake Thornton
> I'm trying to run sendmail in a script. I think that the sending machine > does not transmit my domain name (it transmits localhost) and the > receiving machine won't accept the mail if the domain is not real. > > I usually run pine, and everything seems to work fine. My mail is > accepted a

Sendmail and domain names - Help?

2002-01-06 Thread Blake Thornton
I'm trying to run sendmail in a script. I think that the sending machine does not transmit my domain name (it transmits localhost) and the receiving machine won't accept the mail if the domain is not real. I usually run pine, and everything seems to work fine. My mail is accepted as usual, som

Re: LG-CDRW problem

2002-01-04 Thread Blake Thornton
> >You need to do both. modules.conf determines the modules you need to > load - >ie, ide-scsi. LILO tells the kernel that you only want to use > SCSI emulation >for hdc, and not the rest of your ide devices. >Ed > Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA > > That begs the question, isn't there someplace to

Firewire support - dvgrab?

2001-12-28 Thread Blake Thornton
I'm trying to get a firewire card going on my redhat 7.2 box (connecting to digital video camera). I am running kernel 2.4.9-13 (as obtained from redhat). I've looked at the following sites: linux1394: http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ raw1394:http://sourceforge.net/projects/libraw1394/ d

Re: DV software?

2001-12-23 Thread Blake Thornton
> >I've been searching the web for some software to upload my digital video > >to my computer. The only thing I've really found is dvgrab, but it > >requires firewire (and I might have to use this). > > > >Any ideas? > > Transfer of DV requires firewire, there is no way around it and keep it >

DV software?

2001-12-23 Thread Blake Thornton
I've been searching the web for some software to upload my digital video to my computer. The only thing I've really found is dvgrab, but it requires firewire (and I might have to use this). Any ideas? Here are my specs: - Sony, Digital8, TRV330 - I have a USB cable that attaches to the camer

Apache Question

2001-12-12 Thread Blake Thornton
What would cause Apache to restart. I looked in my error logs this morning and it looks like this: - [Wed Dec 12 04:02:03 2001] [notice] SIGHUP received. Attempting to restart [Wed Dec 12 04:02:04 2001] [notice] Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) (Red-Hat/L

Re: Finding open ports

2001-12-08 Thread Blake Thornton
> try using port 21 (ftp). you have a good chance of it working that way i > would think, what with the active ftp ports which are probably open etc.. Nope, port 21 is closed to me too. I guess I'm still a bit confused. I changed my sshd config file and change the port. I then restarted sshd,

Re: Finding open ports

2001-12-08 Thread Blake Thornton
> > > My box is behind a firewall and want to ssh into it. I have asked the > > admin to open the port for me, but he's not moving as fast as I would > > like and I hate to get too pushy about it. > > > > So, I am thinking that all I need to do is find an open port and put > > this port into my

Finding open ports

2001-12-07 Thread Blake Thornton
OK, this is probably a bit of a cracker question, but I'm trying to get into my own box. My box is behind a firewall and want to ssh into it. I have asked the admin to open the port for me, but he's not moving as fast as I would like and I hate to get too pushy about it. So, I am thinking th

Re: Apache deny

2001-12-06 Thread Blake Thornton
> >I'm having trouble with apache and its deny directive. Here is what i've > >done: > > > >In my httpd.conf file, and in the main directory I've added > > > ># > >Order allow,deny > >Allow from all > >deny 63.228.212.200 > > > > > >But, I still see hits from this IP. > > > >Also, ca

Re: Apache deny

2001-12-06 Thread Blake Thornton
> Hi, > My first guess is that you should make the denial first and then the allow. > Hope this helps Reading the apache manual makes it sound like allow all first and then start denying. Unless, you want a very restricted website. In which case the apache manual says that you can deny all an

Apache deny

2001-12-06 Thread Blake Thornton
I'm having trouble with apache and its deny directive. Here is what i've done: In my httpd.conf file, and in the main directory I've added # Order allow,deny Allow from all deny 63.228.212.200 But, I still see hits from this IP. Also, can someone tell me how to use the file acce

Re: Which port

2001-12-04 Thread Blake Thornton
> > It seems I am behind a firewall and would like to ask them to open it for > > me so that I can ssh (or telnet, or ftp, or something else) to my box. IT > > here wants to know what port I want open. > > > > How do I figure out which port my sshd is running on? > > By default, it runs on it

Which port

2001-12-04 Thread Blake Thornton
It seems I am behind a firewall and would like to ask them to open it for me so that I can ssh (or telnet, or ftp, or something else) to my box. IT here wants to know what port I want open. How do I figure out which port my sshd is running on? Thanks, Blake

Networking help

2001-12-04 Thread Blake Thornton
I'm trying to get my network running. My provider gave me an IP adress (I'll call it ip.ip), a hostname (host.name), and a gate way (this was only two numbers long, say 1.2). So, I changed a few files: /etc/hosts, /etc/sysconfig/network For example: $ cat hosts # Do not remove the following l

cdrecord

2001-11-30 Thread Blake Thornton
I need some help with cdrecord. I'm not sure what the problem is, but I'm having trouble burning audio. I have some cdrecord worthy wav files (I got them from an audio cd and used grip). I then get the following in dummy mode. Notice the error. Everything works find if I burn a data cd, bu

shutting down gets stuck

2001-11-28 Thread Blake Thornton
It seems that when I shutdown or reboot my redhat 7.2 system (something I rarely do), shutdown gets stuck. Here's what happens exactly: - I either type reboot or choose reboot from the menu. - X quits and I see the non-X login prompt - I then see: mdrecoveryd thread finished - then: mdrecoveryd(

cdrecord

2001-11-28 Thread Blake Thornton
I am hoping someone can help me with cdrecord. I have some .wav files that I recorded using yarec (I recorded from a mic). So, I have the file ya.wav I know this file is fine because I can play it using the command "play ya.wav" I can also read this wav file using some other audio tools I h

/ filling up and tmp

2001-11-19 Thread Blake Thornton
I'm not too concerned, but my root partition is getting more full then I I think it should be. It brings up several questions I have: I have three partitions on my hard drive, they look like: /dev/hda1 1510032318196 1115128 23% / /dev/hda2 10120052 2139384 74

Re: galeon vs rplayer

2001-11-17 Thread Blake Thornton
> > I'm just curious and thought I would post. > > > If I'm listening to something using realplayer, and then I try to open > > galeon, galeon opens, but refuses to do anything unless I stop what I'm > > listening to on real player. > > > I've also had this problem when running netscape and op

galeon vs rplayer

2001-11-16 Thread Blake Thornton
I'm just curious and thought I would post. If I'm listening to something using realplayer, and then I try to open galeon, galeon opens, but refuses to do anything unless I stop what I'm listening to on real player. I've also had this problem when running netscape and opening certain pages. W

xhost

2001-11-14 Thread Blake Thornton
I'm not sure why xhost behaves as it does and was hoping someone could tell me. As a normal user, if I su to root, I can run just about everything in X -- emacs, galeon, netscape. But not up2date. So, as a normal user, I can type xhost +localhost and now, when I su root, I can also run up2da

remote access question

2000-10-25 Thread Blake Thornton
I have a remote access question. This is not strictly redhat, but it has nothing to do with the presidential election. Anyhow, at school (unix of some variety) I made my shell bash instead of the default tcsh. Most of the system is set up on tcsh and csh stuff. Anyhow, after fiddling with my r

Colormaps, regexp

2000-10-23 Thread Blake Thornton
Ok, I wanted to search the archives, but I couldn't find a search tool. So perhaps that is my first question, how do I do this. Next, I have two general questions on colormaps and shell programming. First: Colormaps: Could someone give me a basic explanation of how the colormap

xanim, .avi?

1998-04-22 Thread Blake Thornton
I am trying to run a .avi file using xanim. The problem is that when i do xanim filename.avi i get the following response: I know that the .avi file is good because i can run it up a school unsing their computers any ideas?? thanks for the help blake XAnim Rev 2.70.6.4 by Mark Podlipec (c) 1

ppp redialer

1998-03-16 Thread Blake Thornton
could someone tell me how to modify the redialer script so that it works for ppp. i tried replacing the function callnumber with just ppp-on, but that doesn't work. thanks blake -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ

ppp message???

1998-03-16 Thread Blake Thornton
When activating my ppp link i get the following cant locate module message. is it bad, what does it mean? (its down there a bit) (this is from /var/log/messages) thanks in advance for any help and comments. blake Mar 15 23:40:23 localhost pppd[2111]: pppd 2.3.3 started by root, uid 0 Mar 15

re:nonroot ppp

1998-03-12 Thread Blake Thornton
port) any ideas? thanks in advance Blake Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 19:52:59 -0800 (PST) From: Keith Dart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Redhat List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: non root ppp Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed,

non root ppp

1998-03-11 Thread Blake Thornton
I can't get ppp to work for non root users. I know this is a common question, but I have searched the archive and tried everything there. Specifically I have: chmod u+s pppd chmod +rwx ppp-on ppp-on-dialer ppp-off chmod +rwx chat chmod +rw /dev/cua? when nonroot, i type ppp-on and here is what

re:linux laptops, digest mode

1998-03-11 Thread Blake Thornton
I have x working great on my visionbook plus (4350 or something like that) and i just ran Xconfigurator and choose custom monitor, I think i then chose a 800x600 display, i cant remember which one, there were 3 choices and they all seemed to work so i dont know the differences between them. an

repartion hard drive

1998-03-11 Thread Blake Thornton
When I installed RH5.0 a I choose arbitrary partitions. Now that I am more familier with linux, I want different sized partitions. Q1: Do I need to back everything up, repartion, then reninstall?? (this would not be so bad, but would take a few hours) otherwise, will i need something l

Re: rpm or tar.gz

1998-03-11 Thread Blake Thornton
since it was brougt up, could anyone tell me the pros and cons about redhat vs. devian vs. slackware vs caldera etc. I heard that to upgrade debian, all you have to do is go to their web page and ask them to determine which packages needed upgraded. this would appear to be quite benificial.