Re: Autofs docs

2002-03-28 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Patrick == Patrick Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Patrick Anyone know of any documentation for autofs is? Having a heck of Patrick a time getting it going. $ rpm -qd autofs /usr/share/doc/autofs-3.1.7/COPYING /usr/share/doc/autofs-3.1.7/COPYRIGHT /usr/share/doc/autofs-3.1.7/NEWS

Re: RHN ISO's and IE6

2002-03-28 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Jim == Jim Bija [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Jim I will be sending an email or 2 off to the RHN people and ask them to Jim look into and see what they say. Have you contacted the RHN team? If not, I urge you to do so... Ed -- Ed BaileyRed Hat, Inc.

Re: USB on an IBM Thinkpad i1300

2002-03-08 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Chet == Chet Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chet Hey everyone, I've got an IBM Thinkpad i1300 with Redhat 7.2 Chet installed, and I've had to disable USB on it because every time the Chet machine boots, it freezes at 'Initializing USB Controller'. Dude -- you have mouse and keyboard

Re: Keyboard and mouse die

2002-03-08 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Chet == Chet Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chet Hey there, I'm running Redhat 7.2 on an IBM Thinkpad i1300 series Chet laptop, and for some reason, the keyboard and/or mouse will just stop Chet working at random times. The system itself is still okay (ie: if im Chet playing an MP3 it will

Re: Re[2]: video card for RH 7.2

2002-03-08 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Brian == Brian Ashe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Hello Trond, Friday, March 08, 2002, 3:55:43 PM, you textually Brian orated: TEG Billy R Nordyke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's a good video card for RH 7.2? Can't get my ati Rage Fury Pro to work. TEG Radeon 7500 if you're willing to

Re: RH 7.2 CDROM issue, Dell OptiPlex GX1

2002-02-22 Thread Edward C. Bailey
On 17:03 21 Feb 2002, Trond Eivind Glomsrød [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I'd remark that the RH72 CDs won't boot off all machines (including machines | where the RH71 CDs _do_ boot). | I have a minitower here which has a RH71 distro on it because we couldn't get | the RH72 CDs to install. And

Re: is there any script/program to strip out the attachment from the mail?

2002-02-20 Thread Edward C. Bailey
li == [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: li Is there any script/program to strip out the attachment from the mail? How about metamail? Ed -- Ed BaileyRed Hat, Inc. http://www.redhat.com/ ___ Redhat-list

Re: Upgrading openssh with dependencies:

2002-02-20 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Matthew == Matthew Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matthew Hi David, What about libcrypto.so.1 is needed by openssh-2.5.2p2-5 [ed@pigdog ed]$ rpm -q --whatprovides libcrypto.so.1 openssl096-0.9.6-6 Ed -- Ed BaileyRed Hat, Inc.

Re: broken link at redhat/download

2002-02-20 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Lewi == Lewi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lewi i know it's the right milis, but i don't know where i must report for Lewi broken links. there is a broken link in Lewi postfix-20011125-1SASL.i386_dl.html when i try to search in Lewi www.redhat.com/download Lewi the right link: Lewi

Re: Is this thing still on?

2002-02-18 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Mike == Mike Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mike I hate doing this, but I haven't seen any traffic from the list all Mike day, and I can't get to the https://listman.redhat.com site. Mike www.redhat.com comes up just fine, though. We just moved our headquarters (including many of the systems

Re: how to uninstall .src.rpm ?

2002-02-15 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Dumas == Dumas Patrice [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dumas Hi, I would like to uninstall some .src.rpm I have installed on my Dumas system. I may go into the BUILD, SPEC, SOURCE. directory and Dumas delete the directories/files by hand, but is there a more automated Dumas way of doing that ?

Re: RedHat 7.1 hangs durring startx

2002-02-14 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Christopher == Christopher Rowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christopher Hey everyone, I'm having a problem with x-windows on a server Christopher running RH 7.1. X has worked in the past so I don't know what Christopher has changed, but when I do a startx the system tries to go Christopher into

Re: Corrupt RPM Database

2002-02-07 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Badger == Badger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Badger My rpm database is corrupt and I've tried both the rpm Badger --rebuilddb, and the rpm --initdb and neither works. When I try Badger to install and rpm, do a rpm -qa, or rpm -Va, I get a segmentation Badger fault and the screen spews around

Re: Newbie - Need help!

2002-02-04 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Ed == Ed Wilts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ed The easiest thing to do is to have the Linux system tell you what it Ed found: Ed $ dmesg | grep eth Ed dmesg will print the kernel ring buffer, so do this shortly after a Ed boot - you may get away with it later, but the sooner the better. Note

Re: IBM Microdrive

2002-02-04 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Matt == Matthew Galgoci [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Matt Micro drives should work fine with linux, but I have yet to see a Matt laptop that will allow you to boot from any kind of pcmcia Matt device. Discounting the original HP OmniBooks, of course... :-) Ed -- Ed

Re: syslog

2002-02-01 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Anthony == Anthony E Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anthony On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, ann kok wrote: Does anyone tell me how to configure syslog to recieve log from cisco router in details? Anthony See the '-r' option in the man page. More specifically, add '-r' to the SYSLOGD_OPTIONS line in

Re: In theory question about RPM

2002-01-30 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Matthew == Matthew Boeckman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Matthew _in_theory_ you can do that. Well, _in_reality_ we don't have access to the sources for Netscape 4.x, if you get my drift. Source RPMs can be very enlightening... ;-) Ed -- Ed BaileyRed Hat,

Re: what video card should I use Please Help I am desperate

2002-01-30 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Dave == Dave Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave I'm fairly certain the 7500 won't even work in 2D with the XFree Dave version that comes with Red Hat 7.2. That's correct -- the card isn't recognized at all... Ed -- Ed BaileyRed Hat, Inc.

Re: Is RedHat droping the free subscriptors?

2002-01-29 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Tomas == Tomas Garcia Ferrari [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tomas Hello, A long time ago, when using the RHN was absolutely free I Tomas subscribe myself to it with several systems to check it out. At some Tomas point the testing period was over but RH offered the possibility of Tomas keeping 1

Re: Is RedHat droping the free subscriptors?

2002-01-29 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Tomás == Tomás García Ferrari [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tomás Ed, Thanks to point that. You know what's happening? All this rumors Tomás around AOL Time Warner buying RH, a lot of people asking about Tomás another distro to switch their machines and then this two messages Tomás combined (pay +

Re: AOL (not) in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat

2002-01-25 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Ashley == Ashley M Kirchner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ashley Edward C. Bailey wrote: No, and by now you probably noticed that all you got from Red Hat is no comment. In these kinds of situations, it's really the only option, particularly for the smaller of the two companies involved

Re: Files Quota's on Redhat 7.2

2002-01-25 Thread Edward C. Bailey
AABAN34 == AABAN34 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AABAN34 It keep telling me mount point 2 does not exist what is that AABAN34 telling me? It's telling you that your /etc/fstab is likely screwed up. Why don't you post your latest version? Ed -- Ed BaileyRed

Re: Changing from Red Hat to another distro: recommendations?

2002-01-25 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Nick == Nick Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Nick If Trond speaks officially for RH we're all in a bad way because with Nick that kind of attitude from the Vendor I don't think many people would Nick be waiting to see what happens with RH/AOL. Trond doesn't speak officially for Red Hat any

Re: The worst question ever [fixed]

2002-01-25 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Stefan == Stefan Rieger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stefan I fixed this stupid problem. Thanks for help! But I won't tell why Stefan I receive them twice, it's too embarrassing!! Subscribed twice, eh? ;-) Ed -- Ed BaileyRed Hat, Inc.

Re: fetchmail?

2002-01-25 Thread Edward C. Bailey
gary == gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: gary Dear all, I just started to explore to fetchmail Any good/advise gary where can I get started from After, about five minutes of poking around fetchmailconf I had it popping mail from several different ISPs with no problems. Never did get

Re: [OT] FreeBSD (was: Changing from Red Hat to another distro: recom mendations?)

2002-01-25 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Frank == Frank Carreiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Frank I started with RedHat 4.x way back when. Most windoze users Frank wouldn't feel comfortable installing 4.x compared to 7.x Very true. Having spent a good part of the last four years writing Red Hat Linux documentation, it's been

Re: forcing fsck on ext3 devices on boot

2002-01-24 Thread Edward C. Bailey
BobH == BobH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BobH Hi, I had a flat-panel monitor go out [dead as a doornail] and had to BobH [? but I did anyway] hard powerdown the PC. Upon rebooting I'm BobH getting a lot of errors but didn't respond quick enough to force BobH filesystem check. I'm using grub as

Re: Logitech QuickCam 3000 Pro problems

2002-01-24 Thread Edward C. Bailey
tristan == tristan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: tristan Has anyone got this to work with 7.1 (latest stock kernel)? Dang -- I was toying with the idea of buying one a couple months ago, and recall finding something about this unit only just starting to work with a patch. Unfortunately, I don't

Re: AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat

2002-01-24 Thread Edward C. Bailey
(sorry for being so late to the party, but I called away on a high-priority project just before all this craziness broke loose. And no, it had *nothing* to do with AOL... :-) JW == JW [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JW Say... has anyone from _redhat_ said anything about this? No, and by now you

Re: AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat

2002-01-24 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Janyne == Janyne Kizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Janyne I would think that if the article was entirely off base, RH would Janyne have denied it rather than saying we don't comment on rumors. No, because what happens the next time something like this happens, and it's *not* a rumor? Then you'd

Re: DSL + 2 Real IPs

2002-01-14 Thread Edward C. Bailey
nit == nit etc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: nit Hi, I have DSL thru Verizon, and their DHCP server provides more than nit one IP address, so I can have more than one computer on DSL with real nit IP addresses. nit However, I want my internal machines to be behind my linux firewall, nit so anyone

Re: Grub Splash!!

2002-01-11 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Neo == Neo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NeoLet me refhrase this.. Has anyone of you tryed to change the GRUB Neo bootloader Splash screen..found in /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz?? If so, Neo than pleas...share your most valuable piece of technologie with Neo us..:) Um, gunzip a copy of it,

Re: [REDHAT] Re: redhat start up generate random number

2002-01-09 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Bret == Bret Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bret I wend down a rabbit trail of random noise generators and even found Bret on that took the input from a camera looking a 5 lava lamps that was Bret supposed to be random enough to make the most anal of cryptographers Bret happy ( They take this

Re: External USB Fantom Drive, RH 7.1

2002-01-03 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Wartnick, == Wartnick, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wartnick, I just purchased an external USB fantom drive for my Wartnick, laptop. When I boot RH 7.1, it seems like it recognizes the Wartnick, drive (which I seemed to have forgotten to include in the log Wartnick, below), but doesn't

Re: USB mouse on laptop w/touchpad

2002-01-03 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Jeff == Jeff Jeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeff I hope this is the right list. If not, tell me an i'll repost I have Jeff a laptop running RedHat 7.2. Often i attach an external USB wheel Jeff mouse. When it is attached, however, the touchpad is still active. Jeff How do I make the USB

Re: Announcing rhlug.org

2001-12-28 Thread Edward C. Bailey
rpjday == rpjday [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... rpjday sorry to harp on this, but i think this is a fairly serious issue. Tell me about it -- I've been spending a fair bit of my holiday working on this issue in one way or another. Believe me, all of us in the company understand the gravity of

Re: dhcpcd problems

2001-12-28 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Jake == Jake Colman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jake I modified my script to create a file in /tmp in order to prove Jake whether it is executed. The file is create if I execute the script Jake manually but never executed when I 'ifup' the interface. Read the man page -- based on what I read

Re: IPTables Information

2001-12-28 Thread Edward C. Bailey
BobH == BobH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BobH Hi all, I just ppurchased Linux Firewalls - 2nd ed by Robert BobH Ziegler and would recommend it for anyone who does not have the BobH background experience and desires to UNDERSTAND IPTables . It has BobH helped this newbie very much. I got a copy

Re: MBR tool

2001-12-28 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Keith == Keith Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Keith Well, since the topic was broached. Would doing this be a Keith satisfactory way of zeroing out the hard drive (no data retrevial Keith possible) if the system was being sent to salavage (sold off)? It should do the trick for the usual

Re: RAID question-ATA133 hard disc and hard discs connection

2001-12-25 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Stephen == Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stephen I have some further RAID questions to ask : I suggest doing a google search on RAID, and doing some reading to learn more about RAID... Ed -- Ed BaileyRed Hat, Inc.

Re: Announcing rhlug.org

2001-12-25 Thread Edward C. Bailey
rpjday == rpjday [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... rpjday which brings up a sticky issue: given that the main page of that rpjday site clearly states that This site is NOT an official Red Hat rpjday site., by whose authority are you using the trademarked name Red rpjday Hat Linux, not to mention

Re: red hat 7.2 rebate offer and really p*ssing one off

2001-12-22 Thread Edward C. Bailey
rpjday == rpjday [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rpjday a number of folks on this forum probably remember the rebate rpjday offer associated with red hat 7.2: send in proof of purchase for rpjday both 7.2 and a recent, previous version of red hat, and get $20 rpjday back. sounded like a nice idea

Re: RAID Question !

2001-12-22 Thread Edward C. Bailey
christoph == christoph pirchl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... christoph You forgot RAID 4 it is stripping with parity on one Disc ! It s christoph normally not used any longer as i know ! Actually, a few years back I sat in on a presentation put on by Network Appliance. It seems that they (at

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-19 Thread Edward C. Bailey
rpjday == rpjday [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... rpjday IMHO, red hat is just confusing the bejeezus out of everyone by rpjday now. they should take a deep breath, step back, and try to come up rpjday with a coherent policy that *they* can follow. all i got out of rpjday the linuxtoday story is

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-18 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Hello all, I was originally going to post a long description of trademark law, but rather than have people feel that my motives were more than to help shed light on how trademarks works, I decided against it. Instead, if you're unsure about how trademarks work, do what I did -- run a couple

Re: Updated Install of 7.1

2001-12-18 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Robert == Robert Canary [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robert I just finished an upgrade of a RHL 5.2/6.0 upto a BoxSet RHL 7.1. Robert The install went fine, and all the updates installed fine. Robert However, I hate this damn desktop. It looks like crap and is Robert sluggish. When I open a

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-18 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Leonard == Leonard den Ottolander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LeonardHi again Ed, Instead, if you're unsure about how trademarks work, do what I did -- run a couple google searches with the appropriate search terms, and read up on it... Leonard Did you find any sites of

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-18 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Leonard == Leonard den Ottolander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Leonard The problem with this particular case is that you have a GPLed Leonard content that can be freely distributed, but there is uncertainty Leonard on how to identify the content. If people go to Cheapbytes they Leonard will

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-18 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Leonard == Leonard den Ottolander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LeonardHi Ed, Thanx for the links. In regard to Robert's question Leonard I found an interesting link myself: Leonard http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/page3.html :). Well, I'm glad you like that link. I

Re: How to for Iptables

2001-12-12 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Ragnar == Ragnar Wiencke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ragnar Hi guys. Is there a howto doc for iptables. I can't find it. Does Ragnar it have another name or doesn't it exist? I know this is a spend money type of suggestion, but I just bought the second edition of Ziegler's _Linux Firewalls_

Re: command to modify words?

2001-12-12 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Hi, What is the command to modify words This is what I am trying to do delete everything after the @ from a file of one line email addresses. BEFORE [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] AFTER mark ian jane Trevor Emacs? /me runs! :-) -- Ed Bailey

Re: 2 quick questions

2001-12-12 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Devon == Devon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Devon On Tuesday 11 December 2001 03:11 pm, Ian Truelsen wrote: First question: I am thinking of picking up one of the new ATI Radeon all in wonder cards, the 8500 AGP card (merry christmas to me) and I was wondering how well RedHat deals with it.

Re: cannot upgrade 6.2

2001-12-10 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Hidong == Hidong Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hidong Hi, Hidong Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote: 1) Try the bootoption nodma. This addresses one category of broken hardware Hidong nodma? I don't recall this boot option. Do I type nodma Hidong enter? At the boot prompt, type:

Re: IP something confusion

2001-12-10 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Jim == Jim Bija [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jim Ive also noticed that by default IPTABLES seems to be broken in 7.1 Jim AND 7.2, i have had no luck with iptables at all, hopefully this will Jim be fixed soon in the next release of redhat, it realy should work out Jim of the box. Nothing is

Re: DHCP IPTables on 7.1

2001-12-08 Thread Edward C. Bailey
== [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yeah, so do I. The down side is every time you upgrade it gets overwritten. Maybe Red Hat will make this one of those nifty files containing network parameters int he future so we don't have this problem in the future? Well, Starting with 7.2 (I think; it's

Re: FUD alert!

2001-12-08 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Sorry about coming late to the conversation, but I've been in all day meetings for the past couple days; I'm starting to catch up on my mail now... Mike == Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Mike How much of what they say is true? They've got the basic facts just about 100% correct.

Re: DHCP IPTables on 7.1

2001-12-05 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Mike == Mike Burger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mike Actually, I only wanted DHCP for my internal interface...but until I Mike spefically added accept rules for udp and tcp on ports 67 and 68 on Mike the internal interface, my server/firewall would not accept dhcp Mike requests, nor dole out the

Re: What's that issue with Samba passwords again.

2001-12-05 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Justin == Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Justin Sounds like you have a mixup with password encryption. on your Justin linux box set encrypt password = no, and then in windows you have Justin to go to the registry and set EnablePlainTextPassword to 1. wish i Justin could tell you

Re: GO

2001-11-27 Thread Edward C. Bailey
cameron == cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cameron Anyone know if the game of GO has been released in a Linux format? ... Look here: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/gnugo.html -- Ed BaileyRed Hat, Inc. http://www.redhat.com/

Re: Red Hat 7.2: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

2001-11-26 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Mariusz == Mariusz Pekala [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mariusz On Fri 23 November 2001 17:03, you (Ed Wilts) wrote: The minimum size of your swap partition should be equal to twice the amount of your computer's RAM or 32 MB, whichever is larger. Mariusz I'm curious... why 2xRAM ? If I have 360

Re: Is LABEL syntax in fstab really a good thing?

2001-11-25 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Bruce == Bruce Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bruce How do I modify an existing label or label a new partition? While Bruce I agree that using labels in fstab can be safer, I have difficulty Bruce locating documentation. What happens if I want to re-partition my Bruce system? I have found

Re: md5sum question

2001-11-21 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Statux == Statux [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Statux Quickly, you could just do: # md5sum filename Statux and then compare that against the md5 checksum that's listed on the Statux server for the file. Statux disclaimer: md5 checksums only prove that the files are in all Statux probability the

Re: another md5sum question

2001-11-21 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Chris == Chris Watt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Chris You can view an RPM file as three pieces: The actual installable Chris package, the MD5 checksum of the installable package, and an Chris (optional) GPG signature for the installable package. I think this is still correct:

Re: md5sum question

2001-11-21 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Dave == Dave Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In theory at least, a 1 in 1^128 chance... Ed Dave I hope that's 10^128 or 2^128 and not 1^128 :-) D'oh! I think I'll just go back to sleep now... :-) Ed -- Ed BaileyRed Hat, Inc.

Re: MKKICKSTART replacement???

2001-11-12 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Graham == Graham Hemmings [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Graham Upon running mkkickstart under RH7.2 it informs me that it is no Graham longer used under RH7.2 and that I should use ksconfig. Graham Does anyone know where I can actually find ksconfig as it's not Graham installed on my system? $

Re: MKKICKSTART replacement???

2001-11-12 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Leonard == Leonard den Ottolander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LeonardHi Edward, $ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/ksconfig ksconfig-1.9.8-4 $ Look for the ksconfig RPM on your CDs (or on the FTP site of your choice)... Leonard But IIRC this is an X utility. What about a kickstart utility

Re: user groups and permissions - getting the information of what they _should be_ from rpm?

2001-11-12 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Simon == Simon J Mudd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon Hello, I recently noticed a few problems with file permissions of Simon the dev package, I think due to another package which had modified Simon them. Simon How can I see the file permissions and ownergroup as recorded by Simon rpm? rpm