Re: Xterm and other questions

2003-08-14 Thread James Gibbon
fred pasteck wrote: > Hi, I have a few other questions as a new RH9 user > that I hoped someone could help me answer. > > - I'd like to use the standard xterm and not the 'terminal' > program. However, I'd like to have white-on-black instead of > black-on-white. Is there a program that can be use

Re: Up2date Connection

2003-08-14 Thread James Gibbon
David Hart wrote: > Have you tried FTP rather than Up2Date? > I like to use wget myself - if the connection breaks for some reason, you can continue where it left off with wget -c -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/red

Re: Unsual idea..

2003-08-14 Thread James Gibbon
"Kelerion" wrote: > > Imagine converting an mp3 into a wav and loading it into a wav > editor.. you will see a waveform.. there must be a mathematical > way of converting that waveform into a unique number that will > represent that waveform.. the number would be huge to hold all the > information

Re: installing metamail

2003-08-10 Thread James Gibbon
"Larry Brown" wrote: > Is it the metamail-2.7-8mdk.x86_64 ? metamail-2.7-8mdk.i586.rpm is most probably the one you want to look for. It's on the Mandrake 9.1 distribution media and it'll certainly be out there on the web somewhere. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PR

Re: Spreadsheet program?

2003-08-07 Thread James Gibbon
David Hart wrote: > There MUST be something better than KSpread. Any suggestions? > I use gnumeric myself. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Up2date

2003-08-04 Thread James Gibbon
"Richard Humphrey" wrote: > > If run up2date on sendmail on a production server, what are the > chances things will be meessed up? Slim, but real. This is a general point, rather than one about sendmail or even RedHat, but (if I may say so) you should suck it and see on a non-prod box first. I

Re: NTFS partition mount problem

2003-08-04 Thread James Gibbon
"Otto Haliburton" wrote: > You can what kernel do you have you are one of the only ones since > redhat doesn't support ntfs. > Hmmm .. [EMAIL PROTECTED] jg]# mount | grep win /dev/hda1 on /windows type vfat (rw) OK, my mistake - I thought it was NTFS! I've definitely had NTFS RO before on my

Re: NTFS partition mount problem

2003-08-04 Thread James Gibbon
"Otto Haliburton" wrote: > Yes, there are several possibilities they are > 1) rebuild your kernel enabling ntfs readonly access > 2) www.rhil.net where you can obtain the modules and instructions > 3) search redhat.com for ntfs a person provides the modules. > Should be no need for any of the ab

Re: How to install and configure Microcom Deskporte Internal/L modem

2003-08-04 Thread James Gibbon
"bEEnHeX" wrote: > Greetings, > > I have installed Red Hat linux 9.0 (Shrike) onto my system without problems > and haven't updated it yet. My Microcom Deskporte Internal/L modem was not > detected and configured by default and I would like to do it manualy. > It has a lucent chip. > > I ha

Re: Cannot uninstall duplicate RPM Package??

2003-08-03 Thread James Gibbon
"Olivier Dony" wrote: > Hello, > > I can't exactly remember how I managed to create this duplication > (something about rpm segfault'ing wrt the glibc version during the > install of one of those packages, and stuff like that), but anyway, > here it goes : > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get instal

Re: C question

2003-08-02 Thread James Gibbon
Dave Ihnat wrote: > HOWEVER, if you're on Unix/Linux, you'll also have to turn off > buffering in the tty driver. This involves a call to tcgetattr, > clearing at least ICANON, in the c_lflag element, and then a call > to tcsetattr. (This will still show the input character being > echoed; you'l

Re: C question

2003-08-02 Thread James Gibbon
"Buz Davis" wrote: > > I would like a routine to read the keyboard and report the single > key pressed, and give me control back without waiting for ENTER to > be pressed. Under MSDOS (where all of my c experience has been) > there was a c routine called getch() that would do just this. I > can

Re: An upgrade issue

2003-08-01 Thread James Gibbon
mark wrote: > Umm, home directories, any working directories I've set up, my > collection of source code The best approach is to keep these in a separate partition - /home perhaps, which you can opt to preserve. I tend to keep anything I want to keep in my home directory, and rename it ju

Re: netmeeting under linux

2003-08-01 Thread James Gibbon
the brilliant beast wrote: > what disk is it the net meeting on? I have all the packages > installed on this system. if it is all ready on here how do I > start the program? if it is not on here which disk is it on 1 2 > or 3? > I can't remember what disk gnomemeeting's on - I copied all the d

gthumb / 'gconf error'

2003-07-31 Thread James Gibbon
Occasionally, when I start gthumb (2.1.2), two popup boxes appear each with a white cross on a red background. The first says: "GConf error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/BAD_OPERATION:1.0" (this is also displayed on the terminal). The second says:

Re: Meaningful tar logs

2003-07-31 Thread James Gibbon
"AragonX" wrote: > I've tried the -v option but my logs come out to be 5-10Mb in size > (depending on the server). It just lists the file names being backed up. OK, well just redirect stderr to the logfile then if you don't want the list of files -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailt

Re: netmeeting under linux

2003-07-31 Thread James Gibbon
"Felix Mathais" wrote: > Does anybody know if there is an equivialent to netmeeting for linux? > Yes, gnomemeeting - there's an RPM on the RH9.0 distribution disks. It works well, but (unless something's changed recently - haven't used it for a while) can't be called from any of the GNU/Linu

Re: Help with shell script

2003-07-31 Thread James Gibbon
Michael Gargiullo wrote: > find / -mtime +2 -type d -exec rm -rf \{} \; > > I wonder how long that will run before it eats itself? Hasn't > anyone wanted to do that just to see... A system administrator colleague of mine did effectively exactly that, a few years ago, on a production Solaris ma

Re: Meaningful tar logs

2003-07-30 Thread James Gibbon
"AragonX" wrote: > I'm using tar to do nightly backups. I would like to get some > useful information out of it to put in a log file. I would like > to know if the backup completed successfully, how big the backup > was and what files had to be excluded. Does anyone have any > ideas? > You mi

Re: vi on RedHat 9.0 - autoindent disabled?

2003-07-30 Thread James Gibbon
> > Do you really preffer to type your tabs? Every line? Why..? :) I hate tabs in text files as well .. I type my own spaces. Just makes me feel in control. More often than not, the auto-indenter doesn't behave they way I'd want anyway. I find it absolutely maddening! That and the wacky

Re: vi on RedHat 9.0 - autoindent disabled?

2003-07-30 Thread James Gibbon
José Toneh wrote: > I've upgraded to RedHat 9.0 and now it seems > like vi doesn't indent anymore, which is weird.. I've > tried ":set ai", ":set ai sw=4", the tabstop and > shiftwidth are set in my .vimrc file; anybody else got > that problem? Make sure you use /usr/bin/vim and not /bi

Re: spamassassin and ~/.forward

2003-07-29 Thread James Gibbon
"Nick White" wrote: > Hi RHML, > > I have spamassassin running and configured, but ~/.forward is called > before ~/.procmailrc. This results in mail being forwarded before it is > run through spamassassin. Besides using a milter for sendmail, is there > any way to scan mail being forwarded thro

Re: POP3 Retrieval

2003-07-29 Thread James Gibbon
"Devon Harding - GTHLA" wrote: > Ease of configuration and monitoring!! To be honest I think fetchmail scores fairly well on both - there's lots of info on the web to help with the former, and it's flexible enough that you can do more or less what you like wrt the latter. -- redhat-list ma

Re: List has died!

2003-07-29 Thread James Gibbon
Matthew Galgoci wrote: > > Lemma of system administration: 1 server, 4000 list subscribers. 2 users > complain. Odds are the problem is not with the list server. I didn't complain, but the list died for me too. I continued to receive mail from other external sources. Odd. -- redhat-list

Re: symantec spam message

2003-07-28 Thread James Gibbon
"Rizzuto, Alan" wrote: > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > --_=_NextPart_001_01C3552A.C765E8B5 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Sorry for all of the issues - I just turned off the return message when > it

Re: exam question help please

2003-07-28 Thread James Gibbon
"Stuart Clark" wrote: > > The reason why I ask is because I think of stdout as being the screen > > If I put > > 01 * * * * root /bin/echo "hello" > > into /etc/crontab I don't see the work hello on the screen every minute. > > > Why? > stdout isn't the screen. Your terminal is

Re: partition table

2003-07-27 Thread James Gibbon
John Nichel wrote: > How can I view my partition table on RH 9 with /etc/fstab is screwed up, > and I can only boot into single user mode? /sbin/fdisk at the Command (m for help): prompt, type 'p' > By-Tor.com > It's all about the Rush > http://www.by-tor.com Not long 'til the DVD :)

RH9.0 / outgoing mail queing up FIXED

2003-07-27 Thread James Gibbon
ve for the comment at the top of the file), and after restarting sendmail, my outgoing mail is now leaving without having to be pushed. Many thanks to those who offered help and advice with this. Cheers James --- Forwarded Message Date:Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:41:22 +0100 From:James Gibb

Re: No Java VM in my PATH?

2003-07-27 Thread James Gibbon
Nick Wilson wrote: > > You need install the Java VM to your machine, if you haven't done so > > already. > > > > http://www.java.com > > > > Simple way to put java in your PATH is to symlink the main java > > executable to a directory already in your path, for example, /usr/bin. > > Right. Tha

Re: remote upgrade from Redhat 8.0 --> 9.0

2003-07-26 Thread James Gibbon
"bruce" wrote: > hey... > > Can someone provide information as to how to do a remote upgrade from RH > 8.0 --> 9.0. Send the install CDs in a taxi ;D -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: determining the version of linux

2003-07-25 Thread James Gibbon
"bruce" wrote: > hi... > > need to know how to determine the version of linux currently running on my > server... i know "uname" gets the kernel can't find it doing a google > search!! [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike) .. assuming you're runni

Re: RH9.0 / outgoing mail queing up

2003-07-25 Thread James Gibbon
MKlinke wrote: > > OK, I just went back and looked at your original note. I see you noted > that "sendmail was ticked as currently running" but I'm not sure what > that means. The 'services' gui shows that it's running in runlevel 5. > What is the output of: > > ps aux | grep sendmail >

Re: RH9.0 / outgoing mail queing up

2003-07-25 Thread James Gibbon
MKlinke wrote: > Has something changed between the time Brian tried and my attempt today? > And, if so, does your mail now work? > No to both - I've always been able to resolve virgin.net on my box - fetchmail does this every few minutes. Still having to force outgoing mail to leave by push

Re: RH9.0 / outgoing mail queing up

2003-07-25 Thread James Gibbon
MKlinke wrote: > From the /usr/share/sendmail.cf/README: > > As of 8.9, sendmail will refuse mail if the MAIL FROM: parameter > has an unresolvable domain (i.e., one that DNS, your local name > service, or special case rules in ruleset 3 cannot locate). If > you want to continue to accept such

Re: RH9.0 / outgoing mail queing up

2003-07-25 Thread James Gibbon
Brian Ashe wrote: > > As a quick check I see that mail.virgin.net does not have a > reverse lookup. So... > > You can try to add "FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains) dnl" to > your sendmail.mc and create a new sendmail.cf and see if that > works. Especially if you don't have this problem with o

Re: Auto Responder Mail

2003-07-25 Thread James Gibbon
Win Toe wrote: > I would like to setup autoresponder mail for customer services. > > For eg, if someone send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], mail server > should send information from file to sender IMMEDIATELY (if > we can include attach file, it will be OK ). > > My question is, can we make such a

Re: RH9.0 / outgoing mail queing up

2003-07-25 Thread James Gibbon
Brian Ashe wrote: > That looks like a DNS issue to me. See if this helps... > http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/host_map__lookup_(domain)__deferred.html > Thanks Brian, that was my initial thought too - but I've encountered no DNS difficulties in accessing webpages, fetchmail works first time, a

Re: RPM command to show all package names installed?

2003-07-25 Thread James Gibbon
Ben Hall wrote: > Hi there, > > Is there a way to get a list of all package names installed? rpm -qa is > close, but it gives name-version, I just want the name! > I'm not sure if this is infallible, but .. rpm -qa | sed "s/-[0-9].*//" .. it assumes that all package names follow the convent

RH9.0 / outgoing mail queing up

2003-07-25 Thread James Gibbon
Hi there - I wonder if anyone can help me overcome a problem. I installed RH 9.0 yesterday, and have a problem with outgoing mail - it queues up (like this!): [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# mailq /var/spool/mqueue (1 request) -Q-ID- --Size-- -Q-Time- Sender/