Re: Dealing with Power Outage: How to Shutdown cleanly

2003-10-23 Thread Janyne Kizer
elf shut the machine down whenever it is on Battery. I'm really ignorant on this case here, so any help is greatly appreciated. Also, if there're recommendation for those UPS that works well with linux. Thanks. RDB -- Janyne Kizer Systems Programmer Administrator NC State University, Col

backup programs

2003-10-16 Thread Janyne Kizer
nthly offsite backups. What I am looking for is somethat that will create a boot disk and restore from tape without first requiring that the OS be installed. Any suggestions would be appreaciated. -- Janyne Kizer Systems Programmer Administrator NC State University, College of Agriculture &

Re: Moving from windows application to Linuxs'

2003-10-16 Thread Janyne Kizer
Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- Janyne Kizer Systems Programmer Administrator NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences Extension Information Technology -- redhat-list mailing l

Re: help with quotas!!!

2003-10-14 Thread Janyne Kizer
filesystem with the quotacheck command. just execute quotacheck. I just followed the steps of RedHat customization guide, but failed. Could anyone give me a hand? May be another step i should do between and not commented in this guide? Thank you all -- Janyne Kizer Systems Programmer Ad

Re: userpasswd problem

2003-10-09 Thread Janyne Kizer
n for your problem. I just don't remember what it was. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Janyne Kizer Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 11:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: userpasswd problem We tried this on another machine tha

Re: userpasswd problem

2003-10-08 Thread Janyne Kizer
but the graphical userpasswd does not. Any pointers would be appreciated. On 10/7/2003 9:00 PM, Janyne Kizer wrote: No, this is not a case of the password being expired or about to expire. This happens when a regualr (non-root) user starts the userpasswd program either from command line or

Re: userpasswd problem

2003-10-07 Thread Janyne Kizer
passwords been setup to expire? It will ask the user to change their password. Forcing them to do so. Wade -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Janyne Kizer Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 3:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: userpasswd

userpasswd problem

2003-10-07 Thread Janyne Kizer
enter his/her new password, a dialog box saying "Error: Unknown error" is displayed and the following error is inserted in /var/log/messages: passwd(pam_unix)[2943]: password - (old) token not obtained Any pointers would be appreciated. -- Janyne Kizer Systems Programmer Administrato

Printing Woes

2002-10-07 Thread Janyne Kizer
. Is CUPS/XPP the solution that you would suggest for reliablity and ease of use? -- Janyne Kizer -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Quota problems

2002-10-02 Thread Janyne Kizer
( I run it regularly from webmin) > > Hiten > > __ > Do you Yahoo!? > New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subjec

Quota problems

2002-10-01 Thread Janyne Kizer
(block 535). kernel: VFS: Error -5 occured while creating quota The messages seem to occur during our nightly backups and when we are using the quota file (repquota, etc.). I'm a bit worried about this system. Any pointers would be appreciated. -- Janyne Kizer CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 Sy

Re: Printing in landscape with CUPS

2002-09-30 Thread Janyne Kizer
e are having problems printing in landscape from programs like Opera, Netscape, and KOrganizer. Janyne Kizer wrote: > > Is there a trick to getting CUPS to print in landscape orientation? I > am having some problems printing in landscape. I have been trying to > narrow it down. >

Printing in landscape with CUPS

2002-09-30 Thread Janyne Kizer
-- with the same results so I don't think that it is a PPD file issue. Any tips on getting this working? -- Janyne Kizer CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 Systems Programmer Administrator NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences Extension Information Technology -- redhat-list mai

Re: StarOffice Printing Problems

2002-04-23 Thread Janyne Kizer
rking fine, could you please let me know what PPD you are using? Janyne Kizer wrote: > > My group has started to rollout RedHat 7.2 systems to several remote > sites. We are running StarOffice 5.2 on these systems and we have run > into some paper tray selection issues and I am hoping

StarOffice Printing Problems

2002-04-18 Thread Janyne Kizer
manual feed at all. It prompts but then pulls from the normal tray. We have another site, also with an HP4M Plus, that pulls from the manual feed tray by default... Any ideas at all on this issue would be greatly appreciated. -- Janyne Kizer CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 Systems Programmer Administrator I

Password expiration and KDE

2002-03-28 Thread Janyne Kizer
into the server, as this test user, I do get a warning. from /etc/shadow testid:$1$Ww/bXKFS$vpevtY51Lbfed5zCFQmCl/:11759:0:18:5:0:-1:0 -- Janyne Kizer CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 Systems Programmer Administrator I NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences Extension and Admin

Login prompt font

2002-03-28 Thread Janyne Kizer
fonts and now the login screen doesn't look as nice as I would like. Since this is the first thing that people will see, I would like for it to make a good impression. I can't have them thinking that Windows Terminal Server would have been a better choice, now can I?! :-) Thanks! --

Re: KDE file associations

2002-03-25 Thread Janyne Kizer
SO is installed in /opt/staroffice52. Everyone has access to it. Bret Hughes wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 16:09, Janyne Kizer wrote: > > By IDs I mean userids. For some users this works fine. For other > > users, an association to StarOffice will not add. You can clic

Re: KDE file associations

2002-03-22 Thread Janyne Kizer
By IDs I mean userids. For some users this works fine. For other users, an association to StarOffice will not add. You can click all you want it just never adds (in fact, other programs can be associated with doc, just not SO). Tom Wilson wrote: > > Janyne Kizer wrote > > &g

Re: KDE file associations

2002-03-22 Thread Janyne Kizer
Thanks! I did that and it works for some IDs and not for others. Also, I need a away to do this system-wide. Is this possible? Tom Wilson wrote: > > Janyne Kizer wrote: > > I am using KDE 2.2.1 and I am having a problem associating .doc files > > with StarOffice 5

KDE file associations

2002-03-22 Thread Janyne Kizer
this something that needs to be set for each individual? Thanks! -- Janyne Kizer CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 Systems Programmer Administrator I NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences Extension and Administrative Technology Services Phone: (919)

setting mailcap/mime.types for Netscape

2002-03-22 Thread Janyne Kizer
at need to be set on an individual basis in ~/.mailcap and ~/.mime/types? I saw one of each in /etc but it doesn't appear to me that these are the ones read by Netscape. Thanks! -- Janyne Kizer CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 Systems Programmer Administrator I NC State University, College of Agr

Re: Tape writing format?

2002-03-18 Thread Janyne Kizer
Well, the tape drive is accessed. I think that it't the big Indian little Indian thing but we may just go with creating a TAR and FTPing it to the new server. thanks! Bill Crawford wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Janyne Kizer wrote: > > > backup from sun: > > TAPEDR

Re: Tape writing format?

2002-03-15 Thread Janyne Kizer
us in case there is a problem and we have to leave the Sun in place). "Lorris J. Woods" wrote: > > Janyne I would use tar to move the data, they are compatible across both > platforms. > > --On Friday, March 15, 2002 7:20 AM -0500 Janyne Kizer > <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Tape writing format?

2002-03-15 Thread Janyne Kizer
r 2002, Janyne Kizer wrote: > > > I have some Solaris servers we are migrationt to Red Hat Linux. What I > > was hoping to do is write the data that we want to move from the Solaris > > box to the new server to tape, put the tape into the Linux box and > > restor

Tape writing format?

2002-03-15 Thread Janyne Kizer
written by these to operating systems though. When we put the tape into the drive on the Linux server, the tape is accessed and we get a "file not found" error. Any pointers would be appreciated. -- Janyne Kizer CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 Systems Programmer Administrator I NC State University,

Question about Fonts (Gimp)

2002-03-14 Thread Janyne Kizer
s couldn't then select that font. When this listed-yet-unavailable font is selected, an error message is displayed stating the "Font '-long-font-name-here' not found." How can I tell Gimp to not list this font? -- Janyne Kizer CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 Systems Programmer Adminis

Re: KDE default desktop

2002-03-04 Thread Janyne Kizer
Windows Terminal Server). We'd like to lock down the Linux systems if possible. Alan Peery wrote: > > Janyne Kizer wrote: > > > Also, any ideas about how we can prevent editing of the menu and > > taskbar? We would like for users to be able to add icons to their >

Re: Graphical Change Password utility

2002-03-04 Thread Janyne Kizer
Local passwd files. Paul Hamm wrote: > > Are you using local passwd files or NIS? If you are using NIS I would > expect that kdepasswd is not configured to deal with yppasswd. > > -Original Message- > From: Janyne Kizer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday,

Graphical Change Password utility

2002-03-04 Thread Janyne Kizer
ou new password twice The error "Conversion with 'passwd' failed" appears Click OK A window saying "Your password has been changed." is displayed. It lies though. It really wasn't changed. thanks! -- Janyne Kizer CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 Systems Programmer Administr

KDE default desktop

2002-03-04 Thread Janyne Kizer
able to add icons to their desktops but we would like for the to have the KPanel and KMenu that we provide. We feel that this would ease the phone support burden. Thanks! -- Janyne Kizer CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 Systems Programmer Administrator I NC State University, College of Agriculture &

Re: ssh problem (was: error)

2002-02-19 Thread Janyne Kizer
Edward Marczak wrote: > > On 2/14/02 7:59 AM, "Janyne Kizer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] pressed the keys > forming the message: > > > The thing is, I have four servers that are set up exactly the same way > > (copied from tape) and three of them work fine. This one do

SCSI Timeout

2002-02-19 Thread Janyne Kizer
On 1 Command(s) Feb 17 21:50:11 betaserver kernel: Feb 17 22:30:08 betaserver kernel: AAC:ID(0:01:0) Timeout detected on cmd[0x2a] Feb 17 22:30:08 betaserver kernel: Feb 17 22:30:08 betaserver kernel: AAC:SCSI Channel[0]: Timeout Detected On 1 Command(s) Feb 17 22:30:08 betaserver kernel: -- Jan

Chooser Broadcast

2002-02-14 Thread Janyne Kizer
#any indirect host can get a chooser -- Janyne Kizer CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 Systems Programmer Administrator I NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences Extension and Administrative Technology Services Phone: (919) 515-3609 ___ Re

Re: ssh problem (was: error)

2002-02-14 Thread Janyne Kizer
(207.4.yyy.xxx) to troublesome.ces.state.nc.us (152.31.yyy.xxx) ICMP Time exceeded in transit from 172.28.zzz.bbb for icmp from workingsunserver.ces.state.nc.us (207.4.yyy.xxx) to troublesome.ces.state.nc.us (152.31.yyy.xxx) Bret Hughes wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-02-13 at 12:34, Janyne K

Re: ssh problem (was: error)

2002-02-13 Thread Janyne Kizer
tions that can continue: debug1: no more auth methods to try Permission denied (). debug1: Calling cleanup 0x8063570(0x0) [root@firstserver root]# Edward Marczak wrote: > > On 2/12/02 2:45 PM, "Janyne Kizer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] pressed the keys > forming the message: > >

bootp xinetd question

2002-02-13 Thread Janyne Kizer
ailed (Address already in use (errno = 98)). service = bootps However nmap reports that port 67 is not in use and /etc/services seems to be set up properly. bootps 67/tcp # BOOTP server bootps 67/udp Janyne Kizer wrote: > > Unfortunately we ha

Re: bootp question

2002-02-13 Thread Janyne Kizer
o that my computers always > have the same ip: > > host rigel { >hardware ethernet 00:00:00:00:00:00; >fixed-address 192.168.1.1; > } > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Janyne Kizer &

Re: bootp question

2002-02-12 Thread Janyne Kizer
So DHCP is backward compatable with Bootp, right? I'll test, of course, but we have some older diskless workstations that we are serving addresses to. Thanks! Ragnar Wisløff wrote: > > Sitat Janyne Kizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Was bootp depreciated in favor of

Re: ssh problem (was: error)

2002-02-12 Thread Janyne Kizer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ___ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Janyne Kizer CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 Systems Programmer Administrator I NC State University, College of

bootp question

2002-02-12 Thread Janyne Kizer
suspect it has) then maybe that's not such a good idea. Just trying to weigh our options. Thanks! -- Janyne Kizer CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 Systems Programmer Administrator I NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences Extension and Administrative Technology Services Phone: (919)

Re: HTML Editor

2002-02-12 Thread Janyne Kizer
want to try running it on an > emulator such as VMWare or similar. It may even run on Wine. > > -- > Nitebirdz > > Mozilla--> http://www.mozilla.org/ > Linux XFS--> http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ > > ___ > Redhat-l

Re: GLX error

2002-02-07 Thread Janyne Kizer
auses this problem. Janyne Kizer wrote: > > I have had several people report the following error to me when testing > our RH 7.2 system using KDE 2.2.1. > > "Failed to obtain license for GLX" > > This message seems to come up when the screen saver starts. They are

Re: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 / sound-slot-1

2002-02-05 Thread Janyne Kizer
cards ? > > Thx, > > ismes > > You could try removing all your sound modules. Or going to the Control > Center->Sound->Sound Server and disabling that. > > -- > Tom Wilson > > ___ > Redhat-list mailing lis

GLX error

2002-02-05 Thread Janyne Kizer
ppreciated. -- Janyne Kizer CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 Systems Programmer Administrator I NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences Extension and Administrative Technology Services Phone: (919) 515-3609 ___ Redhat-list mailing list [E

Re: word perfect 8 question

2002-01-30 Thread Janyne Kizer
> help would be greatly appreciated. > Linda > > ___ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Janyne Kizer CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 Systems Programmer Ad

mtrr error message

2002-01-28 Thread Janyne Kizer
rrect direction :-) -- Janyne Kizer CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 Systems Programmer Administrator I NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences Extension and Administrative Technology Services Phone: (919) 515-3609 ___ Redhat-list mailing li

Desktop Publishing

2002-01-24 Thread Janyne Kizer
x are Windows Terminal Servers and the end users have been using Publisher. I am looking for something similar in terms of ease of use and so on. Thanks! -- Janyne Kizer CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 Systems Programmer Administrator I NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences Exte

Re: wu-ftpd security?

2002-01-24 Thread Janyne Kizer
t; how big impact of chroot wu-ftpd, can that avoid root access to my systems? > > thank you for your advices > > -- > ichtus > -- > Lewi Supranata .K > ICQ: 50643061 > > -------- >Part 1.2

Re: Files Quota's on Redhat 7.2

2002-01-22 Thread Janyne Kizer
Is there a way to set things up so that every new user that you create has the same quota amount? For example, everyone could have 40MB to start. -- Janyne Kizer CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 Systems Programmer Administrator I NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences Extension

Re: AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat

2002-01-21 Thread Janyne Kizer
dar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com > Central Texas IT http://www.centraltexasit.com > > ___ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- Janyne Kizer

Re: AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat

2002-01-21 Thread Janyne Kizer
source. AOL-Time Warner is committed to proprietary development. Think AIM and AOL Keyword and all of the problems that occur on mailing lists (listserv and majordomo both) every time a new version of AOL comes out. -- Janyne Kizer CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5

Re: info on kde autorun.desktop

2002-01-17 Thread Janyne Kizer
e things start > automatically in the Autostart folder. It is simply like a "rc.d" type area > for KDE start-up or as I said above like the WinXX Startup folder. So if you > think of each file as a "program or script to run", then if you don't want > something to run, remove it. > > -- > Brian

info on kde autorun.desktop

2002-01-15 Thread Janyne Kizer
documentation about this file. Thanks! Thanks! -- Janyne Kizer CNE-3, CNE-4, CNE-5 Systems Programmer Administrator I NC State University, College of Agriculture & Life Sciences Extension and Administrative Technology Services Phone: (919) 515-

Re: Netscape on x-terminals

2002-01-08 Thread Janyne Kizer
e: > > Hello Janyne > > I am also interested in running NCD ThinStars as X terminals > > Can you give me some of the info you have put together on how to > make this work. > > You can mail direct to me if you wish > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > many thanks >

Re: Netscape on x-terminals

2002-01-08 Thread Janyne Kizer
Yes, I understand where it's supposed to be created. I was just wondering if it was supposed to be created when the account is added or when certain preferences are saved or what. Thanks! Dave Reed wrote: > > > From: Janyne Kizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >

Re: Netscape on x-terminals

2002-01-08 Thread Janyne Kizer
130-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1 > > I have no experience with diskless terminals, so I could be all wet > here; I'm assuming that you have a "home" directory on the server, no? > > Regards, > Gregg > > >>>>> "Janyne" == Janyne Kizer <[EMAI

Re: Netscape on x-terminals

2002-01-08 Thread Janyne Kizer
gt; emacs.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1 > > I have no experience with diskless terminals, so I could be all wet > here; I'm assuming that you have a "home" directory on the server, no? > > Regards, > Gregg > > >>>&

Netscape on x-terminals

2002-01-08 Thread Janyne Kizer
I am new to Linus and I am trying to work out some "bugs" a RH 7.2 installation that I am testing with NCD ThinStars and other diskless x-terminals as clients. One of the big problems that I am running into is that the x-terminals are using 8-bit color but the applications seem to be trying to us

serviceconf not working

2002-01-07 Thread Janyne Kizer
I am having a problem with systemconf not working. The system is RH 7.2 with KDE. When I type serviceconf at the command prompt I get the following errors (and then the GUI just closes): File "/usr/share/serviceconf/serviceconf.py", line 438, in ? main() File "/usr/share/serviceconf/serviceconf

Re: ext3 or ext2 ?

2002-01-02 Thread Janyne Kizer
Dominic Mitchell wrote: > > Hi, > > Which of ext2 or ext3 should I format the partition of a new > install of RH7.2. I seem to remember people saying that ext3 was > more robust to an unclean unmounting of partitions? Right. ext3 uses journaling > > Are there good reasons for not using ex

Re: Document conversion suggestions

2002-01-02 Thread Janyne Kizer
ssing Consulting Times is on target. Ed Wilts wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 01:17:42PM -0500, Janyne Kizer wrote: > > My group is looking at migrating 1300 users from WordPerfect 6 for > > Solaris to StarOffice for Linux when we roll out new servers this > > summer.

Document conversion suggestions

2002-01-02 Thread Janyne Kizer
My group is looking at migrating 1300 users from WordPerfect 6 for Solaris to StarOffice for Linux when we roll out new servers this summer. Unfortunately, StarOffice for Linux does not have WordPerfect filters. We need a way to convert the WP documents to a format that StarOffice can read -- su

Re: Unattended start of XDM

2002-01-02 Thread Janyne Kizer
n of /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf > > This is all from memory, so it may not be entirely accurate, but give it a > try. > > Jon > > On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Janyne Kizer wrote: > > > I am using XDM/XDMCP to connnect some NCD terminals to an RH 7.2 machine > > and I wou

Re: Unattended start of XDM

2001-12-31 Thread Janyne Kizer
Well, I did try it and it worked for me. I vaguely remember reading that this is not the recommended way to do it (due to lack of elegance is how I read it). It seems that runlevel 5 should work but it just doesn't for me. I get a idfferent login screen and everything... Thanks for your help

Unattended start of XDM

2001-12-31 Thread Janyne Kizer
I am using XDM/XDMCP to connnect some NCD terminals to an RH 7.2 machine and I would like for Linux to automatically start XDM and accept XDMCP requests on bootup. This seems like it should be simple enough but I am stuck. I have everything configured and working fine in runlevel 3 but I have to

Starting XDM

2001-12-21 Thread Janyne Kizer
I am having a problem getting XDM to start up properly in runlevel 5 on an RH 7.2 box. It starts but it does not start the same way as if I start in runlevel 3, login as root and type xdm at the prompt. If I start in runlevel 3, the login screen is slightly different but the main thing is that i

KPersonalizer and Autostart

2001-12-20 Thread Janyne Kizer
I have two quick KDE questions: - Is there a way to stop KPersonalizer from running when new accounts are logged into for the first time? (without having to update/create the ~/.kde/share/config/kdewizardrc file for every account) - Is there a way to stop KDE from trying to mount CDs at startup

"Xlib: extension 'XFree86-Misc" is missing on display.."

2001-12-13 Thread Janyne Kizer
Yesterday I tried to install WPO2000 for Linux on a two week old RH 7.2 server. The installation went OK but I am having some FontTastic problems that I am working through. The thing is I have been seeing the following error in a few situations. "Xlib: extension 'XFree86-Misc" is missing on dis