Re: It works (can someone explain to me why?)

2002-01-02 Thread Joe Brenner
> "Ed Wilts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Joe Brenner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tyrone Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm only a newbie in Redhat and I installed version 7.2 > > > after the the

Re: Newbie

2002-01-01 Thread Joe Brenner
Tyrone Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm only a newbie in Redhat and I installed version 7.2 after the the > installation the system will reboot. After rebooting and I saw some files > being loaded ..then my monitor went to dark and I've been stuck there, my > friend told me to re-install

Re: I hate Gnome

2001-12-18 Thread Joe Brenner
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:08:42 +0100 Thomas Ribbrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 05:08:46PM -0600, Robert Canary wrote: > > How do I get rid of this disgusting thing that Red Hat put on my > > desktop? I want my old (fast) desktop from 5.2 back. The one with fast > > ope

Re: RedHat 8.0 beta

2001-12-06 Thread Joe Brenner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Michael Jang wrote: > > MJ>I'm not asking for the release date of the next version of Red Hat. I am > > MJ>asking if anyone has any "informed speculation" on when the beta for Red > > MJ>Hat Linux 8.0 might be available. > And why not a 7.3 version? Now that stri

Re: should redhat dump wu-ftpd, sendmail?

2001-11-29 Thread Joe Brenner
Jason Costomiris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 01:10:10PM -0500, Brian Ashe wrote: > : Yes, but if you've read it [the postfix license], you > : would see that it is much more Debian friendly then RH, > : etc. friendly. The OSI rarely concerns itself with what > : legal l

Joe Brenner: Re: Anyone been able to compile mod_perl-1.24 with Apache-1.3.14?

2000-12-13 Thread Joe Brenner
Ah, just came across another message (on the mod_perl list) that explains the source of the problem: > Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 00:36:48 +0100 > From: Jens-Uwe Mager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Apache 1.3.14 build > > On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 04:02:42PM -0600, Wang, Pin-Chieh wrote: > > I am

Re: Anyone been able to compile mod_perl-1.24 with Apache-1.3.14?

2000-12-13 Thread Joe Brenner
"Carson, Chuck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to build mod_perl into Apache-1.3.14 and it dies. > > I have tried the following methods of configuring/compiling, each time with > freshly upacked tarballs of apache and mod_perl. > > 1) configure and build apache: > ./configure --prefi

Re: installing perl modules

2000-09-26 Thread Joe Brenner
Eileen Orbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I seem to have great errors installing Perl modules. > > For example if I type: > perl -MCPAN -e'install DBD::mysql' > It returns > > There's a new CPAN.pm version (v1.57) available! >You might want to try > install Bundle::CPAN > reload

the init.d blahs: ^[[60G[ ^[[1;32mIS REALLY NOT OK^[[0;39m ]

2000-09-21 Thread Joe Brenner
(I'm answering my own question here, just for the record... so don't waste your time on this if you're looking for questions to answer...) Okay, so since I've been tweaking my httpd.conf a lot lately, I get to do things like this a lot: su /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart And since I liv

Re: Streaming media

2000-09-19 Thread Joe Brenner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Wilson) wrote: > Is anyone here familiar with using Linux to stream streaming media? > We've found that Real's RealMedia Plus server runs on Linux, but we want to > be able to stream MPEG 1 or AVI (_possilby_ also .asf for those who really > want it). > > So far I

Re: someone has a short fuse: Re: PLEASE use meaningful subject lines, fer cryin' out loud!

2000-09-18 Thread Joe Brenner
Nic Steussy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > someone has a short fuse: Re: PLEASE use meaningful subject lines, fer That would be yourself you're referring to? Rpjday just posted a reminder about basic netiquette, that's all. Gotta be done, once in a while. _

linuxconf (was Re: Open Relay?)

2000-09-12 Thread Joe Brenner
Gregory Hosler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12-Sep-00 Statux wrote: > > Honestly.. how many people actually use Linuxconf? :) > > I (with close to 10 years of Unix experiance, as well as 7 > Linux) recommend it to new users... which is not to say > that I use it for everything I do. You mus

Re: [OT] perl question

2000-09-06 Thread Joe Brenner
> Please forgive the off topic post but I don't subscribe to a > perl list, and hate to for the occasional question. Don't neglect the usenet newsgroups. There's always comp.lang.perl.misc, or possibly comp.infosystems.www.misc (or you might even try comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi, which ha

Re: Lynx and pics.

2000-09-03 Thread Joe Brenner
"Manuel A. Camacho Q." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I read somewhere that it is possible to surf with lynx under X and to > set it in such a way that you can open pics with a viewing software > (such as ee). Is this possible? If so, how do I set up lynx to do this? Well, this sounded like a su

Re: How are you supposed to add an existing user to a group?

2000-08-05 Thread Joe Brenner
Joe Brenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps this is a stupid question (I'm coming to the > conclusion that there are no intelligent questions), but if > you've just created a new group, how are you supposed to go > about adding new users to it these days?

How are you supposed to add an existing user to a group?

2000-08-05 Thread Joe Brenner
Perhaps this is a stupid question (I'm coming to the conclusion that there are no intelligent questions), but if you've just created a new group, how are you supposed to go about adding new users to it these days? The man pages for useradd, groupadd and groupmod are not enlightening (to me) on

Re: Emacs Alt != Esc in 6.2

2000-07-30 Thread Joe Brenner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > OK, I finally upgraded to 6.2, which means there must be a new version > about to come out :) > > I'm running into a problem in emacs (20.7), on my old 6.0 system you > could use the 'Alt-' pair just like you would use the 'Esc ' > pair. That doesn't seem to be worki

Re: netscape 4.73

2000-07-06 Thread Joe Brenner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it worth effort to install 4.73...I have 4.72 now... is it better, more > stable, worse??? Thanks for the help... Well if you look at the release notes (if you can get passed the blinding, annoying 'Netscape Netcenter'): http://home.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/4.7/r

Re: Starting Netscape Messenger only.

2000-06-21 Thread Joe Brenner
Duane Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have seen this behavior also, where Netscape ignores that particular > preference setting. Although I have not tried it in this case, I have > sometimes found that odd Netscape behaviors can be fixed by deleting the > ~/.netscape directory (save your bo

Re: [OT] MS Breakup

2000-06-14 Thread Joe Brenner
Note: [OT] tag added to the subject line. "Steven Pierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bill Ward wrote: > > >Jon, I'm sorry to say, but we do owe Microsoft a few (positive) things: > > >The machine on your desk wouldn't exist if not for the > >foundations built on MS-DOS. Sure, I know, yo

Re: New NT OS Loader + Linux

2000-06-07 Thread Joe Brenner
"Adv. Systems Design" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have NT and Linux on one drive, but recently have > bought another drive for linux alone, so I would like > to recoup the drive space for mp3's! > > Problem: I put LILO on the MBR, where I was dual > booting into NT and Linux...how do I take

Re: compatible printer's

2000-05-30 Thread Joe Brenner
Ric Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Anthony E. Greene" wrote: > > > > At 10:45 2000-05-30 +0530, eagle wrote: > > > I have installed Rh 6.1 in my system and am about to install a > > >dot matrix printer I wanted to know which printer is compatible to it > > >weather Epson is compatibl

Re: linux with other os

2000-05-30 Thread Joe Brenner
"eagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed Rh 6.1(2nd partition) in my system ; it coexists > with windows95 . My system has 4 gig hd and divided into 2 one > allotted for windows and the other to Rh 6.1 . > I wanted to install another disk of 13 gig [...] > I wanted to know that

Netscape fun (fixing the "Alt q" exit problem)

2000-05-30 Thread Joe Brenner
Here's a little netscape lore for you folks, if anyone is interested: Being the keyboard junkie that I am, I often close Netscape windows by doing an "Alt w". This however is right next door to "Alt q", which kills *all* of the Netscape windows, which is not what I want. I finally decided th

Re: Keeping RH up to date

2000-05-30 Thread Joe Brenner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone gotten autorpm to work consistently? Are there any other solid > ways to keep a RH 6.2 box up to date? I noticed that even though I upgraded > my kernel and modules to the 6.2 versions, autorpm still went looking under > the 6.1 directory on the ftp sites

Re: netscape-lock file

2000-05-30 Thread Joe Brenner
Um, one more try here (something really weird happened to my last post): jack wallen jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 29 May 2000, Hyung Kim wrote: > > I just removed netscape communicator 4.73 and > > installed the communicator 4.73 with 128-bit > > encryption. Now, everytime I try

Re: netscape-lock file

2000-05-30 Thread Joe Brenner
jack wallen jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 29 May 2000, Hyung Kim wrote: > > I just removed netscape communicator 4.73 and > > installed the communicator 4.73 with 128-bit > > encryption. Now, everytime I try to open multiple > > copies of netscape, I get a warning stating that there

Re: alumni registry - web database?

2000-05-30 Thread Joe Brenner
"Anthony E. Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > JRtL wrote: > > i have a school project on web development. i am assign > > to do the alumni registry of our college (sort of online web > > database for alumni to register and some value added > > services) but i am not aware of the tools a

Re: [OT] email style hint

2000-05-27 Thread Joe Brenner
"Tom Williamson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been following this thread (somewhat loosely) as it's progressed, and I > really would like to point out something: > A LOT of "hard core netizens" seem to have this attitude IMHO. Is form > REALLY that important? We're not writing haiku her

Re: [OT] email style hint

2000-05-26 Thread Joe Brenner
Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joe Brenner wrote: > > > Reply *below* the quotation (and trim the excess, there's no > > need to quote everything). That way after several exchanges > > it will read like a dialog. > My issue is that if I am fo

[OT] email style hint

2000-05-24 Thread Joe Brenner
Reply *below* the quotation (and trim the excess, there's no need to quote everything). That way after several exchanges it will read like a dialog. You'd think everyone here grew up using Microsoft mailers. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: xwindows slow in general or...?

2000-05-23 Thread Joe Brenner
Uncle Meat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are other, lighter, faster desktops (XFCE andIceWM to name a couple). > They just don't have the right screen layout and gazillions of icons and > programs attached to make life easy for newbies. I'm not sure what you're talking about exactly, but

Re: [OT] PostgreSQL gets commercial support/funding

2000-05-19 Thread Joe Brenner
> > What is the groups opinions regarding MySQL vs PostgreSQL? > > > > MySQL - Not free for commercial use > > Not a full SQL implementation > > Speedy(though I don't know how much this gap is with PgSQL 7.0 but > > it has been closing with each new PgSQL release.) > >

Re: Hard Disk diagnostics

2000-04-20 Thread Joe Brenner
"linda hanigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a hardware diagnostics program on the order of Scandisk for > a Linux partition. I checked fdisk man pages but didn't see options for > checking surface or the filesystem. I think you're looking for "fsck". > I am getting some unpleasant

Re: How to copy floppy disks.

2000-04-20 Thread Joe Brenner
"Manuel A. Camacho Q." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know this must be a simple one, but got no idea. How can I copy floppy > disks on a single disk drive unit? (from the shell prompt) There are many ways of doing this, and some of them are probably easier than what I'm going to tell you here

Re: Xemacs

2000-04-15 Thread Joe Brenner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why is Xemacs not included in any of the main RH distributions? I'm just > curious b/c all the other main editors are included. Do you know that there are xemacs rpms on the redhat "Powertools" disks? This took me a little while to figure out myself, because (at lea

Re: xemacs:c++,java (fwd)

2000-03-08 Thread Joe Brenner
Mohammed Ennasar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, the above message was maybe not clear, indeed i installed the > xemacs-21.8 either linux-2.2.5-15, redhat 6.0, i will use it in mode c++ > and java modes, can i do that? if yes how? > > Thanks in advance. I'm not entirely clear on your quest

Re: What else did RH6.1 install forget...

2000-03-08 Thread Joe Brenner
Tom Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the important thing is to remember how helpful *constructive* > criticism is. It's very helpful. No argument there. > > The point is that: > > "xyz is RUBBISH!" > > Isn't really very constructive, is it? Not much use to anyone. Sure it is. I

Re: Opinions

2000-01-11 Thread Joe Brenner
"Jeremy Bradley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please do not take this as a flame, I am serious about this. > I would like to hear opinions of why users of this list are > so happy with Redhat compared to Microsoft. I have always > delt with Microsoft Windows and NT machines and have never > had

Re: RH6.1 lpd problem...

2000-01-06 Thread Joe Brenner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Also, RH6.1 did not detect my parallel port. so something > is screwed up with the parport package as well. A fix is > to set the alias: >alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc > in /etc/conf.modules, as given by a bug report in the > bugzilla system. I would think t

machine freezes when device full

2000-01-06 Thread Joe Brenner
My Redhat 6.1 machine has been completely locking up on me since I installed a new scsi controller (Buslogic/Mylex BT-930 PCI). This has been happening when I try and write something close to the capacity of my tape drive (2 Gb, it's an HP 35480A). But I also accidentally filled up my hard driv

Re: can't locate module char-major-108

2000-01-06 Thread Joe Brenner
Tom Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Russell W. Behne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On reboots I noticed this written to the logs: > > modprobe: can't locate module char-major-108 > > > > What is this, and what's the fix for it? > > This is from /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt:

Re: How to log who is visiting which web pages

2000-01-06 Thread Joe Brenner
"R. Kuijvenhoven" wrote: > I have installed an ipchains firewall/router. I would like to be able to > check the "surfing behaviour" of some of the employees, because I know that > they will be surfing instead of working if we are not able to check what > they are doing. A few other people have

Re: RH PPP scripts and questions (long)

1999-12-29 Thread Joe Brenner
Alan Mead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using the PPP and (to a lesser extent) ISP Hookup HOWTO's I've been able to > get pppd-based dial on demand working. Sort of. My goal is to set up the > Linux gateway to allow family members on my SOHO LAN to transparently > initiate PPP connections to t

Re: RH PPP scripts and questions (long)

1999-12-29 Thread Joe Brenner
Alan Mead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using the PPP and (to a lesser extent) ISP Hookup HOWTO's I've been able to > get pppd-based dial on demand working. Sort of. My goal is to set up the > Linux gateway to allow family members on my SOHO LAN to transparently > initiate PPP connections to t

Re: Debian or RPM?

1999-12-29 Thread Joe Brenner
Frank Rocco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a linux newbie and purchased Corel Linux and RH 6.1 > What is the difference between the debian based over RH? I am and remain a redhat user, but one of the reasons I would look at the Debian distribution is because of the package management system.

Re: Debian or RPM?

1999-12-29 Thread Joe Brenner
Frank Rocco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a linux newbie and purchased Corel Linux and RH 6.1 > What is the difference between the debian based over RH? I am and remain a redhat user, but one of the reasons I would look at the Debian distribution is because of the package management system.

Re: Gotchas

1999-12-07 Thread Joe Brenner
In the latest issue of the Linux Journal, Eric S. Raymond talks about the RedHat based KRUD distribution, which is what he uses. He says the deal is that for $36 a year, you get a CD-ROM in the mail with all the latest security-fix RPMs for RedHat. This is the URL: http://www.tummy.com/krud/

Re: postgres, perl and redhat 6.1

1999-12-03 Thread Joe Brenner
Just for the record: You may remember (but it's not bloody likely, is it?) that I was trying to get postgresql working on my newly upgraded RedHat 6.1 box, using the perl DBI/DBD interface. The trouble was that the latest RPM I could find (via rpmfind, google, etc), was: perl-DBD-Pg-0.

Re: Mounting a tape

1999-12-02 Thread Joe Brenner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm looking to setup a tape backup on my RH linux box(6.0). I have > a HP Colorado 5G external parallel port tape. Can this be done? > And if so, how? I can't find any information on how to mount the > tape drive. Red Hat's site said it supports parallel port connec

Re: postgres, perl and redhat 6.1

1999-11-27 Thread Joe Brenner
"Iain Wade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For perl modules it's probably easiest if you use the CPAN > module to install it .. > > # perl -MCPAN -e 'install DBD::Pg' > > This would fetch the latest module, compile it, run all the tests > and install it. This doesn't update the RPM database tho

postgres, perl and redhat 6.1

1999-11-27 Thread Joe Brenner
On a RedHat 6.1 box, I've been having trouble getting my perl to talk to postgresql the way I'm used to, via DBD/DBI. There's a failed dependency problem when I install the perl-DBD-Pg package: rpm -Uhv perl-DBD-Pg-0.91-1.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: libpq.so.1 is needed by

Re: modprobe can't loacate module char-major-108

1999-11-21 Thread Joe Brenner
Terry Eck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've installed RH 6.1 using stock kernel and modules. > I'm getting a warning in /var/log/messages stating: > modprobe: can't locate module char-major-108 > tail end of /var/log/messages: > > Nov 20 16:54:26 localhost modprobe: can't locate module char

Re: Modprobe errors in RH 6.1 (intel, 2.2.12-20)

1999-11-21 Thread Joe Brenner
Justin Oelgoetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been getting the following, and haven't been able to figure out how > to correct them: > Nov 20 16:10:49 one modprobe: can't locate module parport_lowlevel I have the same problem with my RedHat 6.1 box (recently upgraded from RedHat 5.2). I

Re: Hassles with Redhat 5.2 -> 6.1 upgrade (more PPP whining) [LONG]

1999-01-04 Thread Joe Brenner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 04:08:20PM -0800, Joe Brenner wrote: > > > about typing "linux updates", and some time later I realized > > that I'd blown away NT from the Master Boot Record... my > > machine now boots straight to lilo

Hassles with Redhat 5.2 -> 6.1 upgrade (more PPP whining) [LONG]

1999-01-02 Thread Joe Brenner
Hey, anyone want to listen to a rant/whine about upgrading from RedHat 5.2 to 6.1? Hint: PPP is involved. Here goes: There I was, trying to get my DSL line working on my machine (which dual boots between NT and Linux), and in desperation, I decided that I might as well try upgrading from RedHa