HELP -- Grub on a floppy!

2003-08-15 Thread John Aldrich
I recently reinstalled RedHat 9 from scratch. Thinking it would be good to have a boot-floppy, I said yes when prompted to make a boot floppy. Now, I realize, that was really asking if I wanted to make a boot floppy INSTEAD of installing GRUB on the /dev/hda. How do I get it to install on

Re: Trying to change SCSI cards

2003-08-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Sunday 10 August 2003 10:08 am, T. Ribbrock wrote: On my RH7.3 system as well as on my MDK9.1 system, all that was needed was adding alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx to /etc/modules.conf. I DO, however, have an initrd, as both systems are SCSI only. Have you tried making one just to try it?

Trying to change SCSI cards

2003-08-14 Thread John Aldrich
I'm running RedHat 9.0 (upraded from 8.0) and I have an Advansys ABP940U I'm trying to change for an Adaptec 2940U, due to some problems I'm having with my CDRW. First, let me state that the system boots off IDE, so I don't need an INITRD. Second, the system found the new card and added it to

Re: What's the best way to resolve RPM dependencies?

2003-07-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Saturday 19 July 2003 08:44 pm, James Pifer wrote: I'm trying to install an application, GOPchop, which needs gtk-config. I believe this is part of one of the gtk devel rpms. Every time I try to install one of the devels it fails dependencies. Try to install those and they fail depenecies

Re: Up2date and security

2003-07-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Thursday 17 July 2003 02:51 pm, Lee Flier wrote: Robert Day's post about the latest Microsoft snafu brings up a question. Now that Red Hat and other distros contain a lot of tools to make installation, upgrades and other stuff easy for newbies/desktop users (which is all to the good in

Re: Need help--x window client on windows

2003-07-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Thursday 17 July 2003 06:00 pm, Gordon Messmer wrote: Frank Bax wrote: At 02:57 PM 7/17/03, Timothy Stone wrote: Situation: I have 600+ clients on Windows desktops. Each connects to a mainframe data application via IBM Personal Communications 3270 Terminal Emulation over telnet

Re: Need help--x window client on windows

2003-07-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Thursday 17 July 2003 05:24 pm, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote: VNC is an option, but would be frowned upon by the same coworkers (though they have just discovered VNC)--like it was brand new, and it's free! can you believe it?! To bad it's not on Linux. (seriously, I had to bring them down

Re: Need help--x window client on windows

2003-07-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Thursday 17 July 2003 04:11 pm, Timothy Stone wrote: VNC is an option, but would be frowned upon by the same coworkers (though they have just discovered VNC)--like it was brand new, and it's free! can you believe it?! To bad it's not on Linux. (seriously, I had to bring them down slowly).

RH9 and network problems

2003-07-08 Thread John Aldrich
I seem to be having a problem since doing an upgrade install of RH 9. My apps keep losing the internet, or more specifically, they SEEM to be losing DNS. Is this a known issue? I'm on DSL with a Linksys DSL router acting as a firewall. I've got a hosts file and an up-to-date resolv.conf with my

Re: SCSI CD Recording Problems

2003-02-14 Thread John Aldrich
On Thursday 13 February 2003 07:59 pm, T. Ribbrock wrote: [snip] Basically, you're not alone - and while over the years I found SCSI to be a lot more reliable and easier to set up than IDE, it still *can* be voodoo sometimes. Maybe you ran into such a case. I'd definitely try swapping drives

Re: how to see more history of my console screen?

2003-02-12 Thread John Aldrich
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 09:37 am, Jianping Zhu wrote: I have redhat 7.3, sometimes when i issue a locate command , lots of lines are list on screen, but i can go back to a small history of the screen. Is there a way to config the system to let me go back to see more? Pipe the output of

SCSI CD Recording Problems

2003-02-08 Thread John Aldrich
I posted here a day or two about about a problem I was having with my Yamaha CRW4416 internal SCSI CDRW drive not burning. Someone suggested disabling automount, so I did. Unfortunately, that doesn't appear to have fixed the problem. I tried a simulation write and it worked, so I went and tried

Re: SCSI CD Recording Problems

2003-02-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Saturday 08 February 2003 04:17 pm, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, John Aldrich wrote: I posted here a day or two about about a problem I was having with my Yamaha CRW4416 internal SCSI CDRW drive not burning. Someone suggested It could be your media. Low-quality disks

Re: SCSI CD Recording Problems (Redux)

2003-02-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Saturday 08 February 2003 04:17 pm, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, John Aldrich wrote: I posted here a day or two about about a problem I was having with my Yamaha CRW4416 internal SCSI CDRW drive not burning. Someone suggested It could be your media. Low-quality disks

Re: SCSI CD Recording Problems

2003-02-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Saturday 08 February 2003 04:17 pm, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, John Aldrich wrote: I posted here a day or two about about a problem I was having with my Yamaha CRW4416 internal SCSI CDRW drive not burning. Someone suggested It could be your media. Low-quality disks

Re: SCSI CD Recording Problems

2003-02-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Saturday 08 February 2003 08:32 pm, Cameron Simpson wrote: | | Ok... well, I'm using the GUI front end xcdroast. I'll try slowing it | down and see if that helps... I'm using Memorex blanks, btw they | *should* be high-quality blanks... maybe a bad batch... dunno. I'll see | about

CD Burning problems

2003-02-07 Thread John Aldrich
I've got a SCSI CDRW (Yamaha CRW 4416) and I have been unable to get it to work with any version of RedHat since the kernel that came with RedHat 7.1. I'm now on RedHat 8.0. It just gives me a device unavailable error when I try to actually burn something. Yesterday it let me blank a CDRW disk,

Re: CD Burning problems

2003-02-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Friday 07 February 2003 07:38 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had problems, a while back, that sound similar The problem was that I was running the automount daemon. This plays havoc with burning CDs. Ahh... yes. I'm running that too. I'll try turning that off and see if that fixes

Subject: RE: linksys router question

2002-04-26 Thread John Aldrich
most linksys routers have a scope setting that start assigning dhcp addresses at xxx..xxx.100. other than xxx.xxx.xxx.1 and .2, the lower block is available for static ip address assignments. one strange practice these boxes have, is, once a given mac address gets an ip address thru

Re: Network Everywhere or Netgear nic?

2001-05-05 Thread John Aldrich
On Saturday 05 May 2001 07:58 pm, you wrote: I use Linksys and works great. Ditto. But, some have trouble with Linksys and tulip modules (have had a couple problems myself). Can't recommend the ones named because never used them. But, can slo state that a D-Link I'm using hasn't given

Re: HTML editors for RH

2001-05-05 Thread John Aldrich
On Saturday 05 May 2001 06:56 pm, you wrote: Hi all, Can anyone suggest a good HTML editor to install in RH7? cheers, If you mean a wysiwig editor, no. But everyone I know uses a plain text editor.:-) John ___ Redhat-list mailing list

Re: Bursts of traffic on my firewall

2001-05-05 Thread John Aldrich
On Saturday 05 May 2001 11:19 pm, you wrote: As far as I'm aware routers won't route 192.168.* packets. I've been running my firewall for almost two years and have had a caching name server for about 18 months. I haven't touched the firewall rules for the last four months. Still this

Re: src.rpm problems....

2001-05-04 Thread COL/John Aldrich
On Thursday 03 May 2001 09:12 pm, John Aldrich wrote: Not trying to oversimplify here, just not sure what you've tried. rpm --rebuild --target=i686 everybuddy-0.2.0-3.src.rpm That SHOULD recompile it and leave an i686 binary in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i686/ However, it doesn't do

Location for kde files in RH 7.1

2001-05-04 Thread John Aldrich
I'm getting ready to work with a developer to build an rpm/src.rpm for a KDE file and one of the files it's looking for I can't find at least in the current src.rpm version. I can compile the util just fine so I think maybe it's something in the specfile... it's looking for kdb2html, but

Re: src.rpm problems....

2001-05-04 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 03 May 2001, you wrote: On Thursday 03 May 2001 10:31 pm, Devon wrote: If you run the command rpm -ivh everybuddy-0.2.0-1.src.rpm It'd also be good if you substituted the name of the file you have, as opposed to the one I grabbed from the web site. :) Yeah I have

Re: src.rpm problems....

2001-05-04 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 04 May 2001, you wrote: On Friday 04 May 2001 07:06 am, COL/John Aldrich wrote: That SHOULD recompile it and leave an i686 binary in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i686/ However, it doesn't do that. It never gets beyond installing which is where it dies. John Proving

Re: Location for kde files in RH 7.1

2001-05-04 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 04 May 2001, you wrote: On Fri, 4 May 2001, John Aldrich wrote: I'm getting ready to work with a developer to build an rpm/src.rpm for a KDE file and one of the files it's looking for I can't find at least in the current src.rpm version. I can compile the util just fine so

Re: src.rpm problems....

2001-05-04 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 04 May 2001, you wrote: At 09:17 AM 5/4/2001 -0400, you wrote: Yeah I have everybuddy-0.2.0-3.src.rpm. And it does NOT install. NOTHING happens... no crash message, nothing. When I do an rpm --rebuild everbuddy-0.2.0-3.src.rpm all I get is installing... and then back to the

Re: Difference between rpm and src.rpm?

2001-05-04 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 04 May 2001, you wrote: what is the diffrence between rpm and src.rpm? src.rpm is the SOURCE code in RPM format. You cannot directly use that the way you can an RPM. You have to compile the source code somehow. The easiest way to use a src.rpm is rpm --rebuild filename.version.src.rpm

Re: src.rpm problems....

2001-05-04 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 04 May 2001, you wrote: Run strace on it. strace -s 300 -F rpm --rebuild --target=i686 everybuddy.version.src.rpm I you want to dump it all into a file for later examining add the following to the end of that line: everybuddy.strace 21 Ok. Here's the trace:

Re: src.rpm problems....

2001-05-04 Thread John Aldrich
On Friday 04 May 2001 07:20 pm, you wrote: On Friday 04 May 2001 09:21 am, John Aldrich wrote: Right. Try the 0.2.0-3.src.rpm. If you go to ftp://ftp.everybuddy.com/pub/eb/ you'll see that there is a 0.2.1beta3.src.rpm file which is what I'm trying to get to work. The CVS version works

Re: src.rpm problems....

2001-05-04 Thread John Aldrich
On Friday 04 May 2001 08:46 pm, you wrote: On Friday 04 May 2001 08:18 pm, John Aldrich wrote: Ahh..did you see the output of the strace I posted earlier? John I did, and it looks to me like it is checking the file size just before it dies. I'd guess that the file size doesn't match

Re: CDROM Automounting

2001-05-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 03 May 2001, you wrote: Do you have autofs running? If so, check /etc/auto.master and/or /etc/auto.mnt (I think, there might be others, but they're mentioned in the .master file) whether autofs tries to mount the CD-ROM and remove the ooffending line. Then /etc/rc.d/init.d/autofs

Re: mount fat32 disk

2001-05-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 03 May 2001, you wrote: How can I month fat32 disk on /dev/hda5 automatically What should I write on /etc/fstab? /dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 ? defaults? ? ?=vfat John ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL

RE: mount fat32 disk

2001-05-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 03 May 2001, you wrote: /dev/sdd1 /data3 ext2 defaults 1 2 This is how I have one of my SCSI disks mounting automaticly with /etc/fstab. Hope it helps you out some Err...you missed one thing...he wants to mount a FAT32 (Windows) disk... For that he needs vfat John

RE: mount fat32 disk

2001-05-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 03 May 2001, you wrote: Thanks, I copied the wrong line. Sorry about that. I claim lack of sleep :OP Ahh... heh. :-) Not like any of US would do something like that. ;-) Go to bed! Get some sleep! ;-) John ___ Redhat-list

Problems recompiling SRC.RPMs

2001-05-03 Thread John Aldrich
I've got RH 7.1. I've tried to recompile a handful of src.rpm files and each time it has failed. Yet, when I compile the (apparently) same source code from a tarball it works. Why? What's the difference? Is it a compile-time flag in the src.rpm and if so is there a way around it? For example,

Re: Problems recompiling SRC.RPMs

2001-05-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 03 May 2001, you wrote: On Thu, 3 May 2001 12:43:28 -0400, you wrote: I've got RH 7.1. I've tried to recompile a handful of src.rpm files and each time it has failed. Yet, when I compile the (apparently) same source code from a tarball it works. Why? What's the difference? Is it a

Netbios-ns

2001-05-03 Thread John Aldrich
Are there any known vulnerabilities in RH 6.2 (if you're not running bind) for netbios-ns? I've noticed a rash of dgram to netbios-ns in my logfiles lately and Im wondering if it's because of some known vulnerability or what I get the usual sunrpc connection attempt messages as well, but I

src.rpm problems....

2001-05-03 Thread John Aldrich
Ok...I discovered one src.rpm problem at least was because of the src.rpm specifying certain paths that didn't exist I still don't know why the src.rpm for everybuddy wouldn't compile... It just says Installing /home/john/everybuddy-0.2.1beta3-1.src.rpm and nothing ever happens

Re: Netbios-ns

2001-05-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Thursday 03 May 2001 09:07 pm, you wrote: Not on Linux machines, as far as I know, but on a Windows machine with file/printer sharing turned on, it can be interesting. You will also see it from Windows machines that are not running a firewall, that are telling any other windows machines

Re: Netbios-ns

2001-05-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Thursday 03 May 2001 09:16 pm, you wrote: Netbios is the sunrpc of Windows :). Windows machines are subject to a number of netbios vulnerabilities. Probing for netbios is also a good way to figure out if you are a Windows or Unix server, and if the systems administrator has a clue or

LWP/UserAgent.pm

2001-05-02 Thread John Aldrich
What RPM provides the above perl module? I've got libwww, etc installed, but trying to run foomatic says it can't find the above perl module. I'd rather not run the whole bloody CPAN installer if I can avoid it, because I'm not on DSL or anything like that... Thanks... John

Re: CDROM Automounting

2001-05-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 02 May 2001, you wrote: I think it's either 'magicdev' or magic-dev' (I can't check since I rpm -e-ed it a long time ago). Ahh... Ok. That could well be... I'll try nuking that and see what happens. :-) John ___ Redhat-list

RE: Kingston nic

2001-05-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 02 May 2001, you wrote: Doing a quick search of the revelent lists, lots of people are having problems with this card. It is apparently a tulip-based card but does not work properly with the tulip driver. You may have to get a new card. ISTR that RedHat shipped TWO tulip

Re: New: Monthly List Password Updates!

2001-05-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 01 May 2001, you wrote: I just received this in the Inbox this morning. What a poor idea sending passwords as plain text on a monthly basis. Or at all. Besides, why would anyone ever want to leave this list? ;) Yeah...but how else are they going to get you your password? :-) Not

Re: Telnet disabled by default

2001-05-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 01 May 2001, you wrote: Now if we could just get a real browser included, we'd be sailing! At least with KDE you get TWO browsers included -- Konqueror and Mozilla. :-) Both work very well under most circumstances. And Netscape Communicator installs quite nicely along side (Matter of

CDROM Automounting

2001-05-01 Thread John Aldrich
How do I control the automounting of the CDROM? The FSTAB properties specify noauto but it's still trying to automount the cdrom, even when there is no CDROM there and it's filling my log files full of crap! :-( Thanks... John ___

Re: RAM

2001-04-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, you wrote: Hi!, I have a big problem, i have a server with 288 Mega RAM but when the server is up i don't know what happend but my server only can see 64 Mega, so what should i do?. What's going on. Can you give us some details on the hardware involved? Generally

Printing over Samba

2001-04-30 Thread John Aldrich
I've asked this question on the Samba list, but either no one knows the answer or they don't want to answer. :-) I've got Samba up and running on my RedHat 7.1 box. Using the Webmin tool, I tried to configure a networked printer off my Windows machine. The printer in question is a Canon BJC-1000

Re: Printing over Samba

2001-04-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, you wrote: If you want to maximize the likelihood of getting answers to your questions, you need to know how to ask the questions and what information to provide. Yep. And you did a good job of providing that guidance, for which I thank you. If you're also on the

Automount question

2001-04-30 Thread John Aldrich
My 7.1 system appears to be freaking out when it can't mount the CDROM via automount. Should I just kill the automount? I'm not used to using it anyway... and AFAIK, my fstab isn't set to automount the CDROM, but looking at the log files it appears to be filliing the log file with a buncha stuff

RE: RAM

2001-04-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, you wrote: Thanks, This server is olivetti, SNX400 RS it has 2 processor and 5 scsi disk and linux redhat 6.2. Ahh...an SMP machine. I *think* this may be a hardware problem where the BIOS isn't properly reporting the memory to the kernel. At least I think this sort of

RE: RAM

2001-04-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, you wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, you wrote: Thanks, This server is olivetti, SNX400 RS it has 2 processor and 5 scsi disk and linux redhat 6.2. Ahh...an SMP machine. I *think* this may be a hardware problem where the BIOS isn't properly reporting the memory to the

Re: Printing over Samba

2001-04-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Monday 30 April 2001 07:26 pm, you wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 12:13:13 John Aldrich wrote: I've got Samba up and running on my RedHat 7.1 box. Using the Webmin tool, I tried to configure a networked printer off my Windows machine. The printer in question is a Canon BJC-1000 and the Windows

Re: Printing over Samba

2001-04-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Monday 30 April 2001 07:26 pm, you wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 12:13:13 John Aldrich wrote: I've got Samba up and running on my RedHat 7.1 box. Using the Webmin tool, I tried to configure a networked printer off my Windows machine. The printer in question is a Canon BJC-1000 and the Windows

Re: Python

2001-04-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Sunday 29 April 2001 09:00 pm, you wrote: What version of Python is on RH7.1? rpm -q reports python-1.5.2-30 John ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Stable vs. Release

2001-04-28 Thread John Aldrich
On Friday 27 April 2001 08:43 pm, you wrote: I'm itchin' to upgrade my 6.2 to 7.1, but, would not want to get stuck with broken programs and ended up reinstalling 6.2 back again. I tested 7.1 on my PII 400 and I have 6.2 on my K6-2 400. Have any of you gotten 7.1 working in range of good to

Re: iso installs...

2001-04-27 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, you wrote: Do you need disk2 for 7.1 to perform a server install? I'm pretty sure you do John ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

bug reporting tool question

2001-04-26 Thread John Aldrich
Is there any way to make Bug Buddy use the SMTP server instead of trying to use SendMail? The reason I ask is because I'm on a dial-up connection and my system name doesn't correspond with my reverse DNS and up 'til now it hasn't been a problem. But with bugs.kde.org stating sender must resolve

Re: securing ftp

2001-04-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, you wrote: Can someone tell me how I can setup ftp access on my RH6.2 box so that a vaild user on that box can ONLY access files in their home directory and cannot move up,around on the box. I know NCFTPd has this information in the setup files. Further, NCFTPd isn't

Re: securing ftp

2001-04-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, you wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, you wrote: Can someone tell me how I can setup ftp access on my RH6.2 box so that a vaild user on that box can ONLY access files in their home directory and cannot move up,around on the box. I know NCFTPd has this information in the

Re: MPACK for LINUX

2001-04-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, you wrote: Thanks. Sure...wish I could've been more help... John ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Looking for

2001-04-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, you wrote: Is there a page where I could find linux soft by needs?, I know there is freshmeat, but its index is not easy enough. Another you could recomend me? Try linuxberg. John ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL

authenticated SMTP

2001-04-26 Thread John Aldrich
How does one go about setting up authenticated SMTP? I'd like to talk my boss into setting it up so I can convince him to close an open relay... :-) I think that if I could convince him to set up authenticated SMTP, I'd have a better shot at talking him into shutting down the open server... I

Re: MBR Question.

2001-04-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Thursday 26 April 2001 07:04 pm, you wrote: You may want to read the Linux+NT-Loader mini howto on how to get the NT loader to work with Linux. As far as installing lilo goes, you can insteall it to your /boot or /root partition by changing the boot= section of /etc/lilo.conf, and running

Re: Ftp server

2001-04-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Friday 27 April 2001 06:46 pm, you wrote: Of the ftp servers , which ones are the most secure? I've installed NCFTPd here on my lan at home, even though Im behind a firewall for two reasons -- one it's easy to configure and two it's pretty darn secure...doesn't suffer from the recent

Re: authenticated SMTP

2001-04-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Thursday 26 April 2001 08:38 pm, you wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:22:49PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote: The new sendmail (8.11.x) and above can do authenticated SMTP, but you'll have to read the docs on setting it up. I don't use sendmail. Alternatively, try postfix, exim or courier

Re: bugzilla is unuseable!

2001-04-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, you wrote: I don't know what everyone else sees, but I've *never* got the Javascript pages *ever* without purposefully clicking on them. Just to add a datapoint for comparison. Are you sure you didn't choose the Javascript version on purpose at first? Perhaps it

Re: Followup: bugzilla is unuseable!

2001-04-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, you wrote: duck I have had problems with netscape under linux doing weird things on multiple drop down javascript pages. Is that what you we using? Have you tried another browser? /duck Not trying to piss you off more but offering some possible

Re: bugzilla is unuseable!

2001-04-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, you wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, John Aldrich wrote: How, pray tell (RedHat guys???) are we supposed to officially report bugs if the web site is unuseable??? By trying again later? I haven't had any problems with it for quite a while, but bugzilla IS undergoing

Re: bugzilla is unuseable!

2001-04-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, you wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, John Aldrich wrote: Bero... I tried for several hours last night to use the JavaScript page. It is totally un-useable. That explains why I can't reproduce the problem - the JavaScript page doesn't like Konqueror, and if it doesn't

audio wierdness

2001-04-24 Thread John Aldrich
I just tried to play an MP3 file from the command line using mpg123 filename.mp3 and got an error message, audio: Device or resource busy What's up with that? I just installed RH 7.1 and audio works from KDE is this an artsd problem or something??? Any suggestions? Thanks..

Re: Lost bootable floppy disk....

2001-04-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, you wrote: Hi, this morning, I lost a bootable floppy disk. What should I do? Please help. I dont want to do a Re-Install. Thanks in advance, Raj. man mkbootdisk John ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL

Yahoo Messenger

2001-04-24 Thread John Aldrich
Has anyone here used Yahoo Messenger with RedHat 7.1? It continually seg-faults as soon as I try to start it up. I'm using the linux version, FWIW. I know how many people here won't run anything that they can't get the source to, but some things are ONLY available as binaries. :-) John

Re: Yahoo Messenger

2001-04-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, you wrote: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone here used Yahoo Messenger with RedHat 7.1? It continually seg-faults as soon as I try to start it up. Is this the one on the workstation applications CD? (Deluxe boxed set) Err...no...downloaded binary

Re: how to disable this.

2001-04-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, you wrote: how do i disable this. I seem to get this error on all my linux box. Thank You. /etc/cron.daily/tripwire-check: Error: Tripwire database for paper not found. Run /etc/tripwire/twinstall.sh and/or tripwire --init. Log in

Re: how to disable this.

2001-04-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, you wrote: how do i disable this. I seem to get this error on all my linux box. Thank You. /etc/cron.daily/tripwire-check: Error: Tripwire database for paper not found. Run /etc/tripwire/twinstall.sh and/or tripwire --init. BTW,

Re: Yahoo Messenger

2001-04-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, you wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, John Aldrich wrote: Is this the one on the workstation applications CD? (Deluxe boxed set) Err...no...downloaded binary from http://messenger.yahoo.com. It works beautifully on RH 6.2. :-) Or at least as beautifully as Yahoo

Re: Yahoo Messenger

2001-04-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, you wrote: Yep... I'm wondering if it's something on MY end or YM is messed up here... Dunno... I'm gonna try EB from CVS as the EB that is packaged with RH7.1 seems to be somewhat buggy (by reports.) EB? EveryBuddy.:-) John

Re: Yahoo Messenger

2001-04-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, you wrote: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, you wrote: Yep... I'm wondering if it's something on MY end or YM is messed up here... Dunno... I'm gonna try EB from CVS as the EB that is packaged with RH7.1 seems to be somewhat buggy

Re: Yahoo Messenger

2001-04-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, you wrote: I think so... :-) I'm pretty sure you do it may be part of the gnome stuff, though... I can't find it... the only buddy-like thing I see, is bug-buddy, which isn't quite the same. Oh... Ok. Wierd... it just showed up in my program list by

Re: Yahoo Messenger

2001-04-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, you wrote: John Aldrich wrote: Oh... Ok. Wierd... it just showed up in my program list by itself... which it never did before... :-) I assumed it came as part of RH. You might want to look at including it It does Yahoo, Jabber, Zephyr, MSN, AIM and ICQ messaging

Re: Yahoo Messenger

2001-04-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, you wrote: John Aldrich wrote: Oh... Ok. Wierd... it just showed up in my program list by itself... which it never did before... :-) I assumed it came as part of RH. You might want to look at including it It does Yahoo, Jabber, Zephyr, MSN, AIM and ICQ messaging

KSCD permissions

2001-04-24 Thread John Aldrich
Does it not bother anyone else that the default directory permissions for KSCD's databse are set so that ONLY root can write to that directory??? I mean, obviously if you're running a server, you probably don't want end users writing to a whole bunch of directories...but on the other hand if

bugzilla is unuseable!

2001-04-24 Thread John Aldrich
I am unable to complete a bugzilla entry... the darn site is too freaking slow! Heck I shouldn't have any problems trying to report bugs, because RedHat should be providing a LOT of resources for that site so they can find and squash bugs, right? Wrong! How, pray tell (RedHat guys???) are we

Followup: bugzilla is unuseable!

2001-04-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Tuesday 24 April 2001 10:07 pm, you wrote: I am unable to complete a bugzilla entry... the darn site is too freaking slow! Heck I shouldn't have any problems trying to report bugs, because RedHat should be providing a LOT of resources for that site so they can find and squash bugs, right?

Re: Followup: bugzilla is unuseable!

2001-04-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Tuesday 24 April 2001 11:38 pm, you wrote: Ya know, I *was* going to let this go but the more I read this the more I got pissed off. Instead of complaing, bitching, moaning, being an abnocious brat, why don't you just list the problems you found on bugzilla and maybe *ask* if there was

Re: XMMS segfaults in 7.1

2001-04-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, you wrote: Hmm I've tried it with several other formats, same results. :( It's pretty strange, XMMS will start up, and then seg fault. I do a ps aux, and I see that it's running. So, I do a killall xmms and that kills it off. I would try to start XMMS several

KSCD wierdness

2001-04-23 Thread John Aldrich
Why is the local KSCD database (RH 7.1) owned by root? It makes it kinda difficult for the non-root end-user to save data about unknown cd titles to the local hard drive I ended up setting the directory structure to a+w John ___

bug report RH 7.1 KSCD

2001-04-22 Thread John Aldrich
KSCD does not have permission for a user to write to the local CDDB database. I had to SU to root and chmod -R a+w cddb in /usr/share/apps/kscd. I consider this a minor annoyance, but worth looking into. I'm not sure who's to blame here, KDE or RedHat (I suspect RedHat, but that's just a guess

ncftpd and RedHat 7.1?

2001-04-22 Thread John Aldrich
Anyone successfully gotten NCFTPD running on RedHat 7.1? It *seems* to work just fine, but also apparently gets shut down almost as soon as it starts when it's started automatically And it's NOT just going into "standby" mode because I'm unable to connect when I try FTP-ing to localhost,

Re: Which CD burner?

2001-04-20 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, you wrote: The Yamahas have worked well for me. The Plextors have had better support and worked just as well. I'd rather buy the Plextors since that brand gives more attention to that particular industry. But both are good, and I'd be really happy with either (have used

Re: Dirty Bird #4 (nano)

2001-04-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, you wrote: :-) They are a series starting with Episode #2 (#1 was simply a political piece) it is one story and not several individual ones. This episode was introducing a new character (Nano, for whom the piece is named) and another character who is not yet named

Re: Seawolf Please help!

2001-04-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, you wrote: Not sure on this but I don't think APIC is showing bugs, but showing you what is wrong with your system. Don't quote me on that. "linux noapic" *might* help. I had a buggy dual-processor P-Pro board that had APIC problems... had to disable APIC to boot up.

Re: APIC ERROR Seawolf help please!

2001-04-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, you wrote: My system is a Duel Processor P166 GA-586DX with 2xBaracuta SCSI's The install using redhat 7.0 was fine and ran well. Why do i get APIC errors with reinstall of 7.1 Try booting into uni-processor mode ("linux-up" probably) and then disable apic in lilo

Re: df command

2001-04-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, you wrote: Is there a better command than df to examine directory size? df only gives me disk partition sizes. type "man du" at a command line. John ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ISO Names?

2001-04-19 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, you wrote: Sorry for the stupid question, but I am trying to find the ISOs for RH7.1. I am finding seawolf isos, but these are the beta are they not? If they are the beta am I correct in saying the actual ISOs have 7.1 respin in the name? Negative. Seawolf is the

Re: download iso

2001-04-19 Thread John Aldrich
you can also try ftp.nluug.nl John ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: password failure

2001-04-18 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, lord wrote: Hi! I've setting up a dial-up connection PAP, using redhat 6.2, but theres an errror message (/var/log/messages) "password failure".double checked the passwd but its ok. i try using windows98 and it works pretty well unfortunately not in linux :) it seems

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