Re: How to install MySQL

2002-10-10 Thread Keith Winston
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 00:39, Julie Xu wrote: Greeting, I want to install MySQL on my Redhat 7.3 /Toshiba laptop (satellite Pro). Do I need download MySQL RPM? Do I need all server's RPM and client's RPM? Everything you need should be on your CDs. You need the server and client RPMs.

RE: M$ Access97 - like program

2002-10-09 Thread Keith Winston
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 18:25, Lists wrote: Ok,so one of the things that are doable is to convert it to APACHE/PHP But I have some forms that have sub-forms in them, and I am not a genius PHP. So my question is, are there any export wizards to convert those forms from MDB file into a PHP file?

Re: what is kapmd?

2002-10-09 Thread Keith Winston
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 07:51, Trevor Smith wrote: k= KDE d= daemon KDE APM Daemon? Almost... k=kernel d=daemon Kernel APM daemon On my system, it is process ID 3! root 1 0.1 0.0 448 220 ?S07:35 0:05 init [3] root 2 0.0 0.0 00 ?SW

Re: DVD and DMA

2002-10-09 Thread Keith Winston
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 20:12, Trevor Smith wrote: Ok, I think I have the fix for this. from the release notes: DMA is disabled on CD-ROM drives in this release in a different but more reliable way than previously. If you are sure that your CD-ROM drive is capable of IDE DMA, place the

Re: Fresh RH8.0 install has man page probs...

2002-10-09 Thread Keith Winston
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 13:59, Frazier, Ben wrote: I've been beating my head on this for a couple of days now and haven't got anywhere. I started off upgrading an RH7.3 box to RH8.0. The upgrade went to hell in a hand basket so I formatted the drives and did a fresh RH8.0 install. Now I've

Re: UTF-8 and other problems - rh 8.0

2002-10-09 Thread Keith Winston
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 15:37, Ing. Carlos M. Martinez wrote: Hi All, I have just installed two machines with RH8.0. While i'm quite pleased with the visual aspects of it, i'm having a few issues apparently related with RH 8.0 now using UTF-8. I use PINE to read my email, and it doesn't

Re: DVD and DMA

2002-10-08 Thread Keith Winston
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 18:41, Samuel Flory wrote: In SuSE 8.0, I am able to use: hdparm -d1 -X34 /dev/hdc to turn on DMA and it makes a huge difference in playback frame rates. When I use this command (as root) in Red Hat 8.0, I get an error... /dev/hdc: Setting using_dma to 1 (on)

Re: DVD and DMA

2002-10-08 Thread Keith Winston
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 07:41, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On 8 Oct 2002, Keith Winston wrote: Thank you for the info. I've been tweaking my install since last Friday and it is taking a lot of work to make a decent desktop out of it. The lack of video software, the lack of mp3 libs, the lack

Re: RPM commands changed?

2002-10-08 Thread Keith Winston
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 10:10, Anatol Mayr / HEXAGON wrote: Hello, just tried to generate RPMs for RH80 and detected that the command rpm -ba ...conf does not work anymore. Has the syntax be changed (the man-pages do not give a hint)? Yes, they pulled the building part out of rpm and created

RE: M$ Access97 - like program

2002-10-08 Thread Keith Winston
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 14:24, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote: Anyone know what would be the easiest way to move my M$ Access front-end (with MySQL back-end) to something in Linux. The less time that needs to be spent, the better, IT is only very small part of my job. M$ Access is the only reason

Re: RH 8.0.... What do you think...

2002-10-07 Thread Keith Winston
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 10:36, Michael Fratoni wrote: Everything is compiled is gcc 3.2. I guess you have to upgrade some time, but the java plug-ins won't work in mozilla and many other plug-ins that were compiled with gcc 2.9x. Binary compatability with C++ programs and libs that were

Re: RH 8.0.... What do you think...(Java Plugin)

2002-10-07 Thread Keith Winston
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 08:20, Michael Fratoni wrote: The java plugin is working for you in mozilla? No problem at all. I just went to the page you mentioned above and tried several of the applets. To install the java plugin, here are the steps I used. o downloaded the

Re: RH 8.0.... What do you think...

2002-10-07 Thread Keith Winston
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 10:59, Jack Bowling wrote: ** Reply to message from Keith Winston [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, 07 Oct 2002 06:42:34 -0400 snip The java plugin is working for you in mozilla? I downloaded the latest J2RE from the sun web site (1.4.1) and it installed fine

DVD and DMA

2002-10-07 Thread Keith Winston
I have an IDE DVD drive (/dev/hdc) and I would like to turn on DMA to speed up playback of movies in ogle. In SuSE 8.0, I am able to use: hdparm -d1 -X34 /dev/hdc to turn on DMA and it makes a huge difference in playback frame rates. When I use this command (as root) in Red Hat 8.0, I get an

Re: RH 8.0.... What do you think...

2002-10-06 Thread Keith Winston
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 20:10, Joe Giles wrote: This might not be the most appropriate spot for this kind of question, and I will gladly apologize if someone doesn't like it, but I would like to know what you all think about the new Red Hat 8.0. I am downloading the 4th CD now and I was going

Re: HTML Mail / Netiquette

2002-10-06 Thread Keith Winston
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 15:14, Tim Kehres wrote: The majority of email clients today however are HTML aware, and the percentage of people using such HTML-aware clients is only increasing. The reasons are simple - it is easier to read (typically), and more information can be conveyed

Re: Here is some math...LOL

2002-10-06 Thread Keith Winston
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 19:19, Robert P. J. Day wrote: and, more to the point, this issue is not going away any time soon. as more users come to linux, many of them will be joining the red hat mailing lists and bringing their bad habits with them, including the monstrosity that is HTML

Re: Red Hat 8.0 nvidia drivers?

2002-10-05 Thread Keith Winston
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 18:53, Rick Forrister wrote: On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 22:33:44 +0200 Keith Winston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was hoping that nvidia would have posted 8.0 drivers on their site by now, but they only have Red Hat drivers up thru 7.3. [snip] Versions prior to 3123

Red Hat 8.0 nvidia drivers?

2002-10-04 Thread Keith Winston
I was hoping that nvidia would have posted 8.0 drivers on their site by now, but they only have Red Hat drivers up thru 7.3. Has anyone had luck compiling the driver from the source for RH8.0? Best Regards, Keith -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Postfix conf.

2002-09-30 Thread Keith Winston
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 02:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mike: I'm sorry I was not clear enough. Postfix is configured to pipe to an SMTP filter (Anomy and SpamAssassin), then, Postfix forwards everything to an internal exchange box. The sender eventually received a bounce note from

Package list for 8.0 Professional?

2002-09-27 Thread Keith Winston
I've searched redhat.com and google to find a list of packages in the upcoming 8.0 Professional version. Why is this so hard to find? I think I read that the difference between the personal and pro versions was an extra apps CD plus a CD of red hat tools. Is this true and is the pro version

Powertools RPMs?

2002-06-02 Thread Keith Winston
Are the powertools RPMs available for download somewhere or can you only get them by buying the Pro workstation box? I can't seem to find any of them on the Red Hat FTP site. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net

Re: Powertools RPMs?

2002-06-02 Thread Keith Winston
On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 10:15:00AM -0400, Michael Fratoni wrote: The powertools packages haven't been part of the distribution since Red Hat 7.1. Some of the former power tools were rolled into the distro, others were dropped. Of those that were dropped, some are available at

Re: Tool to migrate from MS Exchange to Linux?

2002-05-18 Thread Keith Winston
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 12:21:58AM -0700, Keith Morse wrote: On Thu, 16 May 2002, Robert Bleumer wrote: Is there a Linux mail server which can also do agenda management like Exchange ? The SuSE e-mail server III includes a complete groupware package from a company called Bynari. It

Re: Tool to migrate from MS Exchange to Linux?

2002-05-18 Thread Keith Winston
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 03:38:48PM +, Jonathan M. Slivko wrote: Keith, Have you tried Evolution from Ximian (www.ximian.com)? It appears to be a full featured package like Outlook without the hefty pricetag. In fact I have. I use evolution for work e-mail and mutt for everything else.

Re: ximian gnome vs. gnome delivered with rh 7.3 and migrating from one distribution to another

2002-05-17 Thread Keith Winston
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 05:12:53PM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote: I am in the same boat now. I have a laptop that is my primary workstation and I wanted to try evolution so I did the ximian thing. Now I can't even upgrade mozilla since ximian gets its fingers into everything. Once you start

Re: Is it okay to rpm -e unneeded/unused kernels?

2002-05-16 Thread Keith Winston
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 11:27:59AM -0400, John P Verel wrote: Lilo makes no reference to any of these. Is there any harm done in doing an rpm -e on these unneeded kernels? No hard in removing them. If you installed them with rpm, then rpm -e is the right thing to do. If you compiled them,

Re: Microsoft Money

2002-05-16 Thread Keith Winston
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 09:17:33PM -0300, Ted Gervais wrote: I am looking for something like Microsoft Money that I can use in RedHat7.3. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Try qhacc-2 (QT/KDE) or moneydance (java) Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Will we all fight for the right to

Re: Finding date a command was executed

2002-05-15 Thread Keith Winston
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 07:20:42PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: after a first glance on 'man lastcomm' and some simple tests with the tool it *seems* that - concerning its abillity to deliver infos on previous commands - it works only for commands exctd. *after* the time of the psacct

Which rpms on which CD?

2002-05-15 Thread Keith Winston
I am only a part time RH user (mostly SuSE), but I wanted to take a look at the new 7.3. After I completed the initial install, I wanted to go back and add a few other packages. Is there any RH tool or way to do this other than mounting each CD and browsing the RedHat/RPMS directory to find

Re: hostname and domainname

2002-05-15 Thread Keith Winston
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:28:16PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are you using to change these? Or what files are you actually changing? Try running redhat-config-network and changing it there, that keeps it for me. Take a look at /etc/sysconfig/network. I think the HOSTNAME

Re: hostname and domainname

2002-05-15 Thread Keith Winston
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:57:53PM -0400, Jake McHenry wrote: I'm not using any type of X windows. Ok, I changed the HOSTNAME in /etc/sysconfig/network, but the domainname still sets to empty when I reboot the machine. At least apache isn't yelling at me anymore about my fully qualified

Re: Which rpms on which CD?

2002-05-15 Thread Keith Winston
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:57:00PM -0500, Francisco Neira wrote: What I did is generate 2 txt files with the contents of each CD: rpm -qipl /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS RHdisk_1 I know the files are big, but they are handy when I need a specific file inside an RPM Youch. I can see how the

Re: Which rpms on which CD?

2002-05-15 Thread Keith Winston
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 06:00:00PM -0400, Michael Fratoni wrote: After I completed the initial install, I wanted to go back and add a few other packages. Is there any RH tool or way to do this other than mounting each CD and browsing the RedHat/RPMS directory to find what you want?

Re: colours in the shell [WAS: Re: ls --color=tty #2]

2002-05-15 Thread Keith Winston
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:28:59PM -0700, daniel wrote: speaking of colours you know how some shell scripts have output in colour? like this: Starting reallyneetoservice .. [DONE] where [DONE] is in green? how do you do that? can i use that sort of thing in a

Re: Boot script cancelling

2002-05-15 Thread Keith Winston
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:10:26PM -0500, Casey Scott wrote: Hi all, Is there a keystroke that will stop a boot script? For example, if the system was waiting for a dhcp address to be given to it, and the system is not on a network. Something similar to cntrl-c in the console.

Re: how do i kill this *)$%(**(#$* thing???

2002-05-15 Thread Keith Winston
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 05:53:51PM -0700, daniel wrote: wtf? if i can't kill it is there a MURDER command? hehehe, the MURDER command is kill -9 pid. I think RH runs the autofs service by default which auto mounts CDs. If you don't like that, turn off autofs. Best Regards, Keith --

Re: Email Services

2002-05-14 Thread Keith Winston
On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 01:36:10AM -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: I've heard good things about Postfix but haven't tried it. Sendmail will also do everything you want, and despite everything I hear Sendmail is quite easy to set up. You need to: I can vouch for Postfix. The first thing I do

Re: Floppy dont work

2002-05-13 Thread Keith Winston
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 06:31:41PM -0400, ebinc wrote: Does anyone know how to get a floppy to work the error message I get is dev//fd0/ no such device I tried to add nobiospnp to the append lines and then ran the command lilo -v but that didnt work Ed Looks like you have one too many /

Re: Evolution vs Outlook

2002-05-12 Thread Keith Winston
On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 10:03:55PM -0500, Jim Hale wrote: Anyone else wish there was a version of Evolution available for Windows? I have had less problems configuring and less crashes from using Evolution than with Outlook XP, especially where it comes to hitting IMAP servers. The answer is

Re: 240 megabyte update in 40 hours

2002-05-10 Thread Keith Winston
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 10:45:35AM -0400, Jeff Graves wrote: This is the inherent problem I see with linux. I feel that it's NOT for the average home user and I don't ever see it taking over the desktop. However, it is an extremely lucrative option for the server side of things. There's

Re: 7.3 kernel to 7.2?

2002-05-09 Thread Keith Winston
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 11:40:51AM -0500, Bill Carlson wrote: I've been working with a couple of machines and the APIC issue. One machine I upgraded to 7.3 with the 2.4.18 stock kernel, still the same issues. Added 'noapic' to the kernel options, all is well in the world. As an aside, the

Re: off topic: pipe to grep

2002-05-09 Thread Keith Winston
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 03:36:45PM -0400, dbrett wrote: sort -n +2 list.txt | awk '{print $2}' | grep - list2.txt list.txt list2.txt server1 10.1.1.1server1 10.1.1.1 server2 10.1.1.2server2 10.1.1.2 server3