Re: yum/apt-get (was Re: Fedora)

2003-09-24 Thread Lorenzo Prince
Buck staggered into view and mumbled: Hopefully Fedora will pick it up from there. To me, it would make sense that Fedora picks up the up2date program if for no other reason than to attract financial support from those of us willing and able to pay the $50 - 60 per year. Up2date will be in

Re: when to use updatedb?

2003-09-24 Thread Lorenzo Prince
Updatedb runs as a cron job. You shouldn't have to run it unless your PC is off most of the time or unless you add a lot of files and can't afford to wate untill it autoupdates the locate database. Prince -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Virtual hosts in Apache (URGENT)

2003-09-23 Thread Lorenzo Prince
Hmm. I removed the port 80 from princenet.sytes.net but I still get the same error message. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Fedora

2003-09-23 Thread Lorenzo Prince
Sean Estabrooks staggered into view and mumbled: http://www.fedora.us/ http://fedora.redhat.com/ http://fedora.redhat.com/about/rhel.html Wow! Could we have even hoped for anything better? Although it looks like the Fedora project will have to drop xmms-mp3. I would like it though if they

Re: Fedora

2003-09-23 Thread Lorenzo Prince
Buck staggered into view and mumbled: I think that the real problem is that we once had available the download of the grand package and updates for $60.00 and now we can only get a part of the package and updates for $349. Sticker shock to those of us used to free. Actually, the way I read

Virtual hosts in Apache (URGENT)

2003-09-21 Thread Lorenzo Prince
Hi. I am trying to host more than one domain on my IP address to serve more than one web site. My old domain was princenet.sytes.net and the new one is prince.homelinux.org. I want to serve a web page at princenet.sytes.net that explains that my address has changed and the web site has

Re: Virtual hosts in Apache (URGENT)

2003-09-21 Thread Lorenzo Prince
Mike Burger staggered into view and mumbled: You can't use Virtualhost *. Instead, you will have to use VirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address But what do I do if I have a dynamic IP address? It wouldn't be practical to change the IP address in httpd.conf every

Re: How to use USB key drive with Red Hat 9

2003-09-13 Thread Lorenzo Prince
the filesystem even though the drive still spins as if it is on /dev/sda1. HTH. Lorenzo Prince happy Shrike user ;) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: playlist problem...

2003-09-08 Thread Lorenzo Prince
-mp3 package. I think it may be on http://www.fedora.us somewhere. After installing the package it should work as expected. Lorenzo Prince happy Shrike user ;) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

1.62MB floppy disks

2003-09-07 Thread Lorenzo Prince
here due to the limitations of my keyboard. Is there a way to automacally format a disk of this format without having to know before I put the disk in whether I should $ mount /mnt/floppy or $ mount /dev/fd0u1680 /mnt/floppy Thanks for any help you can give me. Lorenzo Prince happy Shrike

formatting a disk in a USB floppy drive

2003-09-05 Thread Lorenzo Prince
Hi. I just bought a USB floppy drive to go in my laptop. It mounts the disks I put into it with no trouble and reads very fast. The problem is that the drive is using /dev/sda. Neither fdformat or floppy like that. What can I do to format a floppy disk in this drive? Thanks. Lorenzo

re: formatting a disk in a USB floppy drive

2003-09-05 Thread Lorenzo Prince
Am I missing some special property of these drives or something? Thanks. Lorenzo Prince happy Shrike user ;) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: formatting a disk in a USB floppy drive

2003-09-05 Thread Lorenzo Prince
/sda This seems to work, and the files I add afterword are readable after unmounting and remounting /mnt/floppy. But will this work on a previously unformatted disk? Lorenzo Prince happy Shrike user ;) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com

Re: ISO Updates?

2003-09-03 Thread Lorenzo Prince
One thing to consider is that the ISO's are just as open for modification as the RPM's. If you want people to have updated ISO's then you can always update them with the latest packages and redistribute the updated versions. The only limitation then would be bandwidth. Lorenzo Prince happy

Re: ISO Updates?

2003-09-03 Thread Lorenzo Prince
change too often for them to make a whole new box every time something changes. Lorenzo Prince happy Shrike user ;) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: end of line at bash

2003-09-03 Thread Lorenzo Prince
Try something like printf first line\nsecond line\n According to the manual for the echo command, echo -e first line\nsecond line should do the same thing, but it doesn't work on my system for some strange reason. The output of that command shows first linensecond line HTH. Lorenzo Prince

Re: end of line at bash

2003-09-03 Thread Lorenzo Prince
Hal Burgiss staggered into view and mumbled: $ echo -e first line\nsecond line first line second line Oh. That's where my problem was. The manpage didn't say I needed to put quotes around the text. The above command does work on my system. Lorenzo Prince happy Shrike user

Re: Sweet Success

2003-08-21 Thread Lorenzo Prince
header, which I had seen before in a file that was reported later to have contained a virus. Wow! I'm just glad I wasn't using Outlook/Outlook Express to view those messages. (Or Windows for that matter.) Lorenzo Prince happy Shrike user ;) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Paying for good quality software on Linux

2003-08-21 Thread Lorenzo Prince
money to the many companies/individuals who develope, maintain and in other ways contribute to its success and/or popularity. Lorenzo Prince happy Shrike user ;) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: CSAV for Exchange 2000 - Virus Alert

2003-08-20 Thread Lorenzo Prince
in question that had the virus was posted to the list long before the Exchange server responded to it. :D Lorenzo Prince happy Shrike user ;) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Installing RH9 or above using ReiserFS

2003-08-15 Thread Lorenzo Prince
Is it possible to install RH9 or above on ReiserFS and format the filesystem? The installer seems to show only ext2, ext3, software raid, physical volume and swap. If this is possible, how would I go about making it work? Thanks, Lorenzo Prince happy Shrike user ;) -- redhat-list mailing

problem with user saving to floppy

2003-08-15 Thread Lorenzo Prince
it? Thanks, Lorenzo Prince happy Shrike user ;) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: [OT] A response from SCO

2003-08-14 Thread Lorenzo Prince
true. Lorenzo Prince happy Shrike user ;) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Change computer's name

2003-08-14 Thread Lorenzo Prince
Try looking at /etc/sysconfig/network. It should currently have a line that says HOSTNAME=debian Change it to whatever address points to your computer, for example, my file sais: HOSTNAME=prince.homelinux.org HTH Lorenzo Prince happy Shrike user ;) -- ..you could spend *all day* customizing

ftp server problem solved

2003-08-14 Thread Lorenzo Prince
normal user account and group ftp and have permission 640 (files) and 750 (directories) and proftpd will list the directories for the anonymous user. I hope this helps anyone else who would like to use this configuration but has had problems getting vsftpd to use it. Lorenzo Prince happy Shrike

Postfix /etc/postfix/access not working

2003-08-11 Thread Lorenzo Prince
to control access to Postfix, or is there some kind of bug in the program? Lorenzo Prince happy Shrike user ;) -- The chat program is in public domain. This is not the GNU public license. If it breaks then you get to keep both pieces. (Copyright notice for the chat program) -- redhat-list mailing list

Re: How to install kernel sources from SRPM

2003-08-10 Thread Lorenzo Prince
Hi. Instead of trying to install kernel-2.4.20-19.7.src.rpm try installing kernel-source-2.4.20-19.7-i386.rpm. THis is the actual kernel source rpm and will install with rpm -ivh under /usr/src. HTH. Lorenzo Prince happy Shrike user ;) -- Other than the fact Linux has a cool name, could

ftp server problem

2003-08-05 Thread Lorenzo Prince
server anonymously, the server refuses to list files in any directory, but it will allow me to change directories. I have even tried letting the server itself run as ftp, but I get the same results. What can I do? Lorenzo Prince happy Shrike user ;) -- quit When the quit statement is read

Re: [OT] Probably the most original 404 error...

2003-08-02 Thread Lorenzo Prince
or something. LOL! Lorenzo Prince happy Shrike user ;) -- The only intuitive interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned. (Bruce Ediger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], in comp.os.linux.misc, on X interfaces.) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https

Re: How to use a slave hard disk?

2003-07-31 Thread Lorenzo Prince
Once you plug the hard drive into the system and boot it, it should show up as /dev/hdb. You can then mount /dev/hdb /mountpoint and the drive will be mounted normally. If you want to mount this drive automatically, just put an entry in /etc/fstab for the drife. Lorenzo Prince happy Shrike

Re: Command Line for Searching for Files Containing Text?

2003-07-30 Thread Lorenzo Prince
Samuel Flory staggered into view and mumbled: Lorenzo Prince wrote: Hmm. Try the following if you want to search within a specific directory: for f in /directory/*; do grep text $f; done or you can omit /directory/ if you want to search the current directory, so the command would look

appologies

2003-07-29 Thread Lorenzo Prince
will be permenantly changing the hostname of this machine. Sorry again for the inconvenience. Lorenzo Prince happy Shrike user ;) -- quit When the quit statement is read, the bc processor is terminated, regardless of where the quit state- ment is found. For example, if (0 == 1) quit

Re: RH 9.0 log in question: seems a bit long

2003-07-29 Thread Lorenzo Prince
connection chrough Putty is slow, or if the commands are executing immediatly after you press enter, it's possible that there is something in your /etc/profile or .bash_profile or even in /etc/profile.d that may be taking a long time to execute. Lorenzo Prince happy Shrike user ;) -- We

Re: Command Line for Searching for Files Containing Text?

2003-07-29 Thread Lorenzo Prince
this will do what you need it to do. HTH. Lorenzo Prince happy Shrike user ;) -- And the next time you consider complaining that running Lucid Emacs 19.05 via NFS from a remote Linux machine in Paraguay doesn't seem to get the background colors right, you'll know who to thank. (By Matt Welsh) -- redhat

[Alerts@SturmanIndustries.com: Symantec Mail Security detected that you sent a message containing prohibited content (SYM:33731228931617092356)]

2003-07-28 Thread Lorenzo Prince
to file a complaint with someone, that is if anyone at Sturman Industries will listen. Thanks Lorenzo Prince happy Shrike user ;) - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] thread-index: AcNVA2GiMYS4W180QyeKT0pJUKw/8g

Re: determining the version of linux

2003-07-25 Thread Lorenzo Prince
$ cat /etc/redhat-release will tell you the version and codename of the Red Hat release you are running. Lorenzo Prince happty Red Hat 9 user ;) -- We are using Linux daily to UP our productivity - so UP yours! (Adapted from Pat Paulsen by Joe Sloan) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

Soundblaster Audigy on RH9 PROBLEM

2003-07-25 Thread Lorenzo Prince
all the packages. Now the Audigy doesn't work, and the sndconfig program says it is not currently supported. I have tried configuring this card with both versions 2.4.20-18.9 and 2.4.20-19.9 of the kernel with no luck. What can I do? PLEASE HELP! Lorenzo Prince happy Shrike user

Re: [OT] Does this mean that IP was proven on the SCO case?

2003-07-24 Thread Lorenzo Prince
. Also, by distributing the kernel source under the GPL *AFTER* filing the lawsuit, they were acknowledging that they approved of this code being in the kernel and therefore are bound by its license terms. Lorenzo Prince happy Red Hat 9 iser NO I WILL NOT BUY A UNIXWARE LICENSE! -- Besides, I

Re: RH 10

2003-07-24 Thread Lorenzo Prince
miror. Lorenzo Prince happy Red Hat 9 user ;) -- If the future navigation system [for interactive networked services on the NII] looks like something from Microsoft, it will never work. (Chairman of Walt Disney Television Telecommunications) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto

Re: [OT] Does this mean that IP was proven on the SCO case?

2003-07-23 Thread Lorenzo Prince
sublicensing all or part of the kernel illegally. Lorenzo Prince happy Red Hat 9 user ;) NO I WILL NOT BUY A UNIXWARE LICENcE! -- Feel free to contact me (flames about my english and the useless of this driver will be redirected to /dev/null, oh no, it's full...). (Michael Beck, describing the PC-speaker

Re: [OT] Does this mean that IP was proven on the SCO case?

2003-07-23 Thread Lorenzo Prince
and improvements. These developers had either apparent or austensible authority to place this code into the kernel, which is all we need to show by law. Looks like an open-and-shut case. SCO loses. Lorenzo Prince happy Red Hat 9 user ;) NO I WILL NOT BUY A UNIXWARE LICENCE! -- redhat-list

Re: Laptops?

2003-07-23 Thread Lorenzo Prince
I run RH9 on a Compaq Presario 2100US. Everything works great, except APM. For some reason the kernel dowsn't support my APM bios. And I'm not sure whether or not the modem works, as I use cable internet with a network connection to the laptop. Lorenzo Prince happy Red Hat 9 user

Re: [OT] Does this mean that IP was proven on the SCO case?

2003-07-22 Thread Lorenzo Prince
Hmm. SCO is trying to license Linux under a non-GPL-compatible license. Isn't THIS illegal? They could get into some VERY serious trouble for this. Lorenzo Prince happy Red Hat 9 user ;) -- There are two types of Linux developers - those who can spell, and those who can't

Re: [OT] Does this mean that IP was proven on the SCO case?

2003-07-22 Thread Lorenzo Prince
program and is NOT part of the Linux kernel or any other open-source licensed software. Lorenzo Prince happy Red Hat 9 user ;) -- Linux! Guerrilla UNIX Development Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus. (By [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark A. Horton KA4YBR) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Creating a Recover CD with mkcdrec

2003-07-22 Thread Lorenzo Prince
for the machine. Lorenzo Prince happy Red Hat 9 user ;) -- Ever heard of .cshrc? That's a city in Bosnia. Right? (Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands.) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Red Hat to abandon retail channel

2003-07-21 Thread Lorenzo Prince
support and according to the site, it said I had to buy a boxed set with a product key to activate an entitlement for support other than the normal RHN subscription. I am hoping that this is going to change now that they are dropping retail box sets. Lorenzo Prince happy Red Hat 9 user ;) -- lp1

Re: Ideas for a BIG project!

2003-07-21 Thread Lorenzo Prince
to as little as 4 month while still emphacising security and stability, as most of the packages will be eventually included in Red Hat's enterprise products. Lorenzo Prince happy Red Hat 9 user ;) -- The chat program is in public domain. This is not the GNU public license. If it breaks then you get

Re: FTP server

2003-07-20 Thread Lorenzo Prince
directories. I see vsftpd which comes with RH doesn't seem to do it for non-anonymous users either, unless I missed something. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Lorenzo Prince happy Red Hat 9 user ;) -- And 1.1.81 is officially BugFree(tm), so if you receive any bug-reports

Re: Ideas for a BIG project!

2003-07-20 Thread Lorenzo Prince
-downs in mission-critical applications. Lorenzo Prince happy Red Hat 9 user ;) -- ...Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly). (By Matt Welsh) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Red Hat 9.0 One user and multiple mailboxes.

2003-07-19 Thread Lorenzo Prince
working. Lorenzo Prince happy Red Hat 9 user ;) -- linux: because a PC is a terrible thing to waste ([EMAIL PROTECTED] put this on Tshirts in '93) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

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

2003-07-19 Thread Lorenzo Prince
://www.freshrpms.net or to try yum you can find it at: http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum HTH. Lorenzo Prince happy Red Hat 9 user ;) -- Fatal Error: Found [MS-Windows] System - Repartitioning Disk for Linux... (By [EMAIL PROTECTED], Christopher Browne) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

Re: Red Hat 9.0 One user and multiple mailboxes.

2003-07-18 Thread Lorenzo Prince
John Nichel staggered into view and mumbled: Ditch Sendmail, and install qmail with vmailmgr. Works like a charm. But how do you get qmail to work on RH9? I went to qmail.org to try to get qmail cause I heard it was good, but when I got there, it said it didn't work with later versions of

Re: Package Management problems

2003-07-18 Thread Lorenzo Prince
-end. It already comes with a list of sites where it will download any packages and dependencies and install them for you automatically. HTH. Lorenzo Prince Happy Red Hat 9 user ;) -- Feel free to contact me (flames about my english and the useless of this driver will be redirected to /dev/null

Re: Postfix question

2003-07-18 Thread Lorenzo Prince
It actually took me forever to find an RPM for postfix 2.0.x. The best I could come up with was 2.0.12. If anyone would like a copy, you can get it from ftp://princenet.sytes.net/software/postfix-2.0.12-1.rh9.i386.rpm HTH Lorenzo Prince Happy Red Hat 9 user ;) -- I've run DOOM more

Re: Antivirus for Linux

2003-07-18 Thread Lorenzo Prince
against Microsoft, who is right there ready and willing to crush anything in its path. Lorenzo Prince happy Red Hat 9 user ;) -- How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I only coded it. (Attributed to Linus Torvalds, somewhere in a posting) -- redhat-list mailing list

Re: Outlook Quotefix

2003-07-17 Thread Lorenzo Prince
. Apparently, it just wraps according to the screen size. I have tried to fix it manually. Hope this helps. Lorenzo Prince happy Red Hat 9 user ;) -- We use Linux for all our mission-critical applications. Having the source code means that we are not held hostage by anyone's support department

Re: MP3 Player

2003-07-16 Thread Lorenzo Prince
mplayer is probably about the best command-line mp3 player. It plays mp3 as well as probably hundreds of other audio and video formats. Lorenzo Prince happy Red Hat 9 user :) -- ...[Linux's] capacity to talk via any medium except smoke signals. (By Dr. Greg Wettstein, Roger Maris Cancer

Re: Postfix RedHat9

2003-07-16 Thread Lorenzo Prince
Assuming you have postfix already installed, you can simply use redhat-switch-mail to change the default mail server to postfix. Lorenzo Prince happy Red Hat 9 user :) -- World domination. Fast (By Linus Torvalds) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https

Re: Postfix RedHat9

2003-07-16 Thread Lorenzo Prince
Edit /etc/postfix/main.cf and change the inet_interfaces line so that it reads as follows: inet_interfaces = $myhistname, localhost Also edit /etc/postfix/aliases so that the root alias actually points to a user account where you can receive mail. HTH. Lorenzo Prince happy Red Hat 9 user

Re: Outlook Quotefix

2003-07-16 Thread Lorenzo Prince
scrolling option, so in order to find the answer to a question burried under miles of previously read messages can be a real pain. Just my 2 cents. Lorenzo Prince happy Red Hat 9 user :) -- Linux: Because a PC is a terrible thing to waste. (By [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark Komarinski) -- redhat-list

Re: tiny quick newbie question

2003-07-15 Thread Lorenzo Prince
the extension. Extensions aren't used in Linux to determine if a file is executable like in w32. The extension is just to let the user know what kind of a script it is, and it must be typed along with the rest of the file name at the prompt for it to execute. HTH. Lorenzo Prince -- No manual

Re: Dependancies and RPM's

2003-07-14 Thread Lorenzo Prince
automatically download and install any dependencies needed by gd and resolve any conflicting versions by upgrading any and all necessary packages. HTH. Lorenzo Prince Logan Linux staggered into view and mumbled: Hi all, I am trying to get (what I thought was) a simple package installed

Re: Dependancies and RPM's

2003-07-14 Thread Lorenzo Prince
Anton Piatek staggered into view and mumbled: www.freshrpms.net has a copy of apt, and loads of build rpms for it as well. Thanks for that one. I did a google search myself and promptly forgot the address. 8-} Lorenzo Prince -- I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody. It doesn't generate

Re: variables within an alias command

2003-07-14 Thread Lorenzo Prince
Chris W. Parker staggered into view and mumbled: Where do I define that? $HOME/.bash_profile should do. It holds all user-specific aliases and functions. Lorenzo Prince -- ...Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly). (By Matt Welsh) -- redhat-list

spurious 8259a interrupt: IRQ7

2003-07-13 Thread Lorenzo Prince
. Lorenzo Prince -- Absolutely nothing should be concluded from these figures except that no conclusion can be drawn from them. (By Joseph L. Brothers, Linux/PowerPC Project) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

possible postfix security issue

2003-07-13 Thread Lorenzo Prince
. Thanks Lorenzo Prince -- E pluribus unix -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list