Re: RedHat 9.0 - The Practical Side

2003-03-25 Thread Michael A. Peters
without it being on a disc? ( I dont have a burner.) mount -tiso9660 disk.iso /mnt/cdrom -o loop -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/bash mnt=/mnt/iso if [ ! -d $mnt ]; then echo $mnt does not exist exit 1 fi if [ `mount |grep -c /mnt/iso` -gt 0 ]; then echo An ISO image

Re: RedHat 9.0 - The Practical Side

2003-03-25 Thread Michael A. Peters
? If not, is there a way to mount a disc image without it being on a disc? (I dont have a burner.) Basically, I'm game, But does it brown the food? _jim -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman

Re: upgrading your system... my experience

2003-03-25 Thread Michael A. Peters
recognized the change in video cards!). I was absolutely amazed (especially after the Win 98 experience). I know this is like preaching to the choir, but I really was expecting a bit more than just rebooting to upgrade just about everything:) -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Sound card disabled

2003-03-25 Thread Michael A. Peters
. Thanks, Mike -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: DVD's in RH8

2003-03-25 Thread Michael A. Peters
mike - i didn't see it either, but i downloaded OGLE - http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/ gene -- Ogle is nice because it supports DVD menus - but I personally prefer mplayer because it is faster at cracking decryption keys. http://homepage.mac.com/mpeters/mplayer/ -- Michael A. Peters

Re: hdparm - exist?

2003-03-03 Thread Michael A. Peters
. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.455 / Virus Database: 255 - Release Date: 2/13/2003 -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

grubby complains

2003-03-01 Thread Michael A. Peters
/sbin/module_upgrade [ -x /sbin/mkkerneldoth ] /sbin/mkkerneldoth if [ -x /sbin/new-kernel-pkg ]; then /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --mkinitrd --depmod --install %{patchversion} fi The complete spec file is attached. -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] %define name nf_kernel %define tarname

Re: Installing source rpm, RH8.0

2003-03-01 Thread Michael A. Peters
- the files in /SOURCES/ remain the same unusable bunch... The machine isn't internet connected so I can't just download source willy nilly from the web. Any pointers would be very useful. -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https

Re: module-info?

2003-03-01 Thread Michael A. Peters
- but if the file isn't used for anything, why do the Red Hat RPM's go through the trouble of ln -sf module-info-version module-info The system.map and vmlinuz symlinks I can understand - but why the module-info one? What the hell is it used for? -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat

Re: gd-2.0.x

2003-02-04 Thread Michael A. Peters
SMS aquĆ­ -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: What does expunge mean? - Ximian mail

2003-02-04 Thread Michael A. Peters
Kitson -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

/var/run/console

2003-01-31 Thread Michael A. Peters
/mkdir /var/run/console fi I would like to know, though, what the REAL problem is - just in case there are other issues I need to fix as well. Thanks for any help. Please cc me on any response -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

A7N8X users -

2003-01-31 Thread Michael A. Peters
) and the nforce2 ide controller (I get MUCH better drive access performance now). Anyway, I have never used grub, and need grub update instructions. And I need to see that it works for more people than just me. Thanks, Michael -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list

Re: RedHat, RPMS, and updates

2002-12-14 Thread Michael A. Peters
a popular 3rd party rpm - that would cause quite a bit of people complaining that up2date isn't working and they can't apply the security patch. Red Hat is doing it the right and proper way. Michael A. Peters wrote: As a future hardware OEM that will be pre-installing Linux I can say

Re: RedHat, RPMS, and updates

2002-12-13 Thread Michael A. Peters
3.0.3 instead of releasing 3.0.5 which had the same fixes. Some programs should be tested, but others are already being tested and fixed on a daily basis. I think that if we all complain about this, that they might modify their policy on security fixes. -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL

Re: browser discrimination article

2002-12-12 Thread Michael A. Peters
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 07:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I remember having seen a web page which explained why its a bad idea to create a web page for a specific browser. I beleive it was posted in this list but I can't find the link to the article. The basic point of the article

Re: Decent Word / Excel Conversion: Not yet?

2002-12-12 Thread Michael A. Peters
- before I had Open Office I would send the person a tactful e-mail explaining that I could not read their document because I do not have Microsoft Office, and asked them to save it as html. They do with no issues. -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list

Re: mounting CDrom

2002-12-11 Thread Michael A. Peters
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Re: glibc 2.3 causing compile problems?

2002-11-29 Thread Michael A. Peters
selected all the development packages in the install. But bzip2 isn't even listed there, so I had to install it manually. I really don't like RedHat's package tool in 8.0, is there an other tool out there I can use? /dahonk -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list

Errata News

2002-11-29 Thread Michael A. Peters
What is the url for the Red Hat Errata news feed? When I upgraded evolution - lost the errata news feed :( -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Linux seems pokey with 684MB RAM

2002-11-28 Thread Michael A. Peters
curious - what did you do to reduce the amount of RAM that mySQL and Apache uses ?? -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Post your Red Hat Desktop!

2002-11-27 Thread Michael A. Peters
/linux_screen.png (~696 k) Smaller Version : http://12.233.82.128/~mpeters/images/linux_screen-sm.png (~163 k) Details: Stock RH8 WindowMaker The launcher in bottom right hand corner is wmdrawer -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject

Re: glibc 2.3 causing compile problems?

2002-11-27 Thread Michael A. Peters
this software? -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

WindowMaker and rhn-applet

2002-11-26 Thread Michael A. Peters
to a WindowMaker dockling but before I do so - I just want to make sure no one else has already done this. Anyone know? -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat

Re: system crashes after 2nd login

2002-11-26 Thread Michael A. Peters
and fixed by Red Hat 8.1 :) -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Window Managers

2002-11-26 Thread Michael A. Peters
... -- WindowMaker is awesome- screenshot: http://12.233.82.128/~mpeters/images/wmaker-Screenshot.png -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Evolution only on Redhat 8.0?

2002-11-26 Thread Michael A. Peters
20mb of stuff (I did it) - RPM based install - easy as cake. -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: no java in oo1.0.1

2002-11-25 Thread Michael A. Peters
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 08:15, Vano Beridze wrote: Hello I have Redhat 8.0 I installed OpenOffice rpms from Redhat CD-s and want to connect to oracle datasource When I try to connect oo says that no java is installed when I try /usr/lib/openoffice/program/jvmsetup is says java cannot be

Special Keys

2002-11-25 Thread Michael A. Peters
and xmodmap complains about an invalid keysym How do I add a valid keysym? -- Michael A. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

The loop thing

2002-11-16 Thread Michael A. Peters
There was some discussion regarding the out of office loop. We had a problem where our CEO wanted the marketing director to receive all support e-mail in addition to the support staff so he could be aware of the types of support needs (I thought it was an insane idea - he wasn't competent in

gnome-panel and WindowMaker

2002-11-16 Thread Michael A. Peters
I use WindowMaker but start the gnome-panel as well. I have the gnome panel set to auto-hide - removed the task bar etc. - it acts very much like an OS X dock except minimized windows are handled by WindowMaker - it's really cool. Anyway - does anyone know of a way to make the gnome-panel

XFree and Fonts

2002-11-15 Thread Michael A. Peters
I got a few basic questions about Fonts and using a Font Server. What I'd like to do in the future is serve all of my True Type and Type1 fonts from a font server, so that I can install them on one machine and have access to them on all my machines. It looks like the way Red Hat does things is

Re: nautilus

2002-11-14 Thread Michael A. Peters
On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 12:41, Michael A. Peters wrote: When I launch Nautilus - it opens a gnome-desktop instance in addition to the nautilus session. I can minimize the .gnome-desktop - but is there a flag I send to nautilus to tell it not to? Edit - Preferences - Desktop Trash

nautilus

2002-11-13 Thread Michael A. Peters
I'm running Red Hat 8.0 I switched to WindowMaker by creating the following .xinitrc file: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- #!/usr/bin/bash # ~/.xinitrc # set numlock /usr/local/bin/xnumlock # start Xscreensaver /usr/X11R6/bin/xscreensaver # start gnome-panel /usr/bin/gnome-panel #start

Re: Ximian Gnome Crashes my Box

2002-11-12 Thread Michael A. Peters
I was under the impression that they were one and the same- IE the Red Hat 8 uses Ximian. I hope I didn't cause too much confusion if this is incorrect. On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 05:39, Jason Costomiris wrote: On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 01:00 AM, Michael A. Peters wrote: I can't run

Re: wine in general

2002-11-12 Thread Michael A. Peters
Sorry to join in late- I would like to point out I use to work for a company similar to crossover office that packaged GPL software, with some custom patches, custom documentation, etc. It was web server/database software. The company didn't make it - which is fine, not all do, but it broke my

Re: wine in general

2002-11-12 Thread Michael A. Peters
GoldMine would be nice, too. On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 05:17, Kent Perrier wrote: Crossover Office will approach perfection as soon as it can run MS Project. Once it can do that, then I do not see any reason to not run Linux at work. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe

Ximian Gnome Crashes my Box

2002-11-11 Thread Michael A. Peters
I can't run the Gnome that comes w/ RH 8 for more than 12 hours without a crash. Usually the entire box freezes up- and I mean everything. This box is a NAT router to my other boxes- they lose internet service and can't even ping the Red Hat box. Occasionally it just crashes X11 and dumps me