On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Michaell Taylor wrote:
> I had to assemble a Beowulf cluster to run a simulation of probabilities of
> different sorts of economic events and their impact on the political
> landscape. Gotta use linux if you do serious computing.
>
> Sorry, even the most basic mechanics is
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Dave Reed wrote:
> It would have been easier if you just sent plain text rather than an
> encoded attachment, but I'm pretty certain here are the offending
> lines.
Dave,
Sorry about that. It was an ASCII text file I sent so I don't know why
pine encoded it. All of 618 by
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Chris Harvey wrote:
> And then I think, Gates managed to persuade IBM to endorse his product and
> even build PCs with his 'MS DOS' on it, and from then it became the defacto
> PC operating system when the PC boom started to take off in the late 80's.
> Pretty shrewd move to
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Statux wrote:
> Gates didn't invent the first OS either... and DOS wasn't even his. It was
> purchased from someone for $50,000 or something like that.
Seattle Computer Products wrote DOS 1.0. I don't recall how much Gates and
Allen paid for it, but it wasn't much.
Rich
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Dave Reed wrote:
> look for multiple versions of: libgtk.so.1.2.x
>
> where x may not be 3 or 8.
>
> Do a:
> locate libgtk
> (assuming you've let the cron job that runs at 4AM create your locate
> database).
>
> and see what it finds. I'll bet you'll find multiple version
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Keith Kern wrote:
> I heard that Gates stole dos from IBM when he was working for them. Then he
> modified it a little and put it out on the market at MS-DOS, instead of IBM's
> PC-DOS. Then he just kept modifing it and then put a gui interface with it,
> Windows 2.0.
IBM
This is quite puzzling. And, if this is not the proper list for a gtk+
problem, please point me to the proper list.
On my main system I have only gtk+-1.2.8 installed (from an rpm). However,
when I try to build the latest jpilot package from the source rpm (using the
--rebuild command), I get
I'm running 6.1 on my main workstation and some packages (such as rpm)
will not upgrade. Trying to upgrade the rpm package, for example to
rpm-3.0.6-6x.i386.rpm, fails because its dependent, libbz2.so.0, is not
found. However, I have libbz2.so.1 installed on my system.
Can I (or, should I) us
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Katherine Harris wrote:
> >chuckle. if someone was a newbie to linux, i'd probably refer them
> >to pico first, rather than emacs. just my $0.02. :-)
> It's too late; I've already frightened myself with emacs, mainly because it
> was the only one I could remember. ;)
T
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, linda hanigan wrote:
> I think the hub is shutting down the port after a long period of
> inactivity.
Linda,
Isn't this interesting! Ever since I upgraded our small network (3
workstations; 2 portables) to RH 6.1, I've experienced the same problem on
one workstation: it w
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Katherine Harris wrote:
> Right now, when I load X, I get a teensy screen, that I think ends up being
> about 320x400 with 256 colors. (And the fonts are really hideous, but I
> hear that's normal.) I've tried running all the startx color depth
> switches, but it ends up lo
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, William Schwartz wrote:
> Question: What are people using for real-tine support for RedHat Linux?
> (besides this this I mean) We currently have a few RedHat Servers in
> production, and feel a little uneasy about not having any "formal" support
> for them. Does anyone have a
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Ron Golan wrote:
> Did you restart networking after disabling kudzu? A reboot would have
> taken care of that. Is you default runlevel 3?
Ron,
I rebooted. And, yes, runlevel 3 is the default.
> If your ppp interface is being initialized on boot, then try
> '/sbin/ifdown
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Ron Golan wrote:
> This sounds like the kudzu problem. Try disabling it or having it
> start with the -s option. It baffled me for a week!
Ron,
I disabled kudzu in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d, but it makes no difference. Minicom
still doesn't echo the initialization string and when
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Ron Golan wrote:
> This sounds like the kudzu problem. Try disabling it or having it
> start with the -s option. It baffled me for a week!
Ron,
Start minicom with the -s option? That brings up the configuration menu.
When I exit that, the initialization results are the s
I have a vanilla installation of RH 6.1 on my Toshiba Portege 3025CT
notebook. The machine comes with a 3Com pcmcia modem. A friend of mine has
a similar model: the 3015CT. On his machine, minicom initializes the modem
when the program is invoked; on mine it won't.
I've tried my modem in eith
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, gpt Guillermo Pastor Torrente wrote:
> I'm having SCSI error (CHECK ERROR 0x2 or sth like that) when trying to
> generate multisession CD
No, but xcdroast-0.97e works.
Rich
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> When you exported the CD, did you remember to restart rpc.nfsd to let it
> know you changed the /etc/exports file? Also, it the address of the
> laptop listed in /etc/hosts.allow? I have run into both problems when I
> was trying to do an instal
Installing a newly-built kernel the night before a trip, I was doing too
many things at once and I totally hosed lilo on my Toshiba Portege. It can't
boot: "cannot find setup signature."
I've spent the weekend trying to "rescue" it, but without success. I can't
find a 'rescue.img' or a 'rescu
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Paul M. Foster wrote:
> Well, don't get mad, but why are you mounting Linux partitions with Samba?
> Samba's really for Linux/Windows connectivity, not Linux/Linux
> connectivity. I understand the need for Samba to connect to your Win*
> machines, but I wouldn't use it to mou
There are a few of us in the local linux users group afflicted with this
problem, but my situation's the worst. And it's mine so I want to fix it
ASAP!
I have two workstations and a firewall/router on a 100 Mbps ethernet;
there are two portables which are sporatically connected. Everything is
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Frank Rocco wrote:
> I am looking at Turbo Linux 4.0, Red Hat 6.1 and Caldera Open Linux.
> Can someone point me to the +/- of each? Red Hat is the most expensive, but
> Open Linux says it won awards. Since I am a newbie, I need some advise. I
> plan to learn and program in L
On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Virtual Origami wrote:
> > I also see that they're bundling some true type fonts with the
> > commercial versions. Hmmm. When is Red Hat or someone else going to
> > buy/create some decent fonts and then GPL them? They put xfs into the
>
> I wouldn't call the fonts Corel
I have a Toshiba Portege 3025CT which ran RH 5.2 perfectly. To keep the
distributions uniform among all machines, I upgraded it to 6.0, then 6.1.
Now I'm having problems with apmd and nfsd.
It used to be that only when the battery had about 2-3 minutes of power
left did the machine quietly be
On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Steve Borho wrote:
> > Can someone point me towards a HOWTO on installing libraries?
> In general, you just look on the redhat CD for the library you are
> missing and use rpm to install it. If you tell us which libraries you
> are missing, we could help you more.
There'
On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, matt boex wrote:
> i will be getting dsl in the next few weeks(hopefully). i need to
> configure my rh6.1 box's usb port for the company provided modem. does
> anyone out there have a good place to read up on configuring usb for dsl
> or just configuring dsl?
I didn't thi
I was running RH 5.2 on all my systems (two workstations and the Toshiba
notebook) and upgraded to the 6.x distribution. Many working things broke
after the upgrade, and I'd like insight and help in fixing them.
Let me address the portable issues first. The machine is a Toshiba Portege
3025CT
On Mon, 18 May 1998, Steve Curry wrote:
> I may be spitting into the wind here but I think this explanation is wrong.
> I belive that Extreme Linux would best be described with a model of two
> pentium computers setting together acting as one CPU, Hard drive, memory.
Yes. It is used for parall
On Mon, 18 May 1998, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> When I load xinit, I have the following message:
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect errno=11.
> What should I do ?
> I use Redhat5.0 on I386.
If you are using the xfree86-3.3.2 server you need to either get the
Xwrapper and xconfigurator rpm
On Mon, 18 May 1998, Eugene Leitl wrote:
> > And, no, linux doesn't support UDMA right now; probably will in the
> > future. Unless you're running a server with heavy disk access it probably
>
> Uh, you sure with above? I thought it was a transparent BIOS/chipset thingy.
No, I'm not certa
On Mon, 18 May 1998, Omit Expungermier wrote:
> also, i dont think linux detects the ultra ide controller thingy.. no matter what
>hard
> drive i attach it to, it wont detect it... where can i get one of those neetoh three
> way connectors? any computer store?
Yes, any computer store will hav
At 11:20 PM 5/17/98 -0400, you wrote:
>http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/rh50-errata-general.html#X11
Thank you! I had gone hunting for the errata, but didn't find it. This
has the specific answer I was seeking.
Rich
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At 07:29 AM 5/18/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Several months ago, I got into a furball with them over the issue of
>support. They made it clear that their support is limited to
>installation problems only.
>
>The problem that we had with installation was the inadequacy of the
>documentation, and they we
At 11:00 PM 5/17/98 -0700, you wrote:
>yeah.. i have two different hard drives, both E/IDE, and they are not on the
>same cable.. one is attached by cable to a Ultra IDE Controller thing, (the
>maxtor) the other attached by a cable to the motherboard.. what do you mean
>by the end connector?tha
At 01:41 AM 5/21/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I was wondering if anybody out there has had any dealing with the RedHat
>Support system. I purchased RedHat 5.0 about three weeks ago and have had
>absolutley no luck getting them to honor their product support. I've done
>everything except drive to th
At 10:19 PM 5/17/98 -0300, you wrote:
>You may have bigger problems!! Disappears? Like you open it...go for
>coffee...come back, and the netscape is GONE?!
Probably all Macrosoft's doings.
Rich
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er. But, if this is not a file, is it just an alias? Something not
real which would securly invoke X by users? I doubt that! So I understand
what is happening and now I need to understand how to implement the solution.
Thanks!
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27;t know if that would solve your problems, though.
Rich
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At 01:42 PM 5/17/98 -0700, you wrote:
>AAh!! okay.. i have tried to install RH 5.0 several times on my
computer, (compaq presario 4712, monster 3d,
>maxtor 8 7000d8, quantum bigfoot, 40 megs of ram, 166mhz) and i succeded
once, and that was when i did just linux, but then i tried to get it
I just got off the phone with the H-P/Colorado Memory System support
folks. They tell me that the T-3000 Travan drive is not supported under
UNIX (including linux), so they can't give me a device name!
Wonder why folks like H-P want to hide the fact that their hardware runs
with linux?
Any
At 08:54 PM 5/14/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I changed the jumper to master, but it still won't recognize my cdrom.
>When you say second hdc connector, do you mean second from the ide card or
>second from the end of the cable?
The former. The card probably has two connectors, one is the primary a
I'm trying to run bru (the version which came bundled with RH 5.0). I'm
stuck because I'm not sure what device name to use for my tape drive. It's
a floppy tape (H-P/CMS Travan 3000) on the CMS fc10 interface board.
Do I refer to it as /dev/ft0? Someone had said that his drive is called
zqft
At 04:42 AM 5/14/98 PDT, Joe Tseng wrote:
>>Does anyone know if there are plans by NETSCAPE to release versions of
>>their products for LINUX? I'm running the browser on my RedHat
>>machine, but am interested in their Messaging Server and other
>>products (which are produced for a number of vari
At 10:57 AM 5/13/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Here is /etc/lilo.conf:
>
> boot=/dev/hdc1
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.32
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hdc1
> read-only
>
At 03:04 PM 5/12/98 -0400, you wrote:
>I am not sure of this, but most BIOS' you cannot boot from a secondary
drive. The boot drive has to be >primary. You also have to be sure the
MBR on your primary boot drive does not have either linux or win95 and
>when you install you specify where your bo
At 11:20 AM 5/12/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I have Win95 running on 850 MB C drive.
>I have a second 850 MB drive I want RH Linux on.
>
>I installed Linux on the second drive. When I set LILO to the MBR, no boot.
>So I set LILO to the load from drive 2. Everything was fine but I can't
>boot to Linux.
On Mon, 11 May 1998, RedHat List wrote:
> I installed an official CD release of RedHat, and wasn't sure if BRU got
> installed along with it. But I can't find it...
>
> Where do I look for it? Or even better how would I attempt to install it
> manually? All I found were two rpms, neither of whic
On Mon, 11 May 1998, Vidiot wrote:
> > Hmmm-m-m. Thought I mentioned that. I'm using the 3.3.2 release because
> >that supports my Viper V330 AGP card. So, where do I go from here? Sigh.
>
> Well, I just looked at my X server and it is running SUID.
OK, I'll try that. Gonna' be out of sta
At 04:05 PM 5/11/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I'm having a bit of an interesting experience getting an X server to run
>on a new Dell PC with an STB Velocity 128 AGP board in it. I'm using
>the latest X server from SUSE(XF86_SVGA 3.3.2-2) and after some tweaking
>of /etc/XF86config actually got it to w
At 06:25 PM 5/11/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Actually the install works great now, thank you for asking. I have windows
>and Linux working together nicely. I hate to say, for now, I have windows
>so I can do the vital things now, while I figure Linux out. I admit that I
>really love having Linux
At 03:12 PM 5/11/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>> I thought the cure for this was to set the SUID bit on the X server. I'm
>>> not at home to double-check, but I believe that is what you ultimately end
>>> up doing.
>>>
>>
>>I think MB is right on this one. However, I think the newest version of
>>XFre
At 09:19 AM 5/11/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Is it just me, or do Western Digital drives fail as much for everyone
>else as they do for me. I've had to replace the same 1.2 gig drive three
>times in the last year. I just replaced this drive (via RMA) about two
>weeks ago...it's failed before I co
I'm trying to get running the copy of BRU2000/PE which is bundled with RH
5.0.
It installed just fine, and I downloaded the manuals from EST's web
server and printed them out. However, I have 2 questions which the manual
doesn't answer.
1) When I run find, it turns up two copies of brutab.
The good folks in my local users group have offered suggestions, but I'm
still lost. Here's the situation.
I can invoke X windows as root, but not as a user. When I log in as
rshepard (a legitimate entry), and type 'startx', I get this message:
Fatal Server Error: xf86OpenCon
On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Michael Jinks wrote:
> This is really terrifying. How could anyone with the faintest grasp of the
> current state of the art in computers be duped into thinking that NT is stable
> enough to trust a life to it? Convincing the USAF that NT is stable was bad
> enough. I hope
At 11:22 AM 4/27/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Is there any information where I can look
>to start investigating how to mount
>an IDE zip drive ? Thanks in advance.
There's a HOWTO and (I think) a mini-HOWTO.
Rich
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At 12:44 PM 4/27/98 +0100, you wrote:
>Very true. I have kept my Windows 95 setup, but only use it since we use MS
>Word for documentation at work - I do most of the documentation at home. It
>would be nice if there was a good word processor package for Linux - anyone
>any ideas? I admit I haven'
At 10:08 PM 4/26/98 -0700, Richard Layton wrote:
>I haved tried Partition Magic before. Partiton Magic could only view the
ext2
>file system. It COULD NOT resize it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it
might be
>that I have an older version.
I have PM ver. 3. I used it to get my system ready fo
With the RH 5.0 "official box set" is a copy of the backup software
BRU2000/Personal Edition.
I *think* that I properly built/installed a custom kernel (2.0.33) and
ftape 3.04d. However, bru isn't working properly.
When I tried to do a backup by invoking bru with this line:
bru -ci
ore) of you who are
conversent with it.
TIA,
Rich
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OK. Here we go. The "official" boxed set of RH 5.0 comes with BRU2000
personal edition. No docs, except a couple of README files and the
equivalent of a man page. I downloaded all the online docs for the vendor,
but they assume that the drive is visible to the kernel.
The software is device i
At 02:27 PM 4/20/98 -0400, you wrote:
> Quick question this time: When I installed RH 4.2, I didn't specify
>any memory, but the system I installed onto has 128MB RAM. When I did a
>"free", I get a Mem of 63204 and a Swap of 102812. Am I missing something
>here? Do I have to set somethi
m).
Installed well.
Rich
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At 09:08 PM 4/19/98 -0300, you wrote:
>Yes and no. I added some users with control-panel andanothers using
adduser, but
>both methods failed.
>> Have you (as root) issued the command:
>> prompt# passwd username
>> and given them good passwords.
I have learned that despite the man page (and th
At 11:05 AM 4/19/98 +0200, you wrote:
>>I shut the power off after logging out as root. When I restarted it
>>became clear that I should have un-mounted... How should I un->mount and
>power down...?
>
>Always shut your system down with:
>
>CTRL-ALT-DEL
>reboot
>halt
I always shut down (after
s Netscape's Communicator, BRU and others
on it? I tried looking for a man page, using the find command and trying to
grep for it, all without success.
I repeat my question above: Where is path located so I can modify it with
vi or emacs?
TIA,
Rich
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re? Please show me the error of my ways.
TIA,
Rich
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On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Eric L. Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Mike Bridge wrote:
> > My most-used C reference book is Harbison & Steele's "C: A Reference Manual",
> > but it's not really a good introductory book.
> No, but Kernighan and Ritchie, "The 'C' Programming Lang
On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Paul Fontenot wrote:
> -+-I'm looking for a 100-tx network card. I see that RH supports the Intel
> -+-EtherExpress cards, but does this include the 100Mb version?
> -+-
> -+-Can someone suggest a cheap 10/100 twisted pair network card that is
> -+-know to work? It would al
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