Printer Presence Detection

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello redhat-list, I'm looking at setting up a headless Linux box that may or may not have a PCL printer attached to its parallel port. How can I, from a shell or Perl script, determine whether a printer is attached? Thanks! Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIG

Re: GPG issues

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, September 4, 2003, 6:06:36 AM, Trey wrote: > gpg: signing failed: secret key not available I have much more experience with PGP than GPG, but this sounds to me like when you exported your key, you only exported the public portion. With PGP,

Re: scripting help with ftp

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 C-Kermit (for Linux) and Kermit-95 (for your Windows box) have tremendous scripting capabilities. There is a modest cost for the Kermit-95 distribution, but I have found it to be well worth it. Check it out at . Ron.

Re: Remote access full graphical interface RH9

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday, August 24, 2003, 2:37:19 PM, Kevin wrote: > Is there a program that I can install that will provide me remote access > to the GUI for RH9 instead of the command shell? Sure! There are two approaches. One is to use ssh with X Window forwarding.

Re: /var/log/lastlog -- why is it 19 megabytes?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, August 21, 2003, 9:39:30 PM, Herculano wrote: >OK.. I've seen this subject on lots of threads so I'll ask.. can you > explain this? > [EMAIL PROTECTED] logs]$ du -h /var/log/lastlog > 19M /var/log/lastlog If, when you copy a spar

Re: Exchange server from pine

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, August 21, 2003, 1:16:28 AM, Didier wrote: > [Jason] called me an idiot. You're right. He used the wrong word. He should have used "naive". We don't really have any evidence as to your intelligence. Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versi

Re: Exchange server from pine

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, August 21, 2003, 1:56:51 AM, Didier wrote: > software I would not buy for Linux because the initial spirit of Linux > was to be an OPEN SOURCE system. This is MY CHOICE. I know this is not > yours That's fine. Very nice. I would rather see

Re: Sweet Success

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 20, 2003, 2:15:14 PM, Cliff wrote: > In the argument over TCO, several reports have shown that the TCO for a > single Linux server is slightly higher than a single Windows server. > Most of those reports disregarded the fact that one

Re: How to login as root from remote machine

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 20, 2003, 11:57:31 AM, Mark wrote: > Login as yourself or a regular user and > then su to get root access. Better yet, use "sudo" to run specific things as needed. Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.

Re: [OT] SCO debunking its own myths :-)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, August 20, 2003, 2:29:47 AM, marc wrote: > The "Greek" writing below is actually English written with Greek > letters. They don't want to place themselves in the position of actually publishing the source code that they are claiming to be

Re: Shared Disk Cluster

Monday, August 18, 2003, 6:42:17 PM, Ed wrote: > You may also want to check out http://www.ha-linux.org. Appears to be http://linux-ha.org. Ron. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Anyone grabbed and compiled a 2.6 kernel yet?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday, August 19, 2003, 5:35:22 PM, Brian wrote: > These are already compiled. > http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/RPMS.kernel/ The claim is RH9/Rawhide. Any idea whether it would be reasonable to try with RH8.0? Thanks! Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIG

Re: Building Own Kernel - PCMCIA Woes

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday, August 19, 2003, 1:16:22 PM, Ognen wrote: > Can you elaborate on this statement? (not that I do not agree, I have a > bunch of pcmcia related problems myself...) Certainly! Here are copies of the main messages I've posted looking for help. Th

Re: Building Own Kernel - PCMCIA Woes

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This morning, we were having a meeting to discuss potential hardware solutions for an upcoming embedded Linux PC application. One of the alternatives floated was to use PCMCIA / PC Card for extra serial ports and/or modems. Our boss shot down that idea

Re: Building Own Kernel - PCMCIA Woes

Monday, August 11, 2003, 9:37:38 PM, Randy wrote: > try renaming dir > /lib/modules/mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Building Own Kernel - PCMCIA Woes

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello redhat-list, Because of the problems I have been having with the 2.4.20 kernel updates for RH 8.0, to which no one seems to even be able to provide a hint on tracking down, I decided to have a go at grabbing the latest stable kernel from www.ker

Re: Why is RH9 slower than Windows98SE. Any advice?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The thing that has me puzzled is my business partner's Toshiba notebook computer, a Satellite Pro 6100. He has Win XP on it, and then added RH 9 in a dual-boot setup. Under XP, he had installed the Cygwin environment. He has a fairly large text file t

Re: RH9 + Win2K

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday, August 12, 2003, 10:54:50 AM, Doug wrote: > I am the manager over the IS/IT department and it's OK with me. I am > very familiar with RH but was interested in an article that might relate > to installation on a laptop - a Dell in particular.

Re: PCMCIA hard drive

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday, August 11, 2003, 1:01:59 PM, Hugh wrote: > Anyone have any ideas on how to get this working again? Sorry, I don't. I'm having problems with PCMCIA under the 2.4.20 kernel under RH 8.0 that worked fine on the 2.4.18 kernel. It's keeping me from

Re: Comcast & Routing

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday, August 2, 2003, 3:33:49 PM, Lee wrote: > 1) Establish the LAN using private IP addresses and a hub. You want to use a router with a built-in hub/switch. If you already have a hub/switch, then you can get a router without one built in and sav

Re: Sendmail Authentication - I thought I had it

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, July 24, 2003, 2:24:33 AM, Gerry wrote: > It looks like you are using a box by the name of > falkor.off.the-strategis.com and your mail server is My notebook PC is "falkor". When I am in my office, it becomes "falkor.off.the-strategis.com. W

Re: Dynamic DNS

Tuesday, July 22, 2003, 5:04:14 AM, Thomas wrote: > Why can't thr person use ddclient to do this? I missed a lot of this > thread but rather than use ddclient to update an IP at dynamic DNS > provide, point it where he wants it. I'm sorry, but I cannot parse this. Is this telling me how to get my

Re: Sendmail Authentication - I thought I had it

Wednesday, July 23, 2003, 10:14:44 PM, Gerry wrote: > Also, when you're at your client are you sure you can get through their > firewall? Perhaps you have to use their server. I don't think I can send > mail directly to my server from where I work. I ran into that for the first time at a differ

Re: Sendmail Authentication - I thought I had it

I'll be looking at the references supplied by others a bit later this evening. But, in the mean time... Wednesday, July 23, 2003, 7:29:37 PM, Rodolfo wrote: > Did you recreate the sendmail.cf file and restart sendmail? Yes. > What happens if you "telnet mailserver 25" and issue a "ehlo localhost

Sendmail Authentication - I thought I had it

Hello redhat-list, I read lots of list messages and a lot of documentation, and I thought that I finally had figured out how to get Sendmail authentication set up compatibly with Windows "The Bat!" mail client. If I'm sitting in the office, I can send mail via Sendmail on the system in the office.

Re: Dynamic DNS

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, July 17, 2003, 8:10:05 PM, Rongx wrote: > Try to set variable DHCP_HOSTNAME=name1 in the configuration file > /etc/sysconfig/network if you configure the NIC to use DHCP. Is this the thing that tells the Linux box to attempt to get itself

Re: Any old timers here ? root's groups question...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I haven't looked at the Linux kernel in this area, but did study some on it wrt the UNIX kernel circa System III and System V Release 3. Root is root, because it is uid 0. End of story. Almost. There are some new Linux releases out that, I understand,

Re: TP770ED Kernel 2.4.20 Crashes on Boot

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently wrote: > Now, I've tried upgrading to the latest 2.4.20-18.8, and my system is > still locking up at boot time. I have some more data points. Same system, but I found a couple of other dual Ethernet/Modem PC Cards at work and brought them

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]: Solved

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Someone in this thread had asked whether there was a (simple?) sendmail configuration that would specify to send Email via one's ISP for destinations like aol, while going direct to others who might not be so "picky". Or, I suppose, as more sites adopt

Re: AOL Now Bouncing DHCP Addresses, Residential Addresses[May Be OT]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, June 18, 2003, 2:10:04 AM, T. wrote: > Huh? No, the question is: Why the fsck where those guys able to get on > board with the BOX CUTTERS?!?! Because no one had thought of box cutters as a threat. Before that incident, I would routinely fl

Error refreshing package list (code 20)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello redhat-list, I have a demo account on RedHat Network. Lately, I've noticed that my current package state is no longer being maintained on the RHN. When I've attempted to re-schedule the Package List Refresh, and run it manually on my system, the

TP770ED Kernel 2.4.20 Crashes on Boot

Hello redhat-list, I sent this to the Linux on ThinkPads list and the Psyche list about a week ago, and haven't seen any response. Trying a wider audience now. Does anyone have a suggestion on how I can proceed? Thanks! Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello linux-thinkpad, I

Re: creating user with limited administrative rights

Also "Webmin". Recommended. . Ron. -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: offtopic - OpenSource

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I heard Eric Raymond speak last night at UniForum Chicago. I think good answers to the original question can be found on his web site: and particularly: Enjoy! Ron. -BEGIN PGP

Re: 80% packet loss

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday, February 19, 2002, 10:04:32 PM, Monte wrote: > If I use the ip address of another machine on my LAN, I can ping > just fine. But if I try pinging the same machine by name, I get > ~80% packet loss. WTF? I was seeing similar things a few w

Re: Redundant connection switching

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday, November 25, 2001, 11:43:50 PM, Nevin wrote: > However, the customer would like to have a system in place in that > if one connection was to go down for whatever reason, then the linux > machine would know about and switch connections to any o

Re: System Log Book?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday, November 19, 2001, 2:37:39 AM, Thomas wrote: > I have a question on my mind: What do ye folks out there use as a system > logbook? I carry my Palm Vx around everywhere. The program Quickword is a pretty decent Palm DOC

Re: system down

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday, November 17, 2001, 12:54:50 AM, Jim wrote: > The linux server crashed and will not reboot. If it is asking for your password, it has rebooted. > Ststem starts up, then kickes me .out to a shell (?) says there is a > problem and asks for my

Re: lm_sensors modules

Anyone know the current status of lm_sensors vs. ThinkPad computers? Ron. ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Remote X sessions in Windows

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Enjoy! Ron. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 Comment: The last PGP with full source disclosure. iQA/AwUBO/FNVm8pw+2

Re: READ THIS FIRST PLEASE .................. HOW TO INSTALL REDHAT 7.1 FROM HARD DISK??????????????

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday, November 12, 2001, 2:33:12 AM, Thomas wrote: > How so? I've got about three machines "lying around", none of which > has cost me a cent - quite contrary to the current offering of RHL, > which seems excessively expensive... >:-) Granted, I do

Re: READ THIS FIRST PLEASE .................. HOW TO INSTALL REDHAT 7.1 FROM HARD DISK??????????????

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday, November 09, 2001, 1:11:57 PM, Jason wrote: > Well, that's certainly true, but surely he's got an extra machine > around. :-) He can't afford to keep a couple of CD-ROMs, but can afford to have an extra machine lying around? Hmm. ":-)" ind

Kernel Updates - Leftover Old Kernels

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello redhat-list, Since installing RH 7.1, I've updated the kernel using the GUI-style update utility about three times. I have not done an exhaustive study, but it appears that when updating to a new kernel version, most of the previous kernel vers

Re: READ THIS FIRST PLEASE .................. HOW TO INSTALL REDHAT 7.1 FROM HARD DISK??????????????

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, November 08, 2001, 10:50:25 PM, Sajeewa wrote: > Installation program says that It can't find a valid ISO 9660 partition > from the location I gave. That is because you do not have the ISO files. Instead of reading the installation instruct

Re: HOW TO INSTALL REDHAT 7.1 FROM HARD DISK??????????????

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, November 08, 2001, 10:38:25 PM, David wrote: > I'm sure there's a logical explanation > for why such an obvious process can't work I don't doubt it. I would guess that it goes something like this: The installation code already needs to kno

Re: bootmagic killed LILO, can't get it back, not even with boot disks...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday, December 24, 2000, 3:12:54 PM, John wrote: > I user Bootmagic as my primary boot loader, lilo as secondary boot > loader. Lilo lives in my Linux boot partition. I have been using the same sort of configuration. I had no problems until right

Re: [OT] serial protocol analyzer

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, November 09, 2000, 12:03:41 PM, Leonard wrote: > I was wondering if somebody could point me out a serial protocol > analyzer. I'm not aware of a Linux package, but I've found that the SerialTest product from Frontline Test Equipment runn

Re: Linux Network Performance Slower Than NT, please help

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday, November 02, 2000, 2:21:36 PM, Jamin wrote: > As for your performance, you might want to check your HD settings with > "/sbin/hdparm". Unless you are using SCSI drives, you most likely don't > have the drives running with DMA enabled. This

Re: Starting X in a second console

I thought I read about a way to configure X so that it would create the second VC server by default, and that you could configure it to use different video parameters (resolution, color depth). However, I cannot find my notes on how to do this. Anyone? Thanks. Ron. ___

Re[2]: what happened to [RHL]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday, August 04, 2000, 9:28:11 AM, eric wrote: > why are people so fearfull of just the slightist change?? It isn't about being feaful of change. It isn't even about being fearful. It's about preference and making changes that few actually *need* t

Whither Korn Shell?

Hello Redhat-List, I have installed 6.2 Deluxe. My shell appears to be BASH. I prefer the Korn Shell. However, I can't seem to find it anywhere. I *thought* that it was on my system under 6.0 or 6.1 Extra, but I nuked everything when I installed 6.2, and am not certain. Is it in an optional packa

Re: What is the 't' option in chmod?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunday, August 27, 2000, 8:27:23 AM, Peter wrote: > I've got a directory that has permissions of drwxrwxrwt > What exactly is the status described by the 't'? The "t" bit was originally just for executable files, and was called the "sticky bit". It t

VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)

Hello redhat-list, I noticed something odd today. I'm running RH 6.2 on a ThinkPad 770ED, the one with the DVD drive. I was trying to track down an odd boot-time message I saw fly past, and used "dmesg" to display it. However, I discovered that a new message was being added to the dmesg output e

Re[2]: 3GB Ram on Intel

Friday, July 14, 2000, 1:11:56 PM, Robert wrote: > 6.2 will recognize 4GB of RAM out of the box with the stock kernel. The >> ... > Rob Fausey. > A communication disruption can mean only one thing ... invasion I guess we're getting an invasion! Ron. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: binary file format under linux

Another approach would be to use Perl. It isn't necessarily any easier than using C, but I'd guess it's slightly more likely to be loaded on a system. Ron. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.