Re: Updating RH Linux 6.2

2003-01-28 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 05:27 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 08:10, Ernest Ellingson wrote: I've inherited 2 machines running red hat 6.2. I have two choices right now. Bringing 6.2 up to date or installing redhat 7.1. Why 7.1? 7.3 will require fewer updates

Re: Mozilla Crashes

2002-12-09 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Terry, why not getting the very latest Mozilla stuff at the Mozilla web site? http://www.mozilla.org I'm right now not on my Linux system, so I can't tell you exactly which package is the best one for a quick install. But we discussed it here some weeks ago:

RE: Procmail processing problem

2002-11-17 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Nov 17, 2002, 13:48 (-0600) Brad Alpert wrote: Thank you for the feedback, Rick. I made the relevant change you suggested in the spam test. But I'm not testing the spam filter right now, because I don't get that much of it and I haven't bothered to generate bogus spam messages to send

Re: mailing-list has broken ?

2002-11-16 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Nov 15, 2002, 08:51 (-0500) Hal Burgiss wrote: On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 12:15:25PM +0100, lazzaro ciccolella wrote: Anybody know if the mailing-list is broken? Mr Petrie is broken! :0 * ^Subject: .*out of (the )?office /dev/null Hal, Thanks for this little

tcpdump, libcap versions, maliciously hacked

2002-11-15 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Involved versions: tcpdump-3.6.2.tar.gz tcpdump-3.7.1.tar.gz libpcap-0.7.1.tar.gz please see: CERT® Advisory CA-2002-30 Trojan Horse tcpdump and libpcap Distributions http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-30.html Hoping it helps And my apologies if that was already written here ... Regards

Bribe me, too, Mr Gates [was: Re: bill gates bribes ... [ ... ]]

2002-11-15 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
BRIBED BY YOU, TOO .. I could offer you not to delete the Windows partition still being installed on another partition of my hard drive: For $5000/week I'd be willing to boot it once a week. So, Sir, if you're interested, please write me !now! ... Thank you Best Regards Wolfgang Pfeiffer BTW

[Solution (more or less)] Re: How can I print a .ps file with pagenumbers?

2002-11-06 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Nov 5, 2002, 15:10 (+0100) Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Redhat 6.2 ghostscript-5.10-6 (I know it's old, but the latest Redhat version I had installed didn't work for my Epson printer ...) IF I enter a $gs mozilla.ps I see the the page numbers (1 of 4, 2 of 4 etc) on the resulting view

Re: [Solution (more or less)] Re: How can I print a .ps file withpage numbers?

2002-11-06 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Nov 6, 2002, 15:22 (-0800) Jack Bowling wrote: ** Reply to message from Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 06 Nov 2002 23:45:52 +0100 (CET) On Nov 5, 2002, 15:10 (+0100) Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Redhat 6.2 ghostscript-5.10-6 (I know it's old, but the latest Redhat

How can I print a .ps file with page numbers?

2002-11-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Redhat 6.2 ghostscript-5.10-6 (I know it's old, but the latest Redhat version I had installed didn't work for my Epson printer ...) IF I enter a $gs mozilla.ps I see the the page numbers (1 of 4, 2 of 4 etc) on the resulting view of mozilla.ps. But when I load mozilla.ps into ghostview and then

Re: How can I print a .ps file with page numbers?

2002-11-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Nov 5, 2002, 15:10 (+0100) Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Redhat 6.2 ghostscript-5.10-6 (I know it's old, but the latest Redhat version I had installed didn't work for my Epson printer ...) IF I enter a $gs mozilla.ps I see the the page numbers (1 of 4, 2 of 4 etc) on the resulting view

Re: PGP

2002-10-27 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Oct 27, 2002, 13:00 (+0100) Tobias wrote: Does anyone knows where I can dl the US ver. of PGP? I tried to download it from their site but they said that my computer wasnt located in the US.*sigh* I don't think http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp-form.html (if this is the page you were talking

Scanning unlimited ...?

2002-10-27 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
I'm used to all this scanning activity ... but it seems to have massively increased the last time: if I connect now to the Internet I can bet that in about the next 60 seconds /var/log/messages is showing the first scanner attempts ... by far the overwhelming part of these scanning activities (or

Re: Scanning unlimited ...? [Addendum]

2002-10-27 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Oct 27, 2002, 20:19 (+0100) Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: that most of these activities is harmless ... but when they explain here: http://www.dshield.org/ports/port137.html that Windows has the habit of probing port 137 I can't relate this to the scanning activities against my machine

Re: Scanning unlimited ...? [Addendum]

2002-10-27 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Oct 27, 2002, 20:47 (+0100) Ernest E Vogelsinger wrote: At 20:41 27.10.2002, Wolfgang Pfeiffer said: [snip] On Oct 27, 2002, 20:19 (+0100) Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: [ ... ] to the scanning activities against my machine, because the WWW. pages I

Re: Scanning unlimited ...?

2002-10-27 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Oct 27, 2002, 11:47 (-0800) Rob Saul wrote: On Sunday, October 27, 2002, at 11:19 AM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: So what is this Windows probing port 137 thing .. does this mean every Windows home user machine on WWW probes other machines it thinks are part of its LAN or so? Well

Super ino_usage is 1, memory leak

2002-10-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi Running Redhat 6.2 I get the message from the subject-line from time to time in midnight-commander (mc-4.5.42-10) as an error-message from mc when watching files there. And from what I understand when asking google, it seems to be a problem within mc. My RAM seems to be OK (I checked it with

Re[2]: compilatiion help: ./configure --enable-FEATURE

2002-10-12 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi Brian On Oct 11, 2002, 16:27 (-0400) Brian Ashe wrote: You can find what you want to know here... http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook/autobook_85.html ... still being reading, but this seems to be an extremely good start ... :) Thanks! Regards Wolfgang Have fun, -- Key

Broken hwclock? [was Re: Loosing Time]

2002-10-11 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Oct 11, 2002, 11:45 (+1000) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One problem with RH7.3 is that one needs to remove the command 'hwclock --systohc' from /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt otherwise it gets really confused. ... I'd be *extremely* careful with the hwclock version as shipped with the Redhat

Re: compilatiion help: ./configure --enable-FEATURE

2002-10-11 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hello Hal Thanks for your help, and my apologies, for I could answer only today On Oct 9, 2002, 20:27 (-0400) Hal Burgiss wrote: On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:47:34PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Oct 9, 2002, 22:28 (+0200) Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: ./configure --help to get

compilatiion help: ./configure --enable-FEATURE

2002-10-09 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi To compile the latest gnupg package I run ./configure --help to get a list of options, and I see there, amongst others: --enable-FEATURE[=ARG] include FEATURE [ARG=yes] but there's no explanation for the actually available features, so my question: Where do I find a complete list of these

Re: compilatiion help: ./configure --enable-FEATURE

2002-10-09 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Oct 9, 2002, 22:28 (+0200) Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: ./configure --help to get a list of options, and I see there, amongst others: --enable-FEATURE[=ARG] include FEATURE [ARG=yes] but there's no explanation for the actually available features, ... better: I didn't *find* an explanation

Printer software Epson 640/Redh. 6.2

2002-09-01 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Has anyone managed to print with an Epson Stylus 640 on a Redhat 6.2? (Kernel: 2.2.19-6.2.16) If yes: Which software/drivers (if possible: RPM's ...) did it? I have tried printtool/ (rhs-)printfilters and ... and .. : nothing of it has worked so far ... TIA Best Regards Wolfgang -- Key

Re: Printer software Epson 640/Redh. 6.2 [Bad Solution?]

2002-09-01 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sep 1, 2002, 15:41 (+0200) Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Has anyone managed to print with an Epson Stylus 640 on a Redhat 6.2? (Kernel: 2.2.19-6.2.16) If yes: Which software/drivers (if possible: RPM's ...) did it? I have tried printtool/ (rhs-)printfilters and ... and .. : nothing

Re: Power Saving

2002-09-01 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sep 1, 2002, 10:57 (-0500) Jim Hale wrote: Where can I go in to check what the Power Saving features are? My monitor keeps wanting to cut out (it's not a bad monitor). I've already checked the BIOS of the PC and everything there is turned off. I can only tell how it works here, for X: I

Re: Printer software Epson 640/Redh. 6.2 [Bad Solution?]

2002-09-01 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sep 1, 2002, 17:27 (-0600) Aly Dharshi wrote: Problem is: the previous, here, as it seems, non-working ghostscript-6.51-16.1.6x.1.i386.rpm was a RedHat security bugfix: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-083.html So I can't be sure, whether I have the problem (again?) on my

Re: Printer software Epson 640/Redh. 6.2 [Bad Solution?]

2002-09-01 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sep 1, 2002, 15:41 (+0200) Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: (Bad?) Solution: I installed old ghostscript packages ('Alladin') from ^^^ ... no, wrong: it must read Aladdin .. actually a very wordly product :) My apologies, Aladdin Enterprises

Re: Printer software Epson 640/Redh. 6.2 [Bad Solution?]

2002-09-01 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sep 2, 2002, 02:26 (+0200) Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: (Bad?) Solution: I installed old ghostscript packages ('Alladin') from ^^^ ... no, wrong: it must read Aladdin .. actually a very wordly

Re: Email question

2002-08-27 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
This is *not* an answer only to the people quoted here, but also to all posters in this thread, and to the rest of the world :) ... On Aug 25, 2002, 21:38 (-0700) Gordon Messmer wrote: On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 20:33, Ed Wilts wrote: You can believe the people who run their own e-mail at home

[Solution?] Re: sudo adsl-start only after root did adsl-start

2002-08-14 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Aug 9, 2002, 17:43 (+0200) Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Hi all Redhat 6.2, rp-pppoe-3.5-1, sudo-1.6.5p2-1.6x.1, single-user machine here ... After booting the machine I try to start an adsl-connection as a non-root by entering a sudo adsl-start And it does not work: Excerpt from /var

Re: [Solution?] Re: sudo adsl-start only after root did adsl-start

2002-08-14 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Aug 14, 2002, 23:45 (+0200) Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On Aug 9, 2002, 17:43 (+0200) Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: ( .. and sorry about not putting my answer into the thread I started: it seems I deleted my own posting as it appeared on this list; [ ... ] ^^ ...as I had

sudo adsl-start only after root did adsl-start

2002-08-09 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi all Redhat 6.2, rp-pppoe-3.5-1, sudo-1.6.5p2-1.6x.1, single-user machine here ... After booting the machine I try to start an adsl-connection as a non-root by entering a sudo adsl-start And it does not work: Excerpt from /var/log/messages regarding this connection-attempt:

Error??: on Redhat 6.2: rpm --rebuild bind-9.2.1-0.7x.src.rpm

2002-07-10 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi all, On a Redhat 6.2 I --rebuilt a bind-9.2.1-0.7x.src.rpm: so far everything went well: rpm --rebuild bind-9.2.1-0.7x.src.rpm I have now this: ls /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/bind* /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/bind-9.2.1-0.7x.i386.rpm /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/bind-utils-9.2.1-0.7x.i386.rpm

RE: extracting files from an ISO image

2002-06-29 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Jun 29, 2002, 14:09 (-0500) Kevin Krieser wrote: You didn't mention what OS you are currently using. With Linux, mount -o loop iso image /mnt/mount point. But if you are wanting to install from them, you can put the 3 ISO images on a FAT or ext2 filesystem, and boot from floppy. This

Sendmail: It seems: EMail from local IP is refused

2002-06-23 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi all I have sendmail-8.11.6-1.6.y on a Redhat 6.2 on a single user machine, no LAN here. I want to send my mail from my machine, without the interference from my ISP's mail servers. Problem the last time is, that the addressees' mail servers often seemingly do not recognize and/or accept my

Re: Sendmail: It seems: EMail from local IP is refused

2002-06-23 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hal, Kevin, first: Thanks for your help ... I think I came now nearer to what I want with my sendmail configs .. On Jun 23, 2002, 13:19 (-0400) Kevin MacNeil wrote: It looks like the the receiving mta is doing a dns lookup on localhost.localdomain, which isn't a legal hostname. There are a

Re: Sendmail: It seems: EMail from local IP is refused

2002-06-23 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Jun 24, 2002, 00:15 (+0200) Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Hal, Kevin, first: Thanks for your help ... I think I came now nearer to what I want with my sendmail configs .. On Jun 23, 2002, 13:19 (-0400) Kevin MacNeil wrote: [ ... ] Thanks again, Hal and Kevin: answers like yours time

Re: Cron

2002-06-22 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Jun 21, 2002, 19:02 (-0500) ABrady wrote: On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 18:13:36 -0500 Jesse Angell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cron always outputs to my clients by emailing them. this annoys them as it makes no since to them. How do I disable the emailing cron does? You can change /etc/crontab

Re: libgr-progs files

2002-06-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Jun 17, 2002, 11:13 (+0100) Mike Martin wrote: --- Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all Which package in Redhat 7.X has the following files that once in Redhat 6.2 were part of libgr-progs (or does someone know, whether there's a replacement for the files in Redhat

libgr-progs files

2002-06-16 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi all Which package in Redhat 7.X has the following files that once in Redhat 6.2 were part of libgr-progs (or does someone know, whether there's a replacement for the files in Redhat 7.x) ?: /usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/bmp-to-pnm.fpi /usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/gif-to-pnm.fpi

Re: Privoxy, https, Mozilla [SOLVED!! .. :) ..]

2002-06-14 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Jun 13, 2002, 21:24 (-0400) Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: https://www.fortify.net/sslcheck.html I just installed privoxy-2.9.14-1.6x -- https result: lousy ... :) It seems to be exactly the same https situation here as it was before when

Re: flash for mozilla

2002-06-13 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Jun 13, 2002, 09:19 (+0200) Thomas Ribbrock wrote: On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 04:02:31PM +0100, Mike Martin wrote: three line install of java download and install java plugin from sun/ibm/blackdown symlink plugin from jre blah blah/plugin/ to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins start mozilla once

Privoxy, https, Mozilla

2002-06-13 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi, Does someone know whether Privoxy (or ex-Junkbuster(?) can manage a https connection when connected to one of the latest Mozilla releases? The same does not work with the old Junkbuster, that I have here, so before upgrading to privoxy I'd like to know whether it's all worth the pain ... :)

Re: Privoxy, https, Mozilla

2002-06-13 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Thanks for your answer, Hal, On Jun 13, 2002, 17:41 (-0400) Hal Burgiss wrote: On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 10:10:40PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Hi, Does someone know whether Privoxy (or ex-Junkbuster(?) can manage a https connection when connected to one of the latest Mozilla

Re: Privoxy, https, Mozilla

2002-06-13 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Jun 13, 2002, 19:37 (-0500) ABrady wrote: On the other hand with Netsc. Communicator 4.77 I had no problems to see the https page above, no matter whether I connected Netscape to privoxy or not. Err..if it works fine with netscape and junkbuster/prixoy, how can it be the fault

Re: flash for mozilla

2002-06-12 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Jun 12, 2002, 16:02 (+0100) Mike Martin wrote: http://cyberfuddle.com/infinitebabble/ three line install of java download and install java plugin from sun/ibm/blackdown symlink plugin from jre blah blah/plugin/ to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins start mozilla once as root, when it loads close

Re: flash for mozilla

2002-06-12 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Jun 13, 2002, 01:46 (+0200) Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: not being sure if you mean the same as I do: but, as I said,i have here *only* links in my /mozilla/plugins folder, even for Java, except ^ ... Sorry, I wanted to say: even

Re: flash for mozilla

2002-06-11 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi Hidong, On Jun 7, 2002, 22:34 (-0700) Hidong Kim wrote: Hi, How do you install the Flash plug-in for mozilla rc3? ... Sorry to be a bit late with that info: but mozilla-1.0 is ready since some days ... source i took IIRC: mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.0.tar.gz (as I said some days ago:

Re: flash for mozilla

2002-06-11 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Jun 11, 2002, 13:21 (-0400) jwallen@[XXX] wrote: does this same technique work for java? i've yet to get java working in Mozilla/Galeon I don' know ... but why not trying it? ... Regards Wolfgang On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: [ :)] -- New Key on: http

Re: flash for mozilla

2002-06-11 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Jun 11, 2002, 19:07 (+0200) Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Hi Hidong, On Jun 7, 2002, 22:34 (-0700) Hidong Kim wrote: Hi, How do you install the Flash plug-in for mozilla rc3? ... Sorry to be a bit late with that info: but mozilla-1.0 is ready since some days ... source i took IIRC

pam_xauth[1816]: do_file: could not create dir ...

2002-06-06 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi all, First: My apologies, if the following is off topic in a way .. I'm running Redhat 6.2 here. My basic question is whether I was hacked or not. I think that not, but I'd like to be sure .. The details: There was a process running on my machine where I do not know exactly whether it was

Re: How to stop cron from sending e-mails after a job is done?

2002-06-06 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Jun 6, 2002, 13:37 (-0700) Rob Saul wrote: On Thursday 06 June 2002 01:29, you wrote: I got one cron job that is done every 15 minutes, so every 15 minutes I get e-mails. How can I stop cron from doing that? I think cron just emails you the output, if there is any. If the job

Re: mozilla rc3 installation

2002-06-06 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Jun 5, 2002, 20:23 (+0200) Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On May 27, 2002, 21:18 (-0700) Hidong Kim wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install mozilla 1.0 rc3. I untarred the gzip'ed archive. When I did ./configure, I got this error: I either didn't succeed in installing a new mozilla-1.0rc3-0

Re: mozilla rc3 installation

2002-06-05 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hidong sorry for this rather late answer ... As David was already writing in this thread (if I understood him correctly :) you don't need an rpm for Mozilla to install it. On May 27, 2002, 21:18 (-0700) Hidong Kim wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install mozilla 1.0 rc3. I untarred the gzip'ed

lastcomm does not work here

2002-05-20 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, does anybody know how to start lastcomm, or better, how to start /var/log/pacct getting filed with logs? Every time I check /var/log/pacct it has zero bytes , absolutely empty ... Or is there a config file for lastcomm that I don't know of

Finding date a command was executed

2002-05-15 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Is it possible to find out the exact date a specific command was executed on the machine? Scanning man bash or groups.googling didn't help. Thanks a lot in anticipation :) Regards Wolfgang - -- GnuPG Key:

Re: Finding date a command was executed

2002-05-15 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
+0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer escreveu: Hi, Is it possible to find out the exact date a specific command was executed on the machine? [ ... ] - -- GnuPG Key: http://home.t-online.de/home/520050060325-0001/key.asc Key fingerprint = 6DD7 F9BF 689B 60D4 B20E 9087 7409 6EAF DD0A 8B01 http

Re: Finding date a command was executed

2002-05-15 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On May 15, 2002, 13:33 (-0400) Keith Winston wrote: 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

Re: ls --color=tty

2002-05-15 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On May 15, 2002, 12:37 (-0500) Henning, Brian wrote: Hello- Is this what generates color on the terminal screen 'ls --color=tty'? how does it work exactly? how do i turn it on or off? I put this line in my .bashrc: alias ls='ls --color=auto'

Re: ls --color=tty #2

2002-05-15 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On May 15, 2002, 21:24 (+0200) Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: On May 15, 2002, 12:37 (-0500) Henning, Brian wrote: Hello- Is this what generates color on the terminal screen 'ls --color=tty'? how does it work exactly? how do i turn it on or off? I put this line in my .bashrc: alias ls='ls

New GnuPG 1.0.7 out :)

2002-05-11 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
:) Wolfgang Pfeiffer - -- GnuPG Key: http://home.t-online.de/home/520050060325-0001/key.asc http://www.geocities.com/wolfgangpfeiffer/ -- END TRANSMISSION -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE83ZA9dAlur90KiwERAlGpAKDELQ0Lmxy0B/BR2w7

Re: RE : window manager choice ???

2002-04-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Apr 17, 2002, 09:12 (-0500) Fred Dech wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 05:17:50PM -0700, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: --- Fred Dech wrote: http://www.fvwm.org/ read FAQ and README's in spare time i guess they don't come as RPMs, so you'd want to do a tar-ball

Re: [Addendum:] Meaning of /dev/null 21

2002-04-15 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi Michael --- Michael H. Warfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 05:03:38PM -0700, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Hi Michael, Thanks a lot for your help. Two constructs: /dev/null 21 21 /dev/null [ ... ] I understand now: the result of both constructs

Meaning of /dev/null 21

2002-04-14 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi all, I have in my crontab several chained commands similiar to this: 3 18 * * * mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc3 /mnt/linuxbackup/ tar - cvpPf /mnt/linuxbackup/linuxbackup.tar /home/user/some_directory/ /dev/null 21 umount /mnt/linuxbackup/ DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/ X11R6/bin/xmessage Gratulation!!

Re: Meaning of /dev/null 21

2002-04-14 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
--- Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3 18 * * * mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc3 /mnt/linuxbackup/ tar - cvpPf /mnt/linuxbackup/linuxbackup.tar /home/user/some_directory/ /dev/null 21 umount /mnt/linuxbackup/ DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/ X11R6/bin/xmessage Gratulation!! Daily backup succeeded

Re: Meaning of /dev/null 21

2002-04-14 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi, and thanks for your fast responses :) --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: But could someone explain in human understandable words, what this part exactly means? It redirects both stdout (standard out) and stderr (standard error) to the file

Re: Meaning of /dev/null 21

2002-04-14 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi Michael, Thanks a lot for your help. Two constructs: /dev/null 21 21 /dev/null I'm not sure whether I understood you: /dev/null 21: #2 in this construct will be written to the same place that 1 is written to: /dev/null 21 /dev/null: the result of the construct seems to be the same

Re: Wolfgang Pfeiffer made his day, but only because David Talkinton started the thread !(was: Mozilla made my day!)

2002-03-29 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi David, hi all ... David Talkington wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Well, there doesn't seem to be a hotkey combination for moving between tabs, but that's my only gripe with it so far. ... no : try this: Ctrl-PageUp/Down http

Re: Wolfgang Pfeiffer made his day, but only because David Talkinton started the thread !(was: Mozilla made my day!)

2002-03-29 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
--- Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: And to make the URL-line ready for writing a new address to it: Ctrl-Tab Esc ... faster: ctrl-L thanks to http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ui/accessibility/mozkeylist.html (tho being not so sure why they put a [bug 19446] next to this feature (?)... Happy

Re: Wolfgang Pfeiffer made his day, but only because David Talkinton started the thread !(was: Mozilla made my day!)

2002-03-29 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
--- Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Happy Passah, or Easter, or whatever holiday gives us an ^^ ... Sorry for this mistake: I wanted to write 'Passover'. Regards Wolfgang __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - send holiday

Re: Mozilla made my day!

2002-03-28 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mar 26, 2002, 16:24 (-0800) David Talkington wrote: Cameron Simpson wrote: On 15:51 26 Mar 2002, David Talkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | They've added a stacked-tab option for window displays in 0.9.9! Well, there doesn't seem to be a hotkey combination for moving between tabs,

Re: How do I make a rescue diskette?

2002-03-21 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
--- Kjetil Tjensvold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Lewi. You've right. The images were on disk1.I gave the wrong path to it on my win partision where I've stored the disk. ... not being sure whether you solved your problem or not: 1) get 'root.bin' and 'rescue.bin' for debian: you'll find

Re: how to uninstall .src.rpm ?

2002-02-16 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Feb 15, 2002, 17:36 (+0100) Dumas Patrice wrote: Hi, I would like to uninstall some .src.rpm I have installed on my system. I may go into the BUILD, SPEC, SOURCE. directory and delete the directories/files by hand, but is there a more automated way of doing that ?

Re: how to uninstall .src.rpm ?

2002-02-16 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
--- Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] http://www.prairienet.org/library/redhat/redhat-list/2000/12/msg00861.php you'll find there a little script written by Harry Putnam [ ... ] ... Sorry: I don't know whether he wrote it; but he posted it here some time ago, (and saved me

Re: Console font size...

2002-02-09 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
--- Henrik Schmiediche wrote: Hello, thanks for the encouragement. ... welcome :) I am continuing to play and have found the lat0* fonts seem to work. I wish there was some docs somewhere on what the difference lat0, lat1, etc. fonts are. ... man consolechars, or googling

Re: Console font size...

2002-02-08 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
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Re: Console font size...

2002-02-08 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
on your 7.2, too ... I haven't had the time to search and find a way to set the fonts permanently ... Regards Wolfgang [ ... ] = -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer http://www.geocities.com/wolfgangpfeiffer __ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE

Re: Console font size...

2002-02-08 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
/localization_x1000_x2000_x4000.htm or there: http://www.hp.com/workstations/support/documentation/technotes/linux/localization.html Sorry Wolfgang Regards Wolfgang = -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer http://www.geocities.com/wolfgangpfeiffer __ Do You Yahoo!? Send

Re: Long Delay after Posting to this List

2002-02-06 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
--- Badger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to take at least 24-hours for my posts to show up on this list, but usually 2 to 3 days...is everyone else experiencing the same delays? ... I had these problems with this list when I sent my postings via smtp-relay, i.e. I sent my mails via my

Re: archives (was: How to get mysql running from rpms?)

2002-02-06 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
--- David Talkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that this has to be a common question, but I tried to search the archives and found the search function to basically be broken. Are you talking about

Re: Changing from Red Hat to another distro: recommendations?

2002-01-29 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Jan 21, 2002, 10:35 (-0800) someone wrote: this smacks of typical a) microsoft remarks b) nazi's ... if you are serious with this remark: I find it insulting: insulting first to the Nazi-victims themselves and secondly to Trond E. Glomsrød: although I absolutely do not agree with

Re: upgrading pine. Failed dependencies problem. What library do Ineed?

2002-01-28 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi Mark - I'd go to http://www.rpmfind.net/ and search for the missing packages ... (typing in, for example, libcrypto.so.0 and then let the machine search for a matching rpm ...) Hoping it helps. Regards Wolfgang On Jan 16, 2002, 16:16 (-0500) Mark Neidorff wrote: Hi All, I saw on the

Re: rpm ... --redhatprovides error [BINGO!! -- Thanks .. :)]

2002-01-28 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Jan 20, 2002, 11:21 (-0500) Devon wrote: [ ...multisnipped .. ] Excellent, I'm glad it worked. I'd still be interested to know if rebuilding the redhat provided database would have worked. I may just pull out an old retired machine and try it. ;) Actually I did a 'rpm --rebuilddb' and

Re: Mailing lists for new born newbies

2002-01-28 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi Ken On Jan 8, 2002, 23:12 (+1100) Ken M Sexton wrote: Hi, Is there a mailing list for the very extremely inexperienced Linux users. ... I'm still new to Linux, and one important reason that I'm still using the Redhat version of Linux instead of moving away to Debian or so is this great

Re: Is RedHat droping the free subscriptors?

2002-01-27 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
1. Redhat Inc. is a company living on the cash they make, i.e. without the profits Redhat probably will not survive. This is capitalism, which means (more or less): no money, no living. We're living in a world where thousands of children are dying daily from hunger, all this in a situation,

Re: Is RedHat droping the free subscriptors?

2002-01-27 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
--- Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] 2. Free Linux does not mean the same as free bear: ummm, except the fact that I hope bears know I'm *not* free ... :) Sorry for the typo. Wolfgang one has the right to make money with Linux IIRC

Re: AOL (not) in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat

2002-01-24 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
[ ... ] http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=technologynewsStoryID=536030 I'd prefer stories like this one: WE ARE BORG. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED. But we're not home right now. So leave a message at the tone and we'll assimilate you later.

Re: rpm ... --redhatprovides error [BINGO!! -- Thanks .. :)]

2002-01-20 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
read about folks who ruined their rpm system with some wrong key-strokes ... just to let you know how important your help was for me. Best wishes :) Wolfgang [ ... ] = -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer http://www.geocities.com/wolfgangpfeiffer __ Do

Re: rpm ... --redhatprovides error [BINGO!! -- Thanks .. :)]

2002-01-20 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Jan 20, 2002, 11:21 (-0500) Devon wrote: [ ...multisnipped .. ] Excellent, I'm glad it worked. I'd still be interested to know if rebuilding the redhat provided database would have worked. I may just pull out an old retired machine and try it. ;) Actually I did a 'rpm --rebuilddb' and

Re: reoccuring system email

2002-01-20 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
--- John Weez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] This text is part of the internal format of your mail folder, and is not a real message. It is created automatically by the mail system software. If deleted, important folder data will be lost, and it will be re-created with the data reset

rpm ... --redhatprovides error

2002-01-19 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi, When I run the following command (whether as root or a normal user): $ rpm -q -vv --redhatprovides libcrypto.so.0 I get the answer: D: opening db index /usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux/redhat/Packages rdonly mode=0x0 D: closed db index

Re: AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat

2002-01-19 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
I'm not very surprised to see this happen ... look at www.redhat.com: If I see this page I still see the wxord Linux on it, but my impression (since many months IIRC) is that this page is related to all possible sort of things *except* Linux ... Look at this Redhat trademark protecting stuff

Re: Anyone actually using Amanda?

2002-01-19 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
--- Mike Burger wrote: Has anyone installed and actually made use of the Red Hat provided amanda RPMs? .. just guessing: amrestore being the executable? Regards Wolfgang I've tried installing them, but can't seem to find the actual amanda executable. Even find / -name amanda can't

Re: AOL in Negotiations to Buy Red Hat

2002-01-19 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
--- David Talkington wrote: [ ... ] 3. The term selling out is insulting. Red Hat helped put high-quality open source on the radar screen for consumers, as well as corporate America. That's good for all of us. They have every right to make a killing on it and then move on to do other

Re: Anyone actually using Amanda?

2002-01-19 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
--- Wolfgang Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Mike Burger wrote: Has anyone installed and actually made use of the Red Hat provided amanda RPMs? ... No, sorry, I didn't ... .. just guessing: amrestore being the executable? .. I simply downloaded an amanda-rpm and looked

Re: rpm ... --redhatprovides error

2002-01-19 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Thanks for your answer, Nitebirdz. --- Jesus Ortega (a.k.a. Nitebirdz) wrote: On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Hi, When I run the following command (whether as root or a normal user): $ rpm -q -vv --redhatprovides libcrypto.so.0 I get the answer: D: opening db

Re: rpm ... --redhatprovides error

2002-01-19 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
--- Devon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 19 January 2002 10:47 am, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: Hi, When I run the following command (whether as root or a normal user): $ rpm -q -vv --redhatprovides libcrypto.so.0 I get the answer

Re: rpm ... --redhatprovides error

2002-01-19 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Devon, --- Devon wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 19 January 2002 06:43 pm, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: I get the answer: D: opening db index /usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux/redhat/Packages rdonly mode=0x0 D: closed db index /usr/lib

Messages to this list disappear

2002-01-17 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi, I'm subscribed with 2 addresses to this list: one of them is my Yahoo adddress, the other one is the one I have from my ISP. Delivery to my Yahoo-address is disabled. I receive the Redhat messages to the address I have from my ISP. My messages to this list disappear - I sent them using the

Re: euro symbol

2002-01-10 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Jan 8, 2002, 10:32 (+0100) Angel L. Mateo wrote: Hello, I have redhat 7.2 with latest ximian gnome. I want to configure my computer to be able to write and display the euro symbol. Does anybody know how to do it? Any document I have to read to do it?

Re: euro symbol

2002-01-10 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Jan 8, 2002, 10:32 (+0100) Angel L. Mateo wrote: Hello, I have redhat 7.2 with latest ximian gnome. I want to configure my computer to be able to write and display the euro symbol. Does anybody know how to do it? Any document I have to read to do it? Second try to post this :) ...

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