OpenOffice and Font Problem

2003-09-27 Thread fred pasteck
Hi, I'm using open office on RH9, and the fonts are terrible. Many fonts are missing, and others interpret characters incorrectly. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to download additional fonts (I don't even have Arial!) or configure something differently? chkfontpath reports: Current directorie

Minimizing windows

2003-08-14 Thread fred pasteck
Hi all, In my quest to figure out this new RH9, I have one other question I hoped someone could help with. I noticed that alt-tab can be used to change between windows, but where do minimized windows go? Once their minimized, how can I select them without having to alt-tab through them? They don

Re: New RH9 user

2003-08-14 Thread fred pasteck
> The version compiled for redhat 8 downloadable from > the mozilla ftp site > works for me, even with ximian installed (though I > havent checked if it > messed galeon...) It has the same problem as the RH9 from rawhide -- it spontaneously evaporates from the screen, such as what might happen if

Xterm and other questions

2003-08-14 Thread fred pasteck
Hi, I have a few other questions as a new RH9 user that I hoped someone could help me answer. - I'd like to use the standard xterm and not the 'terminal' program. However, I'd like to have white-on-black instead of black-on-white. Is there a program that can be used to configure the xterm properti

New RH9 user

2003-08-14 Thread fred pasteck
Hi all, As a new user of RH9, I have a few questions I hoped people could answer. I've previously used RH73. - Is there a stable version of Mozilla v1.4 available anywhere? rpmfind doesn't seem to have it, and the mozilla-1.4-12 from rawhide crashes too easily. - I've figured out that the bottom

Re: New RH9 user

2003-08-12 Thread fred pasteck
> I have absolutely no problem with 1.4 from Rawhide. > Have you installed > ALL of the Mozilla modules? Yes, but not the development ones. > The problem is that there are some circular > dependencies. If you are > careless with --nodeps, it's POSSIBLE to overlook > others. Nope, standard -Uv

Re: two basic questions

2003-08-10 Thread fred pasteck
> 1) what is manual command for deleting an ip address > from an physical interface? tried "ifconfig eth0 del > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" and seemed that it doesn't have any > effect. which file controls those interfaces? ifconfig eth0 down For it to be permanent, check out /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

Re: Viewing CP status

2003-03-29 Thread fred pasteck
> > rsync -avz --progress rsync://server/$1 > > > > You may need to change the rsync invocation. Yes, you will need to change the rsync invocation. My apologies. It should be something like: rsync -avz --progress -- rsync://server/ You can replace with $1 to get the filename passed on the co

Re: Viewing CP status

2003-03-29 Thread fred pasteck
it's a bit difficult to get started. Fred --- Jeff Kinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 05:47:45PM -0800, fred > pasteck wrote: > > Hi Joe, > > > > You can either read what Jeff has written, or you > can > > just run "cp -av" ins

Re: Viewing CP status

2003-03-29 Thread fred pasteck
> Interesting Fred. On my system that simply reports > when the job is > finished. echo back the name of the file being > copied from and to. You want to use rsync with --progress, then. Set up an rsync server on one side then use: rsync -avz --progress rsync://server/path/to/file on the oth

Re: Viewing CP status

2003-03-29 Thread fred pasteck
Hi Joe, You can either read what Jeff has written, or you can just run "cp -av" instead. Best, Fred --- Jeff Kinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 04:52:10PM -0700, Joe Giles > wrote: > > Is there a way to get the 'cp' command to display > some kind of status > > that the co

Using a microphone

2003-03-26 Thread fred pasteck
Hi all. Does anyone know of an application that can be used to communicate with someone across the Internet using a microphone? Instead of making a long-distance call, I'd like to talk to them over the Internet using a microphone attached to my PC. Thanks, Fred _

vmware cut-paste on RH73

2003-02-18 Thread fred pasteck
Hi. I'm using vmware-3.2 on my RH73 system with XP Pro as a guest OS. I'm having difficulty with cut and paste between XP and Linux. It works okay from Linux to XP, but not vice-versa. I believe it worked at one point, but now it simply doesn't. I'm using the kernel-2.4.18-3 version of the kernel.

RTSP proxy?

2002-10-20 Thread fred pasteck
Hi. I'd like to set up a proxy server for real audio and quicktime on our network. What can I use to do this? Is there an open source version available? Is Darwin (http://developer.apple.com/darwin/) what I want to use? Is that redistributable? The license says "Apple Public Source License" but i

dd and CDROM image

2002-05-19 Thread fred pasteck
Hi everyone. I'm trying to dd a CDROM to produce an ISO image using the following: # dd if=/dev/hdc of=cdrom.iso This works, and I can mount the resulting ISO using the loop device, but there's an I/O error at the end: # dd if=/dev/hdc of=cdrom.iso dd: reading `/dev/hdc': Input/output error 100

Web-based PIM?

2002-05-19 Thread fred pasteck
Hi everyone. Can anyone recommend a good web-based PIM application that they find useful? Are there any that integrate with an LDAP database for addressbooks? thanks. __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com

PHP Calendar program?

2002-04-26 Thread fred pasteck
Hi. Can someone recommend a PHP calendar or groupware client they are happy using? Are there any that integrate into an LDAP database? thanks. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Games - play chess, backgammon, pool and more http://games.yahoo.com/ __

PHP file uploads?

2002-03-24 Thread fred pasteck
Hi. I'm looking for a PHP application that can be used to upload HTML files to a web server directory. Can any one supply a recommendation? What is the best way to do authentication for these types of programs? thanks. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mov

Re: Determining system status?

2002-02-14 Thread fred pasteck
> Have a look at this: > > http://www.bb4.com/ > > Let me know what you think. I plan to evaluate it I've used BigBrother before, and while it worked quite well for me when I first used it some three or four years ago, netsaint is far better. http://www.netsaint.org/ I'm looking for manageme

Determining system status?

2002-02-14 Thread fred pasteck
Hi. I'm looking for an application that produces some type of HTML or text report of the overall system status. Something that might be used to present to managers on a regular basis so they can get an idea of how the system is responding. something like: - memory used/available - currently runni

Re: Calendar/scheduling tools?

2002-01-29 Thread fred pasteck
--- fred pasteck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. Can anyone recommend an HTML-based > calendar/scheduling program for Linux, perferrably > open source and perl or PHP? I hate to reply to my own message, but I should have added that I've checked freshmeat and sourceforge (

Calendar/scheduling tools?

2002-01-29 Thread fred pasteck
Hi. Can anyone recommend an HTML-based calendar/scheduling program for Linux, perferrably open source and perl or PHP? thanks. __ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com __

3C905CX-TX-NM performance?

2001-02-09 Thread fred pasteck
Hi. I'm considering buying about 10 of the 3Com 3C905CX-TX-NM boards for some servers. Are these server-quality boards? How well do they perform? They can be found for under fourty bucks, so seem to be a pretty reasonable board for the price... thanks. __

3-button wheel mouse?

2001-02-06 Thread fred pasteck
Hi. I've got one of those nifty three-button wheel mice but can't figure out how to get the wheel to work. I'm using RH7 with X11 4.0.2. Previously I used imwheel, but it's no longer included with RH7. Also, I've downloaded the freefont package because my fonts look horrible, but also can't figu

Crypto export?

2001-02-06 Thread fred pasteck
Hi. I was reading the following: http://www.mozilla.org/crypto-faq.html http://www.fas.org/irp/news/2000/01/000113-crypto-bxa.htm but I'm still confused. Is it now okay to publish crypto on my web site, as long as I notify the BXA? Is there any restrictions for binary or source differentiation?

ATAPI CDR and SCSI CDRW

2001-02-06 Thread fred pasteck
Hi. I have an ATAPI 4x2x32 CDRW used as a reader and a SCSI Plextor 12x CDRW. The drives are in a 2.2.18 box with software mirroring. The ATAPI drive is a slave, where the master is one of the disks in the array. Even when the system is completely idle, I'm unable to do direct CD-to-CD copies wit

FHS questions

2000-11-24 Thread fred pasteck
Hi. I have a few FHS questions. RH7 seems to follow FHS 2.1 to some extent, but in other aspects it doesn't seem to make sense. Where does the /usr/etc directory come from? That doesn't seem to be documented, but openssh gets installed there. Where is the proper directory for chroot'd packages?

FHS questions

2000-11-22 Thread fred pasteck
Hi. I have a few FHS questions. RH7 seems to follow FHS 2.1 to some extent, but in other aspects it doesn't seem to make sense. Where does the /usr/etc directory come from? That doesn't seem to be documented, but openssh gets installed there. Where is the proper directory for chroot'd packages?