Re: Linux Newbie - what's the point of newsgroups?

2003-02-03 Thread j_post
On Monday 03 February 2003 04:11 pm, you wrote: Ok, I see this shit all the time, go search Google go do this go do that At least some help was given, wasn't it Vic? The worst possible insult one can give to another is to ignore him. Perhaps we should be ignoring you... J --

Re: Windows to Linux

2003-01-31 Thread j_post
On Friday 31 January 2003 08:56 am, you wrote: I highly recommend this book (vendor neutral): LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell by Jeffrey Dean, Jeffery Dean Take a couple of weeks and read it very slowly. This will give you good, strong, and necessary skills to run Linux in a

Re: Help a newbie to install Sun Java IDE... please!

2003-01-29 Thread j_post
On Wednesday 29 January 2003 01:25 am, you wrote: Thanks for your help j.post that did it. ;-) When I asked this at a forum I got told to put that line in .bash_profile, should I remove the line from there (because it didn't work)? Yes, but it won't hurt anything to leave the line in

Re: Help a newbie to install Sun Java IDE... please!

2003-01-28 Thread j_post
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 12:53 pm, you wrote: I am trying to install Sun ONE Studio (Java IDE) but first I have to install Java SDK. I have installed it but when I try and run the installer for Sun ONE I get an error it says java not found, if I do java -version I get an error with words

Re: KDE: screensaver does not come up, only blank screen

2003-01-22 Thread j_post
On Wednesday 22 January 2003 01:13 pm, you wrote: Hi, I once read a tip from Redhat: You can fix this by creating the following directories under $HOME/.kde/share/applnk-redhat: System/ScreenSavers Then copy/link all files from /usr/share/apps/kscreensaver/ScreenSavers You may also have to

Thinkpad 600E sound?

2003-01-20 Thread j_post
I just installed RH8.0 on a friend's IBM Thinkpad 600E, and can't get the sound to work. The sound card detector gives this info: Vendor: Cirrus Logic Model: CS4610 SoundFusion Audio Accelerator Module: Unknown Clicking on the play sound icon gives a roaring silence. Anyone know how to get

Thinkpad 600E sound?

2003-01-20 Thread j_post
I just installed RH8.0 on a friend's IBM Thinkpad 600E, and can't get the sound to work. The sound card detector gives this info: Vendor: Cirrus Logic Model: CS4610 SoundFusion Audio Accelerator Module: Unknown Clicking on the play sound icon gives a roaring silence. Anyone know how to get

Re: upgrade tips

2003-01-20 Thread j_post
On Monday 20 January 2003 09:41 am, Hidong wrote: I have a machine that's been running Red Hat for about four years straight now, since 5.1. It's been upgraded using genuine Red Hat packaged CDs up to 8.0 now. Unfortunately, the last upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0 went pretty bad. Somehow, it did

Re: Scanner Software

2003-01-18 Thread j_post
On Saturday 18 January 2003 05:46 pm, you wrote: Is there any scanner software for RH8. I see that my system sees my scanner so maybe there is a chance I can install something to get that to work. Maybe RH8 already has something in place??? Do a Google search on the net for xsane. --

Re: Microsoft Shows Its Parts

2003-01-16 Thread j_post
On Thursday 16 January 2003 06:39 am, you wrote: Microsoft http://quote.fool.com/uberdata.asp?symbols=MSFT(Nasdaq: MSFT) http://quote.fool.com/uberdata.asp?symbols=MSFT is going open source, at least for governments that want to inspect its Windows operating system. Through an initiative

Re: hardware recommendation.

2003-01-16 Thread j_post
On Thursday 16 January 2003 06:53 pm, you wrote: boggles the mind.I remember when $10/MB seemed a good deal. My first pc had a whopping 10MB MFM drive and a whole MB of memory! I thought I was in heaven, but what was I going to do with all that drive space? My first hard drive (pre-IBM pc)

Re: RPM dependency hell

2003-01-15 Thread j_post
On Wednesday 15 January 2003 05:36 am, Johnathan Bailes wrote: The previous post from a previous person mentioned getting the correct rpm for your platform. However, find the right rpms and you will have a very nice package management tool. I'm still trying to find the correct rpm for

Re: RPM dependency hell

2003-01-14 Thread j_post
On Monday 13 January 2003 11:11 pm, you wrote: Unless I am mis-understanding what you are trying to do, the option you want is --nodeps, not --force. This installs the RPM package without checking dependencies. Yeah, I tried --nodeps with CUPS and my printer stopped working. Had to rpm -e

Re: RPM dependency hell

2003-01-14 Thread j_post
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 04:13 am, you wrote: If you don't want to care about dependencies between each rpms, it is better for you to upgrade to RHL8.0 ,and using 'package manager' in gnome. Ack, no. I have two machines running RH7.2 and upgraded the non-critical machine to RH8.0--it broke

Re: RPM dependency hell

2003-01-14 Thread j_post
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 11:45 am, Jonathan Bailes wrote: Ok, Solution for most dependency hell issues. Everyone listen up. It is called apt and it has a nice gui frontend called synaptic. Uh-huh. Wanna take a wild guess as to what happens when I try to install the rpm's for either apt or

Re: Finding/tracking memory leaks?

2003-01-14 Thread j_post
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 03:42 pm, you wrote: Hi all - I had a query from a collegue as to how to find/track memory leaks. Other than top, what is a good tool to track memory usage? Memory usage or memory leaks? If the latter, look at Memory Supervision System:

Re: RPM dependency hell

2003-01-14 Thread j_post
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 04:17 pm, Emmanuel wrote: The only dependency for apt is on gnupg. If you cannot handle that, I would suggest you go back to using Windows. Oops. My bad. apt did install--it's synaptic that has a problem: error: failed dependencies: WindowMaker-libs is

Re: Uninstalling Non-rpm Things

2003-01-14 Thread j_post
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 02:15 pm, you wrote: Guys - Here's my dumb question for the day. If I install a program by using make and make install, is there a simple way to uninstall? I've installed a later version of a program and need to install the earlier version instead. Thanks for any

Re: RPM dependency hell

2003-01-14 Thread j_post
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 03:56 pm, you wrote: Uh-huh. Wanna take a wild guess as to what happens when I try to install the rpm's for either apt or synaptic? Get the ones that were compiled for your platform. RPM's API keeps changing, and so does the library's soname. Know where I can

Re: RPM dependency hell

2003-01-14 Thread j_post
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 06:10 pm, you wrote: $ rpm -q --redhatprovides WindowMaker-libs WindowMaker-libs-0.80.1-1 $ rpm -q --redhatprovides librpm-4.0.4.so librpm404-4.0.4-8x.27 $ whichcd -v 8.0 librpm windowmaker-libs Thanks Michael. whichcd must be something new--I don't have it in

Re: RPM dependency hell

2003-01-14 Thread j_post
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 08:38 pm, you wrote: I think you will find you DO have libc.so.6. It is rather fundamental. It is a symbolic link provided the glibc package. Yep. It's a link in /lib to /lib/libc-2.2.4.so. So why does rpm gripe that it can't find it? And is this what it should link

Re: RPM dependency hell

2003-01-14 Thread j_post
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 08:56 pm, Michael Fratoni wrote: whichcd is not part of the distribution, it's available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/whichcd/ To comply with truth in advertising rules It also happens to be my package. ;) Excellent. Thanks very much. jp --

Re: RPM dependency hell

2003-01-14 Thread j_post
On Tuesday 14 January 2003 08:56 pm, Michael wrote: If you're having a dependency problem with libc.so.6, then installing a new package is the least of your problems On an up2date 7.2 machine, I get: # rpm -qf /lib/libc.so.6 glibc-2.2.4-31 I get: glibc-2.2.4-13 Somehow I don't think

RPM dependency hell

2003-01-13 Thread j_post
I'm getting really tired of Red Hat's RPM nonsense. I can't upgrade *anything* because rpm complains about dependencies. I can understand that a new version of program 'xyz' may need library 'libabc-2.3.so', but rpm refuses to upgrade because program 'abc-1.2' depends on 'libabc-1.2.so' and

Re: RPM dependency hell

2003-01-13 Thread j_post
On Monday 13 January 2003 09:00 pm, you wrote: A major revision of a libray might involve revisions to the API (such as changes to function parameters, or contents of data structures) and so anything built with libabc-1 might crash with libabc-2. You often need to install both. Understood.

Re: Help boot got screwed

2003-01-12 Thread j_post
On Sunday 12 January 2003 09:39 am, you wrote: Yes, I have checked my grub.conf and see both OS entries there. The problem there is that when I select the WinXP entry at boot, instead of booting XP it simply shows the Grub screen again. I suspect this is because Grub is in your MBR and wXP

Re: Passing args

2003-01-10 Thread j_post
On Friday 10 January 2003 05:37 pm, you wrote: The answer to this is probably so easy ... I want to be in a terminal and type ed filename and have the editor open and start editing filename in the background. Easy, put an alias in /etc/profile alias ed=gedit $1 --- this one alias

Re: Need to print 12cpi to Epson LQ570 Printer

2003-01-06 Thread j_post
On Monday 06 January 2003 08:58 am, you wrote: We have an Epson LQ570 printer attached to an HP JetDirect print server, that we print to from a RH7.3 server. It was setup with printconf-gui and works fine, EXCEPT, our reports are designed for 12cpi and the printer prints 10cpi by default.

Re: how to install KDE or Gnome?

2003-01-06 Thread j_post
On Monday 06 January 2003 10:36 pm, you wrote: Hi, I have just successfully installed the linux RH7.3 and the option did not ask for installation of the KDE. So I would need help to install that manually, please help. With RH7.2: On the login screen, click on Session, then click on KDE.

Re: modem not detected

2003-01-05 Thread j_post
On Sunday 05 January 2003 09:18 am, you wrote: Hi list I can't connect to internet because my only modem is an Intel HaM Data Fax Voice MD5628D-L-A V.90 cart, that is not detected by Linux. They call it windows modem I guess. So, I want discart this modem and change for another one. Please

Re: Dumb JAVA question

2003-01-04 Thread j_post
On Saturday 04 January 2003 11:51 am, you wrote: OK, after the long thread on JAVA, I finally went out and grabbed it. I think. So what is the difference between JRE and SDK when you get to the SUN download page??? (I pulled JRE, did I get the right thing?) JRE is the runtime

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Struts Training in NYC and DC in January

2003-01-04 Thread j_post
On Saturday 04 January 2003 04:47 pm, you wrote: Increase Your Struts Productivity - Attend the BaseBeans Public Struts Training Please don't spam the mailing list. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe

Re: HOW TO : list a directory in C ?

2003-01-02 Thread j_post
On Thursday 02 January 2003 10:05 am, you wrote: Hello, I am using Linux RedHat7.2 and i would like to know how to list the content of a directory (as dir or ls) in C program? Thanks for your help. Canarich Email me and I'll send you my dirmap.c program that does a lot more than just list

Re: uncompress urh-ap1-mod_jk.so.gz

2002-12-29 Thread j_post
On Sunday 29 December 2002 11:47 am, you wrote: how to uncompress a file like rh-ap1-mod_jk.so.gz? gunzip rh-ap1-mod_jk.so.gz -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: CUPS print job status

2002-12-27 Thread j_post
On Friday 27 December 2002 12:47 am, you wrote: In short, I like to know the status of print JOB at any time ?? On my machine, I point my browser at http://localhost:631/admin -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe

Re: Permission Problem

2002-12-26 Thread j_post
On Thursday 26 December 2002 09:52 pm, you wrote: Updating /usr/sbin/postalias... mv: cannot move `/usr/local/src/postfix-2.0.0/junk' to `/usr/sbin/postalias': Permission denied make: *** [upgrade] Error 1 Either 'su' and do it as root, or (as root) chmod a+w /usr/sbin, then update as a

Re: easy installation

2002-12-20 Thread j_post
On Friday 20 December 2002 07:53 am, you wrote: and (a larger) part of the problem is web sites that are designed for IE and nothing else. Send a nasty-gram to the webmaster informing him/her that the web site is broken ;-) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL

Re: KDE screensavers don't work in 8.0

2002-12-20 Thread j_post
On Friday 20 December 2002 03:10 pm, you wrote: I once read a tip from Redhat: You can fix this by creating the following directories under $HOME/.kde/share/applnk-redhat: System/ScreenSavers Then copy/link all files from /usr/share/apps/kscreensaver/ScreenSavers You may also have to do the

Re: KDE screensavers don't work in 8.0

2002-12-19 Thread j_post
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 08:58 pm, Michael wrote: Does the screen stay on, or does it blank and not display screensavers? Here's the final result of testing: the screensaver works only when I have the basic KDE GUI displayed. If *any* other window (console, konqueror, kword, etc) is

KDE screensavers don't work in 8.0

2002-12-18 Thread j_post
I recently upgraded a RH7.2 system to 8.0 and can't get the screensavers to work. After much fiddling, I got the screensaver to kick in the *first* time the timeout period expires, but not on subsequent timeouts. Only way to get the screensaver to run again is to restart KDE and wait for the

Re: KDE screensavers don't work in 8.0

2002-12-18 Thread j_post
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 06:40 pm, you wrote: Anyone know what the problem is with 8.0 and screensavers? Yes, apply the updates for the 8.0 release. There are new KDE packages that fix this, as well as other fixes. ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/ or a convenient mirror. Yes, I

Re: KDE screensavers don't work in 8.0

2002-12-18 Thread j_post
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 07:56 pm, you wrote: Yes, I updated kdebase, kdelibs, and kdeartwork-screensavers. It did not fix anything. Is there something else I might be missing? I don't know. Have you applied all the released updates for your system? My machine is fully up to date,

Re: KDE screensavers don't work in 8.0

2002-12-18 Thread j_post
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 08:58 pm, you wrote: The screensavers work here with multiple consoles open. I don't know what that would have to do with the problem, but if that turns out to be the case, it's someplace to start. Does the screen stay on, or does it blank and not display