Re: Freshmeat problems?

2000-05-20 Thread lloy0076
It's not "really" broken. A recent announcement at Freshmeat itself actually said that Freshmeat is just about to shift to a new server and slightly improved server engines. I think, from memory, the URL to test the pre-beta site is http://exodus.freshmeat.net but I may be wrong. DAVID -- To

Re: connecting to the net

2000-05-06 Thread lloy0076
Hi There! You or anyone else for that matter can take a look at http://www.rebel.net.au/~lloy0076/tutorial/redhat_ppp.html It is a document that I wrote. It uses netcf, linuxconf and X. Please note that it doesn't use the GNOME dialer, wvdial or kppp and has been known to work for Redhat 5.0

Re: What's the name of the screen capture prog?

2000-04-13 Thread lloy0076
It depends. If I'm only catching the window then I actually use the GIMP :-)) DAVID -- The Linux C Mailing Lists Have Moved mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe The Linux C++ Mailing Lists Have Moved mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL

Re: Can people disable there out of office autoreplies in this list ?

2000-04-13 Thread lloy0076
Or better still, take a quik look at what they normally say and filter them to trash. Or to be even MORE nasty, the moment someone sends you an autoreply, filter ALL e-mails from them to trash... DAVID -- The Linux C Mailing Lists Have Moved mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe The

Re: Netscape Java

2000-04-13 Thread lloy0076
The Netscape and Java problem is quite prevalent and well documented. There are apparently "tweaks" but I've not heard anyone report that these supposed "tweaks" work. I'm currently having a preview of Netsape 6.0 Pre-Release, however it has absolutely NO Java support (or JavaScript) at all even

Re: Frustrated

2000-04-12 Thread lloy0076
Jerry Human wrote: Ok, dang it, I keep reading/hearing how Red Hat is supposed to be so easy to use beacuse of it's command line mouse support such as copy, cut and paste, etc. This isn't really an answer to your question, just a small diatribe from me. Personally I refuse to use the mouse

Re: Kernel recompile

2000-04-05 Thread lloy0076
Mark[s]: After you have the newly compiled kernel, you need to put it in your /boot directory, along with the system.map file. You should name it something like vmlinuz-x.y.z . Then, rename the kernel that was already there to whatever_it_was.old. YIKES Rename the old ones BEFORE

The X Shutdown

2000-04-04 Thread lloy0076
For some reason when I use the shutdown option from X *any* user can shutdown the System...is there any way to turn off this "feature"? DAVID -- The Linux C Mailing Lists Have Moved mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe The Linux C++ Mailing Lists Have Moved mailto:[EMAIL

Re: rant F****ng fed up with Netscape 4.6x!

2000-03-09 Thread lloy0076
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA Get over it! I have my own script. I run a 64MB memory cach and a 512MB disk cache not to mention my ISP's own proxy...I just kill Netscape and start again...the majority of crap except for the through traffic gets taken off relatively local parts of the

Re: RPMs - Frustration sets in.

2000-03-01 Thread lloy0076
I disagree. Using ./configure and make on a source distribution discovers many more errors that RPM can simply miss or gloss over. Each to one's own I guess...such is the power of Linux. DAVID -- The Linux C Mailing Lists Have Moved mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe The Linux C++

Re: My X problem

2000-02-22 Thread lloy0076
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. ;) E MACS? Oh please! REAL

Re: security list?

2000-02-21 Thread lloy0076
Doug McGarrett wrote: Is there a list focusing on security? I need to get help on firewalls. I have the ip-chains HOW-TO, I have a whole book on Linux security, but I don't really know how to implement the whole thing, including mail. --doug I've never heard of a list per se but there

Re: security list?

2000-02-21 Thread lloy0076
Adam et al: this is an easy way to get it UP and running ..but you still need to block off ports..but you can do that later.also is this for home or business? If for business...check out www.watchguard.com they have a $3,500 linux based firewall product "Firebox II" if you need to host

Re: Enlightenment

2000-02-21 Thread lloy0076
Ummm...I presume that you're saying that GNOME/ENLIGHTENMENT don't work any more. Otherwise why would you need to install them? Presuming that you've used an automated process AND you told the install process to install X and GNOME (etc) you shouldn't need to worry... DL -- The Linux C

Re: ADMROCKS attack in progress!

2000-02-21 Thread lloy0076
Jason! My firewall is kept up to date, but the machines on the inside? Not worth the effort to update stuff that I may or may not use. I think that is an excellent idea. RedHat could have an RPM style files where all you did was mount /mnt/cdrom; rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/*.rpm AND a SRPMS style

Re: ICQ for RedHat???

2000-02-19 Thread lloy0076
Crisis wrote: For some reason I have had problems with LICQ, so I use GICQ which also has a GUI and works very nicely. -Original Message- From: ::--Koshy Kerteya--~!~ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 10:20 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ICQ

Re: Processor Type Features- custom kernel

2000-02-19 Thread lloy0076
Eddie Strohmier wrote: Use the PPro. That will give you the 686 kernel. Actually it will give you a very fast i386 kernel aligned to Pentium standards. To actually force any kernel before 2.3.x to actually compile to not 386 code you have to use the -march option (you have to use it

Re: [OT now] Re: Linux Newbie...what's rooting ?!!1

2000-02-18 Thread lloy0076
Edward! sigh You boys just have no downunder knowledge :) Basically they're a fictional boy and girl. Are not. Sheila is my godmother and Bruce is a karate artist... GEEZ! David Lloyd (A Fellow Australian) -- The Linux C Mailing Lists Have Moved mailto:[EMAIL

Rooting vs Routing

2000-02-18 Thread lloy0076
Rooting is when two people have sex. It normally refers to the male appendage being inserted into the female genitals although it can often refer to the whole act. Furthermore in slang, it is a term for destroying something and/or generally making it unusable or broken. Routing, on the other

Re: kudzu keeps unconfiguring the serial mouse

2000-02-17 Thread lloy0076
Actually I have a similar glitch. Kudzu decides that my KEYBOARD is a PS/2 mouse...which it obviously isn't. So I turned it off (besides it boots faster without it)anyone experience the same thing? DL -- The Linux C Mailing Lists Have Moved mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe The

Re: YES!!! I can copy and paste!!!

2000-02-17 Thread lloy0076
Ric! BUT, ... we can all share in the new users thrill of a minor-to-us, major-to-him victory?? Some applause is in order here. Yes, applause is in order. It's kind of the same when someone finally realises what they've been doing wrong in a really simple program (like the time when I

Re: Which kernel gets installed

2000-02-04 Thread lloy0076
The KERNEL help files in make menuconfig actually have always had, at least since 2.0.36, a suggestion to choose "K5/6" for AMD chips...I wonder why? DAVID -- The Linux C Mailing Lists Have Moved mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe The Linux C++ Mailing Lists Have Moved

Re: Which kernel gets installed

2000-02-04 Thread lloy0076
Bret Hughes wrote: Cool Should I compile my own for use on these chips then? What is the difference? I guess of the binary files that redhat produces the 386's are the ones to use? Please tell me I didn't dream up the suggestion to use 386. Bret I would be inclined to compile my

Re: OT Re: Athlon processor

2000-01-29 Thread lloy0076
There is a patch to fix the problem with Windows 95 OSR 2.xx series. It can be found from the AMD web site (http://www.amd.com). Most of the time you can get 95 stable enough to run it...the trick is to actually get it to go into safe mode. Easiest way to do that is to actually switch the power

Re: Athlon processor

2000-01-25 Thread lloy0076
I have an Athlon on an MSI-6167 board, I740 Video Excel AGP card, stock standard IDE hard drives and two CD (one ROM, other RW/RECORD). I have had absolutely no problems, in fact I simply clicked in my hard drive and Linux booted without a glitch...Windows on the other hand required four

Re: OT Re: Athlon processor

2000-01-25 Thread lloy0076
Zoki! problems etc. Intel CPU's have been experiencing. What's the reason for people being so afraid when it's not an Intel CPU? I honestly think the reason is that Microsoft bases its (in)operating systems on the Intel chips and have been known to do dumb things in the past like base I/O

Re: Problem with PPP using netcfg

2000-01-19 Thread lloy0076
Derek Tattersall wrote: I am trying to configure a ppp link to my isp from my computer. I am running RedHat 6.2. My isp uses pap. When I tried to activate the ppp link I got the following message on stderr: Failed to activate /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0 I also found

Re: Problem with PPP using netcfg

2000-01-19 Thread lloy0076
OOPS I don't think YOU are doing anything wrong. Somehow your options state that your ISP has to authenticate itself against you. This is highly unusual...look in /etc/options and if you see anything like "require-pap" comment it out with a # (hash). I meant /etc/ppp/options DAVID

Re: There's gotta be something better ...

2000-01-19 Thread lloy0076
It is Java causing the problem. If you go to the CLI where you started X you may very well find that Netscape complains about the Java having a bad ELF header or worse. There is a fix which doesn't work...something to do with the font path. DAVID -- The Linux C Mailing Lists Have Moved

Re: RH6.1 freezes on shutdown after killall

2000-01-16 Thread lloy0076
Claudiu Balciza wrote: When I try to shut down my mailserver AMD K6-II/400, Soyo 5EH motherboard, ram 64MB, disk 30GB, RedHat 6.1, it freezes right after "starting killall". That means the UPS cannot protect the system on longer power failures. And the e2fsck on 30GB takes more time than my

Re: Opinions

2000-01-12 Thread lloy0076
LOOK I use NT SERVER 4.0 at work and I spend about $200 per week (or a 1/3 of my time however you see it) either waiting for it or fixing it. The sys admin, who is an outside person because our netowork is small and I take care of minor glitches, spends about the same amount in dollard (he is

Re: Opinions

2000-01-12 Thread lloy0076
Hmmm I think your perceptions are skewed by the sample group you're looking at. Many of the people who post to the lists are probably linux enthusiasts, who see such things as opportunities to play with their toys, not as hassles that impede their progress toward some other goal. I myself

Re: scsi host emulation

2000-01-05 Thread lloy0076
ROFL I have the same problem. I made a horrid kludge: 1) I added the modprobe to /etc/rc.d/local 2) I just accepted the fact that it hijacked my other drive to There is a way to do it in conf.modules but I can never get that to work. DAVID -- The Linux C Mailing Lists Have Moved

Re: C language IDE for linux?

1999-12-26 Thread lloy0076
Arni Raghu wrote: Nothing like emacs :) But if it is real IDE u want look at kdevelop..it is free.. cygnus has a more powerful IDE but costs $$ Oh I can't resist... And if you want help on the actual programming...see this: -- The Linux C Mailing Lists Have Moved mailto:[EMAIL

Re: AMD K6-III @ 450MHZ

1999-12-26 Thread lloy0076
Oh My! I never thought I would be able to create a lovely heated discussion about Windows by mentioning my AMD K6 III 450mHZnext time I say something I am going to seriously duck for cover DL -- The Linux C Mailing Lists Have Moved mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [subject: subscribe] The

Re: C language IDE for linux?

1999-12-26 Thread lloy0076
What do you mean EMACS? Extra Meaningful Annulment Conference SectionsI don't think so. VI is better...try telling the Vi and Vim List (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) the same thing... DL -- The Linux C Mailing Lists Have Moved mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [subject: subscribe] The Linux C++

Re: AMD K6-III @ 450MHZ

1999-12-25 Thread lloy0076
Heh! I have recently installed an MS-5184 Baby AT VI4 Motherboard with an AMD K6-III running at 450MHZ. I used to run an AMD K6-II @ 366MHZ with an old, 66MHZ board. The memory is exactly the same. Some people said I You're not using PC100 RAM with the new board? I'd think that would

AMD K6-III @ 450MHZ

1999-12-24 Thread lloy0076
Hi There! I have recently installed an MS-5184 Baby AT VI4 Motherboard with an AMD K6-III running at 450MHZ. I used to run an AMD K6-II @ 366MHZ with an old, 66MHZ board. The memory is exactly the same. Some people said I would notice a difference; some said I wouldn't. My experiences so far

{OT maybe] KG-IIs vs K6-IIIs

1999-12-21 Thread lloy0076
I know that the Athlon is all the talk at the moment, but do you think I'd notice the difference between an AMD-K6-II and an AMD-K6-III? DAVID -- The Linux C Mailing Lists Have Moved mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [subject: subscribe] The Linux C++ Mailing Lists Have Moved mailto:[EMAIL

That Java Font Problem

1999-12-18 Thread lloy0076
I have RedHat 6.0, stock standard except I replaced GNOME et al with october-gnome. Java in Netscape 4.61 still crashes me though; there's no errors in my fonts at all. Does anyone know what's wrong? DL -- The Linux C Mailing Lists Have Moved mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [subject: subscribe] The

Re: TCP/IP expertise, please

1999-12-15 Thread lloy0076
Nigel! We do not use DNS on our LAN - 'hosts' files only. This sounds awfully obvious but have you checked: * /etc/hosts wasn't clobbered * /etc/resolv.conf wasn't clobbered (on all your machines) DL -- The Linux C Mailing Lists Have Moved mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [subject:

Re: Bounced Messages

1999-12-11 Thread lloy0076
"Michael J. McGillick" wrote: Morning: Anyone else getting messages bounced back as undeliverable from a [EMAIL PROTECTED]? - Mike -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject. Oh so it's not just me? DAVID -- THE LINUX C AND C++ MAILING LISTS ARE

Re: X Won't Stay Dead

1999-12-11 Thread lloy0076
Hi! It sounds like you're loading into runlevel 5. Runlevel 5 uses XDM as opposed to the command prompt to verify the user. Try, as root, to edit the /etc/inittab file. Change the default run level from 5 to 3...there's annotations in the file to verify I'm not telling you to destroy your

Re: front page

1999-12-10 Thread lloy0076
Scott Skrogstad wrote: I must be missing something. One of my customers is trying to update their web site using Front Page I thought Apache support this. They are telling me it does not work. What is the first thing that I should check? OOERRR Front Page is a dog. I could be VERY

Re: setuid

1999-12-10 Thread lloy0076
Steve Lee wrote: what does it mean to run something setuid It means the program runs as root even though another non-root user has run it. -- THE LINUX C AND C++ MAILING LISTS ARE ABOUT TO MOVE! mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] THE LINUX C AND C++ MAILING LISTS ARE ABOUT TO MOVE! mailto:[EMAIL

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1999-12-09 Thread lloy0076
unsusbscribe redhat-list -- Don't forget about the Linux C Mailing Lists! mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux C++ Mailing Lists - a Linux C++ resource for you... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: bzimage again

1999-12-05 Thread lloy0076
Now, the Makefile for the images in in: /usr/src/linux/arch/i386 Of course if you're not using an IBM compatible it will be in one of the other directories. Use vi, emacs (or another editor) to "find" bz and you'll get the EXACT name of the image. If you make bzimage, it's not the same as make

Re: Help getting printer to work?

1999-12-04 Thread lloy0076
Oh try using printtool in Xyou'd probably best be su when you do it. DL -- Don't forget about the Linux C Mailing Lists! mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux C++ Mailing Lists - a Linux C++ resource for you... mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Help getting printer to work?

1999-12-04 Thread lloy0076
Oh! I don't know a thing about HP 1000s. Mind you look at its manual and see if it can or does emulate something else. For that matter it might just understand native postscript upon which you'd be able to use it as a generic post script printer. There does appear to be a generic HP LaserJet

Re: Kernel Recompile Problem

1999-12-04 Thread lloy0076
Joseph Wagner wrote: I recompiled my kernel but I'm not sure the new kernel took (I think it booted into the old kernel.) I executed: make mrproper make xconfig (Made the changes I wanted) make dep clean bzlilo modules modules_install (Waited a very long time) Rebooted the computer.

Re: Kernel Recompile Problem

1999-12-04 Thread lloy0076
Gordon! I just had a look at the Makefile. I concede that it doesn't but in my opinion anything called "clean" should be done before you start making anything anyway. It's just "good" practice. DAVID -- Don't forget about the Linux C Mailing Lists! mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux C++

Re: Pop3

1999-12-02 Thread lloy0076
Hi! On 1/12/99 at 23:56 Rev. David P. Giffen wrote: I am trying to set my Linux box to be to be a simple mail server. However can't log into the machine using POP3 protocol. I have the port already to go. What else do I need to do? I presume you mean your POP server is not functioning. Or

Re: After Install, cannot get Netscape to work

1999-12-02 Thread lloy0076
Frank! I'm able to signon to the internet, but when I launch Netscape, it says that it cannot find its home page or any url I enter. I was told that a resolv.conf was not created automatically. How can I create this? No, it's not created automatically. Here is the syntax: nameserver [SOME

Re: Good Book for beginner?

1999-12-01 Thread lloy0076
Books on Linux -- The Special Edition "Using Linux" by Macmillan - latest version ships with RH 6.0 publishers edition as well as Caldera OpenLinux - is really quite useful. Furthermore it describes another linux and although it may sound quite crazy being able to compare two

Re: Known problems with X windows and Redhat 6??

1999-11-30 Thread lloy0076
Find an ftp mirror site for RedHat 6.0 and download october-gnome. The gnome/X that comes with RH 6.0 is slightly broken. I used to use it and although my problems weren't half as sever as yours, october-gnome has fixed all of them (except the font problem which I fixed myself). DAVID -- Don't

Linux C++ Mailing Lists [ANNOUNCE]

1999-11-30 Thread lloy0076
LINUX C++ MAILING LISTS --- In an unprecedented week, the Linux C++ mailing lists, created by David Lloyd (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]), have grown from 390 members to 510. The list's subject is programming Linux with C++ and no subject - easy or hard - appears to be too

Linux C Programming List [ANNOUNCE]

1999-11-30 Thread lloy0076
LINUX C PROGRAMMING LIST David Lloyd, creator of the Linux C Programming Lists, is slowly working his way to attracting 1000 members to the list! Currently with a membership of approximately 680 people, the Linux C Mailing lists are about programming linux with C. With

Apache Mailing List [ANNOUNCE]

1999-11-30 Thread lloy0076
APACHE MAILING LIST --- Chuck Mead has created a mailing list specifically to help you with the web's most popular web server. Currently in its infancy there are already a number of "experts" able to help and give advice on this web server to many varied questions. The lists are

Re: Linux C++ and C Mailing Lists [ANNOUNCE]

1999-11-30 Thread lloy0076
Hi There! I have attempted to reply directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] however my mail server has reported: Your message To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Various Announcements Sent:Wed, 1 Dec 1999 00:52:57 +0300 I also replied to another address. Whilst I am (apparently) being

Re: Netscape 4.72 locks if no PPP

1999-11-29 Thread lloy0076
I have had the same problem with all versions of Netscape on Linux that I use. My solution was to run Apache locally on my localhost and make it my home page. Therefore Netscape always has a TCP/IP socket connection to look at and I always have my favourite programming documentation (the Gtk

Re: Rebuilding RPMs

1999-11-26 Thread lloy0076
I find (S)RPMs quite good but a nuisance as well. Trying to get it to recompile things like you want them is sometimes not difficult. I await the day when ALL developers include an uninstall option in their make files :-) DL -- Don't forget about the Linux C Mailing Lists! mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Rebuilding RPMs

1999-11-26 Thread lloy0076
"Michael J. McGillick" wrote: Ummm ... Was this an answer to my original question or just a viewpoint on SRPMS? :) Firstly your manual pages should tell you about how to rebuild SRPMS, so check them for the flags. Secondly I can't see any sensible reason why it wouldn't work UNLESS

Re: Need Dialin Server settings that work with DUN

1999-11-23 Thread lloy0076
Just a quick note: when setting up Windows [9x/Nt] make sure that you do not use Windows NT domains. It buggers up most non-windows authentication schemes. DAVID -- Don't forget about the Linux C Mailing Lists! mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux C++ Mailing Lists - a Linux C++ resource for

Re: .586 stuff

1999-11-17 Thread lloy0076
Most source rpm's have the following (hopeless) flags: CFLAGS=-g -O2 -m486 [blah blah blah] This only takes your 586 to a 486 and even then doesn't produce 486 specific code. It only aligns the data for a 486. Hence you get a nicely aligned, fantastically fast i386! Whenever I recompile at my

Vim and Vi List [reANNOUNCE]

1999-11-17 Thread lloy0076
VIM AND VI LISTS Following a heated discussion about emacs vs vi(m) on the Linux C and Linux C++ Mailing Lists (see my signature), I created the Vim and Vi List as well. Although there are other lists existing the people on the Vim and Vi List seem quite knowledgable and

Re: X Editor choice

1999-11-13 Thread lloy0076
Hi There! I would suggest there are two choices: 1) gvim This is a graphical front-end to VIM. When you administer a unix or a linux system the only editor you can assume will almost always work is vi. When I first began to use linux/unix I didn't understand vi but now it is my editor of

Re: Cannot get PPP to connect

1999-11-13 Thread lloy0076
In /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts there should be a script called ifcfg-ppp[X] where X is the number of the PPP device (mine is ifcfg-ppp0). It contains the script which chat (man chat) uses to talk automatically with the ISP. Essentially they do the same thing, it's just that one is automatic

Re: Why? [HTML?]

1999-11-11 Thread lloy0076
Rick! Evidently I insulted some people because I was using stationary in my e-mail, excuse me, just trying to live in the 20th century here. Unfortunately you're HTML message slipped past my HTML filters. We do live in the 20th century. Your HTML managed to render itself as 8 point idiot

THE FLAMES..shameless plug....

1999-11-11 Thread lloy0076
Hi There! This is a totally shameless plug for: *** 1) The Linux C Mailing Lists Chuck Mead and I created these a number of months ago now. Unfortunately after a major flame war, I was left to run the lists. I now have approximately 665 members and a list which mainly discusses Linux and

Re: Flooding problem

1999-11-11 Thread lloy0076
Hi There! I believe you can do this to minimise the problem. As root # echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies That is true but you need to have this support built into the kernel. I suspect the stock redhat kernels would...but in case they don't I'd just voice a suspicion... DL --

List Rules?

1999-11-07 Thread lloy0076
Ahbaid: I would suggest that if you have a problem with the langauge used in some of the posts here, that you email RedHat directly. To be perfectly honest I found your original post quite offensive in its own right. If you don't like the language used on the list, then filter out all "profane"

GNOME Session Management

1999-01-03 Thread lloy0076
The GNOME Session manager appears to be giving me serious grief. It is giving me so much grief that I'm almost about to give up and shift to KDE. When I try to connect to my X Server I continuously received: GNOME-SESSION-UI: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authentication error It only happens with GNOME;