Re: Problems using X Windows Display

2009-05-04 Thread Stephen J. Gowdy
On Mon, 4 May 2009, William Shu wrote: Thank you very much Miles! I rebooted both machines and I can now view pdf/ *.ps files without complaints! vncviewer now opens on the host machine when invoked from the remote machine through ssh. However, I have the following three problems (whose sol

Re: Problems using X Windows Display

2009-05-04 Thread William Shu
Thank you very much Miles! I rebooted both machines and I can now view pdf/ *.ps files without complaints! vncviewer now opens on the host machine when invoked from the remote machine through ssh. However, I have the following three problems (whose solutions I guess will help end this thread)

Re: Package a series of files into RPM

2009-05-04 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi Fernando, > Take a look at this spec file: > > http://cosmos.astro.uson.mx/~favilac/downloads/IRAF/el5/SPECS/x11iraf.spec Thanks, it looks like exactly what I'm looking for. Michael. > Hope it helps. > > -- >

Re: Package a series of files into RPM

2009-05-04 Thread Fernando Avila Castro
Take a look at this spec file: http://cosmos.astro.uson.mx/~favilac/downloads/IRAF/el5/SPECS/x11iraf.spec Hope it helps. -- C.Dr. Fernando A. Avila Castro Responsable del Observatorio Astronomico de

Package a series of files into RPM

2009-05-04 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi, I did this about 2 years ago when working elsewhere, however I've forgotten how I pulled this off now I need to perform the work again. I simply want to get a series of files and package them into an RPM. No compiling, no building. The way I did it before was simply tar.gz the files, put the

Re: Problems using X Windows Display

2009-05-04 Thread Stephen J. Gowdy
Can you run the first ssh command below with the -v option, so; ssh -v -XY w...@192.168.10.20 ? For the vncviewer you should not modify the DISPLAY variable. You should specify the report server on the command line; vncviewer hpsl5:2 I've never used it but that is what the man page says. Yo

Re: login to 5.3 livedvd

2009-05-04 Thread Stephen Isard
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Urs Beyerle urs.beyerle-at-env.ethz.ch |Scientific Linux| wrote: Hi Stephen, Booting with option "failsafe" is equal to booting with "linux |nonet simplex apm=off acpi=off noapic nofstab". One or more of these options make your system work correctly. Can you try to identify

Re: Problems using X Windows Display

2009-05-04 Thread William Shu
Thank you for all the suggestions. I have tried to make modifications as suggested on ISSUE 1, while trying to use vnc as my test case. No success yet. Grateful for further suggestions. Xforwarding: Changed the Xforwarding to yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config of remote machine (inteksl5

Re: login to 5.3 livedvd

2009-05-04 Thread Urs Beyerle
Hi Stephen, Booting with option "failsafe" is equal to booting with "linux |nonet simplex apm=off acpi=off noapic nofstab". One or more of these options make your system work correctly. Can you try to identify which option(s) are needed? Urs |Stephen Isard wrote: > Hello, > > I've downloade

Re: login to 5.3 livedvd

2009-05-04 Thread Brent L. Bates
Just a data point, I've been using the 64 bit LiveDVD with out problems. livedvd64_SL53_2009-03-23.iso This is on a desktop system with an Intel mother board. I don't have any details handy at the moment. -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912

login to 5.3 livedvd

2009-05-04 Thread Stephen Isard
Hello, I've downloaded livedvd_SL53_2009-03-23.iso and it works fine when I boot it with the "failsafe" command. However with "linux [options]", I don't get a chance to set a password and all attempts at login are rejected for either sluser or root. I've tried the "pw=" and "nopasswd" optio

whining about root not existing

2009-05-04 Thread Miles O'Neal
I occasionally get things like this from 5.2 systems: sudo: uid 0 does not exist in the passwd file! Root cron jobs occasionally have error messages based on uid 0 not existing (and maybe root user, per se, I don't recall for sure). It's random and not very frequent. We have root in /etc/pas

Re: Trouble Printing from Evince

2009-05-04 Thread Craig Moore
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 10:12 -0500, Troy Dawson wrote: > Craig Moore wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having trouble printing pdf files from evince (and gedit too). Each > > time I print, the printout reads: > > > >> ERROR: configurationerror > >> OFFENDING COMMAND: setpagedevice > >> > >> STACK: > >> >

Re: Trouble Printing from Evince

2009-05-04 Thread Troy Dawson
Craig Moore wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble printing pdf files from evince (and gedit too). Each time I print, the printout reads: ERROR: configurationerror OFFENDING COMMAND: setpagedevice STACK: -dictionary- the rest of the page is blank. Note, I can still print from acroread with out any

Re: Problems using X Windows Display

2009-05-04 Thread Troy Dawson
Hi, I'll just add a little to what Stephen said. Focus on getting #1 to work, which is to log into a remote machine and open a graphical window. It looks like you have all the right options on your client end, but you also have to have it enabled on the machine you are logging into. On the ma

Re: Problems using X Windows Display

2009-05-04 Thread Stephen J. Gowdy
Hi William, X displays usually are setup to enforce some sort of security. Otherwise anyone would be able to read your password. In case 1, was DISPLAY set on hpsl5 before you typed ssh? I'm not sure case 2 is possible. You should use some sort of conferencing system to allow remote u

Trouble Printing from Evince

2009-05-04 Thread Craig Moore
Hi, I'm having trouble printing pdf files from evince (and gedit too). Each time I print, the printout reads: > ERROR: configurationerror > OFFENDING COMMAND: setpagedevice > > STACK: > > -dictionary- the rest of the page is blank. Note, I can still print from acroread with out any trouble, whic