Re: lost in the pines

2003-01-13 Thread Justin F. Kuo


On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Michael Schwendt wrote:

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> On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 13:11:52 -0500, Justin F. Kuo wrote:
>
[snip]
>
> Try running this as root:
>
>   rpm -qa | xargs -n 1 -t rpm -V &> rpm-Va.txt
>   less rpm-Va.txt
>
> It is the output of a verification of all your installed packages.
> The flags at the start of each line are explained in "man rpm" in
> the section "VERIFY OPTIONS".
>
> See how many files are missing and how many are listed as not having
> passed the MD5 checksum test, the '5' flag. Ignore some types of
> files, such as Python compiled files, font indices or some config
> files.
>

I ran the rpm verification commands as suggested.

  [root@mango temp]# rpm -qa | xargs -n 1 -t rpm -V &> rpm-Va.txt
  [root@mango temp]# less rpm-Va.txt
  rpm -V glibc-2.2.93-5
  rpm -V gdbm-1.8.0-18
  rpm -V libacl-2.0.11-2
  rpm -V linc-0.5.2-2
  xargs: rpm: terminated by signal 11

It appears to have aborted. I may need to reinstall the RedHat OS.



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Re: lost in the pines

2003-01-13 Thread Justin F. Kuo
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Martin Stricker wrote:

> "Justin F. Kuo" wrote:
>
> > I ran that command as:
> >
> >   fsck /usr
>
> You didn't unmout the filesystem before? BAD idea! File writes could
> have been in disk cache, thus detroying more files. Always unmount (or,
> if you absolutely have to mount it, like /, mount it read-only) the
> filesystem before running fsck!
>
> > and saw numerous messages silimar to these:
> >
> >   /usr contains a file syste with error, check forced.
> >   Pass1: Checking inodes, block sizes
> >   Pass2: Checking directory structures
> >   Missing ".." in inode 2260993
> >   Fin? yes
>
> So your filesystem was severely damaged. Now you need to find the
> reason. Since for now no more errors show up, things like loose or
> oxidated cable connectors or damaged IDE or SCSI controllers are not
> very likely. So look in /var/log/messages for anything unusual at the
> beginning of the problems (did you power off the computer without
> shutting down Linux before? Power outage?) and run the command badblocks
> which looks for bad blocks on your drive.
>
> If it reports much bad blocks, you are likely experiencing harddisk
> degradation. The best you can do then is to make a backup of all your
> data and get a new harddisk (reclaim the harddisk if it's still under
> warranty!). When bad blocks show up they usually increase in number
> rather fast, and you will more and more data.
>
> If there are no (or a lot less than I/O errors were in your initial ls
> command) bad blocks, the harddisk might be healthy, but keep an eye on
> it (and fsck the other partitions on that drive after unmounting them).
> To reinstall the missing programs, verify your RPMs like suggested by
> Michael Schwendt, or, probably easier, make a backup of your data and
> simply reinstall.

Mount? Unmount? Looks like I have a lot to learn about Linux. I checked
and found no badblocks on the /dev/hda2 filesystem. I'll check the rest of
the filesystems.

 # /sbin/badblocks -o bb-hda.txt -v /dev/hda2
 Checking for bad blocks in read-only mode
 From block 0 to 41496840
 Pass completed, 0 bad blocks found.

I looked atthe /var/log/messages and found unusual activity on Jan 7. We
lost power at 8PM.

The message logs show several "Clearing orphaned inode" messages:

  Jan  7 19:59:38 mango fsck: /home: recovering journal
  Jan  7 19:59:44 mango fsck: /home: Clearing orphaned inode 1520756
  (uid=500, gid=500, mode=0100600, size=10682)
  Jan  7 19:59:44 mango fsck: /home: Clearing orphaned inode 1520755
  (uid=500, gid=500, mode=0100600, size=83042)
  Jan  7 19:59:44 mango fsck: /home: Clearing orphaned inode 1520754
  (uid=500, gid=500, mode=0100600, size=12766)
[snip]
  Jan  7 19:59:44 mango fsck: /home: Clearing orphaned inode 1520743
  (uid=500, gid=500, mode=0100600, size=255806)
  Jan  7 19:59:44 mango fsck: /home: Clearing orphaned inode 1520742
  (uid=500, gid=500, mode=0100600, size=3537)
  Jan  7 19:59:44 mango fsck: /home: Clearing orphaned inode 1520741
  (uid=500, gid=500, mode=0100600, size=1063)
  Jan  7 19:59:44 mango fsck: /home: clean, 851/1896832 files,
  240621/3791340 blocks
  Jan  7 19:59:45 mango fsck: /usr: recovering journal
  Jan  7 19:59:51 mango fsck: /usr: clean, 197117/5193728 files,
  1170879/10374210 blocks

Since the /var/log/messages are too large for the newsgroup, I posted them
a web site. The errors shown here may be found at:

  http://www.usatfne.org/~jkuo/messages.1

I thought the boot process automatically cleared the disk problems and
that all was well at the time. Did the power failure cause my problems?
I'll add a UPS. What can I do in the if the Linux box looses power in the
future?

Thank you.  --  Justin



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Re: resize2fs missing in rescue environment

2003-01-13 Thread Urte Fürst

> So I'm now trying to reduce the size of the root LV to e.g. 15 GB. As the
> root fs may be mounted during resize, (...)
Sorry, I meant of course 'As the root fs may NOT be mounted during resize..'
(monday mornings ...)

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wvdial and mail access

2003-01-13 Thread Jason Dale



Hi all :
 
I have been searching for documentation for how to 
configure
a Red Hat Linux server to dial-out to a MAIL server. I 
found
a program called 'wvdial' , but it seems as though this 
deals with
modem connections to your ISP.
 
Could I use a program like weavedial ( Wvdial ) to 

configure a dial-out to another mail server , which is 

incidently also Red Hat ?
 
I *know* this is a RH 8 mailing list , but the distro I 
want to do 
the configuration on is actually Red Hat 7.2
 
Thanks a ton , 
 
Jason 


fc-cache and NT Font weirdness..

2003-01-13 Thread Hugh A.J. Kennedy
I have a multiboot notebook with Win98/Win2K and RH 8.0 Linux. The Win98
partition and the 2K partition (FAT and NTFS respectively) are mounted when
RH8.0 boots. I have a soft link going from /usr/share/local/fonts to
/mnt/C/WINDOWS/FONTS for each ttf font and this works fine and fc-cache sees
everything. Yes, I edited /etc/fonts/fonts.conf as well!!

I wish to nuke my 98 installation, but I still have to keep 2k for the
present. Attempting the same soft link to /mnt/E/WINNT/fonts works but
fc-cache fails to see anything on Linux (it doesn't report errors though) .
Note that I link the fonts *not* the font directory because font-cache will
want to write some data there and the NTFS partition is not mounted
writeable. Local copies of the 2K fonts work fine, but I don't want to
gobble up 50MB or so with something I have elsewhere on disk.

Maybe fc-chache doesn't like NT files (strange, it gets on ok with 98) or
worse, maybe it doesn't like ro-files?

Any suggestions?

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Re: wvdial and mail access

2003-01-13 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 13/01/2003 09:24, Jason Dale typed ...

I have been searching for documentation for how to configure
a Red Hat Linux server to dial-out to a MAIL server. I found
a program called 'wvdial' , but it seems as though this deals with
modem connections to your ISP.


  Not sure what you're trying to do - do you want a Net connection, use 
a LAN to get mail, or what?

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Re: lost in the pines

2003-01-13 Thread Michael Schwendt
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On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 03:29:35 -0500, Justin F. Kuo wrote:

> > Try running this as root:
> >
> >   rpm -qa | xargs -n 1 -t rpm -V &> rpm-Va.txt
> >   less rpm-Va.txt
> >
> > It is the output of a verification of all your installed packages.
> > The flags at the start of each line are explained in "man rpm" in
> > the section "VERIFY OPTIONS".
> >
> > See how many files are missing and how many are listed as not having
> > passed the MD5 checksum test, the '5' flag. Ignore some types of
> > files, such as Python compiled files, font indices or some config
> > files.
> >
> 
> I ran the rpm verification commands as suggested.
> 
>   [root@mango temp]# rpm -qa | xargs -n 1 -t rpm -V &> rpm-Va.txt
>   [root@mango temp]# less rpm-Va.txt
>   rpm -V glibc-2.2.93-5
>   rpm -V gdbm-1.8.0-18
>   rpm -V libacl-2.0.11-2
>   rpm -V linc-0.5.2-2
>   xargs: rpm: terminated by signal 11
> 
> It appears to have aborted. I may need to reinstall the RedHat OS.

Is this reproducible?
What does "rpm -V rpm" give?
And "rpm --rebuilddb"?

According to your logs, you had a kernel panic with 2.4.18-14 on
January 5th and another one 20 minutes later. Any particular reason
for that?

In the logs I couldn't find any hard disk drive block read error
messages. 

I suspect your RAM chips may be bad or your system unstable. That
would explain the kernel panic and signal 11 upon running rpm,
unless RPM itself is damaged. You might want to try memtest86
from Google.

The fsck on January 7th corrected /home, not /usr or any partition
that contains important system binaries.

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Re: fc-cache and NT Font weirdness..

2003-01-13 Thread Michael Fratoni
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On Monday 13 January 2003 04:52 am, Hugh A.J. Kennedy wrote:
> I have a multiboot notebook with Win98/Win2K and RH 8.0 Linux. The
> Win98 partition and the 2K partition (FAT and NTFS respectively) are
> mounted when RH8.0 boots. I have a soft link going from
> /usr/share/local/fonts to /mnt/C/WINDOWS/FONTS for each ttf font and
> this works fine and fc-cache sees everything. Yes, I edited
> /etc/fonts/fonts.conf as well!!
>
> I wish to nuke my 98 installation, but I still have to keep 2k for the
> present. Attempting the same soft link to /mnt/E/WINNT/fonts works but
> fc-cache fails to see anything on Linux (it doesn't report errors
> though) . Note that I link the fonts *not* the font directory because
> font-cache will want to write some data there and the NTFS partition is
> not mounted writeable. Local copies of the 2K fonts work fine, but I
> don't want to gobble up 50MB or so with something I have elsewhere on
> disk.
>
> Maybe fc-chache doesn't like NT files (strange, it gets on ok with 98)
> or worse, maybe it doesn't like ro-files?

The kernel, unless you've recompiled it, isn't able to read ntfs 
filesystems.

$ grep -i ntfs kernel-2.4.18-i686.config
# CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_NTFS_RW is not set

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Re: wvdial and mail access

2003-01-13 Thread Jason Dale
What I have is a simple no-nonsense PPP connection
using an already configured external modem , with an already
configured 'chat' program. Basically I have a Windows LAN with
workstations that connect over a LAN to the Linux Server , and then
the Linux server uses an external modem attached to one of it's COMM
ports to dial-out to a Telephone number , with a username and password.
Once a successful connection has been made , all of the Windows users
have internet access.

All I need to do is change the telephone number and account information
that the Chat program uses to establish the dial-up connection , because
the ISP's have changed.  I just don't know where the 'Chat' program
keeps this information , and what I need to do once I have found this
file and changed all of the necessary details. The other thing I want to try
and do is to set up this machine to only dial the ISP on demand , and then
to drop the connection automatically when it sits idle for a certain amount
of time.

The reason I asked about the 'wvdial' is that it seemed easier to configure
,
in which case I would have rebuilt the configuration on the RH 7.2 server
from scratch , but the LATEST development is that I must use the Chat
program.
There is no wvdial installed , and I am not allowed to install new software.
The new ISP will redirect mail requests to the RH 7.2 server , so the only
thing
I need to worry about is how to change the Chat program's account info

Apologies for the confusion.

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> Around about 13/01/2003 09:24, Jason Dale typed ...
> > I have been searching for documentation for how to configure
> > a Red Hat Linux server to dial-out to a MAIL server. I found
> > a program called 'wvdial' , but it seems as though this deals with
> > modem connections to your ISP.
>
>Not sure what you're trying to do - do you want a Net connection, use
> a LAN to get mail, or what?
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Problems with letters and symbols

2003-01-13 Thread Pablo Allietti
Hi people!

i need help, i install a box with 8.0 but ave problems with my clients.

In the web page te letters appears with simbols and in term too

i need to show spanis pages, that is the problems any helpm me/

When change my default lenguage or fonts
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Linux backup software

2003-01-13 Thread Lionel Barrow
Ok guys, I got hopefully an easy question for you to answer. I need a
reputable, powerful and easy to configure Linux backup program. I am going
to be configuring several RH 8.0 machines for some of my customers and I
want a solution where they just have to insert a tape, click a button and
the next day, take that tape out, another one and repeat process.

Please, I need as many suggestions as possible with their associated web
links. This is very urgent. Thanks in advance guys.

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RE: tripwire reports won't print with twprint...

2003-01-13 Thread Kevin . Lisciotti
thanks James...i think it may be a problem with the config file...i'll 
take another look :)

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> twprint... It just dumps me out to a prompt...no report follows...
Interesting.  What is the size of the files?  Did you try running
/usr/sbin/tripwire --check by hand, which should generate a report?  That
should dump some output on the screen and also put the same output in the
twr file for your machine in /var/lib/tripwire.  This would at least check
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Re: Linux backup software

2003-01-13 Thread Stephen Carville
On Monday 13 January 2003 06:14 am, Lionel Barrow wrote:
> Ok guys, I got hopefully an easy question for you to answer. I need
> a reputable, powerful and easy to configure Linux backup program. I
> am going to be configuring several RH 8.0 machines for some of my
> customers and I want a solution where they just have to insert a
> tape, click a button and the next day, take that tape out, another
> one and repeat process.
>
> Please, I need as many suggestions as possible with their
> associated web links. This is very urgent. Thanks in advance guys.

Try one of these: 
http://www.backupcentral.com/free-backup-software2.html

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Re: Linux backup software

2003-01-13 Thread Philippe
Hi,

http://www.bacula.org/

Never tried ... but looks quite good, but maybe not so simple to
configure for a local backup.

Philippe

On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 21:14, Lionel Barrow wrote:
> Ok guys, I got hopefully an easy question for you to answer. I need a
> reputable, powerful and easy to configure Linux backup program. I am going
> to be configuring several RH 8.0 machines for some of my customers and I
> want a solution where they just have to insert a tape, click a button and
> the next day, take that tape out, another one and repeat process.
> 
> Please, I need as many suggestions as possible with their associated web
> links. This is very urgent. Thanks in advance guys.
> 
> Salty
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Re: Linux backup software

2003-01-13 Thread toby
Lionel Barrow wrote:
> 
> Ok guys, I got hopefully an easy question for you to answer. I need a
> reputable, powerful and easy to configure Linux backup program. I am going
> to be configuring several RH 8.0 machines for some of my customers and I
> want a solution where they just have to insert a tape, click a button and
> the next day, take that tape out, another one and repeat process.
> 
> Please, I need as many suggestions as possible with their associated web
> links. This is very urgent. Thanks in advance guys.
> 
> Salty
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Well, let's see - large subject. Where to begin?

First off, do some googling as there's a lot of info out there for linux backup
software.
You could start here:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/bg/advice/archive.php

Some questions to ask yourself:

DO you want to buy or use free stuff?
How much to spend?
Do you want to lock your customers into a propriatary scheme?
Will you provide the first line support?
How easy is easy? All backup software requires configuration.
What tape devices will be/might be used?
Is it possible Windows machines be involved later?
Is it possible other Unix machines be involved later?


Perhaps you should decide which backup scheme you would like to support. Then
you can support your customers in the best way.


FWIW, I use amanda as it uses the native backup tools in the OS. It was a bit of
a beast to configure at first, and no fancy GUI.
But I won't switch to anything else.


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Re: Linux backup software

2003-01-13 Thread mike

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Lionel Barrow wrote:

> Ok guys, I got hopefully an easy question for you to answer. I need a
> reputable, powerful and easy to configure Linux backup program. I am going
> to be configuring several RH 8.0 machines for some of my customers and I
> want a solution where they just have to insert a tape, click a button and
> the next day, take that tape out, another one and repeat process.
>
> Please, I need as many suggestions as possible with their associated web
> links. This is very urgent. Thanks in advance guys.

I've been using Arkeia with great success for several years, on networks
ranging from a single server with a single tapedrive all the way up to
200+ systems and 4 drives.  Very flexable, very reliable, very easy to use
(there's an X interface that's pretty good).

http://www.arkeia.com

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Screen Savers on RH8 causing lockups

2003-01-13 Thread Robert Styma
The default action on a RH8.0 node is to go through
a series of amazing and amusing screen savers.  When
you touch the mouse the machine jumps back to life.
Certain of these seem to lock up the machine taking 
100% of the CPU and preventing the unlock.  The
mobius screen saver is one of them.  The only fix
has been to telnet in from another node and kill the
screen saver process.

1.  Has anyone else seen this?

2.  Is there a way to edit the list of screen savers
used so I can start paring out the offending ones?

Thanks for your help.


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Re: Screen Savers on RH8 causing lockups

2003-01-13 Thread Dave Sherman
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 09:12, Robert Styma wrote:
> The default action on a RH8.0 node is to go through
> a series of amazing and amusing screen savers.  When
> you touch the mouse the machine jumps back to life.
> Certain of these seem to lock up the machine taking 
> 100% of the CPU and preventing the unlock.  The
> mobius screen saver is one of them.  The only fix
> has been to telnet in from another node and kill the
> screen saver process.
> 
> 1.  Has anyone else seen this?

I have had no problems with any of the screensavers, including Moebius.
Maybe it's an OpenGL issue on your system?

> 2.  Is there a way to edit the list of screen savers
> used so I can start paring out the offending ones?

I suspect that if you un-check the boxes in the list of screensavers,
(in the Screensaver Preferences GUI tool) then they will be disabled
from the random chooser. It seems to work for me, anyway.

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Re: Screen Savers on RH8 causing lockups

2003-01-13 Thread Bob Parnass, AJ9S
Some of the screensavers segfault after running for a while on
my RH8 system.  At that point, the screen is black except
for the segault error message.

Moving the mouse or pressing a key restores the desktop image.

On Monday 13 January 2003 09:18 am, Dave Sherman wrote:

> I have had no problems with any of the screensavers, including Moebius.
> Maybe it's an OpenGL issue on your system?


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Re: Screen Savers on RH8 causing lockups

2003-01-13 Thread Stephen Carville
Your screen savers work!?!?!?!  All I've even been able to get is the 
blank screen.

If you are using xscreensaver I think xscreensaver-demo can change all 
the settings.  

On Monday 13 January 2003 07:12 am, Robert Styma wrote:
> The default action on a RH8.0 node is to go through
> a series of amazing and amusing screen savers.  When
> you touch the mouse the machine jumps back to life.
> Certain of these seem to lock up the machine taking
> 100% of the CPU and preventing the unlock.  The
> mobius screen saver is one of them.  The only fix
> has been to telnet in from another node and kill the
> screen saver process.
>
> 1.  Has anyone else seen this?
>
> 2.  Is there a way to edit the list of screen savers
> used so I can start paring out the offending ones?
>
> Thanks for your help.

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Re: Hw RAID (Promise 20265 Fasttrak 100)

2003-01-13 Thread JUSTIN GERRY
I hope you realize that most IDE RAID controllers and all Promise are
glorified software based RAID controllers.

>I am running a Promise Fasttrak100 IDE RAID controller. You need to
get a Linux driver from the Promise web site -- the Red Hat supplied
drivers will not work. In case you have a >problem installing it, I
found the tech support people at Promise to be very supportive. In
addition, I will be happy to describe my experiences in greater detail,
if it would be useful >to you.

Amazing; I received the COLDEST shoulder from Promise when I called
them in the 2nd and 3rd week of November about drivers and support for a
Fasttrack SX4000 and RedHat 8.0 (which they still don't support!!).
Staff varied between incredibly rude to clueless but at least trying to
be helpful. In short, they refused to help me get the drivers to work
with 8.0. I ended up going with 7.3 box and using Promise's 7.3 version
of the drivers only to find that these drivers only supported a 1st
release version of the 7.3 kernel. Promise also refused to compile
against newer libraries and refused to give me any source to do it
myself (one upper level tech went into a tirade about how the driver is
their intellectual property etc..etc..). Therefore I was stuck using the
initial release of the 7.3 kernel. 

Lack of any fault tolerance finally pushed me to return their product
after the controller completely destroyed a RAID 5 array after a power
failure. 

Linux software RAID has been proven to be faster and more reliable than
any of these "hardware" solutions. Lack of true open source drivers
leaves you miles behind the latest kernel. 

I do believe that many of these problems would be taken care of if
Promise would release all their Linux drivers as true open source.
Someday soon I hope, as their products do have good potential.

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Re: Linux backup software

2003-01-13 Thread Margaret_Doll
I am using ARKEIA which is dependable.  Unless you have a software 
contract,
getting solutions for problems on the systems is difficult.

On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 09:14 AM, Lionel Barrow wrote:

Ok guys, I got hopefully an easy question for you to answer. I need a
reputable, powerful and easy to configure Linux backup program. I am 
going
to be configuring several RH 8.0 machines for some of my customers and 
I
want a solution where they just have to insert a tape, click a button 
and
the next day, take that tape out, another one and repeat process.

Please, I need as many suggestions as possible with their associated 
web
links. This is very urgent. Thanks in advance guys.

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About gconfd-2

2003-01-13 Thread dballester
Hi to all:
 After install a fresh RH80 on my laptop, i can ear the disk working
every 4-5 seconds. Taking a look to the top and process monitor seems to be
( I'm newbie, can be sure ) the gconfd-2 process who is making the work
with the disk. I've been waiting to see if this works ends at any time, but
never stops. It's normal for gconfd-2 to be writing always to disk, and be
the 1st or 2nd process on a top command, every time?

May be is trying to create any type of databse but something is wrong and
is trying again, and again, and again? ( No strange messages in logs ) :(

Regards and TIAs

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RE: Linux backup software

2003-01-13 Thread Frank R. Warnke
Lionel Barrow wrote:

> Ok guys, I got hopefully an easy question for you to answer. I need a
> reputable, powerful and easy to configure Linux backup program. I am going
> to be configuring several RH 8.0 machines for some of my customers and I
> want a solution where they just have to insert a tape, click a button and
> the next day, take that tape out, another one and repeat process.

> Please, I need as many suggestions as possible with their associated web
> links. This is very urgent. Thanks in advance guys.

> Salty
We have been using BackupEDGE from Microlite (www.microlite.com) for three 
years now.  It will allow you to setup a cron job at night (or whenever) to 
do the backups.  We have it on about 50 customer machines and it works well. 
 My favorite feature is that it will create recover media.   You can create 
bootable CD/DVD/floppies and with a single tape restore the system from bare 
metal.  It creates partitions and filesytems and everything necessary to get 
the system back to the state it was when the tape was made.

We build SCSI and ATA hardware RAID systems and there are times when human 
intervention causes the RAID system to be destroyed.  We have had customers 
back in production in under an hour with these bare metal restores.

One caution is that BackupEDGE does not support SW RAID at this time.

If you go to their web site you can download the latest version and run it 
in demo mode for about 60 days.  If you like it, it will cost about $200 per 
machine.  You will need to register it to use it after 60 days.   I think 
they sell a $100 one time personal copy.  They have good tech support as 
well.

It's easy to setup, it works in real life situations (it has saved me many 
hours of late night support time) so I am very happy with it.  Check out 
their online documentation to see just how powerful the product is.

There are others out there.  Do a google search on LoneTar, BRU and Mondo to 
name just a few.  You could also check out Amanda which comes with the OS.

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Re: Linux backup software

2003-01-13 Thread Jesse Keating
On Monday 13 January 2003 06:14, Lionel Barrow uttered:
> Ok guys, I got hopefully an easy question for you to answer. I need a
> reputable, powerful and easy to configure Linux backup program. I am going
> to be configuring several RH 8.0 machines for some of my customers and I
> want a solution where they just have to insert a tape, click a button and
> the next day, take that tape out, another one and repeat process.
>
> Please, I need as many suggestions as possible with their associated web
> links. This is very urgent. Thanks in advance guys.

I would suggest mondo.  Once you set up a nice script (fairly easy to do) then 
all the user has to do is pop in a new tape and click the script.  (or cdrw, 
or just let it run to an NFS server).  Restores are a sinch as well, boot off 
the boot media that mondo creates for you, choose "nuke" and it will 
automagically partition/format/restore your data, even growing partitions or 
shrinking partitions if moving to a larger/smaller harddrive.

We have a great community of users as well, so you won't be left in the dark 
when looking for support.  You can find us here:  http://www.mondorescue.org

and yes, Mondo works great with Red Hat 8.0.  

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Gnome panel question

2003-01-13 Thread Martin Felker
Hi:

   Something happened (ie I did something) to my Gnome panel and now 
when I minimize windows they "disappear" (but are still running) rather 
than be accessible from the panel.  Can anyone help me regain these 
minimized programs?  

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Re: Linux backup software

2003-01-13 Thread Hans Scheffers
Why not use tar ? it can write directly to tape, schedule  it with
crontab. They just have to change tapes every day, that's it

Most simple & cheap solution I think ;)

greetz
Hans
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 15:14, Lionel Barrow wrote:
> Ok guys, I got hopefully an easy question for you to answer. I need a
> reputable, powerful and easy to configure Linux backup program. I am going
> to be configuring several RH 8.0 machines for some of my customers and I
> want a solution where they just have to insert a tape, click a button and
> the next day, take that tape out, another one and repeat process.
> 
> Please, I need as many suggestions as possible with their associated web
> links. This is very urgent. Thanks in advance guys.
> 
> Salty
> 
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Sybols in http and console

2003-01-13 Thread Pablo Allietti
Hi people!

i need help, i install a box with 8.0 but ave problems with my clients.

In the web page te letters appears with simbols and in term too

i need to show spanis pages, that is the problems any helpm me/

When change my default lenguage or fonts



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Re: Linux backup software

2003-01-13 Thread Keith Winston
Hans Scheffers wrote:

Why not use tar ? it can write directly to tape, schedule  it with
crontab. They just have to change tapes every day, that's it

Most simple & cheap solution I think ;)

greetz
Hans


I agree. I am using tar and DLT tape drives on all my servers.  Combined 
with a simple bash script and cron, it handles everything I need for 
backups.

The restores are the only place a customer may run into trouble.  It's 
not hard, but you need to use st (for scsi tape drives) and tar from the 
command line to do restores.

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Re: Gnome panel question

2003-01-13 Thread Michael Knepher
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 09:06, Martin Felker wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> Something happened (ie I did something) to my Gnome panel and now 
> when I minimize windows they "disappear" (but are still running) rather 
> than be accessible from the panel.  Can anyone help me regain these 
> minimized programs?  
> 

It sounds like you accidentally removed the window list applet. Just
right-click on the panel, and choose Add to Panel -> Utility -> Window
List.

> Thanks,
> 
> Marty Felker
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Re: Linux backup software

2003-01-13 Thread Hans Scheffers
ok... I use rsync or (s)ftp.. still easy & unattended :)

greetz

On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 19:07, Margaret_Doll wrote:
> With Arkeia, I can back up dozens of computers at one time using
> multiple tape drives.  I can schedule full or incremental backups
> using an easy gui.
> 
> On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 12:11 PM, Hans Scheffers wrote:
> 
> > Why not use tar ? it can write directly to tape, schedule  it with
> > crontab. They just have to change tapes every day, that's it
> >
> > Most simple & cheap solution I think ;)
> >
> > greetz
> > Hans
> > On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 15:14, Lionel Barrow wrote:
> >> Ok guys, I got hopefully an easy question for you to answer. I need a
> >> reputable, powerful and easy to configure Linux backup program. I am 
> >> going
> >> to be configuring several RH 8.0 machines for some of my customers 
> >> and I
> >> want a solution where they just have to insert a tape, click a button 
> >> and
> >> the next day, take that tape out, another one and repeat process.
> >>
> >> Please, I need as many suggestions as possible with their associated 
> >> web
> >> links. This is very urgent. Thanks in advance guys.
> >>
> >> Salty
> >>
> > -- 
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Re: Redhat on Dell Servers.

2003-01-13 Thread Nadim Bitar
>You haven't done much research into this have you.  You should at least
>be sure of your facts before you make comments like that :)


Maybe you should check your facts, i am running Redhat linux on dell
servers and having problems that could be  easily solved if i had a
windows machine. I know that these servers run perfectly on Linux but
many utilities that are available for windows are not available for
linux or if they are you either need windows to install them or you need
windows on the client to access the remote management interface.
I do not like the fact that linux is a second class citizen and i do not
like the fact that they impose windows in order to install the required
files on my linux server. 
The Dell My Support page downloads that i need are .exe files that needs
windows to create the boot disk that i need, some documentation are even
bundled in .exe files. 
The My Dell support page doens't even list Linux as a OS for submitting
an email to technical support.
It is not enough to just have the hardware supported under linux to
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Re: Redhat on Dell Servers.

2003-01-13 Thread Peter Larsen
Nadim Bitar wrote:
>> You haven't done much research into this have you.  You should at
>> least be sure of your facts before you make comments like that :)
> 
> 
> Maybe you should check your facts, i am running Redhat linux on dell
> servers and having problems that could be  easily solved if i had a
> windows machine. I know that these servers run perfectly on Linux but
> many utilities that are available for windows are not available for
> linux or if they are you either need windows to install them or you
> need windows on the client to access the remote management interface.

A - I see your confusion. Dell, could make the website somewhat better, I agree. 
However, you don't need windows to use the driver/application packages on the site.
When I list the software available to our PowerEdge servers, and list only Linux, 
you're right when I ask for a specific download, it only prints .exe files. HOWEVER, 
read the small print :)  These are self-extracting ZIP files - hence unzip will 
uncompress them easily. Even on Linux.

Ie:
[plarsen@dilbert tmp]$ unzip -l Utl.exe
Archive:  Utl.exe
  Length Date   TimeName
    
0  02-19-01 10:54   CIM/
 3847  12-29-00 13:44   CIM/readme.txt
0  02-19-01 10:54   ControlSuite/
   439911  02-15-01 19:45   ControlSuite/data1.cab
15067  02-15-01 19:45   ControlSuite/data1.hdr
  1595007  02-15-01 19:45   ControlSuite/data2.cab
   338488  01-10-01 08:39   ControlSuite/ikernel.ex_
  435  02-15-01 19:45   ControlSuite/layout.bin
10430  02-09-01 13:25   ControlSuite/license.txt
 9138  01-02-01 13:37   ControlSuite/logo.bmp
 5060  02-02-01 14:38   ControlSuite/release.txt
54272  08-11-00 04:22   ControlSuite/Setup.exe
   96  12-11-00 14:35   ControlSuite/Setup.ini
   140200  02-15-01 19:45   ControlSuite/setup.inx
0  02-19-01 10:54   DMI/
0  02-19-01 10:54   DMI/hppdell/
45056  01-19-01 17:30   DMI/hppdell/b57dmihp.exe
13222  11-21-00 18:18   DMI/hppdell/b57dmihp.mif
 5556  01-19-01 17:42   DMI/hppdell/release.txt
0  02-19-01 10:54   DOS/
0  02-19-01 10:54   DOS/UserDiag/
   489040  02-15-01 20:51   DOS/UserDiag/b57diag.exe
   143983  02-15-01 12:17   DOS/UserDiag/b57diagman.pdf
 4460  12-28-00 12:47   DOS/UserDiag/cpu.bin
   265396  07-20-00 18:35   DOS/UserDiag/dos4gw.exe
14249  02-15-01 19:39   DOS/UserDiag/release.txt
0  02-19-01 10:54   DOS/Utility/
22581  01-31-01 17:11   DOS/Utility/b57util.exe
22739  01-31-01 17:20   DOS/Utility/b57util.pdf
  619  01-31-01 17:27   DOS/Utility/release.txt
0  02-19-01 10:54   SNMP/
45056  01-11-01 17:58   SNMP/baspmgnt.dll
0  02-19-01 10:54   SNMP/Mibs/
10481  01-11-01 17:54   SNMP/Mibs/baspConfig.mib
13428  01-11-01 17:36   SNMP/Mibs/baspStat.mib
 2603  01-11-01 17:36   SNMP/Mibs/baspTrap.mib
 3975  01-11-01 17:57   SNMP/release.txt
    ---
  3714395   37 files
[plarsen@dilbert tmp]$


Dell could make each platform their own downloadable - but I don't think this is the 
forum for that debate. Try the suggested lists from dell or try the web-master for 
better suggestions.

> I do not like the fact that linux is a second class citizen and i do
> not like the fact that they impose windows in order to install the
> required files on my linux server.

You forget that some of the utililites are not needed on Linux. You have complete 
driver sets for all your hardware - what is not always there is cute little purpose 
less programs to view Scsi status graphicly (ie) - well, we got better ways of doing 
that from the command line anyway. But I guess that depends on your temper and 
experience. Personally I'm very fond of the /proc filesystem and access to the details 
of all setup and available switches compared to the reduced availability on Windows 
systems.

> The Dell My Support page downloads that i need are .exe files that
> needs windows to create the boot disk that i need, some documentation
> are even bundled in .exe files.

No they don't :)  But it's easy to confuse. See above. unzip is available in the 
standard RH distribution. I'm NOT sure it's installed per default, but it's rather 
simple to load it.

> The My Dell support page doens't even list Linux as a OS for
> submitting an email to technical support.
??
I had/has for me.

> It is not enough to just have the hardware supported under linux to
> claim they support Linux.


What else is there for a hardware company?

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Re: Postfix (was Re: Mozilla & Sound)

2003-01-13 Thread Keith Winston
Mike Vanecek wrote:

>I assume /etc/rc.d/init.d/postfix start/stop works?

Yes.

>Two quick questions:
>
>I assume that I have to turn this on to use procmail?  Anything else 
>that I
>need to worry about with postfix and procmail?
>
>#mailbox_command = /some/where/procmail
>#mailbox_command = /some/where/procmail -a "$EXTENSION"

You don't have to set the mailbox_command option to use procmail.  If 
you create a $HOME/.forward file with something like this:

|exec /usr/bin/procmail

Then, postfix will honor it and forward mail to procmail.  If you use 
the mailbox_command, then it forces postfix to use procmail to deliver 
ALL local mail, not just for certain users.  You need to decide which 
you prefer.

>If someone is using RH 8 Postfix, would they please confirm that these 
>are the bottom two lines in /etc/postfix/main.cf:
>
># readme_directory: The location of the Postfix README files.
>#
>readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-1.1.11/README_FILES

>I was slinging keys around between a local and remote machine testing 
>things and I worry I may have zapped the bottom of the main.cf file.

Here are the last 4 lines of the original Red Hat installed main.cf on 
my system:
# readme_directory: The location of the Postfix README files.
#
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-1.1.11/README_FILES
alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases

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Re: Linux backup software

2003-01-13 Thread Joe Klemmer
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 09:14, Lionel Barrow wrote:

> Ok guys, I got hopefully an easy question for you to answer. I need a
> reputable, powerful and easy to configure Linux backup program. I am going
> to be configuring several RH 8.0 machines for some of my customers and I
> want a solution where they just have to insert a tape, click a button and
> the next day, take that tape out, another one and repeat process.
> 
> Please, I need as many suggestions as possible with their associated web
> links. This is very urgent. Thanks in advance guys.

BRU works nicely.

http://www.linuxcentral.com/catalog/index.php3?prod_code=S000-207
http://www.tolisgroup.com/

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Re: Redhat on Dell Servers.

2003-01-13 Thread Mr. Adam ALLEN
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 18:40, Nadim Bitar wrote:
> >You haven't done much research into this have you.  You should at least
> >be sure of your facts before you make comments like that :)
> 
> 
> Maybe you should check your facts, i am running Redhat linux on dell
> servers and having problems that could be  easily solved if i had a
> windows machine. I know that these servers run perfectly on Linux but
> many utilities that are available for windows are not available for
> linux or if they are you either need windows to install them or you need
> windows on the client to access the remote management interface.
> I do not like the fact that linux is a second class citizen and i do not
> like the fact that they impose windows in order to install the required
> files on my linux server. 
> The Dell My Support page downloads that i need are .exe files that needs
> windows to create the boot disk that i need, some documentation are even
> bundled in .exe files. 

Wine may good enough to allow you to extract the files.


> The My Dell support page doens't even list Linux as a OS for submitting
> an email to technical support.
> It is not enough to just have the hardware supported under linux to
> claim they support Linux. 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Redhat on Dell Servers.

2003-01-13 Thread Peter Larsen
Derek Martin wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 02:03:55PM -0500, Peter Larsen wrote:
>> When I list the software available to our PowerEdge servers, and
>> list only Linux, you're right when I ask for a specific download, it
>> only prints .exe files. HOWEVER, read the small print :)  These are
>> self-extracting ZIP files - hence unzip will uncompress them easily.
>> Even on Linux.
> 
> Unless the images have passwords.  This may no longer be true, but
> historically, Dell's support utilities required a password to decrypt
> the zip file.  Linux unzip did not support this functionality.  I had
> to get Dell support to send me an unencrypted zip file...  No small
> feat.

Well, that's why I showed a simple example. I've not in 2 years (since I started 
administrating Dell servers) seen any password protected PUBLIC drivers from Dell.

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orphaned processes in 7.3 and 8.0

2003-01-13 Thread Brian Jones
hi all.

I'll try to give as much info as possible about this small annoyance.  
Just to summarize what's happening, though, I'm seeing a lot of 
orphaned processes on both redhat 7.3 and 8.0 boxes.  By 'orphaned', I 
mean that the processes wind up being listed as having PPID '1', and 
not attached to any pty.

For example, I have blackbox running on my local desktop, and if I open 
up Eterm, issue the command 'vi myfile', and then click the eterm 
window control to close the window, I'll be left with a bash and Eterm 
process, both under PPID '1', and a vi process owned by the original 
bash process (now a child of PPID '1').

On my local machine, this really isn't much of an issue, because I 
actually make a point of exiting everything properly.  I never just 
click to close a window.  However, we have some 7.3 workgroup servers 
that people in the department can just 'ssh -X' to, and they may not be 
so careful.  After a while, the load average on these machines goes up 
over 3 or 4, and I find myself running 'ps -ef | grep vi' and killing 
off old vi (and emacs) processes.  Doing this causes the load average 
to (almost every time) 0.00 again.

The 8.0 machine is running a redhat stock kernel (2.4.18), and has 1GB 
of RAM.
The 7.3 machines are dual Xeon Dell 2650's running a custom-configured 
2.4.20 kernel.  They're all identical from both a hardware and software 
perspective.

Is there a way to kill off these orphans, or detect them with some 
script to make the job of maintaining these boxes easier?

Also, why does this seem to only happen on Linux boxes?  I have only 
seen this on solaris in very rare instances.  Is this a problem with 
the individual applications not exiting properly, or a problem with the 
kernel or redhat or something?  Anything I can do?

Thanks for any advice here.
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pkgadd, pkginfo for Linux

2003-01-13 Thread Abdelkader DALI
I'd like to install a software on my redhat 8 system which has been designed
for SunOs. It requires pkgadd, pkginfo products. Do these products exist for
Linux ?

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Re: orphaned processes in 7.3 and 8.0

2003-01-13 Thread Keith Winston
Brian Jones wrote:

hi all.

I'll try to give as much info as possible about this small annoyance.  
Just to summarize what's happening, though, I'm seeing a lot of orphaned 
processes on both redhat 7.3 and 8.0 boxes.  By 'orphaned', I mean that 
the processes wind up being listed as having PPID '1', and not attached 
to any pty.

For example, I have blackbox running on my local desktop, and if I open 
up Eterm, issue the command 'vi myfile', and then click the eterm window 
control to close the window, I'll be left with a bash and Eterm process, 
both under PPID '1', and a vi process owned by the original bash process 
(now a child of PPID '1').

[snip]

Is there a way to kill off these orphans, or detect them with some 
script to make the job of maintaining these boxes easier?

Also, why does this seem to only happen on Linux boxes?  I have only 
seen this on solaris in very rare instances.  Is this a problem with the 
individual applications not exiting properly, or a problem with the 
kernel or redhat or something?  Anything I can do?

Thanks for any advice here.

I found a program last year called "killerd" that does exactly what you 
want.  It scans the system periodically for expired logins and orphaned 
programs, then kills them:

http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/linux.shtml

I've looked at the source and it is highly configurable.  For example, 
you can only scan and kill orphaned 'vi' processes, etc.  However, I 
have _never_ run it.  It's in my interesting to look at later folder. 
If it is what you need, I'd be interesed in hearing about the results.

The guy who wrote it has some other cool programs, too.

Best Regards,
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Increasing an ext3 partition

2003-01-13 Thread John BouAntoun
Hi guys,

I have a bit of an issue. I installed RH 8.0 in 4 GB of HDD space in the following 
format:

 - 1GB Swap partition
 - 3GB ext3 partition mounted at /

A very simple partitioning approach. My problem is that I am running out of spave on 
my / partition. I have resized my windows partition (i.e. shrunk it) to make up some 
more room for linux using Partition Magic, but I don't have a version that can resize 
ext3 partitions.

I suddenly relaized that in all the time I have used linux I have never had to resize 
my linux drive.

So my question is, how do I expand my ext3 / partition to take up the newly freed up 
hard disk space?

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Re: Increasing an ext3 partition

2003-01-13 Thread Javier Gostling
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:31:12AM +1100, John BouAntoun wrote:

[snip]
> So my question is, how do I expand my ext3 / partition to take up the newly freed up 
>hard disk space?

Parted is the tool. You could also make a new partition in the freed
space, move some hierarchy to it and configure your system to use this
new partition. Finally, you can always backup, remove the current
partition, create a new (larger) partition and restore your data.

Cheers,
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Re: pkgadd, pkginfo for Linux

2003-01-13 Thread Edward S. Marshall
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:14:58PM +0100, Abdelkader DALI wrote:
> I'd like to install a software on my redhat 8 system which has been designed
> for SunOs. It requires pkgadd, pkginfo products. Do these products exist for
> Linux ?

pkgadd and friends are the tools that collectively make up the package
management system under Solaris. Presumably, you're wanting to run Solaris
executables under Linux, then. There are a whole bunch of problems with what
you're probably trying to do (I say probably, because I'm making a few
assumptions about your setup and motives).

Solaris packages are really just cpio archives with a little semantic glue
packed around them. So, technically, unpacking them under Linux shouldn't be
incredibly hard (now that I think about it, raw cpio may just do the trick).
You'll need to write these tools; to the best of my knowledge (someone will
probably correct me as soon as I send this ;-), package-compatible versions
of these don't exist right now. However, assuming you get past that, you now
have a couple of problems:

- You're (probably; I assume you're not running Solaris x86, because, well,
  if you are, you already have enough problems ;-) trying to run binaries
  for a completely different hardware platform. Not gonna work. Period.
  Unless someone has written "VMWare SPARC" while I've been dozing. ;-) If
  you're running Solaris x86, then...

- You're trying to run binaries built for a completely differen operating
  system. Because Solaris and Linux have ELF in common, you might actually
  be able to get something working here by mass-importing libraries from
  Solaris until you have a working environment. But at that point, you're
  really just running Solaris on Linux, which begs the question of why you
  wouldn't just use Solaris for the job ;-)

If you're skilled, you may be able to make something work, depending on the
software and architecture it targets. But just use Solaris. Or get a Linux
version of whatever software you're trying to run. You'll be much happier.

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Re: Increasing an ext3 partition

2003-01-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Javier Gostling wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:31:12AM +1100, John BouAntoun wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> > So my question is, how do I expand my ext3 / partition to take up the newly freed 
>up hard disk space?
> 
> Parted is the tool. You could also make a new partition in the freed
> space, move some hierarchy to it and configure your system to use this
> new partition. Finally, you can always backup, remove the current
> partition, create a new (larger) partition and restore your data.

or start using the LVM (logical volume manager).  i'm surprised that
more people aren't suggesting that.  is LVM just not popular, or what?

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RE: fc-cache and NT Font weirdness..

2003-01-13 Thread Hugh A.J. Kennedy
I wouldn't be able to mount the file system or link to it without a
recompile, sorry I thought that was obvious from by description. I don't
want to enable write though as I know that there are still some issues
though with writes to an NTFS filesystem so I can't just link the directory.
I must link the contents of the WIN2K fonts directory to my font directory
(/usr/local/share/fonts/win). The program fc-cache doesn't see the files if
they are soft linked to the NTFS partition. It does if they are linked to
the Win98 FAT partition. If I copy the Win2K fonts with cp, no problem, so I
guess the fonts are ok. My theory is that perhaps fc-cache is looking to
open the files for write (allowed from LINUX under FAT but not under NTFS).

Thanks anyway,

Hugh Kennedy
Oakweald Ltd

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# CONFIG_NTFS_RW is not set

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Re: Hw RAID (Promise 20265 Fasttrak 100)

2003-01-13 Thread Charles A. Crayne
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:59:31 -0500
"JUSTIN GERRY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

:Amazing; I received the COLDEST shoulder from Promise when I called
:them in the 2nd and 3rd week of November about drivers and support for
:a Fasttrack SX4000 and RedHat 8.0 (which they still don't support!!).

Perhaps the SX4000 is supported by a different group -- I don't know how else to 
explain it. All I can do is to confirm that, in my case, the FastTrack PDC202xx 
support team recompiled their proprietary module against the RedHat 8.0 libraries, and 
emailed it to me on Tuesday, November 16, 2002, which was less than 24 hours after I 
first contacted them.

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Re: Increasing an ext3 partition

2003-01-13 Thread Javier Gostling
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 04:53:25PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> or start using the LVM (logical volume manager).  i'm surprised that
> more people aren't suggesting that.  is LVM just not popular, or what?

I use it... Ok. I'm learning to use it. Anyway, If your system does not
already use LVM, it's not an option unless you want to reinstall (I did
this to start playing with it).

Cheers,
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Increasing an ext3 partition

2003-01-13 Thread John BouAntoun
Thanks for suggestions guys, much appreciated.

I've heard a bit about LVM, but have no real idea how it works/what it does.

Can anyone provide a bit of insight (before I go and read up the web site) about it, 
and how it could help me.

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Ati rage 128 pro ultra not working

2003-01-13 Thread Tiziano
I try many times to make working xfree with my "Ati rage 128 pro ultra all 
in wonder", every time i start the x server my monitor tell me that i'm out 
of frequences (like 20kHz V 10Hx O). I try RH7.3 and 8.0, the probing is ok 
and tell r128 chip found and the correct frequences of the monitor (philips 
107E 17'').
What i should try? Thanks Tiziano



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How to update evolution?

2003-01-13 Thread Peter Boy

I had updated my evolution to evolution-1.2.1-2 (from rawhide) some
times ago. Now I would like to update to evolution-1.2.1-4 (or reinstall
1.2.1-2, but it's no longer in rawhide), because there are some problems
with my installation. The new version requires newer version of several
libs, esp. libcrypto and libssl, which seems to be delivered by the
openssl package. If I try to update openssl it is rejected because there
are many many progs which depend of libcrypto/libssl.so.2 which should
be replaced by *.so.4 by the update.

I don't like to update all these programs (postgresql, samba, kdebase,
...) which work quite fine. May I force an update of openssl and will it
not break all the other progs or should I force an update of evolution
and will it work with the older lib, too?

How to proceed?

Thanks for advice.
Peter


P.S.
The problem with my installation: When I click on tools -> pilot conduit
settings nothing happens at all. I can't configure the conduit. The
current configuration seems to be broken because the palm sync does not
effect calendar and TODO, just the addresses. 

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metamail missing?

2003-01-13 Thread Ronald W. Heiby
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Hello psyche-list,

We used to use some cool MIME Email tools called (I believe) the
"metamail" package, including the command "metasend". According to the
8.0 release notes, the package was removed from 8.0.

Any particular reason why? Any recommendation on where to get a
current release of it?

Thanks!

Ron.

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Re: Hw RAID (Promise 20265 Fasttrak 100)

2003-01-13 Thread Matthew J. Axsom
Charles A. Crayne wrote:


On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 10:59:31 -0500
"JUSTIN GERRY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

:Amazing; I received the COLDEST shoulder from Promise when I called
:them in the 2nd and 3rd week of November about drivers and support for
:a Fasttrack SX4000 and RedHat 8.0 (which they still don't support!!).

Perhaps the SX4000 is supported by a different group -- I don't know how else to explain it. All I can do is to confirm that, in my case, the FastTrack PDC202xx support team recompiled their proprietary module against the RedHat 8.0 libraries, and emailed it to me on Tuesday, November 16, 2002, which was less than 24 hours after I first contacted them.

-- Chuck




 

My experience with Promise Cards

I attempted to use two Promise FastTrak cards last year in a single 
system to no avail... after contacting customer support I found that I 
would have to blow away the bios on one card (which voids the warranty) 
in order for the other card to be a master for both systems.  The 
Promise technicians also stated that this was true if you have an 
onboard Promise controller and then try to plug in a pci promise card - 
Good Luck!!!  I was rather frustrated as nowhere was it documented that 
you could only use a single card and was also having similiar difficulty 
in getting them to release drivers for Red Hat 7.3.  They had 6.1/2 out 
there for download.  In my case I was refused driver support at the time 
and told to wait till they were released (who knows when) or downgrade 
to Red Hat 6.1/2.  There was some kernel support for the promise driver 
at the time but not for RAID 1+0 (only mirroring).   I would have 
preferred to use something a little more tried and true especially given 
I wanted to use two cards in the same system.  I stumbled across a post 
somewhere stating that 3Ware was selling RAID cards again so I decided 
to check them out.  I found a good deal on the 3w7410 (4 channel) at 
www.hypermicro.com for $235  The drivers are fully open source and Red 
Hat will recognize the Card without having to load any additional 
driver(s), etc.  The 3Ware cards also support multiple cards in a single 
system without any problems and come with either 2,4,8 or 12 channel 
support (some have serial ata).

Spend your money elsewhere and eventually they will get the point.  Who 
wants to contact the vendor at every point release to get a new storage 
driver???

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Re: Increasing an ext3 partition

2003-01-13 Thread Keith Morse
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, John BouAntoun wrote:

> Thanks for suggestions guys, much appreciated.
> 
> I've heard a bit about LVM, but have no real idea how it works/what it does.
> 
> Can anyone provide a bit of insight (before I go and read up the web site) about it, 
>and how it could help me.
> 
> Thanks again


I really do recomend reading the LVM howto.  It has a section in it that 
talks about why you'd want to use it.



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Re: pkgadd, pkginfo for Linux

2003-01-13 Thread Tommy McNeely
I have heard the opposite... It is possible to run linux binaries on 
Solaris x86 using something called "lxrun" .. not sure if it works, never 
tried it... http://www.sunfreeware.com have fun :)

Tommy

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On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 10:14:58PM +0100, Abdelkader DALI wrote:

I'd like to install a software on my redhat 8 system which has been
designed for SunOs. It requires pkgadd, pkginfo products. Do these
products exist for Linux ?


I have heard somewhere or other that it is possible to run solaris x86
binaries on Linux.  Not sure by what mechanism this is possible...
But if you've got it working sufficiently that you think installing
Solaris packages on a Linux machine is a good idea, then you should be
able to copy the package management binaries from your Solaris box and
just run them.

You give no indication of what it is that you're trying to do, but
it's very possible that there are free software alternatives that
already run on Linux natively.  If so, this is probably a much better
solution...

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Upgrading to 2.4.20 Linux Kernel

2003-01-13 Thread Michael Griffis
Hello ...

Has anyone had any luck upgrading to the 2.4.20 kernel in RH8?  

If so ...

a) What method did you use to do so?  Download from kernel.org and
compile or did you find some RPMs ...

b) Any words of wisdom?  Lessons learned?

I know that there is an RPM for kernel-2.4.20-2.2 on the redhat network
site ... but it says that it is for Red Hat Linux Beta (Phoebe) i386.  

Does anyone know if I can use this to upgrade my kernel in 8.0

Thanks for you help.

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Re: Increasing an ext3 partition

2003-01-13 Thread Samuel Flory
Robert P. J. Day wrote:


On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Javier Gostling wrote:

 

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:31:12AM +1100, John BouAntoun wrote:

[snip]
   

So my question is, how do I expand my ext3 / partition to take up the newly freed up hard disk space?
 

Parted is the tool. You could also make a new partition in the freed
space, move some hierarchy to it and configure your system to use this
new partition. Finally, you can always backup, remove the current
partition, create a new (larger) partition and restore your data.
   


or start using the LVM (logical volume manager).  i'm surprised that
more people aren't suggesting that.  is LVM just not popular, or what?
 


 Telling people to use lvm at this point is sort of like.  Oh... 
Telling a guy who's shirt is on fire that he shouldn't wear flamable 
clothing.

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802.11b wireless config

2003-01-13 Thread Jerry Roy
Hi all,

Anyone know how to enable a D-Link wireless 802.11b card on RedHat 8.0?

TIA

Jerry Roy 
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Re: Upgrading to 2.4.20 Linux Kernel

2003-01-13 Thread James McArthur
Hi,

On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 11:22, Michael Griffis wrote:
> Hello ...
> 
> Has anyone had any luck upgrading to the 2.4.20 kernel in RH8?  
> 
> If so ...
> 
> a) What method did you use to do so?  Download from kernel.org and
> compile or did you find some RPMs ...

Downloaded from kernel.org..

> b) Any words of wisdom?  Lessons learned?

It was just as painless as the other kernel builds :)

> I know that there is an RPM for kernel-2.4.20-2.2 on the redhat network
> site ... but it says that it is for Red Hat Linux Beta (Phoebe) i386.  

A friend has installed this on his RH8 box.. he claims nothing but
problems. The .tar.gz he downloaded afterwards gave him no grief. (I
dont know what was wrong with the RH 2.4.20 RPM other then 'it didnt
work my hardware' :/)


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Re: Upgrading to 2.4.20 Linux Kernel

2003-01-13 Thread Jack Bowling
** Reply to message from Michael Griffis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 13 
Jan 2003 18:52:20 -0700


> Hello ...
> 
> Has anyone had any luck upgrading to the 2.4.20 kernel in RH8?  
> 
> If so ...
> 
> a) What method did you use to do so?  Download from kernel.org and
> compile or did you find some RPMs ...
> 
> b) Any words of wisdom?  Lessons learned?

If you haven't done a kernel compile before, you may want to do some googling around 
for the compile how-tos out there. It isn't much of a mystery. The important thing is 
to get a working .config file, either by using the xconfig or menuconfig scripts 
before starting the compile process. I'm running the latest Marcelo 2.4.21-pre3 with 
zero problems (other than the occasional mysterious lockups which date back to 2.4.18).
 
> I know that there is an RPM for kernel-2.4.20-2.2 on the redhat network
> site ... but it says that it is for Red Hat Linux Beta (Phoebe) i386.  
> 
> Does anyone know if I can use this to upgrade my kernel in 8.0

Highly doubtful. This RH kernel is patched for many things including interoperability 
with the nptl-enhanced glibc used in Phoebe.

jb

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Re: Postfix (was Re: Mozilla & Sound)

2003-01-13 Thread Mike Vanecek
-- Original Message ---
From: Keith Winston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 14:20:53 -0500
Subject: Re: Postfix (was Re: Mozilla & Sound)

> Mike Vanecek wrote:
> 
>  >I assume /etc/rc.d/init.d/postfix start/stop works?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>  >Two quick questions:
>  >
>  >I assume that I have to turn this on to use procmail?  Anything else 
>  >that I
>  >need to worry about with postfix and procmail?
>  >
>  >#mailbox_command = /some/where/procmail
>  >#mailbox_command = /some/where/procmail -a "$EXTENSION"
> 
> You don't have to set the mailbox_command option to use procmail.  If 
> you create a $HOME/.forward file with something like this:
> 
> |exec /usr/bin/procmail
> 
> Then, postfix will honor it and forward mail to procmail.  If you use 
> the mailbox_command, then it forces postfix to use procmail to deliver 
> ALL local mail, not just for certain users.  You need to decide which 
> you prefer.

If I use the .forward approach above, and have a .procmailrc file in the
user's home directory, will the procmailrc then me processed?  I am not quite
sure what impact of making a call to procmail from the forward file has for
the user. 

Is the following correct?

Postfix sees the .forward file that starts procmail. Procmail starts and looks
in $HOME/.procmailrc (and most likely /etc/procmailrc) and does its thing.
Once the mail is processed, procmail goes away until that user receives email
again. Not a bad approach.

However, if one wants to use spamd with all users, then having procmail
running to process individual .procmailrc calls to spamdc might make more sense?

>  >If someone is using RH 8 Postfix, would they please confirm that these 
>  >are the bottom two lines in /etc/postfix/main.cf:

> Here are the last 4 lines of the original Red Hat installed main.cf on 
> my system:
> # readme_directory: The location of the Postfix README files.
> #
> readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-1.1.11/README_FILES
> alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases

Thank you very much. I had seen the alias_database at the end and thought I
had zapped something. I moved it up with the rest, but then got to wondering
if my cut/paste got carried away.

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Re: Screen Savers on RH8 causing lockups

2003-01-13 Thread Craig White
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 08:37, Stephen Carville wrote:
> Your screen savers work!?!?!?!  All I've even been able to get is the 
> blank screen.
> 

up2date -u

KDE fixed that a while ago

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Re: pkgadd, pkginfo for Linux

2003-01-13 Thread Joe Klemmer
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 16:14, Abdelkader DALI wrote:

> I'd like to install a software on my redhat 8 system which has been designed
> for SunOs. It requires pkgadd, pkginfo products. Do these products exist for
> Linux ?

For Red Hat the tool is rpm.

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Re: Mozilla & Sound

2003-01-13 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 19:02, Mike Vanecek wrote:
> Out of box RH 8 with all RHN updates, Gnome desktop, Mozilla (installed
> plugger and add-ins [Xanim, java, etc. - what a pain!]).
> 
> Page with background sounds do not play them:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> MikeV's Home Page
> 
> 
> 
> 
> This url plays the background music
> http://www.mm-vanecek.com/takeonme.midi
> 
> This url does not play the background music
> http://www.mm-vanecek.com/
> 
> Also, embedded sounds do not work:
> 
>  loop="2" autostart="true"> src="mvsbirth_files/birthday.mid" 
> loop=2>
> 
> This url does not play the background music
> http://www.mm-vanecek.com/mvsbirth.html
> 
> This url does play the background music
> http://www.mm-vanecek.com/mvsbirth_files/birthday.mid
> 
> Pages work with IE5.5
> 
> How can I get Mozilla to play music on a web page? 
> 
> Should I remove Mozilla and install a different browser? Does one exist that 
> comes with the basic pluggins to use the web without spending a day getting 
> it configured and then it does not work?
> 
--
Perhaps you should find http editor that doesn't write code that only
works on IE (Front Page is what was used).

There are differences between javascript and j-script and I think you
have just run smack dab into one of them.

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Re: Upgrading to 2.4.20 Linux Kernel

2003-01-13 Thread dennis
I use a custom built 2.4.20 kernel for my server.  i had to apply some patches 
for a new scsi card i bought so i stepped up. i built the kernel on my 
desktop  tarred it up and tarred the modules copied them over untarred and 
configured grub.  i used a stock 2.4.20 from kernel.org  but as its a server 
and doesnt have x i didnt need to worry about kernel drm modules for x.

Dennis


Quoting Michael Griffis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Hello ...
> 
> Has anyone had any luck upgrading to the 2.4.20 kernel in RH8?  
> 
> If so ...
> 
> a) What method did you use to do so?  Download from kernel.org and
> compile or did you find some RPMs ...
> 
> b) Any words of wisdom?  Lessons learned?
> 
> I know that there is an RPM for kernel-2.4.20-2.2 on the redhat network
> site ... but it says that it is for Red Hat Linux Beta (Phoebe) i386.  
> 
> Does anyone know if I can use this to upgrade my kernel in 8.0
> 
> Thanks for you help.
> 
> mg
> 
> 
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Re: Mozilla & Sound

2003-01-13 Thread James McArthur
Hi,

On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 13:01, Craig White wrote:
> Perhaps you should find http editor that doesn't write code that only
> works on IE (Front Page is what was used).
> 
> There are differences between javascript and j-script and I think you
> have just run smack dab into one of them.

Dunno how valid the BGSOUND= tag is in HTML, but I'd be very suprised if
it wasnt supported under Linux .. I used to listen to such sounds
without a problem using AWeb on my Amiga 5 years ago.

I'm taking a guess that j-script is some kind of M$ hacking of
javascript?

James

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Re: Upgrading to 2.4.20 Linux Kernel

2003-01-13 Thread James McArthur
Hi,

On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 13:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I use a custom built 2.4.20 kernel for my server.  i had to apply some patches 
> for a new scsi card i bought so i stepped up. i built the kernel on my 
> desktop  tarred it up and tarred the modules copied them over untarred and 
> configured grub.  i used a stock 2.4.20 from kernel.org  but as its a server 
> and doesnt have x i didnt need to worry about kernel drm modules for x.

Just pondering doing something similar. Is it possible to build the
kernel on one machine, copy the kernel directory to another machine, and
then do a 'make modules_install'?

hmmm..

James

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Re: metamail missing?

2003-01-13 Thread Philippe
Hi,

http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=metamail&submit=Search+...

Maybe try to take the RH7.3 source and compile it. Or try the RH 7.3 rpm
first.

Hope this helps, but not sure ;-)

Cheers,

Philippe

On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 07:26, Ronald W. Heiby wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Hello psyche-list,
> 
> We used to use some cool MIME Email tools called (I believe) the
> "metamail" package, including the command "metasend". According to the
> 8.0 release notes, the package was removed from 8.0.
> 
> Any particular reason why? Any recommendation on where to get a
> current release of it?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Ron.
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Re: 802.11b wireless config

2003-01-13 Thread Andrew Smith
> Hi all,
> 
> Anyone know how to enable a D-Link wireless 802.11b card on RedHat 8.0?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Jerry Roy 

Depends on which card.
If it is a 22Mb card (that uses the TI chipset) then there are no
drivers for it yet unless someone has released something in the
last month (or is hiding and doesn't want anyone to know about
the drivers :-)

According to DLink support in Ausrtalia, there is a closed source
driver due out soon.
I am now wondering what 'soon' means though coz my definition of
soon may be a bit faster than D-Link :-)
The driver page for my 520+ card is:
http://www.dlink.com.au/tech/drivers/files/wireless/dwl520+.htm
but still no reference to "linux" there or anywhere else on the AUS
site using their search page.
Then again, the AUS linux drivers may be no help to you if they do
release them.

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set nomail on enrique1982tia

2003-01-13 Thread Javier E. Tia Marin



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Re: Linux backup software

2003-01-13 Thread Marko Asplund
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Keith Winston wrote:

> ...
> I agree. I am using tar and DLT tape drives on all my servers.  Combined 
> with a simple bash script and cron, it handles everything I need for 
> backups.

you can probably make tar into a backup solution but if you consider your
time to be a limited and valuable resource you will definetely want to
consider using real backup software. we've been fairly happy with Arkeia.
Amanda seems to be a viable solution from the free software world but it's
configuration might take some time.

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Re: Mozilla & Sound

2003-01-13 Thread Mike Vanecek

-- Original Message ---
From: Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 13 Jan 2003 20:31:49 -0700
Subject: Re: Mozilla & Sound

> On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 19:02, Mike Vanecek wrote:
> > Out of box RH 8 with all RHN updates, Gnome desktop, Mozilla (installed
> > plugger and add-ins [Xanim, java, etc. - what a pain!]).
> > 
> > Page with background sounds do not play them:
> > 
> Perhaps you should find http editor that doesn't write code that only
> works on IE (Front Page is what was used).
> 
> There are differences between javascript and j-script and I think you
> have just run smack dab into one of them.

The referenced page does not have any javascript or j-script. It is a simple
page I put up for testing purposes. 

Me finding an editor will only solve music on my test page. An amazing number
of sites have pages that work with IE, but do not work with the Mozilla on my
RH 8 system. An amazing number of sites use Frontpage. Interestingly enough,
the test page goes through w3 validation with no errors.

I have reported it to Bugzilla and am working with them to try to narrow down
the problem. One thing that pops up is the bgsound tag.

Do you have a recommendation for a wysiwyg http editor that writes code that
is generic enough for all browsers (other than gedit)?

In any event, thank you for your helpful suggestions.





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Re: Mozilla & Sound

2003-01-13 Thread Mike Vanecek
-- Original Message ---
From: James McArthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 14 Jan 2003 13:24:07 +0930
Subject: Re: Mozilla & Sound

> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 13:01, Craig White wrote:
> > Perhaps you should find http editor that doesn't write code that only
> > works on IE (Front Page is what was used).
> > 
> > There are differences between javascript and j-script and I think you
> > have just run smack dab into one of them.
> 
> Dunno how valid the BGSOUND= tag is in HTML, but I'd be very suprised if
> it wasnt supported under Linux .. I used to listen to such sounds
> without a problem using AWeb on my Amiga 5 years ago.
> 
> I'm taking a guess that j-script is some kind of M$ hacking of
> javascript?
> 
> James

BGSOUND does seem to be an issue. I would like to put up another test page
that has a generic approach to background music. What html code would
accomplish the same thing as BGSOUND?




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Error Recompiled Kernel 2.4.18-14

2003-01-13 Thread Javier E. Tia Marin
Hi guys:


After make bzImages modules, I have this error:

 de sched.c:19:
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/include/linux/kernel.h:73: error de decodificación
antes de "va_list"
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/include/linux/kernel.h:73: aviso: la declaración de
la
función no es un prototipo
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/include/linux/kernel.h:76: error de decodificación
antes de "va_list"
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/include/linux/kernel.h:76: aviso: la declaración de
la
función no es un prototipo
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/include/linux/kernel.h:80: error de decodificación
antes de "va_list"
/usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/include/linux/kernel.h:80: aviso: la declaración de
la
función no es un prototipo
sched.c: En la función sys_sched_yield':
sched.c:1374: aviso: variable 'rq' sin uso
make[2]: *** [sched.o] Error 1
make[2]: Saliendo directorio /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/kernel'
make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[1]: Saliendo directorio /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-14/kernel'
make: *** [_dir_kernel] Error 2


any suggetions please?

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Slow Nautilus fine rename

2003-01-13 Thread Cedric Chausson
Hello all,

I am using Nautilus 2.0.6 with RH 8.0 with kernel 2.4.18-19.8.0.

I have found a weird behavior pattern when renaming files in Nautilus. 
I use F2 to get into the name of the file, change it and press enter to 
validate it. For the first file I do this all goes ok and very quickly. 
Once I press Enter to validate the change, I get the hand back almost 
instantly.

But if I go on to rename another file right after a first one then 
there is a problem when I press Enter to validate the change. I don't 
get the hand back instantly. Nautilus hangs for some time (I'd say 
something like 30 seconds).

Anyone has an idea what could be causing this ?

Thanks in advance,



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