fonts dont show in open offc or mozilla
I've installed my true type fonts in /usr/share/fonts/local installed them as indicated in the Release notes. They appear in all the desktop applications, but do not appear in the font selection lists in open office or mozilla or galeon. I can't find an answer to this problem in the documentation disk. Is there a solution to this? Another issue is font quality in general .. it's not as good in psyche as it was in valhalla .. same fonts, same hardware, just not as sharp .. even tried the anti-aliasing feature .. is there a specific reason for this? Any workaround?
cdrecord obsolete
I have a usb cdrw .. it won't work under cdrecord-1.10, but works fine under any cdrecord-1.11 version. Is there a more up to date version that's compatible with psyche available?
evolution font too small
Is there a way to change the font size used in evolution .. everything is too small for me?
Re: Psyche-list digest, Vol 1 #257 - 14 msgs
On Sunday 20 October 2002 17:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Subject: Re: evolution font too small > From: Jim Hayward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Organization: > Date: 20 Oct 2002 13:38:31 -0700 > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --=-hfPxIEq4k33l96xHwP8J > Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 12:17, P wrote: > > Is there a way to change the font size used in evolution .. > > everything is= > > =20 > > > too small for me? > >=20 > > People who send HTML e-mails to the list will usually display with > fonts that need a magnifying glass to read in Evolution. > > =46rom the menu click View/message display/show e-mail source and you > will see the cause of the tiny fonts. Just click View/message > display/normal display to restore you view. > > CTRL+8 will increase the font size > CTRL+9 will return to the original size > > You can set you font preferences in Setting.=20 > > The cure is for people to NOT send HTML e-mails. > > Regards, > Jim H thanks for the reply ... actually, I miscommunicated the problem, which is that everything in the gui is too small. The menubar, toolbar, menu lists, and especially the summary display. I have my monitor at 1028x768 and don't want to reduce it. I know in mozilla there's a userChrome.css file that can be customized to enlarge gui fonts, and was wondering if there is some similar capability with evolution. Paul
rpm --nogpg unknown option
I used to use 'rpm --checksig --nogpg *rpm' to check rpm's before installing them. Now, I understand it's supposed to be 'rpm -K --nogpg *rpm'. However, when I enter this, I get an error message '--no gpg: unknown option'. The man page says it should work, so what's the problem?
Re: Psyche-list digest, Vol 1 #277 - 12 msgs
On Tuesday 22 October 2002 12:03, Thomas Dodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:42:49 -0500 > From: Thomas Dodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: cdrecord obsolete > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Mike A. Harris wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, P wrote: > >>I have a usb cdrw .. it won't work under cdrecord-1.10, but works > >> fine > > Which CDRW? I have a USB CDRW and 1.10 works fine. I'm using an iomega 16x10x40 .. not sure why yours works and mine doesn't. > >>under any cdrecord-1.11 version. Is there a more up to date > >> version that's compatible with psyche available? > > > > cdrecord 1.11 is alpha code, and not a stable official release. > > True, but 1.11a38 is probably more stable/less buggy than 1.10. > It's more like a development branch, and this far in, it's > fairly stable. I wouldn't try prior to a15 or a20, but now > it's more like the late 2.3 kernels, or the stable branch > of a CVS repository like gcc, XFree, or mozilla. > > Also, amost no changes will be backported to 1.10. Any > bug reporter are asked to try the latest alpha. I think > alpha is a poor name for the code. It much beter than > alpha usually implies. > > -Thomas After upgrading several times, I feel like you that these alpha's are better than the last stable release (since it obviously had a bunch of problems). Now that I'm able to find them for psyche, I'll continue to upgrade with each release. The only problem I have is an occasional bad burn .. I don't know if it's software, bad cd's, or perhaps some more mundane problem (like slight corrosion on my cables). I keep upgrading the software just to eliminate a possible bug.
Re: Swap file not being utilized?
On Tuesday 22 October 2002 13:47, Ryan Camick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject: Re: Swap file not being utilized? > From: Ryan Camick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Organization: > Date: 22 Oct 2002 13:32:34 -0400 > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 13:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On a new Linux server I just set up, I created a 500 meg swap file > > which is equal to the amount of ram in the machine. The swap file > > is active but shows 0% used, while the memory shows 184 meg used > > and 316 meg free. > > I assume your results are similar to mine? This is completely > normal, to not ever use the swap file, if it is never needed. (I > have 512MB RAM and 640MB Swap) > > [ryan@vanessa]:[~]$ free -m > total used free sharedbuffers > cached > Mem: 500490 9 0 63 > 239 > -/+ buffers/cache:187313 > Swap: 643 0643 > > > The swap file is mounted as /dev/hda2, has the proper entry in > > /etc/fstab yet it's never utilized. Is there a threshold as to when > > it will kick in or could something else be wrong? I've never had > > issues with the swap file in earlier versions. Thanks! > > I've loaded everything I can possibly think of on my system, > including about 20 pictures and the only thing changing is the amount > of buffers/cache. All is well, this is normal. Oh, look, I used > just under 1MB of swap! W... It's actually not too difficult to load up your system to observe the swap being used. Just create a text file .. call it 'mybash', and put one line within it: 'my bash' ..you can do this with the following command: $ echo bash mybash > mybash Next open up a term and enter 'top' to be able to see your memory usage .. then open another term and type 'bash mybash' to start an endless loop of the mybash script. You'll see the swap get consumed eventually. At some point it will run out of memory and die on it's own.
plugins for mozilla
I recall seeing a posting earlier for a link to rpm's for psyche for the mozilla plugins, but can't find it in the archive .. can someone post it again please.
add item to menu in gnome
I added the Adobe reader program, and can add it to the menu in kde by right clicking on the redhat icon and selecting menu editor. However, in gnome, I have not been able to find a way to add this to the menu (or make any changes to the menu). Please point me in the right direction..
Re: This is the _fastest_ mirror.
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 08:44 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org] > Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 7:21 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: This is the _fastest_ mirror. > > On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 12:12:55AM -0400, Robert L. Cochran wrote: > > redhat.newaol.com is booting me off no matter how many retries. I'm > > using ncftp. I guess that server finally hit it's limit of users? > > booting you off or rejecting your connection? If it's booting you off > when you try to do a directory, set passive off and try again. > > redhat.newaol.com is not actually one server - it's at least two with a > round-robin dns entry. FWIW, I just tried twice in a row and got a > connection to each of the servers. I'm having problems being rejected. I'm trying to use "wget -c" over a dialup, which I can't leave connected all the time. Occasionally I will successfully connect to this mirror, and get good download speeds, but mostly I'm rejected. Is there any way to use wget and not be rejected?
Re: Psyche-list digest, Vol 1 #92 - 13 msgs
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 19:41, Steven Rubenstein wrote: > Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 17:25:19 -0500 > From: Steven Rubenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Problem with Psyche Disc 1 ISO?? > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Using FTP sites, I downloaded all 3 RPM ISOs 3 times, > and none matched the md5sums. The 4th time I downloaded > directly from Red Hat's Web page (which, still sends you > to an FTP site, I realize), and all 3 matched! > > The whole process spanned days, even by cable. Whatever... > > SJR > > > Frank Tanner III wrote: > > >My FTP client knows they're binary. I checked that. > > > >Odd part is I havee never had an issue with Red Hat > >ISOs in the past. Been downloading ISOs since 5.x. > >Not necessarily from the Red Hat site, but I am > >wondering if I should try the Red Hat site. Ive > >written the CDs DAO and TAO. To no avail. Downloaded > >ISOs from THREE sites now. Something is definately > >odd. > > > >--- Tom Diehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Frank Tanner III wrote: > >> > >>>Unfortunately, VFAT is part of Linux, NOT Windows > >>>2000. Therefore, other than using FAT or FAT32,NTFS > >>> > >>HUH?? A VFAT file system is a windoze filesystem. > >> > >>Linux is just smart enough to read it. IIRC VFAT=FAT32. > >> > >>>is my only option. I just got dome saying I was > >>> > > >>>downloading and burning the GDs on a Windows box. > >>> > >>> > >>So download the iso's in binary mode from an ftp > >>site that you trust. Since I run ftp.shuttleamerica.com > >> > >>I can tell you for sure that the md5sums on the iso's > >> > >>there are correct. The windoze ftp client needs to be told > >> > >>to do the downloads in binary mode. Otherwise it thinks > >> > >>they are text files and will corrupt them every time. > >> > >> > >>HTH, > >> > >>Tom > >> It's odd that I've had the same experience of getting a bad iso but never did on earlier redhat versions .. not sure if this is an indication of signal damage .. but it's unlikely the various servers have bad isos to begin with. Guess RH is too popular now.
Mozilla 1.2b (w/ xft2) and Galeon
Hi, I've upgraded to mozilla 1.2 and it seems to break galeon. Whenever I try to start galeon, it complains about not finding mozilla and specifying MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME. How do I fix this? Is that just an env variable or do i have to hack into some galeon config file? Cheers, Hesty __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/
Re: Mozilla 1.2b (w/ xft2) and Galeon
I didn't just untarred the executables, I got the rpm and did an rpm -Uvh on the package, hence my current problem. My current work around is to create softlink on /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.1 to /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2b and galeon complains initially about the mismatch version but runs OK afterwards. I'm just wondering if there is a more "seamless" way of getting galeon (or other apps which depends on mozilla) to work. Cheers, Hesty --- Mark Guzzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I installed (untared) the Mozilla 1.2b BETA, it > created it's own directory. After that all I had to > do was run mozilla from the BETA directory. It did > not mess with Galeon in any way. You might have to > export the MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME to point to the mozilla > app ( I would guess either the older mozilla or the > BETA executable). > > On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:47:38 -0700 (PDT) > Hesty P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've upgraded to mozilla 1.2 and it seems to break > > galeon. Whenever I try to start galeon, it > complains > > about not finding mozilla and specifying > > MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME. How do I fix this? Is that just > an > > env variable or do i have to hack into some galeon > > config file? > > > > Cheers, > > Hesty > > > > __ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site > > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > > > -- > > Psyche-list mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > > > ^^^ got Linux ^^^ > Mark Guzzo > Sair LCA, LCP > > Citrix Administrator > > "Don't Fear The Penguin." __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/
Re: Dual NIC Cards
Donald G Wilson Jr wrote: > How do I configure a second nic (pci if that matters)? Basic setup is done in /etc/modules.conf - load the nic drivers and setup an alias for each eth. This is an example of one of my boxes (/etc/modules.conf): alias eth0 tulip alias eth1 via-rhine Then, it's a matter of setting the ifcfg-eth? to auto-load and determine IP configuration etc. just like if you had only one nic. If you're setting up a gateway you'll need to configure at least a ip_forward = 1 and determine a route between the nic's. > as soon as the second nic is installed, i lost everything. Make sure that each driver is aliases to different /dev/eth and it should work (has worked great for 5 years for me). Regards Peter Larsen -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Dual NIC Cards
> > Basic setup is done in /etc/modules.conf - load the nic drivers and setup an > > alias for each eth. This is an example of one of my boxes > > (/etc/modules.conf): > > > >alias eth0 tulip > >alias eth1 via-rhine > > > > Then, it's a matter of setting the ifcfg-eth? to auto-load and determine IP > > configuration etc. just like if you had only one nic. If you're setting up a > > gateway you'll need to configure at least a ip_forward = 1 and determine a > > route between the nic's. > > > Thanks, did as you said but it didn't work. :-( > Following is more accurate info. Eventual idea is Home LAN, 2 machines, > both linux, this machine is hooked to DSL (perm. IP), > eth0, and other machine hooks to this via eth1. Basicly that's what I've been doing for about 5 years. I've used my Linux box to route all network traffic to the internet, using different ISPs and technology. Right now it's a cable-modem, but to Linux it really doesn't matter. > At boot everything works: Hmmm - why do you boot without eth1 ? > But if i activate eth1, now eth0 looses capabilities. Sounds very much like a route problem. What does your route look like before you run 'ifup eth1' - and how does it look after ?? >From your qoute eth0 still remains configured - so it doesn't look like a driver problem. Also, do a lsmod and make sure that both NICs drivers are active. > I know nothing about networking and am starting to think i should post > there, but i really have found you bunch of guys to be so helpful w/ my > problems, i wanted to try here first. Well, first of all, I would activate both interfaces by default. Then I would check the ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 for route-setup. You should use GATEWAYDEV=eth1 if eth0 is your DSL. Remember - this will NOT by itself enable routing from your home LAN to the internet. You'll still need to setup a NAT and enable ip_forward. Most basic HOWTO's explain how to do this. Regards Peter Larsen -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: ISO INSTALLATION FAILS
> I received the SAME results.. I downloaded the image files from a mirror > site.. Checksums are correct, Loads the microkernel, goes to a funky graphic > screen, then to text mode. I used the command linux -mediacheck and it goes > up to the point of asking to do the instlal from HD, CDROM, Network, etc... > but does not function. The drives, HD or CDROM are not being recognized. Please include the dmesg from the boot (SHIFT-F2) to show what messages your kernel gives during discovery. Regards Peter Larsen -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
LKM Trojan? and some other question
Hi all, After installing RH 8.0, I ran chkrootkit and it reports that some LKM trojan might exist. Running: ./chkrootkit -x lkm reveals that there are 6 processes hidden from ps. Is this any cause for concern? I did run ethereal and cannot see anything out of ordinary. Another question: How do I sync Evolution with Palm really? I feel stupid asking this, but I can't seem to find any conduit settings. Cheers, Hesty __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com
/var/log/messages not logging eth0 messages?
Hi all, I just noticed that /var/log/messages no longer logs incoming/outgoing connections/packets. Is it being logged elsewhere or should i use tcpdump for this purpose? Regards, Hesty __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com
Can't Connect to MYSQL Remotely
Hello All, Installed a RH 8.0 server with MySQL and when we try to manage it remotely using MySQL's control center, it can't make the connection. We get an error back stating "Error 2013: Lost connection to MySQL Server during query." When we try to telnet into the server using the 3306 port, it disconnects us. Now we have a 7.3 server running right beside it with the same exact settings, and our firewall has 3306 open and the server's hosts.allow file has it configured so that mysqld will be allowed. Does anyone have any idea what could be the problem? TIA ___ Bruce P. Morin -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: bootnet.img to cd-rom instead of floopy
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Ron Lee wrote: > Anyone know how to create a bootnet.img to a cd-rom instead > of a floppy? I have a new server loaded with nine hard > drives and no floppy. I have a USB port on the back that I > can connect an external USB drive and boot from that. TIA >From the RELEASE-NOTES: o isolinux is now used for booting the CD. If you have problems booting from the CD, you can write the images/boot.img image to a diskette according to the directions in the Official Red Hat Linux Installation Guide. If you want to make your own CD to boot the installation program, copy the isolinux directory from the first CD into a temporary directory (cp -r /path/to/tree/isolinux/ /path/to/cdimage) and then run the following command: mkisofs -o /path/to/file.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -R -J -V -T /path/to/cdimage -- Russ Herrold -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: OpenOffice
On Sun, 02 Feb 2003 11:05:13 +0200 Marek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Is there a fix to this ? When i copy part or all of the text in an > open open office doc it only copies part of it. > > -- > /Marek Hello, Everyone :) I'll be interested in finding the answer to this as well, since I have the same problem. I am using the version of Open Office that ships with Red Hat 8, and I am using all the official Red Hat updates as well. Steven P. Ulrick -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
SCSI Device Recognition Problem
OS: Red Hat Linux 8.0 Hardware: Dell C800 Laptop SCSI Device: SmartDisk Corp FireLite Drive IEEE 1394 SBP2 Device I am having a problem mounting a 30GB Firewire Drive. In an older release of RH (7.2 or 7.3): 1.) The device was recognized on system init (/dev/sda1) 2.) I made modification to /etc/fstab for (/dev/sda1) 3.) mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/firelite Everything was in order. In RH8.0, the device does not seem to be recognized and steps 2 and 3 do not work... which make sense since the system does not see the drive as /dev/sda1... I found a script that rescans the scsi bus and adds the device, then the mount command works fine... This does not seem like the proper way... plus having to be root to run the script because of the files it manipulates is not the way I would prefer to go... There must be an easier way to do this... on sys init... and not having to be root... Thanks in advance for your time, Jim James Hrobak Senior Member, Engineering Staff Computer Systems Engineering Lockheed Martin NE&SS - Moorestown Mail Stop: 13000-E1 856.638.7367 (office) 856.638.4300 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Printing Problem
I am having problems printing from some applications that are packaged in 8.0. I have my printer setup correctly, test page looks fine. Printer Name: e909 Printer Type: Unix Printer (LPD) Server: 129.204.86.26 Queue: PORT1 Driver: HP LaserJet 8150 Postscript Printer If I take a basic file like a script (example.sh), I can print it easily by the following methods: 1.) lpr example.sh 2.) Open example.sh file in OpenOffice.org Writer and select print But, if I open the file in something like gedit and try to print I get nothing. Below is an example of lpq of a print job issued thug edit that never prints out. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ace_tao]# lpq Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dest [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Queue: no printable jobs in queue Server: no server active Status: job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' saved at 15:44:28.924 Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time done [EMAIL PROTECTED] A 401 /usr/share/printconf 18052 14:46:24 done [EMAIL PROTECTED] A 711 (STDIN) 414824 15:44:27 JetDirect lpd: no jobs queued on this port Any ideas, Jim James Hrobak Senior Member, Engineering Staff Computer Systems Engineering Lockheed Martin NE&SS - Moorestown Mail Stop: 13000-E1 856.638.7367 (office) 856.638.4300 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Woes installing 2 CD drives on Red Hat 8
em) In closing, the actual drive that I want to use is a brand new (and I suspect, not defective, as the problem is the same with whatever drive I use) Artec Super 56X, and I have tried all the drives I've experimented with (the Burner, and whichever of the three CD-ROM's) as both the master AND the slave (making sure the jumpers were set correctly.) My Bios always detected the drives I was experimenting with as whatever I set the jumpers at, master or slave. And like I said, they are both functional in Windows XP, but when I try them in Red Hat 8, Red Hat only picks up one of them. Oh yeah, when I only have one hooked up, it is detected as SCSI (emulated, of course, as these drives are all IDE), but when both are hooked up, it says there are none that have SCSI emulation enabled (this information was gotten from kcontrol | information | SCSI) I just tried another experiment, and when I tried to mount /dev/cdrom, it said it wasn't a valid block device. The problem is, if I were to disconnect the slave drive, and reboot, all of a sudden it would become a valid block device. If I'm wrong on that last point, I'll send a correction as soon as possible. Another thing I remembered, when I first got the new computer, and I tried to install Red Hat 8 with what turned out to be a bad CD-ROM drive, it wouldn't install. When I removed the bad CD-ROM drive, I was able to install Red Hat 8. The strange thing is that I wasn't using the bad drive to install Red Hat, I was using my Burner, as I had already had suspicions about that old CD-ROM drive. But it gets stranger: with that same CD-ROM drive connected that kept me from installing Red Hat 8, I was able to install with absolutely no difficulty, Red Hat 7.1, and mabye 7.2 If that sound confusing, then I think I explained it correctly :( I truly hope this wasn't too long winded, but I am just so used to Red Hat perfectly picking up any hardware I throw at it: I added a harddrive, and both burners that I've had were all detected automatically, with the appropriate entries automatically added to /etc/fstab, so maybe you can understand why I'm really confused by this. If you have any questions for me, feel free to ask. If you ask me anything too hard, I might have to ask for help just so that I can respond to your question :) Thanks in advance for your help :) Steven P. Ulrick Almost forgot: I have 512 megabytes of DDRAM and I have all the official Red Hat 8 Updates installed, including the latest Kernel. And also, when I installed Red Hat, I installed everything (1440+ packages) -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Woes installing 2 CD drives on Red Hat 8
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 06:02:11 -0600 "Steven P. Ulrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In closing, the actual drive that I want to use is a brand new (and I > suspect, not defective, as the problem is the same with whatever drive > I use) Artec Super 56X, and I have tried all the drives I've > experimented with (the Burner, and whichever of the three CD-ROM's) as > both the master AND the slave (making sure the jumpers were set > correctly.) My Bios always detected the drives I was experimenting > with as whatever I set the jumpers at, master or slave. And like I > said, they are both functional in Windows XP, but when I try them in > Red Hat 8, Red Hat only picks up one of them. Oh yeah, when I only > have one hooked up, it is detected as SCSI (emulated, of course, as > these drives are all IDE), but when both are hooked up, it says there > are none that have SCSI emulation enabled (this information was gotten > from kcontrol | information | SCSI) > I just tried another experiment, and when I tried to mount > /dev/cdrom, > it said it wasn't a valid block device. The problem is, if I were to > disconnect the slave drive, and reboot, all of a sudden it would > become a valid block device. If I'm wrong on that last point, I'll > send a correction as soon as possible. > Another thing I remembered, when I first got the new computer, and I > tried to install Red Hat 8 with what turned out to be a bad CD-ROM > drive, it wouldn't install. When I removed the bad CD-ROM drive, I > was able to install Red Hat 8. The strange thing is that I wasn't > using the bad drive to install Red Hat, I was using my Burner, as I > had already had suspicions about that old CD-ROM drive. But it gets > stranger: with that same CD-ROM drive connected that kept me from > installing Red Hat 8, I was able to install with absolutely no > difficulty, Red Hat 7.1, and mabye 7.2 If that sound confusing, then > I think I explained it correctly :( Hello, again :) I just had an idea that I wanted to try, so here is the results: all the testing reflected in my original posting, had only one thing in common - the Memorex 52X CD-R/CD-RW drive. So I took that drive out, and put in another drive, and I had exactly the same results: the Bios picked up everything, the Red Hat boot messages recognized both CD drives, but when I went to mount /dev/cdrom, which is the only cd-related entry that I ever have (other than /dev/cdrom1 when things are working the way they should) I was told that /dev/cdrom was not a valid block device. Well that's all I have for now :) Steven P. Ulrick -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Woes installing 2 CD drives on Red Hat 8
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 15:33:17 +0200 Pavel Rozenboim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /dev/cdrom* entries are just a symlinks to corresponding /dev/hdxx > files. They are created by kudzu. For some reason kudzu did not see > the new hardware. You can try to run it manually. > > Pavel. Hello, Pavel :) Thanks for your speedy response :) I read the man page for kudzu and I tried the following: /usr/sbin/kudzu -p The only CDROM picked up was the following: class: CDROM bus: SCSI detached: 0 device: scd0 driver: ignore desc: "Memorex 52MAXX 2452AJ" host: 0 id: 1 channel: 0 lun: 0 I then ran the --bus and --class options, with no results. If I'm missing something, and I haven't done what you said, please let me know :) I tried all of what I thought were the relevant options :) Steven P. Ulrick -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Very weird : X not loading just for one user !!!
On 03/13/03 07:58 -0600, Charles wrote: > What are the contents of the .Xclients file and .Xclients-default > file in your home directory? Check to see if they are different from > other users. ...or simply move them, while logged in as yourself from a console, then restart. Also, go to /var/log/ and blow away your old tmp files. You may have a stray lock laying around. John -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: help partitioning
On 03/26/03 07:25 +0300, valeed wrote: > > I have downloaded the psyche-i386-iso images & created 3 cds reqd for > installation , As Red Hat 9.0 is due out next week for RHN subscribers and the week after that for the general public, you may want to wait for it. John -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: new mozilla
On 11/13/02 18:23 -0700, Jim Christiansen wrote: > > Hi, > > I read your message about the new Mozilla. I can not print from the curent > mozilla in RH8, and would like to try the gtk2 version that you referred > to. Do I grab EVERY rpm that is listed, then uninstall my current mozilla, > before running the new rpms, or does an upgrade -U work? I had best of luck with rpm -U, but also moving my ~/.mozilla file out of the way, then bringing back bookmarks, cookies and mime types after the upgrade. John -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Site crashes mozilla???
On 10/19/02 12:20 -0400, Gerry Doris wrote: > I can access other websites but not www.canoe.ca. This seems to be > something new as this was my starting page and it worked fine before the > mozilla upgrade Try moving your ~/.mozilla to (say) ~/.mozilla_bak and restarting. Your backup will have all your bookmarks, cookies and mime type info. > > Can someone else try this site and see if it works with the latest > mozilla. > Works fine here with 1.1
Should I erase Mozilla 1.1 Before Upgrading, Since Psyche Uses 1.0.1?
I'm getting ready to to an upgrade to 8.0 from my 7.3 stock disto. I've previously upgraded Mozilla to 1.1-0. Psyche uses 1.0.1, IIRC, and presumably Nautilus and Galeon are built with this dependency. Should I erase the Mozilla packages before doing the upgrade? John
Re: editing of web URLs
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:17:24 +0200 Marek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Stack wrote: > > OK, I'm ready to go insane. Every time I attempt to edit a URL in > > Mozilla, I get a pop-up window offering to assist me in the editing > > of the URL. The focus shifts from the address window of Mozilla over > > to this application, forcing me to click off both windows to cancel > > the pop-up, then requiring me to delete the URL in the address > > window a character at a time. If I attempt to select the entire URL > > in order to delete it, I get that infernal pop-up again. I've looked > > through both Mozilla and KDE docs (my current window manager), and > > I've been unable to find any reference to that "helper" application. > > > > Does anyone know what app is running to try and "help" me w/ the > > editing of the Mozilla URLs? More importantly, how do I disable said > > application? > > > > Thanks very much in advance. > > > > Michael > > > > I had the same problem with Red Hat 7.3 :( But with much dinking around, I discovered the exact item you need to uncheck after you click on that little clipboard with the "k" in it, is "Actions Enabled" I looked at that many times before I discovered that was the problem. Steven P. Ulrick
Re: Gnome-terminal font frustrations
On 10/23/02 12:42 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > Hi, > > https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/psyche-list/2002-October/000585.html > https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/psyche-list/2002-October/002797.html > > Havoc Which file contains -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-1? Thanks. John
Re: KDE and LogOff
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 10:48:34 +0100 (BST) John Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One further point, just for your info. If you change > /etc/sysconfig/desktop to include the line 'DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE' then > you'll get the kdm display manager, rather than the gdm one. You'll > need to restart X. From kdm you get the menu to shutdown, reboot etc. > > > John. Hello, John :) I wasn't even following this thread very closely, but something drew me to it this morning (possibly a need to go back to bed :)), but in your message that I am replying to, you answered a long standing question I've had, and a new complaint I have about Red Hat 8 (similar to the gentleman that you responded to, about logging out and shutting down from KDE) Now, I have the old KDE logout menu back, I have the face browser back (I wondered why it wouldn't work after I had configured it in the KDE control center), and I put a picture of Johnny Cash by my name just to see if I could change the image :) If I understand the original poster's question, your answer about the /etc/sysconfig/desktop file should do the trick > One further point, just for your info. If you change > /etc/sysconfig/desktop to include the line 'DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE' then > you'll get the kdm display manager, rather than the gdm one. You'll > need to restart X. From kdm you get the menu to shutdown, reboot etc. My only addition to your response would be that anyone who tries this makes sure they get the syntax the same as in the default file, which would make the new line DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" (I'm no guru at this stuff, I'm just honestly assuming that doing it different than that wouldn't work) Thanks Again :) Steven P. Ulrick
Re: KDE and LogOff
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:14:45 +0100 (BST) John Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, it works with or without the quotes :-) You're just setting up an > environment variable, and if there are no spaces in it then you don't > need the quotes. > > > John. Thank you for correcting me on that :) As always, I appreciate it when a person takes the time to let me know when there is knowledge that they have, that I need to get a hold of for myself :) And I do apologize for any confusion that my bad information may have caused. Thanks again, John, and have a Great Day :) Steven P. Ulrick
Re: Gnome-terminal font frustrations: Still!!
On 10/25/02 14:13 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > All you have to do is restart X. I tried the same thing (make ~/.fonts > and unzip some x fonts into there). Perhaps you don't even need to > restart X, but logging off and back on is a good start. Well, absolutely nothing works. I put ALL the misc fonts in my ~/.fonts directory and gun-zipped same. Ran fc-cache. gnome-terminal still shows no change in fonts offered. This is frustrating as most of my work is done at the command in gnome-terminal. I simply want the font back as it was. John
Sawfish Window Manager Choices Don't Work
When I go to Start|Preferences|Control Center|Extras|Sawfish Window Manager, none of the choices within the Sawfish window respond. How to fix? In particular, the new focus when toggling among gnome-terminals is not what I want. TIA John
Can't Find "Start Here" or Metacity Controls
I'm unable to find the "Start Here" icon or any menu item corresponding to it. Therefore, I cannot find such things as choice of window manager, info on Metacity, etc. My install is an upgrade from 7.3, if that makes a difference. TIA. John
Re: Sawfish Window Manager Choices Don't Work
On 10/26/02 16:58 -0400, Sean Bossinger wrote: > > > > When I go to Start|Preferences|Control Center|Extras|Sawfish Window > > Manager, none of the choices within the Sawfish window respond. > > > > How to fix? In particular, the new focus when toggling among > > gnome-terminals is not what I want. > > > > You're likely not using Sawfish, if you are using RH8 out-of-the-box. > If you are using the GNOME desktop, you'll be using Metacity. What you > want to do is Start|Preferences|Window Focus. I find that okay, but that doesn't fix what I want to do. What I want is that on Alt-Tab, I the new window/terminal comes forward. What I get is a little box showing the name of the window. Highlighting changes around the frame of the window about to get forcus. I simply want the old behaviour. In the alternative, I'd like to know how to switch between window managers. While I don't dislike metacity, I found Sawfish worked well for me. I don't find any tool to switch window managers. John
Preferences|Keyboard Shortcuts Don't Work (Was: Sawfish Window Manager Choices Don't Work:
On 10/26/02 17:12 -0400, John P Verel wrote: > I find that okay, but that doesn't fix what I want to do. What I want > is that on Alt-Tab, I the new window/terminal comes forward. What I get > is a little box showing the name of the window. Highlighting changes > around the frame of the window about to get forcus. I simply want the > old behaviour. > Found it. The metacity README notes the keybinding defaults. Alt-Escape does what I want. However, Preferences|Keyboard Shortcuts does not work on my install John
Uninstalled Sawfish (Was Gnome-terminal font frustrations)
I tried something that seems to be of benefit: I uninstalled Sawfish. Now, the fonts seem to work better and certain menu items which had not been working now seem fine. Does this make any sense? John On 10/26/02 14:21 -0400, John P Verel wrote: > > On 10/25/02 14:13 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > All you have to do is restart X. I tried the same thing (make ~/.fonts > > and unzip some x fonts into there). Perhaps you don't even need to > > restart X, but logging off and back on is a good start. > Well, absolutely nothing works. I put ALL the misc fonts in my ~/.fonts > directory and gun-zipped same. Ran fc-cache. gnome-terminal still shows > no change in fonts offered. > > This is frustrating as most of my work is done at the command in > gnome-terminal. I simply want the font back as it was. > > John > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: where to find "test page"
> You know what? I just checked my installation and found that > /var/www/html/index.html was not owned by any package. I then looked > in all the psyche httpd rpm files and didn't find any references to > that file. > > The only reason I have a sample index.html fle is it *was* included > in the valhalla release, for apache 1.3. I don't see it in the > apache 2.0 rpms. > > So, could someone that has a valid index.html file let us know which > package it is in? > The file at this location: /var/www/error/noindex.html looks like the file you are looking for :) ? Steven P. Ulrick
System Hanging -- ixinet boot log error messages
Since upgrading to 8.0, I am getting the following messages in /var/log/messages. Sometimes the machine hangs and I'll have to reboot from console 1: Oct 27 09:34:07 John xinetd[1019]: warning: can't get client address: Transport endpoint is not connected Oct 27 09:34:07 John xinetd[1019]: libwrap refused connection to sgi_fam from On sucessful reboot (just now) messages look end up like this: Oct 27 09:40:39 John xinetd[1019]: warning: can't get client address: Transport endpoint is not connected Oct 27 09:40:39 John xinetd[1019]: libwrap refused connection to sgi_fam from Oct 27 09:40:39 John xinetd[598]: Deactivating service sgi_fam due to excessive incoming connections. Restarting in 30 seconds. Oct 27 09:40:43 John kernel: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Oct 27 09:40:43 John kernel: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Oct 27 09:40:43 John kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Oct 27 09:40:43 John kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 Oct 27 09:40:43 John kernel: sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Oct 27 09:41:10 John xinetd[598]: Activating service sgi_fam Oct 27 09:45:00 John CROND[1312]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/mrtg.cfg) Any idea what's going on here? TIA John
Bug in man: man -t
There would seem to be a bug in man. When one does man -t foo | lpr, the top margin is screwed up. Has anyone else noticed this? John
Re: cut-n-paste fails from webpage with "emdash" character
On 28 Oct 2002, Ryan Camick wrote: > On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:58, Oisin C. Feeley wrote: > > I was trying to cut'n'paste with the mouse from the webapge > > >http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-guide/s1-dhcp-configuring-server.html > > into an xterm, and found that the "emdash" characters (the extra-long > > hyphens represented by the HTML character reference — prevent > > pasting of the text if they are included in the selection. This happens with ‐o -- some other rendition of dash in Gnome -- and is said to be expected behaviour: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76181 Doesn't seem right to me, either. > Confirmed. Same results here. Cut'n'paste to xterm as specified > doesn't work. I can successfully cut'n'paste that line to XChat or > Evolution, but the "emdash" is replaced by a ? or _ in those programs. > > I have no idea why. Just wanted to confirm this problem was not only > your system.
Red Hat Package Tool Broken: Here's The Trace
Red Hat Package Configurator fails on my machine. See X-Mailer above for system info. I get the following trace: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/MainWindow.py", line 163, in ? comps = im.readCompsViaMethod(hdlist, progress.update) File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/method.py", line 488, in readCompsViaMethod update_method = update_method) File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/comps.py", line 387, in __init__ self.readCompsFile(file, self.packages) File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/comps.py", line 471, in readCompsFile self.setupStateDicts(packages) File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/comps.py", line 420, in setupStateDicts for prov in h[rpm.RPMTAG_PROVIDES]: TypeError: iteration over non-sequence What's broke?? TIA John
Re: Red Hat Package Tool Broken: Here's The Trace
As further info, I'm running redhat-config-packages-1.0.1-1 John On 10/30/02 21:56 -0500, John P Verel wrote: > Red Hat Package Configurator fails on my machine. See X-Mailer above > for system info. I get the following trace: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/MainWindow.py", line 163, in ? > comps = im.readCompsViaMethod(hdlist, progress.update) > File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/method.py", line 488, in > readCompsViaMethod > update_method = update_method) > File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/comps.py", line 387, in > __init__ > self.readCompsFile(file, self.packages) > File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/comps.py", line 471, in > readCompsFile > self.setupStateDicts(packages) > File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/comps.py", line 420, in > setupStateDicts > for prov in h[rpm.RPMTAG_PROVIDES]: > TypeError: iteration over non-sequence > > What's broke?? > > TIA > > John > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Red Hat Package Tool Broken: Here's The Trace
I've since looked on bugzilla and found a couple of identical traces. The reports were marked as new and not yet assigned. My sys specs: Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche), Kernel 2.4.18-17.8.0 I got this trace by executing from the command line. Same result whether logged in as user and su'd or logged in as root. Executing from the menu or command line, I get a progress meter showing packages read and thenpoof! Just disappears. Nothing else going on in the machine. John On 10/31/02 11:51 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, John P Verel wrote: > > > As further info, I'm running redhat-config-packages-1.0.1-1 > > > > John > > On 10/30/02 21:56 -0500, John P Verel wrote: > > > Red Hat Package Configurator fails on my machine. See X-Mailer above > > > for system info. I get the following trace: > > > > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > > File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/MainWindow.py", line 163, in ? > > > comps = im.readCompsViaMethod(hdlist, progress.update) > > > File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/method.py", line 488, in > > > readCompsViaMethod > > > update_method = update_method) > > > File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/comps.py", line 387, in > > > __init__ > > > self.readCompsFile(file, self.packages) > > > File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/comps.py", line 471, in > > > readCompsFile > > > self.setupStateDicts(packages) > > > File "/usr/share/redhat-config-packages/comps.py", line 420, in > > > setupStateDicts > > > for prov in h[rpm.RPMTAG_PROVIDES]: > > > TypeError: iteration over non-sequence > > > > > > What's broke?? > > Hard to say (especially for me, as I'm no expert), but it would probably > help to tell us what you were doing when it crashed. If it was not > anything unusual, then I'd suggest filing a Bugzilla report. > > BTW, I don't see X-Mailer. I bet it's not included in the digest. > > -- > Matthew Saltzman > > Clemson University Math Sciences > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs > > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Red Hat Package Tool Broken: Here's The Trace
On 10/31/02 19:38 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Isn't 1.0.1-1 the test version Harald Hoyer has made available at > bugzilla? He has specifically asked for bug reports about it. So, > observing those open bug reports, if they match your traceback, is > the right thing to do. Did'nt know that and thanks for the pointer. Off to bugzilla we go! John
Re: Red Hat Package Tool Broken: Here's The Trace
On 10/31/02 21:00 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > Ooops! That was the version for Valhalla. Psyche ships with a 1.0.1-1 > package. NP. It's bugzilla food anyway! Cheers. John
Re: Kill TWM, kill, kill, kill Re: What happened to Xconfigurator?
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Mike A. Harris wrote: > 1) Too many people are requesting their own special window >managers to be added as options in switchdesk also, and using >the argument "twm is there". Adding 50 WM's to the menu makes >it an ugly mess IMHO and somewhat daunting for some types of >users. Also, having things on a menu seems to imply to some >users that such things are more "supported" since they're more >visible. dunno that I agree there. I have really taken to Xfce, and its sprightlyness. Adding it to the chooser, and startup script of the GDM was straightforward. It is very well suited to thin client rollout -- vertical applications, office desktops, and LTSP are no-brainers for it. That code calls out for factoring and modularization -- make a subdirectory to hold Xfce.conf, twm.conf, IceWM.conf, failsafe.conf, and yes even gnome.conf and kde.conf, and wxyz.conf, and be done with the issue. Solve the visibility issue within the 'setup' config tool, just as we do with xinetd and initscript items, to check for a # visible: yes line in the .conf files, or with symlinking (less elegantly) a la 'alternatives'. The newly shipped Apache httpd.conf is doing the first in the current release (look for /etc/httpd/conf.d/ ; it will REALLY make management of virtual domains, and per directory extensions trivial -- I have been rewriting tools in support). -- Russ Herrold
Firewire Drive does not work with new kernel!
Hello All; With the stock kernel under RH8 we had a Lacie external Firewire Drive working flawlessly. We had the following entry in fstab to mount the drive; /dev/sdb2 /mnt/LaCie ext3noauto,owner,rw 0 0 With this entry, we could then right click on the desktop and (un)mount the drive. Since we upgraded to a new kernel using up2date, this is no longer possible. We get the error message that /dev/sdb2 is not a valid block device. When checking /proc/scsi/ the drive is not listed but the SBP-2 loads and sees the drive. Can someone tell me what changed? By the way, we also tested the packaged Rawhide Kernel and the same thing occurs. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Sincerely, Bruce P. Morin
How to Change Vfat ownership and permissions?
I'm finding impossible to change ownership and permissions on my vfat partititon. Even as root, I get denied. I've fiddled with how the partition is mounted, to no avail. The relevant part of my /etc/fstab is: /dev/hda1 /mnt/vfat vfat user,owner,exec,dev,suid,rw,conv=binary,uid=500,gid=500,auto 0 0 Help? John
Re: Psyche FAQ (was: Re: Problem with rebuilding rpm database)
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, M A Young wrote: > > > I definitely nominate this for the FAQ. > > > > I think something like this belongs in the FAQ, but these kinds of answers > > piss me off, because they fail to explain *why* you need to do this. If this > > can be explained, I'd love to add it in with the explanation. Probably the best FAQ for any issue is a dedicated website for a package; Bugzilla (especially querying ALL tickets over time) is a close second; Mailing list archives rank high, and Google is always your friend, albeit rather unfocussed at times. The RPM package website sub-section 'Hint 'n Kink' at: http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/repairdb/ has updated with still more explanation, and Michael's nice lead in Q and form.. -- Russ Herrold, editor, RPM site. > I would phrase the FAQ entry something like this. > Michael Young
Re: Why is gnome-teminal so slow?
On 11/09/02 09:46 -0600, Gerald W. Lester wrote: > Suggestion: (btw I have no problems with the speed What I find is that it is "balky" with held key for repeating; e.g. holding enter to scroll many lines in (say) mutt. Same with backspace. MUCH slower in this regard than xterm. I'm using stock Psyche distro with stock gnome-terminal. John
Re: linux software-ultimate insult
Um. I get: http://www.dailyclassifieds.com.au/SearchGames/GameDir.cgi?Category=Computer_Games-Video_Games&SubCategory=Word_Games on Google. John On 11/15/02 11:53 -0500, Brent Fox wrote: > On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 07:47, Kevin Waterson wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 02:22:06 -0800 (PST) > > anthony baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Ha! > > > I did a google search for Linux software for crossword puzzle creation. > > > (Any ideas, please send them!) At the top of the search results was this: > > > > > > Linux Software - Discover Microsoft Visual Studio .NET today. > > > www.microsoft.com/vstudio Click for a free online hosted session. > > > > > > I'm not lying; Try it for yourself. Microshaft is buying links for linux >software searches. Who are they trying to kid? > > > > What was your search string? > > I think his search string was "Linux software for crossword puzzle > creation" ;) > > Google does the same thing for me. Actually just searching for "linux > software" brings it up. > > > Cheers, >Brent > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Blue Puzzle Piece in Mozilla?
What browser? My Mozilla works fine. On 11/15/02 19:35 -0500, Dr. David M. Colburn wrote: > In RedHat 8 I visit this site and request the loop and get a blue puzzle > piece and no looping video. Suggested solution, please? > http://www.srh.noaa.gov/radar/loop/DS.p19r0/si.kmlb.shtml > > Thanks! doc > > > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: mimencode and/or base64
> > Keith> Okay, I'll bit. Now that metamail has been dropped from psyche, > > Keith> how do I command line decode base64 files. I'm taking a look at ummm -- openssl ? -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
FTP issues
Hello, Everyone :) I'm sure I need to give you more information than I have to assist you in helping me with my problem, but I'll tell you what I do know (I know more now than I did before I went to work today :)), and then please feel free to tell me of any further information that you may need, and I'll do my best to answer :) Step 1: Open any of the two graphical FTP clients that I have installed on my machine (gFTP 2.0.13 or kbear 2.0beta2) and attempt to download any file. Step 2: When the file finishes, in either gFTP or kbear, the file is not saved to my machine, but in gFTP, the file finishes and it opens it up in a viewer if it's a text file, and if it's, let's say a RPM file, it will try to open it up in the viewer, but of course the viewer will remain blank. In kbear, before the file even begins to download, it displays the "Open With" dialog instead of beginning the download (the behavior between the two applications looks different on the surface, but as you can see, it amounts to the same thing.) In both of the cases in Step 2, no file is downloaded, I only get to view, or attempt to view, the file when I run gFTP. When I try kbear, I only get the "Open With" dialog. By the way, I just tried to download a file in kbear, and after I chose, just to experiment, a text editor, to open the RPM (just to get the download to start), it said it was saving it it /tmp/kde-steve, and the file that was there (it was deleted by the program) was the exact size of the RPM I downloaded, and the file name ended this way: .rpm The only other evidence that I have is that the last file I downloaded sucessfully was the BigMem version of the updated kernel. I got it from updates.redhat.com I have installed it successfully, and have had no other problems since then. I did try rebooting using the old kernel, but I still have the same problems explained above. I have read, write and execute priveledges in my home directory, and I made sure that I am the owner of it. I could find nothing obvious in the setting/options menus in kbear or gFTP. I am running Red Hat 8 with an AMD Duron 650mhz processor, approx. 383 megabytes of RAM. I have all the official updates installed, and I believe I got them all from updates.redhat.com Like I said earlier, if you need any more information, feel free to ask :) I am willing to learn, and I am sorry if this problem turns out to be a no-brainer (I did all I reasonably could before I contacted you.) Thanks for your help :) Steven P. Ulrick -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: FTP issues
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 01:54:11 -0600 "Steven P. Ulrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, Everyone :) > I'm sure I need to give you more information than I have to assist you > in helping me with my problem, but I'll tell you what I do know (I > know more now than I did before I went to work today :)), and then > please feel free to tell me of any further information that you may > need, and I'll do my best to answer :) > > Step 1: Open any of the two graphical FTP clients that I have > installed on my machine (gFTP 2.0.13 or kbear 2.0beta2) and attempt to > download any file. > > Step 2: When the file finishes, in either gFTP or kbear, the file is > not saved to my machine, but in gFTP, the file finishes and it opens > it up in a viewer if it's a text file, and if it's, let's say a RPM > file, it will try to open it up in the viewer, but of course the > viewer will remain blank. In kbear, before the file even begins to > download, it displays the "Open With" dialog instead of beginning the > download (the behavior between the two applications looks different on > the surface, but as you can see, it amounts to the same thing.) > > In both of the cases in Step 2, no file is downloaded, I only get to > view, or attempt to view, the file when I run gFTP. When I try kbear, > I only get the "Open With" dialog. By the way, I just tried to > download a file in kbear, and after I chose, just to experiment, a > text editor, to open the RPM (just to get the download to start), it > said it was saving it it /tmp/kde-steve, and the file that was there > (it was deleted by the program) was the exact size of the RPM I > downloaded, and the file name ended this way: .rpm I just successfully downloaded a file from updates.redhat.com in Konqueror, I even stopped and resumed the download, and it worked fine. When I tried Mozilla, and Netscape 7, I successfully downloaded files, but they wouldn't let me stop and resume the transfer. So the problem still remains Steven P. Ulrick -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Midnight Commander problem with RH 8.0
On 11/16/02 16:57 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 11:50:33AM -0600, Mircea wrote: > Would the setting be called "[ ] Fix MC bugs"? ;-) > > I think it's just a bug. You might report the bug, but we need to know > specifically which RPMs cause the problem. FWIW, all's fine here with mc-4.5.55-12i from 8.0. I just hit view (F3) to see rpms. Works fine. John -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: FTP issues - Solved :)
Hello, Everyone :) I just had a flash of inspiration and I looked for the gFTP configuration file in my home directory, to see if anything was obviously amiss, when I located the following: # This defines what will happen when you double click a file in the file # listboxes. 0=View file 1=Edit file 2=Transfer file list_dblclk_action=0 When I edited the file and changed the "0" to "2", voila!, my problem was fixed :) When I looked for the configuration file for kbear, I found nothing obviously wrong in it, so I just deleted it, and when I started kbear back up, it worked correctly also :) But I guess I'm still curious: why did the setting related to this issue change in both applications, when I did nothing to change it. It almost appears to have changed on it's own :( My wife doesn't use Linux on our computer, and no one else has access to it, so it's a mystery I do have a suspicion that it may have been done by our cat Linus (pronounced Lee-nus. Guess who we named him after :)) Sorry to have bothered you :), I guess I need to have more confidence in my investigative abilities. That, and my brother Dave, our families resident Linux guru called me a genius once :) Anyway, if anyone has any ideas about how that setting got changed in both apps, please let me know. Thanks for your help, and have a great day :) Steven P. Ulrick -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Writing spec files
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Ron Olsen wrote: > Jeff Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, the Red Hat rpm guru, could give you a > definitive answer. or perhaps the RPM website: http://www.rpm.org/hintskinks/rpmbuild/ -- Russ Herrold -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: database front end gui
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Jesse Keating wrote: > John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # I always never use the su command. This is so much more convenient a > # way to root things: > > *blink* it's more convenient to ssh to your own box as root than to > type: su - ? tay For X forwarding a connection back, a 'sudo su -' does not carry the proper magic cookie back, particularly across varying configurations of several intermediate hosts. It is fragile enough that John's method of sticking with ssh forwarding turns out to work substantially better than the 'su -' approach. It should not matter, in theory, but there is that pesky distance between theory and practice. -- Russ Herrold -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: database front end gui
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Jesse Keating wrote: > What does that have to do with a local box? I'm talking on a single > box, I just don't see how ssh to yourself is better than su - case 1: bash-2.05b$ su - Password: [root@couch root]# xterm Xlib: connection to "localhost.localdomain:0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Warning: This program is an suid-root program or is being run by the root user. The full text of the error or warning message cannot be safely formatted in this environment. You may get a more descriptive message by running the program as a non-root user or by removing the suid bit on the executable. xterm Xt error: Can't open display: %s [root@couch root]# case 2: bash-2.05b$ ssh root@localhost /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm root@localhost's password: Waiting for forwarded connections to terminate... The following connections are open: #1 X11 connection from 127.0.0.1 port 33014 (t4 r0 i2/0 o0/0 fd 9/9) bash-2.05b$ [this worked, and the X term, as root, popped] Perhaps you might experiment before you post ... -- Russ Herrold -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: mutt newbie
On 11/21/02 13:55 +0700, David Sudjiman wrote: > Guys, > > I just tried my mutt yesterday. I know I should get into the .muttrc > file to get it working. There's an excellent mailing list for mutt. Got to www.mutt.org for info to subscribe. John -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Frequent Konqueror Crashes
Hello, Everyone :) For a few weeks, Konqueror has been crashing so frequently, it has become just about useless. By way of illustration, if I use it to do much more than look at the names of the files printed on the screen, it won't be long before it crashes. My question is, as I am running the official update of KDE that Red Hat just released, do I report this to Red Hat, or to the KDE developers. And also, would I be correct in assuming that unless the backtrace reports are different, it would be really rude to send a report every time Konqueror crashes? I must make clear that this began to be an issue before I installed the official Red Hat updates. Of course I am running Red Hat 8, and I have all the official updates installed. And, when I installed Red Hat, I installed all 1400+ packages. Thanks for your help on this matter :) Steven P. Ulrick -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
ATI 9700 PRO and Multi-Head Configuration
Hello Everyone, I am curious to see if anyone has gotten an ATI 9700 Pro to work in Multi-Head Mode with the latest drivers from ATI? We can get the drivers to work with single display, and "large display" but when we configure multi-head, what we get on the second monitor is a dark screen, and when we move the curser onto that monitor, we get the "x" curser. We can't move any windows over to it. Any help or direction to appropriate documention, (other than the ATI driver page, since we have exhausted that document) would be greatly appreciated. Sincerly, Bruce
The proper way to upgrade a server
Hello All, We currently have a server in our small office that is running RedHat 7.3. We want to move to a new Dell Poweredge running RedHat 8.0. What is the proper way to move the user accounts over so that our end users don't have to recreate their user names and passwords? Thanks, Bruce
Re: The proper way to upgrade a server
Jesse, Thanks for the info. I had everything except the gshadow. Awesome help. Bruce Jesse Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote .. > On Wednesday 11 December 2002 08:06, Bruce P. Morin uttered: > > We currently have a server in our small office that is running RedHat > 7.3. > > We want to move to a new Dell Poweredge running RedHat 8.0. What is the > > proper way to move the user accounts over so that our end users don't > have > > to recreate their user names and passwords? > > Well, you can cut/paste all the >500 UID/GID combos from /etc/passwd, > /etc/shadow, /etc/group and /etc/gshadow. Since the salt and everything > will > be the same, users won't even have to change their passwords. Make sure > to > pull their home drives as well. > > -- > Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE > For Web Services and Linux Consulting, Visit --> j2Solutions.net > Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) > > Was I helpful? Let others know: > http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
SMARTDISK FireLite error
I am getting the following error in regards to the SMARTDISK FireLite 30 GB drive (1394 interface) connected to my laptop: Mounting local file system: insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg. mount: /dev/sda1 in not a valid block device I have attached both an "fdisk -l" output and the fstab file. I added the following mount point: mkdir -p /mnt/firelite This does allow me to see my drive, read and write to it in Windows and Linux... I just can't get rid of the error and FAILED status on boot up. Thank you in advance for your time, Jim LABEL=/ / ext3defaults1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3defaults1 2 none/dev/ptsdevpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none/proc procdefaults0 0 none/dev/shmtmpfs defaults0 0 /dev/hda5 swapswapdefaults0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy autonoauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/firelite vfatdefaults0 0 Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3648 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 3648 29302528+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3648 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 2295 184345567 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 * 2296 2308104422+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 2309 3583 10241437+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 3584 3648522112+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 3584 3648522081 82 Linux swap begin:vcard n:Hrobak;James tel;fax:856.638.4300 tel;work:856.638.7367 x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:LM - NE&SS;Computer Systems Engineering adr:;; version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Senior Member Engineering Staff x-mozilla-cpt:;-30848 fn:James Hrobak end:vcard
Re: X Display
On 12/20/02 09:14 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 05:16:06PM -0800, sandrewz wrote: > > Does anyone have an easy solution export the display > > in Red Hat 8 using "X" from a remote client? > > > > sandrewz > The ssh will work for launching X clients. Or you can use xdmcp. ssh works fine and I use it all the time. Just be sure you have adequate bandwidth on both ends. We're a T1 at work and home is cable modem. Exporting X sessions to either machine as the remote is excruciatingly slow. Consequently, I use console apps exclusively, via sshwhich is fabulous, in my experience. John -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: FW: Hardware Browser crashes
On 01/09/03 13:33 +1100, John BouAntoun wrote: > Every time I run the redhat Hardware Browser it crashes. I get the > beginning of the main program window, and then it disappears. Run it from a console and report what you see. The command is /usr/bin/hwbrowser John -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Help with Firewire Hard Drive under 8.0
Hello, I have a Lacie Firewire hard drive that I would like to access under Redhat 8.0. RedHat 8.0 automatically loads the appropriate modules for the drive and I can mount it, but I can't write to it as a normal user. My goal here would be to uses this drive as if it were a large floppy because it may not always be attached to the system. My FSTAB entry looks like this: /dev/sdb2 /mnt/lacie ext3noauto,dev,exec,user,suid,rw 0 0 Like I said, I can mount the drive with no problems, but I can't write to it unless I am root. TIA, Bruce P. Morin
RE: 8.0 Problems - Any ideas?
On 2 Oct 2002, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > I found the driver. Looks like there's been a SIS900 compatible driver > since kernel 2.4.15. dmesg is giving hints about IRQs and I/O addresses. > Nothing on CMOS gives a hint about what these could be. Looks like if I > could figure out the correct IRQ/DMA/IO Address, the thing might have a > shot a working. Suggestions from anyone with a SIS Ethernet controller? All the SIS-900's I have owned have been onboard PCI bus devices, and so the information should be readily available for the kernel to discern without explicit settings. A Bugzilla with a lspci -v -vmay be necessary to get the bios strings to key on into the mainline distribution. -- Russ herrold
Re: Back to single click?
On 06 Oct 2002 14:14:20 +0200 Jurgen Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have RH8 running on my laptop and noticed that it uses that old > double-click system. It's probably related to the bluecurve theme. How > can I switch it back to single-clicking? I have searched the various > configuration options but could not find it. > > Cheers, > > Jurgen > Hello, Jurgen In Gnome, from a terminal window, type "nautilus", then these steps: 1. click on the "edit" menu at the top of the window. 2. choose "preferences" 3. choose "Icon & List Views": in the "Click Behavior" section, click on the circle that says "Activate with a sincle click" 4. click "Close" That should do it for Gnome In KDE, from a terminal window, type "kcontrol", then these steps: 1. in the tree that will appear on the left, click on "Peripherals", then click on "Mouse" 2. in the section called "Icons", choose "Single click to open files and folders" 3. click "Apply" Unless I made a stupid mistake when I wrote this, that should do it for you :) Steven P. Ulrick :)
Re: mysqld barfs on remote connections
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Andreas Thienemann wrote: > Hi, > > it's already in bugzilla as #74943 but I'd like to know if anyone else is > experiencing the same problems and maybe even found a solution to it. > > mysqld accepts local connection without any problems but a "telnet > $public_ip mysql" closes the connection. That sure sounds like wrappers -- I would consider adding an: ALL:ALL@ALL for temporary testing -- smaller for just the IP of the client host if you can -- in /etc/hosts.allow -- it looks as though your hosts are at: 193.197.10.99 and 217.67.231.219 from the bug you mention. reverse DNS is not working for one end: [herrold@oldnews ian]$ host 217.67.231.219 Host 219.231.67.217.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) [herrold@oldnews ian]$ host 193.197.10.99 99.10.197.193.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer gonzo.dicp.de. [herrold@oldnews ian]$ I would mention that in RH 7.3, the new glibc patch ending -40 and MySQL do not get along: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75297 even with connections from the localhost (127.0.0.1) -- Russ Herrold
Re: Flickering desktop icons & unkillable kfmclient processes
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 16:57:28 -0500 Steven P. Ulrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, Everyone :) > Has anyone else heard of this problem? I've never had anything like > this happen before. > > When I log into my user account, (sometimes, not always. There is no > rhyme or reason as to when it does this) sometimes the desktop icons > are flickering. I then proceed to open a terminal window for the > purpose of running kpm to find out if there are any offending > processes, and it takes a LOT longer than normal to even get a > terminal window. When I finally am able to run kpm, (which takes a > lot longer than normal to open up), it has multiple occurances of a > process called "kfmclient". When I try to kill them, it gives me a > message telling me that one of the processes I have chosen to kill has > already dissapeared, but then none of the other "kfmclient" processes > ever dies. Then (I can't remember which), after I logout and then log > back in, or reboot, the problem is gone, and there are no occurances > of "kfmclient", and the desktop icons are behaving correctly. > I now have about 20 of these "kfmclient" processes running, and I have > not started a single one of them. And the desktop icons are still > flickering. > Any help you can give me will be greatly appreciated, and I will > gladly submit a bug report if necessary :) > Oh yeah, apparently the "kfmclient" processes are running BEFORE the > "kpm" program runs. > > Thanks in advance :) > Steven P. Ulrick Oh yeah, I really don't have any more info to give you, other than that I have an AMD Duron 650mhz processor, 384 megabytes of ram, and have all 1400 (approx) packages of Red Hat 8 installed. And that everything runs slow when the problem is occuring, and that everything is a lot faster when the problem is not occuring.
Flickering desktop icons & unkillable kfmclient processes
Hello, Everyone :) Has anyone else heard of this problem? I've never had anything like this happen before. When I log into my user account, (sometimes, not always. There is no rhyme or reason as to when it does this) sometimes the desktop icons are flickering. I then proceed to open a terminal window for the purpose of running kpm to find out if there are any offending processes, and it takes a LOT longer than normal to even get a terminal window. When I finally am able to run kpm, (which takes a lot longer than normal to open up), it has multiple occurances of a process called "kfmclient". When I try to kill them, it gives me a message telling me that one of the processes I have chosen to kill has already dissapeared, but then none of the other "kfmclient" processes ever dies. Then (I can't remember which), after I logout and then log back in, or reboot, the problem is gone, and there are no occurances of "kfmclient", and the desktop icons are behaving correctly. I now have about 20 of these "kfmclient" processes running, and I have not started a single one of them. And the desktop icons are still flickering. Any help you can give me will be greatly appreciated, and I will gladly submit a bug report if necessary :) Oh yeah, apparently the "kfmclient" processes are running BEFORE the "kpm" program runs. Thanks in advance :) Steven P. Ulrick
Really wierd problem !!!!
Hello, everyone :) I realize this is going to sound like a joke, but I assure you, what I am about to tell you, I actually just saw on my desktop. I logged in to my user account and su'd into root to compile a newer version of ImageMagick. I left the terminal window iconified at the bottom of the screen and didn't think anything of it. (Remember, at this point, I had a window minimized that was su'd into root) Oh yeah, I have KDE as my default desktop, with 12 icons on it that I put there. Since I rarely log in directly into root, I never changed it's default setting from the one that you get after you install Red Hat 8, so root basically has Gnome as it's default desktop, with only the three icons on the desktop that Red Hat places there by default. Ok, here's where it gets strange: when I proceeded to close out all my windows that were open, and I got down to the desktop, I was rather suprised to see that I was looking at the root desktop! I was logged into KDE, and I was looking at a Gnome desktop. I clicked on terminal window icon in my taskbar (still KDE) and the window said I was logged in as Steve. When I clicked on the Home Directory icon on the Desktop (not the taskbar: The taskbar was KDE, the desktop was displaying as GNOME), it took me to /root, and I had all the permissions as if I was logged in as root. (By the way, by this time the terminal window that had been su'd into root was closed.) Oh yeah, the KDE menu at the bottom left was still KDE, not GNOME. When I logged out, and logged back in (into the same account that I was in when I experienced the events described above), everything was back to normal. In closing, I realize that I can run GNOME apps in KDE, and KDE apps in GNOME: that is not what we are dealing with here. I hope I described what happened clearly enough to make it clear that I was logged into KDE as a regular user, and I ended up with my root desktop, which is GNOME, with all the permissions and priveledges that root is entitled to. I'd love to report this as a bug, but I have no idea how to reproduce it. If you'd like me to report it like I described it above, please let me know.
Re: Really wierd problem !!!!
Hello, again :) I'm sorry, I forgot to put my name at the end of my original message on this thread. I realize my name is in the header, but I just think it's more friendly to put my name at the end :) Steven P. Ulrick
Really wierd problem: Reproducible :)
Hello, Everyone :) I'm the guy that reported that "really wierd problem" where, when I was logged in as a regular user in KDE, I somehow ended up with root's GNOME desktop. Well, now I figured out how to reproduce it :) It goes like this: 1. Log into KDE as a regular user, or root, it doesn't matter. The important part is that you log into KDE. 2. Type "nautilus" in a terminal window, (I haven't tested this part, but I suspect that you could start nautilus any way you wanted) 3. Watch you KDE desktop turn into a GNOME desktop. The only reason why it went from my desktop to the root desktop in my last report, was because I opened Nautilus when I was su'd into root. But obviously, just running a GNOME application, and having it turn your KDE desktop into a GNOME desktop, was not the intention of Red Hat. I tried this the other way around, and opened Konqueror while I was logged into GNOME, and nothing unusual happened :) If I can undestand the process, I'm going to report this on Bugzilla, but I was just wondering if anyone else had this problem, and if you did, what you may have done to fix it :) Thanks in advance for your help :) Steven P. Ulrick
Re: Really wierd problem: Reproducible :)
On 13 Oct 2002 23:34:00 -0400 Steve Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 23:22, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > > Hello, Everyone :) > > I'm the guy that reported that "really wierd problem" where, when I > > was logged in as a regular user in KDE, I somehow ended up with > > root's GNOME desktop. Well, now I figured out how to reproduce it > > :) It goes like this: > > > > 1. Log into KDE as a regular user, or root, it doesn't matter. The > > important part is that you log into KDE. > > 2. Type "nautilus" in a terminal window, (I haven't tested this > > part, but I suspect that you could start nautilus any way you > > wanted) 3. Watch you KDE desktop turn into a GNOME desktop. > > > > The only reason why it went from my desktop to the root desktop in > > my last report, was because I opened Nautilus when I was su'd into > > root. But obviously, just running a GNOME application, and having it > > turn your KDE desktop into a GNOME desktop, was not the intention of > > Red Hat. I tried this the other way around, and opened Konqueror > > while I was logged into GNOME, and nothing unusual happened :) > > If I can undestand the process, I'm going to report this on > > Bugzilla, but I was just wondering if anyone else had this problem, > > and if you did, what you may have done to fix it :) > > > > Wow! That's a pretty neat trick! Not only does it switch your desktop > from KDE to Gnumb, but, it switches to the desktop of whichever user > (root or otherwise) that you are su'd to! (How secure!) Are you gonna > Bugzilla it? > > Confirming the issue, > stevep > Just got done reporting it. You can keep track of the progress on this bug at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75856 Steven P. Ulrick
Re: Flash Player Confusion
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, John Lowell wrote: > Michael, Dave, bob, Derek, Robert & Bob, > > First, many thanks for the time and expertise offered me by so many of > you in an attempt to solve this problem. I sincerely appreciate the > effort made. one potentially useful web site for plugins is plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html. if you know of any other good plugin sites, feel free to mention them. rday -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: usbdnet under RH 8
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone gotten a Zaurus to work under RH 8 using the Ruault patch? > > I have tried in vain to apply the patch but it just fails. I am using > usbdnet-RedHat-8.0-2.4.18-8 and it fails when doing make modules near > the end. 1) upgrade kernel (for me, 2.4.21-pre2) 2) build new kernel, selecting as a module "Linux PDAs, ..." under USB options 3) add line "CDCEther" to /etc/hotplug/blacklist to get rid of thoroughly annoying CDCEther module getting in the way 4) enjoy i can provide more details if you need them, but it's time to stop screwing with that usbdnet hack and do it right. rday -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: usbdnet under RH 8
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > rday > > Yes, could you provide details. Its been a long time since I burned my > own kernel. I last did this under Caldera's eD2.4. I have not tried to > burn a kernel under RH at all, I assume it's the same. But just in case > I have forgotten a step or two, act as if I know nothing about how to > do this. I am using RH8 latest kernel I have is 2.4.18-19.8.0. I will > prolly go with 2.4.20 from kernel.org. whoa, sorry, posting a tutorial on building a new kernel goes above and beyond what i can realistically do. for that, you're on your own with the numerous online docs, RH docs and so on. beyond that, i can just help with the usbnet specific stuff. rday -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Kernel Compile Question
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Mark Hoover wrote: > Jesse, > > Thanks for the help. I tried this over the weekend and amazingly enough > it works great. I was seriously expecting some kind of boot error by leaving > that initrd line out. > > I will note however, RH7.x used a root=/dev/ notation for it's > Lilo/Grub config files. RH8 seems to have moved to a root=LABEL=/ notation > which might be the cause of the initial ramdisk showing up during the kernel > build. The kernel I built for some reason doesn't understand the newer > notation, but changing it back to the old form makes the kernel boot > perfectly. if you want to use the "root=LABEL=/" label notation, then you need to use the initrd, or build ext3 support right into the kernel. if you're happy with the /dev notation, you're fine without it. once upon a time, i knew why this was true. :-( rday -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: environment variable
On 10 Feb 2003, Joe Klemmer wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 17:36, Jerry Roy wrote: > > > How do I permanently set an environment variable so it works across > > reboots? I have the command down, just don't know which is the correct > > file (.bashrc? .profile?) to place it in. Someone said there is a > > "Better" way. Please offer suggestions on writing the command. > > > > set $ICAClient:/test/icadir > > export $ICAClient > > If you only need this for your login put it in $HOME/.bash_profile. > But if it's needed by the system for every login you should put it in > /etc/profile. or, if it's needed system wide, a cleaner way is to group related startup stuff and put it in an appropriately named file -- ICA.sh? -- in the /etc/profile.d directory, which is sourced at login time for all files ending in *sh. this keeps /etc/profile clean, and makes it easy to remove and replace local stuff like that. rday -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: environment variable
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Michael Fratoni wrote: > Either: > export ICAClient=/test/icadir > or > ICAClient=/test/icadir > export ICAClient > > Both of which result in: > > [mfratoni@paradox mfratoni]$ echo $ICAClient > /test/icadir and there's the extremely temporary: $ ICAClient=/test/icadir if it's needed only for that program. rday -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: OT: the whole SCO IP patent(s) mess
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thursday 13 February 2003 10:27, Tom Georgoulias wrote: > > I'm kinda surprised that this hasn't come up on any of the Red Hat > > mailing lists I'm subscribed to, but does anyone have credible info on > > how much of an effect SCO's patent enforcement lawsuits would/could have > > on Red Hat Linux? It's my understanding that is involves some libraries > > that provide Unix program capability on Linux, but concrete details seem > > to be scarce. > > > > My hunch is while that we won't know for sure until lawsuits are filed > > and Red Hat makes an offical response, standard installs of Red Hat > > Linux are OK. Anyone else have that impression? Of course all of this > > is speculation and if SCO tries to make a land grab, things could get > > real messy real quick. > > nobody really knows what SCO will go after, or how. A pretty decent article > showed up the other day that sums it all up. Great read: > > http://infoworld.com/article/03/02/11/HNsco_1.html and while you're there, i would also check out one of the articles linked to in the sidebar, "Microsoft eyes the datacenter", in which an MS rep states that, "To succeed in the datacenter..., Microsoft's operating system will need to interoperate well with Unix systems and other non-Microsoft platforms." uh ... right. *that* can happen. definitely worth a read. rday -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
RE: how to forbid someone to do an ftp outside of my network?
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Shoemaker, Michael (STL) wrote: > Close port 21 or whatever port you have ftpd bound to. If you need to transfer >files, use scp. > > Mike > > -Original Message- > From: Raoul Beauduin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 7:22 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: how to forbid someone to do an ftp outside of my network? > > > I looking for a way to forbid someone to make an ftp on a host outside > of my network without removing the ftp client from the computer. How can I do that? >RB i think he's trying to forbid *outgoing* FTP requests, not incoming. is this correct? rday -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: how to forbid someone to do an ftp outside of my network?
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Raoul Beauduin wrote:
> I am trying to forbid outgoing ftp.
>
> the situation is like this:
>
> we have about 10 pc's connected to a local network 192.168.*.* ("my"
> network). we are going through a firewall to connect to internet.
> I want some students not being able at all to make an outgoing ftp to
> some foreign host and drop sensitive sources. but when i connect on
> their machine, i want to be able to make an any ftp i want.
> the deny of outgoing ftp must on be only for these students.
this strikes me as a futile exercise. if you prevent those students
from ftp'ing to one or more specific hosts to prevent them from
smuggling sensitive information out of your network, all they have
to do is find another host somewhere to act as a repository.
if you prevent only *some* students from doing this, they simply
have to ask one of their friends or colleagues to do it for them.
and if these students have access to these "sensitive" sources
in the first place, they can just make physical copies on floppy
or zip drive or something. or mail these sources to someone.
i'm sure others will show you how to use iptables to do what
you want. personally, i think you're fighting a losing battle
and should rethink what you're trying to accomplish.
rday
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Re: Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, John Lowell wrote: > Earlier today, I posted a simple yes-or-no question to to the list and > got back a lecture and some abuse from a Michael Schwendt. After a > couple of additional, similar messages from him, I specifically told him > in the clearest possible terms not to contact me again. He has, > nevertheless. Has anyone else here ever been similarly annoyed by Mr. > Schwendt? > > John Lowell no, but frankly, *you're* starting to get a bit tedious. rday -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Ext3 File System Check
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, John Lowell wrote: > ... its remarkable that so much has come out of a > simple request for an answer to a question on the e2fsck command. > Interestingly, I raised the very same question on another distro's > mailing list this afternoon, was answered promptly, courteously, and > with no lecture whatsoever about man pages. I didn't even receive one > unsolicited comment on protocol or whether someone agreed with me or > not. Funny, isn't it, how the people on some Linux lists seem > interested in just being helpful. > > John Lowell then take your business there. how much of a no-brainer can that be? personally, you're really starting to grate on me because, frankly, being an abrasive, obnoxious presence on red hat mailing lists is *my* job. *i'm* the one who, on a regular basis, tees off on folks who post in HTML or (my favorite pet peeve) use really worthless, content-free subjects like "help", or "need help" or "REALLY, REALLY, REALLY NEED HELP". i've worked hard to earn the respect of my fellow mailing list members as an occasional tactless nuisance, and i don't appreciate some rookie punk showing up, all full of piss and vinegar, figuring he can just take over. you need to show some respect to your elders, son. rday -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: And Now Hate Mail?
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, John Lowell wrote: > I would certainly have to agree, this has gone far enough. But if > you're going to criticise one of the comments I've made here, have the > fairness to expect a reply without complaining that I'm using up too > much bandwidth. I'm afraid I don't share your rather benign assessment > of the gravity of receiving hate mail here. "Moronic", you say? Really. > Yes, minimally the matter will be brought to the list manager's > attention. I don't plan on trifling with something like this. > > John Lowell [NOTE carefully the CC on this message, Mr. Lowell.] Psyche list administrator, Red Hat: Over the last 24 hours, Mr. Lowell has been responsible for a veritable spate of postings and replies on this list, taking offense to how he originally got advice on a simple question. This original, innocuous incident has absolutely exploded into frustration, insults and name-calling, with Mr. Lowell now claiming that he has received hate mail privately from list members. Frankly, at this point, it doesn't matter whose fault it is. Mr. Lowell's postings, and replies to those postings, are now consuming a sizable portion of the total list traffic. This is unacceptable to those of us who use the RH mailing lists to actually get help. Feel free to chat with Mr. Lowell and explain simple etiquette to him or, failing that, please just have him removed from the list. As I said, it just doesn't matter whose fault it is. Mr. Lowell's presence has become unacceptably disruptive, and something should be done about it. A lot of us have work to do, and Mr. Lowell is simply getting in the way. Respectfully yours, Robert P. J. Day RHCE -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, John Nall wrote: > At 08:47 AM 3/9/2003 -0800, Stephen Carville wrote: > > >He certainly is a persistent troll. > > You guys (and girls) should give Mr. Lowell more respect. You may not know > it, but Linux is just a hobby with him. His real job is as a senior member > of the Bush diplomatic team to North Korea. in other words, he has a lot of time on his hands? rday -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Mounting of vfat
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:03:26PM +0100, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > > hi, > > > > > > Whats the best way for mounting a vfat partition? > > I need to give several users RW on this disk. > > Must i give the parameters in /etc/fstab ? > > > > Patrick > > > > -- > As far as I know just put a line in fstab using the filetype of > vfat. > e.g. > /dev/hdb2 /mntv vfatdefaults0 0 i'm pretty sure "auto" would work instead of vfat. IIRC, mount will auto-recognize ext2/3, iso9660 and vfat. rday -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: Quota problems with Redhat 8?
have you use quotaon /dev/hdaafter restarting the server (or remounting the filesystems??? ) RP - Raúl D. Pittí P. Tecnología de Información. [EMAIL PROTECTED] S.A. Plaza Credicorp Bank Calle 50, Oficina 703 tel. (507)-210-1518 fax. (507)-210-1506 [Hora Local: GMT-5] Apdo. Postal 0833-0045, Plaza Panama http://www.netmasters.com.pa -- Original Message --- From: "Dan G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Psyche-List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:06:58 -0500 Subject: Quota problems with Redhat 8? > Does anyone know how to get around the quota probs with Redhat > 8. I am using the latest Redhat kernel unmodified. I have set > usrquota and grpquota in /etc/fstab and when I try quotacheck - > avug after remounting the FS, I get "cannot get quota > filename for /dev/hda2" which is / in this case. Never had > this prob with 7.3. Anyone know of a workaround or updated > packages to resolve this? > > Thanks, > > Dan > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list --- End of Original Message --- -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
Re: SCO and RedHat?
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Loeung Vidol wrote: > Hi all: > > Anyone's got experienced with the SCO UNIX? I'm going to try it next week. > But I'm a bit curious how it is different from RedHat or other Linux > distros. boy, is *this* the wrong time to be asking about SCO UNIX. :-P rday -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
latest on configuring NVIDIA under 2.5 kernel?
what is the latest on NVIDIA drivers for the 2.5 kernel? from a google search, i found www.minion.de/nvidia.html, from which one can download a patch: NVIDIA_kernel-1.0.4191-2.5.63.diff this *appears* to be a short 3-item patch against the NVIDIA src rpm Makefile. the first and third of those patches work, while the second fails. it seems easy enough to fix that glitch manually, but i'm nervous about doing that when i'm not sure why it wouldn't patch cleanly in the first place. is there a definitive solution involving NVIDIA GeForce2Go NVIDIA 1.0-4191 drivers 2.5.65 kernel (most likely involving a hacked NVIDIA driver, as the patch seems to suggest). rday -- Robert P. J. Day, RHCE Eno River Technologies, Inc. Unix, Linux and Open Source training -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
