M-Systems Disk On Key

2002-11-11 Thread Robert L. Cochran
I recently bought an M-Systems 128 Mb Disk-On-Key (version 2.51). When I plug this into the USB port of a Linux computer that has never been used with this device before, it seems to create a directory '/mnt/diskonkey'. The directory never existed before. It disappears when you unmount and then unp

Re: How about USB? (was: Re: issues with KVM switches)

2002-11-11 Thread Arend
On 12 Nov 2002, James McArthur wrote: > Hi, > > I just did a test on a co-workers RH8 machine with a USB keyboard; they > are hot-pluggable. > > James Thanks James, I figured someone must own one of those things. -- Arend

Re: yamaha opl3sax sound card

2002-11-11 Thread Justin Georgeson
That did help. It's now loading fully at startup. The only quirk left is that I still get that error from gnome-volume-control, which I can deal with much more readily than having to load the module manually each time. Bill Nottingham wrote: Justin Georgeson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: >I've att

ftp, telnet not working

2002-11-11 Thread orion
Hi, I am new to RH Linux. Have just loaded RHL 8.0 on a new machine in a 2 computer LAN. Everything seems to be OK, except that I can only login onto the new Linux machine from the other one (Win 2k) using ssh. Telnet, ftp, rlogin does not work (neither from the other machine, nor from the Lin

Re: optical mice?

2002-11-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 13:52, Robert L. Cochran wrote: > I'm still having a problem with this. Basically if I recompile the > 2.4.18-17.8.0 kernel my USB optical mouse won't work when I boot the new > kernel.Changes to the kernel are: add jfs-1.0.24 (jfs filesystem) > support and add iptables-1.2.7a

Lowering CPU Speed To Avoid Memory Errors

2002-11-11 Thread Robert L. Cochran
I talked about having memory testing errors on a computer that I built myself a few weeks ago. The processor is the Intel 2.8 Ghz on an Asus P4T533 motherboard. You can see my earlier posts about this if you want. Someone on this forum suggested I lower the processor speed. I did this tonight, low

Re: yamaha opl3sax sound card

2002-11-11 Thread Bill Nottingham
Justin Georgeson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > I've attached both below. I don't what, if anything, has changed, but it > now mostly works if I start a shell, log in as root, and modprobe -a > opl3sa2 after the system starts up. Change all the lines in /etc/modules.conf that refer to ad1848 to re

Re: optical mice?

2002-11-11 Thread Robert L. Cochran
I'm still having a problem with this. Basically if I recompile the 2.4.18-17.8.0 kernel my USB optical mouse won't work when I boot the new kernel.Changes to the kernel are: add jfs-1.0.24 (jfs filesystem) support and add iptables-1.2.7a support. I've recompiled and followed Markku's advice (below

Money Dance

2002-11-11 Thread John Lowell
Tonight, I downloaded Money Dance, a Linux, personal financial manager. For the life of me, I cannot figure out how to get it installed. I have Red Hat 8.0, of course, using a personal desktop installation. There do not seem to be any instructions in the manual or anywhere else that I can tell that

LVM

2002-11-11 Thread Pierre Lamb
I have been experimenting with LVM. Made a logical volumes of var and home no problems but when I did one for /tmp the gui will crash I find that I can not start xfs as long as I have /tmp setup as a logicsal volume no matter what size. Why is that. Pierre __

Re: How about USB? (was: Re: issues with KVM switches)

2002-11-11 Thread James McArthur
Hi, I just did a test on a co-workers RH8 machine with a USB keyboard; they are hot-pluggable. James On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 12:43, Arend wrote: > Ok, so that's two people saying that it should work. I kind of > thought that it would, has anybody actually tried it? > > I suppose I should just go

Re: Kmail browser

2002-11-11 Thread Todd Tibbetts
On Sunday 10 November 2002 20:07, Steve Sykes wrote: > How do I change the default browser in kmail from Konqueror to Mozilla? I > tried in control panel, but it didn't change. I just went into the KDE control panel under "File Browsing" and changed the application for type "html" under the text

Re: How about USB? (was: Re: issues with KVM switches)

2002-11-11 Thread Arend
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, John wrote: > On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Arend wrote: > > > How about hotplugging USB keyboards? > > > > I've got a co-located server with a PS/1 keyboard and mouse resting on > > top of the box. > > > > If I set it up with a USB keyboard, could I yank it and take it home > > wi

Re: evolution 1.2 rpm for 8.0???

2002-11-11 Thread Dan Clowater
Running it now! Looks a lot cleaner as far as fonts and edges go. Settings are a bit more gui-friendly - has a lot more intuitive feel! Kudos. On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 21:34, Robert A. Thompson wrote: > You can get just the evolution rpm's from the ftp.ximian.com > /pub/ximian-evolution/redhat-80-i3

Re: Lost mail & mail spool file locks

2002-11-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 11:52, Michael Fratoni wrote: > I've noticed that I had an incoming mail message go missing, and am > looking at possible ways to prevent it in the future. Pointers to what > I've missed much appreciated. > My best guess is that kmail read and deleted my local mail spool _w

Re: Red Hat Road Tour

2002-11-11 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Martin Stricker wrote: > "Oisin C. Feeley" wrote: > > > And I have to add that California can't be beaten for variety and > > quality of microbrews (Mendocino County especially seems to have a > > dazzling variety of beers all of excellent quality. Add to this the > > very c

RE: Wireless Lan Monitor for Linux?

2002-11-11 Thread Mr. Adam ALLEN
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 01:53, Carter, Shaun G wrote: > Nice app, however I'm looking something along the lines of signal strength > and quality. It would come in handy for wireless site surveys with my > Psyche laptop. F1 for configuration - Plugins -- Wireless (tick enable) then in the left h

Re: evolution 1.2 rpm for 8.0???

2002-11-11 Thread Robert A. Thompson
You can get just the evolution rpm's from the ftp.ximian.com /pub/ximian-evolution/redhat-80-i386 directory with out installing all the ximian desktop. Just mget *.rpm and then rpm -Uvh *.rpm ... worked for me(your milage may vary) --rat On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 20:26, Heiko Jones wrote: > Anybody

Re: evolution 1.2 rpm for 8.0???

2002-11-11 Thread Tom Diehl
On 11 Nov 2002, Heiko Jones wrote: > Anybody have an rpm of evolution 1.2 for a stock 8.0 or even 7.3 yet?? > It came out today... > > I do not mean the ximian desktop stuff either, just plain old redhat > version. You might want to look in Rawhide in a few days. If/when someone from the Red Ha

Re: evolution 1.2 rpm for 8.0???

2002-11-11 Thread mr_fixer
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 02:26, Heiko Jones wrote: > Anybody have an rpm of evolution 1.2 for a stock 8.0 or even 7.3 yet?? > It came out today... > > I do not mean the ximian desktop stuff either, just plain old redhat > version. > > > > it say here http://www.ximian.com/products/evolution/do

Lost mail & mail spool file locks

2002-11-11 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've noticed that I had an incoming mail message go missing, and am looking at possible ways to prevent it in the future. Pointers to what I've missed much appreciated. I use fetchmail (in daemon mode) to pop mail from my mailserver as well as a co

Re: Script to copy files to all users?

2002-11-11 Thread dTd
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 09:14:59 +0800 (WST) John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Put it in /home/shared and tell everyone it's there. make a symlink to it in each home dir for convenience. -- /dTd Perl 6 will give you the big knob. - Larry Wall

pam.d / consolehelper help?

2002-11-11 Thread mr_fixer
hi, i just downloaded and installed red-carpet. it says it need to run as root,while most other redhat apps ask for password dialog. how can i setup red-carpet to use pam / consolehelper-gtk ?? ( i.e how do i make a corresponding file in /etc/pam.d) P.S: dont say read the man, i tried, its to

evolution 1.2 rpm for 8.0???

2002-11-11 Thread Heiko Jones
Anybody have an rpm of evolution 1.2 for a stock 8.0 or even 7.3 yet?? It came out today... I do not mean the ximian desktop stuff either, just plain old redhat version.

RE: Wireless Lan Monitor for Linux?

2002-11-11 Thread Carter, Shaun G
Nice app, however I'm looking something along the lines of signal strength and quality. It would come in handy for wireless site surveys with my Psyche laptop. Shaun -Original Message- From: Mr. Adam ALLEN [mailto:adam@;dynamicinteraction.co.uk] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 8:01 PM To

Netgear MA401 Wireless

2002-11-11 Thread rchrismon
Folks: I've read the man page for iwconfig and the help file for neat. I've searched Google and the RedHat archives. I've tried fooling around on my own. The bottom line is that I can't get my Netgear MA401 wireless PCMCIA card to work with Linux. I don't know where to look (as in log files) to fi

Re: home lan

2002-11-11 Thread Lou Losee
just for info, these home appliances are typically runiing a version of *nix, typially BSD Lou lovswr1 wrote: I agree with Chris. I have two Linksi(is that correct?) gateways, but I chose to make my redhat 8 box the router & I just use them as switches. You will be far better of (not to mentio

Re: Bash trivia question

2002-11-11 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 11 November 2002 06:03 pm, John wrote: > On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, irc wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Probably this isn't the right place to ask Bash questions. But since > > this might be of some relevance to Redhat users I'm posting the > > questio

Re: Script to copy files to all users?

2002-11-11 Thread John
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Brian Johnson wrote: > I just (took me a few months of infrequent looking) found documentation for adding > additional directories and files for new users (under /etc/skel) - and a newuser > script to incorporate those changes from the red hat europe web site > > I still have

Re: Wireless Lan Monitor for Linux?

2002-11-11 Thread Mr. Adam ALLEN
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:46, Carter, Shaun G wrote: > Is there a graphical Wireless LAN monitor for normal linux systems (psyche, > mandrake, debian, whatever) like the one available for Zaurus (at the > following link)? > > http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=76 > > I like the idea

Re: running java program at startup

2002-11-11 Thread Stephen Mah
Jesse Keating wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:06:08 -0800 Stephen Mah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # Manually running this command works: /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1/bin/java # -cp /myclasspath application.configurationcenter.Configapp # # I'm using kde 3.0. How do you have it listed in ~/.Xclients-defaul

RE: running java program at startup

2002-11-11 Thread John BouAntoun
Could it be that you need to specify that the file is a jar with the -jar option like this: java -jar file.jar Being Included Message: --__--__-- Message: 4 Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:59:28 -0800 From: Stephen Mah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Oracle Corporation To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

PPTP

2002-11-11 Thread J Kevin Martineau
Does anyone know what is required to get PPTP running on 8.0? I would like to use my Linux box to connect to a client's network. Thanks. -- Kevin Martineau [EMAIL PROTECTED] (404) 724-0057 Fax (509) 757-7967 Cel (404) 277-4484

Re: Red Hat Road Tour

2002-11-11 Thread Martin Stricker
"Oisin C. Feeley" wrote: > And I have to add that California can't be beaten for variety and > quality of microbrews (Mendocino County especially seems to have a > dazzling variety of beers all of excellent quality. Add to this the > very civilized aspect of U.S. life that beer can be obtained e

Re: running java program at startup

2002-11-11 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:06:08 -0800 Stephen Mah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # Manually running this command works: /usr/java/j2sdk1.4.1/bin/java # -cp /myclasspath application.configurationcenter.Configapp # # I'm using kde 3.0. How do you have it listed in ~/.Xclients-default ? -- Jesse Keating

Re: home lan

2002-11-11 Thread lovswr1
I agree with Chris. I have two Linksi(is that correct?) gateways, but I chose to make my redhat 8 box the router & I just use them as switches. You will be far better of (not to mention all the control that you will gain,,e.g Samba, SSH, vnc etc) to have a running real router via *nix than one of

Re: running java program at startup

2002-11-11 Thread Stephen Mah
Jesse Keating wrote: On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:59:28 -0800 Stephen Mah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # # running this manually works, but if I add this to the .bashrc, it # will not run unless I have a konsole window open. Put it in your ~/.Xclients-default file. I created the file and it didn't se

sticky windows

2002-11-11 Thread Justin Georgeson
This only applies to metacity. How do I get applications to be sticky between sessions? Further to that, how do I get windows without window manager decorations (borders), like typical XMMS, to be sticky? XMMS has its own sticky option, but metacity seems to ignore it. Even if I have XMMS show

Wireless Lan Monitor for Linux?

2002-11-11 Thread Carter, Shaun G
Is there a graphical Wireless LAN monitor for normal linux systems (psyche, mandrake, debian, whatever) like the one available for Zaurus (at the following link)? http://www.killefiz.de/zaurus/showdetail.php?app=76 I like the idea here and don't know how to program my own. Ideally an applet woul

Re: RPM Segmentation Fault

2002-11-11 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11 Nov 2002 18:57:29 +, Scott Taylor wrote: > I have downloaded a few times the same file and tried to install it as > follows: > > [root@localhost root]# rpm -U webmin-1.030-1.noarch.rpm > Segmentation fault > > I know someone who has succes

Re: running java program at startup

2002-11-11 Thread Patrick
You could try to start it from within Gnome's (if you use that) Sessions menu --> Startup Programs. Cheers, Patrick On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:59, Stephen Mah wrote: > Trying to run this configuration utility as a part of starting X. > > java file.jar & > > running this manually works, but if I a

Re: running java program at startup

2002-11-11 Thread Philip A. Chapman
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 16:59, Stephen Mah wrote: > Trying to run this configuration utility as a part of starting X. > > java file.jar & > > running this manually works, but if I add this to the .bashrc, it will > not run unless I have a konsole window open. > > any ideas? Stephen, Should this

Re: running java program at startup

2002-11-11 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:59:28 -0800 Stephen Mah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # # running this manually works, but if I add this to the .bashrc, it # will not run unless I have a konsole window open. Put it in your ~/.Xclients-default file. -- Jesse Keating j2Solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (www.mondo

TouchPad

2002-11-11 Thread Ilona
I'm pretty new to linux and I have a Gateway 450X laptop with an EZ Pad® Pointing Device (touchpad) and i can't get the touchpad to work. It worked fine with windoze but i can't figure out how to get it to work with linux. Thanks Ilona

Re: Bash trivia question

2002-11-11 Thread John
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, irc wrote: > > Hi all, > > Probably this isn't the right place to ask Bash questions. But since this > might be of some relevance to Redhat users I'm posting the question here. > > Consider the script below: > > #= > !/bin/bash > >

running java program at startup

2002-11-11 Thread Stephen Mah
Trying to run this configuration utility as a part of starting X. java file.jar & running this manually works, but if I add this to the .bashrc, it will not run unless I have a konsole window open. any ideas?

Re: How about USB? (was: Re: issues with KVM switches)

2002-11-11 Thread John
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Arend wrote: > On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Sander Steffann wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > What Asus boards exactly -- meaning the model numbers -- did you fry? > > > > I don't know exactly anymore. Older boards for sure... Probably P2B-DS but I > > could be very wrong. > > > > > Does

Re: Script to copy files to all users?

2002-11-11 Thread Jesse Keating
On 11 Nov 2002 17:15:26 -0500 Chris Kloiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # Don't forget to chown the copied files to $user. Ok.. for user in `ls /home/` ; do cp $file /home/$user/ ; chown \ $user.$user /home/$user/$file ; done -- Jesse Keating j2Solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org)

Add locale en_US.UTF-8

2002-11-11 Thread "Ricardo Jofré S."
How install precompiled locale en_US.UTF-8 in /usr/lib/locale? , in this moment not is installed , what rpm package is recquired install? Ricardo

Re: home lan

2002-11-11 Thread Philip A. Chapman
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 14:44, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > far better to get a cable/dsl router (possibly 4-port), most of which are > configurable via a browser. any decent one already has some firewalling > capability, they're smaller, more reliable, do NAT automatically, etc, > etc. My home is ou

Re: Newbie - 2 Gnome and 1 general question(s)

2002-11-11 Thread Lou Losee
Raul Acevedo wrote: Mythical Proportions wrote: > 2 GNOME questions for you... > 1) I want to 're-organize' some of the items in the GNOME menu. In M$ > you can click and drag items around the start menu, but it doesn't > appear to work like that in GNOME. What conf file controls the gnom

Re: Script to copy files to all users?

2002-11-11 Thread Chris Kloiber
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 15:22, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 19:57:27 + > "Brian Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # > # I'm looking for a script that would allow me to copy a file (or > # bunch of files) to all of the user's home directories - it would be > # handy for upgra

Re: Newbie - 2 Gnome and 1 general question(s)

2002-11-11 Thread Raul Acevedo
Tom Georgoulias wrote: > > 1) I want to 're-organize' some of the items in the GNOME menu. In > > M$ you can click and drag items around the start menu, but it > > doesn't appear to work like that in GNOME. What conf file controls > > the gnome menu (both per user and globally)? > > Searc

Re: yamaha opl3sax sound card

2002-11-11 Thread Justin Georgeson
I've attached both below. I don't what, if anything, has changed, but it now mostly works if I start a shell, log in as root, and modprobe -a opl3sa2 after the system starts up. Without that, the mixer applet says it can't open /dev/sound/mixer. Even after that, I can't set volume without openi

Re: Newbie - 2 Gnome and 1 general question(s)

2002-11-11 Thread Chris Kloiber
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 14:50, Mythical Proportions wrote: > Hi all. Long time computer user/IT staffer but new linux user running > RH8. > > 2 GNOME questions for you... > 1) I want to 're-organize' some of the items in the GNOME menu. In M$ > you can click and drag items around the start menu,

Re: Red Hat Road Tour

2002-11-11 Thread Robert L. Cochran
Why do I think we have lost the Road Tour content completely? Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 15:47, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > When i was in Italy i drank a beer that was 18% alcohol content it was > made by monks since 1600's and they apply named it black death it was

Re: optical mice?

2002-11-11 Thread Markku Kolkka
Viestissä Maanantai 11. Marraskuuta 2002 18:16, Robert L. Cochran kirjoitti: > How do I fix this problem -- I thought all I had to do was make sure > > CONFIG_USB_KBD=m > CONFIG_USB_MOUSE=m You should _un_define those and use CONFIG_USB_HID=m CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=m CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=m instead. --

re: home lan

2002-11-11 Thread anthony baldwin
Okay, so what you are saying is that in order for these machines to have access to each other, the present internal firewall on each machine would have to compromised? So I should set up another machine as a server or use a router (not the switch that I presently have)? Tony http://www.School-Li

Re: optical mice

2002-11-11 Thread anthony baldwin
I bought a Logitech optical mouse and I couldn't be happier. I oculd connect with either ps/2 or usb, I chose ps/2 so I would\ not have to alter /etc/x11configs. I just plugged it in and went to the races. Didn;t even have to reboot. It's quick and accurate. I'm happy. Thanks for input. Ton

Re: home lan

2002-11-11 Thread Robert L. Cochran
I have the Linksys router box (gathering dust on my shelf at this moment) and a computer running Red Hat 8 in runlevel 2 which I'm using as a firewall/router. And like Chris says, this has forced me to think about my own security -- an issue I've avoided for a long time. I'm glad the box and the

Re: Newbie - 2 Gnome and 1 general question(s)

2002-11-11 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On 11 Nov 2002, Mythical Proportions wrote: Sorry, don't know the answer to the gnome-menu question > 2) I removed the RHN/update widget from the toolbar and would like to > have it back. The little blue check mark makes me happy. What > applet/program/etc should I link to get it back? > This

Re: home lan

2002-11-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 09:53:02AM -0800, jdow wrote: > > Tony, the best approach, from my experience, is to find a spare machine, > > say an old 75 MHz Pentium, and set it up with a pair of NICs as your > > firewall and network gateway using NAT. That will h

Re: Newbie - 2 Gnome and 1 general question(s)

2002-11-11 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Mythical Proportions wrote: 2 GNOME questions for you... 1) I want to 're-organize' some of the items in the GNOME menu. In M$ you can click and drag items around the start menu, but it doesn't appear to work like that in GNOME. What conf file controls the gnome menu (both per user and globall

Re: Red Hat Road Tour

2002-11-11 Thread Dennis Gilmore
When i was in Italy i drank a beer that was 18% alcohol content it was made by monks since 1600's and they apply named it black death it was very strong not the most plesent of beers to drink but went straight to you head. Dennis On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 04:54, Joe Klemmer wrote: > On Mon, 2002-

Re: Fonts Problem...

2002-11-11 Thread Andrea Cerisara
Alle 00:10, lunedì 11 novembre 2002, Michael Fratoni ha scritto: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 10 November 2002 11:43 am, Andrea Cerisara wrote: > > I have some problems with fonts... sometimes there are unreadable > > characters especially with "èìòàù"...The keybo

Re: buslink usb cdrw drive

2002-11-11 Thread Thomas Dodd
Pavel Rozenboim wrote: Hi. I have a BusLink USB CDRW drive, that I would like to use on Linux. I found usbide driver from http://bravin.home.cern.ch/bravin/usbide/usbide.html. It seems that driver recognizes device, but I can not mount it. Anyone has an idea how to make it work How have you t

Re: home lan

2002-11-11 Thread John J. Boyer
hello, We use a box running the LRP (Linux Router Project) between our LAN and our DSL modem. The computer was one that was donated to our nonprofit organization and the setup was done by a volunteer. The box is in an out-of-the-way place. So far it's done just fine, even for downloading all fi

pilot-link ok, gnome-pilot not

2002-11-11 Thread Justin Georgeson
If I can backup my palm using palm-xfer, but can't pull username/ID from the palm to add my device to the Pilots tab of gpilotd-control-applet, what my the problem be? gpilotd is running like this according to ps gpilotd --activate-goad-server gpilotd --goad-fd 13 Any suggestions would be great

Re: Script to copy files to all users?

2002-11-11 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 19:57:27 + "Brian Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # I'm looking for a script that would allow me to copy a file (or # bunch of files) to all of the user's home directories - it would be # handy for upgrading .wine configuration files and also openoffice # .sversionrc fi

Re: Script to copy files to all users?

2002-11-11 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 19:57:27 + "Brian Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # # I'm looking for a script that would allow me to copy a file (or # bunch of files) to all of the user's home directories - it would be # handy for upgrading .wine configuration files and also openoffice # .sversionrc

Re: True type fonts in mozilla./evolution

2002-11-11 Thread Thomas Dodd
Mike A. Harris wrote: On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Thomas Dodd wrote: Where do the other fomats go? I use several apps on non-Linux systems (the X remote display is great) that don't use Xft or TTF. In ~/.fonts or the other listed dirs. Don't make it more complicated than it is. It isn't comp

Newbie - 2 Gnome and 1 general question(s)

2002-11-11 Thread Raul Acevedo
Mythical Proportions wrote: > 2 GNOME questions for you... > 1) I want to 're-organize' some of the items in the GNOME menu. In M$ > you can click and drag items around the start menu, but it doesn't > appear to work like that in GNOME. What conf file controls the gnome > menu (both per us

Re: yamaha opl3sax sound card

2002-11-11 Thread Bill Nottingham
Justin Georgeson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > I have a Tyan Thunder 2 ATX with on-board OPL3-SA3 and OPL4-ML. The > modues don't seem to betting loading properly. The auto-detection that > worked great in 7.3 doesn't seem to be working in 8.0. Running > redhat-config-soundcard fails to detect an

Script to copy files to all users?

2002-11-11 Thread Brian Johnson
I just (took me a few months of infrequent looking) found documentation for adding additional directories and files for new users (under /etc/skel) - and a newuser script to incorporate those changes from the red hat europe web site I still have a couple of questions: I would like to figure out h

Newbie - 2 Gnome and 1 general question(s)

2002-11-11 Thread Mythical Proportions
Hi all. Long time computer user/IT staffer but new linux user running RH8. 2 GNOME questions for you... 1) I want to 're-organize' some of the items in the GNOME menu. In M$ you can click and drag items around the start menu, but it doesn't appear to work like that in GNOME. What conf file con

RE: optical mice?

2002-11-11 Thread Carter, Shaun G
Logitech optical trackball and cordless freedom optical mouse in use here with NO problems at all. Shaun Carter -Original Message- From: Elton Woo [mailto:eltwoo@;linuxmail.org] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 2:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: optical mice? - Original Mess

Re: home lan

2002-11-11 Thread Chris Kloiber
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 13:13, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 09:53:02AM -0800, jdow wrote: > > Tony, the best approach, from my experience, is to find a spare machine, > > say an old 75 MHz Pentium, and set it up with a pair of NICs as your > > firewall and network gateway using NAT. That

Re: optical mice?

2002-11-11 Thread Elton Woo
- Original Message - From: anthony baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 19:17:06 -0800 (PST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: optical mice? > Okay, > This might be stupid, too, but is anyone using an optical mouse with this OS? LOGITECH optical mouse, connected to a USB hub

canacian, eh? (was - Re: Red Hat Road Tour

2002-11-11 Thread Elton Woo
- Original Message - From: Dennis Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 11 Nov 2002 00:24:40 +1000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Red Hat Road Tour > On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 00:07, Joe Klemmer wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 01:36, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > > > > > I beg to differ, only i

Re: home lan

2002-11-11 Thread Joe Klemmer
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 13:13, Ed Wilts wrote: > > Tony, the best approach, from my experience, is to find a spare machine, > > say an old 75 MHz Pentium, and set it up with a pair of NICs as your > > firewall and network gateway using NAT. > > In my experience, that's the wrong answer. You're far

RPM Segmentation Fault

2002-11-11 Thread Scott Taylor
I have downloaded a few times the same file and tried to install it as follows: [root@localhost root]# rpm -U webmin-1.030-1.noarch.rpm Segmentation fault [root@localhost root]# rpm -Uvv webmin-1.030-1.noarch.rpm D: == webmin-1.030-1.noarch.rpm D: Expected size: 6500270 = lead(96)

Re: Red Hat Road Tour

2002-11-11 Thread Joe Klemmer
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 11:48, Chris Kloiber wrote: > > http://www.paulaner.com/search.php?state=NC&beverage=hackerpschorr [...] > Thank you for contributing to my future drunken stupor! I almost missed this link. Looking through the Paulaner Brews page I found two of the beers I did occa

Re: Segmentation Fault

2002-11-11 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Scott Taylor wrote: Ummm, thanks but that's not much help. I have installed hundreds of RPM's. It must be something with the download or the RPM database. Did you ever kill an rpm process, now or in the past, while it was active? All the symptoms you are describing indicate that. Try this: cd

Re: Red Hat Road Tour

2002-11-11 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Aaron Konstam wrote: Well I looked at the site abovew and discovered that RedHat does not know that we in the deep south use Linux. They are not coming withing 600 miles og Texas for example. A stop in Austin, Texas would've be nice. This town is full of Linux folks. Tom

Re: home lan

2002-11-11 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 09:53:02AM -0800, jdow wrote: > Tony, the best approach, from my experience, is to find a spare machine, > say an old 75 MHz Pentium, and set it up with a pair of NICs as your > firewall and network gateway using NAT. That will hide all your other > serious machines behind s

Re: home lan

2002-11-11 Thread jdow
Tony, the best approach, from my experience, is to find a spare machine, say an old 75 MHz Pentium, and set it up with a pair of NICs as your firewall and network gateway using NAT. That will hide all your other serious machines behind some level of protection. This will allow for gadgets such as n

RE: DHCPd

2002-11-11 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Stephen Craig wrote: > sorry about the long lines last time. Here is my > dhcpd.conf file and I am starting DHCPd using > both: > service dhcpd start > and running > dhcpd eth0 > > > subnet 213.152.36.168 netmask 255.255.255.248 { > range 213.152.36.172 213.152.36.173; >

RE: DHCPd

2002-11-11 Thread Stephen Craig
sorry about the long lines last time. Here is my dhcpd.conf file and I am starting DHCPd using both: service dhcpd start and running dhcpd eth0 subnet 213.152.36.168 netmask 255.255.255.248 { range 213.152.36.172 213.152.36.173; } host Steve { hardware ethernet 00:08:A1:1A:AC:10;

home lan

2002-11-11 Thread anthony baldwin
Where can I find good instructions for setting up a home lan network using my Lniux box for a server. I have only linux and Mac OS machines to network. No Micro$lop products here. I took a graduate course in netwroking and only learned about protocols (ftp, http, etc) and writes (twisted pair, et

Re: Man pages have â instead of -

2002-11-11 Thread Brian K. Jones
This is also covered in the FAQ here: http://www.linuxlaboratory.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=FAQ&file=index&myfaq=yes&id_cat=3&categories=On+the+Desktop&parent_id=1 On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 00:54, Michael Fratoni wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 10 November

Re: Red Hat Road Tour

2002-11-11 Thread Wade Hampton
Martin Stricker wrote: Dennis Gilmore wrote: On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 13:35, Richard Potter wrote: Sadly, they seem to have a reluctance to come to Canada. Maybe they are not allowed across the border! (just kidding). PS: We have *real* beer! I beg to differ, only in Australia

Re: Psyche-list digest, Vol 1 #449 - 16 msgs

2002-11-11 Thread anthony baldwin
>--- Chris Kloiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 10:25, Mike A. Harris wrote: >> >> > > Actually, while Canada and Australia have beer >> that is "real" (as >> > >opposed to the swill water that's here in the >> US), one must go to >> > >Germany to find the Best Beer. >>

Re: Red Hat Road Tour

2002-11-11 Thread Chris Kloiber
On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 23:58, Gary Gardner wrote: > http://www.paulaner.com/search.php?state=NC&beverage=hackerpschorr > > > > > >Chris you should find some in NC. I'll have totry it > myself maybe the tour bus could drop some off here > centeral valley of calif.;) > Gary Thank you for contrib

Re: DHCPd

2002-11-11 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 09:59:01 "Stephen Craig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # # I seem to have continuing problems running the DHCPd on my linux 8.0 # box. I have followed numerous online guides and copied or modified # the dhcpd.conf file, tocuhed the lease file and enabled multicast. # Howev

Re: DHCPd

2002-11-11 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Stephen Craig wrote: > > I seem to have continuing problems running the DHCPd on my linux 8.0 > box. I have followed numerous online guides and copied or modified the > dhcpd.conf file, tocuhed the lease file and enabled multicast. However > the DHCPd service always reports

PC Card problems.

2002-11-11 Thread Michael Tiernan
Just on the wild chance that other may have tried this. Has anyone been successful using a D-Link DWL-650+ wireless cardbuss adapter with a Compaq Armada 7400 laptop? (Of course running psyche). Thanks very much for your time. -- << MCT >> Michael C Tiernan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: optical mice?

2002-11-11 Thread Robert L. Cochran
Following a recompile of the 2.4.18-17.8.0 kernel I have a mouse question of my own. If I use the stock Red Hat kernel, I get these kernel messages and my mouse works fine: Nov 11 10:35:48 bobc kernel: input0: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft IntelliMouse ® with IntelliEye] on usb1:3.0 No

Re: Red Hat Road Tour

2002-11-11 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On 11 Nov 2002, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > Cant argue with that but then we would have to include Ireland also. > Irish beer is a fantastic meal in itself. just dont go to England they > cant bowl bat field or make beer. > Hah! Porter (of which Guinness is a variety) was invented in Britain. Ad

Re: Psyche FAQ (was: Re: Anyone else having problems with acroread?)

2002-11-11 Thread Brian K. Jones
This issue is addressed on the FAQ here: http://www.linuxlaboratory.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=FAQ&file=index&myfaq=yes&id_cat=3&categories=On+the+Desktop&parent_id=1 On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 20:36, Joe Klemmer wrote: > > This is another candidate for inclusion on the FAQ. > > On Sat, 20

buslink usb cdrw drive

2002-11-11 Thread Pavel Rozenboim
Hi. I have a BusLink USB CDRW drive, that I would like to use on Linux. I found usbide driver from http://bravin.home.cern.ch/bravin/usbide/usbide.html. It seems that driver recognizes device, but I can not mount it. Anyone has an idea how to make it work? Thanks, Pavel.

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