Re: Kernel panic with ext3 root set to writeback

2002-12-19 Thread Chris Kloiber
Wouldn't this be something to be put in /etc/fstab where you normally see "defaults"? Yep, check out 'man mount', it's in the 'Mount options for ext3' section. data=writeback. Before you actually do this however, I've heard this option is fast, but not always safe in the event of a crash. YMMV. On

Re: antivirus software

2002-12-19 Thread Jason Dale
Hi Kevin We were looking into using a package called Sophos anti-virus software , which allegedly runs on Linux as well as Unix. Red Hat x.x included , from what I am told. Regards , Jason - Original Message - From: "Kevin McConnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Fri

Re: Kernel panic with ext3 root set to writeback

2002-12-19 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Tom Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone been able to boot Red Hat 8.0 with an > ext3 root device with > it set to writeback mode? When I add > bootflags=mode=writeback to my > kernel line in Grub, the kernel panics because it > doesn't recognize the > option. Where did you read ab

antivirus software

2002-12-19 Thread Kevin McConnell
I know this has been asked on previous lists with previous versions of Red Hat because I looked through all the archives. I wanted to know what people are using now on psyche (not other versions) of Red Hat. This is more or less a survey. so feel free to email me off list if you feel this is of

Re: Fail to boot RH8-cd on an IBM A31P laptop

2002-12-19 Thread Tommy McNeely
same thing happened to me on my (toshiba?) laptop.. i had to copy the CDs to my workstation and do NFS install (using a floppy to boot) tommy On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 01:10, Stephan Deckers wrote: > I recently got an IBM A31P laptop from my boss and want > to install RH8.0 on it. I already installe

Kernel panic with ext3 root set to writeback

2002-12-19 Thread Tom Ball
Has anyone been able to boot Red Hat 8.0 with an ext3 root device with it set to writeback mode? When I add bootflags=mode=writeback to my kernel line in Grub, the kernel panics because it doesn't recognize the option. It looks like the kernel first mounts the drive as a ext2, then quickly switch

Re: Error while compiling programs

2002-12-19 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 23:04 19 Dec 2002, Brian Craft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I am in need of help. I'm running RedHat 8 and when I go to compile various | programs, I get the following: | | "checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your | installation and add the correct paths!

Error while compiling programs

2002-12-19 Thread Brian Craft
I am in need of help. I'm running RedHat 8 and when I go to compile various programs, I get the following: "checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check your installation and add the correct paths! " Could someone help me on this? -- Brian Craft Registered Linux

Re: looking for good small linux installations

2002-12-19 Thread Jack Bowling
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 03:06:23PM -0800, Taylor, ForrestX wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Hello everybody, > > I'm in education and I am trying to recycle small > >time Pentiums with small disks : some only have disks of about 170megas. > >Are there any linux versions out

Re: X Display

2002-12-19 Thread Jack Bowling
On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 07:00:18PM -0800, sandrewz wrote: > > ssh to RH8 box from your X. Make sure ForwardX11 is > > enabled. > > start any X clients. Voila! > > That's fine. However, I was looking to display the > entire display, including X. On your own box, issue the following: xhost +xxx.xx

Re: X Display

2002-12-19 Thread sandrewz
> ssh to RH8 box from your X. Make sure ForwardX11 is > enabled. > start any X clients. Voila! That's fine. However, I was looking to display the entire display, including X. sandrewz __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign

Re: umask is different in 8.0

2002-12-19 Thread jdow
Well, grasshopper, one must examine such files as .bashrc and .bash_profile in one's home directory for hints. (I believe I'd use .bash_profile for exporting the umask value. If I am off track someone will assuredly grasshopper me.) {^_-} - Original Message - From: "Eric Wood" <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Macromedia Flash plugin 6 released for x86 Linux

2002-12-19 Thread jdow
From: "Jesse Keating" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thursday 19 December 2002 07:35, Kevin McConnell uttered: > > But my point being that, we all know you wouldn't be > > very happy if you went and visited a site that you > > couldn't know what was going on simply because > > everything there was graph

Re: Macromedia Flash plugin 6 released for x86 Linux

2002-12-19 Thread jdow
From: "Kevin McConnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- "William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123" > > I haven't been bitten by that one yet, but you'd be > > surprised how many > > sites use Javascript. Lynx doesn't handle that at > > all. The Gnome > > Accessibility Project is coming along, so I sh

Re: kde konsole has no font set

2002-12-19 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 19 December 2002 10:43 am, Ross Macintyre wrote: > Hi, I hope someone can help. > I have set up redhat 8.0 on a few machines with a view to running 8.0 > in a lab here at Heriot-Watt University. > I guess the setups haven't been run exactly

Re: X Display

2002-12-19 Thread James McArthur
Hi, ssh to RH8 box from your X. Make sure ForwardX11 is enabled. start any X clients. Voila! :) James On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 10:46, sandrewz wrote: > Does anyone have an easy solution export the display > in Red Hat 8 using "X" from a remote client? > > sandrewz > > ___

Re: X Display

2002-12-19 Thread Pierre Lamb
   sandrewz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone have an easy solution export the displayin Red Hat 8 using "X" from a remote client?sandrewz__Do you Yahoo!?Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now.http://mailplus.yahoo.com-- Psyche-list

Re: The implausible detective

2002-12-19 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 19 December 2002 07:09 pm, Craig Toenes wrote: > I wanted to get xmms working. I installed arts. Then I > had a gui. I downloaded the xmms source rpm and it > appeared to install it. Since then the open > with/install > packages GUI craps o

X Display

2002-12-19 Thread sandrewz
Does anyone have an easy solution export the display in Red Hat 8 using "X" from a remote client? sandrewz __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTE

Re: The implausible detective

2002-12-19 Thread Jeff Davis
* Craig Toenes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-19 16:09:08 -0800]: > I wanted to get xmms working. Assuming that you have RedHat 8.0 installed, just go here: http://staff.xmms.org/priv/redhat8/ Download the file: xmms-mpg123-1.2.7-13.i386.rpm Become root and type: rpm -ivh xmms-mpg123-1.2.7-13

Re: rpm to find kpackage...

2002-12-19 Thread David Eduardo Gomez Noguera
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 14:47, Jim Christiansen wrote: > > Kpackage is being install by many, from the Mandrake 9.0 rpm set. It is > actually part of kdeadmin, so you'll need to remember this, right? It > should turn up just by issueing > > t]# rpm -qa | grep kdeadmin that command will show all

current server & up2date

2002-12-19 Thread Stephen Mah
Does RH8 support current-1.4.2 server and does it work with rh8.0 up2date clients? thanks -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: RedHat Book Recommendation

2002-12-19 Thread Ryan Camick
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 08:55, Mark Hoover wrote: > Greetings everyone. > > Another person in my office just installed RH8.0 on a spare desktop > that she has as her desk in the hopes of learning linux. I've been able > to show her a few things here and there, but it's hardly an all encompasing

The implausible detective

2002-12-19 Thread Craig Toenes
I wanted to get xmms working. I installed arts. Then I had a gui. I downloaded the xmms source rpm and it appeared to install it. Since then the open with/install packages GUI craps out halfway through the dependencies check. Rpm Build is installed but when I looked for /usr/src/redhat tr

RE: installing updated xmms

2002-12-19 Thread Ryan Camick
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 09:42, Chris Bice wrote: > rpm -Uvh xmms* --force should do the trick, if not try rpm -Uvh > xmms* --force --nodeps. Ahh! Don't use --force or --nodeps unless you know what you are doing. In this case, both the person asking the question, and the one giving the answer, do n

Re: umask is different in 8.0

2002-12-19 Thread Ben Dugdale
no. File defaults are 666, and directory defaults are 777. Umask takes bits away from these to create the effective permissions. 000 taken away from 666 results in perms of 666. Thanks for that clarification. --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses] -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROT

Re: umask is different in 8.0

2002-12-19 Thread Jesse Keating
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 16:47:46 -0700 Ben Dugdale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In this example, shouldn't the permissions of 'foo' be rwxrwxrwx with > a umask of 000 unless foo was a pre-existing file? Your permissions > are what I would expect with a umask of 111, but it works the same > here (a

Re: package: kernel-headers

2002-12-19 Thread Jesse Keating
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 18:42:34 -0500 (EST) Justin Zygmont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was just trying to install a package from the RH 8 CD and it said > there was a failed dependancy and kernel-headers was required. I > looked on the CD's and on the ftp sites and there is no such thing. > Does

package: kernel-headers

2002-12-19 Thread Justin Zygmont
I was just trying to install a package from the RH 8 CD and it said there was a failed dependancy and kernel-headers was required. I looked on the CD's and on the ftp sites and there is no such thing. Does anyone know what happened to it, or if it just has a new name these days? -- Psyche

Re: umask is different in 8.0

2002-12-19 Thread Ben Dugdale
Perhaps a dumb question but... In this example, shouldn't the permissions of 'foo' be rwxrwxrwx with a umask of 000 unless foo was a pre-existing file? Your permissions are what I would expect with a umask of 111, but it works the same here (as your example). Jesse Keating wrote: On Thu, 19

Re: looking for good small linux installations

2002-12-19 Thread Taylor, ForrestX
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I'm in education and I am trying to recycle small time Pentiums with small disks : some only have disks of about 170megas. Are there any linux versions out there which take up only about 110 megas thus leaving some space for data. Tha

looking for good small linux installations

2002-12-19 Thread JBRENNANSARDOU
Hello everybody,    I'm in education and I am trying to recycle small time Pentiums with small disks : some only have disks of about 170megas. Are there any linux versions out there which take up only about 110 megas thus leaving some space for data. Thanks for any advice perhaps I

Re: Chkconfig priority levels

2002-12-19 Thread Taylor, ForrestX
Ryan McDougall wrote: Hello all, I am trying to make a script to start Folding@homes linux client. But when I ran: $ chkconfig --add folding It told me that my script didn't support chkconfig... So I read the man page for chkconfig --add and my specific question is... What are my choices for p

Chkconfig priority levels

2002-12-19 Thread Ryan McDougall
Hello all, I am trying to make a script to start Folding@homes linux client. But when I ran: $ chkconfig --add folding It told me that my script didn't support chkconfig... So I read the man page for chkconfig --add and my specific question is... What are my choices for priority levels and what

Re: umask is different in 8.0 [ SOLVED ]

2002-12-19 Thread Eric Wood
Ah! If the script doesn't begin with #!/bin/sh it'll replace the umask: [ewood@osas ewood]$ umask [ewood@osas ewood]$ umask [ewood@osas ewood]$ cat script echo `umask` echo "Touching foo" touch foo exit 0 [ewood@osas ewood]$ ./script 0002 Touching foo [ewood@osas ewood]$ ls -l foo -rw

rpm to find kpackage...

2002-12-19 Thread Jim Christiansen
Kpackage is being install by many, from the Mandrake 9.0 rpm set. It is actually part of kdeadmin, so you'll need to remember this, right? It should turn up just by issueing t]# rpm -qa | grep kdeadmin The redhat-config-packages command, IMHO, doesn't offer anything near what the good old k

Re: umask is different in 8.0

2002-12-19 Thread Jesse Keating
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:02:30 -0500 "Eric Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But when a new child process spawns (say a shell script), the umask is > not inherited. Is there a fix for that? I can't duplicate that either. [jkeating@yoda temp]$ umask 000 [jkeating@yoda temp]$ ./script Touchi

Re: umask is different in 8.0

2002-12-19 Thread Eric Wood
But when a new child process spawns (say a shell script), the umask is not inherited. Is there a fix for that? -eric wood - Original Message - From: "Jesse Keating" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 2:30 PM Subject: Re: umask is different in 8.0

Re: umask is different in 8.0

2002-12-19 Thread Jesse Keating
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 14:21:17 -0500 "Eric Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In RH 7.0, a umask 0 created files with > rw-rw-rw > now in 8.0 they are created like: > rw-rw-r- I'm unable to duplicate this behavior. [jkeating@yoda temp]$ touch foo [jkeating@yoda temp]$ umask 000 [jkeating@yoda tem

umask is different in 8.0

2002-12-19 Thread Eric Wood
In RH 7.0, a umask 0 created files with rw-rw-rw now in 8.0 they are created like: rw-rw-r- Where can I change this default behavior? thanks, -eric wood -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: console irc-client

2002-12-19 Thread Schotty
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 22:17, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Wednesday 18 December 2002 13:49, Schotty uttered: > > I gotta second irssi, I love it. > > Just a question for you guys. I've been an irssi fan for a while, yet I can't > quite get the .src.rpm to rebuild on 8.0. Was there any special tric

OAFIID error??

2002-12-19 Thread Beartooth
At login I get a warning box about "an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon," which contains the following: The Settings Daemon restarted too many times. The last error message was: Failed to activate 'OAFIID:GNOME_SettingsDaemon What do I need to do? (It warns, correctly that

Re: RH8.0

2002-12-19 Thread Jesse Keating
On Thursday 19 December 2002 05:07, Ekow Oppon uttered: > Hi guys, just talked to someone who mentioned that he had minor > problems running RH8.0 and that there have been patches/fixes to correct > the bugs.. > Can anyone please tell me where I can download the latest version with the > patches >

Re: console irc-client

2002-12-19 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wednesday 18 December 2002 13:49, Schotty uttered: > I gotta second irssi, I love it. Just a question for you guys. I've been an irssi fan for a while, yet I can't quite get the .src.rpm to rebuild on 8.0. Was there any special tricks you did? I haven't dug too far into it, since I mostly

Re: Macromedia Flash plugin 6 released for x86 Linux

2002-12-19 Thread Jesse Keating
On Thursday 19 December 2002 07:35, Kevin McConnell uttered: > But my point being that, we all know you wouldn't be > very happy if you went and visited a site that you > couldn't know what was going on simply because > everything there was graphical. I'm an old schooler > who believes that the int

Re: Apache SSL on Red Hat 8

2002-12-19 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- Jason Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What would really be nice is if there was an easy > front-end to use to > figure all off this stuff out , so that I don't have > to go straight into the > httpd.conf code. there is a frontend that comes with RH 8.0. It's called redhat-config-httpd > A

kde konsole has no font set

2002-12-19 Thread Ross Macintyre
Hi, I hope someone can help. I have set up redhat 8.0 on a few machines with a view to running 8.0 in a lab here at Heriot-Watt University. I guess the setups haven't been run exactly the same because some machines are acting differently from others. (This has never bothered me in the past as I

Re: Macromedia Flash plugin 6 released for x86 Linux

2002-12-19 Thread Kevin McConnell
--- "William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123" > I haven't been bitten by that one yet, but you'd be > surprised how many > sites use Javascript. Lynx doesn't handle that at > all. The Gnome > Accessibility Project is coming along, so I should > be OK with JS and > possibly Flash, eventually.

Success!!!! Can create RAID 5 partition for install !!

2002-12-19 Thread JUSTIN GERRY
Finally. I was able to get everything installed properly. This is what I did: 1) Booted to 8.0 CD and went into graphical setup. 2) I went into FDISK and created three auto raid partitions (102mb boot, 510 swap, 35GB+ for /) on each drive. I wrote everything to the partition table and received th

Re: Links

2002-12-19 Thread Scott Taylor
Result of which java is: [root@localhost oaf]# ls -al `which java` -rwxr-xr-x1 root bin 23380 Sep 30 10:33 /usr/java/j2re1.4.1_01/bin/java I guess my question should have been...where is the appropriate OO box/setup panel? Scott On Thursday 19 December 2002 13:28, Rinaldi J.

Re: RH8.0

2002-12-19 Thread Jason Dale
Hi : You can use the 'up2date' facility within your system to get updates from Red Hat. These can be downloaded and installed onto your system. ( You will need to register for an account with the Red Hat Network ). This of course does depend on what types of bugs you are talking about and which pa

Apache 1.3.27 on Psyche?

2002-12-19 Thread HakanTerzioglu
Hi there, The apache 2.x and php is the wrong combination of nowadays I guess. I want my Psyche to run apache 1.3.27, is there any SRPM or contrib of apache 1.3.27 to Psyche? Cheers, Hakan Terzioglu - Original Message - From: "Michael Schwendt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Links

2002-12-19 Thread Rinaldi J. Montessi
Scott Taylor wrote: > > Got Mozilla working now. All I need to do is get Open Office to recognise it > and I am sorted. > > The jvmsetup command in OO gives this: > > [root@localhost bin]# /usr/lib/openoffice/program/jvmsetup > Java cannot be configured > > My PATH is fine because "java -versio

Re: When RH 8.1 will be available

2002-12-19 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 09:38:19 -0200, Alessandro Oliveira wrote: > Sorry guys, I forgot to change the subject, I'm after a new beta of > what will probably be 8.1, not the 8.1 release, and I thought that > since I was away for some time I could have mis

RH8.0

2002-12-19 Thread Ekow Oppon
Hi guys, just talked to someone who mentioned that he had minor problems running RH8.0 and that there have been patches/fixes to correct the bugs.. Can anyone please tell me where I can download the latest version with the patches already incorporated? Thanks for your time. -- "A man who wo

Re: Apache SSL on Red Hat 8

2002-12-19 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 01:04, Jason Dale wrote: > Hi List , > > I am running an Apache web server ( httpd-2.0.40-11 ) on Red Hat Linux > 8. > I have recently finished configuring name-based virtual hosts , and I > have recently > noticed that when I restart my machine , apache does not seem to sta

Re: When RH 8.1 will be available

2002-12-19 Thread Alessandro Oliveira
Sorry guys, I forgot to change the subject, I'm after a new beta of what will probably be 8.1, not the 8.1 release, and I thought that since I was away for some time I could have missed a beta release. Thanks for your warm reception anyway. Alessandro Oliveira wrote: Hi folks, I've been away

gnome applets or swallowed apps

2002-12-19 Thread Chris Rouch
I'm trying to migrate from redhat 7.2 to 8.0. Currently I have a gnome applet written in perl. Sadly it seems that Gtk-Perl no longer includes applet support, so I can't run this applet. Also the swallowed app function from gnome 1.4 is no longer available, so I can't write a standalone gtk-perl p

Re: Links

2002-12-19 Thread Scott Taylor
Got Mozilla working now. All I need to do is get Open Office to recognise it and I am sorted. The jvmsetup command in OO gives this: [root@localhost bin]# /usr/lib/openoffice/program/jvmsetup Java cannot be configured My PATH is fine because "java -version" returns the JVM version from wherever

Re: console irc-client

2002-12-19 Thread Schotty
> > I begin to move to something not BitchX as I read there are several URL > > inform that BitchX is backdoored. > > Uhm, well, that was some months ago now... BitchX 1.0c19 still works > fine for me. Or else you could take a look at irssi or ircii. I gotta second irssi, I love it. -- Psy

Re: When RH 8.1 will be available

2002-12-19 Thread M A Young
Alessandro Oliveira wrote: > I've been away for about 2 months, and I'd like to know how it is going > the development of the new redhat distros, have RH released any new > public betas since psyche ? There is now a stated release cycle of 6 months for 8.x at http://www.redhat.com/software/whic

Re: console irc-client

2002-12-19 Thread ipv4firewall
Riemer Palstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, David Sudjiman wrote: > >> I begin to move to something not BitchX as I read there are several URL >> inform that BitchX is backdoored. > >Uhm, well, that was some months ago now... BitchX 1.0c19 still works >fine for me. Or else yo

Re: packages GUI

2002-12-19 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 22:25:53 -0800 (PST), Craig Toenes wrote: > When I open the packages GUI it gets halfway through > the > packages currently installed and then just > dissappears. > This is the same thing that happens when I try to > install > anyt

Re: console irc-client

2002-12-19 Thread Riemer Palstra
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, David Sudjiman wrote: > I begin to move to something not BitchX as I read there are several URL > inform that BitchX is backdoored. Uhm, well, that was some months ago now... BitchX 1.0c19 still works fine for me. Or else you could take a look at irssi or ircii. -- Riemer

RE: Fail to boot RH8-cd on an IBM A31P laptop

2002-12-19 Thread Stephan Deckers
Title: RE: Fail to boot RH8-cd on an IBM A31P laptop What BIOS version do you have ? I first installed XP Professional and XP Home edition. Could it in any way be related to it ? -Original Message- From: Dusan Djordjevic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002

console irc-client

2002-12-19 Thread David Sudjiman
Hi, I begin to move to something not BitchX as I read there are several URL inform that BitchX is backdoored. Any suggestion? thx .dave Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself a therapy. -- Karl Kraus Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd. Show