switching network profiles as non root

2003-02-13 Thread Eric Bourque
Is there a way to set things up so the network profile can be changed without having to type the root password? I allow my wireless interfaces to be activated/deactivated as a user, and would like to be able to select the current profile with redhat-config-network-cmd --profile XXX without the root

Re: OT: the whole SCO IP patent(s) mess

2003-02-13 Thread jdow
SCO Group is the name that Caldera is moving towards using. {^_^} - Original Message - From: "Martin Stricker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > jdow wrote: > > > Keith, there is no product to buy, essentially. This is the action of > > a company in its death throes that owns some IP and was bought b

Re: CryptoAPI and AES encrypted loopback mount: How?

2003-02-13 Thread Ralf Spenneberg
Am Don, 2003-02-13 um 22.01 schrieb Nick Urbanik: > Dear folks, > > > Do I need to rebuild losetup and mount? Did Red Hat provide only half the > solution? Well, apparently yes (although I am happy to be proven wrong.) According to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69207 RedHa

Time Drift / Shift Problem - Please help

2003-02-13 Thread Charlie McVeigh
ntpd - not running Timezone is set to: America/New York Cron Jobs all appear to be harmless, nothing runs less than on a daily basis. Charlie -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That's weird one. Some guesses: Is ntpd running? "service ntpd status" You may be syncing to loopback

Re: Time Drift / Shift Problem - Please Help

2003-02-13 Thread Stephen Carville
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 That's weird one. Some guesses: Is ntpd running? "service ntpd status" You may be syncing to loopback and the hardware clock is screwy. What time zone do you have set and is your hardware clock set to GMT or local time? Check /etc/sysconfig/clo

Re: OT: the whole SCO IP patent(s) mess

2003-02-13 Thread Martin Stricker
jdow wrote: > Keith, there is no product to buy, essentially. This is the action of > a company in its death throes that owns some IP and was bought by > lawyers. They are trying to milk the assets for anything they can get > before the entire company is defunct. I thought SCO was bought by Calde

Time Drift / Shift Problem - Please HelpCheers--Charles

2003-02-13 Thread Charlie McVeigh
Charlie McVeigh wrote: / My RH 8.0 Linux machine loses or gains time every 12-20 minutes while it />/ is running. The time changes that I have experienced range from +/- 13 />/ hours to as little as +/- 32 seconds (see sample logs below). />/ />/ I use my Linux machine as a Samba file server

Time Drift / Shift Problem - Please Help

2003-02-13 Thread Charlie McVeigh
This is a repost as it appears the the entire body of my first message was truncated. My RH 8.0 Linux machine loses or gains time every 12-20 minutes while it is running. The time changes that I have experienced range from +/- 13 hours to as little as +/- 32 seconds (see sample logs below). I us

Re: OT: the whole SCO IP patent(s) mess

2003-02-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 18:33, jdow wrote: > Justin, The article referenced commented about SCO Group, nee Caldera, > posted a major loss many times their preceding year's profit. It says > they pulled in a shyster^H^H^H^H^H^H^H attorney to protect their > intellectual property rights. It also notes

Re: Time Drift / Shift Problem - Please Help

2003-02-13 Thread Charles
Charlie McVeigh wrote: My RH 8.0 Linux machine loses or gains time every 12-20 minutes while it is running. The time changes that I have experienced range from +/- 13 hours to as little as +/- 32 seconds (see sample logs below). I use my Linux machine as a Samba file server for a Windows 2K lapt

Time Drift / Shift Problem - Please Help

2003-02-13 Thread Charlie McVeigh
My RH 8.0 Linux machine loses or gains time every 12-20 minutes while it is running. The time changes that I have experienced range from +/- 13 hours to as little as +/- 32 seconds (see sample logs below). I use my Linux machine as a Samba file server for a Windows 2K laptop (provided by my empl

Re: OT: the whole SCO IP patent(s) mess

2003-02-13 Thread jdow
From: "Justin Zygmont" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Keith, there is no product to buy, essentially. This is the action of a > > company in its death throes that owns some IP and was bought by lawyers. > > They are trying to milk the assets for anything they can get before the > > entire company is defu

nfs unmounts of stale connections

2003-02-13 Thread Jim Christiansen
Hi, I haven't looked at my nfs mounts for over a year, but there was an exports file that I had to make. Just remove the references in that file. Jim _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.

Re: GRUB problems

2003-02-13 Thread Justin Zygmont
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Thomas Dodd wrote: > > > Nick Urbanik wrote: > > >Justin Zygmont wrote: > > > > > > > >>It doesn't list the error I am getting. Now matter what I do it keeps > >>saying: /dev/md0 does not have a corresponding BIOS drive > >>Any help would be greatly appreciated. > >> >

Re: RH8.0 on Dell Dimension 4300S - Linux compatible??

2003-02-13 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 08:23:17PM -0500, John Nall wrote: > OK. Did that, and one problem has to do with the modem, which I have now > ascertained to be a WinModem (Conexant HCF) and I know those don't work on > Linux, or at least not without some extra effort. So the modem is put > aside f

Re: Installing rpm's and dependants from web

2003-02-13 Thread Thomas Molina
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Nick Urbanik wrote: > Neil Marjoram wrote: > > > I am having trouble tracking down information on installing RPM's from > > the web. > > > > Somewhere in the not to distant past I came across a method of > > installing a package from a web source, and if the package had > > d

Re: OT: the whole SCO IP patent(s) mess

2003-02-13 Thread Justin Zygmont
> Keith, there is no product to buy, essentially. This is the action of a > company in its death throes that owns some IP and was bought by lawyers. > They are trying to milk the assets for anything they can get before the > entire company is defunct. do you know if this is really true, is Caldera

Re: RH8.0 on Dell Dimension 4300S - Linux compatible??

2003-02-13 Thread Thomas Molina
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, John Nall wrote: > OK. Did that, and one problem has to do with the modem, which I have now > ascertained to be a WinModem (Conexant HCF) and I know those don't work on > Linux, or at least not without some extra effort. So the modem is put > aside for now (may come bac

Re: RH8.0 on Dell Dimension 4300S - Linux compatible??

2003-02-13 Thread John Nall
At 04:17 PM 2/13/2003 -0600, Dave Sherman wrote: >In my experience, it isn't whole systems that are certified, but rather subsystems (video card, sound card, network card, etc.). That being the case, you can simply get a list of the hardware in your Dell, and compare that against the various com

Re: Pushing updates ?

2003-02-13 Thread Keith Winston
Lucas Albers wrote: I had problems with autorpm. The only that consistently worked well for me was up2date in a cron job. Then I just check my mail every morning to figure out what was updated. I have yet to see a situation in which the rpm update hosed something. I have seen where the rpm databas

Re: Installing rpm's and dependants from web

2003-02-13 Thread Nick Urbanik
Neil Marjoram wrote: > I am having trouble tracking down information on installing RPM's from > the web. > > Somewhere in the not to distant past I came across a method of > installing a package from a web source, and if the package had > dependants it would also install these automatically for yo

RE: Pushing updates ?

2003-02-13 Thread Lucas Albers
I had problems with autorpm. The only that consistently worked well for me was up2date in a cron job. Then I just check my mail every morning to figure out what was updated. I have yet to see a situation in which the rpm update hosed something. I have seen where the rpm database gets corrupted and

Re: XFS Filesystem

2003-02-13 Thread Michael Wardle
On Friday, February 14, 2003 09:37, Michael Wardle wrote: > On Friday, February 14, 2003 09:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does any one know how to get the XFS file system to work on redhat 8. > > You could download the new XFS for Red Hat 8.0 CD image from > ;-

Re: XFS Filesystem

2003-02-13 Thread Michael Wardle
On Friday, February 14, 2003 09:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does any one know how to get the XFS file system to work on redhat 8. You could download the new XFS for Red Hat 8.0 CD image from ;-) -- Michael Wardle Adacel Technologies -- Psyche-list maili

XFS Filesystem

2003-02-13 Thread David . Grudek
Does any one know how to get the XFS file system to work on redhat 8.  I have looked for a good how to but can't find any.  I am new to linux but need this to work for samba and acl's.

Re: GRUB problems

2003-02-13 Thread Cliff Kent
> 6. For more information, go to > http://ictlab.tyict.vtc.edu.hk/ossi/lab/grub.pdf In practice, I found the pdf at: http://ictlab.tyict.vtc.edu.hk/ossi/lab/grub/grub.pdf I hope that saves others some bother. Thank you Nick for the heads up, Cliff -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PRO

Re: RH8.0 on Dell Dimension 4300S - Linux compatible??

2003-02-13 Thread Dave Sherman
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 16:06, John Nall wrote: > I've Google-searched and searched the hardware compatibility list at Redhat > and cannot find whether the Dell Dimension 4300S is, or is not, certified to > run Linux on. > > Anyone know??? I'm trying to install RH8.0 on one, and it seems to install

RH8.0 on Dell Dimension 4300S - Linux compatible??

2003-02-13 Thread John Nall
I've Google-searched and searched the hardware compatibility list at Redhat and cannot find whether the Dell Dimension 4300S is, or is not, certified to run Linux on. Anyone know??? I'm trying to install RH8.0 on one, and it seems to install OK but there are some problems. If the hardware is not

Re: GRUB problems

2003-02-13 Thread Thomas Dodd
Nick Urbanik wrote: Justin Zygmont wrote: It doesn't list the error I am getting. Now matter what I do it keeps saying: /dev/md0 does not have a corresponding BIOS drive Any help would be greatly appreciated. Is /boot on /dev/md0 ? What raid_level is /dev/md0? ( check /proc/mdstat )

CryptoAPI and AES encrypted loopback mount: How?

2003-02-13 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear folks, How do you use the /lib/modules/2.4.18-24.8.0/kernel/crypto/ciphers/cipher-aes.o module in RH 8.0? The losetup provided seems only to support DES, but I didn't even get that working (with des). Do I need to rebuild losetup and mount? Did Red Hat provide only half the solution? Any

nfs unmounts of stale connections

2003-02-13 Thread John Meagher
Hello all, I have some stale nfs mounts on my RH8.0 server: showmount -a says: [root@store rc.d]# showmount-a All mount points on store: 10.0.0.90:/mnt/RH8isos 10.0.0.90:/mnt/RH8isos/RedHat 10.0.0.90:/mnt/RH8isos/RedHat/base [root@store rc.d]# They are left over from a network install, after whi

X program errors

2003-02-13 Thread Allan M. Stewart
I'm trying to configure a server with bare minimum installation and services. I have a X11/Motif application that I run by telnet'ing in and running with the DISPLAY set to my remote system. The app seems to run fine, but I get the errors shown below. Like I said, I'm aiming for a BARE MINIMUM

Re: GRUB problems

2003-02-13 Thread Nick Urbanik
Justin Zygmont wrote: > It doesn't list the error I am getting. Now matter what I do it keeps > saying: /dev/md0 does not have a corresponding BIOS drive > Any help would be greatly appreciated. 1. Go to the Grub command line by pressing c at the grub screen 2. type: find /boot/grub/stage2

Re: OT: the whole SCO IP patent(s) mess

2003-02-13 Thread jdow
From: "Keith Winston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 R

Re: OT: the whole SCO IP patent(s) mess

2003-02-13 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Ed Wilts wrote: There's hopefully a good reason why it's not being discussed here, and that's because we're mostly techies, not lawyers. We can leave the slamming, guessing, and threats to the Slashdot crowd, There are a lot of intelligent people on this list whose opinions and advice mean a

Re: OT: the whole SCO IP patent(s) mess

2003-02-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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 enforcemen

Re: OT: the whole SCO IP patent(s) mess

2003-02-13 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 12:27:16PM -0600, 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 L

Re: Speedtouch USB

2003-02-13 Thread daYz
Thanks John, I've got it working now. Ben - Original Message - From: "John Levon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 4:21 PM Subject: Re: Speedtouch USB > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 04:22:17AM +0100, daYz wrote: > > > What do I need to do to get m

Re: How to install RPMs from cd?

2003-02-13 Thread daYz
Thanks everyone for your help :) Ben - daYz wrote: Hi, Is there a command that let's me easily find and install RPMs that are on the Redhat cds? Thanks -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: OT: the whole SCO IP patent(s) mess

2003-02-13 Thread Keith Winston
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 som

Re: OT: the whole SCO IP patent(s) mess

2003-02-13 Thread Jesse Keating
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

OT: the whole SCO IP patent(s) mess

2003-02-13 Thread Tom Georgoulias
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 provid

Re: Cd Copy

2003-02-13 Thread Tom Georgoulias
Jesse Keating wrote: On Thursday 13 February 2003 09:09, Marek wrote: What are you guys using to to copy data/bootable data Cd's ? I have no luck with xcdroast. I've used xcdroast to make copies of red hat CDs for friends for years and have never had any problems. error running cdrecord -sca

Re: grubby kernel prob continued

2003-02-13 Thread Jim Christiansen
Hello Thomas, Thank you for the explanation. When I openned the mail, and read your response, I smiled thinking that someone else finally had a problem similar to my own... Then I noticed that the reason it read like my writing was because the repeated text was my own... Oddly though, my son

Re: Cd Copy

2003-02-13 Thread Jesse Keating
On Thursday 13 February 2003 09:09, Marek wrote: > What are you guys using to to copy data/bootable data Cd's ? I have no > luck with xcdroast. Data from harddrive to cd is fine. Gcombust does not > recognise my scsi interface. error running cdrecord -scanbus. Using KDE. I use k3b. I've made 8.0

Cd Copy

2003-02-13 Thread Marek
Hi What are you guys using to to copy data/bootable data Cd's ? I have no luck with xcdroast. Data from harddrive to cd is fine. Gcombust does not recognise my scsi interface. error running cdrecord -scanbus. Using KDE. -- /Marek /Pawinski.net There are two wolves inside me fighting. One evil,

Re: Problem with ADSL & Intranet connection

2003-02-13 Thread Yoichi Mizomata
I made a mistake. > connection stops after activating the other card for my > intranet, eth1. Ping to the server from a Win2000 client The other card for my intranet is 'eth0'. In addition, I forgot the scripts for two interfaces: # ifcfg-ppp0 USERCTL=yes PEERDNS=yes TYPE=xDSL DEVICE=ppp0 BOOT

Problem with ADSL & Intranet connection

2003-02-13 Thread Yoichi Mizomata
Hi all, I'm installing two ethernet cards to make firewall router connected with ADSL provider using Redhat Linux 8.0 server. After activating ppp0 to the provider, I can get a connection to my ADSL provider via an ethernet card, eth1. However, the connection stops after activating the other

Re: grubby kernel prob continued

2003-02-13 Thread Thomas Dodd
Jim Christiansen wrote: Hello, I have tried to start my box with the new kernel and all I get is a blank black screen. I have checked the /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/ directory and the reference in grub to initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20.img doesn't exist... I suppose this is why the box hal

Re: Special Club

2003-02-13 Thread Thomas Dodd
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Scott Taylor wrote: After installing RH8, I could not boot further than INIT: 2.84 booting... Someone suggested that I add the following line to the kernel line of grub.conf: apm=off_threshold=100 This worked great, however when I try and shutdown it seems to close most

Re: Speedtouch USB

2003-02-13 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 04:22:17AM +0100, daYz wrote: > What do I need to do to get my Alcatel Speedtouch USB modem working on Redhat 8.0? > Can someone give me a link or explain me what I should do? http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/ There's a HOWTO there. If you have trouble, try the IRC cha

Re: How to install RPMs from cd?

2003-02-13 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 15:43, daYz uttered: > Is there a command that let's me easily find and install RPMs that are on > the Redhat cds? redhat-config-packages defaults to looking for the packages on your CD. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE http://geek.j2solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (www.mondo

Speedtouch USB

2003-02-13 Thread daYz
Hi,   What do I need to do to get my Alcatel Speedtouch USB modem working on Redhat 8.0? Can someone give me a link or explain me what I should do?   Thanks for your help.   Ben

problems with big secondary HDD

2003-02-13 Thread Juergen Wittmann
Hello, I have a problem with my secondary IDE hard drive. RedHat 8.0 can see it but when I try to examine it with fdisk it just says: [root@idefix] /otherfs /sbin/fdisk /dev/hdc The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1027. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, a

rdev broken???

2003-02-13 Thread Gerry Doris
I can create a bootdisk using mkbootdisk and it works just fine. If I run rdev /dev/fd0 I don't get /dev/hda3 like I was expecting. I get a hex value like /dev/0x3da5. If I do a rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/hda3 and then do a rdev /dev/fd0 I get the expected answer back of /dev/hda3. However, the b

Re: Unusual /var problem.

2003-02-13 Thread Frank Tanner III
Ok...I managed to answer my own question... SOMEHOW, even with SendMail turned off, the /var/spool/clientmqueue/ directory was full of timy litle files. I am betting that it's coming from one of the programs I have running on the box that has hooks into the non-running Sendmail. Thank you for yo

Re: Unusual /var problem.

2003-02-13 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 06:45:22AM -0800, Frank Tanner III wrote: > That's what it is. But it's odd. I don't stash any > files in the /var directory, so why would it use up > all of the inodes? Just a guess; there was a bug in mgetty that caused /var/log to fill: * Tue Aug 13 2002 Nalin Dahyabh

Re: Unusual /var problem.

2003-02-13 Thread Frank Tanner III
That's what it is. But it's odd. I don't stash any files in the /var directory, so why would it use up all of the inodes? --- Ralf Spenneberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Don, 2003-02-13 um 14.52 schrieb Frank Tanner > III: > > > > [root@sbbs root]# autodld > > Fatal: Could not create the lo

squirrelmail (translation)

2003-02-13 Thread Sergio Durand
hi ... i'm using squirrelmail as my webmail... my default lang is pt_BR (brazilian), but still it has many words not translated... i saw in /squirrelmail/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES two files... squirrelmail.mo (not human readable, like a compiled program) squirrelmail.po (it's readable) i make a

Re: Unusual /var problem.

2003-02-13 Thread Ralf Spenneberg
Am Don, 2003-02-13 um 14.52 schrieb Frank Tanner III: > > [root@sbbs root]# autodld > Fatal: Could not create the lock file: > /var/lock/autoupdate.pid (No space left on device) > [root@sbbs root]# > As you can see by the fd, it isn't full like the error > message shows. When I go into the /var

RE: How to install RPMs from cd?

2003-02-13 Thread Pavel Rozenboim
redhat-config-packages/redhat-install-package or System Settings/Packages menu. Pavel. -Original Message- From: daYz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thu, February 13, 2003 1:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to install RPMs from cd? Hi, Is there a command that let's me easily f

Re: Blanking Flat Panel Display

2003-02-13 Thread Ed . Greshko
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Reg HUGHSON wrote: > Under Gnome, I had the settings adjusted via screensaver but the power > management settings never worked...the screen would blank but would never > go into standby mode or power off. Now that I've switched to WindowMaker, > the same power management setti

Unusual /var problem.

2003-02-13 Thread Frank Tanner III
I have an interesting new problem that I can't, for the life of me, figure out what is going on. This started a couple of weeks ago, but I'm just now getting around to really looking at it. I am having some issues with my /var mount point/filesystem. When I try to run an application that needs

Re: Blanking Flat Panel Display

2003-02-13 Thread Reg HUGHSON
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 05:42, Piero Calucci wrote: > (using gnome) if you go to sceensaver preferences (yes, screensaver, > that bad guy) and select the "advanced" tab, you will find all display > power management settings > > Piero Under Gnome, I had the settings adjusted via screensaver but the

Re: Minor bug (majorly annoying) in X11 and mouse

2003-02-13 Thread Keith Winston
Cliff Sarginson wrote: I believe it's an X11 option to allow startup without a mouse. I hope he was not advised to plug the mouse in while the machine was on. It is seriously inadvisable to plug in PS/2 connectors (mouse and k/board) when a system is turned on already. Could damage the motherboar

Re: kernel upgrade/ kickstart question

2003-02-13 Thread Chris Rouch
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 01:52, Stephen Mah wrote: > hello > > We have a kickstart server, hosting RH 8.0. I've just updated the RPMS > folder with updated kernel rpms: kernel-2.4.18-14.i586.rpm, > kernel-2.4.18-14.i686.rpm, kernel-source-2.4.18-14.i386.rpm, etc... > > I ran the genhdlist command

Re: Pushing updates ?

2003-02-13 Thread Keith Winston
Kevin Brouelette wrote: What is the best way to update many servers at customer sites? 2 come to mind, the first is 'yum' http://www.dulug.duke.edu/yum/ the second is 'frpms' http://www.blindjedi.org/frpms/ Here is another option to look at: http://www.autorpm.org/ Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC

Re: kernel upgrade/ kickstart question

2003-02-13 Thread Chris Rouch
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 03:40, Tony Nugent wrote: > On Wed Feb 12 2003 at 16:46, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > Personally, I do all errata as a postinstall process. The Red Hat installer > > has not been tested with new package sets, and isn't recommended to work. > > Pity that. > > > Doing the base

Re: How to install RPMs from cd?

2003-02-13 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 13 February 2003 07:22 am, Kevin Waterson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, > > daYz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there a command that let's me easily find and install RPMs that > > are on the Redhat cds? > > #mount /de

Re: How to install RPMs from cd?

2003-02-13 Thread Kevin Waterson
This one time, at band camp, daYz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a command that let's me easily find and install RPMs that are on the Redhat >cds? #mount /dev/cdrom #rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/.rpm #eject Kevin -- __ (_ \

Re: Installing rpm's and dependants from web

2003-02-13 Thread Neil Bird
Around about 13/02/2003 10:45, Neil Marjoram typed ... Somewhere in the not to distant past I came across a method of installing a package from a web source, and if the package had dependants it would also install these automatically for you. You thinking of apt? (freshrpms.net) -- [neil@fnx

Re: Blanking Flat Panel Display

2003-02-13 Thread Ed . Greshko
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Piero Calucci wrote: > (using gnome) if you go to sceensaver preferences (yes, screensaver, > that bad guy) and select the "advanced" tab, you will find all display > power management settings Thank you. And in KDE it is in, of all places, the "Power Control" section of

How to install RPMs from cd?

2003-02-13 Thread daYz
Hi,   Is there a command that let's me easily find and install RPMs that are on the Redhat cds?   Thanks

Re: Blanking Flat Panel Display

2003-02-13 Thread Michael Kuss
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, I did write what I wanted to write and mean to say ok. > Note that there is no screensaver running when the GUI login screen is on > and the screen blanks. depends. There is no command "screensaver" running. But that's not the point.

Installing rpm's and dependants from web

2003-02-13 Thread Neil Marjoram
I am having trouble tracking down information on installing RPM's from the web. Somewhere in the not to distant past I came across a method of installing a package from a web source, and if the package had dependants it would also install these automatically for you. Alas my brain has discarded t

Re: Blanking Flat Panel Display

2003-02-13 Thread Piero Calucci
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 11:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Michael Kuss wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > > > When logged in, I've the screensaver disabled but no matter how long I > > > leave the system unattended the screen never blanks. > > > > I'm not

xawtv only mono sound (RH8)

2003-02-13 Thread Roman v. Gemmeren
hi, i just installed RH8, and was wondering, that xawtv runs without complicated configureation.;) But there is one problem i have with my Hauppauge WinTV (BT878) and the C-Media Sound-OnBaord: The WinTV-Output is stereo, but out of my C-Media there comes only mono sound... ? I was searching the

Re: Configuring SCSI drive/controller card on Red Hat 8

2003-02-13 Thread Michael Kuss
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Jason Dale wrote: > Hi all: > > I have a fairly quick 'before-the-action' question to ask. then ... a quick answer. > I have an Adaptec Ultra160 SCSI controlled card and a > compatible Seagate SCSI disk. > > The question : Will I need to download any special utilities > o

Re: Blanking Flat Panel Display

2003-02-13 Thread Ed . Greshko
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Michael Kuss wrote: > On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > When logged in, I've the screensaver disabled but no matter how long I > > leave the system unattended the screen never blanks. > > I'm not sure if you really wanted to write what you have written, but if > you

Re: A question about up2date

2003-02-13 Thread Michael Kuss
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 04:35:55PM +1000, Tony Nugent wrote: > > On Thu Feb 13 2003 at 07:12, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > > > > When you run up2date there is an option on the install screen to "View > > > advisory". I have never ever seen this work. I

Re: Blanking Flat Panel Display

2003-02-13 Thread Michael Kuss
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Ed Greshko wrote: > When logged in, I've the screensaver disabled but no matter how long I > leave the system unattended the screen never blanks. I'm not sure if you really wanted to write what you have written, but if you disable the screensaver the screen is supposed to st

Configuring SCSI drive/controller card on Red Hat 8

2003-02-13 Thread Jason Dale
Hi all:   I have a fairly quick 'before-the-action' question to ask.   I have an Adaptec Ultra160 SCSI controlled card and a compatible Seagate SCSI disk.   The question : Will I need to download any special utilities or drivers to get this equipment to work on Red Hat Linux 8, on an Intel

Blanking Flat Panel Display

2003-02-13 Thread Ed Greshko
I've got RH 8.0 installed. Running the stock "nv" driver on a "RIVA TNT2" video card. When the system is sitting at the GUI login screen it will "blank" after a while (haven't timed it) and the LED on the flat panel monitor changes from green to amber. When logged in, I've the screensaver disabl

Re: ppp0 internet

2003-02-13 Thread Ed . Greshko
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have dsl cablemodem connected to eth1=66.x.x.x and lan eth0=10.0.0.1. > When I dial-in=ppp0 I am able to connect to the linux box do > whaterver...excecpt connect to the internet or other machines on the > 10.0.0.0 network. Does anyone have a solut

Re: kernel upgrade/ kickstart question

2003-02-13 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123 wrote: > > > Hi Tony, > > The last Valhalla kernel with which the installer could be built was > kernel-BOOT-2.4.18-10. Just build the installer using that kernel, then > update the tree to the latest kernel, as well as everything

RE: how do I make a floppy from an image file?

2003-02-13 Thread Pavel Rozenboim
> -Original Message- > From: Steve Strong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thu, February 13, 2003 4:57 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: how do I make a floppy from an image file? > > > I've downloaded a file that is a driver for my hard drives > and it looks > like it an image o