Re: [OT] Get to bios... on a P4

2003-06-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Randy Kelsoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: >> Anyone that can share a nifty clue for getting to the bios on a 2g+ >> P4? It boots so fast I never see a chance to press anthing. I tried >> holding down ESC or pressing it repeatedly as bootup hap

[OT] Get to bios... on a P4

2003-06-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Anyone that can share a nifty clue for getting to the bios on a 2g+ P4? It boots so fast I never see a chance to press anthing. I tried holding down ESC or pressing it repeatedly as bootup happens. Also tried holding downn or pressing repeatedly DEL. It still gets to lilo... to late to get to b

Re: Listing to internet sound bites

2003-04-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However googling for (+"real player" +linux) has brought up a number of > hits so thanks for the tip. Got the real player for linux installed and went thru the preprogramed steps for plugins. However I still do not get to hear tho

Re: Listing to internet sound bites

2003-04-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Eric Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 19:10, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Just wondering if we have native linux tools that can allow me to >> listen to sound bites such as the ones found here: >> >> >> http://www.amazon.com

Listing to internet sound bites

2003-04-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Just wondering if we have native linux tools that can allow me to listen to sound bites such as the ones found here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B009X7/ref=pm_dp_ln_m_2/104-9119754-9728741?v=glance&s=music&vi=samples -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https

OT Fax questions

2003-03-26 Thread Harry Putnam
Summary: I'm aware how to send faxes with several different pieces of software including efax. Where one uses the OS and PC as fax machine. I want to know if anyone knows how to use a freestanding fax from RH8. That is, my wife has a `hp 0fficejet 145' (fax, copy, scan, print) One of those

Re: OT Netscape - incredibly stupid or dumb operator

2003-03-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Thomas Dodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Since the bookmark file is just html it's an easy fix. > You can use any html editing tool to remove the duplicates. > The layout is fairly straight forward. Nice to know but the question here was how to get a location on a bookmark found with bookmark se

OT Netscape - incredibly stupid or dumb operator

2003-03-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Netscape 7.01 I wondered if I'm just really lame here, but I've noticed the few times I've used the bookmark search tool under `Manage bookmarks' that it finds bookmarks alright but allows now way to tell where that bookmark is in the general layout. Just pulls up the bookmark name and address bu

Re: talk

2003-03-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Steve Madonna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > rpm -ivh talk-server-0.17-17.rpm talk-0.17-17.rpm Michael S. wrote: > It seems you have found something related. What happens if you > install both packages with rpm -ivvh? Both "talk-server" and "talk" > provide "ntalk" and also obsolete "ntalk". Maybe

Re: talk

2003-03-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Michael Schwendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> installed with talk are: >> /usr/bin/talk >> /usr/share/man/man1/talk.1.gz >> >> No talkd which is mentioned in the `see also' part of `talk' manpage. >> >> This led me to think I needed another package `talk-server' but >> installing it causes

talk

2003-03-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Anyone else having problems with the `talk' program? I'm referring to talk-0.17-17 According to man page for `talk' it seems that is all that is required and refers to contacting a talk daemon. However the only files installed with talk are: /usr/bin/talk /usr/share/man/man1/talk.1.gz No

Re: In a pickle with updating

2003-02-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Michael Kuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > oops, sorry, you have to remove the lock files first. > > rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* Jesse Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > killall -9 rpm; rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__* Thanks posters... I missed those somewhere down the line. -- Psyche-list maili

Re: In a pickle with updating

2003-02-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Michael Kuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Wondered if anyone else had seen anything weird like this? > > yes, have it seen 2 or 3 times, it's more or less a feature. To > work-around, you have to recreate the rpm database. You will see that > lynx got installed, and the rest not. How do you d

In a pickle with updating

2003-02-21 Thread Harry Putnam
I've gotten myself into quite a pickle with todays attempt to update. up2date -u showed these: lynx-2.8.5-7.1.i386.rpm pam-devel-0.75-46.8.0.i386.rpm pam-0.75-46.8.0.i386.rpm shadow-utils-2902-12.8.i386.rpm I downloaded them since I have up2date set to only download. Had a look, then

Problem with command history using CPAN shell

2003-02-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Anyone else here have trouble getting a command history to work with the perl CPAN shell (perl -MCPAN -e shell)? I have the readline rpms installed. rpm -qa |grep readline readline-4.3-3 readline-devel-4.3-3 As well as the perl modules Term::ReadLine Term::ReadLine::Gnu In the .cpan director

Re: sudo and globbing

2003-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] snip all the comments shell expansion Yup... it all makes sense now.. thanks -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

sudo and globbing

2003-02-03 Thread Harry Putnam
I didn't notice anything in man sudo to explain why globbing doesn't work using sudo. At least in this instance as root ls /root/inst* /root/install.log /root/install.log.syslog as user sudo ls /root/inst* ls: /root/inst*: No such file or directory sudo ls /root/install.log

Re: [q]rhn

2002-12-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Chris Kloiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At the risk of correcting myself, username is in the systemid file (I > thought about the problem too deeply). If however the system doesn't > have your current email, I can still help you with it. Just let me know. Thanks but no need. All straight now

Re: [q]rhn

2002-12-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Jesse Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sysid or something like that. The username is in > one of those files. Yup.. but why did I use such a screwball uid...hehe. -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

[q]rhn

2002-12-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Just a dumb question about rhn. I've lost my info about my username and password at www.redhat.com/network. up2date -u works as it should so that info must be getting passed ok. Looking thru the config files. I haven't found the one that contains that info. At www.redhat.com/network there is a

Re: post-installation suggestions for RH 8.0

2002-12-14 Thread Harry Putnam
"Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > as the final page in a chapter i'm writing on RH 8.0 installation, > i want to suggest any post-installation stuff that should be done. > > example: editing /etc/sysconfig/i18n and setting > > LANG="en_US" > > can anyone suggest other little f

Re: Install a `service'

2002-12-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just searched the psyche archive and found these two which answer your > question. > 1 dated Sat Oct 19 01:21:59 2002 by Martin Stricker: Thanks for you time and effort. Seems what was missing in my case was chkconfig --add NAME. I just didn't remem

Re: Install a `service'

2002-12-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Michael Fratoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 04 December 2002 11:01 pm, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Pretty sure I recall being able to put an init script in >> /etc/rc.d/init.d and then that script would be seen by such tools as >> chkconfig setup ntsysv wou

Re: Track an error in init scripts

2002-12-04 Thread Harry Putnam
; > > On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 13:21, Harry Putnam wrote: >> NETWORKING=yes >> HOSTNAME:sbcglobal.net > ^ > That should be '=', not ':', methinks this is your problem :) >> GATEWAY=192.168.0.1 Ick.. But at least it was fai

Install a `service'

2002-12-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Pretty sure I recall being able to put an init script in /etc/rc.d/init.d and then that script would be seen by such tools as chkconfig setup ntsysv would see it and be be able to setup the symlink. That doesn't seem to work for me now. I've built a cvs source for spamassassin, and installed a

Track an error in init scripts

2002-12-04 Thread Harry Putnam
How to track this recurring error thru the maze of init scripts. I see these on bootup and they can be reproduced by running a status check on any service, like: service sendmail status /etc/init.d/sendmail: line 2: HOSTNAME:sbcglobal.net: command not found sendmail (pid 543 533) is runnin

Re: Odd behavior with ls about colors

2002-12-02 Thread Harry Putnam
Ryan Camick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 12:21, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I wondered if this is caused by local setting: >> >> Phenomena I observe is when i call `ls' on a directory I see the >> symlinks in my chosen color of cyan. Howe

Odd behavior with ls about colors

2002-12-02 Thread Harry Putnam
I wondered if this is caused by local setting: Phenomena I observe is when i call `ls' on a directory I see the symlinks in my chosen color of cyan. However if I call `ls .misc-snippets' Or any dot file that is a symlink it doesn't appear in cyan, but in default color. If I call it like `

Re: Walk thru for cups

2002-11-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> The switch part isn't a problem. Its the actual cups setup that has >> been failing. There are little or no suggestions for what to put in >> the input boxes. Apparently it was felt users would patiently setup >&

Re: Walk thru for cups

2002-11-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> >Message: 15 >> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >Subject: Walk thru for cups >> >From: Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >Date: Sun, 24

Re: Walk thru for cups

2002-11-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Message: 15 > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Walk thru for cups > >From: Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 18:35:58 -0800 > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >

Re: Walk thru for cups

2002-11-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Alexander Volovics <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - a paper presented by Kurt Pfeifle at SANE, Maastricht, 2002. > I found it under the name "SANE2002_3_cups.pdf" (in english). > at http://www.nluug.nl/events/sane2002/ > (look under 'SANE 2002 papers' for: CUPS "Plug'n'Play" for network print

Re: Walk thru for cups

2002-11-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Randy Kelsoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: > >>Cups has quite a lot of documentation but it isn't organized in a >>hands on HOWTO sort of way. I'm having trouble with the basics. >> >>Is there a walk thru for setting up cu

Walk thru for cups

2002-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Cups has quite a lot of documentation but it isn't organized in a hands on HOWTO sort of way. I'm having trouble with the basics. Is there a walk thru for setting up cups on Redhat or at least on linux? -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/

advice about => Multi function office fax/copy etc

2002-11-20 Thread Harry Putnam
I want to get one of those multifunction things that is a stand alone fax printer copier. I want semi-industrial grade stuff. I'm thinking something like $600-$1000. I hope someone here has direct experience with such a tool and can mention some brands and models known to be usable under linux.

grip - no file

2002-11-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Lame grip question: select a track by right click, go to rip tab Select `rip only' It completes I see no chance to give a file name or destination. I see no file appear in current directory. Where is the file created? -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com

Re: Sound (volume control) from console terminal

2002-11-14 Thread Harry Putnam
"Mr. Adam ALLEN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've always used aumix in a console for controlling volume. Thaa it is thanks -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Sound (volume control) from console terminal

2002-11-14 Thread Harry Putnam
Probably some slick way of doing this but I'm drawing a blank here. How can I set the volume of any sound file? I don't mean with gnome or something but from a console login. Or at worst from xfce. grip has a nifty toggleable volume slide but it doesn't do any tbing. Xfce has a nifty appliance `

Re: Anyone else having problems with acroread?

2002-11-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Jack Bowling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FWIW, the issues people are seeing with UTF-8 are almost all things > that Asian users have been living with for years... now everyone's in > the same boat, let's patch the leaks. ;-) Thanks for the repost... at least we know the theory now. So asian us

Re: Anyone else having problems with acroread?

2002-11-10 Thread Harry Putnam
"Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Unless I did something dumb during install this is what I got with a >>fairly stock install. > > Documented in RELEASE-NOTES for 8.0 Yes, I see it now thanks. I expected to also find some more hits on LANG explaining the change to UTF-8. All I see

Re: Anyone else having problems with acroread?

2002-11-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Michael Fratoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From a shell prompt: > $ env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 man tar > TAR(1) > TAR(1) Yuck.. I wasn't getting that but still taking your lead with resetting $LANG to en_US.. Thanks

Re: Anyone else having problems with acroread?

2002-11-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Michael Fratoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the for what it's worth category, I made that change globally. I still > haven't heard a good reason to be using UTF-8 in the first place. So, I > changed /etc/sysconfig/i18n to read: > $ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n > # LANG="en_US.UTF-8" > LANG="en_U

Re: Anyone else having problems with acroread?

2002-11-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Gerry Tool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can edit /usr/local/Acrobat5/bin/acroread to add near the > beginning of the file (i.e., just after the "ver" and "install" lines): > > LANG=en_us > export LANG > > and it should then work correctly. Of those posted, this looks like the smoothest fix.

Anyone else having problems with acroread?

2002-11-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Maybe someone will recognize this error and know what it is about: First, using xpdf, I have no problem: xpdf motorola_v60.pdf acroread motorola_v60.pdf Warning: charset "UTF-8" not supported, using "ISO8859-1". Aborted Even the *.pdf files that unpacked with version 5, cause this sam

Re: mounting dos or vfat writable by regular users

2002-11-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Michael Schwendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Harry wrote: >> I've tried these with results of `mount' shown along with end result: >> fstab: >> [...] >> /dev/hda12 /mnt/vfat_32vfatnoauto,user >> hgp 0 0[...] >> >> mount shows: >> [mntent]: line 3 in /etc/fstab is

mounting dos or vfat writable by regular users

2002-11-09 Thread Harry Putnam
Summary: Its been so long since I mounted a dos partition I've forgotten the incantations in /etc/fstab that will make it writable to users or at least designated users. Details: I've tried these with results of `mount' shown along with end result: fstab: [...] /dev/hda12 /mn

Re: smtp authentication with pacbell

2002-10-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Further, mail comes to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] even though global.net is s/global/sbcglobal/

Re: smtp authentication with pacbell

2002-10-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Actually, it's even more lame than not generating a new sendmail.cf file > with m4 (which by the way, has changed in 8.0 - sendmail.cf by default > is in /etc/mail) Its been there since at least 7.2. Is this important information? It still works the old

smtp authentication with pacbell

2002-10-24 Thread Harry Putnam
[REPOST ALERT: I posted a similar message from a different address that seems to not have gone thru, even though it is subscribed so trying again.] I hope someone might have an example *.mc file that allows smtp authentication as required by pacbell dsl. I've prowled the material in /usr/share/se

Creating ones own keyboard shortcuts

2002-10-24 Thread Harry Putnam
My setup is a fairly stock install with the default gnome desktop. I see and item called keyboard shortcuts listed but apparently this is not where one might set a keycombo to call up an applicatgion of choice. The menu item under preferences/keyboard shortcuts, dispite the alluring name, doesn't

set window manager

2002-10-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Some highly skilled individual has gone to great lenghts to hide the menu item that allows one to set a window manager preference. I give... you win Uncle Now where is it located. PS-accolades to the hidee...