safe to up2date 8.0 sys to glibc 2.3.2? what breaks?

2003-03-26 Thread Randall J. Parr
I seen several postings that imply allowing RHN up2date to install the glibc 2.3.2 set of updates will break an RH 8.0 system. Does this break RH 8.0 supplied packages or only non-RH-supplied packages? Does anyone have a list of things that will break? Even more important does anyone have a lis

Re: Spam ? (RH9)

2003-03-24 Thread Randall J. Parr
Nalin Dahyabhai wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:40:16PM -0800, Randall J. Parr wrote: I DO care that this jump does not SEEM to be related to major kernel/lib/feature changes which triggered a major version number BUT does cause a very rapid accelation in the decay of version support and

Re: Spam ? (RH9)

2003-03-24 Thread Randall J. Parr
Daevid Vincent wrote: Well, I do know that it's incredibly arrogant and misleading to jump from v8.0 to v9.0 without any intermediate steps. NOBODY in the software world does that without some serious serious feature additions. RH9 will be nothing more than some normal updates. Xfree 4.3, a (still

Re: anyone using syslog-ng?

2003-03-20 Thread Randall J. Parr
Matthew Melvin wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 at 11:38am (-0800), Randall J. Parr wrote: I have been trying to find some means to redirect the iptables log messages to a file other than /var/log/messages. One option recommended is using syslog-ng which allows redirection based on regular

anyone using syslog-ng?

2003-03-19 Thread Randall J. Parr
I have been trying to find some means to redirect the iptables log messages to a file other than /var/log/messages. One option recommended is using syslog-ng which allows redirection based on regular expressions. Does anyone have any ideas and/or experience using the syslog-ng package with Red

Re: Problems with local mail delivery

2003-03-03 Thread Randall J. Parr
Given a stock RH8 with the sendmail service turned on and the following changes should allow local mail delivery as you describe. If you are using tcpwrappers (/etc/hosts.{allow,deny}) hosts.allow must contain a line like ALL: 127.0.0.1 or ALL: localhost.localdomain in addition make sure /et

Re: Support Changes

2003-01-29 Thread Randall J. Parr
Jesse Keating wrote: On Tuesday 28 January 2003 23:40, Panu Matilainen uttered: I just keep wondering why people thing upgrading their systems between releases with up2date would somehow magically break less things than upgrading with the current system. And don't bother saying "because we now

How best to enable/enter special characters via compose or dead keys?

2003-01-28 Thread Randall J. Parr
How best to enable and/or enter special character in X apps (gnome-terminal, xterm, ...) on Red Hat 8.0 via either compose key sequences and/or dead keys? I have been googling and reading X docs but have not been able to get it working. Thanks R.Parr Temporal Arts -- Psyche-list mailing li

Re: SCSI, RAID, and R.H. 8.x

2003-01-16 Thread Randall J. Parr
Kim T. Richert wrote: folks, i am trying to create a set of intel-based field systems with pci SCSI and RAID, with R.H. 8.x. i tried the install with existing systems, to no avail- cards not supported. went to the R.H. site to look for compatibility, found a list that should show "certified" ada

problem configuring for NFS between RH8 and RH6

2003-01-08 Thread Randall J. Parr
I have several RedHat 8, RedHat 7 and RedHat 6 servers. I am using iptables on the RedHat 7 and 8 servers which I configure using GuardDog. I have been successful configured the firewall for and using NFS RH8 <-> RH8 and RH8 <-> RH7. In the GuardDog, under Protocol, File Transfer, enabling NFS

Re: system-wide configuration for user accounts

2002-12-16 Thread Randall J. Parr
I handle this with /local/profile.d )an analogue to the /etc/profile.d). I tack onto /etc/profile a line which sources my "local profile master" /local/profile.d/.sh which in turn sources a list of applicable scripts based on user/group/... (ie root, or eng group, or regular users, ...) /local/p

GnuPG-0.09 (newer or equiv) that works with RH8 / Perl .5.8?

2002-12-15 Thread Randall J. Parr
I'm trying to migrate an application from an RH6 to an RH8 server and have discovered a Perl module I need GnuPG-0.09 fails to with Perl 5.8. Does anyone know of a newer version and/or equivalent module which does work in Perl 5.8 on RH8? I REALLY hope I do not need to rewrite this application!

ok to upgrade RH8 to Mozilla 1.2.1?

2002-12-15 Thread Randall J. Parr
Franck wrote: I've upgraded to Mozilla-1.2.1 Xft build without any problem (using Phoenix as my main browser). - I have was a little leary of upgrading to the Mozilla-1.2.1 Xft build. The release notes implied it was missing features, etc. QUES 1) Is this build a little bit

ok to upgrade RH8 to Mozilla 1.2.1?

2002-12-14 Thread Randall J. Parr
I have RH8 (on several workstations/servers). I use, and very much like, RedHat up2date. I use, but very much dislike, the std RedHat desktop setup (I really miss the ease of working with RH 7.3 with KDE) I'd like to upgrade to Mozilla 1.2.1 BUT am concerned that I will break things [given all th

Re: (again) how to disable automount when CD inserted?

2002-11-25 Thread Randall J. Parr
Philippe wrote: On RH8. Icone Start Here / Preferences / CD properties Uncheck Mount CD when inserted. Duh! Thanks. -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

(again) how to disable automount when CD inserted?

2002-11-24 Thread Randall J. Parr
I know I've seen it go by but I can't find it. How can I disable the automatic mounting of a CD when it is inserted? Preferably, for all (ie default) users? Could some one point me in the right direction? Thanks R.Parr Temporal Arts -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://list

how to set system default gnome-terminal size?

2002-11-24 Thread Randall J. Parr
How and where can I change the default gnome-terminal settings such as size (eg. want --geometry 90x40), background color, etc. Thanks R.Parr Temporal Arts -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: missing link Re: Brief Tutorial on GNOME Menu Editing in RH 8.0

2002-11-15 Thread Randall J. Parr
Elton Woo wrote: - Original Message - From: Michael Knepher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 13 Nov 2002 09:08:53 -0800 To: Psyche Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Brief Tutorial on GNOME Menu Editing in RH 8.0 Whoops, thanks for catching that. Glad you like it. O

Re: Spelling Check in Mozilla mail

2002-11-03 Thread Randall J. Parr
John S. Dey wrote: Hi: Am I missing something? I don't see a spelling checker in Mozilla mail. Am I missing it or does it get installed as a plug-in? It gets installed as a Mozilla plug-in available from the Mozilla site. R.Parr Temporal Arts

apache 2.0 auth working from every client EXCEPT Mozilla on same server?

2002-11-02 Thread Randall J. Parr
I'm having a strange problem that MUST be something silly. I have migrated my RH 7.3 / Apache 1.3 sites to Apache 2.0 on RedHat 8.0. I have done so by editing the original RH8 httpd.conf (ie I am not using an Apache 1.3 config file or anything). I had (and have) configured my defaults as follows

Re: firewall configurator.

2002-10-29 Thread Randall J. Parr
Alejandro González Hernández - Imoq wrote: ... Do you know a tool that will allow me to do such conversion? Any other tool more new-iptables-user intuitive? I went through the same thing a few months ago and chose to use Guarddog. www.simonzone.com/software/guarddog. I like the package quite

Re: RPM database stuck?

2002-10-28 Thread Randall J. Parr
Tuan Hoang wrote: Hi, It seems like my RPM database is either stuck or confused. What were the commands to delete & rebuild it? Also does anyone know what's causing this problem? It seems to have happened when I rebuilt a SRPM and then tried to install the resulting binary RPM. I was havi

having problems with rpm from command-line.

2002-10-21 Thread Randall J. Parr
I've installed RH8 (everything) and I have up2date'd to the most current patches. I am having a problem with rpm hanging when I run it from the command-line. I run an rpm command, for example, any of the following: rpm -qa | grep libdvd rpm -Uvh -vv --

how perserve uid/gid/perms when accessing another RH server via Samba?

2002-10-19 Thread Randall J. Parr
From an RH8 server, I am accessing an RH73 server using Samba. I have Samba configured on both servers and have no problem accessing the servers from each other and from W2K systems. BUT when, from (for example) the RH8 server, I copy files from a Samba mount of the RH73 server I loose the uid/

does NFS with nohide option work?

2002-10-19 Thread Randall J. Parr
I am trying to use NFS to transfer data between a RH 7.3 (s7) and an RH 8.0 (s8) system. I have tried the following on both system (ie coming from both directions). [only the names have been changed to proected the innocent] /etc/exports: - /[servername](rw,sync,no_ro

general system benchmark/perf test?

2002-10-14 Thread Randall J. Parr
Is there a general system performance / benchmark test available that will run on RH8? I ask because I have installed RH8 on several systems now. Yesterday I installed on a "faster" system but which seems to be performing much more slowly. The problem is it "seems" to be slower but there is no c

Re: 3Com 3CR990-TX-97 NIC not detected during install. Supported?

2002-10-13 Thread Randall J. Parr
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 17:52, Randall J. Parr wrote: Arjan van de Ven wrote: >On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 03:44, Randall J. Parr wrote: > > >>I have installed RH8 several times now and it has always detected the >>NIC card (some required updated drivers

Re: 3Com 3CR990-TX-97 NIC not detected during install. Supported?

2002-10-13 Thread Randall J. Parr
Arjan van de Ven wrote: >On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 03:44, Randall J. Parr wrote: > > >>I have installed RH8 several times now and it has always detected the >>NIC card (some required updated drivers later but it detected them). >> >> > >can you give the PCI ID

3Com 3CR990-TX-97 NIC not detected during install. Supported?

2002-10-12 Thread Randall J. Parr
I have installed RH8 several times now and it has always detected the NIC card (some required updated drivers later but it detected them). Now I've hit a system where RH8 doesn't detect the NIC card at all. (the system, as is, was operating fine under W2K so I know hw is working). The system is a