Re: Let's Move RH 9 stuff to redhat-list!

2003-03-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Eric Wood wrote: > And it would be where? > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ ? or if history is any judge, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject/body (can't remember which one) being the single word subscribe. that's always worked for me. rda

Re: JFFS2 support in RH 8.0?

2003-03-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 30 Mar 2003, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 15:15, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i have an (alleged) JFFS2 format file that i would like > > to mount (via -o loop) and examine on my RH box, so i'm > > trying to build in JFFS2 filesystem support. &

JFFS2 support in RH 8.0?

2003-03-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i have an (alleged) JFFS2 format file that i would like to mount (via -o loop) and examine on my RH box, so i'm trying to build in JFFS2 filesystem support. i've taken a stock 2.4.18-14 kernel, added core MTD support, which then allowed me to select JFFS2 support from the filesystems menu, wh

Re: moving var

2003-03-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Stephen Carville wrote: > On Wednesday March 26 2003 12:24 pm, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > just a thought, but would it be possible to unmount and remount > > /var in one operation using the "remount" option of the mount > > command?

Re: moving var

2003-03-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Stephen Carville wrote: > On Tuesday March 25 2003 09:43 am, Marek wrote: > > Hi > > > > I would like to move my /var dir to some free space i have on a drive. > > How would i achieve this ? > > Copy the contents of /var to the new location. > > Change to / > > Drop to sing

latest on configuring NVIDIA under 2.5 kernel?

2003-03-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
.0-4191 drivers 2.5.65 kernel (most likely involving a hacked NVIDIA driver, as the patch seems to suggest). rday -- Robert P. J. Day, RHCE Eno River Technologies, Inc. Unix, Linux and Open Source training -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/m

Re: SCO and RedHat?

2003-03-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Loeung Vidol wrote: > Hi all: > > Anyone's got experienced with the SCO UNIX? I'm going to try it next week. > But I'm a bit curious how it is different from RedHat or other Linux > distros. boy, is *this* the wrong time to be asking about SCO UNIX. :-P rday -- Psyche-

Re: Mounting of vfat

2003-03-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:03:26PM +0100, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > > hi, > > > > > > Whats the best way for mounting a vfat partition? > > I need to give several users RW on this disk. > > Must i give the parameters in /etc/fstab ? > > > > Patric

Re: Michael Schwendt

2003-03-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, John Nall wrote: > At 08:47 AM 3/9/2003 -0800, Stephen Carville wrote: > > >He certainly is a persistent troll. > > You guys (and girls) should give Mr. Lowell more respect. You may not know > it, but Linux is just a hobby with him. His real job is as a senior member > of

Re: And Now Hate Mail?

2003-03-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
removed from the list. As I said, it just doesn't matter whose fault it is. Mr. Lowell's presence has become unacceptably disruptive, and something should be done about it. A lot of us have work to do, and Mr. Lowell is simply getting in the way. Respectfully yours, Robert P. J. Day RHCE

Re: Ext3 File System Check

2003-03-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, John Lowell wrote: > ... its remarkable that so much has come out of a > simple request for an answer to a question on the e2fsck command. > Interestingly, I raised the very same question on another distro's > mailing list this afternoon, was answered promptly, courteously,

Re: Michael Schwendt

2003-03-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, John Lowell wrote: > Earlier today, I posted a simple yes-or-no question to to the list and > got back a lecture and some abuse from a Michael Schwendt. After a > couple of additional, similar messages from him, I specifically told him > in the clearest possible terms not to

Re: how to forbid someone to do an ftp outside of my network?

2003-02-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Raoul Beauduin wrote: > I am trying to forbid outgoing ftp. > > the situation is like this: > > we have about 10 pc's connected to a local network 192.168.*.* ("my" > network). we are going through a firewall to connect to internet. > I want some students not being able a

RE: how to forbid someone to do an ftp outside of my network?

2003-02-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Shoemaker, Michael (STL) wrote: > Close port 21 or whatever port you have ftpd bound to. If you need to transfer >files, use scp. > > Mike > > -Original Message- > From: Raoul Beauduin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 7:22 AM > To:

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: environment variable

2003-02-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Michael Fratoni wrote: > Either: > export ICAClient=/test/icadir > or > ICAClient=/test/icadir > export ICAClient > > Both of which result in: > > [mfratoni@paradox mfratoni]$ echo $ICAClient > /test/icadir and there's the extremely temporary: $ ICAClient=/test/icadir if

Re: environment variable

2003-02-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 10 Feb 2003, Joe Klemmer wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 17:36, Jerry Roy wrote: > > > How do I permanently set an environment variable so it works across > > reboots? I have the command down, just don't know which is the correct > > file (.bashrc? .profile?) to place it in. Someone said there

Re: Kernel Compile Question

2003-02-10 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Mark Hoover wrote: > Jesse, > > Thanks for the help. I tried this over the weekend and amazingly enough > it works great. I was seriously expecting some kind of boot error by leaving > that initrd line out. > > I will note however, RH7.x used a root=/dev/ notation for it's

Re: usbdnet under RH 8

2003-01-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > rday > > Yes, could you provide details. Its been a long time since I burned my > own kernel. I last did this under Caldera's eD2.4. I have not tried to > burn a kernel under RH at all, I assume it's the same. But just in case > I have forgotten a st

Re: usbdnet under RH 8

2003-01-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone gotten a Zaurus to work under RH 8 using the Ruault patch? > > I have tried in vain to apply the patch but it just fails. I am using > usbdnet-RedHat-8.0-2.4.18-8 and it fails when doing make modules near > the end. 1) upgrad

Re: Flash Player Confusion

2003-01-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, John Lowell wrote: > Michael, Dave, bob, Derek, Robert & Bob, > > First, many thanks for the time and expertise offered me by so many of > you in an attempt to solve this problem. I sincerely appreciate the > effort made. one potentially useful web site for plugins is plu

Re: Flash Player Confusion

2003-01-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, bob wrote: > John, > > Logging in as su - should have done the trick. I installed by > downloading tar ball and copying files to /plugins manually. My version > didn't have an installation script. Maybe there's something wrong with > the install script? Got Flash 6 tar b

Re: Increasing an ext3 partition

2003-01-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Javier Gostling wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:31:12AM +1100, John BouAntoun wrote: > > [snip] > > So my question is, how do I expand my ext3 / partition to take up the newly freed >up hard disk space? > > Parted is the tool. You could also make a new partition in the

Re: mouting of USB-stick

2003-01-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Javier Gostling wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:24:57PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > ok, i have to ask ... what's a USB "stick"? i have a laptop to which > > i attach, on occasion, a USB zip drive and a CF card via a PCMCIA/CF &g

RE: mouting of USB-stick

2003-01-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Tommy McNeely wrote: > first.. make sure its "detected" (using dmesg) as the last USB "stick" > device I tried to install had to be accessed through VMWARE in that shady > OS they we all love to hate. > > second... I think you should try /dev/sda4 .. since thats what my frie

small glitch in 2.4.18-19.8.0 kernel??

2002-12-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
just downloaded the 2.4.18-19.8.0 kernel source RPM from red hat updates, and there is one config option -- "Parallel port support" -> "Support for PCMCIA management for PC-style ports" that has no default setting and, furthermore, does not appear to be settable. has anyone else noticed th

Re: VDQ: make boot floppy??

2002-12-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Dave Yantis wrote: > On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 09:14:06 -0800, Joshua Andrews wrote: > >Beartooth wrote: > > > >>Where have they put it? The new find command doesn't seem > >>to be much use unless you already know the exact name of what > >>your're looking for -- and even then,

Re: VDQ: make boot floppy??

2002-12-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Beartooth wrote: > > Where have they put it? The new find command doesn't seem > to be much use unless you already know the exact name of what > your're looking for -- and even then, I have my doubts ... there is an entire images/ directory on CD 1 with boot floppy ima

Re: best combo for adding external keyboard/mouse to laptop?

2002-12-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Thomas Dodd wrote: > Missed the start of this, but why not a combo? I have a Focus FK-7200. > It's a USB keyboard+trackball. > only 2 buttons, but for most work it's fine, and much easier that > carying both around for a notebook. actually, everything is working fine. port

Re: RedHat Book Recommendation

2002-12-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, 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 > tuto

Re: best combo for adding external keyboard/mouse to laptop?

2002-12-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 17 Dec 2002, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 17:30, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On 18 Dec 2002, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > > I like USB for its hot plugability. Also some USB keyboards (eg mine) > > > come with a USB port for your mouse whic

RE: xmms

2002-12-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Chris Bice wrote: > Redhat in there infinite wisdom not not send the MP3 Decoder rpm with their > distro. Go to xmms.org and get the decoder. down, boy. red hat had very good reasons for not including MP3 support, and they explain those reasons in their release notes. rday

Re: best combo for adding external keyboard/mouse to laptop?

2002-12-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 18 Dec 2002, Iain Buchanan wrote: > I like USB for its hot plugability. Also some USB keyboards (eg mine) > come with a USB port for your mouse which would leave one free i got a PS/2 keyboard (worked great immediately upon connection), but the logitech USB optical mouse doesn't work yet. "u

best combo for adding external keyboard/mouse to laptop?

2002-12-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
given that the built-in keyboard on my dell inspiron is starting to act flaky (missing occasional keystrokes), but i don't have the time to send it in for service right now, i'm looking at the possibilities for adding both an external keyboard and mouse. given one combo keyboard-or-mouse PS/2

Re: OT exam question

2002-12-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, David Sudjiman wrote: > On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, faisal gillani wrote: > > 1 write a one line command to create a directory > > called dir1 to move into it list its content & @ last > > print your working directory "all in one line ?" > > mkdir dir1 && find ./dir1 && pwd based

Re: post-installation suggestions for RH 8.0

2002-12-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Martin Stricker wrote: > "Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > > and your solution fixes it only for the man command, not for > > other commands like "acroread", which suffers from the same > > problem. > > You need to do this for e

Re: post-installation suggestions for RH 8.0

2002-12-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Samuel Flory wrote: > Tommy McNeely wrote: > > > running up2date the first time is a "part" of the install as far as > > I'm concerned.. unless you do NFS installs and keep the packages > > updated on there (can we do that?) > > > > the dma thing should be part of the first

Re: post-installation suggestions for RH 8.0

2002-12-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 13 Dec 2002, Keith Winston wrote: > On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 11:11, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > ex

Re: post-installation suggestions for RH 8.0

2002-12-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Miloslav Trmac wrote: > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 11:11:16AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > LANG="en_US" > > > > can anyone suggest other little fixes that should be done? > Please, don't publish this as a "fix". It is a

post-installation suggestions for RH 8.0

2002-12-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
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 fixes that should be done? that is, fixes that are doable by

Re: Connection refused - why?

2002-12-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 13 Dec 2002, Mr. Adam ALLEN wrote: > On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 15:59, John Nall wrote: > > When I try to ftp (or telnet) from one RH8.0 system to another RH8.0 system > > I get the message "connection refused." I can ping between them OK, and the > > security level is supposedly set to allow acces

checking install media

2002-12-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
since i don't have an installable-ready machine in front of me to test this with, a quick question -- what is the purpose of "linux mediacheck" at the install "boot:" prompt, *GIVEN* *THAT*, as i recall with a normal install, i'm prompted to check the media anyway. or am i misremembering my

Re: Changing the security level from system settings ??

2002-12-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, John Nall wrote: > Logged in as root, I go to "system settings -> security level" and get a > nice little thing called "Security Level Configuration" which is neat and > which allows me to customize the firewall rules and allow trusted incoming > stuff. (Where I am trying to

Re: wireless card frequently hanging up

2002-12-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Rik Thomas wrote: > Take a look in your /var/log/messages right after this happens. I get > this problem quite regularly with my wpc11 card. Something about bap > overrun or something plus tons of messages about Tx and Rx. > Restarting network works just fine for me and if yo

Re: wireless card frequently hanging up

2002-12-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 9 Dec 2002, Keith Winston wrote: > On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 11:51, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > several weeks ago, i put my RH 8.0 laptop on a small > > wireless net here in the house -- linksys pcmcia card > > and linksys 4-port WAP router. > > > >

wireless card frequently hanging up

2002-12-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
several weeks ago, i put my RH 8.0 laptop on a small wireless net here in the house -- linksys pcmcia card and linksys 4-port WAP router. most of the time, everything is fine, but recently, and increasingly frequently, the data transfer just hangs, typically at the same time as an arbitrary

RE: newbie having problems editing files

2002-11-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Charles Johnson wrote: > You have probably been asked this numerous times, sorry if so... > > But is this the command you use to get root access: > > su - root > > When you cd to /etc/samba are the permissions on smb.conf 644? just doing a regular "su" will still let you e

RE: securetty file

2002-11-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Brian York wrote: > If its on a network behind a firewall that has vlans separating IT from the > rest of the Univ. is it safe? no, because it doesn't stop *internal* people from snooping on network traffic and grabbing passwords. rday -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMA

Re: sbin and /usr/sbin

2002-11-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Cameron Simpson wrote: > | > just cause its in the sbin path does not mean that only root can run > | > it... sbin is for "static-binaries" right?? > | > | No, system binaries. > > These days, maybe. In older times, it did mean static - these binaries > would run before the

system-wide configuration for user accounts

2002-11-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
age, i manually added a "java.sh" file to that directory which extended the search PATH. is this considered acceptable behavior? to just manually toss extra files in there? it certainly is a cleaner and more modular approach than constantly hacking /etc/profile. rday Robert P. J.

Re: sbin and /usr/sbin

2002-11-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
that having /sbin and /usr/sbin as part of a non-root search path was convenient; however, i've also always felt that it's a decision that should be left to the users and not added at the system-wide config level. rday p.s. if that was totally confusing, it means i'm agreeing w

any crucial updated rpms coming out soon?

2002-11-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i'm a bit nonplussed that, among the updated rpms available for rh 8.0, there is *still* no hwbrowser or (more importantly) rpm (which has the /var/lib/rpm locking problem). given that the rpm problem is fairly serious, what is red hat's policy on getting fixed rpms available on the updates s

Re: A thought about psyche

2002-11-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 19 Nov 2002, Brent Fox wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 14:08, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > it's like the schoolyard bully who's had his way for years. individually, > > no one can stand up to him but over those same years, a thought grows > > that, if e

Re: Turn off root login

2002-11-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Wednesday 20 November 2002 11:45, Brian York wrote: > > How can I turn off root login for the console? > > > > Don't mean to ask stupid questions just forgotten. > > Isn't it in /etc/security or /etc/securetty ? you could remove all of the virtual

Re: A thought about psyche

2002-11-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 20 Nov 2002, esra wrote: > > > They also want to listen to their collection of mp3s. They want to > > visit web sites that make use of Macromedia Flash player and Java and > > Realplayer and Quicktime and Microsoft Media Player formats. They want > > their web browser to Just Work with thei

Re: A thought about psyche

2002-11-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 19 Nov 2002, Keith Winston wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 11:02, Alan Peery wrote: > > There are areas that will turn power users of Microsoft right off. It > > was really nice to see a VPN connection offered in "neat" in a standard > > install--but it doesn't work. (Missing a directory and

Re: NTP in default installation

2002-11-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, John wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, [iso-8859-1] Jacò Botha wrote: > > > Could all of those people using NTP please have a look at bugzilla 78025 ? > > > > I was completely knocked off my chair this morning reading the response from > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Am I missing

RE: Making RPMs

2002-11-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Stephen Mah wrote: > I downloaded maximum-rpm.ps from some site. I think it was http://www.rpm.org/ > > It's a pretty thick manual, haven't read it yet. unless that's been updated lately, it's pretty old. rday Robert P. J. Day, RHCE, RHCI E

RE: Good RedHat 8.0 Books

2002-11-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, David Willson wrote: > Strategy: Buying books on 8.0 will cost you a mint, buy books on 7.2 or > 7.3 and you'll learn what you want to learn for less money. and just reading the online stuff that comes on the 8.0 docs cd is a pretty good place to start. rday

Re: CANADIAN Red Hat Road Tour?

2002-11-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Elton Woo wrote: > Is there or will there be a Canadian Red Hat Road Tour? > If so, where may one find details on it? you know, before everyone gets their knickers in a knot over this RH tour, it might be worth pointing out that you can learn darn near everything you need on

Re: home lan

2002-11-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, jdow wrote: > From: "Dale Kosan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Just for the record, most of the lower price dsl/routers also do port > > forwarding so you can still use ssh, samba, apache ect... > > But can they do side duty as a backup store for your other machines? > I put a m

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

need some quick advice for wireless pcmcia/dsl router purchase

2002-11-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i'm thinking of putting a couple home machines on a wireless LAN, and i'm interested if anyone else has advice on the following. currently, there are two machines: 1) desktop running windows XP 2) laptop running red hat 8.0 currently, both of those are plugged into a linksys 4-port dsl/cab

Re: mounting dos or vfat writable by regular users

2002-11-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Harry Putnam wrote: > > 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 al

Re: Red Hat Road Tour

2002-11-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, 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! that's funny -- i *just* emailed someone back home in NC, saying that if they make it up here to toro

compatibility between jdkgcj and sun's j2sdk 1.4.1

2002-11-07 Thread Robert P. J. Day
not being an expert at java environments, what is the compatibility/ interoperability between sun's downloadable j2sdk 1.4.1 for linux, and the jdkgcj RPM that ships with red hat 8.0? as in, given that i've downloaded sun's jdk, are there java-related RPMs that i can safely remove since they'r

Re: Kernel Challenged

2002-11-04 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 3 Nov 2002, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 08:34, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > if it's convenient, why bother having to make an initrd at all? > > since you're building a new kernel, you might as well just build > > ext3 support into the

Re: Kernel Challenged

2002-11-03 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 3 Nov 2002, Phil Lambert wrote: > Hey all I have a problem activating a new kernel I am hoping someone can > help. I do the the following: > > cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.19 > > make mrproper -> successful > make xconfig - > successful > make dep -> successful > make clean -> successful > make bzI

Re: where are boot-time options "ip" and "noinitrd" doc'ed??

2002-10-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Thomas Dodd wrote: > > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i'm playing with an embedded linux and i can boot using > > boot time options "noinitrd", "ip=" and "nfsroot=". but other > > than noinitrd, i don'

where are boot-time options "ip" and "noinitrd" doc'ed??

2002-10-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i'm playing with an embedded linux and i can boot using boot time options "noinitrd", "ip=" and "nfsroot=". but other than noinitrd, i don't see where the other two are documented. specifically, if i read the "Appendix H: Additional Boot Options" in the online Installation Guide, none of thos

Re: Where to add own rules in /etc/sysconfig/iptables

2002-10-30 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Dale Bewley wrote: > Do you have ip forwarding turned on in the kernel? > > [root@boss etc]# grep forward /etc/sysctl.conf > # Disables packet forwarding > net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1 > > You might also put the following on your INPUT and FORWARD chains and then > watch /var/log

Re: IPCHAINS modules to unload and IPTABLES modules to load.

2002-10-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Jack Bowling wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:30:21PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > to switch from ipchains to iptables: > > > > # chkconfig --level 0123456 ipchains off (turn off auto start) > > # service ipchains stop

Re: IPCHAINS modules to unload and IPTABLES modules to load.

2002-10-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Taylor, ForrestX wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > as part of a tutorial i'm writing on iptables, here's what i've listed -- > > feedback is appreciated. > > > > to switch from ipchains to iptables: > > > > # chkcon

Re: IPCHAINS modules to unload and IPTABLES modules to load.

2002-10-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 29 Oct 2002, Alejandro González Hernández - Imoq wrote: > Hello. > > I would like to unload ipchains and load iptables. I can run "setup", > then unselect "ipchains" and select "iptables" and when I reboot, I get > iptables working. What I need right now is to unload ipchains and load > iptabl

Re: all right -- who's been playing with digital video?

2002-10-29 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 29 Oct 2002, Hans Scheffers wrote: > Rday, > with which gtk did you compile kino? that wasn't me, that was anthony placilla that posted that. rday

Re: What happened to Xconfigurator

2002-10-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Ben Hsu wrote: > To configure X in Redhat 8.0, run 'xf86config' from the command > line, or go to 'Redhat Menu -> System Settings -> Display' > > I miss Xconfigurator :) # redhat-config-xfree86 rday

Re: all right -- who's been playing with digital video?

2002-10-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 28 Oct 2002, Anthony J Placilla wrote: > Serendipitously, I just started to play with my new Sony TRV-340 this > weekend > > I can't offer anything specific other than I'm going to try > > Cinelerra > http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3 > > and Kino > http://kino.schirmacher.de also se

all right -- who's been playing with digital video?

2002-10-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i'm about to take a stab at messing with my brother's DV camera through RH 8.0. the current HW at hand: me: dell inspiron 8100, with firewire port him: panasonic digital video camera, no obvious model number on it, but i'm sure i can find it eventually as a first attempt, i've bee

Re: any interest in a multimedia red hat list?

2002-10-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 27 Oct 2002, Andrew Smith wrote: > > is there, somewhere, a mailing list/forum devoted strictly > > to multimedia under linux -- audio stuff, dvd playing, digital > > video, and the like? if not, what are the chances of establishing one? > > > > given that red hat has mailing lists dev

any interest in a multimedia red hat list?

2002-10-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
is there, somewhere, a mailing list/forum devoted strictly to multimedia under linux -- audio stuff, dvd playing, digital video, and the like? if not, what are the chances of establishing one? given that red hat has mailing lists devoted to stuff like rpm, kickstart and other specific topics,

Re: CUPS Configuration Errors: LaserJet@localhost Problems

2002-10-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Cochran Robert L (NO) wrote: > When I configure CUPS printing from http://localhost:631/admin , I'm able to > get a beautiful test page to print on my Laserjet. To access the web page, > by the way, I have do so as root and give the root password. > > When I try to submit a j

my contribution to CUPS configuration

2002-10-23 Thread Robert P. J. Day
{*all|any} AuthClass {*Anonymous|User|System|Group} AuthGroupName AuthType {*None|Basic|Digest|BasicDigest} Encryption {Never|*IfRequested|Required|Always} Limit LimitExcept == cut here == rday Robert P. J. Day, RHCE, RHCI Eno River Technologies, Chapel Hill NC Unix, Linu

Re: changing the LANG setting so that man pages work

2002-10-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Michael Fratoni wrote: > So far, it looks like everyone has a different solution than the one I > used. I made the change globally in /etc/sysconfig/i18n, and dropped > UTF-8. > > $ cat /etc/sysconfig/i18n > # LANG="en_US.UTF-8" > LANG="en_US" > SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US

Re: changing the LANG setting so that man pages work

2002-10-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 21 Oct 2002, Jim Hayward wrote: > alias man='env LANG=C man' all right, i've seen folks setting local environment variables with the "env" prefix and i have to ask, what is the difference between: $ env LANG=C command $ LANG=C command or is there a difference? i've never needed the "env

Re: changing the LANG setting so that man pages work

2002-10-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, LENHOF Jean-Yves wrote: > > > ---Message d'origine--- > > De : "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date : Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:31:02 -0400 (EDT) > > > > > > i already know that setting LANG=C will

Re: File Deletion issue

2002-10-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Oisin C. Feeley wrote: > On 21 Oct 2002, Russell Johns wrote: > > > H- > > > > forgive my ignorance, but I'm not understanding whats going wrong here > > ... > > essentially a large file that I own I can't delete... > > why do I not have permission to delete this file??? > >

changing the LANG setting so that man pages work

2002-10-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i already know that setting LANG=C will get me man pages in an xterm that show the hyphens. the question is: is this the acceptable hack for this, and where is the most appropriate place for this setting? /etc/profile so everyone gets it? /etc/profile.d/???.sh my personal .bash_profile to

Re: How to save a copy of partition table

2002-10-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 21 Oct 2002, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > > "SL" == Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > SL> How to save a partition table for future reference. > > "sfdisk --dump" is what I have always used. # fdisk -l will also work. rday

Re: Cups & Lpd

2002-10-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On 21 Oct 2002, Thom Paine wrote: > On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 10:12, Tim Waugh wrote: > > > redhat-config-printer doesn't configure CUPS (yet). > > Oh. Heh. > > Pavel provided the configuration for cups. > > I'll try that and keep you posted. well, i'm not sure if tim just didn't want to mention

Re: Add a new custom service to RH8

2002-10-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Tommy McNeely wrote: > > bootup or runlevel change. S means start it if entering the runlevel, > > K means stop (kill) it when leaving the runlevel. > > Actually the K scripts mean to KILL (stop) the service when entering the > RunLevel as well... most of the K scripts are i

a couple more observations about CUPS

2002-10-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
(i'd be happy to move this to a CUPS-specific mailing list if one exists, although there is definitely a psyche-related component to a lot of this.) 1) is there any conflict between the LPRng and CUPS config files? from what i see, LPRng uses /etc/printcap, while CUPS uses the /etc/cups d

somewhat messy output format using CUPS

2002-10-16 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:42:04PM -0400, Gerry Kirk wrote: > > > Printing was working fine, until I tried to switch to CUPS. I configured > > a printer via the CUPS web admin tool. The test print was fine. However, > > from a non-root user, nothing came ou

with CUPS, is LPRng redundant?

2002-10-15 Thread Robert P. J. Day
if one plans on using CUPS for printing exclusively, is there any reason not to remove RPMs associated with LPRng? from the dependencies list, to remove LPRng, one needs to first remove redhat-config-printer, but this is just for LPRng config anyway, no? so, any problems with getting rid of

Re: media players

2002-10-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 20:34:28 -0700 (PDT) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > # > # There seems to be a lack up media (mpeg, vcd, dvd, etc) players out > # there that install without screaming for deps. Does anyone know of > # anything that installs and runs

Re: Setting up NFS for first time

2002-10-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Gene C. wrote: > /etc/exports file. Once you have that created, then do "service nfs" and # service nfs start rday

Re: more 8.0 docs confusion

2002-10-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
n Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 04:33:10PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > official RHL customization guide, "adding swap space", reads > > in part, to add a swap partition: > > > > "The hard drive can not be in use (partitions can not be > > mou

Re: Hard disc re-partition question

2002-10-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Stephen, > > In response to your mail of Monday, October 14, 2002 7:21:18 AM: > > SL> 1) How to display the existing partition in full detail > > I always just use the command-line 'fdisk', issue a p (for print) then > a q (for quit) and that's usu

Re: more 8.0 docs confusion

2002-10-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Steven Rubenstein wrote: > Yeah, but changes through fdisk on a mounted volume don't take effect > until reboot, no? (Swap space can certainly be enabled while mounted.) > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > official RHL customization guide, "

more 8.0 docs confusion

2002-10-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
official RHL customization guide, "adding swap space", reads in part, to add a swap partition: "The hard drive can not be in use (partitions can not be mounted, and swap space can not be enabled). The easiest way to achieve this it [sic] to boot your system in [sic] rescue mode." say what?

RE: Pysche and DVD

2002-10-13 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote: > OK, let me step back a sec...here is what i have done so far: > > 1) rebuilt/reinstalled ogle and ogle_gui > 2) rebuilt/reinstalled libdvdread and libdvdcss > 3) rebuilt/reinstalled xvattr > 4) built/installed mpeg4 (mad) and ac32dec > 5) i have

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