On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 08:55, Mark Hoover wrote:
> Greetings everyone.
>
> Another person in my office just installed RH8.0 on a spare desktop
> that she has as her desk in the hopes of learning linux. I've been able
> to show her a few things here and there, but it's hardly an all encompasing
On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 09:42, Chris Bice wrote:
> rpm -Uvh xmms* --force should do the trick, if not try rpm -Uvh
> xmms* --force --nodeps.
Ahh! Don't use --force or --nodeps unless you know what you are doing.
In this case, both the person asking the question, and the one giving
the answer, do n
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 17:06, Scott Taylor wrote:
> Michael is the issue of my font really big enough to reply to without
> addressing my actual problem?
> > would it be possible not to include more or less stupid sigs, moreover if
> > they contain a a non-ascii character set which replaces my fon
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 21:30, Donald G Wilson Jr wrote:
> Hi all, In Windows XP there's an option to shutdown Windows "safely"
> when the power button on my computer was pressed. Is there any way to do
> this in Linux?
>
> That's odd. I had no idea WIN XP did that. I don't think Linux could do
> th
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 19:17, Richard E Miles wrote:
> I used to have a zip disc 100. When I formated the disc as ext2 I had to
> mount the disk form /dev/sda1. Microsoft formated discs mounted on
> /dev/sda4.
This is normal. Here is an explanation which I found easily on the web
using http://go
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 17:07, Sandor Suta wrote:
> > It looks like changing the order , changes the SCSI-ID (0,0,0 and 1,0,0)
> > and kudzu thinks they are different devices.
> How and what is changeing the order? is this viewable/changeable in any
> file?
I wonder if when you booted your compute
First of all, I do not have a solution to this problem. I have provided
a little info, and some probing questions, to see if we can help solve
this problem. I wonder if Erik Troan, who wrote updfstab's man page,
reads this list, and has time to offer any suggestions.
(I wonder if the solution to
On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 19:01, Ryan Camick wrote:
> Three:
>
> Google. Search "kernel-drm" -- third hit is from a Red Hat list.
To be clear, I meant http://google.com/linux which searches Linux sites.
-Ryan
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On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 16:54, J Kevin Martineau wrote:
> I was attempting to upgrade XFree86 to the version in Rawhide. RPM
> complains that kernel-drm is required. What package contains the
> kernel-drm?
For future, there are three methods of answering this question yourself:
One:
$ rpm -q --wha
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 02:27, Stephen Liu wrote:
> How to activate the plugin on
>
> Netscape Natvigator and
> Netscape Communicator
>
> 1) Preference -> Application -> highlighted (Microsoft Word Document)
> -> Edit
>
> The plugin grey out and can't activate
>
>
> 2) Contronl Center -> In
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 19:42, Ryan Camick wrote:
> So, create a file /etc/rc.serial and put the commands that are necessary
> in there. Call this script from /etc/rc.local
I forgot to mention that there is a sample rc.serial on your system
already. I don't know what it does, I didn&#
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 12:06, Mike Mccabe wrote:
> I'm looking to install lirc on Redhat 8.0 and in order to use my
> serial port receiver (Packard Bell) I need to use setserial which is
> located in one of the redhat init scripts. Does anyone know the
> location of the setserial configuration so I
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 04:56, Stephen Liu wrote:
> While viewing web mails on a website such as lycos.com, yahoo.com,
> hotmail.com, etc. clicking their attached documents will start
> 'AbiWord'. But unfortunately some documents created with MSOffice could
> not be read exactly in AbiWord in its
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 22:45, Harry Putnam wrote:
> 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 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. However if I call
> `ls .misc-snippets'
>
> Or any dot file that is a symlink it does
On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 20:05, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> Thanks. That did the trick. The contents of those two DIR_COLORS files
> appear to be the same. I wonder why a separate .xterm file is needed
On my system the .xterm file did not have bold colors in it. I had
always thought it was g
On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 21:04, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> I've got iptables to log what it drops with various options, but its
> filling up my log files (theres a lot of traffic at work). Can I
> somehow get it to log to a file other than /var/log/messages?
http://www.google.com/linux?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-
On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 09:45, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
> Has the location for configuring directory colorization changed for
> xterm and gnome-terminal in RH8 and Gnome2? I just tried changing the
> original directory colors line in /etc/DIR_COLORS from:
>
>DIR 01;34 # directory <-- bol
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 22:37, chris wrote:
> Loaded RH 8.0 and can see the Apache Test page from an outside internet
> access. But how do I replace the test page? Where is it located please?
> I figured that it was in /var/www, but I don't see it. and it's not in
> http.d either.
The test page you
On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 20:20, Brian K. Jones wrote:
> > Just noticing there's no 'bounce' option in evolution that I can find.
>
> Evolution 1.2 has what I think is the equivalent:
>
> Actions -> Forward -> Redirect
I have both pine and Evolution 1.2 in action here, and both the Bounce
in pine and
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 13:35, Charlie Hall wrote:
> I've installed 8.0 and am using Network Device Control for starting and
> shutting down my internet connection. What I'd like is one of those
> little displays (that could fit on my panel) that winks and blinks as
> data are being transferred.
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 21:21, John wrote:
> On 12 Nov 2002, Brian K. Jones wrote:
>
> > I don't get it. What's so hard about installing red-carpet and getting
> > it from there, like the ximian site says to do if you're running RH8?
> > It's really not that hard, and it works well. I'm writing t
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 17:07, Oisin C. Feeley wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Justin Georgeson wrote:
>
> > This only applies to metacity. How do I get applications to be sticky
> > between sessions?
>
> GNOME-Menu->Log Out->Save Current Setup
>
> > Further to that, how do I get windows without wi
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 14:22, Lucas Albers wrote:
> I don't agree with using html mail instead of plain text messages.
> Plain text is more secure then html mail, html can have javascript and
> iframe exploits in it.
In Kevin's defense, what he wrote was meant to discourage HTML emails,
such as the
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 01:21, Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 12:04, Warren Togami wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 09:09, 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
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:35, Eric Bourque wrote:
> Anyone know how to change the default browser for gnome-terminal urls?
>
> It doesn't seem to follow the standard gnome preferences (which I have
> set to galeon) and instead insists on always starting mozilla. I took a
> look with the configurati
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:58, Oisin C. Feeley wrote:
> I was trying to cut'n'paste with the mouse from the webapge
>
>http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-guide/s1-dhcp-configuring-server.html
> into an xterm, and found that the "emdash" characters (the extra-long
> hyphen
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 14:04, Warren Togami wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 09:09, 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 se
On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 09:07, Stephen H Carbin wrote:
> I am having a problem with evolution. For incoming mail I need to make a
> POP3 connection to mail.carbinworld.com, and for outgoing I need to connect
> to smtp.myisp.com. Outgoing mail works fine but I cannot get incoming
> working. I have
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 16:19, Thom Paine wrote:
> I don't have, nor can I get dway because I'm in Canada. But everyone I
> know has a DTV system.
Sure you can get it in Canada. www.highspeedanywhere.com
Find the Residential High Speed (Two-way Satellite) and note the
Industry Canada fee. Must be
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 12:44, Sachchi wrote:
> I have already tried that it halts exactly at the same
> point. Everything goes well and when the package
> installation starts, it gets halted. Its really
> mysterious for me. I never had this kind of problem in
> past.
Weird things happen. I had a
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 00:27, Robert L. Cochran wrote:
> At this point, since I'm not too familiar with IMAP services, I'm unsure
> whether you would want to subscribe to the folders or not. I was fooling
> with a friend's folders and didn't want to make those choices for him.
> However everythin
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 14:52, P wrote:
> It's actually not too difficult to load up your system to observe the
> swap being used.
Thanks for showing me that. Interesting .. top didn't show me anything
useful, but:
$ watch --interval=1 free
was interesting, and when it ran out of memory was neat
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 13:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On a new Linux server I just set up, I created a 500 meg swap file
> which is equal to the amount of ram in the machine. The swap file is
> active but shows 0% used, while the memory shows 184 meg used and 316
> meg free.
I assume your result
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 04:17, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> Above you tested dsl.pipex.com (the non-working address).
> Below you tested dsl.pipex.net, which works.
Ahh, I knew I messed something up.
> It might be that dsl.pipex.com is on some anti-spam blacklist at Red
> Hat, because I don't see much
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 07:06, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 11:37:11 +0100, Tom Coady wrote:
>
> > From: "Tony Nugent"
> > > Their mail server(s) will not accept email if the email address you
> > > are sending from is unresolvable in the dns.
> >
> > And rightly so. However I beli
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 23:33, Jason Lim wrote:
> Does any one know any program run on Linux can monitor root user or
> other users activity?
This is the best I can recommend: ttysnoop (0.12d latest revision that I
know of). It's been a long time since I used it, but it did work for
telnet session
On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 22:58, Keith Morse wrote:
> On 20 Oct 2002, Keith Winston wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 23:14, Keith Morse wrote:
> >
> > There is some key combination (Alt-F10 or something) that should let you
> > bring up the BIOS on the megaraid controller when it boots, then you
> >
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 17:51, Daniel Liston wrote:
> After upgrading from Redhat 7.3 to 8.0, my LogWatch report nearly
> evaporated. I used to get nightly reports over 30K in length, but
> now they are barely 1K, inlcuding message headers. I did not see
> anything about this in the upgrade comment
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 11:49, Joe Klemmer wrote:
> > 3. My machines are dedicated servers providing at most 2 types of
> > services (in any combination). It has no shell access except for the
> > sysadmin account. Only 2 consoles are active. Remote access is via
> > ssh only with rootlogin denied
Stephan André Schmidt wrote:
> Ryan Camick wrote:
I have a PCI Soundblaster Live! card. I have looked at the man page for
sox and checked my microphone volume in aumix (it's completely turned
down, and must get turned up for sox to record?). I cannot find
anything that you could have s
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 16:02, Stephan André Schmidt wrote:
> Am 2002.10.14 19:46 schrieb(en) Ryan Camick:
> > On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 07:33, Stephan André Schmidt wrote:
> > > now, from using RH 8.0, I cannot record sound anymore. I.e., my little
> > > script `sox -V -c 2
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 15:25, Marek wrote:
> Hi
>
> The little up2date (auto update) icon by the clock has vanished, how do
> i get it back ?
I have just removed mine to experiment (to help reply).
Have you still got the "Panel Notification Area"? It's hard to tell.
The only evidence is a hash
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 11:29, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> How do I configure rpm to do only consider gpg signatures when
> checking, without having to add --nomd5 to the command line? Is there
> something I can add to /etc/rpm/ that can set this by default?
You could use an alias
$ alias rpm='r
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 07:33, Stephan André Schmidt wrote:
> now, from using RH 8.0, I cannot record sound anymore. I.e., my little
> script `sox -V -c 2 -w -r 44100 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp
> /mnt/rip/video/radio/chill1.wav` does produce the file "chill1.wav" in the
> spec. dir., but the "loudness" of
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 02:08, Wolfgang Gill wrote:
> Does anyone know how .src.rpm's are now installed?? Since RPM doesn't seem
> to support the '--rebuild' option anymore. I've read through all 4 RH8.0
> books that come with the RH8.0 Professional distribution. I need to rebuild
> some of these RPM
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 02:05, Jack Bowling wrote:
> > Iirc RH selects the proper System.map automagically at boot depending on
> > the kernel it used so no need to do the rm -f ... & ln -s ...
>
> Ah. Didn't know that. This is the case for 2.5.x devel branch so RH likely
> backported it.
The /etc/
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 01:28, Patrick wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 03:42, Jack Bowling wrote:
> > cp /usr/src/linux-2.4.19/System.map /boot/System.map-2.4.19
> > rm -f /boot/System.map
> > ln -s System.map-2.4.19 System.map
>
> Iirc RH selects the proper System.map automagically at boot depending
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 01:07, Mike Chambers wrote:
> Ok, I have never done this. I have installed Psyche as a workstation in place of my
>XP machine to go along with my 8.0 server. I have the server setup with samba and
>had XP mapping a couple drives to access them. So, I is smbclient the way
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 00:06, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 01:56:16PM +1000, John BouAntoun wrote:
> > So are they not shipping pico, or am I missing something, and if i'm
> > missing something someone please tell me the full name of the pico
> > package and the disc it is on.
>
> [
On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 13:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Trying to install on a Dell, getting the following error (with my
> line-wrap in the email here): -
>
> ISOLINUX 1.75 2002-06-14 isolinux: Loading spec packet failed, \
> trying to wing it
> ...
> isolinux: Failed to locate CD-ROM device; bo
On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 15:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I can't add much, but I happened to just try the "linux askmethod"
> whilst experimenting, and I got a response of "no such image" or words
> to that effect.
The "linux askmethod" option worked for me during my install.
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On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 15:01, Michał Chojnicki wrote:
> Does anyone tried to install it directly from packed ISO located in ext2
> partition?
I was successful with this install method. I had the RH8.0 ISO images
on /dev/hda4 (my /home). You need to make a boot disk using dd and the
image file on
On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 13:22, cfraz wrote:
> The help menu of the command-line applet shows options for applet height, show time
>& show date.
> But these options are not visible in the applet preferences nor in gconf-editor.
> Am I wrong or it is not yet implemented ?
I've tried here, and it does
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Stephen Liu wrote:
> # rpm -q openoffice
> package openoffice is not installed
>
> If I could discover its directory I am prepare to use "apt-get remove
> openoffice" to remove it and make a new reinstallation.
If you are subscribed to the RHN this will install OpenOffice.o
On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 20:05, Kevin McConnell wrote:
>
> --- Ryan Camick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Edit -> Current Profile -> Title and Command ->
> > Update utmp/wtmp
>
> Nope... that doesn't have any effect. It is now a
> known bug, alre
On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 13:48, Nuno Almeida Gil wrote:
> I would like to change a file type in RH8.0 with Gnome.
> I use x-chat to irc, My log files are "recognized" by the system
> as "xchatlog" I i cannot open the with a text reader.
>
> I would like to change its type to "plain text" to see them
On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 17:57, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 11:34:30PM +0200, Mikkel Riis wrote:
> > Mp3's work fine.
>
> If you are playing mp3 files in RH 8.0 that is impressive since RH has said many
> times that mp3 support is not included in RH 8.0. Something is wrong somewher
On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 17:34, Mikkel Riis wrote:
> I got a very basic question. I just encoded some .wav files to 128 bit
> Oggs. However I unable to load them into Xmms. I checked and the plugin
> for ourputting Oggs appears to be installed. WHen I doubleclick the Ogg
> file or load it through Xmms
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 18:28, Kevin McConnell wrote:
> While running an X session, open up multiple
> gnome-terminals. now type w or who. In 7.3 down, you
> used to see your user logged in under pts/N and now
> you don't.
There is an option on the menu that may have something to do with this?
Edi
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