Re: Maestro3 on Dell Latitude CPxJ

2002-10-21 Thread Bill Nottingham
Bernd Kunze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > I do have a Dell Latitude with Maestro 3 sound card, that's what lspci > tells me. sndconfig recognizes it but hangs when playing the test sound. > Also a cat /dev/dsp results in "chip lockup" messages. No sound. Driver bug. Might already be in bugzilla, I'

Re: Netscape Navigator 4.79?

2002-10-21 Thread Bill Nottingham
Matthew Saltzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Can the old Netscape Navigator RPMs from RH 7.3 be used in RH 8.0? The > jag-offs at my bank still refuse to support Netscape 6/7/Mozilla for > online banking. Aside from problems with Java & the new glibc (we're looking into fixes for that) yes, it w

Re: Mozilla with Anti Aliasing

2002-10-21 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 11:51:14PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > If it is like the non-RH mozilla-xft builds, you have to configure > > it separately for AA. > > > > Look for /usr/lib/mozilla-*/defaults/pref/unix.js: > > > > // TrueType /// > > pref(

Re: How should i make my computer with another OS make my Linux-box connect to internet with ppp?

2002-10-21 Thread dTd
On 20 Oct 2002 21:57:42 -0500 David Krider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 10:21, dTd wrote: > > I saw a package on freshmeat designed to do just this, I have forgotten > > it's name, but a quick search for "demand dial" should get you some > > results. As a side note, you can s

Re: Mozilla with Anti Aliasing

2002-10-21 Thread dTd
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:51:14 -0400 Bill Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hal Burgiss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > If it is like the non-RH mozilla-xft builds, you have to configure it > > separately for AA. > > > > Look for /usr/lib/mozilla-*/defaults/pref/unix.js: > > > > // TrueType

Re: Dell 2300 with megaraid (perc sc/2)

2002-10-21 Thread Ryan Camick
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 > >

Re: Monitor root or normal user program.

2002-10-21 Thread Ryan Camick
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

RHL8.0 and Windows 2000 server edition

2002-10-21 Thread Marcio Alejandro Regalado M.
Hi there. Can anybody give me instructions on conecting my linux box to a windows 2000 server edition machine?? Red Hat Newbie _ Charla con tus amigos en línea mediante MSN Messenger: http://messenger.microsoft.com/es

Re: RHL8.0 and Windows 2000 server edition

2002-10-21 Thread Justin Zygmont
depends on what type of connectivity you want, samba wight be what you are looking for. On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Marcio Alejandro Regalado M. wrote: > Hi there. > > Can anybody give me instructions on conecting my linux box to a windows 2000 > server edition machine?? > > Red Hat Newbie > > ___

Re: i386 kernel not included?

2002-10-21 Thread Justin Zygmont
I just tried it, looks neat. that's a cute name too:) On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Michael Fratoni wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 20 October 2002 09:09 am, Petr Soucek wrote: > > > Yes, I have the same opinion. And surprisingly, there *is* new i386 > > kernel f

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 --

Re: having problems with rpm from command-line.

2002-10-21 Thread Tom Diehl
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Randall J. Parr wrote: > 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: > > ---

RE: Psyche - USB joystick question

2002-10-21 Thread Wolfgang Gill
If my memory serves me correctly the Logitech Wingman Warrior use either the PS/2 Mouse port or Game Port. (Unless it's a new model I don't know about. As I also own one) What I did to get my controller working (MadCatz Panther XL), I simply wrote a script to modprobe the appropriate drivers as fo

Re: How should i make  my computer with another OS make my Linux-box connect to internet with ppp? (dTd)

2002-10-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:12:14 -0400 > From: dTd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 20 Oct 2002 21:57:42 -0500 > David Krider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 10:21, dTd wrote: > sure but that's not what he asked for. He wants to be able to control his ppp > connection from a lan bo

Re: Monitor root or normal user program.

2002-10-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
> From: Ryan Camick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 21 Oct 2002 00:43:56 -0400 > 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? 'gnome-system-monitor', which replaces gtop from 7.3 (and not so well in my o

Missing gless

2002-10-21 Thread Val W. Harris
Does anyone know where RedHat moved gless to, or what they intend for it's replacement? I'm looking for a pager program that pops up the file in a new window. Thanks, Val -- Val W. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If you have tried to do something but couldn't, you are far better off than

Re: How should i make my computer with another OS make my Linux-box connect to internet with ppp?

2002-10-21 Thread Matthew Melvin
On 19 Oct 2002 at 8:08pm (+0200), Kent Nyberg wrote: > Hello! > I want my linuxbox that connects to the internet with pppd to be able to > share the connection with my other computer running windows xp. > I think i can manage to use masq and that stuff to share the connection > when it is upp and

Re: i386 kernel not included?

2002-10-21 Thread psyche
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 08:12:14 +1000 (EST) > "Andrew Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # Size of the 586 kernel on CD1 = 13428206 > # > # I'm sure it could have been put on CD2 ... but then ... > > Don't forget about the srpm needed as well, and the

Re: RPM mess

2002-10-21 Thread psyche
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Marcio Alejandro Regalado M. wrote: > Hi there > > I have some RPM packages installed in my linyx box that are not being > recognized by the package manager (the program similar to gnoRPM) is there > any way to fix this problem ??? > > i.e. I have AbiWord installed an the

Re: i386 kernel not included?

2002-10-21 Thread psyche
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Andrew Smith wrote: > Well - having thought about it a bit more ... > > Removing one 12Mb RPM is quite rediculous when almost EVERY other > intel RPM is built for an i386. Even glibc has an i386 version. > If you say that you no longer support i386 - then build all the > RPM'

Re: i386 kernel not included?

2002-10-21 Thread psyche
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Justin Zygmont wrote: > > > > And now - is anybody able to recommend me how to install Red Hat > > Linux 8.0 on i486 boxes? > > > > Best Regards, > > try to install it on a newer computer andthen upgrade the kernel to the > i386 one, then pop the drive in the 486. You'll

Re: Problem with outgoing packets to port 7. (Security problem?)

2002-10-21 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:12:39 -0400, Michael Fratoni wrote: > > I am only getting these messages because I have outbound packets > > with destination port 7 blocked. I think I may have been compromised > > in some way, just because the packets are outbound. They seem to > > come in groups of 6 at s

Re: evolution font too small

2002-10-21 Thread hans privat
hi, I also working with evolution, but in settings the only thing anyone can do is: you can set your fontstyle, but NOT the fontsize. The only thing anyone can do is to change the fontsize with the option "View--> Textsize --> bigger (or smaller). AND another bad behavior in evolution : if I'm wr

Re: RHL8.0 and Windows 2000 server edition

2002-10-21 Thread David Sudjiman
Define connecting... I can see that this question should be regarded to SAMBA package, please refer to www.samba.org for detail information. You can use your linux box as domain client from w2k server thx On Monday 21 October 2002 11:46 am, Marcio Alejandro Regalado M. wrote: > Hi there. > > C

Re: Mozilla with Anti Aliasing

2002-10-21 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 17:56, Hal Burgiss wrote: > If it is like the non-RH mozilla-xft builds, you have to configure it > separately for AA. > > Look for /usr/lib/mozilla-*/defaults/pref/unix.js: > > // TrueType /// > pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true);

Re: i386 kernel not included?

2002-10-21 Thread Petr Soucek
On 21 Oct 2002, at 14:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Justin Zygmont wrote: > > > > > > > And now - is anybody able to recommend me how to install Red Hat > > > Linux 8.0 on i486 boxes? > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > > try to install it on a newer computer andthen upgrade

Re: evolution font too small

2002-10-21 Thread Michael Biddulph
You can try going to: Start Here > Preferences > extras > HTML Viewer You can change font type and sizes here. Restart Evolution and it will use your new font selections. You will have to play with them a bit, some fonts won't display properly. On my 1024 x 768 screen I have it set at : Helvet

Re: Create Live! Platinum not installed by default

2002-10-21 Thread Ryan Harkin
Hi Bill, Thanks for your email and sorry for being so vague. Now that I have run modprobed emu10k1 and run kudzu (as suggested by Jessie Keating), it works OK. However, before running kudzu, when I run System Settings->Soundcard Detection from the Gnome menu, the "Sound Card Configuration" di

Re: How should i make my computer with another OS make my Linux-box connect to internet with ppp?

2002-10-21 Thread Kent Nyberg
mån 2002-10-21 klockan 08.31 skrev Matthew Melvin: > On 19 Oct 2002 at 8:08pm (+0200), Kent Nyberg wrote: > > > Hello! > > I want my linuxbox that connects to the internet with pppd to be able to > > share the connection with my other computer running windows xp. > > I think i can manage to use ma

Re: Dell 2300 with megaraid (perc sc/2)

2002-10-21 Thread Keith Winston
On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 22:58, Keith Morse wrote: > I've been muddling thru the different bios configurations in a effort to > identify the resources this card uses. No success there either. The > names used on either side of the fence don't correlate so its a trial and > error affair. In resea

Re: i386 kernel not included?

2002-10-21 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Andrew Smith wrote: >> Actually, you're wrong. The architecture field present in the >> RPM filename, and header indicates the "instruction set" in use >> by the binaries inside the package. It means that you need a >> machine capable of that instruction set, or higher in

Re: i386 kernel not included?

2002-10-21 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Well - having thought about it a bit more ... >> >> Removing one 12Mb RPM is quite rediculous when almost EVERY other >> intel RPM is built for an i386. Even glibc has an i386 version. >> If you say that you no longer support i386 - then build all t

Re: i386 kernel not included?

2002-10-21 Thread Markku Kolkka
Viestissä Maanantai 21. Lokakuuta 2002 13:18, Mike A. Harris kirjoitti: > On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Andrew Smith wrote: > >Interesting if you take that to the next step - it means that there > >are NO extra useful instruction or optimisations in a 486 or a > >Pentium (586) procesor over a 386 processor

Re: i386 kernel not included?

2002-10-21 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Petr Soucek wrote: >Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 17:32:18 +0200 >From: Petr Soucek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >List-Id: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Psyche) >Subject: Re: i386 kernel not included? > >On 20 Oct 2002, at

Re: i386 kernel not included?

2002-10-21 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Michael Fratoni wrote: >> >The i386 kernel is not there for space reasons (it's pretty hard to >> >justify 10Mb cd space for an 80386 kernel when that means 10Mb of >> > other packages need to be removed from the distro, and that for >> > machines that are below the minimum re

Re: i386 kernel not included?

2002-10-21 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Petr Soucek wrote: >Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:08:11 +0200 >From: Petr Soucek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >List-Id: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Psyche) >Subject: Re: i386 kernel not included? > >On Sat, 2002-10-19

Re: i386 kernel not included?

2002-10-21 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Don't forget about the srpm needed as well, and the i586 bigmem, or i586 >> SMP, and on and on and on... > >How many Pentium systems _ever_ supported more than 4 Gbytes of RAM? Any? Zero. The processor feature which allows more than 4Gb of physical

Re: Compilation of avifile

2002-10-21 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, HoytDuff wrote: >Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 13:32:22 -0400 >From: HoytDuff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >List-Id: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Psyche) >Subject: Re: Compilation of avifile > >On Sunday 20 October

Re: How should i make my computer with another OS make my Linux-box connect to internet with ppp?

2002-10-21 Thread David Krider
On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 23:12, dTd wrote: > sure but that's not what he asked for. He wants to be able to control his ppp > connection from a lan box with a graphical app. Like a remote kppp, so he can > bring the connection up and down. > Well then his first email was ambiguous. I see that he has

Re: i386 kernel not included?

2002-10-21 Thread Petr Soucek
On 21 Oct 2002, at 6:24, Mike A. Harris wrote: > >I think the 6x86 is an imperfect clone of the Pentium. I don't know what > >its imperfections are, but I noticed that motherboard manufacturers > >are a bit picky about which ones thay say "works with this board." > > The Cyrix CPU's do not implem

Re: i386 kernel not included?

2002-10-21 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Markku Kolkka wrote: >> On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Andrew Smith wrote: >> >Interesting if you take that to the next step - it means that there >> >are NO extra useful instruction or optimisations in a 486 or a >> >Pentium (586) procesor over a 386 processor (...) >> Well, there are

Re: i386 kernel not included?

2002-10-21 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Petr Soucek wrote: >> >> I can think of a lot of reasons why the i386 kernel was not there - >> >> but maybe one would be that general RedHat support for older hardware >> >> is not as good as MS (RedHat seems to sometimes drop support for old >> >> hardware that was supported

Re: i386 kernel not included?

2002-10-21 Thread Neal D. Becker
Note that selecting an athlon kernel does NOT enable the athlon optimzations!

Re: rpm storage location while up2date downloading

2002-10-21 Thread Paul Gear
Oisin C. Feeley wrote: > On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Paul Gear wrote: > >>Oisin C. Feeley wrote: > > [snip] > >>>In order to try and find where the file was I did an "updatedb; locate >>>kernel-source", ran "lsof -c up2date | grep kernel" all to no avail. >>> >>>The only thing that turned up was the ke

RE: rpm storage location while up2date downloading

2002-10-21 Thread Greg Alexander
I use up2date -u --nox everything is saved to /var/spool/up2date by default last time I checked ver7.1 there was a status bar showing % completed in #'s Spazm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:psyche-list-admin@;redhat.com]On Behalf Of Paul Gear Sent: Monday, October 21,

Re: Linux VPN Client and a few other semi-newbie questions?

2002-10-21 Thread Alan Peery
John BouAntoun wrote: One other point, can anyone point me to a quick HOWTO on how to setp up a client for a windows-served VPN. Most of the docs I've found mention how to setup a Linux VPN Server, but I just want to be able to connect to the office from my home RH8 machine. This would really hel

grub problems, still

2002-10-21 Thread Dušan Đorđević
Hi all, I still have problems with reinstallation of grub. Here is my grub.conf: default=2 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-17.8.0debug) root (hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-17.8.0debug ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi initrd /initrd

Re: Linux VPN Client and a few other semi-newbie questions?

2002-10-21 Thread Tony Nugent
On Mon Oct 21 2002 at 13:26, Alan Peery wrote: > John BouAntoun wrote: > > >One other point, can anyone point me to a quick HOWTO on how to > >setp up a client for a windows-served VPN. Most of the docs I've > >found mention how to setup a Linux VPN Server, but I just want to > >be able to connec

Re: Question about icmp on my firewall.

2002-10-21 Thread Douglas K. Fischer
At 09:05 PM 10/19/2002, you wrote: Where do I find the list of icmp types and what they do? I want to configure my firewall but I need to know what the pros and cons are of each type. The answer from a firewall perspective varies according to who you ask. Some will say block all ICMP. Others wi

Multimedia: mpeg and wav files

2002-10-21 Thread John Horne
Hello, I'm not a multimedia person myself, but I was given a floppy disk with an MPEG file and a .wav file on it. (Nothing 'dodgy', just some fun stuff!) Having installed RH8.0, I thought no problems there must be an mpeg viewer and a .wav player somewhere in there. I use KDE as my desktop. Well I

Re: grub problems, still

2002-10-21 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 14:34:47 +0200, Du¹an Ðorðeviæ wrote: > Hi all, > > I still have problems with reinstallation of grub. > Here is my grub.conf: > default=2 > timeout=10 > splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-17.8.0debug) > root (hd0,2) > kernel

Re: grub problems, still

2002-10-21 Thread Keith Winston
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 08:34, Dušan Đorđević wrote: > Hi all, > > I still have problems with reinstallation of grub. > Here is my grub.conf: > default=2 > timeout=10 > splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz My splash image lives in the /boot/grub directory, not in /grub: splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot

Re: i386 kernel not included?

2002-10-21 Thread Miloslav Trmac
> That was my first idea, but I don't know how to modify anaconda, > generate all files in RedHat/base/ subdirectory and create boot > floppy disks. It is somewhere described or do you have any hint? Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] (https://listman.redhat.com) Mirek

Help!!! Deleted a partition and now I can't boot my system

2002-10-21 Thread Scott Chaney
I know this is for RH 7.3 and this is the 8.0 list but this is a general linux issue more than a straight 7.3 issue. Also I don't know how many people are still following the 7.3 list. If anybody could help me with this I would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance. -- Posted on the 7

Re: Cups & Lpd

2002-10-21 Thread Thom Paine
On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 18:59, Tim Waugh wrote: > On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 03:31:16PM -0500, Paul Kloves wrote: > > > Yup. Solved this problem a few minutes ago, actually. I'm using > > xinetd, and I found that cups-lpd was enabled. I disabled it, > > restarted xinetd, and now I can start lpd. >

Re: i386 kernel not included?

2002-10-21 Thread Markku Kolkka
Viestissä Maanantai 21. Lokakuuta 2002 15:09, Neal D. Becker kirjoitti: > Note that selecting an athlon kernel does NOT enable the athlon > optimzations! Right, the kernel gets compiled with -mcpu=i686. The only effect of choosing Athlon configuration seems to be to the memory clear/copy routines

RE: Cups & Lpd

2002-10-21 Thread Pavel Rozenboim
redhat-config-printer works only for LPRng and shows LPRng printers, no matter what print system you are using. There is a CUPS configuration somewhere in Extras menu, or you may just point your browser to http://localhost:631, after you start cups daemon. > -Original Message- > From: Thom

Re: Cups & Lpd

2002-10-21 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 09:59:21AM -0400, Thom Paine wrote: > One question, after I run redhat-switch-printer, and then I run > redhat-print-config, does the gui screen look the same for both cups > and lpd? Maybe it's not running the cups gui config for me. redhat-config-printer doesn't configur

Re: Cups & Lpd

2002-10-21 Thread Thom Paine
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. Thanks, -- -=/>Thom Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche) running Linux Kernel 2.4.18-17.8.0 Uptime: 10:22am

password help

2002-10-21 Thread Gregory Malsack
Hi All, Some one with nothing better to do hacked into one of my mom & pop customers FTP server using a program called SucKIT. In case you haven't heard of this before, I highly recommend looking it up at phrack.org and learning about it. I've even uploaded the README file if you would lik

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

Filand 4D USB/PS2 optical mouse config question

2002-10-21 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All Folks, I just install a Filand 4D Optical Mouse (USB/PS2 convertible). It is a 4-button mouse plus a center-wheel. It works including the center-wheel for scrolling but I could not set-up 2 side-buttons for other functions. The driver and software supplied are only for Windows environmen

Re: grub problems, still

2002-10-21 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, [iso-8859-2] Du¹an Ðorðeviæ wrote: > Hi all, > > I still have problems with reinstallation of grub. > Here is my grub.conf: > default=2 > timeout=10 > splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz This says that the splash image should be on /dev/hda3. Is it? [snip] > When I do

How to save a copy of partition table

2002-10-21 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi All Folks, How to save a partition table for future reference. Not to use "fdisk - l" on Console window to list the partition table. Copy and paste the table to a text editor and save it. Is there another short cut? Thanks in advance.. Stephen Liu

Re: RHL8 and windows 2000 server edition

2002-10-21 Thread Marcio Alejandro Regalado M.
Hi Justin I don't know almost anythign about LAN so I don't know what do I need, my linux box is ready to work on a LAN but I dont know how to connect it to a windows server, can you help me ?? Red Hat Newbie _ MSN Fotos: la forma

How to remove all of KDE from the package manager in gnome?

2002-10-21 Thread Kent Nyberg
How to remove all of KDE from the package manager in gnome?

Re: Help!!! Deleted a partition and now I can't boot my system

2002-10-21 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
[snip] > I tried to create a new partition on hda but all of > the space was taken up by the seven hda partitions > labeled hda(1-7). So I couldn't just create an hda8 > partition. But in my infinite wisdom I thought that > I could delete my hda5 partition to which my /home > was mounted b

Error during named restart (bug in named or "service")

2002-10-21 Thread Alessandro Polverini
Hello, I noticed a strange behaviour while restarting named. When it works I get: --- [root@xxx root]# service named restart Stopping named: Starting named:[ OK ] --- As you can see the [OK] is missing on the stopping procedure. But sometimes instead it

Re: Dell 2300 with megaraid (perc sc/2)

2002-10-21 Thread Keith Morse
On 21 Oct 2002, Keith Winston wrote: > Can you access the controller after you boot by loading megaraid.o? I > am really interested in the outcome since I plan to convert my 2300 to > Red Hat at some future date. Still no. From a manual "modprobe megaraid": [root@localhost root]# modprobe meg

Adding language after install without reinstalling?

2002-10-21 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
Hello, Is there a way to add languages to Red Hat after installing, without requiring a reinstall? Thought I should rediscover my heritage and play around with XCin, and belatedly regretting it when it would not start complaining of unsupported locale :( Rather bizarre; some files described in rp

Re: Multimedia: mpeg and wav files

2002-10-21 Thread H M Kunzmann
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 14:57, John Horne wrote: > Hello, > > I'm not a multimedia person myself, but I was given a floppy disk with an > MPEG file and a .wav file on it. (Nothing 'dodgy', just some fun stuff!) > Having installed RH8.0, I thought no problems there must be an mpeg viewer > and a .wav

Re: password help

2002-10-21 Thread Paul Weber
Boot from your install cd in rescue mode. (Enter "linux rescue" when booting.) It will/should tell you how to chroot to your root partition. Run passwd. exit to reboot. This will get you running, however you should think seriously about keeping a compromised system. There is no telling what t

Re: NTFS Support?

2002-10-21 Thread Bryan_Anslow
That works just fine. If you did not catch it yet, there is a typo in the "Copy the ntfs.o module into", the from directory you have is -15, should be -14 Thanks, Bryan.

Re: Error during named restart (bug in named or "service")

2002-10-21 Thread H M Kunzmann
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 17:37, Alessandro Polverini wrote: > Hello, > I noticed a strange behaviour while restarting named. > When it works I get: > --- > [root@xxx root]# service named restart > Stopping named: > Starting named:[ OK ] > --- > As you can

Re: Adding language after install without reinstalling?

2002-10-21 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 16:54, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a way to add languages to Red Hat after installing, without Ah, reinstalling glibc-common and adding the language descriptions manually into /etc/sysconfig/i18n works. Rather annoying, though - surely redhat-config-la

Re: Error during named restart (bug in named or "service")

2002-10-21 Thread Alessandro Polverini
That's what's logged on /var/log/messages while doing the restart: Oct 21 18:30:28 japot named[14010]: shutting down: flushing changes Oct 21 18:30:28 japot named[14010]: stopping command channel on 127.0.0.1#953 Oct 21 18:30:28 japot named[14010]: no longer listening on 127.0.0.1#53 Oct 21 18:30:

Re: Mozilla with Anti Aliasing

2002-10-21 Thread jim
On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 20:51, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Hal Burgiss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > If it is like the non-RH mozilla-xft builds, you have to configure it > > separately for AA. > > > > Look for /usr/lib/mozilla-*/defaults/pref/unix.js: > > > > // TrueType //

Re: Multimedia: mpeg and wav files

2002-10-21 Thread John Weber
xanim man page claims it supports quicktime. John On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 06:57, John Horne wrote: > Hello, > > I'm not a multimedia person myself, but I was given a floppy disk with an > MPEG file and a .wav file on it. (Nothing 'dodgy', just some fun stuff!) > Having installed RH8.0, I thought n

Re: grub problems, still

2002-10-21 Thread jerry ely
I have found in the past that grub will install, but not olook for /boot/grub/grub.conf by default. The problem starts like this: had grub working great and installed some OS that kills the bootblock or /boot partition. Next, reinstall boot block or /boot partition, now grub boots but no menu... Y

How to create a PDF printer?

2002-10-21 Thread Gerry Kirk
OpenOffice provides a definition for a PDF printer. I'd like to use that definition for creating a global PDF printer or find some other way to do it. I tried using the print config tool that comes with RedHat, but it seems to only handle actual devices. Is there a way to do this? Thanks, Gerry

Re: Create Live! Platinum not installed by default

2002-10-21 Thread Bill Nottingham
Ryan Harkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Here's the output you requested, I hope it means something to you. I have > "Plug and Play OS" set in my BIOS which I recently discovered is "bad" by > reading posts on this list. However, my main concern was that everything > worked fine under other OS

looking for lyx-user on rh 8.0

2002-10-21 Thread hans privat
hi, am looking for lyx-user on rh 8.0, if there are some users. was looking for an rpm-package especially for rh 8.0, and have found it on the lyx-homepage, but have seen, that the needed xforms is for RH 6.1 and was also compiled on RH6.1 so my question now is, is there an xform-package for rh8.0

Re: editing of web URLs

2002-10-21 Thread Marek
Michael Stack wrote: OK, I'm ready to go insane. Every time I attempt to edit a URL in Mozilla, I get a pop-up window offering to assist me in the editing of the URL. The focus shifts from the address window of Mozilla over to this application, forcing me to click off both windows to cancel the po

Re: Dell 2300 with megaraid (perc sc/2)

2002-10-21 Thread Keith Winston
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 11:41, Keith Morse wrote: > Still no. From a manual "modprobe megaraid": > > [root@localhost root]# modprobe megaraid > /lib/modules/2.4.18-17.8.0smp/kernel/drivers/scsi/megaraid.o: init_module: > No such device > Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parame

Re: LogWatch 2.6

2002-10-21 Thread Daniel Liston
Sort of answering my own question (thanks to a hint here), but if you stay on version 2.6, you need to edit lines 474 and 527, changing the "reverse" to "sort". If you have done any modifications already and the line numbers don't match, it is the only two places in the file where the work "revers

Re: editing of web URLs

2002-10-21 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:17:24 +0200 Marek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Stack wrote: > > OK, I'm ready to go insane. Every time I attempt to edit a URL in > > Mozilla, I get a pop-up window offering to assist me in the editing > > of the URL. The focus shifts from the address window of Mozil

Re: How to save a copy of partition table

2002-10-21 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "SL" == Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SL> How to save a partition table for future reference. "sfdisk --dump" is what I have always used. - J<

File Deletion issue

2002-10-21 Thread Russell Johns
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??? [rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ rm rcj.iso rm: cannot remove `rcj.iso': Permission denied [rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ chmod 777 r

Re: Create Live! Platinum not installed by default

2002-10-21 Thread Ryan Harkin
Hi Bill, On Monday 21 October 2002 18:03, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Hm, it's possible that due to this, it didn't have an IRQ assigned; that > would be odd, though. > > (We don't configure devices that don't have IRQs assigned to them.) Ah, I see. It did have an IRQ assigned when I produced my ou

Re: File Deletion issue

2002-10-21 Thread Tom Eastep
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??? [rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ rm rcj.iso rm: cannot remove `rcj.iso': Permission denied [rcj@Merak

RE: Psyche hangs with rack-mount Dell 2650 in multiprocessor mode ?

2002-10-21 Thread David . Menges
Here's the final word on this problem I brought up. I would like to know if future versions of RH Linux will support APIC, but Red Hat's forums are down and I don't remember if I asked them during phone calls. Dell Support says: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: File Deletion issue

2002-10-21 Thread Samuel Flory
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??? To delete a file you need write permission in the directory. Write permission to a

Re: Create Live! Platinum not installed by default

2002-10-21 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 13:03:03 -0400 Bill Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # # Hm, it's possible that due to this, it didn't have an IRQ assigned; # that would be odd, though. # # (We don't configure devices that don't have IRQs assigned to them.) Mine was set to PNP yes as well, as indicate

Re: File Deletion issue

2002-10-21 Thread Miloslav Trmac
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:42:09AM -0600, Russell Johns wrote: > [rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ ls -l > total 423972 > -rwxrwxrwx1 rcj xcdroast 433717248 Oct 21 10:39 rcj.iso > [rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ chown rcj.rcj rcj.iso chown u+w . You need a write right for the directory you are trying to remove

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

mail command - sendmail access denied

2002-10-21 Thread John Hosage
Hi, In 7.3 I used the mail command to send the results of scripts to my e-mail address. Since my 8.0 upgrade, it is no longer working. I believe that this is also why I am no longer getting my log reports. If I run the mail command in verbose mode, this is what I get (my real host and domain

Re: Mozilla with Anti Aliasing

2002-10-21 Thread jim
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 01:08, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: > On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 17:56, Hal Burgiss wrote: > > If it is like the non-RH mozilla-xft builds, you have to configure it > > separately for AA. > > > > Look for /usr/lib/mozilla-*/defaults/pref/unix.js: > > > > // TrueType //

Re: mail command - sendmail access denied

2002-10-21 Thread Jesse Keating
On 21 Oct 2002 14:18:24 -0400 John Hosage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: # In 7.3 I used the mail command to send the results of scripts to my # e-mail address. Since my 8.0 upgrade, it is no longer working. I # believe that this is also why I am no longer getting my log reports. # # # If I run t

Re: Compilation of avifile

2002-10-21 Thread Jurgen Kramer
OK I completely erased my current CVS checkout and did a clean one. And voila it compiles to the end. Somehow my CVS got corrupted after many checkouts... Thanks for all the support! On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 23:35, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On 20 Oct 2002 22:25:51 +0200, Jurgen Kramer wrote: > > >

Re: Dell 2300 with megaraid (perc sc/2)

2002-10-21 Thread Keith Morse
On 21 Oct 2002, Keith Winston wrote: > Well, that bites. Maybe it has something to do with the SMP kernel. My > lowly boxen all have single processors. Also, I noticed you are using > the new 2.4.18-17 kernel. Have you tried it with the 2.4.18-14 stock > kernel from RH 8.0? Actually I would

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