Re: network backups with tar

2003-02-20 Thread Jason Dale
Hi all, Thanks for the input thus far. I forgot to mention that I had a working solution by piping the output of a find command to cpio, which creates an archive file on the other server. The problem is that the recipient server keeps asking me for a friggin' password, which means I have to babys

Re: QT 3.1 Compile Error

2003-02-20 Thread Oeystein Olsen
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 21:27, Michael wrote: > Hi all, > > Following some instructions by Ivaylo Toshev to install QT 3.1 and KDE > 3.1. When configuring I get the error: > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_s > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > gmake: *** [qmake] Error 1 > qmake failed to b

Re: Wallpapers

2003-02-20 Thread Dennis Gilmore
On Thursday 20 February 2003 2:16 pm, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 21:21 19 Feb 2003, Joe Klemmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 18:48, Cameron Simpson wrote: > | > | Use the source, Luke. Make it so. > | > > | > That's a little unfair you know. > | > | I'm sorry

RE: OutBreak

2003-02-20 Thread Carter, Shaun G
OutBreak is my affectionate term for M$ Outlook (seems more like an outbreak with all the viruses it spreads). Unfortunately I have to use Winduhs2k at work here. Shaun -Original Message- From: d [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 9:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Connecting through X

2003-02-20 Thread Gregory L. Hering
I can connect with TightVNC via Xvnc (but it's very slow).   I can run Cygwin on my pc and then tell it to 'startx' and that works, so I get an X desktop on my PC, locally.   If I do this:   C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\XWin.exe :0 -query 192.168.0.128  -fp tcp/192.168.0.128:7100   I get a white s

Re: network backups with tar

2003-02-20 Thread Ryan McDougall
> BTW, when I run the command > > # tar cvzf - /tmp/testdir | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat > ~/backup.tgz' > > It asks me for a password, and when I type the correct root password in, ( I > logged into the 'sending' > server as root ) , it tells me "Permission denied, please try again". I hate t

RH8 - Sendmail Problems

2003-02-20 Thread Mystical Dluxe
Hi all... Sorry if any of this has been covered. I tried to search the archives, but didn't see it. I am running RH8 on a 600mhz PIII desktop with tons of disk and RAM. I'd like to be able to receive email directly on that box (e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) so I opened up SMTP on the firewall. The co

vmware: problem accessing host with samba

2003-02-20 Thread Toni Miranda
I've been reading this list for a while but this is the first time that I post a question. I'm not sure if this is the right place for this. Forgive me if it's not. I've installed VMware 3.2 in my RH 8.0 box. I've also installed the patch needed for VMware. Everything works fine except this: A

RE: Connecting through X

2003-02-20 Thread Pavel Rozenboim
XFS does not accept remote connections by default on psyche. You have to comment out line saying "no-listen = tcp" (last line) in /etc/X11/fs/config, then restart xfs. Make sure that xfs runs (chkconfig xfs on). -Original Message- From: Gregory L. Hering [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Th

RE: Connecting through X

2003-02-20 Thread Pavel Rozenboim
Also, you need to enable XDMCP in your display manager (gdm by default). Run gdmsetup, open last tab and check "enable XDMCP" button. Pavel. -Original Message- From: Gregory L. Hering [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thu, February 20, 2003 3:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Connecting

Re: network backups with tar

2003-02-20 Thread Jason Dale
I am thinking about this purely from my UnixWare 7 experience. Trying to set up trusted hosts on UnixWare 7 was achievable, except that you could not set up trusted access with the root account across the two servers. I suspect that similar applies for Linux. I am not sure about the SSH only being

Re: network backups with tar

2003-02-20 Thread Toni Erdmann
Ryan McDougall wrote: BTW, when I run the command # tar cvzf - /tmp/testdir | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat > ~/backup.tgz' replace 'user' by 'root' and use root's password of 209.212.123.157 (just to be sure that we mean the same thing) It asks me for

Re: RH8 - Sendmail Problems

2003-02-20 Thread Markku Kolkka
Viestissä Torstai 20. Helmikuuta 2003 15:45, Mystical Dluxe kirjoitti: > 1) Is there an easy way to tweak sendmail to allow inbound mail from > outside the localhost TO addresses on the localhost? Read the RELEASE-NOTES file on CD1 or in /usr/share/doc/redhat-release-8.0 -- Markku

Re: network backups with tar

2003-02-20 Thread Jason Dale
Yup, I did use root, but I still had a typo after root, so it could not find the user name. Thanks, *looking very sheepish* I don't suppose there is a way to supply the root passwpord on the command line? this would be great, because I could then run this command in the task scheduler Jason ---

Re: network backups with tar

2003-02-20 Thread Calvin Bebermeyer
I would create a ssh public key pair with a null password. Works for me then I don't have the root password laying around in unencrypted form and also I don't have to make changes to any scripts if I were to choose to change the root pass. Calvin Bebermeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Messag

Re: network backups with tar

2003-02-20 Thread Toni Erdmann
Jason Dale wrote: Yup, I did use root, but I still had a typo after root, so it could not find the user name. Thanks, *looking very sheepish* I don't suppose there is a way to supply the root passwpord on the command line? this would be great, because I could then run this command in the task sc

Re: RH8 NEWBY-HELP!

2003-02-20 Thread d
John, That has been considered and I thank you for this. You just reinforced what I have thought was my main problem in the very begining. Again I thank you, 'd' THE END. At 02/19/2003 09:40 PM, you wrote: [After install keyboard problems when not logged in as root] If you suspect that the d

RE: OutBreak

2003-02-20 Thread d
Shaun, Thank you for this explanation. I call it "MicroBarf", "WindBloat", "OutShook ExpressThySelf", etceteras. We each have a special NAME for that BARFY system. I will NOT be back on here for a few, hours, days, ? I plan on looking into the latest problem that has developed with Linux, b

Re: network backups with tar

2003-02-20 Thread Ryan McDougall
> > I don't suppose there is a way to supply the root passwpord on the > > command line? this would be great, because I could then run this command > > in the task scheduler Not sure if this would work but, can you do a root:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]:password ? I would try this out b

Solved One Problem (Re: My Current Annoyances)

2003-02-20 Thread Blaise Pascal
I solved one of the problems I had with Psyche, posted under "My Current Annoyances." To recap, this was the problem: > 1. Running xine with the xv video driver will not > work; I have to use xshm. On my previous install, all > was fine with xshm, but now, the picture isn't > particularly clear

Re: Wallpapers

2003-02-20 Thread Joe Klemmer
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 23:16, Cameron Simpson wrote: > | > | Use the source, Luke. Make it so. > | > That's a little unfair you know. > | I'm sorry but I don't know. I'm not sure what you mean by it being a > | little unfair. > > A random newbie won't yet have the knowledge to do it.

samba printer & CUPS (was Re: redhat-config-printer: I can'tconfigure a working printer!)

2003-02-20 Thread Thomas Robinson
Thanks to every body for their input. I've switched over to CUPS and got at least one of my printers working (the local one). That was too easy. For some reason redhat-config-printer will not work on my system. New Question. Does anyone know how to get a samba printer working on cups? /etc/samba/s

Re: network backups with tar

2003-02-20 Thread Jay Crews
Ryan McDougall writes > > > > I don't suppose there is a way to supply the root passwpord on the > > > command line? this would be great, because I could then run this command > > > in the task scheduler > > Not sure if this would work but, can you do a root:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or > [EMAIL PRO

Re: network backups with tar

2003-02-20 Thread Jay Crews
Toni Erdmann writes > > > ssh can be configured to run without passwords, just with secret keys > and trusted host/users. But I haven't done this yet. Same here. I still use the password, but want to set mine up to use the keys (PGP I assume?), and such. If anyong knows a good "How-To" on th

Per your request, SSH without passwords

2003-02-20 Thread Michael Weber
Here's a page from my system documentation that gives a step-by-step how to. (To the hackers lurking on this list, I do NOT do this on systems accessible from the internet, only those inside the firewalls.) 7.00 Using SSH and SCP without passwords 7.10 From a Linux system To use ssh or scp betw

RE: network backups with tar

2003-02-20 Thread Dave Tibbals
I am not sure if this helps any or has been answered before but here goes: Create a keypair 'ssh-keygen' as root on the machine you are running the tar command on. Then place the public part of the keypair, i.e. id_dsa.pub, in the file /root/.ssh/authorized_keys2 on the target machine. You can ssh

apt - super cow powers ???

2003-02-20 Thread Sergio Durand
hi !! a curiosity!! what's mean "This APT has Super Cow Powers" when i do "apt-get -h" ??? -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

how source.tar.gz -> source.src.rpm -> binary.rpm

2003-02-20 Thread Sergio Durand
hi ... i download the lasted version of php in tar.gz format .. i unpack, ./configure with my options, make, make install.. it's all working ... but my rpm database was "outdated" .. now , when i try use apt-get to install any package, returns this error message: Sorry, but the following packages

Re: network backups with tar

2003-02-20 Thread A.J. Werkman
I use the following structure: On the server where I store the backup files I created a user "backup". Then as the user backup on that machine I did "ssh-keygen". The program askes for the key name. I use the default name ( key gets stored in ~/.ssh/id_dsa; public key in ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub). On

Re: samba printer & CUPS (was Re: redhat-config-printer: I can'tconfigure a working printer!)

2003-02-20 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
i believe that the print job can not be written in the spool dir. Not enough privileges. Patrick Op do 20-02-2003, om 17:37 schreef Thomas Robinson: > Thanks to every body for their input. I've switched over to CUPS and got > at least one of my printers working (the local one). That was too eas

Re: how source.tar.gz -> source.src.rpm -> binary.rpm

2003-02-20 Thread Keith Winston
Sergio Durand wrote: hi ... i download the lasted version of php in tar.gz format .. i unpack, ./configure with my options, make, make install.. it's all working ... but my rpm database was "outdated" .. now , when i try use apt-get to install any package, returns this error message: Sorry, but

Re: apt - super cow powers ???

2003-02-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 09:25, Sergio Durand wrote: > hi !! > a curiosity!! > what's mean "This APT has Super Cow Powers" when i do "apt-get -h" ??? I suspect that the Conectiva programmers porting apt to rpm are humorous types. The genbasedir script will also proudly proclaim that "All your base a

Start menu disappearance

2003-02-20 Thread Cedric Chausson
Hello all, Wanting to modify my Gnome menus, I started editing the applications.menu file. It started well enough but I have been having a problem. When I start X now, all I see in the Start menu is icons for launch program, find programs, lock screen and close session. Nothing else ! No oth

Re: RH8 - Sendmail Problems

2003-02-20 Thread Mark Neidorff
On 20 Feb 2003, Mystical Dluxe wrote: > Hi all... Sorry if any of this has been covered. I tried to search the > archives, but didn't see it. > > I am running RH8 on a 600mhz PIII desktop with tons of disk and RAM. > I'd like to be able to receive email directly on that box (e.g. > [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Start menu disappearance

2003-02-20 Thread J M Craig/Alpha-G
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wanting to modify my Gnome menus, I started editing the applications.menu file. When I look in the X logs I see the following message : /etc/X11/desktop-menus/applications.menu:586: Opening and ending tag mismatch Folder and VFolderInfo ^

Re: RH8 - Sendmail Problems

2003-02-20 Thread Jay Crews
Mark Neidorff writes > > On 20 Feb 2003, Mystical Dluxe wrote: > > > Hi all... Sorry if any of this has been covered. I tried to search the > > archives, but didn't see it. > > > > I am running RH8 on a 600mhz PIII desktop with tons of disk and RAM. > > I'd like to be able to receive email

QT 3.1.1 Make Install issues

2003-02-20 Thread Michael
Hi, I fixed the problem. Check out the INSTALL file on the QT downloads website. Those directions tell you how to use it without running 'make install'. That gets rid of the problem. Thanks for the note on apt. -Michael Smith - People's minds are like cement; all mixed up and perm

Re: how source.tar.gz -> source.src.rpm -> binary.rpm

2003-02-20 Thread Sergio Durand
hi keith !! i went in your page and download the checkinstal... really it's very good tool. well, but i got a problem... first i rpm -e php (and yours dependencies like php-pgsql, ...) to make my system free of php ... after ./configure and make (in source of php), i do checkconfig -R it's works ve

For Phoebe

2003-02-20 Thread Maynard Kuona
This might rather late and on the wrong forum, but I wanted to propose the inclusion of Gnome Ghostview for the next release of Redhat. Its available in GTK+ 2 which makes it very in place on my Redhat box. Xpdf does the job but looks so out of place. GGV is available here in source, http://pluto

Evolution processes don't exit.

2003-02-20 Thread Camron W. Fox
Alle, I'm running a 2.4.18-24.8.0 kernel and Evolution 1.0.8-10. The problem (or maybe it's a non-problem) is that when I exit Evolution, the following processes remain: UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD cwfox 1623 1 0 11:17 ?00:00:00 oafd --ac-activate

Re: Evolution processes don't exit.

2003-02-20 Thread Mr. Adam ALLEN
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 21:26, Camron W. Fox wrote: > Alle, > > I'm running a 2.4.18-24.8.0 kernel and Evolution 1.0.8-10. The problem > (or maybe it's a non-problem) is that when I exit Evolution, the > following processes remain: > > UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD > cwf

Re: Evolution processes don't exit.

2003-02-20 Thread Stephen Mah
Camron W. Fox wrote: Alle, I'm running a 2.4.18-24.8.0 kernel and Evolution 1.0.8-10. The problem (or maybe it's a non-problem) is that when I exit Evolution, the following processes remain: UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD cwfox 1623 1 0 11:17 ?00:00:00 oafd

Re: how source.tar.gz -> source.src.rpm -> binary.rpm

2003-02-20 Thread Keith Winston
Sergio Durand wrote: hi keith !! i went in your page and download the checkinstal... really it's very good tool. well, but i got a problem... first i rpm -e php (and yours dependencies like php-pgsql, ...) to make my system free of php ... after ./configure and make (in source of php), i do checkc

Re: For Phoebe

2003-02-20 Thread Michael Schwendt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20 Feb 2003 23:12:49 +0200, Maynard Kuona wrote: > This might rather late and on the wrong forum, but I wanted to propose > the inclusion of Gnome Ghostview for the next release of Redhat. Its > available in GTK+ 2 which makes it very in place on m

[OT] HyperSCSI

2003-02-20 Thread Jesse Keating
Well, it was a success today! I've got 3 systems I'm playing with. One is a dual Xeon workstation with an IDE drive as the OS drive, and a SCSI Ultra-320 drive for "data". OS is Red Hat 8.0 GPL, kernel is 2.4.18-24.8.0 (from Red Hat). One is a dual Xeon 2u rack server. One Ultra-160 harddri

KDE 3.1 on RH8?

2003-02-20 Thread Dan G
Can anyone point me to a working set of RPMS for KDE 3.1 for Redhat 8 please? Thanks, Dan -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

RE: samba printer & CUPS (was Re: redhat-config-printer: I can'tconfigure a working printer!)

2003-02-20 Thread Listman
What are the appropriate permissions for the spool dir? Im interested in allowing any person on the network to print to a SAMBA printer regardless if they have a linux account or not? Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Patrick Marqu

RE: samba printer & CUPS (was Re: redhat-config-printer: Ican'tconfigure a working printer!)

2003-02-20 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 16:32, Listman wrote: > What are the appropriate permissions for the spool dir? Im interested in > allowing any person on the network to print to a SAMBA printer regardless if > they have a linux account or not? > > Mike why not - within the share (the printer share)

Re: Evolution processes don't exit.

2003-02-20 Thread Michael Knepher
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 13:26, Camron W. Fox wrote: > Alle, > > I'm running a 2.4.18-24.8.0 kernel and Evolution 1.0.8-10. The problem > (or maybe it's a non-problem) is that when I exit Evolution, the > following processes remain: > > UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD > cwf

French OO build

2003-02-20 Thread Thibault Jamme
Hi, I am putting together a PC for my old school in France. It's based on RH8.0. The Open Office version I downloaded from the French OO web site crashes 'unrecoverably' at start up. My research indicates that this is because Psyche is using an incompatible glibc. The OO that comes with Psyche

Re: KDE 3.1 on RH8?

2003-02-20 Thread Mike
On Thursday 20 February 2003 18:22, Dan G wrote: > Can anyone point me to a working set of RPMS for KDE 3.1 for Redhat 8 > please? http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/ > Thanks, > > Dan -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTEC

Having trouble upgrading to latest kernel

2003-02-20 Thread Bill and/or Chris
I am trying to upgrade to the latest kernel, 2.4.18-24.8.0, and I keep getting an error message from up2date saying, "Test install failed because of package conflicts: package ppp-2.4.1-7 is already installed". Any ideas on why this is happening and how I can resolve it? Thanks in advance. --Bil

Re: Having trouble upgrading to latest kernel

2003-02-20 Thread Jesse Keating
On Thursday 20 February 2003 16:51, Bill and/or Chris wrote: > I am trying to upgrade to the latest kernel, 2.4.18-24.8.0, and I keep > getting an error message from up2date saying, "Test install failed > because of package conflicts: package ppp-2.4.1-7 is already > installed". Any ideas on why t

DMA DVD/CD-ROM Issues

2003-02-20 Thread Harold Helmich
Having problems getting my DVD-ROM to work using DMA. I have a Toshiba SD-M1212 DVD-Rom set up as a slave to my CD-RW. My CD-RW has DMA in Linux but the DVD-ROM. Both have DMA set in the bios. Somewhere the DVD-ROM DMA setting is getting turned off. I have tried to turn on DMA using hdparm

Re: Having trouble upgrading to latest kernel

2003-02-20 Thread Bill and/or Chris
On Thursday, 20 February 2003 20:54, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thursday 20 February 2003 16:51, Bill and/or Chris wrote: > > I am trying to upgrade to the latest kernel, 2.4.18-24.8.0, and I > > keep getting an error message from up2date saying, "Test install > > failed because of package confli

Re: DMA DVD/CD-ROM Issues

2003-02-20 Thread Jesse Keating
On Thursday 20 February 2003 17:37, Harold Helmich uttered: > Having problems getting my DVD-ROM to work using DMA. I have a Toshiba > SD-M1212 DVD-Rom set up as a slave to my CD-RW. My CD-RW has DMA in > Linux but the DVD-ROM. Both have DMA set in the bios. Somewhere the > DVD-ROM DMA setting

Re: DMA DVD/CD-ROM Issues

2003-02-20 Thread Harold Helmich
Jesse Keating wrote: On Thursday 20 February 2003 17:37, Harold Helmich uttered: Having problems getting my DVD-ROM to work using DMA. I have a Toshiba SD-M1212 DVD-Rom set up as a slave to my CD-RW. My CD-RW has DMA in Linux but the DVD-ROM. Both have DMA set in the bios. Somewhere the DV

Re: DMA DVD/CD-ROM Issues

2003-02-20 Thread Jesse Keating
On Thursday 20 February 2003 19:24, Harold Helmich uttered: > Thanks, I give that a try. I know that the drive get remapped to > /dev/scd1. But Xine can not deal with it. Without hdd=ide-scsi, I get > horrible perfromance and it will not allow me to set DMA on via hdparm. Xine looks for /dev/dv

Re: DMA DVD/CD-ROM Issues

2003-02-20 Thread Harold Helmich
I did. It blows up. xine-check even says it will when setup in scsi emulation. I will try your previous solution. See if that helps. Thanks again. Jesse Keating wrote: On Thursday 20 February 2003 19:24, Harold Helmich uttered: Thanks, I give that a try. I know that the drive get remapp