Re: apt-get xine

2003-03-05 Thread Dale Kosan
Might be to basic but did you do apt-get update? Kareemullah Quadir wrote: Hi all i am using RH 8.0 and i downloaded and installed apt-get. when i try to install xine using the following command: apt-get install xine i get the following message: Couldn't find package xine can anyone help me

Mounting remote smb shares as normal user

2003-03-05 Thread dballester
Hello: I'm trying to be able to mount and unmount remote smbfs as a local user ( no root ) in a linux box. At teh moment I'had tried to create the mount point as the normal user under is home, but in anyway, mount says me that only root can mount these. I'm playing with fstab with same results

Re: Mounting remote smb shares as normal user

2003-03-05 Thread Dusan Djordjevic
sreda 5. mart 2003. 11:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I'm trying to be able to mount and unmount remote smbfs as a > local user ( no root ) in a linux box. At teh moment I'had tried to > create the mount point as the normal user under is home, but in > anyway, mount says me that only root can moun

Re: print pdf files

2003-03-05 Thread Margaret_Doll
I have discovered pdf files that are created by Alden Multimedia using Acrobat distiller 4.05 for Windows are unprintable from unix, including Redhat and Mac OS X systems. There are printable from Windows. If I look at the files in vi, I notice that the carriage, line feeds show up as "^M". V

ANNOUNCE: the RULE distribution analyzer is online

2003-03-05 Thread M. Fioretti
Hello, The alpha release of the RULE Distribution ANalyzer from the RULE projectis available online at http://www.rule-project.org/cgi-bin/dan.cgi The DAn (which can be ported to other distros) is targeted to whoever needs to quickly hand-pick Red Hat packages for any reason, from server adminis

Re: How to fsck a disk

2003-03-05 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 07:27:01PM -0800, Saqib Ali wrote: > fsck {/file/system} > > replace {/file/system}, with the file system that you want to repair. actually you should run: fsck -y {/file/system} > > > On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Graeme Jensen wrote: > > > After upgrading some packages using the

Xfree and file permissions

2003-03-05 Thread Kevin Brouelette
Hello, I was working with users, groups and file permissions and noticed something wierd that I can duplicate on different RH8 machines. I log into GDM/Gnome as user 'kevin', opened a gnome terminal and 'su -' to root. From that terminal I created a group, a directory, permissions etc. groupa

Can't surf and email

2003-03-05 Thread daYz
Hi,   I had my internet connection working for a while on Redhat 8.0, but yesterday I suddenly couden't email and surf anymore. At the time it stopped I was trying to setup my local network, but I'm not sure if this got something to do with it. I have tried to deactivate the local network car

rewrite-iptables.pl

2003-03-05 Thread Ted Zlatanov
I wrote this little script to block out IPs in the ranges specified in some blacklists (see URL list in the script) by rewriting /etc/sysconfig/iptables, but perhaps it will be useful for other purposes as well. I would appreciate suggestions for improvements, or notes on how I'm doing it all wron

Re: Mounting remote smb shares as normal user

2003-03-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
Dusan Djordjevic wrote: sreda 5. mart 2003. 11:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm trying to be able to mount and unmount remote smbfs as a local user ( no root ) in a linux box. At teh moment I'had tried to create the mount point as the normal user under is home, but in anyway, mount says me that

Re: Xfree and file permissions

2003-03-05 Thread Gordon Messmer
Kevin Brouelette wrote: I log into GDM/Gnome as user 'kevin', opened a gnome terminal and 'su -' to root. From that terminal I created a group, a directory, permissions etc. ... Now I open a new Gnome Terminal [as user kevin] and 'cd /data' since 'kevin' is now in the 'students' group. Since

Re: Can't surf and email

2003-03-05 Thread Jay Crews
daYz writes > > Hi, > > I had my internet connection working for a while on Redhat 8.0, but = > yesterday I suddenly couden't email and surf anymore. At the time it = > stopped I was trying to setup my local network, but I'm not sure if this = > got something to do with it. I have tried to de

[OT] What does this script do?

2003-03-05 Thread Leonard Miller
What's this script do? unzip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; gasp ; yes ; umount ; sleep Hint for the answer: not everything is computer-oriented. Sometimes you're in a sleeping bag, camping out. Thought that was pretty funny. From fortune/linuxcookie -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECT

Problem configuring Xserver on P4, 1.7Ghz, 845GBV

2003-03-05 Thread Vikram Goyal
Hello, I am having problem configuring Xserver on: P4 1.7Ghz processor, 845GBV intel board, Samtron 55V monitor The board and monitor are correctly detected on installation and xserver 810 is selected but on running it "extension RENDER missing on display :0.0" gets displayed. The monitor remain

xine or xmms or gtv; no video

2003-03-05 Thread reg hughson
Have an ATI 8500, RedHat 8.0, and on either xine or xmms or gtv, am unable to get any video output from avi or mpg or any video file for that matter.Sound works fine but no video. Is this an ATI problem, a xine or xmms problem or a problem all my own? -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROT

Re: Mounting remote smb shares as normal user

2003-03-05 Thread Mark Guzzo
Hi, I don't have smbmount or smbumount set to setuid (chmod 04755). I do have smbmnt setuid -rwsr-xr-x1 root root 491096 Feb 20 17:06 /usr/bin/smbmnt I then edited my /etc/fstab to this ... //k1044citrix/linux /home/mark/My_mounts/k1044citrix/linux smbfs user,nosuid,noauto,usernam

Mozilla accessing modem

2003-03-05 Thread Kevin Farmer
Hi All. I am fairly new to Linux. I have my modem configured and working but I cannot figure out how to get Mozilla to automatically activate the modem when it is launched. Right now I have to activate and deactivate the modem by going to: System Tools --> Network Device Control. Also, when

Re: Mozilla accessing modem

2003-03-05 Thread Oisin C. Feeley
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Kevin Farmer wrote: >Hi All. > >I am fairly new to Linux. I have my modem configured and working but I >cannot figure out how to get Mozilla to automatically activate the modem >when it is launched. Right now I have to activate and deactivate the >modem by going to: Sys

Re: Can't surf and email

2003-03-05 Thread daYz
Thanks for your reply. My LAN only consists of two computers. One is connected to the internet. I have used the network device control utility to setup the LAN. I seemed to delete the settings for localhost there. I like to set it up, but what name should I use for localhost on Redhat? And should

Re: VMware on RedHat 8.0

2003-03-05 Thread Thomas Dodd
From: "Dariusz Lukijaniuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]. You need the kernel-source package installed and use /usr/src/linux-2.4 for Red hat kernels. unless it autodetects correctly using th

Re: Can't surf and email

2003-03-05 Thread Jay Crews
daYz writes > > Thanks for your reply. > > My LAN only consists of two computers. One is connected to the internet. I > have used the network device control utility to setup the LAN. I seemed to > delete the settings for localhost there. I like to set it up, but what name > should I use for

PCMCIA network at boot

2003-03-05 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, I'm trying to get my Lucent Orinoco to activate at boot time. It wont work, my network it tries to load it before pcmcia. With a script works it. My system RH 7.3 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 USERCTL='no' DHCP_HOSTNAME='' BOOTPROTO='dhcp' HWADDR='00:02:2d:3b:e9:85' DEVICE='eth0'

Re: Can't surf and email

2003-03-05 Thread daYz
/etc/hosts only has an entry for my LAN, not for localhost. Can I use "127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost" in /etc/hosts? - Original Message - From: "Jay Crews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 9:28 PM Subject: Re: Can't surf an

Re: ext3 - RedHat Whitepaper confusion.

2003-03-05 Thread Thomas Dodd
Aaron Konstam wrote: Below are three paragraphs from the RedHat White paper on ext3. The first paragraph says data=ordered is the default mode. The last paragraph says data=journal is the default mode. Which is correct? The second paragraph starting on the second line says that to journal metad

Re: Mozilla accessing modem

2003-03-05 Thread Thomas Dodd
Kevin Farmer wrote: Hi All. I am fairly new to Linux. I have my modem configured and working but I cannot figure out how to get Mozilla to automatically activate the modem when it is launched. Right now I have to activate and deactivate the modem by going to: System Tools --> Network Devic

Re: Can't surf and email

2003-03-05 Thread Jay Crews
daYz writes > > /etc/hosts only has an entry for my LAN, not for localhost. > > Can I use "127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost" in > /etc/hosts? ABSOLUTELY! That should probably have been there to begin with. Try adding that and reboot. (People are going to tell me that yo

Re: PCMCIA network at boot

2003-03-05 Thread 2ib
I've got the same problem in RH8.0 after I changed the hostname with the GUI tool. During the initialization it syas that can't find the eth0, but actualy I get always an IP address. You can change this in the rc3.d or rc5.d PCMCIA to be initialized before the network ( the numeber after SXXPCMCIA

Re: print pdf files

2003-03-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 23:34, Margaret_Doll wrote: > I have discovered pdf files that are created by Alden Multimedia using > Acrobat distiller 4.05 for Windows are unprintable from unix, including > Redhat and Mac OS X systems. There are printable from Windows. > > If I look at the files in vi,

Re: Can't surf and email

2003-03-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 13:23, daYz wrote: > Hi, > > I had my internet connection working for a while on Redhat 8.0, but > yesterday I suddenly couden't email and surf anymore. At the time it > stopped I was trying to setup my local network, but I'm not sure if > this got something to do with it. M

RE: nameserver host finding

2003-03-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 15:27, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > hi. > > why don't you use ifup ppp0 and ifdown ppp0, and then in > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts you could say BOOTPROTO=dialup > i don't quite understand what you mean here. I am new to linux at the moment. If you use a graphical too

Re: Can't surf and email

2003-03-05 Thread Jay Crews
Iain Buchanan writes > > > On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 13:23, daYz wrote: > > Hi, > > =20 > > I had my internet connection working for a while on Redhat 8.0, but > > yesterday I suddenly couden't email and surf anymore. At the time it > > stopped I was trying to setup my local network, but I'm not

Re: ext3 - RedHat Whitepaper confusion.

2003-03-05 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 02:59:29PM -0600, Thomas Dodd wrote: > > > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > Below are three paragraphs from the RedHat White paper on ext3. > > The first paragraph says data=ordered is the default mode. The last > > paragraph says data=journal is the default mode. Which is correc

Re: print pdf files

2003-03-05 Thread Keith Winston
Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 23:34, Margaret_Doll wrote: I have discovered pdf files that are created by Alden Multimedia using Acrobat distiller 4.05 for Windows are unprintable from unix, including Redhat and Mac OS X systems. There are printable from Windows. If I look at the

Unable to boot RH 8.0

2003-03-05 Thread Andrew Henwood
Title: Unable to boot RH 8.0 I am having a heck of a time booting Red Hat 8.0.  I am upgrading from Red Hat 7.3.  There is no problem with the upgrade.  The problem starts when I boot.  The system just hangs at ININT: version 2.84 booting.  At first I thought it was my boot loader but it lo

Re: print pdf files

2003-03-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 09:48, Keith Winston wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 23:34, Margaret_Doll wrote: > It is definately NOT a proprietary format. Adobe publishes the complete > PDF spec on their FTP site. I don't have the link handy, but I've > downloaded it and keep i

Re: Unable to boot RH 8.0

2003-03-05 Thread Dusan Djordjevic
četvrtak 6. mart 2003. 01:28, Andrew Henwood: > I am having a heck of a time booting Red Hat 8.0. I am upgrading > from Red Hat 7.3. There is no problem with the upgrade. The problem > starts when I boot. The system just hangs at ININT: version 2.84 > booting. Are you sure that you have right

Audigy sound driver problem with installing.

2003-03-05 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
All. I have a problem installing the emu10k1 stuff. I got it from cvs (latest source) and read the instructions in the ./doc/redme file. it says you should be able to do a make and if the right kernel is reported, do a make again, and then make install. change the modules-info file.. etc. s