keyboard problem: alt gr key

2003-03-24 Thread Sebastian Bauer
Hi all, I'm using RedHat 8 for a few weeks and try to stop the need of Windows products. But now I have a problem which isn't that funny. Sometimes - I cannot reproduce the problem - my Alt Gr key doesn't work the way it should. By pressing this key to write for example an [at] I get some spec

Triple Boot :)

2003-03-24 Thread Galea Gilbert
Hi gurus, I am installing the home machine as I told you in previous emails with the following 3 OSes: Windoze ME (FAT32) Win XP (NTFS) RH 8 (EXT3) I have followed your advice and put the 2 windoze oses on the same hard disk which is a primary master. First I installed ME on a FAT32 partition the

Re: Apache 1.3 rpm for 8.0

2003-03-24 Thread Sergio Durand
what's the problem with his php+apache2 ?? i'm with them (and squirrelmail) and works fine ... the conectiva linux (www.conectiva.com.br) uses apache 1.3.x ... try to looking for a src package of conectiva 8 (updates) see ya! Stephen Carville wrote: I finally have to admit that PHP and Apache 2.x

dhcp-release - Solved

2003-03-24 Thread Torgny Nyblom
Hi, Just thought I should tell how to do it in case anyone else runs in to this problem. I've tried just about everything but nothing worked. After using SuSE for a day I switched to using their choice of dhcp-client "dhcpcd" and after modifying /etc/rc.d/init.d/network to run "dhcpcd -k" at

Re: Apache 1.3 rpm for 8.0

2003-03-24 Thread Stephen Carville
On Monday 24 March 2003 04:55 am, Sergio Durand wrote: > what's the problem with his php+apache2 ?? > i'm with them (and squirrelmail) and works fine ... Several minor issues. Most recently problems with attachments not uploading correctly from IE 6. > the conectiva linux (www.conectiva.com.br)

Re: Adding a H/Drive link to desktop..

2003-03-24 Thread Joe Klemmer
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 00:47, Chris Andre wrote: > I am in need of push in the right direction. > I have created the following additions to my /etc/fstab file > > /dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp vfatnoauto,owner0 0 > /dev/hda5 /mnt/lindowsauto

Re: Triple Boot :)

2003-03-24 Thread Stéphan Hemmert
guess you'll need more than 2 parts on your second drive for your linux, I suggest at least 3 parts: / /home (min 200 Mo) but I suggest adding 2 more parts: /boot (50 - 80 Mo) /var (for preventing system from increasing log files without beeing rotated, and/or put you www or ftp server

Re: Problem with installing RH 6.2 on a new Dell PC

2003-03-24 Thread Guy Fraser
Hi What exactly is the problem? The motherboard, audio and video chipsets have all changed significantly since 6.2 came out. I would suggest using some older hardware. Guy Freddy Jensen wrote: We are having problems installing RH 6.2 on a new Dell PC. It almost looks like the PC hardware is

Re: smbclient frontend

2003-03-24 Thread Guy Fraser
Here is an /etc/fstab entry that allows access to a share at boot: This is supposed to be on one line but will likly be wrapped. //server/share /home/user/share smbfs credentials=/home/user/.credentials 1 1 where : /home/user/.credentials contains : ---%<...snip... username = shareuser passwo

Re: smbclient frontend

2003-03-24 Thread Guy Fraser
Hi If the share is on a machine running samba make sure you are typing the password created with the smbpasswd utility. The smb password is not nessisarily the same as the unix password. Guy Stephen Mah wrote: when I type: smb://server/share, I'm prompted for a username & password. However,

Re: Triple Boot :)

2003-03-24 Thread Guy Fraser
Hi If you have ME and XP installed and not conflicting you are ready to go. You can use the partition with ME installed on it for files available to all configurations. Both XP and RH 8 can read FAT32. Don't partition the second drive before installing RH 8. Install RH 8 with at the very least

RE: ping but no connect to 192.168.1.1??

2003-03-24 Thread Michael Mills
> But when I try to configure the RH 8.0 hard drive on my desktop, > using the Internet Configuration Wizard, I get to where ping 192.168.1.1 > works with 0% loss -- but trying to connect a browser to > http://192.168.1.1 gets a message saying "The connection was refused > when attempting to conta

security updates ?

2003-03-24 Thread Allan M. Stewart
I'm working in an environment where management is overly sensitive to changes. We've been developing and QA'ing on a 8.0 install basically straight out of the box. Our fielded systems will have a minimum install with very few extras. Certainly SSH will need to be updated. Probably several others.

iptables (netfilter) mailing list ?

2003-03-24 Thread Allan M. Stewart
I've tried several times to get on the netfilter mailing list, but the confirmation never works. Is that mailing list still active? Is this or another place the best place for iptables questions? Thanks, Allan -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailma

Re: security updates ?

2003-03-24 Thread Jesse Keating
On Monday 24 March 2003 10:45, Allan M. Stewart wrote: > Is there an easy way to check only for security updates? It would be > very time consuming to do searches on every installed RPM. rhn.redhat.com has an interface to the applicable errata that you can sort by security. -- Jesse Keating RHC

Spam ?

2003-03-24 Thread Marek
Is this spam using redhat's name ? I have not heard of redhat 9 yet ? Dear Colleague: You may know that Red Hat Network is the best way to keep your systems running the latest errata and always up to date. What you might not know is that Red Hat Network passed the one million users mark earlier t

Re: Spam ?

2003-03-24 Thread Eric Burke
Hi, > Is this spam using redhat's name ? I have not heard of redhat 9 yet ? I just recieved one myself, different wording. It appears to be legitimate. The wording could be whether one is already a subscriber to RHN or not. However RH 9 does sound fishy as isn't the next release just a point r

Re: Spam ?

2003-03-24 Thread Eric Burke
Hi again, I just verified it. This is legitimate, so apparently there is no 8.1, but a 9 instead. Go to http://www.redhat.com, and in the lower right corner in the Community box there is the same thing and a link to click to get RedHat 9 early. Regards, Eric Burke -- Psyche-list mailing

Re: Spam ?

2003-03-24 Thread Greg Pendler
You caught me forwarding this mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marek wrote: Is this spam using redhat's name ? I have not heard of redhat 9 yet ? Dear Colleague: You may know that Red Hat Network is the best way to keep your systems running the latest errata and always up to date. What you might not k

Re: Spam ?

2003-03-24 Thread Mike Vanecek
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:53:55 -0800, Eric Burke wrote > Hi again, > > I just verified it. This is legitimate, so apparently there is no > 8.1, but a 9 instead. Go to http://www.redhat.com, and in the lower > right corner in the Community box there is the same thing and a link > to click to get R

RE: Spam ?

2003-03-24 Thread Naum Stolarsky
I think they want to match Mandrake's version number... Just a thought... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Burke Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 2:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spam ? Hi again, I just verified

RE: Spam ?

2003-03-24 Thread Will Mendez
That's pretty impressive what would make them skip a dot release? Will Mendez Toaster[2] Mmmm...XSI www.xsibase.com www.xsimontreal.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Vanecek Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 3:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

RE: Spam ?

2003-03-24 Thread Eric Burke
> I think they want to match Mandrake's version number... > Just a thought... > I never even thought about that. The only thing there is...Mandrake is releasing 9.1but this would at least catch them up. -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/list

Re: security updates ?

2003-03-24 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 01:45:35PM -0500, Allan M. Stewart wrote: > > I'm working in an environment where management is overly sensitive to > changes. We've been developing and QA'ing on a 8.0 install basically > straight out of the box. Our fielded systems will have a minimum install > with very

Re: Spam ?

2003-03-24 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 09:39:27PM +0200, Marek wrote: > Is this spam using redhat's name ? I have not heard of redhat 9 yet ? Just because you haven't heard of it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Red Hat never pre-announces version numbers and everybody that assumed the next version was going to b

RE: Spam ?

2003-03-24 Thread Will Mendez
There is also no feature list, at least I can't find one. Will Mendez Toaster[2] Mmmm...XSI www.xsibase.com www.xsimontreal.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Burke Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 3:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL

RE: Spam ? (RH9)

2003-03-24 Thread Daevid Vincent
Well, I do know that it's incredibly arrogant and misleading to jump from v8.0 to v9.0 without any intermediate steps. NOBODY in the software world does that without some serious serious feature additions. RH9 will be nothing more than some normal updates. Xfree 4.3, a (still broken) Apache 2.0/PHP

Re: Spam ?

2003-03-24 Thread Eric Burke
> Marek, would you please check the headers. Did this come from Red Hat > or from CheetaMail? If from Red Hat, why would Red Hat be using an > outfit with a reputation for being a spamhaus? If not, it's spam. > > > I know I am not Marek...just wanted to point out the one I recieved was from Re

Mozilla 1.3 and Realplayer plugin

2003-03-24 Thread Antonio Montagnani
I have just installed Mozilla 1.3 with GTK2 support. My mozilla doesn't recognize Realplayer plugin (i.e. the file rpnp.so file that is /usr/lib/Mozilla-1.3/plugins) even if I use the About plugins: button. And the plugin was working in 1.3b before upgrading. Shall I blame myself for upgrading t

Re: Spam ? (RH9)

2003-03-24 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 12:44:06PM -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote: > Well, I do know that it's incredibly arrogant and misleading to jump from > v8.0 to v9.0 without any intermediate steps. NOBODY in the software world > does that without some serious serious feature additions. RH9 will be > nothing m

RE: Spam ? (RH9)

2003-03-24 Thread Eric Burke
> Well, I do know that it's incredibly arrogant and misleading to jump from > v8.0 to v9.0 without any intermediate steps. NOBODY in the software world > does that without some serious serious feature additions. RH9 will be > nothing more than some normal updates. Xfree 4.3, a (still broken) Apa

Re: Spam ?

2003-03-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 09:39:27PM +0200, Marek wrote: > Is this spam using redhat's name ? I have not heard of redhat 9 yet ? A little bit of network detective work is in order... > > Dear Colleague: > > You may know that Red Hat Network is the best way to keep your > systems running the lates

RE: Spam ?

2003-03-24 Thread Daniel T. Drea
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Eric Burke wrote: > > I think they want to match Mandrake's version number... > > Just a thought... > > > > I never even thought about that. The only thing there is...Mandrake is > releasing 9.1but this would at least catch them up. > > > > More like slackware 9.0 which w

Re: Spam ?

2003-03-24 Thread Marek
Charles Curley wrote: Marek, would you please check the headers. Did this come from Red Hat or from CheetaMail? If from Red Hat, why would Red Hat be using an outfit with a reputation for being a spamhaus? If not, it's spam. from mta101.cheetahmail.com (mta101.cheetahmail.com [216.15.189.35]) --

SPAM?

2003-03-24 Thread Dave Tibbals
I also received a message from "Red Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED]" which was just an add to become a Red Hat Network subscriber. But I did receive a letter from "Red Hat Network [EMAIL PROTECTED]" It describes a new service to RHN subscribers which will allow them to download the newest ISO before they are

RE: Spam ? (RH9)

2003-03-24 Thread Joe Klemmer
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 15:44, Daevid Vincent wrote: > Well, I do know that it's incredibly arrogant and misleading to jump from > v8.0 to v9.0 without any intermediate steps. NOBODY in the software world > does that without some serious serious feature additions. RH9 will be > nothing more than som

Re: Spam ?

2003-03-24 Thread Jack Bowling
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 09:39:27PM +0200, Marek wrote: > Is this spam using redhat's name ? I have not heard of redhat 9 yet ? > > Dear Colleague: > > You may know that Red Hat Network is the best way to keep your > systems running the latest errata and always up to date. What you > might not kno

Re: Install of 8.0 in freezing at different points

2003-03-24 Thread Jack Bowling
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 08:37:03AM -0800, David Boyes wrote: > I have the 3 CD image install disk for Redhat 8.0. I believe called ISO. > > All three check out on the test before install. > > I am installing on a 3.2gb drive that is formatted FAT32. David - Note that a full install of RH 8 will

Re: Firewall Issue

2003-03-24 Thread Jack Bowling
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:41:56PM -0600, Mike Vanecek wrote: > Sorry, do not mean to be thick, but the man iptables says, > >-L, --list > List all rules in the selected chain. If no chain is selected, > all chains are listed. It is legal to specify the

Re: Spam ? (RH9)

2003-03-24 Thread Markku Kolkka
Viestissä Maanantai 24. Maaliskuuta 2003 22:44, Daevid Vincent kirjoitti: > Well, I do know that it's incredibly arrogant and misleading to jump from > v8.0 to v9.0 without any intermediate steps. NOBODY in the software world > does that without some serious serious feature additions. RH9 will be >

Crack for MD5 Passwords?

2003-03-24 Thread Ronald W. Heiby
Hello psyche-list, The Debian distro appears to have a modified version of the "Crack" password testing utility that is set up for the MD5 passwords that are recommended these days. The Debian distribution uses a system with which I am not familiar, and have been unable to decipher sufficiently t

Re: smbclient frontend

2003-03-24 Thread Stephen Mah
Guy Fraser wrote: Hi If the share is on a machine running samba make sure you are typing the password created with the smbpasswd utility. The smb password is not nessisarily the same as the unix password. Guy Stephen Mah wrote: when I type: smb://server/share, I'm prompted for a username &

SV: Spam ? (RH9)

2003-03-24 Thread Marie-Thérèse Lorentzen
I'm no expert in the area, however, my understanding of upgrades is that the general convention for at hop from on number to another would be a 'major' change in a kernal/a new look/ or something that separates it from the previous number/numners. If the hop is several numbers, then this would indi

Re: Adding a H/Drive link to desktop..

2003-03-24 Thread Senssei Myagi
> Check the man pages for mount and fstab. You're looking for the > "users" option. > Thanks Joe, I will read up tonight after work.. -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: Spam ?

2003-03-24 Thread Justin Zygmont
I'll bet that was to undercut SuSE :) -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: Spam ? (RH9)

2003-03-24 Thread Randall J. Parr
Daevid Vincent wrote: Well, I do know that it's incredibly arrogant and misleading to jump from v8.0 to v9.0 without any intermediate steps. NOBODY in the software world does that without some serious serious feature additions. RH9 will be nothing more than some normal updates. Xfree 4.3, a (still

firewire disk

2003-03-24 Thread Cheryl L. Southard
HI All, I've got a firewire disk on my RedHat 8.0 computer. If it's all plugged together and turned on when I boot the computer, the disk comes up and mounts just fine. But what do we have to do make the device hot-pluggable? I don't understand if it is kudzu's job or /sbin/plugin that is suppo

Re: Spam ?

2003-03-24 Thread Joe Klemmer
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 14:50, Jack Bowling wrote: > I'm an RHN subscriber and I got it, too. If it is spam, it is extermely > well done :-)) BTW, market pressure is likely the reason to jump to 9.x > series. Mandrake is there already. It's definitely a marketing thing. Not only Mdk but Sl

Re: Spam ? (RH9)

2003-03-24 Thread Keith Winston
Randall J. Parr wrote: Daevid Vincent wrote: Well, I do know that it's incredibly arrogant and misleading to jump from v8.0 to v9.0 without any intermediate steps. NOBODY in the software world does that without some serious serious feature additions. RH9 will be nothing more than some normal updat

Re: Spam ? (RH9)

2003-03-24 Thread Nalin Dahyabhai
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:40:16PM -0800, Randall J. Parr wrote: > I DO care that this jump does not SEEM to be related to major > kernel/lib/feature changes which triggered a major version number BUT > does cause a very rapid accelation in the decay of version support and > certification expira

Re: Spam ? (RH9)

2003-03-24 Thread Randall J. Parr
Nalin Dahyabhai wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:40:16PM -0800, Randall J. Parr wrote: I DO care that this jump does not SEEM to be related to major kernel/lib/feature changes which triggered a major version number BUT does cause a very rapid accelation in the decay of version support and c

Re: Firewall Issue

2003-03-24 Thread Mike Vanecek
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:21:53 -0800, Jack Bowling wrote > On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:41:56PM -0600, Mike Vanecek wrote: > > > Sorry, do not mean to be thick, but the man iptables says, > > > >-L, --list > > List all rules in the selected chain. If no chain is selected, > >

Re: security updates ?

2003-03-24 Thread Mike Vanecek
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:21:00 -0600, Ed Wilts wrote [snip] > Please note that 8.0 will be unsupported after December 31 of this year. > You should start planning a version 9 rollout soon (it will be publicly > available in early April). Personally, I'm going to be migrating my > production system

Re: SV: Spam ? (RH9)

2003-03-24 Thread Tom Ball
On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 14:44, Marie-Thérèse Lorentzen wrote: > I'm no expert in the area, however, my understanding of upgrades is that the > general convention for at hop from on number to another would be a 'major' > change in a kernal/a new look/ or something that separates it from the > previous

Re: security updates ?

2003-03-24 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 07:09:03PM -0600, Mike Vanecek wrote: > Can you please point me to where it says RH 8.0 supports goes at the > end of year? http://www.redhat.com/apps/support/errata -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program

Re: SV: Spam ? (RH9)

2003-03-24 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 05:16:18PM -0800, Tom Ball wrote: > As someone else commented, a release number is just that, a number > created by marketing. Often they choose numbers based on the reasoning This is not true, minor releases maintain binary compatibility, unless somebody wants to contrad

redhat 9?

2003-03-24 Thread Stephen Mah
What do you make of this? http://www.redhat.com/mktg/rh9iso/ Is this basically rh 8.1? -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: redhat 9?

2003-03-24 Thread Samuel Flory
Stephen Mah wrote: What do you make of this? http://www.redhat.com/mktg/rh9iso/ Is this basically rh 8.1? See the phoebe, and redhat lists -- There is no such thing as obsolete hardware. Merely hardware that other people don't want. (The Second Rule of Hardware Acquisition) Sam Flory <[EMAI

Re: redhat 9?

2003-03-24 Thread Michael Wardle
On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 12:13, Stephen Mah wrote: > What do you make of this? > > http://www.redhat.com/mktg/rh9iso/ > > Is this basically rh 8.1? Yes, the latest beta of Red Hat Linux, 8.0.94 (code name Phoebe) will be Red Hat Linux 9 when it is released, rather than Red Hat Linux 8.1 as many fir

Re: SV: Spam ? (RH9)

2003-03-24 Thread Dennis Gilmore
Generally Red Hat update full numbers when binary compatibility breaks the new glibc and threads have broken alot of stuff hence i believe that they have done the correct thing by jumping numbers. Dennis On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 08:44, Marie-Thérèse Lorentzen wrote: > I'm no expert in the area, h

External USB Drive

2003-03-24 Thread Stephen Carville
I have been looking at getting an external USB drive for backing up files on my home network and I see the Maxtor 3000LE (120 GB) is selling for around $200 FRN's. I know the Linux kernel supports USB but how well does it work? I've read some horror stories about poorly designed devices that

Re: Spam ?

2003-03-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 06:55:26PM -0500, Joe Klemmer wrote: > On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 14:50, Jack Bowling wrote: > > > I'm an RHN subscriber and I got it, too. If it is spam, it is extermely > > well done :-)) BTW, market pressure is likely the reason to jump to 9.x > > series. Mandrake is there al

Re: Spam ? (RH9)

2003-03-24 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 16:56:17 -0800, you wrote: >Yes, I was aware of that BUT please understand, the change to rapid >expiration of specific versions means we have to update more often to be >able to stay abreast of the flood of security updates AND new updates to Not if you move to the Enterpr

Re: Spam ? (RH9)

2003-03-24 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 12:44:06 -0800, you wrote: >Well, I do know that it's incredibly arrogant and misleading to jump from >v8.0 to v9.0 without any intermediate steps. NOBODY in the software world >does that without some serious serious feature additions. RH9 will be >nothing more than some normal

Re: Mozilla 1.3 and Realplayer plugin

2003-03-24 Thread Y Makki
Hello I have the exact same problem after installing Mozilla-1.3-0_rh8_gtk2. Another problem I started seeing after upgrading Mozilla is mplayer-plugin leaves the video on top even after the video ends or is closed, only way is to close all open Mozilla windows. On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 16:36, Ant

Re: Mozilla 1.3 and Realplayer plugin

2003-03-24 Thread Antonio Montagnani
Y Makki wrote: Hello I have the exact same problem after installing Mozilla-1.3-0_rh8_gtk2. Another problem I started seeing after upgrading Mozilla is mplayer-plugin leaves the video on top even after the video ends or is closed, only way is to close all open Mozilla windows. On Mon, 2003-03-2

Re: Spam ?

2003-03-24 Thread Andrew Kelly
Will Mendez wrote: > > That's pretty impressive what would make them skip a dot release? The cynical me says it's to force RHCE recertification. -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: External USB Drive

2003-03-24 Thread Jack Bowling
** Reply to message from Stephen Carville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 24 Mar 2003 20:23:38 -0800 > I have been looking at getting an external USB drive for backing up > files on my home network and I see the Maxtor 3000LE (120 GB) is > selling for around $200 FRN's. I know the Linux kernel sup