Re: RH8.0 on

2002-10-25 Thread Ed Wilts
have According to Red Hat's official documentation, 128MB is the minimum for graphics, with 192MB recommended. http://www.redhat.com/software/linux/technical/ -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program

Re: smtp (sendmail) problem

2002-10-30 Thread Ed Wilts
oting would lead you to believe that the problem is in the last change you made, when actually it's because you took a short-cut earlier. Spend the extra 30 seconds now and do it the right way and save yourself from any potential grief down the road. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program

Re: sendmail

2002-11-05 Thread Ed Wilts
tion. > > Any ideas? Thanks a lot! Restore your /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file from your backups and then make the sendmail.cf file as per the instructions in the top of it. If you don't have backups, comment out the line in the .mc file that restricts incoming connections to the lo

Re: IBM packed decimal format conversion utilities

2002-11-06 Thread Ed Wilts
software/man/libcci.html The general discusssions surrounding this suggest that you're better off converting the data before the tape gets written, or writing a custom tool after you get the data. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program

Re: True type fonts in mozilla./evolution

2002-11-07 Thread Ed Wilts
hem than I should have. Here's the link: https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/ The way to find the release notes is to click on the 8.0 link - they're not listed in the 8.0 section like they are for 7.3, 7.2, and 7.1. Fill in Xft in the search box and you don't get much infor

Re: Why is gnome-teminal so slow?

2002-11-07 Thread Ed Rosack
I don't know if this is the problem, but I've noticed that the gnome-terminal is very slow starting up if effects are turned on (e.g. background image or transparency). On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 18:29, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 11:19, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > > Gnome-termin

Re: strange e-mail from root

2002-11-07 Thread Ed Wilts
ity of the hacker attempts come from US-based systems. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program

Re: rebuild /var/lib/rpm/Packages ?

2002-11-14 Thread Ed Wilts
other hard drive (and they're relatively dirt cheap these days) you could have restored in seconds instead of having to re-install. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: nfs question

2002-11-10 Thread Ed Wilts
ally dynamic). If you don't have a firewall already, put one immediately. Do not allow nfs through your firewall unless you really know what you're doing and it's for readonly sharing. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program

Re: home lan

2002-11-11 Thread Ed Wilts
x27;ll have one less system to manage and it's a lot smaller with a lot less power, heat, and noise issues. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program

Re: Lowering CPU Speed To Avoid Memory Errors

2002-11-12 Thread Ed Wilts
? Yup. That's *after* you find what forced you to slow the system down in the first place. If you've got bad memory, then you need to solve that problem first. You may have just temporarily masked the problem and it will bite you later. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, M

Re: up2date question

2002-11-14 Thread Ed Wilts
could probably modify this to exlude your jdg packages. I've included it below since it's quite short. .../Ed #!/bin/sh EXCL=/var/tmp/exclude-list CONF=/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date # Fixed list of packages to exclude from up2date LIST="kernel*;" [ -f $EXCL ] &&am

Re: linux software-ultimate insult

2002-11-15 Thread Ed Wilts
e may be potential for trademark violations. I seem to recall previous lawsuits around issues like this. Complain to Google and see what happens. You're just preaching to the choir here. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community

Re: hard drive recovery (was can't start kde)

2002-11-15 Thread Ed Wilts
copy the individual files over. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: yp cyclic rpm dependency - portmap uninstall script errors

2002-11-19 Thread Ed Wilts
all at once and look at the dependencies between themselves. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: Suggestions for increasing speed on an older (but not ancient) machine.

2002-11-21 Thread Ed Wilts
er job of memory management than 98 does. So definitely yes, more memory does help and is recommended as per the Red Hat documentation above. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: Pros Only! RH8.0 and PHP Bug. Might have found the problem.

2002-11-22 Thread Ed Wilts
> binary. (this is a bug, it is programmed to look in /usr/sbin and a few other places >too, but the > correct code isn't being genereated) In which case the easy fix seems to be to: # export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin and then re-run the build script. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA

Re: sbin and /usr/sbin

2002-11-23 Thread Ed Wilts
login time, then he can do so. Nobody is forcing anybody to accept the default paths - they're just defaults that work well for most people. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: Samba question

2002-11-25 Thread Ed Rosack
ce bob joe force group = +data1 create mask = 0660 directory mask = 0770 This should allow users "alice", "bob", and "joe" (who are all members of group "data1") to have full read / write access to the /data1 directory. HTH, Ed On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 0

Re: Seeing who is logged in through ftp and ssh

2002-11-26 Thread Ed Wilts
cess file (in wu-ftpd). With sftp, it's a free-for-all. In very practical terms, the odds of anybody being able to sniff passwords these days is very slim. The odds of somebody grabbing your passwd file if they've got sftp access to your system are much larger. .../Ed -- Ed Wil

Re: MP3s don't work

2002-11-26 Thread Ed Rosack
Redhat 8.0 doesn't ship with mp3 enabled. See: http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_80mm.html Ed On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 11:20, Marc Murphy wrote: > Using the standard install I've tried playing my MP3s with the xmms > included. Only one of them plays and it plays perfectly. T

Re: Seeing who is logged in through ftp and ssh

2002-11-26 Thread Ed Wilts
. wu-ftpd, on the other hand, logs every transfer and transfer attempt. Why people insist on stating that sftp is more secure than ftpd is beyond me. There's a heck of a lot more to security than just passing along a password in clear text (which in the vast majority of installations is not

Re: error: no acceptable cc in $PATH (plus other errors) Help!

2002-11-29 Thread Ed Wilts
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 12:48:32PM -0600, Shizznik McRuube wrote: > What about the missing autoconf will getting gcc solve that problem? I don't know about 8, but earlier releases had it as a separate package. up2date autoconf .../Ed > On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 12:19, Jesse Ke

Re: Virtual PC

2002-12-02 Thread Ed Wilts
nse since it only provides the environment (up to the BIOS) and not the client OS. The client OS can be Windows (most of them I think, including XP) as well as other x86 operating systems (like Linux, FreeBSD, etc.). .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1

Re: Psyche is not rapid, why???

2002-12-17 Thread Ed Wilts
e services: ssh, X, cron, kuzku. Simply put, you're not meeting the recommended configuration. The *minimum* for X is 128MB and the recommended is 192MB. You've just found out why Red Hat made the recommendation. Turn X off until you can install more memory. .../Ed -- Ed Wi

Re: Lost files...can they be recovered?

2002-12-27 Thread Ed Wilts
eil and then look in /mnt/neil again. Move the files somewhere else, and the remount /mnt/neil and move the files to where they should have gone. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: Adding an 80G Seagate IDE drive....

2002-12-29 Thread Ed Wilts
ler and in the other it's a Promise RAID controller. On the SCSI system, I've booted from floppy, CD, IDE disk, and SCSI disk and never had issues. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing

Re: anoconda

2003-01-02 Thread Ed Wilts
ad blocks marked - all have been indicative of a pending hard failure, and I've been mananging systems for 20+ years. If you really, really want to use your failing drive, look at the badblocks command to do the surface scan. man badblocks for more info. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mo

Re: FTP Client - apparent bug

2003-01-02 Thread Ed Wilts
n report it to https://bugzilla.redhat.com. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: anoconda

2003-01-02 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:11:36PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 14:06:39 -0600 > Ed Wilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Secondly, you don't really want to mark out bad blocks, you want to > > replace the drive. I have yet to see a drive that

Re: anoconda

2003-01-02 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:49:39PM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > fsck will test your disk for bad blocks and allow you to map them out. Really? Which option in fsck? fsck is normally used to check and repair file systems, and this isn't a file system issue. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts

Re: anoconda

2003-01-02 Thread Ed Wilts
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 06:07:13PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 04:03:34PM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:49:39PM -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > fsck will test your disk for bad blocks and allow you to map them out. > > &

Re: DOS vs Linux format

2003-01-03 Thread Ed . Greshko
commands on Linux Try "dos2unix" and "unix2dos". Ed -- http://www.shorewall.net/ for all your firewall needs -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: Limit user to use only home folder

2003-01-06 Thread Ed Wilts
ing your passwd file. If you want to restrict users to pre-determined areas, look at wu-ftpd - it's all built in. .../Ed > - Original Message - > From: "Kent Nyberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > mån 2003-01-06 klockan 15.19 skrev Remus: > &

Re: Limit user to use only home folder

2003-01-06 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 03:27:58PM -, Remus wrote: > Can I connect to wu-ftpd over ssh? Not really. There is a secure FTP mode (TLS) but it has a bunch of restrictions related to the FTP protocol and the way ports are managed. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Limit user to use only home folder

2003-01-06 Thread Ed Wilts
customers should be able to determine my user names. With wu-ftpd, they don't know. With sftp, they can simply grab the passwd file and will have a head start in cracking my system. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program --

Re: ntpd problems

2003-01-06 Thread Ed Wilts
ronize my Linux server at home to 3 systems (all area universities) and then synchronize my other home systems to my Linux server. The fewer the systems you can synchronize to, the better, unless you have a very good reason for being paranoid (at work, we've also bought our own stratum 1 tim

Re: Rpmbuild question

2003-01-07 Thread Ed Wilts
27;re in /usr/src/redhat. When you install the source rpm, it will be in your own sub-directory. Ditto when you build it and the final rpm ready to be installed will be in ~/rpm/RPMS/ Cheers, .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community A

Re: Space

2003-01-09 Thread Ed Wilts
. Are you getting a device full error in Windows or are you really out of memory? If you're out of memory, your only realistic option is to buy more memory - adding more disk space won't help you. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Commu

Re: Stupid question??

2003-01-09 Thread Ed Wilts
led to the user's manual at: http://www.monitor.support.hp.com/monitorsupport/level4/142mmb134en.pdf The specs are on page 10 (Acrobat Reader thinks it's page 12). .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyc

Re: 2 questions

2003-01-09 Thread Ed Wilts
e file? > > less?? if so, then it's a pain to go thru each > > message. > Iirc mbox is a pretty standard mailer format so you should be able to > read them properly. I know you can read them with Eurora on Windows and > probably on several mail apps on Linux. I thin

Re: how do I install to Hw RAID (Promise 20265 Fasttrak 100)

2003-01-12 Thread Ed Wilts
performance (like the Network Appliance NearStore). -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: Fast mirror?

2002-09-30 Thread Ed Wilts
p?mfgID=5415&submit2=Go&loc=105&search_store=2&qu=linux&querytype=&mfgpartno=&deptid=&searchid= -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program

Re: This is the _fastest_ mirror.

2002-10-01 Thread Ed Wilts
ransfer rate of about 175KBs to my home cable modem connection. FWIW, AOL blocks pings to the server, but a ping to their router averages about 45ms - pretty darn decent! .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program

Re: This is the _fastest_ mirror.

2002-10-01 Thread Ed Wilts
king fine now. Whatever the issue was went away. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program

MD5SUM usage (was: Ok, dumb question)

2002-10-01 Thread Ed Wilts
D5SUM file?" To use the file, simply do: $ md5sum -c MD5SUM man md5sum for more info. .../Ed -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program

Re: This is the _fastest_ mirror.

2002-10-02 Thread Ed Wilts
when you try to do a directory, set passive off and try again. redhat.newaol.com is not actually one server - it's at least two with a round-robin dns entry. FWIW, I just tried twice in a row and got a connection to each of the servers. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewi

Re: list refusing my mail

2002-10-06 Thread Ed . Greshko
P is ill equipt to help. Ed -- http://www.shorewall.net/ for all your firewall needs http://www.greshko.com http://webcams.greshko.com

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-06 Thread Ed Wilts
ng fine. Strangely enough, I put that original drive into my Windows system and it's working flawlessly. So...the cables and drives are all fine, but Linux didn't like that original drive. It's running Red Hat Linux 7.1. I'm convinced that there are some incompabilities betwee

Re: Sendmail and sm-client boot time problem

2002-10-12 Thread Ed Wilts
s returns no > error, both sendmail and sm-client give [OK] status. This is almost always a problem with the resolver. Make sure your host name is resolvable. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program

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