Re: IDE head scratcher

2003-01-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 14:22, Michael Weber wrote: > Anyway, I plugged my CDROM and HD back in and tried to boot. The GRUB > loader booted Linux and it began its thing, up until it loaded the IDE > drivers. As soon as it touched the hard drive, the system locked hard. Did you plug them in exactl

Re: Virtualhosting SSL sites with Apache 2.0.40-11

2003-01-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 13:52, Dax Kelson wrote: > Therefore, virtual hosting > SSL sites requires the use of unique IP addresses for each site." Unique port numbers work as well, and are in far greater supply than unique IP addresses. :) -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://

Re: Evolution Problem

2003-01-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 15:07, Tommy McNeely wrote: > ... so ... appearantly its a problem with evolution... none of the mail > servers around here think CAPA is a good idea :) Which is odd, because CAPA often describes what types of authorization a server provides: +OK Hello there. CAPA +OK Here'

Re: linux security/network issue....

2003-01-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 10:57, Bruce Douglas wrote: > If I configure my router to do port forwarding with Port 80 pointing to the > Windows Box with Apache, external users can view the server. If I change the > router/port forwarding to point to the Linux Box/Apache server, the user is > unable to a

RE: linux security/network issue....

2003-01-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 11:30, Bruce Douglas wrote: > PS. I should add that it appears that no communication from the external > world is able to get to the Linux box, regardless of the port. > > before i change the UseCanonicalName.. could you explain how this would > affect the external user acces

Re: Instant Messaging Server

2003-01-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 05:43, Dario Lesca wrote: > Hi, which IM server to install on RedHat 8.0 to use > in a local net whit client Win2000/XP? Jabber is a good choice. I have an RPM package here: http://www.dragonsdawn.net/apt/redhat/7.3/en/i386/RPMS.dragonsdawn/ Clients are listed here: http:/

Re: Contacting an Open Relay server user by spammer

2003-01-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 06:06, Mark Cooke wrote: > > Which translates to: > > > > Message _from_ (pc-80-193-4-51-nm.blueyonder.co.uk [80.193.4.51]) > > received _by_ mail.pcc.edu.cn _for_ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on > > Wed, 22 Jan 2003 02:55:23 +0800 > > So am I correct in thinking, the mail origina

RE: Contacting an Open Relay server user by spammer

2003-01-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 09:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am attempting to setup a sendmail server that will receive (and > relay) emails from users. These users do not reside on the same > network as my server. In fact, I have no way of knowing what domains > the various users will be on. Use

Re: Contacting an Open Relay server user by spammer

2003-01-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 09:44, Mark C wrote: > Gordon Messmer wrote: > > >>So am I correct in thinking, the mail originated from a blueyonder > >>dialup/broadband account? > > I just want to make 100% sure that this is correct, the original sender > of the spam, h

Re: BIG OOPS!

2003-01-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 21:56, Buck wrote: > I had a gnome interface that came up when I booted. Somehow in looking > around, I got an interface that is a big blue screen. When I left > click, I get what looks like a drop-down menu with the following > options: > TWM (Title I think) At the graphic

RE: BIG OOPS!

2003-01-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 22:09, Buck wrote: > TWM looks like a graphical command line interface. > > What is it? A very very old X window manager. It was, IIRC, the basis for FVWM, which in turn was the basis for several other WM's. Haven't looked at xwinman.org in a /long/ time, but it has thi

Re: Excellent signature

2003-01-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 01:36, Rob Unsworth wrote: > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > "To convert the file to HTML using Word is simple..." > > Apparent

Re: Messenger Popups

2003-01-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 21:11, Buck wrote: > I have a problem in Windows that outside users are popping up ads from > windows messenger. I am wondering if there is a similar product in > RedHat that might be having the same problem. Or, is Red Hat safe from > that junk? No, there is no similar pr

Re: GPL License

2003-01-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 11:10, Buck wrote: > If I were to develop a product for my own use, would I be required to > distribute it because someone found out I had it and they wanted it? No. > Could I sell services created by a GPL product without distributing the > product? Yes. Furthermore, you

RE: Messenger Poppups

2003-01-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 15:00, Buck wrote: > I do have a firewall. I learned really quick how to stop the problem. > My original question was whether or not Redhat had a similar problem. I > have learned that the problem is unique to "windoz". > It occurred to me later that a useful piece of ad

Re: MySQL IDE and Language (long)

2003-01-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 15:59, Buck wrote: > I was leaning towards the xBase languages since I am so familiar with > the code. I have decided, instead, to use MySQL for a database engine. > It appears to be big enough to handle anything I can create and it is > apparently the most popular database i

Re: Mail Solution Please|here is the problem

2003-01-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 00:07, Bala murugan wrote: > Now my user wants to download mails to his inbox say outlook express as > client. but they are protected from firewall. they can't go directly to mail > server. We have put one Proxy server (RH8.0) for internet browsing. I would > like to use t

RE: MySQL IDE and Language (long)

2003-01-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 18:44, Buck wrote: > How difficult would it be to learn and use mysql for small projects once > I have a handle on postgre? Not terribly. If what you know is ANSI SQL, you should be able to write code that'll work in both. MySQL's management is somewhat different, but ther

RE: MySQL IDE and Language (long)

2003-01-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 19:13, Buck wrote: > Thanks again, Gordon, > > If there is no big problem moving a program written on postgre to mysql, > I have no problem. The website hosts of Linux web sites seem to install > mysql instead of postgre. JDBC should make it fairly easy to test against bo

RE: MySQL IDE and Language (long)

2003-01-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 21:23, Buck wrote: > Gordon, > > What is JDBC? I keep finding a driver. Is that what I am looking for? > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/guide/jdbc/index.html Java includes JDBC, which is a server independent API for DB access. You add in the drivers that bridge to th

Re: Support Changes

2003-01-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 12:56, Ed wrote: > Did I just read that Red Hat is dropping it's support down to one year > for it's non-Advanced Server products? It's not a drop. They've always advertised support as "at least one year". -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.re

Re: mysql problem

2003-01-28 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 12:00, Dave Robbins wrote: > After reading thru lots of list archive and trying > lots of different things, I've boiled it down to the fact that from the > local machine, if I "telnet 192.168.0.1 3306", mysql responds with it's > version number, but if I do that from the remo

Re: Support Changes

2003-01-28 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 02:29, Denice wrote: > On 27 Jan 2003, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 12:56, Ed wrote: > > > Did I just read that Red Hat is dropping it's support down to one year > > > for it's non-Advanced Server products? &

Re: opening a cpio file in windows .

2003-02-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 13:23, faisal gillani wrote: > i am sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this .. > but can you tell me how can i open a cpio file in > windows pc i have downloaded oracle 9 for linux on a > windows pc & now i wana open it copy it on a cd drive > & then bring it back here on

Re: Pushing updates ?

2003-02-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 13:26, Allan M. Stewart wrote: > > What is the best way to update many servers at customer sites? All you need is an ssh key on the client system to log in as root. #! /bin/sh # Use: # ./update-em # - Runs apt-get upgrade to do a full update of the system # ./update-em [

Re: OT: the whole SCO IP patent(s) mess

2003-02-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 18:33, jdow wrote: > Justin, The article referenced commented about SCO Group, nee Caldera, > posted a major loss many times their preceding year's profit. It says > they pulled in a shyster^H^H^H^H^H^H^H attorney to protect their > intellectual property rights. It also notes

Re: ssh-agent with default runlevel of 5

2003-02-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 03:38, Neil Marjoram wrote: > Can someone tell me where to call the ssh-agent from when using a > default run level of 5. I usually use run level 3 and place the required > commands in .xinitrc in my home directory, but I have found that using > run level 5 this file is not us

Re: ssh-agent with default runlevel of 5

2003-02-14 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 14:38, Anne Possoz wrote: > > If I understand well Neil query, here is what I do. > > I edit /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients file and add the following lines at the beginning of >the file: Doesn't that seem like a lot of work? Red Hat's scripts already start ssh agent. All you h

Re: ssh-agent with default runlevel of 5

2003-02-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 01:32, Keith Morse wrote: > And to the original poster, I like to append to what Gordon has said > above. RedHat has documented this at > > >http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/custom-guide/s1-openssh-client-config.html#S3-OPENSSH-SSH-AGENT-WITH-GNOME

Re: xfs is off, yet X couldn't be happier

2003-02-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 22:34, krieg stanz wrote: > I've played with /etc/X11/fs/config, mkfontdir and > ttmkfdir to no end. Trying to provoke a change, I > turned xfs off and rebooted, expecting several great > errors on next boot. However, strangely, everything is > fine. I'm currently booted into

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

Re: System slow down

2003-03-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 03:56 PM, Margaret_Doll wrote: > I have a Dell station, 665 MHz, 256Kb Cache, 256 Kb ram, that is unuseable because it > is too slow. The system used to be fairly quick; we had been using it as a web server. > Now there is a delay in any graphics display, "

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: Moved HOME, Gnome Not Convinced

2003-03-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
| "Ronald W. Heiby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | Saturday, March 8, 2003, 8:21:45 AM, Aaron wrote: | > This should have nothing to do with Gnome. Are you saying that in the | > entry in the passwd file for this user says his home directory is in | > /lhome/user and he is still p

Re: No GUI Login & puTTY

2003-03-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
Joe Klemmer wrote: On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Arthur Chong wrote: Thanks everyone, we will obtain puTTY. Thanks for the URL link !! We've tried it and it still seems to give the wired characters on a "man" command. Perhaps we have to play with the settings. Change the settings in the i18

Re: [viki@bol.net.in: Boycott Caldera/SCO Products]

2003-03-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
Vikram Goyal wrote: Date: 08 Mar 2003 12:27:10 +0530 Subject: Boycott Caldera/SCO Products Hi, The SCO Group (aka Caldera Systems) has launched a major threat to the Linux OS by suing IBM for $1 billion for IP violations. Their core argument is that Linux would have remained a hobbyist OS if IBM h

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
Andrew Kelly wrote: naugaranch wrote: Sounds like Red Hat is doing a MS-type end around. Abandon the RH 8.x series and introduce RH 9 because it doesn't have a bad reputation. When a release puts a better product in the hands of the consumer it is a good and welcome thing. When a release

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
Daniel T. Drea wrote: On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Gordon Messmer wrote: Everyone has what they want, except for those who want the same old thing If you want the same old thing, run Slackware. It hasn't changed in YEARS. As a consequence, it's a damn pain to maintain. I take

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
Gerald Henriksen wrote: I certainly can't recall messages on any of the Red Hat mailing lists or any survey asking for Red Hat to price their Linux product at the same price levels Microsoft charges, yet that is exactly what Red Hat has done They *have* been asked to provide a platform that will ha

Re: Red Hat 9

2003-03-25 Thread Gordon Messmer
Daniel T. Drea wrote: Can large numbers of redhat machines be updated with a single comand from one box? That's what RHN is for, basically. It's slackwares package management that I find make it "easier" to keep updated with the latest releases of software. Just as you rely on rhn to supply you up

Re: RH 9 - new glibc

2003-03-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
Eric Burke wrote: Sorry, but the whole NPTL gains nothing...no speed...nothing.No other Linux distro is using it or planning on it. That in itself breaks compatibility and the products usefulness. What makes you think other distro's won't use it? It's in glibc, and AFAIK, the changes have been ac

Re: RH 9.0 - changelog?

2003-03-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
Guy Fraser wrote: I don't know about the licence issues RH claims to be at issue. It probably has somthing to do with the RHEL licensing, that conflicts with GPL or something like that, but that is just a guess. Other linux and BSD distributions don't seem to have a problem. The Pine license doe

Re: More Samba

2003-04-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
Corey Head wrote: In my log file, I get the following error: [2003/04/03 07:51:30, 0] lib/access.c:check_access(333) Denied connection from (192.168.1.50] ... I also put this line in the smb.conf file: hosts allow = 192.168.1.0 That's not the right format. It should be either: host

Re: More Samba

2003-04-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
Corey Head wrote: Well...I tried your suggested formats...but that actually didn't work either. Then I guess I need more information about your "global" section. Without that, I wouldn't know what your samba server is configured to disallow. -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https:

Re: I/O error:

2003-04-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
Stephen Mah wrote: I usually leave my computer on overnight and for the past two days I noticed that my hard-drive light was constantly lit when I arrive to work. When this occurs, the computer does not respond. ... Here's the error that pops up: Directory sread (sector 0x13) failed I/O error: dev0

Re: Apt-get update question

2003-06-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
Stephen Liu wrote: I download following RPMs ... I tested rpm all of them and found them not suitable for RH 8.0 because of many dependencies not available or updated. http://psyche.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=1002 -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/list

Re: X Window System, Minimum Installation

2003-05-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
Hattie Rouge wrote: So if I'm not going to run a desktop on a server, just want to forward X to my remote desktop, all I need is XFree86-libs (and dependencies)? Cool! Actually, if you want to use X11 forwarding over SSH, you'll need to install XFree86 and dependencies, as well. The xauth tool wa

Re: stupid question

2003-05-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
Cameron Showalter wrote: the > you are seeing is expecting another command in order to run. are there any crazy other characters included in the file names you are trying to copy/move? Yeah... crazy characters like the single quote character (') ?? I recommend tab completing filenames, so that ba

Re: X System Minimums, Display Errors

2003-05-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
Mike Wagner wrote: I installed XFree86-libs but unfortunately I get a Can't Open Display Error when trying to run an X application such as xterm. You must also install XFree86, so that xauth is installed, and configure sshd to allow X11 forwarding (and restart sshd). -- Psyche-list mailing list [

Re: ssh key type ?

2003-07-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
Allan M. Stewart wrote: I'm curious if there is any clear cut preference in choosing RSA or DSA keys. I believe that DSA is more resistant to current theoretical attacks. I have been using DSA since this guarantees a connection under protocol version 2. RSA1 keys are different than RSA2 key

Re: python installation create havoc

2003-07-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
Daniel Tan wrote: now try running fetchmailconf and i got this...think it some how overwrite something in my env file or then can't run it anymorehelp [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# fetchmailconf /usr/bin/env: python: No such file or directory Easiest fix is to re-install Red Hat's working package

Re: glibc installation

2003-07-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
Daniel Tan wrote: i downloaded glibc-2.3.2 and untar it into a dir coz rpm does not work at all. ... need help fast :(... K... so why does rpm "not work at all"? -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list

Re: glibc installation

2003-07-10 Thread Gordon Messmer
Daniel Tan wrote: i saw a thread from the internet having similiar problem with mine but tat guy can't rpm...so i thought i can't use rpm too...it might be broken...but where do i download latest glibc rpms? the official page only have them in gz or bz format... If you're having problems with rpm,

Re: Scripting question

2003-07-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
Leonard Miller wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/11/03 09:38AM >>> cat file | grep -v ^\> file_nospace (that's a ^ followed by a \ followed by a space) mv file_nospace file > > Thanks Alan, > That worked great. Now let me ask you this. > I have another file with blank lines - no space or t

Re: HomeDirectory and OpenLdap.

2003-07-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
Le Ngoc Thach wrote: Hi all, I have been using OpenLdap for Center Authentication. User's home directory is presented by attribute "homeDirectory" in OpenLdap. I have 2 problems: 1) When a user login Linux (ex: using ssh from remote host), the home directory is not still created. So there is a er

Re: SUDO QUESTION

2003-07-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
jim car wrote: Why can't a user issue the following commands using sudo? It always comes back as permission denied. The sudoer's password is accepted. sudo cat ./httpd.tmp >> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf In this example, two things are happening: 1) sudo authenticates the user and runs "cat ./htt

Re: XFree86 Problem

2003-08-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
CJoeB wrote: This is where the problem starts. The next time I booted the computer (I boot in text mode, rather than having x start automatically because, if something happens like it did once before, I can at least get at my files and transfer them to my Windows mount), the boot process went okay

Re: External Firewire Drives and Booting up

2003-08-31 Thread Gordon Messmer
Thomas Keller wrote: Good Morning, I have a Linux box with two external firewire drives hooked up. The issue I am having is if I reboot or if we are hit by a power outage and I need to bring the system back online, it fails because it does not recognize the firewire drives. The error message

Re: RPM handling of %{_sysconfdir}

2002-10-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 12:33, Jesse Keating wrote: > In /var/lib/rpm/macros %{_sysconfdir} is defined as %{_prefix}/etc. You mean /usr/lib, but... In /usr/lib/rpm/redhat/macros _sysconfdir is defined as just /etc

Re: RPM handling of %{_sysconfdir}

2002-10-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 13:41, Jesse Keating wrote: > On 19 Oct 2002 13:35:41 -0700 > Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # On Sat, 2002-10-19 at 12:33, Jesse Keating wrote: > # > In /var/lib/rpm/macros %{_sysconfdir} is defined as > # > %{_prefix}/etc. &

Re: VIM and accents

2002-10-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 13:16, cfraz wrote: > VIM doen't seems to support locale with accents ; how can one manage > with that ? Works for me with an out-of-the-box configuration? What locale are you using? How are you inputing accented characters?

Re: ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 conversion

2002-10-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 04:25, Karsten Weiss wrote: > > I would like to know how you are currently handling the > conversion of you systems to UTF-8. Please share your > experience! I've only had a few filenames to convert myself. It was fairly simple. Havoc posted a script to do it Interesting

Re: auth_ldap alternative?

2002-10-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
> --On Monday, October 21, 2002 08:32:23 PM -0400 Chris Johnson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Since the auth_ldap package is no longer included to add ldap server > > based authentication to apache, is there an alternative package to > > provide that functionality? Why was auth_ldap not inc

Re: Multi-Gnome-Terminal + slrn problem

2002-10-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:12:29PM -0700, Monte Milanuk wrote: > > > > Slrn fired up ok, and worked rather nicely, until I went to expand a > > thread. In MGT, using screen, it showed the infamous 'mq> instead > > of '->' for the threading arrows. In MGT w/ no screen, it showed > > some kind o

Re: gdk_imlib problem ...

2002-11-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 17:56, Mircea wrote: > After one of the > updates, I started getting an error message every time I open a window > in X : "gdk_imlib ERROR: Cannot load image: > /usr/share/themes/BeCool/gtk/shadow_in.png. All fallbacks failed." . Could be that file is corrupt, and libpng n

Re: Adding language after install without reinstalling?

2002-10-24 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 01:38, Stephen Liu wrote: > > I already have apt-get installed. I could not recall the name of its > package. Are they the same? apt-get is the command line installer in the "apt" package. Synaptic has a GTK+ GUI for updating and installing packages.

Re: DNS-setup - need a little help ...

2002-10-28 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 08:22, Kevin McConnell wrote: > > --- hans privat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > And I am a beginner - not an experienced DNS-admin. > > am sorry about but > > it is true. > > Check out this url for some DNS help: > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html And I might toss

Re: issues

2002-10-28 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 04:38, anthony baldwin wrote: > Now, I tried to reinstall RealPlayer, and was told that it was > already installed, but, as I said before, I can't seem to find it > anywhere, so I can't even remove it to reinstall with my limited > knowledge. What, via rpm? Try: rpm -q Re

Re: chmod 4755 /usr/bin/smbmount

2002-10-31 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 10:42, Brian K. Jones wrote: > > So up to the user's office I go - I change the permissions exactly like > I did on my Psyche box, and something different happened. I got an error > saying: "libsmb tool MUST NOT be suid root". WTF??? On the user's box, you probably changed

Re: OT: mail clients was Re: ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 conversion

2002-11-01 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 20:32, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On 24 Oct 2002, Gordon Messmer wrote: > >I would have said the same a year or so ago. At the time, I started > >trying other clients because pine lacked the one feature that I really > >wanted at the time: message threadi

Re: RH8 on its own unique time-space continuum

2002-11-02 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sat, 2002-11-02 at 08:29, Jim Christiansen wrote: > > Has anyone else done a RH8 install to discover that whether you choose > net-time, or not, even root can not adjust the time or date? No. It works for me ;)

Re: Kernel Challenged

2002-11-03 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 08:34, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > if it's convenient, why bother having to make an initrd at all? > since you're building a new kernel, you might as well just build > ext3 support into the kernel proper. then you can dispense with > this whole mkinitrd business. > > frankl

Re: memory issue

2002-11-04 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 17:05, Ben Dugdale wrote: > You might want to look throught the Enigma list archives, a month or > less ago there was quite and long discussion on this. This one? https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/enigma-list/2002-October/017333.html

Re: Why is gnome-teminal so slow?

2002-11-07 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 11:19, Jean Francois Martinez wrote: > Gnome-terminal like shipped in RedHat 8.0 is very, very, very slow. > The funny thing is that Mandrake 9 cames with exactly the same version > and it is about ten times faster (not an exaggeration). I'd guess that Mandrakes uses the Zvt

Re: Man pages have รข instead of -

2002-11-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 21:33, Jerry Williams wrote: > env shows: > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 ... > I am using Putty to ssh to the box. > Thanks in advance for any help! On putty's startup screen click on "Tranlation" under "Window", and select the UTF-8 character set. You can set that to the default charac

Re: bash and perl output of 'hello' with no \n doesn't work

2002-11-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 06:54, Brian K. Jones wrote: > On Friday 15 November 2002 5:54 am, John wrote: > > > > I'm beginning to think Psyche is a good one to miss. > > Amen brother. This will also slow my dept's adoption of the next release. > Inevitably, I'll also end up having to run another di

Re: database front end gui

2002-11-17 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 18:36, anthony baldwin wrote: > Hvae any of you run pgAccess? Yes. > Are there any other non-proprietary, gpl database gui front ends? http://freshmeat.net/browse/68/?topic_id=68 http://www.gnome-db.org/ > I am having difficulty with pgAccess. I htink it may be an issue

Re: database front end gui

2002-11-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 07:15, Jesse Keating wrote: > [jkeating@yoda jkeating]$ su - > Password: > [root@yoda root]# vmware > > And it pops right up. So, what am I doing that is different from what > you are doing? Probably different versions of pam... Seems like you have a working version of p

Re: database front end gui

2002-11-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 07:42, Jesse Keating wrote: > > Wait a second, why in gods name is xterm suid root? It's not on my 8.0 > box, neither is my term of choice, aterm... It had been for a very long time, so that it can write entries into wtmp. -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: database front end gui

2002-11-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 08:24, John Weber wrote: > On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 08:39, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > > > > Probably different versions of pam... Seems like you have a working > > version of pam_xauth.so, and Russ does not. > > > I played with the p

Re: database gui frontend

2002-11-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 12:48, anthony baldwin wrote: > > I have also tried MysqlCC, but there I get server errors, which > confounds me because I am not trying to build a database on a server, > but simply on my desktop machine. SQL is always client/server, even if it's all on your desktop machine

Re: Utility to satisfy rpm dependencies ?

2002-11-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 05:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does exist any utility to search which rpms are necessary to satisfy a rpm > dependencies ? Red Hat Linux includes redhat-config-packages, which will do what you want, but is limited to the CD's that you installed from. RHL also includes up2

Re: bash and perl output of 'hello' with no \n doesn't work

2002-11-19 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 01:34, Miloslav Trmac wrote: > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 01:50:03AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: > > This isn't a bug. You're not generating a final '\n' character, > > and as such, when the program exits, and bash goes to display the > > prompt, it overwrites the 'hello' thu

Re: imapd information

2002-11-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 18:57, Nadeem Bitar wrote: > What are other people running for IMAP servers? Courier-MTA contains well integrated SMTP, IMAP, and POP3: http://www.courier-mta.org/ Apt-get'able here: http://www.dragonsdawn.net/apt/redhat/ -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

Re: Help with PostgreSQL startup

2002-11-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 08:21, Daniel WELLS wrote: > PostgreSQL starts when the computer boots but it does not > accept TCP/IP connection. I have to stop the service and start it on > a command line with the "-i" option to get it to work. What do I need > to do to get the service to startup corre

Re: Questiona about owner option in fstab.{2nd try]

2002-11-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 15:42, Aaron Konstam wrote: > Well I blew it . I did not explain the problem because it was a > valhalla problem. But for completeness we had students on our lab > login to a machine console and not be able to mount a cdrom > because the device /dev/hdc was owned by someone el

Re: Pros Only! RH8.0 and PHP Bug. (Gordon Messmer - where are you?)

2002-11-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 15:23, Joel Webb wrote: > > Gordon and all. Here is what I have from the test that you gave me to do. > The question how do I force the PHP to use /usr/sbin as the directory to > find the sendmail in?? You don't have to. The script knows where to look. > > + test -z /usr

Re: Help with PostgreSQL startup

2002-11-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 14:28, Daniel WELLS wrote: > O.K. Maybe I haven't expressed myself very well. My question , > while you may have given me an answer, it wasn't clear enough for me > to follow. The advice was incorrect, look at the file: /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf -- Psyche-lis

Re: Help with PostgreSQL startup

2002-11-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 23:57, FredBriand wrote: > > I may mystake because I configured my serveur some times ago (i'm still > using RH73!) and that's not the kind of thing I modify for fun, but if I > remember well, and I think I do, postgresql's default conf is not to > accept tcp/ip connection

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

2002-11-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 14:53, Shizznik McRuube wrote: > I couldn't find where the gcc package was on the red hat 8 CD's > > What site can I find that will tell me where the gcc package and > makeinfo package can be found. on the cds that is. http://sourceforge.net/projects/whichcd/ > here is the

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

2002-11-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 15:58, Shizznik McRuube wrote: > > At the very least, you are going to need to install: > gcc > gcc-c++ > cpp > make > glibc-devel > glibc-kernheaders > binutils > > I believe I have installed all the packages needed however I still am > receiving errors ... > checking wheth

Re: ANSI graphics not displaying properly in 8.0

2002-12-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
Well, where are you seeing the problem? Ncurses, for instance, works properly in a local gnome-terminal, xterm, and the system consoles. If you're seeing the problem on a remote terminal emulator, then you need to tell your terminal emulator that the RHL system is using a UTF-8 character set. Wh

Re: really exasperating cd burner issues

2002-12-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 21:33, Matt Whiteley wrote: > I have posted this before, and I have struggled with it and still cannot > figure out a solution. I have also posted to hardware newgroups and > forums to no avail. Basically if I burn an audio cd or rip from an > audio cd my computer becomes un

Re: Problem with FAM ?

2002-12-08 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 14:14, Cedric Chausson wrote: > I often get messages in the XFree Log that says : > > FAMOpen failed, FAMErrno=0 > > I have package fam-2.6.8.4 installed. You've probably either turned off the sgi_fam service or portmap. If you want to use FAM, they both have to be running

Re: Specifying PAM as the authentication method to use in SSH(Client)

2002-12-09 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 22:28, leeweiqi wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to connect to an ssh server that uses PAM, but can't seem to "tell" >my ssh client to connect using PAM. > How do i do this? You don't. PAM is an implementation detail of the password authentication method on the server side. "pam" i

Re: post-installation suggestions for RH 8.0

2002-12-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 10:30, Samuel Flory wrote: > Tommy McNeely wrote: > > > the i18n should not be modified. if you have an app that is acting > > funny, then just do > > > > $ export LANG=C > > $ man whatever > > Actually putting this in your .bashrc is a better fix. > alias man="env LANG

Re: Macromedia Flash plugin 6 released for x86 Linux

2002-12-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 01:42, Warren Togami wrote: > David Durst wrote: > > Hm, this is interesting. > > I didn't hear that they had started work on the x86 plugin till last week. > > Is the source available? > > No, Macromedia is still a proprietary company with plenty of > intellectual p

Re: Mozilla silently omits HTML graph

2002-12-15 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 13:10, David A. De Graaf wrote: > There's a show-stopper in RH 8.0 for me that I haven't seen discussed. > Mozilla and galeon display incorrectly my Schwab account web page. > A little graph of stock prices is missing. As far as I can tell, this > is an "HTML Advanced Chart",

Re: --bind mounts in fstab?

2002-12-16 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 01:36, Warren Togami wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a proper way of using "--bind" mounts in /etc/fstab? This should work: /src/dir/dst/dirnonebind0 0 -- Psyche-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-li

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