Re: Updated ISO image for RH 6.1 available ?

1999-12-24 Thread Stanislav Meduna
Hello, > I will translate a french expression: You want the butter, the money of > the butter and in addition the woman selling it Sounds good, why not? :-) But seriously, the idea of "jumbo patches" combining more simple ones is not new - e.g. HP makes it for years. M$ service packs are simila

Re: root password requests in 6.1

1999-12-24 Thread Stanislav Meduna
Hello, > As far as I can see it is only acceptable to be asked for a root password > if you have explicitly requested root access (eg su or login). Adding a > graphical way of requesting root access (eg a program called [gxk]root say > that simply produced a menu of programs that would then be ru

RE: monitor

1999-12-24 Thread Robert Cobb
During installation one muse specify which monitor and video card. Since my monitor is not listed in the hardware I tried the custom settings first. When it goes to check the configuration the screen is black and no picture what so ever. I have tried all the CTX monitors none of which worked. Rob

RE: monitor

1999-12-24 Thread Robert Cobb
Currently I am unable to run any X-Server. I just recently returned to the US and my Linux Box which has Red Hat 5.2 installed on it is still in Germany. I have a new computer here that I built and I picked-up a distribution of Red Hat 6.0 and 6.5 Mandrake. I have been trying to convince the DOIM

Re: monitor

1999-12-24 Thread JF Martinez
> > The second is the video card but I really doubt it. I have an ATI > > All-in-Wonder Pro 128 AGP2. ATI 128 is not supported in RH 6.0 and 6.1. There is a beta who supports it. Try your luck at www.xfree86.org -- Jean Francois Martinez Project Independence: Linux f

Re: Updated ISO image for RH 6.1 available ?

1999-12-24 Thread Prasanth Kumar
I just burned all the update RPMS to a cdrom and then do a "rpm -F" which "freshens", or updates only the previously installed packages. - Original Message - From: "Benno Senoner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 24, 1999 4:46 AM Subject: Updated ISO imag

Re: monitor

1999-12-24 Thread Kirk Whiting
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Robert Cobb wrote: > > I have been having trouble installing Red Hat 6.0 on my computer. The > problem seems to be one of two things. First I have a high frequency > monitor. At 800X600 it runs at 105 HZ. I could bump the resolution up but > that would make everything real

Re: Delivery problems with your mail : vger.rutgers.edu

1999-12-24 Thread Andrew E. Mileski
Uncle George wrote: > Tried to find out what mail-lists are avail at vger.rutgers.edu ( which has the >[EMAIL PROTECTED] list ) of > which i tried to report a scsi ( aic7xxx ) spin-up problem. > I'd like to participate - if there is a discussion - but cannot find instructions or >any one on the

Re: Updated ISO image for RH 6.1 available ?

1999-12-24 Thread JF Martinez
> > On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Benno Senoner wrote: > > > > > > This would save a LOT of headaches for many people. > > > > While this is still a "redhat" OS it is not a redhat distribution. > > What is RedHats position on this sort of thing. > > Can this be distributed

Re: Delivery problems with your mail : vger.rutgers.edu

1999-12-24 Thread Uncle George
Tried to find out what mail-lists are avail at vger.rutgers.edu ( which has the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list ) of which i tried to report a scsi ( aic7xxx ) spin-up problem. I'd like to participate - if there is a discussion - but cannot find instructions or any one on their web . Anyone know ? gat

Re: root password requests in 6.1

1999-12-24 Thread Greg Wright
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 24/12/99 at 15:30 Justin Cormack wrote: > >Well I am inclined to report this as a bug with major security implications. > >As far as I can see it is only acceptable to be asked for a root password >if you have explicitly requested root access (eg su

Re: root password requests in 6.1

1999-12-24 Thread Justin Cormack
> > On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Justin Cormack wrote: > > > I have recently upgraded some machines to RH 6.1 and have noticed an > > alarming tendency for dialog boxes to appear saying please type the > > root password. > > > This really is not acceptable. Any old trojan horse program can do this > >

Re: root password requests in 6.1

1999-12-24 Thread Justin Cormack
> > On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, John Summerfield wrote: > > > > I have recently upgraded some machines to RH 6.1 and have noticed an > > > alarming tendency for dialog boxes to appear saying please type the > > > root password. > > > > > > This really is not acceptable. Any old trojan horse program ca

Re: root password requests in 6.1

1999-12-24 Thread a mole
On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Justin Cormack wrote: > I have recently upgraded some machines to RH 6.1 and have noticed an > alarming tendency for dialog boxes to appear saying please type the > root password. > This really is not acceptable. Any old trojan horse program can do this > and get the passwor

Re: root password requests in 6.1

1999-12-24 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, John Summerfield wrote: > > I have recently upgraded some machines to RH 6.1 and have noticed an > > alarming tendency for dialog boxes to appear saying please type the > > root password. > > > > This really is not acceptable. Any old trojan horse program can do this > > and

Re: monitor

1999-12-24 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Robert Cobb wrote: > > I have been having trouble installing Red Hat 6.0 on my computer. The > problem seems to be one of two things. First I have a high frequency > monitor. At 800X600 it runs at 105 HZ. I could bump the resolution up but > that would make everything real s

Re: Updated ISO image for RH 6.1 available ?

1999-12-24 Thread Benno Senoner
On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Benno Senoner wrote: > > > This would save a LOT of headaches for many people. > > While this is still a "redhat" OS it is not a redhat distribution. > What is RedHats position on this sort of thing. > Can this be distributed or would there be leg

Re: Updated ISO image for RH 6.1 available ?

1999-12-24 Thread kevin
Benno Senoner wrote: > > This would save a LOT of headaches for many people. > I have an updated redhat with all the updates but it is not for public distribution as I have changed some other things also. Namely removed sendmail and inserted qmail, included gnofin nmap knmap and some other tools

monitor

1999-12-24 Thread Robert Cobb
I have been having trouble installing Red Hat 6.0 on my computer. The problem seems to be one of two things. First I have a high frequency monitor. At 800X600 it runs at 105 HZ. I could bump the resolution up but that would make everything real small. It is a CTX, model VL 950 S. I know that the

Updated ISO image for RH 6.1 available ?

1999-12-24 Thread Benno Senoner
Hi, does anyone know if there is an updated ISO image of RH 6.1 available ? I think many of us have the same problem: for already running boxes it's ok to install the bugfixes, but when installing new ones, it's a big waste of time to install the ton of bugfixes everytime. Is there an updated