Re: fonts

2002-07-18 Thread Hal Burgiss
on is occuring over a minor system configuration, well, "a lot of people" will just keep moving around to somewhere else the first time they can't figure out something on that shiny new Slackware 8.1. -- Hal Burgiss ___ Redha

Re: xinetd ?

2000-12-06 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 12:05:21PM -0800, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: > Now I see RH 7 uses xinetd instead. Is there any advantage xinetd has? > > I have no idea how to turn services on or off with xinetd. > > Can someone help? Yea, open xterm, place fingers on keyboard and type 'man xinetd'. --

Re: RH7 and gcc

2000-10-10 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 08:45:20AM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > Chuck Byam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is gcc borked in this release or what? > > Works for me. Ditto, so far. Seems a bit faster too... -- Hal B [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ___

Re: List Problem

2000-07-18 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 07:58:23PM -0700, Kirk Whiting wrote: > I recently changed my email address (the old one still works for > pop) and I unsubscribed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > re-subscribed from my new address. This does not work. I saw the > last post about subscribing to a list at redhat

Re: Old HOWTO's...

2000-07-09 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 11:52:20AM -0400, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Mike A. Harris" ) writes: > > > RedHat has a habit of moving HOWTO's that are old and > > unmaintained into an "unmaintained" directory with the > > distribution. > > No, we don't (AFAIK) - we distribute

Re: True Type font support

2000-05-20 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 06:55:13PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After wrestling with ttf in rh6.2 I got to > wondering if future versions plan on > supporting ttf ??? It is supported since 6.0 with xfs. You just have to provide the fonts. -- Hal B [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To unsubscribe:

Re: pgcc

2000-03-10 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 03:42:53PM +0100, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Nikolaos A. Margaritis wrote: > > > Pgcc seems to be quite a promissing project. I have noticed they > > are currently using gcc 2.95.3. Is there any possibilty that we > > might some day see pgcc in ra

Re: xfs and unix:-1

2000-02-08 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 02:07:38PM -0500, R P Herrold wrote: > On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Bob Tennent wrote: > > > b) permissions on /tmp are wonky. > > > > 4 drwxrwxrwt 8 root root 4096 Feb 8 10:39 /tmp/ > > Actually this is not wonky, it is 'sticky' and proper. You missed part of th

Re: xfs and unix:-1

2000-02-07 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 02:06:03PM -0500, Bob Tennent wrote: > I seem to have messed up something and can't figure out what. > The command xfs -port -1 produces the following unenlightening messages: > > _FontTransSocketINETCreateListener: Unable to get service for -1 > _FontTransMakeAllCOTSSer

Re: Installing g++,gcc and makefile from redhat 6.1 cd. Which rpm?

1999-12-19 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sat, Dec 18, 1999 at 11:25:07PM -0800, Wilhein wrote: > I have just installed red hat linux 6.1 from my redhat 6.1 cd. > After doing a great amount of work, i notice that g++, gcc and make > utilites are not installed. How do i install them from my red hat > cd? Which rpm are they in ? egcs-c+

Re: A couple of source code questions

1999-12-10 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 06:53:34AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > At this point, I will leave Red Hat to explain where the current > documentation for RPM may be found; the book at www.rpm.org is > seriously out of date; RPM 3 has significant changes that are not > reflected in any documentation

Re: what is changing permissions on /dev/cdrom

1999-11-01 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 07:58:29PM +1000, Tony Nugent wrote: > Something is very annoyingly changing permissions on /dev/cdrom and > /dev/dsp to 600, when it needs to be 444 and 666 to allow me as a > non-root user to actually use my sound card and cdrom! > > Can somebody tell me who the bloody c

Re: Broken PPP daemon

1999-10-29 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 08:56:28AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > > > 7: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi > > > [root@possum summer]# > > > > > > Is that a useful change? > > > > According to http://www.redhat.com/cgi-bin/support?faq #1, your > > before and afters are identical to the exam

Re: Broken PPP daemon

1999-10-29 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 08:10:38AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > > > not to mention the crashes of netscape, which now crashes almost every 5m > > in. > > > > > > Try turning java off; I went through three versions of netscape (to 4.7) > > > trying to access www.sanford.com.au before thinki

Re: installation type & package choice suggestion

1999-10-24 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 11:34:11AM +1000, Tony Nugent wrote: > On Sun Oct 24 1999 at 12:03, Tom Diehl wrote: > > > On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Chuck Mead wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > As the Red Hat folks are very kind and patient people they > > > probably won't do this but I just cannot help myself.

Re: Noise about the installer...

1999-10-21 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 02:04:57PM +1000, Kevin Waterson wrote: > However, the feed back I have been getting has been mostly negative. > What the most of it seems to be is a _percieved_ short coming in > the installation Whether it is good or not does not sway public > perceptions. > > $0.02 Yo

Re: ///

1999-10-21 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 04:59:11PM -0700, Riyad Kalla wrote: > I know for myself, I have a super-friendly hardware setup > and never really have problems with installations, and after > running the RedHat 6.1 setup on a fresh empty machine, all > the "specific" settings I made during setup, all go

Re: documentation for for the "up2date" update agent ?

1999-10-20 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 04:02:54PM -0700, Riyad Kalla wrote: > I thought this was going to be equivalent to Mandrake's update, where it can > check mirrors that you specify for the updates. But I emailed redhat about this > and they wrote me back saying that you must have a user ID and password to

Re: Font's a little fuzzy ...

1999-10-20 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 12:42:25AM -0500, Liguo Song wrote: > Talking about the ugly fonts, I read something about documentation called > "fonts disuglization for X Windows", or something like this when I was reading > documentation like crazy. I couldn't find it right now. Does this ring a bell >

Re: Font's a little fuzzy ...

1999-10-19 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 04:12:09AM +0200, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > You can use the xfstt font server to serve up true type fonts. The xfstt > > > RPM can be found at any redhat contrib mirror. Free high quality tr

Re: Font's a little fuzzy ...

1999-10-19 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 06:41:46PM -0700, Venkatesh Krishnamurthi wrote: > > Does anyone know what I can do to get better fonts and clearer text in > > Netscape 4.5 and KDE Desktop. I love Linux but the text is terrible. > > Any hints or suggestions? > > You can use the xfstt font server to se

Re: Kernel Build Dies...

1999-10-06 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 10:14:43PM -0400, Adrian Likins wrote: > > > > vim /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/kernel-2.2.spec > > go to line 257 or so... > > %ifarch i386 i586 i686 > make -j 4 bzImage MAKE="make -j 4" > %else > > > replace 'make -j 4 bzImage MAKE="make -j 4"' with 'make

Re: Kernel Build Dies...

1999-10-06 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 02:05:04AM +0200, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Note the cc1 STATE column and memory/cpu columns. There are 200 or so > > total processes at this point, most from from the kernel build. What > > m

Kernel Build Dies...

1999-10-06 Thread Hal Burgiss
I have posted this problem on several lists but am not getting any answers. Sorry if this is not the best place to ask this, but thought someone here might at least point me in a good direction. I am trying to build 2.2.5-22 kernel from RH src.rpm on an Intel P166 with 128M ram and 128M swap. My

Re: Linux For VoiceMail

1999-09-03 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 08:16:41PM -0400, Chuck Mead wrote: > > I'd be interested in this too... it seems to me though that every voice modem > I've ever seen was a win modem... am I wrong? > ActionTec (sp?) has one out. Supposedly has a call-waiting feature that allows one to take voice calls