Re: forgot root password

2000-06-07 Thread Anthony E. Greene
At 20:05 2000-06-06 -0700, CH wrote: >Sounds to me it would need some work to prevent that because not all >computers have it's own room. Then that computer is not secure. You can store data in it if you like, but it's no more secure than if it was sitting in a well-wrapped box on the desk. It ma

Re: forgot root password

2000-06-07 Thread Anthony E. Greene
At 18:56 2000-06-06 -0700, CH wrote: >That is a real big security hole if it were used in business. All you would >have to do is reset if you could not shutdown -r without being root or >equivalent privilige. (Am I right?) We just went through this whole thing in this thread. Check the archive

Re: how to configure an ISA modem(Rockwell 33.6 DPF )

2000-06-07 Thread Zaigui Wang
I have an isa modem too. I managed to make it work: (1) set the jumper right for the port (COM2, or whatever) (2) disable the PnP OS option in you BIOS so that the BIOS, knowing your OS is not capble of PNP, will configure the modem to the right IRQ and etc. (3) use setserial to lk at the /d

Re: Changing Default Directory Permanently

2000-06-07 Thread Anthony E. Greene
At 00:16 2000-06-07 -0600, SoloCDM wrote: >How is it possible to change the default directory permanently in a >script? The default directory for what? When you login, applications look for data files in your home directory by default. This is because you have full ownership of that directory a

Re: <>

2000-06-07 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 12:27:15AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Pine is possibly the most powerful and flexible mail > program for Linux, Comes right after mutt, I suppose... ;-) SCNR, Thomas -- "Look, Ma, no obsolete quotes and plain text only!" Thomas Ribbrock | http:

Re: Saving screen content

2000-06-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Ryan, Thanks for your advise. It works. Text can be duplicated on the same screen. However would it be possible to paste the selected/highlighted text to another file on anther desktop such as KDE or Gnome. I am working in Xwindow in "another level". If possible, how? Thanks in advance.

Re: Linux and the Euro

2000-06-07 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 12:18:32PM +0100, Thomas Ribbrock wrote: [...] > Has anybody out there succeeded in making his/her Linux system > Euro-ready? [...] Ok, I actually found something: http://www.ifconnection.de/~jsf/europunx_en.html A page describing how to set up Unix systems in general f

Building applications

2000-06-07 Thread Chad W. Skinner
Does anyone know what packages are the bare necessitities are for building applications linux. I keep getting errors and feel that I am missing something. I know each package will have dependancies, but I would just like a bare list of make, compilers, etc. Thanks, Chad -- To unsubscribe: mail

Re: Linux and the Euro

2000-06-07 Thread Gustav Schaffter
Interesting, Thomas. I took a bookmark there. (You're not the single European participant on this list. :-) Regards Gustav Thomas Ribbrock wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 12:18:32PM +0100, Thomas Ribbrock wrote: > [...] > > Has anybody out there succeeded in making his/her Linux system > >

_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 113

2000-06-07 Thread Simons
Hello, I'm using rh 6.0 box, after I do export DISPLAY=my.ip:0 and xterm, it give me the "_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 113" Could anyone help me to solve the problem? Thank you very much. Simons -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subj

RE: _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 113

2000-06-07 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
export DISPLAY="IP.ADDR.GOES.HERE:0.0" - you forgot the quotes. > -Original Message- > From: Simons [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 8:08 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 113 > > Hello, > > I'm usi

Re: forgot root password

2000-06-07 Thread Alan Mead
I don't "get" this thread. Listen, if I am malicious, I could buy a hammer/sledgehammer/crowbar/etc for a few bucks that would stop any system not in it's own secure room. Allowing physical access is inherently risky. This is a no-brainer. - Original Message - From: CH <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 113

2000-06-07 Thread Simons
the errno 113 problem still going on, any idea?? - Original Message - ±H¥óªÌ: "Burke, Thomas G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ¦¬¥óªÌ: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ¶Ç°e¤é´Á: 2000¦~6¤ë7¤é PM 08:16 ¥D¦®: RE: _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 113 > export DISPLAY="IP.ADDR.GOES.HERE:0.0" > >

Re: _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 113

2000-06-07 Thread Mike G
check that on the other machine, display access (or whatever id called) is enabled this can be done with xhost + (totally insecure!) man xhost for more Simons wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using rh 6.0 box, after I do > export DISPLAY=my.ip:0 > and xterm, it give me the "_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Ca

RE: _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 113

2000-06-07 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
I'm assuming that you're logging into one machine from remote, and wanting to export an X display (in this case xterm) back to the mchine that you're physically sitting at... My 2nd assumption is that you're not an idiot & you have X running at your local machine. at the command line, try typing

Can't make anonymous FTP work in RedHat 6.x

2000-06-07 Thread Pete Peterson
A friend of mine just built a new machine and loaded it with RedHat 6.2, replacing an older 5.2 machine. He reported that he was unable to upload files by anonymous FTP, which he had no trouble doing with the 5.x system. Having set up anonymous FTP for years on many different flavors of Unix, I

RE: <>

2000-06-07 Thread Ward William E PHDN
Since my comment is short, I put it here: The message ID is invalid, but it's your best bet. Since you said that you get the EXACT same message repeated, what you should do is simply filter for that message ID... shouldn't be a problem. BTW, the invalid ID could be why you keep getting it; sen

Re: _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 113

2000-06-07 Thread Simons
problem still going on... I was successfully get X display from my ISP (which is running Solaris) and the linux box beside me (connected by LAN), but unable to get X display from my production server and my friend's server (which is on same network/same hosting company) will the network cause thi

RE: Inserting Audio CDs makes all CDs unmountable

2000-06-07 Thread Head Technician @ Mathco.com
i have a ACER 50X cd and i can't play any audio cd's either. Last thing i heard of this was a month of so ago and its suppose to be fixed in the 2.2.15 kernel. Mathias Bjorkman e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~'~ www.Bayoulinux.com Your source fo

Re: syslog hogging CPU ?

2000-06-07 Thread Brian
On Sat, 20 May 2000, Mike Lewis wrote: > > Can someone tell me what is going on with syslog and why it is taking so > much CPU time ? I see nothing unusal in /var/log/messages. RH6.1 with all > updates. What logging intensive programs are you running? squid? news? What does your syslog.conf

wheres my dual booty

2000-06-07 Thread MDonchek
Title: wheres my dual booty I just reinstalled linux on a slave drive, and it went rather smoothly.  On hda1 and hda2 (if i remember correctly, C:, and E:) I have DOS partitions with Windows 98, and other data.  Windows boots from C:. When I restarted my pc after install (no boot disk) It loa

Re: Saving screen content

2000-06-07 Thread Ryan Caveney
Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >However would it be possible to paste the selected/highlighted text to >another file on anther desktop such as KDE or Gnome. I am working in >Xwindow in "another level". If possible, how? You want to paste while switching between different window manager

RE: _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 113

2000-06-07 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
Hmmm... Do you have a firewall? If so, is it blocking X traffic? > -Original Message- > From: Simons [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 9:21 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 113 > > problem still

Email -> FAX gateway

2000-06-07 Thread Brian
I am building an email to fax gateway, and was wondering what software anyone else is using with Redhat to accomplish this? In the past I have used sendmail and hylafax, but I noticed Redhat stopped including hylafax on Powertools after 6.0. The RPM for hylafax that comes with 6.0 seems to outd

Re: Unable to mount Flopy drive !

2000-06-07 Thread Anurag Jalan
Hi Alan & ors, # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy works fine NOW, how do i get it to work in X ? the Symlink on the KDE desktop points to /mnt/floppy ... do i need to modify this ? Regards Anurag --- At 11:24 AM 6/6/00 -0500, you wrote: >At 10:36 AM 6/6/00 , Anurag Jalan wrote: >>' Wro

Ecom Consulting

2000-06-07 Thread Scott Skrogstad
I am looking to hire someone to help me go through getting my first eccomerce site on line. I would like someone who has done this in the past and is supporting an eccomerce site today. I don't want to make to many mistakes the first time around. Please send all email to me directly. Scott Skr

Re: forgot root password

2000-06-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 06 Jun 2000, CH wrote: > That is a real big security hole if it were used in business. All you would > have to do is reset if you could not shutdown -r without being root or > equivalent privilige. (Am I right?) Is there a way to block "linux single" > command if desired as long as you

Problems setting up Cyrus-imapd

2000-06-07 Thread KThorpe
Has anyone got cyrus imapd installed successfully? I've been trying to install from the rpms in powertools. I asked for help the other day because the rpm wouldn't install. I've now fixed that. Now I can't log in. All I'm getting when I run cyradm is: application-specific initialization failed:

Re: forgot root password

2000-06-07 Thread Duncan Hill
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, John Aldrich wrote: > Put a password in the LILO so that if someone tries to do a > linux single they still have to know the root password. Another option is to set the boot prompt time to 0, and then set a bios password, and disable floppy boot. However, as frequently state

Re: Building applications

2000-06-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 07 Jun 2000, Chad W. Skinner wrote: > Does anyone know what packages are the bare necessitities are for building > applications linux. I keep getting errors and feel that I am missing > something. I know each package will have dependancies, but I would just like > a bare list of make, comp

RE: Email -> FAX gateway

2000-06-07 Thread Tanner, Robby
I haven't tried this put there is an article in the December 1999 Linux journal for Multifax. Required is mgetty+sendfax (http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/serial/getty). Respond program (http://www.boerde.de/~horstf) Note: While you're there pick up printfax.pl and smb.conf entry for Sa

Re: Email -> FAX gateway

2000-06-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 07 Jun 2000, Brian wrote: > I am building an email to fax gateway, and was wondering what software > anyone else is using with Redhat to accomplish this? In the past I have > used sendmail and hylafax, but I noticed Redhat stopped including hylafax > on Powertools after 6.0. > > The RPM

Re: Email -> FAX gateway

2000-06-07 Thread John Aldrich
Whoops...disregard my previous post I don't know why I thought you meant email -> PAGER... :-) I guess I"m not with it today... :-) John -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

RE: Problems setting up Cyrus-imapd

2000-06-07 Thread Mobeen Azhar
I got it to work about two weeks ago after horsing with it for some time. Here is what I had to (don't ask me why ... this made it work!!). 1) Build and install from the source RPMs. 2) Install again from the binary RPMs. Perform (1) and (2) both for Cyrus-SASL (do this one first) and then Cy

RE: Email -> FAX gateway

2000-06-07 Thread KThorpe
Another option is fax2send (www.fax2send.com). Far easier than hylafax to set up, took 2 mins on my system. Server + 4 clients send only for free. (Win clients if reqd) e-mail -> fax. $10 to receive as well. (shit, it's only 10 bucks) $99 for unlimited users. Worth a look for nuffink anyway.

Re: Can't make anonymous FTP work in RedHat 6.x

2000-06-07 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
Pete, I've deleted wu-ftpd from my systems and am using ProFTPd instead so I can't send you my anonftp configuration, but: wu-ftpd is by default set to deny uploads from anonymous ftp users. You'll need modify the configuration file to allow for uploads. Glen On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Pete Peterso

pop users can browse my server

2000-06-07 Thread redhat
Hi all, I have given popuser accounts on my 6.0 redhat box They dial in and get their mail The other day I found out that a popuser can browse my server How do I prevent that ? thanks Jacob The script that I use for my dial-in setup is attached. Title: SETTING UP A PPP/POP DIAL-IN SERVER

Re: What is /dev/pts and why is it in fstab?

2000-06-07 Thread Bruce Bauer
After some searching I found that you have to enable something called: UNIX 98 PTY support (If they had said PTS support I wouldn't have had to ask!) This is found under the Character devices section. If this is not enabled, you don't get the choice under Filesystems to i

Re: Unable to mount Flopy drive !

2000-06-07 Thread Bret Hughes
Anurag Jalan wrote: > Hi Alan & ors, > > # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy works fine NOW, how do i get it > to work in X ? the Symlink on the KDE desktop points to /mnt/floppy ... do > i need to modify this ? > > Regards > Anurag > You have a couple (at least) options: change the fstab

Re: forgot root password

2000-06-07 Thread Bret Hughes
John Aldrich wrote: > Put a password in the LILO so that if someone tries to do a > linux single they still have to know the root password. > John > > Don't forget to change it if you change the root password or the guy you were trying to keep out still has an easy way in. Bret -- T

Re: Building applications

2000-06-07 Thread Bret Hughes
John Aldrich wrote: > On Wed, 07 Jun 2000, Chad W. Skinner wrote: > > Does anyone know what packages are the bare necessitities are for building > > applications linux. I keep getting errors and feel that I am missing > > something. I know each package will have dependancies, but I would just lik

Re: pop users can browse my server

2000-06-07 Thread Scott Skrogstad
I prevented this by doing an adduser /dev/null username. Then all they could do it pop Scott Skrogstad Computer Integration Inc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 800-522-3475 Phone On Wed, 7 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I have given popuser accounts on my 6.0 redhat box > They dial in and

xfree86 4.0 - RH 6.2 - 3dfx voodoo3 1000

2000-06-07 Thread Spunk S. Spunk III
I've installed xfree86 on my RH 6.2 machine and after a ton of research, I finally got the settings I needed. The problem is after I got everything right (I'm pretty sure) I started up X and got a fatal server error. In the error log, it looks as though it dies when it is in the middle of configur

Automount daemon vs autofs

2000-06-07 Thread Joseph T. Tannenbaum
Ok all Redhaters.. What is the difference between using amd and useing autofs? How is it different than NFS? Why are all the auto Howtos and man pages so sketchy and circular (here: look there, there: look here)? Joe -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject

Re: pop users can browse my server

2000-06-07 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
In /etc/passwd remove their shell. Without it they can't telnet, rlogin, or ssh in. Glen On Wed, 7 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi all, > >I have given popuser accounts on my 6.0 redhat box >They dial in and get their mail > >The other day I found out that a popuser can browse my serve

how to put a password for linux single

2000-06-07 Thread kdeepak
Hi all, How put a password for linux single in lilo . regards k.deepak --- K.DEEPAK System Administrator AdventNet Development Centre (India) Pvt Ltd "Kaashyap Enclave" 13-A Velachery Main Road Velachery Chenn

Alpha vendors?

2000-06-07 Thread dave-mlist
I'm looking for vendors that sell SMP Alpha servers. This will be for a high-volume database server running on RH6.2. Any recommendations? Dave -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

[OT]Anonymous Ftp

2000-06-07 Thread Redhat Mailing List
Hi everybody! Sorry if this is off topic. We have wu-ftpd-2.5.0-1mdk on a linux box.The problem is that since some days ago it was apeared that the daemon does not logout the anonymous logins from the system even if the client side uses 'bye' or 'close' etc. Anybody knows where to start debug

Re: forgot root password

2000-06-07 Thread Connie Sieh
You can add the folling line to the /etc/inittab file to require the root password be provided to login via single user mode. This of course will not help the person who forgot their root password but it will keep one from just rebooting to single user to get in. You need the "~~"'s. ~~:S:wait:

Re: pop users can browse my server

2000-06-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 07 Jun 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have given popuser accounts on my 6.0 redhat box > They dial in and get their mail > > The other day I found out that a popuser can browse my server > How do I prevent that ? > > thanks > Jacob > > The script that I use for my di

RE: how to put a password for Linux single

2000-06-07 Thread Whitley, Sarah \(ISS Reading\)
Put the following two lines in the global section of lilo.conf (the global section is everything above the "image" line). password=* (insert a password up to 8 characters) restricted the restricted line means that the password is asked for only if the user attempts a boot option e.g. boo

Re: how to put a password for linux single

2000-06-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 07 Jun 2000, kdeepak wrote: > Hi all, >How put a password for linux single in lilo . > "man lilo.conf" for the answer. John -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

ipchains MASQ and rlogind

2000-06-07 Thread Kraszewski, Marcin
I have a problem with getting rlogin connection from my private network through a Linux NAT (MASQ) gateway. rlogind expects the connection to come from a port in the range 512 through 1023, if it isn't, the connection is aborted, but my NAT gateway assigns ports (in the trace I did) from the range

Re: Problems setting up Cyrus-imapd

2000-06-07 Thread Lars Kellogg-Stedman
> Has anyone got cyrus imapd installed successfully? The RedHat Powertools version of Cyrus IMAPd is broken. Cyrus imapd *does not* run as root. However, RedHat distributes it with a PAM config that attempts to authenticate against your system accounts, which requires the ability to read the sh

RH 6.2 goes bonkers in 2 days!!!

2000-06-07 Thread Jerry Human
Hello RH Guru's: I sure hope you can help me with this one. Last week I installed a WD Caviar 102AA 10 gig hard drive and made four partitions: hdc1 four gig, hdc2 100 meg, hdc3 three gig, and hdc4 three gig. I installed RH 6.2 on hdc1 and used hdc2 for the swap file. The drives hda and hdb are u

Re: Alpha vendors?

2000-06-07 Thread Hidong Kim
http://www.microway.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm looking for vendors that sell SMP Alpha servers. This will be for > a high-volume database server running on RH6.2. Any recommendations? > > Dave > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" > as the Subject. -

Re: New NT OS Loader + Linux

2000-06-07 Thread Joe Brenner
"Adv. Systems Design" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have NT and Linux on one drive, but recently have > bought another drive for linux alone, so I would like > to recoup the drive space for mp3's! > > Problem: I put LILO on the MBR, where I was dual > booting into NT and Linux...how do I take

Re: RH 6.2 goes bonkers in 2 days!!!

2000-06-07 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 03:19:25PM -0400, Jerry Human wrote: > I sure hope you can help me with this one. Last week I installed a > WD Caviar 102AA 10 gig hard drive and made four partitions: hdc1 > four gig, hdc2 100 meg, hdc3 three gig, and hdc4 three gig. I > installed RH 6.2 on hdc1 and used h

Re: wheres my dual booty

2000-06-07 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 09:59:41AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I just reinstalled linux on a slave drive, and it went rather smoothly. On : hda1 and hda2 (if i remember correctly, C:, and E:) I have DOS partitions : with Windows 98, and other data. Windows boots from C:. Check your /etc/l

Re: xfree86 4.0 - RH 6.2 - 3dfx voodoo3 1000

2000-06-07 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 09:39:01AM -0700, Spunk S. Spunk III wrote: : I've installed xfree86 on my RH 6.2 machine and after a ton of research, I : finally got the settings I needed. The problem is after I got everything : right (I'm pretty sure) I started up X and got a fatal server error. In the

RE: RH 6.2 goes bonkers in 2 days!!!

2000-06-07 Thread Burke, Thomas G.
Yous gots a bad drive... (or possibly controller) Those messages are all inode errors, which means that the FATs don't jibe with what's on the drive... lost+found is some extra space that unices set aside for when the drive gets full. there should be nothing in there unless the drive is filled.

RE: xfree86 4.0 - RH 6.2 - 3dfx voodoo3 1000

2000-06-07 Thread MDonchek
Title: RE: xfree86 4.0 - RH 6.2 - 3dfx voodoo3 1000 I realize this doesn't seem like much help, but I just installed RH 6.2 and it recognized my voodoo300 agp automatically.  All I had to do was skip over this screen in the graphical install since it chose the proper card and memory by default

MS Breakup

2000-06-07 Thread Brandon Dorman
Yahoo! MS to be broken up. Probably won't happen due to appeals but oh well. I saw RH stock went up. That's good for all of us! (when our favorite company does well...) -Brandon -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: ipchains MASQ and rlogind

2000-06-07 Thread Alan Mead
FWIW, telnet or, better, ssh work through IP Masq just fine. -Alan - Original Message - From: Kraszewski, Marcin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 10:53 AM Subject: ipchains MASQ and rlogind > I have a problem with getting rlogin connection from

Re: MS Breakup

2000-06-07 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Brandon Dorman wrote: > Yahoo! MS to be broken up. ARGH! Now I'll have to upgrade all my "Microsoft sucks" T-Shirts, stickers, .signatures etc to "Microsoft Applications and Microsoft Operating Systems suck" T-Shirts, stickers and .signatures! I wonder if I can sue Microsof

RE: MS Breakup

2000-06-07 Thread Joseph T. Tannenbaum
Are you sure? Who started the "computer age" or "information age" when you could exchange files with almost anyone. Why do you think the DOJ has a standard consisting of MS Windows and MS Office? This break up bears no good news for Linux or any other OS. It also means no good news for IT depa

Re: MS Breakup

2000-06-07 Thread Anandvivakanan Baljit
Please don't you people start up with that MS vs. LINUX stuff. MS is a major player in your country's economy. Even though I don't like any of their products many people cannot do any work on their computer without Microsoft and wouldn't have use a computer if their wasn't something like MS on th

RE: MS Breakup

2000-06-07 Thread rpjday
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Joseph T. Tannenbaum wrote: > Are you sure? Who started the "computer age" or "information > age" when you could exchange files with almost anyone. Why > do you think the DOJ has a standard consisting of MS Windows > and MS Office? This break up bears no good news for Linux

RE: <>

2000-06-07 Thread Juha Saarinen
%-> I got the spam described too. anyone else on this list %-> get it?? is %-> this list getting mined for addresses? I will be watching for %-> a working %-> filter method too. thanks. %-> brian :) %-> Well, this list is echoed to Usenet, and C|Net "borrows"

Re: MS Breakup

2000-06-07 Thread Rick Forrister
Who started the "computer age" or "information age" was _NOT_ Microsoft. I have doubts about the DOJ pogrom against MS, but MS has been a master of advertising and deceit, not innovation. Back in the late 70's & early 80's we were working on the DARPA net. Wasn't a sign of MS products around t

RE: MS Breakup

2000-06-07 Thread Uncle Meat
On 07-Jun-2000 Joseph T. Tannenbaum opined: > Are you sure? Who started the "computer age" or "information > age" when you could exchange files with almost anyone. Why > do you think the DOJ has a standard consisting of MS Windows > and MS Office? This break up bears no good news for Linux or

RE: MS Breakup

2000-06-07 Thread y u r i k
I can not believe this: so many people repat this zomby line: 1. part of economy 2. if it were not for MSFT... and then go on and describe Apple "part of daconomy" just does not hold a drop of saliva, if you start looking at numbers just get back to work and stop day trading :-) -

Re: MS Breakup

2000-06-07 Thread eric clover
is this a linux help listserv , or a m$ flaming list?? can we please get back to linux?? eric -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.

Re: MS Breakup

2000-06-07 Thread Robert Canary
"Joseph T. Tannenbaum" wrote: > Are you sure? Who started the "computer age" or "information > age" when you could exchange files with almost anyone. Why > do you think the DOJ has a standard consisting of MS Windows > and MS Office? This break up bears no good news for Linux or > any other

RE:RH 6.2 goes bonkers in 2 days!!!

2000-06-07 Thread Frank Carreiro
I wonder if your running into the same thing I was... Check your /etc/fstab file and make sure the sixth field has been setup correctly. 1 for your root partition and 2 for all other partitions you want mounted. I noticed everything (almost) was a 1. This is bad :-). Check it out. Frank H

Re: MS Breakup

2000-06-07 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 06:28:03PM -0700, Anandvivakanan Baljit wrote: > Please don't you people start up with that MS vs. LINUX stuff. MS is a > major player in your country's economy. Yes, they are -- because they've done away with competition, by hook or by crook. So what might have been a fe

IDE Tape Drive

2000-06-07 Thread Joel Lansden
Greetings all: I am running kernel 2.3.50 and I have an HP Colorodo 5Gb IDE Tape Drive installed. The kernel detects the tape drive at bootup, and calls it /dev/hdc (at the same time it detects the hard drive & cd-rom). My question is, how do I either 1) search out the device file that I would

RE: MS Breakup

2000-06-07 Thread Tanner, Robby
In fact, Microsoft did its level best to downplay the internet before it really took off. Kind of silly in hindsight, mind you, I am using hindsight. > -Original Message- > From: Robert Canary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 5:56 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > S

RE: MS Breakup

2000-06-07 Thread Joseph T. Tannenbaum
actually no. I knew all that stuff, but if MS hadn't been driving it, using mosaic on a Unix or Vax machine would be as far as you get. > -Original Message- > From: rpjday [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 3:40 PM > To: Joseph T. Tannenbaum > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: RH 6.2 goes bonkers in 2 days!!!

2000-06-07 Thread Michael George
On Jun 07, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: > > lost+found is some extra space that unices set > aside for when the drive gets full. there should be nothing in there unless > the drive is filled. that something _does_ show up in there seems > indicative that you've got real problems. I'm not sure where

php&IMAP - Kerberos Error

2000-06-07 Thread Chad W. Skinner
I am trying to compile php3 with redhat 6.2 and I get an error similar to the following: undefined symbol: gss_mech_krb5 Will I break anything in the imap package if I comment out the section dealing with kerberos as I am not running kerberos or is there a better way to fix this? -- To unsubs

RE: Building applications

2000-06-07 Thread Chad W. Skinner
> kernel-headers, kernel-utils ... Installing these solved my problem, but not being a programmer I don't quite understand what they do? Why are they needed to install other programs or what do they contain? Thanks, Chad -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subj

Re: MS Breakup

2000-06-07 Thread Vidiot
>BUT, all problems aside, we would not be knocking >MS on the internet if it twern't for Bill. How do you figure? The internet was around and kicking long before Bill decided to jump on the bandwagon. E-mail was working long before Bill and so were web pages. Bill only jumped in so that he cou

Updated PHP 4.0.0 SRPMs for testing

2000-06-07 Thread Jason Costomiris
I updated the srpms, one for RH 6.1, one for RH 6.2. http://www.jasons.org/php4/ See the announcement from last week for more info on the build process. http://www.moongroup.com/Redhat11/msg01437.html -- Jason Costomiris <>< | Technologist, geek, human. jcostom {at} jasons {dot} or

RE: MS Breakup

2000-06-07 Thread Joel Lansden
Personally, I'm just waiting for MS-UX or some other Microsoft violation of Unix that eliminates the command line and turns the kernel into some kind of clusterf**k of icons and sounds and animations. > -Original Message- > From: Vidiot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, Jun

Re: IDE Tape Drive

2000-06-07 Thread Bret Hughes
Joel Lansden wrote: > Greetings all: > > I am running kernel 2.3.50 and I have an HP Colorodo 5Gb IDE Tape Drive > installed. The kernel detects the tape drive at bootup, and calls it > /dev/hdc (at the same time it detects the hard drive & cd-rom). > > My question is, how do I either 1) search

Is there something like...?

2000-06-07 Thread Luis Pablo Gasparotto
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Re: forgot root password

2000-06-07 Thread CH
> > Put a password in the LILO so that if someone tries to do a > > linux single they still have to know the root password. > > John > > > > Don't forget to change it if you change the root password or the guy you were > trying to keep out still has an easy way in. > > Bret That's what I

Re: RH 6.2 goes bonkers in 2 days!!!

2000-06-07 Thread CH
> After ~ 40 minutes of holding the 'Y' key down, fsck reports the fs is > currupted and is automatically restarting and I spend another ~40 > minutes holding the 'Y' key down. Upon completion, shut down and reboot. > RH does start and prompts for login. After login, RH seems to work > slugishly a

How to install and start WINE

2000-06-07 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all people, Kindly advise how to install WINE when installing RH 6.2 and how to make it evoked thereafter. If WINE does not come with RH 6.2 where can I download " pgcc " which is necessitated for building WINE? gcc 2.7.2 is also needed for its building and its does not come with RH 6.2.

Re: MS Breakup

2000-06-07 Thread CH
> Yahoo! MS to be broken up. Probably won't happen due to appeals but oh well. I saw RH stock went > up. That's good for all of us! (when our favorite company does well...) > > -Brandon I wouldn't get too excited just yet. I like M$ Windump but I love Linux's flexibilities. If it would

(OT) WD and Maxtor HD

2000-06-07 Thread CH
> Don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but I recently had some > similar errors on a newish WD caviar, and now RH is running on a > Maxtor instead. Maybe mine weren't so bad. I could run several days, > maybe a week or two, before errors. I did several partial re-installs. > Blamed it on SMP f