Re: restore from ext2 to ext3?

Hi all, This thread made me wonder abouth something. Is there any problem with using a cpio backup from and ext2 to restore a file on an ext3 filesystem. Hopefully I will never have to test it. Thanks Linda Hanigan ___

Re: linux-windows network

Hi, What are your trying to do? I have found it easiest to work on one thing at a time. There are plenty of people on the list that will help you if you can't get it to work after reading the howtos. You can use your Linux box to connect to your ISP and share the connection with the windows box. Y

Re: where is word perfect ?

I got my copy of wordperfect with the book WordPerfect for Linux Bible by Stephen E Harris ISBN # 0-7645-3374-6 It is not a free solution it cost $39.95 It is a good book. It is a complete version Linda ___ Redhat-list maili

print filter question

Hi all I just upgraded a 6.2 machine to 7.2 I have alot of programs that have embedded escape sequences for printing in the past the filters figured out they were ascii now I have to have a seperate printer that is a text printer. In the past I have altered the print filter asc-to-printer.fp so i

Re: print filter question

Thanks Leonard, I installed all the updates put I am still getting Fatal error max copies = 1 when I try to print multiple copies on text printer. I could alway loop the print command as a work around. Linda ___ Redhat-list m

Re: Samba Question

Hi, Does your workgroup match whatever it shows under network neighborhood properties? Have you removed the IPX/SPX and NetBEUI protocols from your windows pc? Linda ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com

printcap question

Hi all, I have finally solved my printer problems with some hand editing of printcap. The file says make the changes in printcap.local so you don't lose them on reboot. Do you put a copy of the printers entries that you change to printcap.local or how does it work. I need to add mc=10:\ and change

cfdisk

Hi, What happened to cfdisk in RH7.2? What is the best substitute. I use it to format zipdrives. Thanks Linda ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

word perfect 8 question

I did a clean install of rh7.2 on my home machines about a month ago loaded the libc ld.so from 6.2 and had no problem loading word perfect. So this weekend I installed 7.2 on the first machine at work. Wordperfects graphical install fails and when i do a text base install it says wp doesnot work

Re: samba with Windows 2000

populate smbpasswd cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd.sh > /etc/smbpasswd set smbpasswd with smbpasswd command for each user Good Luck Linda Hanigan On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Fernando Lozano wrote: > Hi Jatan, > > > I couldn't find anything like "EncryptedPasswords" in the smb.conf

Re: How do you start the samba server

/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Blaine wrote: > check the tick box in the services window next to smb. > > > > ___ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > ___

wp8 solved-video question

Hi all, I stole the video card from my husbands computer which solved the problem with wp not working with 7.2 at work. Now I have to by him a new video card, any suggestions he is a little upset with my solution. Thanks Linda _

help with video card

Hi, I bought an ATI Xpert 128 card to replace an old card. It looks like it shoud use XF86_Mach64 driver so I installed that rpm. However when I run Xconfigurator it identifies the card corectly and says it will use Xserver SVGA and driver r128 I don't know if the server is right but the driver de

what video card should I use Please Help I am desperate

Hi all I pulled a different video card and put it in the computer and X changed it driver and it worked for that card so even though there was a list of sever ATI Xpert cards in the list obviously the Xpert 128 pci card must not be supported. Does anyone have any ideas of what I can buy at Best B

Re: what video card should I use Please Help I am desperate

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Dave Reed wrote: > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Dave, I am looking for a card that will work with RH7.2 (The kids also use wp on that computer and since it wouldn't work after I updated from 6.2 with the rivera 128 driver and a velocity card I proably should avoid that dr

Re: what video card should I use Please Help I am desperate

Dave, I did try the pages you listed yesterday, but they generated error messages with opera. I guess I'll try another browser and see if I can get it to work. Did the ATI Radeon 7500 work if you didn't use the 2D and 3D. I could alway upgrade later or wait till it is supported in a distro.

Re: what video card should I use Please Help I am desperate

Trond, Thankyou I called around and found someone who had it in stock so I am off to see if we can have peace. Thanks Linda On 29 Jan 2002, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote: > For RHL 7.2, the best card out of the box is ATI Radeon 64 MB DDR. If > you're feeling lik

eth0 does not start at boot

Hi all, The machine I just installed RH7.2 on does bring eth0 up on boot. It is all configured so I could add ifup eth0 to rc.local. However I was wondering what I need to change to make it come up to start with. This is the third machine I have running RH7.2 and it is the first one with this prob

Re: Modem recommendations

I have used both a zoom and us robotics external modem. External modems work great and you can turn them off. Linda Hanigan ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

sugestion for install program

Hi Here is a simple suggestion for the installation program. When it gives the bad or dirty media message it would be nice if it unmouned the cd so you could eject it and replace it with a different copy or try to clean it. Just a thought Linda ___

samba question

Hi all, I am having problems with samba I got it working after I upgraded from 6.2 then it quit working? I tried smbclient -L star -N amd get this message added interface ip=192.168.1.3 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 session setup failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password

Re: Suddenly unable to print (network printer, but problem is local)

I had a similar problem when printing a ps file a few weeks ago I finally used printconf to recreate the printer and it then worked. This is not a very nice solution but you could try it. Otherwise you might try the lprng mailing list for help. Linda On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Joe Nes

Re: Vi: Replace Word sequencei

In vi p puts what you have yanked with yy at the curent cursor location. you can also do global substitutions if you are changeing text. You should create a good cheat sheet until you get used to vi. Linda On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, john-paul delaney wrote: > Thanks... Sorry I was

Re: Uninformative printing error

Hi, Have you double checked your printer cables and turned your printer off and back on. When I updated the print package the last time the printer stopped working and I was sure I had goofed up the update only to discover after a wasted hour that the cable had been knocked so it wasn't completely

Radeon 7500

> For RHL 7.2, the best card out of the box is ATI Radeon 64 MB DDR. If > you're feeling like trying XFree 4.2 (unsupported, from > ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/Xhide/ ), the ATI Radeon 7500 is an even nicer card. > > (note: 8500 does not have 3D support under Linux FTTB) > Hi all, I insta

Re: Radeon 7500

Dave Thank you so much I added alias char-major-10-175 agpgart options agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 to /etc/modules.conf as you suggested then Xconfigurator set up the display just fine. However my device entry is a little different than yours Section "Device" Identifier "ATI Radeon A

Re: Radeon 7500

Thanks Dave, I pulled out the motherboard documentation and it supports 133mhz 4x mode so I'll try changeing it. It shouldn't hurt anything. Linda ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailm

Re: Radeon 7500

Thank you to both Ed and Dave I added the "AGPmode" "4" and then tried glxinfo and it showed direct rendering yes so we tried tux racer it is a blast. The kids may not let me reboot windows so I can fix it. I am not sure how 3d is working since I thought you had to get a different kernel and I onl

Re: x server problem

Hi, Have you try setting to boot in terminal mode and seeing if it has the same problem. Atleast it would allow you to know if it is a problem with x or not. Everytime I have had this problem on a unix or Linux machine it has been caused by bad hardware - however with a new machine that should not

Re: Printer options...

Hi, I think you can choose the options in the filter choices when you set up your printer so you would setup one spool with dublex say 2200duplex and one as 2200single. If you want to send your own escape sequences you really need to setup a raw spool without the filter or with one of your own cre

Re: RedHat 7.2 Freezing up

Hi I don't have apmd running but if my kids left xwindows logged in and the screen saver started it did the same thing no response to keyboard, mouse, or network card. I turned off the screen saver and no more lockups. Linda On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Reuben D Budiardja wrote: > I

ClanLib install question

Hi all, I am trying to install the ClanLib rpms I managed to solve most of the dependency problems with mandrake rpms off of rpmfind. I hope that wont cause problems with the system. I have one problem left it says it needs libGLcore.so.1. I did a goggle search and found a suggestion to make a sof

Re: ClanLib install question - now glut.h

Thanks Emmanuel It is a great site I got ClanLib installed however the game I am trying to compile still wont compile It says it needs glut.h and gl.h anybody know what development package I need now? Linda ___ Redhat-list mailing list

Re: Redhat Transition issue

Hi, Transistions can be a pain. If you write your own software you really need one system to install, fix recompile, and debug until it works. Somethings like corelword perfect you can get to work by loading the c library that came with 6.2 on your computer along with 7.2. I know it is not fun eve

Re: star office install from rh 7.2 cd

I installed from a star office cd not from RH separte cd so this may not apply. Logon as root in Xwindows and mount cdrom cd /cdrom/linux/Office52 ./setup -net Then as a user you logon in x windows in console window cd to directory where Office52 is installed cd to Ofice52/program ./setup When y

Re: xfree 4.2 rpm from rawhide under 7.2

Hi, I installed the XFree 4.2 rpms under 7.2 a few weeks ago and it has worked great for me. If you want Mesa packages you will want to install them first since XFree 4.2 will install newer versions of some of the libs so you can't install it afterwards. Your mileage may vary.

Re: Installing XFree86 4.20

Here is where Trond Eivind Glomsrod suggested I get the rpms for XFree 4.2 from, they worked great for me. If you're feeling like trying XFree 4.2 (unsupported, from ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/Xhide/ ) Linda Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Billy R Nordyke wrote: > How do I get an executable

Re: Installing XFree86 4.20

Dave Reed suggested I make the following changes I added alias char-major-10-175 agpgart options agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1 to /etc/modules.conf as you suggested then Xconfigurator set up the display just fine. After the setup I changed the XF86Config-4 file so option which was

Re: star office install from rh 7.2 cd

I found this link to download it. Maybe you should download it from here and ditch the version that came with RedHat. Sun purchased StarOffice and is making it available for free (see www.sun.com/staroffice). It is about 65M to download, so you might want to just send them the US$10 to send you a

Re: This is what it was about...

Opera also is a nice browser If you don't mind ads or want to pay to get rid of the adds. Linda On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, badger wrote: > >In my opinion, throwing Mozilla at them is e

backup question

I have always used cpio for backup. However I decided to play with different ways to backup that I could write to a a cdrom since they are alot cheaper than zip drives. The cd burner is not any of the linux computers but I tried using mkisofs to create a cd image and than burn it on a different co

Re: backup question

Mondo looks interesting but the cd drive is on my boss's windows laptop not on the linux machines and reading the manual it looks like the linux machine must have a cdrw drive > 1. Use Mondo. http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ > This is by far the best and most flexible backup I've used. It is also

Re: backup question

Thanks Brian, I'll play with tar some this weekend. I rather like tar with compression since it would mean making fewer cds. I just had read about it in Unix Backup and Recovery and when it said must list each subdirectory seperatelyy I had visions of typing for hours to create a script.

Re: configuration of /etc/printcap

> ##PRINTTOOL3## DIRECT > laser:\ > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ > :mx#0:\ > :sh:\ > :rm=192.168.2.1 > :rp=laser > :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\ > :lp=/dev/null:\ > :if=/usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters//directprint: > > > My printcaps file entry for a working remote prin

OT usb mouse

Hi all, Off topic question can you plug in a usb mouse to a laptop after it is booted and have it work and unplug it and go back to using the touchpad or is it just like a ps2 mouse you have to plug it in before you boot? Thanks Linda __

Re: OT usb mouse

Thanks, I was thinking about it because I am having trouble mastering drag and drop with the touchpad On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Statux wrote: > USB devices are typically hot-pluggable. Certain devices can tollerate > such behavior better than others, however. > > There's a big catch, here, though. Y

samba and win2000

Hi all, I have a user that has win2000 and her computer is unable to see the linux printer. Does anyone know what nasty new wrinkle win 2000 pro has that I have to do to make it play nicely with the linux network. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Linda Hanigan ___

Re: samba and win2000

Thank you so much this worked like a charm. Linda On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, David Talkington wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Does anyone know what nasty new wrinkle win 2000 > >pro has that I have to do to make it play nicely >

Re: Download limited

Have you tried downloading mail with another mail program like kmail or pine atleast than you would know if it was just a setting in netscape. I used to have one users mail that would hang windows everytime I had to view the mail on the server and delete it to get it to download and clear the serv

Re: URGENT I can't use my printer

Hi, Since no one has answered. I'll suggest somethings I would try. I have no idea if they will work since I don't have either printer. First after you installed the print updates did you remove and reinstall the printer. This would insure that your printers would reflect the updates. Next When yo

Re: install issues

What are you trying to do? I loaded a very old version of slackware on to a 486 with only 4MB of ram to basically use as a dumb terminal about a year ago. There were special instructions on how to do a low memory install. If you are trying for this I'll see if I can find my notes on how I did it

Re: RE : window manager choice ???

> fvwm2 is a good (fast) choice. I also hear good things about XFce in > that regard, though I've not tried it. > > - -d > > - -- > David Talkington I have been using Xfce for years and love it. Linda Hanigan ___ Redhat-list mai

Re: Telnet connection fails

Look in /etc/xinetd.d/telnet and make sure disable = no Linda ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: HP Deskjet shared on Samba, Windows users denied access

With some help from Mike klinke and a MacNN Tutorial I found ( I used this with Win XP and Win98) this is what I did to get my windows printer to work with cups I added a link: ln -s /usr/bin/smbspool /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb restart the cups daemon Open cups admin by going to http://localhost:63

Re: How do I add a user to samba?

> > Now I have a new user. How can I add a new user so that samba recognizes > him without going through the procedures set in the docs? I don't want > to have > to run: smbpasswd user , for all users again. > I am sure there is a neater way to do this but I had to add some new users a few wee

Re: Epson printer on CUPS: "unable to contact server"

> > Well, I tried what you suggested, but cups-lpd wouldn't start, etc., so > I did something which was either smart or dumb: I deleted the printer > from the printer configuration and re-added it. Problem solved. > > However, when I open http://localhost:631/admin on the client computer, > I don

Re: Epson printer on CUPS: "unable to contact server"

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Marc Adler wrote: > > Nope. I changed the client.conf file as you said and restarted cups but > in the printer configuration there was nothing. I specified "networked > cups" as the printer, but it asked me for the server, so I entered the > IP address. The last screen says: >

Re: Printout quality problem

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Jason Murray wrote: > > I am assuming that, since I can print to the OfficeJet on the Microsoft > network with no problems, that the problem lies with either > (a) ncpfs and/or ipxtools > (b) the Laserjet IIISi driver > I have the Laserjet IIISi on a parellel port and have us

RE: Adobe Acrobat on RH9

I don't know about plugins for Netscape, but I just installed MozillaFirebird and it ask if I wanted xpdf to open the pdf file to view with out setting up anything. It also blocked pop ups and comes with a windows and linux version and has an easy place to clear cookies, etc in the options. I've on

Re: Samba printing share

I had a similar problem with an HP Photosmart I think the work around for installing it as a network printer was to tell it you were doing a local install it complained that it wasn't there but installed then I changed the port. I know I found the workaround in the hp forum for the printer unfortun

Re: Some questions about CUPS

Try reading through yours /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file it has lots of notations explaining choices there is a place under location where you need to add the address of machines allowed to access cups. There also is alot of documentation on www.cups.org Linda Hanigan -- redhat-li

replacing microsoft exchange

Hi all, I know I have seen many questions about replacing Microsoft exchange on this list. Linux Journal February 2003 issue has an article on the subject just thought some of you might be interested. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://l

Re: RH for server

On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Depends on the service that I want to run on the server. For SMTP, IMAP, > BIND and SMB services I am confortable with RH 8.0. For Apache with > mod_php, I am still using RH 7.3. For CUPS (Common Unix Printing System), > I would recommend that any n

Re: Serial Port for Terminal Access

On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Christopher Lyon wrote: > This might be a dumb question but how can I get the com ports on the PC > to act as terminals just as if I was telneted or sshed into the box. I > am using RH8.0 if that helps. It has been a long time since I did serial connections but as I remember y

Re: File Copying Library

If you want easy you can alway do a system call. On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Adam H. Pendleton wrote: > Since today seems to be filled with programming questions, i thought I > would send mine in. Is there a library out there somewhere that > provides the functionality of the "cp" program? I need to i

unix printing to linux

Hi, Does anyone know where to find instructions for setting up Linux running cups to print to a windows printer I find lots of instructions for smbprint but they are all for lpr not cups. Thanks Linda -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: unix printing to linux

Thanks Mike this worked with one change amazing how easy it is with a little help. Linda On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Linda, > > If I remember correctly, all I had to do to a working cups installation > was to add a link: > > ln -s /usr/bin/smbspool /usr/lib/cu

Re: Help boot got screwed

Hi, When my mom's version of ME got corrupted and wouldn't boot I found both the corrupted file and a WIN ME boot disk on the internet. Have tried searching for a windows XP boot disk on the web. I am sure you can find dos fdisk on the web. Linda -- redhat-list mailing li

Re: HELP: Uninstalling CUPS

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, rahul b jain cs student wrote: Hi Rahul, If you installed from source I do not think there is an easy way to uninstall but you can have LPRng and CUPS both on a system RH7.3 has a utility that swtiches lpr between the two print systems When you say that your printer does not

RE: Good Linux Printers

I have been happy with the print quality for the HP Deskjet 932C for printing pictures the quality varies between the different programs so you will want to play with image size, printer setting as well as. Linda -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: HELP: Uninstalling CUPS

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, rahul b jain cs student wrote: > Hi, > > Linda, thanks for your response. The printer is actually a network > printer. I was trying to install CUPS on a linux box so that it can > function as a print server. The problems I faced were as follows > > 1. after adding the printe

Re: CUPS can print, but StarOffice SPADMIN cannot

On 2 Feb 2003, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > Hello, all: > > I am having an odd problem (posted here since I can't seem to find an > 8.0-specific mailing list). Using cups-1.1.17-0.2 on RedHat 8.0, and > have successfully configured an HP Deskjet 970Cxi printer in CUPS via > the browser interface. >

Re: samba working, but can't see computer in "my network places"

I would like to point out that this is not necessarily a linux problem. I have both a windows98 and windowsxp machine that refuse to allow any computer windows or linux to show up in their network places or network neighboorhod. Yet if I do a find computer search they will always show the desired c

Re: Samba Print problem from win95/98

I have a trick that I have gotten to work with windows for stubborn printers I set up the printer as a local printer sometimes you have to temporary attach it to the computer than go to properties and change the port since you can assess the printer it might work. Good Luck

RE: Network printer setup..

Have you put the line ServerName ip.address-of-server in the /etc/cups/client.conf I had one computer with no printers attached that just refused to print I fussed with it for days and that fixed it in a minute. Linda On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, CHUNRIMA CHUNRIMA wrote: > Yes, I did. >

Re: Printing problems

It has been along time since I used 6.2 but it used old style script filters I used to modify the ASCII filter to get what I wanted. If you look in /usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters and /usr/spool/lpd/printername you should be able to find where it is generating the accounting/banner page with the prin

used 7.3 updates with 7.3

Hi all, I have several machines with 7.2 and a few with 7.3 at some point I accedently used a cd full of 7.3 rpm to do security fixes on a 7.2 machine. It has been awhile and I haven't had any problems do I need to take the time to figure out and undo the improper updates? Also do I do no updates w

Re: cups

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Edy wrote: > HI, > any body want to give some explanation how cups works? > i already finished install cups, how i configure the printer so windows client can > print to linux printer. > what should i do, and the cups still have a problem after add a new printer a try to > pr

RE: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

> > > The above attitude is the one that causes people to worry about using linux > period. Look at this way, you decide to drop Microsoft and go to linux, for > whatever reasons. You get there and decide to use version 7.3 and build > your apps using the default compiler that comes with 7.3. Y

RE: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

> with compatibility. The problem is moving apps from linux 7.3 to 9 without > breaking the world or merely upgrading from one c++ compiler to the latest > and the world breaking. There is no reason for that to happen and it won't > happen in a MS, DEC or SUN environ. > I guess my point is try m

RE: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

> > BTW Linda, you can run win95 & win98 task under winxp and win2000 by running > them in compatibility mode. If you get the properties of the .exe files > (think that is where you can set the compatibility mode. > Something will lots of things wont because the underlying os has changed that is

RE: C++ lib compatibility between Red Hat 9 and 7.3

> This is > not the same as it is failing because the compiler libraries are > different(confusing I know). > Compiler libraries are merely programs if the standard evolves those programs have to be altered to meet the standard. This does not mean the original was bad it just means that all the pa

Re: What's the easiest way to deal with dependencies???

> I am trying to install a 3rd. party package and there are many dependencies. > What's the best way to find these packages that it needs? > I tried http://rpmfind.net and typed in some of the ones below > but some don't come up. Is the first column the actual name > of the package? Can I find thes

Re: [OT] Re: C GUI Programming in Red Hat 9

You might find this list interesting http://lists.linux.org.au/listinfo/linuxcprogramming Linda -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: How to disable the screensaver function in X

I remembered seeing this before so I did a fast search http://lppcfom.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/91.html Linda On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, paal wrote: > Hi > > Have som old computers installed in the library for public searching in > the database. I use the rh 7.0 It is a stripped installation, n

Re: Question on print spooling

I don't know which version or if you are using lprng or CUPS. In Redhat 7.2 and lprng I had to add mc=99:\ to my /etc/printcap the default value was 1 so it wouldn't print multiple copies. You might give it a try. Linda Hanigan On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Edward Dekkers wrote: > After

Re: pppd & forwarding?

> >I think, that dialup-server must be setup as router (or gateway?), but > >how to do it? on the computer that is connecting through the dialup server you need to add it as a gateway /sbin/route add default gw ipaddress eth0 Also if you add the line demand to your /etc/ppp/options and then type

Re: Sharing windows printer

With some help from Mike klinke and a MacNN Tutorial I found ( I used this with Win XP and Win98) this is what I did to get my windows printer to work with cups I added a link: ln -s /usr/bin/smbspool /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb restart the cups daemon Open cups admin by going to http://localhost:6

Re: Printer Commands (PCL)

It depends on what you want to do, which version of RH you use, and which printing system you use. If you want to add differenct pcl commands to different text files and print you can add them as escape sequences with vi you just add them with crtl-v esc then the command however the magic filter ma

accessing windows computer from linux

Hi, I have been accessing my linux files from windows for along time and even have my linux computer setup to print on my windowns machine computers and vice versa, however now I need to search a windows computer at work for a file and I am at home. I have searched through my books and the web but

Re: accessing windows computer from linux

Thanks that worked and with -U username%password you don't even have to mess with the password it allowed me to find their missing file and tell them what it was called and where it was. I actually log on from my linux computer to the linux server at work with mgetty then had them share the C folde

Re: accessing windows computer from linux

Disregard the stupid copy question I just went back and read all the man page for smbclient. The first time I just read far enought to connect and then got curious and was playing around. This was fun now when they can't figure out how to open their email attachments I can log on form home and sav

Where to start getting rid of spam

Hi, I use fetchmail and pine for email. lately the volume and offensiveness of spam has gotten out of hand. Where do I start to figure out how to filter it so I don't have to see it. I just need to know where to start looking for options to deal with this problem so I can start learning what I need

Re: Where to start getting rid of spam

On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Hal Burgiss wrote: > On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 04:16:48PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > I use fetchmail and pine for email. lately the volume > > and offensiveness of spam has gotten out of hand. Where > > do I start to figure out how to filter it so I don't have >

Re: Problem making text files

There is a simple program called dos2unix that will convert the file from dos format to unix format getting rid of the ^M, there is also a program called unix2dos that will convert the other way so you get line returns in windows when you open a file created with unix. I don't know why you didn't

minimum install for forwarding to work

Hi, I want to set up a computer to act as a dedicated firewall and gateway to the internet with no other services on the machine. I know I need pppd to dial out, but what do I need for masquarding and forwarding? Thanks Linda Hanigan -- redhat-list mailing l

How can I allow anyone to shutdown?

Hi, I have a dual boot computer that my kids play on. I would like to let them shutdown the computer so they can reboot windows if they want to play a windows game. The shutdown command is excutable by everyone when you look at permissions but requires root password. I don't want to give my 13 yea

Re: How can I allow anyone to shutdown?

Thank you to everyone who responded, I guess I always knew about shutdown from my unix days and never thought about otherways to shutdown the system safely. Linda On 16 Oct 2002, Aaron Rolett wrote: > You can also use consolehelper to allow anyone to use the shutdown > command

procmail question

Hi, I use pine for mail and fetchmail with procmail to pickup mail. Pine allows me to change where it looks for mail, but is there a way to tell procmail to put incoming mail into a different file rather than /var/mail/username I would like to pick up the mail and put it in /usr/local/lib/mail so s

forwarding

How do you turn on forwarding at boot for RH7.2 I added the echo to proc to rc.local but I am sure there is a better way. The worst part is I have it working on my home computer but I looked at lots of files in /etc/sysconfig and can't find where it is turned on.

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