[techtalk] ulimits (again)

Hi Again, As I did not receive a reply to my first post, I will assume that this is a gooder and will post it again hoping someone will take a stab at it. I have been racking what little grey-matter I have trying to sort this one out with nil luck as I also have RH6.2 at home and cannot repli

[techtalk] ulimits

Hi All, I'm running RedHat 6.2 in a development environment and I need to allow developers to dump core files. The problem is the default ulimit settings are different for a user when logged in directly to the console versus logged in remotely: # console login % ulimit -H -c unlimited % ulimit

Re: [techtalk] SMP kernels and ISO images ...

Hi Julie, You may want to try installing RH 6.1 with a 20 Meg /boot partition at the head of the drive before the 1023 cyl limit. This may help with the install. As for more recent editions of RH try www.redhat.com and look for the download tab. It is a busy site and you may be forced to go

[techtalk] Stand Alone boot floppy

Hi All, I know how to make a boot floppy, using mkbootdisk.  This works just fine, but requires the system to have the kernel located at the right spots and uses the disk based information to get running.  I would like to show them how to make a boot disk that does not require a working system

Re: [techtalk] GTK+ Prob - Mandrake 8

Thank you all for your help. As it turns out removing the setuid bit of the executable helped but the program hung. When I have time I will try the other suggestions and let you know what if any worked Thank you, Phil coldfire wrote: > > > #!/bin/bash > > > > ssh -l root localhost '/usr/bin/x

[techtalk] GTK+ Prob - Mandrake 8

Hi All, Have anyone ever seen this? How does one create a "helper" program to get the x program cdroast to run? GTK+WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid. This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper program instead. For further details see:

Re: [techtalk] Completely Stumped...

Hi Catie, If this problem should occur again, I would suggest to you to try a pkill of nscd ( the naming service caching daemon). It turns out that this daemon is 99% part of the problem. With any luck Sun will either drop it or fix it. Phil At 09:33 PM 25/03/01 -0800, Catie Flick wrote: >

Re: [techtalk] Netscape Font Problem

Nope this is a linux thing Mandrake 7.2. Phil I guess I'm an underwater thing wrote: > > If you're running solaris there's a patch for that. It's a common problem > that I often ran into with fresh solaris installations. > > -e > > On Fri, 16 Feb 2

[techtalk] Netscape Font Problem

Hi All, Sorry about this but I seem to recall a solution as to how to ensure netscape fonts display properly by switching a line in a file somewhere. I can't seem to find that message and was wondering if someone could help me out with what I would have to do. Hanging my head in shame, Phil

Re: [techtalk] Delay with anon FTP Mandrake 7.2

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[techtalk] Delay with anon FTP Mandrake 7.2

Hi All, This is one of those little annoying things that have been bugging me lately. Using Mandrake 7.2 I find that ftp takes at least 15 to 20 seconds after connect to get the prompt going into the box. Does anyone have any idea as to why and where I may make changes? Thanks in advance, Phi

Re: [techtalk] default umask

Naomi Hospodarsky wrote: > > What can anyone tell me about umask, and how it can work for me as an > administrator of usersjust looking for simple tips, personal > situations, etc, if there are any. > > Thanks, > > Naomi > > ___ > techtalk mailin

Re: [techtalk] Problem in bringing up ethernet card

Hi Arindam, I know you have said that your cards are working properly but this symptom sounds like an irq or address issue. Would you have the diskette that came with the ethernet cards? You may want to try and boot into dos and run the software diags that would come with the card to elimina

Re: [techtalk] CD Rippers

Thanks to all who have responded. I have tried bladeenc and found it to be extremely slow. My goatee was getting greyer by the minute. Phil P.S, Will try the link that Aaron has graciously provided hoping to get more speed into the process. At 01:26 PM 28/11/00 -0600, coder wrote: >Here is

Re: [techtalk] CD Rippers

Roger that and thanks!! Phil At 07:23 AM 28/11/00 -0600, Mandi wrote: >Phil - > >If your cdrom isn't too crappy, cdparanoia is a good ripper. >http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/index.html > >bladeenc is a decent encoder. >http://bladeenc.mp3.no/ > >On Tue, 28 Nov 20

[techtalk] CD Rippers

Hi All, Anyone know of a good ripper/encoder? I am using RH 7. Thank you, Phil ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] PPPd, pcmcia network, debian, clueless

Hi Sunnanvid, You could try the following: In your /etc/ppp/options file try ipcp-accept-remote ipcp-accept-local defaultroute This should allow your host to accept what your isp is giving you for defaults and allow the isp to temporarily override your default route. You may also may want t

Re: [techtalk] IPForwarding

, Kath wrote: >Argh, sorry for the spam, but in Outlook Express the last "l" in the url >gets cut off. > >Its supposed to be .html. > >- Kathy the Spammer =\ > >- Original Message - >From: "Kath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Kath"

[techtalk] IPForwarding

Hi All, My wife would really like me to turn on ipforwarding to allow for netmeeting. I don't have a clue how this is done. I do have a basic entry in my rc.local as follows: /sbin/ipfwadm-wrapper -F -p deny /sbin/ipfwadm-wrapper -F -a m -S 172.20.1.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0 What should I include to

Re: [techtalk] laptops and drivers

Hi Jill, I had a Compaq pressario laptop before my Dell Inspiron 7500. On both I was able to load and install RedHat and Mandrake. The Compaq had no probs with drivers but the Inspiron had a problem loading the audio driver only in Mandrake. That being said, it did finally recognize the audio

Re: [techtalk] Kmail

I did in fact change this setting but every time kmail starts it reverts back to 3 no matter what value I give this parameter is there another place to look? Phil On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, John R. Elliott wrote: > The file is called kmailrc it should be located in your .kde/share/config > directory.

Re: [techtalk] Kmail

John, buddy! You are da man!! Thanks again, Phil On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, John R. Elliott wrote: > The file is called kmailrc it should be located in your .kde/share/config > directory. > Look for the line: check-interval=3 > This time is in minutes. There is a separate line for each mail account

Re: [techtalk] Digital Camera Software

HI John, Roger that and thanks!! Phil On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, John R. Elliott wrote: > Try GNU Gphoto. > > On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, you wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have a Kodak digital camera and was wondering if anyone knows of any software > > I could use in a RH environment to access this camera

[techtalk] Kmail

HI All, I am currently using kmail but find that it checks for mail too often. I have looked in the docs and at kde.org but can find no reference as to where to change this behaviour. Anyone have any ideas? TIA, Phil ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAI

[techtalk] Digital Camera Software

Hi All, I have a Kodak digital camera and was wondering if anyone knows of any software I could use in a RH environment to access this camera sort of like M$ has. TIA Phil ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/li

[techtalk] Digital Camera Software

Hi All, I have a Kodak digital camera and was wondering if anyone knows of any software I could use in a RH environment to access this camera sort of like M$ has. TIA Phil ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/l

Re: [techtalk] Mr. stinky face icon in my /home/guest folder

Hi Barbara, A core file is simply the left over of a crashed program, or a program that has terminated unexpectedly. If Mr. Stinky Face offends you, you can safely rm the guy and nothing bad will happen. I would suspect what happened was you had something running that you didn't exit before

Re: [techtalk] What exactly does this mean?

Hello All, Thanks Herald this is exactly what was missing. Everything is working fine now. My hat is off to you. Phil At 14:19 18/10/00 +0200, Harald Welte wrote: >On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 04:58:52AM -0400, Phil Savoie wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I am running RH7 with a

[techtalk] What exactly does this mean?

Hi All, I am running RH7 with a PCMCIA dual Modem/lan card. I would like to setup dial out but I keep getting the error as anotated in the attached file. Could someone please help me out? I would like to have the existing ethernet interface active as well as the dial up link as well as I wo

Re: [techtalk] StarOffice:It rings me

Hi Anton, Congrats on your install. As for the dot, this means current directory. For example ./soffice really means in my current directory start the program following the ./ The . (dot) is not typically part of your PATH variable for security reasons and therefore if you want to start a p

[techtalk] RH 7

Hi All, As this is now out, does anyone have any information as to whether this release will support an install higher than the 1023 limit as does Mandrake 7.0? Thanks in advance, Phil ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.

Re: [techtalk] Installing Suse Linux on Second Hard Drive

Hi There, If not during the install you are not asked what OS you would like to boot by default as in RedHat, I believe you may change an entry in lilo.conf under the /etc directory. I can't remember off the top of my head which entry, but it is fairly obvious. Once the change has been saved

[techtalk] Redhat 6.1 - cdrom behaviour

Hi All, I was looking today for about 2 hours on how to disable the automount "feature" in RH6.1. It appears that every time a CD is loaded the filemanager pops up showing the contents of the CD. This is not what I would like to see happen. I would like to manually mount the CD when requir

[techtalk] Tape backup devices

Hi All, I was wondering if Mandrake/Redhat supports the use of parallel port backup devices. Has anyone heard tell of this? Thanks, Phil ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

Re: [techtalk] Weird Problem (KDE/X/Netscape)

Hi, I am using 4.73 as well but Mandrake 7.1 with kde and I do not have your symptoms. A character set perhaps? Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have the versions of KDE and X which came with the Slackware 7.0 CD. I have 7.1 >on order, but I need to fix this problem now. I recently upgra

Re: [techtalk] dialup problems RH 6.1, Corel, Caldera

Hi Carla, To be honest, I have been using RH6.0 through 6.2 and have no problems with ppp. I used the netcfg utility to set up the interface and ensure that iwas configured to come up at boot time. When I belonged to sprint, they would allow unlimited internet access in 5 hour increments. Once

[techtalk] RH6.2 - Printing

Hi All, I was wondering why the print system on this beast is always printing garbage for the first job and then properly after. Has anyone had this problem and if so, is there a fix? Thanks in advance Phil -- Phil Savoie Certified Sun

[techtalk] Logitech Quickcam VC

Hi All, I have subject camera and would like to try if there is software for RH6.2 to support this. Would anyone know where I should go to find out? I am new with this concept so a good newbie site would be great! Thanks in advance, Phil ___ techt

Re: [techtalk] Text Color/Blinking

Thank you, Jeff and Laurel. I have been able to do what I want with your collective info! Phil Jeff Frasca wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Phil Savoie wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I was wondering if a

[techtalk] Text Color/Blinking

Hi All, I was wondering if anyone had any idea as to how to make text in an /etc/issue file a different colour than the norm. Also, I would like to make it blink as well. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance, Phil ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTE

[techtalk] Compaq Presario 1240

Hi All, This laptop comes with a touch pad that is recognized in Mandrake 6.1. This is also a dual boot machine w/win98. It has a ps/2 port for an external mouse but if I use a mouse in windows the pad is disabled automatically, in Linux the pad *and* the mouse works simultaneously. Would a

Re: [techtalk] Script file help

Hi Kath, Perhaps this is what what your are looking for? Just substitute your dirs for my testdirs. Phil Kath wrote: > > I need some help making a small script file. What I need it do is copy the > directories on one HD to another. > > the source directory is /mnt/DOS_hda1/Program Files/Apa

[techtalk] RH 6.2 and SCSI Probs - Long

Hi All, I have a friend that has scsi woes with his adaptec 1522 card and am hoping someone would be able to help him out. His post to me (on another list) is as follows: I was wondering if anyone had any problems getting a SCSI host adapter to work with RH 6.2? I have a firewall (gateway/mas

[techtalk] Annoying Touchpad

Hi All, I have a compaq pressario 1240 laptop which has a touchpad for mouse functions. I would really like to disable this *feature* and just use my ps/2 mouse. Is there a file to modify that will allow for this? Thanks in advance, Phil ___ techt

Re: [techtalk] Newbie Solaris/Ultra 5 Question

Hi Jennifer, At the boot prom you should be able to type boot -s This will bring you into single user mode. Through here you should be able to access the hard drive to change files as needed. Phil At 08:31 25/03/2000 -0600, Jennifer L. Zoch wrote: >I'm hoping someone can help me. I just

Re: [techtalk] Shell Scripts

Hi Lisa, May I recommend an excellent "take you by the hand and walk you down the garden path" book. It is called UNIX Shells by Example by Ellie Quigley. This book does C, bourne, korn, awk, sed, and grep. There are a multitude of "example" snippits with line by line explanation of each

Re: od [Thanks to All]

Sorry for not getting back sooner but circumstances dictated otherwise. It would appear that RH6.1's GNU od does not do the same as in Solaris. I will keep searching to see if there is a util that does do this and post if I find one. Again thank you to all who responded. Phil

od

Hi Al l, I have a question with regards to od. In Solaris, the command "od -c ." will give ascii representation to the file names that are held by the directory. In RH6.1 this same command does not work the same way. I have to use the following "od -c *" which after reading the man page, gi

Re: [techtalk] Dual Boot - Thanks to All

Hi, Thanks to all who responded. It would appear that the answer lies thusly: First install Win2k then Mandrake and let lilo look after the booting (why did I bother worrying?) Phil At 01:25 06/03/2000 -0500, Phil V Savoie wrote: >Hi All, > >Would anyone have any experience with dual booti

[techtalk] System time vs Resolved Time

Hi All, Another Question! On Madrake 6.1 if I type the date command I see the proper time. Netscape, on the other hand resolves the time exactly 5 hours off (GMT, I guess). My question is where in the system can this be changed? Better yet, where can I find the notation that denotes (Canada/E

Re: [techtalk] Forgotten root password

Thank you to all who responded! Michael thanks you as well as it is fixed and he is now the proud recipient of a backhander (one shouldn't forget these things...) Phil Phil Savoie wrote: > > Hi All, > > A friend (no, really) has forgotten his RH6.1 root passwd. In Solari

[techtalk] Forgotten root password

Hi All, A friend (no, really) has forgotten his RH6.1 root passwd. In Solaris I know how to fix this (boot cdrom -s) but how in RH6.1? Any info would be greatly appreciated. TIA Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

Re: [techtalk] newbie question

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > I am trying to mount msdos on linux. I edited the fstab file to mount msdos. > Would anybody please let me know if the "noauto" should be "auto" or > something else? Also should the last set of numbers be 0 0 or 1 1? > Thanks > > ~Sri > > >

Re: [techtalk] Mandrake 7.0 - Anon ftp

was a file missing for telnet :P , which > could be a factor for your ftp prob, too. > > --mandi > > On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Try login:anonymous password:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > HTH, > > > > Harry Hoffman > > Product Systems

Re: [techtalk] Mandrake 7.0 - Anon ftp

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Try login:anonymous password:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > HTH, Sorry Buds, This didn't do it either. Weird... > > Harry Hoffman > Product Systems Specialist > Restaurants Unlimited Inc. > 206.634.3082 x. 270 > > On Thu, 24 Feb 2000,

Re: [techtalk] Mandrake 7.0 - Anon ftp

Laurel Fan wrote: > > Excerpts from linuxchix: 24-Feb-100 Re: [techtalk] Mandrake 7.0.. by > Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I am running wu-ftpd-2.6.0-3mdk.i586 > > Have you set up the ftp user and the ftp account? > (check by doing: > > grep ftp /etc/passwd > > ls /home/ftp > > ftp://ftp.cert.o

Re: [techtalk] Mandrake 7.0 - Anon ftp

J B wrote: > > Login to to anon with "anonymous" and no password...it will let you in and > download...did it earlier in the week from one of the mirrors... Nope! That didn't work either! But thanks anyways. Phil > __ > Get Your Private, Fre

Re: [techtalk] Mandrake 7.0 - Anon ftp

Laurel Fan wrote: > > What ftp server are you running? I am running wu-ftpd-2.6.0-3mdk.i586 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxchix.org

[techtalk] Mandrake 7.0 - Anon ftp

Hi All, Anon ftp does not allow the anonymous user to login. I log in as anonymous give email password and it always returns login incorrect and fails. Could someone please tell me how to fix this? All packages concerned are installed. Thanks in advance, Phil P.S. I never had this problem w

[techtalk] Prog name in Titlebar

Hi All Would anyone happen to know how to include the prog name in the title bar of a kde session terminal? Basically what I would like to do is start the prog and instead of "Konsole" in the titlebar have the prog name displayed. Thanks in Advance Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] http: