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I am trying to host multiple websites from my linux box. I have been from one end of google to the other and tried about every suggestion I could read. I have also tried setting up webmin and have edited and re-edited my httpd.conf to death. I have one web …

Hi All, Can anyone help me out with my sendmail config? the problem i have is that when i telnet to port 25 the output states that it is localhost.localdomain. but the box its self is named in all the right places and in the sendmail.mc/cf files there is an …

Dear friends, When I list the files in my machine with SUN solaris 5.8 I can see an unidentified file like..... -rwxr-xr-x 1 isos staff 566952 Oct 12 2001 sendapi* -rw-r--r-- 1 isos staff 3471 Oct 12 2001 set_environ.inst -rw-r--r-- 1 isos staff 1534 Oct 12 2001 setenv.site -r-xr-xr-x 1 …

Here's a question that I'd normally just solve myself with some testing, but I'm just looking for a quick yes or no before I get started with what I need this for. I'm working on a VERY large website network that will have around 100 websites minimum included. All of …

I'm running Mozilla 1.3 on Mandrake 9.1, and I have a very hard time reading the text on web pages. Since I'm running a very normal screen resoultion (1024x768), I just increase the text size in Mozilla, by hitting View -> Text Zoom -> 120%, which works fine. Now to …

My friend jesse is going to college and I'm helping him set up his linux box. He hasn't gotten online yet, but I was just wondering if colleges restrict linux internet access. I'm sure there's always a way around any restrcitions they have ;) but I was just wondering if …

I know that you can transfer accounts by coping /etc/passwd to a different computer however I'm not certain about transfering the passwords themselves. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to transfer the password along with the account?

Mar 26, 2004 14:34 ET [img]http://media.prnewswire.com/en/images/spacer.gif[/img][b]TimeSys Demonstrates Industry's First Linux Development and Testing Tools to Work with Any Linux Kernel [/b] PITTSBURGH, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- At the upcoming Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco, TimeSys(R) Corporation, a leader in embedded Linux(R) development tools and products, will demonstrate how its …

Hi All, my redhat 8.0 box froze up yesterday leaving me no chose but to powerdown. now it wont boot. it getts going but then starts doing file system checks and drops me in to a recovery shell so i can run fsck and e2fsck. is there a way i …

I have installed Redhat 9 on a second harddrive in my machine. I am unable to get it to recognize my Conexant modem. I found some drivers on the internet but I do not know how to install them. (be patient, I am new to linux and am trying to …

Hi All, Any of you know when we're likly to see fedora core 2 on release. i know its in beta at the moment. spikes

Hi All, Is it posable to use apache as a web forwarder? what i want to do is have a linux box in the dmz that will relay mail and web requests in to the LAN mail to the exchange and web on to a box with apache. if this …

over the last few weeks ive tried out rh8, mdk 9.1, knoppix 3.1, gentoo, yoper, debian sarge, and j.a.m.d and by far...except for gentoo, j.a.m.d was the coolest in my opinion. its a slimmer version of rh8 recompiled for i686 cpus. you all should try it...i like it alot. but …

I get this error message now when running the command 'strings' on any file. obviously I have the command 'ls' in my $PATH, so that isn't the issue. I haven't made any recent changes to anything except for a GTK upgrade to 2.4.0. 'strings' is obviously not dependant on GTK …

Background: OS is Fedora Core 1 Hardware is ATI TV Wonder VE Software is tvtime 0.9.12 The Goal: To allow all the users of the machine (myself and two other members of the household) to watch tv without having to a) be root, or b) execute a separate command after …

when i enter "modprobe slamr" this is my modem driver, it tells me its tainted adn i should visit tux.org/something for more info and it said it was loaded with warnings :000! then when I enter "slmodemd" [root@localhost epro]# slmodemd SmartLink Soft Modem: version 2.9.6 Feb 29 2004 18:44:05 modem …

Hi, I'm running Fedora Core 1 and have 2 Hard Drives, each 40 GB. But when i was installing Fedora i setup the HD and now is showing hda1 mounted at /boot (4.0 MB size) and hdb1 mounted at / (40 GB size). It is showing the first HD as …

I didn't realize how to do this until just now so I thought I'd post about it. Suppose you have a directory on your box called "my_files" and you wish to compress it into a zip file. One level above the directory, use the following command [code]zip -r files.zip my_files/[/code]

I have a machine running Windows 2000 and Red Hat 9 (dual boot) on separate HDs HD 1 is Windows 2000; HD 2 is Red Hat 9 Everything is working fine, except for i cannot see the drive with Windows from Red Hat. Some told me that you have to …

Have you ever noticed that in this forum under TechSupport...you have more people in the Macro$haft area than in the Linux area? Just thought it was weird. I mean, I know when I got firebird configured just right for slackware...I haven't had to do jack squat for it. And using …

Hey I don't want to sound like a total noobie so forgive me but here goes: I'm really new to this - just installed Mandrake 9.2 a few days ago. So far so good, except I can't seem to change the screen resolution. It defaulted to 1280x1024 and that ran …

Anyone using Arch? I've been playing with it for a week now, and I have to say that after trying many other distros, this one is a winner for me. I got tired of bloated distros and I don't like wasting time on complex installations and configurations, and oh yeah, …

Ok, I have a Smart link 56K V.92 Modem... the drivers are available at [url="http://www.smlink.com"]www.smlink.com[/url] ok when running make as root I get /usr/include/stdio.h:329 | | | all the way down skipping numbers untill 402 a few keywords I find "syntax" "snprint" or something liek that I cant copy the …

I'm new to the Linux game sp please bear with me. I installed Red Hat 8 on my machine running XP pro on Microsoft Virtual PC. The install went pretty ok but I am having problems connecting to the internet. I configured my netwk card both manually and using DHCP …

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Hy everyone, I have a problem in installing Linux (Mandrake 9.2) on a IBM T40 notebook. I'd like to install linux on the secondary HD, in the modular bay. Of course I can utilize only a modular bay device (HD or CD) at a time, so I can't install from …

Hey, I cant seem to get any sound on my sys with mandrake 2.0. My motherboard (a7v266-e) has onboard sound, but i recently purchased a soundblaster audigy 2 which i obviously use instead. Manrake recognizes both soundcards in the config, but i think that its running primarily through the onboard. …

Can someone please help me? I'm in desperate need of a php/MySQL based statistics tracker for Apache. It should be easy to configure and install. At the same time, provide a wide variety of information. I'm currently using Wusage but it just isn't robust enough for me. I heard good …

Hi, What are the steps to create a dual boot? I am running Win98SE and I want to also install RH 8. Or can you direct me to a good site. :p

Hi All, i want to relay mail through my fedora box on to my exchange server. i'm useing sendmail 8.12.10, perviously there would have been a relay-domains file in /etc/maill, but it does not seem to be there. even though in the .cf there is an entrey for /etc/mail/relay-domains. anyhow …

I am stumped. Can't get the following to work. Basically all it is suppose to do is if some calls a hello.html file it should grab the hello.shtml file. RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^(.*).shtml$ /$1.html So far all i get is 404 errors. This rewrite is placed in a …

I am running Suse Pro and have an Nvidia 4200 graphics card that seems to be recognized and initialized by Suse Pro. Dow anybody know how I'd go about changing the refresh rate? I'm sensitive to flicker and it's driving me nuts! Thanks!

Hi, I installed Fedora Core1 and it's running nicely. I updated machine using Up2date and everything works. The only problems is, when i start the machine in the list of OSs i can see both versions of Fedora, the one before the update and the one after. I was wondering …

This step by step install is a hand written record, while the install took place. Disregard any typo's Let me start by saying that the BSD's are very responsive & quick, so do not hit buttons rapidly. :lol: I might, make a openBSD/ solaris/pitbull LX guide in the future, if …

[b]STICKY: NAME IT WHAT YOU LIKE[/b] Making installs through the source Is not difficult. I am aware that 99% of people who use linux and visit daniweb are probably more than capable of doing this. And I have noticed a select few on IRC ( the rare times I do …

I have downloaded the tar.gz file When i unzipped it it says samba 3. something I go to the console and and i go to the directory where is the samba folder is locate it And the nexty step it says to type ./configure but when i do that is …

as the root user, when you shell configure xfree86 on freebsd with xf86config, after I'm done I save the config file to the default location. then when I try to start it with startx, it gives me this message. Am i saving the config file to the wrong location? I'm …

I'm trying to setup samba. I did everything according to the book. When I type in, in the web browser: localhost:901 the error is "connection is refused"????:cry:

please can you help me, i need to know some code for changing login screen and startup screen. I also need to know why fedora doesnt pick up my network card, meaning that i cant use the internet. Can i get any more games for fedora or would i have …

I have peer-to-peer network. One of the computers is running WinXP, the other one Red Hat 9. I've been trying to setup Samba to bee able to see linux from my windows machine. I can see windows from linux machine, but not the other way around. Any suggestions are welcome. …

Has anyone seen the IBM commercial titiled, "The Future is Open"? When the commercial first started, I was thinking that it was cool. As I realized what the commercial was about, I felt a little offended :!:. I emplore all of you go and watch the commercial. Link: [url="http://www-306.ibm.com/e-business/doc/content/ondemand/tvspot.html"]http://www-306.ibm.com/e-business/doc/content/ondemand/tvspot.html[/url] Scroll …

Hi there, I have been running SuSE 9 Professional since it came in retail in the store on my wife's desktop system and we love it. As desktop distribution it works great. Everything is easy to install and works perfectly. Unfortunatly we keep running into this problem with the font. …

Hi, What is the best site to get a basic knowledge of troubleshooting common Linux problems. And the best site for learning fundamentals of Linux? I'm not into programming but wanting to learn a new OS. Thanks Joe

Hi, I have a Windows box connected to a Linux box and they both share the Internet. H can I get my Linux box to see my Windows files and how do I configure my printer on the Linux box? Thanks

Setup: RedHat 9 running Samba, Windows XP Professional connecting successfully to the RH box. I can map a drive from Windows to RH, but cant print to the RH box. Here's my smb.conf file: *** [root@home salvatore]# cat /etc/samba/smb.conf ; /etc/smb.conf ; ; Make sure and restart the server after …

I was just moving some stuff around on my Windows XP machine. So that I wouldn't run out of room moving between partitions, I moved a bunch of stuff to a Samba share on my Linux machine (via My Network Places in WinXP). I had thought I had moved the …

I'm using winxp on c drive(6gb) and want to install linux redhat on d drive (14gb).I have got 512ddr ram,pent-4 processor and gigabyte motherboard,built-in soundcard and riva tnt 32mb agp card.I only want to install linux on d drive ( the second partition) and multi-boot with xp.Someone plz help me …

Hi, I am using SSH secure client to log into a linux system. When I run emacs in the SSH, all the commands such as C-Spac, M-< etc etc etc does not work. I know it has something to do with key binding and such, but how do you exactly …

I have the following in /etc/inittab: # Run webcam uploading utility - added by slp on 12/18/2003 cam:3:respawn:/home/salvatore/cam/runcam runcam is: [root@home cam]# ls -l runcam -rwxr-xr-x 1 root salvatore 55 Dec 31 09:46 runcam runcam contains: [root@home cam]# cat runcam webcam /home/salvatore/cam/.webcamrc >/dev/null 2>&1 & [root@home cam]# uname -r 2.4.20-27.9 …

I know this is a dumb question: Does the hard drive in Linux get fragmented like in Windows? If so does Linux have a defrag program or wilL I havve to donwload one.