RE: [expert] fast mirror

2003-03-29 Thread Scott Walker
I have also set one up in south Florida ftp.unspeakable.org/pub/Mandrake-iso Has 9.1 ISO's current. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Preston-Campbell Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 12:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] fast

Re: [expert] iptables to block spam

2003-03-04 Thread Scott St. John
the network and had to reboot it this morning :( Thanks Todd. -Scott --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.456 / Virus Database: 256 - Release Date: 2/18/2003 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Linux Mail Servers for Win clients

2003-03-04 Thread Scott St. John
by default one wrong setting and the spam world can use your system to get their messages out. So take the time to review the docs and spend some time getting comfortable with one email server. -Scott --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http

Re: [expert] Linux Mail Servers for Win clients

2003-03-04 Thread Scott St. John
list if you are so inclined. Mark- As one who is not familiar with qmail how do you rate it against Postfix? I am seeing more and more sites using qmail, but sadly I don't know much about it. -Scott --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http

Re: [expert] iptables to block spam

2003-03-03 Thread Scott St. John
and then tried to ssh back in and I was in just fine! Tried to reach the web site and again, no trouble. I then switched to this: iptables -A FORWARD -s xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -j DROP And again, I got in. Must I block per service and missing something when issuing the command? Thanks in advance. -Scott

Re: [expert] is there a big difference??

2003-03-03 Thread Scott St. John
I would consider waiting for 9.1 before you upgrade the server. I bought the Pro Suite 9.0 edition and based on my experience with it and the experience of others I think I will wait for 9.1 before I upgrade a server. -Scott At 08:20 PM 3/3/2003 +0900, you wrote: Dear experts, my quest

Re: [expert] iptables to block spam

2003-03-03 Thread Scott St. John
! -Scott his works for me... are you applying the correct rule on the right host? No need to log out/in... ssh to a host, say 192.168.1.1, then: iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.1.1 -j DROP and the ssh connection should stop working. Verify with iptables -L -v -n then re-enable with: iptables -F

Re: [expert] iptables to block spam

2003-03-03 Thread Scott St. John
to duplicate the Bastille rules and make my own or figure out a way around Bastille blocking me from manually entering my own rules. -Scott --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.456 / Virus Database: 256 - Release Date

Re: [expert] iptables to block spam

2003-03-02 Thread Scott St. John
. Similar here, I am using Spam Assassin and some custom access rules in Sendmail, but the problem is the amount of time that Sendmail spends rejecting this email so I was hoping to block them with iptables and take some load off Sendmail. -Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] iptables to block spam

2003-03-02 Thread Scott St. John
the lists based on email that makes it past SpamAssassin, I read the headers and go block. Most of my customers can deal with the printer ads, but it is the porn that bothers them most, especially when they have kids. -Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] iptables to block spam

2003-03-02 Thread Scott St. John
with that statement. add -p tcp --dport 25 to just block smtp. Yes, I guess I should just block them at smtp and not everything. -Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] iptables to block spam

2003-03-02 Thread Scott St. John
DROP Does that look right? Thank you, -Scott At 12:48 AM 3/2/2003 -0600, you wrote: 209.8.161.0/24 will get 209.8.161.0 - 209.8.161.255. /16 will get 209.8.0.0 - 209.8.255.255 Is iptables running on your firewall, with the mail server behind it, or on your mail server? If the former

[expert] Re: email component

2003-02-21 Thread Czarcinski, Scott
I have done something close to this using Perl. Input is a webpage, and then it is formatted and sent as a MIME encoded email via an SMTP server. Take a look at the following Perl modules (www.cpan.org): HTML::Parser MIME::Lite MIME::Lite::HTML Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[expert] Questions on the upgrade path for mandrake.

2003-02-19 Thread Scott Walker
upgrade and letting it do it's thing? Has anyone verified this? (I remeber when redhat said you could do this, 4 server reinstalls later). -- Scott Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Compiling new KDE tarballs

2003-01-31 Thread Scott Crumpler
On this same note... When I was trying to compile the KDE 3.1 package kdelibs, I got some weird compile errors that appeared to be simple syntax errors...anyone seen anything like this? I'll get an exact error message if someone thinks that they can help me. BTW Lyvim Xaphir, I finally

[expert] SSH daemon question

2003-01-31 Thread Scott Crumpler
that forked off to wait for the next connection). However, I can't think of why there would be 3 instances. When I make 2 simultaneous connections, the number of sshd processes becomes 5. Any ideas? Is something strange happening here? TIA Scott Crumpler Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[expert] 9.0 in production

2003-01-23 Thread Scott Parks
? As web server or other task? I have an 8.2 server that I might consider replacing if 9.0 is ready. Thanks, -Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Dns2go Startup Script

2002-11-16 Thread Scott Sprunger
the terminal. I am on the newbie and expert mailing lists and I've searched my archive of the messages but didn't see this addressed with these new versions. I haven't been successful with Google nor the Dns2go site either. Cordially, Scott Sprunger __ Do

Re: [expert] Mandrake 9....Control Center problem

2002-10-19 Thread Alastair Scott
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 13:56:25 -0400 Sandeep Khanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, If I start Mandrake 9 Control center once as a normal user and enter the root password. Noe, Close it. After this it never asks me for the root password Freaky security Also, If you start any

Re: [expert] iptables in mdk 8.2

2002-10-18 Thread Scott
as their dhcp, dns, gateway and squid. Works very well and the performance is more reliable and faster than a LinkSys! I have an 8.2 box doing this now, I can't get 9.0 to work correctly, but once I get my boxed version I will play with it some more. -Scott the result of all these docs

Re: [expert] CLI

2002-10-17 Thread Alastair Scott
J. Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (10/16/2002 22:49) using a shell is expert is it? heh, give me lots of money for expert services and I will cut and paste you the bash manual pages. Yes. With the command line being de-emphasised by Microsoft*, more and more people over time will be coming

Re: [expert] Bluecurve (RedHat's KDE and GNOME unified themes)

2002-10-10 Thread alastair . scott
On 10 Oct 2002 at 11:29, hans privat wrote: hi, are all the files there needed ? Someone else will have to answer that ... I note that the RPM has, as dependencies, large chunks of KDE*. This is a bit surprising given that it's only artwork (the 'real' bluecurve is a lot more than artwork;

RE: [expert] a lot of kernel-bugs ? ... (setiathome)

2002-10-10 Thread alastair . scott
On 10 Oct 2002 at 17:01, Franki wrote: Hi guys, Just thought I'd ask, just how much bandwidth does Seti at home use??? I have 4 boxes here that could be working on it, but I pay for bandwidth over a certain limit.. so I don't want to chew up my bandwidth (obviously :-) Well ...

Re: [expert] Bluecurve (RedHat's KDE and GNOME unified themes)

2002-10-09 Thread Alastair Scott
On 09 Oct 2002 12:40:59 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that bluecurve is much more than a theme. It's an actual way to break kde and gnome at the same time. As for the look well if people ever get over the anger at RH then it might be doable as a theme.

Re: [expert] rpmdrake 9.0, a step backwards :(

2002-10-08 Thread Alastair Scott
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 10:03:04 -0500 Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is an important point to consider, however. If one is intending to be a commercial vendor of software, one of the MAIN considerations has to be useability/ease-of-use. Ease of code maintenance or code

Re: [expert] wuftpd gone from ML 9? And updating in general....

2002-10-03 Thread Scott St. John
some time to work it out, but I will let the list know when it's done. -Scott --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.391 / Virus Database: 222 - Release Date: 9/19/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] OpenOffice.org vs StarOffice

2002-10-03 Thread Alastair Scott
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 08:29:45 -0500 Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Redhat is right in this issue. A user, particularly a new user, should get a consistent look and feel from ALL their apps by default. That is a basic UI design DO. Different look, feel, behavior for each app is a

Re: [expert] Western Digital Hard Drives in Linux

2002-10-02 Thread Alastair Scott
J. Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (10/02/2002 13:43) Is there any infomation on drives/manufactors that work well with linux then? If WD are that bad I'm stuffed, i just bought a new drive from them. To be more accurate ... you're stuffed, statistically speaking ;) HDs will 'just work' with

Re: [expert] wuftpd gone from ML 9? And updating in general....

2002-10-02 Thread Scott St. John
the ground up with the Linux kernel in mind. Check it out: http://www.pureftpd.org/ -Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] USB CD Writer

2002-10-01 Thread Alastair Scott
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 23:06:31 -0400 PlugHead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, if anyone has an external USB CD-RW working, I'd love to see what's in your modules.conf... As someone with such a device (iomega zipCD 650) which just worked here it is: it looks remarkably similar to yours in the

[expert] Radius

2002-10-01 Thread Scott St. John
I am about to install Radius for our modem racks and was curious if anyone on the list is using Radius under Mandrake and if you are, which one? I am looking at IC Radius, but I see there is also Free Radius. Let me know your experiences, thanks! -Scott -- Scottah.com Web Mail Center

Re: [expert] Configuring Panels in 9.0

2002-10-01 Thread Alastair Scott
On 01 Oct 2002 13:58:25 +0100 Andy Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am concerned though that I will lose the 'Applications' Menu, 'Actions' Menu and that task switcher thingy and not be able to get them back!?! Will they reappear on my menu at the bottom? A new panel will appear blank, but

Re: [expert] Radius

2002-10-01 Thread Scott St. John
something called ISP Suite and they recommend that. The idea was to move Radius and Postfix to use MySQL for user authentication. Thanks for the reply. -Scott --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.391 / Virus

Re: [expert] mdk9 + alcatel speedtouch

2002-10-01 Thread Alastair Scott
On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 17:34:05 +0100 Azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: topic: alcatel speedtouch usb adsl modem on Mandrake 9.0 I decided to start all over again. Installed Mdk9.0 from scratch, totally formatting over the old one. The installation recognised my USB mouse and it worked fine.

Re: [expert] Openoffice in release 9.0

2002-10-01 Thread Alastair Scott
On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 19:42:08 +0100 J. Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you very much! This solved the ugly menu part of the problem! But my main document rendering is still unusable... No matter which font I choose the characters still clutter on top of each other... There is

Re: [expert] Mdk 9.0 Remember Windows Positions?

2002-09-30 Thread Alastair Scott
On 29 Sep 2002 17:57:02 -0500 Chuck Stuettgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I give up... I've installed 9.0 and overall I'm satisfied, however there is one thing that is driving me crazy. In Gnome, every application opens in the same location, the upper left corner, no matter where I

Re: [expert] Installing Apps in 9.0

2002-09-29 Thread Alastair Scott
On 29 Sep 2002 17:20:26 +0100 Andy Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I have just installed 9.0 and am in the process of installing all other apps that I need for my work. Unfortunately, I have the following problems trying to install some image processing software that I use. In

Re: [expert] Myster of my own.

2002-09-27 Thread Alastair Scott
On 26 Sep 2002 20:30:26 -0700 James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone else been receiving blank e-mails from people they don't know. I get 2 or 3 a week always blank no attachment just the header.. never from the same address... I think this is the outpourings of a very old

Re: [expert] reboot into specified os

2002-09-27 Thread Alastair Scott
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:54:42 +0100 bascule [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i like being able to choose what os to reboot into from the shutdown dialogue, prompts a question though, is there a win utilty that will tell lilo what to reboot into? being a dual booter i sometimes need to reboot winxp

Re: [expert] ISP specific list

2002-09-26 Thread Scott St. John
to Mandrake; why is that? (just curious) Familiarity would be the main reason. The BSDI boxes are old and long past retirement age so it's time to move forward and Mandrake was the logical choice for me since I have been using it since the first version. -Scott --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free

Re: [expert] No key repeating in GNOME2 ?

2002-09-26 Thread Alastair Scott
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 19:29:59 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Installed Dolphin and GNOME2. Everything works wonderful except one annoyance: No matter how long I keep my finger on a key, it does not repeat. This makes scrolling through a text very annoying! I went to

Re: [expert] Virtual Hosting Question

2002-09-26 Thread Scott St. John
a shell script to set the proper ownership of the directories, but I need to go in and set the sub directories. Here is the base script I am working off of, but I don't think it likes the -R option. grep /home/ /home/scott/homedirpass | awk -F: '{ print $1 $4 $6 ; }' \ | while read pwuser pwgid

RE: [expert] Virtual Hosting Question

2002-09-26 Thread Scott
For your example, I think this will work for you grep /home/ /home/scott/homedirpass \ | awk -F: '{ print $1 $4; }' \ | while read pwuser pwgid ; do \ [ -d ~$pwuser ] || ( chown -R $pwuser.$pwgid ~$pwuser ) \ done Dan

[expert] ISP specific list

2002-09-25 Thread Scott
questions on this list. -Scott --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.391 / Virus Database: 222 - Release Date: 9/19/2002 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] ISP specific list

2002-09-25 Thread Scott
Sorry, I should have worded that better. I mean to say: a list for people using Mandrake in an ISP environment. In other words people that use Mandrake for web services, mail services, etc. -Scott At 06:02 PM 9/25/2002 +0200, you wrote: I guess you can take a peek in the newsgroups

[expert] mod_log_mysql

2002-09-25 Thread Scott
the file into httpd.conf, reloaded Apache and no go. There are no entries in either the Apache or MySQL log files. Not knowing where to start I wanted to see if anyone else is using it successfully. -Scott --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http

Re: [expert] Virtual Hosting Question

2002-09-24 Thread Scott
yourself done. Thank you! I am also going to test the response of PHP pages with this config. -Scott --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.391 / Virus Database: 222 - Release Date: 9/19/2002 Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Mandrake Linux 9.0 beta

2002-09-23 Thread Alastair Scott
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 06:50, Gerard wrote: hi I was wondering if maybe you can support vendor specific external hardwares for Mandrake Linux 9, paritularly those products of Logitec. I have an external HD and a CD-R/DVD ROM. You might be surprised as big advances have been made between 8.2

[expert] Virtual Hosting Question

2002-09-23 Thread Scott
the files, but if someone wanted to log into the box they could wander and read other web sites code. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks in advance. -Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-07 Thread Alastair Scott
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 22:45, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 13:40 -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: Bummmer, Guess this means I don't spend the $10 US on a new copy...Unless I can find DOS 6 somewhere. I guess I need to start looking... Hmm, is it against the laws if I

Re: [expert] I don't get it. You want bug reports or not!?!?!?!

2002-09-07 Thread Alastair Scott
On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 16:38, Lorne wrote: Thanks for the informative reply. I hope they get the word and put a little effort into setting up a mechanism to get input from their users. Even if they don't read every report. Just let us poor smucks think they are. :) What is really needed is

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-06 Thread Alastair Scott
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 18:29, Mark Weaver wrote: Thats it! I'm going to have to grab one of these things. I haven't been this jazzed about a machine for a long time. Well, I put my money where my mouth is and will soon be the owner of an Amiga 1200 with 16MB RAM, 340MB hard drive, CD-ROM and

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question -(getting offtopic)

2002-09-06 Thread Alastair Scott
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 16:34, Ken Hawkins wrote: It sure is interesting to read some of these old war (or is that whore) stories. I didn't get into computers until about '91. the best i can claim is writing DOS batch files to give a color menu display (rather than just c:), and automating

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Alastair Scott
Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (09/05/2002 11:55) James Sparenberg wrote: Over 10 years on computers not always nix (I miss my Amiga *grin*) James I've been hearing a lot about Amigas and invariably the people always say they miss them. What was so special about them that they're

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Alastair Scott
Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (09/05/2002 15:24) My GOD! where do I find one of these marvelous machines? I WANT ONE!! they sound perfectly awesome. I can't help but wonder why in the world they're not still produced. What caused their downfall? I'm pretty sure there'll be a fair

Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question

2002-09-05 Thread Alastair Scott
dh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (09/06/2002 15:29) Excellent description, you neglected to mention that except for the very (very!) earliest of versions it was/is also a fully pre-emptive, multitasking OS. The first computer I owned that could draw me away from it as far as usability was a

Re: [expert] alcatel speedtouch usb adsl modem

2002-09-04 Thread Alastair Scott
On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 14:17, Azrael wrote: Gave 9.0 beta 3 a spin last week.. and couldn't get my alcatel speedtouch usb adsl modem to work. I downloaded the mgmt.o from alcatel and put it where it was supposed to go.. but couldn't get it to work properly. Wondered if beta4 had

[expert] BSDI conversion

2002-09-03 Thread Scott
. Any thoughts? Script for passwd conversion below. Thanks, -Scott #!/usr/bin/perl # # Simple FreeBSD-to-Linux password converter # -- Linux must be using shadow passwords # # Nickolai Zeldovich, 1998 # http://kolya.net/, [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Config stuff: # # /etc/passwd on a FreeBSD machine

[expert] Can't download RC1

2002-09-03 Thread Scott Dubose
and 3 and everything else all night long. I was having the exact same problem with Beta 4. Any ideas on the problem/solution? thanks, Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert]

2002-08-25 Thread Alastair Scott
On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 19:41, James Sparenberg wrote: PLEASE put slocate back in the default install, and on a disk in every version of the release (Download PowerPack etc etc) Oh and if you do make sure to put the cron job back in slocate. slocate is there. Apparently there was a big

Re: [expert] P2P Application

2002-08-22 Thread Alastair Scott
to Linux completely in turn making my life better. Any suggestions or reccomendations? Try http://qtella.sourceforge.net/ (KDE) http://gtk-gnutella.sourceforge.net/ (Gnome) http://news.com.com/2100-1023-954651.html (for amusement) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http

Re: [expert] Why no amanda packages?

2002-08-16 Thread Scott
or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- --- Scott St. John Operations, Talon Network Services, Inc. Nights, WRFY-FM www.scottah.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Thanks Civileme (was Mandrake Club advocates: PostPo sitive)

2002-08-13 Thread Alastair Scott
to Web sites to remove inconvenient facts from history, I know that if this page changes http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/investors/bsa/faq2 you start counting the spoons :) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [expert] lyx, libforms, and other frontends

2002-08-02 Thread Alastair Scott
) ... Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9SuU5XzGCRjP1DsMRAo9KAKCCrEgw8iBU1QOqhDQtsLfGaR81GgCdGmf+ G2m9gzAQfnd//lAmjPALd+w= =xE6n -END

[expert] Console timeout

2002-07-25 Thread Scott
Can someone refresh my memory. I want to stop the powersave feature on the local console so I can watch iptraf. Was it powersave=off or set timeout=0, I can't remember and those two don't work. Thanks, -Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Dell LCD monitors with LM

2002-07-24 Thread Alastair Scott
on because my hardware is slightly older (3C905 Ethernet card, integrated, and Teac 24xCD-ROM). Generally what's inside the box is more important than who the OEM is. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

[expert] Pauses with FTP and POP3

2002-07-24 Thread Scott
it? Running ProFTP for FTP and imap for POP3 on Mandrake 8.2 on an IBM Netfinity Server. Thanks, -Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [expert] Pauses with FTP and POP3

2002-07-24 Thread Scott
Should I be using caching nameserver on this box? It is not hosting DNS. At 12:42 PM 7/24/2002 -0700, Tibbetts, Ric wrote: Short answer: Sounds like a DNS (Name Server) problem. Check your DNS setup. Ric -Original Message- From: Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday

Re: [expert] Pauses with FTP and POP3

2002-07-24 Thread Scott
to the one answer that will solve all of your problems. This is on the network at my ISP. I am converting several BSDI boxes over to Mandrake for production use. The two DNS boxes are still running BSDI, but are functional. Thanks for any help. -Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] Deleting printers

2002-07-23 Thread Alastair Scott
button)? This gives you a rather nice Web interface and allows CUPS printers to be deleted from there. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

RE: [expert] ejecting the tape

2002-07-11 Thread Scott, Rob
eject /dev/st0 -Original Message- From: daRcmaTTeR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 July 2002 13:54 To: Expert List Subject: [expert] ejecting the tape Hi list, last week there was some discussion on the list here about tar and tape drives and how things work. I was wondering

RE: [expert] ejecting the tape

2002-07-11 Thread Scott, Rob
Aye, its that simple. You may need to fiddle with the permissions the script runs at though. -Original Message- From: daRcmaTTeR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 July 2002 16:07 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [expert] ejecting the tape On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Scott, Rob wrote

Re: [expert] Mandrake in an ISP environment

2002-07-03 Thread Scott
it goes! -Scott At 05:29 PM 7/2/2002 -0400, you wrote: Scott, Consider this move carefully. FreeBSD is more than just reliable. Like Linux it is a Unix clone, but instead of being designed to mimic minux it grew from ATT Unix. (not better or worse just different roots) I recently

[expert] Mandrake in an ISP environment

2002-07-02 Thread Scott
scanned www.mandrakebizcases.com and did not see any ISP's. Thanks, -Scott Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Apache worm?

2002-06-29 Thread Alastair Scott
/apache-worm/ At the moment (see bugtraq mailing list)* it's being taken apart to see what it does. Alastair * http://online.securityfocus.com/archive - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: [expert] How to request packages?

2002-06-27 Thread Alastair Scott
will have to go to some special repository which isn't mirrored in USA. The catch is that you'll have to be a Club member to propose and benefit (there is a thread of responses under that article on the Club pages). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http

Re: [expert] I need facts to prove UNIX's superiority for mainfraim purposes over M$ MF Servers

2002-06-27 Thread Alastair Scott
providing related information, and ends with some conclusions. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: [expert] I need facts to prove UNIX's superiority for mainfraim purposes over M$ MF Servers

2002-06-27 Thread Alastair Scott
be able to extract much from it. Its value is that it's an MSc thesis (so it's not just a random journalistic effort; it'll have been reviewed and defended). Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU

Re: [expert] Here they come again...

2002-06-25 Thread Alastair Scott
much useful life in it, for example. I suspect that, to the proposers, £600 or £700 for a new machine is nothing, and that they would be surprised to hear that theirs was the financial situation of a _small minority_ of people. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http

Re: [expert] I made it -- 1 year uptime

2002-06-25 Thread Alastair Scott
when memory was being given away in cornflakes packets), 180GB of RAID storage (hard disks now being given away ditto) etc. etc. Alastair * because of bizarre 'policies' where it's physically hosted ... - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP

Re: [expert] kde3.01 won't start

2002-06-11 Thread Alastair Scott
I've put my copies in: http://www.unmetered.org.uk/misc/libqt3-3.0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm http://www.unmetered.org.uk/misc/libqt3-devel-3.0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: [expert] Kstars crashes in latest mandrake kde RPMs

2002-06-09 Thread Alastair Scott
the installation package http://prdownloads.sf.net/kstars/kstars-0.9.kde3.tar.gz and build it the problem is solved. (And it's worth it - kstars is excellent :) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU

Re: [expert] X Freezes

2002-06-07 Thread Alastair Scott
Andrew wrote: My computer seems to randomly freeze up. It stops responding to everything (mouse, keyboard, CTRL+ALT+BKSPC). This only happens when I am running X11. I haven't found a pattern that shows a specific app causing the freeze. I have had combinations of IceWM, KDE2.2 and 3, having

Re: [expert] Here they come again...

2002-06-05 Thread Alastair Scott
obvious_ mould; this is a bad American habit which needs to be watched :/ - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8/l

[expert] Control Centre compiled applets not appearing

2002-06-03 Thread Alastair Scott
the application works OK as far as I can see, but even restarting KDE doesn't put the icon in the Control Centre. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http

Re: [expert] A Linux Virus on the loose.

2002-06-02 Thread Alastair Scott
and they were first-rate. http://www.f-prot.com/f-prot/products/fplin.html (It costs businesses $300 per server per annum but is free for personal use!) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux

RE: [expert] PCMCIA Issues

2002-05-30 Thread Scott, Rob
I had problems with my Toshiba 7200 doing this untill I changed the pc card controller mode settings in the bios from auto-select to PCIC compatable. -Original Message- From: Ashley Reynolds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 May 2002 12:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert]

Re: [expert] ?how do I change a file name in linux cmd line?

2002-05-28 Thread Alastair Scott
Windows and Linux HOWTO' ... ? (If anyone else thinks it should exist I might have a shot at writing it; there's nothing like a difficult challenge ... !) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: [expert] ?how do I change a file name in linux cmd line?

2002-05-28 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 28 May 2002 8:38 pm, kwan wrote: On Tue, 28 May 2002, Alastair Scott wrote: As for the second, you have to know it exists: it's remarkable _how different_ the approach to learning how to use Linux is to someone who has come from

Re: [expert] lots of freezes in LM 8.1

2002-05-26 Thread Alastair Scott
ends of the 'bathtub curve' (imagine age of component along X axis and probability of failure along Y axis ;) Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: [expert] CUPS and installing USB printer

2002-05-26 Thread Alastair Scott
connected to. Alastair * mouse not re-awakening when leaving power-saving mode ** some momentary connectivity outages - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

[expert] Building _sound_ Mandrake RPMs

2002-05-26 Thread Alastair Scott
found anything so far); - - retrieve my second PC from behind the sofa, install Mandrake 8.2 from the CDs and not a byte extra, then build away. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: [expert] xcdroast: does not recognize Mandrake CD

2002-05-26 Thread Alastair Scott
are various (Yamaha, Teac, Lite-On) and lilo.conf is OK in all instances. On the theme of decadence, here's a new KDE 3-compatible CD burning frontend which IMO is the best yet: http://k3b.sourceforge.net/ Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP

Re: [expert] Mozilla/Kmail

2002-05-24 Thread Alastair Scott
- -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE87pevCv59vFiSU4YRAtWjAKCmS/trhq6kYhwAk+CtrFJfR0BBbwCgiblE lY2/Amub6u/zhb0muMhuYH4= =MLse -END PGP

Re: [expert] WipeInfo - comporable for Linux?

2002-05-23 Thread Alastair Scott
and wiping works in different ways. It looks as though http://wipe.sourceforge.net/ is the closest you'll get. I used to use BCWipe on Windows, which was good, and there are Linux flavours of it: http://www.jetico.com/linux Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http

Re: [expert] WipeInfo - comporable for Linux?

2002-05-22 Thread Alastair Scott
manager (like the old Norton Commander) and has a 'Shred' option which, from the noise the hard disk makes, does overwrite a file multiply :) http://krusader.sourceforge.net/ Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: [expert] Hard drives: any thoughts?

2002-05-19 Thread Alastair Scott
after I switched to Linux ;) I now have an ATA100 7200rpm 40GB IBM which is working wonderfully well. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: [expert] Edditing the 8.2 KDE Aplication Menu?

2002-05-18 Thread Alastair Scott
still there but hidden. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE85hd7Cv59vFiSU4YRAqKJAJ9qIlRfFnHd4c2lIKhSNfBXqqgU+wCgtP4L

Re: [expert] newbie vs expert (was Tasks startup time with ps)

2002-05-18 Thread Alastair Scott
patronising air, could well be in an influential position 'in real life'; flaming _anyone_ is potentially a lost sale, or a lot of lost sales ... Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: [expert] newbie vs expert (was Tasks startup time with ps)

2002-05-18 Thread Alastair Scott
quantity of 'arrogant and supercilious' people seem to frequent Usenet; I'm surprised you were attacked on a mailing list as, in my experience, they're much less problematic. Alastair - -- Alastair Scott (London, United Kingdom) http://www.unmetered.org.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

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