Re: [expert] Linux irc channel

2002-06-27 Thread Tim Holmes
A lot of the ops are cocky and do have this need to demonstrate their power. That, I will agree, is annoying. But the thing is, each of the channels is run by somebody. They have their little op clubs for the rooms, and have meetings etc; My only complaint about OPN, which is where I spend

Re: [expert] again - opera and netscape?

2002-05-16 Thread Tim Holmes
Peter -- Check out Opera, 6.0 has been released. http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2002/05/20020515.html That ~may~ fix your problem. I've not yet upgraded, but I will probably do that later tonight if I remember. Let us know if that solves the problem. Good luck tdh --

Re: [expert] again - opera and netscape?

2002-05-13 Thread Tim Holmes
To start out with, Opera 6.x is not production software. It is beta. Keep that in mind. It's put out there to be tested. If you're having a problem, report the problem to Opera in great detail and install a lesser version to use. Whether it's a different version of the beta, or the production

Re: [expert] 3dwm windows manager, how?

2002-05-13 Thread Tim Holmes
I stumbled across this a few weeks ago, but never installed and/or toyed with it. Didn't see the reason. So I then moved over to installing e17. But I ~think~ you should be able to start 3dwm from xinit or startx. Edit your ~/.xinitrc to include the 3dwm option. Your ~/.xinitrc should look

Re: [expert] chmod reset

2002-04-17 Thread Tim Holmes
Do you have some sort of journaling file system running? That happens when you're using journaling. Check that, that's what comes to mind here. Hope that helps. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |

Re: [expert] Linux irc channel

2002-04-15 Thread Tim Holmes
irc.openprojects.net #mandrake #mandrakeguru And MANY MANY MORE! tdh -- +- \./ | Tim Holmes -- em@il: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (0Y0) | UIN: 17021091 -ooO--(_)--Ooo

Re: [expert] Linux grrls break free

2002-04-08 Thread Tim Holmes
You're right, these mailing lists are dominated by men. For so long this sort of technical interested was thought to be the domain of men. Fortunately that age is disappearing and we have more and more women interested, developing and doing damn good work in the field. And that's why I think

Re: [expert] A little vi help

2002-04-08 Thread Tim Holmes
| I did, and thanks to both of you. Mystery solved! I don' use vi improved | (vim). I guess it is because, as an old timer that has used vi, I don't | believe you can improve vi :-) | Dr John Depending on what OS revision you're working with, you may be using ViM after all. Check for a

Re: [expert] wheel mouse with 5 buttons - how to program extra buttons?

2002-04-02 Thread Tim Holmes
I've been wondering how to do this myself. As well as trying to configure the buttons for my Internet ready keyboard, but I've not had much luck! But somebody once gave me some information that MAY work. I tried them in a round'bout way, but didn't get anything to work. Maybe I'll give it

Re: [expert] Evolution (Free/Busy information) problem

2002-03-31 Thread Tim Holmes
I've never used this software, but this could be with how the RPM was compiled for Mandrake. What I suggest you do, is back up all the data you've created to date, uninstall the RPM, download the source from their webpage, then compile and install the software. If you run into the same problem,

Re: [expert] Server performance - OT

2002-03-29 Thread Tim Holmes
Yes. No. Maybe so. To start with the hardware: Last I heard, and read, there was really only one motherboard for dual AMD chips. Tyan makes it. It comes with onboard damn near everything. RAID, IDE controller, and dual 3com NICs. I think it's like $650 or so. This may have changed, I've

Re: [expert] Anything else better than NFS in Mandrake 8.2?

2002-03-29 Thread Tim Holmes
As there is with anything, there are pros and cons to AFS. Meanwhile I've never used OpenAFS, but I have worked with and have some experience with AFS. If implimented, the security of AFS can be very nice, but AFS is not very stable. It's been known to go down quite often, then closing you and

Re: [expert] root mail going to nobody user.

2002-03-27 Thread Tim Holmes
| Tim Holmes wrote: | Calm down and listen. My question was is system mail for root going to | nobody. So the answer is | yes, not no. My apologies, I thought you were meant was ALL mail going to the nobody user. Misunderstood what you were saying. | | Tim are you sure? Indulge me, and run

[expert] root mail going to nobody user.

2002-03-26 Thread Tim Holmes
I happen to be logged in as root for a short time today, and decided I'd go over all the email, get rid of the cron mess. The important stuff, I have going to my email address, but I figured I'd clean out in there. Well, in doing so, the only mail that was in there, was the mall that was in

Re: [expert] Why Linux?

2002-03-24 Thread Tim Holmes
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Re: [expert] FreeBSD

2002-03-19 Thread Tim Holmes
There have been quite a number of these emails sent. Check the archives, since there were a lot of things said that were very good. some by myself actually.: ') Unless you really know what you're doing, I wouldn't suggest FreeBSD for a workstation, but it's an amazing server. A quick not

Re: [expert] info on pine

2002-03-18 Thread Tim Holmes
My first mail client was pine. I used it for two hours and then immediate asked for something else to use. I used elm for years, just because I hated pine that much. (For those of you who have used elm, it's not the nicest of email clients!) I used KMail for about a week, then that's when a

Re: [expert] Mail server on home LAN

2002-02-27 Thread Tim Holmes
| Hello, | | I'd like to set up a mail server for two users on my home LAN. I have a | mail account at my provider and I created two aliasses. Now my questions | are: | | - Can I configure sendmail to send mail to the SMTP server of my ISP? You can set up the mail client to send

Re: [expert] fetchmail problem

2002-02-06 Thread Tim Holmes
Hey Skippi. Fetchmail is what you want. Right off the top of my head, I can't see much in the way of why you're having problems, but I'm going to submit my fetchmailrc here as a template. --- [root@r2d2 log]# cat /etc/fetchmailrc #

Re: [expert] Shell Script Question

2002-02-05 Thread Tim Holmes
What are you trying to do? What are you trying to | (pipe) into date? If you just want the current date and time, determine what format you want it in, then set that in the script. Is this as shell script, or perl script? curdttm=`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M` What's this echo $blank that you have?

[expert] Setting $MAIL to $HOME/mbox or $HOME/mail/mbox

2002-02-04 Thread Tim Holmes
After having a server die because of an old HDD, we've lost all the mail in the $MAIL. Which on the server is set to /var/mail/$USER. I was snooping around, and found this, in /etc/postfix/main.cf. # The mail_spool_directory parameter specifies the directory where # UNIX-style mailboxes are

Re: [expert] kvm switch

2002-01-31 Thread Tim Holmes
I have a Belkin OmniView, or OmniCube. (I'd crawl under the desk to look but it's dark down there, and well... I'm lazy! lol) I've not had a problem with the scroll wheel for my mouse. I have a Kensington Expert Mouse Pro. The only problems I've had, has been with a Mandrake 8.1 box that I

Re: [expert] ISP setup

2002-01-24 Thread Tim Holmes
Starting their own ISP may be more extensive and costly for what they need. But Linux could be of some service in this instance. They could purchase an Internet connection from any number of local ISPs. Whether it's a business DSL connection, a business T1 connection, ISDN, possibly even a cable

[expert] Font Install

2002-01-18 Thread Tim Holmes
I've recently downloaded a font. (nexus.pcf) Well now that I have it, what do I do with it? I've found other pcf files on my machine, but those al have a pc.gz extension on them. Does something have to be done to this thing to get it installed? Or do I just pit it some where. I played with

Re: [expert] Man page for diff

2002-01-07 Thread Tim Holmes
Wow... you're right. I never noticed that. Never use diff that much. Check out the --help info. That's all I can think of. diff --help It's quite lengthy, that should come in pretty useful. tdh -- T. Holmes |

Re: [expert] Cannot login as or su - to root

2002-01-03 Thread Tim Holmes
You will not be able to telnet to the local host as root. telnet -l root localhost will not allow you. It's a security risk, and it's disallowed because of such. Ssh however will. But there's an evern better suggestion. Use the consoles to log on. CTRL+ALT+F1-6 will give you a console with

Re: [expert] Cannot login as or su - to root

2002-01-03 Thread Tim Holmes
Try ssh'ing into the machine as root. ssh -l root localhost That should work, and give you root access. You could always login in single user mode. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN:

Re: [expert] Simple question about MDK

2001-12-29 Thread Tim Holmes
And as a side note, since others have already answered your question. ALL UNIX systems use /etc/passwd and /etc/group. Most Linux's use /etc/shadow, or something along those lines. It may be called something else, but it basically does the same thing. If you want to edit something that's in

Re: [expert] telnets on port 992

2001-12-17 Thread Tim Holmes
Basically it's telnet over SSL. Much more secure. [timh@r2d2 timh]$ grep 992 /etc/services telnets 992/tcptelnet protocol over TLS/SSL telnets 992/udptelnet protocol over TLS/SSL It's used more in BSD from what I've seen. [timh@eric timh]$ telnet yoda.unixtechs.org Trying

Re: [expert] Uptime in the email

2001-12-17 Thread Tim Holmes
For mutt, here's a much simplier way of doing it. Make an edit to your ~/.muttrc that reads something along these lines. set signature='cat /home/timh/.signature ; echo -Uptime --- ; uptime ; echo

Re: [expert] Mandrake cal program

2001-12-13 Thread Tim Holmes
[timh@r2d2 timh]$ cal --help cal: invalid option -- - usage: cal [-mjyV] [[month] year] [timh@r2d2 timh]$ cal -m December 2001 Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 tdh --

Re: [expert] motherboards

2001-12-13 Thread Tim Holmes
Looks like everybody has joined the 'bandwagon!' AMD is the way to go. They do as much, if not more then lower end P4s. They're also, in some cases 40% of the price. (Depending on speed of course!) I mean I bought 1.2 Ghz Athlon for like $120 I believe. That's with 266 FSB as well. I

Re: [expert] ~user websites not working

2001-11-30 Thread Tim Holmes
I think the post you inclued below is still hitting the head on the nail, but first, let's check out a few things. = [root@r2d2 /root]# /etc/init.d/httpd status Apache is running. httpd: 27520 27519 1308 19629 19628 19627 19310 19309 19308 19307 1074

Re: [expert] Best Browser

2001-11-25 Thread Tim Holmes
Opera http://www.opera.com/ Check it out! I only use 'Nutscrape' for some of those weird Flash sites, and that's only once a while that I need that. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN:

Re: [expert] MPlayer

2001-11-24 Thread Tim Holmes
Has anybody figured out/compiled/found the little panel for MPlayer. When I install, and I finally got it installed, I don't see the little panel for play and all that mess. I downloaded a skin, and have no idea where to put it. And I'm not finding anyting helpful on the webpage. Anybody have

Re: [expert] Clearing \tmp

2001-11-23 Thread Tim Holmes
This is a good thing to do, but for those of use that don't reboot our machines. My machines are always up, the only time they go down is for power outages. So that wouldn't help. But somebody else did mention tmpwatch. There's also dirwatcher. I've not used either one, I go through and get

Re: [expert] Peculiar login problem

2001-11-19 Thread Tim Holmes
Two things: 1) Try loging in at a virtual console. Do a CTRL+ALT+F1, and it will give you a prompt. Try logging in, and see what it tells you. 2) Login as root, and check out what's going on in /var/log/messages. Find out what the error message is and then we can go from there. The

Re: [expert] blackbox mouse

2001-11-19 Thread Tim Holmes
That's why procmail is your bestestest of friend! Do a man procmailrc and ask a few questions if needed, then filter everything out into their own mailboxes. Much easier to sift through mail that's already sifted! :0) tdh --

Re: [expert] Licq and the new ICQ protocol

2001-11-18 Thread Tim Holmes
Reported, the only client that works with the new server protocol, is ickle. You can check that out at: http://ickle.sourceforge.net/ I however have not compiled it, it complained about something I didn't have, and I didn't have the time to find it and fix that problem. There are no screen

Re: [expert] How to convert

2001-11-18 Thread Tim Holmes
You don't. You burn them to CD. An ISO is basically a CD image, all it needs now is to be burned to a CD. Find whatever CD burning software you have, cdrecord, or xcdroast, and burn it to disc. From there, you can install and boot from the CD. tdh --

Re: [expert] telnet

2001-11-15 Thread Tim Holmes
Not to mention, due to the fact that SSH uses more bandwidth, if there's any sort of packet lose, SSH can basically be rendered unusable. Telnet on the other hand isn't. SSH also sends traffic when it's idle, telnet does not. Telnet has it's place in corporate IT, but, for the most part, it

Re: [expert] Why do I have 2 IPs?

2001-11-13 Thread Tim Holmes
In some cases, you may actually have 3 or 4 IPs. You'll always have the loopback address, which is labeled as lo. If you do a ifconfig lo as root, you should see something like this. [root@r2d2 /root]# ifconfig lo loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1

Re: [expert] kernel in 8.1

2001-11-09 Thread Tim Holmes
Mandrake was originally Linux optimized for Intel pentiums. So the kernel that comes with Mandrake is more for Intel, but will work just fine with an AMD chip as well. You can go through the kernel config and specify that you want a kernel built for AMD, and it will then do so. I've tried 4

Re: [expert] My linux web site

2001-11-08 Thread Tim Holmes
Pretty good start. I would only suggest you add a few more things from what you have right now. -- Distros A lot of people run FreeBSD for gateways or firewalls and what not. BSD on a whole is a good jumping ground, may be a good idea to toss in links to FreeBSD, NetBSD, and just for sh*tz

Re: [expert] FVWM Users

2001-11-08 Thread Tim Holmes
I use it at work. And for work, and SunOS it's great, but for home use it doesn't suit me very well. I much rather use Enlightenment personally. I'm not even 100% sure what version we use at work. But you're right, it's very customizable. The last version of SuSE I installed, which I think

Re: [expert] Xinerama on Mandrake 8.0 with Matrox G400

2001-11-02 Thread Tim Holmes
You have the wrong driver. Head to the webpage. www.matrox.com/mga Follow the links and download two things. The PowerDesk software, and the beta driver for the DualHead. Install the driver, then install the PowerDesk software. Run the PowerDesk software to configure your DualHead, then