[expert] here's a weird one

2003-10-01 Thread Jack Coates
of are from MandrakeUpdate. Any idea how to fix it? -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] here's a weird one

2003-10-01 Thread Jack Coates
to this point. For evolution... never used it. On Wednesday 01 October 2003 11:05, Jack Coates wrote: 9.1 system, KDE. 1) If you start Mozilla 1.3, it works okay. Minimize it and come back, it no longer accepts keyboard or mouse input. 2) Evolution 1.2 will not start at all, even after a killev

Re: [expert] Morphix changed my Login?!

2003-10-01 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 10:33, HaywireMac wrote: ... It wasn't the user that changed, it was the login, as in: [EMAIL PROTECTED] became [EMAIL PROTECTED] that's the hostname. weirdness, but it's okay now. freaky... -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your

[expert] apcupsd

2003-10-01 Thread Jack Coates
Does anyone know if Mandrake's version of apcupsd (3.10 in cooker) was compiled with network support? It won't slave, whereas the RH7.3 version did so quite nicely. thanks, -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[expert] ht::dig and replacements

2003-10-01 Thread Jack Coates
being empty. He changed it to bad_querystr=thisshould=nevermatch and ran htdig, which promptly went into a tight loop and crashed the server. So, any recommendations for a non-sucky search engine? I hear good things about Swish-e, anyone try it? -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture

Re: [expert] Grmbl: Evolution to Outlook

2003-10-01 Thread Jack Coates
Outlook and everything else is wrong... Some even think my signatures are viruses. It is insane! Kind regards Guy __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack

Re: [expert] here's a weird one

2003-10-01 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 10:53, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 08:05, Jack Coates wrote: 9.1 system, KDE. 1) If you start Mozilla 1.3, it works okay. Minimize it and come back, it no longer accepts keyboard or mouse input. 2) Evolution 1.2 will not start at all, even after

Re: [expert] here's a weird one

2003-10-01 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 10:59, Luca Olivetti wrote: Jack Coates wrote: 9.1 system, KDE. 1) If you start Mozilla 1.3, it works okay. Minimize it and come back, it no longer accepts keyboard or mouse input. 2) Evolution 1.2 will not start at all, even after a killev. both problems occur

Re: [expert] By the way ( was: More list problems?)

2003-10-02 Thread Jack Coates
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 06:39, HaywireMac wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 08:55:15 -0400 Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: PHB's? I'm thinkin' the PH stands for Power Hungry... pointy haired boss, ref. dilbert. Supposed to look like devil horns. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific

Re: [expert] setup email bounce

2003-10-02 Thread Jack Coates
it's all going to Verisign.(*broad evile grin*) Not likely :-( Sobig.F hit its built-in expiration date about a week ago, and then you go through the five days of late deliveries and a handful of servers with wrong dates. Sobig.G is gonna be bad. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific

[expert] OT theme question

2003-10-03 Thread Jack Coates
anyone seen or made a Galaxy-like theme for Windows XP? thanks, -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] OT theme question

2003-10-03 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 11:05, Jack Coates wrote: anyone seen or made a Galaxy-like theme for Windows XP? thanks, replying to myself again... never underestimate the rest of the world's desire to look like MacOSX :-) I just set both machines up to look like Aqua. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle

Re: [expert] OT theme question

2003-10-03 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 12:45, Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 11:05, Jack Coates wrote: anyone seen or made a Galaxy-like theme for Windows XP? thanks, replying to myself again... never underestimate the rest of the world's desire to look like MacOSX :-) I just set both

Re: [expert] Auto installation question

2003-10-04 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 16:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack Coates said: Jumpstart uses a network boot protocol to get an IP and basic system image, then either run as a diskless workstation or install system packages from an NFS server. It's good stuff. LTSP is the right direction

Re: [expert] No one answering on newbie :-(

2003-10-04 Thread Jack Coates
://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] OT theme question

2003-10-04 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 20:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack Coates said: On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 12:45, Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 11:05, Jack Coates wrote: anyone seen or made a Galaxy-like theme for Windows XP? thanks, replying to myself again... never underestimate

Re: [expert] wav to mp3 enmasse?

2003-10-05 Thread Jack Coates
thoughts beyond a shell script? Rob hell, this is a one-liner :-) for i in `ls *.wav`; do lame -buncha -options $i; done Gets a little trickier to recurse through directories, but I can show ya that too; just ask. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack

[expert] 9.2 stuff

2003-10-05 Thread Jack Coates
grumbling about gconf-editor here... but, I can't grumble too much because it is plaintext XML. If you're looking for something in it, open a terminal and use grep -r something .gconf* -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] ht::dig and replacements

2003-10-05 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 15:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jack Coates said: guy at work is having a problem I thought I'd ask about... we've got ht::dig on Mandrake 9.0 indexing our web site, and it broke today because someone added parameters to the html tags. He updated to the latest

Re: [expert] [OT] Reply-to (was: ML9.1: Why did Mandrake put restrictions on using KDE as root?[...])

2003-10-06 Thread Jack Coates
+Ribbrock+site%3Amandrakelinux.combtnG=Google+Search -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] No one answering on newbie :-(

2003-10-06 Thread Jack Coates
Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Re: Reply-to

2003-10-07 Thread Jack Coates
read that page and remain unconvinced, just as I've read the alternative positions and remain unconvinced, then we might as well agree to disagree and let it go. -- Jack Coates I'm a North-Going Zax, and I always go north! Get out of my way, now, and let me go forth! Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Re: Reply-to

2003-10-07 Thread Jack Coates
to pine to Eudora to Sylpheed/Evolution. Somehow I missed mutt. I tried it a few times, never liked it enough to keep it though. Reminds me of emacs (in that the tool is more complicated than the task). -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] konsole settings

2003-10-07 Thread Jack Coates
that? Yep. Repeatedly... to no avail. __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] mutt (was: Reply-to)

2003-10-07 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 08:04, T. Ribbrock wrote: ... Thomas (who likes ssh sessions... :-) ) I'm writing this in Evolution... which is being piped from an ADSL line through two ssh -XC sessions :-) -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from

RE: [expert] VMware Martian Source (solved?)

2003-10-07 Thread Jack Coates
from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] How to make adsl-start available for users?

2003-10-07 Thread Jack Coates
MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread Jack Coates
MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Best Use of Swap

2003-10-08 Thread Jack Coates
-aroundable, but the workarounds violate the KISS policy). Restoring the OS and patching it to current isn't going to take more than an hour. Do not use the slave positions on IDE busses for any of these disks. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread Jack Coates
C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- - Original Message - From: Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Expert List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 10:16 AM

Re: [expert] Re: Best Use of Swap

2003-10-08 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 12:19, Norman Zhang wrote: ... So it is a good practice to setup multiple swap partitions on different drives. LM knows how make best use of it? Regards, Norman yes -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from

RE: [expert] All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread Jack Coates
configger? I make an exception for shorewall, life is too short to configure netfilter directly, and I do understand what shorewall is doing :-) On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 12:39, Lawson, Jim wrote: Have you tried swat. I think it makes it a little easier. -Original Message- From: Jack Coates

Re: [expert] Re: Best Use of Swap

2003-10-08 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 14:01, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 08 October 2003 03:31 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 12:19, Norman Zhang wrote: ... So it is a good practice to setup multiple swap partitions on different drives. LM knows how make best use

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-10 Thread Jack Coates
://clevername.homeip.net/xfce4/ -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Quake II keyboard problem

2003-10-10 Thread Jack Coates
for this? Thanks, Dan __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... // generated by quake, do not modify bind TAB inven bind

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-10 Thread Jack Coates
-if /TD It comes up right next to the Apache button if MSIE is used to visit any of my web pages. This looks to me like the best balance of advocacy without limiting choice. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: Re[2]: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-10 Thread Jack Coates
an intranet site that I had to use Codeweavers/IE for because it required SMB AUTH, but that's one site which was never intended for public consumption. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-10 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 14:24, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:41:46 -0700 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: It comes up right next to the Apache button if MSIE is used to visit any of my web pages. This looks to me like the best balance of advocacy without limiting choice

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-10 Thread Jack Coates
% 16.84% winders linux (no other unices) look at how little the growth is for XP, .NET extensions, all that hype. Win98 is being abandoned, but for Linux and Win2000. And look at the huge increase in Mozilla on Windows. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-11 Thread Jack Coates
when Netscape was desparate to get some of the hype surrounding Java pointed their way. Its formal name is ECMAScript, but no one uses that name. JavaScript is good for automating stuff, writing calculators, filling in forms c, but there's no disk or network access (in theory). -- Jack Coates

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-11 Thread Jack Coates
over the place :-P I imagine, given the three month time frame, that no one had any idea there was a problem until some automated system attempted to hand two thirds of the membership over to collections. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-12 Thread Jack Coates
from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] grep weirdness -- I MEAN IT!!

2003-10-12 Thread Jack Coates
. __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] winnt/system32/cmd.exe replaced with 300meg movie

2003-10-12 Thread Jack Coates
the bandwidth waste and tying up my pipe. bandwidth waste, and the risk that at some point the worm will be smart enough to be doing redirection. The bandwidth usage will likely be extreme. Have a look at my loopback solution: http://www.monkeynoodle.org/lrp/deworming.html -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle

Re: [expert] grep weirdness -- I MEAN IT!!

2003-10-12 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 07:46, Pierre Fortin wrote: On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 07:33:37 -0700 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# grep set_removable_mntpoints /proc/kcore Binary file /proc/kcore matches Interesting... are you using 9.2rc2? My system locked up

Re: [expert] winnt/system32/cmd.exe replaced with 300meg movie

2003-10-12 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 08:08, ed tharp wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 10:34, Jack Coates wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 06:31, ed tharp wrote: I am considering sending every win box that is requesting winnt/system32/cmd.exe with an 300 meg avi, renamed cmd.exe, and stored in a folder off my

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-12 Thread Jack Coates
the ../../) but it doesn't work. I am assuming I am adding the wrong root or that this wouldn't work in any case because of the way it is called. praedor On Sunday 12 October 2003 09:27 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 06:48, Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash

Re: [expert] wav to mp3 enmasse?

2003-10-12 Thread Jack Coates
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 06:27, Brian Parish wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 15:44, HaywireMac wrote: On Sat, 04 Oct 2003 23:36:28 -0700 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: hell, this is a one-liner :-) for i in `ls *.wav`; do lame -buncha -options $i; done alias that sucker

Re: Re[2]: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-12 Thread Jack Coates
. Both cases come back to more work, only it's unplanned work. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: Re[4]: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-12 Thread Jack Coates
JavaScript and to some extent application engines which embed their own languages in (for instance, I spend entirely too much time these days with tclhttpd). There's no w3c.org validator for JavaScript or VBScript :-) -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack

Re: Re[4]: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-13 Thread Jack Coates
me out for large projects. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-13 Thread Jack Coates
. Standard code works on IE if it's really really simple, but frequently breaks in ugly ways. Transparent PNGs. PNGs at all (color is off). Advanced CSS features, like flow. Many advanced Javascript form functions. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate and nonexistent security fixes

2003-10-13 Thread Jack Coates
://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] refresh rate

2003-10-13 Thread Jack Coates
is there a pointy-clicky way to change monitor refresh rates? I'm not in a big hurry to go messing with modlines. thanks, -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate and nonexistent security fixes

2003-10-13 Thread Jack Coates
-END PGP SIGNATURE- __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] MandrakeUpdate and nonexistent security fixes

2003-10-13 Thread Jack Coates
/var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libopenssl0.9.7-0.9.7a-1.2.91mdk.i586.rpm You may want to update your urpmi database On Monday 13 October 2003 01:09 pm, Jack Coates wrote: but you're still not using the --wget switch. Try it, really. On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 09:51, Praedor Atrebates wrote

Re: [expert] refresh rate

2003-10-13 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 12:16, Richard Urwin wrote: On Monday 13 Oct 2003 5:21 pm, Larry Sword wrote: HaywireMac wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:22:58 -0700 Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: is there a pointy-clicky way to change monitor refresh rates? I'm not in a big hurry to go

Re: Re[4]: [expert] How to Block IE from a Website

2003-10-13 Thread Jack Coates
switch command and see what you have to do if your match statements are themselves variables. Ew. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] refresh rate

2003-10-13 Thread Jack Coates
wall. I guess I just need some wicked large LCDs :-) -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] urpmi and upgrades to 9.2

2003-10-13 Thread Jack Coates
the stopgap until XFce can implement the new freedesktop.org menu standard (they're aiming for the 4.2 release). -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] refresh rate

2003-10-14 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 23:15, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 22:27, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 21:24, James Sparenberg wrote: ... check out where your cell phone is sitting. I'm serious here. They really muck with monitors. James ... knew

Re: [expert] linux complient notebooks

2003-10-14 Thread Jack Coates
will be general purpose using productivity apps and also video and audio playing from cds and dvds in addition to internet oriented jobs. Sony VAIOs generally do quite well; Google for the linux-sony mailing list. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] wav to mp3 enmasse?

2003-10-14 Thread Jack Coates
a problem before ;-) # for i in *.OK; do mv $i $(basename $i .OK); done -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] mergeant and gda

2003-10-14 Thread Jack Coates
anyone tried to use mergeant as a front-end to a Postgresql database? no workee here -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] mergeant and gda

2003-10-14 Thread Jack Coates
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 15:03, Jack Coates wrote: anyone tried to use mergeant as a front-end to a Postgresql database? no workee here ah, because Mandrake's RPMs break two packages into several different RPMS, and then fail to keep in step. Compiling from source with help from the gnome-db

Re: [expert] My procmailrc - any problems with this?

2003-10-15 Thread Jack Coates
a lockfile with SA since by the time mail gets to that, I want it to pass through all remaining recipes. (that would be the trailing : character on the recipe. Mine just shows as: :0f * 256000 | /usr/bin/spamc -f -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack

[expert] urpmi

2003-10-15 Thread Jack Coates
the 9.2 rush is over. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Vanishing mail, postfix, procmail, or spamassassin?

2003-10-15 Thread Jack Coates
- __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] urpmi

2003-10-15 Thread Jack Coates
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 12:17, Tim Sawchuck wrote: ... I thought the general release for the public was not until the end of October. We (public / non-mdk club) can download rpms and isos now??? See why I'm confused, or am I the only one as usual? ;-) rpms != isos -- Jack Coates

[expert] spam assassin and mrtg

2003-10-16 Thread Jack Coates
: LegendO[spam]: nbsp;total: run indexmaker. Results at: http://www.monkeynoodle.org/statistics, but there's a few hours of bad data from the unmodified script which tracked totals instead of five-minute deltas. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... #!/usr/bin/perl # # spamstats.pl

Re: [expert] spam assassin and mrtg

2003-10-16 Thread Jack Coates
Joerg On Thursday 16 October 2003 18:52, Jack Coates wrote: Made some modifications to an existing script set. I was trying to extend pfixmrtg but had a lot of trouble with the bdb stuff. 1) put this kludgy mofo into /usr/local/sbin/spam-stats #!/bin/bash # # spam-stats -- print

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-17 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 07:46, Eric Fernandez wrote: Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 02:52, ef2 wrote: What about splitting the kernel into source and headers, for driver compilations ? been done for years. I don't see a kernel-headers package since 9.0

Re: [expert] Upgrade from LAN?

2003-10-17 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 09:21, Lee Wiggers wrote: Now that I have 5 boxes on 9.1 and 9.2 altogether, I have a question. Can I somehow open the ISO's in a directory available to all boxes on my network and upgrade from there? Lee mount -t iso9660 -o loop myisoimage /mnt/point -- Jack

Re: [expert] Missing kernel source from 9.2 isos...

2003-10-17 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 08:34, ed tharp wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 11:29, Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 07:46, Eric Fernandez wrote: Jack Coates wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 02:52, ef2 wrote: What about splitting the kernel into source and headers, for driver

[expert] recovery from rpm horkage

2003-10-17 Thread Jack Coates
that it hasn't got any RPMs installed :-) I figure this will gradually correct itself with urpmi.update --auto-select as the various packages get updated, but that's kind of lame and a waste of mirror bandwidth; any better ideas for fixing it? thanks, -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific

Re: [expert] spam assassin and mrtg

2003-10-17 Thread Jack Coates
detailed ones. There is much to do on my Todo-List though :) But this is just a Private Hobby I'm coding on... still for php4.0.6 *g*. Cheers Joerg On Thursday 16 October 2003 22:35, Jack Coates wrote: yeah, the bash stuff is seriously vile and I'll be fixing it ASAP. I'd like

Re: [expert] Complete system backup

2003-10-17 Thread Jack Coates
://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] can't add club urpmi media

2003-10-17 Thread Jack Coates
://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Complete system backup

2003-10-17 Thread Jack Coates
copies of the whole file. Best regards, Adrian - Original Message - From: Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Expert List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 12:51 AM Subject: Re: [expert] Complete system backup I take it you're trying to tar into a file

Re: [expert] can't add club urpmi media

2003-10-17 Thread Jack Coates
You're using plf.zarb.org's script, right? I just tried and had trouble, so I switched to MandrakeClub's script and it worked. On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 16:27, D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17 Oct 2003 at 15:52, Jack Coates wrote: probably slammed

Re: [expert] 9.2 start menu hosed after installing Moz 1.4

2003-10-18 Thread Jack Coates
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 08:33, D. R. Evans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18 Oct 2003 at 8:18, Rolf Pedersen wrote: Type mcc. Hmmm... I just discovered that I can't get a terminal -- since there's no terminal on the menu either! Alt-F2. -- Jack Coates

Re: [expert] spam assassin and mrtg

2003-10-18 Thread Jack Coates
centers and the various regions of the world. It also had a great web server log analysis function that would use time deltas to point out performance bottlenecks in the application server code. The system is still in use, though it now monitors the corporate WAN. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle

Re: [expert] Running X across a network?

2003-10-19 Thread Jack Coates
to do this? Can I run X across SSH? Is there a good VPN client that I can use? Rob do you want to export single apps or the whole desktop? Yes to SSH or VPN, but you may not need either on your LAN. http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/remote-x-cygwin-howto -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Jack Coates
directory every night; if Windows gets too fubar'ed to fix, I just rsync yesterday's disk image back over the current one. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Jack Coates
. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Son, the strongest castle in all of England. -- Monty Python and The Holy Grail -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Jack Coates
-in-law are now the only Windows users left, but I've set up firewalls and the expectation that I only traffic in drastic solutions, so I'm only called for computer help when drastic intervention is needed. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] How to check if the swap is on?

2003-10-19 Thread Jack Coates
, you can run one command and say ah hah, your problem is that the disks are running like gerbils on crack and the system is spending all its time blocked and waiting for disks. Buy more and faster drives. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-19 Thread Jack Coates
Things(TM). -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] msec???

2003-10-19 Thread Jack Coates
is the really powerful one. Look out for password aging, for instance :-) The bad news is that IIRC some of this stuff is dependent on kernel patches like GRSecurity, and so msec is toggling kernel flags that can only be touched during bootup. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-20 Thread Jack Coates
~. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Spamd and sa-learn

2003-10-20 Thread Jack Coates
- __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] reiserfs Corruption...some advice

2003-10-20 Thread Jack Coates
://shopping.yahoo.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] reiserfs Corruption...some advice

2003-10-20 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 10:23, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: --- Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: soapbox if you've already backed it up, then go ahead and try rebuild-tree; what have you got to lose? I fully expect you'll have to format and start over, based on my experiences

Re: [expert] Virus?

2003-10-20 Thread Jack Coates
thinks he's a wit he's (maybe) half right. Ah give him a break, he's probably fifteen and just read his first Rudy Rucker :-) ... -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] reiserfs Corruption...some advice

2003-10-20 Thread Jack Coates
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 20:45, James Sparenberg wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 10:42, Jack Coates wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 10:23, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: --- Jack Coates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: soapbox if you've already backed it up, then go ahead and try rebuild-tree; what

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-20 Thread Jack Coates
problems at all, then I'll reluctantly agree. what set me off was his statement that they did no sanity checking of MIME content at all, because that was the handler's job. Hopefully it was an overstatement, but let's just say I don't allow graphics to load in Evolution. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle

Re: [expert] Virus?

2003-10-20 Thread Jack Coates
to, with the best of intentions, shoot themselves in the foot. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-21 Thread Jack Coates
at Nullsoft? Evolution next to Outlook is too obvious for words, even with Evo's rough edges. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-21 Thread Jack Coates
or can get there, finding or writing a search interface from your favorite language is really not hard. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-21 Thread Jack Coates
= $ticket_id; } $sth-finish; $output .= /TABLE\n; # print the goods print $output; # close the web page print $cgi-end_html; exit(0); } Thanks for the info. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack

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