Re: automated installation

2002-07-25 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Paul Iadonisi hath spake thusly: Compare Derek's complaints to what I would consider standard sysadmin practices as espoused by Evi Nemeth, et al, in the UNIX/Linux System Administrator's Handbook series. RH

Re: automated installation

2002-07-25 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, at 10:55am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't disagree with any of that, I was merely stating that it's an amusing read. You forget there is a real person on

my e-mail

2002-07-22 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FYI, My e-mail is currently not reliable. I seem to be having connection problems after a wierd power glitch the other day. I'm working on it... But in the mean time if you send me mail there's a good chance it will be deferred for more than

Re: Shell scripting moron

2002-07-17 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Erik Price hath spake thusly: On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 12:13 PM, Kevin D. Clark wrote: [please configure your mailer to wrap lines] Is that the customary setting? Yes. I thought that the burden of wrapping

Re: Clock synchronization from dialup?

2002-07-14 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Mark Polhamus hath spake thusly: Has anyone come across clear, concise instructions for synchronizing my clock to a network time server? I need instructions that will work for a system that connects to the internet using

Re: Linux on IBM Laptops / Survey Questions

2002-07-11 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Paul Iadonisi hath spake thusly: 1) I refuse to pay full price for a piece of equipment that I'm not certain is 100% Linux compatible. (Winmodems+NonGPL Linmodem drivers != 100% Linux compatible in my book.) Why? You

Re: Opinions on Reply-to (WAS: Abusing CC:)

2002-07-11 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Dana S. Tellier hath spake thusly: I have a better idea... how about (this has definitely been mentioned before) people just take a moment to note who they're replying to? Making a mistake and replying to all when you

Re: Corporate IT policy (was: Open SSH for Red Hat 6.2)

2002-07-08 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So far I've been quietly amused by this thread. :) But now I'd like to make several points that people have sort of been dancing around in this discussion, but haven't really hit upon, that I've seen so far. 1. There was, in fact, a discussion

virus information

2002-07-08 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: virus information Reply-To: Twice in the last 24 hours, I've received e-mail with a virus attached. The IP address which both e-mails came from is the same: 66.31.4.184. This is an ATT cable modem customer, so I'm

package management, etc. (was Re: Debian flamewar reborn)

2002-07-03 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Rich Payne hath spake thusly: RedHat user, both have their advatages and disadvantages and one of the advantages of Debian is that the packaging system is a little bit ahead of RedHat (nothing that can't be fixed with

Re: package management, etc. (was Re: Debian flamewar reborn)

2002-07-03 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, at 12:20pm, Derek D. Martin wrote: Missing from both right now, I think, is the ability to say that a particular package is recommended, but not required (does dpkg

Re: Open SSH for Red Hat 6.2

2002-07-02 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Charles Farinella hath spake thusly: At the risk of contributing to said flame war, these are the steps I took to upgrade openssh on RedHat 6.2: [SNIP] Not quite as easy, but pretty easy just the same, and I don't have to

Re: iptables MIRROR target

2002-06-30 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Paul Iadonisi hath spake thusly: Has anyone on this list experimented with the MIRROR target of iptables? Bad, bad idea. This turns an attack back on the attacker, who may or may not really be the source of the attack.

Alias uses Linux

2002-06-30 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I thought this was interesting, and some of you might too... For all who might not have caught it last night, the spy show Alias uses Linux. At about 40 min. through the show, they show Jack typing away on a laptop, and careful examination reveals

Re: Ethernet issues

2002-06-28 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Chris hath spake thusly: The issue I have is that during system startup, the BIOS finds, identifies and allocates resources for my 2nd network card (Tried 2 different ones in different slots) however, during system startup,

Re: Linux OS kernel question

2002-06-26 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Michael O'Donnell hath spake thusly: these days the boundary between the two is blurrier than ever) but in commodity systems I assume you'd agree that modems, NICs, SCSI adapters, etc are all examples where the

Re: procmail and IMAP (was: What do people use ...)

2002-06-25 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, at 8:45am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... you shouldn't allow NFS access to your mail spool ... Ever. NFS's history of piss-poor file locking means a shared

Re: procmail and IMAP (was: What do people use ...)

2002-06-25 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: On 25 Jun 2002, at 9:18am, Kevin D. Clark wrote: Ever. NFS's history of piss-poor file locking means a shared mailspool is a recipe for disaster in any kind of heterogeneous

Re: procmail and IMAP (was: What do people use ...)

2002-06-24 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: On 24 Jun 2002, at 3:19pm, Kevin D. Clark wrote: Could you provide clarification as to where you are proposing to store this? On the IMAP server itself? I am envisioning a

Re: procmail and IMAP (was: What do people use ...)

2002-06-24 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: This raises a more general question: Does anyone here know of an IMAP client tool(set) that can be driven from a command line or a shell script? The more I think about it, the more I

Re: procmail and IMAP (was: What do people use ...)

2002-06-24 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: This isn't exactly true; Paul is just stubborn. Hey, wait! I resemble that remark! ;) :) You can either leave the messages on the server, or provide your own back-up mechanism.

Re: real scsi + ide-scsi module loading

2002-06-22 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Bill Freeman hath spake thusly: I added an Adaptec AHA1542 and a Jaz drive to it (to have enough room for a local iso image). Kudzu (or whatever checks for new hardware) didn't notice, nor did the hardware browser.

lack of a job

2002-06-19 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, First off: Josh Flythe, contact me ASAP. Thanks! Now... Due to circumstances that I really don't want to go into here, I'm again finding myself without a job. I'm interested in obtaining a new position that fits one of the following

Re: Trolling for Topics

2002-05-22 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: In a message dated: Tue, 21 May 2002 18:19:44 EDT Derek D. Martin said: I'll buy a case of beer for the first person who figures out how to make exmh NOT include all this header

Re: Trolling for Topics

2002-05-21 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Jon Hall hath spake thusly: --- Blind-Carbon-Copy X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 01/15/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-face:

Re: Microsoft admits their products are fatally flawed

2002-05-21 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Ben Boulanger hath spake thusly: I would imagine that if Red Hat were in the same position, they'd say the same thing. Just my guess, of course, but how could they/why would they claim otherwise? Actually they

Re: Ximian is coming!

2002-05-21 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Derek D. Martin hath spake thusly: At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: Hi all, I just wanted to get this all out to you as soon as possible. Our 2nd quaterly meeting this year

Re: NT Authentication?

2002-05-21 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Joseph E. Mainusch hath spake thusly: It is a little bit crude, and I don't know that I would trust it 100% in a really security sensitive environment, but it does work. In a really security-sensitive environment, I

Re: SOLVED: Problem with X resources on upgrade to RH-7.3/KDE-3.0.0-5

2002-05-18 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: It is unacceptable to have to do an xrdb -load on a resource file at startup. It may be unacceptable, but I've been doing this for years. It's the only way I can guarantee that

Re: SOLVED: Problem with X resources on upgrade to RH-7.3/KDE-3.0.0-5

2002-05-18 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Derek D. Martin hath spake thusly: However, while Steven's having added this to the startkde script may fix his problem, I'll note that the startkde script does not use xrdb to load resources on RH 7.1 or RH 7.2 either. So

Re: Samba Windows Virii

2002-05-17 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, mike ledoux hath spake thusly: Your link indicates that this is not actually the case. I guess I'll give it a try with one of the commercial scanners and see where that leads. Thanks! I have a slightly-more-than passing

Re: Dealing with spaces in filenames re: scripts...

2002-05-17 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Ken Ambrose hath spake thusly: Hello, all. As previously noted, I just got hitched. I've also got a bunch of pictures, now (good ones, too!) You should post a link to them when you're done! , and I'd like to munge 'em

Re: Dealing with spaces in filenames re: scripts...

2002-05-17 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: On Fri, 17 May 2002, at 4:08pm, Derek D. Martin wrote: Some (like me) would argue that the right way *is* to remove the spaces from your filenames. Computers are a tool to be used

Re: Dealing with spaces in filenames re: scripts...

2002-05-17 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Jerry Feldman hath spake thusly: Especially in the Unix/Linux environment, I think that creating files or directories with spaces is ill advised, but there is a reality. Many Windows users are migrating to Linux, and are

My nightmare (was Re: Problem with X resources on upgrade to RH-7.3/KDE-3.0.0-5)

2002-05-17 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Steven W. Orr hath spake thusly: This is complicated to explain, but please bear with me. I just upgraded from RH-7.2 to 7.3. My problem is that, for some reason, my backspace key no longer works in pine (as well as

Re: /etc/fstab beginner question

2002-05-17 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Michael Bovee hath spake thusly: Hi again, 1) does fd0 strictly mean floppy disks or can that generically be used for zip disks, too? The short answer is yes, and no respectively. The longer answer is that IIRC, the

Re: EXT2 to EXT3

2002-05-15 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Kenneth E. Lussier hath spake thusly: Hi All, I've been considering moving my servers to ext3 for a while now, and I think that I am ready to take the plunge. To echo what Ben and Ben said, just make sure you've got a

Netiquette (was Re: linux BIOS)

2002-05-14 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Ben Boulanger hath spake thusly: On Mon, 13 May 2002, Derek D. Martin wrote: I find it pretty presumptious of you to assume people should provide you with the summary.. Well, I'm sorry, but that just seems silly to me

Re: Good Netizenship [was Re: linux BIOS ]

2002-05-14 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: More effort has now been spent on this thread than will ever be spent summarizing anything. Sometimes, when one is a member of a loose community such as this one, it is worth spending a

Re: linux BIOS

2002-05-13 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Ben Boulanger hath spake thusly: This is an interesting project that LANL's involved with.. rather than try and misquote or misrepresent what it is, here's the link: http://www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios/index.html I propose

Re: RFCs online

2002-05-13 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Michael O'Donnell hath spake thusly: Not long ago it was asked where RFCs might be found online. I don't remember if anybody mentioned http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/ but it seems to work well, just FYI... I didn't see the

Re: statically compiling?

2002-05-01 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, mike ledoux hath spake thusly: On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:15:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii FYI: Your mailer is broken, the above line appeared in the body of your

Re: console access through serial port?

2002-04-25 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Rodent of Unusual Size hath spake thusly: Ben Boulanger wrote: To get kernel info output to the serial line (and lose it on the VGA line), in lilo.conf add: serial=0,38400n8 image=blah

Re: Books

2002-04-25 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi all, I'm thinking about getting W. Richard Stevens book Unix Network Programming. Not for any particular reason other than I know

Re: console access through serial port?

2002-04-25 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Rodent of Unusual Size hath spake thusly: Ben Boulanger wrote: To get kernel info output to the serial line (and lose it on the VGA [SNIP] URL:http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/doc/serial-console.txt.html suggests that

Re: (OT) Hardware Pointers

2002-04-23 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Michael Costolo hath spake thusly: --- Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, at 5:12am, Michael Costolo wrote: I don't believe that NVidia only releases binary drivers. I distinctly recall

Re: Wednesday Meeting

2002-04-23 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: I apologize for not being a little more organized this month. This new job thing has gotten in my way, and I've been quite distracted. Oh come on, I reminded you about this at the

Re: Shell scripting tips and tricks (was: I need a date! )

2002-04-22 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Jerry Feldman hath spake thusly: Actually, [ is a link to test. Linux uses a symlink, some Unixes use hard links. -rwxr-xr-x1 root root17496 Sep 20 2001 /usr/bin/test lrwxrwxrwx1 root root

Re: (OT) Hardware Pointers

2002-04-22 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Kenneth E. Lussier hath spake thusly: On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 21:19, James R. Van Zandt wrote: I'm thinking about a new machine too. What motherboard do you have? Would that be your recommendation now for an Athlon? For

Re: Another (simpler) bash scripting question...

2002-04-22 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Kevin D. Clark hath spake thusly: result=badness# init with failure default spewSomeKindOfOutput | while read input do result=goodness done echo $result What is the output? In

Re: Another (simpler) bash scripting question...

2002-04-22 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: If portability is a concern, depending on the environment, it is sometimes easier to install the GNU tools everywhere than try to craft something that works on all the native tools.

Re: Shell scripting tips and tricks (was: I need a date! )

2002-04-21 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Tom Buskey hath spake thusly: I've had problems with [[ ]] on pdksh in the past. [ ] is also internal on modern unixen. You can get the real ksh from David Korn's website. It's now freely available, though I don't know

DMCA petition

2002-04-20 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you haven't found/signed it yet, you can do so here: http://www.petitiononline.com/nixdmca/ - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key

On GNU/Linux

2002-04-20 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As we all know, rms started a campaign to get people to call Linux systems GNU/Linux instead of Linux. His goal is to improve the perceived recognition of the FSF and the GNU Project - a reasonable goal. However I believe this method of achieving

Re: On GNU/Linux

2002-04-20 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Oops... The reference (footnote [1]) was: Bach, Maurice J. _The Design of the Unix Operating System_. Prentice Hall, 1986, pg 4. - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - I prefer mail

Re: I need a date!

2002-04-19 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Thomas M. Albright hath spake thusly: What's with the 'let' keyword? it's the only way i know to add to variables: today=`date +%j` let tomorrow=$today+1 If you need your scripts to be portable, the normal way to do

Re: I need a date!

2002-04-19 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Steven W. Orr hath spake thusly: gunzip /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz | groff -pte -man | lpr Try it :-) This is essentially identical to Matt's man -t bash, only with a lot more typing. The other difference is that it

Re: console access through serial port?

2002-04-18 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Rodent of Unusual Size hath spake thusly: 1. Is there any way to get access to the console through the serial port? Absolutely. kernel source tree/Documentation/serial-console.txt This file contains all the

Re: console access through serial port?

2002-04-18 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Cole Tuininga hath spake thusly: You have to have serial support turned on on the server obviously, do not turn on support for console on serial port. Believe it or not, this is not what you want. I disagree, with the

Re: console access through serial port?

2002-04-18 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: If the system is well and truly hung, the Linux serial console may be toast, too, and will not help you. Good point. Many server machines have BIOS options which can enable pre-boot

Re: console access through serial port?

2002-04-18 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Michael O'Donnell hath spake thusly: http://oss.mclinux.com/projects/crash/ crash can provide interesting insights into a live system but is only useful for post-mortem stuff if you've figured out how to convince

feel free to ignore

2002-04-18 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry for the noise, but my mail somehow became really wierd, so I'm testing it. - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D

Re: Another emacs question

2002-04-17 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Kevin D. Clark hath spake thusly: 1: Use ange-ftp. Fire up a gnuclient and type: C-x C-f /root@somemachine:/etc/hosts (it is possible to do this over ssh as well) How please? - -- Derek Martin

Re: Sparc Linux distro

2002-04-16 Thread Derek D. Martin
At some point hitherto, Rich Payne hath spake thusly: I have woody running nicely on an Ultima 1 Great game! Though I liked Ultima III better, and Ultima Online really rocked, until I started to resent the $10/mo. charge for playing. -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fight list header cancer (was: root PATH, double posts)

2002-04-16 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: Which means you are sending it to them twice. Any mailing list includes all of its members, by definition; sending to all is redundant. Do your part to fight List Header Cancer, and

Re: Emacs questions

2002-04-15 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: The first thing I'd like to do is have it append new entries to file as opposed to inserting them at the top. Any idea how to do this? None whatsoever, but I'd like to offer a

Re: total newbie question

2002-04-15 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Michael Bovee hath spake thusly: Okay, apologies in advance, but something I _just dont get_ is the PATH variable. (I'm a born and raised Macintosh user so please bear with me) I bought a SAMS Teach Yourself book on Unix,

HTML to LaTeX

2002-04-11 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Some time in the past I was looking for a utility that would convert from HTML to something else that could be converted into other useful formats, but I had been unable to find such a beast. I happened across html2latex while looking for something

Re: OpenOffice

2002-04-09 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Mark Komarinski hath spake thusly: Depending on how large the document is, you may want to just use DocBook and generate PDF. Then again, you can generate RTF (the base of DOC) from DocBook as well. My experience with

Re: farallon wireless card

2002-04-09 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Jerry Feldman hath spake thusly: 7. 2 - Red Hat or SuSE? BTW: I have had no luck gettung my Compaq WL110 (Orinoco) working. I am not running WEP or other encryption on my WAP. I can see the orinoco driver load when I

Re: farallon wireless card

2002-04-09 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Joshua S. Freeman hath spake thusly: Anyone have any guidance on getting 7.2 (laptop installation) to see/use a farallon wireless skyline card? You should probably check out the Wireless Howto, here:

Re: OpenOffice

2002-04-09 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Mark Komarinski hath spake thusly: DocBook is great because it separates out the authoring from the presentation. Oh, I agree with the benefits of using it, I just find actually using it painful. There are a few newer

Re: Fun GNOME Eye candy..

2002-04-09 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Paul Iadonisi hath spake thusly: pick on up. Anyone know if there is a Linux supported hardware accelerated card that'll drive the SGI 1600SW widescreen? And if so, anyone in the market for a Number Nine card that I might

Documentation (was Re: OpenOffice)

2002-04-09 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: I found DocBook to be really easy. All I needed was ... You people are making a classic mistake, in not realizing what the user (Derek, in this case) ) really means. Derek's a bright

Re: UW-IMAP performance (was: Linux-Outlook (ouch) question)

2002-04-06 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, at 11:23pm, Derek D. Martin wrote: For instance, the IMAP server can index the file and cache the results. Already done. Look in the UW-IMAP documentation (I use

Re: Linux-Outlook (ouch) question

2002-04-05 Thread Derek D. Martin
And don't forget dual-boot for PCs. Annoying to have to reboot, but if a second PC isn't an option, this one's still available. There's also wine, of course... - -- Derek D. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment

Re: Linux-Outlook (ouch) question

2002-04-05 Thread Derek D. Martin
, but you need to use an IMAP capable client to access them through the IMAP server. Otherwise, it wouldn't be an IMAP server... Any of this help? - -- Derek D. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see

Re: Linux-Outlook (ouch) question

2002-04-05 Thread Derek D. Martin
bindings now... ;-) - -- Derek D. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8riA0djdlQoHP510RAtF3AKCgux+k+fML7FDaXBb5Eo7qJskmrACcD7Eq 6RmY2DcD9EnW2Z8c2gTFBWI= =pR/f -END PGP

Re: UW-IMAP performance (was: Linux-Outlook (ouch) question)

2002-04-05 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: A Berkeley/mbox format mail store is basically a flat text file. Being dissatisfied with the performance of UW IMAP, I've been thinking a lot about this problem. I've got some ideas

Re: Turning a PC into a RAID box?

2002-04-04 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, at 11:25am, Tom Buskey wrote: Now, connect via SCSI to another machine (that doesn't have IDE) use it as an external RAID system. What you describe is possible

Re: Turning a PC into a RAID box?

2002-04-04 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Mark Komarinski hath spake thusly: Say I'm running a database. NFS file locking doesn't work well. Local disk locking does that's what this box would be. Local disk. Wince you're not sharing the DB files with other

Re: Turning a PC into a RAID box?

2002-04-04 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: What he wants to do is use Linux/*BSD as an embedded OS to act as a RAID controller connected via the scsi bus. Signals would be originate by the OS on the Sun box, sent across the

Re: Turning a PC into a RAID box?

2002-04-04 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: it's all open source. Also, I understand that RH has based it's clustering solution on Kimberlite and they've already gotten it up to where the MCLX Convolo product was. Don't know if

Re: Turning a PC into a RAID box?

2002-04-04 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, at 4:01pm, Derek D. Martin wrote: Legally, they have to. Kimberlite is GPL, and any product based on it must also be GPL. No, any product incorporating

Re: dealing with non-ascii characters in perl

2002-04-03 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Peter Beardsley hath spake thusly: I'm dealing with import data from a Mac that has non-ascii apostrophes that are hex d5. I wrote a regular expression in perl to replace them: my $hex = 0xd5; $str =~

stupid backspace problem

2002-04-03 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, just when I thought Red Hat finally had licked the damn backspace problem (at least, if you stay on Linux systems -- interoperability with other Unixen is still shaky), I upgraded XFree86 (for no good reason really, other than that the update was

Re: Apache server attbi question

2002-04-02 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Rich C hath spake thusly: I have found this to be the case with my setup, but I thought it was due to my SMC router. When I set up a virtual host in the router to route http port 80 to my internal machine (192.168.1.x)

Re: Apache server attbi question

2002-04-02 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Rich C hath spake thusly: not NAT the client). Since the IP address is internal, the server sends the traffic to it directly, rather than back through the router. The client is expecting a reply from www.myhost.com, but

[off topic] legislation

2002-04-02 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I know a lot of people here are politically active, so I thought this was the best place I could ask this question: If there is a particular bill introduced in the house of representatives, say for example H.R. 1052-Consumer Credit Card Protection

Re: [off topic] legislation

2002-04-02 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Derek D. Martin hath spake thusly: how can I find out if this bill has been passed into law? Thanks to everyone who replied. I found what I was looking for. :) - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: making find output suitable for use in URLs

2002-03-30 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Michael O'Donnell hath spake thusly: ...and given that my WWW server is willing to serve all such files mentioned in that fileList as long as they're mentioned properly, is there a canned method of converting that fileList

Re: making find output suitable for use in URLs

2002-03-30 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Michael O'Donnell hath spake thusly: A bit of tedium I'm hoping to avoid. [SNIP] Note that -print is the default action for find, and is never needed, except on some very old variants of Unix. Don't be dang pedantic!

Broken software (was Re: RH7.2 install)

2002-03-29 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: Also, it may be useful to know that, when it comes to Paul Lussier and Derek Martin, broken and misbehaving often evaluates to not how Solaris does things. ;-) Actually (and I know that

Re: ypxfrd

2002-03-29 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Kevin D. Clark hath spake thusly: That isn't quite true. The order is specified. Deterministic but unspecified is a direct quote from my Solaris box's man page. Since Solaris is very SYSV-flavored, and since only

Shell portability (was re: ypxfrd)

2002-03-29 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Tom Rauschenbach hath spake thusly: Didn't Larry Wall say that it's easier to port a shell than to port a shell script ? Probably... He says stuff like that sometimes. Though it really depends on the application... If

Re: RAID Problems

2002-03-28 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Michael O'Donnell hath spake thusly: because I don't see how owning a new (versus used) RAID controller saves you if it fails. If you can get a replacement controller under warranty why can't you get a replacement

Re: ypxfrd

2002-03-28 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Kevin D. Clark hath spake thusly: it appears to be S26ypxfrd and ypserv also says S26ypserv. Does anyone know if this is okay or should ypxfrd start later than it is. Well if ypxfrd should start after ypserv (I'm going

e-mail etiquette (again)

2002-03-27 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friends and fellow Linux lovers, Please please please trim replies. The point of quoting messages is to provide context, and you completely defeat the purpose when you quote the entire message, not to mention waste bandwidth. It is also a

Re: Atime [Was: behavior of find /]

2002-03-26 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Your e-mail client is wrapping somewhere around 90 columns. On this list, it is generally regarded good netiquette to wrap at less than 80 colums, and most consider 72 idea. Please configure it to something less than 80. At some point hitherto,

Java resources

2002-03-26 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So, in trolling the various sources of job listings, it looks to me like one of the hottest skills in demand is Java development. I was wondering if anyone can recommend GOOD sources of information about learning Java. Free ones (like web sites)

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