Re: dd on Windows
I would think you could use dd (either from linux or cygwin utils under windows) to copy drives of the same geometry. With drives of different geometries you will most likely have more difficulty. I won't say it's not possible, but, I would guess that would be more steps involved and not having done it, I don't know what those steps would be. I would sure like to know in case I need to do it someday, however. -Andy Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: Hi All, I have a question that, personally, I find somewhat amusing... I have a user that needs a bigger hard drive in his laptop. Naturally, he is running Win2K (damn sales people...). But, he needs everything moved from one drive to the other. I was thinking about taking the hard drives, plugging them into IDE adapters, connecting them to a regular PC, booting off of a Linux floppy, and dd-ing on drive onto the other. Has anyone had any luck doing this with 1) Windows and 2) drives with differeing geometries (which I don't think dd cares about)? TIA, Kenny -- Tact is just *not* saying true stuff -- Cordelia Chase Kenneth E. Lussier Sr. Systems Administrator Zuken, USA PGP KeyID CB254DD0 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xCB254DD0 * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. * * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Article
Maybe we should call it: G/linl - Gnu/linux is not linux. That should clear up all the confusion ;) -Andy Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: As I was parusing Kero5hin, I came accross a great article. It is a public apology to the Linux world for getting RMS on the GNU/Linux kick. Funny read http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2002/8/1/04512/12614 C-Ya, Kenny -- Tact is just *not* saying true stuff -- Cordelia Chase Kenneth E. Lussier Sr. Systems Administrator Zuken, USA PGP KeyID CB254DD0 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xCB254DD0 * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. * * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Shell scripting moron
Optionally, you can write it like this for some shells (ksh, bash). The arithmetic is done in the same shell. ie. it is not invoking an external expr for each iteration of the loop. count=1 while [ $count -lt 284 ] do (( count=count+1 )) echo $count done -Andy Chad R. Henry wrote: Okay, I admit I'm a total idiot, I just want a simple script that increments by 1 and outputs a string using the result. What I have is: count=1 while [ $count -lt 284 ] do count='expr $count + 1' echo http://foo.foo.org/foo[$count].file; /home/user/output done Obviously this isn't working and while I've tried to RTFM and figure out why I realize now why I'm a sales guy. Is anyone willing to help the stupid suit? Chad * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. * * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Missing pictures on web site
Perhaps they're in a netscape or squid cache somewhere? Bruce Dawson wrote: Sigh. I appear to have accidently deleted the pictures of the March meeting (the pictures that were on the gallery section of the web site http://news.gnhlug.org/) And we appear to have re-used the floppies they were taken on. Does anyone have pictures of that meeting (or a copy of that part of the web site)? --Bruce PS: There are no backups of the site either. (Its a freebie and isn't backed up). * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: dinner
I wonder what would happen if you all brought in your own pepsi and brown bag dinner. Then ask the management to warm the dinner in the microwave and bring out the dinnerware, including cups of ice to pour your pepsi in. -Andy Why don't we all just eat at the place in question? Those who want to pursue the matter will presumably have an opportunity to quiz the management (thereby registering their concerns as directly as possible) while those who just want to eat can, um, just eat. * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Web hosting recommendations
A friend of mine has a web site for his business which is presently hosted by geocities. It's a simple HTML only web site with a lot of JPEG images (I maintain it for him). We'd like to find a better web host with more available space and no ads or other such nonsense. I've looked around a bit and found some that offer 50MB of space for about $5/month which seems cheap enough. His domainname is already registered with namesecure.com. I'm looking for comments and recommendations, anyone? Two I'm considering are: www.featureprice.com www.your-site.com -Andrew Gaunt * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Anyone using Mahogany?
That would be very cool.. Porter, Mark wrote: Sounds like a good place to run an X-Box, converted to Linux! -Original Message- From: Andrew W. Gaunt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 11:27 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Anyone using Mahogany? Does anyone know of a PC that meets the following specs: o cheap o small footprint (physical) o not necessarily wicked fast o not a lot of memory required o no hard disk required o floppy drive (to etherboot linux from) desirable o NIC card included (nothing too wierd) or can be added. o One or two serial ports Basically, a CPU, Floppy, some memory, rs-232 and a NIC I want something that can be used to boot linux as a thin client using an NFS root and then sit on the network whence it will be controlled. The 'Walmart Lindows' machines at $299 is tempting only the footprint is that of a normal PC. * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. * * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. * * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Home schooling and linux
You could make it really fun for him and suggest learning linux on the Sony PS/2 (which of course does others things 13 year old boys enjoy). I believe the linux kit comes out real soon now, like tomorrow. $200 for PS/2 + $200 for linux kit = Cool machine for $400. Mark Glassberg wrote: My sister-in-law has just started home schooling her 13 year old son. I'd like to suggest helping him to learn something else about computers besides how to run Windows software. Before I give any free advise, I wonder if anyone here knows of others home schooling computer science with linux? * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. * * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Apple exposed as an agent of Satan
I think it would be best to leave religious dicussion out of the context of this list unless of course we want to discuss vi vs. emacs. ;-) -Andy * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Sparc Linux distro
My sparc-20 is running debian. Works great. I had some trouble last year with pppd and dual CPU's so I pared it down to one CPU. Now that I've got a cable modem maybe I'll try putting it back. Hm... home$ uname -a Linux home 2.2.17 #8 SMP Fri Feb 9 12:54:41 EST 2001 sparc unknown home$ Public web server runing on http://68.64.102.12:81 (at the moment) -Andy Cole Tuininga wrote: I've recently become (luckily or unluckily, depending on your view) the recipient of an old Sparc 5 that I would like to set up as a linux server in my home network. What I'm looking for is if anybody has any experience with distros that are *still being maintained* for the sparc architecture? I'd love if it was Debian-ish, but Woody doesn't seem to be available for sparc? In any case, I'll be interested to hear your feed back. Thanks in advance. * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Web application
Perhaps something like this: htdocs _| / \ || Public Private (No authentication)(Authenticate users at) | (this level with .htaccess) | | /|\ App1 App2 AppN -Andy Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: Hi All, Along the lines of the webmail comments made earlier, I was wondering something. I am looking to impliment several web-based applications in my company: Groupware, project management, file management, password management, leads tracking, etc. I have found several (thousand) applications that meet our needs from sourceforge, freshmeat, et al. However, they all suffer from one problem: They all require authentication. This means users would have to log into each individual application seperately. What I would like to do is have a single login page that then passes the users authentication to each application. Has anyone out there done this sort of thing? If so, is it a fairly easy thing to do, or am I in for a world of pain? To keep things as simple as possible, everything that I end up using will be in PHP. Any advice is more than welcome, since I am not a Web developer!! TIA, Kenny * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Broken software (was Re: RH7.2 install)
I'm looking for a light weight web server that I can run on port 81 of my linux box (Sparc Debian) at home and expose it to the Internet. I've got apache running on 80 which is what I use on the home network. I block that port with the firewall 'cause I don't want it exposed the unwashed masses on the Internet. On port 81 I'd like to make another web server available that is light weight, easily configured, secure, etc. I don't need a lot of functionality, just basic http tranfers with some kind of user authentication for some areas. I've been experimenting with something called 'boa' (http://www.boa.org) which is a very lean web server. It doesn't support user authentication, however. Other than that it is perfect for what I want, simple, lean, etc. I'm looking for suggestions? Anyone? -Andrew Gaunt * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Web Server
Karl J. Runge wrote: Is it safe to say you do not want to run a 2nd instance of apache (with a trimmed down config)? I.e. instead of just providing external service on port 81, you also want to play around with new different webservers? Yeah, I tried a trimmed down version of apache and things got weird. I'm using the pre-built apache server that installs with debian's apt-get util. I suspect that there may be issues with how it is built. e.g. It seemed to ignore some of the directives I set in the trimmed down config file config file, like DocumentRoot - It kept serving up /var/www which is where the document root for the normal apache daemon (out of the box). Anyway, I concluded (perhaps prematurely) that: 1) I can build apache myself the way I want and make everything work. Then I won't be able to be lazy and type apt-get upgrade when I want a new version of apache. I'll have to actually do something. -or- 2) I can just use the stock apache daemon for the home network and find a different minimal web sever that is orthoganal to apache for the Internet and continue being lazy regarding my apache daemon. I wonder, is there a way to tell apache to use a different document root depending on the port? That would be cool way for sorting it out. -Andrew Gaunt * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Web Server
Very cool, I will give that a try One web server, many webs -Andrew Gaunt Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 11:31, Andrew W. Gaunt wrote: I wonder, is there a way to tell apache to use a different document root depending on the port? That would be cool way for sorting it out. You can use the virtual host container to set port, document root, etc.: VirtualHost ip.address.of.host.some_domain.com Listen 81 ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /some/path/accessable/to/www-user ServerName host.some_domain.com ErrorLog logs/host.some_domain.com-error.log CustomLog logs/host.some_domain.com-access.log common /VirtualHost You can use almost any standard apache directive inside of the VH container that you would use in a standard config. C-Ya, Kenny * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Web Server
Any except this one perhaps? Syntax error on line 270 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf: Listen cannot occur within VirtualHost section Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 11:31, Andrew W. Gaunt wrote: I wonder, is there a way to tell apache to use a different document root depending on the port? That would be cool way for sorting it out. You can use the virtual host container to set port, document root, etc.: VirtualHost ip.address.of.host.some_domain.com Listen 81 ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /some/path/accessable/to/www-user ServerName host.some_domain.com ErrorLog logs/host.some_domain.com-error.log CustomLog logs/host.some_domain.com-access.log common /VirtualHost You can use almost any standard apache directive inside of the VH container that you would use in a standard config. C-Ya, Kenny * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Web Server
No go, doesn't like the Listen directive in a virtual host container. Oh well, if it was easy we all be out of work. Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 12:30, Andrew W. Gaunt wrote: Any except this one perhaps? Syntax error on line 270 of /etc/apache/httpd.conf: Listen cannot occur within VirtualHost section That figures In your main config add a 'Listen xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:81' directive, and then in the VH, bind the VH to that ip address. That should work (in theory) C-Ya, Kenny * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Web Server
Got it, there is a solution. The reason it was not starting before was because the log files could not be created. Amazing what actually reading the error.logs will reveal. This works: #Port 80 Listen 192.168.168.3:80 # internal web, outside access blocked with ipchains rules Listen 192.168.168.3:81 # external web, accessible by Internet
Re: Web Server
Andrew W. Gaunt wrote: Got it, there is a solution. The reason it was not starting before was because the log files could not be created. Amazing what actually reading the error.logs will reveal. This works: #Port 80 Listen 192.168.168.3:80 # internal web, outside access blocked with ipchains rules Listen 192.168.168.3:81 # external web, accessible by Internet The messge was truncated (lines begnining with a . all by themselves) here's the rest.. VirtualHost 192.168.168.3:81 #ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] DocumentRoot /var/www-pub #ServerName www.kingston.nh.us:81 ErrorLog /var/log/apache-pub/error.log CustomLog /var/log/apache-pub/access.log common /VirtualHost * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: TANSTAAFL (was: Cross Yahoo off the list of free e-mail services!)
I think there are three basic categories with the following being mostly true regarding an organzation's cash flow: 1) For Profit - Generate revenue, use profits to make stockholders happy. 2) Non profit - Generate revenue or at least break even. Profits are used to further organization's charter; there are no stockholders. There are a lot of very profitable non-profit organzations. The main difference between them and for profit is the lack of stock holders. 3) Charitable - Redistribute other peoples money per organzation's charter. -Andrew Gaunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 3/21/2 8:50:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Everything has a cost. A business, by definition, is out to make a profit. Giving something away for free runs counter to that goal. They must have some plan to cover the cost of their free product or service, and it usually involves you giving them money at some point. Not all businesses are, by definition, out to make a profit. There are many nonprofits (GNHLUG, for example). TANSTAAFL does still apply, but the profit motive, altho prevalent, is not the only model. You come closer if you define profit as more general than money. Bob Sparks PS. Will the black helicopters come for me if GW Bush reads this? * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. * * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Lindows vs. Windows.
It seems that SUN maybe the first major UNIXen company whose business will be significantly curtailed by the emergence of Linux. I thought SCO already grabbed that title. -Andy * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: NIS help
Hope this helps We do this as part of our kickstart postinstall. # YPBIND cp /etc/yp.conf /etc/yp.conf-dist echo domain athena broadcast /etc/yp.conf chkconfig --level 345 ypbind on Also, on my system quantum@com:sysconfig/ cat /etc/issue Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf) Kernel 2.4.2-2 on an i686 quantum@com:sysconfig/ quantum@com:sysconfig/ pwd /etc/sysconfig quantum@com:sysconfig/ cat network NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=dd119.mv.lucent.com NISDOMAIN=athena quantum@com:sysconfig/ Robert Casey wrote: Hello, My name is Bob Casey and I'm new to gnhlug. I am new to Linux but do have some Unix experience, specifically Solaris. Can someone tell me which file I have to modify, on the client, to make the NIS domainname permanent. My domainname is lds and according to several books I've read they simply say to type domainname lds. This works until reboot. I am running RedHat 7.2 on a Dell Optiplex GX1p. ANy suggestions? Bob Casey * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. * * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Sun's unreal Reality Check
I agree. In my $.02 opinion, what made Microsoft great is that at one time they were more open than anyone else at the time. Their stuff was easier to work with... remember all the ugly copy protection schemes vendors used to prevent people from making copies of the software they shelled out $$$ for? Disks with bad sectors, dongles, programs that required the original diskette to be in the A drive etc. Ugh, that was awful. I don't recall many Microsoft products that did that sort of thing .. they were easier to work with. Then OSS came along and software becam available that was even more open while M$ has been going the other direction. M$ is doomed for the same reasons they have become great. -Andrew Gaunt Benjamin Scott wrote: How quickly we forget. In the 1980s, you could do s/Microsoft/IBM/ and pretty much have today's headlines W.R.T. anti-trust and related things. * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Linux and e-commerce
You may want to ask these guys... They are local (ie. NH/Mass) and I believe they're doing it themselves.. I spoke with Dan in Kingston NH who has some kind of affiliation. They have some cool stuff too! -Andy http://shop.panther-electronics.com/cgi-bin/PantherComputer Dan Coutu wrote: Now that I'm free to roam the wild prairie (figuratively, no prairie in New Hampshire eh?) I can spend some time investigating what is available related to e-commerce on Linux systems. I've spent the past four years making e-commerce sites on Solaris systems using large commercial packages. Now it is time to broaden my horizons and have some fun while I'm at it. So let me ask if anyone has any experience, or even war stories, related to use of Linux for e-commerce. I'm sifting through places like Freshmeat etc. to track down known packages. What I'm asking for is the inside poop that folks may know from the experience of themselves or others. I figure if I can minimize the expense of e-commerce then maybe more people could use it, and hopefully that would help me to make a living too! Thanks in advance, Dan Coutu M: 603-759-3885 * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. * * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
HPUX break in
A fellow I work with inherited an HPUX machine and of course, nobody knows the root password. Does anyone know of a 'break in' procedure he can try? -Andy * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: HPUX break in
Everyone, Thanks for the suggestions, he has sucessfully broken into the machine. -Andy On Thursday 03 January 2002 07:53, Andrew W. Gaunt wrote: A fellow I work with inherited an HPUX machine and of course, nobody knows the root password. Does anyone know of a 'break in' procedure he can try? -Andy * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. * * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: HPUX break in
He didn't elaborate, just that he found it using google's news group search. Michael O'Donnell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Thanks for the suggestions, he has sucessfully "broken" into the machine. What was the solution?*To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body.*
Re: Distro Stats
We have sort of decided to use RH (x86) for serveral reasons. They are not ordered by priority. 1) It is a major distribution and it appears that it will be around for a while. 2) One can buy support for it if needed (we're not doing this yet). 3) There appears to be a lot of vendor support at this time. 4) It seems to be popular so other people besides me and my colleagues a likely to be familiar with it. 5) The kickstart feature makes large scale automated installations less painful. We did not base this on a objective analysis. It's more of an educated guess based on what our customers are asking for at this time (which harkens to vendor support since what are customers are really interested in is the tools and not the OS. For linux on sparc we go with debian as RH has dropped support for sparc. Personally, I like RH, however, my bias is more toward debian as the package management is slick and the sparc platform is supported. My main linux system at home is debian running on a sparc-20 and it does what I want, however, this configuration would not be for everybody -- oh well. -- __ | 0|___||. Andrew Gaunt *nix Sys. Admin,, etc. Lucent Technologies _| _| : : } [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www-cde.mv.lucent.com/~quantum -(O)-==-o\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.gaunt.org Joshua S. Freeman wrote: I don't have any data on this, but, anecdotally, I believe RH is the most widely implemented on this side of the world... SuSe might be more prevalent in Europe... another plus of RH for PHB types is that there is a publically traded, viable company backing it... The other possibility is talk to some local, reputable vendor like antarctic-it and ask what they mostly support... if they do a lot of Debian support, perhaps you could use debian and present them to your bosses as a going concern that offers support... just thinkin' out loud... in answer to the main question.. market share... I don't think I'm going out on a limb here saying that RH is the most widely used distro... cheers, J. On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: A couple of people have pointed out that this e-mail may be interpreted by some as flamebait. So, before it get's started, I want to clarify what I ment... I'm not looking for which distro people think is best, or even which one really *IS* best, since it is a completely subjective judgement. What I am looking for is some sort of documentation to show management that breaks down the distributions and what they offer as far as standards, support, market share (which I tried to no avail to explain was useless data), etc. I can use Linux, but I have to have documentation to make them feel good about the choice of distribution. Kenny Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: Does anyone know where I can find stats on what Linux distributions are the most widely used, highest market share, number of downloads, etc.? I've been asked to make sure that when I use Linux that I use the best, most standards comlient distribution. TIA, Kenny -- --- Kenneth E. Lussier Geek by nature, Linux by choice PGP KeyID 0xD71DF198 Public key available @ http://pgp.mit.edu ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug ** -- --- Kenneth E. Lussier Geek by nature, Linux by choice PGP KeyID 0xD71DF198 Public key available @ http://pgp.mit.edu ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug ** -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Joshua S. Freeman | preferred email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp public key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.threeofus.com -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug ** ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Distro Stats
I wish I could take credit for that bit of wit, but, it was just another typographical monkey+typewriter phenomenon. Michael O'Donnell wrote: Andrew Gaunt wrote: We have sort of decided to use RH (x86) for serveral reasons. I don't think I've ever heard it put quite that way... ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug ** -- __ | 0|___||. Andrew Gaunt *nix Sys. Admin,, etc. Lucent Technologies _| _| : : } [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www-cde.mv.lucent.com/~quantum -(O)-==-o\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.gaunt.org ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
WinModem Linux Dial-up PPP server
I want to set up a dial-up PPP server using linux. I've done this many times before and have set of config files for mgetty and ppp that work. I'm having some trouble with with a new install using a winmodem (I've always used real hardware based modems in the past). I've got a PC with a Winmodem installed in it. It uses a PCTEL chipset and I've been able to find a linux driver for it. I can talk to the modem just fine with minicom and mgetty seems to handle it as well. ie. It answers incoming calls, hangs up and restarts fine, the modem even seems to be connecting. The problem occurs when pppd is started (via mgetty's AUTO_PPP feature). It starts, then complains about an LCP timeout. Attached is an excerpt from the server's /var/log/messages file. When I attach a hardware modem to the server's ttyS0 and make the appropriate adjustments the configuration files (ttyS0 in place of ttyS15 which is what the winmodem shows up as) it works fine. I'm wondering if there is some peculiarity with the winmodem that can be ameliorated with one of the pppd daemon's options. Anyone? -- __ | 0|___||. Andrew Gaunt *nix Sys. Admin,, etc. Lucent Technologies _| _| : : } [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www-cde.mv.lucent.com/~quantum -(O)-==-o\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.gaunt.org Jul 9 09:45:12 linux kernel: assign pctel_interrupt Jul 9 09:45:41 linux pppd[13179]: pppd 2.3.11 started by a_ppp, uid 0 Jul 9 09:45:41 linux pppd[13179]: Using interface ppp0 Jul 9 09:45:41 linux pppd[13179]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ttyS15 Jul 9 09:46:11 linux pppd[13179]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests Jul 9 09:46:11 linux pppd[13179]: Connection terminated. Jul 9 09:46:11 linux pppd[13179]: Exit.
Re: WinModem Linux Dial-up PPP server
All, Thanks to everyone for your various input and discussion regarding my winmodem dilemma. Actually, it wasn't a major problem as I do have a 'real' hardware modem that works quite well and can use that if the winmodem doesn't work out. I did want to experience the winmodem myself and test the often read assertion that winmodems are garbage and whether that is really true. Doing things the hard way helps me to better appreciate the easy way. It would seem that at this time linux interoperablity issues for hardware based modems are much more stable and less troublesome so for now I'll stick with the hardware modem (a trusty USR) and keep my mind open for software based modems in the future. The concept of a software based modem becomes more intersting if we take it a logical extreme. If all the components were based entrirely in software, we wouldn't need computer hardware at all. Now if all that software were open-source, we would have infinite computing resources for free. -- __ | 0|___||. Andrew Gaunt *nix Sys. Admin,, etc. Lucent Technologies _| _| : : } [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www-cde.mv.lucent.com/~quantum -(O)-==-o\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.gaunt.org ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: NO MUTHAS!!
"Jon 'maddog' Hall, Executive Director, Linux International" wrote: As the time gets closer, I will be looking for volunteers to staff the booth, create some demos, etc. and we will have a planning meeting. I would like to have this planning meeting Wednesday, March 14th at a location TBD (Marthas comes to mind, but I want to be fair to the UNH folks too). See you there!! md Jon, I'll volunteer again this year. Maybe this time we can be sure we're both in the same timezone ;-) -- KA1YLG __ | 0|___||. Andrew Gaunt *nix Sys. Admin,, etc. Lucent Technologies _| _| : : } [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www-cde.mv.lucent.com/~quantum -(O)-==-o\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.gaunt.org ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: output of uname -m on various architectures
This covers the sparcs Linux on sparc Ultra-1 $ uname -m sparc64 $ uname -a Linux mvcdr.mv.lucent.com 2.2.12-42 #1 Fri Nov 12 13:03:33 EST 1999 sparc64 unknown Linux on Sparc-20 $ uname -m sparc $ uname -a Linux mvmon.mv.lucent.com 2.0.35 #1 Wed Dec 30 10:35:47 EST 1998 sparc unknown -- __ | 0|___||. Andrew Gaunt *nix Sys. Admin., etc. Lucent Technologies _| _| : : } [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www-cde.mv.lucent.com/~quantum -(O)-==-o\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.gaunt.org Paul Lussier wrote: Hi all, Can someone provide me with the output of 'uname -m' for: Sparc Linux UltraSparc Linux Alpha Linux PPC Linux Thanks, -- Seeya, Paul Doing something stupid always costs less (up front) than doing something intelligent. A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking. If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right! ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug ** ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **
Re: Wheel Mouse
Thanks everyone for the 'wheel mouse' replies. the right combination for my machine was: Section "Pointer" #Protocol"PS/2" #Protocol"MouseManPlusPS/2" Protocol"imps/2" Device "/dev/mouse" Buttons 5 ZAxisMapping 4 5 # Emulate3Buttons
