Re: Permission to run a server

2005-02-12 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
eclipse. compartment seems to be quite usefull but I can't find it in my (SuSE-) distro susegrep -s compart compartm A Wrapper to Securely run Insecure or Untrusted Programs pin would have told you too. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the

Re: Wiki - please contribute to the campaign to get Jim to change the theme

2005-02-12 Thread Nick Rout
go put the comments in the wiki, thats what the comment page is for! its a survey, but so far there are damn all comments. On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 20:37 +1300, Robert Himmelmann wrote: Nick Rout wrote: :-) http://clug.net.nz/index.php/DefaultTheme Crao looks better than wikipedia or

Re: name resolution failures?

2005-02-12 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Old thread, but still the same problem. Running a simple cashing name server on the desktop which doesn't use ISPs' servers in turn, and putting 127.0.0.1 into /etc/resolv.conf, doesn't seem to make any difference. I'm still getting unknown host errors from konqueror. Once even from a domain

Re: nfs slow to start (long)

2005-02-12 Thread Mark Carey
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 20:52:37 +1300, Mark Carey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]# time exportfs -r exportfs: No 'sync' or 'async' option specified for export 192.168.10.0/255.255.255.0:/home. Assuming default behaviour ('sync'). NOTE: this default has changed from previous

Re: Permission to run a server

2005-02-12 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: eclipse. compartment seems to be quite usefull but I can't find it in my (SuSE-) distro susegrep -s compart compartm A Wrapper to Securely run Insecure or Untrusted Programs I thought so too. When I installed it I couldn't find compartment in the

Re: name resolution failures?

2005-02-12 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 08:29 +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Old thread, but still the same problem. Running a simple cashing name server on the desktop which doesn't use ISPs' servers in turn, and putting 127.0.0.1 into /etc/resolv.conf, doesn't seem to make any difference. I'm still getting

Re: Wiki - please contribute to the campaign to get Jim to change the theme

2005-02-12 Thread Jim Cheetham
On Feb 12, 2005, at 10:56 PM, Nick Rout wrote: go put the comments in the wiki, thats what the comment page is for! its a survey, but so far there are damn all comments. Nothing wrong with having the comments here, but on the wiki is probably less intrusive for the list. On the other hand,

Re: name resolution failures?

2005-02-12 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
what version of kde? 3.3.0 Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.

Re: Wiki - please contribute to the campaign to get Jim to change the theme

2005-02-12 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 09:39 +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote: On Feb 12, 2005, at 10:56 PM, Nick Rout wrote: go put the comments in the wiki, thats what the comment page is for! its a survey, but so far there are damn all comments. Nothing wrong with having the comments here, but on the wiki

Re: More virtual cmd sessions

2005-02-12 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Lee Begg wrote: On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:26, Robert Himmelmann wrote: Is there a way to redifine what xdm occupies or can I use tty8-12? I also didn't find anything about tty10. Have a look in /etc/syslog.conf and look for a line with /dev/tty10. Syslog might be writing (some of) it's logs

Re: name resolution failures?

2005-02-12 Thread Hadley Rich
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:47, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: what version of kde? 3.3.0 I'm running 3.3.2 here and doesn't seem to be affecting this installation. Here are a couple of bugs that are possibly related. Does it happen on any particular domains or completely random? Any chance of upgrading

Re: name resolution failures?

2005-02-12 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Ah, now it's getting closer. I'm running 3.3.2 here and doesn't seem to be affecting this installation. Here are a couple of bugs that are possibly related. Does it happen on any particular domains or completely random? Random time, random domain. Not only 3.3.0, I've been seeing it on

Re: name resolution failures?

2005-02-12 Thread Nick Rout
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 15:25 +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: If it's to do with ipv6, which is a totally pointless feature around here anyway, the next step would be to axe that and see if the problem goes away. *click* light goes on in Nick's head! There was a recent post to NZLUG headed

Useful sudo commands?

2005-02-12 Thread Andrew Errington
Hi, If one was to give a laptop to a newbie, say, what would be some useful commands to allow them to use with sudo? I have to set sudo up, but I don't want to just allow sudo everything. I specifically need sudo to restart the mwavem daemon, which is the driver for the built-in modem on

Puppy more

2005-02-12 Thread Lindsay
I've been on the Puppy site reading up again. Forgot some details. It seems you have to have an exisiting partition. None of my machines have an extra partition. How did you get around it cyril?

Re: Puppy more

2005-02-12 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 18:45, Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 18:15 +1300, Lindsay wrote: I've been on the Puppy site reading up again. Forgot some details. It seems you have to have an exisiting partition. None of my machines have an extra partition. How did you get around it

Re: More virtual cmd sessions

2005-02-12 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 19:15, Robert Himmelmann wrote: The only problem is that I can't log in as root on tty10-12. It displays the message that appears when I type in a wrong username/password. All normal users work. Check out the file /etc/securetty man 5 securetty -- Sincerely etc.,

Re: More virtual cmd sessions

2005-02-12 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
9 (log) is overwritten which is good. The only problem is that I can't log in as root on tty10-12. It displays the message that appears when I type in a wrong username/password. All normal users work. # cat /etc/securetty # # This file contains the device names of tty lines (one per line, #

Jumpy DVD playback

2005-02-12 Thread Joshua Collins
Greetings all, I'm running debian unstable on 2.4.18 kernel and have to cd drives, one is a cd writer and the other is a dvd player. A while ago I was getting jumpy DVD playback but found (via a website) that 'hdparm -d1 /dev/dvd' solved it wonderfully. However, a while ago I needed to burn some

Re: More virtual cmd sessions

2005-02-12 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: 9 (log) is overwritten which is good. The only problem is that I can't log in as root on tty10-12. It displays the message that appears when I type in a wrong username/password. All normal users work. # cat /etc/securetty # # This file contains the device names of tty

Re: Puppy more

2005-02-12 Thread Lindsay
A little more detail - Puppy is a small distro that boots from CD (or USB or HDD or FDD or just about anything that you can persuade the computer to boot from). It loads entirely into RAM, clearing the originating CD for normal use. It aims to give you all the normal tools you want, in a