Hi,
I now have my Redhat 7.2 Box on the Net (Thanks Gary Dick again for the
RH7.2 CD's) Using the Alcatel Speed Touch Home getting Linux up and running
was relatively easy, I say relatively easy bacause I learnt a number of
things on the way.
System needs to have ppp installed (I have pppd
Mark Carey wrote:
Win98SE box, 192.168.1.100 --+
Win95 box, 192.168.1.200 --| Plugged into 8 Port 100Mb/s Switch
RH 7.2 box, 192.168.1.150 --|
ST Home, 192.168.1.259 --+
^^^
255 perhaps?
Cheers,
192.168.1.250 sorry, if you look at the command
again,
Mark Carey
.
;)
Vik: I am fanatical about this 'more secure' operating system.
Bjorn: Are you advocating a scan back to 'look for a mail server'?
Mark Carey
_
Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
appear there.
Kernel 2.4.17
PPTP 1.0.3-1 (Used since I got ADSL)
PPP 2.4.1 (Used since I got ADSL)
IP Tables 1.2.5 (Since I compiled Kernel)
Thanks,
Mark Carey
_
MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos:
http
Are you sure its a switch?
I understand that a hub would give collisions because the modem and
linux firewall would be having a lot to say to each other, then when
the traffic goes the other machine on the network it would
collide but a switch isn't supposed to do that.
Ok,
On the front of
Firstly thanks to all who replied. The range in complexity of solution was
an eye opener.
Ok so here is my experience, your milage may vary.
Originally I went the route suggested by Craig Falconer, and set up a myriad
of directories and symlinks to cater to the requests. The one thing I
Help,
I had a matlab window up on Blackbox, and I iconified it, now where will
the icon have gone to? I cant see it anywhere?
Yes I am so new to X it isnt funny, consoles and vim anyday!!
Thanks,
Mark Carey
How much does a 802.11 card and high gain antenna cost? (antenna reqd for increased
range?)
Mark
On Tue, 14 May 2002 10:50:50 +1200
Gavin Treadgold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just a random thought that ran through my head thinking about distribution
charges by ISP's and downloading large
Hi,
Is there a NZ site that mirrors kernel.org?
Mark
Hi,
I am trying to get lpd going on my machine, so I can print my work and not just do it
(paperless office nah)
snip
[root@xxx tex]# /sbin/service lpd restart
Stopping lpd: [FAILED]
Starting lpd: 2002-05-20-10:43:49.385 Get_local_host: hostname
of the printing gurus the device URI which I assume is right is
below.
snip
Device URI: lpd://printserver.canterbury.ac.nz/printer
/snip
Thanks,
Mark Carey
Ok,
I have decided that there is no need for me to run local queues for the printers on
which I want to print. I managed to get lpr going last night and am using it the was
that Paul suggested to use it,
lpr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I can not explain why it works now and did not before, it may be
/hda2 hdc=ide-scsi
/snip
Thanks,
Mark Carey
ide-scsi was the call, recompiled all good.
Thanks to all who responded so quickly.
A burning we will go, a burning we will go ..
Mark
/DNAT and
a bit of other stuff. How does this differ from a bridge?
I'm guessing you have reasons not to turn A into a network router.
(which is the easiest method - since X is just a client server protocol)
Is there a router HOWTO available?
Thanks,
Mark Carey
appreciated.
Mark Carey
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 09:48, Nick Rout wrote:
Yes both are lans. However Network 2 will be a Class C subnet and
Network 1 uses full internet rout-able (no pun intended) ips.
Machines on Network 2 will not be able to access stuff on Network 1
without NAT will they?
Mark
Ahhh I
yesterday afternoon and I can not get access to the
internet from my office. Ximian exolution does some really funky stuff when
the network goes down!!
/rant
Thanks,
Mark Carey
On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 16:11, Mahesh De Silva wrote:
Just thought, what is the boot order you have in your
bios, my nic gives me the same error when i have the
nic setup to boot.
C
Mahesh
I have tried a couple of different boot orders. TX Motherboard, Does
not have boot from NIC AFAIK. I
settings but it works now.
Thanks to all who helped.
Mark Carey
What do I need to bring?
If you want linux installed on your computer then you should bring the
following:
- Your computer (system box, monitor, keyboard and mouse, power leads etc)
- All the documentation for your hardware that you can find
- Floppy disks that we can overwrite (should only need
Got it,
I am not supposed to right mouse to end the line I am supposed to middle
mouse to end the line duh!
Mark
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 16:45, Zane Gilmore wrote:
2: How do you get that cool little ½ symbol?
Extended character set?
Mark
Has anyone ever seen a line like this among ping response data,
WARNING: failed to install socket filter
: Protocol not available
Any ideas what it means or how one goes about fixing it?
Thanks,
Mark Carey
On Mon, 08 Jul 2002 11:59:59 +1200
Theuns Verwoerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My best GUESS is that something else is already listening for ICMP/raw
traffic. (Capturing ICMP would require a raw socket; you may not be able
to have multiple overlapping raw sockets at any one time.)
Check what
It appears some of our name services were down for part of the day. And
now that they are back the problem has gone away.
Mark
Hi,
I understand that there exists a port of Id softwares Quake 3 Arena for
Linux. I have seen it used in benchmarking tests, where can I get this
from, does it come on the standard install CD that I buy from the shop
or can I download it?
Id Softwares website is not very helpful on this issue.
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 12:04, Andrew J Sands wrote:
As (and any flames to /dev/null) this system is likely to triple/quad boot;
has anybody on the list had serious difficulties with the Athlon(??)
processors or should I stay with Intel and smoke my budget??
The department bought me an Athlon
On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 10:21, Nick Rout wrote:
Now where the hell did they get awk, glob grep from?
awk
by Alfred V. Aho, Peter J. Weinberger and Brian W. Kernighan.
Notice first letter of last names.
Mark
Hi,
Is this Thursdays meeting in the usual place? Or are we to be relocated
again?
Mark
On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 11:33, Jonathan Viney wrote:
Hi,
I am using Debian Woody 3.0 and have just compiled kernel 2.4.19. The
first time the cdrom drive is mounted these errors turn up in
/var/log/syslog:
Aug 29 11:17:23 jonathan kernel: hdc: timeout waiting for DMA
Aug 29 11:17:23
On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 14:13, Nick Rout wrote:
Yes a good topic, but I'm not sure how interested our home users will
be? I could help a little with this topic.
I would have thought it great for a home user, if they have 2 PC's one
with Linux on it and another with a Microsoft OS on it it is
might be useful to all those Burners out there =) They are branded CDR's
but twink works great to fix that!!
Excuse my ignorance but why are we putting twink on them in the first
place?
Mark
On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 14:38, Jason wrote:
It's used to cover the branding on the CD =) Put it on thin or it will
make the CD unbalanced...
I like the job my fine tip sharpie permanent marker does. Never had a
wobbly disc ever.
Mark
Hi,
I currently use KDE 3.0.1 standard RH7.3 install. I would like to know
what the name of the window decoration used on all the screen shots over
at www.ximian.com are (
http://www.ximian.com/imagewrap.html?image=/images/screenshots/ximian_evolution/main-view.png)
I realize ximian uses Gnome
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 17:04, Trev wrote:
Is it likely to be the video card a Diamond Stealth II S220 PCI 4MB chip set
Rendition Verite V2100, I have been using it with many Linux distros for 2+
yrs and it has never happened before.
I had exactly the same problem with a Rendition Verite
Hi,
I have my redhat 8.0 iso's in an nfs exported directory I have made an
network install boot disk from netboot.img and I can boot the machine,
ping it from other machines, get it to mount the directory on the server
with the isos in it using nfs but it keeps telling me,
..that the directory
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 12:44, Robert Fisher wrote:
I know very little about this (- actually nothing) but would it make a
difference if the iso's are extracted first?
Well according to the RedHat docs
Gave up trying to be fancy and copied the entire contents out of the iso
and worked like a charm.
Mark
Hi,
My woes with nfs continue
I now have two machines running linux one running RH7.3 the other
running RH8.0 (whoo network install), I now want to have a single home
directory on both, easy right no
I have shared /home on machine 1, and I can mount it on machine 2, but
not during the
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 18:27, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
/etc/exports
/etc/hosts.allow
man 5 exports
man 5 hosts.allow
Assumptions I have made (please comment on good or bad)
1. /etc/exports is fine because I can mount the share as root post boot.
2. /etc/hosts.allow is also fine because it
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 18:40, Chris Hellyar wrote:
I generally just copy the contents of the CD's (all three of em) into a
directory, so you have /RedHat/RPMS etc and all the other dirs and then just
point the NFS mount at the root of it all..
This is what I ended up doing, but I would swear
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 22:28, Robert Fisher wrote:
Just wondering if anyone else has had the same kind of problems or
even knows how to fix it.
I had a similar problem with a Quantum CY Bigfoot HDD, the DMA on it was
broken so I had to pass the kernel the boot parameter ide=nodma which
fixed
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 20:44, John Williams wrote:
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 11:03 am, you wrote:
the first one, try changing the start page in settings.
Cannot! I have somehow destroyed the top bar (the one with the pulldown
menus) so I can no longer alter anything.
Will,
Ctrl + M
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 06:52, John Williams wrote:
Thanks Mark. How did you know that? Ctrl + m restored the drop down menus.
I was playing with Noatun the other day and I hid the menu bar and it
popped up a message to tell me to ctrl + m to get it back, tried it in
konqueror after you
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 08:29, Matt Agnew wrote:
Or is this why I have to learn those icky editors
like vi or emacs? And which is better ducks, runs?
su
password
vi /boot/lilo.conf
i
make changes
ESC
:wq
make lilo re-read its config
easy!!
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally
Fixed proper!
The original problem was the machine with the nfs shares on it is only
on my local illegitimate LAN and cant look up the IP's of connecting
machines until NAT/MASQ is enabled on my legitimate machine.
An entry in /etc/hosts for the machine attempting to mount fixed all.
I
Hi,
After installing RH8.0 on my desktop box can any one out there suggest a
replacement to gtop that I previously used in RH7.3 but cant even find
an install rpm for!
Yes I know, ps -aux | grep me; kill pid but hows about a nice little
frilly graphical util.
Mark
On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:23, Robert Fisher wrote:
I am using KDE on RedHat 8 and have set the screensaver to activate
after 5 minutes but it (the screen) just goes into standby.
Does anyone else have any success with the screen savers in this
version?
I have exactly the same problem,
Hi,
I am attempting to write a cron (or similar) job that twice daily will
update a cvs repository I am running, so far so good (rtfm) now I want
one of the fields to get input from the current date and time.
cvs commit -m b31102002_1559
where the b doesnt change but the rest does according to
Thanks Rex, here is what I have settled for,
snip /home/me/crontab
30 10,16,20 * * * /home/me/cvs_backup
/snip
snip /home/me/cvs_backup
#! /bin/bash
export BACKUPT=`date +%d%m%Y_%H%M`
cvs commit -m $BACKUPT
/snip
And I chmod 774 cvs_backup, it runs
Mark
Hi,
Am having a play with post script, I have the Adobe language
specification (912 pages), problem is when I open a post script file the
text is not in a human readable form, does any one here have any ideas
how I might go about finding what encoding has been used, so I can
attempt to reverse
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 10:15, Michael JasonSmith wrote:
Does the first line mutter something along the lines of
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
Yep
run file foo.ps to figure out if it is gzipped
[menorman misc]$ file ps_file.ps
ps_file.ps: PostScript document text conforming at level 3.0
And I did
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 12:52, Mark Tomlinson wrote:
As someone has already said, you are seeing the bit-maps for the fonts which
you are using. I have also created PDF's this way, and then discovered the
command pdflatex which produced a much smaller PDF file, and looked better
in Adobe Acrobat
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 13:51, Mark Carey wrote:
I was under the impressions that using this route with the -Ppdf switch
for dvips gave me type one fonts which were not embedded in the
document, I am testing this right now
Ok so I built the same pdf file by going (1) latex; latex; dvips
On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 13:24, Kevin Linux account wrote:
Has anyone Connected to Windows Terminal server from Linux?
Yes cosc have one here at uni.
I Beleave there is a client for Linux and I woundered whether anyone has used it
rdesktop
Works ok, on a heavily loaded terminal server the
Hi,
Does any one out there have any sites they recommend when it comes to
learning a bit of perl.
I am chopping lines out of text files.
Mark
Ok,
So it isn't prose, actually you may want to hang me, I wanted to remove
all lines in the file containing 1. just whitespace and 2. starting with
a word, allowing for preceding whitespace.
snip
while () {
if (/\S/) {
if (/^\s*[a-zA-Z]/) {
} else {
print;
Hi,
This post is primarily for the benefit of those who bought a GX1 from
Steve Dunford. And as such is not particularly on topic for CLUG.
I have free to a good home, as in I don't want or need and if no one
else wants is going to turn up in a skip somewhere .
1 x Dell OptiPlex GX1, Case,
Since,
My brief introduction to regexp'ing on Friday I have run into some more
interesting problems
Some of my lines of data do not have sufficient space between the
previous column and the next column, e.g.
2.354647E10-0.56495E-9 0.6758E4
Note the ^^ missing space, now I was wondering if
On Mon, 2002-11-25 at 11:20, Lance BLACKLER wrote:
if you have no takers for the M/B and case PSU etc - I will grab them off
you Mark if that is OK.
All gone sorry.
Mark
Thanks to Mr Gregan and Mr Walle for their suggestions for using the
replace operator s///g in perl. Thanks to John Carter for his
constructive criticism and all others who contributed to the discussion.
FYI current code is below,
snip
while () {
# if the line is not empty
if (/\S/) {
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 17:00, Peter Glassenbury wrote:
Latex is good for what it is but it is *not* for writing casual one page
documents or similar.
What -- that is mainly what I use it for (since I don't write
large documents.)
I use it for both, casual and formal documents, I love that I
On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 12:48, Paul wrote:
What PHP IDEs do you guys use?
Why use an IDE vi or emacs work just fine .
Mark
Hi,
I realise this has been covered before on the list I just cant search
the archives at the present point in time.
I am after a modem for a newish machine (no ISA slots) that is a true
hardware modem (ie will work in Linux without frigging around with
linmodem or other binary only kernel
*cough* certain members of this list are on the list of people *cough*
Mark
Hi,
I am trying to write a simple perl script, that writes a text file in my
home directory for evolution to pick up as an email signature.
Now I am being picky and want to be able to include plain text
formatting (carriage returns) in the quotes it will append to my
standard signature
Also I am NOT interested in anything that sends html mail, plain text
only.
Mark
Ok,
I pilfered someone else idea and have used the ^ character in my file of
quotes to symbolize a new line, I also have the script running using
cron to change my signature file (I don't have evolution 1.2, only
1.0.8).
If anyone is interested I can post script but judging by the number of
and no
CR writer. NFS install is out as I dont have another Linux box only a Win95
one,
Off to the beach tommorow so discuss it among yourselves and I will try the
results next weekend.
Any suggestions
Mark Carey
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 22:18, Andrew Errington wrote:
Knoppix? (ha ha)
Not from stage 1!! With only 8 MB of RAM
Tomsrtbt should get you going.
Good idea.
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 01:04, Joff wrote:
I haven't tried it myself yet, but maybe the Smoothwall distro (its
like a 20MB ISO) sound like
Hi,
I am in the process of pulling down ximian evolution 1.4 for Redhat 8.0,
adn was wondering when I have it on campus, how can I set up a
red-carpet server to dish the rpms to others that are interested ... any
suggestions.
I cant find anything on the ximian site about how to run a red-caret
Hi,
Two questions (may be quick, may not be),
1. Does anybody on campus have a copy of an iso from which I can make a
knoppix CD. I have blank discs and a burner connected to the UC LAN.
2. I have a Linux box doing ppp to an external ISP (not here at UC).
When said Linux box connects to the far
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 06:48, Matthew Gregan wrote:
I suspect somebody else will be able to sort you about sooner, but I'll
have a copy of 3.3 (2003-09-24) by tomorrow evening. I'm about 5
minutes walk from campus.
What is the standard form of payment for procuring a burnt disk, other
than
Hi,
Thanks to Volker for supplying knoppix. I now have another knoppixish
question.
Is there a version of knoppix built using only Gnome2?
Or is this something I need to build from scratch. Knoppix 3.2 has some
gnome libraries floating around. Abiword and Gnumeric are installed and
I have
Hi,
I have just helped a mate get his Windows XP partition and nVidia Nforce
chipset working on a ShuttleX PC. The machine dual boots Windows XP and
RH9.0.
Worthy of note is that the nVidia Nforce Lan stuff wouldnt go out of the
box and we had to download and build the driver off the nVidia
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 22:30, Nick Rout wrote:
according to that site vendor/product id 0EA0:2168 is a wristwatch
device, but that may just mean the same chipset in your device.
http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=2129
http://www.laks.at/ (how cool!)
Unfortunately it is just a USB
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 19:33, Andy George wrote:
Dual fold question, why do I have to DISABLE eth0 and eth1 for ppp0 to be
the default route, and is there a way that we can have this made a little
bit easier if not a little bit eliminated... I've tried switching the Intel
LAN card off in bios,
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 03:54, Andre Renaud wrote:
I'm assuming (anyone know the correct answer here?) that pppd does
not override the default route if it sees that you already have one.
As Volker pointed out yesterday, the suse (and possibly debian) version
of ppp has the setting
not interested in implementing demand dialing, the internet is full
of lovely mail while you are at work zombies and I am not prepared to
have my windows box add to the noise, if it became infected.
Any sugestions? or other help?
Thanks,
Mark Carey
of the mountd's cache, hand edit the file /var/lib/nfs/xtab?
Everything appears to be in compliance with
http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/server.html
Any and all suggestions greatly appreciated.
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
for the Auckland area, does anyone know of a similar listing
for Christchurch.
Regards,
Mark Carey
On 7/12/06, Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 11:14 pm, Mark Carey wrote:
channels for the Auckland area, does anyone know of a similar listing
for Christchurch.
http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=NZMythConfig
Rob
All,
Thanks for the responses, hope
So another revelation that works wonders . with hardware mpeg2
encoding on the TV card it is bit of a shame to then chew 80% cpu
trying to watch the stream.
Solution install nvidia binary (evil, evil, evil) video drivers. It
appears as though almost all recent nvidia cards accelerate mpeg2
once that naming based on services was not a good idea, i.e
router-ext etc. I know about security by obscurity
My question for the list can I install terminal services onto a
windows 2000 workstation, if so how have googled and dont believe
its possible.
Cheers,
Mark Carey
On 8/19/06
On 8/19/06, Roger Searle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Carey wrote:
My question for the list can I install terminal services onto a
windows 2000 workstation, if so how have googled and dont believe
its possible.
Cheers,
ummm this is a linux user group list. to the best of my
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