Re: xmodmap

2002-07-16 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Todd A. Jacobs wrote: basic editing keys present in the Emacs editor. ALT+b moves the cursor to the beginning of the previous word. ALT+l will lowercase the word after the cursor. If you've left the capslock on, move the cursor back a few

track pads (was: xmodmap)

2002-07-16 Thread David Talkington
this, but if you have a Synaptics touchpad (common on Dells), you _need_ Bruce Kall's tpconfig utility to keep the tap-to-click feature from inducing homicidal tendencies in the user! - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Red Hat 7.3 and linuxconf

2002-07-16 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 lcfe wrote: I need a text terminal based configuration tool. I'd recommend vi or emacs. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made

Re: Setting up a database server

2002-07-15 Thread David Talkington
with the experience you're looking for. Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPTMU+L9BpdPKTBGtEQKZ0gCfU0BkYR9cBrQ2BZFWPCwot8vpiJIAniCS

Installing _with_ CPU optimization (was: Installing without CPUoptimization)

2002-07-15 Thread David Talkington
, and this makes it more difficult to automate ... is there a simpler way? - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPTM9YL9BpdPKTBGtEQIKlgCgvYB8rOidYy2U

Re: Iptables

2002-07-15 Thread David Talkington
? - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPTNNGb9BpdPKTBGtEQI7kwCdFaHrzzcXNNVy5fNckit1hNQLZYEAoLK3 Lng2EO4F+eOmcZ6ccXKPowJJ =2t+y -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: procmail's default system mailbox

2002-07-12 Thread David Talkington
, only one documented) instances of mailbox corruption since our home directory server was changed from Solaris to Red Hat. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA

Re: Killing 'locked' applications

2002-07-12 Thread David Talkington
and ps are not the same thing. - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPS81579BpdPKTBGtEQL0fgCfUw5YV9voF80QDu5qe7dc0c6Yd/IAn3zJ Qzilau2dEwelzrrm8gL+XnGN =ARsm

Re: cd burner not working

2002-07-09 Thread David Talkington
misconfigured the kernel somehow... Anyone have any hints? Obviously you left something out of your build. Maybe scsi-generic? - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA

Re: Diferences route - ip route

2002-07-08 Thread David Talkington
but refer the user to the postscript documentation. Rally helpful on a router console. Thanks, guys. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA

Re: 7.2 freezes during boot process (SOLVED)

2002-07-08 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gordon Messmer wrote: It would be nice to find a proper fix for this problem, since most servers run headless... Some BIOSen (such as my KT7) can be configured to ignore keyboard and video errors on boot. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key

Re: nfs shares and ownership.

2002-07-08 Thread David Talkington
local groups on the client with the same GID as those on the server, and set up group memberships to correspond. Then everything will map as you expect, and you can handle permissions (setgid bits and whatnot) on the server side. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org

Re: How to make it possible

2002-07-08 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Burger wrote: IPtables can work based on name resolution... ... a quantum leap of faith, if you don't control and trust the nameserver. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP

Re: web server alternatives

2002-07-05 Thread David Talkington
, and it's nice to have many. I certainly don't mean to discourage exploration; I just don't want to see you ditch a good product because of a fixable problem. You may have just looked in the wrong places or asked the wrong questions. Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org

Re: route

2002-07-05 Thread David Talkington
Outlook'o:p/o:p/span/font/p p class=MsoNormalfont size=3 face=Times New Romanspan style='font-size: 12.0pt'o:pnbsp;/o:p/span/font/p /div /body /html [ Note: This message contains email list management information ] - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp

Re: VIM and SSH (Putty)

2002-07-05 Thread David Talkington
/arrow keys. Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPSYSwL9BpdPKTBGtEQJmBQCcDRnS6PSiik5nT9XlU2m2arYf494An0pK xlPwXQtEdNYTWg3zcbKaLjsa =m2oP -END PGP

Re: 3com FE575 PCMCIA cards in 100MB full-duplex networks...

2002-07-05 Thread David Talkington
in, but that PCMCIA always seems to go into 100Mbps I haven't seen that happen (I have a 575). Have you checked the man page for ifconfig? You can force a particular media type; see if that helps. Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP

ssh and sftp (was: Dell Inspiron 8000 Modem Question)

2002-07-03 Thread David Talkington
message, even if you change the subject line. This practice breaks threading in mail readers that do it properly. Thank you. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6

RE: starting and stopping DHCPD

2002-07-03 Thread David Talkington
can't use the init script? # /etc/init.d/dhcpd {start|stop} - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPSNKP79BpdPKTBGtEQLlDwCfQEhGjTdcdN5N1nconEkHiNbqd5IAoPyX

Re: chmod: sticky bit

2002-07-02 Thread David Talkington
will propogate when a user creates a directory below it, _if_ that user's umask is set appropriately. In this case, you probably want it to be 002. Does that help? - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP

Re: chmod: sticky bit

2002-07-02 Thread David Talkington
the incorrect term. To the original poster, please note that my instructions are correct for your intended purpose, but Mr. Day is correct about the term. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment

Re: procmail

2002-07-01 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jay Daniels wrote: Am I overlooking something or did the redhat procmail rpm update just drop a bunch of files in my /var/qmail/bin? Sounds more likely to me that you've got a directory symlink somewhere that you've forgotten about ... just a

Re: samba as a domain contoller

2002-07-01 Thread David Talkington
. Have you tried the samba site, the docs shipped by Red Hat, and the text files included with the source? Have you punched 'samba domain controller HOWTO' into Google? There's abundant documentation out there. Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk

Re: procmail

2002-07-01 Thread David Talkington
a guess. -d You are correct! My /var/qmail/bin points to /usr/sbin 8-) Thanks, I'll take '80s Hair Bands' for $500 please, Alex ... - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine

Re: Uninstallation help

2002-06-30 Thread David Talkington
Linux, and use Linux fdisk, sfdisk, cfdisk, etc. to clean all the partitions off it. - - Joebewan's DEBUG routine, if you're feeling brave. Good luck ... - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8

Re: Win2k and red hat 7.3

2002-06-30 Thread David Talkington
Experienced what? You haven't given us any information that will help you solve your problem. What did you install, and in what order, and how? What specific error do you see when you try to start one OS or the other? - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk

Re: mySQL directory

2002-06-27 Thread David Talkington
. My mySQL installation is a custom install not from an RPM so the directory is a little different than normal. Thanks. PHP must be told at build time to include support for MySQL, for one thing ... but you haven't given enough information to do anything but speculate. Cheers -d - -- David

Re: dns query tools

2002-06-27 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 listserv wrote: I am looking a tool to run under X for DNS queries. Any suggetsions? How about dig? Runs in an xterm. ;-) - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: How do I convert a DOS file to a UNIX file?

2002-06-27 Thread David Talkington
designated as a DOS type, to a UNIX type? dos2unix. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPRtVNb9BpdPKTBGtEQI6XQCg6qflfDrpFGMtJdFJPVdYu1jk1CEAoMjU

[OT] sftp (was: How do I convert a DOS file to a UNIX file?)

2002-06-27 Thread David Talkington
believe the latest versions of the commercial SFTP GUI client for Windows handle this translation automatically, which is nice. Lack of that feature was one of the major complaints from our users of earlier versions of SFTP. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk

Re: equivalent to /etc/system file in red hat 7.2

2002-06-27 Thread David Talkington
in sysctl, and /etc/sysctl.conf. You might also want to browse /etc/sysconfig/*, and perhaps /etc/modules.conf. Hope this helps a bit -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine

Re: How to install Linux 7.3 via remote CD-ROM drive

2002-06-27 Thread David Talkington
network connection; just pull the install files directly from your favorite ftp mirror on the fly. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA

[openssh-unix-announce] OpenSSH Security Advisory (adv.iss) (fwd)

2002-06-26 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yes, this definitely could have been handled differently. Especially since they seem to have changed their minds mid-stream after telling people they'd have until Monday to shore up before this announcement. - -d - -- Forwarded message

Re: [openssh-unix-announce] OpenSSH Security Advisory (adv.iss)(fwd)

2002-06-26 Thread David Talkington
yours. Buut... I guess you don't get to be a dictatorial project leader by seeing shades of grey... who are we to question genius. There's plenty of that to go around. It's all about choosing the egoist whose interests happen to coincide with yours. ;-) - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key

Re: OpenSSH Vulnerability

2002-06-25 Thread David Talkington
configuration change is also required, followed by yet another upgrade in a few days. For those interested, details are at http://www.openssh.org. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment

[OT] Re: anyone know anything about osX

2002-06-21 Thread David Talkington
reference, the best text I've found so far for info at this level is Mac OS X Unleashed from SAMS. Many of the other ones commonly found don't go into Unix administration details to a degree that helped me at all. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp

Re: [OT] Re: anyone know anything about osX

2002-06-21 Thread David Talkington
understand 'BSD startup files, you need to buy a book on FreeBSD before you start mucking with them! The right (Mac-ish) way to do it, I later learned, is to use Netinfo Manager. The book I mentioned in my previous post will tell you how. Good luck ... -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http

RPM's bad rap

2002-06-16 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It's no secret that I'm not a fan of RPM. Here's an article explaining its problems in a broader context. http://distrowatch.colug.net/article-rpm.php Cheers -d -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine

Re: RPM's bad rap

2002-06-16 Thread David Talkington
from slashdot, so the damage was obviously already done. If it were me, and I wasn't ready to go live, I wouldn't have put it on the air. ;-) - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made

Re: RPM's bad rap

2002-06-16 Thread David Talkington
widely disregarded, for instance, nor is it something for which RPM can reasonably be expected to compensate. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA

Re: OT: vi and |

2002-06-14 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dbrett wrote: When I tried to do the following :1,$s/\|//g no changed happened, although vi says it large number of replacements happened. Drop the escape: s/|//g Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk

Re: Please help with kickstart problem on 7.2

2002-06-14 Thread David Talkington
it running. I've never encountered a situation that couldn't handle ... - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA

sendmail (was: redhat 7.3 and performance)

2002-06-13 Thread David Talkington
insecurities. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPQjxdL9BpdPKTBGtEQKqsACg8nHekXItSdUs8w3LDdzyg92bYJEAn1xQ fEZ/r8XExAz587q4g9U83dnc =M7Ih -END PGP

Re: Sudo

2002-06-13 Thread David Talkington
if you'd like a copy, and I'll send the code along if the author doesn't object. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPQjxtb9BpdPKTBGtEQI0CQCePNipPVNyp

Re: Sudo

2002-06-13 Thread David Talkington
. you could also get rid of the [!-]* to let it pass flags... but the one mentioned in the man page should be the best solution... isn't it? If you only want to prevent su to root, yes. Our wrapper allows us to specify a range of excluded UIDs, which is very handy. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP

Re: Shell Scripting

2002-06-13 Thread David Talkington
that. You can also do it in 'update mode' with Perl with no temp file, but it requires enough memory to hold the entire file. Seldom worth the trouble. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment

Re: redhat 7.3 and performance

2002-06-12 Thread David Talkington
to point to a recursive DNS server, usually provided by your ISP. You won't get far without that. ;-) Example: nameserver 192.168.1.1 - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine

Re: Make root account?

2002-06-12 Thread David Talkington
that feature any way to do this?? Please help asap Read up on sudo. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPQbekr9BpdPKTBGtEQJOdgCglfY0o9tf1WJ5cVR8ndZXzmyHh7AAn1va

Re: compiling bash scripts

2002-06-12 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Leonardo Rodrigues wrote: Question is: is it possible to 'compile' bash script of, somehow, scramble it source ? Rewrite it in C. ;-) Seriously. If it's large and you want it fast, that's the usual way. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP

Re: compiling bash scripts

2002-06-12 Thread David Talkington
possible or appropriate for someone to modify system files, and the consequences of doing so. That is my $.02. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA

Re: ssh problem

2002-06-12 Thread David Talkington
of this, authorized_keys2 is being phased out. Anyone using authorized_keys2 should move those keys to authorized_keys at the earliest convenience to avoid unpleasant surprises in some future update. Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN

Re: Sudo

2002-06-12 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jesse Angell wrote: I edited the sudo config to give a user root privs. But its not working.. How do i make it go active and work? Post the contents of /etc/sudoers. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk

Re: ssh problem

2002-06-12 Thread David Talkington
move those keys to authorized_keys at the earliest convenience to avoid unpleasant surprises in some future update. May I ask where you have gotten this information from? Yes, you may. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Sudo

2002-06-12 Thread David Talkington
(not root's) password. Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPQflf79BpdPKTBGtEQJMJACeJe0qjFZpWfwYH+QTXCAh/cprX2gAn2qA 1Wfy0TDEFr/SATwgOdskLm09 =Giy/ -END

Re: redhat 7.3 and performance

2002-06-12 Thread David Talkington
is dynamic? It's guaranteed to break things when your IP address changes. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPQgNwL9BpdPKTBGtEQJZnwCdEjH7Srh

With all due respect ...

2002-06-12 Thread David Talkington
minutes, 253 sets a vendor-defined timeout, and 255 is interpreted as 21 minutes plus 15 seconds. ...somewhat peculiar? *boggle* -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made

dynamic addresses and /etc/hosts (was: redhat 7.3 and performance)

2002-06-12 Thread David Talkington
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Re: redhat 7.3 and performance

2002-06-11 Thread David Talkington
(if you've assigned one) all resolve. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPQY2u79BpdPKTBGtEQIHowCbBL8oT+J0YPCVFly88WeNwTirh4AAn1X6 Em5Yy7hIvCSxYlmKbXADsnPF

Re: redhat 7.3 and performance

2002-06-11 Thread David Talkington
entry for itself (and *thwap* to Red Hat for putting it there when you install as a DHCP client). - -d -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA

Re: Linux and Windows

2002-06-11 Thread David Talkington
to write a script that uses WINS queries (man nmblookup) to populate /etc/hosts for you. Just a thought. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA

Re: CUPS and remote access to printer queue

2002-06-07 Thread David Talkington
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RE: Order of resolution

2002-06-06 Thread David Talkington
know what nsswitch.conf does, but host.conf appears to perform a redundant function. What is the relationship between the two? Neither man page mentions the other file. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

RE: listing directories only

2002-06-06 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I use the following: ls -d */ That's handy -- much cleaner than the grep method, which is what I've been doing. Thanks for the tip! -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: telenet access for root

2002-06-05 Thread David Talkington
from the floppy. Don't even need to install it. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPP5q4r9BpdPKTBGtEQLeSACgnHf6i3/Nn6jNUTTXzB8bVpEkxv8AoIMY

Re: Order of resolution

2002-06-05 Thread David Talkington
/host.conf What is the relationship between that file and nsswitch.conf? - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPP5w4r9BpdPKTBGtEQLWEwCghoXydOjY

Re: selected system files get zeroed out

2002-06-05 Thread David Talkington
are not files that should ever be written to except during the process of patching and updating. Therefore, if you can't correlate this artifact with a legitimate activity of this nature (by rpm or otherwise), you should probably suspect a cracked machine. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http

Re: POP3 Server ??

2002-06-04 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Darryl Harvey wrote: I am running RH7.3, it doesn't seem to come with a PoP3 server. (Why?) Sure it does; it's part of the UW IMAP package. 'locate pop3' would have shown you /usr/sbin/ipop3d. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http

Re: CUPS and remote access to printer queue

2002-06-04 Thread David Talkington
! Very slick. Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPP0Mor9BpdPKTBGtEQJIxACgnwxqc6phkzRwBEJ5uAPjWc75moQAoOu0 8PloffXpxOsTHBrGb822Ix1n =Ngmy -END

Re: CUPS and remote access to printer queue

2002-06-04 Thread David Talkington
of what I needed, including the basics for cups-lpd config, from this book: http://www.cups.org/book/index.html Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA

Re: CUPS and remote access to printer queue

2002-06-04 Thread David Talkington
the print job is. Apparently LPRng doesn't communicate that to cups. That just might solve a problem of my own; thank you ... -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6

Re: how does umask and login account affect install of new programs?

2002-06-04 Thread David Talkington
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Re: POP and IMAP through NAT

2002-06-04 Thread David Talkington
113 on the floor (to avoid annoying ident timeouts), and make sure the machine doing the fetching knows who it is (its IP address MUST resolve). A simple entry in /etc/hosts is usually sufficient. Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp

Re: POP and IMAP through NAT

2002-06-04 Thread David Talkington
, thank you for the correction. -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPP2Kwb9BpdPKTBGtEQKQRACfdSRIdkXLGNun1RQZhUlVJpWqNfQAoPFg JiwHRlHHQsiUPuIG/ouHQVRJ =Q9y9

Re: Question about PCMCIA networking

2002-06-03 Thread David Talkington
some clues. And try the other slot, too. The outputs of `lsmod' and `route -n', when the card is working vs. when it isn't, might be interesting as well. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment

Re: installing X by non super user.

2002-06-03 Thread David Talkington
operating systems. Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPPuxfr9BpdPKTBGtEQLgrgCfefUk6NO0uHzxwrU1h1TCZyecGowAoOnH mzaYb2uGTloNwM+O6RG885bm =pkIa

Re: ATT Broadband on RH7.3

2002-06-03 Thread David Talkington
DSL link I lost when I moved. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPPvT879BpdPKTBGtEQKuiwCgrSvdhxCFM+QpqSgLnuImfYhuOiEAnRrG k9gC3ax9ajfFES4OuDhX41+W =C4L0

Re: ATT Broadband on RH7.3

2002-06-03 Thread David Talkington
. Thanks for the tip. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPPwVNb9BpdPKTBGtEQKrHQCeNacDiKSueYOOxT8DwtqpqVpFdFkAn1Y8 RO6rsNaGG6Z6PriCbLvgTrft =Ft4d -END PGP

Re: IPTables Windows Messenger Voice/Video

2002-06-03 Thread David Talkington
, you needed an experimental kernel module for this. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPPxZN79BpdPKTBGtEQITWQCgyXGCDzP3kaw4awq1eFQFIGaeEkQAn1gv

Re: Installing CUPS

2002-06-02 Thread David Talkington
and installed by ./configure, so that's taken care of. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPPp9Y79BpdPKTBGtEQLSwACgxtspMw2UbixWGLw/0vLeVqaji1IAoLyh

Re: Help. I need a traffic shaping program for RedHat (with GIUwould be great)

2002-05-31 Thread David Talkington
be great :-) Hmm ... the 'traffic shaper' and/or QoS components of the Linux kernel come to mind ... ;-) - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA

Re: NFS, symlinks and installation trees

2002-05-31 Thread David Talkington
: $ pwd /path/to/7.3 $ cd rpms $ for file in ../dist*/rpms/*; do ln -s $file; done Something like that, with 7.3/ exported. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6

Re: Help. I need a traffic shaping program for RedHat (with GIUwould be great)

2002-05-31 Thread David Talkington
there ... Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPPe1tL9BpdPKTBGtEQJ3GQCePhCun0EVdrlwAPRvQhYK/kISQ/oAn3Lh gLdULHGYN+rMszCc2S9qqt/7 =tqzU -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: missing lpr on Redhat 6.0-7.3 upgrade on Pentium 4

2002-05-30 Thread David Talkington
(kudos!) in 7.3. I have no experience yet with their shipped installation, but you might investigate whether you got that as your default print system, and whether it displaced other utilities. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP

Re: drive spin for the impatient

2002-05-30 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 daniel wrote: you know how a lot of hard drives are designed to spin down when they're not being used? is there a way to turn that off in redhat 7.3? man hdparm. -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk

Re: Error in hard disk...How can I test?

2002-05-29 Thread David Talkington
) and continue to use the disk for quite a while. I do this for old service laptops. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA

Re: mozilla rc3 installation

2002-05-29 Thread David Talkington
of Mozilla. I'd just grab the binary package -- which includes mail, chat, and other toys -- from mozilla.org and unroll it in /usr/local. Done. Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made

Re: mozilla rc3 installation

2002-05-28 Thread David Talkington
software from scratch, but I even I draw the line at the fire dreathing bragon. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPPQSXb9BpdPKTBGtEQJw

Re: ReiserFS for root partition

2002-05-13 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anand Buddhdev wrote: Yes I realise that, and I know some of the reasons why RedHat prefers us to use ext3. If someone can smack me with a link to an exposition of the above, I'd be interested in the discussion. Thank you -d - -- David

Re: ReiserFS for root partition

2002-05-13 Thread David Talkington
request for links to hard info. Thanks for the note. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPOBTOb9BpdPKTBGtEQLhrwCg9OkEFAMI8f3enVwXWUO2QuqxSXgAnAjg

Re: Linux box won't stop beeping

2002-05-09 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Manzabar wrote: So why am I writing this e-mail? Because since I did that about every 2 minutes the box has been beeping at me and I don't know how to make it stop. Oh, so THAT's what this button does! I'll stop it now. - -d - -- David

Re: Hacked again...

2002-05-06 Thread David Talkington
. iptables can do both, but please don't confuse them, nor rely on NAT to protect you. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPNbz6r9BpdPKTBGtEQIjWwCeJU/D6UK

Re: Hacked again...

2002-05-06 Thread David Talkington
. I figured as much ... just didn't want to let that confuse the unwary. Cheers -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPNcOcb9BpdPKTBGtEQJCGgCg24QOpc3

Re: Do NOT mirror updates daily! (was Re: Hacked again...)

2002-05-06 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: Mirroring daily seriously increases the bandwidth drain on the mirror servers It wouldn't, if more of them supported rsync! I'm surprised that so few do. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org

Re: reboot shutdown problem

2002-05-04 Thread David Talkington
, 'chkconfig apmd on'. In the latter, just turn off the box when you get to that point. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPNP

Re: OT:Re: RAW Sockets

2002-05-03 Thread David Talkington
, or have you heard it squeaking? You might need to squirt some lightweight oil in your ethernet jacks. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA

Re: I did not attack other's machine!!!!

2002-05-02 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Canary wrote: Oh yeah, and what David said. I hate it when he shows me up. :-) And that was pre-coffee, too, I wantcha to know ... - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP

Re: newbie PCMCIA question

2002-05-02 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doug Potter wrote: I am using my notebook to get used to Linux. Everything works except for my PCMCIA NIC. It calls for module 3C575_cb.0 Are you using a 575? It's supported right out of the box. Just plug it in. - -d - -- David Talkington

Re: Setting time display

2002-05-01 Thread David Talkington
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Re: Install kernel source

2002-05-01 Thread David Talkington
. You can configure it by digging the appropriate file out of configs/ in the kernel source dir, copying it to .config in the parent dir, then 'make (old|x|menu)config'. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: bash vars

2002-04-30 Thread David Talkington
). - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPM8iNr9BpdPKTBGtEQKVSQCgypNCugmrnGm6MtOWvBKHBI4xAVAAn2pW qqc41TWWa/gXWBjQbj8thdTb =0Aqo -END PGP SIGNATURE

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