Re: Updates!!!

I think that it's baout time that we had some sort of project on the go to allow for automatic updating (a "niced" process in the background started whenver we dial up, or running as a daemon process on those machines permanently online). Would have to access (mirror) sites that are verified

Re: HELP! iBCS and rebuilt kernel

I asked for help last week. Anyone with any ideas I have rebuilt the 5.0 Linux kernel (2.0.31) from the CD and I get errors trying to build iBCS! Anyone out there know of any specific things to check? I'm getting an error building "xstat.o" What _is_ the error ? we're not mind

Adaptec AHA1742A

Hi all, I need your help !! I'm looking for an AHA1742A for my Alpha. I've DEC resellers as well as adaptec, who said it's been discontinued. My only hope is to get a _working_ second hand one.. Has anyone got one they can sell, or know of anyone who has a plentiful supplt of these ? TIA

Re: Adaptec AHA1742A

I'm looking for an AHA1742A for my Alpha. I've DEC resellers as well as adaptec, who said it's been discontinued. My only hope is to get a _working_ second hand one.. Has anyone got one they can sell, or know of anyone who has a plentiful supplt of these ? Why do you _have_ to have

Re: Staroffice and Help?

One thing I have noticed in StarOffice is that I can't get any of the help to work. All I get if I click on Help/Contents or hit F1 is the User's Guide, despite voluminous amounts of help files on the disk (in /opt/StarOffice). I followed the installation (second time around) and noticed

Re: booby traps

i can't get this piece of code to work. it's supposed to email root whenever non-authorized connections are detected. /etc/hosts.deny: ALL: ALL: /usr/sbin/safe_finger -l @%h | /bin/mail -s %d-%h root I have the following in my /etc/deny, which mails root when someone

Re: how to get libm.so.5?

I installed the DBI-perl package in order to use Mysql-perl. However it wants libm.so.5 and all I have is libm.so.6. Where can I get libm.so.5? You can get this from the libc5 package in contrib : libc5-5.4.38-3.i386.rpm (in the hurricane contrib i think) Simon Delicata -- Your lucky

Re: opti 82c924 does not work

im using redhat 4.2, and im trying (for 3 weeks) to use a Mad 16 opti 82c924 (PTI-168) PnP sound card . I can use it only if im initialising is using the driver for dos; so boot in dos init the SB (either in SB Pro or Wss mode) and after that worm boot to Linux. Now i want to get rid of

Re: opti 82c924 does not work

personally have got this setup, and it works well. If any of you out there have a problem, mail me (Simon) : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry : www.brunel.ac.uk/~cs96sjd Simon Delicata -- "The Soviet Union, which has complained recently about alleged anti-Soviet themes in American advertising, l

Re: security compromized?? :-(

Hi there, I logged into my ISP last night, and start downloading some files. As it started to take longer than I thought I left it running over night. This morning after I logged out I checked the `messages' file, and to my surprise most of it was deleted. There was only a few lines