[eug-lug]Re: File Descriptor Question

2004-02-02 Thread beaker
Thanks for the reply Neil. So basically you're saying that the act of evocation is the definition, right? Anyways, I've got things working but I'd really like to know what the 3 is all about. I read fd(4) which says 3-19 are user-defined; so where is it being defined here ? Right before the

Re: [eug-lug]disable remote login for root?

2004-02-02 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 06:46:01AM +, horst wrote: It sure works (-: Ryan, Jason and Garl -- thanks for instant response. Ja, it's odd: the installation came with #PermitRootLogin yes which made me think the default is no. So there is no difference if you comment, or un-comment

[eug-lug]Linux Books at the Library

2004-02-02 Thread beaker
Just thought I'd mention that the Eugene Free Library has some newer Linux books. I currently have the following checked out: Multitool Linux : Practical uses for Open Source Software - not really about Linux but rather cool things you can do with other software running on it. One section I

[eug-lug]Cisco 1600 series router

2004-02-02 Thread Hal Pomeranz
I've got a Cisco 1600 series router that I bought many years ago during a consulting gig at Cisco. It's got Ethernet and ISDN interfaces, plus an extra T-1 interface card that I bought for it. I can't remember for sure, but I think I maxed out the memory and flash when I bought it (I got one of

[eug-lug]Kiosk software ?

2004-02-02 Thread toman
Hi, I'm helping the Cottage Grove Library update their web browsing kiosk machines. Right now they're Win95 using IE5 and the librarians are having a hard time keeping up with all the cookies, popups, bannerware, etc. that Windows boxes attract. So I'm looking for Linux based solutions that

Re: [eug-lug]Kiosk software ?

2004-02-02 Thread Hal Pomeranz
I'm helping the Cottage Grove Library update their web browsing kiosk machines. Right now they're Win95 using IE5 and the librarians are having a hard time keeping up with all the cookies, popups, bannerware, etc. that Windows boxes attract. So I'm looking for Linux based solutions that

Re: [eug-lug]Kiosk software ?

2004-02-02 Thread Ben Barrett
That's a great idea, Hal -- makes total sense. Some libraries are making use of LTSP, the linux terminal server project, to handle the re-appropriation of older hardware to become more-useful terminals in schools, libraries, kiosks, etc. You can read more at ltsp.org, and k12ltsp.org ... I'm sure

[eug-lug]LISA - Call for Papers

2004-02-02 Thread John Sechrest
Hello, I am working on the LISA program committee this year, and I would like to encourage any of you to write a paper for LISA. This conference has been a great help to me professonaly, and I think that there is a great deal that Oregon can offer to the LISA/Usenix community.

Re: [eug-lug]Kiosk software ?

2004-02-02 Thread Bob Miller
toman wrote: I'm helping the Cottage Grove Library update their web browsing kiosk machines. Right now they're Win95 using IE5 and the librarians are having a hard time keeping up with all the cookies, popups, bannerware, etc. that Windows boxes attract. So I'm looking for Linux based

Re: [eug-lug]Kiosk software ?

2004-02-02 Thread John Sechrest
And the great thing about knoppix is that you can run it from the hard disk by using knx-hdinstall which puts it on the hard disk. And if you build an image of the disk that you want, and you use that to create UML instances, then you can drive the whole thing from the disk, get the speed you

[eug-lug]Naive BSD question

2004-02-02 Thread Robert M. Solovay
I've read the FTM and I'm still not sure. I *think* that the filesystems used by FreeBSD are different from the ext2 system used by linux so I couldn't have the two OS's coexisting and reading the same home directory. But I couldn't find any explicit discussion of this point in the FreeBSD

Re: [eug-lug]Naive BSD question

2004-02-02 Thread Larry Price
bsd's all use the UFS filesystem derived from 4.2 BSD You can mount ext2 from FreeBSD and you can mount UFS filesystems from BSD obstacles to cooperation are less daunting than you might think. read the man pages for mount, newfs and fsck to get the gory details. On Monday, February 2, 2004, at

Re: [eug-lug]Naive BSD question

2004-02-02 Thread Robert M. Solovay
Larry, I'm guessing you meant to say that you can mount the UFS filesystem from Linux. Is this right? At any rate, thanks very much for the quick and informative reply. --Bob Solovay On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Larry Price wrote: bsd's all use the UFS filesystem derived from 4.2

[eug-lug]Portmasters available

2004-02-02 Thread Larry Price
Since we've closed out our charnelton place Machine Room we have some equipment we're trying to move. five Lucent PM-3 portmasters these are very handy if you need to provide direct dial-in services; it might be possible to repurpose them to work as an ISDN endpoint ; or if you have a loose T-1

[eug-lug]Re: Naive BSD question

2004-02-02 Thread beaker
I've read the FTM and I'm still not sure. I *think* that the filesystems used by FreeBSD are different from the ext2 system used by linux so I couldn't have the two OS's coexisting and reading the same home directory. But I couldn't find any explicit discussion of this point in the FreeBSD

Re: [eug-lug]Re: File Descriptor Question

2004-02-02 Thread Neil Parker
Beaker wrote, So basically you're saying that the act of evocation is the definition, right? I don't think I understand what you mean by that question...hopefully something in the verbiage below will cover it... In the shell, file descriptors are managed using the redirection operators. When