Dennis Soper wrote:
I've been very impressed. It is *incredibly easy* to set this sort of
thing up, as everything you need is installed by default. All you
need to do is edit a couple of configuration files, write you ipf rules,
and go. I actually thought the install was much easier
jakob wrote:
For hardware ide raid check out uhmmm promise i think they are? or
was it AMI? anyways, there were some pretty awesome performing ide
raid cards in the press awhile back and people seem to be happy with
them.
Also 3ware. http://www.3ware.com/
--
Christopher Allen wrote:
Video - I'm looking at the Matrox G400 multihead card so I can do a
dual headed display.
If you're looking for high-end video, you should check out the SGI 1600 SW
digital flat panel. The price is crashing and this is THE display to
have. I can buy one or two
Christopher Allen wrote:
They also have a nice digital adapter called the multilink which will let
you plug a, who'd have thought, G400 into the 1600SW. (I just looked this
up -- I didn't know this last message :-). This is a pure digital honkin'
good signal -- with one catch: You have to
nate wrote:
I need help getting lilo to see windows.
Edit /etc/lilo.conf. Put this at the bottom of the file.
other=/dev/hda1
label=pane98
table=/dev/hda
That assumes you have an IDE disk and lossDOS is on its first
partition. Otherwise, see the lilo.conf man page.
Then
Christopher Allen wrote:
My BASH shell doesn't have that command. Should I try a different
shell? (Mandrake Linux 7.2 developer install but missing one or two
CDROMs.)
I am on Mandrake 6.1. tcpdump is in the tcpdump RPM.
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Dragon Singer of the EUG-LUG Illinois Chapter wrote:
I have a question: is it possible to change the font size i the command
line?
If you're using xterm, hold down the Control key and hold down button
3 (aka the right button if you're right handed) for a menu of fonts.
But nobody uses xterm
Rob Hudson wrote:
Just curious how many people on this list have registered advogato
users and if they use the diaries.
I've written a couple of diary entries. I read the stories and
comments regularly and I read other people's diaries when I'm bored.
I'm also wondering if we would want to
Cory Petkovsek wrote:
Nmap is a great tool to see what is open.
Saint/Satan do not secure anything, they are only analysis tools.
Get nmap (www.insecure.org). Run it on yourself:
nmap -v 127.0.0.1
This will show you something like:
Port State Service
21 open ftp
23
jakob wrote:
I foolishly accidently mailed this reply to Cory, but he was nice
enough to forward me back my e-mail below.
Yeah, I had the same problem. How come you've got a Reply-To: header
set, Cory?
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Haan Eric wrote:
From what I can tell, the g++ command has been removed
and merged with gcc, which I guess does both c and
c++. The name of the above program is hello.cc I
have tried to compile this by typing in:
gcc hello.cc
but all I get is:
hello.cc:1: iostream.h: No such
jakob wrote:
(although i havent been to the eweb fiber meeting in a while)
Are the EWEB fiber meetings open to the public?
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Ben Barrett wrote:
This goes against everything I have come to understand -- I thought part
of the way these nets are designed is that every user connects ONLY to the
central station
802.11 works in several topologies. You're describing the
conventional topology: one or more access points
Rob Hudson wrote:
Is there a way to set the default tab with when viewing files with any
of the viewers (cat, less, more, gzcat, grep, etc)?
The ANSI escape sequences are:
Set Tab ESCH
Clear Tab ESC[g
Clear All Tabs ESC[3g
So this shell command would
Bob Miller wrote:
Take a look at the Dana St. Roasting Company for an example.
http://www.live.com/danastreet/
I read more of this page after I posted the link. Guess what. A
customer installed the wireless network! He wanted to read his email,
so he arranged to install
We have two DVDisks at our house now, and a PC with a DVD-ROM drive,
but no DVD player. I'm trying to get Linux to play the DVDs.
Is anybody successfully watching DVD movies on a Linux box?
If so, what are you using?
application?
kernel?
X server?
video card?
Hi, I am trying to boot Linux with loadlin. The problem I have is that I
do not have the karnel image that loadlin ask for. I have tried to locate
one on the net but with no success so far. In the descriptions of loadlin
that I have read this file is often referred to as zImage . I have
Cory Petkovsek wrote:
never leave your chair!
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010109/tc/microsoft_lazboyc_dc_2.html
For their next hit, La-Z-Boy teams up with a well known venture
capital firm to produce the E-Kleiner. Run your own internet startup
without leaving your chair.
Available
Garl R. Grigsby wrote:
cut and past the appropriate lines from the password file of one
machine to the password file of the other machine.
Do the same for /etc/group.
And for /etc/shadow, if you're using shadow passwords.
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Gregor Diseth wrote:
Slackware 7.1, 2.2.16.
For the first time, I'm ditching the training wheels of the canned
kernels, and I'm compiling my own, in order to customize it to my hardware
and to reduce bloat/memory requirements and to speed boot time.
When I boot from the newly compiled
Garl R. Grigsby wrote:
My idea is to build a dual nic'd linux box and connect it between
our top level switch and our wan router. With this setup I should be
able to see all of the network traffic that is traveling across the wan
link, right?
You might want to configure the box as a
Bob Crandell wrote:
One of our well meaning clients donated a Mac II vx. I would
like to bring it to the next Thursday Linux meeting if someone
can come with an ethernet card for it. It's not an ISA slot.
If I remember right, the IIvx was one of the last 680x0 Macs. It's
probably a NuBus
Cory Petkovsek wrote:
IEEE is drafting the 802.3af standard which will allow electricity to travel
along regular cat3 and cat 5 cables along with 10baseT and 100baseTX
ethernet.
Will it also be possible to transmit power over 802.11 wireless
Ethernet? (-:
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Rob Hudson wrote:
Since I (and probably others) learn best from examples, I thought it
would be cool if we all could share command line tricks that we've
picked up and use often. Tricks with perl, awk, sed, xargs and all
the other unix tools with redirects and pipes - the works.
Here are
Joseph Anthony Griffo wrote:
It appears that recompiling the mandrake kernel is an 'impossible' task.
If not impossible, it is at the least a very difficult task. It is for
this reason that I think it is time to do a debian install. My question
before I start though is this: I have my
Rob Hudson wrote:
Here's another one that we used recently...
awk -F\t '{ print $3,$7 }' /path/to/inputfile | sort /path/to/outputfile
Extracts fields 3 and 7 from tab-delimited file, sorts, outputs to new
file.
That reminds me.
ls -l | sort -n +4
ls sorted by file size. Use
Both Anne's laptop and mine are running Mandrake 7.1. I discovered a
bug that makes logrotate chew up an amazing amount of CPU time and
disk space. I fixed it for our boxes, but I'm wondering if I should
send a bug report to the Mandrake Magicians. I will if it's not
fixed in 7.2.
Could
Christopher Allen wrote:
*My* logrotate just started going nuts about a week ago. I'm running
Mandrake 7.1. Gotta go to Debian or Slack soon.
First, do this.
killall logrotate
edit /etc/logrotate.d/syslog and comment out the lines
that refer to /var/log/mail/* and
Bob Miller wrote:
Could somebody please mail me a copy of the file
/etc/logrotate.d/syslog from a Mandrake 7.2 system?
Ralph Zeller helped me out. (Thanks.)
It's fixed in 7.2.
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Nyal wrote:
wound up with an EXT DOS partition that
fdisk wont delete (Because it says there are logical drives in the
partition. Do any of you Gurus know how I can wipe the HD clean?
It sounds like you have a primary partition with secondary
partitions on it.
In fdisk, delete all the
Does anybody know why the eug-lug mailing list has broken threading
lately? In the ongoing thread, "article", which Sean started this
afternoon, some replies are in the thread (mine, Ron L.'s), and some
aren't (Cory's, Bob C.'s).
Threading relies on the Message-Id: and In-Reply-To: mail
Sean E. Keener wrote:
Unbelievable what this Microsoft bloke says about Linux...
http://www.wirednews.com/news/business/0,1367,41527,00.html
Excellent!
The longer and the more vituperously MICROS~1 keep attacking Linux,
the harder it'll be for them to reverse their strategy when they
Ben Barrett wrote:
Now a question: What is 'that file' that intercepts and
reroutes incoming email, and what's the recommended
reference for it? ...using Mandrake 7.2...
Are you talking about procmail? It has a man page.
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larry a price wrote:
I have a program (postgres) that I want to start in the background
whenever the box goes to a runlevel 2 or higher
what I want to know is if I put the following in /etc/init.d:
su postgres
nohup postmaster -i pglog 21
exit
will that create a
Joseph Anthony Griffo wrote:
I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is
a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You would not
get a high grade for such a design :-)
So I typed "tanenbaum" at Google to see if I can find out what kind of
car
Robert X. Cringeley's columns for the last two weeks are about
Starband satellite internet service. This week, he talks about
hacking the box to enable Ethernet (so he doesn't need Windows and can
hook up his LAN) and running a squid proxy server under Linux.
James S. Kaplan wrote:
How do you calculate this?
Like this.
You have to traverse the 22400 mile link from earth to satellite four
times. Ping request goes up, request comes down, reply goes up, reply
goes down.
4 * 22400 mile
--- = 0.480 seconds
186000
Cory Petkovsek wrote:
zless - page a compressed file
You don't need a separate command for that one.
If you Read The Fine Man page, you'll see that less can use an
external program to preprocess the files it reads. So I do this
in .cshrc.
setenv LESSOPEN "|/home/kbob/lib/lesspipe.sh
Patrick R. Wade wrote:
Some find dc useful; i've not done much with it.
I use bc all the time. (bc and dc are calculators. dc uses reverse
Polish notation like an HP calculator; bc is infix notation like
a Casio calculator).
But I'd switch in a minute if I knew of a better calculator. My
Cory Petkovsek wrote:
Like Rob's call for cool command line tricks, I'd like to make a
similar call for other programs like units. What programs are
hidden within the depths of *nix that some of you old unix gurus
know about?
cal prints a calendar. Examples:
jogger-egg ~ cal
larry a price wrote:
I have a program (postgres) that I want to start in the background
whenever the box goes to a runlevel 2 or higher
what I want to know is if I put the following in /etc/init.d:
su postgres
nohup postmaster -i pglog 21
exit
will that create a
Questions for all you Debianista.
Which release should I install? Potato is old, and Woody is a moving
target, and ThePostWoodyReleaseWhateverItsCalled is not soup yet,
right? What is the rev. number of Woody?
When I go to www.debian.org, I only see info on getting Potato.
I see woody in
Michael Smith wrote:
If you have the bandwidth, install the minimum potato stuff, then switch
to "unstable". I'll give you my sources list if you're into it.
We only have 144Kb. Anne is at work where she has a T1 line, so I
asked her to snarf the Potato CD images.
--
Seth Cohn wrote:
Seth
(piping up from the depths...)
Hey, man! I thought you'd died.
Anyway, sometime tonight I'll have a set of potato CDs. I have a
spare box and a spare disk to try stuff out on. But when I put it on
a real box, uptime will become very important to me.
Thanks for all
Somehow the idea finally percolated through the chunk of rotten cork I
have for a brain. I liked the EUG-LUG meeting I went to a lot, but
it's hard to get to -- I have to take a trip to Eugene to attend. So
why not go to a meeting of the the thriving, well known, and extremely
local Silicon
Timothy Bolz wrote:
Bob had a question which someone out there might know. He has a Linux
Server and a windows box in another room. He runs X in a window on
the windows box. What he wants the sound from his linux box. He
can go in the other room and the sound is fine on the linux box.
Timothy Bolz wrote:
I demonstrated Demo Linux for a couple of people who haven't seen
it. Steve was in and was working on his laptop on getting his
pcmcia card going. We even tried Demo Linux but to no avail. He
had one card which wouldn't work.
I had time to kill tonight waiting for a
Rob Hudson wrote:
1) Is there a way to tell sendmail to only send mail from localhost
and to not relay at all?
I don't know, but here's a web page that will let you test whether a
host is an open relay. You can use it to test your firewall.
Rob Hudson wrote:
Does anyone know of a program that will allow you to scp from a
windo~1 machine to a *nix? I've got SecureCRT, which is a good ssh
program for windows, but don't think I can scp.
I found this page. I can't vouch for any of the info on it.
of traffic to the server from Unix
clients, you might want to export it as an NFS volume. NFS has more
Unixy filesystem semantics than SMB, and might perform better. (I
believe it will, but don't have any benchmarks to back up my belief.)
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.
http://www.cactii.net/perl/index.cgi/
Log in as guest, password is guest.
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Now that web authoring has come up, I want to ask the list's opinions:
what do all of you think of PHP?
If you've used it, how do you like it? What other HTML generating
software have you tried, and how do you like those?
Thanks.
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kbobsoft
/index.html
If you can do this with NFS (and not need samba) that would really
rock. Does NFS encrypt data as it travels (NFS-SSH?)?
Not by default. I don't know whether there's an option to encrypt NFS
traffic. If there is, it would be in the international kernel patch
(www.ikernel.org).
--
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that way: A Solaris box has a big disk called /home. It's exported
via Samba to a bunch of Windows boxes. It's also exported via NFS to
a bunch of NetBSD, Solaris, and Linux boxes.
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and mod_include.
It looks kind of ugly:
!--#perl sub="sub {print 'Hello, bWorld/b!'}" --
But if you're already fluent in Perl, it's a lot easier than learning
a whole 'nuther programming language.
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kbobsoft consulting
http://kb
e.
Also, there is a program in the Perl source distribution, eg/rename,
which is a more clever rename script. Using that script, you could
write:
rename 's/3$//' *.php3
I don't use rename; it feels too much like juggling chainsaws.
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php3 processing.
I tried renaming every instance within every file of .php3 to .php,
and renaming all .php3 files to .php. However the program won't
work! Go figure...
Probably the files refer to each other under their .php3 names.
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Look at the headers Apache returns.
I haven't used php3, just php4.
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-specific distribution?
On a related note, I've ordered DSL, and Pacific Bell sent me a USB
DSL modem and a CD full of Windows drivers. Can I use it with
Linux?
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http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL
software
movement, and even to the Linn County government being forced to move
from free to proprietary vote tabulation software.
I.e., "Linux use in the upper Willamette valley" is exactly what it
(eventually) focused on.
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only available for
SPARC...
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that mutt, at least, has a save-message
command, bound to "s" by default. I don't use slrn.
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. But that's a long
term plan.
Anyway, if you read this far, you must be bored. Get up and take
a walk. (-:
Obligatory URLs
http://www.coyotelinux.com/
http://www.linuxrouter.org/
http://www.google.com/
http://www.dyndns.org/
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he signature of each program before it runs it.
They're trying to keep their boxes from being hacked like the TiVo
was.
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I am testing whether I can post a message to eug-lug.
If I do, I'll get a copy in my mailbox. If I can't,
I'll keep trying.
Sorry for bothering all of you...
Kbob
Here's a message I originally posted on Tuesday. I'm reposting
it in the hope that somebody out there cares about my firewall
saga.
-
Bob Miller wrote:
This is a bit long, so here are the main points.
* Coyote Linux makes setting up a firewall way too easy.
* The Linuxcare
, desire is to get dhcpd to serve multiple
IP addresses to the same DHCP client. Can that be done?
Thanks.
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http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
only needs the "opti" parameter if he's running Mandrake
Linux. If he is, that's what sets up IDE device DMA and other
performance optimizations. Other distros ignore that flag.
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d swallow the liquid.
Debian users can simply type:
apt-get upend eug-lug-lug-lug-lug
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Rob Hudson wrote:
I think it's cool to have a command line dictionary at my disposal
Me, too! Thanks, that's slick.
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in-notes/rfc3092.txt
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and if there is a good place here in town to
get it or if there is a web site I should visit about
this.
Not that I know of.
We got two HP 8200s for a year or so and they work just fine. By
today's standards, they're probably old and slow.
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drives do you have? Are they SCSI or IDE?
Is this on your personal workstation or a server at work, or what?
Here's a lesson I learned:
Don't remove /lib from your running system!
Heh, heh.
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^J (or Line Feed if your TTY had a Line
Feed key) would transmit ^J, and the tty driver would insert a ^M
character into the current line.
I'm not sure when they stopped doing that. Maybe System III or
System V. 4 BSD ttys had the old behavior, if I remember right.
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Bob Miller wrote:
Just for grins, I wrote a couple of little programs to measure a
disk's sequential read rate and its seek rate. Try running these
on your RAIDs - I bet they do a lot better on seeking than
my disks.
Whoops! Forgot to attach them. Here they are.
--
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ptops. Specifically, this one has info about the video modes,
which I think is what you're interested in.
http://www.bits.bris.ac.uk/madmatt/laptop.html
The linux laptops site is here.
http://www.linux-laptop.net/
Good luck!
Kbob
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kbo
session file
from my machine. I don't think Mandrake modified it, since they
replace the thing wholesale with kdm, but I'm not sure.
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#!/bin/bash -login
# (c) 1999 R
queue. We have one
printer, but have three queues, for 1-up, 2-up and 4-up printing. I
set them all up using printtool. I don't know what the lpr system
uses to split the output.
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Bob Miller wrote:
a2ps is a dandy program that converts many file formats to Postscript.
It also had the ability to print N-up for many values of N. I
strongly recommend a2ps.
I'm going to expand on that... (-:
I have this in my ~/.a2ps/a2psrc.
DefaultPrinter: | cat #f0 #{ghostview
.
If your LAN uses a dumb hub, you can monitor traffic using one of the
methods that Mike or Cory suggested.
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rry, I ran into that last year when I installed it, but I'd
forgotten.
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to run on various machines.
It always starts working eventually.
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what -- most workloads involve a lot of random access.
Especially databases.
Thanks, Cory, for running the numbers.
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a djbdns zealot.
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like the bicyclists' shirts that say,
One Less Car:
One Less Windows Box.
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is needed for each network interface of each computer,
not for each person. For example, my laptop has both a wireless
Ethernet card and a (wired) Ethernet interface, so it has two IP
addresses.
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http://kbobsoft.com
two lines!
Who's presenting it? Are you, Cory?
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handler
ssh
I don't particularly want to install Mandrake, then strip everything
off. I don't know Debian well enough to set it up right. What else
is a good alternative?
Thanks!
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http://kbobsoft.com
Saturday evening
or anytime Sunday.
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question is, does anyone have experience setting up and using
hylafax or a working system?
I have no experience with HylaFax. But your problems sound to me like
they could be caused by a lack of flow control. Do the modem and the
PC agree on what kind of flow control they're using?
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On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 01:57:25PM -0700, Cory Petkovsek wrote:
I think this has already been mentioned before, but I'm finding the
need to learn a scripting language. Something more powerful than
bash, but not as indepth(?) as C.
I currently know C, C++ and Java. Can anyone tell me in
.
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appreciated.
My suggestion: have fun. (-:
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.
The interactive interpreter in python is kewl though. It would be nice
to have a kind of perlsh ... maybe for perl 6 ...
Try perl -de0.
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manager operations by right
clicking the window's icon on the taskbar at the top of the screen.
can I somehow 'dock' gkrellm into a KDE metawindow?
Not that I know of.
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the checksumming mechanism.
Also, be sure you aren't using a CD-R drive! (-:
I know it would be slow as CD.
Not necessarily. You can use the CD to initialize and load a disk
based filesystem or even a RAM based filesystem. The CD would only be
needed at boot time.
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only.
Available at http://www.xiph.org/mgm/ , it was written by Chris
Montgomery, the hacker who brings you the Ogg Vorbis audio file
format.
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could
think of using apt-cache search.
Do I run perl -MCPAN shell at this point, or is there a Debian
standard way of getting Perl modules?
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