Re: [expert] ftpd question

2002-07-04 Thread James
On Thu, 04 Jul 2002 10:26:06 -0400 daRcmaTTeR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority > FemmeFatale wrote: > > daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > > > > >> And I love the fact that it chroot, (jails) things by default, so > >> there isn't any hair-pulling to get that taken care of. > >> > > sounds

Re: [expert] Trek 64MB thumbdrive

2002-07-04 Thread Michael Holt
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Joseph Braddock uttered these words of wisdom: >On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 01:52:29 -0700 (PDT) >Michael Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> ok, I've tried this but I've been doing it at the command line: >> >> mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/trek >> >> the respone is >> >> /dev/sda:

Re: [expert] ftpd question

2002-07-04 Thread J. Craig Woods
FemmeFatale wrote: > > > > Thx :) Interesting bit of reading. :) > > Must try this someday myself if only as an exercise. > > Femme > Try it, you might like it :-) drjung -- J. Craig Woods UNIX/NT Network/System Administration http://www.trismegistus.net Character is built upon the debri

Re: [expert] very active NIC

2002-07-04 Thread J. Craig Woods
Ken Hawkins wrote: > > Thanks, but I already have a basic monitor like thatI was looking > more along the line of traffic analysis; others I've talked to are also > seeing a lot of traffic, basically network "noise" but we would like to > track it down to see which NIC/IP address the traffic

Re: [expert] very active NIC

2002-07-04 Thread Curtis H
On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 07:22, Ken Hawkins wrote: > Thanks, but I already have a basic monitor like thatI was looking > more along the line of traffic analysis; others I've talked to are also > seeing a lot of traffic, basically network "noise" but we would like to > track it down to see which N

Re: [expert] Trek 64MB thumbdrive

2002-07-04 Thread Joseph Braddock
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 01:52:29 -0700 (PDT) Michael Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok, I've tried this but I've been doing it at the command line: > > mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/trek > > the respone is > > /dev/sda: no special block device > > Mike Try using sda1 instead of sda. Joe Want

Re: [expert] ftpd question

2002-07-04 Thread FemmeFatale
daRcmaTTeR wrote: > Chroot is good because as the connections come in to the ftp server they > are literally jailed to the ftp server's file system. /var/ftp They can > enter that part of the machines file system and can't get out to go > anywhere else on the machine's file system. > > Many t

Re: [expert] very active NIC

2002-07-04 Thread Ken Hawkins
Thanks, but I already have a basic monitor like thatI was looking more along the line of traffic analysis; others I've talked to are also seeing a lot of traffic, basically network "noise" but we would like to track it down to see which NIC/IP address the traffic is from/to. Perhaps a gnutella

Re: [expert] hyperactive NIC & odd messages

2002-07-04 Thread Ray Warren
On 4 Jul 2002 at 9:17, Ken Hawkins wrote: > I've noticed the following in my messages log: > Being an uneducated linux user, I have no idea what this is, but I don't > recall ever seeing this before. > > I accessed the log through webmin; would that generate the messages? > > Ken > > Jul 4

Re: [expert] very active NIC

2002-07-04 Thread Sevatio
Ken Hawkins wrote: > What is the best program to monitor traffic on my NIC? As of this > morning, I have seen that my "traffic" LED's on my NIC have been going > berserk, and my network connection is slow. Usually my LED's are quiet. > > THX > K > > > > > > > ---

[expert] hyperactive NIC & odd messages

2002-07-04 Thread Ken Hawkins
I've noticed the following in my messages log: Being an uneducated linux user, I have no idea what this is, but I don't recall ever seeing this before. I accessed the log through webmin; would that generate the messages? Ken Jul 4 09:01:06 localhost msec: changed mode of /var/log/wtmp from 664

[expert] very active NIC

2002-07-04 Thread Ken Hawkins
What is the best program to monitor traffic on my NIC? As of this morning, I have seen that my "traffic" LED's on my NIC have been going berserk, and my network connection is slow. Usually my LED's are quiet. THX K Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandr

Re: [expert] ftpd question

2002-07-04 Thread daRcmaTTeR
FemmeFatale wrote: > daRcmaTTeR wrote: > > >> And I love the fact that it chroot, (jails) things by default, so >> there isn't any hair-pulling to get that taken care of. >> > sounds like a cool ftp file program. stupid question: why is chroot a > good thing? > > Jail? Scuse me i'm slow to

Re: [expert] NVidia GeForce MX200 w/K7S5A Mdk8.2

2002-07-04 Thread kwan
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, civileme wrote: > You should(tm) have a linux-nonfb choice in the boot menu. It runs > without framebuffer and has an _informative_ startup scroll. Last night, about 4AM, I finally realized my stupid mistake. After every kernel recompile I hadn't been rebuilding the NVIDIA_

Re: [expert] Using an XP dialup session from Mandrake

2002-07-04 Thread et
is this xp home? On Wednesday 03 July 2002 08:01 pm, you wrote: > My XP Pro and Mandrake 8.2 boxes are on the same network. I usually telnet > into MD from XP, I have samba set up - theytalk to each other. And my DSL > connection is shared by both. > > Due to the security setup used at my job, I

Re: [expert] XML error

2002-07-04 Thread kwan
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, marco wrote: > Hello folks, > > I have a problem with netscape 6.2. > Its intalled Netscape 6.2.3. > If I start netscape then I get following error message on console: > > [root@itmgoer netscape-installer]# ./netscape-installer > > Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwidget.c: line 15

[expert] XML error

2002-07-04 Thread marco
Hello folks, I have a problem with netscape 6.2. Its intalled Netscape 6.2.3. If I start netscape then I get following error message on console: [root@itmgoer netscape-installer]# ./netscape-installer Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwidget.c: line 1510 (gtk_widget_hide): assertion `widget != NULL' fa

Re: [expert] Trek 64MB thumbdrive

2002-07-04 Thread Michael Holt
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, D. Olson uttered these words of wisdom: >On Wednesday 03 July 2002 11:36 pm, you wrote: >> Hello experts! >> I just acquired a thumb-drive (one of those USB gadgets that >> "doesn't require any drivers"), and tried it out on my mdk 8.2 laptop, but >> *oops* it doesn't get

Re: [expert] s3Trio3D/2x donĀ“t work on Mandrake8.2

2002-07-04 Thread Johan Loubser
The S3trio card works fine if you use the Xserver 3.3.6 and SVGA server I have used it on all MDK distro's form 7 up to 8.2 On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 00:13, Mauricy Maiorino wrote: > Hi All !! > > > I have a problem with my video card S3 Trio3D/2x in Mandrake 8.2. In > installation I do not obtain