Re: [expert] Basic on Linux

2001-03-18 Thread Bug Hunter
Freedos works in a "dos box" under linux (also xdos in xwindows), and you could run the program in it, perhaps On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Boddhisatva Troutwaxer wrote: On the subject of VBASIC in Linux, does anyone know if the shareware BASIC compiler for DOS called ASIC has been ported over to

Re: [expert] Basic on Linux

2001-03-16 Thread Bug Hunter
http://www.janus-software.com/phoenix_body.html This is shareware, and for linux, (plus a version for windows). They are supposed to "open source" it soon, though I don't think it will be GPL. It looks much like VB. Plus, Star Office 5.1/5.2 has a VB scripting engine in it that

Re: [expert] dual provider connection.

2001-03-15 Thread Bug Hunter
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo I tried to connect my network about two seperate provider (router) to the internet, with complete different IP Subnetworks. The router are external connected to my Linux firewall with two public interfaces connect to provider router.

Re: [expert] superuser access

2001-03-15 Thread Bug Hunter
yes. put su in the wheel group chgrp wheel su chmod g+x,o-x,u-x su that will only let root and wheel group members execute su. On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Julia A . Case wrote: Is it possible to set up the machine so that only people in the wheel group can use the su command? Julia

Re: [expert] network problems

2001-03-15 Thread Bug Hunter
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Robert wrote: No!! Messing about with the route and ifconfig commands never worked in my case at least. After the ifdown/ifup sequence the routes are unaffected anyway. I find it interesting that I have the same nic involved, the

Re: [expert]

2001-03-04 Thread Bug Hunter
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, John Wolford wrote: This might be a bit off-topic (well ok it is). If i have the ip address of a host that has been, say, port-scanning me, and i want to find out what "ip block" it belongs to, how do i do that? I don't neccessarily mean class A, B or C. For

Re: [expert] cron jobs question

2001-03-02 Thread Bug Hunter
You can also do this * * * * * /path/to/program /dev/null that typically prevents an email for that particular program. You also don't know if it cratered or had problems. :( bug On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Thomas Sourmail wrote: On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, goldengull.net administrator wrote: how

Re: [expert] new 2.4.1 kernel

2001-02-19 Thread Bug Hunter
situation with the drive.) Does anyone know how to make the usb file system show up in proc? It does not do so now. Also, any way to do something other than brute force? How do I enable the usbmouse in X??? On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Bug Hunter wrote: I installed the new 2.4.1 kernel on my

Re: [expert] Root Password

2001-02-18 Thread Bug Hunter
And CMOS password can be disabled by removing the battery for about 15 minutes, or plugging in a jumper on the motherboard. you can also use tom's root boot (www.toms.net) to boot a floppy version of linux and get to your hard drive. On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Altoine B. wrote: Bill Piety

Re: [expert] bah humbug!

2001-02-18 Thread Bug Hunter
some things that might help: put in a cd that has rpms. I'm assuming that the RPMS are in a directory named RPMS. substitute the correct directory in the following. From your home directory, enter rpm -qlip /mnt/cdrom/RPMS/*.rpm cdxfiles.txt (where cdx is cd1, cd2, etc). You now have

[expert] new 2.4.1 kernel

2001-02-18 Thread Bug Hunter
I installed the new 2.4.1 kernel on my Winbook Si2. It works, all except for USB. No USB is recognized. Does anyone have any ideas regarding USB and kernel 2.4.1??? The old 2.2 kernel did not recognize my USB either. However, it works under (YUK) windows 98. ?? bug

Re: [expert] new 2.4.1 kernel

2001-02-18 Thread Bug Hunter
ime in the future (not tonight). I compiled 2.4.1 on another laptop, and everything worked except the framebuffer stuff, though that was compiled in. I don't know how to make that work, and X is broken without it on that laptop. I may try the kernel upgrade on it later. bug On Sun, 18 Feb 2001,

RE: [expert] lilo help

2001-02-13 Thread Bug Hunter
try going into your bios and enabling LBA for the disk drive mode On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: Lilo will not boot my system from the hd. Although I haven't tried booting from hd for some time, I believe the error is the 01 01 01 scrolling to fill the screens.

Re: [expert] ssh reverse mapping problem

2001-02-02 Thread Bug Hunter
This is an indication that reverse dns does not work for user from ip address aa.bb.cc. try adding that ip address in /etc/hosts. that might help. On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Svante Signell wrote: Shall I take this seriously? Which programs to check? Where to look? Feb 1 20:20:10 computer

[expert] CDRW read but not write problem solved

2001-02-02 Thread Bug Hunter
I had written earlier about not being able to write more than 4 to 8 meg to the CDRW under Mandrake 7.2 on a 90 mhz pentium before failing with an error. Reading was ok. Some one suggested moving the CDrom drive to the second IDE. I put it on the second IDE as master, and it was merrily

[expert] problem with CD-R reading but not writing

2001-01-28 Thread Bug Hunter
I have a 90 mhz pentium with Mandrake 7.2, and have both an HP CDWRiter Plus 7200 and a Memorex CRW-1622. I get a similar failure from both cd writers. I first used xcdroast, then went to cdrecord directly to capture the problem. This problem occurs either using dummy or real write, and even

[expert] problems compiling kernel

2001-01-28 Thread Bug Hunter
during make modules of kernel 2.4, I get an error in "lvm", and the build stops. Has anyone run into this?? thanks bug

Re: [expert] Wireless LAN on Linux

2001-01-27 Thread Bug Hunter
I read this. I've got to try to bridge two buildings and am considering wireless, as the feed to the internet is a T1, so 2 to 4mbs is good enough. Are there any units that act stand alone as senders/receivers so that you just connect the hubs in and go, without having to plug in wireless

Re: [expert] just got spammed - anyone else got the 'joke.exe'?

2001-01-26 Thread Bug Hunter
This is a windows virus. both Norton and Mcaffee have info on how to quarantine it. I think they are calling it a worm. On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Rusty Carruth wrote: I just got a spam direct: Received: from localhost (ppp-7-49.dialup.rdu.ipass.net [209.170.135.49]) Subject: Snowhite and

Re: Re[2]: [expert] just got spammed - anyone else got the 'joke.exe'?

2001-01-26 Thread Bug Hunter
Nope. It wasn't a spammer. It was an acquaintance that has your email address in their outlook program. This worm mails a joke to everyone in the address book. On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Rusty Carruth wrote: Bug Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a windows virus. both Norton

Re: [expert] cert#37843 Just Hacked - Hidden Directory!

2001-01-23 Thread Bug Hunter
this tells me that the following programs have been replaced with trojans: ls ps most likely, the following programs were also hacked and replaced with trojans: /home/ftp/bin/ls telnetd netstat ftpd A re-install would be of importance now. Look in /etc/passwd for any users that have

RE: [expert] Rockwell PCI Modem

2001-01-19 Thread Bug Hunter
Err. How, if I may ask? On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Alfredo J. Cole T. wrote: Hi: I have been able to get Lucent and PCTel WinModems working with MDK 7.1. Regards.

Re: [expert] DNS and IP addressing

2001-01-19 Thread Bug Hunter
you can use linuxconf, or webmin to set up additional addresses for your cards. Or you can go to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, and copy ifcfg-eth0 to ifcfg-eth0:0, ifcfg-eth0:1, etc. and edit the files just created. change eth0 to eth0:0 inside the file, and change the ip address and

Re: [expert] netscape problem

2001-01-19 Thread Bug Hunter
I have had similar wierdness. Sometimes it was related to a plug in. Removing the plug in using 'rm' would fix it. Sometimes the files in ~/.netscape got hosed. Removing the entire directory would fix that. On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, root wrote: I came in this morning to find netscape

Re: [expert] netscape problem

2001-01-19 Thread Bug Hunter
One more thing. In the past, the Java engine has caused this error. Removing everying, including Java, may help On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, root wrote: I came in this morning to find netscape broken on my workstation. Worked when I left on wednesday - broke when I came back today. The problem

Re: [expert] pppd server in linux (7.1 or 7.2, I forget) for WIndbarf

2001-01-04 Thread Bug Hunter
windows has an option for their dial up, in modem settings (advanced??) to bring up a terminal window either before or after dialing. allow it to bring up a terminal window after dialing. The normal ppp negotation does not yet start, and your pppd server should then put out its login: and

Re: [expert] Why doesn't work the telnet with Mdk 7.2 after install?

2001-01-04 Thread Bug Hunter
The best thing to do for security is to make su only executable by root. Then get the "sudo" package and install it, giving only a few users the ability to run "sudo su" and thus change to root. This makes the telnet server more acceptable, and limits your exposure. Also, with

Re: Re[2]: [expert] pppd server in linux (7.1 or 7.2, I forget) forWIndbarf

2001-01-04 Thread Bug Hunter
script tutorial http://winfiles.cnet.com/connect/dscript.html also see http://wwwasu.murdoch.edu.au/help/connecting/win95/script/script.htm bug On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Rusty Carruth wrote: Bug Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: windows has an option for their dial up, in modem settings

[expert] problems w/ winbook XL2 notebook

2001-01-03 Thread Bug Hunter
Mandrake 7.2 installed on my winbook just fine. However, I have several problems, and I was wondering if anyone else has solved these: 1. The USB ports were not recognized, andI can't get USB to work whatsoever. Trying to load the modules by hand gives hardware not found errors. Windows

Re: [expert] IRQ steering?

2000-12-31 Thread Bug Hunter
. Thanks, Svante Bug Hunter writes: If you have PCI cards, IRQ sharing will work. Otherwise, you may have to force the card not to be PNP and then tell it what IRQ to be on. You usually have to run the DOS setup disk to get this to happen. I've not found any option

Re: [expert] IRQ steering?

2000-12-30 Thread Bug Hunter
If you have PCI cards, IRQ sharing will work. Otherwise, you may have to force the card not to be PNP and then tell it what IRQ to be on. You usually have to run the DOS setup disk to get this to happen. On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Svante Signell wrote: No response so far, trying again.

Re: [expert] php+apache questions

2000-12-20 Thread Bug Hunter
It seems that installing php-mysql rpm allows mod_php to use mysql calls. I'm not sure how that works, but it does. Thanks for the help! On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Gerald Williams wrote: On Wednesday 20 December 2000 02:35, you wrote: I installed mod_php from the mandrake 7.2 publically

[expert] cloning hard drives

2000-12-20 Thread Bug Hunter
I have a project in which I need to set up linux (we will be using mandrake) on a machine, and the other identical machines will be cloned from that hard drive. Can I use DD to clone the entire hard drive? What if the drives are different sizes? Will it clone a 1 gig to a 2 gig drive?

RE: [expert] cloning hard drives

2000-12-20 Thread Bug Hunter
thanks!!! That looks like something I could use. On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN wrote: Look on freshmeat. There is a prog called partimage that is a Ghost type program. This may do what you want. -Original Message- From: Bug Hunter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

[expert] php+apache questions

2000-12-19 Thread Bug Hunter
I installed mod_php from the mandrake 7.2 publically available cd set, and installed mysql from www.mysql.net. when I do a "mysql_connect()", it gives me a function not found error. phpinfo() indicates it was compiled with --include-mysql I searched through the archives and did not find

Re: [expert] 3com 3cxfe575CT network card

2000-12-19 Thread Bug Hunter
I had something similar on a dual boot laptop that was originally booted into Windows. I had to power it off to get it to recognize the network pcmcia card. Windows had left it in a badly configured state. bug On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Laurent Duperval wrote: Hi, Using LM7.2, for some

Re: [expert] 3com 3cxfe575CT network card

2000-12-19 Thread Bug Hunter
I'm using a linksys ethernet card, and it is very stable once configured. On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Scott Parks wrote: Same problem here. If you dual boot you must shutdown, then re-power the unit for the nic to work right. Of course once it is on I can use it about 2 minutes before it

Re: [expert] How does one get konqueror to work with java?

2000-12-19 Thread Bug Hunter
Star office does not work with the JRE either, it requires the JDK for linux. Give that a try. I suspect it will work. http:/www.blackdown.org On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Praedor Tempus wrote: OK, this problem is making konqueror just about useless to me. I am unable to access any sites

Re: [expert] Mandrake in production

2000-12-19 Thread Bug Hunter
I've heard that FreeBSD is less prone to problems in a production environment also. However, we run RedHat 6.2 24/7 and have very few problems. On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Laurent Duperval wrote: On 19 Dec, Scott Parks wrote: Anyone have some thoughts on this issue? The machines are dual P3's

Re: [expert] starting X for remote access only

2000-06-29 Thread Bug Hunter
you can even run gnome in xstartup. comment out twm with a #, and exec gnome-session on the next line. (or kde !) bug On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VNC is nice as you can start a desktop at one site and go somewhere else and pick-up where you left off. You have to

Re: [expert] StarOffice - Serial Number

2000-06-26 Thread Bug Hunter
If you have downloaded the latest star office from their web site, click on the "I have already registered" button. It won't bother you any more. If you havent' downloaed the latest, there are some guidelines on the www.sun.com site to tell you how to get around this. I've seen them, but don't

Re: [expert] missing SSH ?

2000-06-24 Thread Bug Hunter
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Gary wrote: Actually, the US law has changed a few months ago, and 128 bit is okay to export. This was demonstrate by a US Congresman from California who was the first to send the PGP program to someone in England. It made the papers nationally. It really is no

Re: [expert] Zip Drive Compatibility

2000-06-24 Thread Bug Hunter
you need to use 'modprobe imm' with the newer zips. note that using a parallel port drive _really_ bogs the processor down. You want to do your backups early in the morning. bug On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Joe Heafner wrote: Greetings. After much thought, I have come to the conclusion that a

Re: [expert] su - user -c command doesn't load profile

2000-06-24 Thread Bug Hunter
true. However, please note that the sudoers file ships with ALL=(ALL):NOPASSWD as an example. ALL does not mean "all the programs I have defined to be run by people I have given access to." Instead, ALL means "every program on the machine." This can bite you, as it is a silent

Re: [expert] Mail Server - Very Interested In Setting Up, But....

2000-06-22 Thread Bug Hunter
smtp is simple mail transport protocol. pop3 is post office protocol (3?) pop3 picks up mail delivered to a machine. smtp delivers mail to and from a machine. On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm looking at setting up a mail server but I'm a bit confused about a few

Re: [expert] VNC with just gray screen - please help resolve

2000-06-19 Thread Bug Hunter
you need to look in ~/.vnc/xstartup. there, an xterm should be started and the twm window manager will be started. I've installed icewm, and start it instead of twm, from that file./ On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm using VNC for Linbox to Linbox. I'm able to log in and

Re: [expert] simple recursive delete from the command line?

2000-06-10 Thread Bug Hunter
rm -rf On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Gavin Clark wrote: how do I quickly delete a whole directory and everything it contains from the command line. I can do it easily from kfm and other GUI file browsers. but #rmdir won't work because the dir isn't empty and #rm -r puts me in "do you

Re: [expert] MSSQL 7.0 to MySQL

2000-06-03 Thread Bug Hunter
This is problematic if MsSQL 7.0 uses any transactions. MySQL does not support transactions. You can get the Windows ODBC driver for MySQL, and run a VB script/compiled code that reads the MsSQL database tables and writes the MySQL datbase tables. This should be fairly easy and quick, as

Re: [expert] DNS Server etc - Help w/ Setup

2000-05-25 Thread Bug Hunter
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote: I'm trying to setup and better understand DNS Servers. This way I can get my IP to point to my Domain name. What's involved here? install bind. get the O'Reilley book on Bind. configure it. point to yourself as a name server. test it.

Re: [expert] brilliant idea

2000-05-25 Thread Bug Hunter
Mandrake should come in several flavors: 1) Rock solid and stable, server style. No bleeding edge packages. Only very, very stable ones. Enterprise edition!!! for those IT folks that MUST install things that work, and can't afford to be hurt. 2) Minimal install version (300 meg tops)

Re: [expert] Problem with postfix virtual domains

2000-05-04 Thread Bug Hunter
Then this is a problem with his MTA. It is a trivial problem, and I'm sure he is handling it. On Thu, 4 May 2000, ibi wrote: I hate to differ with anyone but according to my ISP if he doesn't set up the mail server to accept both [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] his client will

Re: [expert] X or console wont start

2000-04-28 Thread Bug Hunter
Because TCP/IP is an ack/nak protocol. The server sends you a packet, you ack(nowlege) that you got it, it sends you another packet. If when your packet gets back to the server, it is doing disk i/o or servicing another request from another source, your response will wait until the server

Re: [expert] Setting Up Sendmail

2000-04-20 Thread Bug Hunter
Yes. However, with the preponderance of UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email, also known as SPAM), you will have problems. The majority of systems you try to deliver to will reject your mail because your domain name is bogus and does not match up with your ip address. Sendmail will just

Re: [expert] setting eth1 to 10mb

2000-04-17 Thread Bug Hunter
could you possibly be plugged into the uplink port? I've seen much the same symptoms. On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Ronald J. Yacketta wrote: True, but I am getting a but load of collisions on my hub between my win2k and linux box for some reason it appears not to be autodetecting. the

Re: [expert] vmware and cable modem IP assignment

2000-04-17 Thread Bug Hunter
You only have one ip address through your cable modem. Therefore, you can't use 2 ip addresses on your machine that are in the same ip addressing scheme as the cable modem ip address. Enable masquerading, and give yourself a 10.0.0.x or a 172.16.1.x or a 192.168.1.x address pool. Then

Re: [expert] Dynamic Languages

2000-04-14 Thread Bug Hunter
I have an opinion. It is my opinion. PHP has perl beat hands down, in my opinion. Other people will differ with me. Perl is too feature rich, and the syntax can be puzzling. I've been able to modify perl scripts, but creating other than simple ones is still a chore. PHP runs quickly

Re: [expert] FAT Bread anyone?

2000-04-13 Thread Bug Hunter
FAT is File Allocation Table. Bread is Block read (?) It sounds like you have a DOS or ISO9660 drive mounted and are failing on the read of the data. Try cleaning your cdrom carefully, or unmounting your DOS drive before installing the RPM. On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Stuart Nixon wrote:

[expert] clustering ala turbolinux

2000-04-12 Thread Bug Hunter
I'm looking into clustering for my ISP. I've found the turbolinux site, but their product is $995 or $1995. Does anyone have any experience with their product? Is their product GNU? If it is, is there any one willing to let me get a copy of it? (I assume the large $$$ is for the support

Re: [expert] Wine Is Not an Emulator

2000-04-10 Thread Bug Hunter
In brief, yes. However, it won't take the OS (Linux) with it, in most cases. Today, many crashes in windows forces a reboot. Not so under wine. On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Pj wrote: Let's see if I got this right: Wine is neither an adapter or emulator, but instead uses API's to allow Windows

Re: [expert] How much superuser percentage to reserve??

2000-04-08 Thread Bug Hunter
It is a safety margin for the super user. If a process or user fills up the disk drive to capacity, the superuser has a small amount of disk space reserved for use. This disk space allows the superuser room to correct scripts (or generate new ones) to help clean up the hard drive or fix a

Re: [expert] Office Suite for Linux

2000-04-07 Thread Bug Hunter
Agreed. And since this is release 1.0, I would wait until 1.1 or 1.2 before using. The VERY GOOD THING about this is the amount of fixing that will occur on WINE due to this. I expect WINE will firm up very rapidly now. Much faster than before. Linux will assuredly benefit from this.

Re: [expert] Missing RAM - an old chestnut

2000-04-06 Thread Bug Hunter
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: A guess: 8Meg for video ram (no seperate video memory) + 1Meg for the 640k "regular" memory. (Thank you, Bill.) Actually (and I don't like Micro$oft), Bill didn't have much to do with this. IBM designed the PC with 10 times as much

Re: [expert] intel 810/820/840 chipsets

2000-04-05 Thread Bug Hunter
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: snip For management and beancounters the priority no.1 question is: Is the contractor (or manufacturer or store) large enough to pay if we have to sue him in case of malperformance? So the fact whether the product is superiour or not counts

Re: [expert] TCP/IP Problem - No offence intended.

2000-04-04 Thread Bug Hunter
this is a Microsoft software problem, best I can tell. It happens to me all the time. clicking on refresh works most of the time. switch to a real os. On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, John N wrote: snip Any constructive ideas? snip Scott Sweeney wrote: snip Under Win98 there are numerous

Re: [expert] time/date

2000-04-03 Thread Bug Hunter
just put it in a cron job. man 5 crontab On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, John Kofinas wrote: I use rdate once in a while to set my computers clock, but that is a manual approach. Is there any automated approach to this? Thanks John

Re: [expert] sudo ?

2000-04-03 Thread Bug Hunter
install the sudo rpm. then, give the user access to passwd. be careful, as sudo can easily be misconfigured to allow access to all files. Don't ever use the word ALL in sudoers. On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Harald Wolf wrote: Hi, i want do enable a user to create other user accounts and set

[expert] need pam help for pushing mandrake 5.3 into flash

2000-04-03 Thread Bug Hunter
I'm pushing kernel 2.0.36 into a 20 meg flash disk. I'm having trouble getting pam to recognize the users in /etc/passwd. I'm copying the entire pam.d directory in /lib/security. Can someone give me some hints? I've got it booting in about 9 meg worth of flash now. If it goes to 15 meg,

Re: [expert] IDE-SCSI Other Devices

2000-04-02 Thread Bug Hunter
What is happening here is that the scsi emulator for IDE is being loaded, and possibly it is blowing away your other scsi devices (The scsi emulator for Parallel Port, and the scsi scanner). I suspect a rmmod ide-scsi will allow you to use those devices. Note that with the ide-scsi

Re: [expert] mdk7.0 install failure

2000-03-30 Thread Bug Hunter
We tried a LinkSys that indicated it would work under Linux (nc 100, version 2) and it was an utter bust. We had to go to a DLink D5300TX board. It failed under RedHat also. On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote: Best advice: Find one that specifically works under Linux.

Re: [expert] Multiple Processes

2000-03-28 Thread Bug Hunter
If you create a lock file (perhaps in /var/lock), with the program's file name, ending in .lck, you can check for that at the beginning of the perl script and exit immediately if that file exists. At the end of the perl script delete the file. You can still have a race condition if two

Re: [expert] Multiple Processes

2000-03-28 Thread Bug Hunter
suggestions? Any ideas on how I can kill the previous process if I double click on the submit button? That would work for me... I am not sure how to check for a second process and capture it's pid#. Once I obtain the pid#, how do I kill that process in perl? Thanks in advance. Bug Hunter

Re: [expert] Multiple Processes

2000-03-28 Thread Bug Hunter
ps ax | grep process name is a good replacement for top for just getting data about processes. On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Michael D. Kirkpatrick wrote: Maybe I forgot to mention that this is all done through a web interface. The perl script that is being ran is executed from a private web

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.02 is messed up.

2000-03-22 Thread Bug Hunter
On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: At 09:12 AM 03/21/2000 -0800, Tom Berkley wrote: Sean snip Tom. see my response on this. I am sorry, your attitude is a major reason linux has never had a major amount of commercial market share (and as long as the linux vendors have this

Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.02 is messed up.

2000-03-21 Thread Bug Hunter
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Trevor Farrell wrote: Sean Armstrong wrote: snip You think Mandrake is messed up and your going back to RedHat 'cause its more reliable - What ver of RedHat??? no version of RedHat I've seen can come near Mandrake, but if you've found one, please tell us all, as I'm

Re: [expert] duplicate cron jobs?

2000-03-20 Thread Bug Hunter
send an exact copy of your cron job. I once had an extra * in the cron job time list, and it tried to run every script in my home directory. On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: Has anyone noticed duplicate cron jobs being run? It doesn't happen all the time, so it may not

RE: [expert] How To Kill An Application From Command Line?

2000-03-20 Thread Bug Hunter
If you know the names of the programs, the line killall -9 programname1 programname2 programname3 will kill the programs, hard. It is always better to just try a killall before you do a killall -9. You can use the command line ps ax | grep programname and the first thing on the

Re: [expert] Penguin removal - OT!

2000-03-15 Thread Bug Hunter
Years ago, a Chicago firm (Data something?) that leased out computer time had a bunch of those chain printers on their second story floor. Those things weight a significant fraction of a ton. One night, the printer hammers got in rythm by accident. A lot of jobs were being printed. The

Re: [expert] Still got my CD burner woes, help please

2000-03-14 Thread Bug Hunter
One interesting note. While I was duplicating a cd with xcdroast I drew a static electricity spark against my computer case. This happened during normal shuffling of papers and other events. Nothing was interrupted. The burn finished. During the compare, one block was bad. My best

[expert] cdrom duplicate help wanted

2000-03-10 Thread Bug Hunter
I've got the cdrom writer working. I'm using xcdroast ok. I was able to create a cd using linux, no problem. I'm looking to create an iso file from a redhat 5.2 cd, not the commercial version, but a fully free one that happens to be bootable. I have a specific need for that, as this

Re: [expert] PHP on Air

2000-03-07 Thread Bug Hunter
You don't want to change apache to parse html files as php3 files. This can present a security risk if more than one person shares your machine. This allows people to run php3 scripts that copy any readable file on the server and present that file to themselves by placing a .html page up.

Re: [expert] PHP on Air

2000-03-04 Thread Bug Hunter
You may have a bit more reading to do. Apache has to know to associate the web pages produced with the php parser. you have to edit the /etc/httpd.conf files. I forget exactly what you put there. If you visit http://www.php.net, and look for their searchable FAQ, it will probably put you

Re: [expert] Apache Question

2000-03-02 Thread Bug Hunter
lynx 127.0.0.1 On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Robert Binkley wrote: This is a stupid question to you, but how do you use Apache.

Re: [expert] Apoache error

2000-03-02 Thread Bug Hunter
edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and look for ServerName. Set it to something. I ususally set it to the same name I put in /etc/hosts so the name will resolve to an ip and back. On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Robert Binkley wrote: Failed to start apache : Starting httpd: httpd: cannot determine

Re: [expert] rc.local Contains a Freeze-system line

2000-03-01 Thread Bug Hunter
most likely this is due to causing a program to run that is not a daemon program, and you have not put it into the background. this will cause this effect: foo this will not cause this effect: foo bug On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Eric wrote: I was playing around with installing some

Re: [expert] tar -- what does it stand for?

2000-02-26 Thread Bug Hunter
er... no. It says "tar archive utility". I was wanting to know if the T in Tar stood for tape. Or perhaps this is another recursive? bug On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Rich Clark wrote: On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Bug Hunter wrote: strange question... does tar stand for &qu

[expert] tar -- what does it stand for?

2000-02-25 Thread Bug Hunter
strange question... does tar stand for "Tape ARchive" utility? AFAIR, it does, but I'm checking with the experts. :)

Re: [expert] Getting the eepro100 pci to work

2000-02-23 Thread Bug Hunter
AFAIK, PCI allows IRQ sharing, so several cards on the PCI bus can share the same irq. the OS sorts out which card interrupted it. On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Jean-Louis Debert wrote: Jeremy Kersenbrock wrote: What does USB have to do with this? I understand how diabling USB would free

[expert] ide-floppy.o

2000-02-18 Thread Bug Hunter
Does anyone know what this module does for you? I loaded it and tried various things. It broke accessing the ls-120 drive as /dev/hdd, and it didn't work as /dev/fd0. I couldn't find any man pages on it.

Re: [expert] 2 IP address - 1 nic

2000-02-16 Thread Bug Hunter
we do it all the time. basically, you set up an eth0:0 and an eth0:1 config file. each looks identical, except for the ip addresses and network mask stuff. the eth0:1 is the one that is your private ip address. I believe the files are in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. I may be getting

Re: [expert] Extending / partition

2000-02-16 Thread Bug Hunter
I think parted may do what you want. I saw a release e-mail about this for redhat. It may be on their site under contrib. On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, you wrote: Okay I have seen a zillion ways to do this over the last couple of years and read hundreds

Re: [expert] New question...

2000-02-14 Thread Bug Hunter
Generally, you can do this if you allow yourself to have a swap partition and a root partition on your hard drive. You link things like the /usr partition to a directory on the cdrom drive you have mounted under another directory. The root partition is required for writeable things like

Re: [expert] Security .. OT?

2000-02-10 Thread Bug Hunter
1. in /etc/hosts.deny, put ALL : ALL 2. in /etc/hosts.allow, enter who can access your machine (man hosts.allow) 3. update all packages whenever the update reason is a security issue. 4. run only the daemons necessary. On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, ibi wrote: This is a security

Re: [expert] 128 mb mem

2000-02-02 Thread Bug Hunter
sometimes you have to use append "mem=127M" because 1 meg disappears into the video shadow. We had this problem until we dropped it to 127 meg. then it recognized the memory On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Lasse Kristian Gustafsson wrote: I heard that mandrake needs line: append="mem=128M" in to

RE: [expert] SMB Help Please.

2000-02-02 Thread Bug Hunter
the encrypted password stuff involves one more step. you have to set the samba password with the smbpasswd (?) utility to get it to work. It is difficult to get to work the first time, but a careful reading of the /usr/doc/samba* (or is it /usr/doc/smb*) will tell you. Another good

Re: [expert] Problems with LILO

2000-02-02 Thread Bug Hunter
There is a howto in the /usr/doc directory, buried in the "mini" section, I believe, that tells you how to use the NT boot loader. I'll give you instructions from memory, which are a bit vague, but the outline is correct. 1. install lilo on the first sector of your root partition

Re: [expert] Telnet into another Linux box.

2000-01-30 Thread Bug Hunter
Actually, inetd will run telnetd upon demand. If you are on the internet, you need to make your box more secure by editing /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow in /etc/hosts.deny, put ALL : ALL in /etc/hosts.allow, put ALL : xxx.xxx.xxx. where xxx.xxx.xxx is the network you are on.

Re: [expert] Upgrade or Update?

2000-01-26 Thread Bug Hunter
if this is connected to the internet, upgrade! (Or at least install the updates from the redhat site.) Otherwise, if it isn't broke, don't fix it. On 25 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Opinion Time! Background: I've set up a linux system where I work to act as an small,

Re: [expert] RE:Replace MAC Address/Filter on MAC

2000-01-26 Thread Bug Hunter
Not really. The mac address only applies to local ip's. Your router would sub for all the other ip's, so the only mac address you get is the router's address for your cable modem customers. On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Richard Potter wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Scott Brightwell wrote: Just

Re: [expert] ISP choice

2000-01-14 Thread Bug Hunter
the satellite service works in conjunction with your current ISP. requests are sent via the current isp connection to the satellite provider's main computers. they obtain the information and spool it over the satellite link. This can take a few seconds to get started. on small pages, this

Re: [expert] Trying to install linux on a screwed up 486 ;-)

2000-01-13 Thread Bug Hunter
Trivia: The early Motorola 6800 MicroProcessor had undefined instructions that you could feed to it -- instructions being binary numbers, after all. One of those instructions would put the micro in an illegal state. It would halt, and after 10 - 15 minutes, if left on in that state

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