[expert] Re: [newbie] Partition confusion

2000-05-07 Thread Steve Philp
have a firewall secure enough that I don't worry about script-kiddies. :) For my work system, all of those ideas are put to use along with adding immutable flags to system binaries and configuration files (one more thing for a script-kiddie to have to figure out), mounting web content from a read-only media, and tripwire checking nightly. Hope this information helps, -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Re: [newbie] Mutt or Pine

2000-05-07 Thread Steve Philp
delivery agent setup to see where it's configured to put the mail. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Re: [newbie] Version 7.1

2000-05-06 Thread Steve Philp
Deskjet 722C support ( graphics and text ) Not a clue... Check the Ghostscript site for more information. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Re: [newbie] multiple X sessions

2000-05-06 Thread Steve Philp
, remove /tmp/.X0-lock Try startx -- :1 -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] [newbie] Fix the damn mailing lists already

2000-05-06 Thread Steve Philp
is causing messages to be sent to me three times (I'm subscribed to both lists). I'm about ->this<- close to just saying screw it and unsubscribing. I don't have the patience to wade through the duplicates to find the "real" messages. Fix the damn mailing lis

Re: [expert] msec and startup scripts

2000-05-06 Thread Steve Philp
would appear that noone at Mandrake has taken the time to read the bash manpages to find out how the /etc/bashrc and /etc/profile scripts are supposed to be used and which login types they're used for. Damn annoying... -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Re: [newbie] modem/internet connection/cdrom2

2000-05-06 Thread Steve Philp
ay for Intel to get people to buy new chips. You're getting confused by Windows terminology though... "Unimodem" is simply a generic modem driver used under Windows when a modem-specific driver isn't necessary. My Zoom 56k modem uses unidriver, but it is not a Winmodem. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Re: [newbie] Where is CONIO.H

2000-05-06 Thread Steve Philp
bluebottle wrote: > > On Fri, 05 May 2000, you wrote: > > > > Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I > > Network Administrator > > Advance Packaging Corporation > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi Steve > > Nice to see you posting again. > Thanks! It's nice

[expert] Re: [newbie] Sorry to be asking on here

2000-05-06 Thread Steve Philp
bject: [newbie] Sorry to be asking on here > > > > > > Im sorry to be asking on here about a windows question, but i heard people > saying that they scan their e-mails and said they might > > have gotten viruses from this newsgroup. So im using Mcafee and if there >

[expert] Re: [newbie] CRON

2000-05-06 Thread Steve Philp
Nickolay Belostotsky wrote: > > And how do I run, say: > > hdparm -d1 /dev/hda > > on every startup? > > Thanks Add the command to the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Re: [newbie] GCC...where are you???

2000-05-06 Thread Steve Philp
he problem or resolution, just declaring that "something" must have fixed it. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Re: [newbie] to stop the iloveyou virus spreading do this

2000-05-06 Thread Steve Philp
Martin Solms wrote: > > > Our cleanup effort? Deleting the "Found a bad attachment" messages from > > the postmaster mailbox and watching the outgoing queue rise because of > > closed SMTP servers on the remote side. > > > > -- > > Steve Philp,

Re: [expert] Permissions

2000-05-05 Thread Steve Philp
the htdocs directory. Something like: chmod o+rwx should do the trick, but is NOT RECOMMENDED. Allowing the webuser to modify the web site is a problem just waiting to be exploited. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] [newbie] Connecting to the Internet - why is it so difficult?

2000-05-05 Thread Steve Philp
Hash wrote: > > On Fri, 05 May 2000, Steve Philp wrote: > > > * Add the '*' to the /etc/ppp/[chap|pap]secrets files. > > * Add the noauth line to kppp > uncomment the lines in the resolv.conf file, to no avail. > > > ping www.yahoo.co

[expert] Re: [newbie] SIGHUP?

2000-05-05 Thread Steve Philp
ou give it to a running > process? killall -HUP qmail-send For information on signals, try 'man 7 signal' -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Re: [newbie] Printer fonts

2000-05-05 Thread Steve Philp
x27;s only > an ALPHA) promises to be a very good browser. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it. The thing's been in development longer than Mozilla and isn't anywhere close to being usable. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Re: [newbie] monitor and LILO woes

2000-05-05 Thread Steve Philp
orts your max resolution. From there, start at 640x480 and work your way up. I think you'll have better luck with this method than with asking for the max resolution right off the bat. The other thing you may want to check is that you're really booting into graphical mode. At the LILO prompt

[expert] Re: [newbie] to stop the iloveyou virus spreading do this

2000-05-05 Thread Steve Philp
;, we ran merrily through the entire day. Our cleanup effort? Deleting the "Found a bad attachment" messages from the postmaster mailbox and watching the outgoing queue rise because of closed SMTP servers on the remote side. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Re: [newbie] Where is CONIO.H

2000-05-05 Thread Steve Philp
"Gunther C. Hebein" wrote: > > Hi all! > Under DOS there is library for C++ called CONIO.H; > There are many functions like "clrscr() etc..). Where's that library > under Linux? Try the ncurses libraries. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator A

Re: [expert] OT: CERT virus alert

2000-05-04 Thread Steve Philp
(otherwise known as the Windows > > Security Hole). > > > > I get a chuckle out of all these. Most of the time running Linux, you > can collect them > and send them to "friends" you don't like.. :) And what better way to tell someone you love them

Re: [expert] [newbie] Connecting to the Internet - why is it so difficult?

2000-05-04 Thread Steve Philp
y shocked. > (BTW, it was actually much easier to get my Linux box networked with my > Mac over AppleTalk; definately a power user thing, while a ppp connection > is really a basic). > > One last thing to keep in mind while being frustrated with Linux. You are no longer an end user. You are an administrator. It's a whole 'nother mindset. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] MTAs--Sendmail vs Postfix vs Qmail

2000-05-04 Thread Steve Philp
nders, aliases and all the rest. It's what we use and have found it to be a great solution (even for my non-command-line literate coworker -- thus the web interface). I haven't played with Postfix, but I've seen a few messages on this list from others who do. I'd be interes

[expert] Re: [newbie] Crash after hardware change

2000-05-04 Thread Steve Philp
tunately, > Corel Linux crashed twice in two days... Interesting distribution, really. It worked well on one machine here, but was absolutely horrible on the other. Now it's gone from both. It was a freebie install anyway, it came with Corel Office 2k. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Re: [newbie] SMP Support

2000-05-02 Thread Steve Philp
7;t, out of the box, work the with UDMA/66 interfaces on the BP6 board though. It'll make a boot disk during installation for you, but it won't let you install on those drives. A bit annoying, since the patches for the HPT366 interface have been available since the 6.1 days... -- S

Re: [expert] Network Printing

2000-05-01 Thread Steve Philp
work, probably not what you intended. Change the LOCAL to your actual network range and give it another try. I also ended up playing around with the files for awhile one night trying to get network printing working. I've since wiped that system, else I'd have more detailed information t

Re: [expert] What's this process?

2000-05-01 Thread Steve Philp
It's actually a kernel process. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Http Security

2000-04-30 Thread Steve Philp
directory along with the appropriate configuration in your /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. www.apache.org probably has better details. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] What rpm is telnetd in?

2000-04-30 Thread Steve Philp
Ron Johnson wrote: > > Dave Lers wrote: > > > > telnet-server > > H. Since I have telnetd, but don't have the telnet-server > rpm, where does /usr/sbin/in.telnetd come from? > > Is there an rpm command to find which rpm contains a certain > file?

Re: [expert] Cannot open printer description file

2000-04-28 Thread Steve Philp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Steve Philp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hello all! > > > > I've just installed Mandrake 7. Chose "high security" during > > installation and maybe that was a bad choice. > > > > Attempting

Re: [expert] [OT] NIC problem

2000-04-27 Thread Steve Philp
Thanks for any suggestions. > > Best, > Chris Sounds like a netmask problem to me. Ensure it's set to 255.255.255.0. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[expert] Cannot open printer description file

2000-04-27 Thread Steve Philp
step during setup? Any ideas? -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] X or console wont start

2000-04-27 Thread Steve Philp
gt; suppose to be running at over 400kps? One thing you may not have taken into consideration is the pipe that connects the other end to the Internet. If it's connected via ISDN, that would certainly explain your download speed. -- Steve Philp, MCSE/MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] NT Exchange Server behind a Linux Router

1999-12-21 Thread Steve Philp
ll Ftp services handled by the Linux box. > > Thanks in advance. What problems are you currently experiencing when having it setup like this? -- Steve Philp, MCSE / MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Problems with PPP.

1999-12-20 Thread Steve Philp
x27;s likely the remote system looking for ident and DNS information. Most systems are setup to check that an incoming connection is allowed to connect (/etc/hosts.allow, hosts.deny). After that, most will attempt to do an ident lookup on the remote user to get info for the logs. I'd look at

Re: [expert] Problems ... with Graphics Card Daytona 3D ...

1999-12-19 Thread Steve Philp
the mailing list archives available at the MandrakeSoft website. This chipset, while supported, is a pain to get configured correctly. The archives have the answers to getting it working! Good luck! -- Steve Philp, MCSE / MCP+I Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Qmail

1999-12-05 Thread Steve Philp
ick to that security. Even without binary packages, it's only about a 15 minute job to setup Qmail on a system. Add 1 minute if you need to do user or host masquerading. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Faq-O-mat & co.

1999-12-03 Thread Steve Philp
fun, sorry if you think we're picking on ya. Nobody's > asking anyone to do anything so how about easing off on the keyboard and give > the ol' fingers a rest. Have a great weekend. How about instead of going to all the effort of creating ANOTHER site, we all contribute something to www.mandrakeuser.com. I'm sure Tom Berger would appreciate the help! (I haven't forgotten you Tom, just very busy lately!) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] SO51a Save/backup -- Solved! (mostly)

1999-12-02 Thread Steve Philp
g things into a tailspin? Come on. Grow up and act like adults that can take responsibility for your actions. This is getting ridiculous. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Kernel modules not modular kernels?

1999-12-02 Thread Steve Philp
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > > On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Steve Philp wrote: > > > Jason Antonacci wrote: > > > > > > Is there any linux os flavor (or any os period) that allows the loading of >multiple kernels? I remember a professor during an SMP discussion st

Re: [expert] Kernel modules not modular kernels?

1999-12-01 Thread Steve Philp
you're treading into the territory of mainframe monsters... I do remember reading that IBM has ported Linux as a "virtual machine" to their 390 series and is now working on porting it to act as the "main" operating system of the machine. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] mailing list software?

1999-12-01 Thread Steve Philp
gured and managed via ssh, so the easier > the better! :-) > John I've got ezmlm installed on the work server along with qmailadmin for a web-based administration of the whole system (pop accounts, forwarding, aliases, mailing lists, and auto-responders). It's a pretty nice

Re: [expert] 2nd request: Vanishing Mouse Pointer in KDE

1999-12-01 Thread Steve Philp
e anything > > > similar? Past installs of 6.1 have not done hits - only > > this time! (fresh > > > install after nuking RH 6.1) > > > Any help appreciated. > > > Thanx > > > Don > > I don't have the manpage for the Mach64 X server handy, but you might look into adding the sw_cursor option. It's possible that one of the sleep modes is disturbing the hardware cursor. It's worth a shot, anyway... :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] SO51a Save/backup -- Solved! (mostly)

1999-11-30 Thread Steve Philp
e right path. They > don't have it right yet, but they are heading the right direction. For a specific market, yes. Whether it's a significant market will remain to be seen. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Stoopid FTP Question

1999-11-30 Thread Steve Philp
> descent with standard FTP. Be careful with statements like that. Some FTP servers will allow you to issue something like: get directory.tgz and it will tar and gzip the directory tree for you so you can transfer the whole thing as one file. If you go high enough in the tree, you'

Re: [expert] SNMP mapping?

1999-11-30 Thread Steve Philp
tes has ported Unicenter TNG. They shipped some freebie disks out awhile ago. RH6.1 includes it with their Professional box set also. Check CA to see if it's available online. I've loaded it, but haven't played with it yet. If you try it out, let us know what you think! --

Re: [expert] What is causing this?

1999-11-29 Thread Steve Philp
ticularly helpful to remote administrators, but it does cut down on the useful information that you provide to would-be crackers. They're harmless messages. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] SO51a - saving & backup -- No go!

1999-11-29 Thread Steve Philp
As... then navigated to a directory that is mounted (/mnt/backup, an 8G partition on another drive), entered a filename and saved the document. No errors were reported and the file exists in the specified location. Now, if you want to limit that statement to NFS mounts, that might be someth

Re: [expert] Basic Install

1999-11-28 Thread Steve Philp
. > which "developing" packages would i require to install at first, to accomplish > the compiling and packaging? No, you'll just need to be sure that the libraries and development packages you need for the "compiling package" are installed. > Hope this makes s

Re: [expert] linuxconf & installing newly compiled kernel

1999-11-28 Thread Steve Philp
willingly submit themselves to it. Installing a new kernel is only a few commands (from your message, it would appear that you know what those are...). -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Basic Install

1999-11-28 Thread Steve Philp
e's a nasty little secret I've never seen documented anywhere. To get the absolute smallest installation, just unselect ALL of the group choices (like GNOME Desktop, KDE Desktop, Network Management, Kernel Development, etc) during installation. You will get a minimum booting system that

Re: [expert] A new problem with linux (all of 'em)

1999-11-27 Thread Steve Philp
e should cry VIRUS for LILO. Making > > some BAD publicity for those who do it could help. > > > > (just my 2c) > > > > Denis -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] A new problem with linux (all of 'em)

1999-11-25 Thread Steve Philp
Civileme wrote: > > Steve Philp wrote: > > > Civileme wrote: > > > > > > Trend ChipAwayVIrus(R) On Guard Ver 1.63A > > > [SNIP] > > > My reaction, since Trend doesn't have a consumer complaints dept, was to > > > write FIC Sales a

Re: [expert] A new problem with linux (all of 'em)

1999-11-25 Thread Steve Philp
licy. I'll also > copy this to Slashdot and see if a few folks feel interested in > slashdotting www.antivirus.com, or FIC. Can't you turn it off in the BIOS? The Abit BP6 board I own also has virus detection, but it's toggle-able in the BIOS. -- Steve Philp Network Admini

Re: [expert] /bin/sh: /sbin/rmmod: No such file or directory

1999-11-25 Thread Steve Philp
stall the modutils package. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] To much memory used

1999-11-23 Thread Steve Philp
gt; > -- > > {*} > <> \./Z/ Roberto A. Foglietta > <><> |_ > ~~ e-mail : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > DDNNNDMNIF web-mst: http://www.fisica.unige.it/linuxgrp -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Question for C/C++ programmers

1999-11-22 Thread Steve Philp
> for kernel the best book i know is : > > kernel device drivers > > by a.archangeli from oreilly associates. You mean Alessandro Rubbini? At least, that was the name I thought went with that book. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Upgrade from 2.2.9 to 2.2.13

1999-11-21 Thread Steve Philp
t; > > make modules_install > > here is your problem, you've run "make dep" then "make clean" removeing > all the work "make dep" just did You know I love you, but you've spent too much time at the keyboard again... make dep; make clean is correct ordering... -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] info needed

1999-11-21 Thread Steve Philp
n advance for helping You need to find out what's causing all of the traffic. Use tcpdump on your Linux machine to get that information: tcpdump -i eth0 will show everything going over the first ethernet connection. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] High level SMP systems...

1999-11-21 Thread Steve Philp
Matthew Hart wrote: > > Does anyone know of any board manufacturer who makes a quad way SMP intel > P2/3 motherboard? Looks like Intel makes an SC450NX board for quad PII/III/Xeon. That's the only brand that Pricewatch shows available... -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Adv

Re: [expert] Problem Linking GAMESS object files

1999-11-21 Thread Steve Philp
at I failed to install a critical application when I > reinstalled Mandrake v6.0, but I don't have a clue as to what it may be. > > I would greatly appreciate any assistance which may be forthcoming to > resolve thiw problem. >From the looks of the function names th

Re: [expert] problem with ATA/66

1999-11-21 Thread Steve Philp
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Steve Philp wrote: > [...] > > > > Overall, though, I didn't notice enough of a speed difference between > > the drive on UDMA/66 and the drive on a "normal" interface to want to > > fight with it a

Re: [expert] Newbie Question

1999-11-21 Thread Steve Philp
houldn't this var now be set for every user unless it is overwritten by > something like the user's .bash_profile? Add it to /etc/profile instead of /etc/rc.d/rc.local. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] problem with ATA/66

1999-11-21 Thread Steve Philp
ATA/66 > > > > > > On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Steve Philp wrote: > > > > > Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > > > > > > > > On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > > > > > > > > > At 04:06 PM 11/19/99 +0100,

Re: [expert] diskdrake

1999-11-21 Thread Steve Philp
gt; [root@alan /root]# > > got a pretty similar net result, it didn't run. Except this time it's not a permissions problem, it's a missing file problem! You'll need to find the events_pend.al file that's necessary to run diskdrake. Or, if it's already ins

Re: [expert] [OT] LILO

1999-11-21 Thread Steve Philp
Arandir wrote: > > On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Steve Philp wrote: > > > If I remember the commotion correctly, Be's boot loader is LILO. They > > originally shipped it without source and got a big > > Welcome from the open source community. :) > > Actuall

Re: [expert] Large Hard drives....Multiple OS's

1999-11-20 Thread Steve Philp
riginally shipped it without source and got a big Welcome from the open source community. :) -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Thanks!!! Was Multiple Questions

1999-11-20 Thread Steve Philp
at you're running now, and 2) What you need to continue running, and 3) What you're trying to protect. They may seem like glib answers, but those are the three most important things you'll need to answer before you can even make an intelligent decision about how arrange your firew

Re: [expert] Logitech Scanman Color

1999-11-20 Thread Steve Philp
-web page few > > days ago. Sridhar, The Logitech Scanman series is quite old and was waay before SANE's time. I _do_ recall there being a standalone driver for the Scanman series that I picked up from Metalabs a few years ago. I'm not sure where it was kept, but it seemed to work f

Re: [expert] diskdrake

1999-11-20 Thread Steve Philp
; > Alan You've attempted to run the problem when you've logged into X as a normal user and have su'ed to root. Login to X as root. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] problem with ATA/66

1999-11-20 Thread Steve Philp
> udma66. Read the howto, and the conversation between me and Steve from the > archives, if you still have problems lets us know Even after all of that, I never did get my UDMA/66 drive booting. It simply spits an 'LI' at me and that's it. Andre Hedrick's HPT366 notes say t

Re: [expert] Post-install PAM/Passwords configuration

1999-11-17 Thread Steve Philp
about "configurator, mouseconfig, sndconfig, ntsysv > though. > > I sure would be nice if they have a textmode version of "netcfg", > instead of X-only netcfg. I absolutely hate using Linuxconf... I completely agree! -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Post-install PAM/Passwords configuration

1999-11-16 Thread Steve Philp
options? > > --Derek Run 'setup' and choose 'auth config'. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] KDE Konsole Configuration

1999-11-16 Thread Steve Philp
Phil Edwards wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Steve Philp wrote: > > > Have you tried: > > > > export TERM=vt220 > > > > then attempting the telnet to the AIX box? > > > > Yup. I've found that I can set the TERM environment variable

Re: [expert] KDE with 8 bits display

1999-11-16 Thread Steve Philp
think_ there's a setting in the KDE Control Panel to set how many colors KDE grabs for itself. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] KDE with 8 bits display

1999-11-16 Thread Steve Philp
, which I like more than CDE*). > > In case of Gnome I guess the same... > > * Note that CDE is a pretty good few-color handler Check the CD to see if there is a KDE lowcolor icons. I know that KDE issued something like that with 1.1.2, just don't recall whether

Re: [expert] NIC speed configuration

1999-11-15 Thread Steve Philp
ot; a speed. Do a web search for Donald Becker (the site is something like cesdis.nasa.gov, but I'm not sure of the rest). As for which speed it's coming up at, I'd imagine that you can find the answer in the boot messages. 'dmesg' will show the boot messages. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] KDE Konsole Configuration

1999-11-15 Thread Steve Philp
> Is there a configuration file somewhere that I can hack to make it send the > codes I want? Have you tried: export TERM=vt220 then attempting the telnet to the AIX box? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] KDE with 8 bits display

1999-11-15 Thread Steve Philp
t X in 8 bit pixel depth, use: startx -- -bpp 8 -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] funny - www.redhat.org - Why Resolve to Localhost?

1999-11-15 Thread Steve Philp
Chris Roupp wrote: > > Humm... i wonder what that bogus address does to web bots. Might be a fun way > to make some bot traps. > > -chris If you don't run an HTTP server on the webbot machine, it will do nothing. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packagin

Re: [expert] funny

1999-11-14 Thread Steve Philp
replacing it with something that worked. Fortunately, that hasn't happened for our tasks. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] funny

1999-11-14 Thread Steve Philp
his logic... Compilers, IDEs, libraries and the rest have been available on Linux from the very beginning. What sort of "magic bullet" is BCB4? Is it just that it offers a pretty picture for programmers to look at while coding so they don't feel intimidated? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Missing Memory problem HELP!!

1999-11-14 Thread Steve Philp
nel 2.2.13-4MDKSMP, which works fine, giving me > > 933.88 Bogomips (so that's ok). > > > > But where has the other half of my 128MB DIMM gone to? > > Try adding 'mem=128M' at the LILO prompt and see if it finds the rest. > The input at LILO will look like: > > linux mem=128M -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Missing Memory problem HELP!!

1999-11-14 Thread Steve Philp
t; > But where has the other half of my 128MB DIMM gone to? Try adding 'mem=128M' at the LILO prompt and see if it finds the rest. The input at LILO will look like: linux mem=128M -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] New Mandrake Kernel is SMP only

1999-11-08 Thread Steve Philp
that I need a SMP version > > of OSS. When I downloaded the SMP version from www.opensound.com, > > I'll get the message that my kernel does not have loadable module > > installed. > > > > Any Ideas? > > > > Thanks. > > M.S. > > -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Ethernet Network issues

1999-11-07 Thread Steve Philp
rrors:67 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:134 > collisions:1139 txqueuelen:100 > Interrupt:10 Base address:0x6800 This card has a problem. You're showing 134 carrier errors and 67 other errors on that interface along with over 1100 collisions. Fix the card and t

Re: [expert] Printer problem on upgrade to 6.1 from 6.0

1999-11-07 Thread Steve Philp
suggestions? try this to see if it will print the job: echo "^L" > /dev/lp0 To get the ^L, you'll need to hit control-v, control-l. If that gets the document to print, you need to use printtool to enable sending an end of page at the end of your print job. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Something usefull

1999-11-01 Thread Steve Philp
e but It may have been overlooked.. Does esddsp work in this case? Something like: esddsp realplay I haven't tried it... -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Printer Woes-bug and lsmod

1999-11-01 Thread Steve Philp
all of this fighting, have you considered recompiling your kernel and including the printer into the kernel instead of using modules? I know I would have! I just don't have enough hair to risk losing some on something like printer modules. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Pa

Re: [expert] Recommendations on Network System Activity monitor for local network

1999-10-31 Thread Steve Philp
e to try and conserve the limited bandwidth we have available to the Internet. Both of these programs will allow tracking of sites visited. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Sound configuration -- add to Install!

1999-10-28 Thread Steve Philp
efault/TTF > > > > * Restart the X Font Server: > > > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart > > > > * Use a font browser to see if they're installed: > > > > xfontsel > > > > I've written these instructions while doing each of the steps,

Re: [expert] BUG: 6.1 initscripts-4.23-33mdk

1999-10-28 Thread Steve Philp
Axalon Bloodstone wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Steve Philp wrote: > > ^ is that a type-o ? i have 2mdk and 5mdk localy (i'd really hate to think > i'm that outdated, but it is posible) Here's the header from rpm -qi initscripts, the package comes from t

Re: [expert] Question!

1999-10-27 Thread Steve Philp
fter mdk.. > > I have seen mdk1,mdk3, mdk5, and mdk6.. > > Does this mean anything? > > Just curious.. > > ALan Revision level of that version. Typically for fixes to the specification file, missing files, recompilation, etc. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] SCSI scanner trouble

1999-10-27 Thread Steve Philp
;m using Mandrake 6.1, and it's a fresh install. My SuSE 6.1 defaulted to all > > > users having access to it. > > > > /dev/scanner is probably just a link to the real SCSI device. Check the > > permissions on the real device. > > > > -- > > Steve Phi

[expert] BUG: 6.1 initscripts-4.23-33mdk

1999-10-27 Thread Steve Philp
tscripts files get installed in the first place if they won't install now? How do I GET that package to reinstall correctly?? I can provide 'rpm -Uvh --nodeps --force' output if necessary... -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] SCSI scanner trouble

1999-10-27 Thread Steve Philp
t's a fresh install. My SuSE 6.1 defaulted to all > users having access to it. /dev/scanner is probably just a link to the real SCSI device. Check the permissions on the real device. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] FAQ or what? (Steve)

1999-10-27 Thread Steve Philp
.1) > > > > To fix the problem, edit /etc/resolv.conf and ensure that > > it contains the DNS IP addresses provided by your ISP. > > > > The file, at minimum, should contain: > > > > search > > nameserver > >

Re: [expert] FAQ or what?

1999-10-26 Thread Steve Philp
m weekly. This is really > > > getting annoying. > > Can you fix that by creating a tmp dir in your $HOME ? > > :-) > > > > lynx is broke. > huh mount? > huh ppa? > huh ide-scsi? > > theres 4 :) Netscape says something about SOCKS? -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] FAQ or what?

1999-10-26 Thread Steve Philp
ore information about the various configuration items provided in /etc/resolv.conf, use the command: man resolver -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Sound configuration -- add to Install!

1999-10-22 Thread Steve Philp
eone point me to a URL that will help me compile one? TTF support is built into the xfs fontserver. -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance Packaging Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Re:

1999-10-22 Thread Steve Philp
Hoyt wrote: > > > Does anyone know how to change a NIC from 1/2 duplex to full duplex? > > Cheers > > Jim Adams > > The card manufacturer usually has at their website a utility program to do > this. You suppose that's a Linux app? -- Steve Philp Netw

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