Re: Nahhh, we don't need to secure the *internal* network....

2002-08-02 Thread Tom Buskey
27;s always the DOD approach: put the network cables in conduit that has a vibration alarm on it. Use 10base2, token ring, or FDDI; something that detects a break and stops passing traffic if a splice is made. -- --- Tom Buskey * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: Nahhh, we don't need to secure the *internal* network....

2002-08-01 Thread Tom Buskey
ID CB254DD0 >http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCB254DD0 > > > >* >To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. >* > -- --- Tom Buskey * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: automated installation

2002-07-26 Thread Tom Buskey
location to deal with disks. I think the GNU suite of tools & ./config went a long ways toward getting stuff out of /usr and into /usr/local and other areas. Before ./config, installing a new package was a bear. Dig up an old package of PBMplus, MH, or Columbia Appletalk (> 150 patches

Re: automated installation

2002-07-25 Thread Tom Buskey
instead of CDs. And there's Ximian's red-carpet. I find it's better then rpmdrake. Of course, I don't want the Ximian desktop on my servers. >rpm-get functional yet? -- --- Tom Buskey * To unsubsc

Re: Playing DVDs on Linux

2002-07-24 Thread Tom Buskey
, I'm using it on Mandrake 8.1 & 8.2 FWIW. -- --- Tom Buskey * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: automated installation

2002-07-24 Thread Tom Buskey
it complains about had been fixed by the time I read it ('92). Some of the things have been fixed but the old versions are still distributed by the Unix vendors. > -- --- Tom Buskey * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: Shell scripting moron

2002-07-17 Thread Tom Buskey
n by >Douglas Adams. He describes the joys of spending fifteen minutes >writing a script that he could have done by hand in five minutes. > >Come on, we've all done it. Admit it... Absolutely. If I don't have to do that task again, that script was a waste. Until the 4th

Re: Abusing CC:

2002-07-12 Thread Tom Buskey
e'd be more control. I'm not trying to put down DEC^WCompaq^WHewlett-Packard, they've been very generous and do a great job. I'm just saying there's at least one alternative. -- --- Tom Buskey *

Re: firewall eth0 weirdness

2002-07-11 Thread Tom Buskey
*** >> > To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. >> > * >> -- >> "The ebb and flow of the Atlantic t

Re: Linux on IBM Laptops / Survey Questions

2002-07-11 Thread Tom Buskey
s let you install a modem after you bought it, but that was always more $$$ then the PCMCIA modems. I'd say winmodems are the worst part of today's laptops and the easiest to work around. A non working graphics card or sound would make me return the laptop. btw - my old laptop was a

Re: Sun cables

2002-07-10 Thread Tom Buskey
with Debian on 'em. btw - if you have a sun4c arch. machine, linux runs horribly on it. NetBSD runs *much* better on it. -- --- Tom Buskey * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: master-slave DHCP?

2002-07-02 Thread Tom Buskey
x27;t know what I'm talking >about, it's probably because I don't... -- --- Tom Buskey * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: IRC servers?

2002-07-01 Thread Tom Buskey
for people that don't want to learn the keystrokes. Gaim has a plugin for IRC as does everybuddy and probably some others. On windows, I've used one based on tcl/Tk (ircle?). -- --- Tom Buskey * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: procmail and IMAP (was: What do people use ...)

2002-06-25 Thread Tom Buskey
kind. | > > >* >To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. >* &g

Re: procmail and IMAP (was: What do people use ...)

2002-06-24 Thread Tom Buskey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >In a message dated: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:34:46 EDT >[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >>> Given my druthers, I'd rather run my own server, but Paul's particular >>> situation left him few options. >> >> Paul likes exmh, and MH clients and IMAP do not mix, so he would have >>lit

Re: real scsi + ide-scsi module loading

2002-06-23 Thread Tom Buskey
I think the 154xC was PnP. When it came out, lots of people had problems with them. This was surprising as the 154xB was so rock solid. -- --- Tom Buskey * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: What the media cartel wants (was: HP Drives ...)

2002-06-18 Thread Tom Buskey
ion is provided without warranty of any kind. | > > >* >To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. >*

Re: Windows Partition Spliter

2002-06-12 Thread Tom Buskey
h XP, it wouldn't work. I searched for & found a shareware application to work with XP's version of NTFS. It's called BootIT by TeraByte Unlimited http://www.terabyteunlimited.com > -- --- Tom Buskey * To uns

Re: What are your thoughts on PATH order?

2002-05-30 Thread Tom Buskey
gnutar, gnumake, gnused, etc... ./configure makes it easy. > I think that is because your average OS vendor (or distribution >maintainer) has a tremendously over-inflated idea of the way they do things, >and they cannot possibly conceive of a reason you would want to use >somethin

Re: bash question

2002-05-23 Thread Tom Buskey
A, >Kenny > > >-- >Ken Donahue >Software Engineer >phone: 978 967-1820 >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Mercury Computers, Inc. >System OS - Host Development Team > > > > >* >To unsubscri

Re: Request: Video editing recommendations

2002-05-14 Thread Tom Buskey
on 3d. I'm interested in what you find out. My next desktop will be a dual monitor PC running Linux. > -- --- Tom Buskey * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: cat an Exchange inbox?

2002-05-03 Thread Tom Buskey
a web client too. If you can do imap, pine is probably much easier then cat. -- --- Tom Buskey * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: How to create a GUID?

2002-04-30 Thread Tom Buskey
"Rich C" said: > >- Original Message - >From: "Jerry Feldman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 12:36 PM >Subject: Re: How to create a GUID? > > >> I set the MAC >> address on my cable modem router to the same as my PC so I can easily >plug >> the

Re: ISP Recommendations?

2002-04-26 Thread Tom Buskey
ndo & they redid the cable when we had the sewers put in 2 years ago. I think most of my neighbors don't use their computers much. -- --- Tom Buskey * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: Shell scripting tips and tricks (was: I need a date! )

2002-04-22 Thread Tom Buskey
Even variations for each archetecture. I've also seen it called gtar or gnutar. It depends, of course, on your environment. Sometimes you want the full path, sometimes not. Specifying the full path for each program makes portability more difficult (think #ifdef in C). SunO

Re: Shell scripting tips and tricks (was: I need a date! )

2002-04-21 Thread Tom Buskey
ACK#* } cd ${set_DIRSTACK%% *} print "$PWD" } # do a df in k, not half k set_DF () { case $set_SYSTEM in HP-UX) bdf $@ ;; SunOS) case $set_SYSREV in 5*) df -k $@ ;; 4*) df $@ ;; esac esac } # do df of the local file systems set_DFL () { case $set_SYSTEM in HP-UX) bdf -t hfs ;; SunOS) case $set_SYSREV in 5*) df -kl | egrep -v ^mvfs\|^/proc\|^fd ;; 4*) df | egrep ^/dev\|File\|^swap ;; esac esac } # ps | grep set_psg () { ps $ps_cmd | egrep $1 } set_psk () { ps $ps_cmd | egrep $1 | egrep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill } set_psk9 () { ps $ps_cmd | egrep $1 | egrep -v grep | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9 } --- Tom Buskey

Re: OT Mac equiv of PATH (was: total newbie question

2002-04-19 Thread Tom Buskey
gt; >Brian I don't think Mac has a PATH, really. Actually, what normal users set the PATH on windows anymore? If you're using the GUI, you don't worry about it. -- --- Tom Buskey * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: Sophisticated backup software for Linux

2002-04-19 Thread Tom Buskey
o go. If you just want the standard backups, Veritas Netbackup is good. They use standard gnutar 1.12 (?) to backup unless you're doing multiplex writing. Then they use a modified gnutar. To restore, you need just the single gtar they provide. Their licensing also allows you to setup a t

Re: Sophisticated backup software for Linux

2002-04-19 Thread Tom Buskey
iven the expense and the scaling issues, I'd go with something else. I've had luck with veritas & amanda in the past on smaller sites. -- --- Tom Buskey * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: Sparc Linux distro

2002-04-16 Thread Tom Buskey
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Re: PATH (was total newbie)

2002-04-16 Thread Tom Buskey
ile. So on SGI, I want /usr/bsd in my path. On SunOS, /usr/ucb. addpath will do the right thing. It takes longer to login, but then my system doesn't waste time searching down bad paths for stuff. And I can have one profile to maintain. I think it will run in bash too.

Re: X11, VNC performance (was: Linux-Outlook (ouch) question)

2002-04-07 Thread Tom Buskey
Benjamin Scott said: >On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, at 8:11pm, Tom Buskey wrote: >> dxpc will speed things up even more. dxpc compresses the X *protocol* >> & that gets you more then compressing the bits. > > We're not talking about size-of-transactions here but the se

Re: X11, VNC performance (was: Linux-Outlook (ouch) question)

2002-04-07 Thread Tom Buskey
cy backgrounds or polished metal, >translucifying, wm's for the vnc session (I use fvwm + solid bg)) > -- --- Tom Buskey * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: Turning a PC into a RAID box?

2002-04-04 Thread Tom Buskey
mode, or do so poorly. > Anyone know of anyone doing this with FreeBSD, NetBSD, or OpenBSD? I came up with a reference to SCSI target mode on FreeBSD in 1998 but the thread died there. -- --- Tom Buskey * To unsubscribe

Re: Turning a PC into a RAID box?

2002-04-04 Thread Tom Buskey
o not interested in creating a Network Appliance type box. >And, since you're running a database, you want to make sure your data I'm not. I'm just putting forth an example of where an NFS'd filesystem doesn't work as well as a local filesystem. >transfers are reli

Re: Turning a PC into a RAID box?

2002-04-04 Thread Tom Buskey
Benjamin Scott said: >On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, at 11:25am, Tom Buskey wrote: >> Now, connect via SCSI to another machine (that doesn't have IDE) & use >> it as an external RAID system. > > What you describe is possible in theory. However, it requires the SCSI >

Re: Turning a PC into a RAID box?

2002-04-04 Thread Tom Buskey
ould use a network connection instead of the SCSI card to connect to the >sun box. > >Configure the linux system as a NFS server for the Sun Worstation to use. > > >-Original Message- >From: Tom Buskey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 11:26

Re: Turning a PC into a RAID box?

2002-04-04 Thread Tom Buskey
>Seeya, >Paul > > It may look like I'm just sitting here doing nothing, > but I'm really actively waiting for all my problems to go away. > >If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right! > > -- --- Tom Buskey ***

Turning a PC into a RAID box?

2002-04-04 Thread Tom Buskey
nect via SCSI to another machine (that doesn't have IDE) & use it as an external RAID system. Has anyone heard of this? I have a Sun I'm using (no IDE) and a spare P166 PC with SCSI & IDE. I figure this setup is cheaper then buying ext

Re: tiny web server

2002-03-29 Thread Tom Buskey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >There's also that web server someone wrote in postscript which runs >out of inetd, but I really don't think you want that ;) I wonder how that would run on my printer..... -- --- Tom Buskey *

Re: Broken software (was Re: RH7.2 install)

2002-03-29 Thread Tom Buskey
anfers with some kind of user >authentication >for some areas. Why not run a 2nd copy of apache on that port? You already know it. It might not be the leanest, but it meets the other requirements. -- --- Tom Buskey **

Re: external cdrw recommendation...

2002-03-29 Thread Tom Buskey
nsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. >* > -- --- Tom Buskey * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: MPlayer install

2002-03-28 Thread Tom Buskey
led easily. I wasn't able to get it playing DVDs, but I found ogle on a swedish site. That plays 'em quite nicely. -- --- Tom Buskey * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: NIS stuff

2002-03-27 Thread Tom Buskey
o indirect with symbolic links, ugh. It's easier to admin the links though. Just get your users to type 'cd /mnt/dir' instead of 'cd /mnt; cd dir' :-) > >But that's all NFS related stuff, not really NIS :) >-- -- --- Tom Buskey * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: NIS stuff

2002-03-27 Thread Tom Buskey
Redhat 7.2 that I purchased >and it is installed on a Dell Optiplex GX1 with a Pentium 2 333MHZ processor. > >Bob Casey > > >* >To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with the text '

Re: Benefits of owning a domain (was Re: Cross Yahoo off the list of free e-mail services!)

2002-03-21 Thread Tom Buskey
7;re upping it again to (I think) $60 or so. Register.com will let me get buskey.name with a forwarded email for $25/ year. And I can renew the domain every year so it'll be around for awhile no matter what my ISP or work does to the domain name. I'm doing it so

Re: Please remove all 'mediaone.net' addresses

2002-03-18 Thread Tom Buskey
en using netaddress.net/usa.net for a number of years now. But they're starting to charge for accounts. I like it because I can use fetchmail with it & it's easy to put out there. Does Yahoo have POP? Anyone know of a free, long term, POPable, we

Re: X servers for Windows

2002-03-17 Thread Tom Buskey
27;s not as fast as Exceed or Reflections/X, but it's good enough. Now if I could find a free NFS client for XP/2k/98 I'd be all set. -- --- Tom Buskey * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Linux Success And Less

2002-03-14 Thread Tom Buskey
e first week >> of April. >> >> Thank you for your cooperation. >> >> Have a GREAT day! >> >> >> >> * >> To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the

Re: Paul Lussier's mail is messed up

2002-03-12 Thread Tom Buskey
go away. > >If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right! > > > > >********* >To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the

Re: [pdf,ps]2[la]tex?

2002-03-11 Thread Tom Buskey
used it w/ a printcap to get color printing from an HP 8x11 plotter in '92. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >Hi all, > >Anyone know of anything that can convert either ps or pdf to tex or >latex? -- --- Tom Buskey ***

Re: More spam discussion

2002-03-11 Thread Tom Buskey
umber >as an argument, which in effect tells the server/spammer that I >opened the message. Go into the preferences -> html viewer http proxy server: localhost proxy port: Now those redirects go nowhere, quickly, and you can read the message wit hout waiting. -- --- Tom Buskey ***

Re: Kspread

2002-03-11 Thread Tom Buskey
to get at work. Gnumeric is much smaller & handles 90% of the xls files. It's '95 compatible. If you're heavy into spreadsheets, you might miss some of the functions of excel (freeze rows/columns). -- --- Tom Buskey **

Re: Kspread

2002-03-08 Thread Tom Buskey
big. For very basic, sc is out there > >Thanks > >TomR > > >* >To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. >*

Re: `tar` question

2002-02-25 Thread Tom Buskey
scribe gnhlug' in the message body. >> * > >-- >Jerry Feldman >Portfolio Partner Engineering >508-467-4315 http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/linux/ > >Compaq Computer Corp. >200 Forest Street MRO

Re: `tar` question

2002-02-25 Thread Tom Buskey
le cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly > describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to > be seized. > > >* >To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Amanda Howto?

2002-02-21 Thread Tom Buskey
| >| Co-Founder & Co-Owner of| >| Data Squire Internet Services | >--- > > >* >To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE/GNOME Customization?

2002-02-21 Thread Tom Buskey
usr/bin/X11/xcalc &")) >(bind-keys global-keymap >"CM-S" '(system "/usr/bin/netscape http://www.clearstation.com &") >) >;;(bind-keys global-keymap >;; "M-W" (popup-menu (beos-window-menu)) ) >[rea@q ~]$ > > >--------

Re: KDE/GNOME Customization?

2002-02-20 Thread Tom Buskey
o good if you need to configure 20-1000 users. As a sysadmin, I'd leave the users to the default setup & the control panel though. Mucking with the raw sawfish config files instead of the GUI is like mucking with sendmail.cf instead of the M4 files. -- --- Tom Buskey **

Re: GPG and different mailers

2002-02-20 Thread Tom Buskey
gt;Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org > >* >To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. >*

Re: Satelite systems

2002-02-18 Thread Tom Buskey
Cambridge and Londonderry, NH. I forgot the web site :-( This kind of stuff with NAT firewalls has some of the cable & DSL companies upset. -- --- Tom Buskey * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Throughput of DSL Internet

2002-02-17 Thread Tom Buskey
son <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 603-433-7161 > >* >To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. >***

Re: Linux copied Solaris (NOT)

2002-02-14 Thread Tom Buskey
gs does the OS take? psax=$(ps ax 2>&1 | wc -l) pse=$(ps -ef 2>&1 | wc -l) if [ $psax -gt $pse ] then ps_cmd=aux# BSDish ps else ps_cmd=-ef# SYSVish ps (OSF, Linux RH 6.0 pick this) fi alias psg="ps $ps_cmd | egrep" psg . is like running w/o the egrep. --

Re: linux/windows security

2002-02-13 Thread Tom Buskey
y well. (hoping I don't get shot for talking up NetBSD on a Linux list :-) My laptop runs Mandrake 8.1 btw. -- --- Tom Buskey * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: huge backup

2002-02-13 Thread Tom Buskey
end mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. >* > -- --- Tom Buskey * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *

Re: (OT) email

2002-02-12 Thread Tom Buskey
ions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | >| necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | >| organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | -- --- Tom Buskey **