Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-02 Thread Keith Antoine
On Saturday 01 June 2002 08:45 pm, you wrote: Am Samstag, 1. Juni 2002 04:20 schrieb Keith Antoine: There is a somewhat hidden rpm target in the kernel source Makefile of v. 2.4.18. When compiling the kernel, try make xconfig rpm which gives you an installable kernel rpm (with

OpenBSD Questions, Request for pointers, and guidance in self help

2002-06-02 Thread Shane A Broomhall
Hi All, I am having a play with OpenBSD, It is something that the people at work want for me to be able to use and be comfortable with. I have put it on a Toshiba 3110 CT Portege laptop. Nice little machine. I have managed to for the first time, with a hint from a freind at work managed to

kernel config

2002-06-02 Thread Keith Antoine
Can someone refresh my memory as to where Caldera installed kernel keeps the default config file. I need it to configure a new kernel for a generic install rpm. -- Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime

Re: first Linux/windoze virus

2002-06-02 Thread David A. Bandel
On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 00:40:01 -0400 begin Burns MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: From: Susan Macchia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it just me, or is there no explanation of how it is spread? http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/linux.simile.html I have some serious doubts

Re: kernel config

2002-06-02 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sun, 02 Jun 2002 20:13:15 +1000 Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone refresh my memory as to where Caldera installed kernel keeps the default config file. From the top of my head... /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/defconfig --

Re: lycoris

2002-06-02 Thread T. Watkins
Kurt: I stand corrected. Tom __ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-02 Thread Marianne Taylor
On June 2, 2002 02:26 am, you wrote: On Saturday 01 June 2002 08:45 pm, you wrote: Am Samstag, 1. Juni 2002 04:20 schrieb Keith Antoine: There is a somewhat hidden rpm target in the kernel source Makefile of v. 2.4.18. When compiling the kernel, try make xconfig rpm which gives

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-02 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I think that the best option is PostgreSQL as it is a full featured SQL database. I you want to learn, you'll need all the features. On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 09:19:34 -0500, Richard R. Sivernell wrote: On Sat, 01 Jun 2002 20:55:23 -0300 David /

Re: Knoppix

2002-06-02 Thread kwall
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Jerry McBride wrote: [Knoppix download speed/availability] I live in New Jersey and just ftp'ed a copy in 1 hour 30 miutes. You mean people actually *live* in New Jersey? ;-) Kurt ___ Linux-users mailing list -

Re: Knoppix

2002-06-02 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sun, 02 Jun 2002 16:10:29 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Jerry McBride wrote: [Knoppix download speed/availability] I live in New Jersey and just ftp'ed a copy in 1 hour 30 miutes. You mean people actually *live* in New Jersey? ;-) Yeah, can you

Re: Knoppix

2002-06-02 Thread edj
On Sun June 2 2002 03:21 pm, Jerry McBride wrote: On Sun, 02 Jun 2002 16:10:29 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Jerry McBride wrote: [Knoppix download speed/availability] I live in New Jersey and just ftp'ed a copy in 1 hour 30 miutes. You mean people

Re: Knoppix

2002-06-02 Thread stayler
I believe in this case, the word live is a relative term. stayler On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 16:10:29 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Jerry McBride wrote: [Knoppix download speed/availability] I live in New Jersey and just ftp'ed a copy in 1 hour 30 miutes. You mean

Re: Linux Training

2002-06-02 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Hipp spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: I'm considering investing in some professional Linux training, You know, some edgy-ka-shun. So what would anyone recommend? The first thing that comes to mind is RedHat RHCE. What

Re: OpenBSD Questions, Request for pointers, and guidance in self help

2002-06-02 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shane A Broomhall spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this and try to understand me. gentle reminder to all.. please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for BSD discussions - -- Douglas J Hunley (doug

Re: Small mini poll

2002-06-02 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 stayler spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: I have been watching the boxen thread with interest. I noticed that a few of the the members are using some flavor of Slackware on some of their systems. I would like to know, of the

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-02 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marianne Taylor spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: When using checkinstall to make the rpms for XFree 4.2 you need to use the no strip option. (--strip=no) Otherwise should work as advertised. I haven't done KDE 3.01 yet! I

Re: OpenBSD Questions, Request for pointers, and guidance in self help

2002-06-02 Thread Norbert Augenstein
Hi Shane, you will find most of the information to start on the project pages. Additionally google.com/bsd(/linux) is also a good place. As OpenBSD is an offshot of NetBSD you can sure look there, but do not blindly copy over. This applies to FreeBSD as well but its a little bit more

Re: Configure NTP - should be a snap, but it isn't

2002-06-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:17:23PM -0400, Kurt Wall wrote: On Fri, 31 May 2002 17:26:36 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I configure NTP once every several years, so I cannot usually remember what's what. I've got a server that's been running NTP happily for years,

Re: Configure NTP - should be a snap, but it isn't

2002-06-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:33:54PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote: How do you start ntp? They are started through SYSV init. Are there error messages somewhere? Not that I can tell. Joel On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 05:26:36PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I configure NTP once every several years,

Re: Configure NTP - should be a snap, but it isn't

2002-06-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:17:23PM -0400, Kurt Wall wrote: On Fri, 31 May 2002 17:26:36 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I configure NTP once every several years, so I cannot usually remember what's what. I've got a server that's been running NTP happily for years,

Re: Configure NTP - should be a snap, but it isn't

2002-06-02 Thread Kurt Wall
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 15:54:00 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:33:54PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote: How do you start ntp? They are started through SYSV init. Can you hack up the init script to use the -d debug option? Or perhaps just invoke it directly

Re: kernel config

2002-06-02 Thread Bob Hemus
Jerry McBride wrote: On Sun, 02 Jun 2002 20:13:15 +1000 Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone refresh my memory as to where Caldera installed kernel keeps the default config file. From the top of my head... /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/defconfig --

Re: Configure NTP - should be a snap, but it isn't

2002-06-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 07:11:02PM -0400, Kurt Wall wrote: On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 15:54:00 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:33:54PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote: How do you start ntp? They are started through SYSV init. Can you hack up the init

United Linux

2002-06-02 Thread Leon A. Goldstein
Excerpted from a SuSE news release: http://www.suse.com/us/press/press_releases/archive02/unitedlinux.html The UnitedLinux engineering team encompasses resources from all four Linux companies. Within this Initiative SuSE performs the unique role of the product integrator. While all members

Mandrake Update Problem

2002-06-02 Thread Tyler Regas
Hey all! Good news! My proposal for a Mandrake book has been accepted by Que Publishing, so I'll be a Linux author soon :) I have a question for you all that has been pestering me and popped up again last night. Mandrakes online update system typically offers a RPM based kernel update. When I

Re: Small mini poll

2002-06-02 Thread Tom Wilson
On Sunday 02 June 2002 12:25 am, stayler's voice rose above the ones in my head and declared: Hi Guys, I have been watching the boxen thread with interest. I noticed that a few of the the members are using some flavor of Slackware on some of their systems. I would like to know, of the

Re: Mandrake Update Problem

2002-06-02 Thread Bill Davidson
On Sun, 02 Jun 2002 19:04:16 -0600 Tyler Regas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all! Good news! My proposal for a Mandrake book has been accepted by Que Publishing, so I'll be a Linux author soon :) I have a question for you all that has been pestering me and popped up again last night.

Re: Mandrake Update Problem

2002-06-02 Thread Tyler Regas
A short while back there was a lot of traffic on the mandrake lists about people hosing their systems trying to update a kernel using mandrake update. They have to be installed, not upgraded. Mandrake update is supposed to install it rather than upgrade it, but usually it screws up. It might

Re: kernel config

2002-06-02 Thread Keith Antoine
On Sunday 02 June 2002 09:59 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 02 Jun 2002 20:13:15 +1000 Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone refresh my memory as to where Caldera installed kernel keeps the default config file. From the top of my head... /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/defconfig The top

Re: Small mini poll

2002-06-02 Thread Kurt Wall
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 21:19:08 -0400 Tom Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 02 June 2002 12:25 am, stayler's voice rose above the ones in my head and declared: Hi Guys, I have been watching the boxen thread with interest. I noticed that a few of the the members are using some

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-02 Thread Keith Antoine
On Monday 03 June 2002 07:56 am, you wrote: Marianne Taylor spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: When using checkinstall to make the rpms for XFree 4.2 you need to use the no strip option. (--strip=no) Otherwise should work as advertised. I haven't done KDE 3.01 yet! I

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-02 Thread Marianne Taylor
On my linux from scratch system, I had to change the topdir in /usr/lib/rpm/macro and that got it to work. I think I did the same thing on Caldera, but I can't remember. You might want to try that. On June 2, 2002 08:15 pm, you wrote: On Monday 03 June 2002 07:56 am, you wrote: Marianne

RE: anybody care to guess?

2002-06-02 Thread Zoki, mailinglist account
*** Junkbuster will do. Does with me: No flashing or any other type of banners. Zoran. -Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]De la part de Collins Envoye : jeudi 30 mai 2002 13:04 A : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Re: anybody care to guess? On Thu,

Re: SxS Distro?

2002-06-02 Thread Tim Wunder
On Sunday 02 June 2002 11:15 pm, Keith Antoine wrote: On Monday 03 June 2002 07:56 am, you wrote: Marianne Taylor spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: When using checkinstall to make the rpms for XFree 4.2 you need to use the no strip option. (--strip=no) Otherwise should