Re: power-off button and /etc/inittab

2002-10-24 Thread m.w.chang
without attaching a keyboard to my server, I could press the power off button and expect the linux to gracefully run `poweroff -n`, just like the Window$. ctrl-alt-del is just a different way of `shutdown -r now` Just 2 days ago, I needed to shutdown my linux server in a hurry (fire in my

Re: NEw Arrival

2002-10-24 Thread Richard R. Sivernell
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 21:52:03 -0700 (PDT) stayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentlemen and Ladies, I am pleased to announce the arrival of our new daughter, Madison Tayler 6lb 6oz and 20in. Now I need to start planning her first PC! stayler StaylerMore import the Misses

Re: setting up broadband access

2002-10-24 Thread m.w.chang
how did you call your dhcpcd? Oct 23 11:28:31 linux dhcpcd[5693]: broadcasting DHCP_DISCOVER Oct 23 11:28:41 linux dhcpcd[5693]: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response Oct 23 11:31:29 linux dhcpcd[279]: terminating on signal 15 Oct 23 11:34:06 linux dhcpcd[6849]: broadcasting

RE: NEw Arrival

2002-10-24 Thread kbb0927
Congratulations! Keith B. stayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentlemen and Ladies, I am pleased to announce the arrival of our new daughter, Madison Tayler   6lb 6oz and 20in. Now I need to start planning her first PC! stayler ___ Linux-users

Re: setting up broadband access

2002-10-24 Thread Keith Antoine
On Thursday 24 October 2002 07:21 pm, m.w.chang espoused with vigour: how did you call your dhcpcd? Its automatic setup in Suse and called fron rc.d via script. -- Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime

Re: NEw Arrival

2002-10-24 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Congrats, Stayler! Pretty long for that light! Tall girl! And the pictures will be located? Matt :) On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 21:52:03 -0700 (PDT) stayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentlemen and Ladies, I am pleased to announce the arrival of our new daughter, Madison Tayler 6lb 6oz

Re: setting up broadband access

2002-10-24 Thread Matthew Carpenter
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:15:06 +1000 Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a small problem with a friends machine that i have tried to setup broadband access. Essentially I can ftp to the dce-server also ifconfig has an entry on eth0, but I cannot use the net or ping any addresses. So the

Re: NEw Arrival

2002-10-24 Thread Bob Raymond
stayler wrote: Gentlemen and Ladies, I am pleased to announce the arrival of our new daughter, Madison Tayler 6lb 6oz and 20in. Now I need to start planning her first PC! stayler Congratulations!! Have fun with this new generation of children who know how to type before they hold a

Very Interesting

2002-10-24 Thread ronnie gauthier
A while back we had a lively discussion about M$' new licensing scam. This link puts a whole new slant on it that could really twist M$' tail feathers. http://boston.internet.com/news/article.php/1485861 ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NEw Arrival

2002-10-24 Thread Bill Davidson
stayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gentlemen and Ladies, I am pleased to announce the arrival of our new daughter, Madison Tayler 6lb 6oz and 20in. Now I need to start planning her first PC! Congrats!! And hurry up on that PC, you don't want her to fall behind. ;) Bill

Re: power-off button and /etc/inittab

2002-10-24 Thread Andrew Mathews
m.w.chang wrote: without attaching a keyboard to my server, I could press the power off button and expect the linux to gracefully run `poweroff -n`, just like the Window$. ctrl-alt-del is just a different way of `shutdown -r now` Just 2 days ago, I needed to shutdown my linux server in a hurry

Re: NEw Arrival

2002-10-24 Thread Net Llama!
Congratulations! Don't expect to sleep much for the next 18 years :) On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, stayler wrote: Gentlemen and Ladies, I am pleased to announce the arrival of our new daughter, Madison Tayler 6lb 6oz and 20in. Now I need to start planning her first PC! stayler

Re: power-off button and /etc/inittab

2002-10-24 Thread Net Llama!
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Andrew Mathews wrote: m.w.chang wrote: without attaching a keyboard to my server, I could press the power off button and expect the linux to gracefully run `poweroff -n`, just like the Window$. ctrl-alt-del is just a different way of `shutdown -r now` Just 2 days

Re: power-off button and /etc/inittab

2002-10-24 Thread dep
begin Net Llama!'s quote: | Indeed. I think this *might* be possible on some sets of hardware | where the power button isn't a mechanical button, but a electronic | button, that gets its input trappedc by some kind of intelligenc3 | before the actual command to terminate power reaches the

Re: power-off button and /etc/inittab

2002-10-24 Thread Stuart Biggerstaff
On ATX and a lot of proprietary architectures, hitting the power button sends a software command--but it is sent directly to the BIOS, not the OS. However you might look at the power management options in the BIOS to see if any would be of use. As Dennis said, all too often the

Re: power-off button and /etc/inittab

2002-10-24 Thread m.w.chang
thx. I will try this path...sooner or later, I will need to switch away from Caldera's 3.x series. what a pity... In fact, it works with OpenLinux 3.1.1. You just need to load a few kernel modules: ospm_system ospm_button -- .~.Swiftly. Silently. Invisibly. In Linux we trust. / v \

Re: power-off button and /etc/inittab

2002-10-24 Thread m.w.chang
I meant the soft-off switch, not the power chord.?:) Andrew Mathews wrote: If you can find a way to integrate the power switch into the operating system it would work, however you're asking it to essentially do a graceful shutdown *after* pulling the power cord from it. Kinda like sending

Re: menuconfig/xconfig

2002-10-24 Thread Net Llama!
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Tony Alfrey wrote: Hi! Compiling a new kernel to solve my sound problems. a) How can I get make menuconfig to read a previous ~/.config file so that I don't have to reset everything for just one little change? If you place .config in /usr/src/linux/ you should be all

menuconfig/xconfig

2002-10-24 Thread Tony Alfrey
Hi! Compiling a new kernel to solve my sound problems. a) How can I get make menuconfig to read a previous ~/.config file so that I don't have to reset everything for just one little change? b) Is xconfig broken in more recent versions of X? Thanks! -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'd

Re: NEw Arrival

2002-10-24 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 09:52 pm,stayler wrote: Gentlemen and Ladies, I am pleased to announce the arrival of our new daughter, Madison Tayler 6lb 6oz and 20in. Now I need to start planning her first PC! stayler Hooray! Now the REAL work begins! Congrats! Good health to all. --

Re: power-off button and /etc/inittab

2002-10-24 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, What you're talking about (as Aaron points out) is supported by ACPI and any mothern motherboard using an ATX power suply. In fact, it works with OpenLinux 3.1.1. You just need to load a few kernel modules: ospm_system ospm_button Note: ACPI is

Re: samba-2.2.6

2002-10-24 Thread Aaron Grewell
I'm guessing here, but perhaps there's a Windows server on the same subnet who's trying to be master browser, or at least confusing browsing somehow. Unless you've turned on WINS NMBD is purely broadcast, so I'd look at what else is on that subnet that would be causing strange responses from the

RE: setting up broadband access

2002-10-24 Thread tom
Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a problem setting up friends machine... [snip ] Uhm, I know this might be a dumb suggestion, but try this; Find out what the MAC address for the NIC on the Windows box, copy it down, and change the linux box's external ethernet MAC to match it.

Re: NEw Arrival

2002-10-24 Thread Tim Wunder
On 10/24/2002 12:52 AM, someone claiming to be stayler wrote: Gentlemen and Ladies, I am pleased to announce the arrival of our new daughter, Madison Tayler 6lb 6oz and 20in. Now I need to start planning her first PC! stayler Congrats... Didn't you just do this not too long ago? Maybe I'm

Re: NEw Arrival

2002-10-24 Thread stayler
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:36:31 -0400 (EDT), Net Llama! wrote: Congratulations! Don't expect to sleep much for the next 18 years :) Oh I've already noticed.. I'm more zombie than human anymore... ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL

OT Re: NEw Arrival

2002-10-24 Thread Net Llama!
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, stayler wrote: On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:36:31 -0400 (EDT), Net Llama! wrote: Congratulations! Don't expect to sleep much for the next 18 years :) Oh I've already noticed.. I'm more zombie than human anymore... Yea, my firstborn is just past the 5 month

Re: power-off button and /etc/inittab

2002-10-24 Thread Aaron Grewell
This is true, all modern power switches on standard PC's are soft-switches. The machine generally does the right thing, but sometimes you still have to unplug it. That's why higher-quality ATX power supplies often have hardware switches on the back. You'll have to look into the current status

Re: NEw Arrival

2002-10-24 Thread stayler
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:20:06 -0400, Tim Wunder wrote: Congrats... Didn't you just do this not too long ago? Maybe I'm remembering wrong... We lost our last daughter at 38 weeks so This time is very special. Thanks though Tim! ___ Linux-users

OTRe: NEw Arrival

2002-10-24 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I'm so very sorry to hear that. We miscarried a lot earlier on and it was difficult enough... I'm glad to hear that you have this special one and hope Madison helps the healing...once you can actually sleep through the night. We're at about 6 weeks with Esther and are just starting to get

Re: NEw Arrival

2002-10-24 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 21:52, stayler wrote: Gentlemen and Ladies, I am pleased to announce the arrival of our new daughter, Madison Tayler 6lb 6oz and 20in. Now I need to start planning her first PC! stayler Congrats! Heck mine are gown up (two grandsons from daughter) even though

DNS DDOS

2002-10-24 Thread Matthew Carpenter
The sad part about this is that a simple rate-limit on ICMP traffic on a Linux NetFilter firewall could have kept each of these systems afloat. :) For those of you administering firewalls, you might want to make sure you have a rate-limit for ICMP in your ruleset. This was a simple DDOS, and

Re: power-off button and /etc/inittab

2002-10-24 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 04:25:47 +0800, m.w.chang wrote: thx. I will try this path...sooner or later, I will need to switch away from Caldera's 3.x series. what a pity... In fact, it works with OpenLinux 3.1.1. You just need to load a few kernel

Re: NEw Arrival

2002-10-24 Thread Keith Antoine
On Friday 25 October 2002 02:20 am, Ted Ozolins espoused with vigour: Congrats! Heck mine are gown up (two grandsons from daughter) even though there will be many restless days and sleeples nights I can not think of a greater experience than watching them grow. Enjoy. Thats the problem, do

Re: DNS DDOS

2002-10-24 Thread David A. Bandel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:01:35 -0400 begin Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: The sad part about this is that a simple rate-limit on ICMP traffic on a Linux NetFilter firewall could have kept each of these systems afloat. :) For

Re: USB Cards

2002-10-24 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks. I should have known that Linux could do it while Windows needed a driver G. I'll give it a shot in the next few weeks and see what happens. Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I have an Asus A7M266-D motherboard that for some strange reason doesn't have USB built in (they but onboard audio

OTRe: NEw Arrival

2002-10-24 Thread kwall
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 09:52:03PM -0700, stayler wrote: Gentlemen and Ladies, I am pleased to announce the arrival of our new daughter, Madison Tayler 6lb 6oz and 20in. Now I need to start planning her first PC! Hello, Miss Madison Tayler. Meet the Penguin. Oh, that guy you've got

Re: menuconfig/xconfig

2002-10-24 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Thursday 24 October 2002 12:11 pm,Net Llama! wrote: On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Tony Alfrey wrote: Hi! Compiling a new kernel to solve my sound problems. a) How can I get make menuconfig to read a previous ~/.config file so that I don't have to reset everything for just one little

Re: menuconfig/xconfig

2002-10-24 Thread Net Llama!
On 10/24/2002 06:12 PM, Tony Alfrey wrote: b) Is xconfig broken in more recent versions of X? errr...no. I used it to build 2.4.19 on XFree86-4.2.0. Hmmm. 4.1.0 makes noises about something missing when I make xconfig. well, something missing isn't quite the same as it being broken,

Re: Stupid Sound Question

2002-10-24 Thread kwall
On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 06:58:27PM -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote: On Wednesday 23 October 2002 06:40 pm,[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] So, tell it to use IRQ 9. ISAPNP will do that, won't it? On the other hand, 2.4 has real PnP support in it, so you may not need ISAPNP. Alright, I think you

Sorting by access time in less than one second intervals

2002-10-24 Thread Joel Hammer
I would like to be able to use a simple bash script to sort files in a directory by their access times. Unfortunately, the access times are frequently within one second of each, other, so, they appear to have the same access times when listed by ls. Is there a way to make ls or a similar simple

Re: menuconfig/xconfig

2002-10-24 Thread kwall
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 11:39:25AM -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote: Hi! Compiling a new kernel to solve my sound problems. a) How can I get make menuconfig to read a previous ~/.config file so that I don't have to reset everything for just one little change? Try make oldconfig b) Is xconfig

Watching a directory for changes

2002-10-24 Thread Joel Hammer
I want to have a background job watching a directory for new files arriving, and then responding when they arrive. The response time has to be very quick (impatient humans), maybe on the order of a 1/2 second or less. I could have a bash script watching the directory, but the sleep command works

Re: OT Re: NEw Arrival

2002-10-24 Thread Richard R. Sivernell
Well, I am in the grandpa mode and I do not have all of that sleepless night, late night feedings and cleaning them up. Oh, it so niceg enjoy them they grow up fast, then you get to do it better with grand kids. By the way did I mention I have 2 new kids on the way, they are still in the

Re: Watching a directory for changes

2002-10-24 Thread Net Llama!
How many files will ordinarily be in this directory? If you're using a shell script for this, then odds are you're going to need to be parsing the output from ls, which means you're going to be dependent on the number of files listed. At some point the number of files will take at least

Re: Watching a directory for changes

2002-10-24 Thread Joel Hammer
The number of files will be small, like one or two. Joel On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 07:10:43PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote: How many files will ordinarily be in this directory? If you're using a shell script for this, then odds are you're going to need to be parsing the output from ls, which means

Re: OT Re: NEw Arrival

2002-10-24 Thread m.w.chang
did your family hire any domestic servants to take care of your kids? Oh, it so niceg enjoy them they grow up fast, then you get to do it better with grand kids. By the way did I mention I have 2 new kids on the way, they are still in the hanger till April for one May for #2. --

Re: Watching a directory for changes

2002-10-24 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joel Hammer spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: I want to have a background job watching a directory for new files arriving, and then responding when they arrive. The response time has to be very quick (impatient humans), maybe on the

Re: samba-2.2.6

2002-10-24 Thread m.w.chang
there is only the samba sever when those errors were recorded. maybe the nmbd is incorrectly listening to her own broadcast. somehow. Unless you've turned on WINS NMBD is purely broadcast, so I'd look at what else is on that subnet that would be causing strange responses from the clients.