Re: OT earthquake!

2002-11-28 Thread ronnie gauthier
layers with a vented windproof shell outside and a good understanding of the wicking properties of the layers. high school there. That dang dampness, how do you dress for that? -- Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) Westbank, B. C. Powered by Slackware 8.1 sent with Kmail 1.4.1

rm is picky

2002-11-28 Thread ronnie gauthier
here is a good reason why rm is picky about what it will do and why you should leave it that way. I was playing around and needed a file from a diferent libc so I went and found one and stuck it in /usr/lib. The install still did not work so I abandoned it and went looking for someting else. I

Re: rm is picky

2002-11-28 Thread kwall
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 04:19:51AM -0600, ronnie gauthier wrote: here is a good reason why rm is picky about what it will do and why you should leave it that way. [NiNe HoUrS (c) (1998 Ric Moore)] rm: '/' is a directory well knock me out. Oops. Kurt -- Conscience is a mother-in-law

Get Rid of that Ugly Background

2002-11-28 Thread kwall
For those of you who hate the ugly default X background, the black and white crossweave net thing, here's a simple little patch that fixes it and makes it solid black: -cut- --- xc/programs/Xserver/dix/window.c.die-ugly-pattern-die-die-die Tue Feb 12 16:33:04 2002 +++

OK my hardware is screwed how to I diagnose it?

2002-11-28 Thread James McDonald
Folks, I have a AMD 1.3GHz 768MB DDR RAM and an MSI Mainboard with an nForce chipset. All had been going well running RH7.2-8.0 Until it started freezing and spontaneously rebooting My question is how do I validate my hardware so that I can isolate the actually source of the problem.

Samba problem

2002-11-28 Thread David A. Bandel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Folks, I have a Windoze network with a Samba server. The Windoze network is composed of 98 and ME. The Workgroup name is Oteima. On the 98 systems, there's one listing for Oteima and all systems show up in it. On the ME systems, there's two

Re: Samba problem

2002-11-28 Thread Tim Wunder
On Thursday 28 November 2002 07:27 am, someone claiming to be David A. Bandel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Folks, I have a Windoze network with a Samba server. Which version of Samba? The Windoze network is composed of 98 and ME. The Workgroup name is Oteima.

Re: OK my hardware is screwed how to I diagnose it?

2002-11-28 Thread kwall
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:24:56PM +1100, James McDonald wrote: Folks, I have a AMD 1.3GHz 768MB DDR RAM and an MSI Mainboard with an nForce chipset. All had been going well running RH7.2-8.0 Until it started freezing and spontaneously rebooting My first question is what has changed

Re: OK my hardware is screwed how to I diagnose it?

2002-11-28 Thread Bob Raymond
On Thursday 28 November 2002 12:24 pm, James McDonald wrote: Folks, I have a AMD 1.3GHz 768MB DDR RAM and an MSI Mainboard with an nForce chipset. All had been going well running RH7.2-8.0 Until it started freezing and spontaneously rebooting My question is how do I validate my

RH 8.0 and XFS (font server)

2002-11-28 Thread Tim Wunder
Using RH8... every once in a while, after logging out, xfs dies on me, causing X not to load. I have to manually start xfs with 'xfs -daemon' to get X to work again. Any recomendations on how to fix this? Thanks, Tim -- RedHat Psyche 8.0, stock kernel, Gnome 2.x, Xfree86 4.2.0 7:00am up 2

Re: Samba problem

2002-11-28 Thread David A. Bandel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 07:40:19 -0500 begin Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: On Thursday 28 November 2002 07:27 am, someone claiming to be David A. Bandel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Folks, I have a

Re: mozilla-1.2 is out

2002-11-28 Thread m.w.chang
yes. doing that in the office.. yesterday's nightly was a bomb. the exe (window build) didn't even work. the baysian spam filter... I love the word baysian. Long lost my meory of queuing theories.. :) Tim Wunder wrote: Ahh, but the real fun is trying the latest trunk builds with new features

Re: OK my hardware is screwed how to I diagnose it?

2002-11-28 Thread James McDonald
All had been going well running RH7.2-8.0 Until it started freezing and spontaneously rebooting My first question is what has changed vis-a-vis your software? I'll readily concede hardware is at fault, my first suspect is software. New drivers? Some upgraded from RHN? A

Re: rm is picky

2002-11-28 Thread Joel Hammer
Well, so what? You do have backups, don't you? Joel On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 04:19:51AM -0600, ronnie gauthier wrote: here is a good reason why rm is picky about what it will do and why you should leave it that way. I was playing around and needed a file from a diferent libc so I went and

Re: RH 8.0 and XFS (font server)

2002-11-28 Thread kwall
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 08:16:25AM -0500, Tim Wunder wrote: Using RH8... every once in a while, after logging out, xfs dies on me, causing X not to load. I have to manually start xfs with 'xfs -daemon' to get X to work again. Any recomendations on how to fix this? I don't know how to fix it,

Re: OT earthquake!

2002-11-28 Thread Tony Alfrey
Arrg! All this stuff about ice on the roads, can't start cars, freezing one's extremeties off, dampness, etc. I'll stick with earthquakes. ;-) On Wednesday 27 November 2002 11:57 pm, ronnie gauthier wrote: layers with a vented windproof shell outside and a good understanding of the

Happy Turkey Day

2002-11-28 Thread Bill Day
Wish the best to you and yours this Thanksgiving. Bill Day Linux 2.2.20-1tr i586 9:09am up 14 days, 21:37, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 We're still up at irc.openprojects.net @ #linux-users or irc.freenode.net @ #linux-users http://counter.li.org #83358 http://sxs.daysdomain.com/

Re: OK my hardware is screwed how to I diagnose it?

2002-11-28 Thread Bill Day
This honeestly doesnot sound like a Software ingested problem. I think its a heat problem. Check your fan to make sure it is running good(touch it lightly, if stops real easy it's dying) or maybe there is a wire hanging on it, the edge of a cable.. etc. I have had the same problem with numerous

Re: Happy Turkey Day

2002-11-28 Thread kwall
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 09:20:03AM -0600, Bill Day wrote: Wish the best to you and yours this Thanksgiving. Yup, Happy (American) Thanksgiving Day to all. Enjoy your post-prandial comas. ;-) Kurt -- Paradise is exactly like where you are right now ... only much, much better. --

Re: OK my hardware is screwed how to I diagnose it?

2002-11-28 Thread Ted Ozolins
On Thursday 28 November 2002 07:25, Bill Day wrote: - This honeestly doesnot sound like a Software ingested problem. I think its - a heat problem. Check your fan to make sure it is running good(touch it - lightly, if stops real easy it's dying) or maybe there is a wire hanging on - it, the edge

Re: OK my hardware is screwed how to I diagnose it?

2002-11-28 Thread Net Llama!
On 11/28/02 04:56, Bob Raymond wrote: On Thursday 28 November 2002 12:24 pm, James McDonald wrote: Folks, I have a AMD 1.3GHz 768MB DDR RAM and an MSI Mainboard with an nForce chipset. All had been going well running RH7.2-8.0 Until it started freezing and spontaneously rebooting My

Re: OK my hardware is screwed how to I diagnose it?

2002-11-28 Thread Bob Raymond
On Thursday 28 November 2002 03:52 pm, Net Llama! wrote: Failing drives almost always spit out some kind of an error in Linux (usually IO errors). I've never been a big fan of those commericial drive testers. For starters they almost always require that you have either windoze or a DOS boot

Re: RH 8.0 and XFS (font server)

2002-11-28 Thread Net Llama!
Have you checked Redhat's bugzilla to see if this is a known issue? If its not, you should report it. On 11/28/02 05:16, Tim Wunder wrote: Using RH8... every once in a while, after logging out, xfs dies on me, causing X not to load. I have to manually start xfs with 'xfs -daemon' to get X to

Re: OK my hardware is screwed how to I diagnose it?

2002-11-28 Thread Net Llama!
On 11/28/02 04:24, James McDonald wrote: Folks, I have a AMD 1.3GHz 768MB DDR RAM and an MSI Mainboard with an nForce chipset. All had been going well running RH7.2-8.0 Until it started freezing and spontaneously rebooting My question is how do I validate my hardware so that I can isolate

Viewing mac files

2002-11-28 Thread Joel Hammer
Is there a way on linux to view a file like this: BinHex binary text, version 4.0 (This file must be converted with BinHex 4.0) :$dPZC'PKELKG#dB@*XC3+8%9(5PCA8J3!N!0PD`#30GVrpMri!!35NC*4J! etc. I have found the macutil package on my computer, and, and I can convert this package to data with

Re: Viewing mac files

2002-11-28 Thread Net Llama!
I dunno, i think you might be out of luck on this one. Macs do things quite differently. A file is really two things in the filesystem, a resource fork, and a data fork. Unless you have both, you can't do anything. However, binhexing makes the two forks portable, kinda like a tarball. BUt

xd card reader

2002-11-28 Thread Ken Moffat
Anyone use the olympus (or fujifilm) smartmedia/xD dual card reader with success? I'm unable to make my fuji3800 work under linux, but I'm hoping the card reader might? Any clues? Thanks... -- Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linux-users mailing

Re: Samba problem

2002-11-28 Thread Tim Wunder
On Thursday 28 November 2002 08:28 am, someone claiming to be David A. Bandel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 07:40:19 -0500 begin Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: On Thursday 28 November 2002 07:27 am, someone claiming to be David A.

Re: Samba problem

2002-11-28 Thread David A. Bandel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:29:11 -0500 begin Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: On Thursday 28 November 2002 08:28 am, someone claiming to be David A. Bandel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 28 Nov 2002

Re: KDE help?

2002-11-28 Thread RBE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Woe! I have no Preferences Personalization to go to. What I have is Session Management with no such default, so I set the Shutdown to Nobody instead of User, and that may have done it. Lycoris seems to have duplicated the layout of Windows XP.

preferred routing daemon for linux

2002-11-28 Thread Keith Morse
Just out of curiousity, what's the preferred flavour. Routed? ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: rm is picky

2002-11-28 Thread RBE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 One of the problems is that the libc.so.6 was not removed from memory, so it's still trying to get it to work. When that happens, you need to reboot. On Thursday 28 November 2002 4:19 am, ronnie gauthier wrote: here is a good reason why rm is

Re: mozilla-1.2 is out

2002-11-28 Thread Klaus-Peter Schrage
m.w.chang wrote: http://www.mozilla.org/release For Redhat 8.0, they offer two different sets of RPMs: Xft support and vanilla. Which one to choose? Are already there any observations? Klaus ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rm is picky

2002-11-28 Thread RBE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Use: alias rm = 'rm -i' to avoid removing everything. On Thursday 28 November 2002 5:29 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 04:19:51AM -0600, ronnie gauthier wrote: here is a good reason why rm is picky about what it will do and

Re: mozilla-1.2 is out

2002-11-28 Thread Net Llama!
On 11/28/02 13:25, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: m.w.chang wrote: http://www.mozilla.org/release For Redhat 8.0, they offer two different sets of RPMs: Xft support and vanilla. Which one to choose? Are already there any observations? Klaus If you like pretty fonts, then the xft version.

Re: Samba problem

2002-11-28 Thread RBE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 28 November 2002 6:27 am, David A. Bandel wrote: Folks, I have a Windoze network with a Samba server. The Windoze network is composed of 98 and ME. The Workgroup name is Oteima. On the 98 systems, there's one listing for Oteima

Re: rm is picky

2002-11-28 Thread ronnie gauthier
I never lost anything. That is an error that rm gives when you try to remove a directory without forcing and recursive. What surprised me is that an interupted command like that would try to execute itself on /. On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 08:57:14 -0500 - Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the

Re: Samba problem

2002-11-28 Thread Tim Wunder
On Thursday 28 November 2002 01:41 pm, someone claiming to be David A. Bandel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 13:29:11 -0500 begin Tim Wunder [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: On Thursday 28 November 2002 08:28 am, someone claiming to be David A.

Strange Error Message

2002-11-28 Thread RBE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am running OpenOffice.org1.0.1 (latest stable release). I have added Sun Microsystems jre 1.4.0 (supposedly needed for OOo) and also attempted to install KDE 3.05 (and failed). Got out of 3.05 and back to 2.2.2 (will have to do a install from

Re: Where did my diskspace go?

2002-11-28 Thread Alan Jackson
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 22:58:49 -0600 RBE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 27 November 2002 12:29 pm, Alan Jackson wrote: You know, I've been using Unix and/or Linux for 14 years, and I just learned something. Thank you guys!! After

Re: OK my hardware is screwed how to I diagnose it?

2002-11-28 Thread kwall
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 03:58:19PM +, Bob Raymond wrote: [...] However, their setup program usually works in Wine, so just make sure your floppy is blank and mounted. Unless you are so worried about system infestation that you won't allow a floppy to boot PC DOS 2000 ;-) What is PC

Re: Viewing mac files

2002-11-28 Thread kwall
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 12:48:22PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: Is there a way on linux to view a file like this: BinHex binary text, version 4.0 (This file must be converted with BinHex 4.0) :$dPZC'PKELKG#dB@*XC3+8%9(5PCA8J3!N!0PD`#30GVrpMri!!35NC*4J! etc. I have found the macutil package

Re: mozilla-1.2 is out

2002-11-28 Thread kwall
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:25:38PM +0100, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: m.w.chang wrote: http://www.mozilla.org/release For Redhat 8.0, they offer two different sets of RPMs: Xft support and vanilla. Which one to choose? Are already there any observations? Klaus I'd opt for the Xft

Re: preferred routing daemon for linux

2002-11-28 Thread kwall
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 01:23:08PM -0800, Keith Morse wrote: Just out of curiousity, what's the preferred flavour. Routed? Daemon-wise, routed is the only one I've ever heard of, which certainly isn't to say it's the only one. Most people seem to use the offerings from the Linux Router

Re: OK my hardware is screwed how to I diagnose it?

2002-11-28 Thread Bob Raymond
On Friday 29 November 2002 02:35 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 03:58:19PM +, Bob Raymond wrote: [...] However, their setup program usually works in Wine, so just make sure your floppy is blank and mounted. Unless you are so worried about system infestation

Re: rm is picky

2002-11-28 Thread m.w.chang
it's rm, not rmdir.. lucky blaster but if you rm -f / ...hmm.. welll... not yet catastropic. try rm -rf / ...hohoho... rm: '/' is a directory well knock me out. -- Swiftly. Silently. Invisibly. .~.in Linux we trust. news://news.linux-sxs.org / v \

Re: OK my hardware is screwed how to I diagnose it?

2002-11-28 Thread stayler
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 07:01:29 -0800, Ted Ozolins wrote: I've had this happen because of heat and I've had this because of bad ram. Memtest has been mentioned by at least two prior postss, I suggest you use it. May I add one other suggestion. In similar instances, one thing I have done that

Re: OT earthquake!

2002-11-28 Thread Jack Berger
More like 4 hrs from here. Never have skied it. Hiked it in the fall recently. Used to ski quite a bit (more than my ma and my wife could tolerate), now it's about twice a year. Guess I used it all up when I was younger. From: ronnie gauthier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lutsen is only what, three hours

Re: xd card reader

2002-11-28 Thread Marianne Taylor
Does this plug into a USB port? I am using a dazzle smartcard reader without problem. I have usb_core, EHCI and UHCI all built into my kernel (2.4.19) as well as usb_storage. Then I mount it as /dev/sda1 -t vfat /mnt/camera (your device may be different-- check the kernel messages for USB