Re: updating openssh

2003-01-07 Thread m.w.chang
while sshd is active, can one rpm -e openssh and use checkinstall? stayler wrote: Done it a couple times. Just cron a restart of sshd for a few minutes later then kill sshd after the make install, plus editing of sshd_config of course... -- Swiftly. Silently. Invisibly. .~. In Linux We

Re: updating openssh

2003-01-07 Thread m.w.chang
my telnet is set to work on LAN only (not over the internet). just in case but if I cuold use openssh only, I would rpm -e the telnet daemon. the only hussles is the key. I have to figure out a way to let me access my private key anywhere in the internet when I need it. Net Llama! wrote:

Re: updating openssl

2003-01-07 Thread m.w.chang
yes. `rpm -q --whatrequires openssl` said so. stayler wrote: mod_ssl will need to be redone if memory serves -- Swiftly. Silently. Invisibly. .~. In Linux We Trust. news://news.hkpcug.org/ v \ http://www.linux-sxs.org news://news.linux.org.hk /( _ )\

Re: Voice recognition

2003-01-07 Thread m.w.chang
someone boasted how he used a nokia phoen to remote login a linux server. how about using the mobile phone's voice reconigtion capability? Joel Hammer wrote: I would like to have a linux computer be able to respond to simple voice commands. For example, to words like menu, action or cancel and

Re: LAN*Assist on linux?

2003-01-07 Thread m.w.chang
vnc or tight vnc need the xfree86 right? is there a console mode tool? Wil McGilvery wrote: I use tight VNC and it will do what you want. Tight VNC has several good options for use over slow connections. -- Swiftly. Silently. Invisibly. .~. In Linux We Trust. news://news.hkpcug.org

Re: killing viruses in kmail

2003-01-07 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 10:57:50 -0500 Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tony Alfrey spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: Hi. I use kmail. Periodically I get things that look like some nasty html-based script that is some

Re: divx4

2003-01-07 Thread kwall
Feigning erudition, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: % They say it can but they recommend XMMS. What do you use for audio CDs? XMMS. Actually, I rip my CDs to OGG format and play the OGGs. Kurt -- Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. ___

Re: Nikon Coolpix 2500 USB

2003-01-07 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
Over Christmas I had a major breakthru with my Coolpix 990. It is also a USB device that does NOT provide a 'disk' interface (you cannot mount it). It is based on the Sierra chipset, as are a number of other cameras. It is supported by the gphoto2 library, but not by any user-level apps. Then I

Re: linux firewire recommendations

2003-01-07 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
We use UniBrain 400 cards. I think most OHCI cards are fine. Just stay away from the pcilynx cards. They are not as well supported on Linux. Especially for things like DMS transfer. On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 10:17:24 -0700 Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone familiar with linux/fireware/adapters

Re: Nikon Coolpix 2500 USB

2003-01-07 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 20:52:08 -0500 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I followed your suggestions and they worked perfectly. Dang, this is good. I just wish I knew why sda1 works. If sda1 works, then the 2500 is not using the sierra chipset. Still, the digikam app I

Re: Dual boot upgrade...

2003-01-07 Thread Bill Day
Jim, long tiime no see There should be nothing to it, pop in the cd, when asked where to install to, use same partition as 98. lilo(and grub for that matter) should be oblivious, as long as the same partition is used. Bill -- Bill Day Linux 2.2.20-1tr i586 4:10am up 2 days, 9:45, 0

Re: linux firewire recommendations

2003-01-07 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 10:42:09 +0100 Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We use UniBrain 400 cards. I think most OHCI cards are fine. Just stay away from the pcilynx cards. They are not as well supported on Linux. Especially for things like DMS transfer.

Re: linux firewire recommendations

2003-01-07 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Sat, 4 Jan 2003 10:32:53 -0800 Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 10:17:24AM -0700, Collins wrote: Anyone familiar with linux/fireware/adapters etc.? I'm looking to attach my JVC DVL805 camcorder to my linux box. Obviously I will need to add a firewire

Re: divx4

2003-01-07 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 20:59:12 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feigning erudition, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: % Hmm, I'll look at Mplayer then. I understand almost all of the stuff we use is done by people like us in our spare time but it seems the docs or at least a decent overview of what a

RE: Routing Issue?

2003-01-07 Thread Wil McGilvery
Boy do I feel stupid. Thanks for the suggestions. The machines that I could not ping have never had to go to the Internet before and therefore did not have proper gateways set up - duh! Problem solved. Wil McGilvery Manager, Digital Media 416-744-7191 416-716-3964 (cell) 1-888-622-3729

Re: Nikon Coolpix 2500 USB

2003-01-07 Thread Ken Moffat
Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 20:52:08 -0500 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks. I followed your suggestions and they worked perfectly. Dang, this is good. I just wish I knew why sda1 works. If sda1 works, then the 2500 is not using the sierra chipset. Still,

[gentoo] the new xfs fs support

2003-01-07 Thread m.w.chang
it's the 1.4 rc2 686 LiveCD just downloaded the gentoo 1.4rc2 LiveCD. the installation guide didn't mention how to create a xfs root partition. what should I do to use xfs? btw, the step of using dd to clean the first 1k of partition could be dangerous, isn't it? a wrong output device will

Re: updating openssh

2003-01-07 Thread stayler
On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 16:00:26 +0800, m.w.chang wrote: while sshd is active, can one rpm -e openssh and use checkinstall? That I can't say. Since I went over to Slackware, I've been tarballing things. stayler ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL

Re: Dual boot upgrade...

2003-01-07 Thread stayler
Lilo will boot Win2K fine. He may need to make up a boot floppy so he can reinstall lilo when Win2K is done frelling up his HD stayler On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 04:33:24 +, James Conner wrote: I have a friend that is currently running Mandrake 9.0 and Win98SE with lilo as the boot manager.

Re: Voice recognition

2003-01-07 Thread Leon A. Goldstein
Joel Hammer wrote inter alia: My problem is my sound card. The sound comes through very garbled on my speakers. Despite this, it still recognized commands, although with some difficulty. This may be time to get rid of that old soundblaster. I'd suggest you try a different set of speakers

Re: [gentoo] the new xfs fs support

2003-01-07 Thread Net Llama!
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, m.w.chang wrote: it's the 1.4 rc2 686 LiveCD just downloaded the gentoo 1.4rc2 LiveCD. the installation guide didn't mention how to create a xfs root partition. what should I do to use xfs? Create a linux partition, and format for xfs. btw, the step of using dd to clean

Re: updating openssh

2003-01-07 Thread Net Llama!
For older versions of openssh. On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, m.w.chang wrote: I barely remembere that the moment you rpm -e sshd, your last openssh session would be killed./ stayler wrote: On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 16:00:26 +0800, m.w.chang wrote: while sshd is active, can one rpm -e openssh and use

Re: updating openssh

2003-01-07 Thread Net Llama!
No. Since when do you upgrade a package by removing it? SUrely you mean rpm -Uvh openssh. On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, m.w.chang wrote: while sshd is active, can one rpm -e openssh and use checkinstall? stayler wrote: Done it a couple times. Just cron a restart of sshd for a few minutes later

Re: LAN*Assist on linux?

2003-01-07 Thread Net Llama!
[y]talk On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, m.w.chang wrote: vnc or tight vnc need the xfree86 right? is there a console mode tool? Wil McGilvery wrote: I use tight VNC and it will do what you want. Tight VNC has several good options for use over slow connections. --

Re: updating openssh

2003-01-07 Thread Net Llama!
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, m.w.chang wrote: my telnet is set to work on LAN only (not over the internet). just in I assume you've set this up so that telnet is only listening on an interface that is internal. case but if I cuold use openssh only, I would rpm -e the telnet daemon. the only

RE: LAN*Assist on linux?

2003-01-07 Thread Wil McGilvery
Tight VNC has its own scaled down x server included. I have never used it without a GUI because SSH works well with command lines. I am assuming that if Tight VNC uses its own x server, you could install it without xfree86 and use it in command mode. Wil McGilvery Manager, Digital Media

Re: Digital Video Editing Software

2003-01-07 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Here is a good read if you're interested in digital video editing using OSS and Linux. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5817 On Fri, 3 Jan 2003 21:45:48 -0500 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several days ago someone posted asking about digital video editing software for

Re: divx4

2003-01-07 Thread Matthew Carpenter
You got that right. They are much better at telling you why they dropped support for DeCSS than how their software works. I did an install with much headaches and dropped it because it never worked well... Then I read Llama's SxS and had a lot more confidence and built the RPM's for COLW. Only

Sylpheed help

2003-01-07 Thread Rick Sivernell
Need help on building new copy of sylpheed on rebuilt machine. I had glib 1.2.8 at /usr/lib now gone, uninstalled I had glib 1.2.10 at /usr/local/lib now gone, uninstalled I have glib .2.2 at /usr/local/lib now uninstalled updated /usr/local/bin/glib-config to usr/local and set switch to 2.0

Re: Voice recognition

2003-01-07 Thread Ted Ozolins
Leon A. Goldstein wrote: I'd suggest you try a different set of speakers before sentencing your old soundblaster to oblivion. Compared to AC97 sound, my old SB's are loud and clear. I am getting reports from the Debian list I frequent of the same. Same here, two boxen with AWE-32 one with

Re: Sylpheed help

2003-01-07 Thread Net Llama!
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Rick Sivernell wrote: Need help on building new copy of sylpheed on rebuilt machine. I had glib 1.2.8 at /usr/lib now gone, uninstalled I had glib 1.2.10 at /usr/local/lib now gone, uninstalled I have glib .2.2 at /usr/local/lib now uninstalled Is that supposed to be

Re: [suggestion] db.html

2003-01-07 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 m.w.chang spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: is it possible to place a link for db.html (compiling berneley db-4.x) in section database? that makes sense, I believe. :) right now, it's listed only as a part of sendmail_antispam.

Re: divx4

2003-01-07 Thread Matthew Carpenter
BTW, Llama- Temporarily, you may link to the following URL from your page: ftp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/home/public/public/XINE in place of the HTTP URL you had there for the XINE RPM's. Thanks, Matt On Mon, 06 Jan 2003 17:31:46 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're right about xine.

Re: Dual boot upgrade...

2003-01-07 Thread Lee
On Tuesday 07 January 2003 05:08, Bill Day wrote: Jim, long time no see There should be nothing to it, pop in the CD, when asked where to install to, use same partition as 98. lilo(and grub for that matter) should be oblivious, as long as the same partition is used. Bill Belive there's

RE: Routing Issue?

2003-01-07 Thread Wil McGilvery
All my workstations are dhcp - my servers are static, but not all of my servers are used to access the Internet. Just one of those things :) Wil McGilvery Manager, Digital Media 416-744-7191 416-716-3964 (cell) 1-888-622-3729 416-744-0406  FAX www.LynchDigital.com -Original Message-

Re: updating openssh

2003-01-07 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 04:00:26PM +0800, m.w.chang wrote: while sshd is active, can one rpm -e openssh and use checkinstall? I haven't tried that, but have frequently done an ``rpm -U'' on running systems on ssh without difficulties. I manually killed off the master sshd process, and started a

Re: Routing Issue?

2003-01-07 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 08:09:08AM -0500, Wil McGilvery wrote: Boy do I feel stupid. Thanks for the suggestions. The machines that I could not ping have never had to go to the Internet before and therefore did not have proper gateways set up - duh! One of the advantages of using dhcp is this

RE: Sylpheed help

2003-01-07 Thread Rick Sivernell
Lonnie I reinstalled by rpm glib 1.2.8 from Caldera cdrom. Now in root sylpheed runs perfectly, but in user, bind: permission denied. Now I have chmoded chgr own to users nad to real user name. no go. I must have over looked something here, but I do not know what? any suggestions here

RE: Sylpheed help

2003-01-07 Thread Rick Sivernell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Net Llama! Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 11:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sylpheed help On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Rick Sivernell wrote: Need help on building new copy of sylpheed on rebuilt

Re: divx4

2003-01-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I think it takes both - the non programmer and the user type to write good docs. On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 10:59:23 +0100 Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 20:59:12 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feigning erudition, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: % Hmm, I'll look at Mplayer

Re: LAN*Assist on linux?

2003-01-07 Thread Jerry McBride
On Mon, 06 Jan 2003 23:11:58 -0500 Wil McGilvery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use tight VNC and it will do what you want. Tight VNC has several good options for use over slow connections. Regards, Wil McGilvery Has TightVNC been a good performer for you Wil? We tried it a number of times

RE: divx4

2003-01-07 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
Roger Oberholtzer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] typed thusly on Tuesday, January 07, 2003 1:59 AM: Very true. OTOH, our company decided to write docs for a bunch of software, purposely not contacting the programmers. It made for nice sci-fi reading about what the documenters thought the software

Re: divx4

2003-01-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Yup, that's what I felt. I did Xine a year or so ago without help - what a mess. I've been in both Mplayer and Xine mailing lists and Mplayer is more professional it seems. On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 11:40:48 -0500 Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You got that right. They are much better

Re: divx4

2003-01-07 Thread kwall
Feigning erudition, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: % Roger Oberholtzer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] typed thusly on Tuesday, January 07, % 2003 1:59 AM: % % Very true. OTOH, our company decided to write docs for a bunch of % software, purposely not contacting the programmers. It made for nice %

Re: divx4

2003-01-07 Thread kwall
Feigning erudition, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: % I think it takes both - the non programmer and the user type to write good docs. This is what technical writers are for. % Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % % [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % % Feigning erudition, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: %

Re: Voice recognition

2003-01-07 Thread ronnie gauthier
You want Emacspeak and viavoice check out: http://www.ncsu.edu/it/dds/help/emacspeak-install.html On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 22:14:22 -0500 - Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote the following Re: Voice recognition I would like to have a linux computer be able to respond to simple voice commands. For

Re: divx4

2003-01-07 Thread Tom Condon
On Tuesday 07 January 2003 16:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] carved in granite: Feigning erudition, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: % I once worked for a company that had a PR guy write the user document for a % product and then asked me to write the software to make it do that! The You're kidding,

Mozilla Helper Apps

2003-01-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Does anyone have an experience with Mozilla (1.2.1) helper apps? I am trying to set gmplayer up to play MS asx files when one is selected. I have a site I'm using as a test that plays music when I click on an icon. They recommend MS media player but I want to use gmplayer G. I set up the

Re: [suggestion] db.html

2003-01-07 Thread m.w.chang
thanks is it possible to place a link for db.html (compiling berneley db-4.x) in section database? that makes sense, I believe. :) sure. I'll do that. if the procedure is proven, it'll help those that want DIY. I finally reached the point where compiling a new package will produce Tim's

Re: [gentoo] the new xfs fs support

2003-01-07 Thread m.w.chang
what's the command? the english user guide give examples for all fs except xfs. Create a linux partition, and format for xfs. take a look at the user guide yourself. :) the step after creating the 3 minimum partitions. No more dangerous than any other command you run as root. Why would you

Re: Dual boot upgrade...

2003-01-07 Thread Bill Day
sorry for my fast post jim, I did not notice the or 200 part... some1 else said it, you will need a linux boot floppy so you can modify the lilo.conf once 2k(nt as well) has screwed around with the boot partitions. wiht any of the 9x, ME or XP you should have to do nothing other than

Re: Nikon Coolpix 2500 USB

2003-01-07 Thread Robert Hemus
On Tuesday 07 January 2003 07:51 pm, you wrote: Feigning erudition, burns wrote: % On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 17:00, Joel Hammer wrote: % I went out and bought a digital camera, Nikon Coolpix 2500. They didn't have % a card reader at BestBuy. The camera is designed to hook up to a USB port. %

Re: mtrr setup?

2003-01-07 Thread David A. Bandel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 10:56:37 -0500 begin Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David A. Bandel spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: What's in your /proc/mtrr file anyway and

Updated Step

2003-01-07 Thread Nobody
Douglas Hunley has just updated http://www.linux-sxs.org/sendm2.html to incorporate the following: Updated to include connection throttling to slow dictionary attacks ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Updated Step

2003-01-07 Thread Nobody
NetLlama! and Matt Carpenter has just updated http://www.linux-sxs.org/dvdplay.html to incorporate the following: Updated with link to RPMs ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Re: Sylpheed help

2003-01-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Isn't bind a name server? You might check the sylpheed mailing list. On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 17:57:15 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/07/03 12:29, Rick Sivernell wrote: Lonnie I reinstalled by rpm glib 1.2.8 from Caldera cdrom. Now in root sylpheed runs perfectly, but

Re: Mozilla Helper Apps

2003-01-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I did G. It should be as mplayer plays the url properly when given mplayer http:/blah.blah... What is not documented is how Mozilla runs the program as in what it passes to it or how it starts it. However, in a Win2K registry MS does this with their player mplayer2 /Play %L

Re: Mozilla Helper Apps

2003-01-07 Thread Net Llama!
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Does anyone have an experience with Mozilla (1.2.1) helper apps? I am trying to set gmplayer up to play MS asx files when one is selected. I have a site I'm using as a test that plays music when I click on an icon. They recommend MS media player

Re: [gentoo] the new xfs fs support

2003-01-07 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, m.w.chang wrote: what's the command? the english user guide give examples for all fs except xfs. Create a linux partition, and format for xfs. take a look at the user guide yourself. :) the step after creating the 3 minimum partitions. No thanks. THat's why i wrote

RE: LAN*Assist on linux?

2003-01-07 Thread Wil McGilvery
I was using VNC until 3 months ago. I now use TightVNC for helpdesk situations at work and it works very well. (no crashes). I also use it from home for the same purpose. (Helpdesk). With VNC I was used to slow refreshes, but with TightVNC I get a good clean fast remote solution. I use it

Re: [gentoo] the new xfs fs support

2003-01-07 Thread Tom Jandl
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 08:00, m.w.chang wrote: it's the 1.4 rc2 686 LiveCD just downloaded the gentoo 1.4rc2 LiveCD. the installation guide didn't mention how to create a xfs root partition. what should I do to use xfs? Their online 1.4-rc2 installation guide the 1.4 guide I

Re: divx4

2003-01-07 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Maybe professional is the wrong word. I guess it's the tone of the forums and the responses. I subscribed to Xine a while back and then started again this weekend. I also started Mplayer and it appears the tone of the messages and responses are on a higher level. Xine may be good but it's

Re: Nikon Coolpix 2500 USB

2003-01-07 Thread burns
On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 19:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip % It works slicker than spit! ...slicker 'n snot on glass... hee hee I see the sense of humour remains the same. Hi y'all. I have resurfaced, having weathered the mighty business storm. -- burns

Re: [gentoo] the new xfs fs support

2003-01-07 Thread Collins
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 09:49:39 -0500 (EST) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, m.w.chang wrote: it's the 1.4 rc2 686 LiveCD just downloaded the gentoo 1.4rc2 LiveCD. the installation guide didn't mention how to create a xfs root partition. what should I do to use xfs?

Re: Sylpheed help

2003-01-07 Thread Net Llama!
On 01/07/03 12:29, Rick Sivernell wrote: Lonnie I reinstalled by rpm glib 1.2.8 from Caldera cdrom. Now in root sylpheed runs perfectly, but in user, bind: permission denied. Now I have chmoded chgr own to users nad to real user name. no go. I must have over looked something here, but I do

Re: linux firewire recommendations

2003-01-07 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 05:55:41PM -0800, Net Llama! wrote: On 01/07/03 11:02, Bill Campbell wrote: I'm still a bit leery of USB-anything. FireWire has been around and well supported by Apple for quite a while so I suspect it's a bit more robust. Leery about what exactly? USB seems to be far

Re: [suggestion] db.html

2003-01-07 Thread Net Llama!
On 01/07/03 11:28, Douglas J Hunley wrote: the gcc_notes are my content from hunley.homeip.net . they are not part of the site (yet) How hard could/would it be to make them so? Seriously, why weren't they a part of the SxS from day 1? --

CSS Help, Please

2003-01-07 Thread kwall
So, I was playing with CSS on a web page. If I use the following style.css file, I don't get the body settings I want (as viewed in Mozilla 1.2.1): style type=text/css body { color: black; background-image:url(small-grid.gif); margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%; } /style