Re: COpying to Same Inode ....

2003-11-20 Thread Net Llama!
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Ben Duncan wrote: Is there a way to copy a file from on file system to another and keep the inode number(s) the same on that particular file. I know the inode(s) will have to be free on the receiving file system. I don't know the answer, but i'm curious why you'd want to

Re: HD question

2003-11-20 Thread Net Llama!
What makes you so sure that the HD is bad? Can you put it into a different box and mount any of the partitions? On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Rick Sivernell wrote: list My laptop system has gone down while I was using it. When I tried to get it to reboot, it stuck in grub. I used the gentoo live

Re: XFS filesystem revisited

2003-11-20 Thread Net Llama!
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Collins Richey wrote: FYI. From time to time we have threads about the use of various filesystems (usually degrades rapidly to my fs is better than your fs). I just happened to be reviewing the current Gentoo Handbook - a work in progress, and I noted the following

Re: HD question

2003-11-20 Thread Net Llama!
On 11/20/03 14:21, Rick Sivernell wrote: Lonnie You do have a point here, I did try a 2nd hd on the laptop, it worked as it should, it was a small drive. The original will not boot, but fdisk can read the partition. grub will start then hang. Can not put this drive in to older laptop as it has

Re: Apache log probe?

2003-11-19 Thread Net Llama!
On 11/19/03 17:07, Ken Moffat wrote: Anyone have a clue ? What is this, from my apache/access.log? 217.210.77.107 - - [19/Nov/2003:02:07:29 -0800] SEARCH /\x90\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02\xb1\x02

sendmail won't start

2003-11-19 Thread Net Llama!
I'm trying to do something that is admittedly a bit foolish. I'm trying to get the sendmail RPM from Redhat-7.3 working on my ancient Caldera box. There's really not much Caldera left in it, as I've been upgrading it piecemeal to assorted Redhat RPMs for a while now, but it was last an

Re: Apache log probe?

2003-11-19 Thread Net Llama!
On 11/19/03 21:07, Collins Richey wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 18:56:39 -0800 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Collins Richey wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:37:56 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/19/03 17:07, Ken Moffat wrote: Anyone have a clue ? What

Re: sendmail won't start

2003-11-19 Thread Net Llama!
it. Joel On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 07:35:33PM -0800, Net Llama! wrote: I'm trying to do something that is admittedly a bit foolish. I'm trying to get the sendmail RPM from Redhat-7.3 working on my ancient Caldera box. There's really not much Caldera left in it, as I've been upgrading

Re: xfce4 build error

2003-11-17 Thread Net Llama!
Are you using the official source, or a gentoo build? I've built xfce-4.0.1 on a few boxes and never run into anything like that. I don't even have a sn.h on any of my boxes. On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Rick Sivernell wrote: List Trying to upgrade xfce to xfce4 on gentoo, I get the following

Re: laptop screen blanking wont stop!

2003-11-17 Thread Net Llama!
Ya, i'm pretty sure that its a BIOS setting, if its the thinkpad that your employer gave you ;) On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Aaron Grewell wrote: Perhaps a BIOS setting? On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 12:47, Douglas J Hunley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've got a thinkpad

Re: html and web application

2003-11-17 Thread Net Llama!
On 11/17/03 08:01, dep wrote: a couple of weeks ago, when the textmaker sale was coming up, there was some discussion here of a wysiwig program to make html editing easier. while poking around today, i found this, which looks promising, and which appears to be free: http://www.nvu.com/ That's

Re: FW: [EmperorLinux-os-RedHat] do not use : GLIBC update packages ( from Red Hat Network)

2003-11-14 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote: Net Llama! wrote: What last time? Let's not play revisionist historians, ok? But there IS a history, dating back to April, see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88456 and updating glibc to glibc-2.3.2-27.9.6 hosed my

Re: tar + bunzip2

2003-11-14 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, M.W. Chang wrote: how to decompress file.tar.bz2 with tar and bunzip2? `bunzip2 -dkc file.tar.bz2 | tar xvf` didn't work. Define didn't work. -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman[EMAIL

Re: rms: i'm clueless, dammit!

2003-11-14 Thread Net Llama!
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Jack Berger wrote: Good analogy on the sears tools bit, but we do use a lot of the gnu tools on our solaris systems. That's cause Solaris is almost unusable with the tools that are native to the OS. Im still baffled to this day why anyone voluntarily uses Sun hardware or

Re: [EmperorLinux-os-RedHat] do not use : GLIBC update packages ( from Red Hat Network)

2003-11-14 Thread Net Llama!
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Collins Richey wrote: On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:05:05 -0500 Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consuming 0.8K bytes, Net Llama! blathered: On 11/13/03 17:04, dep wrote: quoth Kurt Wall: | Consuming 2.3K bytes, Net Llama! blathered: | I can vouch for this. My

Re: way ot

2003-11-14 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Collins Richey wrote: I'm too much of an email/etc youngster to understand shortcuts like :-) and ;-) My google searches have produced no results. Where are these defined? rotate your head 270 degree, and look at them again. --

Re: A First Look: Next-Generation Debian Installer

2003-11-14 Thread Net Llama!
This is actually redhat's text based installer, anaconda that Debian is using. Its worth noting that it does not include Redhat's kickstart functionality. On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Collins Richey wrote: FYI Some Breaking News.. A First Look: Next-Generation Debian Installer

Re: spamassassin's sa-learn

2003-11-14 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Myles Green wrote: My hardware: Athlon 1800+ 1.5GB PC2700 DDR RAM (Samsung) nVidia Geforce2 MX 400 (using nvidia drivers) PS/2 keyboard USB wheel mouse (Logitech) using IMPS/2 protocol I've run Memtest86 on the RAM, one stick at a time and all three

Re: Fedora getting some bad reviews

2003-11-13 Thread Net Llama!
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Collins Richey wrote: This is one reason I prefer the gentoo model - incremental releases (that usually aren't too painful) over a long period. Unlike the RH approach, gentoo doesn't mark a new compiler release as stable for common use until most all packages work with the

Re: FW: [EmperorLinux-os-RedHat] do not use : GLIBC update packages ( from Red Hat Network)

2003-11-13 Thread Net Llama!
I can vouch for this. My RH9 box is trashed as a result. On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Folks, Since we've been talking about updates, I got this today from the Emperor Linux folks, who installed RH on a couple of work laptops. -Original Message- Customers

Re: FW: [EmperorLinux-os-RedHat] do not use : GLIBC update packages ( from Red Hat Network)

2003-11-13 Thread Net Llama!
Redhat did re-release the packages about an hour ago. Fixed my problems on RH9. On 11/13/03 14:32, Michael Hipp wrote: For once I'm glad I procrastinated about installing a security update. Thanks, Michael Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Folks, Since we've been talking about updates, I got this

Re: FW: [EmperorLinux-os-RedHat] do not use : GLIBC update packages ( from Red Hat Network)

2003-11-13 Thread Net Llama!
On 11/13/03 17:04, dep wrote: quoth Kurt Wall: | Consuming 2.3K bytes, Net Llama! blathered: | I can vouch for this. My RH9 box is trashed as a result. | | [badly borken glibc] | | Whoops! leave it to redhat. what was it last time? gcc-2.7.6 or something? What last time? Let's not play

Re: OSS Alternative to RealPlayer

2003-11-12 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Michael Hipp wrote: Can anyone point me to an OSS alternative to RealPlayer for streaming audio. (If it had both Linux and Windows versions would be even better.) Can't help with the windoze side, but mplayer can do realaudio realvideo.

Re: ReiserFS Problem

2003-11-12 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Folks, I've been running SuSE 8.0 on my home system (primary desktop/mail-reader/web surfer) for some time. My boot and / disk is a 20GB EIDE disk (master on 1st IDE). I decided to upgrade to SuSE 9.0 while adding an additional NIC and a

Re: Problem booting from disk

2003-11-12 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Tom Wilson wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 13:31, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: [snip of tales of woe] In a previous message I mentioned that it also balks on booting from the previous HD, claiming problems with the ReiserFS partition (which should have been fine after a

Re: OT Matrix III

2003-11-12 Thread Net Llama!
On 11/12/03 19:32, Joel Hammer wrote: Just in case you've read the bad reviews and got turned off, Matrix III is at least 2x as good as Matrix II. The reviewers must like mindless, repetitive kung fu and must not like interesting dialogue that probes the meaning of the human experience, heavily

Re: OT pictures from the desert

2003-11-11 Thread Net Llama!
On 11/11/03 17:06, Kurt Wall wrote: Quoth burns: On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 20:39, Net Llama! wrote: On 11/09/03 16:12, burns wrote: Nice pics, Lonnie. What are the 'beehive' buildings? Charcoal Kilns: Ahhh. I was afraid you were going to tell me they were ancient Druid dwellings. Presumably

Re: SBC Yahoo DSL

2003-11-10 Thread Net Llama!
On 11/10/03 19:25, Matthew Carpenter wrote: Anyone have any experience with SBC Yahoo DSL and Linux? I believe it's PPPoE setup but I can't figure out how to generate or find a username and password... Then, I'm attempting to use an ethernet card to plug into the DSL Modem. So far I've seen

Re: KDE 3.2.0 beta and XMMS problems

2003-11-09 Thread Net Llama!
On 11/09/03 09:04, Jerry McBride wrote: MPG123 or MPG321 both still work, if only I could find a decent GUI/Frontend for them. I've been using loving playmp3list for years: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~urban/projects/playmp3list/ -- ~

Re: OT pictures from the desert

2003-11-09 Thread Net Llama!
On 11/09/03 16:12, burns wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 12:07, Net Llama! wrote: If anyone is interested, i just returned from a trip to the deserts of California Nevada (specifically the area in around Death Valley). I've got alot of pictures posted here: http://netllama.linux-sxs.org/pix

OT pictures from the desert

2003-11-08 Thread Net Llama!
If anyone is interested, i just returned from a trip to the deserts of California Nevada (specifically the area in around Death Valley). I've got alot of pictures posted here: http://netllama.linux-sxs.org/pix/ -- ~ L.

Re: PHP configure with mhas

2003-10-31 Thread Net Llama!
Ever hear of Google? http://groups.google.com/groups?as_epq=too%20few%20arguments%20to%20function%20%60ap_register_output_filter%27safe=imagesie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8lr=hl=en On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Swapana Ghosh wrote: Hi Our server is redhat8.0 with kernel kernel-2.4.18-14. The /PHP/ was already

Re: Motherboard advice

2003-10-30 Thread Net Llama!
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Harry G wrote: I am about to build another PC to be used as a workstation. I picked up a box of 5 new Seagate SCSI 3 50 gig drives for $250.00 total, so I am thinking of using some them for this. Since SCSI controller boards are about $100.00 or so, I was thinking of

Re: Moving to London OT

2003-10-29 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Federico Voges wrote: Hi, Just wanted to let you know that I've accepted a job in London (UNIX Admin). This is a big change (and challenge) for me (I'm from Argentina). Luckily I have a friend (he's the one who recommended me for the job) and my sister living there.

Re: linux-2.6.0-test8 compile - How do I change the default compiler?

2003-10-28 Thread Net Llama!
Set the environment variable CC equal to the path to the gcc that you want to use. On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, James McDonald wrote: Hi Y'all, I'm running RH9.0 with a gcc --version output of gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5) and a gcc296 --version output

Re: OT Well somewhat

2003-10-26 Thread Net Llama!
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Susan Macchia wrote: Win4Lin only support Windows 98, not 2k, etc, the last I heard. Other than that there is VMware (which works very well, unless you upgrade the kernel). VMWare works fine with every 2.4.x kernel, up to including 2.4.22. 2.6.0 is another story, however.

Re: xfs_check permission denied.

2003-10-25 Thread Net Llama!
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, M.W. Chang wrote: I booted my system with Knoppix 3.3 and attempted to xfs_check a xfs partition on the harddisk. it reported an error permission denied. what could possibly caused that? Are you doing this as root? Knoppix, by default, doesn't make you root. --

backwards

2003-10-25 Thread Net Llama!
http://www.linux-sxs.org.mirror.sytes.org/ -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com

Re: gcc-3.2.1 and htdig-3.1.6

2003-10-24 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, M.W. Chang wrote: I updated the gcc to 3.2.1 (following the gcc notes). When I tried to compiled htdig, it complained about missing libstdc++ libraries. How could that be possible? I checked that the gcc source tree had a subdirectory libstdc++. What was the exact error?

Re: strange cd problem

2003-10-23 Thread Net Llama!
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, dep wrote: greets, folks! this one is kind of weird. i have a cd, burned by a friend, containing data in mbox format that i really need to get to. i can open the cd in, say, midnight commander, and can view the files, no problem. but if i try to copy those files to the

Re: strange cd problem

2003-10-23 Thread Net Llama!
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, dep wrote: quoth Net Llama!: | A bad CD, or failing HW. Something is failing when attempting to | read or write the data. How are you copying the data? If not with | the command line, then i'd suggest trying that, and checking dmesg or | messages for useful errors

Re: Linux users' mailing list down? (fwd)

2003-10-23 Thread Net Llama!
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:35:21 -0600 From: Andrew Mathews [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linux users' mailing list down? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Susan Macchia wrote: | For the last

Re: database of rcs and rpm

2003-10-23 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, M.W. Chang wrote: in openlinux, rpm-3.0.6 uses /var/lib/rpm to store her databases. what about rcs-5.7? what does rcs have to do with this? and does it apply to other distro? Does what apply to other distros? --

Re: database of rcs and rpm

2003-10-23 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, M.W. Chang wrote: that shoudl be covered when I backup /home/* RCS doesn't use central databases, but an RCS directory under each directory where RCS is used. where is the CVSROOT? what did you mean by one or more? Depends on how you set up the repository. I still

Redhat Enterprise Linux 3

2003-10-22 Thread Net Llama!
Anyone have a copy, or know where I can acquire a copy of RHAS-3.0? -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com

Re: glibc question

2003-10-20 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tony Alfrey wrote: Hi; I've got an app that wants libc.so.6 (which I have) but it tells me that it wants the version from glibc-2.2.4, while I have something a little older, like glibc-2.2.1. glibc-2.2.4 and all its parts is a big thing (maybe over 10 MB) and I seem to

Re: glibc question

2003-10-20 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Leon Goldstein wrote: Net Llama! wrote: No. You're not removing glibc-2.2.1, you're just adding glibc-2.2.4. Have you tried the old symlink trick? Which trick is that? -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman

Re: Using the bigmem kernel

2003-10-20 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Simper, Brian D wrote: I am using Red Hat Linux 9. Under what circumstances does the bigmem kernel get loaded and used by the install program? I had heard it was used if you got more than 4 GB of memory but I was wondering if anyone had any experience with using it. Are

Re: I need a distro recommendation!

2003-10-17 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: A prime candidate for Lindows? Perhaps Xandros... There's also Redmond Linux, or whatever they're calling it now. -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I need a distro recommendation!

2003-10-17 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Collins Richey wrote: Lycoris (Debian based) is supposed to be good also, but once again not free. Unless they really changed direction, Lycoris is based on Caldera, not Debian. -- ~~ Lonni J Friedman

Re: I need a distro recommendation!

2003-10-17 Thread Net Llama!
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Robert E. Raymond wrote: 1. Mozilla -- If you want the latest, you will have problems with Flash (the one from Macromedia did not work when I tried it some months back. May be fixed by now though) and Java (Using Sun, Blackdown or IBM? Remember that for the Plug-In to

Re: yet another .pdf question

2003-10-17 Thread Net Llama!
You could always print the pages to postscript, and then open it with ghostview. On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, dep wrote: i have a very long pdf file, several pages of which i would like to be able to save to a separate pdf file. i can find no way of doing this without buying very expensive software.

Re: Has open software gone nuts?

2003-10-14 Thread Net Llama!
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Collins Richey wrote: http://www.forbes.com/2003/10/14/cz_dl_1014linksys.html This type of legal-schmegal wrangling is what we expect from SCO and its brethren. It smells no better when it comes from OSS. I see nothing wrong with it. How would you propose that the GPL

Re: Has open software gone nuts?

2003-10-14 Thread Net Llama!
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Collins Richey wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 12:10:36 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Collins Richey wrote: http://www.forbes.com/2003/10/14/cz_dl_1014linksys.html This type of legal-schmegal wrangling is what we expect from SCO

Re: httpd process is becoming *zombie*

2003-10-11 Thread Net Llama!
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Swapana Ghosh wrote: Our server is Cobalt raq4r.Last few days I am noticing that sometimes the process under httpd is being killed. And the process becoming *zombie*. I checked all the cron jobs but did not find any clue which is to be the cause of httpd *zombie*

Re: httpd process is becoming *zombie*

2003-10-11 Thread Net Llama!
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Swapana Ghosh wrote: Yes i have checked the apache error log.. But i am not gettung any clue there for the processes which are becoming *zombie* under httpd . Here is the version of apache and kernel of our server. server [root /root]# rpm -q apache

Re: SMPEG

2003-10-11 Thread Net Llama!
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Ted Ozolins wrote: I've been trying to compile smpeg-0.4.4 and it keeps crapping out with the following message. I'm runing Slackware 9.1 (upgraded from 9.0 to 9.1 using swaret) No matter what I try, I get this same ending. Any ideas? [EMAIL

Re: X won't start

2003-10-10 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Allan Rabenau wrote: I've done that (at least in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directory). Each subdirectory now has a new fonts.dir file. No luck. Is not the unix/:7100 error relating to a URL:port notation? If so, that would lead me to suspect a net communication

Re: X won't start

2003-10-10 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Ian Stephen wrote: On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 05:49, Allan Rabenau wrote: I've done that (at least in the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts directory). Each subdirectory now has a new fonts.dir file. No luck. Is not the unix/:7100 error relating to a URL:port notation? If so, that

Re: Maximum Memory in Linux

2003-10-09 Thread Net Llama!
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, M.W. Chang wrote: are these options available from make menuconfig? Yes. I'm not aware of any options that aren't. James McDonald wrote: # CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y # CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set The standard /boot/config-2.4.20-8 contains

RH9 and xedit

2003-10-09 Thread Net Llama!
Now that I've started to deploy RH9 on several boxes, the lack of xedit has started to annoy me a lot. I like xedit, because its a bare bones X text editor. Anyone know why RH9 doesn't include xedit (which i thought was part of XFree86)? Anyone know how i could get xedit without building

Re: RH9 and xedit

2003-10-09 Thread Net Llama!
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Michael Hipp wrote: Net Llama! wrote: Now that I've started to deploy RH9 on several boxes, the lack of xedit has started to annoy me a lot. I like xedit, because its a bare bones X text editor. Anyone know why RH9 doesn't include xedit (which i thought was part

Re: RH9 and xedit

2003-10-09 Thread Net Llama!
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: On 10/9/2003 1:13 PM, I believe that Net Llama! wrote: On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Michael Hipp wrote: Net Llama! wrote: Now that I've started to deploy RH9 on several boxes, the lack of xedit has started to annoy me a lot. I like xedit, because its

Re: X won't start

2003-10-09 Thread Net Llama!
Which distro is this? I managed to cause similar horkage when i mesed up permissions/onwership on a bunch of directories. if you've got sshd running on th ebox, you can try running _any_ X app remotely, which should help to determine whether its X that is brooken, or something else. On Thu, 9

Re: RH9 and xedit

2003-10-09 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, James McDonald wrote: To compile mplayer mean't a search of the web for many supporting libraries that came standard with Mandrake. That wasn't my experience. mplayer build on both of my RH9 systems without a single problem. So my opinion is that Redhat, in the quest for

Re: Oops! (different machine)

2003-10-08 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Matthew Carpenter wrote: Testing new backup procedures on one of my machines, I kept locking up half-way through, consistently. This last time, I got a kernel Oops (happened to be watching it through a serial connection so I was able to save it). I'm pretty sure it's

Re: error compiling lilo from source

2003-10-08 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, M.W. Chang wrote: what did I miss? is there a how-to on this? cc -c -O2 -Wall -g -DLILO=0x489b `( if [ -r $ROOT/etc/lilo.defines ]; then cat $ROOT/etc/lilo.defines; else echo -DBDATA -DDSECS=3 -DEVMS -DIGNORECASE -DLVM -DONE_SHOT -DPASS160 -DREISERFS -DREWRITE_TABLE

Re: Maximum Memory in Linux

2003-10-08 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Simper, Brian D wrote: Is there a theoretical or functional maximum memory you can put in a Linux machine? I have a server with 2GB installed but the free command stubbornly says: # free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:

Re: Maximum Memory in Linux

2003-10-08 Thread Net Llama!
... - Original Message - From: Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 1:15 PM Subject: Re: Maximum Memory in Linux On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Simper, Brian D wrote: Is there a theoretical or functional maximum memory you can put in a Linux machine

Re: Stupid RPM, or just me???

2003-10-07 Thread Net Llama!
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Michael Hipp wrote: Michael Hipp wrote: # rpm --rebuilddb error: db4 error(16) from dbenv-remove: Device or resource busy ps ax | grep rpm is clean. And the above command was even issued from a fresh reboot. Looked for a lock file, couldn't find one. Anyone know what

OT Sun Netra question

2003-10-05 Thread Net Llama!
Anyone here ever had to admin a Sun Netra? I've recently inherited a few (against my will), and discovered that they don't have the DB25 serial port that i'm accustomed to on other Sun hardware. Anyone know what kind of cable is needed to setup serial console on these beasts (and where I could

Re: OT Sun Netra question

2003-10-05 Thread Net Llama!
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Ted Ozolins wrote: Net Llama! wrote: Anyone here ever had to admin a Sun Netra? I've recently inherited a few (against my will), and discovered that they don't have the DB25 serial port that i'm accustomed to on other Sun hardware. Anyone know what kind of cable

Re: OT Sun Netra question

2003-10-05 Thread Net Llama!
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Ted Ozolins wrote: Net Llama! wrote: Its some kind of RJ45 (8 pin, i guess). There are two ports, one is LOM, the other is just an ordinary RJ45. PIN SIGNAL DB25 1 --- DTS --- 4 2 --- DTR ---20 3 --- TXD --- 2 4 --- Sig GND --- 1 5 --- Sig GND

Re: OT Sun Netra question

2003-10-05 Thread Net Llama!
prompt. If you need the documentation for LOM port operations, you can look for it on the Internet, or email me. I might have it handy. Regards, pascal chong Ted Ozolins wrote: Net Llama! wrote: OK. But i don't need DB25. I've got a Rocketport which takes RJ45, and the Netra RJ45

Re: OT Sun Netra question

2003-10-05 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Chong Yu Meng wrote: I know what you mean ! In my recent project, I had 3 different Sun servers requiring 3 different console cables. The Netra console cable is the most easily acquired, because it is the same as the Cisco console cable. The other 2 had to be fabricated

Re: Laptop suggestions

2003-10-04 Thread Net Llama!
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Joel Hammer wrote: I need to buy a laptop in the next week for a trip. I don't think I can get a laptop loaded with linux during that time so I will likely just get an XP machine and either remove XP or dual boot it sometime down the road. So, my question, any laptop

Re: Laptop suggestions

2003-10-04 Thread Net Llama!
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Bruce Marshall wrote: I too am thinking about a laptop and you might take a look at: www.emperorlinux.com They load linux on their laptops... although you pay highly for that I suspect. But what I did was to go there and get an idea of which laptops are compatible

Re: Laptop suggestions

2003-10-04 Thread Net Llama!
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Chong Yu Meng wrote: I'm using a Thinkpad R40. Got it for SGD$1,600, which equates to slightly less than USD$1,000. Brand new. A few caveats though : I'm running very happily on RH9 + XFCE4 with 2 Apache web server yea, Thinkpads are very nice, and are virtually

Re: Laptop suggestions

2003-10-04 Thread Net Llama!
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Joel Hammer wrote: Thanks for all the suggestions. I will look into them. One point, maybe a sore one. Consumers Report recommended laptops with centrino chips because they get longer battery life and fit into a smaller case. I haven't used a laptop before, so I don't have

Re: Mozilla Java Plugin

2003-10-03 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Allan Rabenau wrote: I have installed RH 9, and am using Mozilla 1.2.1. I have downloaded Java j2re-1_4_2.01 and would like to add it as a plugin to the Mozilla, but I can't find any instructions. There is an sxs addressing this idea, but it refers to files that are not

Re: Clock Sync in RH9

2003-10-03 Thread Net Llama!
It uses ntp. On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Michael Hipp wrote: RH9 gives the option to have the system clock automatically synced to clock.redhat.com or clock2.redhat.com . I've observed it attempt to do this on boot-up. But does it also sync at regular intervals? And what controls this? Can't find

Re: Clock Sync in RH9

2003-10-03 Thread Net Llama!
all the answers are in /etc/ntp.conf On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Michael Hipp wrote: Net Llama! wrote: It uses ntp. Okay, I figured that. But what initiates the sync? And how often? And does it have an agression algorithm if it's not had a good sync in so many hours/days? And where is this all

Re: Networking / security problem in gentoo

2003-10-02 Thread Net Llama!
Stupid question. Is whatever printing daemon you're using even listening on the port its supposed to listen on? (netstat -an) On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Matthew Carpenter wrote: also, what printing system are you using? CUPS? CUPS-LPD (usually port 515 through inetd or the like and then accessing

Re: question

2003-10-02 Thread Net Llama!
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Rick Sivernell wrote: List I have created a website for a college project. The site is at the Univ. of Tulsa, as we are in a virtual bussiness enviroment. The web pages themselves are ok. But the problem is the background jpeg and some other jpegs screw up the whole

Re: recording wavs (or aiffs)

2003-10-01 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Collins Richey wrote: On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 09:34:08 +0100 Squabsy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Should I need to do a HD install of knoppix to get it working ? No, although you will need to remount a partition read/write

Re: recording wavs

2003-09-30 Thread Net Llama!
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Squabsy wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 11:35:46 -0500, Alma J Wetzker [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I propose yet another test. Use knoppix and try recording again. I am not ready to retire my col or SuSE systems but I kinda like the way knoppix works. Ha yes that's what

Re: from an sco press release today

2003-09-30 Thread Net Llama!
HITLER. HITLER HITLER HITLER. Now can we stop this entire thread, please, or at the very least move it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Joel Hammer wrote: Actually, it was worse. It seems they asked for recounts without any clear criteria for recounting ballots. That was the famous

Re: SUSE vs Knoppix

2003-09-29 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Squabsy wrote: I am currently using SuSE 8.2 personal and apart from the now well documented problem I am havving recording Wavs I am getting on reasonably ok with it. I have read a lot of favourable press recently about knoppix and wondered if anyone would care to

Re: recording wavs

2003-09-29 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Squabsy wrote: On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 00:20:08 +0100, Squabsy [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: OK with ulimit -a I get [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ulimit -a core file size(blocks, -c) 0 data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited file size (blocks, -f) unlimited

Re: SUSE vs Knoppix

2003-09-29 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Collins Richey wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:18:00 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Squabsy wrote: I am currently using SuSE 8.2 personal and apart from the now well documented problem I am havving recording Wavs I am getting

Re: SUSE vs Knoppix

2003-09-29 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Ken Moffat wrote: KNOPPIX Is debian based, SuSE is, well, SuSE. I love KNOPPIX for recovery purposes, but i'd never use Debian on a regular basis. The entire religious 'Gnu/Linux' zealotry combined with what i feel is completely stupid packaging give me a bad taste in my

Re: SUSE vs Knoppix

2003-09-29 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Ken Moffat wrote: Net Llama! wrote: Gotta ask. What is so stupid about what I consider the best packaging/updating scheme out there. (sorry, haven't tried gentoo) You can keep debian updated using only a couple of commands once in a while. (apt-get update apt-get dist

Re: Related to cron.daily

2003-09-29 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Swapana Ghosh wrote: Hi In our /etc directory I am seeing there are two directories 1. cron.daily 2. cron.daily2 Under cron.daily2 the *webalizer.pl* is mentioned. But in /etc/logrotate only cron.daily is mentioned to be executed. But somehow i am

Re: Related to cron.daily

2003-09-29 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Swapana Ghosh wrote: Hi Pointer to what? You haven't said what the problem is. You did alude to something about webalizer.pl, but there's no information on what is wrong. Is webalizer.pl not running per a cronjob? If so, then say so. Of couse the fact that its

Re: from an sco press release today

2003-09-29 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, dep wrote: quoth burns: | Ballocks i pretty much agree with you, but what i thought was significant was a company, in court, saying that the gpl won't hold up. this is what we've been waiting for and to some extent feared (court is always a crap shoot, usually with a

Re: duh

2003-09-28 Thread Net Llama!
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, koko wrote: Just when I think I'm getting better... I am doing a new installation of RH 7.2 on a gateway machine for home network. I intend to download Roaring Penguin to NAT and also the gateway will server as my firewall. I did a workstation install and will have

Re: OT Wife almost weened into linux

2003-09-28 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Rick Sivernell wrote: I have a second question here. I have a /opt directory where no program will run without a permission denied. if I umount and remount, all works fine. the below is my /etc/fstab, is there something that stands out here to anyone. /dev/hda1

Re: cablemodem and wireless network

2003-09-28 Thread Net Llama!
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Harry Giles wrote: Sorry for the dumb questions, but before I spend the money: 1.With a cable modem, can you just connect it to the network hub, or do you need to use a router, as with adsl? Huh? ADSL doesn't require a router. You need a cable modem, which most

Re: Another dumb question about cablemodem and wireless network

2003-09-28 Thread Net Llama!
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Harry Giles wrote: Will this work? LInux box, using a standard wired NIC plugs in to the W.A.P. and the Windows boxes on the network use the wireless cards. The cable modem goes into the router, then plugged into the W.A.P. The W.A.P. shouldn't care about the wired box

Re: cablemodem and wireless network

2003-09-28 Thread Net Llama!
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: Any opinions on, say, the D-Link DI-714P+ router? It has web-based configuration. I, too, am looking for compatible stuff like this. Also need PCI and PCMCIA cards to match. All for Linux. How about the Belkin 54g series of wireless routers and

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