Re: Client Switching to Linux

2002-07-01 Thread ronnie gauthier
http://www.bynari.net/downloads.html Is Evolution really a good replacement for Outlook? What do I do about syncing the Palm? ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info,

Re: dep, FHS, Slackware

2002-07-01 Thread Collins
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:05:53 -0700 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Collins wrote: Who has a simple howto on maintaining Slack? I'm thinking of something with a database of installed packages, of course. I thought that was 'pkgtool'. Am I mislead again? As root in a terminal

RE: Client Switching to Linux

2002-07-01 Thread Brian Witowski
All good advice, but I would still keep a Wintel box around as a backup. In theory it shouldn't be needed, but try telling the client that when the box with VMWare blows up and he can't do his books. Or when he complains that he doesn't like the performance hit by running multiple O.S.'s.

Re: gentoo - wow!! - progress

2002-07-01 Thread Collins
On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 20:29:45 -0700 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I feel like this discussion has become personal, not philosophical, and is accomplishing little except annimosity in both parties involved. (Maybe I'm misreading it) Take a deep breath, gents. Nothing personal about the

Re: xcdroast??

2002-07-01 Thread Net Llama!
Perhaps not the solution you're looking for, but gcombust doesn't have any resolution requirements. On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Jerry McBride wrote: Since when does xcdroast require 1024x768? I've been using xcdroast for ages... now all of the sudden it's requiring 1024x768 before it'll run! I

RE: Client Switching to Linux

2002-07-01 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Brian Witowski wrote: All good advice, but I would still keep a Wintel box around as a backup. In That's funny. THanks for making my morning. wintel box as backup wee. next you'll suggest grabbing a novell box as a backup fileserver? theory it shouldn't be needed,

Re: xcdroast??

2002-07-01 Thread Jerry McBride
On Mon, 01 Jul 2002 09:39:50 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps not the solution you're looking for, but gcombust doesn't have any resolution requirements. My only problem with gcombust is in copying cd's... How do you get it to copy a cd to .iso and back to cdr? --

Re: xcdroast??

2002-07-01 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Jerry McBride wrote: On Mon, 01 Jul 2002 09:39:50 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps not the solution you're looking for, but gcombust doesn't have any resolution requirements. My only problem with gcombust is in copying cd's... How do you get

Re: Alternatives to Gnome, KDE

2002-07-01 Thread Matthew Carpenter
On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 19:03:41 -0700 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: XFCE from CVS has a taskbar (or so i've read). Personally i detest the damn things, so i'm not about to go near it. Why is that? Task-bars or XFCE? Without a taskbar, you start looking a lot like CDE, which I detest.

Re: xfce with taskbar

2002-07-01 Thread Matthew Carpenter
One thing that Linux has allowed me to do which Winbows was never able to deliver is doing 25 different tasks at once... For better or worse, this is how I work. If I don't have a taskbar, I not only get tired Alt-Tabbing but sometimes I forget what other things I'm doing... :( On Sat, 29 Jun

Re: getting to know SuSe

2002-07-01 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I really like the SuSE distro as a whole. I'm running 8.0 on a box or two. If they'd only make their all-emcompassing config tools play nicely with REAL config files, I might be able to run them as my main distro... But then I've already covered that one too many times so I'll shut up.

Re: Alternatives to Gnome, KDE

2002-07-01 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Matthew Carpenter wrote: On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 19:03:41 -0700 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: XFCE from CVS has a taskbar (or so i've read). Personally i detest the damn things, so i'm not about to go near it. Why is that? Task-bars or XFCE? Without a taskbar,

Re: Curious log entry

2002-07-01 Thread Matthew Carpenter
If it happens enough, I'd be alerting Charter (lookup charter-ne.com at www.hexillion.com or the IP address) and requesting action be taken. I wouldn't be allowing Postgre activity through the firewall anyway (there is no excuse to not have a firewall of some sort, since the box can be it's own

Re: Mail error

2002-07-01 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I'm not sure why you would be getting AUTH errors unless you had configured SMTP AUTH on the box. If you had done that, I would have to ask why Unless you are pumping all outbound mail through a provider which requires SMTP AUTH (like Yahoo.com) then I don't see a whole lot of use for SMTP

Re: Samba shared Printers

2002-07-01 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I run into a similar issue. I am running W2k on one box at work and I can install and capture the printer on my Samba box fine. It seems that for me, the printing fails after a while of use... Granted, I probably just need to reboot more often on the W2k box... Notes makes sure I do it

Re: Mail error (SOLVED)

2002-07-01 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've fixed it yesterday. Digging through www.sendmail.org I've found how to disable authentication: Just added this to /usr/share/sendmail/cf/cf/generic-openlinux.mc define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A') And run mta-swith newconfig (the script that

Re: dep, FHS, Slackware

2002-07-01 Thread David A. Bandel
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:35:01 -0600 begin Myles Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: On Monday 01 July 2002 05:42, Collins wrote: On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:05:53 -0700 Ken Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Collins wrote: Who has a simple howto on maintaining Slack? I'm thinking of

Re: Switching fs-type from reiserfs to ext2/3

2002-07-01 Thread Matthew Carpenter
How are you creating the ext3 filesystem? On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 16:12:49 +0200 Hermann-Josef Beckers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to switch a partition from reiserfs to ext2 or ext3. Both fdisk and diskdrake do as I tell them to do (get no errors, rebooted as told). But whenever I try

Re: dep, FHS, Slackware

2002-07-01 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Let us hope that in making RedHat what it is, that there are still a few heads of importance in RH which will never forget the story of Eve and the Serpent... While this situation is a constant concern, I still believe that RH has enough people (and possibly investors already backing RH) who

Re: dep, FHS, Slackware

2002-07-01 Thread Matthew Carpenter
They would like nothing better than for Linux to die a quick and miserable death. Many of their biggest clients are choosing Lintel for video animation over their SGI/IRIX systems. No, there is no love to be lost between SGI and Linux... But then, perhaps they'll succumb like Sun has, seeing

Re: Mail error (SOLVED)

2002-07-01 Thread Matthew Carpenter
On Mon, 01 Jul 2002 15:41:56 -0300 Federico Voges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other way was to recompile sendmail without AUTH support (without libsasl) but that would mean that I'd have to recompile sendmail with each update. So the m4 option seems to be the best (it should survive

Re: Mail error (SOLVED)

2002-07-01 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Sorry, I hit the send too clickly. I'm aware that COL has libsasl and AUTH compiled by default, which is a good thing. But I was unaware that it was configured in the default sendmail.cf file. I have not seen this behavior, since Yahoo started doing SMTP AUTH and a system I admin was using

Re: dep, FHS, Slackware

2002-07-01 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Fair enough. On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:11:26 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That can't be said for openwin. ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests

Re: Security question

2002-07-01 Thread Ken Moffat
Oliver Ob wrote: Hi Linuxers... I would like to learn more about Linux and security. What (useful links also appreciated) sources for reading and mailinglists can you advise? Thanks! I'd recommend you lose that sig. ___ Linux-users mailing

Re: xcdroast??

2002-07-01 Thread Jerry McBride
On Mon, 01 Jul 2002 13:22:24 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Jerry McBride wrote: On Mon, 01 Jul 2002 09:39:50 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps not the solution you're looking for, but gcombust doesn't have any resolution

Re: xfce with taskbar

2002-07-01 Thread Collins
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 14:01:40 -0400 Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing that Linux has allowed me to do which Winbows was never able to deliver is doing 25 different tasks at once... For better or worse, this is how I work. If I don't have a taskbar, I not only get tired

Re: dep, FHS, Slackware

2002-07-01 Thread Ken Moffat
Myles Green wrote: There's always linuxmafia.org for Slackware stuff, moved to linuxpackages.net ! ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the

Re: Switching fs-type from reiserfs to ext2/3

2002-07-01 Thread Collins
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 22:11:20 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hermann-Josef Beckers) wrote: Hi Matthew, How are you creating the ext3 filesystem? In my case just simply mke2fs -j /dev/hda9, and then Slackware 8.1 was installed on the partition. I'm using e2fsprogs-1.27 -- Collins Richey -

Re: Updated Step

2002-07-01 Thread Net Llama!
Thanks. I don't have access to a hardware decoder, so i really don't have any relevant experience to add. If anyone wants to send me one, i promise to put it through the paces :) THat, or if anyone has experience, please let me know, and i can ammend my writeup. Matthew Carpenter wrote:

Re: dep, FHS, Slackware

2002-07-01 Thread Net Llama!
Collins wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:44:24 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use either checkinstall (not installwatch) for stuff from source, or use alien to take stuff from RPM and/or DEB. And does either of these solutions provide you with an automatically updated

Re: xcdroast??

2002-07-01 Thread Net Llama!
Jerry McBride wrote: On Mon, 01 Jul 2002 13:22:24 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Jerry McBride wrote: On Mon, 01 Jul 2002 09:39:50 -0400 (EDT) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps not the solution you're looking for, but gcombust doesn't have

Re: xcdroast??

2002-07-01 Thread Jerry McBride
On Mon, 01 Jul 2002 16:25:42 -0700 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---snip--- I can do that, no problems. It's what I used to do, before using the gui tools... But I gotta' ask, what good is gcombust, if you can't create an ISO from it's menus? You most definitely can create an

Re: dep, FHS, Slackware

2002-07-01 Thread Bill Davidson
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 17:25:05 -0600 Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:44:24 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use either checkinstall (not installwatch) for stuff from source, or use alien to take stuff from RPM and/or DEB. And does either of

Re: dep, FHS, Slackware

2002-07-01 Thread Collins
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:20:29 -0400 Bill Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 17:25:05 -0600 Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:44:24 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can use either checkinstall (not installwatch) for stuff from

Security question

2002-07-01 Thread Oliver Ob
Hi Linuxers... I would like to learn more about Linux and security. What (useful links also appreciated) sources for reading and mailinglists can you advise? Thanks! -- *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤=Oliver@home= *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ I http://www.bmw-roadster.de/Friends/Olli/olli.html

Re: Updated Step

2002-07-01 Thread edj
On Mon July 1 2002 03:11 pm, Matthew Carpenter wrote: [snip] Of course, That was before I used Linux like I do, and before the Xine and mplayer projects were quite so good... and before your succinct SxS. On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 01:39:30 -0400 Nobody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Net Llama! has

Re: xcdroast??

2002-07-01 Thread stayler
Now this has style.. On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:22:24 -0400 (EDT), Net Llama! wrote: I don't, cause i don't need it to: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=file.iso cdrecord -v file.iso ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Xine Re: Updated Step

2002-07-01 Thread Net Llama!
edj wrote: On Mon July 1 2002 03:11 pm, Matthew Carpenter wrote: [snip] Of course, That was before I used Linux like I do, and before the Xine and mplayer projects were quite so good... and before your succinct SxS. On Sun, 30 Jun 2002 01:39:30 -0400 Nobody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Net

Re: xfce with taskbar

2002-07-01 Thread David A. Bandel
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 16:52:14 -0600 begin Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 14:01:40 -0400 Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing that Linux has allowed me to do which Winbows was never able to deliver is doing 25 different tasks at once... For better

Re: dep, FHS, Slackware

2002-07-01 Thread David A. Bandel
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 17:25:05 -0600 begin Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:44:24 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:35:01 -0600 begin Myles Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: On Monday 01 July 2002 05:42, Collins

Re: xfce with taskbar

2002-07-01 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:44:34 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: Have you tried Blackbox? What you have sounds similar. I have played w/ many different wm's [ice, xfce, windowmaker, fvwm, and Enlightenment (up to v. 0.16.5), and

Re: xfce with taskbar

2002-07-01 Thread Collins
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 22:20:25 -0400 Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:44:34 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: Have you tried Blackbox? What you have sounds similar. I have played w/ many

Re: dep, FHS, Slackware

2002-07-01 Thread Collins
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:55:55 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 17:25:05 -0600 begin Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:44:24 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:35:01 -0600 begin Myles Green

Re: xfce with taskbar

2002-07-01 Thread Michael Hipp
Blackbox doesn't really have a taskbar. At least not in mine. You can step thru the running tasks by hitting the little - - buttons, but that's just a graphical version of Alt-Tab. Michael On Monday 01 July 2002 08:44 pm, David A. Bandel wrote: Just follow the howto I posted a couple of

Re: xfce with taskbar

2002-07-01 Thread Collins
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 21:50:55 -0500 Michael Hipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Blackbox doesn't really have a taskbar. At least not in mine. You can step thru the running tasks by hitting the little - - buttons, but that's just a graphical version of Alt-Tab. Yes, I remember now. I tried all of

Re: xfce with taskbar

2002-07-01 Thread David A. Bandel
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:43:35 -0600 begin Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 22:20:25 -0400 Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:44:34 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled intuitively: Have you tried Blackbox? What

Re: xfce with taskbar

2002-07-01 Thread Collins
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 22:35:44 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:43:35 -0600 begin Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 22:20:25 -0400 Michael Scottaline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 20:44:34 -0500 David A. Bandel

beat the rush!

2002-07-01 Thread dep
visit http://www.linuxdailynews.net now! it has been online for 44 minutes just now. bookmark it. tell your friends. bring the kids. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere.

Re: xcdroast??

2002-07-01 Thread Keith Morse
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, stayler wrote: Now this has style.. On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:22:24 -0400 (EDT), Net Llama! wrote: I don't, cause i don't need it to: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=file.iso cdrecord -v file.iso Huh. I've been doing this awhile now. Didn't know it was stylistic. What I'd