Re: To Au-Yeung: E-Workstation 3.1 in Hong Kong

2001-07-19 Thread Terence McCarthy
On Thursday 19 July 2001 02:42, Auyeung at Technet Systems wrote: Terence, Things have changed quite a bit in Hong Kong. Since the introduction of the new legislation against software piracy, one does not find many shops selling pirated software, esp. in Golden Arcade, a place which every

Re: software piracy

2001-07-19 Thread Linuxism Chang
People here seldom used Arcade to refer to Golden Shopping Arcade, but Golden only. Guess I missed your stayle of shorthands. Sorry about that. Here arcade meant Arcade- yes I know I should have used a capital to indicate the proper noun (short for Golden Shopping Arcade). Sorry for that.

kde2.2

2001-07-19 Thread Mike Andrew
On Thursday 19 July 2001 12:49, Myles Green wrote: The one thing that is most definately screwed up with Slackware is KDE, whoever built it did *something* very wrong. I just built kde2.2beta1 here and it works way better - faster starts, no crashes and all the kde menu items actually work

Re: Reiser FS

2001-07-19 Thread Shawn Tayler
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 20:16:20 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: It would probably be better to have a separate ext2 /boot partition if one wants to boot different versions of Linux off the same /boot partition. We do this to avoid any potential 1024 segment problems, sharing /boot amongst multiple

Re: Reiser FS

2001-07-19 Thread David A. Bandel
Bill Campbell wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:36:41PM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote: ... reiserfs will work on any partition -- caveat: your kernel must be compiled with reiserfs included (not a module). Then even /boot can be reiserfs. It would probably be better to have a separate

Re: kde2.2

2001-07-19 Thread Myles Green
On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 00:05:24 +1130 Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you also rebuild (or obtain) new qt2 libraries? I have had zilch crashes on kde2.1.1 under rh7.1 Am interested to know if it's a kde build problem for certain distros or a qt error. this was definately a kde

Re: Reiser FS

2001-07-19 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Thursday 19 July 2001 09:02, Shawn Tayler wrote: On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 20:16:20 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: It would probably be better to have a separate ext2 /boot partition if one wants to boot different versions of Linux off the same /boot partition. We do this to avoid any potential

Re: Problems with i810 under SuSE 7.2.

2001-07-19 Thread Myles Green
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 00:52:26 -0600 Myles Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: next: kdelibs there is no more kdesupport so this is now the first one to build. i used this for ALL the kde packages: ./configure --disable-debug make make install my appologies, this line should have read:

Network Install

2001-07-19 Thread Taplin, Simon S
I want to install eDesktop 2.4 on one of our machines. The problem is that the machine I want to install on doesn't have a CD-Rom. Anyway that i can do a network install via a machine that does has a CD-Rom? Thanks simon LAN Administrator Damelin Hatfield Tel: 012 342-0755 Cel: 083 374 1161

Re: Fetchmail pauses for linux.nf

2001-07-19 Thread Net Llama
--- Alan Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just noticed that when downloading my e-mail, fetchmail pauses for a good 15 seconds every time it comes to a message from this e-mail list. What could be going on? Is this some sort of DNS timeout thing? I know that fetchmail has some stuff in

Re: Reiser FS

2001-07-19 Thread David A. Bandel
Mike Andrew wrote: On Friday 20 July 2001 00:54, David A. Bandel wrote: system. I use the same kernel to boot 4 different linux distros (I just copy /lib/modules/2.4.x to the other distro). So lilo points to the same kernel for 4 different distros. Yep. That's kleva. You could

SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE on LINUX.NF

2001-07-19 Thread Sys Admin
I will be taking linux.nf down for a while this Saturday July 21. It should not take more than an hour. I will be removing the defective hde from the chassis, and I will be removing the tape drive ( to locate it to another machine ), and I will be moving the cd burner from that machine into the

remote laptop over internet?

2001-07-19 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
Hi all. I'm lost, and would like some advise on the direction I should now take. Here is some history, some pertinent some mabye not. -I currently have 4 machines running Linux, and 1 winders (stubborn user) -2 Desktops running eD2.4, Kernel 2.4.5 Win4Lin 3.0 -Windows 98SE on teh desktop

remote laptop over internet?

2001-07-19 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
Hi all. I'm lost, and would like some advise on the direction I should now take. Here is some history, some pertinent some mabye not. -I currently have 4 machines running Linux, and 1 winders (stubborn user) -2 Desktops running eD2.4, Kernel 2.4.5 Win4Lin 3.0 -Windows 98SE on teh desktop

Re: SCSI Zip Drive SuSE 7.1

2001-07-19 Thread Jason Joines
/dev/sdb4 did the trick. Thanks for the help! Jason Joines - On Wednesday 18 July 2001 10:33, you wrote: On Thursday 19 July 2001 02:12, Jason Joines wrote: I'm trying to use a SCSI Zip Drive which is on ID 5 of the SCSI adapter. The adapter

antivirus

2001-07-19 Thread Dallam
Hi All, Could anyone recommend a good (free?) antivirus prog that also cleans if it finds something? I know there are alot of demo freebies out there, but I have searched sourceforge, linuxapps and others and come up empty handed. Thanks, Dallam -- / / _ ---/ / (_)__ _ _ __ __ --/ /

Re: antivirus

2001-07-19 Thread Net Llama
I think a better question is which viri are you looking to clean? --- Dallam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Could anyone recommend a good (free?) antivirus prog that also cleans if it finds something? I know there are alot of demo freebies out there, but I have searched sourceforge,

RE: Reiser FS

2001-07-19 Thread Net Llama
I think that your hypothesis is flawed. No BIOS has the ability to understand filesystems. It sees raw hardware. Its quite possible that the MBR of that drive is corrupted, which is making it appear as if there is no bootable OS on the drive. --- Condon Thomas A KPWA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Reiser FS

2001-07-19 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Thursday 19 July 2001 14:49, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: From: David A. Bandel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Does Reiser FS work for / partitions? reiserfs will work on any partition -- caveat: your kernel must be compiled with reiserfs included (not a module). Then even

Re: Remote sound

2001-07-19 Thread Stew Benedict
Look into rplayd. I use it with a diskless Iopener. I run X from the host machine using ltsp, and sound events get passed to the client machine's kernel/sound driver. There is some latency, but it's fun ;^) I've got a HOWTO on the Iopener setup on my web space:

Re: antivirus

2001-07-19 Thread Jim Bonnet
On Thursday 19 July 2001 12:45, you wrote: The answer to your question is 'none'. There are very few known linux virulent viri, and all can only infect a system due to user-error. If you are determined to waste harddrive space CPU cylces scanning for a virus that doesn't exist, then see

Re: kde start up

2001-07-19 Thread Mark Heinrich
Keith Antoine wrote: As soon as you get back to the login, go to a console, login as you and calle .xsession-errors this tells you what it is that is a t fault. Mark Heinrich wrote: I recently compiled XFree 4.1 on my eD2.4 system. During startup I get to the login screen (gui) but after

Re: antivirus

2001-07-19 Thread Net Llama
If you're paranoid about security (and you should be) then viri are the very least of your concerns. --- Dallam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thank you all very much for your imput, it is much appreciated. I am a bit paranoid when it comes to security, so I was just making sure that I

Re: kde start up

2001-07-19 Thread Jim Conner
More often than not, this is caused by a full partition, usually /tmp will be the culprit. Check to see if any of your partitions are full or very close to it. Jim On Thursday July 19, 2001 4:13 pm, Mark Heinrich wrote: snip I tried that but the .xsessions-error file was empty. I looked

Re: Reiser FS

2001-07-19 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Thursday 19 July 2001 16:49, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: My reason for assuming this is that I have installed SuSE 7.2 Pro on a new hard drive, and the Bios tells me there is an Hard Drive Failure if I try to boot from it. But if I boot from CD or floppy I can not

We're being scanned (and attacked)

2001-07-19 Thread Douglas J. Hunley
Some joker started scanning my ports VERY heavily today. I'm also getting beaten by that new IDA worm (the IIS one). Some kiddies have a shit load of scripts and are trolling for vulnerable machines (thank god for apache/linux). Portsentry and my other tools are doing their best, but we're

Fwd: Full analysis of the .ida Code Red worm.

2001-07-19 Thread Douglas J. Hunley
for those who don't know.. this is in the wild and beating on networks. it's killing linux.nf (sheer traffic volume) and it also manages to mess up certain cisco equipment (we had lots o routers at work today flaking out) -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Full analysis of the

Help

2001-07-19 Thread Rick Sivernell
List trying to upgrade python to the 2.1.5 version. I get the following: [root@RRSivernell python]# rpm -Uvh python2-2.1-5.i386.rpm error: failed dependencies: libcrypto.so.0.9.6 is needed by python2-2.1-5 found in /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.6 libdb-3.1.so is

New Mirror in Texas

2001-07-19 Thread Ian Marchak
Greets, We're everywhere! A new mirror has been added in Texas. Locals and the curious can find it at: http://www.ircee.com/sxs/ -- Ian Marchak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Linux StepByStep [http://members.home.net/linuxsteps/] ___ http://linux.nf --

Re: Fwd: 'Code Red' does not seem to be scanning for IIS

2001-07-19 Thread David A. Bandel
Douglas J. Hunley wrote: this stupid little thing is what's currently pounding linux.nf I'm running about 150 httpd children, about 3-5 time higher than normal for me, but my system is handling it (It's also rate limited to about that number as well). Ciao, David A. Bandel -- Focus on

Re: We're being scanned (and attacked)

2001-07-19 Thread Net Llama
CERT = Computer Emergency Response Team. Basically they've become an anachronism, with BugTrak securityfocus and all the others out there. --- Bill Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im sorry for my ignorance.. CERT advisary.. what is this so I can get notified of it? Thanks, On Thursday

Re: We're being scanned (and attacked)

2001-07-19 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 11:08:36PM -0400, dep wrote: On Thursday 19 July 2001 09:58 pm, Bill Day wrote: | I received some rather wierd hits on my webserver today as welll, | a lot of hits from different ips all containing a line of capital | NNN more here:

Another Ping attack in progress...

2001-07-19 Thread Shawn Tayler
There must be another script kiddie, ie. ping bot attack in progress as road runners routers are swamped again... stayler ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc