Re: bash profile problem

2001-09-22 Thread Chris Kassopulo
On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 21:24:03 -0600 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:47:50 +1130 Mike Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 18 September 2001 14:23, Collins Richey wrote: I have bash 2.04, and I can't find anyway to get the aliases in the

Re: Konqueror and ftp

2001-09-22 Thread Joel Hammer
Thanks. Works great. I could get to like Konqueror. Joel On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:47:45PM -0400, Wil McGilvery wrote: try ftp://user@host Using ftp://host gets you an anonymous ftp login. Is there a way to use Konqueror to get an ftp login as a regular user?

Re: Konqueror and ftp

2001-09-22 Thread Joel Hammer
use ftp://username:password@host -- Thanks. Konqueror looks like it might even be userful at this rate. Joel ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: Fwd: [linux-elitists] class-action fun

2001-09-22 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 09:19:30 -0500 Rick Sivernell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Talking with my son last night, he swears that there is no other OS that can do what M$ or XP can do. ---snip--- Actually, xp ain't that bad. It's not the answer to the world problems or the ultimate OS for

Re: Fwd: [linux-elitists] class-action fun

2001-09-22 Thread Joel Hammer
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 09:19:30AM -0500, Rick Sivernell wrote: Talking with my son last night, he swears that there is no other OS that can do what M$ or XP can do. Finally after our conversation is about over and I The best thing with windows users is benign neglect. Let Bill Gates solve

Re: Arithmetic with dates and times

2001-09-22 Thread Joel Hammer
Hmmm... Maybe there is a perl script somewhere that might do this. Joel On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 10:30:22AM -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote: On Saturday 22 September 2001 8:43 am, Joel Hammer wrote: Is there a builtin function to use with bash scripts to manipulate dates, for example, to

Converted my lan to a router

2001-09-22 Thread Collins Richey
I just converted my home lan to use a router. I was using a Netgear hub with my WinME machine and Windows ICS. Now I'm using a Netgear router. As expected, my linux box came up with almost no changes; I had to screw around with the WinME box for a long time. I'm encountering one minor

Re: Fwd: [linux-elitists] class-action fun

2001-09-22 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 11:03:59AM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 09:19:30AM -0500, Rick Sivernell wrote: Talking with my son last night, he swears that there is no other OS that can do what M$ or XP can do. Finally after our conversation is about over and I (quoted text

Re: Linux-users digest, Vol 1 #164 - 45 msgs

2001-09-22 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Saturday 22 September 2001 11:46 am, dragonsfireburns wrote: At 11:52 PM 9/21/01 -0400, you wrote: Send Linux-users mailing list submissions to          [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit          http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users or,

Re: Converted my lan to a router

2001-09-22 Thread Net Llama
So basically what you're saying is that the mail server domain name isn't resolving to its IP. THat is almost always a DNS issue. Is this mail server one that you're runnning, or your ISP's? If its your own, then check the name server that you're using. --- Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux-users digest, Vol 1 #164 - 45 msgs

2001-09-22 Thread Net Llama
--- Bruce Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 22 September 2001 11:46 am, dragonsfireburns wrote: At 11:52 PM 9/21/01 -0400, you wrote: Send Linux-users mailing list submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit

Re: Conditional hosts.allow statements

2001-09-22 Thread Joel Hammer
It turns out that it seems very easy to do. eg. in.telnetd 192.168.0.2 :\ spawn (echo %a %c %d %d %n %p %s %u $(date) /tmp/tcpd;\ kill -15 %p): ALLOW This entry from my hosts.allow file just saves all the data tcpd collects, then kills the tcpd daemon, and the ALLOW

Re: Converted my lan to a router

2001-09-22 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Saturday 22 September 2001 12:30 pm, Collins Richey wrote: I'm encountering one minor problem that looks familiar, but I don't have a solution yet.  DNS is working.  My brower (Opera, etc.) can find anything, but for some reason my mail server name is not being recognized.  I've had to

bash profile problem

2001-09-22 Thread Collins Richey
The following is an excerpt from my interchange with the linux-users group. I'm hoping that someone with an xfce perspective may have some insight on this problem. The basic problem is that when an xterm is started or a kde Konsole is started under xfce, any aliases in the profile (/etc/porfile

Re: Converted my lan to a router

2001-09-22 Thread Collins Richey
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 12:44:37 -0400 Bruce Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 22 September 2001 12:30 pm, Collins Richey wrote: I'm encountering one minor problem that looks familiar, but I don't have a solution yet.  DNS is working.  My brower (Opera, etc.) can find anything,

Got it

2001-09-22 Thread stayler
Well, found a project on Freshmeat, ripmime that did the trick. Also found an OS/2 app from 1995 that worked great too, Mime64. It has a make file but gcc complains about a parsing error before 032 so oh well. The OS/2 app is smallewr and easier to use so I'd like to get it ported. Any good

Re: Fwd: [linux-elitists] class-action fun

2001-09-22 Thread Rick Sivernell
My son is 30, lives in Atlanta. Does call here a lot for Help. Most of the time I tell him to buy a book because I do not use that flavour of winders. If he would use NT, then I could help him more. Uswe Linux help him not at all, would not need my help, linux.nf, caldera list etc. I do have

Re: bash profile problem

2001-09-22 Thread Chris Kassopulo
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 10:19:28 -0600 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following is an excerpt from my interchange with the linux-users group. I'm hoping that someone with an xfce perspective may have some insight on this problem. The basic problem is that when an xterm is started

Re: Linux-users digest, Vol 1 #164 - 45 msgs

2001-09-22 Thread Keith Antoine
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 02:50, you wrote: dragonsfireburns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and quoted 110kb's of text to write a few lines way down in about the middle of those hundreds of lines of text. WTF were you thinking? You've earned a spot - right at the top - of my killfile. PLONK!! pissed

Re: Linux-users digest, Vol 1 #164 - 45 msgs

2001-09-22 Thread Tim Wunder
Previously, dragonsfireburns chose to write: At 11:52 PM 9/21/01 -0400, you wrote: Like this? http://www.ltsp.org/index.php Something like that but not disk less. This needs a rom modification to boot. I prefer to use an existing machine and convert it easily so that their is a choice of

Re: Linux-users digest, Vol 1 #164 - 45 msgs

2001-09-22 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 10:30:33 +1000 Keith Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: KA On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 02:50, you wrote: KA dragonsfireburns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and quoted KA 110kb's KA of text to write a few lines way down in about the middle of those KA hundreds of lines of

Re: creating batch file for logon script...

2001-09-22 Thread Joel Hammer
This is one of the oldest irritations in computing. DOS ends lines with 0D 0A but linux and unix just use 0A. This script should fix you up if you have a modern sed: cat linux.script | sed 's/.*/\x0D/' dos.script If you have an older sed, this might work: cat linux.script | sed 's/.*/\r/'

NIMDA worm: JavaScript

2001-09-22 Thread Joel Hammer
I thought from all I had read about JavaScript that it was designed to be safe. I recall on another list someone said he had downloaded a malicious html doc and others on the list claimed that was impossible. This was a long time ago, like 8 months. Anyway, the following update is rather

Re: Linux-users digest, Vol 1 #164 - 45 msgs

2001-09-22 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Saturday 22 September 2001 05:30 pm,Keith Antoine wrote: On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 02:50, you wrote: dragonsfireburns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and quoted 110kb's of text to write a few lines way down in about the middle of those hundreds of lines of text. WTF were you thinking? You've

A couple of Questions about Debian Linux/Storm Linux

2001-09-22 Thread Shane Broomhall
Hi All, I have serveral boxed copies of Linux at home. I am planning on spending some time with all of them. I have heard that Debian is one of the most stable Dists. I have purchased 4-6 months ago a boxed set of storm, it is based on Debian. I have heard Storm have ceased trading. As Storm

Re: NIMDA worm: JavaScript

2001-09-22 Thread Tim Wunder
Previously, Joel Hammer chose to write: I thought from all I had read about JavaScript that it was designed to be safe. I recall on another list someone said he had downloaded a malicious html doc and others on the list claimed that was impossible. This was a long time ago, like 8 months.

Re: bash profile problem

2001-09-22 Thread Chris Kassopulo
Try putting the aliai in /etc/bashrc and source it from ~/.bashrc Same results What is the result of: echo $BASH_ENV -- Chris Kassopulo ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc

Re: NIMDA worm: JavaScript

2001-09-22 Thread Joel Hammer
Hi Joel, I didn't see anything in the advisory pertaining to Samba, was that something you just got from the samba list? There is mention that the infected clients will attempt to spread the worm: from client to client via open network shares This includes samba. I don't think there is

Re: bash profile problem

2001-09-22 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 00:01:28 + Chris Kassopulo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try putting the aliai in /etc/bashrc and source it from ~/.bashrc Same results What is the result of: echo $BASH_ENV The variable is not set. -- Collins Richey Denver Area gentoo_rc6

kcore

2001-09-22 Thread Bruce Marshall
Anyone know what the file '/proc/kcore' does? Sounds to me like a dump of some kind. I've been tracking why my disk space keeps going up and found /proc/kcore at a size of 815MB!!! And climbing. Tried to delete it but it won't let me under normal conditions. (prob cuz KDE is

Re: Arithmetic with dates and times

2001-09-22 Thread Alan Jackson
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 08:43:04 -0400 Joel Hammer wrote: Is there a builtin function to use with bash scripts to manipulate dates, for example, to subtract two dates or two times and get the difference between them? Thanks, Joel I use perl. There is a module in particular that has functions :

Re: kcore

2001-09-22 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Saturday 22 September 2001 23:52 pm, Bruce Marshall wrote: Anyone know what the file '/proc/kcore' does? Sounds to me like a dump of some kind. I've been tracking why my disk space keeps going up and found /proc/kcore at a size of 815MB!!! And climbing. Tried to delete it but

Re: A couple of Questions about Debian Linux/Storm Linux

2001-09-22 Thread Myles Green
Hi Shane, Yes, you can use software compiled for Debian 'Potato' 2.2r3. In fact, with the correct lines in /etc/apt/sources.list you can continue upgrading and updating to your hearts content. The apt utility is quite handy ( see man apt ). You'll need to comment out or remove any/all lines in

new vmware install karks it.

2001-09-22 Thread Keith Antoine
I have installed vmware many times but this latest one takes the biscuit. Essentially it is stuffing up at the point in the vmware-install.pl: Where do you keep your C header files question. Default is /usr/src/linux/include, it then tells me:: The path /usr/src/linux-2.4.2/include is an

Re: bash profile problem

2001-09-22 Thread Chris Kassopulo
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 22:00:40 -0600 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 00:01:28 + Chris Kassopulo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try putting the aliai in /etc/bashrc and source it from ~/.bashrc Same results What is the result of: echo

Re: kcore

2001-09-22 Thread Jay Nugent
Greetings, On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Bruce Marshall wrote: On Saturday 22 September 2001 23:52 pm, Bruce Marshall wrote: Anyone know what the file '/proc/kcore' does? Sounds to me like a dump of some kind. I've been tracking why my disk space keeps going up and found /proc/kcore at a

Re: Arithmetic with dates and times

2001-09-22 Thread Ronnie Gauthier
opps, grabed an old file to copy from add $yr=$year-100; above the $date= line On Saturday 22 September 2001 07:43, Joel Hammer wrote: Is there a builtin function to use with bash scripts to manipulate dates, for example, to subtract two dates or two times and get the difference between