Re: Red Hat 7.2 Gotchas

2001-11-19 Thread Kurt Wall
Douglas J Hunley wrote: totally off-topic nitpick here Kurt, but could you adjust your alias for this list. I want to start getting away from that very label (re: refugees) How's that? Kurt -- Q: What is the burning question on the mind of every dyslexic existentialist? A:

Re: [SLE] FAQ

2001-11-19 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 09:50:21 +0100 Oliver Ob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Indeed I keep getting feedback of people asking why I am no longer on the german Suse list. But all those german NET-FASCISTS who insist on inquisitory rules such as obey to our non-suse, but mega-netiquette or be

Re: Red Hat 7.2 Gotchas

2001-11-19 Thread Kurt Wall
Zoran's mailinglist account wrote: On Nov 18 Kurt Wall was heard saying: -Hello, list, [request for input] 1/ It still doesn't recognize a wheel mouse and thus doesn't configure the mouse properly. The list of available mice is rather empty when doing a re config with mouseconfig (the

Re: Re: replacing win98

2001-11-19 Thread Susan Macchia
I would go with the express and it's based on 2.0; so I was wondering what was needed and how to apply it. TIA Bruce Marshall wrote: On Sunday 18 November 2001 22:22 pm, Susan Macchia wrote: I am still evaluating VMware 3.0, but want to probably go with express. Since I am running 2.4.10

Re: replacing win98

2001-11-19 Thread Collins Richey
[ snips ]On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 19:13:07 -0800 (PST) Susan Macchia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith Antione wrote: On Monday 19 November 2001 02:54, Susan Macchia enunciated: I was running the full version (evaulation copy) and used the wizard to create the vm. I still haven't

Re: OT XFCE...

2001-11-19 Thread Collins Richey
On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 22:56:13 -0500 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if you guys caught this one... XFCE is up to 3.8.11 and available at sourceforge. -- Ayup, and I've been running it for some time. As usual, it's pretty solid. -- Collins Richey Denver Area

idiotic feature of Arkeia

2001-11-19 Thread Douglas J Hunley
I've started using Arkeia to do nightly backups of linux.nf and I've noticed that whatever files get backed up have their timestamp altered. This completely screws up my nightly Tripwire report. Anyone know how to make Arkeia leave the timestamp along on files it backs up? This is a realy

Re: Re: replacing win98

2001-11-19 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Monday 19 November 2001 7:10 am, Susan Macchia wrote: I would go with the express and it's based on 2.0; so I was wondering what was needed and how to apply it.  TIA All you have to do is replace a file with a newer one. After that, the vmware-config.pl operates just the same. If you

Re: Dual CD's

2001-11-19 Thread R. Quenett
from Douglas J Hunley: ...you must then provide the kernel command line hdx=scsi... interesting. wonder if works like that or if it's a typo Dunno for sure but on my lfs 2.4.12-ac3 (which I'm not exercising very hard, yet) minus the compiled in native atapi drivers , it just seems as

Re: idiotic feature of Arkeia

2001-11-19 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Monday 19 November 2001 7:36 am, Douglas J Hunley wrote: I've started using Arkeia to do nightly backups of linux.nf and I've noticed that whatever files get backed up have their timestamp altered. This completely screws up my nightly Tripwire report. Anyone know how to make Arkeia leave

Re: backup software recommendations?

2001-11-19 Thread Bruce Marshall
On Monday 19 November 2001 7:38 am, Douglas J Hunley wrote: All righty.. what is everyone using for their backups? I'm currently using Arkeia and while it's OK, I just know theres something better out there. So, who's using what? I want unattended, robust, stable operation. I'm using a

Re: replacing win98

2001-11-19 Thread Susan Macchia
I had a dual boot when I first started using Linux (COL2.4) way back. *HATED* having to reboot. To me, one of the most important features is a stable OS that doesn't have to be rebooted several times a day. And as a unix developer from way back, I truly dislike windows and LOVE having the

Re: backup software recommendations?

2001-11-19 Thread John Hiemenz
On Monday 19 November 2001 08:13 am, you stated : On Monday 19 November 2001 7:38 am, Douglas J Hunley wrote: All righty.. what is everyone using for their backups? I'm currently using Arkeia and while it's OK, I just know theres something better out there. So, who's using what? I want

Re: Rpm dependency issue

2001-11-19 Thread Philip J. Koenig
On 18 Nov 2001, at 10:20, Kurt Wall boldly uttered: D: Signature size: 149 D: Signature pad : 3 D: sigsize : 152 D: Header + Archive: 644097 D: expected size : 644097 D: opening database mode 0x0 in /var/lib/rpm D: found 0 source and 1 binary packages D: YESA

Re: Rpm dependency issue

2001-11-19 Thread Kurt Wall
Philip J. Koenig wrote: On 18 Nov 2001, at 10:20, Kurt Wall boldly uttered: [...] Hmm. install's -d option will force the creation of the desired directory. I'm guessing the Makefile has something hardcoded that's causing this to break. I'm worried it will delete or overwrite the

Re: backup software recommendations?

2001-11-19 Thread Aaron Grewell
If you'd like to kill flies with a howitzer, try Veritas NetBackup. It'll backup from almost anything to almost anything on almost anything. It's also seriously complicated, as one would expect from an enterprise backup solution, and costs a zillion dollars. Once you get it set up right it's

New steps (sorta)

2001-11-19 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Today: Our new privacy policy is online and in affect. It's linked from the bottom of the fron page(s). Enjoy! -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://linux.nf Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net Windows95 (noun): 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell

Re: hdc

2001-11-19 Thread Jim Conner
Well, /dev/hdc is a block device, not a link. You'll need to use this command. mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0 //Read the man page if needed. Make sure it has the proper permissions and ownership with chmod and chown. Jim On Monday, November 19, 2001 7:02, Randy Donohoe wrote: Trying to get my DVD set

Re: replacing win98

2001-11-19 Thread Jim Conner
Take a look at Kapital by theKompany. There should be a demo rpm on their ftp site to look at. It's very similar to Quicken. I currently use Moneydance, but will probably be transfering to Kapital soon. It's cheaper than Moneydance, and looks nicer. Jim On Monday, November 19, 2001 9:33,

Re: backup software recommendations?

2001-11-19 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 08:44:31AM -0600, John Hiemenz wrote: ... I've been using BackupEDGE from Microlite for years on SCO OpenServer and now use it as well on my linux boxen. No fancy guis or anything, but it does the job well for me. You beat me to it. BackupEdge probably has the best

Re: backup software recommendations?

2001-11-19 Thread Douglas J Hunley
John Hiemenz babbled on about: I've been using BackupEDGE from Microlite for years on SCO OpenServer and now use it as well on my linux boxen. No fancy guis or anything, but it does the job well for me. got a link? is their a trial version? thanks -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at

Re: backup software recommendations?

2001-11-19 Thread Tim Wunder
Douglas J Hunley wrote: All righty.. what is everyone using for their backups? I'm currently using Arkeia and while it's OK, I just know theres something better out there. So, who's using what? I want unattended, robust, stable operation. I'm using a Seagate DDs2 drive to do the backups

Re: idiotic feature of Arkeia

2001-11-19 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Bruce Marshall babbled on about: On Monday 19 November 2001 7:36 am, Douglas J Hunley wrote: I've started using Arkeia to do nightly backups of linux.nf and I've noticed that whatever files get backed up have their timestamp altered. This completely screws up my nightly Tripwire report.

Re: backup software recommendations?

2001-11-19 Thread Aaron Grewell
It depends on what you're backing up. For a small single-server operation that might be doable, but for an organization with many servers it's neither reliable nor convenient. On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 10:30, Tim Wunder wrote: Douglas J Hunley wrote: All righty.. what is everyone using for

Re: backup software recommendations?

2001-11-19 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:06:33PM -0500, Douglas J Hunley wrote: John Hiemenz babbled on about: I've been using BackupEDGE from Microlite for years on SCO OpenServer and now use it as well on my linux boxen. No fancy guis or anything, but it does the job well for me. got a link? is their a

Re: New steps (sorta)

2001-11-19 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Herbert H. DeLong babbled on about: What is a fron page? a typo. front page is what it should be. -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: http://linux.nf Admin: http://hunley.homeip.net Hazards - There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every

Re: System.map

2001-11-19 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Net Llama babbled on about: yes. this is how i've done it for quite some time without any problems. the multiple .map files or the symlink? if you use a symlink to /usr/src/linux/System.map... what happens when you load some kernel other than the one that corresponds to the source in

ping

2001-11-19 Thread DOUGLAS HUNLEY
ignore -- Douglas J. Hunley Unix/Linux Admin http://linux.nf Down the wire, off the router, through the firewall, nothing but 'Net... ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users

Re: replacing win98

2001-11-19 Thread Susan Macchia
Thanks - I'll check it out. Take a look at Kapital by theKompany. There should be a demo rpm on their ftp site to look at. It's very similar to Quicken. I currently use Moneydance, but will probably be transfering to Kapital soon. It's cheaper than Moneydance, and looks nicer. Jim On

Re: replacing win98

2001-11-19 Thread Jim Conner
If you need any help finding/installing it, let me know. I just did this and it's a little tricky. Ok, here's a quick SxS. - Download korelib tarball and kapital rpm for distro. - Untar korelib, ./configure, make, make install - Edit /etc/ld.so.conf. Add line: /usr/local/lib. Run ldconfig as

problems with my NIC

2001-11-19 Thread John Hiemenz
I have a problem with my NIC losing 'connetivity' on my boxen. The nic uses the 'tlan' module, and eth0 comes up fine at boot. After a period of time that I haven't been able to determine, the networks goes kaplop and I can't connect to or from this boxen anylonger. I tried taking eth0 down

Re: New Kernel, Now No Text Console, SuSE 7.3

2001-11-19 Thread Jason Joines
On Friday 16 November 2001 15:50 pm, you wrote: I compiled a 2.4.10 kernel from kernel.org source with XFS filesystem patches from SGI. When I boot the machine, I get the graphical chooser that allows me pick a kernel to boot. If I boot the 2.4.10 SuSE kernel, all works as expected.

RE: problems with my NIC

2001-11-19 Thread Tom Wilson
John Hiemenz wrote: [mondo snip-o] I just found an old 3com 3c59x card, I will try that I guess. I'm just sick and silly from trying to figure this out on the lack of any time I can spend doing it. That was going to be my suggestion. Try a different NIC. Seems from what you are

Re: backup software recommendations?

2001-11-19 Thread David A. Bandel
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 09:13:45 -0500 Bruce Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use mkCDrec. Any system can be backed up, but you'll need a CD burner to make the CDs. Do NOT keep reusing CDRWs. Eventually, they will refuse to boot. I mirror new installs, then just have to do incrementals from

Cable Net Access

2001-11-19 Thread Kurt Wall
Okay, so now I have cable access -- it's a beautiful thing after dial-up purgatory -- with a static IP. Theoretically, even though it isn't permitted, I can run server services. The installer set up one of my Windows boxes and gave it this truly byzantine hostname but it seems to me that I should

Re: Linux box and ICS

2001-11-19 Thread Chang
don't use ICS use soemthing better: winroute pro Midnight wrote: I have a RH linux box connected to a Win98se box via a LAN. Question is, how do I connect to the internet via the ICS on the Windows box? _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your

Re: Cable Net Access

2001-11-19 Thread Ian Marchak
Quoting Kurt Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Okay, so now I have cable access -- it's a beautiful thing after dial-up purgatory -- with a static IP. Theoretically, even though it isn't permitted, I can run server services. The installer set up one of my Windows boxes and gave it this truly byzantine

Re: Cable Net Access

2001-11-19 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 05:48:10PM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote: Okay, so now I have cable access -- it's a beautiful thing after dial-up purgatory -- with a static IP. Theoretically, even though it isn't permitted, I can run server services. The installer set up one of my Windows boxes and gave it

Re: System.map

2001-11-19 Thread Net Llama
--- Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Net Llama babbled on about: yes. this is how i've done it for quite some time without any problems. the multiple .map files or the symlink? if you use a symlink to /usr/src/linux/System.map... what happens when you load some kernel

Re: problems with my NIC

2001-11-19 Thread Net Llama
I was working on a customer's box today, and was seeing the same behavior. FWIW, the box was an HP Vectra running RH-7.1. I ended up determining that the problem was caused by some BIOS driven power management which was apparently spinning down the drives, and cutting power to just about

DVD Playing

2001-11-19 Thread Matthew Carpenter
Do I hear anyone willing to put together an SxS on how to use DeCSS to make Xine play standard DVD's without the stupid decoder card? ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users