On January 03, Chang enlightened our ignorance thusly:
ok.
It's Doug, Chang.. we're all friends here
That's not an offcial response. I just found a reply to a similar
question.
will root:daemon /var/run compromise or break other packages?
No.
AND, how to add one group into another
On January 03, Randy enlightened our ignorance thusly:
Was it ever decided if SAIR or LPI was the best Linux certification?
Well, as far as I'm concerned, LPI is the far better certification
for reasons discussed in that thread. LPI is far more rigorous and
thorough than SAIR.
Kurt
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On January 02, Myles Green enlightened our ignorance thusly:
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:27:49 -0700
[deletia]
As Ian pointed out, you can do this with LiLo itself or here's another
one from the lilo mini-howto that will work as well (I can verify this
as I've used it more than once with
On January 03, Declan Moriarty enlightened our ignorance thusly:
I got an Irish Government Grant (payout) to get an Internet site. The site
put up was ABSOLUTE junk, and the company involved
http://www.getfreeinternet.co.uk will not answer the phone, answer e-mail,
amend the site, or do
On January 04, Keith Antoine enlightened our ignorance thusly:
I have two small problems that I need answers to.
#1. I now at last with my bandwidth supplier at last got him to put on ssh.
Thats great, but what do I need to ftp using ssh, does he need to do anything
else other than having
On January 04, Keith Antoine enlightened our ignorance thusly:
On Friday 04 January 2002 12:23 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
On January 03, Declan Moriarty enlightened our ignorance thusly:
I got an Irish Government Grant (payout) to get an Internet site. The
site put up was ABSOLUTE
On January 03, Schmeits, Roger enlightened our ignorance thusly:
How does one handle packages updates on Linux servers? I have noticed on
Redhat you pay a subscribition fee whereas Caldera it is a free service.
Beginning relatively green yet I find myself uncomfortable/ignorant on
applying
On January 03, Bruce Marshall enlightened our ignorance thusly:
[clip]
I don't think (or am not aware) that having two ISP's have DNS entries would
really be a problem.
I moved my domain from one ISP to another and the previous ISP kept the DNS
entry for well over a year. It was never
On January 03, Douglas J Hunley enlightened our ignorance thusly:
Looking at Freshmeat, I see like 50 different firewall scripts (iptables
based). What are you guys using?
rc.firewall?
shorewall?
mon mothma?
others?
thanks!
Personally, I prefer the ones used in the iptables-HOWTO
On January 01, Collins Richey enlightened our ignorance thusly:
[deletia]
You're preaching to the choir. Take it up with the LSB goons. It appears
that they love the Rehat way of doing things, and it's doubtful that they
will listen to reason.
Nope. Red Hat was the source of most of LSB's
Upgrade - Compiling and Installing GLib and GTK+ (Kurt Wall)br
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On December 31, Keith Morse enlightened our ignorance thusly:
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I *still* dislike sendmail
Ah, but this is what postfix is for!
Agreed, but I couldn't figure out how to configure the relaying stuff
so I could still get email. It built and
On December 31, David A. Bandel enlightened our ignorance thusly:
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 09:06:35 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the bitstream:
[clippage]
Agreed, but I couldn't figure out how to configure the relaying stuff
so I could still get email. It built and installed without
On January 01, Chang enlightened our ignorance thusly:
How should I start upgrading my e2fsprog to 1.25
[root@server src]# rpm -e ext2fs-1.19-4
error: removing these packages would break dependencies:
ext2fs = 1.19 is needed by ext2fs-devel-1.19-4
libcom_err.so.2 is needed
On December 29, Kevin O'Gorman enlightened our ignorance thusly:
On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 08:23:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On December 29, Kevin O'Gorman enlightened our ignorance thusly:
This is very odd.
My 'named' server won't start from SysV.
It won't start from a
On December 29, Chang enlightened our ignorance thusly:
Is there really an embargo on gcc 3.0.2 (as suggested by someone in the
list weeks ago)? Could I download it from Hongkong? :)
No. I'm not aware of any embargo on gcc 3.0.2. In fact, gcc 3.0.3 was
just released early this week or late
On December 29, Collins Richey enlightened our ignorance thusly:
Others will be able to help you get back to the status quo ante.
Be advised, I've never heard of any good results using the gcc 3... compiler.
I'm fairly sure that the compiler is indded broken, although you may have
[Posted and emailed]
On December 28, George Kasica enlightened our ignorance thusly:
Hello:
Since I have great respect for the opinions and knowledge of the
individuals on these lists, I'm humbly asking for your help.
I've got the following problem:
Linux 2.4.13 system
GCC 2.95.3
On December 30, Mike Andrew enlightened our ignorance thusly:
On Sun, 30 Dec 2001 05:12, Collins Richey wrote:
rant
It would surely be nice if the compiler and library folks could make
progress without breaking old things. I still remember (not too fondly)
all the havoc that the current
On December 28, Jer Scanlon enlightened our ignorance thusly:
Very obviously a newby, waiting for parts to finish his new Box.
Am going to start with Mandrake 8.1.
Am printing-out the manuals now.
I've been lurking for some time, and am learning some of the linux lingo.
But, SxS.Sox vs
On December 27, zohar enlightened our ignorance thusly:
CALDERA says that it providing a solution of UNIX and LINUX integrating it.
What other than networking is the same between this two OS.
Runs Linux on Unixware using LKP, Linux Kernel Personality.
Essentially, you can use all those great
On December 29, Mike Andrew enlightened our ignorance thusly:
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 05:00, Susan Macchia wrote:
I second the motion on that. I use Jpilot with my palm as well, but have
yet to figure out how to get address labels from the address book.
Santa Klaus gave me a palm for Xmas,
On December 25, Net Llama enlightened our ignorance thusly:
[mozilla bug count growing?]
% Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed this trend as of late?
I haven't noticed, but it's been several weeks since I used it last.
Kurt
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On December 24, Bill Campbell enlightened our ignorance thusly:
% On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 10:14:08AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
% ...
% My sole gripe with the x53 is that the downloadable driver for it
% from Lexmark requires GTK and GDK libraries:
%
% It went in with few problems on a
On December 25, Net Llama enlightened our ignorance thusly:
% I'm working on a Tcl/Tk app, and i'm having problems wraping my head
% around the concept of deleting menu items. My understanding is that the
% top most item is index=0 and then it counts downward. So, that leads me
% to the
Tim Wunder wrote:
[clip]
% Erm, pardon my ignorance, but what's strip executables mean?
Remove unneeded symbols from binaries. man strip should help.
Kurt
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A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's superiority.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's
Douglas J. Hunley wrote:
%
% Forwarded from a newsgroup, but I'd like to know what you all think.. I've
% copied the author. Please continue to copy on replies...
%
% ,--- Forwarded message (begin)
[snippage]
% RH basically sets itself up, which is good. But having described
Tony Alfrey wrote:
% On Thursday 20 December 2001 01:32 am,[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
% snip
%
% Refresh my memory, what was the problem you were trying to solve? If
% memory serves, you were trying to install an RPM that uses a newer
% version of RPM than that supported by the version of RPM
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 08:21:09AM -0800
Tony Alfrey wrote:
% On Thursday 20 December 2001 07:54 am,[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
% Tony Alfrey wrote:
% snip
% % (how do you know so much about this stuff??)
%
% I make my living knowing this
References: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; from
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Tony Alfrey wrote:
% On Thursday 20 December 2001 07:54 am,[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
% Tony Alfrey wrote:
% snip
David Aikema wrote:
% Please ignore.
Yah, right.
Kurt
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, the
To wit, the standard Hello, World! program compiled with debugging
symbols (gcc -g hello.c):
$ ls -l a.out
-rwxr-xr-x1 kwallusers 24234 Dec 20 15:03 a.out*
The standard Hello, World! program compiled without debugging
symbols (gcc hello.c):
$ ls -l a.out
-rwxr-xr-x1 kwallusers
Douglas J Hunley wrote:
% I need help debugging a CNAME and other data error.. takers?
No guru, but I'll take a stab at it.
K
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Net Llama wrote:
% I just noticed this project on Freshmeat called make uninstall. It
% does exactly as its name describes, allows you to cleanly uninstall
% packages that have been installed via the make install command.
%
% I haven't yet tried it out, but here's where you can get it:
%
Andy Mathews wrote:
% Ronnie Gauthier wrote:
%
% telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
[snip, trim, clip]
% Ronnie,
% Seems this has been around for a while. Check:
% http://www.asciimation.co.nz/ (Another guy here directed me to this)
%
% Andrew Mathews
Andrew,
Excellent. Thanks for the link!
Douglas J Hunley wrote:
% Tim Wunder babbled on about:
% Is it anything like Checkinstall? I was reading a little about that today.
% It's supposed to allow you to use rpm to keep track of things you install
% via tarball. Anyone on list use it?
%
% I use checkinstall all the time! wouldn't
Tina M. Hunley wrote:
% Congrats..
Happy Birthday, Doug, and many more to come!
Kurt
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Keith Antoine wrote:
% On Tuesday 18 December 2001 12:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] enunciated:
[...]
% Slackware here.
%
% Yeah, noticed that from the way your jocks hang ..snigger.
Skippy 1, Kurt 0.
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Anita Lewis wrote:
% On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 02:26:31 + (UTC), Anita Lewis wrote:
% Sorry. Possibly a dumb question, but I saw a lot of Caldera stuff here and
% just wondered if this list is distro specific.
%
% Wow, that sure generated a lot of replies! LOL. Thanks for the answer to
%
Richard R. Sivernell wrote:
% Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you,
% we are all in our places sing ing Happy birthday to you.
%
% Happy birthday to you Doug.
%
% Oh by the way in an earlier life time I was a rock star in compitition
% with the beattles. We almost
Tony Alfrey wrote:
%
% Who can argue with this? I'll put it on my wife's machine and see if
% she notices the difference between win 98 ;-)
% She and her machine are the ideal crash-test platforms.
So, are you going to tell your wife you just called her a crash test
dummy? ;-)
Kurt
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Tony Alfrey wrote:
%
% Didn't we decide a very long while back (on the caldera list) that
% David Bandel was the old fogey?
I don't remember that conversation...
Kurt
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Michael Scottaline wrote:
% On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 20:39:21 -0500
% [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
%
% I don't remember that conversation...
%
% Guess you're too old... ducks and runs
% Mike
Pot? Kettle? Black?
Kurt
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Mike Andrew wrote:
% Perhaps I should qualify my request: I'm looking for currently available
% Linux-compatible color injet printers.
%
% As you would know, it's not so much the 'best' (tm) printer available in
% Linux but more, the best driver available. For whatever reason, the Epson
%
* Main Page -- added a reference to the linux.nf news server (Kurt)
* New Mirror -- Illinois (Bill Day)
* Primary Site -- Maintainer is Doug, not Mike (Kurt)
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Joel Hammer wrote:
% I have found that if you want to get respect in the house despite your
% computer habit, wash the dishes. That quiets all grumbling from the girls.
As does cleaning the toilets...
% On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 07:43:03AM -0600, Richard R. Sivernell wrote:
% LIST
%
%
Richard R. Sivernell wrote:
% LIST
%
%From my family to all on the list, Happy Holidays
% and be safe. May all of you do better than I, I am told I
% get a lump of coal. I spend too much time at my computers, g.
Same to you, Rick. I must add that my brother and sister-in-law gave
me a
Bill Campbell wrote:
% On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 08:22:56AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
% ...
% I opted for a Lexmark color injet (the z53). I have never been
[why I chose Lexmark]
% I'm glad to hear that because I've been looking at color printers for
% quite a while, primarily to use from
Lee wrote:
% After running a Win95/col2.2 dual boot for 2.5 years the col2 suddenly
% shutdown down one night in the middle of an internet session. I mean the
% screen just went dark. The bootup was .located in the hda mbr. On
% reboot, boot magic failed with the error message that the linux
%
Lee wrote:
[...]
% It's an old hd 4gig have been running it for 2.5 yrs and bought it used.
% So ready to replace it anyway. The thging that galls me though is that
% the WIN 95 side of the dual boot has been running without problems.
Linux pushes hardware much harder than Windows.
Kurt
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Keith Antoine wrote:
% On Tuesday 18 December 2001 01:53, Net Llama enunciated:
% What if I have a dish washer?
%
% Sheesh, mate I married one; however itys is getting a bit old and I cannot
% seem to get a trade-in.
Apparently, your spouse doesn't follow this list... ;-)
Kurt
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Anita Lewis wrote:
% Sorry. Possibly a dumb question, but I saw a lot of Caldera stuff here and
% just wondered if this list is distro specific.
The list and site are distro neutral. See http://linux.nf/ for more
information. In particular, This group, [EMAIL PROTECTED], and
its companion
Michael Scottaline wrote:
% On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 02:26:31 + (UTC)
% Anita Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
%
% Sorry. Possibly a dumb question, but I saw a lot of Caldera stuff here
% and just wondered if this list is distro specific.
%
% Thanks. Anita
%
Net Llama wrote:
% Not sure if anyone is interested, but here are the pics from my trip
% last week:
% http://sxs.sf.net/pix/
%
% Day 1 were taken at Lava Beds National Monument in northern California
% Day 2 were taken at Silver Falls State Park in central Oregon
% Day 3 were taken at Redwood
Lee wrote:
% [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
%
% Lee wrote:
% % ignore
%
% Make me. :)
%
% Kurt
%
% Por que?
Just making a little humor.
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Tony Alfrey wrote:
% Hi gang!
%
% I need (please! ;-) the definitive solution for the kpackage/rpm
% problem.
% Here's my problem.
% For my past several builds of kde (now at kde 2.2.2), kdeadmin barfs
% when the build gets to kpackage, some conflict with the right version
% of rpm I
Myles Green wrote:
% On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 00:36:42 -0500
% [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
%
% I hate sendmail.
%
% me too ;)
To be more precise, I hate sendmail.cf.
Kurt
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Net Llama wrote:
% --- Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[mondo snippage]
% Yes, I know, but here no fdisk or change to partition tables, just
% creting an empty fs - one works, one doesn't.
%
% Hrmmm...what's the '-j' switch? I can't find any reference to it in the
% man page.
-j
Net Llama wrote:
% support. It boots runs that 2.4.5-xfs kernel perfectly. Its got a RH
% OS load with bits pieces of 6.2 7.x on it.
% Here's when things get annoying. When I try to boot off of a 2.4.14-xfs
% kernel on box #2, it always hangs just after detecting all the drives
% (basically
Collins Richey wrote:
[3.5 k deletia]
% ayup. I've used cups exactly that way, but I removed some M$sh%t
% options a year ago when I had a major snafu on the fscking WinME box,
% and I haven't had the urge to mess with it again!
init_curmudgeon_mode()
Dude! *Please* trim your posts. I
Bill Day wrote:
% Someone mentioned a SCSI CD-RW for $18 Smart and Frinedly 2006..
%
% Well, it arrived today.. complete, minus cable
%
% Someone was going to ship me a cd drive caddy not necessary..
%
% see what happens when you get old
CRS syndrome.
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Anyone care to recommend their favorite Linux-compatible color
inkjet printer? I'm in the market for a new one. I don't *have*
to own a color printer, but it would be nice. If a good yet
inexpensive laser printer can be had for under $300, that would
be nice, too.
Thanks,
Kurt
John Hiemenz wrote:
% On Monday 26 November 2001 03:38 pm, you stated :
% Anyone care to recommend their favorite Linux-compatible color
% inkjet printer? I'm in the market for a new one. I don't *have*
% to own a color printer, but it would be nice. If a good yet
% inexpensive laser printer
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 08:32:42PM -0800, Keith Morse wrote:
It was my understanding that the list standard required, nay, demanded
a humourous anecdote for such dalliances.
Gasp! Horror! I have been remiss. Keith is correct. With the completion
of my latest book project, I was able to
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 10:47:01AM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote:
I found this one on the inet. Compile it via the included script and when you
execute getvc... it'll return the number of the virtual console you're
currently in.
Sounds much like 'tty'.
Kurt
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 10:01:12AM -0800, Net Llama wrote:
GLIBC updated (Dave Bandell)
One l in Bandel, I bellieve. ;-)
Kurt
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On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 11:14:20AM -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 10:54:30 -0600 Ron White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Had a total hip replacement, but am back at the computer now and it
sure feels good.
What, the computer or the hip?
Welcome back.
Indeed. Nothing like
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:50:09PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
Sheez.
After about an hour or more, I found the right command to use. I don't know how to
interpret the chicken stratching in updatedb, though.
This command seems to work fine:
find /mnt/NetWork -fstype smbfs -prune -o -print
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 04:10:10PM -0800, Net Llama wrote:
The problem with 15, to the best of my understanding is that it forgets
to write all changes to disk when you shutdown the system. Thus, you
end up with massive amounts of fs corruption, especially on boxes that
have had long
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 07:36:45PM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote:
I'm a bit sheepish to admit this... but I've just rediscovered QUAKE. It
Your secret's safe with me.
Not. ;-)
K
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