[newbie] Rebuilding RPM Database

2003-02-22 Thread Tim Holmes
Recently I tried to check which RPMs I had installed for a few packages, and the rpm -qa | grep package_name took forever. This has happened in the past, so I just rebuild the database. rpm --rebuilddb I've done this many times in the past, with a number of machines, and it goes through, takes

Re: [newbie] NFS Mount Problems

2003-02-22 Thread Tim Holmes
I do NFS installs, and here's what I have set for my /etc/exports, perhaps you could give something along these lines for it to work: /install 192.168.2.0/24(rw,all_squash,anonuid=500,anongid=500) That's always worked. So any machine on my internal network can access the NFS mounts.

Re: [newbie] Rebuilding RPM Database

2003-02-22 Thread Tim Holmes
Well, that did the trick! I thought to do that a while ago, but I didn't know all of the files I needed to delete. Thanks for the help. tdh -- T. Holmes | UNIXTECHS.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | UIN: 17021091

[newbie] Creating Installing SSL key for HTTPD

2003-01-28 Thread Tim Holmes
I've been trying to create a proper SSL key for https instead of the test one that's put in place during the install. I found some mod_ssl docs in /var/www/html/addon-modules/mod_ssl-2.8.10, but something's not quite jiving. If you check out

Re: [newbie] Creating Installing SSL key for HTTPD

2003-01-28 Thread Tim Holmes
Well, I found where the other keys are kept: /etc/ssl/apache I moved my keys into their places, but that doesn't work. It just sits and hangs at Starting httpd: Is there something I'm missing, or should I bould mod_ssl and apache from source to fix this? Any ideas? tdh --

Re: [newbie] kdm configure not working.

2002-07-09 Thread Tim Holmes
I've gone through and made this change, but I still get KDM for KDE2.x. If I then try and load KDE3, it gives me IceWM. I've been using this webpage to set it up. http://www.desktop-linux.net/kde3-tips.htm I went through and did as it says. And it doesn't make sense that merely changing the

[newbie] Mysterious Opening and Shutting CD-ROM

2002-06-21 Thread Tim Holmes
I got home yesterday, headed into my office, turned the monitors on and sat down to check email and IRC. Suddenly I hear something. Confused, I pay it no nevermind, but only at first. I took it for something going on outside to start. After about a minute or two, the sounds were too

Re: [newbie] Remote Login

2002-06-14 Thread Tim Holmes
Did you su to root before running this command? apachectl is something you need to be root to run. Thus it's been put in one of the various sbins on the machine. Unless you edit the $PATH for that user, it won't even see applications in /sbin, /usr/sbin, or /usr/local/sbin. You can't telnet

Re: [newbie] Mplayer message query

2002-06-12 Thread Tim Holmes
You didn't actually need to upgrade gcc. If you check the configure options, you'll find the option to --disable-gcc-checking. Mandrake was very nice to patch their built version of gcc for us. They've been doing this since 8.0. The configure script doesn't check for problems with it, it just

Re: [newbie] aliases

2002-04-23 Thread Tim Holmes
Word to the wise, do not toy with /etc/profile.d/. Just leave those alone, and as I've detailed in the past, create your own ~/.aliases for your user. (Check the archives. This has been covered before.) The best place to add your aliases is in ~/.aliases. Yes, you can put them in ~/.bashrc

Re: [newbie] Dual Monitor

2002-04-22 Thread Tim Holmes
It depends on your video card configuration. If you have a card with dualhead built in, then it's usually just proper drivers from the manufacturer. It seems that 8.2 automatically installs and recognizes dualhead on a video card. I'm running the Matrox G400 MAX. My business partner's running

Re: [newbie] How do you create a RPM files from Tarball sources

2002-04-18 Thread Tim Holmes
# rpm -ta gtk-gnutella-0.80.tar.gz SNIP Wrote: /usr/src/RPM/SRPMS/gtk-gnutella-0.80-1.src.rpm Wrote: /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i686/gtk-gnutella-0.80-1.i686.rpm Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.84635 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD + cd gtk-gnutella-0.80 + rm -rf

Re: [newbie] weird log...

2002-04-18 Thread Tim Holmes
Basically, the system's being lazy with the log. In some cases this can almost be seen as a good thing. It means your don't have much writing to the log. All you need to do is find the what it's repeating. It should be last line written ABOVE all of those things. Here's an example from my

Re: [newbie] New silly Question. ;) Recommend good file manager?

2002-04-10 Thread Tim Holmes
Hey Femme. I think what you're looking for is ROX. Somebody asked me on #mandrake what file manager I use. You know I'm a console man, so my answer was xterm. However, somebody else came up with the option of ROX. It's pretty simple, but you can set up defaults to open up certain file types,

Re: [newbie] I just found the strangest thing...

2002-04-10 Thread Tim Holmes
Is there some console tool which will search some online dictionary for definitions? At work we used to have a tool call webster. Which would do just that, but it was discontinued and I've never been able to find something like that. Does anybody have any sort of idea/suggestions for this?

Re: [newbie] Need an explanation about LICQ

2002-03-31 Thread Tim Holmes
Hey Femme. Well, I read both of your messages, and a bit confused. From the message below, it sounds as if you already have LICQ installed. The next email goes through and details how to install LICQ from binary. So do you have LICQ installed and can't configure? Or did you try and install it

Re: [newbie] Re: Script

2002-03-31 Thread Tim Holmes
Here are a few of them that I've gone back to and toyed with from time to time. -- Basica walk through http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/programming/introbashscript.html -- Another basica HOW-TO http://www.pxh.de/fs/svcd/index.html -- And my favorite, how to add colors

Re: [newbie] Unisys, Microsoft to launch anti-Unix ads

2002-03-28 Thread Tim Holmes
What I like is SUN's response: Sun still does not see Microsoft as a real threat in the datacenter market where reliability, availability, serviceability and security are key, the company said. As for Unix being 'inflexible,' 'expensive,' and 'complex,' we feel those are terms much better suited

Re: [newbie] adding date to tar.gz file?

2002-03-26 Thread Tim Holmes
Just add an executable line to the name of the tar.gz by using date. Pretty simple. I do it all the time. tar -zxf /path/to/file-`date +%m-%d-%y`.tar.gz /path/to/dir/to/backup You'll end up with /path/to/file-03-26-02.tar.gz Check out date --help for all the possible flags, so you can get

Re: [newbie] I'm Locked Out!

2002-03-24 Thread Tim Holmes
Did you try to unmount the devices? Make sure you're not currently accessing something on either one, then run the commands: umount /mnt/floppy eject That should unmount the floppy so you can eject it manually. The eject command will unmount the CD, if it was mounted, before it ejects it.

Re: [newbie] 3-button mouse

2002-03-16 Thread Tim Holmes
Try running mouseconfig again. **As root mouseconfig Go through that, and then try testing it again. Of course if you've not done that already. But I think that's where I'd start. I think that will ask you to test the mouse and let you know if it's going to work. I have a

Re: [newbie] translucent shell window

2002-03-15 Thread Tim Holmes
Check out the man/help pages for aterm and Eterm. aterm -tr That should give you a transparant background. Eterm 0.8.*, ~I BELIEVE~, gives you a transparant background by default. But I don't know if that's the case. I do know that with the right tags, or by clicking through the menu you

Re: [newbie] alias problem

2002-03-12 Thread Tim Holmes
To the best of my knowledge, this is a Linux thing. Now, Manadrake may use the /etc/profile.d/alias.sh script, but Linux uses the /etc/profile.d to keep some of it's aliases like that. Checking on a RedHAT machine, I can see other *.sh as well as *.csh files in that directory for setting up

Re: [newbie] Minimizing the cult factor

2002-03-11 Thread Tim Holmes
| On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 11:34:55AM +0100, Kaj Haulrich wrote: | Indeed, thinking that Linux needs PhotoShop, man what do you think the | GIMP does? Clearly not well researched as the only thing PhotoShop does | that GIMP doesn't yet is CYMK colour - that's coming though. | I think the

Re: [newbie] alias problem

2002-03-11 Thread Tim Holmes
Okay, let's back up here a second. 1) If you want ot add an alias, let's do this right. a) Edit your ~/.bashrc, adding this line at the very bottom of the file: source ~/.aliases 2) Create your ~/.aliases by opening your favorite editor. vim ~/.aliases

Re: [newbie] alias problem

2002-03-11 Thread Tim Holmes
| Okay, let's back up here a second. | | 1) If you want ot add an alias, let's do this right. | | a) Edit your ~/.bashrc, adding this line at the very bottom | of the file: | | source ~/.aliases | | 2) Create your ~/.aliases by opening your favorite editor. |

Re: [newbie] Speed.... Or lack of?

2002-02-09 Thread Tim Holmes
Sure. Never use KDE or GNome. If you ask me, which you didn't, but I'm going to tell you anyway, (lol) KDE and Gnome were written for converted Windows users, with the Windows philosphy in mind. They are intensely bloated system hogs. So much so that it bogs a system down when you're not

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment

2002-02-09 Thread Tim Holmes
You're trying to create a menu for your LEFT mouse click? What you need to do is create ~/.enlightenment/file.menu. Here's the format you need, and an example from mine. User Menus Menu Name NULL menu menuname.menu APP NAME /path/to/icon exec /path/to/command That's the basic format. He's an

Re: [newbie] On the Subject of clocks ... Need Enlightenment

2002-02-05 Thread Tim Holmes
I use Enlightenment full time, and have done so for over two years now. For a lot of E users, they are provided a clock by another app. Many use the app gkrellm. Here's a screen shot of the two I have running on my desktop right now. There's an option of it displaying a clock, as well as

Re: [newbie] Alias question...

2001-12-30 Thread Tim Holmes
*Slight* correction. :0) In bash you need quotes if the alias includes spaces. Example: alias z=zwrite That DOES NOT need quotes. alias mp='mplayer -vo x11' This alias DOES need quotes. I know... I'm nit-picking, just giving away free information! :0) tdh --

Re: [newbie] how do I save any html page

2001-11-18 Thread Tim Holmes
I can't remember, but doesn't the wget command get the HTML and the images? Or there's an option to tell it to do so? I stopped using it since it was so darn slow, but maybe somebody else can answer that question. man wget wget --help tdh --

Re: [newbie] Outlook Express to Linux - how can I - also Draughting package needed

2001-11-15 Thread Tim Holmes
| On Wednesday 14 November 2001 02:07, Tim Holmes wrote: | From what I've read, and what I've played with, you don't need to make | the Outlook Express mail file anything. You should be able to use it | as is, and then port it to something you can use in *nix. | | http://freshmeat.net

Re: [newbie] Outlook Express to Linux - how can I - also Draughting package needed

2001-11-13 Thread Tim Holmes
From what I've read, and what I've played with, you don't need to make the Outlook Express mail file anything. You should be able to use it as is, and then port it to something you can use in *nix. http://freshmeat.net/projects/mbx2mbox/ I was looking for something to port Eudora Pro mail

Re: [newbie] web page woe's

2001-11-13 Thread Tim Holmes
24-net... which one? Are you running off a RoadRunner connection? They closed down port 80 after the CodeRed fiasco. So you'd have to change the port you use for your webserver in httpd.conf to something like port 90. That's what most people do. http://name.dns.com:90/ is how you'd access

Re: [newbie] limit of cat5 cables? (length)

2001-11-12 Thread Tim Holmes
Actually, there's no tested maximum length for CAT5. However if you're going by the specs, 100M is the max between some sort of device. Whether it's a repeater, a hub or something. Many of use have done networks where we've used CAT5 much longer then 100M for whatever reason, and have had no

Re: [newbie] MSI KT266A and Athlon 1800+ Wooohooo!!! but a tiny problem. 3073.64 BOGOMIPS!

2001-11-12 Thread Tim Holmes
Did you do any sort of compile for this other kernel? OR was it a rpm install? If so, you may want to try uninstalling the kernel, then installing it again. It will then try and rebuild it, and it may work then. Just a suggestion. Another suggestion, don't install 8.1. Install 8.0. 8.1 has

Re: [newbie] avi files

2001-11-09 Thread Tim Holmes
I decided to try this xmovie you're talking about since Mplayer is pretty ugly and it acts up when you try and resize the window while watching a movie. But I'm running into problems with the install. demux_qt.c:44:18: zlib.h: No such file or directory demux_qt.c: In function

Re: [newbie] Word

2001-10-05 Thread Tim Holmes
Personally I love vi. I actually use ViM, but it's the same thing. I only use 3 editors. vim gvim (ViM just a GUI from of it. It's kinda nice.) nedit (Which is a lot like EditPad, for those of you who know what EditPad is. I hope he makes a *NIX clone of EditPad one day!) I've heard a lot

Re: [newbie] point one?

2001-10-03 Thread Tim Holmes
: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 | on 10/3/01 10:12 AM, Tim Holmes at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I've never used Galeon, but mainly because I've always just disliked GNOME. | The only thing I like about GNOME would be GIMP. But I really

Re: [newbie] attachments in every message??

2001-10-03 Thread Tim Holmes
Yeah, they just started this, what... a month ago! It's a bit annoying, but I know nothing's going to be done about it any time soon. I'm on like 10 lists, and the Mandrake ones are the only ones that are doing this. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN:

Re: [newbie] Command not found

2001-10-02 Thread Tim Holmes
Sounds like you don't have your $PATH defined. Type this command, as the user, and let us know what you get. /bin/echo $PATH As the user, you should get something like this in return: [timh@r2d2 timh]$ /bin/echo $PATH

Re: [newbie] Command not found

2001-10-02 Thread Tim Holmes
I would suggest running through these steps. = 1) Login as root a) As root, edit the /etc/passwd. To do that type the command vipw. This will give you a vi editor that will edit the passwd

Re: [newbie] Cannot get into Linux again!

2001-10-02 Thread Tim Holmes
I agree with Charles. Boot into failsafe, and disable VMC at boot, and disable Aurora. In my cases, I've had it where with Aurora, it freezes at VNC, but if I disable Aurora, it will run the VNC server with no problem. But you don't need that started at boot. Run the command ntsysv. Find the

Re: [newbie] File size limit exceeded

2001-10-02 Thread Tim Holmes
I've seen this a few times, and I can't remember what caused it. I'll check through my notes when I get home. Do you get the same information if you type: su - You really should use that instead of just su. With the - in there, it loads that users environment. If you just do a su, it still

Re: [newbie] Fetchmail in Schedule

2001-10-02 Thread Tim Holmes
For something like that, you'd have to set up a custom cron job to do that. Just the basic configs for fetchmail won't let you do something like that. So you'd have to set up a cron, saying, on certain days, between the hours of __ and __ run fetchmail, then run it at __ on the weekends. It's

Re: [newbie] Webmin

2001-10-01 Thread Tim Holmes
And keep in mind Marcia. If you've changed your root passwd from what it was at install, you will have to use the root passwd that you used AT install. You may also have to edit the /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf to make it work. Depending on if SSL is compiled and installed, or configured. You may

Re: [newbie] installs don't run

2001-10-01 Thread Tim Holmes
That's why it's so important to read the install instructions, ESPECIALLY in a tar.gz. To run the installation script: 1. Change to the directory containing the installation script. If you are installing Acrobat Reader from a CD-ROM, change to the appropriate directory on the CD-ROM. 2.

Re: [newbie] LimeWare Install issue

2001-09-30 Thread Tim Holmes
And it should have been obvious to me, lol, but it wasn't. I kept wondering why I could download something when I was root, but couldn't as a user. (I thought the runlime script would INSTALL it, not just run a JAVA applet.) After a few tries, it dawned on me, DOH You don't have permissions

Re: [newbie] fetchmail

2001-09-29 Thread Tim Holmes
Fetchmail does exactly what it the name implies. Nothing more. It fetches mail, from a remote server, and puts it on the local machine. From there you can do anything you want with it. What you can do is, set up the Linux box to download mail vial fetchmail, and put the mail in $MAIL for each

Re: [newbie] LimeWare Install issue

2001-09-29 Thread Tim Holmes
I finally got it installed and working, but a tip to everybody real quick. Make sure, if you're running the script as a user, that you have the correct permissions on the directory that you chose to house the downloads. Running it as root, I had no problem, I downloaded two songs I was looking

Re: [newbie] Hayes external modem

2001-09-25 Thread Tim Holmes
I've seen a lot of hardware modems now saying they out right support Linux. As well as a few NICs. But the thing is, if you have a hardware modem, then it's not an issue of software like it is with Winmodems. The machine knows what needs to be sent to the modem, and the modem understands that.

[newbie] M$ Works file format

2001-09-25 Thread Tim Holmes
Do y'know how funny that Micro$HAFT made a program called Works just like the rest of their products, it's horrible. Microsoft Works makes just laugh doesn't it? Well on to why I'm emailing. My girlfriend likes to write in M$ Works, and then later emails me some of the things for my

Re: [newbie] does anyone want this??

2001-09-23 Thread Tim Holmes
DShield.org asked for the logs pertaining to the CodeRed and CodeRed II attacks. I'm not sure if they're asking for things having to do with Nimda. Check their webpage, they may way those as well. My cable provider shutdown port 80 and port 443 after the fiasco from CodeRed, so I don't have

Re: [newbie] Cannot get into Linux

2001-09-23 Thread Tim Holmes
What was the command typed then? If the command was typed out correctly, it woul have worked just fine. rm -Rf ~/.kde This wil remove the directory that keeps all the PERSONAL kde configs on your machine. If you get rid of that, you should be able to basically start all over with out them,

Re: Sig file, was Re: [newbie] Me, Linux, or my !@#$%^ ISP

2001-09-22 Thread Tim Holmes
Honestly, I only know enough about pine, that I hate it! lol So I wouldn't know what needs to go in a ~/.pinerc, but hey. If it doesn't work, you can just take it out of there! There are other ways of doing it, and I've known some people to write a script that does all the work for them, but I

Re: [newbie] de-activating network card in cron

2001-09-21 Thread Tim Holmes
Do you want to bring down the network period, or just the NIC? To shut down the network: /etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop To start it again, just replace the 'stop' with start and it will come back up. To drop the network device here's the command you'll need. /sbin/ifconfig eth0 down Again,

[newbie] MD Walkman USB connection

2001-09-21 Thread Tim Holmes
This may be slightly off topic, but since there are so many people on the list, maybe somebody has heard of something that might help me. I just replaced my portable MiniDisc player. The newer ones of course support a USB connection so you can load MP3s and record CDs to the MiniDiscs. Does

Re: [newbie] Me, Linux, or my !@#$%^ ISP

2001-09-20 Thread Tim Holmes
I got to the list too late! (See what happens when you actually work for an hour! :0) I've had this happen to be before with other settings. Where I'd try and change the settings with a GUI, and instead of overwritting the settings, it just kept adding to them! In a lot of cases, what

Re: [newbie] letting computer run overnight without overheating

2001-09-20 Thread Tim Holmes
As many of the people here have said, as long as you have good temp monitors on the motherboard (which most newer models do have) and your fan is working you'll be fine. [timh@r2d2 timh]$ uptime 12:30pm up 57 days, 16:02, 27 users, load average: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00 That machine doesn't even

Re: [newbie] so many shells?

2001-09-20 Thread Tim Holmes
I would leave them in place personally. They don't take much space, and they can be useful for those that write scripts with a certain shell because of the pros that shell can offer. It's also good to go and learn each of the shells if you're all about learning any and everything about Linux

Re: Sig file, was Re: [newbie] Me, Linux, or my !@#$%^ ISP

2001-09-20 Thread Tim Holmes
I have a line in my ~/.muttrc that goes in and adds that to the end of my signature. There are various ways to do this, but here's how I do it. set signature='cat /home/timh/.signature ; echo Uptime: ; echo ;uptime; echo

Re: [newbie] update time over internet

2001-09-17 Thread Tim Holmes
Does anybody know where to find a list of other NTP servers? I used to know a few of them off the top of my head, and now I don't remember their names any more. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime:

Re: [newbie] update time over internet

2001-09-17 Thread Tim Holmes
://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/servers.htm Check that out. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Use Vi! -- | On Monday 17 September 2001 21:42, Tim Holmes wrote: | Does anybody

Re: [newbie] Licq

2001-09-16 Thread Tim Holmes
What about a Groupware app like the one that ICQ used to make available to businesses? Is that made for *NIX? I was thinking about this a while ago, and then got to busy to ask the list. Maybe I'll send a message to the LICQ list as well to see what they know about it. tdh -- T. Holmes

Re: [newbie] Licq

2001-09-16 Thread Tim Holmes
To provide a quick update here. There appears to be something that basically is GroupWare. http://freshmeat.net/projects/iserverd/ There's a link there to the webpage where to download them. They have RPMs, but they appear to be source RPMs. You'll need PostGreSQL installed. I didn't have

Re: [newbie] Still fighting w Fetchmail Pine to receive

2001-09-16 Thread Tim Holmes
Sounds like you don't have fetchmail configured correctly to download mail. Did you use fetchmailconf or did you create your /root/.fetchmailrc (or /etc/fetchmailrc) by hand? Here's the format I use in my /root/.fetchmailrc. # Configuration created Sun Apr 29 13:18:35 2001 by T. Holmes set

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment vs Sawfish

2001-09-15 Thread Tim Holmes
: 3:25pm up 5 days, 7:12, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 | On Saturday 15 September 2001 19:53, Tim Holmes wrote: | Sawfish is a light WindowManager which can support GNOME as a desktop | manager

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment vs Sawfish

2001-09-15 Thread Tim Holmes
I use Enlightenment, by itself. I've used it for some time now. My only complaint about it is actually an issue of Xinerama since I run DualHead on my workstation. Sridhar mentioned that Enlightenment can be a resources hog, which I've never noticed. I have a 1.2 Athlon in my machine and 768

Re: [newbie] A meaningfull Subject-line would help us all

2001-09-14 Thread Tim Holmes
Very good point here! I for one, only respond to messages that have a subject matter that would interest me, or my knowledge would be helpful. Or if the topic becomes rather lengthy. But at the same time, sometimes it's hard to come up with a topic that really lets the list know what you need.

Re: [newbie] This is a linux mailing list -- some people pay for email access by volume

2001-09-14 Thread Tim Holmes
Really, just to respond to the rant here, this is a problem that a lot of ISPs run into. Here's a basic run down of why. Some ISPs don't use very advanced equipment. And even those that do, there are always issues of software and of telecommunications isssues. Some small town ISPs are, for

Re: [newbie] Which Kernel?

2001-09-12 Thread Tim Holmes
I've tried to recompile newer and older kernels on my machine. Having recompiled kernels in FreeBSD and seeing how easy it was, and how much fun it was to do it, I figured, Hey... I'll cut my kernel down to size and it will boot much faster! Well I managed to cut it down pretty well, but the

Re: [newbie] Upgrading XFree

2001-09-11 Thread Tim Holmes
Check out ftp.xfree86.org. In the /pub/XFree86/4.1.0 directory, download Xinstall.bin and Xinstall.sh. Run the Xinstall.sh and it will tell you what you need to download. Make sure you read through the docs though. They are very helpful, and it tells you how to determine which version of the

Re: [newbie] hostname: bash-2.05

2001-09-10 Thread Tim Holmes
I can't find the original email sent on this topic, but it says that the hostname was replaced with the bash-2.05$. Are you simply referring to the prompt? Or is the hostname actually saying it's bash-2.05$? As for the request for a standard /etc/skel/.bashrc and /etc/skel/.bash_profile,

Re: [newbie] Open source hits back?

2001-09-09 Thread Tim Holmes
I have no problem with Linux awareness, and Get Linux buttons on webpages. But if Linux starts to use Micro$HAFT like tactics, we're becoming the same kind of evil that we've been trying to avoid. People would start saying Mandrake$HAFT, or other such references. I don't think that's what we

Re: [newbie] Networking setup

2001-09-08 Thread Tim Holmes
Well the thing in Linux, is that if there are problems with an IRQ conflict, your hardware is not going to work. I ran into problems like this with one of my machines. In Windows, if there are IRQ conflicts, it will still manage to find the address for the hardware and send the correct

Re: [newbie] OT: Win XP hacked already

2001-09-06 Thread Tim Holmes
I've been a 100% Linux user now for a year and half. I was an advanced newbie when I converted from a dual boot machine to a full time Mandrake box. I'd done UNIX administration even before that. But after all that time, I've still found a use for Micro$HAFT products! MSN sent me a disc about

Re: [newbie] how to play mov files?

2001-09-02 Thread Tim Holmes
Well I found a program on Freshmeat.net one weekend, however I could never get it to install. Not that I really gave it a diligent try, but I the few I did try, it didn't work. The app I found was quicktime4linux. -rw-r--r-- 1 timh timh 631944 Jul 27 09:06 quicktime4linux-1.3.tar.gz And

Re: [newbie] TELNET help! Please?

2001-08-31 Thread Tim Holmes
Telnet is easy to use, but it's starting to be phased out because it's insecure. The odds are, if you're dealing with a Mandrake 8.0 install, the telnet server is not installed. As I recall, it's not set to install automatically. But run this command to determine if the server is actually

Re: [newbie] Configuration Files (repost)

2001-08-31 Thread Tim Holmes
Well I have no idea why .*rc files are used. But I know they're basically personal config files. /etc is basically full of config files and information files. There are some scripts in there to start services. Things like /etc/modules.conf are really just informational config files. You can

Re: [newbie] Linux, Borders, and social consciousness

2001-08-30 Thread Tim Holmes
Yeah... see Windows provides a little bit of morality to your life. Since it's merely a vessel for porn, it crashes on you to let you know you're doing something you shouldn't be doing! lol Borders was a family owned business, and family run for the most part until it really started to take off,

Re: [newbie] Simple eth0 question

2001-08-26 Thread Tim Holmes
Also the modem downloads new software for it self from time to time as well. This may have something to do with that. As far as shutting down the network, I'd use the /etc/init.d/networ stop, but ifconfig eth0 down will work as well. But the /etc/init.d/network stop shuts down all the network

Re: [newbie] Linux Lunacy....

2001-08-26 Thread Tim Holmes
Congrats on your your pending nuptuals. :0) Where can I find some information on the cruise? tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime: 4:56pm up 10

Re: [newbie] just wondering

2001-08-25 Thread Tim Holmes
, 13:15, 6 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 | On Sat, 25 Aug 2001 05:47, Tim Holmes wrote: | Those links are all find and dandy, but not for a MAILING list. Those | are unwritten and accepted ruls for NEWSGROUPS, which

Re: [newbie] just wondering

2001-08-24 Thread Tim Holmes
Those links are all find and dandy, but not for a MAILING list. Those are unwritten and accepted ruls for NEWSGROUPS, which this is not. The reason why those are so accepted and enforced on news groups, is because 100% of all newsreaders I've used, show the original post and responses right

Re: [newbie] Why won't you help me?

2001-08-22 Thread Tim Holmes
Well the only response to the message you sent was the best on. The reason why I didn't respond to your post. The solutions that would cause the least amount of headaches would be to buy a REAL modem. Even if you did get the WinModem working, you'd be sending posts asking why it disconnects

Re: [newbie] How do I test my NIC?

2001-08-22 Thread Tim Holmes
Well here are a few commands to run to see if Mandrake sees the card and is going to have a chance in hell of using it. [eric@ericekong eric]$ cat /etc/modules.conf | grep eth alias eth0 3c59x That machine has a 3Com card in it. So your 3c59x may read something completely different. If it's

[newbie] Question about 'chmod'

2001-08-20 Thread Tim Holmes
I was noticing a few of the commands have an s in their persmissions. [timh@r2d2 timh]$ ls -la `which wall` -r-xr-sr-x1 root tty 6652 Mar 8 04:37 /usr/bin/wall* What's up with the s there, and how do I set that? What number, or text goes with that? I know how chmod works

Re: [newbie] OpenSSH at Old Linux

2001-08-19 Thread Tim Holmes
I don't see why not, as long as there's software that will allow it. I'd suggest installing from source if you'd like to do this. What version is your Old Version of linux? But I'd check www.openssh.com and check with them. They may have something more suited for your machine. tdh -- T.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake vs. SuSE

2001-08-13 Thread Tim Holmes
I've installed and used both, so I'll give you a bit of insite. INSTALL Mandrake 8.0 -- 45 minute install with basic configurations added SuSE 7.0 -- Almost 2 hours to a login prompt I don't know anybody personally that could not isntall Mandrake. I was the first out of a group of 5

Re: [newbie] Installing Programs

2001-08-13 Thread Tim Holmes
A RPM that was created for i386 will work just fine for ix86. I wouldn't even worry about it. It will do the trick and work just fine. I highly doubt you'd even notice the difference. But if you're hell bent on installing and configuring more up to date software then you can go the tarball

Re: [newbie] HTML editor sought

2001-08-13 Thread Tim Holmes
HTML email's are EVIL! But I use Quanta, or Vi. Quanta is pretty handy. I used that to start out with since I'd forgotten a lot of my HTML. Now that it's refreshed my memory I've gone back to vi, or vim. Quanta is installed standard. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Different ways of starting X???

2001-08-13 Thread Tim Holmes
I use xinit to start xwindows. I have a .xinitrc in my $HOME that reads: [timh@r2d2 timh]$ cat .xinitrc exec enlightenment For KDE that would read exec startkde. But the key stroke you're looking for to close down xwindows, is CTRL+ATL+BACKSPACE. tdh -- T. Holmes -

Re: [newbie] ping port 7?

2001-08-09 Thread Tim Holmes
I think this would block pings, but I'm sure there are other ways, much better, to block ping request. A firewall should handle that for you. As far as it preventing you from pinging other machines, it won't affect you. If you block the port, it will not accept packets at that level, it has

Re: [newbie] Reasons for use LM 8.0

2001-08-08 Thread Tim Holmes
| On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 23:18:41 -0400 | Tim Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: | | Nice tidy summation, Tim. You hit most of the major Linux and *BSD | distros in a fairly unimpassioned, relatively _nuetral_ manner. I once

Re: [newbie] ./ ?????

2001-08-08 Thread Tim Holmes
Try checking the permissions. Are the permissions so that you could execute it? They would look something like this. [timh@yoda timh]$ ls -la `which mutt` -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 426528 May 27 16:42 /usr/local/bin/mutt As you can see, the x means it's executable. Try also sh command. That

Re: [newbie] Reasons for use LM 8.0

2001-08-07 Thread Tim Holmes
This really comes down to what do they want to do with the machines. Are these going to be desktops for users? Are these going to be servers? Are these going to be used to teach a class on Linux? I've installed quite a good number of different distros in my day. (Always wanted to say that! :0)

Re: [newbie] Really small LAN of 2

2001-08-05 Thread Tim Holmes
I agree with Sridhar. I think the fact that the machine's name is localhost, is causing a bit of a problem. It could very well be the firewall as well. But edit this file: [root@r2d2 sysconfig]# cat network NETWORKING=yes FORWARD_IPV4=false HOSTNAME=MACHINE-NAME-HERE

[newbie] 'Rumor' of TCP/MS WinXP [Check this out]

2001-08-05 Thread Tim Holmes
Somebody sent this to me today, as he and I usually discuss varied technical issues, and in reading, I thought this was something the groups may like to see. If you've already seen it or commented on, I apologize for the waisted bandwith, but I think this is worth distributing.

Re: [newbie] copying files from one to another

2001-08-05 Thread Tim Holmes
Try drakesync if you'd like. IT will use SSL to do so, or SSH, I can't remember which. You can also use scp. scp FILE.NAME $[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path/for/file Do a which for scp to make sure it's installed and then check the man page for more information. tdh -- T. Holmes -

Re: [newbie] Cable Modem

2001-08-05 Thread Tim Holmes
If you're running a cable modem you have a static IP for the moment. They may change it later, but usually they wait a few months. As root, run this command. [root@r2d2 /root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd status Apache is running. httpd: 25635 25634 20976 20975 19872 19871 19870 19869 1095

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