[expert] Driver for AC'97 modem

2002-11-29 Thread Patrick Atlas
AC'97 modem seems to be rather recent. I am looking for a driver (Mandrake linux). There is a page on compurative.com to load a driver but the ftp gives a 500 error. if anybody got this driver could he tell how to get it? Thanks! Patrick Atlas Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandra

Re: [expert] hack attack analysis second attempt

2002-11-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 23:06, Vox wrote: > > This time James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > becomes daring and writes: > > > On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 22:50, Vox wrote: > >> > >> This time Lorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> becomes daring and writes: > >> > >> > Sorry, I used an old subject and I'm

Re: [expert] hack attack analysis second attempt

2002-11-29 Thread Vox
This time James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes: > On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 22:50, Vox wrote: >> >> This time Lorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> becomes daring and writes: >> >> > Sorry, I used an old subject and I'm guessing no one saw it >> > earlier. I'd like to try again

Re: [expert] hack attack analysis second attempt

2002-11-29 Thread Vox
This time Lorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes: > Thanks. That is an excellent idea! Now I have to try to remember how to keep > the tail of a log constantly writing to the monitor. I KNOW I can do it, just > so long since I have, I forget the syntax. :) tail -f /var/log/mess

Re: [expert] hack attack analysis second attempt

2002-11-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 22:50, Vox wrote: > > This time Lorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > becomes daring and writes: > > > Sorry, I used an old subject and I'm guessing no one saw it > > earlier. I'd like to try again. > > > > Since I wrote this earlier today, I gave up on openbsd without the cdrom. I

Re: [expert] hack attack analysis second attempt

2002-11-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 22:53, Lorne wrote: > Thanks. That is an excellent idea! Now I have to try to remember how to keep > the tail of a log constantly writing to the monitor. I KNOW I can do it, just > so long since I have, I forget the syntax. :) tail -f name_of.log James > > On Friday 29 No

Re: [expert] hack attack analysis second attempt

2002-11-29 Thread Vox
This time Vox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes: I hate sympa...silly thing insists on breaking signatures...somebody should put it out of our misery. Vox -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish,

Re: [expert] hack attack analysis second attempt

2002-11-29 Thread Lorne
Thanks. That is an excellent idea! Now I have to try to remember how to keep the tail of a log constantly writing to the monitor. I KNOW I can do it, just so long since I have, I forget the syntax. :) On Friday 29 November 2002 11:41 pm, Vox wrote: > This time Lorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > becom

Re: [expert] Ethereal

2002-11-29 Thread Lorne
On Friday 29 November 2002 11:41 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 22:27, Lorne wrote: > > On Friday 29 November 2002 11:19 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > A calc is on the menu under Applications/Sciences/Mathmatics as for > > > ethreal it's a contribs rpm still here is one pl

Re: [expert] hack attack analysis second attempt

2002-11-29 Thread Vox
This time Lorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes: > Sorry, I used an old subject and I'm guessing no one saw it > earlier. I'd like to try again. > > Since I wrote this earlier today, I gave up on openbsd without the cdrom. I > decided to look at Mandrake security. Has anyone pla

Re: [expert] hack attack analysis second attempt

2002-11-29 Thread Vox
This time Lorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes: > Sorry, I used an old subject and I'm guessing no one saw it > earlier. I'd like to try again. > > Since I wrote this earlier today, I gave up on openbsd without the cdrom. I > decided to look at Mandrake security. Has anyone pla

Re: [expert] Ethereal

2002-11-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 22:27, Lorne wrote: > On Friday 29 November 2002 11:19 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > A calc is on the menu under Applications/Sciences/Mathmatics as for > > ethreal it's a contribs rpm still here is one place you can get it. > > http://mandrake.secsup.org/Mandrake/9.0/

Re: [expert] Shorewall Follies - It's drivin' me NUTS!!

2002-11-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 18:48, Jim C wrote: > Jack Coates wrote: > > I know the shorewall question can be resolved, but as KevinO points out > > it shouldn't be resolved by someone who's not fully aware of the issues > > at stake. > > > > In the last five days I've gotten nearly a thousand denied at

[expert] hack attack analysis second attempt

2002-11-29 Thread Lorne
Sorry, I used an old subject and I'm guessing no one saw it earlier. I'd like to try again. Since I wrote this earlier today, I gave up on openbsd without the cdrom. I decided to look at Mandrake security. Has anyone played with it and how secure is it really? It is a snap to install. ===

Re: [expert] Ethereal

2002-11-29 Thread Lorne
On Friday 29 November 2002 11:19 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > A calc is on the menu under Applications/Sciences/Mathmatics as for > ethreal it's a contribs rpm still here is one place you can get it. > http://mandrake.secsup.org/Mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS/ > Well on my box that I upgraded it is

Re: [expert] Ethereal

2002-11-29 Thread Lorne
On Friday 29 November 2002 09:55 pm, Pierre Fortin wrote: > Yup... no ethereal... just an desktop file: > /usr/share/apps/kappfinder/apps/Internet/ethereal.desktop > > Seems to me I got the source and compiled under 8.2, then it was still > there when I upgraded to 9.0 -- I've been having problems

Re: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....

2002-11-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 16:52, Damian Gatabria wrote: > El Sáb 30 Nov 2002 03:37, KevinO escribió: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Damian Gatabria wrote: > > > current filesystems (and kernel) file size limit is 4TB (4096 gigs).. > > > > Not anymore, and not for some tim

Re: [expert] Ethereal

2002-11-29 Thread Lorne
On Friday 29 November 2002 09:48 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > well, you probably need to muck with your RPM sources, but in the > meantime just visit rpmfind.net, select a mirror, and search for > packages. > > rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/gnome-calculator > gnome-utils-2.0.2-4mdk > [jack@chupacabra

Re: [expert] Ugly *ss Package Installer

2002-11-29 Thread Jim C
Lorne wrote: ... so much is missing. I HATE the new mandrake package installer! I can't look ... I have to second you there. The new Package Installer mega-bytes. ;-) I just now see that I no longer have a calculator and I see no calculator in the rpms! No calculator? Come one! Tell me it a

Re: [expert] Ethereal

2002-11-29 Thread James Sparenberg
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 20:16, Lorne wrote: > no package named ethereal is the answer I get. I'm not really familiar with > urpmi. I'm looking at it, but I have it installed now anyway. Just seems odd > so much is missing. I HATE the new mandrake package installer! I can't look > at both install a

Re: [expert] Shorewall Follies - It's drivin' me NUTS!!

2002-11-29 Thread Jim C
Well I've got the shorewall rules for samba figured out. Please correct my work if I've made any mistakes. Port 445 is the port that XP/2K use for this purpose and the website did not take XP/2K into account. Port 631 is a network printer which may be important when I get around to putting u

Re: [expert] mdk 8.2 + updates + dhcpcd + DLink 530TX+

2002-11-29 Thread nDiScReEt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 29 November 2002 9:40 pm, Jason Snyder wrote: > [into] > Here is something that seems to be broken. I took my mdk 8.2 Professional > CDs, copied them to the RAID 5 array on my main Linux box (running mdk > 8.2), and installed over the networ

Re: [expert] Ethereal

2002-11-29 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 21:16:22 -0700 Lorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > no package named ethereal is the answer I get. I'm not really familiar > with urpmi. I'm looking at it, but I have it installed now anyway. Just > seems odd so much is missing. I HATE the new mandrake package installer! > I can'

[expert] Opera and Java: which RPMs?

2002-11-29 Thread Peter Møller Neergaard
I would like touse Opera as web browser. I am however having trouble getting the it to work smoothly with java. Whenever I try to start opera I get the following message: pan:~ > opera -debugjava java: There seems to be a preloaded version of Xt. Typical causes for this are the

Re: [expert] Ethereal

2002-11-29 Thread Jack Coates
well, you probably need to muck with your RPM sources, but in the meantime just visit rpmfind.net, select a mirror, and search for packages. rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/gnome-calculator gnome-utils-2.0.2-4mdk [jack@chupacabra jack]$ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/kcalc kdeutils-3.0.3-6mdk [ja

Re: [expert] Shorewall Follies - It's drivin' me NUTS!!

2002-11-29 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 18:48, Jim C wrote: > Jack Coates wrote: > > I know the shorewall question can be resolved, but as KevinO points out > > it shouldn't be resolved by someone who's not fully aware of the issues > > at stake. > > > > In the last five days I've gotten nearly a thousand denied at

Re: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....

2002-11-29 Thread Damian Gatabria
El Sáb 30 Nov 2002 03:37, KevinO escribió: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Damian Gatabria wrote: > > current filesystems (and kernel) file size limit is 4TB (4096 gigs).. > > Not anymore, and not for some time. > > I have a 27 GB tar file on an ext3 filesystem on a Mandrake 8

Re: [expert] Ethereal

2002-11-29 Thread Lorne
no package named ethereal is the answer I get. I'm not really familiar with urpmi. I'm looking at it, but I have it installed now anyway. Just seems odd so much is missing. I HATE the new mandrake package installer! I can't look at both install and uninstall. I can no longer see the files includ

Re: [expert] memory usage

2002-11-29 Thread David E. Fox
> well, 'free' divides it into 'total, used, free, shared, buffers, cached': > it's the last 3 columns which i don't fully understand. > 'shared' is always 0 , so it mb used only on multi-user systems; I've been on Linux systems where shared is not always zero. I would think that maybe it's not

Re: [expert] mdk 8.2 + updates + dhcpcd + DLink 530TX+

2002-11-29 Thread Jason Snyder
I figured it out. What happened is that I usually manually configure Samba, but this time around I thought just for the fun of it I would mess around with the wizard. (This is my test box after all.) The problem is the wizard changes around your ethernet configuration and knowing me, I probab

[expert] mdk 8.2 + updates + dhcpcd + DLink 530TX+

2002-11-29 Thread Jason Snyder
[into] Here is something that seems to be broken. I took my mdk 8.2 Professional CDs, copied them to the RAID 5 array on my main Linux box (running mdk 8.2), and installed over the network (through http) to my test box earlier today. The install itself went without a hitch and I was able to ru

Re: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....

2002-11-29 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Damian Gatabria wrote: > > current filesystems (and kernel) file size limit is 4TB (4096 gigs).. > Not anymore, and not for some time. I have a 27 GB tar file on an ext3 filesystem on a Mandrake 8.0 system running a (stock) SMP kernel. I believe the

[expert] Galeon queries

2002-11-29 Thread Philip Webb
i use Galeon 1.2.6 (1.2.5 was no different) on Mdk 9.0rc1 (stable enough) & have 1 problem & 1 more general query: (1) how can i save preferences? when i call up 'Settings -> Preferences', goto 'Rendering -> Fonts/Colors' & then set minimum font size to be 14 , the size changes at once, BUT i

Re: [expert] memory usage

2002-11-29 Thread Philip Webb
021129 David E. Fox wrote: >> is there a command or utility which would show >> which processes are using how much of which parts of memory? > I'm not sure what you mean by 'which parts' of memory. well, 'free' divides it into 'total, used, free, shared, buffers, cached': it's the last 3 columns

Re: [expert] Shorewall Follies - It's drivin' me NUTS!!

2002-11-29 Thread Jim C
Jack Coates wrote: I know the shorewall question can be resolved, but as KevinO points out it shouldn't be resolved by someone who's not fully aware of the issues at stake. In the last five days I've gotten nearly a thousand denied attempts to relay spam mail through my server clogging up my logs

Re: [expert] kdm & xscreensaver

2002-11-29 Thread Guilherme Cirne
On Friday 29 November 2002 21:25, Philip Webb wrote: > 021129 Guilherme Cirne wrote: > > Is there some way to get xscreensaver working with kdm? > > Following the instructions from man xscreensaver > > I added to /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0: > > xhost +localhost > > xscreensaver & > > but this d

Re: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....

2002-11-29 Thread Damian Gatabria
El Vie 29 Nov 2002 14:33, Tommy Wareing escribió: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 03:02:23PM +0100, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > IMHO it may be a lack of available space in /tmp which makes the > > tar-process stop at 2G. > > It's a kernel/file system limit. > ?? current filesystems (and kernel) file s

Re: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....

2002-11-29 Thread H. Narfi Stefansson
On Thursday 28 November 2002 13:34, Ken Walker wrote: > Is there any way to copy 8Gig of files to a nt machine, keeping all > ownership/permissions/groups. > > I've tried taring but it stops at 2G. > > many thanks > > Mr Smiley I'll take a stab at this. 1) you can have "tar' send to the standard o

Re: [expert] CD Database

2002-11-29 Thread Maxim Heijndijk
* Stardate: 2002-11-29 19:56 * Incoming subspace signal from "Guilherme Cirne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" : > On Friday 29 November 2002 19:53, villoing wrote: > > have you tried MySql? > > No, I haven't actually. But what I was really looking for was something > already made which would work "out of t

Re: [expert] "Fast user switching"

2002-11-29 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
I need to lock the other user from using my account and I'd like not to use 2x times the memory of a single Xfree session!. Actually I'looking at gdm. I'm trying to increase the username font size. Olaf At 23.15 21/11/2002, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Olaf Marzocch

Re: [expert] CD Database

2002-11-29 Thread Jordan Elver
On Friday 29 Nov 2002 11:22 pm, Olaf Marzocchi wrote: > Could you suggest me a good MySQL and PHP tutorial available in the web? www.devshed.com > Thank you > > Olaf > > At 23.22 29/11/2002, you wrote: > >On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 08:47, Guilherme Cirne wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Does anybody know

Re: [expert] Ethereal

2002-11-29 Thread Jack Coates
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 15:28, Lorne wrote: > Does anyone know why mandrake no longer supports Ethereal? It is a very cool > packet trace tool. I just went to install it on my 9.0 box and dang, what a > hassle! Took me 30 minutes just finding dependencies and files. > > > Did you try urpmi

Re: [expert] Shorewall Follies - It's drivin' me NUTS!!

2002-11-29 Thread Jack Coates
http://www.monkeynoodle.org/lrp/lrp-firewall-faq.html you can grep /etc/services to see what the port is supposed to be used for. As far as what is really using it, netstat -atun and lsof might give you some clues, as well as telnet localhost [portnumber]. On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 15:21, Jim C wrote

Re: [expert] Shorewall Follies - It's drivin' me NUTS!!

2002-11-29 Thread Jack Coates
I know the shorewall question can be resolved, but as KevinO points out it shouldn't be resolved by someone who's not fully aware of the issues at stake. In the last five days I've gotten nearly a thousand denied attempts to relay spam mail through my server clogging up my logs right now in chunks

Re: [expert] CD Database

2002-11-29 Thread Olaf Marzocchi
Could you suggest me a good MySQL and PHP tutorial available in the web? Thank you Olaf At 23.22 29/11/2002, you wrote: On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 08:47, Guilherme Cirne wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody know of good database applications for cataloging CD's under ML > 9.0? I've been using the cddb_ge

[expert] Ethereal

2002-11-29 Thread Lorne
Does anyone know why mandrake no longer supports Ethereal? It is a very cool packet trace tool. I just went to install it on my 9.0 box and dang, what a hassle! Took me 30 minutes just finding dependencies and files. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandra

Re: [expert] kdm & xscreensaver

2002-11-29 Thread Philip Webb
021129 Guilherme Cirne wrote: > Is there some way to get xscreensaver working with kdm? > Following the instructions from man xscreensaver > I added to /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0: > xhost +localhost > xscreensaver & > but this didn't work. I tested adding other commands to this file > and they

Re: [expert] Shorewall Follies - It's drivin' me NUTS!!

2002-11-29 Thread Jim C
OK, same problem. Where can I find out the most common uses for individual ports and how can I find out what a linux box is using those ports for? Jim C wrote: Thanks Sebastien. As you can see, there are only three files that are different and only two of those matter. There is a problem howeve

RE: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....

2002-11-29 Thread Jack Coates
As others have suggested, instead of tarring it up at all just scp or rsync to the NT box. An additional wrinkle required to make that work is to install Cygwin on the NT box so it can thunk Unix permissions to NT permissions -- since the two OSs have completely different security models, this is r

Re: [expert] CD Database

2002-11-29 Thread Jack and Melissa McSwain
> On Friday 29 November 2002 20:22, John McQuillen wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Does anybody know of good database applications for cataloging CD's > > > under ML 9.0? Thats what GTKtalog is for, its in the 9.0 distibution under archiving>other Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSo

Re: [expert] CD Database

2002-11-29 Thread Guilherme Cirne
On Friday 29 November 2002 20:22, John McQuillen wrote: > On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 08:47, Guilherme Cirne wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Does anybody know of good database applications for cataloging CD's > > under ML 9.0? > > I've been using the cddb_get package with a MySQL database. > > http://armin.emx.at

Re: [expert] kdm & xscreensaver

2002-11-29 Thread Jim C
I would like to hear about this kind of stuff also. Actually I've been wondering about how to get the lightning portion of xscreensaver to function as a background for the signon screen. I remember that I did it once a long time ago and it was a killer display. ;-) Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, I

Re: [expert] CD Database

2002-11-29 Thread John McQuillen
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 08:47, Guilherme Cirne wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody know of good database applications for cataloging CD's under ML > 9.0? I've been using the cddb_get package with a MySQL database. http://armin.emx.at/cddb/CDDB_get-latest.tar.gz Works very well. Create the database w

Re: [expert] CD Database

2002-11-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:56:23 -0200 Guilherme Cirne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, I haven't actually. But what I was really looking for was something > already made which would work "out of the box" with a nice GUI. All I need > is to keep data on artists and tracks for each cd I own. I built

Re: [expert] CD Database

2002-11-29 Thread Jordan Elver
I've heard Digital DJ is good, but not sure how it works. Comes with Grip I think. HTH On Friday 29 Nov 2002 9:56 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: > On Friday 29 November 2002 19:53, villoing wrote: > > have you tried MySql? > > No, I haven't actually. But what I was really looking for was something >

Re: [expert] CD Database

2002-11-29 Thread Guilherme Cirne
On Friday 29 November 2002 19:53, villoing wrote: > have you tried MySql? No, I haven't actually. But what I was really looking for was something already made which would work "out of the box" with a nice GUI. All I need is to keep data on artists and tracks for each cd I own. But when I have s

Re: [expert] CD Database

2002-11-29 Thread villoing
have you tried MySql? Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, Does anybody know of good database applications for cataloging CD's under ML 9.0? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.co

[expert] CD Database

2002-11-29 Thread Guilherme Cirne
Hi, Does anybody know of good database applications for cataloging CD's under ML 9.0? -- Guilherme Cirne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] memory usage

2002-11-29 Thread David E. Fox
> is there a command or utility which would show > which processes are using how much of which parts of memory? top is useful in determining which applications are using the most CPU or memory resources, but most of what is out there are basically graphical enhancements of 'top'; ksysguard for ins

[expert] kdm & xscreensaver

2002-11-29 Thread Guilherme Cirne
Hi, Is there some way to get xscreensaver working with kdm? Following the instructions from man xscreensaver I added to /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0: xhost +localhost xscreensaver & but this didn't work. I tested adding other commands to this file and they were executed correctly when kdm comes up

Re: [expert] Shorewall Follies - It's drivin' me NUTS!!

2002-11-29 Thread Jim C
Yes it is a poort security practice IF you have something to protect.  My system is a simple home system and of course I have limited resources that dictate weather or not I even get a firewall or fileserver.  Perhaps someday when I have an old box I can use as a firewall I will set things up t

[expert] anyone know the meaning of this?

2002-11-29 Thread engage
When executing kmail through an ssh tunnel, I get this message: DCOP: register 'anonymous-11210' -> number of clients is now 2 Who is anonymous-11210? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....

2002-11-29 Thread J. Grant
Hi, Is there a way to split tar.gz archives in this way? I would like to find an eqivelent of winrar so i can split backups into 730,000,000 byte files. Regards JG Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva wrote: Hi, read about -L option in 'man tar'. So you can create several files (<2Gb). I hope that's h

RE: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....

2002-11-29 Thread Ken Walker
This was just posted in the Samba_Admin mail group, different subject though. how does one enable largefilesupport ? And anybody know what the max file size is in ext2 and 3 ? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello Jim, Am Fr, 29. Nov 2002 18:26 schrieb Jim Morris: > Is this on the same exac

Re: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....

2002-11-29 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Walker wrote: > Its LM8.1 using ext2. As far a i know, ext3 came out with LM9. > I setup my Mandrake 8.0 box with ext3 filesystems during the install. ext2 can be converted to ext3 (if necessary) without rebooting > And i don't want to upgrade un

Re: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....

2002-11-29 Thread Tom
Would FTP be an option? And once the files are copied over on the NT machine, you could "zip" it into a smaller file, maybe? What do you think? On Friday 29 November 2002 12:35 pm, you wrote: > Yep tried that, it doesn't give you the option to change the file name and > assumes its going onto a r

RE: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....

2002-11-29 Thread Ken Walker
Its LM8.1 using ext2. As far a i know, ext3 came out with LM9. And i don't want to upgrade until i find someway of backing up first. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of KevinO Sent: 29 November 2002 3:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [

RE: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....

2002-11-29 Thread Ken Walker
Yep tried that, it doesn't give you the option to change the file name and assumes its going onto a removable media. So when you say yes to the next volume, it overwrites what it just did. In the end you get one file of your specified size and it only contains the end of the tarring :o( ps check

RE: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....

2002-11-29 Thread Alan Wilter Sousa da Silva
Hi, read about -L option in 'man tar'. So you can create several files (<2Gb). I hope that's help. On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Ken Walker wrote: > >I am sure that you have your reasons for coping "to" an NT machine. Not > >being an "NT" guru, I would have to ask "Must the transfer be done in one > >c

[expert] Hack attack analysis

2002-11-29 Thread Lorne
Well guys... it has been 5 years since somone got in. They finally did it. I've been using the floppy disk coyote linux for years now. They aren't keeping up it seems and the last update I got was in January. The first clue was zone alarm on my boys box popped up some denials. Regrettably, I wa

Re: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....

2002-11-29 Thread Lorne
I haven't followed this entire thread, but if you are bumping into a 2 gig limit, then it sounds like you are running fat16 and not ntfs. IF you are using fat16, then you need to convert the drive to NTFS and I believe that should solve it. I don't think this is a limitation of the old NTFS even

Re: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....

2002-11-29 Thread KevinO
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A quick question : What filesystem are the files stored in on the Mandrake 8.1 box? I have made a 27 GB tar file on Mandrake 8.0 and ext3 filesystem. Moving large files from box to box was tricky though. rsync seems to be ready for this. I was able to

RE: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....

2002-11-29 Thread Ken Walker
>I am sure that you have your reasons for coping "to" an NT machine. Not >being an "NT" guru, I would have to ask "Must the transfer be done in one >chunk"? You did not say where the 8 gigs to be transferred resides. Having >knowledge of the origin of the transfer may help in the answer, aftera

Re: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....

2002-11-29 Thread Tommy Wareing
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 03:02:23PM +0100, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > IMHO it may be a lack of available space in /tmp which makes the > tar-process stop at 2G. It's a kernel/file system limit. Move the data in smaller chunks (ie. more than one file). I presume that the other option (using no inte

Re: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....

2002-11-29 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 08:51 -0500, Tom wrote: > On Thursday 28 November 2002 02:34 pm, you wrote: > > Is there any way to copy 8Gig of files to a nt machine, keeping all > > ownership/permissions/groups. > > > > I've tried taring but it stops at 2G. > > > > many thanks > > > > Mr Smiley > > I am

Re: [expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....

2002-11-29 Thread Tom
On Thursday 28 November 2002 02:34 pm, you wrote: > Is there any way to copy 8Gig of files to a nt machine, keeping all > ownership/permissions/groups. > > I've tried taring but it stops at 2G. > > many thanks > > Mr Smiley I am sure that you have your reasons for coping "to" an NT machine. Not

[expert] How can i copy 8G to an NT machine and keep.....

2002-11-29 Thread Ken Walker
Is there any way to copy 8Gig of files to a nt machine, keeping all ownership/permissions/groups. I've tried taring but it stops at 2G. many thanks Mr Smiley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] artsd hogging cpu

2002-11-29 Thread Brian Parish
On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 23:06, Brian Parish wrote: > When my main desktop system is quiet - just XMMS doing it's thing, > evolution and mozilla running, maybe a console session or two, but > nothing much going on - I'm used to seeing total cpu usage of 2 - 4% > (excluding setiathome of course). Toda