Re: [expert] DNS server

2000-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Vu said he wanted to use FTP. FTP is *not* an SMB protocol and has nothing to do with Samba nor Lan Manager. Therefore, he needs hosts, not lmhosts. Ron Charles Curley wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 10:02:42AM -0600, Ron Johnson, Jr. wrote: > > We use the "hosts"

Re: [expert] DNS server

2000-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
achine (both of them in one local network, I can ping from one to > the other by the IP address because it does not understand by the name) . I > think that I have to config the DNS server in order to use the FTP software. >

Re: [expert] How to config network printer?

2000-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
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[expert] upgrading v7.2 from v6.0

2000-10-31 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Since my /dev/hda is 1 big linux-only partition, would it be simplest to just install it on a new disk, then mount the v6.0 disk to copy back all config and personal data files? Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL

Re: [expert] here is the $170 question ^__^

2000-10-27 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
1992, but what happens if you remove the 64MB SDRAM and put the 128MB SDRAM in socket 0? Ron -- +----------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |

Re: [expert] Upgrading CPU...

2000-10-27 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
if u are downgrading in archetecture.) Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http

Re: [expert] pgcc ok to compile kde2 ?

2000-10-27 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Pardon me for being dense, but what do you mean by "How about both?"? Are you saying that both of what I have are equivalent to the requirements? Ron Buchan Milne wrote: > > Hopw about both ? > > "Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: > > > > Hi, all. > >

Re: [expert] Mounting NTFS drive.

2000-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Stephen Bosch wrote: > > "Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: > > > > > I've got Mandrake 7.02 on my laptop and have NT4 on another partition. How > > > do I go about mounting this partition so that I can write to it? > > > > Samba. RTFM, try t

Re: [expert] Mounting NTFS drive.

2000-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
uestions. Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://man

[expert] pgcc ok to compile kde2 ?

2000-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
compilers, or must I rip them out and install egcs-1.1.2? (Since this has to do with both kde & mdk, I thought that a cross-post would be justified.) Sincerely, Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jeffe

Re: [expert] Niiiiice. Kill off kde STABLE 2.0 immediately

2000-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Praedor Tempus wrote: > > "Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: > > > > What if we trailing-edge types totally deinstall our 1.1.x > > systems, then try to install kde2 from source? > > > > You could try. When I did the attempt, the indications were

Re: [expert] Niiiiice. Kill off kde STABLE 2.0 immediately

2000-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
> Praedor Tempus wrote: > > > > > > Real nice. Yesterday, kde releases, finally, the stable, > > > final kde-2.0. Yesterday you could download it from > > > mandrake cooker, from rpmfind, from every mirror > > > known to man. > [...] -- +---

Re: [expert] making a usable floppy disk

2000-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Alexander Skwar wrote: > > So sprach Ron Johnson, Jr. am Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 12:52:00PM -0500: > > I didn't think of kde. For some silly reason, I was thinking > > it was a kernel tool! > > Uh? But it's a KDE tool, is it not? :] That's a

Re: [expert] making a usable floppy disk

2000-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Alexander Skwar wrote: > > So sprach Ron Johnson, Jr. am Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 03:03:24PM -0500: > > What's the difference between mkdosfs (which I don't have) & > > This is a console tool... > > > kmkdosfs (which I *do* have)? I have no man page f

Re: [expert] making a usable floppy disk

2000-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Alexander Skwar wrote: > > So sprach Ron Johnson, Jr. am Sun, Oct 22, 2000 at 03:39:26AM -0500: > > Would it simply be "mkfs -V -c /dev/fd0", or is there some > > other mk* command that I haven't found? > > For FAT/VFAT it would be mkdosfs, but besi

[expert] making a usable floppy disk

2000-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Hi, After I formay it with "fdformat /dev/fd0H1440", how do I create a filesystem on it? Would it simply be "mkfs -V -c /dev/fd0", or is there some other mk* command that I haven't found? Thanks, Ron -- +------------

Re: [expert] logrotate

2000-10-19 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Divide and conquer: rm [Aa]* rm [Bb]* rm [Cc]* etc., etc. Ron -- +----------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--

Re: [expert] VPN access through firewall

2000-10-18 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
help. > Thanx > Clayton > > PMfirewall (look in freshmeat) or http://www.freesco.org Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Sprint Broadband internet

2000-10-17 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
P over Ethernet", or "real Ethernet"? These are the 1st things you must ask of Sprint. What Mandrake version do u use? Mdk6.0 uses "pump" for dynamicly assigned addresses. v6.1 also may use pump. Newer versions use dhcp. Ron -- +--------------

Re: [expert] Apache 1.3.12-12mdk log writes are *very* lazy

2000-10-10 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
ctions? Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +--+ Keep in touch with http://mandr

Re: [expert] Apache mdk install

2000-10-10 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
arch for this in rpmdrake > failed. Can anyone point me to it? It's at www.rpmfind.net, and maybe other... Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] Apache 1.3.12-12mdk log writes are *very* lazy

2000-10-10 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jean-Michel Dault wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Ron Johnson, Jr. wrote: > > > Messages aren't flushed to the access_log until apache is > > shut down nicely via "httpd stop". Also, when they are flushed, > > they are not in chronological order. &g

[expert] Apache 1.3.12-12mdk log writes are *very* lazy

2000-10-09 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Messages aren't flushed to the access_log until apache is shut down nicely via "httpd stop". Also, when they are flushed, they are not in chronological order. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Ron -- +----------+ |

Re: [expert] Software

2000-09-28 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
n the kernel, to trap keystrokes), and an open port on the "other machine" to capture the strokes and then send them to the collecting machine? Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jeff

Re: [expert] OT: OnStream DI30 IDE tape backup unit

2000-09-28 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
,000... Can I email you in a month to ask you how you like it? Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ronandheather.dhs.org | +-

Re: [expert] will pci hardware modems work under kernel 2.4?

2000-09-27 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
e Hogwash. Nowadays, the IDE & serial ports are part of a "virtual" PCI-based super-IO card. Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |

[expert] OT: OnStream DI30 IDE tape backup unit

2000-09-26 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Does anyone have experience with this type of unit? Their website says that it works with BRU & Lone-Tar, but I wonder if is it quality hardware that works with cpio, tar, etc. Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [expert] will pci hardware modems work under kernel 2.4?

2000-09-26 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
model number? Ron -- +----------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://ron

Re: [expert] will pci hardware modems work under kernel 2.4?

2000-09-26 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Stephen Bosch wrote: > > "Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: > > > Just like anything else: it depends... > > > > All winmodems are PCI-based, but not all PCI-based modems are > > winmodems. > > Sorry? Not all Winmodems are PCI based. I have several ISA

Re: [expert] will pci hardware modems work under kernel 2.4?

2000-09-26 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
"hardware" modem, as opposed to a winmodem, which is a.k.a. a software modem. "Hardware" PCI-based modems will usually advertise the fact, or say that they are DOS compatible. Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [E

Re: [expert] About to upgrade mdk6.0 from kde1.1.1 to 1.1.2

2000-09-25 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
ts at installing ( following > the instructions religously ) KDE2, twice, both times resulting in a > BROKEN KDE, I think I will wait until Mdk 7.2. For the time being, I'm going to stick with peicemeal updates. Also, won't go with KDE2 until glaring bugs are fixed at ~2.0.1. Ron --

[expert] About to upgrade mdk6.0 from kde1.1.1 to 1.1.2

2000-09-23 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
is a symlink to /usr/. Will this cause any problems? Here are some details of my system, if that is important: - kernel 2.2.16 - glibc-2.1.2-17 - XFree86 3.3.3.1-58mdk Sincerely, Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [expert] "-- MARK --" in /var/log/messages

2000-09-20 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
have said, "So many different processes tell syslogd to write messages". What is this "Server/Workstation Expert" magazine? Do they have a URL? Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jeffer

Re: [expert] "-- MARK --" in /var/log/messages

2000-09-20 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
David Mihm wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Ron Johnson, Jr. wrote: > > > As you can see, these are logged every 20 minutes, and it's been > > happening since the beginning of the machine. What causes this, > > and can I or should I turn this off? >

[expert] permissions on swap partitions

2000-09-20 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
change column 4 to "defaults,mode=0600"? Sincerely, Ron -- 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL

[expert] "-- MARK --" in /var/log/messages

2000-09-20 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
20 07:11:17 rebel -- MARK -- Sep 20 07:31:17 rebel -- MARK -- Sep 20 07:51:17 rebel -- MARK -- Sep 20 08:11:18 rebel -- MARK -- Sep 20 08:31:18 rebel -- MARK -- Sep 20 08:51:18 rebel -- MARK -- -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [

Re: [expert] setting up printers and printing

2000-09-19 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
using the L-J 4 driver), once I knew the the IP addr & queue name. Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |

Re: [expert] setting up printers and printing

2000-09-19 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Could it be that these new print servers don't support lpd, but just support Windows & IPX? Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |

Re: [OT] .bw? was (Re: [expert] ncftpget firewall problem)

2000-09-14 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Rhodesia was the "white" name of Zimbabwe.) Sincerely, Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |

Re: [OT] .bw? was (Re: [expert] ncftpget firewall problem)

2000-09-14 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jean-Louis Debert wrote: > > "Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: > > > > Out of curiosity, what country is .bw? > > > > That's BOTSWANA (in Africa) > > Please see URL: > http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/mem-services/general/africa.html Thank

Re: [expert] GUI Editor needed for remote computer

2000-09-14 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
unless it were tempirarily local? Sincerely, Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most

Re: [expert] GUI Editor needed for remote computer

2000-09-14 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
unless it were tempirarily local? Sincerely, Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused wo

Re: [OT] .bw? was (Re: [expert] ncftpget firewall problem)

2000-09-14 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
sia was the "white" name of Zimbabwe.) Sincerely, Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |

Re: [OT] .bw? was (Re: [expert] ncftpget firewall problem)

2000-09-14 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jean-Louis Debert wrote: > > "Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: > > > > Out of curiosity, what country is .bw? > > > > That's BOTSWANA (in Africa) > > Please see URL: > http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/mem-services/general/africa.html Thank

[OT] .bw? was (Re: [expert] ncftpget firewall problem)

2000-09-14 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Out of curiosity, what country is .bw? Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most

Re: [expert] Xwindow

2000-09-13 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
; > So don't tell us that VNC is good and other crap.. you dont' need it if u > are using Linux/Unix.. > > Everybody here is trying to tell you that and you are not able to > understand! My, my, my. Young Mr. Lakare is *so* full of piss & vinegar, and thinks he knows s

Re: [expert] thanks for the check port cmdln

2000-09-12 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
have realized that... Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: f

Re: [expert] thanks for the check port cmdln

2000-09-11 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
ide requests? (BTW, I guess samba needs netbios-ssn for my internal LAN, which has Windows boxen sharing disks & printer.) Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [expert] thanks for the check port cmdln

2000-09-11 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
hings out... It was my assumption that PMFirewall blocked everything then allowed only certain ports in... Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |

Re: [expert] thanks for the check port cmdln

2000-09-11 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
oler, so it sounds bad that that should be world accessable. TIA, Ron -- +----------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused wor

Re: [expert] IPChains and Masqerading script help!!

2000-09-08 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
ck studying IPchains! Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| |

Re: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1

2000-09-08 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
pablito wrote: [snip] > problems. Mandrake also does a much better job sticking on the various > programs that make Linux easier to use. [snip] Plz clarify this. Thanks, Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PRO

Re: [expert] Differences between Red Hat and Mandrake 7.1

2000-09-08 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
ames in scripts, etc.). Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com|

Re: [expert] multiple logons

2000-09-06 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Ron Johnson, Jr. wrote: > > > HOWEVER, in the commercial realm, when dozens of clerks are > > logged into a system, it is often useful (for tracking, auditing > > or consistency, etc.) to only let a clerk log into a system

Re: [expert] multiple logons

2000-09-06 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
e logins. HOWEVER, in the commercial realm, when dozens of clerks are logged into a system, it is often useful (for tracking, auditing or consistency, etc.) to only let a clerk log into a system once. Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.

Re: [expert] Maximum file size

2000-09-06 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
n 32 bit CPUs. AlphaLinux theo- retical file size is 2^64 == 10^20. Also, I understand that the 2.4 kernels have lifted the max filesize to 2^64 on all CPUs. Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.

[expert] HDD > 33.8GB ???

2000-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
nce, Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+

Re: [expert] How to install Grub?

2000-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
frank wrote: > > On Tue, 05 Sep 2000, Ron Johnson, Jr. put to word: > > > If lilo is running fine for me, why change? > > i've not advised you to change...my comments went to the poster asking about > grub and getting answers about lilo...if lilo meets your nee

Re: [expert] How to install Grub?

2000-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
n my system. How do I configure and install it? > > oddly, most of the responses on this thread deal with lilo rather than grub, > which is a clearly superior bootloader...to find out more about grub, type: If lilo is running fine for me, why change? Ron -- +

Re: [expert] 10 favorite Linux tips...

2000-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Maybe the host is down... Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: f

Re: [expert] How to install Grub?

2000-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
number is too big (1291 > 1023) > > Error: LILO died I'm running LILO v21, and it boots just fine off a 4GB / partition. Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA

Re: [expert] ipchains question

2000-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
at > www.speedcorp.net I'm a moderator their and would be glad to help out :-D How stable is GFCC 0.7.4? Thanks, Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson

Re: [expert] ipchains question

2000-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
t? Also, is it analogous to PMFirewall? Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused

Re: [expert] How to see IP address?

2000-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
ddress. Misleading, if u have multiple eth or ppp ports. /sbin/ifconfig is definitive. Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA

Re: [expert] How to see IP address?

2000-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
root user, this works grandly, and is SIMPLE: $/sbin/ifconfig | grep "inet addr:" Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |

Re: [expert] ipchains question

2000-09-01 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
ted chain. If no chain is selected, all chains are listed. It is legal to specify the -Z (zero) option as well, in which case no chain may be specified. The exact output is effected by the other arguments given. So, "sbin/ipchains --list" is what u want. Ron --

Re: [expert] Linux free ISP's

2000-08-30 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
t > Dr. Michael Powell PhD > > Ron (I'm not a PhD and I don't play one on TV) -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |

Re: [expert] Linux free ISP's

2000-08-30 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
IL PROTECTED] He's probably just a pompous(sp?) lamer. Dr. Michael Powell or Michael Powell, PhD but *never* the silly-ly redundant Dr. Michael Powell PhD Ron (I'm not a PhD and I don't play one on TV) -- +---------------

Re: [expert] Proxy/router setup How-To

2000-08-28 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
ll probably get better performance > with multiple NICs. :) If u want 1 NIC on Linux per client PC, do u need special "straight thru" cat5, in order to run wire diectly from the client to the Linux box? Otherwise, wouldn't u need a hub NIC on your linux box? Ron -- +---

Re: [expert] Another IPCHAINS question

2000-08-26 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
client PC. Would that make the IPchains solution more tractable, since all is not on 1 network segment? Or am I just a dumb sh*t who should keep his hands off the keyboard? Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] AMD K7 Athelon vs. Intel PIII and Linux?

2000-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jean-Louis Debert wrote: > > "Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: > > The K6-3 is a kissing cousin of the K6-2. The only diff is that > > on the K6-3, the L1 cache runs at processor speed, whereas on > > K6-2, the L1 is slower. > > The L1 cache _always_ runs at p

Re: [expert] AMD K7 Athelon vs. Intel PIII and Linux?

2000-08-23 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Vic wrote: > > Sorry, what is a scaled dog? > Does it mean fast? > I've heard of catfish, but not dogfish... Ron -- +----------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW :

Re: [expert] 2 Xwin sessions

2000-08-23 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Mage Grimau wrote: > > "Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: > > > > "Julia A . Case" wrote: > > > > > > Yes. startx will start a session alt-shift-f7 and start :1 will start one > > > on alt-shift-f8 > > > > > > Julie >

Re: [expert] 2 Xwin sessions

2000-08-23 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Hoyt wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Ron Johnson, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 3:17 PM > Subject: Re: [expert] 2 Xwin sessions > > > "Julia A . Case" wrote: >

Re: [expert] AMD K7 Athelon vs. Intel PIII and Linux?

2000-08-23 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
of the K6-2. The only diff is that on the K6-3, the L1 cache runs at processor speed, whereas on K6-2, the L1 is slower. Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+

Re: [expert] 2 Xwin sessions

2000-08-23 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
d about what X & window managers actually do? Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+

Re: [expert] Download managers !

2000-08-11 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
7;T THINK SOOO... Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com

Re: [expert] two gateway in one machine

2000-07-15 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
gateway.Thats > mean, data coming from eth0 can "choose" their gateway either modem1 or > modem2. Is this possible ? > > If can, to do it, or where to RTFM.? How would it know which gw to choose? Based on the IP addr? Ron -- +--------------

ip_masq modules Was: Re: [expert] best way to firewall FTP?

2000-07-06 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
abbed from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2. Where did you get them? Also, these modules weren't compiled: ip_masq_app.c ip_masq_autofw.c ip_masq_mfw.c ip_masq_mod.c ip_masq_portfw.c How do I compile them myself? Thanks, Ron -- +-----------

Re: [expert] DSL Help Needed

2000-07-05 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
lar ethernet, then just run the dhcp client and act as if you are on any other Ethernet LAN. Maybe someone else can help if GTE makes u use PPPoE. Ron -- +------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [E

[expert] removing the 2.2.9 kernel RPMs

2000-07-04 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
nel-doc-2.2.9-19mdk kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.9-19mdk kernel-source-2.2.9-19mdk Sincerely, Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW

Re: [expert] New Server

2000-07-04 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
an "ell" not a "one": rtl8139, not rt18139 driver. ^^ Ron -- +----------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMA

Re: [expert] Where is the rtl8139 module in 2.2.16?

2000-07-02 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
r", I grabbed the linux-2.2.12/.config a dropped it in linux-2.2.16, then ran "make oldconfig"... Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+

Re: [expert] Quick how do I mirror a drive?

2000-07-01 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
e mirroring for you? In that case, as Jose, said, you must load the RAID modules post-boot. "Enterprise" RAID controllers will do the mirroring for u and present present the OS with a simplified view of things. I don't know if "departmental" controllers also do this... Ro

Re: [expert] Where is the rtl8139 module in 2.2.16?

2000-07-01 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
ged? [snip] > Try the ne2k-pci device in linux conf. > This seems to work with *MOST* pci NIC's, and ALL of my RTL card's.. > -- 'kay. Still, why wouldn't rtl8139 be listed in "make *config"? Is it an oversight on the part of the guy who supports "kernel

[expert] Where is the rtl8139 module in 2.2.16?

2000-06-30 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Hello, In my current kernel 2.2.12, my 10b2 card uses the rtl8139.o module, but I can't find it in the 2.2.16 "make menuconfig". Am I just blind, or has something changed? Sincerely, Ron -- +----------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.

Re: [expert] Defrag counterpart in MDK

2000-06-16 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
t; John Does it use it use (what VMS calls) the "Contiguous Best Try"? In other words, contiguous if possible, and if possible, in as few fragments as possible? Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA

Re: [expert] Defrag counterpart in MDK

2000-06-14 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
of RAM for cache, and the disks are < 80% full, and I don't "churning" on my disks, I don't defrag my disks. Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EM

Re: [expert] Uptime monitoring

2000-06-07 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Duncan Hall wrote: > > I've tried that but I need a package that does not rely on the uptimes.net > server and keeps track of uptime from a specified date. > > Dunc > > "Ron Johnson, Jr." wrote: > > > Duncan Hall wrote: > > > > >

Re: [expert] Uptime monitoring

2000-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
how many outages have occured during that time. > > Any thoughts? > > Dunc goto freshmeat.net and search for the string "uptime". -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] cron question

2000-06-06 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
on't know if dyndns.com is free, but dhs.org and either runs on linux or *BSD. Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |

Re: [expert] MSSQL 7.0 to MySQL

2000-06-02 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
parallel also... Sinncerely, Ron Johnson Database Administrator Lockheed Martin IMS -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+

Re: [expert] "brilliant" idea

2000-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
ng one back. Building a network appliance (firewall, proxy, router, DNS server, Apache server, etc.) out of an old P75 with 16MB RAM and 350MB HDD would be much easier that way. Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] IpChains problems in Mandrake 7.0

2000-05-23 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
ch of questions and then builds a firewall (and ip masq, if u need it) script for u. Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |

Re: [expert] BASH Shell games

2000-05-10 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
cription error... Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA WWW : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | | Most overused words: feel, cool/kewl, fun, myBlah.com| | Most underused word: think | +--+

Re: [expert] What rpm is telnetd in?

2000-05-01 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
if the guy doesn't have telnet-server installed, > how the heck did he get the telnetd installed? :-) > John I already asked. He won't answer that... Ron -- +--------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [expert] What rpm is telnetd in?

2000-05-01 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
sr/sbin/in.telnetd Thank you. Someone else suggested that and that says: $ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/in.telnetd telnet-0.10-8mdk Boy, did *that* start a pissing match... Ron -- +--+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.

Re: [expert] pine & netscape

2000-05-01 Thread Ron Johnson, Jr.
Johnson wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > > Somewhere, I read that NS' email client follows RFCblah. > > Can these 2 share email folders? It sure would be handy to > > be able to use them both... -- 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890 +---