Re: Sendmail Masquerading Question

2002-02-14 Thread Ian

Stew Benedict wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Ian wrote:
> 
> > I think it was either Kurt or you who said to add
> >
> > set hostname = marchak.homeip.net
> >
> > to my .muttrc file...which I did.  But when mail arrives at the other
> > end, mutt has changed it to marchak.homeip.net, but there's something in
> > the header, I think it's the fact that in the header of the email
> > contains
> >
> > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > is what is causing the other servers to reject because a direct cut and
> > paste of the From info (from the same header) is
> >
> > From: Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> 
> You need to setup masquerading for the envelope and the header, and you
> can also use genericstable to rewrite the From:.  If you take a look at
> Linux Journal's site there's a wrieup I did on a sendmail setup like this
> that I've used successfully at a manufacturing plant where several folks
> were masqued behind one internet account.

I've tucked away yours and David's posts...will have a look-see tonight.

I think the link is: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4539 in
case anyone else is interested.

>  I do the same thing here and
> run 4 seperate accounts for my various identitities.

You know, a few trips to a good doctor, and you can maybe whittle it
down to one identity. ;-)

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Re: Web Creation Tool

2002-02-13 Thread Ian

Ted Ozolins wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 13 February 2002 10:48 am, Ronnie Gauthier wrote:
> > IBM WebSphere.
> 
> Just downloaded and at a quick look, wow!

Also:

SxS -> HTML

http://sxs.homeip.net/html.html

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Re: security check

2002-02-13 Thread Ian

daddy wrote:
> 
> With my recent hacker scare I decided to look into my security.  Here
> is a portion of my inetd.conf file.  I only use my internet
> connection receive email (pop3) and surf the internet at this point.
> What can I turn off?


SxS -> Security:

http://sxs.homeip.net/security.html

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Sendmail Masquerading Question

2002-02-13 Thread Ian

OK,

Followed Doug's SxS step and produced in about an hour or less, a fully
functioning sendmail.  All but the tweaking...which has turned out to
be far less satisfying.

>From mail clients on other hosts on my home network, email composed in
say
netscape goes out with the From values set (in netscape) staying as is,
and all seems to be working OK.

Whenever I send mail from the sendmail machine, which is behind a
firewall w/ port forwarding, the address is always [EMAIL PROTECTED]
which only exists in my little network...although I have the marchak.ca
domain hosted outside, the only official/external NS records are
www.marchak.ca and marchak.ca.

So, domain masquerading sounded like what I was looking for.  I have a
domain through dyndns.org, which I put in /etc/mail/local-host-names and
I can accept mail for marchak.homeip.net...cool.  What I wanted to do
was have mail sent from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which is what it would be
when I am logged in locally to the box with sendmail running) to be
changed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I have a imaps server running and I want to have all my mail bounced to
sent to marchak.homeip.net so I can do away with outside web mail and
just run my services myself...so I have no mailbox size limits except
the ones I put on myself...and because I can.

But no matter what combination of DM / CM / CG (shooting wildly at then
end) I cannot prevent it from mailing out [EMAIL PROTECTED] when I
send from the sendmail box.  Which of course bounces as domain doesn't
exist.

Can someone more sage in sendmail shed some light on my dim little
picnic?
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Re: HELP!!

2002-02-13 Thread Ian

Ted Ozolins wrote:
> 
> On Saturday 09 February 2002 07:14 pm, Net Llama wrote:
> > I think a key piece of info that is missing here is whether he has
> > simply forgetten the password(s), or if something occured to render
> > authentication broken.
> >
> > Tinkering with /etc/shadow may not be the best idea, especially if this
> > is simply a matter of a forgetten password, where booting into single
> > user mode would be the ideal fix.
> >
> 
> I thought that in an earlier post it did state that " I have forgotten my
> password" I'm assuming that he meant the "root" password. I still think this
> is nothing more than client passwords timing out.

When passwords time out...you are/should be prompted to change them. 
They shouldn't just expire and lock users out.

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Ping

2002-02-10 Thread Ian

 
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Re: new ibm ad

2002-02-07 Thread Ian

dep wrote:
> 
> begin  Bill Campbell's  quote:
> 
> | Anybody else see yesterday's Silicon Spin show on techtv?  Dvorak
> | was talking to people from IBM, HP, and an open standards guy
> | about Linux in the Enterprise.  I found it pretty interesting.
> 
> yeah, i saw it. the voices of those of us screaming "linux on the
> desktop" are being driven into the background noise.

I've not watched Silicon Spin in a long time...from the site it looks
like you have to watch it at specific times...the only thing I see in
the archives are a month old.  Am I not seeing a link or something?  
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Re: Where to get libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3

2002-02-06 Thread Ian

Net Llama wrote:
> 
> --- Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I apologize for  being dense, truly. But how does a person ever figure
> > this
> > stuff out ...


> 
> > Undoubtely this stuff is really, really easy once you know it. And
> > there
> > are now 5.2 quintillion people on this list who now realize I'm
> > utterly
> > stoopid.
> 
> You're not stupid.  You're asking questions about stuff that you don't
> understand.  Get in line, everyone does it (hell, i did it about 10
> times in the past 24 hours).

Michael,

Lonni's right...if nobody's ever told you, and it's not obviously
documented in a manner/place for you to easily find it (as a non-guru
type), then it's not a stupid question.

We've all asked many, many questions that to someone on the list were
obvious...'cause they've done it, compiled it, configured it before now.

The fog is still clearing for me, after 2+ years of fairly intense
exposure to Linux.  Hopefully the sun will come out soon and burn the
rest off...until then...I'll keep askin' here.
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Re: Resend [Postifix on Redhat 7.2]

2002-02-05 Thread Ian

"David A. Bandel" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 05 Feb 2002 21:15:50 -0500
> begin  Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth:
> 
> >
> > After wrangling with Sendmail some more...I've decided to repost this
> > one from a few days back.
> >
> >  Original Message 
> > Subject: Postifix on Redhat 7.2
> > Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 14:59:31 -0500
> > From: Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > OK,
> >
> > I've always had a bugger working with sendmail, but I had almost
> > immediate success when I experimented with postfix. Postfix however
> > isn't included with RH7.2 W/S.
> >
> > I found an SRPM for postifix built by redhat, but it needs 'db4-devel'
> > to build.  Which was available from the same spot as the Postfix rpms.
> > So I built all the db4 rpms, which obsolete/conflict with the installed
> > db3 packages already there.
> >
> > db4-devel conflicts with db3-devel: (Sorry 'bout the wrap)
> >
> > # [root@innie i386]# rpm -ivh --test ./db4-devel-4.0.14-2.i386.rpm
> > # Preparing... ### [100%]
> > # file /lib/libdb.so from install of db4-devel-4.0.14-2\
> >   conflicts with file from package db3-devel-3.2.9-4
> > # file /usr/include/db.h from install of db4-devel-4.0.14-2\
> >   conflicts with file from package # db3-devel-3.2.9-4
> > # file /usr/lib/libdb_cxx.so from install of db4-devel-4.0.14-2\
> >   conflicts with file from package  db3-devel-3.2.9-4
> >
> > I can't remove db3 without causing problems:
> >
> > # [root@innie root]# rpm -e --test db3
> > # error: removing these packages would break dependencies:
> > # db3 = 3.2.9 is needed by db3-devel-3.2.9-4
> > # db3 = 3.2.9 is needed by db3-utils-3.2.9-4
> > # libdb-3.2.so   is needed by perl-5.6.0-17
> > # libdb-3.2.so   is needed by sendmail-8.11.6-3
> > # libdb-3.2.so   is needed by python-1.5.2-35
> > # libdb-3.2.so   is needed by nss_ldap-172-2
> > # libdb-3.2.so   is needed by php-4.0.6-7
> > # libdb-3.2.so   is needed by db3-utils-3.2.9-4
> > # libdb-3.2.so   is needed by apache-1.3.22-2
> > # libdb-3.2.so   is needed by pam-0.75-19
> >
> > So, my question is:
> >
> > Can I safely force the db4-devel rpm to overwrite the db3-files it
> > conflicts with?
> >
> > If not, what to do?  [ Please don't say "learn sendmail" ;) ]
> 
> My suggestion would be to d/l the SRPM and rebuild postfix using db-3.2 on
> your system now. If you can't, I'd find a test box (one you can break),
> try the above, then run some apps that were built against 3.2 to see if
> they segfault.
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> David A. Bandel

from postfix.spec:

---
%triggerin -- db4
rm -rf %{ROOT}/lib/libdb*
%{copy_cmd}
copy /lib/libdb-4.0.so %{ROOT}/lib
copy /lib/libdb.so %{ROOT}/lib
---

---
BuildRequires: gawk, perl, sed, ed, db4-devel
---

So, I have db3-devel installed, all I need to do is update the
references and files in the above statements?

rpm -bb postfix.spec

Or am I oversimplifying this?
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Re: Apache and unknown file types...

2002-02-05 Thread Ian

Ian wrote:
> 
> When I d/l from the apache server running locally any file that it
> doesn't recognize, it seems to be mangling it somehow, possibly doing an
> ascii transfer of it or something like that.
> 
> I keep a directory of wallpaper pics around and shared it out over the
> web server, but when I d/l a bitmap (which has the "?" icon where jpegs
> for example have the multicolour icon indicating a graphic) it's fubared
> when it gets there.  The jpegs in the same dir. d/l OK.
> 
> I've confirmed the files themselves are OK by snagging them via ftp
> and/or checking them on the machine itself.
> 
> After my comments to the Llama, I hate to ask...
> 
> Have I missed something obvious?
> 
> Running RH 7.2 w/ the default apache installed.

The "#" in front of

"LoadModule autoindex_module   modules/mod_autoindex.so"

in httpd.conf probably had somehting to do with it.
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Resend [Postifix on Redhat 7.2]

2002-02-05 Thread Ian


After wrangling with Sendmail some more...I've decided to repost this
one from a few days back.

 Original Message 
Subject: Postifix on Redhat 7.2
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 14:59:31 -0500
From: Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

OK,

I've always had a bugger working with sendmail, but I had almost
immediate success when I experimented with postfix. Postfix however
isn't included with RH7.2 W/S.

I found an SRPM for postifix built by redhat, but it needs 'db4-devel'
to build.  Which was available from the same spot as the Postfix rpms. 
So I built all the db4 rpms, which obsolete/conflict with the installed
db3 packages already there.

db4-devel conflicts with db3-devel: (Sorry 'bout the wrap)

# [root@innie i386]# rpm -ivh --test ./db4-devel-4.0.14-2.i386.rpm 
# Preparing... ### [100%]
# file /lib/libdb.so from install of db4-devel-4.0.14-2\
conflicts with file from package db3-devel-3.2.9-4
# file /usr/include/db.h from install of db4-devel-4.0.14-2\
conflicts with file from package # db3-devel-3.2.9-4
# file /usr/lib/libdb_cxx.so from install of db4-devel-4.0.14-2\
conflicts with file from package  db3-devel-3.2.9-4

I can't remove db3 without causing problems:

# [root@innie root]# rpm -e --test db3   
# error: removing these packages would break dependencies:
# db3 = 3.2.9 is needed by db3-devel-3.2.9-4
# db3 = 3.2.9 is needed by db3-utils-3.2.9-4
# libdb-3.2.so   is needed by perl-5.6.0-17
# libdb-3.2.so   is needed by sendmail-8.11.6-3
# libdb-3.2.so   is needed by python-1.5.2-35
# libdb-3.2.so   is needed by nss_ldap-172-2
# libdb-3.2.so   is needed by php-4.0.6-7
# libdb-3.2.so   is needed by db3-utils-3.2.9-4
# libdb-3.2.so   is needed by apache-1.3.22-2
# libdb-3.2.so   is needed by pam-0.75-19

So, my question is:

Can I safely force the db4-devel rpm to overwrite the db3-files it
conflicts with?

If not, what to do?  [ Please don't say "learn sendmail" ;) ]
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Apache and unknown file types...

2002-02-05 Thread Ian

When I d/l from the apache server running locally any file that it
doesn't recognize, it seems to be mangling it somehow, possibly doing an
ascii transfer of it or something like that.

I keep a directory of wallpaper pics around and shared it out over the
web server, but when I d/l a bitmap (which has the "?" icon where jpegs
for example have the multicolour icon indicating a graphic) it's fubared
when it gets there.  The jpegs in the same dir. d/l OK.

I've confirmed the files themselves are OK by snagging them via ftp
and/or checking them on the machine itself.

After my comments to the Llama, I hate to ask...

Have I missed something obvious?

Running RH 7.2 w/ the default apache installed.
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Re: anyone have success with the new Mozilla-0.9.8 ?

2002-02-05 Thread Ian

Net Llama wrote:
> 
> --- Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Net Llama wrote:
> > >
> > > I just downloaded the binary tarball of Mozilla (as i've done for
> > every
> > > official Mozilla release since R16), and installed it in a new
> > > directory. However, when i try to run the mozilla binary (as root),
> > i
> > > get a seg-fault:


> 
> That script is not of my creation, it came with Mozilla, and i'll also
> note that the same exact script came with the previous version of
> Mozilla.  So, i'd say the odds are not the script, but the mozilla
> binary.  I could be wrong, which is why i'd like to know of anyone else
> has had any success with Mozilla-0.9.8 from the binary tarball.
> 
> FWIW, i installed the RPMs for Mozilla-0.9.8 on the same box, and it
> runs just fine, but those are compiled for i386, whereas the tarball is
> compiled for i686.

Did you compare the scripts against each other?
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Re: Script help

2002-02-05 Thread Ian

Tom Wilson wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> First, my script abilility rests in /dev/null.  That being said, what I am *trying* 
>to do is get a text file with a list of MAC addresses and the corresponding IP's for 
>certain ranges of IP's.
> 
> Part of my solution:
> ---
> for i in `seq 100 120`; do
>  ping -c 5 -w 5 192.168.0.$1 | arp >> macadd.txt
> done
> ---

> 
> I've looked many places and tried many things but nothing I've done elimiates this 
>problem.
> 
> Any advice for me?

How bout this:

I don't have many hosts on my net, and the subnet is different, change
to suit, but it works here.

---
for i in `seq 1 10`; do
 ping -c 5 -w 1 192.168.1.$i | arp -n | grep 192.168.1.$i >>
macadd.txt
done

sort -u macadd.txt > macadd2.txt
mv macadd2.txt macadd.txt
---
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Re: some bits and trivia

2002-02-05 Thread Ian

Keith Antoine wrote:
> 

> 
> This was sent to me by my daughter in NZ, what do you guys think?
> http://www.satirewire.com/news/jan02/australia.shtml

Sorry I can't help you with the ISO's but the article was well written
and carefully thought out. Can't say as I blame you lot.

;)
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Re: anyone have success with the new Mozilla-0.9.8 ?

2002-02-05 Thread Ian

Net Llama wrote:
> 
> I just downloaded the binary tarball of Mozilla (as i've done for every
> official Mozilla release since R16), and installed it in a new
> directory. However, when i try to run the mozilla binary (as root), i
> get a seg-fault:
> [root@netllama /root]# /opt/mozilla/mozilla
> /opt/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh: line 72: 21648 Segmentation fault
> $prog ${1+"$@"}
> 
> I tried deleting ~/.mozilla but that made no difference.
> I tried running mozilla as a normal user, and it randomly either core
> dumps or segfaults in much the same fashion.
> 
> Am I missing something obvious?

The problem on line 72 ?
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Re: MS product placement

2002-02-04 Thread Ian

"David A. Bandel" wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 15:33:31 +1130
> begin  Mike Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth:
> 
> > On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 13:47, David A. Bandel wrote:
> >
> > > > "The stunning success of the U.S. tech-powered boom in the 1990s
> > > > drew some 500,000 highly skilled H1-B visa holders from around the
> > > > world and
> >
> > > Yeah, the H1-B's worked cheap, while the highly skilled, highly paid
> > > US workers went unemployed.
> >
> > Not this H1-B, I was highly skilled, and highly paid. America has a
> > habit of going to sleep for a decade then waking up to discover the
> > outside world has overtaken them (viz the HP / Motorola memory chip
> > wakeup call, viz the collapse of Fairchild) America also has the
> > phenonemal ability to re-invent itself. You were written off 15 years
> > ago, It took a decade of imports, such as myself, to give your
> > industries the breathing space they needed with new college Grads. The
> > 'highly paid US workers' retrained during that time to get, highly paid.
> > No-one ever said to me, ozzie go home. I would have been more than happy
> > to.
> 
> Yep, Mike, you're exactly the Indian subcontinent H1-B I was talking
> about.  Couldn't communicate with them.  They could code in C.  But I

I worked with an Australian contractor a few months back...he might have
as well have been speaking a foreign tongue!  I could only pick out
every 3rd word...I think he filled his mouth with marbles in the morning
before he came to work.
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Postifix on Redhat 7.2

2002-02-02 Thread Ian

OK,

I've always had a bugger working with sendmail, but I had almost
immediate success when I experimented with postfix. Postfix however
isn't included with RH7.2 W/S.

I found an SRPM for postifix built by redhat, but it needs 'db4-devel'
to build.  Which was available from the same spot as the Postfix rpms. 
So I built all the db4 rpms, which obsolete/conflict with the installed
db3 packages already there.

db4-devel conflicts with db3-devel: (Sorry 'bout the wrap)

# [root@innie i386]# rpm -ivh --test ./db4-devel-4.0.14-2.i386.rpm 
# Preparing... ### [100%]
# file /lib/libdb.so from install of db4-devel-4.0.14-2\
conflicts with file from package db3-devel-3.2.9-4
# file /usr/include/db.h from install of db4-devel-4.0.14-2\
conflicts with file from package # db3-devel-3.2.9-4
# file /usr/lib/libdb_cxx.so from install of db4-devel-4.0.14-2\
conflicts with file from package  db3-devel-3.2.9-4

I can't remove db3 without causing problems:

# [root@innie root]# rpm -e --test db3   
# error: removing these packages would break dependencies:
# db3 = 3.2.9 is needed by db3-devel-3.2.9-4
# db3 = 3.2.9 is needed by db3-utils-3.2.9-4
# libdb-3.2.so   is needed by perl-5.6.0-17
# libdb-3.2.so   is needed by sendmail-8.11.6-3
# libdb-3.2.so   is needed by python-1.5.2-35
# libdb-3.2.so   is needed by nss_ldap-172-2
# libdb-3.2.so   is needed by php-4.0.6-7
# libdb-3.2.so   is needed by db3-utils-3.2.9-4
# libdb-3.2.so   is needed by apache-1.3.22-2
# libdb-3.2.so   is needed by pam-0.75-19

So, my question is:

Can I safely force the db4-devel rpm to overwrite the db3-files it
conflicts with?

If not, what to do?  [ Please don't say "learn sendmail" ;) ]
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Re: Incrementing Letter variables in bash

2002-01-31 Thread Ian

Joel Hammer wrote:
> 


Thanks guys,

Both work well.  

I just have to decide which fits into my script best when I head back to
work tomorrow.
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Incrementing Letter variables in bash

2002-01-31 Thread Ian

So far my searching hasn't turned up anything useful.

Is there a quick way to increment a letter variable in a bash script?

I am creating a script to automatically transfer files in a given
directory by creating a dated folder (mkdir $(date -I), copy files into
new folder and create a .log of the files using the output of 'ls'.

The issue here is that in order to stick to an existing convention, more
than one transfer in the same day has a '-a' or '-b' appended to the
directory and .log file names.

I've not been able to come up with a clever way to automatically
increment the letter to be appended, for example if '-a' has already
been taken for a given day.  It's not the checking part that I have
trouble with, it's incrementing a _letter_.

Before I create some ugly monstrosity of a loop to do this, can anyone
offer any hints?  Scripting has never been my strong suit...I can read
scripts quite well, but tend to "complexify" simple tasks due to lack of
experience.
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Re: Mutt is being a bad dog...

2002-01-30 Thread Ian

Ian wrote:
> 
> When I send mail using /usr/bin/mail , the messages are sent out using
> the masquerading domain (from dyndns) I set in postfix as I expect.


Argh.

2 minutes after I ask for help I find the answer myself...unless I ask
first thing...then just before a reply comes in, I find the answer.

Never mind, I was trying to complexificate the whole thing...

set hostname = mydyndns.hostname.net

Imagine that...

In case everyone doesn't already know about this site
[http://mutt.netliberte.org/], if you use mutt, it's worth a visit.
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Mutt is being a bad dog...

2002-01-30 Thread Ian

When I send mail using /usr/bin/mail , the messages are sent out using
the masquerading domain (from dyndns) I set in postfix as I expect.

But, when I send from mutt, it seems to do a lookup on the IP it's
coming from, and instead fills in the actual domain associated with my
IP address as assigned by my ISP, but not before it inserts the hostname
of the machine (behind my firewall).  So I wind up with the wrong domain
name and a bogus hostname in the From: fields of my email.

I looked at my .muttrc (std SuSE 7.3) and can't see anything in there
that would cause this.  After digging through the options for .muttrc
(holy $#!7 there are a lot!) I gave up...hence this email.

Attached is a copy of the .muttrc FWIW.
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#
# Sample ~/.muttrc for SuSE Linux
#

#
# Setting
#
set pager_context=4
set pager_index_lines=10
set pager_stop

#
# Binding
#
bind  pager  previous-page
bind  pager -   previous-line
bind  pager \eOmprevious-line
bind  pager +   next-line
bind  pager \eOknext-line
bind  pager \eOMnext-line
bind  pager \e[1~   top
bind  pager \e[4~   bottom

bind  index  previous-entry
bind  index -   previous-entry
bind  index \eOmprevious-entry
bind  index +   next-entry
bind  index \eOknext-entry
bind  index \eOMdisplay-message
bind  index \e[Hfirst-entry
bind  index \e[Flast-entry
bind  index \e[1~   first-entry
bind  index \e[4~   last-entry

bind  alias  select-entry
bind  alias   x exit
bind  attach  x exit
bind  browser x exit

#
# Color
#
mono  messagebold
color messagewhite  red
color error  brightyellow   red
color indicator  white  red
color tree   brightmagenta  default
color signature  reddefault
color attachment brightyellow   red
color search brightyellow   red
color tilde  brightmagenta  default
color markersbrightmagenta  default
#color bold   brightblackdefault
#color underline  green  default
color quoted blue   default
color quoted1magentadefault
color quoted2reddefault
color quoted3green  default
color quoted4cyan   default
color quoted5blue   default
color quoted6magentadefault
color quoted7reddefault
color quoted8green  default
color quoted9cyan   default
color hdrdefault brightred  default
color header brightmagenta  default  "^(from):"
color header brightblue default  "^(subject):"
#color header defaultdefault  "[ \t]+[^:]*$"
color body   brightcyan default  \
  "((ftp|http|https)://|(file|mailto|news):|www\\.)[-a-z@0-9_.:]*[a-z0-9](/[^][{} 
\t\n\r\"<>()]*[^][{} \t\n\r\"<>().,:])?"
color body   brightcyan default  "[-a-z_0-9.+]+@[-a-z_0-9.]+"
color body   reddefault  "(^| )\\*[-a-z0-9äöüß*]+\\*[,.?]?[ \n]"
#
# End
#



Re: Linux Compete for Microsoft partners

2002-01-29 Thread Ian

Rick Sivernell wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 09:02:44 -0500
> Bruce Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday 29 January 2002 7:45 am, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > > This is really interesting. MS is taking linux seriously. This means that
> > > we will see increasing incompatibility between MS and linux software,
> > > like samba. Just minor stuff, but enuf to make using a samba server not
> > > worth the trouble. And, expect to see more problems in translating MS
> > > documents into non-MS software, too.
> > >
> > > Why not. There are billions of dollars at stake.
> > >
> >
> > I fully expect that some day in the not too distant future, there will be a
> > 'Microsoft Internet' and an Internet for the rest of us.  They're going to
> > make it happen.
> >
> 
>  List
> 
>In my life I have tried many things, & have had many successes and a few
> failures. Well I am going to express a failure here, please I beg you not to be
> too harsh on me, I feel bad enough. I had a conversation with my grown son last
> night, was not real intelligent, oh well that is another issue. He was spouting
> the virtures of Windows, Office XP & etc. I tried to explain the cost difference,
> availiablity and the ease of keeping your system in top computing shape. His
> answer, " I do not have time for that crap". Where did I go wrong here? I feel so

I think we all want a machine that we can "just use".  Linux may take
more time to tweak to get it to where you like it, but it stays there
and doesn't break.  I see posts from people who are (and I have nothing
against this, I just don't practice it myself) constantly replacing
software.1.2.3 with software.1.2.4 and causing no end of grief for
themselves and spending more time tweaking and building than using.

Linux is like Lego, if you buy a package, you can follow the plan and
build a little car/plane/boat, or like many Linux users, you can try and
swap out the wheels/wings/hull for a slightly better but not necessarily
more functional set.

I think more emphasis on the fact that Linux _does_ work out of the box,
and less emphasis on the tweakbility is what's needed.  He doesn't
_need_ to spend "...time for that crap" if he doesn't want to.
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Re: Any routing gurus?

2002-01-28 Thread Ian Marchak

Quoting Dave Anselmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Ian wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> 
> > When I traceroute, from home and school and compare them, the last
> four
> > hops are the same except for the machine directly in front my
> domain's
> > machine, which is part of the same network, 1 or 2 IP's off of the
> hosts
> > I can successfully route through.
> 
> I'm not a guru, but I think the output of traceroute would be more
> useful than your description of it.

:-|

Nor am I a guru, but if I am going to be trying to find out what's wrong, with 
my connection, which sometimes involves shutting down firewalls, and leaving 
one's machine naked, I didn't really want to post my IP.

Hence the request/offer to handle this offlist _if_ someone was willing to help 
troubleshoot.
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Any routing gurus?

2002-01-28 Thread Ian


Here's the story...it has me stumped.

I have a hosting provider handling my domain and email hosting.

I can't reach them from home (Rogers Cable ex @home consortium), but I
can reach them from anywhere else.  When I run traceroutes I make it to
within one host of the machine I am heading for...and then
* * *
* * *
to 30 hops and nothing.

My hosting provider tells me it's a problem with my ISP as they cannot
do a traceroute back to my home machine either.  Which sounds logical
until I consider the fact that I can traceroute back to my home from
elsewhere (school, work) etc.  The problem seems to exist only between
these two networks, anywhere else is OK.

When I traceroute, from home and school and compare them, the last four
hops are the same except for the machine directly in front my domain's
machine, which is part of the same network, 1 or 2 IP's off of the hosts
I can successfully route through.

Is this most likely a routing problem?  This is out of my league.  I may
not be making any sense as I am out of ideas and getting p!$$ed
off...but I am not sure with who.

If anyone has any bright ideas or would care to rack their brain on it,
please feel free to offer up comments, or contact me off list.
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More Steps

2002-01-28 Thread Ian

28th
FTP -> Servers -> ProFTPD (Chang)
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test

2002-01-27 Thread Ian Marchak

(see subject)
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Re: Sharing /home Among Distros?

2002-01-27 Thread Ian Marchak

Quoting Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> What are the problems to overcome in sharing /home among different
> distros?
> 
> I have /home as a separate partition on Caldera 3.1 and I'd like to
> share it 
> with Desktop/LX (aka Redmond Linux). And maybe Mandrake and Elx
> eventually. 
> They all use KDE so that makes some things easier.
> 
> One problem: on COL 3.1 I'm michael:x:500:100 whereas on Desktop/LX I'm
> 
> michael:x:100:100. Presumably I could just change the uid and chown 
> everything in /home/michael???
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael

Just curious, but I've been seeing double posts from you when you ask a 
qustion, sent minutes apart.  Are you doing this intentionally or is something 
awry with either the list or your mail server?
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Re: routing a private ip

2002-01-25 Thread Ian

Tom Wilson wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Quick questions here.  I have an ADSL connection to the Internet.  I have
> been in the process of slowly setting up a home network.  My question is, if
> I want to host a FTP or web server and I have a private IP address on my DSL
> connection, how can I get around this?
> 
> My idea is, after having done a couple traceroutes, is to NAT my private
> address to the first hop returned on the traceroute.  Then order up some
> dyndns.org.  Any opinions on this (possibly lame-brained) idea?

Head to 

http://checkip.dyndns.org/

it will let you know what your externally visible IP is.  That's what
you need to point you dyndns name to, assuming that your isp allows the
kinds of traffic you're interested in.

I'd guess that traceroute will show your internal (private IP) and the
next thing it will show will be the next hop past your router...the
gateway for the segment your ISP has you on.
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Re: quick gotcha w/ xfree86 4.2.0 and ati cards

2002-01-24 Thread Ian

Douglas J Hunley wrote:
 
> USER, n.:
> The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot".

That's not very nice now is it?



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Re: [ot] seti

2002-01-24 Thread Ian

"Chang[linuxism]" wrote:
> 
> can your clients talk to seti headquarter?
> 

Yep.

Results Received 3777
Total CPU Time   3.408 years
Average CPU Time per work unit   7 hr 54 min 13.9 sec
Last result returned:Thu Jan 24 13:41:30 2002 UTC
 
(9:41 AM ET)

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Re: atd startup error

2002-01-24 Thread Ian

Joel Hammer wrote:
> 
> Can't link execution file: Permission denied
> 
> Does anyone know why I am getting this error when I try to run atd?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joel

As a user or root?

See /etc/at.deny * at.allow if as a user
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Re: interest in an annual SxS get-together?

2002-01-22 Thread Ian

Douglas J Hunley wrote:
> 
> Tyler Regas babbled on about:
> > Okay,
> >
> > Drop a line to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and include the
> > following information:
> >
> > Name
> > Current Location
> >
> > I'll render a map or something with the data. Hell, we might all end up in
> > Fiji 
> 
> the map will be cool regardless, but I really think the first meeting should
> be somewhere close to the mothership. It'd be a lot easier for me to make
> happen..

Hmmm.  I've been looking for an excuse to get me down there to the
Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB...how close is that to you Doug?
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Re: Adobe Premiere

2002-01-21 Thread Ian

Net Llama wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> I've got a potential side job where someone is looking for me to build
> them a windoze box with Adobe Premiere installed on it.  This person is
> looking to do some digital video editing of home movies.
> In all honesty, i've never used Premiere, but since this is windoze
> we're talking about i'm guessing that getting it installed requires
> hitting "NEXT" about 7 times.  I don't have to teach the guy how to use
> Premeire just get the box up & running.
> What I'm wondering is, are there any special gotchas or problems that I
> should be aware of going into this?

Check Adobe for updates as soon as you install it.  I can't say I've
checked lately, but some of their apps, most notably golive was pretty
unstable at first.

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Re: [Fwd: Screem]

2002-01-21 Thread Ian

"David A. Bandel" wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2002 08:19:58 -0500
> Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed into the bitstream:
> 
> [snip]
> >
> > It is an X function: /usr/X11R6/bin/xkill
> 
> No, it is an X application (utility, whatever), but _not_ an X function.
> And I have no Window Managers that I run with any key sequence I'm aware
> of that will automagically run xkill.  I can run it from a command line
> (or put an icon up that will call it), but I cannot execute it as the
> original poster had said.

Quite right.  An application is not a function.  

I suspect that the window manager in question, has a shortcut kep
mapping to run xkill.  It may well be a KDE (or whatever WM) shortcut
key only in distro "X".  I merely wanted to indicate that it was an
application (not function as I erroneously stated) that creates the
"skull-and-crossbones for a cursor".
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XP Licensing [was Re: an interesting experience]

2002-01-21 Thread Ian

Michael Hipp wrote:
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: "dep" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> > -- can ease of use be achieved
> > without compromising security? -- i do not know, and neither does
> > microsoft, because it's never been a concern of theirs. nor do they
> > intend for it to be, because their idea is to own your computer, its
> > connections, and its contents.
> 
> If the leaked Gates' email is to be believed, MS is now security's best
> friend. It will be interesting to observe if they really can shift their
> focus from featuritis to quality & reliability. I'm not betting on it. As it
> would require the abandonment of a very successful strategy that now
> stretches into decades.
> 
> FWIW, as a fifteen-year customer of MS and mostly satisfied one. I have
> decided to boycott XP - it's just intolerable. Worst UI design I've ever
> seen. And to have been marketed as the most stable OS ever, they missed that
> mark worse than they missed the ship date of  "Chicago". Nevermind this
> licensing scheme that requires your machine to periodically request
> permission from Redmond to continue functioning. I hope the backlash from
> all that turns into torches and pitchforks in the IS departments.

I've never been exposed to XP (from what I hear I should follow that
with a "phew!").  This is a fact then, that XP has yearly licensing?  In
both home and pro versions that actually does network license checks?

Does this mean that after a year, the OS stops?

Sometimes things like this get exaggerated, and since I only have second
hand hearsay, I'd like to confirm if this is true or not.
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Re: [Fwd: Screem]

2002-01-21 Thread Ian

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 19:05:36 -0500
> "David A. Bandel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> | On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:19:33 -0500
> | Bruce Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed into the bitstream:
> |
> | [snip]
> | >
> | > Not related to your main questions, but you are aware that a
> | > Ctl-Alt-ESC  in X will give you a skull-and-crossbones for a cursor?
> | > After getting that, just click in any window and that window will be
> | > killed.
> |
> | OK, well, it's not an X function.  It's either a KDE (window manager)
> | function, or a Gnome (middleware) function.  But this doesn't work in
> | Blackbox, Ion, or XFCE (my choices in order of preference).
> 
> Or UnixWare (as thought anyone else here really cares...). On UnixWare
> that takes you to the character console.

It is an X function: /usr/X11R6/bin/xkill

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More Steps

2002-01-20 Thread Ian

FREEBSD & Intro to FREEBSD (Added new section and 1 document)
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Re: mars_nwe

2002-01-18 Thread Ian

Kurt Wall wrote:
> 
> Scribbling feverishly on January 18, Net Llama managed to emit:
> > --- Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Is the the project dead?
> >
> > oook?
> 
> "Is the [mars_nwe] project dead?"
> 
> Don't know, but the technology is moribund.

Kurt,

Please refrain using words like "moribund" ... at least late in the
evening on Fridays, I had to look it up.

;)

http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=moribund

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Re: Microsoft Support

2002-01-18 Thread Ian

Douglas J Hunley wrote:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled on about:




Not bad, I kinda watched this thread with amusement, in case nobody was
keeping track here are the entries in no particular order, although
possibly chronological.

Must Consult with Someone Else,
Mouse Certified System Engineer
Must Confer with Someone Experienced
Microsoft Certified Solitaire Expert
Mandrake Consultant & Suse Expert
My Certification Somewhat Exaggerated
Mentally Crippled Self Evangelists
My Capabilities Seriously Exaggerated


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Re: really stupid question about HTML

2002-01-18 Thread Ian

Ian wrote:
> 
> Douglas J Hunley wrote:
> >
> > how would one construct an HREF to a specific newsgroup on a specific news
> > server?
> > I know HREF="news:news.somewhere.net"; will pull up the configured newsreader
> > and attach to news.somewhere.net, but how do I get the newsreader to
> > automagically load a specific newsgroup on news.somewhere.net?
> > thanks

Forgot something.

All the gory details:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt

...has anyone seen one of these (an RFC) that doesn't hurt to read?
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Re: really stupid question about HTML

2002-01-18 Thread Ian

Douglas J Hunley wrote:
> 
> how would one construct an HREF to a specific newsgroup on a specific news
> server?
> I know HREF="news:news.somewhere.net"; will pull up the configured newsreader
> and attach to news.somewhere.net, but how do I get the newsreader to
> automagically load a specific newsgroup on news.somewhere.net?
> thanks


news://news.somewhere.net/stepsite.somelists.freebsd-users";>

...replace with appropriate values.

The actual syntax looks something like this in full:

 newsURL=  scheme ":" [ news-site ] [ refbygroup | message ]
 scheme =  "news" | "snews" | "nntp"
 news-site  =  "//" site "/"
 refbygroup = group [ "/" messageno [ "-" messageno ] ] 
 message= local-part "@" domain

as you can see, it's possible to be quite granular in you addressing,
say automatically point them at the news server and a specific message
number.

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Re: Congress to look at software liability?

2002-01-18 Thread Ian

Joel Hammer wrote:
> 
> This must be the dumbest idea in a long time.
> This is like holding a builder liable because someone broke into his
> building by digging under the foundation or smashing a window.
> DUMB.

I think what is needed here is to prevent software companies from
including clause in their licensing that (to use the builder paradigm)
are analogous to:

"If the house you have purchased from us, falls down, even if it can be
proven so, we are not responsible for damage to goods contained in said
house.  Nor are we responsible to repair the house.

By inserting your key into the door and entering said house, you hereby
absolve us of further responsibility"

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Re: Congress to look at software liability?

2002-01-18 Thread Ian

DOUGLAS HUNLEY wrote:
> 
>  -- 14 January 2002  Congress May Take New Look At Software Protection
>  from Product Liability For Security Flaws
> 
> Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) who co-chairs the Congressional Internet Caucus
> said . "The producers of software should be responsible for any flaws
> that the software contains," especially if the flaws lead to hacking."
> 
> http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-011402micro.story

Fina-friggin-ly.

Let's hope this sticks.  Auto and aircraft manufacturers are held
responsible for their product.
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More Steps

2002-01-17 Thread Ian


17th
Bedtime Reading -> Partitions (proper German by Hermann-Josef)
Distros -> Reviews -> Redmond (update) 

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Re: IBM whitepaper: securing Linux servers

2002-01-17 Thread Ian

Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 12:01:48PM -0500, DOUGLAS HUNLEY wrote:
> > 
>http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/linux/whitepapers/security/Securing_Linux_Servers_xSP.pdf
> >
> 
> This gives me URL Not Found.

Hmm. Works OK here...
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Re: Weird Shutdown/halt in SuSE 7.3

2002-01-16 Thread Ian Marchak

Susan Macchia wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I recently switched from RH 7.0 to SuSE 7.3.  While happy overall, I have
> noticed some wierdness when shutting down or halting SuSE (either thru the kdm
> GUI or using /sbin/shutdown -h).



> And when I boot up or (reboot), my disk(s) always get fscked (/dev/hda2 has the
> SuSE distro root) - message below:
> 
> /dev/hda2 not cleanly unmounted, check forced
> 
> /dev/hdb7 has my home partition and sometimes this has the same message/check.
> 
> Has anyone experienced this?  Should I be worried? I don't have APM that I know
> of as my dell was bought in 1998 with Win98FE.  I went to the knowledge base at
> SuSE and there wasn't really much help; all the info was on early SuSE
> versions.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated here; I am concerned that this may cause problems
> with my disks in the future.

I too have experienced this...still am, but the machine is rarely
rebooted so I forgot about it.

I suspected and investigated the SuSE shutdown scripts were missing
doing something...my scripting skills failed to see a problem though.

I can at least confirm you aren't the only one.

I too am curious what's up.
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Searching for SSL capable mail providers

2002-01-13 Thread Ian

I am currently trying to track down (for a new project at work) a
provider who offers SSL connections to their email servers and SSL
connections from the server that would host our email to the client's
email servers.  Obviously this is being driven by customer requirements.

I know this is something that could be done by placing the mail server
inside the office and running it ourselves, but, at present, they aren't
paying me near enough to be doing this for them.  Further
"complexifying" the  issue is the fact that the server would reside in
an office over 500km (350 miles) away from us, and I don't want to bring
up another remotely managed server if I can avoid it.

Has anyone come across this type of service before?  I am in Ontario and
the project is going to happen in Quebec, so a provider in say Texas is
no good, but I would merely like to confirm that it is an offered
service by someone somewhere...for motivation to continue my search.

I've found nothing so far in my searches, local or otherwise.
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Re: Comcast Cable server DHCP experience

2002-01-13 Thread Ian

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> 
> On Saturday 12 January 2002 13:01 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > This change over to dynamic IP's has been anything but easy.
> >
> 
> Not that you want to hear this, but I was present when a friend of mine
> switched from dialup to a cable modem.  I had the same trepidations about
> getting Linux to work with the DHCP stuff.  Of course, the installers just
> diddled with Windows and off they went.
> 
> This friend runs SuSE 7.2  and it took me all of two minutes to get the
> configuration tool (YAST2) to get the system to use a dynamic IP.  I was
> impressed.
> 
> (But now you know a lot more about dhcp than I do  :o)

Last night/this morning, my cable provider (Rogers for those Canucks out
there running it too) seems to have changed things somewhat.  Instead of
needing to provide a '-h hostname' option or '-H -D', it would appear
now that the only dhcpcd incantation that works is an "argument free"
/sbin/dhcpcd.

Anything else results in the eth0 IP remaining blank.

Go figger.
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Re: Switching to DHCPDC on Comcast

2002-01-08 Thread Ian

Joel Hammer wrote:
> 
> Still trying to get connected with dhcpcd -d eth1 to the new or old
> @HOME service. My cable modem is on eth1.
> 
> This command, dhcpcd -d eth0, talking to my intranet dhcpd linux server,
> gets assigned an IP address without trouble.
> 
> Here is what I see with tcpdump -i eth1 -n  | grep .67.
> 
> 0.0.0.0.68 > 255.255.255.255.67: xid:0xf34afb2f secs:5 [|bootp]

> 0.0.0.0.68 > 255.255.255.255.67: xid:0xf34afb2f secs:5 [|bootp]
> 
> So, it looks like the dhcpd server sees my request, and responds, but
> the negotiations break down.
> 
> Adding the -DH options didn't fix the problem.
> 
> Any insight appreciated.



On my install of eS2.31 and IIRC on all my Caldera installs, dhcpcd is
called from a script found in /etc/sysconfig/setwork-sccripts called
'ifup-dhcp'.

To make my dhcpcd work on @home I had to change the call to dhcpcd as
shown below by changing the -HD to instead tell the server the @home ID
was given 'cr##-a', and they would assign the IP according to
hostname supplied.

>>>#/sbin/dhcpcd -HD $interface >/dev/null || {
>>>/sbin/dhcpcd -h cr##-a $interface >/dev/null || {

You might want to try two things, using this script to call dhcpcd
(which is what should happen if you set it up using COAS, and the option
to supply your @home hostname, which Comcast may still be expecting.  If
their windows install instructions include adding a specific 'computer
name' under Network Neighborhood -> Properties -> Ident. , this could
well be the case.

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Re: internal modem

2002-01-07 Thread Ian

Net Llama wrote:
> 
> --- Declan Moriarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Was it Net Llama who wrote on Sunday 06 January 2002 22:05:
> > > --- Declan Moriarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > 2. Winmodems are CPU hungry and slow your beast down. Get the
> > external
> > > > one,
> > > > or an expensive card (At least 6 chips usually, vs ~3 for a
> > winmodem).
> > > > If it
> > > > doesn't configure as com 1 or 2, it's not a real modem.
> > >
> > > Please don't tell that to the real modem in my box that has been
> > happily
> > > using COM3 for about 9 months.
> >
> > I won't. I imagine that it can also be configured as com 1 or com 2;
> 
> Trust me, i tried every bit of setserial magic that i could find.  It
> absolutely refuses to work on COM1 or COM2.  BTW, its a 56k USR PCI modem.

You wouldn't have a model number for this thing would you?  My new
machine has only PCI slots and my old reliable 56k modem is ISA.

I either need to track down a good PCI internal or a 56k external...one
or the other.  I'm looking for what's worked for others and so on. It's
not a pressing item, so I've not spent much time figuring out what's a
winmodem and what isn't.
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Re: I'm impressed with ATI!

2002-01-06 Thread Ian

Jerry wrote:
> 
> Why would I slander a company who is headquarted in my country without
> reason??
> 
> I have had ATI Rage Pro / ATI Mach Pro / ATI TV Wonder / ATI All-In-One
> wonder all have had big problems and when I email support or even called
> them I have never reached anybody until two months after I sent my email or
> message.
> 
> That is why ATI has fallen against Voodoo and NVIDIA...before ATI was number
> one by a long shot and when Voodoo and NVIDIA came in ATI just died cause
> they don't support their cards...even when Windows 2000 came on ATI wasn't
> about to support it but due to the pressure they finally did it. As in
> Linux, ATI products sucks with different version for example Red Hat 7.0
> which wasn't on the market long since ATI drivers didn't work with them but
> other video cards no problem...

That's usually a case of having a card that was released card right
after the version of XFree that shipped with the distro.  Most ATI
cards, except brand new ones,  are supported by the current XFree. It's
not fair to blame ATI for that, there are cases that could be made
against almost all PC Part makers if you judge them based on support
under linux.  ATI at least cooperates with the development, if not 
actively participating. I think it's not much more than a year that 3Com
has been supporting/developing their own linux drivers IIRC, many others
are in the same boat.

As far as the support goes, that's unfortunate.  I've dealt with them
3-4 times, and all came to acceptable resolutions as far as I was
concerned...I even talked to a human being once! ;)
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Re: Fw: gandalf.eisnet 01/04/02:21.15 system check

2002-01-06 Thread Ian

Net Llama wrote:
> 
> Something is quite odd.  There is no major 0b device.  What kind of
> kernel are you running?  Since its crying about sectors, this is almost
> certainly a HD.  What appears immediately before those errors?
> 
> --- Matthew Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Anyone familiar with this device?
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 21:15:02 -0500
> > From: "root" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: gandalf.eisnet 01/04/02:21.15 system check
> >
> > Unusual System Events
> > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> > Jan  4 21:04:49 gandalf kernel:  I/O error: dev 0b:01, sector 2440468
> > Jan  4 21:04:49 gandalf kernel:  I/O error: dev 0b:01, sector 5039592
> > Jan  4 21:04:49 gandalf kernel:  I/O error: dev 0b:01, sector 7136680
> > Jan  4 21:04:49 gandalf kernel:  I/O error: dev 0b:01, sector 9233768
> > Jan  4 21:04:49 gandalf kernel:  I/O error: dev 0b:01, sector 11330856
> > Jan  4 21:04:49 gandalf kernel:  I/O error: dev 0b:01, sector 13427944


My first thought was that 0b is hex for 11, and major device 11 appears
to be related to SCSI CDRoms.  Do you have a SCSI CD or a CD Burner
using SCSI emulation?
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Re: I'm impressed with ATI!

2002-01-06 Thread Ian

Collins Richey wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 11:06:43 -0500 Matthew Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Has anyone searched for "Linux" on ATI's web site?  I did and found a
> > decent 45 hits... one lead me to their Linux FAQ.
> 
> Ok, my first dumb question of the day - who or what is ATI?

One of the largest suppliers of video cards to end users and OEM
manufacturers.  They now own the Fire GL line too which IMO is the best
line of workstation grade video cards...supported under linux too.
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Re: KDE configuration

2002-01-04 Thread Ian

Clint Tevlin wrote:
> 
> I've installed eD2.4 on my intended gateway PC but KDE
> appears stretched vertically, ie icons and menubar spacings.
> 
> How can I adjust this?

'man xvidtune'

/usr/X11R6/bin/xvidtune

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Re: Switching to DHCPDC on Comcast

2002-01-03 Thread Ian

Tom Wilson wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 03 January 2002 10 22:33 pm, Joel Hammer dropped these nuggets of
> information:
> > Well, I have enjoyed a static ip number on my cable modem for a year or
> > so from @HOME. But, they are dead, so I seem be forced to get a dynamic
> > ip number.

> I have had the same IP since I got my DSL (going on a year now) even though
> they use DHCP.  Although for my DSL it is a non-routable IP.
> 
> I think it depends on how your client refreshes itself against their DHCP
> server as to if they can change the IP. I imagine as long as it doesn't
> assign the IP you have out in the time it takes to drop and request the IP
> again it should be fine.

That's one thing that I noticed right off the bat, the messages in
/var/log/ changed:

# [root@hostname /root]# tail /var/log/messages
# Jan  3 22:21:02 hostname dhcpcd[23814]: infinite IP address lease
time.
# Exiting
# Jan  3 22:38:53 hostname -- MARK --


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Re: Switching to DHCPDC on Comcast

2002-01-03 Thread Ian

David Aikema wrote:
> 
> On January 3, 2002 07:33 pm, Joel Hammer wrote:
> 
> > I don't have dhcpdc on my caldera 2.4 box, with a  2.2 kernel patched
> > for win4lin. So, questions:
> 
> Are you sure you're not actually looking for a command called dhcpcd as
> opposed to dhcpdc?  IIRC, Caldera ships with that, but then again its been a
> while since I've used their products.

I have an eS2.3 box (sorta simliar) still running as my gateway.  I show
'dhcpcd-1.3.17p4-0' as the dhcp client RPM.

The activation scripts are:

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-dhcp
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-dhcp

But first, you need to make sure you go into coastool and flip the card
over to use dhcp instead of a fixed addy.

coastool->network admin->common network functions->pnp configuration

and follow your nose on the next steps, fill in the boxes and that's it.

Or at least that's all it was for me when my cable company left the
@home party.

Keep us posted.
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Re: ssh plus PATH

2002-01-03 Thread Ian

David Aikema wrote:
> 
> On January 3, 2002 12:38 pm, Keith Antoine wrote:
> > I have two small problems that I need answers to.
> >
> > #1. I now at last with my bandwidth supplier at last got him to put on ssh.
> > Thats great, but what do I need to ftp using ssh, does he need to do
> > anything else other than having sshd running ?
> 
> Won't using sftp do the trick?  I suppose not too many gui apps support it
> yet but it works quite nicely from the console.

Keith,

Knowing your penchant for all things GUI and pointy clicky, I'd have to
agree that sftp may be the way to go for you in the beginning, if you
can maneuver in CLI ftp you should be OK.

But as the Llama pointed out, scp is pretty easy too.

'scp my_new_file.html [EMAIL PROTECTED]:directory_to_copy_to'
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Re: exchange 5.5

2002-01-03 Thread Ian

"Schmeits, Roger" wrote:
> 
> What is similar in the Linux world for a replacement of Exchange 5.5? Group
> scheduling, email, resources planning (i.e. room scheduling).

I am currently looking into TWIG
[http://twig.screwdriver.net/about.php3] most of what you are looking
for.  It runs in conjunction with an IMAP server to provide mail
capabilities.

I have only just scratched the surface of it though.  I am still trying
to get Cyrus IMAP up and running on my system...then I'll look into TWIG
or something similar.

Hey! Anyone out there have cyrus configured...now or in the past?
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Re: patches/updates

2002-01-03 Thread Ian

Net Llama wrote:
> 
> You do have to pay to use the automated monkey tools.  However, nothing
> stops you from downloading & installing the updated packages manually.


Odd, I've used 'up2date' as recently as 5 minutes ago (nscd update just
to see if it would work)...but I never paid anything for it.  Hrmm. 
I'll just keep this to myself...forget I said anything.

The only thing I did do was register (in terms of information not in
terms of money) the (downloaded) copy I installed when asked for it.

When I proved the installation was successful and that Linux/Samba could
do the job needed, I went out and bought the office a copy, but the box
is still shrink-wrapped.  Purchasing it was more an exercise in fiscal
morality on my part than anything...I suppose I should RTFM...or at
least the errata! ;)
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Re: patches/updates

2002-01-03 Thread Ian

"Schmeits, Roger" wrote:
> 
> How does one handle packages updates on Linux servers?  I have noticed on
> Redhat you pay a subscribition fee whereas Caldera it is a free service.
> Beginning relatively green yet I find myself uncomfortable/ignorant on
> applying patches/updates to Linux distros.  How does one handle this
> situation in a production environment without breaking other programs?

I think, the subscription to the Redhat service involves them actually
tracking what versions of redhat you are running on what systems and
notifying you by email when an update is needed.  There is also a daemon
or cron driven periodic check for or something of that nature.

I believe you can update Redhat (at least you could with 7.1) for free,
by using 'up2date'.
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Re: Memory lapse

2002-01-02 Thread Ian

Ian wrote:
> 
> Glenn Williams wrote:
> >
> > Hi,  Group:
> >
> > I want to delete this Linux and the associated partitions from my hard
> > drive.  Currently, I dual-boot SuSE 7.2 and Windows XP.  I think LILO
> > was installed in the MBR.

> > I suppose if all else fails I can boot with a Windows 9x boot disk and
> > restore the original MBR with "fdisk /MBR."
> 
> The above is quite simple, and something that is good to know.  But yes
> you *could* do that.

Actually, if this machine is XP don't assume that will work, I realized
after my last message blinked off the screen, that 9X is still on top of
DOS, XP has left it behind (I think, I only use 98SE and 2K)
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Re: Memory lapse

2002-01-02 Thread Ian

Glenn Williams wrote:
> 
> Hi,  Group:
> 
> I want to delete this Linux and the associated partitions from my hard
> drive.  Currently, I dual-boot SuSE 7.2 and Windows XP.  I think LILO
> was installed in the MBR.
> 
> IIRC, that's what "boot=/dev/hda" means.  I've attached my
> /etc/lilo.conf in hopes some kind reader will verify that this is so.

That's what I see in the file you included.

> I remember that there's a command line exercise that will restore the
> original MBR, but I can't find it and don't remember it.

see 'man lilo'.  Read the '-u' and '-s' options.  And look for a file in
your /boot dir called something like 'boot.0#00' where # is equal to the
major number for the device lilo installed to.

> I suppose if all else fails I can boot with a Windows 9x boot disk and
> restore the original MBR with "fdisk /MBR."

The above is quite simple, and something that is good to know.  But yes
you *could* do that.
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Re: Will they recommend LINUX????

2002-01-02 Thread Ian

Burns Macdonald wrote:
> 
> Everyone is right.
> 
> The Government in the US and Canada are "tinkering" with Linux, but there
> are few if any large scale enterprise-class projects underway. Microsoft,
> Sun and to a lesser degree, HP, are firmly entrenched in the culture. There
> are a few of typical reactions/misconceptions which explain this:
> 
> 1) If it doesn't cost a lot, it can't be any good. Part of the "the more
> they charge for it, the better it must be" syndrome;
> 
> 2) Open Source is "hobbyware";
> 
> 3) If it's Open Source, there is no one company that stands behind... so who
> do I blame/sue if something goes wrong; and

To that, we simply need to have people read a MS "EULA" or whatever they
call it, they only stand behind their product until something really
goes wrong...come time to blame/sue someone, they absolve themselves of
responsibility.  "We guarantee it...unless something breaks".

> 4) I am not an expert in IT, I am an expert in Microsoft. That's how I got
> to be a senior IT manager, by rolling out and maintaining Microsoft
> products. Deploying Linux now means that I am introducing something that I
> know nothing about... I will no longer be an expert - plus senior management
> may begin to think that all my previous (Microsoft) accomplishments were, in
> the end, bad decisions on my part.

I am now the black sheep in the corporation for reasons much like this.

After implementing Linux/Samba server for about $2000 of OS and
hardware, where corporate standards would have called for about
$3500-4000 worth of server and another few thousand worth of W2K and
client licenses...I've earned a bad reputation with the MS Managers...er
IT Managers.  Some high-ups are now asking questions the MS drones can't
answer..."Why is what we've always used so much more?"

Although, happily, my manager and the 20 guys using the server are happy
as pigs in mud.
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Re: Will they recommend LINUX????

2002-01-02 Thread Ian

Glenn Williams wrote:
> 
> - Original Message -
> From: "R. Quenett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 4:06 PM
> Subject: Re: Will they recommend LINUX
> 
> > " > > Perhaps they'll urge Americans to switch to a safer OS  ;-)
> > " > Not likely during the current administration.
> > "
> > " Or any other.
> >
> > Government doesn't _do_ 'open'.  It's poisonous to the culture.
> >
> > R
> 
> I think that will prove to be an unwarranted assumption.  NASA and a
> number of other government institutions are currently using Linux.
> Either the Space Lab or the shuttles use Linux - at the moment I cannot
> remeber which, but possibly both.

Is that not where the linux drivers for many of the 3com NICs
originated?  D Becker worked for NASA or the JPL or something of that
nature IIRC.

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Re: What's the name of that program...

2001-12-21 Thread Ian

Ian wrote:
> 
 
> Anyone out there know of a freeware/shareware program the will fit the
> bill, or remember the one Mike always recommended?

Thanks to all for the recommendations.

I have passed them along to the guys here and will let them sort it
out/pick one they like from here.  They are doing stress analysis
pre-processing under windows, but the files (which sometimes need
tweaking) are written with  as they are bound for a UNIX machine for
number crunching.

Took me about a half hour to convince them that they can't do it in
wordpad...they finally believed me when the office doing the final runs
on the data reported "hundreds of errors".
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What's the name of that program...

2001-12-20 Thread Ian

I remember Mike Andrew, and others, referring to a Windows editor
program, (a Wordpad'ish, pointy-clicky, GUI type) that can be used to
edit UNIX text files without adding the CR/LF to the lines...but I can't
remember what it was called.

Anyone out there know of a freeware/shareware program the will fit the
bill, or remember the one Mike always recommended?
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Re: Happpy B-day Doug

2001-12-18 Thread Ian

Douglas J Hunley wrote:
> 
> Ian babbled on about:
> > You old fogey...I'm not 28 for another 3 months!
> >
> > Errr...sorry, I take the fogey comment back...repsect for elders and
> > all!
> 
> realy? I've gotten so used to being the youngest in any group that I guess
> I've just started assuming everybody else is my elder! wow.. I have
> seniority! LOL...
> 
> do you have any instances in your history where your age was a detriment to
> people taking you seriously in your chosen IT career? I know I do..

In a big way...I've had multi-part interviews, technical interviews all
go great, only to meet with (what seemed to me) resistance upon actually
meeting me face to face.  I am not a baby face by any stretch (keep yer
comments to yerself), when they realize they are dealing with someone
who's 15-20 years their junior, my credibility goes out the window.

"Ageism", plain and simple.  Don't get me started.
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Re: Happpy B-day Doug

2001-12-18 Thread Ian

Douglas J Hunley wrote:
> 
> Tony Alfrey babbled on about:
> > Happy Birthday!  I missed the start of the thread, but did someone say
> > how old you are or do we really want to know?
> 
> a ripe old 28 years today (dec 18)

You old fogey...I'm not 28 for another 3 months!

Errr...sorry, I take the fogey comment back...repsect for elders and
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Re: another rpm ooops

2001-12-18 Thread Ian

Tony Alfrey wrote:
> 
> On Monday 17 December 2001 09:24 pm,Keith Antoine wrote:
> 
> >
> > Many newer rpms will not work with that version 3.6 is the least
> > theey work with.
> 
> Thanks.  The LlamaDude sent me out to get a 3.0.6 from the SxS.  I
> looked at rpm.org and it looks the numbering is 3.0.blahblah until it
> kicks in to 4.0.   So I assume that you also mean 3.0.6???
> I'm fussing with that but have failed dependencies that I know I have.
> I'm tempted to get the source and compile the silly thing.
> Your suggestion??

I thought Skippy went through this not long ago, can you not d/l a pre
compiled binary version to run?  Or am I inventing memories?
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Re: Happpy B-day Doug

2001-12-18 Thread Ian

"Tina M. Hunley" wrote:
> 
> Congrats..

I was about this "other user" how she knew it was Doug's B-Day...then I
read the last name.

It sure is nice to have family members to point out that we're getting
older!

Happy Day Doug...all things in moderation!  Save some beer for the rest
of us.

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Re: SuSE 7.3 Install Problems

2001-12-16 Thread Ian

Ian wrote:
> 
> Trying to install SuSE 7.3 and keep getting the following message part
> way (very early) into the install:
> 
> # attempt to access beyond end of device
> # 16:40: rw=0, want=567361, limit=567286

Dunno what went wrong, there was nothing reported when I was making the
CD's, but I managed to create two coasters.  When I inserted the CD, the
TOC was read just fine and I could cd from dir to dir, but trying to
access some of the files created "can't find file X" and so and so
forth...confirmed it on my brothers box.

Re-Burnt  the two discs and all is well...now comes the inevitable
flood of SuSE 7.3 questions, as I try to wrap my brain about all this
new suff...KDE, X, Kernel...fun wow.
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Re: Cable Modem Speed

2001-12-14 Thread Ian

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> This probably a dumb question, but here goes:
> 
> Do all cable modems run @ 10Base-T or are there some that run @ 100baseTx
> FD? I have a home net of 10/100 NIC card PC's, but jsut noticed that my
> cable modem is only rated @ 10Base-T. Am I wasting the 100 mbps speed since
> my cable modem is only 10BaseT?  My SuSE router PC has 2 NIC, one LNE100TX
> that uses the tulip driver and a rtl8139-based NIC. The LNE100TX is con-
> nected to the cable modem, will run @ 100 mbps, but goes to 10BaseT due to
> the modem. Then rtl8139 connects to the home lan via 10/100 N-WAY switch
> and happily churns along @ 100 mbps.

If you have more than one machine in your network, and they communicate
at 100Mbps, then no, it's not a waste IMHO.  But if you went looking for
100Mbps on purpose, hoping to get a 100Mbps connection through your
cable modem, you'll be disappointed.  I've not heard of any cable
internet provider that runs at even 10Mbps (not saying there are none,
only none that I know of).  Most of the time the best you can hope for
is a few (read 2 - 5) Mbps.

I you really want a 100Mbps pipe, you're gonna hafta cough a lot more a
month than you do for cable internet.
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Re: Apache Error log entries

2001-12-13 Thread Ian

Tim Wunder wrote:
> 
> Since updating Apache to 1.3.22 on my RedHat server, I've gotten these
> entries in my error_log:
> [Tue Dec 11 04:02:01 2001] [notice] SIGHUP received. Attempting to restart
> [Tue Dec 11 04:02:01 2001] [notice] Apache/1.3.22 (Unix)
> (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_perl/1.24 configured -- resuming normal operations
> [Tue Dec 11 04:02:01 2001] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper:
> /usr/sbin/suexec)
> [Tue Dec 11 04:02:01 2001] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem)
> [Tue Dec 12 04:02:01 2001] [notice] SIGHUP received. Attempting to restart
> [Tue Dec 12 04:02:02 2001] [notice] Apache/1.3.22 (Unix)
> (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_perl/1.24 configured -- resuming normal operations
> [Tue Dec 12 04:02:02 2001] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper:
> /usr/sbin/suexec)
> [Tue Dec 12 04:02:02 2001] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem)

Check your cron jobs, I'd _guess_ this is a restart for log rotation.
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Re: SuSE 7.3 Install Problems

2001-12-13 Thread Ian

Declan Moriarty wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 13 December 2001 04:32, you wrote:
> > Trying to install SuSE 7.3 and keep getting the following message part
> > way (very early) into the install:
> >
> > # attempt to access beyond end of device
> > # 16:40: rw=0, want=567361, limit=567286
> 
> I always have a floppy or two with Tom's linux on it http://www.toms.net/rb
> as it has saved my butt more often than I care to remember. If you don't have
> a running system use that, or your favourite floppy linux.
> 
> dmesg or a mild check by e2fsck might well give you a fix on what device is
> involved. Hard disks these days lie as fluently as politicians to the system.
> At a guess, the problem is different interpetations of the same lies (You get
> this sort of thing with Lilo occasionally too). Formatting the disk a track
> or two smaller might work around it.

The trouble is, the install is crapping out long before I make any
choice about the installation.  I don't actually get to a point where I
make any choices (other than picking "INSTALL" when it boots off the
CDRom).  For that reason, I don't think that this is a HD thing.

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SuSE 7.3 Install Problems

2001-12-12 Thread Ian

Trying to install SuSE 7.3 and keep getting the following message part
way (very early) into the install:

# attempt to access beyond end of device
# 16:40: rw=0, want=567361, limit=567286

The install routine just barfs and drops into text mode...which fails as
well.  This message is on one of the virtual terminals, (alt F3 IIRC)
and comes shortly after the mouse (PS2) is detected...but the screen
fills with the error and scrolls off the page any indications of what is
actually causing this disappears a lot faster than I can pick it out.

Has anyone any bright ideas?

I'm off to comb the SuSE support db again, in case I missed something
first time through.
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Re: Ping has a strange message on it...

2001-12-09 Thread Ian

> James McDonald wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone has come accross the message; "Warning time
> of day goes back" inside a ping request and what it means?

IIRC, that means your machine or the responding one have their clocks
sent incorrectly and when your ping returns to you it has a timestamp
that is set to a time ahead of your computer's.  i.e.: You've received a
reply to ping you (according to the time) have not yet sent.
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Re: modem call

2001-12-07 Thread Ian

Randy wrote:
> 
> > A think alot more info is needed here.  Which distro, how is all of
> > this setup?  Linux, out of the box, isn't capable of connecting to a
> > remote modem, so you had to have set this up in some capacity at some
> > point in time.  Care to explain?
> 
> Not at all. I'm running Mandrake 8.1 using DHCP. The problem was
> intermittent at first, but is pretty persistent, now. My server is a
> WIN 98 box that I connect to through a Linksys switch. My NIC is a
> Realtek 8139. I have a hardware A/B switch in the phone line to
> completely shut the server out of the phone line. I put that in when my
> eDesktop install (different box than this Mandrake box) would
> intermittently do this same thing. What both installs and boxes have
> had in common is the WIN 98 server. It's a standard network setup
> though, only needed protocols. Let me know if you need any other info.
> Thanks Lonni.
> Randy Donohoe

Are you certain this isn't something in Windows?

In Win: Control Panel -> Internet Options -> Connections Tab

Sets whether or not to dial a connection.

If you are using the Windows Box as your gateway, I assume you want to
auto dial so that's not really much help.

What you need to do is see what Internet bound traffic is being
generated by the Linux box that's causing the dial out.

#man tcpdump
   or
#man ethereal

Is the /etc/resolv.conf set to look for DNS outside your local network? 
If it is and you so much as sneeze in the general direction of a host
that isn't BOTH _local to your network_ AND _locally listed in your
/etc/hosts file_ it will query the external DNS servers in resolv.conf
causing the dial out.

Perhaps?

If this doesn't do it, you'll have to have tcpdump or ethereal come up
as soon as your eth0 is configured (somewhere in your rc scripts or
rc#.d directories) and capture the packet log to a file to see what's
leaving the linux host bound for where.

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Re: Re: SuSE 7.3 isos

2001-12-04 Thread Ian

Ian wrote:
> 
> Douglas J Hunley wrote:
> >
> > are now up at http://dilyard.homeip.net/iso/
> 
> 
> 


Hey Doug...when'd you change your email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]!?

Ugh.

Sorry folks...this batch of high quality whining was intended for Doug's
misery...not all yours.
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Re: SuSE 7.3 isos

2001-12-04 Thread Ian

Douglas J Hunley wrote:
> 
> are now up at http://dilyard.homeip.net/iso/



Any chance of generating MD5's for these things?

I am still waiting for SuSE 7.3 to show up in Canada...I investigated
how much it would cost to order it from the SuSE US, and I'd wind up
paying somewhere around 35% in duty  and then take another hosing
with the exchange rate putting the Canadian dollar at about $0.635 US.

I shit you not...the cost would over double!
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Re: @home still serving

2001-12-01 Thread Ian

Tim Wunder wrote:
> 

> 
> If they manage to work out a deal with the cable companies, I doubt the cable
> companies would raise the monhtly fees (much). If anyone is making that "ton
> of money" from broadband, it's the cable companies. Their costs are,
> essentially, just for support of the cable lines. The very same cable lines
> they have for TV. Their costs to provide high speed internet access pale in
> comparison to @Home's. Yet, they get the majority of the monthly fees. They
> can take a fairly large hit on what they pay Excite@Home and still not need
> to raise their rates.


Not necessarily the case.

Rogers cable, who have about half a million subscribers, are quite happy
they've finally been given the legal grounds to break their agreement
with @home.  They were offering a cable internet service, when @home was
unheard of in Canada.  They originally made the decision to join the
@home consortium in order to "obtain content" in the form of a portal
site and whatnot, not for the management of their networks.

Since joining @home, their single largest benefit was the marketing
value of the @home name, however the customer satisfaction levels when
slowly and consistently down since they joined up.

I for one, will gladly see my service divorced from @home, it was their
s#!t email servers that led to my purchasing and hosting of my own
domain.  I was missing mails, receiving replies to the list, before the
post I'd sent, other emails were arriving 10 (yes ten) days late.
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Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-28 Thread Ian Marchak

Quoting Susan Macchia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> MDI stands for "Multiple Document Interface".  It is a GUI policy
> that is used by an application where it opens up windows within
> its own larger window.  The first time I saw it was on Windoze.
> Opera uses it, StarOffice uses it. 

Doh. Thanks. I've heard the term before and understand it...just don't remember 
running across the acronym before.

> IMHO it can be a useful UI technique if used judiciously, but for
> the most part, its usually overused and not overridable by users
> who prefer separate windows.

I remember the first time I tried Opera...I practically had to learn how to 
browse all over again.

> Again, thats just my opinion and about 10+ years of UI
> design/development experience talking.

10 years, that's it? You think that entitles you to an opinion?!  :)
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Re: Opera 6 beta available

2001-11-28 Thread Ian Marchak

Quoting Susan Macchia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> 
> Just tried it and find it has much improved performance over 5.0.  Don't
> care
> so much about it being larger in size since I have 384mb.  If you want a
> fast
> reliable browser, Opera is it (once you get past the MDI interface and
> tailor
> it to your choosing).

MDI?  Can you elaborate, for my curiosity's sake.

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Re: lots of fun with galeon

2001-11-25 Thread Ian

Collins Richey wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 17:48:50 -0500 Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Collins Richey wrote:
> > >
> > > In case you haven't tried it yet, galeon 1.0 has been released.
> > >
> > > galeon is the browser that mozilla would like to be when it grows
> > up.
> >
> > Warning, warning, software politcal soapbox alert. Warning, warning.
> >
> 
> No politics, just a very contented user.  Having tried
> konqueror,netscape,opera and mozilla, I'm pleasantly surprised by what
> galeon has to offer.  Granted mozilla has done a lot of the work (the
> gecko engine is used by galeon; you must have mozilla installed), but
> galeon has delivered a polished product.

Just being a s#!t disturber. Should've added a smiley at the end...I
grinned when I sent it.
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Re: lots of fun with galeon

2001-11-25 Thread Ian

Collins Richey wrote:
> 
> In case you haven't tried it yet, galeon 1.0 has been released.
> 
> galeon is the browser that mozilla would like to be when it grows up.

Warning, warning, software politcal soapbox alert. Warning, warning.

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Re: Web Server Working?

2001-11-22 Thread Ian Marchak

Quoting Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Can anyone out there hit my web site, http://www.kurwerks.com?

I can resolve the IP (24.183.213.227), ping, but the web server doesn't appear 
to be performing up to spec.
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Re: finding out hardware info

2001-11-22 Thread Ian Marchak

Quoting burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> On November 21, 2001 02:16 pm, Peter Horst wrote:
> 
> >
> > Do you have any information on "hwinfo"? It is not available on my
> > system (rh7.1).
> 
> It should be. We had some SGI machines in our lab with RH 6.2 on them
> and 
> hwinfo was part of the config. Have you tried: locate hwinfo?

I have a freshly (last week) RH7.1 all packages install without it too, SGI 
could have added it themselves, or RH has since dropped it.

There is however a utility 'sysreport' that builds a tar file with various 
files including most of what I remember finding in hwinfo reports on my old 
Caldera machines.
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Re: Happy Thanksgiving

2001-11-22 Thread Ian Marchak

Quoting Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Happy Thanksgiving to our American members.

Absolutely!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my neigbours from south of the 49th Parallel.

May this year find us all more appreciative of what we have.
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More Steps Mirrors.

2001-11-21 Thread Ian

New Mirror added: Indianapolis.
See front page for the links

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Help with Samba Domain Logins

2001-11-21 Thread Ian Marchak

Server: RH 7.1, with Samba built from a RH 7.2 SRPM Version 2.2.1a:

Client: Win2k

I created user accounts both samba and unix. 

I created machine accounts  in /etc/passwd and /etc/samba/smbpasswd.

The machine I am trying this from is in /etc/hosts.

I have successfully logged in from a win9X client. (different machine) 

But I cannot seem to get this to work from Win2K.

When I attempt to connect I get a  invalid user name
or password error.

So I checked my samba logs, and found:

(removed date and time from logs for brevity)

#
[date&time, 0] passdb/smbpass.c:startsmbfilepwent_internal(87)
startsmbfilepwent_internal: unable to open file
/etc/samba/smbpasswd. Error was Permission denied

[d&t, 0] passdb/smbpass.c:iterate_getsmbpwuid(1240)
unable to open smb password database.

[d&t, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(448)
Closing connections

[d&t, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(448)
Closing connections
#

I checked the perms on /etc/samba/smbpasswd and just to see if it
would help, I noted the existing perms and changed the file to 777. 
However, samba simply set the permissions back to  '-rw' for root
only, and spit the same message again.

I have confirmed that the passwords are all the same from smbpassword
and /etc/password, read s#!tloads or samba.org docs and so on, but
have had no luck as yet.

So, if anyone out there has successfully implemented samba and win2k
hosts out there, (which according to what I have read is possible)
please shed some light on where I've gone wrong here.  I'm stumped.
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Re: Cable Net Access

2001-11-19 Thread Ian Marchak

Quoting Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Okay, so now I have cable access -- it's a beautiful thing after
> dial-up purgatory -- with a static IP. Theoretically, even though it
> isn't permitted, I can run server services. The installer set up one
> of my Windows boxes and gave it this truly byzantine hostname but it
> seems to me that I should be able to assign that static IP to a Linux
> box and then update DNS through my domain registrar. 
> 
> That is, I'm proposing using my own host name and their IP address.
> Can I do that?

I *think* this list runs on a box doing the vary same.
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Re: weirdness w/ Samba

2001-11-15 Thread Ian

Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> 
> If you're on the same subnet, you shouldn't need either.
> Broadcast should work then.

Is that still true if netbeui is not installed on all the hosts.  ie: do
hosts not running netbeui still broadcast?

> On Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:52:36 -0500
> "Douglas J Hunley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Ian Marchak babbled on about:
> > > Quoting Aaron Grewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > > Have you configured the Samba server for WINS support and put its IP
> > > > in
> > > > the client's WINS entry in the TCP/IP control panel?  That's the first
> > > > thing I'd doublecheck, since if WINS is working right you won't need
> > > > lmhosts.

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Re: weirdness w/ Samba

2001-11-15 Thread Ian Marchak

Quoting Aaron Grewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Have you configured the Samba server for WINS support and put its IP
> in
> the client's WINS entry in the TCP/IP control panel?  That's the first
> thing I'd doublecheck, since if WINS is working right you won't need
> lmhosts.

Doug,

Now I remember...if you have WINS configured correctly you don't 
need /etc/lmhosts!

:)

This raises a question for me though, when going from one *nix samba host to 
another, how would WINS server info be specified?

Also, Doug, how are you making out with this?


> On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 16:52, Ian wrote:
> > DOUGLAS HUNLEY wrote:
> > > 
> > > I've got Samba 2.2.2 installed (and working) on 192.168.1.10  Seems
> to be working fine in that 3 shares are being successfully mounted on
> all my other machines (192.168.1.11-13).
> > > However, I have a printer hanging off the .11 box that is being
> shared as a network printer (WinME for the OS). The .12 and .13 boxes
> can print to it without issue. However, the .10 box can't seem to see
> any SMB shares on the .11 box...
> > > 
> > > smbclient -U id%pass -L 192.168.1.11 returns:
> > > added interface ip=192.168.1.10 bcast=192.168.1.255
> nmask=255.255.255.0
> > > added interface ip=127.0.0.1 bcast=127.0.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> > > session request to 192.168.1.11 failed (Called name not present)
> > > session request to 192 failed (Called name not present)
> > > session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Called name not present)
> > > 
> > > I'd really like to be able to print from the .10 box... ideas
> anyone?
> > 
> > Is/are your /etc/lmhosts file(s) in order?

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Re: Correct Syntax

2001-11-15 Thread Ian Marchak

Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

> Hello All,
> 
> What is the correct syntax to back up a directory and all
> subdirectories
> to a tar.gz  file on another partition.

tar zcvf /path/to/tarfile.tar.gz /dir_to_backup

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Re: weirdness w/ Samba

2001-11-13 Thread Ian

Douglas J Hunley wrote:
> 
> Ian babbled on about:
> > Is/are your /etc/lmhosts file(s) in order?
> 
> er.. that would be a 'no'... never needed one before and this used to work
> under Caldera... what would I put there? on the linux box I'm assuming?

see 'man lmhosts'

I cannot remember exactly when it is and when it isn't needed...


IIRC if nmbd is not serving names correctly, or at all, this file will
do the trick.  I think it's pretty much analogous to /etc/hosts and
named/DNS
 
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Re: weirdness w/ Samba

2001-11-13 Thread Ian

DOUGLAS HUNLEY wrote:
> 
> I've got Samba 2.2.2 installed (and working) on 192.168.1.10  Seems to be working 
>fine in that 3 shares are being successfully mounted on all my other machines 
>(192.168.1.11-13).
> However, I have a printer hanging off the .11 box that is being shared as a network 
>printer (WinME for the OS). The .12 and .13 boxes can print to it without issue. 
>However, the .10 box can't seem to see any SMB shares on the .11 box...
> 
> smbclient -U id%pass -L 192.168.1.11 returns:
> added interface ip=192.168.1.10 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> added interface ip=127.0.0.1 bcast=127.0.0.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> session request to 192.168.1.11 failed (Called name not present)
> session request to 192 failed (Called name not present)
> session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Called name not present)
> 
> I'd really like to be able to print from the .10 box... ideas anyone?

Is/are your /etc/lmhosts file(s) in order?
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Using Linux w/ Dell PowerEdge 500SC

2001-11-13 Thread Ian Marchak

Hi All,

A recent addition to the office, a Dell PowerEdge 500SC is slotted to be used 
as a file server for a group of engineers moving in w/ us.

The machine came to us w/out an OS and I am considering (strongly) implimenting 
Linux, as this machine will never be part of the corporate network so it 
doesn't have to be a corp spec box.

Dell themselves have tested RH 7.1 w/ this hardware and have included a few 
errata regarding this, nothing serious, how to enable the Travan drive, how to 
enable DMA100, no problems, maninly tuning tips.

Before I spend a day getting this thing dressed in a "Tux" has anyone previous 
experience w/ this line of Dell products and a notebook full of gotchas they'd 
be willing to share?  I'd even take good experiences as encouragement!
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Re: 19" Rack Mounting Fasteners

2001-11-10 Thread Ian

Bill Campbell wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:31:29PM -0500, Ian wrote:
> >Hi all, simple question I hope...
> >
> >We are in the process of integrating a group of engineers who were
> >on-site with a customer into our office.  I need to install some of the
> >equipment they've brought with them into our server racks and I need
> >fasteners to do this.
> >
> >I forgot to bring a sample with me, and although I can find nuts and
> >bolts that will "do the job", I'd like to get the correct size fasteners
> >and I've no idea what size the bolts normally used are...anyone out
> >there do this on a regular basis and remember what the size is?
> 
> How long is a rope?

Depends on where you cut it. ;)

> Some racks that are commonly used in the telco industry use an odd size
> screw, number 12 if I remember correctly, that typically isn't available at
> the local hardware store.  Last time I needed these, I got a bunch at
> Graybar.  These are typically the aluminum standing post racks with pre-
> threaded holes.

I am used to dealing with avionics racks with nicely documented standard
fastener and hole sizes, instead of just a hole.  Just spoiled I guess.

I've plenty of metal screws and taps, I'll just make 'em whatever size I
need.
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Re: Fall clean up...

2001-11-10 Thread Ian

Jerry McBride wrote:
> 
> Can someone suggest the best way to cleanup /tmp? I've got a server that has
> over
> 10meg of... stuff... Where does one begin?

Does this machine run full-time or id it dual boot?

If it's a full time machine, the cron scripts should take care of this,
if it's not a full time machine, somewhere in /etc/cron.d you can
probably find a script to do this

/etc/cron.daily/aaa_base_clean_tmp ... in SuSE 7.1

or 

/etc/cron.d/Daily/40cleandir ... in COL eS2.3.1

...yours should be something like this, distros vary.

Have a poke about, most of these things have settings specifying how
long to leave what files behind.  It's a distinct possibility that most
of the 10 meg on your machine hasn't aged enough to be nuked.
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19" Rack Mounting Fasteners

2001-11-10 Thread Ian

Hi all, simple question I hope...

We are in the process of integrating a group of engineers who were
on-site with a customer into our office.  I need to install some of the
equipment they've brought with them into our server racks and I need
fasteners to do this.

I forgot to bring a sample with me, and although I can find nuts and
bolts that will "do the job", I'd like to get the correct size fasteners
and I've no idea what size the bolts normally used are...anyone out
there do this on a regular basis and remember what the size is?

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