Re: Forcing specific IP address with DHCP

2008-04-17 Thread Chris Henry
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: II) Use dhclient's supersede facility to override gwen's DHCP offer. After struggling with the various DHCP manpages, I can't figure out how to supersede the IP address; all the examples deal with superseding things such

Re: Uniq is not unique ?

2008-04-12 Thread Chris Henry
Hi, On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:57 AM, Bhasker C V [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For fairly large file 100K+ lines uniq command does not filter the repetitive lines. Am I doing anything wrong on the usage ? For eg:- I had run this script in my home dir find . -name \* -type f

Re: Install Memcache in debian

2008-04-06 Thread Chris Henry
Hi, On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 11:52:29 +1000, hce wrote: Hi, While I am building and installing Memcache in debian, the README says If using Linux, you need a kernel with epoll.. Is the debian 4.0 uses kernel

Re: Why debian sucks! [was Re: Distributions]

2008-04-04 Thread Chris Henry
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Oh, and the other thing I don't like is how darn easy it is. It makes it hard to learn anything past a certain point... hence my occaisional attempts to do things the hard way... Agree! Agree completely!

Re: number of users accessing a wireless network

2008-03-31 Thread Chris Henry
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rich Healey wrote: put them all in the same subnet (ie 192.168.0.128-255) and then nmap -sS - -PN 192.168.0.128/25 | grep [uU][Pp] What does it mean to say 192.168.0.128/25 ? /25 indicates the subnet

Re: [OT] Mail address (was: disassembling machine code)

2008-03-21 Thread Chris Henry
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 5:37 AM, Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-03-21 19:29 +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 01:39:09PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: ^^ Huh? I did

Re: [OT] Mail address

2008-03-21 Thread Chris Henry
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/21/08 20:30, Charlie wrote: [snip] It didn't show it correctly in Kmail: showed it as unknown, but did show it correctly when I sent it to the trash folder? In Tbird/icedove, the Sender is blank. But looking

Allowing users to mount external drive/thumbdrive

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Henry
Hi, I've just reinstalled a windows computer with debian today. While I can add an entry to fstab to allow user to be able to mount an external drive, it won't allow flexible usage of external drive/thumbdrive. I realized that Ubuntu allows users to plug just about anything and have it

Re: Allowing users to mount external drive/thumbdrive

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Henry
Clarification below: On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Chris Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've just reinstalled a windows computer with debian today. While I can add an entry to fstab to allow user to be able to mount an external drive, it won't allow flexible usage of external

Re: Allowing users to mount external drive/thumbdrive

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Henry
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Raj Kiran Grandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Henry wrote: Hi, I've just reinstalled a windows computer with debian today. While I can add an entry to fstab to allow user to be able to mount an external drive, it won't allow flexible usage

Re: DCHP

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Henry
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:01:08AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: You say there are two DHCP servers; perhaps what you're seeing is a different IP reply from one or the other server? This was my first thought also,

Re: DCHP

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Henry
Hi, On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Cassiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every time I restart my Lenny I obtain a new ip addr from one of the 2 dhcp servers. We have a 1 month lease on this servers and this should never happen within this period. You can't guarantee what IP address you'll receive

Re: ssh to Vmware linux on a MS Window machine

2008-03-12 Thread Chris Henry
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 6:40 PM, hce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Local network have an IP address 192.168.1.105 VMnet1 = 192.168.100.1 VMnet8 = 192.168.50.128 The bridge is connected between local network and the VMnet8, the bridge IP adderess = 192.168.50.129. In window console, the

Re: Where is the pcre-devel package?

2008-03-12 Thread Chris Henry
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 6:58 PM, hce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Where is the pcre-devel package, I could not find it: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done E: Couldn't find package libpcre-devel I think Debian does not use -devel for development package (I

Re: Basic bash question.

2008-03-04 Thread Chris Henry
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:16 AM, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:08:47PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote: Luis Maceira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I see all the messages generated by a bash command (configure make make install, for example)

Re: Basic bash question.

2008-03-03 Thread Chris Henry
Hi, You can use tee. e.g. ./configure | tee filename Chris On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Luis Maceira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I see all the messages generated by a bash command (configure make make install, for example) to standard output(computer screen), and at the same time

Re: su doesn't work Authentication failure

2008-01-31 Thread Chris Henry
On Feb 1, 2008 1:10 PM, Dennis G. Wicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What should I be worried about and start looking for? BTW, nobody can get access to my system unless they break into my house, and that hasn't happened. I even did a reinstall of the login package just to make sure the above was

Re: The xlogin widget, ...

2008-01-28 Thread Chris Henry
On Jan 29, 2008 2:39 AM, PETER EASTHOPE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folk, which login tell me immediately that the familiar command line authentication is done by /bin/login. xdm.man refers to The xlogin widget, which xdm presents Good, but what program is it exactly? There is no name on

Re: Memory Stick is sg1?

2008-01-27 Thread Chris Henry
On Jan 27, 2008 10:22 PM, Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in /etc/fstab but when I tried to mount /usbdrive the system responded, This is not a block device. It was after this that I found that as root I could mount the memory stick with mount /dev/sda /mnt. - Tom Hi, then try

Re: How to set up simple cgi web

2008-01-26 Thread Chris Henry
On Jan 26, 2008 6:33 PM, hce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought if I create /www or /etc/www in my debian PC, and add an index.htm and cgi file to cgi-bin directory, I should be able to access http://my_ip_address/index.html. But, it did not work. how can I make that work? Hmm. Shall start

Re: Brief question as to the Linux kernel in use in the Stable version of Etch

2008-01-26 Thread Chris Henry
On Jan 27, 2008 3:41 PM, Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-01-27 08:23 +0100, David Palmer wrote: Then you need to upgrade to the 'lenny' distribution. Or depending on what you are running, even SID. That's my standard desktop now. Please stop giving such clueless and *totally

Re: debian install questions

2008-01-20 Thread Chris Henry
Hi, nowhere for example does the section tell exactly how to enter the boot parameter (cheart code) which tells the installer where to find the preseeding file. The boot parameter is the first question the installer asks when you boot from the installer of your choice. To install KDE for

Re: unable to su to root, sudo works

2008-01-20 Thread Chris Henry
On Jan 21, 2008 3:29 AM, Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc Auslander wrote: You might look in the conf files in /etc/security and see if anything is funny. That was a good idea, but all files are their defaults (or so I assume, all options are commented out) What about