palm syncing woes

2008-09-20 Thread Neil Watson
more reliable? -- Neil Watson System Administrator for hire http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: diagram tool

2008-08-07 Thread Neil Watson
This allows you to create diagram programmatically: http://www.graphviz.org/ -- Neil Watson System Administrator for hire http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-11 Thread Neil Watson
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Re: conf management for many debian boxes

2008-06-09 Thread Neil Watson
a collection of servers under cfengine last year. It was very successful. I wrote small 'cookbook' style paper about what I had learned. Please find it here: http://technocrat.watson-wilson.ca/blosxom/computer/cfcookbook.html -- Neil Watson System Administrator for hire http://watson-wilson.ca

Pre existing packages for Xen with Nvidia?

2008-03-03 Thread Neil Watson
Are there some pre patched and ready to go Xen kernels and Nvidia drivers that will work together? Version: lenny/sid Nvidia Gforce 6200 -- Neil Watson System Administrator for hire http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Firewall suggestions?

2008-02-13 Thread Neil Watson
Astaro Linux may still offer free home use licenses. -- Neil Watson System Administrator for hire http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Motherboard suggestions?

2008-02-06 Thread Neil Watson
Tyan -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 11 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Neil Watson
http://technocrat.watson-wilson.ca/blosxom/computer/encrypted-storage.html -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 10 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: recommend a flatbed scanner

2007-11-21 Thread Neil Watson
on recommendation from another Linux mailing list. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 32 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

questions about compiz

2007-11-03 Thread Neil Watson
and why is it not loading? -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 15 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: efficiency of windows managers

2007-09-28 Thread Neil Watson
*geometry: 127x50+1+1 xterm*tn: xterm xterm*scrollBar: false xterm*sl: 1000 xterm*colorMode: 1 xterm*Utf8: 1 xterm*loginShell: 1 -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 14 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Slow Network Connection

2007-09-27 Thread Neil Watson
Do you have some sort of duplex mismatch? Ethtool or mii-tool will report duplex status and Ethernet speed. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 12 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-27 Thread Neil Watson
asked me to tech him how to use it. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 13 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Neil Watson
seem to have made up your mind without actually spending some time writing a document or two. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 11 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Neil Watson
Please approach this subject in a more subjective manner. I was suggesting that until you gain experience with both manners of document creation you can hardly form an accurate conclusion as to what best suits your needs. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-26 Thread Neil Watson
arbitrarily and then change later if necessary. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 11 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-25 Thread Neil Watson
inconsistencies that are so common with Word and OpenOffice. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 10 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Neil Watson
in many different formats, all from the same source file, including HTML, PDF, RTF and with the help of elinks or lynx plain text. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 10 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: SELinux Suggestion

2007-09-21 Thread Neil Watson
GNUcash and Postfix). It seems that the policies are not yet complete. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 6 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: scripting question

2007-09-21 Thread Neil Watson
Man echo reveals that the -n switch prevents echo from appending a new line. Also, you do not need to use more (or less) with grep. Grep can take a file agrument. Refer to grep's man page for more information. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 6 days

Re: file system check

2007-09-10 Thread Neil Watson
man fstab -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 18 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: another script query (perl?)

2007-09-07 Thread Neil Watson
Perhaps you could show us what you've attempted so far. Also, perlmonks.org is a good place to learn more about perl. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 15 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: ibm serveraid 7k + amd64 sarge + ipssend?

2007-08-24 Thread Neil Watson
Call IBM support. When I last worked with IBM gear they fully supported Linux. They will point you to the correct location to acquire the latest drivers and management tools. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 1 day http://watson-wilson.ca

Re: NFS server problem

2007-08-21 Thread Neil Watson
Do there server logs reveal anything of interest? Does your network gear report any problems? -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 3 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: harddisc errors

2007-08-21 Thread Neil Watson
Boot a knoppix CD and see if you get the same errors. From knoppix mount the drive read-only. Force the system to read the drive with a find and recursive grep. If you see the errors again the hard drive is likely failing. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator

selinux

2007-08-21 Thread Neil Watson
Has anyone managed to get Selinux running in enforced mode? I tried it on the weekend but enforcement began denying things. Postfix could not read the alias file. Gnucash would not start. It would seem that the policy needs some tweaking. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System

latex2html dvips bug?

2007-08-20 Thread Neil Watson
the source of this error? -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 2 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory

2007-08-20 Thread Neil Watson
What does 'find /f' produce? -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 2 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory

2007-08-20 Thread Neil Watson
.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x2b2d9039b000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x2b2d9059f000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x2b2d8ff31000) I don't see the last entry in the results of the find command. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 2

Re: chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory

2007-08-20 Thread Neil Watson
know that. It may look for the link name and fail if it is not found. Create the link in your jail and try again. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 2 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Running a program at system startup

2007-08-20 Thread Neil Watson
The scripts in /etc/init.d are working examples of what you are trying to do. -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 2 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Running a program at system startup

2007-08-20 Thread Neil Watson
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 02:17:24PM -0500, ArcticFox wrote: On Aug 20, 2007, at 2:15 PM, Neil Watson wrote: The scripts in /etc/init.d are working examples of what you are trying to do. Yea I was directed there before, but those are what I was talking about where they don't do the two things