Re: W32/Myparty

2002-01-31 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
all: see http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/09/10/010910oplivingston.xml On Thursday 31 January 2002 18:30, dman wrote: On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 10:34:25AM +0800, csj wrote: | On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:15:34 -0800 (PST) | | Paul 'Baloo' Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Thu, 31

Re: Setting up a home LAN

2002-01-15 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
steve: i am not sure what you mean by forwarding. the two possibilities that come to mind are mail and ip forwarding. both are rather simple. suggestion. use kernel 2.4.x and qmail (in place of sendmail) kernel 2.4.x will let you use iptables (better flexibility and security, though the

Re: debian-friendly DSL/cable ISP in NYC area?

2002-01-14 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
all: i heartly agree with noah. i too am a speakeasy customer after my former isp (verio) attempted to dump me onto earthlink.net (huh???). anyway, customer satisfaction has been nothing short of excellent. i am running two dns servers at home with the two ip's furnished by speakeasy. i am in

Re: Limiting admin privileges

2001-12-17 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
On Thursday 13 December 2001 08:05 am, Robert Kerr wrote: Hi all, My group is looking into providing Linux workstations to the engineers, but we're worried about future problems regarding admin privileges. We would like to give our engineers root on their boxes so they can set them up and

debian install

2001-11-06 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
hello: i got the following error while trying to install debian in the dselect stage: E: Internal Error, couldn't configure a pre-depend. Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. This may be result in duplicate errors or errors caused

debian install

2001-11-06 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
hello: i got the following error while trying to install debian in the dselect stage: E: Internal Error, couldn't configure a pre-depend. Some errors occurred while unpacking. I'm going to configure the packages that were installed. This may be result in duplicate errors or errors caused

Stops at Lilo prompt

2001-11-02 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
hello: i have just installed debian onto a fresh computer (no system on computer before installaition) using the leaning debian linux cd. after much handwringing and filling in the blanks, the installation completed successful. we rebooted and the lilo prompt came up -- and nothing happens!

Power off at Shutdown

2001-10-30 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
hello: i am trying to understand which option(s) to select (or deselect) when i build a new kernel (2.4.12). i have set the following with no luck: # General setup CONFIG_PM=y CONFIG_APM=y CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF=y CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS=y CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y # Kernel hacking

Power off at Shutdown

2001-10-30 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
hello: pardon my thinking without writing. so let me try again. i am trying to understand which option(s) to select (or deselect) when i build a new kernel (2.4.12) to have the system power off when i do a shutdown -h now. i have set the following with no luck: # General setup CONFIG_PM=y

Re: Power off at Shutdown

2001-10-30 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
! On Tuesday 30 October 2001 17:00, Craig Dickson wrote: allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: i am trying to understand which option(s) to select (or deselect) when i build a new kernel (2.4.12) to have the system power off when i do a shutdown -h now. i have set the following

Re: Takin' the plunge...

2001-10-11 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
tony, wayne: as promised, here are the files which you would need to update for adsl usage 1) /etc/resolv.conf 2) /etc/network/interfaces 3) firewall scripts - i am not fimilar with the way debian does this as this machine is behind a firewall already 1) contains the nameservers and related

Re: Virus Filter for Debian Mail Server

2001-10-02 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
dave: i presume you are using sendmail as your mail server??? if so, i ran across this article which may be of interest to you. http://linux.com/enhance/newsitem.phtml?sid=125aid=12419 the first couple of lines of the article are: Inflex 1.0.6 is an email sanitizer meant to work with the

OT: DSL Providers

2001-09-18 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
good morning: this is slightly off topic, but here goes. i got a notice from my dsl provider (verio/best) yesterday that they were selling my account to earthlink (acck!) and that they would no longer provide service beyond 31 oct. so it is time for me to find a

su - doesn't work

2001-09-13 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
hello: i am having a problem using su -. for inexplicable reasons, i cannot use su to switch user unless i am root. any idea what is going on -- regards, allen wayne best contractor, diagnostics and support tools your friendly neighborhood rambler owner my rambler will go from 0 to 105

Re: can't find install - yeah right!

2001-09-13 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
david: install is part of the fileutils package. i don't know what the appropriate debian package is. you can get it at the gnu web page: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/fileutils/fileutils-4.1.tar.gz and compile your own! On Thursday 13 September 2001 14:56, David wrote: Hi all, Trying to compile

Re: su - doesn't work

2001-09-13 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
dima thank you! that was the ticket! i did a chmod 4755 /bin/su (i was off chasing pam modules!) thanx again! On Thursday 13 September 2001 15:33, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: * allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: hello: i am having a problem using su

Re: RedHat vs Debian?

2001-08-30 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
robert: here's my $0.0001 worth! (with the disclaimer that own rh stock (350)). i personally like rh (and then bought the stock) because it installed with such ease on my 4 systems (5.4, 6.1, 7.0, and 7.1 - all are now 7.x). and the upgrades went like a snap. my office machine where only

Re: Printer spooler

2001-08-28 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
jens: have you tried $ lpc status all lp0: queuing is enabled printing is enabled 1 entry in spool area sending to 15.16.129.10 assuming your printer is connected to lp0, you should see something like this. (if you've more printer queues, they will also be

Re: Fw: Re: Sid Newbie - some questions

2001-08-28 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
my 2 bits worth! (an' that tells my age!!!) i most whole heartedly agree that this mailing list is most usefull, and quite slow to shoot at the questioner for their audacity to not already know the answer (or where/how to find it!) my experience here is that everyone acts like a responsible

Re: can't open /var/lib/dhelp/titles

2001-08-22 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
On Wednesday 22 August 2001 17:08, Bruce Sass wrote: Hi, Would someone please post the output of ls -l /var/lib/dhelp. TIA - Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] Build IA32 [/root]! #ls -l /var/lib/dhelp total 842 -rw-r--r--1 root root 815104 Aug 15 10:01 dbase -rw-r--r--1 root

how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-20 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
hello: i have managed to insert a bullet in my poda courtesy of tar and my ineptness! that is, i did: tar -cvIf --remove-files /tmp/foo.tz /opt/tmp silly me filled up my current directory with a file called --remove-files. my question is: how the heck to i get rid of this beast

Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-20 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
greg, bud: thank you very much. my disk has much more room now. thanks for the prompt replies. On Monday 20 August 2001 15:03, Bud Rogers wrote: On Monday 20 August 2001 04:54 pm, Greg Wiley wrote: On Monday, August 20, 2001 2:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: silly me filled up my current

strangeness when i do a df...

2001-08-16 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
hello: i have a strange situation here. i had a user complain because /usr/sbin appeared to be full. so when i do a df on the system, i get: (actually, hdb6, hdb11, and hdb12 where at 100% when the user brought this to my attention. i deleted some rather large .gz and .bz2 files in /usr/src to

Re: strangeness when i do a df...

2001-08-16 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
On Thursday 16 August 2001 14:48, Gary Hennigan wrote: allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hello: i have a strange situation here. i had a user complain because /usr/sbin appeared to be full. so when i do a df on the system, i get: (actually, hdb6, hdb11

Re: FW: Careful. This is for information only.

2001-08-07 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
taking a cue from various posts on this subject, i tar'd up a *lot* of gnu software tars into one heck of large file. i put this in my webserver html section as default.ida, thinking, well, if the infected machine wants a file, give it to it! g transferring hundreds of megabytes should get the

Re: hard drives

2001-07-18 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 16:41, Mike Fedyk wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:14:48PM -0700, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: 'bout the only thing i can say about which ide controller is used is that it is built into the motherboard in a hp vectra vl. and the driver

Re: hard drives

2001-07-17 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 10:45, Mike Fedyk wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:39:03PM -0700, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: initially, i had the setup as disk disk cd-rom disk with all jumpers (master/slave) appropriatly set. and as previously noted, redhat 7.1

Re: hard drives

2001-07-17 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
'bout the only thing i can say about which ide controller is used is that it is built into the motherboard in a hp vectra vl. and the driver version is one thing i did notice: redhat 7.1 has an ide driver version 1.10 whereas debian with 2.2.12 has an ide driver version of 1.08. i am

Re: hard drives

2001-07-17 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 16:14, allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: 'bout the only thing i can say about which ide controller is used is that it is built into the motherboard in a hp vectra vl. and the driver version is one thing i did notice: redhat 7.1 has an ide driver

hard drives

2001-07-16 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
hello: i am having a particularly baffling problem. i have added a 4th ide drive to a debian system, yet debian doesn't see it. on the other hand, if i boot the machine to redhat 7.1, it is there. how may i get debian to see this drive? details: under debian, kernal 2.2.12 first ide model:

Re: hard drives

2001-07-16 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
On Monday 16 July 2001 08:50, Martin F. Krafft wrote: also sprach allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx (on Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:21:10AM -0700): i am having a particularly baffling problem. what's the redhat kernel version? and are you using stock kernels? yes, both are out of the box

Re: hard drives

2001-07-16 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
On Monday 16 July 2001 09:06, Martin F. Krafft wrote: also sprach allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx (on Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:51:12AM -0700): yes, both are out of the box kernels. redhat is 2.4.2 from redhat 7.1 i think this may well be your problem. especially newer harddrives don't

Re: hard drives

2001-07-16 Thread allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx
On Monday 16 July 2001 12:52, Martin F. Krafft wrote: also sprach allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx (on Mon, 16 Jul 2001 12:32:21PM -0700): in addition, if i were not seeing hdc already, i would not be as mystified. on the other hand, given that hdc is there, i would have expected