Re: Re [expert] To the Powers That Be.

2000-08-22 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Paul Weber wrote: I will be out of the office from August 22 through August. 27. I will have limited opportunity to respond to email until then. Thank you. AAARRR!

Re: [expert] CL = Command Line (TM) (NT)

2000-08-21 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Greg Stewart wrote: For the uninitiated, NT means No TeXT. I thought it meant "Nice Try" :-) Sorry guys, you're both wrong. NT stands for Not Tested ;-D Or was it Never Trusted? Regards, Ozz.

Re: Re [expert] To the Powers That Be.

2000-08-21 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Paul Weber wrote: I will be out of the office from August 22 through August. 27. I will have limited opportunity to respond to email until then. Thank you. If I see ONE MORE of these I'm gonna rip my shirt off*, loop my tie around my head, grab my Uzi and do a John Rambo on Allied

Re: [expert]

2000-08-21 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Don wrote: Not able to post to the Expert list anymore Well, your post made it to me via the list... Regards, Ozz.

Re: Re [expert] To the Powers That Be.

2000-08-21 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Paul Weber wrote: I will be out of the office from August 22 through August. 27. I will have limited opportunity to respond to email until then. OK, a 'clue' to the bright sparks that set up Out-of-Office autoresponders: DON'T DO IT UNLESS YOU WANT TO JOIN THIS GUY IN MY (AND NO DOUBT

Re: [expert] Dependency Problem

2000-08-18 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Tony McGee wrote: # rpm -qf /sbin/is_depmod_necessary gives: initscripts-4.97-35mdk Since /sbin/is_depmod_necessary is part of the initscripts package itself. I'm not exactly sure why it would be complaining about one of it's own files unless it went missing or something *shrug*.

Re: [expert] Dependency Problem

2000-08-18 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Tony McGee wrote: File mappings to rpms would only be valid for each distribution because it's up to the distribution to package things in such a way that everything works. In this case mixing what seem to be redhat rpms (.i386.rpm) with mandrake rpms, esp. for system files, would confuse

[expert] Dependency Problem

2000-08-17 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Re-set due to bounce... Hi. I am trying to install modutils-2.3.14-1.i386.rpm but I'm getting the following error: Dependency Problem: /sbin/is_depmod_necessary is needed by initscripts-4.72-13mdk Does anyone know where I can get this file? Regards, Ozz.

Re: [expert] Dependency Problem

2000-08-17 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
of modutils maybe installed already, do a rpm -Uvh modutils-VER.rpm. - Original Message - From: "Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Expert Linux List" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 3:19 PM Subject: [expert] Dependency Problem

[expert] Dependency Problem

2000-08-16 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Hi. I am trying to install modutils-2.3.14-1.i386.rpm but I'm getting the following error: Dependency Problem: /sbin/is_depmod_necessary is needed by initscripts-4.72-13mdk Does anyone know where I can get this file? Regards, Ozzz.

Re: [expert] Sendmail relay confusion

2000-08-15 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
John Aldrich wrote: On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, you wrote: One other thing, is it worth using FEATURE(rbl)?? IIRC, the "FEATURE(rbl)" means that you will be refusing email from "known" spam sources and known "open relays." This is a question only you can answer. Do you want to accept email

Re: [expert] Re: tracking employees

2000-08-13 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Hi. Maybe I could help to clarify this a little. Although I now live in the USA, I was born and raised in the UK, and lived there until I emigrated six months ago. While I was in the UK I worked as a Network Administrator, and had to consider a similar situation - many bosses forget that

Re: [expert] Download managers !

2000-08-11 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote: Ron Stodden wrote: I feel sure the original questioner was referring to the ability of the Windows GetRight downloader to divide the file to be downloaded into up to 10 (number is user-specified) contiguous equal chunks and download them all in parallel,

Re: [expert] Download managers !

2000-08-10 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
"Carver, Paul, NLSOP" wrote: What is a Download manager? I wasn't aware that downloading files was complex. FTP is pretty much a universal standard and there are plenty of Linux/Unix clients. Can you be more specific about what special features a Download manager provides? A download

Re: [expert] ICQ for Linux

2000-08-09 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
0.70.1 steve young wrote: what version of licq are you running, i had trouble with the older versions giving me alot of garbage in the messages and crashing. i got the newest version and it works great "Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root" wrote: Hi. Does anyone know

Re: [expert] ICQ for Linux

2000-08-09 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Alexander Skwar wrote: It's a KDE program and I can't stand KDE. Should this mean anything to you? Don't think so *g* I gotta ask - what is it about KDE that you don't like? I'm kinda torn between KDE and Gnome at the moment - both have features that I like... Regards, Ozz.

Re: [expert] Compiling kernels.

2000-08-08 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Anton Graham wrote: Submitted 07-Aug-00 by Scott Kindley: Is there a way of 'dumping' my current kernel's existing menuconfig/xconfig setup to a file that can be read into the menuconfig/xconfig for the new kernel? In other words, can I make my current kernel setup the default?

Re: [expert] lpd stops running

2000-08-07 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
I don't know it it's related, but I used to have problems with printers connected to JetDirect when I was using them with NetWare servers. The JetDirects seemed to crash every few days - the only way around it was to reboot the JetDirect cards (unplug, wait a few secs, then plug back in). Once

Re: [expert]

2000-08-02 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Hi. The hard drive is a Maxtor 92048D8 20 gig hard drive that runs at 7200 RPM and is a plain old IDE, No ATA66. I am sure that you mean out of spec. I doubt it is out of spec, this drive is pretty new. It performs flawlessly in other systems. I they accepted before they should not

Re: [expert] IDE cylenders !

2000-08-02 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Create a small (~10mb) partition for /boot (thereby keeping the boot/lilo below the infamous 1024 limit), then create the other partitions above this. Regards, Ozz. faisal wrote: i get an error while partitioning my hard disk during LM 7.0 installation which is your cylender are set to 1048

Re: [expert]

2000-08-02 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
You could try www.linhardware.com. This lists all devices known to work with Linux. Regards, Ozz. Gilbert Baron wrote: The install code worked with version 7.0, it fails with 7.1. That is simple. Thai is not acceptable. I don't understand exactly what is happening and it seems that

Re: [expert]

2000-08-01 Thread Austin L. Denyer (SysAdmin.) as root
Hi. Gilbert Baron wrote: Is there any answer to this yet/ If not, what does one do with LINUX, just say to oneself ahh well, we don't support you modern and common hardware but that is ok, just use an older version. Boy that makes for confidence in this toy. I have a great deal of