Re: [expert] Weird automount message

2003-11-17 Thread David Rankin
or trying to figure out what these messages are coming from? If the former, you've got some config file problems. If the latter, just urpme automount. On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 06:07, David Rankin wrote: Mates, Has anyone else seen strange automount messages? The messages are as follows

[expert] Weird automount message

2003-11-14 Thread David Rankin
Mates, Has anyone else seen strange automount messages? The messages are as follows: Nov 13 12:28:00 Nemesis automount[15360]: lookup(file): lookup for * failed Nov 13 12:28:00 Nemesis automount[15361]: lookup(yp): lookup for * failed: Request arguments bad Nov 13 14:39:24 Nemesis

Re: [expert] Increading /mnt/cdrom size?

2003-10-23 Thread David Rankin
Brian, I could have told you you were right a long time ago. I used to backup at night using a script what would smbmount a M$ box drive to dump my backup nightly until CDs were burned at the end of the week. One night following a thunder storm, smbmount failed and the quick script wasn't

Re: [expert] RANT: vicious viruses

2003-10-22 Thread David Rankin
probably bugbear.b or a variant -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin * Bertin, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- - Original Message - From: rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003

Re: [expert] Install issues with 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread David Rankin
Oy Greg, Have some mercy on the poor sods that find typing e:\install.bat a CLI experience...the man's right; a warning is called for, so as not to put off real Newb's too much. They are the targeted consumer group, aren't they? There can be no doubt. That's the only plausable explanation

Re: [expert] What is this garbage?

2003-10-20 Thread David Rankin
No, no praedor, viagra has nothing to do with procmail. It was coded to solve a different problem. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- - Original Message - From: Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL

Re: [expert] refresh rate

2003-10-13 Thread David Rankin
Take a look at: Name xvidtune - video mode tuner for XFree86 Synopsis xvidtune [ -prev | -next | -unlock | ] ] [ -toolkitoption ... ] Description Xvidtune is a client interface to the XFree86 X server video mode extension (XFree86-VidModeExtension). When given one of the non-toolkit options,

Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread David Rankin
Worse comes to worse, try: # vi /etc/xinetd.d/wu-ftpd service ftp { disable = yes socket_type = stream wait= no user= root server = /usr/sbin/in.ftpd server_args

Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread David Rankin
of the boxes. IMHO the FTP protocol is dying the slow and painful death that it so richly deserves. It won't be missed. Jack On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 07:27, David Rankin wrote: Worse comes to worse, try: # vi /etc/xinetd.d/wu-ftpd service ftp { disable = yes

Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread David Rankin
PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 2:08 PM Subject: Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP samba then? Mount a linux filesystem via samba to the inferrior breed. Richard --- David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good point, but it presupposes that the other

Re: [expert] All I want to do is FTP

2003-10-08 Thread David Rankin
-08 at 12:08, Ricardo (Tru64 User) wrote: samba then? Mount a linux filesystem via samba to the inferrior breed. Richard --- David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good point, but it presupposes that the other comuputer is a Linux box and not some inferrior breed that doesn't

Re: [expert] Samba Again !

2003-10-01 Thread David Rankin
os level = 34 preferred master = Yes domain master = Yes wins support = Yes -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- - Original Message - From: Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [expert] eth0 doesn't get IP through dhcp - Problem vanished

2003-09-19 Thread David Rankin
WOBO, What kind of cable/router is it??? Linksys? Belkin? -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax ...the right to trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty and only safe guarantee for the life,

Re: [expert] NIC interrupts

2003-09-19 Thread David Rankin
Shot in the Dark: Try the NIC in a different PCI slot. Alternatively, go into the BIOS and change to PCI IRQ assignment to get a different IRQ for the NIC. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax

Re: [expert] (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.

2003-09-12 Thread David Rankin
Good bye Mandrake I can think of no more assinine way to kill a distribution's reputation than to add to it what 100% of its user loath. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax ...the right

Re: [expert] (OT)Mandrake and Advertising.

2003-09-12 Thread David Rankin
)Mandrake and Advertising. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 September 12, 2003 11:41 am, David Rankin wrote: Good bye Mandrake I can think of no more assinine way to kill a distribution's reputation than to add to it what 100% of its user loath. Mr. Rankin; I

Not so funny side of spam [was Re: [expert] CLI for monitoring]

2003-09-10 Thread David Rankin
Not so funny side of spam: Anne started ending up in my deleted items box after filtering tiscali.co.uk what also has the reputation of a spam site. Don't worry Anne, we will pull you out of the deleted items -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street

Re: [expert] HOWTO Samba server with XPHome ME clients

2003-09-05 Thread David Rankin
Specifically, on your linux box, for each user that will connect from XP: #useradd {whoever} enter password #smbpasswd -a {whoever} enter samepassword NOTE: the linux, samba and XP usernames and passwords must match as Anne stated below -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510

Re: [expert] HOWTO Samba server with XPHome ME clients

2003-09-05 Thread David Rankin
go back and reset the password on the XP box. You may also want to delete the connection to your linux box under my network places on XP -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax ...the right to trial by

Re: [expert] 9.2rc1 installer is alpha screws current system...

2003-09-05 Thread David Rankin
Get down Pierre! Don't beat around the bush, tell us what you think woohooo.. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax ...the right to trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty and only safe

Re: [expert] dm in 9.2RC1 dying...

2003-09-03 Thread David Rankin
Joeb penned: Since .2 releases are supposed to be the most stable of the series (7.2, 8.2 and now 9.2) I hope Mandrake would let the release date slip if needed for improved stability. I whole-heartedly agree and encourage a slip to foster stability and a polished release if required. I

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread David Rankin
Mates: Here is another clue that may help get to the bottom of this. Back in the 7.2 days when Samba 2.0X, 2.1X was comming out, the slow transfer issue appeared with Win98 transfers. The 2 gig limit was also there. The slow transfer from win to mdk was discussed as a packet fragmentation or

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread David Rankin
Brian wrote: Remember though, this particular network is on a HUB, i.e. half-duplex. If there is any other sort of traffic what-so-ever it's going to be noticeably slower (DNS lookups, Net-BT broadcasts, etc). Brings up a good point. Specifically, how many hubs are we talking about? Are

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread David Rankin
For what it's worth, here is more info than needed on smb and CIFS. http://ubiqx.org/cifs/index.html#Contents -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- - Original Message - From: David Rankin

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread David Rankin
See http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=157 -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax -- - Original Message - From: lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread David Rankin
2003 03:26 pm, lorne wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2003 02:40 pm, David Rankin wrote: See http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=157 I DID go to a web site to download tweaks. There was a little executable that did allow for increasing the window size. I've not dug back

Re: [expert] Slow SMB file transfers to XP`

2003-09-02 Thread David Rankin
pm, David Rankin wrote: Lorne You got me?? Beyond some tangential knowledge of the past packet fragmentation issue and the CIFS protocol, I don't have any rabbits to pull out of my hat. As far as smb is concerned it seems M$'s implementation of smb(CIFS) is new and unique to XP/2000. I

Re: [expert] I cannot see what I write here

2003-08-29 Thread David Rankin
That is absolutely outrageous, I love it (or tivoli backwards) -- David C. Rankin Rankin * Bertin, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax - Original Message - From: ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28,

Re: [expert] Login from Windows and Linux

2003-08-29 Thread David Rankin
Well, first you need to create/configure /etc/smb.conf or /etc/samba/smb.conf (in later versions): see http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba2/book/toc.html Test the configuration with testparm. Start the smbd in daemon mode (smbd -D) and your off and running My config is as follows: # Global

test: Re: [expert] Fwd for Mark Weaver (testing mail list server too)

2003-08-22 Thread David Rankin
I have had the same problem getting through for the past few months -- David C. Rankin Rankin * Bertin, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax - Original Message - From: Todd Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

Re: [expert] Re: Software to record DVD-R/RW?

2003-08-19 Thread David Rankin
What's wrong with: rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/393682/ com/cdrecord-dvdhack-2.0-2mdk.i586.rpm.html -- David C. Rankin Rankin * Bertin, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax - Original Message - From: Helge Hielscher [EMAIL

Re: [expert] OT: router reboots

2003-08-19 Thread David Rankin
Also, Don't forget to check the obvious! Sometimes the little fans in the router or hub or switch quits and this can give you nightmares trying to figure out what is going on. I have had one die and the hub kept working fine until the traffic load got heavy which would cause the heat load

Re: [expert] [OT]Burning DVDs (not necessarily movies!!!)

2003-08-14 Thread David Rankin
Let me know what you find out. I too just bought the Sony and I am trying to learn the DVD burning process. I don't even know what tools are available much less the compatibility of the formatts +/- etc... Which is the preferred format R+, R-?? -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC

Re: [expert] What is sshd-restarter?

2003-07-03 Thread David Rankin
30 minutes instead of every 5 or maybe there is a -- nolog switch. I like the idea of having sshd restarted if for some reason it should die. It's kind of a safety net that insures ssh access will be available when you need it. Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 02 July 2003 03:31 pm, David Rankin

Re: [expert] What is sshd-restarter?

2003-07-02 Thread David Rankin
Greg, At least in 7.2 I have had sshd running for over 400 days without any stops. My guess is that it is just an extra precaution in case of power failure and the event that sshd isn't started in the default run-level. Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 02 July 2003 10:04 am, Thomas Backlund

Re: [expert] mounting a samba dir writable by an ordinary user with a space in his name ...

2003-07-01 Thread David Rankin
Try, username=MYDOMAIN\\Edoardo Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I need to mount a windows-exported directory to be writable when logged in to my linux machine with my ordinary user account. The windows sysadmin gave me a username with a space in between - this trips up the mandrake

Re: [expert] Hello?

2003-06-23 Thread David Rankin
Don't feel bad, I haven't seen any message I have posted in the past 2 months show up in my inbox from the listserve. Evidently, they do get through to some people. Anne, Praedor and others seem to get them. I just get absolutely no confirmation from the listserve that they in fact have made

Re: [expert] Re: Mdk as Server OS ?

2003-06-11 Thread David Rankin
Heck, I though I was just being black-balled by the listserve because I'm still running a 7.2 server. James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 14:31, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 10 Jun 2003 9:56 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 11:19, Anne Wilson wrote: On

Re: [expert] Mdk as Server OS ?

2003-06-10 Thread David Rankin
That's nothing Joerg, I have sent several messages in the last few days and NOTHING has gotten through. Joerg Mertin wrote: Hi Folks, there seems to be a Bug in the list-server. I have sent this message once only ;) Cheers Joerg [...] --

[expert] third test to list

2003-06-10 Thread David Rankin
Anne, mates: Are my messages getting through to the list?? Anne, I sent this one directly to you as well to see if you get it. If you do, check the mandrake list and let me know if I am getting through. It looks like I am only getting about 10 posts per day from the listserve and nothing I

[expert] Listserve Volume Drop?

2003-06-09 Thread David Rankin
Mates, I have received only about 10 messages from the listserve in the past 4 days. That doesn't sound right based upon the list volume history. Anyone else have this problem? -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333

[expert] What's Happening with Named?

2003-06-06 Thread David Rankin
Mates, Need to see if anyone knows what is going on with dhcpd/named. It is only happening with regard to one laptop. Do I have a record pointer that got screwed/stuck? I'll man and google it as well. Here is the error being generated: May 6 05:37:11 Nemesis named[593]: owner name

Re: [expert]

2003-04-05 Thread David Rankin
Too much time at Maggie Mae's Troy and Tina Arnold wrote: I do apologize, but I do not understand? -Troy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Adams Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 6:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: [expert] samba]

2003-03-31 Thread David Rankin
1. Right-click on Network Neighborhood 2. Select Properties 3. Change the Workgroup 4. Reboot - It's windblows. Jason Greenwood wrote: Hi there, I have been watching this thread closely as I too have been unable to get samba working properly here at work. How do you change the workgroup

Re: [expert] samba

2003-03-31 Thread David Rankin
Wait, Wait, Wait You don't need to disable the samba password. The way it works is to just make sure the windows password ('95 OSR2 and beyond) is the same as the samba password. The windows login (user name) should be the same as the unix and samba username. Just make it simple. The

Re: [expert] A moment of Silence. Columbia, NOT Challanger.

2003-02-10 Thread David Rankin
Yep, it was enterprise. Matthew O. Persico wrote: On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 22:07:40 -0600, David Rankin wrote: Trivia: OV-98 (Drop test vehicle - never flown aside from glide tests pre STS-1) Wasn't this named Enterprise? I remember a big deal about Trekkers trying to get a shuttle named after

Re: [expert] A moment of Silence. Columbia, NOT Challanger.

2003-02-06 Thread David Rankin
Trivia: OV-98 (Drop test vehicle - never flown aside from glide tests pre STS-1) OV-99 Challenger OV-102 Columbia OV-103 Discovery OV-104 Atlantis OV-105-Endeavor -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin * Bertin, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 - Original

Re: [expert] Mandrake RPM updates

2003-02-06 Thread David Rankin
Well, I think the end of life stuff sucks. Yes, it's inevitable, but it still sucks. I for one haven't upgraded my 7.2 server (other than applying patches) since it was installed. Why? Answer: It works, It works, It works! It is inefficient to think about spending 3-5 days of a backup, HD

[expert] MySQL Upgrade - I'm Braindead, need help

2003-01-27 Thread David Rankin
Listmates: Updated MySQL on my 7.2 server at home and everything went fine. Now I'm trying to do the same at work and I'm getting a dependency error. I must be brain dead. Here is the relevant output: [root@Nemesis RPMSMySQL]# ls MySQL-3.23.31-1.3mdk.i586.rpm*

[expert] Stuck in MySQL upgrade hell on 7.2 Server

2003-01-27 Thread David Rankin
Listmates, I thought this was going to be easy -- wrong guess. I have 2 machines. Both running LM7.2 On one, I upgraded MySQL without any problems to MySQL-3.23.31-1.3mdk.i586.rpm. (from rpmfind.net) Simply rpm -Uvh and it worked. On [skyline] I have the following installed: [root@Skyine

Re: [expert] just testing pgp

2003-01-24 Thread David Rankin
Well, at least GPG works for Praedor.. Praedor Atrebates wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 testing pgp - pay no mind. email up and running again. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux)

PNIC2 Error Fixed [was Re: [expert] Network Card Recommendations]

2003-01-23 Thread David Rankin
. (and Linksys doesn't freak out when you call them and say Linux...!) James On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 22:02, David Rankin wrote: Listmates, I have convinced myself that the PNIC2 eth0 messages I have been receiving lately are signs that my Linksys LNE 100TX pci NIC is slowly dying. It only

[expert] Network Card Recommendations

2003-01-22 Thread David Rankin
Listmates, I have convinced myself that the PNIC2 eth0 messages I have been receiving lately are signs that my Linksys LNE 100TX pci NIC is slowly dying. It only flakes out under high load conditions like pulling a 600M backup across the card. Anyway, after 2 years of faithfull service, I

Re: [expert] NEED HELP - kernel: eth0: Tx hung, 1191883 vs.1191882.

2003-01-08 Thread David Rankin
Pierre Fortin wrote: On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 23:33:51 -0600 David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been struggling with a weird message lately that hasn't appeared over the past 2 years until the past few weeks. I don't have any clue as to what this is actually telling me, but I

Re: [expert] DHCP and DNS interaction

2003-01-07 Thread David Rankin
Failure is not an option Donna and Matthew Persico wrote: On Mon, 06 Jan 2003 08:20:06 -0500, Mike Rambo [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Matthew O. Persico wrote: I've read the DNS Howto and I've installed the bind and caching server RPMS. What I do not understand is how DNS works with

[expert] NEED HELP - kernel: eth0: Tx hung, 1191883 vs. 1191882.

2003-01-07 Thread David Rankin
I have been struggling with a weird message lately that hasn't appeared over the past 2 years until the past few weeks. I don't have any clue as to what this is actually telling me, but I would suspect that it may be the initial gasps of a dying LNE100TX network card (tulip driver). It may only

Re: [expert] DHCP duplicate lease???

2003-01-07 Thread David Rankin
, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 - Original Message - From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 9:32 PM Subject: Re: [expert] DHCP duplicate lease??? David Rankin wrote: OK, Let's get to the bottom of this. With a properly functioning dns

Re: [expert] DHCP duplicate lease???

2003-01-04 Thread David Rankin
OK, Let's get to the bottom of this. With a properly functioning dns and dhcpd the system should be be idiot proof and work 100% of the time. It's that simple. For LM, BIND and dhcpd work flawlessly once configured. Your dhcpd.conf should look something like this: (of course there are more

Re: [expert] Possible Hack? -- Change in Suid Root files found

2002-12-30 Thread David Rankin
, or some strategic files like login and ps. On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 09:08, David Rankin wrote: Now things are getting weird! Remember when this all started, I got the Change in Suid Root files found messages where it (removed) the Suid files shown in the original message below. Today

Re: [expert] How to capture keyboard keys ?

2002-12-30 Thread David Rankin
man getch Nelson Bartley wrote: He did... C. On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 15:39, Jim C wrote: Dude, you need to specify what language. :-) Can any body give me a clue of the following... ?? How to capture keyboard keys ? When I press a key on the key board my program has to read

Re: [expert] Possible Hack? -- Change in Suid Root files found

2002-12-27 Thread David Rankin
Yep, got that, my modules.conf has alias eth0 tulip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 07:50:45PM +1100, Ron Stodden wrote: David Rankin wrote: I need help. Something went whacko with eth0 and with my system just before my nightly cron job ran and I got a lot of weird

Re: [expert] Possible Hack? -- Change in Suid Root files found

2002-12-27 Thread David Rankin
the permissions. I'm overly paranoid, but I'd sure rebuild the box. Do NOT take the chance. It isn't worth it. I highly recomend snort. I want to do tripwire but haven't had the time. On Thursday 26 December 2002 12:20 pm, David Rankin wrote: Guy Gals, I need help. Something went

Re: [expert] Possible Hack? -- Change in Suid Root files found

2002-12-27 Thread David Rankin
. On Thursday 26 December 2002 12:20 pm, David Rankin wrote: Guy Gals, I need help. Something went whacko with eth0 and with my system just before my nightly cron job ran and I got a lot of weird messages in my log files. I don't know if this was a successful hack or if it was just

Re: [expert] Possible Hack? -- Change in Suid Root files found

2002-12-27 Thread David Rankin
be amazed how often all the errors are fixed. James On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 09:03, David Rankin wrote: Well, I have now compiled and run chkrootkit and I need help interpreting the output. The thing I don't understand is the suspicious files output. I would be greatful if someone

Re: [expert] Possible Hack? -- Change in Suid Root files found

2002-12-27 Thread David Rankin
Hmm What if you are still running Odyssey? (You would not believe how long this little enging that could will run -- 538 updays only shutdown during office move) All I see is the option for LM 9.0? -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin * Bertin, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches,

[expert] Possible Hack? -- Change in Suid Root files found

2002-12-26 Thread David Rankin
Guy Gals, I need help. Something went whacko with eth0 and with my system just before my nightly cron job ran and I got a lot of weird messages in my log files. I don't know if this was a successful hack or if it was just a noral response from the system after eth0 went bonkers. The log

Re: [expert] Increase of Capital for Mandrakesoft

2002-12-23 Thread David Rankin
It truly is a merry Christmas (or whatever holiday you celebrate). Welcome back civileme, your absence has been felt by all over the past several months. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin * Bertin, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 - Original Message -

Re: [expert] 9.0 Networking === ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

2002-11-21 Thread David Rankin
That's why Odyssey is still powering my boxes -- the little engine (release) that could. Now Pierre, don't hold back, go ahead and tell us how you really feel Pierre Fortin wrote: I don't like this resorting to this kind of post, and I'll probably start a small

Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] clock help

2002-11-01 Thread David Rankin
Yep, I suffer from the (lack of) second cup of coffee syndrome myself all to often Charlie wrote: So sorry David. My reply was supposed to have gone in response to windwalker's post not to yours! Didn't mean to screw up threading. I'll have to engage my brain before I start

Re: [expert] Re: [newbie] clock help

2002-10-31 Thread David Rankin
Well, All windows machines store time in LOCALTIME. Linux can store time in hwclock in LOCALTIME or UTC/GMT. If you are running a dual boot system with windows set the Linux hwclock to LOCALTIME otherwise the clock will be off by your offset from GMT on one system or the other. (I'll bet

Re: [expert] Enemies Purchased by Gates

2002-10-25 Thread David Rankin
God help us. The poor misguided soul that is so easily led by a slick republican marketing campaign. The democrats have in fact fought zealously against allowing an expansion of executive office power contrary to what is claimed below. When you one day awake and can't afford health coverage

[expert] Simple BASH question - no flames please

2002-10-24 Thread David Rankin
Listmates, I'm suffering from a cranal-rectal inversion and just can't seem to figure out how to redirect output to BOTH a log file and to stdout at the same time. I just want the output to appear on the screen and in the log file. I did rtfm, but the stdout 2 stderr, then vice versa, and

Re: [expert] Simple BASH question - no flames please

2002-10-24 Thread David Rankin
Todd, your awesome! It worked. Thanks. Todd Lyons wrote: David Rankin wrote on Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 09:49:28PM -0500 : Listmates, I'm suffering from a cranal-rectal inversion and just can't seem to figure out how to redirect output to BOTH a log file and to stdout

Re: [expert] DNS

2002-10-15 Thread David Rankin
hans privat wrote: hi have theat situation : mdk-box 8.2 on internet Set up as caching only DNS with forwarders to ISP DNS (DNS1, DNS2), run DHCP on the same box. Allow dynamic updates to the local DNS zone files by DCHP. mdk-box 8.2 workstation mdk-box 8.2 workstation

Re: [expert] VPN Client for Linux

2002-10-06 Thread David Rankin
Craig, Check out poptop.lineo.com J. Craig Woods wrote: Looking for some suggestions: I need to access my private network at work, and I am looking for a VPN client that will work with a CheckPoint Firewall VPN on a Win2000 Server. I need to tunnel ssh through the firewall, and

Re: [expert] You Don't Need to Burn CD's to Install

2002-10-06 Thread David Rankin
Darin wrote: David Guntner wrote: I wish I know who the rocket scientist at Mandrake was that decided ISOs that create CDs larger than 650M was a good idea, so that I could thank him with a large brick. :-( Probably the same sole that thought it was OK to release 8.2 with X hosed for

[expert] Pine 9.0 -- The rest of the Story..

2002-09-17 Thread David Rankin
on a different CD-ROM. If Mandrake's policy has subsequently changed, they haven't told us. On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, David Rankin wrote: The following is from the mandrake mailing list. It would appear there are a LOT of pine users that will be alienated

[expert] [Fwd: #9 I128 Rev(0) X problem fixed in 9.0?]

2002-09-05 Thread David Rankin
for some reason the original post didn't get through to the list Original Message Subject: #9 I128 Rev(0) X problem fixed in 9.0? Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 09:43:14 -0500 From: David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Listmates, With the advent of 9.0

Re: [expert] Thanks Civileme (was Mandrake Club advocates: PostPositive)

2002-08-13 Thread David Rankin
The true mark of great leadership within a company is management's ability to attract and maintain key individuals. Whatever the backdrop to the situation actually is, Mandrakesoft's inability to maitain its relationship with Civileme is an incredible loss both to Mandrakesoft and to us all.

[expert] OT - Groupware solution?

2002-07-15 Thread David Rankin
Guys and Gals, I need your help figuring out if a groupware solution exists that will solve calendaring and address book needs at my office. My current setup is: Server: LM 7.2 Clients: (4) Win9X ME What I need is an application that will allow the Win machines to access a

Re: [expert] Wake up time (was HACKED?)

2002-06-30 Thread David Rankin
and distribution, environmental control and life support, mechanical systems, payload bay doors, caution warning, etc... (STS-44 through STS-63) J. Craig Woods wrote: David Rankin wrote: What do we do to stop these little beggers from prodding our servers from the outside? Sheese, even today

Re: [expert] I need facts to prove UNIX's superiority for mainfraim purposes over M$ MF Servers

2002-06-27 Thread David Rankin
[david@Nemesis david]$ uptime 4:07pm up 368 days, 49 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 enough said.. Alastair Scott wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 June 2002 7:44 pm, Roberto Armenteros wrote: I need your help to move the word...

[expert] HACKED?

2002-06-27 Thread David Rankin
Guys, Gals: It looks like I may have been sucessfully hacked! I don't know and I need your help to find out. I have had many fols test my security, but nowone has gotten in until now. The following appeared in a review of my syslog: Jun 17 23:52:57 Nemesis xinetd[27314]: START: ftp

Re: [expert] Linux irc channel

2002-06-26 Thread David Rankin
Maybe I don't understand what the IRC channels are supposed to do. I've been the the Mandrake IRC rooms at utexas, and others, and what I've found is folks that just want to sit around and chat and who also have the technical aptitude of a turnip! James wrote: On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 17:37:03

[expert] I made it -- 1 year uptime

2002-06-25 Thread David Rankin
Guys and Gals, As far as stability is concerned, my little 7.2 (Odyssey) box has passed a milestone in life. Its uptime is now one year and counting. (see below) That translates into an easy job for the sysadmin (Me). The only downside is that in a year's time, I have forgotten most of the

Re: [expert] SSH and FTP logins taking much LONGER

2002-06-24 Thread David Rankin
/TCAA wrote: Do you have reverse hostname entries in your dns server? Because this will cause this... -Original Message- From: David Rankin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 10:47 AM To: mandrake Subject: [expert] SSH and FTP logins taking much LONGER Listmates

[expert] SSH and FTP logins taking much LONGER

2002-06-23 Thread David Rankin
Listmates: Over the past year, FTP and SSH logins are taking much longer. In the past FTP logins would take 2-3 seconds and SSH logins were almost instantaneous. Now both FTP and SSH logins take approximately 20 - 30 seconds. Uptime is 363 days and I haven't restarted either xinetd, FTP

Re: [expert] An add I just recieved.

2002-06-20 Thread David Rankin
Uhh That maybe the problem.. Windows expects the harware clock to be in local time. Therefore, if you have you dual-boot Linux config set in GMT or (UTC) then the two OS's may not play nicely together... Moose Magin wrote: No no no, I run Windows and Mandrake. Not just Mandrake.

Re: [expert] Mandrake Timezone/Date Problems

2002-06-18 Thread David Rankin
Why not just install xntpd, run it as a daemon, and it will update every few seconds. From what I can tell it has a light footprint or demand on system resources. That doesn't solve the original problem though. Whatever the problem, it sounds like you need to do a: #hwclock --hctosys after you

Re: [expert] Just too strange!!!

2002-06-09 Thread David Rankin
You guys got it all wrong, quantum theory is out and string theory is in. J. Craig Woods wrote: On Friday 07 June 2002 00:18, you wrote: On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 13:56, J. Craig Woods wrote: Well my last post was a most intriguing explication of the quantum theory as it correlates

[expert] cfd startup hangs, shutdown at daemon [FAILED]

2002-05-31 Thread David Rankin
Listmates, I did it to myself again! After tinkering with BIND 8 on LM 7.2 to set up a fixed IP and caching only DNS, I go to restart my trusty system and it won't boot ! Well, it boots until it gets to: Starting cfd: and it hangs. Well CTRL+ALT+DEL and on shutdown I find: Stopping at

[expert] Since #9 I128 Rev0 X-driver is fubar, will Aopen GeForce2 MX400, 64MB, PCI work

2002-05-29 Thread David Rankin
Dear Listmates: I still can't get the #9 I128 Rev0 card to work with 8.2. So, since I have to find a PCI card, will Aopen GeForce2 MX400, 64MB, PCI work? Or are there still driver problems with the GeForce2? -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 1329 N. University, Suite D4

Re: [expert] X config

2002-05-29 Thread David Rankin
Really, # Xconfigurator it's that simple... daRcmaTTeR wrote: On Wed, 29 May 2002, Larry Sword wrote: O nay! nay! Larry, be kind to this poor soul. xf86config is so arcane any more. Just out of curiosity the other day I called this demon from the past to configure an older

[expert] Re: [Xpert]follow up (BUG X4.2 and X3.3.6 with I128 Rev 0 video)

2002-05-21 Thread David Rankin
Thanks Doc, I'm still searching for my log file in LM7.2. I'll take a look. There is nothing about a MTRR problem in the xdm-error logs. Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote: On Tue, 21 May 2002, David Rankin wrote: Summary of the problem: X4.2 - Fatal Error: Addscreen/ScreenInit

Re: [expert] New Mobo Roundup--Dr Tom

2002-05-14 Thread David Rankin
Great heads up!, I'm in the market for a board and love Abit. Keep of posted if you get info in the Abit review. Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Guys, if you're in the market for some new technology for under your hood, I strongly suggest that you check out the 18 mainboard lineup that just

Re: [expert] Apache SERVER_NAME quick Q

2002-05-10 Thread David Rankin
returns host unkown. James On Thu, 09 May 2002 15:18:23 -0500 David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I should have been more clear, and maybe the problem isn't as simple as I thought. On my 7.2 box, #ServerName your.server.name is still commented out, but apache is able

Re: [expert] Apache SERVER_NAME quick Q

2002-05-10 Thread David Rankin
-- 127.0.0.1 ;; WHEN: Fri May 10 14:48:45 2002 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 33 rcvd: 132 Gary Dunn wrote: On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 10:18, David Rankin wrote: Well, I should have been more clear, and maybe the problem isn't as simple as I thought. On my 7.2 box, #ServerName your.server.name is still

Re: [expert] Apache SERVER_NAME quick Q

2002-05-09 Thread David Rankin
hostname --fqdn would return unknown host? What config file am I failing to check? /etc/sysconfig/network has the right hostname. Gary Dunn wrote: On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 06:29, David Rankin wrote: Just a quick Q, because I'm suffering from a mental lapse. I'm getting Apache

Re: [expert] What's wrong with SSH in 8.2?

2002-05-06 Thread David Rankin
. James On Sat, 4 May 2002 23:24:36 -0500 (CDT) David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the message I get when I try to SSH from work back to home where 8.2 is running: @@@ @WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED

[expert] BUG - X4.2 or X3.3.6 and I128 Video

2002-05-06 Thread David Rankin
Guys and Gals: I think I can safely call it a bug now. After an exhaustive search or xfree.org, Mandrake expert newbie, and querrying the Mandrake chat rooms, there are no answers why X4.2 and X3.3.6 that ship with LM 8.2 will NOT work with my #9 Imagine 128 video card. Others have had

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