Re: [expert] Making space - problems

on with the partitions when they're all mounted as /mnt/hda5, /mnt/hda6, etc. Hope this made it clearer rather than murkier ;-) -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz

Re: [expert] Making space

than juggling. Whatever you do to try to get back down under 90% (which should be considered a full drive IMHO) would soon be creeping up into the 90% range. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize

Re: [expert] Making space

* Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030729 15:58]: On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 4:50 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030729 09:20]: I was shocked to realise that my / is running out of space. My current situation is FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted

Re: [expert] script problem..

line. I don't have that book so I don't know what it is really supposed to do, but I hope this helps. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611

Re: [expert] Compiling kernel from .src.rpm

with VMWare. Thanks. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[expert] Compiling kernel from .src.rpm

. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [expert] Help! root full but can't find a cause

actual files in /mnt, it is usually because someone copied something there, thinking they were copying to a removable block device, like a floppy or other storage device. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town

Re: [expert] password change script

, after you get it all set up, although I'm not finding it the easiest thing to get my head around. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611

Re: [expert] Menu button, was Why my CD does not want to get out ?

classes it's the Menu Button. Its icon in Windows says Start, in KDE K, and other things in other window managers/themes. Since they all pop up a menu, Menu Button seems a handy generic. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com

[expert] Using Chooser in kdmrc

from multiple servers on Mdk 9. Can anyone help? Thanks. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML Want

[expert] hpijs-1.3 printer drivers

in this update? The documentation from linuxprinting.org and from the HP site is fairly overwhelming, so perhaps just a pointer or two from someone who knows printers would save me a lot more research and trial-and-error. Thanks lots. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal

Re: [expert] /root and /

advantages but these alone would justify the extra step, IMHO. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML Want

Re: [expert] User ID 8 character limit

and WinXP box has a user named Administrator ... although ridiculous (I'd lots rather be root ;-) it IS 13 characters. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg

Re: [expert] Are group permissions necessary for other (all) permissions?

understand you correctly. Probably, even if I don't ;-) -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML Want to buy

Re: [expert] Are group permissions necessary for other (all) permissions?

be running into procmail's security requirements. Check man procmail, around line 495 where it specifies that, for example, $HOME/.procmailrc cannot be group-writable or in a group-writable directory. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College

[expert] Re: OT, my ftp site

it is available to the outside world. Note: you can also allow access by username and password if you want, but that's another story ;-) -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com

Re: [expert] Memtest floppy, Was: Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem

large file, so it won't take very long. Shutdown and boot from the floppy. The memory test will continue until you stop it. Works fine here. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize

[expert] kernel-2.4.17.10mdk and iptables-1.2.5

. - Any hints? I've also been following the cooker mailing lists but have not seen any answers there, and because of my slow dialup there is no way I can download the whole cooker distrib. Thanks lots. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior