Re: [expert] Making space - problems

2003-07-30 Thread Jan Wilson
sr. This is why I like using Knoppix ... it's easier for me to understand and be sure of what is going 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 PROT

Re: [expert] Making space

2003-07-29 Thread Jan Wilson
* 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 >

Re: [expert] Making space

2003-07-29 Thread Jan Wilson
d to be a bit unstable with three hard drives. Probably the power supply is a little weak. Anyway, I would suggest expanding rather 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. --

Re: [expert] script problem..

2003-07-27 Thread Jan Wilson
calar(localtime), "\n"; # print "\007"; sleep 2; } I commented out the lines with the octal print codes and added a newline for each 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

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

2003-06-27 Thread Jan Wilson
source and they are working fine, even 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,

[expert] Compiling kernel from .src.rpm

2003-06-26 Thread Jan Wilson
hanks. -- 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 Mandra

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

2003-03-10 Thread Jan Wilson
usually on its own partition, so it is part of root, or /. When you DO find some 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 _/*]; [

Re: [expert] password change script

2003-01-31 Thread Jan Wilson
right now, as I get the time. It's supposed to be lots better than NIS, 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 coroz

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

2002-12-27 Thread Jan Wilson
KDE panel?? =) > > The K-menu. I tell my 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, Sy

[expert] Using Chooser in kdmrc

2002-12-23 Thread Jan Wilson
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, H

[expert] hpijs-1.3 printer drivers

2002-11-09 Thread Jan Wilson
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 /

2002-10-05 Thread Jan Wilson
then a cracker only has to know one password to gain entry. I suspect there may be other technical security advantages but these alone would justify the extra step, IMHO. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Coroz

Re: [expert] Tar file question

2002-09-11 Thread Jan Wilson
u also get . (the current directory) and .. (the parent directory). I think it's safer to glob something like this: * .[^.]* the asterisk will glob anything but hidden files, then there is a space as a delimiter, and the .[^.]* means anything that begins with a dot, followed by any character t

Re: [expert] User ID 8 character limit

2002-09-03 Thread Jan Wilson
And as for Windows, as far as I know almost every Win2K 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 c

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

2002-08-27 Thread Jan Wilson
him place > mail directly into some of joe's mail folders. It sounds like you might 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 direc

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

2002-08-27 Thread Jan Wilson
to files in it. > Is that the expected behavior in LInux? Yes, if I understand you correctly. Probably, even if I don't ;-) -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' ch

[expert] Re: OT, my ftp site

2002-05-25 Thread Jan Wilson
eb server is always a security risk since 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.

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

2002-03-29 Thread Jan Wilson
It's not a very 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

[expert] kernel-2.4.17.10mdk and iptables-1.2.5

2002-01-27 Thread Jan Wilson
e upgraded. - 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]