Re: [expert] OT - for shell mongers: how _not_ to list a file

2003-08-28 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:45:45 +0200, Udo Rader wrote: Am Wed, 27 Aug 2003 01:10:59 + schrieb Matthew O. Persico: On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 00:29:33 +0200, jipe wrote: one easy way ... GLOBIGNORE=no_not_this_one then any glob like * will ignore this file bye jipe YIKES! Why use estoeric, shell

Re: [expert] OT - for shell mongers: how _not_ to list a file

2003-08-27 Thread Matthew O. Persico
| grep -v TheFileToExclude -- Matthew O. Persico Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] OT - for shell mongers: how _not_ to list a file

2003-08-27 Thread Matthew O. Persico
| grep -v theFileToExclude` theNewDir -- Matthew O. Persico Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

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

2003-02-06 Thread Matthew O. Persico
- --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Matthew O. Persico Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Perldoc?

2003-01-21 Thread Matthew O. Persico
/perldoc.1.bz2 zsh:/usr/share/zsh/4.0.6/functions/Completion/Unix/_perldoc perl-doc:/usr/bin/perldoc perl-doc is in RPMS3 on CD3. Rolf On the theory that you you don't want to bother with docs on a server, perl doc is put in a separate package. -- Matthew O. Persico Want to buy your Pack

[expert] 9.1 fixes Perl PREFIX stuff

2003-01-14 Thread Matthew O. Persico
Is Perl going to be adjusted so that 1) make install PREFIX works again. 2) @INC is fixed. In 9.0 the core (lib/5.8.0) comes before the addons (lib/site_perl) which means that modules you upgrade (and get installed in lib/site_perl) are never seen because the versions in lib/5.8.0 are encounted

Re: [expert] MTA help (maybe)

2003-01-13 Thread Matthew O. Persico
ISP, no relays. Bill -- Matthew O. Persico Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Samba 2.2.7a packages

2003-01-10 Thread Matthew O. Persico
Linux folks. Rol up your sleeves and dig in. /rant -- Matthew O. Persico Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [expert] dhcp incomplete on mandrake??

2003-01-03 Thread Matthew O. Persico
WCHAN STAT TTYTIME COMMAND 140 0 1794 1 9 0 5004 1896 do_sel S? 0:00 smbd -D 140 0 1804 1 9 0 3760 1700 do_sel S? 0:00 nmbd -D I didn't realize that the installation had activated the daemons. Thanks for the clue. -- Matthew O. Persico

Re: [expert] Re: dhcp incomplete on mandrake??

2003-01-03 Thread Matthew O. Persico
of name resolution you are dealing with (NetBIOS, DNS, you name it). Sometimes a couple of minutes of traces could save you a couple of days of emails on the mandrake lilst ;) Never heard of it. Will do. Thanks! -- Matthew O. Persico Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [expert] reversed man?

2003-01-03 Thread Matthew O. Persico
items work and some don't. Duh! I should know better. (V8 slap to the head). Thanks -- Matthew O. Persico Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] DHCP and DNS interaction

2003-01-03 Thread Matthew O. Persico
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 DHCP? In short, I have a DHCP server running on an Linksys Router. My XP boxes all figure out what their names are over netbios and the Linux box is running smbd and nmbd

RE: [expert] dhcp incomplete on mandrake??

2003-01-02 Thread Matthew O. Persico
to respond to an XP box this way? -- Matthew O. Persico Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] dhcp incomplete on mandrake??

2003-01-01 Thread Matthew O. Persico
I am using DHCP on my home network. The DHCP server is my Linksys wireless router. I have XPPro (ethernet), XPHome (wireless ethernet) and Mandrake 9.0 (ethernet) on the boxes. DHCP assigns addresses to all boxes. I can ping all boxes by ip addresses from all boxes. I can ping all boxes by name

[expert] Where is perldoc?

2003-01-01 Thread Matthew O. Persico
Ok, I understand the confusion over ExtUtils::MakeMaker and the PREFIX macro being deprecated or not. But can someone please explain to me how Perl got installed in Mandrake 9.0 without perldoc? Or did I miss and RPM in the installation somehow? -- Matthew Want to buy your Pack or Services

[expert] Re: Where is perldoc?

2003-01-01 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 16:22:34 -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 07:08:03PM -0500, Matthew O. Persico wrote: But can someone please explain to me how Perl got installed in Mandrake 9.0 without perldoc? Or did I miss and RPM in the installation somehow? I'm not a Mandrake user

[expert] reversed man?

2003-01-01 Thread Matthew O. Persico
Given this man path setting: [root@moplx bin]# export MANPATH=/opt/perl/share/man:/usr/share/man: it would seem to me that if a man page was present in both places, I would see the one in /opt/perl... first. But lo, and behold: [root@moplx bin]# man -aw version

Re: [expert] Drowning Servers..... Literally.

2002-12-17 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On 17 Dec 2002 00:59:28 -0800, James Sparenberg wrote: Drowning servers and you find the time time to write a song... You are a better man than I, Gunga Din. -- Matthew O. Persico Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Shipping update

2002-11-26 Thread Matthew O. Persico
Seeing as I have bed and moaned in a few posts about Mandrake charging me in Sept and not shipping the disks yet, I thought it fair to tell their side. The reply I got from them basically said: Yep, we screwed up. We blew it when we sent it to the shipper. That's why you were charged.

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-25 Thread Matthew O. Persico
them, but the did not seem to install into /etc/rc.d. What should be the sort order for ampd in rc.d? -- Matthew O. Persico Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-24 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 22:07:50 -0700, Lorne [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: On Saturday 23 November 2002 07:24 pm, Matthew O. Persico wrote: On 23 Nov 2002 21:09:25 -0500, Nelson Bartley [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Well if shutdown -h now isn't shutting it down then you most likely don't have a problem

Re: [expert] man madness

2002-11-24 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 00:36:42 +, Tommy Wareing wrote: On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 08:23:18PM -0500, Matthew O. Persico wrote: MANPATH=/opt/perl/lib/perl5/man:/usr/lib/perl5/man Apparently, unlike Solaris and any other *NIX system I have used, MANPATH is not additive - it REPLACES all other

[expert] man madness

2002-11-23 Thread Matthew O. Persico
Well, not that bad, but is sounded catchy. Using Mandrake 8.2 (even though I sprung for the 9.0 disks and my credit card was charged in September and I STILL don't have the disks :-( ), I set MANPATH=/opt/perl/lib/perl5/man:/usr/lib/perl5/man Apparently, unlike Solaris and any other *NIX

Re: [expert] man madness

2002-11-23 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 19:21:31 -0500, Matthew O. Persico [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Well, not that bad, but is sounded catchy. Using Mandrake 8.2 (even though I sprung for the 9.0 disks and my credit card was charged in September and I STILL don't have the disks :-( ), I set MANPATH=/opt/perl/lib

Re: [expert] man madness

2002-11-23 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 18:35:19 -0600, Vox [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: This time Matthew O. Persico [EMAIL PROTECTED] becomes daring and writes: Well, not that bad, but is sounded catchy. Using Mandrake 8.2 (even though I sprung for the 9.0 disks and my credit card was charged in September and I

[expert] It won't power off

2002-11-23 Thread Matthew O. Persico
it worked under XP, I am assuming it's not hardware. Does anyone have an idea as to what rpms am I missing or what config file is mis-configed :-) Thanks -- Matthew O. Persico Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-23 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 01:42:54 +, Paul Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: What about: shutdown -h now ? Paul Nope. It still stops at Power down and does not shutoff. That's why I thought /sbin/poweroff was the answer. It ain't. On Sunday 24 November 2002 01:27 am, Matthew O. Persico wrote: I

Re: [expert] It won't power off

2002-11-23 Thread Matthew O. Persico
is? Sigh. Thanks. As an aside, try updating your bios as well. Might fix the issue. Gizmo On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 20:53, Matthew O. Persico wrote: On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 01:42:54 +, Paul Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: What about: shutdown -h now ? Paul Nope. It still stops at Power down

Re: [expert] make an rpm list on disk

2002-11-22 Thread Matthew O. Persico
tomorrow. Thanks for your assistance. -- Matthew O. Persico You're welcome, and I appreciate greatly the command line above!  It will be handy in future installs I am sure.  :) Well if you think THAT was handy, how about a version that spits out the correct perl in one shot, no editing needed: rpm

[expert] make an rpm list on disk

2002-11-19 Thread Matthew O. Persico
I am transplanting my cdrom, video card and hard disk from a dual CPU PII 266 box to a single CPU PIV 1.7GHz box. I am betting that I can simply choose the non-smp kernel when I boot up to get me going. If I lose the bet, I am going to have to re-install. I thought there was a way to put the

[expert] Samba and /etc/fstab

2002-11-13 Thread Matthew O. Persico
If I wanted to put a mount entry into my /etc/fstab file for my XP Samba mounts, what would happen if the XP box were not available? Doe the boot process just hang? -- Matthew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [expert] Samba and /etc/fstab

2002-11-13 Thread Matthew O. Persico
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:expert-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Matthew O. Persico Sent: Thursday, 14 November 2002 10:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Samba and /etc/fstab If I wanted to put a mount entry into my /etc/fstab file for my XP Samba mounts, what would

Re: [expert] Is MDK 9.0 ever going to hit the stores?

2002-11-11 Thread Matthew O. Persico
product I can remember. I thought I'd do the right thing and fork over the money. Not any more. -- Matthew O. Persico Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Where to stick the CDs?

2002-08-18 Thread Matthew O. Persico
I am sick and tired of shuffling the 3cds whenever I have to hunt down multiple RPMs to install a new piece of software. I have a 80GB hard drive. Is there a traditional place to which I should copy all the RPMS (/usr/src perhaps?) Or should I just make a new partition called /cds and copy

Re: [expert] Where to stick the CDs?

2002-08-18 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 21:49:18 -0400 (EDT), daRcmaTTeR spaketh: On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Matthew O. Persico wrote: I am sick and tired of shuffling the 3cds whenever I have to hunt down multiple RPMs to install a new piece of software. [snip] um Matt... that is why Urpmi is part of the ditribution

Re: [expert] Where to stick the CDs?

2002-08-18 Thread Matthew O. Persico
for cd2 and cd3 Jim, thanks. This is so cool. Moreover, 'mdk 8.2 cd1 iso' also showed up as a valid resource in rpmdrake. That means once you install all three disks this way, you could remove the CD resources from rpmdrake if you wanted. -- Matthew O. Persico Want to buy your Pack

Re: [expert] Where to stick the CDs?

2002-08-18 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 23:11:30 -0400, Matthew O. Persico spaketh: On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 22:30:32 -0400, tarvid spaketh: [snip] To make life easy would this work? I tried it; see below mkdir /iso dd if=/mnt/cdrom of=/iso/cd1 This has to be changed to dd if/dev/cdrom of=/iso/cd1 gr! make

[expert] Strange ppp error

2002-08-01 Thread Matthew O. Persico
Greetings: I've never seen this. All my problems have always been with dialup and connection. In this case I dailed, connected, got through my terminal login sequence and then died. I am using kppp and these are the messages printed to the terminial from whose command line I started:

[expert] Travan Tape drives

2002-07-09 Thread Matthew O. Persico
Anyone know any reason why I should NOT go buy a Travan, IDE ATAPI-base tape drive and use it for Mandrake? -- Matthew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] Using an XP dialup session from Mandrake

2002-07-03 Thread Matthew O. Persico
My XP Pro and Mandrake 8.2 boxes are on the same network. I usually telnet into MD from XP, I have samba set up - theytalk to each other. And my DSL connection is shared by both. Due to the security setup used at my job, I have to connectto my via modem and it has to live on XP. I cannot

[expert] Fwd: Using an XP dialup session from Mandrake

2002-07-03 Thread Matthew O. Persico
in the right places. Can anyone point me at a good resource for this? Thanks -- Matthew O. Persico Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Using an XP dialup session from Mandrake

2002-07-03 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On 04 Jul 2002 14:58:27 +1000, Brian Parish wrote: On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 10:01, Matthew O. Persico wrote: My XP Pro and Mandrake 8.2 boxes are on the same network. I usually telnet into MD from XP, I have samba set up - theytalk to each other. And my DSL connection is shared by both. Due

Re: [expert] Optimum partitioning

2002-02-28 Thread Matthew O. Persico
Thanks for the advice /home 10 GB (I am the only user) You _think_ it will be enough, but it never is Oh yes, how true -- Matthew O Persico Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom

[expert] Optimum partitioning

2002-02-26 Thread Matthew O. Persico
Can anyone point me to a cookbook doc on partitioning? Not the mechanics, but how much to allocate. How much to allocate to /, swap, /usr? Should /usr/local and /home be on the same partitions, separate ones? Etc. -- Matthew O. Persico Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] Remote access to linux box

2001-10-29 Thread Matthew O. Persico
message: Unable to connect using selected start method. The method used is REXEC. I guess it's trying to log me in before starting up a login xterm. I wonder if I have to set up anything in /etc/hosts/allow or .deny? -- Matthew O. Persico New York City - United We Stand Want to buy

[expert] Remote access to linux box

2001-10-28 Thread Matthew O. Persico
to the effect that the program was unable to use this starting method. Is there anything special I need to configure on the Linux (Mandrake 8.0) side in order to allow me to do this? -- Matthew O. Persico New York City - United We Stand Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[expert] shutils: env broken?

2001-05-29 Thread Matthew O. Persico
#!/usr/bin/env perl it works find. The man page for env says it should take arguments. Anyone have any idea? -- Matthew O. Persico http://www.acecape.com/dsl AceDSL:The best ADSL in Verizon area

[expert] Installation - Linksys Ethercard, round 2

2001-04-11 Thread Matthew O. Persico
options tulip full_duplex=0 options=1 debug=6 So, how do I troubleshoot this? Thanks so much for all your consideration. -- Matthew O. Persico http://www.acecape.com/dsl AceDSL:The best ADSL in Verizon area

[expert] Installation - Unsupported ethercard?

2001-04-10 Thread Matthew O. Persico
, then I'll update the driver with the newer code. Does this sound workable? -- Matthew O. Persico http://www.acecape.com/dsl AceDSL:The best ADSL in Verizon area

Re: [expert] Broken cdrom.ing?

2000-12-15 Thread Matthew O. Persico
of sysadmins, for they are subtle, and quick to anger. Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. -- Matthew O. Persico "If you were supposed to un

[expert] Broken cdrom.ing?

2000-12-11 Thread Matthew O. Persico
First from the cd, then from downloads, teh 7.2 cdrom.img will not find my Bus Logic SCSI cards, therefore not my CDROM either. 7.1 had no problems. Anyone else had this trouble or any clues as to how to ger around it? -- Matthew O. Persico "If you were supposed to understand i