Re: [expert] BASH Scripts

2002-02-27 Thread Rusty Carruth
Tom Badran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How can i use an if in a bash script so that it will only run commands if the specified file is empty? Basically, ive set up a cache system by which the output of ifconfig is stored in /var/cache/IP/1

Re[2]: [expert] BASH Scripts

2002-02-27 Thread Rusty Carruth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Tom Badran wrote: What im trying to do is get an email sent to me every time the IP changes on a specific machine, so i always have a record of it for logging in via ssh. The specific connection is ppp0 which auto redials on disconnect. If

Re: [expert] Why Journalled FS do I have to use??!!!

2002-01-28 Thread Rusty Carruth
resierfs should be NFS happy since 2.4.7 (ish). Im a little concerned with xfs though I use it a lot on SGI's, it just doenst seem to be getting the support of the other file systems. Ive found ext3 to be exceedingly slow on large volumes :( Huh. Surprise surprise, I say. I just

Re: [expert] Files or data transfer via Lan Hub

2002-01-07 Thread Rusty Carruth
Hi Rusty, Thanks for your advice. No problem. Glad I happened to notice your reply, as I'm swamped with email ;-) At 09:55 AM 1/6/2002 -0700, you wrote: a switch as through a direct cable. The difference is in the short delay while the switch looks at the mac (and possibly) IP

Re: [expert] Files or data transfer via Lan Hub

2002-01-06 Thread Rusty Carruth
Hi Michael, Thanks for your detail information and time spent. At 10:52 AM 1/5/2002 -0600, you wrote: AFAIK, you can't (could be wrong). You'd have much better success going through the hub. Can 2 Linux boxes (or one Linux box and one Win box) both having 10/100Mb network cards

Re: [expert] LM 8.1 (and 7.2) on Toshiba satellite pro 435cds

2002-01-05 Thread Rusty Carruth
Sorry, no luck here either. Not a big deal. I wouldn't be messing with my 7.2 install at all if not for a sound and cdrom access problem. If the kde packages that came with the disks are used, it works perfectly, but if I upgrade to the updated packages I lose sound for everyone except

[expert] My latest experience with Western Digital Hard Drives!

2002-01-05 Thread Rusty Carruth
Well, I promised news, so I'll deliver. I have now had 2 considerably different experiences with Western Digital hard drives. The first one was with the company. I had a 2 gig drive die. 1 week after the MFGR warranty expired! I did not know that it had expired, so was calling WD to see if

Re: [expert] A strange thing happens to my network

2002-01-02 Thread Rusty Carruth
On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 06:39, daRcmaTTeR wrote: Hi list, I've noticed over the last few days that my LAN seems to get stale after a day or so and needs to be restarted. Could this really be happening or is it just my imagination? the machine has been up for 16 days now with only one

Re: [expert] framebuffer.

2002-01-01 Thread Rusty Carruth
(This is replied to Frank, cc'd the list) Hi all, howdy! I am trying to install linux on an IBM box, it needs samba, postfix and other stuff and I'd like a basic GUI, so that the non techie guys can still do basic admin stuff... I have everything but the GUI working.. The box uses a

Re: [expert] framebuffer.

2002-01-01 Thread Rusty Carruth
I could be wrong, it has happened before :-) , but I think that X needs to be told to use framebuffer as its driver Civilme said something about using X3.x to get framebuffer, but I didn't really catch the drift of his comment. Actually, I just looked on the 8.1 install CD and notice

[expert] feedback on my recent 8.1 installs

2001-11-26 Thread Rusty Carruth
If someone wants to hit me with a clue-by-4 on a better place to send this, please do (privately!)... This last weekend I worked on installing Mandrake 8.1 on my father's computer, and I tried to install it on my laptop. I won't bore anyone with the gory details, but I will pass on the

[expert] Netgear FA-311 and linux - anybody tried? Got working???? (fwd)

2001-11-19 Thread Rusty Carruth
I've got the weirdest problem. A friend bought a netgear FA-311 ethernet card, supposedly works with linux. (Well, ok, it supposedly works with a certain version of Red Hat, which is at least one version of linux. We won't go any further, ok? ;-) So, I took their (netgear's) sources,

RE[2]: [expert] Netgear FA-311 and linux - anybody tried? Got working???? (fwd)

2001-11-19 Thread Rusty Carruth
Scott Thurmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have that card and encountered the same issue. I didn't get the card to work properly under 7.2. Luckily LM 8.0 came out just after I purchased the card. I upgraded my box to 8.0 and it works perfectly. and then Richard Wenninger [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re[2]: [expert] Non-destructive Linux Partition re-size

2001-08-13 Thread Rusty Carruth
Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not believe it is possible to non-destructively resize an ext2 partition. For this I generally tar and bzip2 the partition that I will be resizing and save the tar.bz2 file to another partition that has the temporary space to allow this - or I

Re[2]: [expert] Domain Name

2001-08-13 Thread Rusty Carruth
Dave Horsfall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, George Petri wrote: What is the difference between http://domainname.com and http://www.domainname.com. Are they both the same? Only if you make them so via the DNS. Because, some websites can only be accessed via

firewall for 486 - was Re[2]: [expert] Mandrake 8.0 for Sparc

2001-08-09 Thread Rusty Carruth
(re LM8.0 for sparc - That's cool, and I hope you all have great success!) So, that pokes me to ask MY question - is there any good 486-based distro I can use to set up my lowly 486 firewall machine with iptables? (Remember that I need to run iptables, a mail server, an http server (one of

Re: [expert] Problems with SUID and/or SGID for programs.

2001-08-09 Thread Rusty Carruth
"Sergio Martín Turiel (ADP)" [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello to everybody, this is the first time that i write. My problem is that i set the SUID and/or SGID for a program that i compiled with one user, and i need to execute that program with another users belongs to same group but the user when

Re[6]: [expert] Problems with SUID and/or SGID for programs.

2001-08-09 Thread Rusty Carruth
Sergio Martín Turiel (ADP) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The security level is 3 in LM7 and LM8, instaled not updated. - Original Message - ... Sergio Martín Turiel \(ADP\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -rwsr-xr-x1 holanda developm 2195178 Aug 9 19:29 Container well, Ok, you

[expert] modules and NetGear ethernet card

2001-08-09 Thread Rusty Carruth
A friend of mine bought some NetGear ethernet cards, FA311 Fast Ethernet PCI card, to be precise, and I'm trying to get one to work on his linux box. Its LM7.2 on the box, on a PII/200 w/32M ram. The card comes with a disk with instructions on how to make it work for Red Hat, so I tried them

Re[2]: [expert] Why I can't see all packets on my network segment?

2001-08-08 Thread Rusty Carruth
David Oberbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, Is your network using hubs or a switches? Um, not meaning to be rude, but: He already said that his computer is plugged into a hub. However, I was wondering what THAT hub was plugged into, and if there are any other computers plugged

Re: [expert] Steve Balmer Going Ape5hit on Mpeg File

2001-08-08 Thread Rusty Carruth
Sevatio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, not quite related to Mandrake but... Here's an MPEG file of Steve Balmer warming up the M$ crowd. He's got me pumped up! ;-) Has anyone gone to look at either of these? I'm at work and with those url names my paranoid alert went off, so I'm NOT going

Re: [expert] Netfinity 5500

2001-08-08 Thread Rusty Carruth
Mike Veltman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has someone installed mandrake on a IBM netfinity 5500 ? can't help you there. Because he stops installing with me after the packages are being installed. He just freezes. Is it possible that it has something to do with the fact that its a dual

Re: [expert] SMP systems (continued)

2001-08-08 Thread Rusty Carruth
Julia A. Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to all that sent me email about multi cpu mother boards... One more question... I've used linux quite a bit with dual CPU systems, but I'm thinking about a motherboard that supports 4 CPU's... I've heard rumor that you just don't get a

Re: [expert] Simple Network Firewall hardware check

2001-08-02 Thread Rusty Carruth

[expert] Can't Access My linux box! R there any experts out there ??? (converted from html and answered)

2001-08-01 Thread Rusty Carruth
Thus spake jawad haider [EMAIL PROTECTED] (in html, converted to english ;-) Hi: I have a linux(mandrake) server and its hosts.deny file deny All except localhost and another ip The problem is that I am not able to access this server remotely through telnet from any machine not even from

Re: [expert] Stupid mail question

2001-07-31 Thread Rusty Carruth
Wayne Stout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, everyone. I'm sure this is a really stupid question, but here goes. If I want to use fetchmail/procmail for message retrieval and filtering, do I also have to use Sendmail or postfix? Not unless you want to also receive mail on your

Re[2]: [expert] Notebook firewall setup

2001-07-30 Thread Rusty Carruth
etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mandrake (at least since 7.1) is optimized for at least pentium class machines, I suggest you try to find a older copy of redhat (6.0, I am sure would run) or the 7.0 i486arch version of mandrake. But bud, you are going to make a compairision then you are

when to make the leap from 7.2 to 8.x (was Re[2]: [expert] Samba Source / Binary RPMS for 7.2)

2001-07-30 Thread Rusty Carruth
(Executive summary: Me too ;-) David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Franki wrote: ... I don't know if I am alone or not, but I still use 7.2 for anything important, and won't swap till 8.1 (assuming it has no hassles in its first months...) snip I am wondering if there are

make mrproper? maybe/maybe not (was Re[2]: [expert] KErnel 2.4.7)

2001-07-30 Thread Rusty Carruth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some curios things, while im compiling Kernel 2.4.7 too. I was glad to see that there was a built in module for my new networkcard (rtl), but after i'm made 'make mrproper' this option disappers. I think I blew up a LM 7.2 kernel source install beyond

Re: [expert] CD Writing (including micro how-to)

2001-07-30 Thread Rusty Carruth
Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The reality is if the windoze Adaptec software can easily create the Mandrake 8 CD from an ISO, but this is something I don't know either. That software, like most free and cheap software, came with no printed docs to check. I'll get back to this

[expert] problem with interactive bastille, and Returned mail: Host unknown (Name server: linux-mandrake.com: host not found) (fwd)

2001-07-30 Thread Rusty Carruth
for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:59:33 -0700 (MST) Received: (from rcarruth@localhost) by Tempe.tt.slb.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) id JAA13854 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:58:52 -0700 (MST) From: Rusty Carruth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 30

Re[4]: [expert] Problem with FTP server

2001-07-27 Thread Rusty Carruth
Gregor Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26-Jul-2001 Rusty Carruth wrote: Glen Sagers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Do I need to manually setup DHCP or DNS? Glen Well, sort of. ... Then it should be much faster... ... If you're network gets bigger you may want to setup

oops, one more comment Re[4]: [expert] Problem with FTP server

2001-07-27 Thread Rusty Carruth
Gregor Maier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If who have Windows machine as you said above you may also want to enter this information in the WINDOWS-DIR\hosts file. Um, well, that might not hurt, but the purpose here was to make ftpd not take so long to start talking to the client (the windows

Re: [expert] RAID 5 via software

2001-07-26 Thread Rusty Carruth
Alfredo Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I have setup a RAID 5 system with 3 IDE 20 Gb drives. One of them has a /boot partition, and the rest is assigned to the md0 RAID partition. I can understand that if disks 2 or 3 fail, I can replace them and the information will be rebuilt. But

Re[2]: [expert] extra special dialup script.

2001-07-26 Thread Rusty Carruth
Bryan D Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... my $now = system(date); Whoops. That exectutes the date command but doesn't capture the output - the output still goes where it normally would (stdout). I think you meant: my $now = `date`; err, oops. Yup. I sit corrected! rc

Re[2]: [expert] Problem with FTP server

2001-07-26 Thread Rusty Carruth
Glen Sagers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm connecting by IP, so that shouldn't be a problem. No, you misunderstood. The SERVER does a name lookup on the CLIENT's ip address, regardless of how the client started the connection (by raw ip address, DNS lookup, carrier pigeon - well, ok, carrier

Re[2]: [expert] HOWTO - VMware under Mandrake 8 - SMP 2.4.3

2001-07-26 Thread Rusty Carruth
Bill Beauchemin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I mount ther root device to another system and what will this do for me? I looked at all the logs and the one I want is dmesg. The only problem is that as soon as it reboots it overwrites it with new data from the good bootup. Normally the

Re[2]: [expert] Problem with FTP server

2001-07-26 Thread Rusty Carruth
Glen Sagers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, I don't think so. All the machines are technically workstations, a desktop, a laptop, and a win machine. Mandrake ICS is setup, but I haven't manually configured much of anything on them, yet. I'd just like to be able to easily transfer files from

[expert] Video card recommendations, please - want 2 heads!

2001-07-25 Thread Rusty Carruth
Since 2 heads are better than one, I'm thinking very seriously about getting a new video card for my computer that will allow me to run 2 monitors at once. I know (or I think I know :-) that I could get an AGP card and a PCI card and run them that way, but can I then grab a window (say, an emacs

Re[2]: [expert] Ramdisk

2001-07-23 Thread Rusty Carruth
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 22 July 2001 16:32, Adrian wrote: Hi, This is a fool question but I need some help: How build a ramdisk in LM 8? ... Surely, I won't be the only one to say this, but here goes: 1. Trust

Re: [expert] extra special dialup script.

2001-07-23 Thread Rusty Carruth
Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I am thinking of writing a shell script... and I need it to do the following.. ... What I need to do this,, is some way of detecting if a connection is active.. I think that 'ifconfig ppp0' should return with an IP address field of something

Re: [expert] None existing executable ?

2001-07-23 Thread Rusty Carruth
Bjarne Thomsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I have gotten a problem after installing LM8.0 instead of LM7.2. I have license manager allowing me to use IDL from Research Systems, Inc. It worked under LM7.2; but one component is now giving me a peculiar problem. A specific file declared

Re[2]: [expert] linux distribution

2001-07-20 Thread Rusty Carruth
Nicky Peeters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're really paranoid you're gonna need to get dirty and fiddle with every port/service/package that poses a possible threat. If you're connected to the internet, its not a question of whether or not you are paranoid, its are you paranoid ENOUGH!

wu-ftp setup (was Re: [expert] problem)

2001-07-20 Thread Rusty Carruth
Jawwad Shami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I am kind of new to linux I have a machine which has ftp daemon running(wu-ftpd) with xinetd the default home dir for ftp is /home/username but useres are allowed to go back and changed dir's they are also allowed to go back to any dir

Re[2]: [expert] am I the only person this is happening to?

2001-07-13 Thread Rusty Carruth
Craig Sprout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:43 PM 7/13/2001 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Approximately 1/5th of the time, I get duplicate messages from the list. I think someone mentioned a while back that this is a, erm, feature of the

Re[2]: [expert] am I the only person this is happening to? (Wandering very OT)

2001-07-13 Thread Rusty Carruth
Craig Sprout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rusty Carruth wrote: If the mailing is to more than one recipient, then you will get that many copies. I'm not too sure about that, I got 2 copies of Praedor's Kmail craps out message, and that appears to be sent to the list only, with no CC

Re: [expert] PPP Pulse instead if Tone

2001-07-13 Thread Rusty Carruth
lord icon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: htmlDIVI am at the cottage with the linux box, however, the phone line uses the old pulse dialing system instead of the tone dialing, any idea how to get mandrake 8 to dial using pulse dialing instead of tone? (if you could please send in non-html that

RE[2]: [expert] Seagate 20.4 Gig HD for $74 -- Good deal?

2001-07-10 Thread Rusty Carruth
But I am concerned about reliability and performance. well, I've no real comments there - I've used Maxtor, Seagate, WD (gasp! :-), IBM, ... I had one WD fail at the end of warranty, and they replaced it even though I did not contact them until after the warranty had expired. However,

Re: [expert] syslogd not writing logs...

2001-07-10 Thread Rusty Carruth
Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, something strange has happened on my system. however, since then syslogd has '0' (zeroed) out the current log files and has not written anything to the logs at all. this is not only strange, but also disturbing since I like to know what it

Re: [expert] cleaning up my mails

2001-07-10 Thread Rusty Carruth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello friends Well time after time i get mails from the system... all mail are stored in my mbox i want to know how to clean it up ? There are a few different things you could do. First, you could change the forwarding to go to a different user (possibly on a

[expert] maximal mount count - more info (url)

2001-07-10 Thread Rusty Carruth
Concering the 'Maximal Mount count' question earlier today, I suggest this url: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue48/tag/53.html There's some REALLY good comments in there about why you really want that fsck, how to avoid it when you really want to, and so forth rc Rusty E.

Re[3]: [expert] Disable ext2 fsfilesystem check on startup

2001-07-10 Thread Rusty Carruth
Rusty Carruth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (that's me) wrote: ...blah...blah...blah... Oh - I forgot - another thing you can do, if you have more than one filesystem, is to make the maximum mount count DIFFERENT for each one, so that your chances of running all the fsck's at the same time is reduced

Re: [expert] recompiled kernel

2001-07-09 Thread Rusty Carruth
Dennis Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, I am running default kernel 2.4.5-9.mdk, as confirmed by 'uname -sr' and the KDE control centre, but the linux splash screens on startup and shutdown still show the old 2.4.3-20.mdk kernel which I recompiled back in April. Why is

Re[2]: [expert] making shell script excutable.........

2001-07-09 Thread Rusty Carruth
DStevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 09 July 2001 00:45, faisal gillani wrote: well i finally wrote my first shell script ... now i want to make it excutable ... i dont want to run it as ./filename i tried to make it excutable with the following command chmod a+x

Re[2]: [expert] Moving linux to a different, larger drive

2001-07-06 Thread Rusty Carruth
Laurent Duperval [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I typically use: tar -cf - . | (cd /new/directory ; tar xvf -) I used to do it because it was faster than using cp. Don't know if that's still true. Whether or not that is true I don't know, but I *do* know that cp has a tendency to FOLLOW

Re[4]: [expert] Moving linux to a different, larger drive

2001-07-06 Thread Rusty Carruth
M. Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RC wrote: ...I *do* know that cp has a tendency to FOLLOW softlinks (and COPY, not reproduce, hard links), ... cp -a maybe its just on Solaris that cp -a follows links. Hmm... Yup, that's the problem. Solaris copy even read from pipes! (Unless you

Re: [expert] How to reset root password

2001-07-05 Thread Rusty Carruth
Kursad Kayaturk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I have lost root password of one of the machines. And the machine is complicated a dual cpu compaq because of that I do not want remove the hard idsk to crack the root password. Is there a way to crack the root password from the local

Re: [expert] Re: Re[2]: [save] ppp help needed

2001-07-03 Thread Rusty Carruth
Christopher W. Aiken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Still no luck. I don't understand. I get connected with my chat script but I still can not see anything. What I'm trying to do is set up a pon poff script that I used on my Debian 2.2r2 system. I don't have ipchains installed. I can get

autorip - cool too (was [expert] mp3c, nice little tool... )

2001-07-03 Thread Rusty Carruth
Thus spake Julia A. Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] I found this last night, it's a frontend for ripping audio tracks off a cd and then converting them to mp3 format... you can even create a batch file to do a whole cd at one time... The only trouble I found with the batch file is that it

[expert] mailing list trouble (fwd)

2001-07-03 Thread Rusty Carruth
Thus spake Julia A. Case [EMAIL PROTECTED] All of a sudden I stopped getting email from the list... I sent a few messages and have recieved private responses so I know my email is getting to the list, but I'm just not getting anything from it. Don't worry about it, its a feature ;-)

Re[2]: [expert] Firewire

2001-07-03 Thread Rusty Carruth
Kernell32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Guess that means the driver is not installed . Pretty safe bet ;-) How do i insert the driver or module I think you want insmod, try it and see what happens. ... Informations: This device hasn't been identified by HardDrake, please send

Re: [expert] Xlibraries not found, but they are there.

2001-07-03 Thread Rusty Carruth
Maxim Heijndijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, since a few days I have a problem compiling. I get errors like these all the time: /usr/bin/ld: warning: libSM.so.6, needed by /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link) ... /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so: undefined

Re[2]: [expert] How to fix an X lockup?

2001-07-02 Thread Rusty Carruth
Praedor S. Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you, I forget I have that app. I will try it next time. I suppose that since no one has offered a suggestion, that I really am left with having to reboot the system rather than restarting X? Having to reboot the system leaves a bad taste

Re: [expert] Config file provided with Mandrake 8.0?

2001-07-02 Thread Rusty Carruth
Steve Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a question that should affect a lot of people. Suppose I want to recompile the kernel, 2.4.3-xxx, that came with Mandrake 8.0. Suppose I just want to change ONE item, enabled, disable, load as module. When I make config on the supplied kernel,

Re: [expert] MD 8.0 Who's logged on?

2001-07-02 Thread Rusty Carruth
Dave Peat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 X-GWTYPE:USER FN:Peat, Dave EMAIL;WORK;PREF;NGW:[EMAIL PROTECTED] X-GWUSERID:PEATDA ORG:;N410 N:Peat;Dave TEL;WORK:(435)863-4105 TITLE:31257 END:VCARD Is there a command that will show all users currantly logged on to the system?

Re[2]: [expert] hostname questions (again)

2001-06-29 Thread Rusty Carruth
Tom Strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I should have been more clear in my last posting: my main question was: If we're delivering our mail as coming from ourcharity.org.uk and it's being relayed through BT's (our new ISP) SMTP server, wouldn't it get blocked at some point by spam

Re[2]: [expert] hostname questions (again)

2001-06-29 Thread Rusty Carruth
Tom Strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm - sounds great for my home machine, but not so great for the charity. The idea is to set up a minimum administration system so that an administrator is only needed to check the logs periodically and patch the system. Backup, user admin, mail -

Re: [expert] hostname questions (again)

2001-06-28 Thread Rusty Carruth
Tom Strickland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our server is about to be connected to the Internet through a dialup modem. Naive question: Is it OK to give our network/server any old domain name? To the outside world we will be the domain set by our ISP, but can I set the domain in our LAN to

Re[2]: [expert] cups: printer is not ready - and I know good and well it is!

2001-06-21 Thread Rusty Carruth
Rusty Carruth wrote: Ok, Cups hating time ;-) Ok, an update. Its an eisa-based system. The parallel port was not working right, and we were also having trouble with eth0 initialization working. Turns out that we had some irq conflicts, and now I've gone and tried to set it all right

Re[2]: [expert] Linux kernel on windows

2001-06-21 Thread Rusty Carruth
Hoyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 21 June 2001 11:07 am, Baccari, Lou may or may not have written: Hello, I though I read somewhere that if you did not what to install a complete installation of Mandrake that you could install a Linux kernel/executable that simulated Linux on

RE[2]: [expert] Mdk 8.0: problems in running c++ execs.

2001-06-20 Thread Rusty Carruth
Thierry De Corte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try flushing the stream... Interesting. I bet this relates to that perl question a while back, which turned out to be related to your SHELL, believe it or not. Try using tcsh and run that same program and see what happens... Just out of curiosity.

[expert] cups: printer is not ready - and I know good and well it is!

2001-06-20 Thread Rusty Carruth
Ok, Cups hating time ;-) I've got a machine I've installed LM 7.2 on, and now I want to get it to talk to an HP DeskJet 560C printer. So, hook up the printer to parallel port, fire up printerdrake, and get it all configured (already had another printer defined on lp0, did not delete it first,

Re: [expert] File Listing Of All Ports - In Search Of...

2001-06-19 Thread Rusty Carruth
Sevatio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm in search of a file that lists all ports and their descriptions. Could someone help me recall the location of this file? /etc/services maybe? rc

Re: [expert] Script question...

2001-06-18 Thread Rusty Carruth
Thierry De Corte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to backup some files using tar in a script... How can I use the current date to create the file name? In other words, I want to script the command: #!/bin/sh tar -zcvf backup_jun18.tgz /some_dir/* with the date part automatic (the

Re[2]: [expert] Unknown partiton table

2001-06-15 Thread Rusty Carruth
David C. Hoos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: John Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 6:06 AM Subject: RE: [expert] Unknown partiton table -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You are using fdisk from

Re[2]: [expert] / gets smaller and smaller !

2001-06-15 Thread Rusty Carruth
Turgut Kalfaoglu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I have everything in other partitions, so the / partition should, in theory, not grow at all. I have /usr , /var , /home in other partitions. Even /tmp is at /var/tmp.. Really odd.. -turgut Is that by having /tmp be a (soft) link? If

Re: [expert] how can I tell when computer shutoff due to power failure?

2001-06-14 Thread Rusty Carruth
brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 2 MDK8.0 PC's that were shutoff when I came in yesterday morning. I never turn them off and suspect that a power failure was responsible. Is there anyway to tell what time they were shutoff? Depends. If something happens pretty regularly that is

Re[2]: [expert] Unknown partiton table

2001-06-14 Thread Rusty Carruth
jose orlando t. ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: david, it seems that your new(?) HD hasn't been formated and doesn't have any partition created (as a new drive should be). Try to use fdisk to create some partition or file-system to make the system happy and let you add your drive.

Re: [expert] changing boot devices

2001-06-12 Thread Rusty Carruth
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Re[2]: [expert] changing boot devices

2001-06-12 Thread Rusty Carruth
a boot disk for when its at /dev/hdb so that you can always move back to having hdb in case somethin messes up in the above!) rc rc Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S

Re[2]: [expert] changing boot devices

2001-06-12 Thread Rusty Carruth
english is better than mine! rc Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116 Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2 Tempe, AZ 85284-1825 ICBM: 33 20' 44N

Re[2]: [expert] 3C905B-Combo network card

2001-06-11 Thread Rusty Carruth
with your favourite search engine, or go find that message that referenced the howtos and then go look at those howtos... They really are good, I've read them ;-) rc Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE FAX

Re[2]: [expert] afriad to lose LILO

2001-06-11 Thread Rusty Carruth
, it will overwrite the MBR. then boot from the linux rescue disk. when you're up, run '/sbin/lilo'. FIRST, make sure you HAVE a linux rescue disk! rc Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE FAX: (480

Re[2]: [expert] Perl problem: print $x; does not work, only print $x,\n;

2001-06-11 Thread Rusty Carruth
~]$ ^^^my prompt^^ so with tcsh we get the expected results. rc Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116 Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2

Re[2]: [expert] bizarre remote access/network problem

2001-06-11 Thread Rusty Carruth
internet address, the packet goes A B C D E F and then returns directly to A via the local network. rc Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116 Ham

Re: [expert] File Size Limit exceeded

2001-06-11 Thread Rusty Carruth
ideas? I'll say tomorrow if I learn anything amusing. rc Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116 Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2 Tempe, AZ 85284

Re: [expert] Perl problem: print $x; does not work, only print $x,\n;

2001-06-11 Thread Rusty Carruth
,\n;print $i , asdf;} 1 bash-2.04$ I'd say its a bug in something somewhere. However, try this: bash-2.04$ perl { $| = 1; my $i = 1; print $i ,\n;print $i , asdf;my $foo=;} 1 1 asdf ..I type here... bash-2.04$ Yup, its a bug... ;-) Rusty Carruth

Re: [expert] USB CameraMate?

2001-06-11 Thread Rusty Carruth
Dave Ayers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to the Mandrake ranks (and this list) and am running Mandrake 7.2 on a Chembook laptop with a USB port. Said laptop bought with 7.2 pre-installed from ASL. Before I get myself all tied in knots trying to get a MicroTech USB CameraMate drive to

Re[2]: [expert] APC UPS shutdown script? How does it work?

2001-06-07 Thread Rusty Carruth
David Rankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rusty Carruth wrote: First, go get nut, and join the NUT mailing list. ... Need your help finding the url. Sorceforge has the following: EXACT MATCH: nut A program to record and analyze meals

Re: [expert] APC UPS shutdown script? How does it work?

2001-06-07 Thread Rusty Carruth
got 4 mostly useless APC UPS's here that I'm really frustrated with...) rc Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116 Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2

Re: [expert] IPTables Question

2001-06-06 Thread Rusty Carruth
rc (courtesy bcc sent direct to Cyridian) Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116 Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2 Tempe, AZ 85284-1825 ICBM

Re[2]: [expert] DB2 problem

2001-06-06 Thread Rusty Carruth
you can just turn it off, if you don't want anything other than help indexing. check the file etc/cron.daily/htdig-dbgen to see if you can find ht being run in there rc Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger

Re: [expert] sendmail and smarthost problems

2001-06-05 Thread Rusty Carruth
Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116 Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2 Tempe, AZ 85284-1825 ICBM: 33 20' 44N 111 53' 47W

Re[2]: [expert] 3c509-b M8

2001-06-05 Thread Rusty Carruth
Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rusty Carruth wrote: ... Well... I read created 3 subnets, Standard...works perfectly, third one connected via the BNC...cant get it work and there are 3 connectors... : Me too, but *just in case* (besides, once he/she gets 3 ethernet cards

Re[2]: [expert] 3c509-b M8

2001-06-05 Thread Rusty Carruth
to hook my firewall into my hub at home - and it would die randomly (approximatly once a month on average, but sometimes once per week!) requiring a 'reboot' of the hub. I found a cheap 10baseT ethernet card and got rid of the BNC! And I've had no problems any more. rc Rusty Carruth Email

Re: [expert] Routing / NAT problem

2001-06-04 Thread Rusty Carruth
this, but there are plenty of good howto's out there. And I think I'd try this one first, as its been done before ;-) rc Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116

Re[2]: [expert] LILO name

2001-06-04 Thread Rusty Carruth
02 June 2001 19:35, Vincent Danen wrote: Does anyone know what LILO stands for? I thought it meant Linux In Linux Out, but if that's the case, what does SILO or MILO stand for? (if any of the above words are trademarks, well then they are!) rc Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL

Re: [expert] allow non-root user to shutdown linux

2001-06-04 Thread Rusty Carruth
needed to reboot (very small number of folks!) do control/alt/del ;-) rc Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116 Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2

Re: [expert] Trouble with Initializing CDROM

2001-05-31 Thread Rusty Carruth
whining and blathering now ;-) rc Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116 Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2 Tempe, AZ 85284-1825 ICBM: 33 20' 44N

Re[2]: [expert] /etc/hosts.deny ?

2001-05-30 Thread Rusty Carruth
... If all else fails I can send out my security bookmarks... rc rc Rusty Carruth Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: (480) 345-3621 SnailMail: Schlumberger ATE FAX: (480) 345-8793 7855 S. River Parkway, Suite 116 Ham: N7IKQ @ 146.82+,pl 162.2 Tempe, AZ

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