Re: Message Boards

2002-06-06 Thread Karl Hergenrother
I first read it 50 years ago in 'One, Two, Infinity' by George Gamow, in his discussion of entropy, physics stuff. A good book if you haven't read it. Karl - Original Message - From: "Benjamin Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Greater NH Linux Users' Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednes

Re: NFS issues

2002-06-06 Thread pll
In a message dated: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 10:38:19 EDT Bill Mullen said: >On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, t wrote: > >> hopefully itll be of some use to anyone perusing the archives.. > >Well, I haven't yet dabbled in NFS configuration, so *I'm* certainly >going to hang on to it ... thanks for the tips! If you'

SLUG meeting June 10th, 7pm in Morse Hall

2002-06-06 Thread Robert Anderson
The Topic is: Linux RAID The next meeting is Monday 6/10/2002 at 7pm in Morse Hall room 301. The presenter will be Bradley W. Langhorst. Seacoast Linux Users Group (SLUG) meetings are held the 2nd monday of every month in Morse hall room 301 starting at 7pm. Please see "http://slug.gnhlug.o

Apache/Mod_perl on SCO

2002-06-06 Thread Ganesan M
Hi Guys, Thanks for the help on "sudo command". Does anyone know the easiest way of compiling Apache/Mod_perl under Sco 3.2 Open server 5.0.6? Everytime I try to compile I get a different error. I 've compiled and made it work on SCO 5.0.5 a couple of months ago. But this time on SCO 5.

Re: Ok to mount ext3 fs as ext2 (read-only)?

2002-06-06 Thread Bill Mullen
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Mark Polhamus wrote: > I can't seem to find a definitive answer in the FAQs, so: > > Can I mount a (cleanly unmounted) ext3 filesystem as an ext2 filesystem -- > readonly, then go back and mount it as an ext3 filesystem again without > converting it from ext2 back to ext3? > >

Re: NFS issues

2002-06-06 Thread Bill Mullen
On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, t wrote: > hopefully itll be of some use to anyone perusing the archives.. Well, I haven't yet dabbled in NFS configuration, so *I'm* certainly going to hang on to it ... thanks for the tips! -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jun 6, 2002 *

Re: Oracle Linux 'Unbreakable' Event

2002-06-06 Thread Jerry Feldman
I also think that you presented it to the Linux community in ZK3 and also gave us a tech talk about Ygdrassil. On 6 Jun 2002 at 14:24, Jon Hall wrote: > Actually the first time I said it was in May of 1994, when I put together > my first slide talk about Linux for Digital Equipment Corporation's

Re: Oracle Linux 'Unbreakable' Event

2002-06-06 Thread Jon Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > 2002? No, I'm pretty sure I heard Jon say that at least as far back as > 1997, or perhaps early 1998. Actually the first time I said it was in May of 1994, when I put together my first slide talk about Linux for Digital Equipment Corporation's Unix Product Management s

Re: Oracle Linux 'Unbreakable' Event

2002-06-06 Thread John Abreau
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > "Linux IS inevitable." Jon Hall, 2002 (or should this be earlier?) > (caps mine) > > This phrase sums up perfectly what is happening/going to happen to > the world of computing platforms(IMHO). At least as long as we don't get > too smug or complacent about it.

Re: Oracle Linux 'Unbreakable' Event

2002-06-06 Thread jkinz
On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 12:02:36PM -0400, Jon Hall wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Third: I remember the day (about 6 years ago) when a certain new > > Oracle employee stood up at a GNHLUG meeting and said those fateful > > words: "Oracle will never release on Linux, they just don't unders

Dell, Oracle join Red Hat for enterprise Linux

2002-06-06 Thread Richard Soule
Dell, Oracle join Red Hat for enterprise Linux Red Hat Inc, Oracle Corp and Dell Computer Corp have teamed up to provide packaged support and services for Red Hat's Linux Advanced Server operating system and Oracle's 9i Release 2 database management system. more... http://www.theregister.co.uk/

Re: Oracle Linux 'Unbreakable' Event

2002-06-06 Thread Jon Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Third: I remember the day (about 6 years ago) when a certain new > Oracle employee stood up at a GNHLUG meeting and said those fateful > words: "Oracle will never release on Linux, they just don't understand > free software!". How things change! And I remember a certai

Re: sendmail and alternate ports

2002-06-06 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, at 5:52am, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > I'm at LinuxTag in Germany, and whomever is providing the network is > blocking port 25 (SMTP). Don't ask me why.. :-/ It is an anti-spam measure. (It prevents spammers from setting up their own SMTP mail exchanger and bypassing I

Re: Ethernet device

2002-06-06 Thread pll
In a message dated: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 20:02:19 EDT Benjamin Scott said: > Ahhhmmm, I think you misunderstand the OP's point. The developers are >working on the binary that needs the special privileges. All they need to >do is add > > system("/bin/sh"); > >near the top, and ... well, I'm

Re: sendmail and alternate ports

2002-06-06 Thread Ben Boulanger
On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 07:07, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > As an alternative solution, I can shut down my laptop's sendmail > and tunnel port 25 from my external mail server through ssh. > Unfortunately, mutt uses /sbin/sendmail to post outbound messages, > so they end up in the queue of my loca

Re: High-speed connectivity in NH (was http://www.whizwireless.com/ )

2002-06-06 Thread Jerry Feldman
As Marc Evans posted, Starband went downhill to the point where he disconnected them. One of Starband's issues is that those who used both Starband for Internet and Dish Networks for TV paid their bills to Dish. At some point, Dish failed to transfer these funds to Starband. This whole thing s

Re: sendmail and alternate ports

2002-06-06 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
* On 2002-06-06 at 05:53, Rodent of Unusual Size <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> excited the electrons to say: > > Regardless.. Normally, when sendmail speaks to another system > it will use port 25. Does anyone know if there's a way to tell > it "when you connect to mail.foo.com, use port 4000 instead o

sendmail and alternate ports

2002-06-06 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
I'm at LinuxTag in Germany, and whomever is providing the network is blocking port 25 (SMTP). Don't ask me why.. :-/ Regardless.. Normally, when sendmail speaks to another system it will use port 25. Does anyone know if there's a way to tell it "when you connect to mail.foo.com, use port 4000