GNHLUG / Boston User Groups MegaMeeting III

2002-08-01 Thread Bruce Dawson
GNHLUG is pleased to announce that we are participating in this year's Boston User Groups' MegaMeeting III. All local, technical user groups are invitited to this meeting, which will be attended by 400-500 IT and computer-related professionals in the Boston area, including CEOs, CTOs,

Re: ApacheCon cards

2002-07-25 Thread Bruce Dawson
We have another quarterly gathering in September, and we can put them on the table then. I'll let the various local chapter leaders speak up for their groups. --Bruce On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 05:44, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: We've got some 'postcards' printed up for hand distribution (not

Missing pictures on web site

2002-07-16 Thread Bruce Dawson
Sigh. I appear to have accidently deleted the pictures of the March meeting (the pictures that were on the gallery section of the web site http://news.gnhlug.org/) And we appear to have re-used the floppies they were taken on. Does anyone have pictures of that meeting (or a copy of that part

Re: procmail and IMAP (was: What do people use ...)

2002-06-24 Thread Bruce Dawson
I actually looked into doing that - I think it was way back in '95 - or maybe it was '96 - I can't remember anymore, brain cramps. At any rate, there are a lot of Imap attributes that don't map well into a filesystem. And I remember thinking: If it can't be done right - then don't do it. Of

Re: procmail and IMAP (was: What do people use ...)

2002-06-24 Thread Bruce Dawson
That would be a good hack! And I'd like to encourage someone to do it. But I feel its necessary to point out that most companies who use IMAP do so to avoid all the network traffic that dragging down each message to process it would entail. That's why POP is still around. Just my $0.02 worth -

Re: CNHLUG meetings?

2002-06-13 Thread Bruce Dawson
Hi James! Actually, the meeting was last night. Unfortunately, I was unable to make it. The meetings are at 7pm on every 2nd Wednesday of the month at Sybase in Concord. The chapter has a web site (www.centralug.org) with more details, including how to sign up for the mailing list (very low

Mailman configuration

2002-06-12 Thread Bruce Dawson
Has anyone had any experience with running mailman in a virtual hosted environment? I'm have some problems with it (its using the host name associated with the interface instead of the virtual host name) and could use some help. Thanks, Bruce signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: Mailman configuration

2002-06-12 Thread Bruce Dawson
Thanks for trying to help guys, but I have that set to mail.gnhlug.org, and mail is still going out as if from rogue.codemeta.com. Ummm. I wonder if I have something set in sendmail's configuration that's making it override the setting. Any sendmail guru's out there? --Bruce On Wed,

Re: GNHLUG charter (was: A note on Netiquette...)

2002-05-20 Thread Bruce Dawson
I dunno - I'm sorta burned out on this topic. We've been here so often before... So, let anarchy prevail! Whoever can get a charter passed by our general membership - more power to ya! (And I've got this wonderful chairmanship I can give ya too!) And then someone can post it on the web site (or

Another Linux Job Opportunity

2002-05-09 Thread Bruce Dawson
This just in from Greg Donovan at Optimal Engineering Partners (a contracting firm) (See CC address for who to contact for more info, or call (978) 256-1113 ext 103). We are seeking a consultant to perform some work for a customer of ours leveraging Linux kernel and SCSI skills. It is a two

Fwd: Open Source Job Board]

2002-04-21 Thread Bruce Dawson
Jerry got this and forwarded it to me. I'm posting it because we have a number of jobless people who might be looking for this (mostly) Linux-based avenue of job hunting. If anyone actually finds it useful, you might want to post a review on our web site: http://news.gnhlug.org/reviews.php

Re: Linux-Outlook (ouch) question

2002-04-04 Thread Bruce Dawson
OK. I have a really bizarre solution for you - and it usually works for me... I keep my schedule on my palm pilot, and there's lots-o-software to sync outlook with my pilot. When I find that I *absolutely have to* keep some MS-centric customer up to date with my calendar - I just upload my

Re: Broken software (was Re: RH7.2 install)

2002-03-29 Thread Bruce Dawson
When I need to embed a web server in an application (which beats writing a GUI), I usually use tclhttpd - it also runs as a standalone web server. Note that even though its light weight, the learning curve may be a bit steep - unless you know TCL.

Linux survey request from Rice University

2002-03-29 Thread Bruce Dawson
If you want to participate in a survey regarding your use of and feeling towards Linux, go to: http://www.surveypro.com/cgi-bin/surveypro/run_survey.cgi?id=2444 Our participation was requested by http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~dholakia I used it, it seems to collect interesting data - but it makes

Re: Internet Shutdown

2002-03-29 Thread Bruce Dawson
DId anyone note the headers on this? Looks like it originated with Majordomo within Compaq. I wonder if the system got hacked?! Internet Administrator wrote: *** Attention *** It's that time again! As many of you know, each year the Internet must be briefly shut down in order to

SwANH announcement: Training funding for IT professionals

2002-03-26 Thread Bruce Dawson
SwANH just sent out an announcment of a seminar that's of interest to those of us without jobs... http://www.swanh.org/comingevents.htm * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe

Great meeting last night

2002-03-21 Thread Bruce Dawson
Those who braved the weather and actually made it to the meeting (17 brave souls) got a real gem of a presentation by Dave Getzin at IBM. I'm not going to give away what was in the talk (you needed to be there), but trust me, we should feel a little more comfortable if IBM has the likes of

Re: Paul Lussier's mail is messed up

2002-03-12 Thread Bruce Dawson
Excellent! And now replies to your emails work too! --Bruce Paul Lussier wrote: In a message dated: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:22:44 EST John Abreau said: A few years ago I tried getting this working under sendmail, and I eventually gave up on it; I never got it working. Recently I replaced

Re: Interesting Newbie article at CentraLUG.org

2002-02-20 Thread Bruce Dawson
Mike: Thanks for replying to this user while I've been busy. RABNUD: I'm sorry for taking so long to reply, but this is the first chance I've had to write a proper reponse. Also, it looks like Mike, (one of our more, ummm, shall we say direct members) has replied accurately and succinctly.

Re: Network diagram information

2002-02-17 Thread Bruce Dawson
You may want to check out 'scotty' - TCL based network discovery tool kit. I believe you'll want the 'tkined' program in that package. Jim McGlaughlin wrote: GNHLUGers I am looking for an information resource that discusses command line utilities and how to use them to figure out network

Re: Interesting Newbie article at CentraLUG.org

2002-02-14 Thread Bruce Dawson
Thanks for posting this Mike - I've been waiting for some of the regular subscribers to at least mention the web site (visit and offering to help maintain it would be nice too). I just posted some FAQs to the news web site that might answer some of your questions. (I chose to point out

Re: ssh and security

2002-02-14 Thread Bruce Dawson
In your /etc/sendmail.cf file add goaway or noexpn,novrfy to O PrivacyOptions=... --Bruce Derek D. Martin wrote: Joshua S. Freeman said: Speaking of which, is there a how-to somewhere that instructs one how to harden sendmail by disabling VRFY and EXPN ? J. Yes. Sendmail comes wit

Interesting Newbie article at CentraLUG.org

2002-02-12 Thread Bruce Dawson
What appears to be a rather frustrated newbie posted the following article at the CentraLUG web site: http://www.centralug.org/article.php?sid=37 * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text

Re: Welcome to VI Care

2002-02-05 Thread Bruce Dawson
Groan - sorry about that - I upgraded the server to a newer version of MySQL and made the erroroneous assumption that MySQL was upward compatibile. So much for being better than MS! ;-) I guess I'll be late getting into work today ... --Bruce mike ledoux wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: Business Card CD

2002-01-10 Thread Bruce Dawson
If you can find a drive that can actually record them, I'd like to know about it! I have 3 CD burners, (2 SCSI and 1 IDE, 1 all 3 years old) and none of the drives will burn a business card CD. Although they all burn normal CDs fine under Linux. Ed Lawson wrote: Quick question . Does anyone

Re: Good experience with VMware workstation 3.0 [Reviews]

2002-01-09 Thread Bruce Dawson
Hi Alex! Thanks for letting us know about this. I don't suppose I could get you to write a review on the web page for this? Just what you wrote here would be fine. To the rest of the group (and Alex): To write reviews: 1. Go to http://news.gnhlug.org/ 2. Log in (or register if you haven't

Re: Bash question...

2002-01-03 Thread Bruce Dawson
I'd prefer if the exploit wasn't posted on the mailing list or the web pages. We'd be accused of promoting that sort of thing, which I don't want to do - especially in the current political climate. He can mail it to the individuals who really want to see it. --Bruce Michael O'Donnell wrote:

Happy New Year!

2002-01-02 Thread Bruce Dawson
I just wanted to wish everyone a very Happy New Year (and best wishes to everyone who comes in contact with us)! Let's make 2002 be the year of GNHLUG domination (with apologies to Linus Torvalds)! --Bruce * To unsubscribe

Re: ide-scsi Question

2001-12-31 Thread Bruce Dawson
Put the following in your boot stanza in /etc/lilo.conf append=hda=ide-scsi (and re-run lilo). Or put 'hda=ide-scsi' on the boot command line. This tells the kernel that the ide-scsi logic is only to be applied to /dev/hda - all other devices should use the IDE interface. --Bruce Ed

Re: Final Thoughts and NEWS of new Chairman

2001-12-14 Thread Bruce Dawson
dates ;-) They've been in the works for at least a year now. * Revamped web site with faster turn around for changes - Ben Scott, Charlie Farinella, and Bruce Dawson. (Charlie has already begun the re-vamp). * Moving the primary mailing list servers to gnhlug.org (Bruce Dawson

Warning: forthcoming noise

2001-12-11 Thread Bruce Dawson
Hi all! I'm entering the test phase of the auto-postiing-to-mail scripts for http://news.gnhlug.org/ So there may be some noise messages coming across to the list. But only if I run into problems in the final phases. I promise I'll try to keep it to a minimum, but this is software. So consider

Job opp porting a windows app to Lniux

2001-11-28 Thread Bruce Dawson
I got a call from a contract/job recruiter who needs the following. Let me know if you're interested and I'll give you his email address. I'd probably take it, but I don't know Windows as well as I think they might like. --Bruce SW engineer to do some low level programming and debugging. 5+

Re: How do you whois a domain not tracked by InterNIC?

2001-11-15 Thread Bruce Dawson
This has all undergone a dramatic change recently. us.neustar.biz is the new purveyor of the .us domain. And they don't appear to have a whois server up yet! G. --Bruce PS: It looks like the .us domain is no longer free either. Paul Lussier wrote: I'm drawing a blank on this on, Neal

Concord Meeting tonight! Wednesday November 14th

2001-11-14 Thread Bruce Dawson
, 12 Nov 2001, Bruce Dawson wrote: Well, I never got a confirmation from our intended speaker, so I'll be speaking on openssl/openssh on Wednesday. I am going to try real hard to make it, can I get either an address or directions for the meeting place? --charlie -- Charles Farinella

Re: Concord Meeting tonight! Wednesday November 14th

2001-11-14 Thread Bruce Dawson
Yipes. Sorry guys - the date is really November 14 - NOT Sept 12 - just another cut and paste errors. Sigh. I guess 7:30 AM is still too early for me! PS: Sorry, but the tardis is full. We are no longer accepting reservations. :-) Charles Farinella wrote: On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Bruce Dawson

Re: NHPR bitcasts

2001-11-06 Thread Bruce Dawson
I exchanged a lot of email with NHPR on this matter a few weeks ago during their fund drive. (I sent them a message during their spring fund drive indicating that we were witholding our donations until they had a solution that wasn't specific to Microsoft and similar messages more recently.)

Re: MediaOne is at it again - no DNS allowed!?!

2001-11-05 Thread Bruce Dawson
until several hours after an area has been re-ip'ed. (Thank goodness they use longish lease times!) --Bruce Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: Bruce Dawson wrote: A friend of mine in Mass. has been told by their help desk that MediaOne is no longer providing reverse lookup records

MediaOne is at it again - no DNS allowed!?!

2001-11-04 Thread Bruce Dawson
A friend of mine in Mass. has been told by their help desk that MediaOne is no longer providing reverse lookup records for their customer's addresses. I know this isn't specifically Linux related, but a lot of us use MediaOne. Does anyone know more about MediaOne's logic behind this? The

Re: Score one for the good guys (DeCSS)

2001-11-02 Thread Bruce Dawson
I'm pretty sure CSS will now claim that the DeCSS *executable* is a mechanism which can be used to cicumvent copy protection, (which the DMCA also prevents). So I believe the use of expression is now the critical test for DMCA. If CSS (or whoever) can prove that you circumvented the copy

Re: SWANH Conference 2001

2001-10-31 Thread Bruce Dawson
Tom: Thanks for forwarding this. I notice the conference is heavily weighted to the Microsoft crowd in spite of the Linux vs XP segment - and there aren't any Linux sponsors. I also note that it has an attendence fee of $40-$50 for the whole day. Is there some relationship? Is SwANH in

Re: SWANH Conference 2001

2001-10-31 Thread Bruce Dawson
I agree. Jonathan is an excellent choice. Now I just need to see if I can attend! My primary concern is that Microsoft can out-spin even themselves, and they have a wonderful new product to tout too. I wonder if they'll give Jonathan a chance to speak! (And I'm more concerned with the Microsoft

Re: GNHLUG list to be down this weekend

2001-10-26 Thread Bruce Dawson
Thanks for the warning Bayard! Meanwhile, all the recent threads are on http://news.gnhlug.org/ Feel free to continue your conversations there! --Bruce PS: Things posted at news.gnhlug.org are NOT automatically posted to the mailig list. At least not yet. Bayard Coolidge USG wrote:

Re: Network Appliance-like snapshots?

2001-10-19 Thread Bruce Dawson
No - you're not getting senile (yet). I think you are thinking of the Veritas File System (also Tru64's AdvFS). But good luck getting a port to Linux! --Bruce Ken Ambrose wrote: I seem to recall that someone was working on NetApp-like snapshot functionality for the 2.4(.5?) kernel series.

Re: Impatient with cable

2001-10-18 Thread Bruce Dawson
I have an associate in Merrimack that is also an Adelphia customer. He has frequently complained of similar problems. If I were you (or your friend), I would NOT move in to a community supported by Adelphia - at least not if I were going to depend on their cable internet service. Other that

Re: Focus of GNHLUG Mail List

2001-10-03 Thread Bruce Dawson
Thanks Bayard. Just one minor correction: Its [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] The '@codemeta.com' used to work, but I don't think it will any longer. All: we're working on getting a server for [EMAIL PROTECTED], but its going to be a while. --Bruce PS: I second getting back

Trolling for centralug web content

2001-09-30 Thread Bruce Dawson
Does anyone have any problems with me putting some of the messages from this group on the centralug web page (which is more news-ish than the mailing list - sorta like slashdot). You have to admit that some of the threads in this group are thought-provoking. The goal is to increase the profile

Re: Trolling for centralug web content

2001-09-30 Thread Bruce Dawson
the articles (sorta like a threaded discussion in the mailing list. For a general GNHLUG site, I would pretty much end up cloning this site and then renaming all CentraLUGs to GNHLUG. --Bruce Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: Bruce Dawson wrote: ... Also, how many would like a similar site for all

Re: I'm Wireless!

2001-09-28 Thread Bruce Dawson
Thanks for sending this in. Iwas wondering how difficult it would be. BTW:I've added this to the CentraLUG FAQ list at: http://www.centralug.org/news --Bruce "Thomas M. Albright" wrote: OK, I got the wireless card working in Linux. Here's how. First I had to go to the ORiNOCO Web Site:

Re: I'm Wireless!

2001-09-28 Thread Bruce Dawson
Sorry guys (and gal[s]), my mouse must've spazed when I sent that (and *it* accidently clicked the HTML button instead of the Plain Text button). Or my eyes, or my brain, or maybe it was just me. Anyway, it was unintentional. Well people, enjoy your last free weekend before HossTraders!

Re: Terrorism from a Mouse

2001-09-21 Thread Bruce Dawson
Bryan: Thanks for checking up on this! I was beginning to worry - the DMCA was bad enough, and I certainly don't want anything worse! The Sklyrov(?) arrest has me seriously worried - I'm still wondering if we have all the facts and if not, what's being hidden. I'm glad to see that we have at

Stopping infected systems from hitting your linux server

2001-09-19 Thread Bruce Dawson
This is discussed at the centralug site (Concord area). There's even a shell script there! http://www.centralug.org/article.php?sid=9mode=threadorder=2 ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following

What happened?

2001-09-18 Thread Bruce Dawson
Have I been dropped from the list, is the network swamped, or is everyone still in shock from last Tuesday? I haven't been seeing any messages lately. --Bruce ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Re: What happened?

2001-09-18 Thread Bruce Dawson
had a few messages personally from members of GNHLUG, but have seen no traffic to speak of. Jerry Bruce Dawson wrote: Have I been dropped from the list, is the network swamped, or is everyone still in shock from last Tuesday? I haven't been seeing any messages lately. --Bruce

New web site http://www.centralug.org/

2001-09-17 Thread Bruce Dawson
CentraLUG (GNHLUG's Central-NH chapter - aka Concord) has a new web site at: http://www.centralug.org// Check it out! Submit news. Let us know what you think! ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Re: Celebrate Unix time hitting 1 billion tomorrow...

2001-09-07 Thread Bruce Dawson
Where will that party be? (And what applications should we bring?) I'm not saying I'll come (yet), but its an intriguing excuse for a party! --Bruce Karl J. Runge wrote: People like me w/o lives are invited to a party tomorrow night at: Sat Sep 8 21:46:40 EDT 2001 when Unix time

Re: Java meeting in concord

2001-09-04 Thread Bruce Dawson
I believe it was Brad Maxwell back in June. You can probably send him mail via the gnhlug mail-archives (see http://www.gnhlug.org for more infomation on the mail archives). --Bruce Derek Doucette wrote: Hey all: I attended a lug meeting in concord this summer where someone (I'm terrible

Re: gnhlug site

2001-08-21 Thread Bruce Dawson
Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I couldn't find any references to nnh.net until I did a google search and it found some *really old* pages with references to nnh.net on my system (I guess Kurth used to have that in his signature of some mail messages). Needless to say, I've fixed the

Re: MELBA Meeting Wednesday, 22 August, 2001

2001-08-21 Thread Bruce Dawson
' kinda way. Rich C wrote: Who:Bruce Dawson [snip] So, come one, come all, and help us consume both beer and wisdom (or at least help us heckle Ben :) So...no matter who's speaking, Ben is the one who gets heckled? Interesting

mod_ssl, php4.0 and apache 1.3.19

2001-08-19 Thread Bruce Dawson
Has anyone been able to successfully get these 3 software systems to play together? I'm becoming very frustrated with the documentation in the mod_ssl-2.8.3-1.3.19 tree - it doesn't appear to match reality (all modules are DSO'ed in my apache configuration), and the instructions just don't work

Re: IBM Open Source.

2001-08-08 Thread Bruce Dawson
How about a mechanism whereby community members could vote to give contributors money? This would go a long way to establishing a widely-accepted monetary value for software development (at least open source software). LTC could use the mechanism to re-imburse individual developers for their

Re: Backing talk with action? (was: Re: News from the Mouth front)

2001-07-25 Thread Bruce Dawson
For the governmental sector, I'd stay away from anything cutting-edge and open-source! (Which leaves out just about everything dealing with groupware - except maybe Twiki - but that's just collaboration-ware - and most MS-Office types don't like it). Are you asking for a few volunteer hours a

Re: Audio CD Text info

2001-07-11 Thread Bruce Dawson
Have you tried using the -useinfo option to cdrecord? It uses the .inf file associated with the .wav file. --Bruce Alex Miller wrote: ... However, I can't find any doc's on how make an audio CD from my own .wav files, adding the text. The .inf files that cdda2wav creates contains cddb

Re: ANIVERSARY: 10 years of LINUX

2001-06-11 Thread Bruce Dawson
What about all those meetings we had in the Edison room? Weren't they before the first UNH meeting? --Bruce Bayard Coolidge USG wrote: Jeff Smith asked: Anyone have a date for the first meeting of GNHLUG? Forwarded: Tue, 18 Oct 94 12:10:28 -0400 Forwarded: frank Forwarded: Mon, 17 Oct

Re: CapsLock

2001-06-11 Thread Bruce Dawson
I think you want to use xmodmap - there's a man page for it. Its not as difficult as it sounds. And for console mode, try loadkeys - there's also a man page for that! --Bruce Thomas M. Albright wrote: How do I stop it from functioning? I know there's something you can put in XF86Config to

Re: Attrition.org to cease mirroring web defacements

2001-05-23 Thread Bruce Dawson
There's numerous products on the market that do this - they're usually bundled as web site monitoring - and alert when flooding occurs, certain pages change, along with monitoring response times from several sites on the net, and various other items. Its also fairly easy to implement as a

Re: reverse telnet

2001-04-24 Thread Bruce Dawson
Are you looking for something like netcat? (http://www.l0pht.com/~weld/netcat) It's named nc on most Linux distributions - there's a man page too! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need reverse telnet for Linux - anybody know where I can get it? For the curious: reverse telnet involves a

Re: Mouse Rehab

2001-04-19 Thread Bruce Dawson
Try turning off gpm ('gpm -k' from root), or killing the gpm process. Quoting Kenneth E. Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, Can someone please help my mouse kick the crack habit that it has recently picked up? ;-) I finally got xf86 to work (4.0.2) with my video card, but now my mouse

GNHLUG mailing list archives

2001-04-16 Thread Bruce Dawson
I'm not really pleased with mail-archive.com's performance of late - there are no messages from March, let alone April on the list. Should we be looking for another archiver? ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Am I expecting too much?

2001-04-09 Thread Bruce Dawson
Errr - I haven't played with the latest version of star office, but if its anything like the earlier versions, its one of the largest applications I've ever seen on Linux --- its *huge* - and doesn't use shared libraries. The only other application that's larger seems to be Oracle. This means:

Re: SnedMail Issue

2001-04-07 Thread Bruce Dawson
Uhhh. This is strange. What version of sendmail and which distro? Usually, the symlinks have to go in /etc/smrsh. And does your perl script have execute permission? And do its parent directories have world-read permissions? --Bruce Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: All, I am having a weird

Re: Can Linux solve this problem?

2001-04-02 Thread Bruce Dawson
I think you're going to be out-of-luck on this one. At least with MS Word as the target document format. It would require a postscript interpreter to generate a Word format file - and I don't think MS has ever documented their format (the reason I've always seen is: Use the API). Hence, no one

Re: Can Linux solve this problem? (PDF files)

2001-04-02 Thread Bruce Dawson
I'm not sure if everyone knows this or not, and I'm not sure if its applicable to Bob's situation, but ghostscript comes with ps2pdf - a program that converts .ps files to .pdf files. --Bruce Bayard ... and it's unclear that there Bayard is a product to create PDF documents available from

Re: Configure options in RPM?

2001-03-21 Thread Bruce Dawson
Changing the ./configure options is highly dependent on how they put the RPM together. But the general principle is: 1. Install the source RPM: $ rpm -ivh foo.bar.src.rpm 2. If they do the configure in the SPEC file, then you can change it there: $ vi

Re: My computer doesn't recognize me

2001-03-18 Thread Bruce Dawson
What are you doing inside working on your computer on a gorgous day such as this? (I have an excuse - I'm a nerd). ;-) The first thing that comes to my mind is that your /etc directory doesn't have 755 permissions. --Bruce farinella wrote: I'm sorry if I've already sent a similar message,

Re: colocation services?

2001-03-05 Thread Bruce Dawson
I would second Marc's choice - We've been using them for years and their Unix expertise is hard to beat. And their price is good too (compared to others with similar capabilities). Quoting Marc Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Locally, consider MV Communication (www.mv.com). If you want something

Re: Help: Dying machine?

2001-02-28 Thread Bruce Dawson
First, make sure the disks aren't full. Then make sure the swap is mounted. My first inclination is to suspect a disk error - especially if you have IDE disks. Also, try rebooting. I suspect something in the kernel is *really* confused. After that, you can scan the logs to find out what caused

Re: Help: Dying machine?

2001-02-28 Thread Bruce Dawson
An earlier message indicated that identd may be at fault - usually, that's only started because something (usually a remote mail agent) is trying to verify that a user is on that system. So either someone from you system sent out a bunch of spam, or your system is about to (or is) undergo a spam

Re: Can someone translate for me?

2001-02-25 Thread Bruce Dawson
Your firewall prevented someone at 200.42.123.197 (a200042123197.rev.prima.com.ar) from accessing port 12345 on your system. The easiest way to make sure your system is relatively well protected from random attacks is to have a friend run NMAP against your system (from outside your firewall).

Bill Sconce

2001-02-21 Thread Bruce Dawson
Our good friend and fellow penguin lover, Bill Sconce, is in the hospital. He is doing well and rapidly recovering from emergency abdominal surgery. They expect to discharge him "real soon now". (Good thing hospitals aren't in the software business!) If you wish to see him or send flowers,

Re: weird xauth messages

2001-02-20 Thread Bruce Dawson
Something similar usually happens when one loses one's SSH connections (typically caused by a crashed X server). Try using 'xauth remove :10.0' and 'xauth remove /unix:10.0' to get rid of the messages. But you may want to do a 'xauth list' and 'xauth info' to see if you're using them first!

Yahoo - Cray Inc. Announces Plans for Alpha Linux SuperCluster Systems

2001-02-01 Thread Bruce Dawson USG
Have people seen this one? http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010129/ny_cray.html ** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug

Re: bash shell scripting questions

2001-01-23 Thread Bruce Dawson
Instead of 'ls', try: find $1 -name \*.jpg Note that you'll have to use '.' if you want all the files in the current directory. --Bruce "Thomas M. Albright" wrote: I just finished writing a shell script. Well, not really cause it doesn't do what I want yet. Anyway: I have a

Re: 'nother question

2001-01-21 Thread Bruce Dawson
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Bruce Dawson wrote: One of the great mysteries of the DNS world is: Why do they still refer to 'bind' as 'named' - or vice versa? FWIW, I've heard the (possibly bogus) explanation that "BIND"

Re: 'nother question

2001-01-20 Thread Bruce Dawson
One of the great mysteries of the DNS world is: Why do they still refer to 'bind' as 'named' - or vice versa? BIND's program is 'named', which is what is usually running - there is no program called 'bind'! (However, there is a RPM package called 'bind'). The two names for the same thing just

Re: SLUG calendar

2001-01-17 Thread Bruce Dawson
I'm seconding that motion. Now: Who gets to implement it? Quoting Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In a message dated: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 09:27:35 EST Jerry Kubeck said: All Chapter Chairs should post to the gnhlug-announce list any meetings before then and all Feb meetings should do fine on

Re: losa IDE drives @ 2.4

2001-01-15 Thread Bruce Dawson
We've used siig (http://www.siig.com/) controllers before with good success. I think we have 7 drives one one system (Linux) using the motherboard IDE connectors and a SIIG card. --Bruce Tom Rauschenbach wrote: From what I read, the 2.4 kernel supports up to 10 IDE drives. I just bought a

Re: Home Automation

2001-01-15 Thread Bruce Dawson
I did a presentation on X10 and Linux a year or so ago to GNHLUG at DWC in Nashua. Unfortunately, it only backed up my assertion that X10 is not to be relied upon. (I couldn't get the CM11A I brought to work - typical for a demo :-). That's my first caveat. My second one is that the software is

Re: ATA/IDE RAID for Linux?

2001-01-15 Thread Bruce Dawson
I've only had one customer venture into the IDE RAID space on a Linux box. It worked fine until one of the drives failed, and the controller corrupted *both* drives (probably because it didn't know one drive of the mirror failed and it blithely kept syncing the mirror set). I don't think

Re: VMware win95 sandbox

2001-01-06 Thread Bruce Dawson
Great job Karl! I don't suppose you'd like to post the script - I'm sure someone would like to cannibalize it for their own use - or make something similar for win4lin and other Windoz emulators. --Bruce "Karl J. Runge" wrote: Hi, My wife and I have been receiving a lot of .EXE attachment

Re: While we're talking Sendmail...

2001-01-04 Thread Bruce Dawson
As root, do: ln -s /tmp/mailps2pdf.pl /etc/smrsh/ --Bruce Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: I've whipped up a Perl script that parses an incoming e-mail, stripping off the Postscript, converting it to a PDF, and then attaching it to an e-mail that it then sends back to the original sender.

Re: kde problems

2000-12-29 Thread Bruce Dawson
Did you run ldconfig after changing /etc/ld.so.conf? (Ordinarily, this is done at boot, but I suspect you haven't been rebooting after every change.) --Bruce "Thomas M. Albright" wrote: On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote: On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Thomas M. Albright wrote:

Re: VPN solutions for Linux and Windoze

2000-11-28 Thread Bruce Dawson
I'm using a LinkSys BEFSR41 (http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=20grid=5) as one of my firewalls and haven't had any problems. It supposedly routes PPTP packets without a problem, but I haven't tested that. Yet. Benjamin Scott wrote: Hello list, This topic was kinda-sorta

Re: help with remote logging

2000-11-27 Thread Bruce Dawson
You might have to restart syslog with the '-r' option in order to enable logging from INET sockets. --Bruce PS: I assume the packets are making it through your firewall (if any); I believe port 514/udp is what syslog uses. Quoting "Thomas M. Albright" [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I know how to set up

Re: [Fwd: IDE CD-burner]

2000-11-26 Thread Bruce Dawson
What error is cdrecord producing (and what command line are you using)? I have an IDE cd-rw, but I can no longer get it to work. I have the ide-scsi modules loaded, but cdrecord refuses to see it. ** To unsubscribe from this list, send

Re: [Fwd: IDE CD-burner]

2000-11-26 Thread Bruce Dawson
he bus, even though it is listed in /proc/scsi/scsi. When I reinstalled the system, it seems to have stopped recognizing it. I can still mount it as a cd-rom drive, though. And the drive itself is fine, because I can use it under Windoze. Kenny Bruce Dawson wrote: What error is cdrecord

Re: Help cutting a CD.

2000-11-25 Thread Bruce Dawson
Assuming your directory tree (of what you want to go on the CD) is at /tmp/cd, issue the following commands: mkisofs -J -r -T -A "Title of your CD" -o /tmp/your_iso_image_file.iso /tmp/cd cdrecord speed=4 dev=1,0,0 -isosize /tmp/your_iso_image_file.iso Notes: 1.

Re: DNS Woes

2000-11-09 Thread Bruce Dawson
It matters a lot if you have *both* a NIC connection and a PPP connection - usually you only want the resolv.conf file modified according your your *current* network connection. The PPP development team has managed to skirt this issue for a long time. Because this is a very thorny issue, I

Re: What do *YOU* think of the LUG meetings? (was: Is this us?)

2000-11-06 Thread Bruce Dawson
I don't know about everyone else, but I seem to remember proposing about 1/2 dozen topics most of the time. I never knew why they weren't carried forth - whether a speaker couldn't be found, people just ignore me, people forgot what was proposed, or whatever. Perhaps these conversations should

Re: Zombie

2000-11-03 Thread Bruce Dawson
If I remember correctly, its just a configuration parameter. But it can only be set by M1. (Because they changed the SNMP shared secret at installation time). Didn't someone on this list used to work for Bay Networks and have intimate knowledge of these beasties? Quoting "Derek D. Martin"

Re: /etc/passwd- ?

2000-11-02 Thread Bruce Dawson
I believe those files are created by pwconv (the password/shadow conversion utility). Quoting Paul Lussier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... Anyone know what the /etc/passwd- and /etc/shadow- files are? They appear to be backup versions of /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, but I can't seem to find any

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