Re: automated installation

2002-07-25 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, at 10:55am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I don't disagree with any of that, I was merely stating that it's an > > amusing read. > > You forget there is a real perso

Re: automated installation

2002-07-25 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Paul Iadonisi hath spake thusly: > > Compare Derek's complaints to what I > > would consider "standard sysadmin practices" as espoused by Evi > > Nemeth, et al, in the UNIX/Linux System Administrator's Handbook > > series.

my e-mail

2002-07-22 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FYI, My e-mail is currently not reliable. I seem to be having connection problems after a wierd power glitch the other day. I'm working on it... But in the mean time if you send me mail there's a good chance it will be deferred for more than sever

Re: Shell scripting moron

2002-07-17 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Erik Price hath spake thusly: > > On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 12:13 PM, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > > >[please configure your mailer to wrap lines] > > Is that the customary setting? Yes. > I thought that the burden of wr

Re: Clock synchronization from dialup?

2002-07-14 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Mark Polhamus hath spake thusly: > Has anyone come across clear, concise instructions for synchronizing > my clock to a network time server? I need instructions that will > work for a system that connects to the internet using

Re: Opinions on Reply-to (WAS: Abusing CC:)

2002-07-11 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Dana S. Tellier hath spake thusly: > I have a better idea... how about (this has definitely been > mentioned before) people just take a moment to note who they're > replying to? Making a mistake and replying to all when you

Re: Linux on IBM Laptops / Survey Questions

2002-07-11 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Paul Iadonisi hath spake thusly: > 1) I refuse to pay full price for a piece of equipment that I'm > not certain is 100% Linux compatible. (Winmodems+NonGPL Linmodem > drivers != 100% Linux compatible in my book.) Why? You

Re: Abusing CC:

2002-07-11 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > mwl's "Reply-To" suggestion is a good one. No, it isn't. The problem with setting reply-to is that it is done so infrequently that a responder is highly unlikely to notice, or to think

virus information

2002-07-08 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: virus information Reply-To: Twice in the last 24 hours, I've received e-mail with a virus attached. The IP address which both e-mails came from is the same: 66.31.4.184. This is an AT&T cable modem customer, so I'm sendi

Re: Corporate IT policy (was: Open SSH for Red Hat 6.2)

2002-07-08 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So far I've been quietly amused by this thread. :) But now I'd like to make several points that people have sort of been dancing around in this discussion, but haven't really hit upon, that I've seen so far. 1. There was, in fact, a discussion abo

Re: package management, etc. (was Re: Debian flamewar reborn)

2002-07-03 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, at 12:20pm, Derek D. Martin wrote: > > Missing from both right now, I think, is the ability to say that a > > particular package is recommended, but not

package management, etc. (was Re: Debian flamewar reborn)

2002-07-03 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Rich Payne hath spake thusly: > RedHat user, both have their advatages and disadvantages and one of the > advantages of Debian is that the packaging system is a little bit ahead of > RedHat (nothing that can't be fixed with a

Re: Open SSH for Red Hat 6.2

2002-07-02 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Charles Farinella hath spake thusly: > At the risk of contributing to said flame war, these are the steps I > took to upgrade openssh on RedHat 6.2: [SNIP] > Not quite as easy, but pretty easy just the same, and I don't have t

"Alias" uses Linux

2002-06-30 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I thought this was interesting, and some of you might too... For all who might not have caught it last night, the spy show "Alias" uses Linux. At about 40 min. through the show, they show Jack typing away on a laptop, and careful examination reveals

Re: iptables MIRROR target

2002-06-30 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Paul Iadonisi hath spake thusly: > Has anyone on this list experimented with the MIRROR target of > iptables? Bad, bad idea. This turns an attack back on the attacker, who may or may not really be the source of the attack.

Re: Ethernet issues

2002-06-28 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Chris hath spake thusly: > The issue I have is that during system startup, the BIOS finds, > identifies and allocates resources for my 2nd network card (Tried 2 > different ones in different slots) however, during system startu

Re: Linux OS kernel question

2002-06-26 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Michael O'Donnell hath spake thusly: > these days the boundary between the two is blurrier > than ever) but in commodity systems I assume you'd > agree that modems, NICs, SCSI adapters, etc are all > examples where the correspo

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

2002-06-25 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > On 25 Jun 2002, at 9:18am, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > >> Ever. NFS's history of piss-poor file locking means a shared mailspool is > >> a recipe for disaster in any kind of heterogeneous en

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

2002-06-25 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, at 8:45am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ... you shouldn't allow NFS access to your mail spool ... > > Ever. NFS's history of piss-poor file locking means a shared

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

2002-06-24 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > >This isn't exactly true; Paul is just stubborn. > > Hey, wait! I resemble that remark! ;) :) > >You can either leave the messages on the server, or provide > >your own back-up mechanis

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

2002-06-24 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > This raises a more general question: Does anyone here know of an IMAP > client tool(set) that can be driven from a command line or a shell script? > The more I think about it, the more

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

2002-06-24 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > On 24 Jun 2002, at 3:19pm, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > > Could you provide clarification as to where you are proposing to store > > this? On the IMAP server itself? > > I am envisioning a

Re: real scsi + ide-scsi module loading

2002-06-22 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Bill Freeman hath spake thusly: > I added an Adaptec AHA1542 and a Jaz drive to it (to have > enough room for a local iso image). Kudzu (or whatever checks "for > new hardware") didn't notice, nor did the hardware browse

lack of a job

2002-06-19 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, First off: Josh Flythe, contact me ASAP. Thanks! Now... Due to circumstances that I really don't want to go into here, I'm again finding myself without a job. I'm interested in obtaining a new position that fits one of the following desc

Re: X :2 -query to SCO Unix Open Server 5

2002-06-01 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Vince McHugh hath spake thusly: >One of the things at the bottom I notice is "direct > rendering" is disabled. I know that when we > successfully login via Humingbird's Exceed Xclient we > have to enable Direct Rendering.

Re: Trolling for Topics

2002-05-22 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > > In a message dated: Tue, 21 May 2002 18:19:44 EDT > "Derek D. Martin" said: > > >I'll buy a case of beer for the first person who figures out how to

Re: NT Authentication?

2002-05-21 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Joseph E. Mainusch hath spake thusly: > It is a little bit crude, and I don't know that I would trust it > 100% in a really security sensitive environment, but it does work. In a really security-sensitive environment, I wouldn

header munging, yet again.

2002-05-21 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Michael O'Donnell hath spake thusly: > FYI, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is distributed > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so mentioning them both as > recipients results in duplicate messages... It would seem that the gnhlug-announce has the reply-

Re: Ximian is coming!

2002-05-21 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Derek D. Martin hath spake thusly: > At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I just wanted to get this all out to you as soon as possible. > >

Re: Ximian is coming!

2002-05-21 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > > Hi all, > > I just wanted to get this all out to you as soon as possible. > > Our 2nd quaterly meeting this year will be presented by Ximian! Yeah, sure it will... I'll believe it w

Re: Microsoft admits their products are fatally flawed

2002-05-21 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Ben Boulanger hath spake thusly: > I would imagine that if Red Hat were in the same position, they'd say the > same thing. Just my guess, of course, but how could they/why would they > claim otherwise? Actually they would

exmh header garbage (was Re: Trolling for Topics)

2002-05-21 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Derek D. Martin hath spake thusly: > I'll buy a case of beer for the first person who figures out how to > make exmh NOT include all this header garbage in the body of messages! BTW, I'm quite serious.

Re: Trolling for Topics

2002-05-21 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Jon Hall hath spake thusly: > --- Blind-Carbon-Copy > > X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 01/15/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mail-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-face: "*Z"_&!oSMy(jPSh>DlEMM-U{L`=hQ>NpqEsh((]+iIT

Re: linux BIOS

2002-05-19 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yikes! The only reason I'm replying to this on-list at all is because it seems that I was insufficiently clear in the way I phrased the original post I made on the topic, and people are still sending messages on and off list about this topic. Please

Re: SOLVED: Problem with X resources on upgrade to RH-7.3/KDE-3.0.0-5

2002-05-18 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Derek D. Martin hath spake thusly: > However, while Steven's having added this to the startkde script may > fix his problem, I'll note that the startkde script does not use xrdb > to load resources on RH 7

Re: SOLVED: Problem with X resources on upgrade to RH-7.3/KDE-3.0.0-5

2002-05-18 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > > > It is unacceptable to have to do an xrdb -load on a resource file at startup. > > It may be unacceptable, but I've been doing this for years. It's the > only way I can guarantee tha

Re: /etc/fstab beginner question

2002-05-17 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Michael Bovee hath spake thusly: > Hi again, > 1) does fd0 strictly mean floppy disks or can that generically be > used for zip disks, too? The short answer is yes, and no respectively. The longer answer is that IIRC, the d

My nightmare (was Re: Problem with X resources on upgrade to RH-7.3/KDE-3.0.0-5)

2002-05-17 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Steven W. Orr hath spake thusly: > This is complicated to explain, but please bear with me. > > I just upgraded from RH-7.2 to 7.3. My problem is that, for some reason, > my backspace key no longer works in pine (as well as o

Re: Dealing with spaces in filenames re: scripts...

2002-05-17 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Jerry Feldman hath spake thusly: > Especially in the Unix/Linux environment, I think that creating files or > directories with spaces is ill advised, but there is a reality. Many > Windows users are migrating to Linux, and ar

Re: Dealing with spaces in filenames re: scripts...

2002-05-17 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: > On Fri, 17 May 2002, at 4:08pm, Derek D. Martin wrote: > > Some (like me) would argue that the right way *is* to remove the spaces > > from your filenames. > > Compu

Re: Dealing with spaces in filenames re: scripts...

2002-05-17 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Ken Ambrose hath spake thusly: > Hello, all. As previously noted, I just got hitched. I've also got a > bunch of pictures, now (good ones, too!) You should post a link to them when you're done! >, and I'd like to munge 'em

Re: Samba & Windows Virii

2002-05-17 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, mike ledoux hath spake thusly: > Your link indicates that this is not actually the case. I guess I'll > give it a try with one of the commercial scanners and see where that > leads. Thanks! I have a slightly-more-than passin

Re: EXT2 to EXT3

2002-05-15 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Kenneth E. Lussier hath spake thusly: > Hi All, > > I've been considering moving my servers to ext3 for a while now, and I > think that I am ready to take the plunge. To echo what Ben and Ben said, just make sure you've got a

Re: Good Netizenship [was Re: linux BIOS ]

2002-05-14 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: > > More effort has now been spent on this thread than will ever be spent > summarizing anything. Sometimes, when one is a member of a loose community such as this one, it is worth spending

Netiquette (was Re: linux BIOS)

2002-05-14 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Ben Boulanger hath spake thusly: > On Mon, 13 May 2002, Derek D. Martin wrote: > I find it pretty presumptious of you to assume people should provide you > with the summary.. Well, I'm sorry, but that just see

Re: RFCs online

2002-05-13 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Michael O'Donnell hath spake thusly: > > Not long ago it was asked where RFCs > might be found online. I don't remember if > anybody mentioned http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/ > but it seems to work well, just FYI... I didn't see t

Re: linux BIOS

2002-05-13 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Ben Boulanger hath spake thusly: > This is an interesting project that LANL's involved with.. rather than > try and misquote or misrepresent what it is, here's the link: > http://www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios/index.html I propo

Re: Red Hat is coming to New England

2002-05-09 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: > On Thu, 9 May 2002, at 12:32pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > They seem to be big on the "this is a bad economy so we can get people > > cheap" idea. > > Of course, that idea isn't necessar

Re: statically compiling?

2002-05-01 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, mike ledoux hath spake thusly: > On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:15:16PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > FYI: Your mailer is broken, the above line appeared in the body of your > m

Re: SMP kernels?

2002-04-28 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > >Linux blackavar.com 2.4.17 #7 SMP Sun Jan 27 08:17:09 EST 2002 i686 unknown > > Well, uname -a seems the same: > $ uname -a > Linux taz 2.4.18 #8 SMP Sat Apr 27 19:26:36 EDT

Re: console access through serial port?

2002-04-25 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Rodent of Unusual Size hath spake thusly: > Ben Boulanger wrote: > > To get kernel info output to the serial line (and lose it on the VGA [SNIP] > > http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/doc/serial-console.txt.html> > suggests th

Re: Books

2002-04-25 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > Hi all, > > I'm thinking about getting W. Richard Stevens book "Unix Network > Programming". Not for any particular reason other than

Re: console access through serial port?

2002-04-25 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Rodent of Unusual Size hath spake thusly: > Ben Boulanger wrote: > > > > To get kernel info output to the serial line (and lose it on the VGA > > line), in lilo.conf add: > > serial=0,38400n8 > > image=blah > >

Re: Wednesday Meeting

2002-04-23 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > I apologize for not being a little more organized this month. This > "new job" thing has gotten in my way, and I've been quite distracted. Oh come on, I reminded you about this at the b

Re: (OT) Hardware Pointers

2002-04-23 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Michael Costolo hath spake thusly: > --- Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, at 5:12am, Michael Costolo wrote: > > > I don't believe that NVidia only releases binary drivers. I distinctly > > > r

Re: Another (simpler) bash scripting question...

2002-04-22 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: > If portability is a concern, depending on the environment, it is sometimes > easier to install the GNU tools everywhere than try to craft something that > works on all the "native" tools.

Re: Another (simpler) bash scripting question...

2002-04-22 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Kevin D. Clark hath spake thusly: > >result=badness# init with failure default > >spewSomeKindOfOutput | while read input > >do > >result=goodness > >done > >echo $result > > > > What is the out

Re: (OT) Hardware Pointers

2002-04-22 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Kenneth E. Lussier hath spake thusly: > On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 21:19, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > > I'm thinking about a new machine too. What motherboard do you have? > > Would that be your recommendation now for an Athlon? F

Re: Shell scripting tips and tricks (was: I need a date! )

2002-04-22 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Jerry Feldman hath spake thusly: > Actually, [ is a link to test. Linux uses a symlink, some Unixes use hard > links. > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root17496 Sep 20 2001 /usr/bin/test > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root

Re: Shell scripting tips and tricks (was: I need a date! )

2002-04-21 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Tom Buskey hath spake thusly: > I've had problems with [[ ]] on pdksh in the past. [ ] is also > internal on modern unixen. You can get the real ksh from David Korn's website. It's now freely available, though I don't know

Re: On GNU/Linux

2002-04-20 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Oops... The reference (footnote [1]) was: Bach, Maurice J. _The Design of the Unix Operating System_. Prentice Hall, 1986, pg 4. - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - I prefer mail

On GNU/Linux

2002-04-20 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As we all know, rms started a campaign to get people to call Linux systems "GNU/Linux" instead of Linux. His goal is to improve the perceived recognition of the FSF and the GNU Project - a reasonable goal. However I believe this method of achieving

DMCA petition

2002-04-20 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you haven't found/signed it yet, you can do so here: http://www.petitiononline.com/nixdmca/ - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key I

Re: I need a date!

2002-04-19 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Steven W. Orr hath spake thusly: > gunzip < /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1.gz | groff -pte -man | lpr > > Try it :-) This is essentially identical to Matt's man -t bash, only with a lot more typing. The other difference is that

Re: I need a date!

2002-04-19 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Thomas M. Albright hath spake thusly: > > What's with the 'let' keyword? > > it's the only way i know to add to variables: > today=`date +%j` > let tomorrow=$today+1 If you need your scripts to be portable, the normal way to

feel free to ignore

2002-04-18 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry for the noise, but my mail somehow became really wierd, so I'm testing it. - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Ret

Re: console access through serial port?

2002-04-18 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Michael O'Donnell hath spake thusly: > > > > http://oss.mclinux.com/projects/crash/ > > crash can provide interesting insights into a live > system but is only useful for post-mortem stuff if > you've figured out how to con

Re: console access through serial port?

2002-04-18 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: > If the system is well and truly hung, the Linux serial console may be > toast, too, and will not help you. Good point. > Many "server" machines have BIOS options which can enable pre-boot

Re: console access through serial port?

2002-04-18 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Cole Tuininga hath spake thusly: > You have to have serial support turned on on the server obviously, do > not turn on "support for console on serial port". Believe it or not, > this is not what you want. I disagree, with the

Re: console access through serial port?

2002-04-18 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Rodent of Unusual Size hath spake thusly: > 1. Is there any way to get access to the console through the >serial port? Absolutely. /Documentation/serial-console.txt This file contains all the details of everything t

Re: Another emacs question

2002-04-17 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Kevin D. Clark hath spake thusly: > 1: Use ange-ftp. Fire up a gnuclient and type: > > C-x C-f /root@somemachine:/etc/hosts > > (it is possible to do this over ssh as well) > How please? - -- Derek Martin

Re: Fight list header cancer (was: root PATH, double posts)

2002-04-16 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: > Which means you are sending it to them twice. Any mailing list includes > all of its members, by definition; sending to "all" is redundant. Do your > part to fight List Header Cancer, and

Re: Sparc Linux distro

2002-04-16 Thread Derek D. Martin
At some point hitherto, Rich Payne hath spake thusly: > I have woody running nicely on an Ultima 1 Great game! Though I liked Ultima III better, and Ultima Online really rocked, until I started to resent the $10/mo. charge for playing. -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: total newbie question

2002-04-15 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Michael Bovee hath spake thusly: > Okay, apologies in advance, but something I _just dont get_ is the > PATH variable. > (I'm a born and raised Macintosh user so please bear with me) > I bought a SAMS Teach Yourself book on Un

Re: Emacs questions

2002-04-15 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > The first thing I'd like to do is have it append new entries to file > as opposed to inserting them at the top. Any idea how to do this? None whatsoever, but I'd like to offer a perspec

HTML to LaTeX

2002-04-11 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Some time in the past I was looking for a utility that would convert from HTML to something else that could be converted into other useful formats, but I had been unable to find such a beast. I happened across html2latex while looking for something e

Documentation (was Re: OpenOffice)

2002-04-09 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: > > I found DocBook to be really easy. All I needed was ... > > You people are making a classic mistake, in not realizing what the > user (Derek, in this case) ) really means. Derek's a brig

Re: Fun GNOME Eye candy..

2002-04-09 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Paul Iadonisi hath spake thusly: > pick on up. Anyone know if there is a Linux supported hardware > accelerated card that'll drive the SGI 1600SW widescreen? And if > so, anyone in the market for a Number Nine card that I mig

Re: OpenOffice

2002-04-09 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Mark Komarinski hath spake thusly: > DocBook is great because it separates out the authoring from the > presentation. Oh, I agree with the benefits of using it, I just find actually using it painful. > There are a few newer

Re: farallon wireless card

2002-04-09 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Joshua S. Freeman hath spake thusly: > Anyone have any guidance on getting 7.2 (laptop installation) to see/use a > farallon wireless skyline card? You should probably check out the Wireless Howto, here: http://www.hpl.hp.c

Re: farallon wireless card

2002-04-09 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Jerry Feldman hath spake thusly: > 7. 2 - Red Hat or SuSE? > BTW: I have had no luck gettung my Compaq WL110 (Orinoco) working. > I am not running WEP or other encryption on my WAP. I can see the orinoco > driver load when I

Re: OpenOffice

2002-04-09 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Mark Komarinski hath spake thusly: > Depending on how large the document is, you may want to just use > DocBook and generate PDF. Then again, you can generate RTF (the > base of DOC) from DocBook as well. My experience with D

Re: UW-IMAP performance (was: Linux-Outlook (ouch) question)

2002-04-06 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: > On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, at 11:23pm, Derek D. Martin wrote: > > For instance, the IMAP server can index the file and cache the results. > > Already done. Look in the UW-IMAP d

Re: UW-IMAP performance (was: Linux-Outlook (ouch) question)

2002-04-05 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: > A Berkeley/mbox format mail store is basically a flat text file. Being dissatisfied with the performance of UW IMAP, I've been thinking a lot about this problem. I've got some ideas abo

Re: Linux-Outlook (ouch) question

2002-04-05 Thread Derek D. Martin
gly? Gtk has perl bindings now... ;-) - -- Derek D. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8riA0djdlQoHP510RAtF3AKCgux+k+fML7FDaXBb5Eo7qJskmrACcD7Eq 6RmY2DcD9EnW2Z8c2gTFBWI=

Re: Linux-Outlook (ouch) question

2002-04-05 Thread Derek D. Martin
so you can't use it to access the IMAP server. UW IMAP does support MH folders, but you need to use an IMAP capable client to access them through the IMAP server. Otherwise, it wouldn't be an IMAP server... Any of this help? - -- Derek D. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D

Re: RAID Munging Question

2002-04-05 Thread Derek D. Martin
ead different blocks from different drives simultaneously. Note he did say faster read... - -- Derek D. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8rez/djdlQoHP510RAupXA

Re: Linux-Outlook (ouch) question

2002-04-05 Thread Derek D. Martin
a SunPC card And don't forget dual-boot for PCs. Annoying to have to reboot, but if a second PC isn't an option, this one's still available. There's also wine, of course... - -- Derek D. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: Turning a PC into a RAID box?

2002-04-04 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: > On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, at 4:01pm, Derek D. Martin wrote: > > Legally, they have to. Kimberlite is GPL, and any product based on it > > must also be GPL. > > No, any

Re: Turning a PC into a RAID box?

2002-04-04 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > it's all open source. Also, I understand that RH has based it's > clustering solution on Kimberlite and they've already gotten it > up to where the MCLX Convolo product was. Don't know

Re: Turning a PC into a RAID box?

2002-04-04 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > What he wants to do is use Linux/*BSD as an embedded OS to act as a > RAID controller connected via the scsi bus. Signals would be > originate by the OS on the Sun box, sent across the

Re: Turning a PC into a RAID box?

2002-04-04 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Mark Komarinski hath spake thusly: > > Say I'm running a database. NFS file locking doesn't work well. Local > > disk locking does & that's what this box would be. Local disk. > > Wince you're not sharing the DB files with

Re: Turning a PC into a RAID box?

2002-04-04 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Benjamin Scott hath spake thusly: > On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, at 11:25am, Tom Buskey wrote: > > Now, connect via SCSI to another machine (that doesn't have IDE) & use > > it as an external RAID system. > > What you describe is pos

stupid backspace problem

2002-04-03 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ok, just when I thought Red Hat finally had licked the damn backspace problem (at least, if you stay on Linux systems -- interoperability with other Unixen is still shaky), I upgraded XFree86 (for no good reason really, other than that the update was

Re: ASCII trivia (was: dealing with non-ascii characters in perl

2002-04-03 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Jack Hodgson hath spake thusly: > >I'm dealing with import data from a Mac that has non-ascii > >apostrophes that are hex d5. > > Aren't ASCII characters numbered from 0 to 255? Or does ASCII just go > up to 127? Traditiona

Re: dealing with non-ascii characters in perl

2002-04-03 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Peter Beardsley hath spake thusly: > I'm dealing with import data from a Mac that has non-ascii apostrophes that > are hex d5. I wrote a regular expression in perl to replace them: > > my $hex = 0xd5; > $str

Re: [off topic] legislation

2002-04-02 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Derek D. Martin hath spake thusly: > how can I find out if this bill has been passed into law? Thanks to everyone who replied. I found what I was looking for. :) - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTEC

[off topic] legislation

2002-04-02 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I know a lot of people here are politically active, so I thought this was the best place I could ask this question: If there is a particular bill introduced in the house of representatives, say for example H.R. 1052-Consumer Credit Card Protection Am

Re: Apache server attbi question

2002-04-02 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Rich C hath spake thusly: > > not NAT the client). Since the IP address is internal, the server > > sends the traffic to it directly, rather than back through the router. > > The client is expecting a reply from www.myhost.com

Re: Apache server attbi question

2002-04-02 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Rich C hath spake thusly: > I have found this to be the case with my setup, but I thought it was > due to my SMC router. When I set up a virtual host in the router to > route http port 80 to my internal machine (192.168.1.x) p

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