First, thanks to all for their answers. I think using the lowest MAC address on the
system might be a good enough solution, as it's reasonable to require that the
customers use the "real" MAC address assigned to their network interface.
> Unfortunately, I don't know enough about exactly what
Hi,
I have need to generate a globally unique ID between nodes. That is, a way to
uniquely identify one node versus another. The trick is that each node may be using
more than one network interface, and additionally may be using both TCP/IP and DECNET.
So simply using the IP address isn't su
> echo -ne 'line 1\nline 2\n' | while read foo ; do echo $foo ; done
>
Thanks to all for their answers. I've always wanted to do this but
didn't know how until now. Works like a charm!
Warren
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> No? Then how about this?
>
>result=badness# init with failure default
>spewSomeKindOfOutput | while read input
>do
>result=goodness
>done
>echo $result
>
> What is the output?
badness
Lemme guess. The pipe to the while actually creates a child process, and a
> Yuck, yuck, yuck! It looks like everyone was pointing out ways to
> use sed to accomplish this. Now, sed may give you extra
> power, but when
> writing shell scripts, I prefer to avoid using external commands where
> possible. To that extent, consider:
>
> $ foo="1234M /home/USER"
> $ e
> Basically, the emacsserver process lives on a socket which
> contains the
> uid of the server. Thus we have a primitive rendevous
> protocol. There's
> really no way out of this. You could conceivably craft up
> some sort of
> alias that invokes sudo emacsclient with the correct uid, but
Hi,
Perhaps someone asked this question before, but . . . are there any good call graph
generators for c programs available for Linux? I downloaded one available on Debian
called cflow, and it leaves a lot to be desired.
Any call graph program that integrates nicely with emacs?
Also FYI, I k
JDK stands for Java Developer's Kit, and I *believe* it includes the JRE. The JRE is
the Java Runtime Environment, containing enough to execute Java applications, but
nothing to develop them.
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, Ma
-Original Message-
From: Donna Baglio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 3:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Opportunity to Offer Input on US Cybersecurity
Opportunity to Offer Input on US Cybersecurity
The President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board (P
Hi,
Unfortunately I'm using Outlook (long story on why) here at work to send my mail. I
absolutely cannot find a way to wrap my mail at 72 (or anything for that matter) but
perhaps I'm not looking hard enough. I doubt I'm the only one using it on this list
so perhaps if someone can point out
> Many filesystems maintain a notation of the "last access time" of a
>filesystem object. Under Unix/Linux, this is called the "atime".
>Directories are generally considered filesystem objects. So,
>when you walk
>the directory tree, you "touch" the atime of every directory.
>All of those
> I assumed I'd install RH 7.2 and LILO first, that way I can keep below
> the cylinder limit.
>
> I assume that XP will not play nice and will try to remove the boot
> record but I was installing it second, probably on FAT32 to allow
> sharing of files.
If you want LILO or GRUB to be the progra
> The XV program will trivially display in sequence, with
> specified timeouts and many other optional characteristics,
> as many images as you can mention to it. A commandline like
>
>xv -wait 3 *.gif
>
> would cycle through all the images with a 3 second delay...
>
> (gee - you might h
Hi,
Does anyone know if there is a kind of "slide show software" available on Linux? I
just subscribed to digitalblasphemy.com and want to download all of the pictures
there, and then have them continuously displayed on a monitor, one after the other. I
have all these Linux servers sitting a
I use gandi.net. Yes, it's in France, but it's only 12 Euros per year.
Last year that meant about $10.50.
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From: Joshua S. Freeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 1:51 PM
To: Mark Komarinski
Cc: Kenneth E. Lussier; John Abreau; [EMAIL PROTECTED
never had that problem in bash or ksh. If you are a C Shell user,
try
issuing rehash.
On 13 Mar 2002 at 10:25, Mansur, Warren wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a maybe dumb question.
> (1) I get an interactive session where executable 'xx' doesn't exist
in my path
> (2) I cr
Hi,
I have a maybe dumb question.
(1) I get an interactive session where executable 'xx' doesn't exist in my path
(2) I create the executable perhaps by copying via ftp or other means
(3) If I try to execute 'xx' it says it doesn't exist unless I log out and then log
back in again (unless of cou
Hi,
Welcome! On Redhat 7.2, edit /etc/yp.conf. Add this line:
domain server
That will work if you have a specific NIS server.
Regards,
Warren
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>Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 1:19 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject:
Correction:
link
-Original Message-
From: Mansur, Warren
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 4:23 PM
To: R. Sean Hartnett; GNHLUG Posting Address
Subject: RE: HTML Code
link
Attributes can be an empty string for a default window. Window name
just needs to be unique for each HTML page
link
Attributes can be an empty string for a default window. Window name
just needs to be unique for each HTML page (ie if you open a bunch of
windows from your links and you want each one to open in a different
window, make each window name different).
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From: R. Sean
> nmap scans hosts and reports if they are up, and what ports are open.
Just a quick question. Does nmap rely on being able to connect to a
particular website to download the TCP fingerprints, or are they
included with the program when installed? For some reason I can't seem
to use nmap when I
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At some point hitherto, Mansur, Warren hath spake thusly:
> OK, let's say I have to log into several different kind of UNIXes
> and Linux boxes throughout the day from different OS's. Then let's
> say that half the time I log in, the delete
OK, let's say I have to log into several different kind of UNIXes and Linux boxes
throughout the day from different OS's. Then let's say that half the time I log in,
the delete key doesn't work but the backspace does. My simple question is, if I don't
have root priviledges on a machine, how c
My biggest complaint is that half the tools, such as 'ps', 'tar', etc .
. ., only seem to accept half as many options as other UNIX platforms,
so I always have learn two versions of each command -- one for all
UNIXes except Sun, and Sun. Example: try tying 'ps aux' on Sun and see
what happens.
-
> Actually the utility I'm familiar with works just fine with NTFS.
> Basically, Linux has no problem _changing_ data on NTFS. It's adding
or
> removing data that gets messy.
> For those that have never seen it, you can download the disk image
at:
> http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
One problem I see with man pages is that they throw off the newbie user
by putting every possible option at the top. If a new user sees this,
they will probably be as confused as ever:
tar [ - ] A --catenate --concatenate | c --create | d
--diff --compare | r --append | t --list | u
Some HD manufacturers report GB, MB, and KB in increments of 1000
instead of 1024, since technically "kilo" means 1000 from the metric
system (and so on for "mega" and "giga"). I have an IBM HD which was
marketed to be 20 GB, but in computer terms it's actually only 18.6 GB.
According to my roug
You know, I found that Debian still asks you for the root password even
when typing 'linux single'. It's traced down to this line in
/etc/inittab:
# What to do in single-user mode.
~~:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin
Redhat doesn't appear to have the sulogin for single user mode, so if
you're using Redhat
OK stupid question. Do they require getting Direct TV in order to get
Direct TV DSL?
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>Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 4:54 PM
>To: Greater New Hampshire Linux Users
>Subject: Re: Linux Friendly aDSL
>
>
>"Kenn
> Gee... sounds like Microsoft Proxy Server! Or "Internet Security and
>Acceleration Server" as it is called in its latest incarnation.
Well, how ever did you guess? Must be psychic!
> Keep in mind, any or all of these may violate corporate
>policy. In some
>places, such things can get you
Hi,
I'm sure someone has run into this problem, so hopefully someone will
have a good solution. The http proxy server where I work is absolutely
terrible. Half the time it reports that the page timed out, and most of
the time I have to go to the page twice to get it to load. I'm not in a
posit
Are you trying to log in as root? Telnet won't let you log in as root
by default.
-Original Message-
From: DaveN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 2:51 PM
To: Greater NH Linux User Group
Subject: Red Hat 7.1 telnet, etc
Oh what a joy this is!
I'm using my old
Hi,
I've had success in:
(1) installing with a disk on the regular IDE port
(2) once fully installed, adding UDMA support (if not there) to the
kernel
(3) reboot, hold down left shift button, and specify the new root, for
example:
linux root=/dev/hde2
This is necessary because the r
Hi,
Does anyone have any recommendations on "getting started" with SNMP. I
administer a few Linux nodes at my office, and I want to have an SNMP
client that will tell some simple information such as:
- how many users currently logged into each one
- processor, memory, swap usage
- amount of pro
shouldn't be such a problem.
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From: Charles Farinella [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 4:18 PM
To: Mansur, Warren
Cc: mike ledoux; Derek D. Martin; GNHLUG mailing list
Subject: RE: Impatient with cable
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Mansur, Warren wr
If you wanna be a little clever, just put a static IP for the time being
and see if that works.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 2:46 PM
To: farinella
Cc: Derek D. Martin; GNHLUG mailing list
Subject: Re: Impatient with cabl
-Original Message-
From: Benjamin Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 11:31 AM
To: Greater NH Linux Users' Group
Subject: Re: Impatient with cable
> Verizon uses PPPoE, so they don't even *have* leases. Your address
is
> good for the duration of the PPP sessi
Hi,
--
OK, first dumb question. How and where do I store the machine name?
I'm running RH 7.1. Samba gets the server name from the host name.
Setting host name using "hostname" doesn't seem to last through a boot.
What is the proper procedure for permanently setting the host name?
--
On Redhat
Hi,
Do you still have the kernel image somewhere else on your hard disk
besides the corrupted partition?
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==>From: Mark Glassberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
==>Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 2:13 PM
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==>Subject: Request for assistance
==>
==
>> 3) From inside the LAN, using a computer pointing to your DNS server,
>> are you able to resolve any hosts on threeofus.com?
> here's what I get running dig at the prompt, logged into monica (.4,
the
> dns server) logged in as root:
> [root@monica jfreeman]# dig threeofus.com
> ; <<>> DiG
When I try and contact I get:
The DNS name server for the host specified in your URL could not be
contacted. Please try your request again.
This error could have been caused by:
Load conditions on the web server
Load conditions on the Proxy server
Your network connection and/or transient cond
ranteed to sleep exactly one second. It might
sleep more.
Regards,
Warren
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From: Cole Tuininga [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 7:37 AM
To: Mansur, Warren
Subject: Re: C Question
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 07:30:39PM -0500, Mansur, Warren wrote:
&
One idea is to have another thread running that keeps time for you. You
just call sleep(x), where x is the level of granularity you want your
timer to have in your thread, and then add 1 to your time variable each
time the thread wakes up. You can have another function that polls the
value of yo
On the same note, I know someone who has several years experience in
Linux and Unix, network programming, and C++, who is currently looking
for a job. He has already contacted the person below, but is interested
in looking at other jobs with similar requirements
(Linux,Unix,C++,network programmin
Hi,
Does anyone know how to force gdb to display an entire string instead of
truncating while debugging?
For example:
(gdb) p my_str
$1 = "The string is truncated and I need to see all"
is gdb's behavior. Instead I want:
(gdb) p my_str
$1 = "The string is trunacetd and I need to see all of i
no sshd and I
don't have root privileges on those machines.
Regards,
Warren
Ed Robitaille wrote:
> Mansur, Warren wrote>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > How do I set my default terminal type for when I telnet to other
> > machines? If I telnet from my Redhat machine, it
Hi all,
How do I set my default terminal type for when I telnet to other
machines? If I telnet from my Redhat machine, it sends "linux" as the
terminal type from X or from a console. If I telnet from my Debian
machine in X, it sends "Xterm-debian" as my terminal type, and "linux"
otherwise. I
In this thread about computer security, I didn't see this very important
note:
If you do not need to connect to your computer from outside your home,
put "ALL: ALL" in your /etc/hosts.deny file. If you know the IP
addresses of the computers outside the home that need to connect inside
the home,
Hi,
I want to monitor the cpu usage on several nodes and be notified via
email if a process takes too much of the processor for an extended
amount of time. Of course 'too much' and 'extended amount of time' are
variable, but I can come up with appropriate values after
experimentation.
Is there
I second the notion of using a firewall/router box. I use one at home,
and since I have no need to connect from outside the home to inside the
home, I just set up the router to block all ports when coming from the
outside. And, as far as I know no one can crack it because it
automatically drops
That stinks. I definitely won't use hotmail then. Anybody know about
yahoo mail, if it's the same way?
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From: Kenneth E. Lussier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 8:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Windows XP
Nope,
I found that if you turn the "repeater mode" off on gpm, you can use gpm
and x windows on Debian at the same time with no problems. You can turn
it off by changing the default repeater type line in gpm.conf to the
line:
repeat_type=
with no arguments. The default upon installation is:
repeat_
Hi,
I'm on a box that uses csh as its default shell, so I'm wondering if there
is a way in csh shell scripting to read in a file a line at a time, and then
get the fourth token on each line. The tokens are separated by spaces, such
as:
token1 token2 token3 token4 token5 . . .
And the file cont
--
From: Tom Rauschenbach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 6:30 PM
To: Mansur, Warren; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: first LAN
Thanks to Warren Mansur for his useful answer, but I'm not looking for an
int
w how to recompile a kernel, then you can also get a list of
supported drivers by running make menuconfig and looking under the "Network
Device" section. If the card driver is in there, you know for sure that the
ethernet card is supported.
-Original Message-----
From: Mansur, Warre
Hi,
Do you want DSL or a cable modem? If so I recommend getting LinkSys
DSL/Cable router. It acts as a 10/100 switch internally. It also acts as a
gateway to your DSL modem/Cable modem. Here's how it works (overview):
1) The linksys router either uses dhcp or a static address to gain a
conne
Recently went to an IPV6 talk. They said they planned to include security
in the lower protocols so that higher ones (such as ftp, http, etc. . . )
don't have to worry about it. Now we just have to see if IPV6 is adopted
permanently :-)
-Original Message-
From: Jeffry Smith [mailto:[EMA
Hi,
I run Debian Linux and I can't figure out how to cause a script to be run at
startup. I placed the script in /etc/init.d/, and then made a symbolic link
to it in /etc/rc4.d (it is executable as well). I thought this would cause
it to be run on startup but it doesn't run. Anyone know the pr
I think this is what Jerry was referring to, but using lilo -L instead of
just lilo fixed the problem for me. My install definitely exceeded to 1024
limit, and lilo wouldn't add it until I used lilo -L. Once I used the -L
flag it worked perfectly. Anyone want to take a stab at why the -L flag
i
Not sure if anyone said this yet, but you can enter root=/dev/hda2 (or
whatever device needed) at the lilo prompt to pass a different root at
runtime. Usually holding down left shift at the prompt allows you to type
boot time paramaters when the word "Lilo" appears. I've had the "Unable to
mount
Hi,
If it's only a configuration problem you can try:
dpkg-reconfigure
Warren
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From: Adam Wendt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 10:03 PM
To: Derek Doucette
Cc: Gnhlug
Subject: Re: apt-get probs after perl upgrade
you should use the .debs f
Earlier in the thread somebody said Verizon was in court because they
couldn't fulfill the DSL orders? I ordered DSL a month ago from Verizon and
they still can't even set a future date to test my lines. Anyone know more
about the Verizon slowness, if the waiting period is "probably never" or if
fast as the next guy. Now I can get
back to coding . . . ugh.
Warren
> -Original Message-
> From: Jeffry Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 2:19 PM
> To: Mansur, Warren
> Cc: 'Matt Herbert'; Greater NH Linux Users' Group
> S
ly 05, 2000 2:01 PM
> To: Mansur, Warren
> Cc: Greater NH Linux Users' Group
> Subject: Re: X init problem
>
>
>
> No, you shouldn't need one. However, you might want to
> create a simple one to try to narrow down the problem. In
> your home directory cre
Hi,
I looked into my home directory and
I don't have a file by that name.
Should I have one?
Thanks.
Warren
> -Original Message-
> From: Matt Herbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 1:38 PM
> To: Greater NH Linux Users' Group
> Cc:
problem
>
>
> On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Mansur, Warren wrote:
> > Now, whenever I type 'startx', X starts to boot, but then
> hangs at the gray
> > screen. The panel or the desktop icons don't appear, and I
> am unable to do
> > anything. The mou
Thanks for the tips. I'll try them now.
> What desktop environment and/or window manager are you
> using? GNOME? KDE?
> Enlightenment? Sawmill? FVWM?
I'm using GNOME and Enlightenment.
Warren
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Hello all,
I'm having a major problem with X. When I came into work today, I saw that
X had crashed. I was left with a terminal window displaying some errors. X
was in a half-hung state.
Now, whenever I type 'startx', X starts to boot, but then hangs at the gray
screen. The panel or the desk
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