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2002-05-20 Thread Jim Reimer - WA5RRH
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Re: Linux router

2002-05-20 Thread Petre Bandac
get slackware !!! On Monday 20 May 2002 13:59, Sridhar J wrote using one of his keyboards: > Hello > > I have an old Cyrix system that I would like to turn into a router-firewall > and put it before my Webserver. I would alos like to have my IDS running on > this. No other service should run o

Re: Self-starting NAIM??

2002-05-20 Thread Staci
--- Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I double-checked my process-list last night to > make > > sure. Then I woke up this morning and it'd been > > running for 304:06 minutes. I ALWAYS shut it > down, > > this isn't me. > I have absolutly no experiance with this program, > however if

Re: Self-starting NAIM??

2002-05-20 Thread Richard Adams
On Monday 20 May 2002 16:27, Staci wrote: > This is bizaare. > For the last day or so, NAIM has been starting itself > as a background process. > (for those of you who don't know, NAIM is a > console-based instant-messenger) > > I double-checked my process-list last night to make > sure. Then I w

Re: Linux router

2002-05-20 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 04:29 PM 5/20/02 +0530, Sridhar J wrote: >Hello > >I have an old Cyrix system that I would like to turn into a router-firewall >and put it before my Webserver. I would alos like to have my IDS running on >this. No other service should run on this. No apps, nothing. > >How do I go about it? What

Re[2]: searching a mail solution

2002-05-20 Thread Ray Olszewski
A couple fo quick answers below. At 10:44 AM 5/20/02 +0200, Mateusz £oskot wrote: >[...] >I think that I understand, so you are saying that I can run POP3 on other >that 110 >port ? Yes, sure. But if you are running POP3 *ONLY* for access by the machines on the LAN, then your ISp will not car

Self-starting NAIM??

2002-05-20 Thread Staci
This is bizaare. For the last day or so, NAIM has been starting itself as a background process. (for those of you who don't know, NAIM is a console-based instant-messenger) I double-checked my process-list last night to make sure. Then I woke up this morning and it'd been running for 304:06 minu

Re: process priority at 25

2002-05-20 Thread Axel H. Siebenwirth
Hi Tom! On Mon, 20 May 2002, Tom Beer wrote: > amanda, some month ago. I thought that the uneven numbers are experimental, but > the even numbers would be "stable"? For example in kernel version number 2.4.18 2 is the VERSION

Re: tar question (was Re: nomore newbies??)

2002-05-20 Thread lawson_whitney
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Haines Brown wrote: > Lawson, > > The "tartar" script worked very nicely to copy a directory on one > drive to another drive, thanks! > > > #!/bin/bash > > tar -C "$1" -cOl . | tar -C "$2" -xpf - > > However, I ran into a lot of ownership and permission errors, and so > these

Re: tar question (was Re: nomore newbies??)

2002-05-20 Thread Haines Brown
Lawson, The "tartar" script worked very nicely to copy a directory on one drive to another drive, thanks! > #!/bin/bash > tar -C "$1" -cOl . | tar -C "$2" -xpf - However, I ran into a lot of ownership and permission errors, and so these were often not preserved. This shifts the issue from tar t

Linux router

2002-05-20 Thread Sridhar J
Hello I have an old Cyrix system that I would like to turn into a router-firewall and put it before my Webserver. I would alos like to have my IDS running on this. No other service should run on this. No apps, nothing. How do I go about it? What distro should I choose? What files do I have to ed

Galeon problems

2002-05-20 Thread Raider
Hello! I run MDK8.2 and Galeon just refuses to show anything. It loads the page okay, but there's nothing to show. The error it prints is like this: ** nsNativeComponentLoader: GetFactory(/usr/lib/mozilla/components/libtimer_gtk.so) Load FAILED w

Re: process priority at 25

2002-05-20 Thread Richard Adams
On Sunday 19 May 2002 22:29, Tom Beer wrote: > Hi, > Kernel 2.4.18 won't run on my off-the-shelf athlon-asus motherboard > configuration. Mounting of disks during startup leads to seg faults. > 2.4.4 runs with small amounts of seg. faults, caused by an installation of > amanda, some month ago. I

Re[2]: searching a mail solution

2002-05-20 Thread Mateusz £oskot
Hello Tom, Monday, May 20, 2002, 12:32:44 AM, you wrote: >> So, this ISP doesn't allow to run any server services. TB> then, I would change my ISP, if I'm not allowed to run my on TB> mail services, or whatever service. Hm, easy to say ;) This is one of few ISP which serve a very cheap internet

Re: tar question

2002-05-20 Thread G Anna
> Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 19:09:14 -0400 > From: Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subj: tar question (was Re: nomore newbies??) (snip) > > I'm trying to copy a directory tree from one mounted hard disk to > another. I want to copy the contents of a directory named "backups" on > a secondary S