Re: Firewall's performance

2002-10-31 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 09:05 PM 10/31/02 -0800, Mike Ni wrote: folks, I am looking for information that can help me better understand firewall's performance. Could anyone point me out any good web site or mailing list where I can get such information? Since this is a Linux list, I assume you are asking about Linux

Firewall's performance

2002-10-31 Thread Mike Ni
folks, I am looking for information that can help me better understand firewall's performance. Could anyone point me out any good web site or mailing list where I can get such information? We are working on a project * it is becoming obvious we need to watch out the network security. In short,

Re: RedHat 8 - Code weavers Wine

2002-10-31 Thread Bryan Simmons
Be sure to find out what files, exactly, from gnome or kde this package needs. Then look for them. Sometimes you have to be manual when solving rpm problems. I have also found it useful, when rpm can't find a package for dependency, to reinstall the dependency package just before the new package

Re: A way to transfer drives?

2002-10-31 Thread lawson_whitney
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, 1stFlight wrote: > I'm looking for a way to upgrade my HD and maintain file/directory structure. > I've got a 20GB with partitions for / /home /usr how can I copy/clone this > drive over to it's 60B replacement? Thanks! > > Darryl I wouldn't copy/clone it, I'd

RedHat 8 - Code weavers Wine

2002-10-31 Thread Paul Kraus
I am trying to install code weavers wine by rpm. When it installs I get an error stating that it can't find gnome or kde. However when installing RedHat 8 I made sure to select both of these during the install. What is new in RedHat 8 besides the "pretty" gui that 7.3 does not have? I am going to

Re: A way to transfer drives?

2002-10-31 Thread Dragos LUNGU
1stFlight wrote: I'm looking for a way to upgrade my HD and maintain file/directory structure. I've got a 20GB with partitions for / /home /usr how can I copy/clone this drive over to it's 60B replacement? Thanks! Hi just finished this operation last night . setup : boot from /dev/hda /d

Re: How to mount CD-ROM?

2002-10-31 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 02:29 AM 11/1/02 +1300, cr wrote: [...] I don't have enough info about your setup (kernel details, > mostly) to know why you are getting ghe "unresolved symbol" errors, but the > usual reasons are kernel-version mismatch or missing dependency. See what > effect "modprobe sr_mod" has. Same l

Re: A way to transfer drives?

2002-10-31 Thread Paul Furness
Excuse the confusion, I wasn't thinking straight. In my examples below, the < and > are not intended to be used in the command - I just meant to highlight the source / destination descriptions. On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 14:52, Paul Furness wrote: > Connect the new drive in place as the secondary. >

Re: A way to transfer drives?

2002-10-31 Thread Paul Furness
Connect the new drive in place as the secondary. Boot as normal. Use fdisk as appropriate on the new drive to set up your partitions as you want them. Create file systems on the partitions you have created using whatever file system you are using (eg Ext3). This does not have to be the same as th

A way to transfer drives?

2002-10-31 Thread 1stFlight
I'm looking for a way to upgrade my HD and maintain file/directory structure. I've got a 20GB with partitions for / /home /usr how can I copy/clone this drive over to it's 60B replacement? Thanks!

Re: Trying to get GUI'ed

2002-10-31 Thread Haines Brown
> > Third, I wanted to uninstall the driver RPM. First, I used rpm -ql on > > NVIDIA_kernel to get the driver's name. The one return was > > /lib/modules/2.4.18-10/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver. Then I ran: rpm -Uvh > > NVdriver. Unfortunately, "no such file." Apparently I can't run the x > > serve

Re: How to mount CD-ROM?

2002-10-31 Thread cr
On Thursday 31 October 2002 05:11, Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 09:46 PM 10/30/02 +1300, cr wrote: > [...] > > > if the > > > > > installation really did work correctly, then /mnt/cdrom should be a > > > symlink to the correct block device (easy to check). > > > >/mnt/cdrom is a directory, not a syml

Re: user can't read mail (rmail) in text mode (fwd)

2002-10-31 Thread Haines Brown
Lawson, thanks! > > I'm in a real jam: can't run X server, and so trying to run rmail > > out of emacs in text mode from a command prompt. But I'm having > > trouble with rmail in this situation. > > It shouldn't happen, but bash will read different startup files > depending on how it was starte

Re: NIS Server

2002-10-31 Thread Paul Furness
NIS provides a central location at which you can store certain important configuration files. Almost every NIS server is used to serve 'passwd' among the machines on a network, and sometimes it's used for 'shadow'. Other things you can share include 'group,' 'hosts' and 'netgroup.' These files, wh