USB DSL modem

2003-12-10 Thread Paul Furness
Hello. Can anyone point me at some useful information about setting up a DSL modem connected to a linux box via USB? What happened here is that I recently got a DSL connection set up at home. Part of the sign up package included an Alcatel 'Speedtouch' USB connected modem and some filters. I plug

Re: system hangs after reboot

2002-12-16 Thread Paul Furness
;RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/etc/sysconfig/network PREVLEVEL=N LINES=34 HOME=/ SHLVL=4 > >_=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/sbin/dhcpcd ] > >pidofproc: dhcpcd 347 > > > > -- > ---"Never tell me the odds!" > Ray Olszewski

Re: Project management

2002-12-03 Thread Paul Furness
body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs -- Paul Furness Systems Manager Steepness is an illusion caused by flat things leaning over. - To unsubscribe from this lis

Image conversion

2002-11-29 Thread Paul Furness
bining them. I also tried Gimp. By messing around with layers I was able to get something that approached correct. I guess I don't know what I need to look for in the manual. Any thoughts, anyone? Paul. -- Paul Furness Systems Manager Steepness is an illusion caused by flat things

Re: Windows File Server

2002-11-26 Thread Paul Furness
agemaker/indesign files. There is over 13 gigs worth of files > that these two users will be accessing and using all day. The files will > be accessed from the server not being copied locally first. > > Paul Kraus > Network Administrator > PEL Supply Company > 216.267.5775 Voice &

Re: libc5 problem

2002-11-25 Thread Paul Furness
ine from the text console > anybody got a handle on this one > -- > Paul Furness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mitsubishi Electric ITE BV VIL - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More m

Re: 3d modelling

2002-11-25 Thread Paul Furness
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Re: RH 7.3 and tripwire

2002-11-25 Thread Paul Furness
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Re: usr1,home1 after hdd cloning?

2002-11-25 Thread Paul Furness
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Re: I killed user's x server

2002-11-22 Thread Paul Furness
I had actually changed hard disks and back again. > -- > Paul Furness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mitsubishi Electric ITE BV VIL > > Steepness is an illusion caused by flat things leaning over. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the

RE: need method of backing up files

2002-11-18 Thread Paul Furness
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RE: need method of backing up files

2002-11-08 Thread Paul Furness
name=${uid},password=$pass > //${workstation}/$share $mnt > $log 2>/dev/null Is there any reason why you redirect errors to /dev/null rather than appending to the log file? If it went wrong, you wouldn't know why. > . . . . > fi -- Paul Furness Systems Manager Stee

Re: need method of backing up files

2002-11-08 Thread Paul Furness
think this is another thing altogether. > > TIA > Shaggy > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read

Re: Write to Windows partition from linux as ordinary user

2002-11-07 Thread Paul Furness
be very happy to hear it! > > Christoph > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the

Re: A way to transfer drives?

2002-11-05 Thread Paul Furness
ure - less of a problem with a home dir, but it could be something more complicated like this: tar -cvf /archive/backup.tar /usr/local/data/bungle/source/c/big_project Paul. On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 21:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 4 Nov 2002, Paul Furness wrote: > > > There is on

Re: A way to transfer drives?

2002-11-04 Thread Paul Furness
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Re: striking X server

2002-11-04 Thread Paul Furness
ead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FA

Re: A way to transfer drives?

2002-11-01 Thread Paul Furness
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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

Re: A way to transfer drives?

2002-10-31 Thread Paul Furness
//vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > -- Paul Furness Systems Manager Steepness is an illusion caused by flat things leaning over. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in

Re: NIS Server

2002-10-31 Thread Paul Furness
tion? For instance I try and telnet to my Linux box when I log > in rather then the Linux machine checking its local user account info it > would turn to the database? Sorry but this is kind of confusing me. > > Paul Kraus > Network Administrator > PEL Supply Company > 216.267.5775 V

Re: Trying to get GUI'ed

2002-10-28 Thread Paul Furness
, I might get a text-based emacs from which > I do the work easily. Otherwise I'd have to run vi, which is far less > familiar. > > Haines > -- Paul Furness Systems Manager Steepness is an illusion caused by flat things leaning over. - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Trying to get GUI'ed

2002-10-28 Thread Paul Furness
before X if all one wants to do is to issue > commands. > > Haines > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Linux Mount Partitions

2002-10-25 Thread Paul Furness
a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > -- Paul Furness Systems Manager 2+2=5 for extremely large values of 2. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &

Re: Journaling File Systems...

2002-10-24 Thread Paul Furness
t; > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > -- Paul Fur

Re: RedHat 8

2002-10-24 Thread Paul Furness
; Bryan Simmons > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > On Integrity: > > "I'm going to be as good as they let me and > as mean as they make me, and they all know > that. I don't ever lie. If I tell you a > rooster can fly, get the harness." >

Re: RedHat 8

2002-10-24 Thread Paul Furness
being used as a Trojan Horse to scan and report > which programs are legally on a computer. > > How does this interlate with RH 8.0? > Well I think it is all related by attitudes on licensing agreements and that > that attitude is what the real problem with RH 8.0 distribution re

RE: RedHat 8

2002-10-23 Thread Paul Furness
03, Paul Kraus wrote: > What kind of system do you need to be able to run a full Linux > distribution including X in a virtual machine? It seems like the > overhead would kill you. > > -Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:linux-newbie-owner@;vger.kernel.o

Re: RedHat 8

2002-10-23 Thread Paul Furness
are virtual machine) using 8 to give it a proper, fair hearing. Of course, other people may agree with me, so I might not be completely wrong... :) Paul. -- Paul Furness Systems Manager 2+2=5 for extremely large values of 2. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe li

Re: Trying to get GUI'ed

2002-10-23 Thread Paul Furness
ws" and a "window mananger.") > > > >Anyone care to take a crack at these? > > > >James > > > >- > >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > >the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: Trying to get GUI'ed

2002-10-22 Thread Paul Furness
quite sure that it's one of those thousand files-bits of the > Gtk environment which might be the culprit but to find that out would > mean another fifteen months more of work and missed pay for not done > real work.) > > // Heimo Claasen // // Brussels 2002-10-21 > The WebPlac

Re: Trying to get GUI'ed

2002-10-21 Thread Paul Furness
too. :-| > > I am familiar with tarballs (.tgz .tar.gz) and have installed > and compiled several applications. I am comfortable with that > method of packaging. ;-) > > Regards, Chuck > > > Paul Furness wrote: > > > > To get much nice stuff out of the G

Re: Laptop GUI.

2002-10-21 Thread Paul Furness
e to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > -- Paul Furness Systems Manager 2+2=5 for extremely large values of 2. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsu

Re: Variable Quoting

2002-10-16 Thread Paul Furness
Oops. I did indeed mean for both instances of the word "Filename" to be in the same case. I must be getting old; either that or I'm not drinking enough coke. Apologies if I caused any confusion. :) P. On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 08:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Paul Furness wr

RE: Variable Quoting

2002-10-15 Thread Paul Furness
ups or > forums > are subject to reposting. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" > in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo > info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http

Re: Suggestions on Backups

2002-10-07 Thread Paul Furness
: 256 Mb > > > Paul Kraus > Network Administrator > PEL Supply Company > 216.267.5775 Voice > 216-267-6176 Fax > www.pelsupply.com > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the b

Re: breaking up a zip file

2002-10-07 Thread Paul Furness
Thanks, everyone. 'split' is my friend and works beautifully. P. On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 14:30, Paul Furness wrote: > Hi, everyone. > > I seem to remember seeing somewhere a handy Linux prog that will take a > gz or zip file, and re-package it into a number of smalle

Re: Script as root

2002-10-01 Thread Paul Furness
run it? > > Paul Kraus > Network Administrator > PEL Supply Company > 216.267.5775 Voice > 216-267-6176 Fax > www.pelsupply.com -- Paul Furness Systems Manager 2+2=5 for extremely large values of 2. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie&q

Re: Tar Backups

2002-10-01 Thread Paul Furness
rever to simply restore because it has to read each and every > single file on the tape. This is actually on my sco box but the question > is relevant because I plan on moving the file server to a red hat > machine. > > > Paul Kraus > Network Administrator > PEL Supply Company

breaking up a zip file

2002-09-30 Thread Paul Furness
1.zip, archive02.zip etc, each of size "chunk-size". Can anyone point me at this util? Thanks, Paul. -- Paul Furness Systems Manager 2+2=5 for extremely large values of 2. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message

Re: bash scripts creating log files

2002-09-17 Thread Paul Furness
Everyone, Thanks for your help. Tee is exactly what I needed, and works perfectly. P. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FA

bash scripts creating log files

2002-09-17 Thread Paul Furness
erate I use ECHO instead of echo: ECHO "This is a message" What I can't figure out is how do I redirect the output of the things I'm running to the same 2 places? Anyone know a nice easy way to do this? Tnx. Paul. -- Paul Furness Systems Manager 2+2=5 fo

Re: APM not rebooting or shutting down machine

2002-08-27 Thread Paul Furness
or lack of >activity, however, actuallying getting a restart or a power off is proving >problematic. > > Through some other sources, I've gotten SMP out of my kernel (thought that was gone >before) and set a couple of other items in my bios. > > Attached is my kernel

Re: Who's using my files?

2002-07-15 Thread Paul Furness
Thanks, everyone. The best tool in the end has turned out to be 'lsof' which does, indeed, ship with many current distros. P. On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 11:49, Paul Furness wrote: > Good morning / afternoon / night (delete as appropriate for your > timezone) > >

Who's using my files?

2002-07-12 Thread Paul Furness
Good morning / afternoon / night (delete as appropriate for your timezone) I have a very basic problem which is pretty much the same under all the versions of linux I use. Occasionally, when I try and eject a CD, the system complains that it is in use, even although I have definitely stopped us