Hal wrote:
As far as I can see I cannot have a pppoe setup and a dialup
setup on the same machine.. It's either one or the other.. Not both..
This machine has a NIC and a hardware modem, with the modem running
for years with little problems.. "Adding" PPPOE for ADSL completely
upsets ever
OK, Karthik. With the extra information, I'm adding the list back in,
since other might have a more helpful response than I. Specifics below.
Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, at 17:14, Ray Olszewski wrote to Karthik Vishwanath:
I'm sorry, Karthik, but this informati
S. Barret Dolph wrote:
Actually there is no need to quote Heinlein as it is not his. Years ago in NYC
one could get food for free if one purchased beer. But some would try to get
food without a purchase. Thus signs were put up saything, "There is no such
thing as a free lunch"
Cordially,
S. B
Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
Hello,
Observed today, that my machine had utilized ~ 7G of hard drive space
(since the last time I saw it, ~ week ago)! The real killers were:
# du -hcs /var/log/* | grep -E '^[0-9]*.[0-9]*G'
2.6G/var/log/kern.log.0
2.6G/var/log/messages.0
2.6G/var/log/
James Miller wrote:
[...]
On
the Synaptic issue: you are undoubtedly aware that Synaptic is a
graphical frontend for apt, I suppose?
Actually, no. I always use apt from the command line so I missed this
front end. oops.
[...]
I really didn't want an
updated kernel since I run vmware and h
James Miller wrote:
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, chuck gelm wrote:
First: Backup your data on /dev/hdb! :-|
Second: I recommend editing /etc/smartd.conf to include
/dev/hdb -a
Then running
smartd
Then
tail -f /var/log/messages
and see whazzzup! ;-)
This doesn't reveal anything related to the drive.
P.Manohar wrote:
hai,
I am calling this below script( call it recording.scr) from a c
program using system() , this C program is written as a daemon, so that
it will run continuously and executes this script periodically.
When I run this daemon in any terminal it is recording continously.
Richard Adams wrote:
On Friday 12 August 2005 07:27, Karthik Vishwanath wrote:
Hello,
I run icewm as a window manager and have the network status displayed on
the task-bar. Sometimes I notice quite some activity on the network,
without really knowing which process is responsible for that. I wo
Hal MacArgle wrote:
[...]
3. Most interesting ... in an actual, downloaded mail file, is the "From
" line present or not? (Open it with vi or whatever text editor you
like, and simply take a look.) If not, is there *any* line that looks
like a message delimiter in there? If there is, please pos
Hal MacArgle wrote:
Greetings: We run a hobby ethernet LAN in our home with four machines
connected via 10Base2, BNC coax, cabling.. It works fine but we're
looking ahead when UTP will be "standard" as we see no new MBs
without the RJ45, cat 3-5 cable, sockets.. We're not interested in
any but the
ymc014 wrote:
Hello,
I really apologize for not informing in advance that this is the first
time I've used linux,I've been using windows through the years,from windows
95 up to windows XP(my OS before I've decided to switch to Linux) so I do
not really know what is "modprobe sb","lspci-vv" etc.
ymc014 wrote:
Hello,
I had just installed Red Hat 9 but I have a problem with my
soundcard,it does not recognize the Creative SoundBlaster in my hardware, I
tried looking at the creative website for a driver suitable for linux
unfortunately I didn't find any. So am I hopeless here?I wouldn't w
Peter H. wrote:
Hi,
Slackware 10.1 kernel 2.4.29
Trying to open Gutenbrowser I get before it aborts:
Setting up slots.
init finished.
QLayout "unnamed" added to Gutenbrowser "unnamed", which already has a layout
Floating point exception
with strace ending:
write(3, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"\0\0\0\37\0\0\
At 03:07 PM 4/16/2005 -0500, James Miller wrote:
Hello Ray:
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote:
options for streamripper? I just read its man page, and that says the app
has these options available:
-a [file]
Rip to single file.
Won't using these option avoi
Just a couple of minor comments, James.
First, though, a preliminary question: have you looked at the command-line
options for streamripper? I just read its man page, and that says the app
has these options available:
-a [file]
Rip to single file.
The default mode of
At 10:04 AM 4/15/2005 -0500, James Miller wrote:
Among various frustrations recently I've had the gratifying success of
learning how to use streamripper to augment my music collection.
Streamripper is a program that writes an audio stream (e.g., from internet
radio) to your hard drive as an mp3
At 07:14 PM 4/14/2005 +0200, J. wrote:
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Eric Bambach wrote:
> Ssh is the de facto standard for remote administration but It lacks the
> ability to give you a GUI interface.
What ? Search for SSH GUI and google returns +770,000 matches.. ! Other
than that it can be used to encryp
At 10:40 AM 4/14/2005 -0500, Eric Bambach wrote:
Ssh is the de facto standard for remote administration but It lacks the
ability to give you a GUI interface.
[...]
This not *quite* correct. ssh can be used to tunnel another service, one
that provides a GUI (for example, VNC, or even remote X sessi
At 10:39 PM 4/14/2005 -0700, S. Barret Dolph wrote:
I would like to be able to do some admin stuff on our school computers from
home. What is best way to do this? Are programs such as "Webmin" better than
remote logins or just different. The administrative tasks are usually more
school administrati
At 05:58 PM 4/10/2005 +0800, Peter H. wrote:
Hi,
slackware 10.1 kernel 2.4.29
After I upgraded to dropline 2.10.0 from 2.8.3, xmms 1.2.10 will not open.
The error I get is:
~:$ xmms
unable to open port `/dev/ttyS1' (Permission denied)
unable to open port `/dev/ttyS1' (Permission denied)
*** glibc
At 05:20 AM 4/10/2005 +0100, Ankit Jain wrote:
ifanybody can tell me how to make changes in linux so
that a person cannot move to linux single mode in any
condition . not even from bootable CD
No. That is, nobody can tell you how to do that, because it cannot be done
in Linux.
If someone has phys
At 09:38 PM 4/8/2005 -0500, James Miller wrote:
[...]
A standard Debian menu of this sort includes a WindowManagers section
that lets you select among the available WMs.
Yep, standard Debian unstable, installed starting with a netinst CD. The
menu program is installed, and menus are getting updat
At 08:27 PM 4/8/2005 -0500, James Miller wrote:
[...]
I picked around a bit further in /etc/X11/xdm and /usr/X11R6 trying to
figure out how all this works. It's rather mind-boggling trying to puzzle
out how all the relevant files relate to one another, not to mention how
each is supposed to work
At 08:24 AM 4/8/2005 -0500, James Miller wrote:
After all those complex problems with sound, let me ask for some help on
something that should be much easier to resolve. It should just be a
matter of automating something I currently do manually. This refers to the
same Debian unstable system I d
At 05:40 AM 4/8/2005 -0600, smertz wrote:
I did a install of RH ES4 a week ago and am very new to Linux. I want this
box to be a file and print server for a home WORKGROUP, not a DOMAIN.
So first problem is I am tying to set up a printer to share with my 2
windows XP boxes. However they can not
At 07:45 PM 4/7/2005 +, Jeremy Abbott wrote:
[...]
I bought Suse about a year ago. Very nice Distro with package
management through Yast. My problem with it though, was that it does
not come with a C compiler. If all youare installing is binary
packeges, that's fine. I wanted to do some com
At 02:35 PM 4/7/2005 -0600, smertz wrote:
I have a new computer I installed Linux on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES
release 4 (Nahant), it has one of those all-in-one card readers on it. I
have made mountpoints as root as follows for my thumb, Compact flash and
secure digital drive.
mkdir /mnt/thu
Go to Fry's, I guess.
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Ray Olszewski wrote:
At this point, my best suggestion is to follow the step-by-step procedure
I described in my prior message, using /dev/.static/dev/dsp1 (or audio1)
as the target device. Once I see the full report of the test, as I
outlined it
At 11:10 PM 4/7/2005 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Eve Atley wrote:
Simply put...my mouse has started having a mind of its own in our Redhat
Enterprise Workstation 3 (Taroon) Linux box. It wants to focus on the bottom
left-hand corner of the screen, and clicks on whatever happ
At 12:31 PM 4/7/2005 -0500, James Miller wrote:
[...]
Anyway, I'll try what you've suggested. But one aspect needs some further
comment and clarification, namely:
2. Create the device entries if they are not present. (I was a bit
surprised that they are not present, but if they are not, you are
At 02:50 PM 4/7/2005 +0800, Yawar Amin wrote:
[...]
Here's what I think: Debian is excellent, but ... outdated. And
if you want to be cautious and not try to do full upgrades from the
'net for fear of breaking something, then you're stuck with older
stuff. (Sorry, Ray! I had to get that out. I mys
At 09:09 AM 4/7/2005 -0500, James Miller wrote:
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, James Miller wrote:
range) or to disable ttyS1 (COM 2 as the BIOS sees it, I believe) and see
if that relieves any potential IRQ 3 conflict.
I tried disabling COM 2 in the BIOS (set it to "off" there). When I look
at dmesg output
At 04:13 PM 4/6/2005 -0500, James Miller wrote:
[...]
With sb_irq=XXX (and so forth) in the same line as pas2, I do not get
these sorts of error messages. Just a clean:
Pro Audio Spectrum driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
But sound still works very poorly. Very scratchy when I pl
At 01:34 AM 4/7/2005 +0530, NNK wrote:
I was wondering what I should be looking at in the different distros
before picking one to use.
Being a total novice, I don't have much experience on Linux, so I'm
wondering what I should be asking.
Any advice?
This is a difficult question to answer with a
At 01:38 PM 4/6/2005 -0500, James Miller wrote:
[...]
You might want to check that you are using the right parameters (the doc
file that comes with kernel source offers sort of an example, in the form
of a LILO append line to use with compiled-in sound, and it indicates the
need to specify two d
At 10:10 AM 4/6/2005 -0500, James Miller wrote:
I'm having some perplexing sound problems on my Debian unstable system and
would like to ask for help, clarifications and sympathy :)
I can at least offer the last. Getting sound right ... particularly with
offbeat hardware ... can be a real pain. I
Preliminary comment: This message is very hard to read. Should you post a
followup, please try to use standard English spelling and grammar. For the
moment, I'll do my best to reply, but I may be misunderstanding some of
what you say ... this *really* is hard for me to read.
At 04:22 PM 4/6/200
At 08:03 PM 4/1/2005 +0200, Tobias Hirning wrote:
Hi Ray!
On Friday, 1. April 2005 18:52 Ray wrote:
>> [...]
> [..]
> Get the shadow file and crack
Yeah, I've done this on a big system and about 90% of the users used
weak passwords.
> [...]
> Sniff the password from telnet/unsecure services
Who is
At 10:55 AM 4/1/2005 -0600, Eric Bambach wrote:
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 08:36 am, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> Any other suggestion of how to become root without knowing the root
> password is a technique for breaking into systems, and I (and I hope
> everyone else) will not give advic
At 11:16 PM 3/29/2005 -0800, Ankit Jain wrote:
hi
i have forgotten my root pasword. i had installed
redhat linux 9.0 kernel version 2.4 with grub loader.
if somebody can tell me how to change the password
without logging.
The normal solution to this sort of problem is to boot the system using a
r
At 07:02 PM 3/29/2005 +0200, J. wrote:
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Mike Turcotte wrote:
> That would be great if someone knew and could tell us how to set default
> permissions on a specific directory.
In the case if the directory is NOT a mount point:
This is done either from the command-line with `chmod
At 09:31 AM 3/29/2005 -0500, Mike Turcotte wrote:
I am fairly new to the linux scene, and I am currently using Gentoo
Linux. How exactly do I go about setting a global default umask value to
set 777 permissions on a particular folder and its contents?
[...]
You don't. That's not how umask works. In
At 01:41 PM 3/29/2005 +0800, Peter wrote:
Hi,
In slackware, crontab is using elvis as the editor instead of vim and I can't
make heads or tails out of it.
Does anybody know how to change this from elvis to vim or better yet to a
more
user friendly editor?
I don't know about Slackware specifically
At 04:02 PM 3/28/2005 -0500, Eve Atley wrote:
Hello! I want to write a very simple script that once daily (via cron) will
set permissions to 777. This is to override any permissions set on files
uploaded by other people, so everyone who already has access to the group
will have rwx access to the fi
At 06:43 PM 3/16/2005 -0500, Eve Atley wrote:
Is there a way to set a quota limit on user's home folders? EG. say I have
/home/joe, /home/jane, and want to set it so they can have no more than 5GB
in their folders?
The general answer is yes, and it's called ... wait for it ... quotas. The
"yes" as
If this still you, Eve, just from a different e-mail address? Or is this
someone new with (almost) the same problem as Eve?
At 01:23 AM 3/15/2005 -0800, Donald Duckie wrote:
I got this error message as shown below . . .
How do I change the /root/.ssh/known_hosts file?
It seems encrypted . . .
Ch
At 07:01 PM 3/14/2005 -0500, Eve Atley wrote:
First, I had 'user account is locked'.
Second, once I logged in via the linux box, using 'ssh -l manik
192.168.10.57', it created a new .Xauthority file, apparently.
And they're in.
I hope your problem is solved ... but I'd encourage you to keep an eye
I have to think about the message in general, but I wanted to correct one
small error in your procedure right away.
At 02:17 PM 3/14/2005 -0500, Eve Atley wrote:
[...]
So I tried copying one of these known_hosts to /home/keyur/.ssh/known_hosts.
When I next try a locate for known_hosts, keyur neve
At 08:15 AM 3/13/2005 -0500, Hal MacArgle wrote:
Greetings: Using both Fdisk and Cfdisk for years I've never run into
the latest "discovery," and was wondering if anyone else has
experienced it..
Various MotherBoards and, mostly, Slackware distribs, I've
standardised on Slack 9.0 or 9.1, kernel 2.4
At 04:55 AM 3/13/2005 +0545, bj wrote:
Hi !
I am using Red Hat 8 with kernel 2.4.20-30.8.legacy.
I got a new Sony Reader/writer Optical Mouse .
How do I detect it in Red Hat 8.0
I did the following :-
modprobe input
modprobe hid
modrprobe mousedev
I assume the typo here is just in the e-mail and n
At 07:49 PM 3/11/2005 -0600, Bob Batson wrote:
Should I run the command `tr \\r \\n ' (minus
the quotes) in A Terminal on textfiles ONLY or will tr harm any binary files?
After I migrate to Linux in a few months, I was planning to copy a large
folder of text files to my home directory from a Ma
Yeah, Eve, details help a lot. My memory of your earlier postings on this
is a bit hazy, so I may be dragging you through something you've already
tried. If so, I'm sorry. But based on the fresh info, I have a couple of
suggestions, provided below.
At 05:56 PM 3/11/2005 -0500, Eve Atley wrote:
I've made several suggestions inline. But skip to the last one first, since
it's my best guess about what your actual problem is.
At 05:35 PM 3/11/2005 -0500, Eve Atley wrote:
Hi Ray, thanks for your usual excellent tips. Here's what I've done...
1. mount -t smbfs -o username=linuxadmin,password=
At 02:20 PM 3/11/2005 -0500, Eve Atley wrote:
My setup:
1 Linux RedHat 9 kernel
I don't know if this part of the info matters, but identifying a kernel
this way is almost useless. More useful is to report the output of "uname
-a" and mention if you are using a stock or locally-compiled version of
At 12:07 PM 3/10/2005 +0800, Peter H. wrote:
Hi,
Slackware10 kernel 2.4.26
For me unknown reason suddenly bash will not start in terminals.
Do you really mean that the terminal sits open but does not accept any
input? Or do you, just possibly, mean that bash starts (you get a prompt
and can enter
At 07:48 PM 3/9/2005 -0500, SOTL wrote:
Hi All
I would appreciate a little help with a router set up.
First I would like to keep this as simple as possible with the intent of
adding complexity after I make the most basic items function as required
first.
This is a standard Netgear wireless router w
At 01:31 PM 3/2/2005 -0700, frans toruan wrote:
Hi, Ray . . .
As you suggested the last time, I succeeded in connecting my machine to
the net, just by deleting the name of my LAN nameserver from the DNS
search list.
Now, I can already browse the net and send/receive mail, using Ximian
Evolution ( i
At 10:07 AM 3/2/2005 +0800, Peter wrote:
Is it possible that the kernel has something to do that skype will not
open in
slackware10 instead aborts with:
skype: relocation error: /usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3: undefined symbol:
XkbSetPerClientControls
My kernel in slackware10 is 2.4.26 whereas in
At 08:22 AM 3/1/2005 -0800, Eve Emshoff wrote:
This isn't making sense to me. I have users logging in
via SSH to a redhat linux box using their network
username/password. I'm able to do it as are most
others, either locally or remotely. ie:
ssh -l eve
or
sftp eve@
Thus far, I've run across 1 user
At 01:50 PM 3/1/2005 +0800, Peter H. wrote:
Hi,
in slackware10 trying to open skype a program
for Internet telephony I get the following error:
relocation error: /usr/lib/qt/lib/libqt-mt.so.3: undefined symbol:
XkbSetPerClientControls
and the program aborts.
How to resolve?
Thanks & regards
Probabl
This is a bit confusing, Frank. Let's see if I'm following you. Comments,
including some questions, interspersed. I suspect you'll have to correct
some misunderstandings on my part ... but if I knew which ones, then I
wouldn't be misunderstanding you.
At 05:47 PM 2/27/2005 -0500, SOTL wrote:
H
At 10:12 AM 2/27/2005 +0545, bj wrote:
[...]
Hi Ray !
Thank you for the prompt reply.
80 % of the solution worked .
1. I did mount hda5 & hda6 as below .
That looks good. But I still wish you had done what I asked and provided
the output of df.
2. After I keyed in the symbolic links as below my c
At 09:16 PM 2/26/2005 +0545, bj wrote:
Hi !
I have a Red Hat 8.0 on a intel 2.4 machine with 512 MB .
I have kernel 2.4.20-30.8-legacy & 2.4.20-30.8-legacy bigmem.
I used to have all my directories /var , /tmp , /usr , /home under one
partition / .
Thanks to everybody , now I was able to re-partiti
At 09:16 PM 2/26/2005 +0545, bj wrote:
Hi !
I have a Red Hat 8.0 on a intel 2.4 machine with 512 MB .
I have kernel 2.4.20-30.8-legacy & 2.4.20-30.8-legacy bigmem.
I used to have all my directories /var , /tmp , /usr , /home under one
partition / .
Thanks to everybody , now I was able to re-partiti
our message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
Subject:
Sent: 2/18/2005 12:30 PM
The following recipient(s) could not be reached:
Ray Olszewski on 2/18/2005 12:30 PM
450 4.7.1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Relaying temporarily denied.
Cann
At 10:56 AM 2/20/2005 -0500, Jim Nelson wrote:
Ray Olszewski wrote:
But you only mention 3 partitions above, and I don't know if that is a
reporting error on your part or an indication of some other problem. So
the first thing you should do is check your partition table as I did
above
At 12:26 AM 2/20/2005 -0800, edy boke wrote:
Hi, Ray.
Sorry, to disturb you in this holiday. But, I've been trying to contact
you in the last 2/two working days, but, failed because of problem in my
linux machine.
Now, I use another machine and succeeded to contact you. This is the report.
After
At 08:38 AM 2/20/2005 +0545, bj wrote:
Hi !
I have a red hat 8.0 & Windows 2000 on a intel box with a 60 GB hard drive .
Only 20 GB has been partitioned into 10 GB of NTFS and 9 GB of Linux , file
id 83 ext 3 and 1 GB of Linux swap , file id 82 .
I want to use some free unallocated space from the r
At 06:31 PM 2/18/2005 -0500, Eve Atley wrote:
Hello again and thanks,
Trying this one:
mount -t smbfs -o
username=someusername,password=somepassword,workgroup=workgroup
//192.168.10.28/dev/hda3 /mnt/devbox
(perhaps this is incorrect syntax?)
I'm not really up to date on this, but I fiddled around h
At 05:11 PM 2/18/2005 -0500, Eve Atley wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm attempting to mount a Linux drive via Samba from a Linux box like so:
mount -t smbfs -o
username=someusername,password=somepassword,workgroup=workgroup
//localhost/dev/hda3 /mnt/devbox
This error results:
21874: session setup failed: ERRSR
OK. In the list below, the ones that involve FQDNs are all returning errors
tha indicate a DNS problem. If I am right in recalling that you can ping
the ISP's DNS server themselves by their addresses, I would suggest you see
if removing the on-LAN DNS server from the list in /etc/resolv.conf fix
At 11:09 AM 2/16/2005 +0700, frans toruan wrote:
[...]
# fx > Preliminary comment: When asking for technical help, never tell us
# fx > what the
# fx > response is "something like". Take the time to write it down and tell
# fx > us
# fx > what it actually is, and the exact command it is response to
Comments interspersed.
At 03:14 PM 2/15/2005 +0700, GA Dept PT ACBI wrote:
I just installed RHL90, as workstation, and connected to our internal LAN.
Now, I tried to connect to the net via our ADSL. But failed, via Mozilla
browser, sendmail, or any other. The ADSL's IP number as default gateway was
At 01:48 PM 2/12/2005 -0500, Jim Nelson wrote:
James Miller wrote:
In setting up a system for a friend (Mepis installation) and finding him a
cheap ISP (dialin), I've discovered his provider does not run an smtp
server. So, I'm looking for alternatives so he'll be able to send mail
from his machine
At 03:38 PM 2/10/2005 -0500, Eve Atley wrote:
Thanks. Your advice makes sense, but allow me to give a bit more detail of
the current setup.
1. Those users for whom I do have an account set up (example: gagan) have
their own username/password.
2. FTP and Telnet has been disabled, so SSH is the only
At 10:53 AM 2/9/2005 -0500, Eve Atley wrote:
We have people remotely SSH into our box from our overseas branch in India,
and I didn't want to create a home directory for every user at that branch.
So, I plopped them into /home/shared so they could view our network shares,
and therefore gain access
At 08:50 AM 2/4/2005 -0600, James Miller wrote:
This query refers to a Mepis (Debian variant) install I've done, as well
as to the live-CD version of that distro, from which the installation
runs. I'm setting up a computer for a friend who is not very
computer-literate, but who also can't afford XP
At 08:21 AM 2/3/2005 -0600, James Miller wrote:
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, James Miller wrote:
> So, let me just ask: is this really some sort of solution to the wireless
> support problem under Linux? People objected to that poster's suggestion
> on the basis that it was too bulky (extra pieces of hardwa
At 06:54 PM 2/1/2005 -0500, Eve Atley wrote:
[skipping a lot]
2. I flushed the nasty port 23 away from the iptables, and attempted to add
5901 using the following command:
iptables -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -p tcp
--destination-port 5901 -j ACCEPT
3. Now 'iptables -nvL' gi
At 11:48 AM 2/1/2005 -0500, Eve Atley wrote:
I'm wanting to set up to allow port 23 to be accepted via the internet in my
Linux box running RedHat Linux Enterprise Workstation. I did some research
and have an output pasted below; am I truly allowing input/output from the
internet?
What I truly am
At 09:03 AM 1/29/2005 -0500, Hal MacArgle wrote:
Greetings: Running Slackware 9.0 and 9.1; kernels 2.4.20 or 2.4.22,
bare.i installation, I've experienced good support for all USB
devices except Flash Drives.
First one bought was a Link-Max UL-641 that, plugged in, was
immediately accessible by th
At 03:57 PM 1/27/2005 +0800, Peter H. wrote:
Hi,
In slackware10 for some time trying to play mp3 files I get a very distorted
sound with xmms-1.2.10. Whereas in Fedora2 mp3 files do not play at all with
xmms-1.2.10 in fact they don't enter the play list. In both the plugin for
mpeg is enabled. Play
At 12:30 PM 1/25/2005 +0530, Muruganandam wrote:
Hi all,
How to enable the Promiscus mode in the kernel,inorder to capture the
packets.Advance Thanks
It would be easier to answer this question if I better understood the level
you are asking it at.
The beginner-level answer to it is to use an ap
At 03:23 PM 1/12/2005 -0500, linux wrote:
I recently migrated from WinXP to Linux (SuSE 9.2 Pro). I need some help
setting up my new linux box to print. My old WinXP box printed to a network
printer. If I open my printer properties dialog in WinXP I would see the
printer listed with an IP address
At 10:04 AM 1/13/2005 +0800, Peter wrote:
There is athene desktop which does not use X. It's very fast.
http://www.rocklyte.com/athene
To configure blackbox in ~/.blackbox/menu is a child play and takes just
minutes and can be done a little at a time.
Thanks, Peter. We seem to be turning up a lot
At 11:57 PM 1/11/2005 +, Jeremy Abbott wrote:
[...]
I do have to ask you why using X is good advice (not to say your wrong),
my understanding, is that X is cobbled together adding code ontop of code,
to the point where it is barely readable.
Well ... your concern about not having enough time
At 09:28 PM 1/11/2005 +, Jeremy Abbott wrote:
What about a possible shell equivalent of XMMS, or at least an mp3 player
with a que,
mpg123, a command-line mp3 player, can be run given a list of files to
play. That's the closest I can think of to a playlist (what I assume you
mean by a "que")
At 11:33 PM 1/10/2005 -0600, James Miller wrote:
[...]
So, all would be fine if I could
just keep my computer from suddenly ceasing to output sound for unknown
reasons. I'm not really interested in troubleshooting the sound server so
much as I am in a way of possibly resetting it short of rebootin
At 12:53 PM 1/4/2005 -0500, chuck gelm wrote:
Howdy, Y'all:
My brother and I are on separate networks
(I am in Ohio and he is in Oklamoma, ~1600 miles apart).
I am trying to allow my brother to 'ssh' with a host inside my LAN.
On my router I am NAT'ing only port 22; via IPTABLES thusly:
# forward
At 02:18 PM 12/31/2004 -0500, chuck gelm wrote:
[...]
&, just for grins;
What is the model number of your LinkSys AP?
WAP 11 ver 2.8. It's not the one that runs Linux, if you're wondering
about that.
Thanks. Oh. Hmmm, I've never heard of a wireless access point device
that runs linux. :-|
Do a Goo
At 11:43 AM 12/30/2004 -0600, James Miller wrote:
Sorry about the lack of details, Ray: it was because I already have both
interfaces working in this laptop and so don't really need help with
setting that up. If I take this laptop into an area with a wireless
network, for example, and the network h
At 09:03 AM 12/30/2004 -0600, James Miller wrote:
I'm trying to make a temporary internet connection for a friend who's
moving into and apt where they provide a wireless connection. Since I'm
not sure whether she'll eventually buy a new computer or simply add
necessary parts (mainly wireless adapto
At 02:17 PM 12/29/2004 -0500, chuck gelm wrote:
Ray Olszewski wrote:
Others have said a lot here already, but I want to raise more fundamental
puzzlement. I didn't know cdrecord (see below) was even able to burn to
atapi devices under 2.4.x kernels. You might want to report the error
mes
At 11:31 AM 12/29/2004 -0500, Eve Atley wrote:
We recently purchased a Maxtor External Hard Drive 250gb OneTouchII. We were
considering using this to backup data on our RedHat Linux 9 fileserver,
hooking it directly to this fileserver. One unrelated issue is that the usb
is probably 1.1 while spec
I'm coming into this discussion fairly late, so I'll try not to duplicate
what others have already covered.
At 03:06 PM 12/29/2004 +0800, Peter H. wrote:
Season Greetings,
Slackware 10, Kernel 2.4.26
I got myself an Asus Atapi CD-RW-Drive and I am not sure if this was the
right
choice for Linux.
At 09:28 PM 1/2/1999 -0500, rob.rice wrote:
I just got a new WD2500JBRTL hard drive I can format it reiser filesystem I
can write to it I can ls it BUT when ever I try to read from (cp,du,mv,tar)
it my computer locks up it also locks up when I try to run any reiser file
system util on it right now
At 06:39 PM 12/24/2004 +, Ankit Jain wrote:
hi
routine xyz uses malloc and free functions. it gives
accurate and correct result if called once.
but if the function is called in a loop N number of
times then probably it gives segmentation fault.
what is the reason? can any body guess or test co
At 10:38 AM 12/22/2004 -0500, Eve Atley wrote:
I ran the df command on Redhat Linux 9, and came up with this...what exactly
does it mean? Do I have space to backup part of this machine to another
drive? Which is my main drive?
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/
I don't know enough about the differences between libtiff3g and libtiff4 to
know how reasonable your symlinking is in a substantive sense (shared
libraries aren't horseshoes, after all, though they sometimes seem to
resemble hand granades).
I did check and I see that Debian-Sid still maintains
At 02:17 PM 12/20/2004 +0600, Kev wrote:
Hi all,
is it possible to route to deferent gateways depend on the protocol (Eg:SMTP)
using Linux routing tabes or iptabels, if so does any one know how to do
it ?
With respect to routing tables, the answer is a definite no. Routing tables
operate only at t
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