Re: How do I know which distro I am running on?

2003-02-13 Thread Ken Moffat
ken@noisy:~$ cat /etc/issue _ _ _ _ | | (_) |__ _ __ __ _ _ __ ___| |_ | | | | '_ \\| '__/ _` | '_ \\ / _ \\ __| | |___| | |_) | | | (_| | | | | __/ |_ |_|_|_.__/|_| \\__,_|_| |_|\\___|\\__| Libranet GNU/Linux 2.7 \m \n \l ken@

glib compile help

2003-02-13 Thread Rick Sivernell
Lonnie Kurt or David or anyone else jump in I keep getting the following problem during a compile of code that require glib: checking for glib-config... /usr/lib/libglib.so checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.2... no *** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why... *** The test program failed

Re: How do I know which distro I am running on?

2003-02-13 Thread Rick Sivernell
from caldera the below: [root@RickSivernell]# more /etc/issue Caldera OpenLinux 3.1.1 Copyright 1996-2001 Caldera International, Inc. cheers -- Rick Sivernell Dallas, Texas 75287 972 306-2296 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caldera Open Linux eWorkStation 3.1.1 Registered Linux User .~. / v \ /( _ )\

Re: Help-Quality Assistance

2003-02-13 Thread ronnie gauthier
works OK, except for links on your eis main page. Then I get a broken banner andgames is an uh-oh. 24.213.38.16 On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 17:09:16 -0500 - Matthew Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the following Re: Help-Quality Assistance >I am experiencing network oddities affecting a server I've

Re: How do I know which distro I am running on?

2003-02-13 Thread Lee
Usually that info is displayed in the early stages of bootup. With SUSe that info is also displayed on the graphic login. finally, after login in kde there is usually an internet site icon for the particular distro. Lee On Thursday 13 February 2003 09:39, Susan Macchia wrote: > Hi all, > > Do

Easy reading...

2003-02-13 Thread Jerry McBride
In browsing IBM... I found a really nice page with numerous linux related papers, articles, etc... Enjoy. http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/papers.nsf/dw/linux-papers-bytitle?OpenDocument&Count=500 -- **

Re: DVD jitters

2003-02-13 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote: % On 02/11/03 16:35, Kurt Wall wrote: % >Feigning erudition, Net Llama! wrote: % >% I've had a DVD player for a bit over a year, and today, suddenly % >% whenever I play any DVD, the picture jitters. Sound quality is fine, % >% but the picture just shakes up

Re: How do I know which distro I am running on?

2003-02-13 Thread David A. Bandel
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:34:43 -0500 Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Feigning erudition, Susan Macchia wrote: > % Hi all, > % > % Does anyone know how I can find out which distro I am running on? I > can use% uname to find the kernel and basic OS (i686-Linux vs. > ia64-Linux, for example),%

Re: Why doesn't rdev work?

2003-02-13 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Gerry Doris wrote: % I've been playing with rdev on a Redhat 8.0 system. If I create a % bootdisk using mkbootdisk it works just fine. % % Running rdev correctly gives the result of % % /dev/hda3 (ie. root is on /dev/hda3) % % If I run % % rdev /dev/fd0 % % on the newly c

Re: Help-Quality Assistance

2003-02-13 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Thursday 13 February 2003 02:09 pm, Matthew Carpenter wrote: > I am experiencing network oddities affecting a server I've just > started colocating at a new site. > > Anyone who is willing: Please attempt to surf the following URLs and > send me the results. Thanks! > (please be sure to includ

Re: How do I know which distro I am running on?

2003-02-13 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Susan Macchia wrote: % Hi all, % % Does anyone know how I can find out which distro I am running on? I can use % uname to find the kernel and basic OS (i686-Linux vs. ia64-Linux, for example), % but I need to know more than that because the same combinations can be found on %

Re: Hey Doug?

2003-02-13 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 18:24:34 -0500 Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A great url that explains all this glibc patch madness is: > http://www.zipworld.com.au/~gschafer/lfs-tweaks.html > > It even proposes a pair of configuration scripts that are heavenly... > Uhhh... sorry... That sh

Re: favicon.ico

2003-02-13 Thread Kurt Wall
Feigning erudition, Tim Wunder wrote: [I claim I did] % You did? % Hmmm % I don't recall seeing that... At least I thought I did (say what I said I said, that is). % FWIW, I just tested it with Mozilla 1.0.1 that came with RH 8 and it works % swimmingly... Hmm. % Added % user_pref("bro

Re: Hey Doug?

2003-02-13 Thread Jerry McBride
A great url that explains all this glibc patch madness is: http://www.zipworld.com.au/~gschafer/lfs-tweaks.html It even proposes a pair of configuration scripts that are heavenly... Thanks Doug, for pointing me in the right direction. On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:33:25 -0500 Douglas J Hunley <[EMA

Re: favicon.ico

2003-02-13 Thread Tim Wunder
On Thursday 13 February 2003 5:51 pm, someone claiming to be Kurt Wall wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:46:03AM -0500, Tim Wunder wrote: > > On 2/13/2003 9:56 AM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: > > >On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Douglas J Hunley wrote: > > >>Kurt Wall spewed electrons into the

Re: Internet Content Filtering Suggestions

2003-02-13 Thread C M Reinehr
Ben Duncan wrote: > Have a client that has about 25 WinSLug Computers. We need to > implement some sort > content / virus filtering, as the employees are starting to abuse the > internet connection. > > We need to allow them to access certain web sites, restrict others, > BLOCK ICQ/AIM, and > do

Re: favicon.ico

2003-02-13 Thread Kurt Wall
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 10:46:03AM -0500, Tim Wunder wrote: > On 2/13/2003 9:56 AM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: > >On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Douglas J Hunley wrote: > > > >>Kurt Wall spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: > >> > >>>It ain't happenin', dude. However, if i added the

Help-Quality Assistance

2003-02-13 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I am experiencing network oddities affecting a server I've just started colocating at a new site. Anyone who is willing: Please attempt to surf the following URLs and send me the results. Thanks! (please be sure to include your IP Range or address so I can trace the path with the provider) http

RE: Internet Content Filtering Suggestions

2003-02-13 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, You can do that on linux too, but only with local apps (note: the same limitation applies to windows). Once on the "wire", there's no way to know which application generated the packet*. * Well, that's not entirely correct, you can infer the ori

Re: Internet Content Filtering Suggestions

2003-02-13 Thread Matthew Carpenter
I've heard that DansGuardian is an excellent proxy/filtering solution. It has several configureable ways to determine bad content, including a gradiated scale (assigning a value to each instance of certain words, and failing based on the additive value for a page) If you are interested in the hor

RE: Internet Content Filtering Suggestions

2003-02-13 Thread Wil McGilvery
That is what I have done as well. I have blocked the domain of the servers used for these programs. I was wondering if there was a way to block by application. My only experience with this was in the Windoze world where I could say allow Netscape or Internet Exploder on port 80 but not msn messe

RE: Internet Content Filtering Suggestions

2003-02-13 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, The idea is to block the login servers. I have this from the LARTC list: - START SNIP This one Blocks AOL IM and ICQ iptables -A FORWARD --dport 5190 -j REJECT iptables -A FORWARD -d login.oscar.aol.com -j REJECT - --

RE: Internet Content Filtering Suggestions

2003-02-13 Thread Wil McGilvery
You could try Dans Gaurdian. It works with squid and will allow you to controls the sites they go to. http://dansguardian.org/ You can also limit what files they download by extension if you wish. To block access after 6:00 pm you use a cron job to shut down squid/dansguardian. As Fredrico sai

Re: How do I know which distro I am running on?

2003-02-13 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:57:49AM -0500, Net Llama! wrote: >On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Susan Macchia wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Does anyone know how I can find out which distro I am running on? I can use >> uname to find the kernel and basic OS (i686-Linux vs. ia64-Linux, for example), >> but I need to kn

Re: Open Office issue (mayble mine):

2003-02-13 Thread Net Llama!
Could you perhaps use a csv formatted file that you could edit with something like awk, sed or perl? On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Jesus Antonio Santos Giraldo wrote: > > I have a spreadsheet with data from an odbc data source (a simple query). > The spreadsheet need to be updated every month and I've trye

Re: Internet Content Filtering Suggestions

2003-02-13 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:03:43 -0600, Ben Duncan wrote: >Have a client that has about 25 WinSLug Computers. We need to >implement some sort >content / virus filtering, as the employees are starting to abuse the >internet connection. > >We need to allo

Open Office issue (mayble mine):

2003-02-13 Thread Jesus Antonio Santos Giraldo
I have a spreadsheet with data from an odbc data source (a simple query). The spreadsheet need to be updated every month and I've tryed to find a way for the spreadsheet to be updated automatically, easily (a click or somthing like that), but I havenĀ“t found any way. The only solution I have is t

Re: WINE HowTo

2003-02-13 Thread Tony Alfrey
On Thursday 13 February 2003 09:21 am, Matthew Carpenter wrote: > FYI- > > I've seen others talk about Wine a bit on this list. I hadn't seen > this before so I thought I'd send it around. > > http://www.witch.westfalen.de/Wine-HOWTO/book1.html Thanks. Looks useful. -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROT

Re: #linux-users

2003-02-13 Thread Net Llama!
I think its Bill Day, but i could be wrong. On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Douglas J Hunley wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > who is "in charge" of this irc channel? please contact me off-list. thanks > - -- > Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 > Ad

WINE HowTo

2003-02-13 Thread Matthew Carpenter
FYI- I've seen others talk about Wine a bit on this list. I hadn't seen this before so I thought I'd send it around. http://www.witch.westfalen.de/Wine-HOWTO/book1.html ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://ww

Internet Content Filtering Suggestions

2003-02-13 Thread Ben Duncan
Have a client that has about 25 WinSLug Computers. We need to implement some sort content / virus filtering, as the employees are starting to abuse the internet connection. We need to allow them to access certain web sites, restrict others, BLOCK ICQ/AIM, and do a "time" (Absolutely NO access t

#linux-users

2003-02-13 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 who is "in charge" of this irc channel? please contact me off-list. thanks - -- Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://www.linux-sxs.org and http://jobs.linux-sxs.org panic("floppy:

Why doesn't rdev work?

2003-02-13 Thread Gerry Doris
I've been playing with rdev on a Redhat 8.0 system. If I create a bootdisk using mkbootdisk it works just fine. Running rdev correctly gives the result of /dev/hda3 (ie. root is on /dev/hda3) If I run rdev /dev/fd0 on the newly created bootdisk. I don't get /dev/hda3 like I was expecting.

Re: favicon.ico

2003-02-13 Thread Tim Wunder
On 2/13/2003 9:56 AM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote: On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Douglas J Hunley wrote: Kurt Wall spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: It ain't happenin', dude. However, if i added the magic incantation to $DOCROOT/index.html, it came up just fine, as you can s

Re: favicon.ico

2003-02-13 Thread ianstepn
- Original Message - From: Douglas J Hunley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, February 13, 2003 6:40 am Subject: Re: favicon.ico > the ie 6.x on my screen is showing an icon from mapquest. it also > display the > icon for the SxS when I load it. so, I don't think your statements >

Updated Step

2003-02-13 Thread Nobody
Net Llama! has just updated http://www.linux-sxs.org/administration/xfs.html to incorporate the following: Updated for the latest stable XFS release ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailma

Re: How do I know which distro I am running on?

2003-02-13 Thread James Conner
Don't most distros use: cat /etc/issue Jim On Thursday February 13, 2003 02:39 pm, Susan Macchia wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know how I can find out which distro I am running on? I can > use uname to find the kernel and basic OS (i686-Linux vs. ia64-Linux, for > example), but I need to know

Re: favicon.ico

2003-02-13 Thread Net Llama!
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Douglas J Hunley wrote: > Kurt Wall spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: > > It ain't happenin', dude. However, if i added the magic incantation > > to > > $DOCROOT/index.html, it came up just fine, as you can see at the KurtWerks > > home page. To see one that doe

Re: How do I know which distro I am running on?

2003-02-13 Thread Net Llama!
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Susan Macchia wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know how I can find out which distro I am running on? I can use > uname to find the kernel and basic OS (i686-Linux vs. ia64-Linux, for example), > but I need to know more than that because the same combinations can be found on >

Re: favicon.ico

2003-02-13 Thread Brad De Vries
I must admit I didn't get the icon until after I bookmarked the pages (including both Linux-sxs and KurtWerks). Now I get it everytime. Brad. --- Douglas J Hunley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Kurt Wall spewed electrons into the ether that > res

Re: favicon.ico

2003-02-13 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Net Llama! spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: > As much as that wouldn't surprise me, i don't think its the case. On all > of my web servers, the logs are always full of attempts to download > favicon.ico. Surely they can't all be from p

How do I know which distro I am running on?

2003-02-13 Thread Susan Macchia
Hi all, Does anyone know how I can find out which distro I am running on? I can use uname to find the kernel and basic OS (i686-Linux vs. ia64-Linux, for example), but I need to know more than that because the same combinations can be found on a variety of distros. TIA = ___

Re: favicon.ico

2003-02-13 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kurt Wall spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: > It ain't happenin', dude. However, if i added the magic incantation > to > $DOCROOT/index.html, it came up just fine, as you can see at the KurtWerks > home page. To see one that doesn't wor

Re: Hey Doug?

2003-02-13 Thread Douglas J Hunley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerry McBride spewed electrons into the ether that resembled: > A small question, Sir. On homeip.net/linux_sources... you have a collection > of glibc 2.2.5 patches for download. Would you be so kind as to point me to > the URL that explains what each

Re: favicon.ico

2003-02-13 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Ian Stephen wrote: > Seems this doesn't work anymore with IE 5 or 6. I've tried both the > favicon.ico in DOCROOT and the way with IE 5 & Win95 and > IE 6 & Win98 using the specified 16x16 icon. I get no little image, > just the "e". > > Guess M$ only likes to have their log