Re: kdm is not listening on a port

2003-03-12 Thread David A. Bandel
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 22:05:59 -0500 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] ANYWAY, to make a long story short, how can I start kdm in a modern debian kde3 box so kdm will listen to udp port 177 and function as an XDCMP server? /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc has a section: [Xdmcp] Enable=false

Re: kdm is not listening on a port

2003-03-12 Thread Joel Hammer
If there is, I cannot find it. I have gone to the kdm directory and run: grep 177 * grep -i udp * and nothing turns up. BTW, kdmrc seems to be the replacement for xdm-config. Nice to see the progress. Joel On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 11:07:06PM -0800, Ted Ozolins wrote: Joel Hammer wrote:

Re: linux on big memory

2003-03-12 Thread David A. Bandel
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:37:41 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anyone have any experience running linux on big memory configurations (greater than 4GB)? i'm going to need to upgrade a box to 8GB in the near future, and i was wondering if there were any special

Re: kdm is not listening on a port

2003-03-12 Thread David A. Bandel
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 00:47:08 -0500 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bingo. There is a section at the end of kdmrc: [Xdmcp] Enable=false Willing=/etc/kde3/kdm/Xwilling Xaccess=/etc/kde3/kdm/Xaccess I changed Enable=true. next line should read: Port=177 [snip] Ciao, David A.

Re: kdm is not listening on a port

2003-03-12 Thread Tim Wunder
Hmmm... maybe Lindows alters kdmrc... $ grep 177 /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc # The UDP port KDM should listen on for XDMCP requests. Don't change the 177. #Port=177 The default [XDMCP] section as provided by KDE in version 3.1: [Xdmcp] # Whether KDM should listen to XDMCP requests. Default

security council to give up windows?

2003-03-12 Thread dep
bill buckley, yesterday, misspelling the alternative: What will follow is castration of the Security Council, whose swaggering permanent members will have the voices of eunuchs. -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip

Re: security council to give up windows?

2003-03-12 Thread Ken Moffat
dep wrote: bill buckley, yesterday, misspelling the alternative: What will follow is castration of the Security Council, whose swaggering permanent members will have the voices of eunuchs. Ha! ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linux on big memory

2003-03-12 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, David A. Bandel wrote: On Tue, 11 Mar 2003 19:37:41 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anyone have any experience running linux on big memory configurations (greater than 4GB)? i'm going to need to upgrade a box to 8GB in the near future, and i was

Re: linux on big memory

2003-03-12 Thread David A. Bandel
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:56:16 -0500 (EST) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] thanks for your reply. glad to help it will be running three oracle 9i instances, and about 35-40 user mode linux instances. AFAIK, the kernel /proc parameters that oracle requires are the same

Re: linux on big memory

2003-03-12 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, David A. Bandel wrote: it will be running three oracle 9i instances, and about 35-40 user mode linux instances. AFAIK, the kernel /proc parameters that oracle requires are the same regardless of the amount of physical memory in the box. what other changes did you

Re: linux on big memory

2003-03-12 Thread David A. Bandel
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:25:50 -0500 (EST) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] i still prefer to use sqlplus on a console. oemapp scares the hell out of me, as it pegs the CPUs so damn hard just because its java. you noticed. Also, their shutdown doesn't always work. You still often

Re: linux on big memory

2003-03-12 Thread Net Llama!
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, David A. Bandel wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:25:50 -0500 (EST) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] i still prefer to use sqlplus on a console. oemapp scares the hell out of me, as it pegs the CPUs so damn hard just because its java. you noticed. Also,

User login hangs system

2003-03-12 Thread Bill Davidson
I decided to give gentoo a try recently, and also decided to play around with alsa. I couldn't get alsa working, but that's a problem for another day. In trying to get the alsa modules to load, my system would hang, taking out everything(keyboard, network), requiring a manual reset. Now my

Re: User login hangs system

2003-03-12 Thread Net Llama!
On 03/11/03 18:17, Bill Davidson wrote: I decided to give gentoo a try recently, and also decided to play around with alsa. I couldn't get alsa working, but that's a problem for another day. In trying to get the alsa modules to load, my system would hang, taking out everything(keyboard, network),

Re: User login hangs system

2003-03-12 Thread Bill Davidson
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:57:41 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/11/03 18:17, Bill Davidson wrote: I decided to give gentoo a try recently, and also decided to play around with alsa. I couldn't get alsa working, but that's a problem for another day. In trying to get the alsa

Re: User login hangs system

2003-03-12 Thread Net Llama!
On 03/12/03 17:22, Bill Davidson wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:57:41 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/11/03 18:17, Bill Davidson wrote: I decided to give gentoo a try recently, and also decided to play around with alsa. I couldn't get alsa working, but that's a problem for

Re: User login hangs system

2003-03-12 Thread Aaron Grewell
Warning: Kernel BIOS return differing head/sector geometries for device 0x81Kernel: 62749 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors BIOS: 1023 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors Lilo still finishes and I'm still able to boot into my gentoo and libranet system.

Re: kdm is not listening on a port

2003-03-12 Thread Joel Hammer
Thanks guys. Port=177 solved that problem. kdm now listens on the proper port and all. It would have sure been nice, since there is no man page for kdmrc, if the lindows people had left in every possible option, commented out if necessary, so people like me could know what to do. string'ing

Gnucash: Opinions please

2003-03-12 Thread Joel Hammer
I have gnucash installed (painlessly) on my lindows box. It looks nice and quicken like but before I spend time on it, I would like to have other's opinions about it. Is it worth using? One specific question I have. Looking through the manual and messing around a bit with gnucash, I didn't see

Re: User login hangs system

2003-03-12 Thread Bill Davidson
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:29:27 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/12/03 17:22, Bill Davidson wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:57:41 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/11/03 18:17, Bill Davidson wrote: I decided to give gentoo a try recently, and also decided to

Re: User login hangs system

2003-03-12 Thread Bill Davidson
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:44:38 -0800 Aaron Grewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warning: Kernel BIOS return differing head/sector geometries for device 0x81Kernel: 62749 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors BIOS: 1023 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors Lilo still finishes and I'm still

New Step

2003-03-12 Thread Nobody
Thanks to Scott Henderson we now have a Step on Fast Linux recovery with mirrordir. You may find this step at http://www.linux-sxs.org/administration/mirrordir.html ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -

Re: User login hangs system

2003-03-12 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:44:38 -0800 Aaron Grewell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warning: Kernel BIOS return differing head/sector geometries for device 0x81Kernel: 62749 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors BIOS: 1023 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors Lilo still finishes and I'm still

Odd file problem

2003-03-12 Thread David A. Bandel
OK folks, this is weird: elvalle:/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES# ls adduser.modiffutils.mo lynx.mo pppoeconf.mo texinfo.mo aptitude.mo dpkg.mo make.mo psmisc.mo util-linux.mo attr.mo findutils.mo man-db.mo sed.mowhois.mo bison.mo

Problems with ssh

2003-03-12 Thread Alan Jackson
I'm trying to get ssh to work for me. There must be something simple I'm missing in the config or something. I ssh to my son's machine and log in as myself. Then I turn around and try to ssh from his machine back to mine. I have my port set up as 13045 so I can ssh through my router to my

Re: Odd file problem

2003-03-12 Thread Kurt Wall
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:31:13PM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote: OK folks, this is weird: elvalle:/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES# ls adduser.modiffutils.mo lynx.mo pppoeconf.mo texinfo.mo aptitude.mo dpkg.mo make.mo psmisc.mo util-linux.mo attr.mo

Re: Odd file problem

2003-03-12 Thread Net Llama!
On 03/12/03 20:16, Kurt Wall wrote: On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:31:13PM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote: OK folks, this is weird: elvalle:/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES# ls adduser.modiffutils.mo lynx.mo pppoeconf.mo texinfo.mo aptitude.mo dpkg.mo make.mo psmisc.mo

Re: Problems with ssh

2003-03-12 Thread Net Llama!
On 03/12/03 20:06, Alan Jackson wrote: I'm trying to get ssh to work for me. There must be something simple I'm missing in the config or something. I ssh to my son's machine and log in as myself. Then I turn around and try to ssh from his machine back to mine. I have my port set up as 13045 so I

Re: Gnucash: Opinions please

2003-03-12 Thread Tim Wunder
On Wednesday 12 March 2003 9:22 pm, someone claiming to be Joel Hammer wrote: I have gnucash installed (painlessly) on my lindows box. It looks nice and quicken like but before I spend time on it, I would like to have other's opinions about it. Is it worth using? One specific question I have.